Adam Rogers Returns!

The Writers Panel

Ben Blacker

Tv & Film, Tv, Writing, Movies, Hollywood, Screenwriting

4.7 • 796 Ratings

🗓️ 1 July 2014

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

We last spoke with Wired editor Adam Rogers way back in episode 24 and discussed the book he had just begun. Now that book is here! Proof: The Science of Booze is a fascinating and immensely enjoyable survey of how your favorite spirit gets into your glass and what happens once you drink it. Rogers talks about the challenges and joys of writing the book. Get it now on Amazon.

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0:00.0	Now entering nerdist.com.
0:05.0	It's the nerdist writers panel and it's hosted by Ben Blacker where he gets a bunch of writers and he asks him lots of questions and it's starting now so this will be the end of the theme.
0:13.6	This is it. We're doing it. All right. It's totally the same as before we started doing it. I don't.
0:19.6	Yeah. There's a real method to this.
0:21.4	I lull you into conversation.
0:25.3	Because we're really going to get you to open up this time around.
0:27.4	When we did our three-hour session in San Francisco, like years ago, that could still be
0:32.4	going on as far as I know.
0:33.6	Maybe.
0:33.8	I think Acker is still up there.
0:35.4	Guys, Adam Rogers is back.
0:37.1	Our old friend, who, when we last had him on the podcast, or he had us on his podcast, we talked about, it was the Wired Magazine crossover. And we talked a little bit, because you were just kind of getting rolling on it on this book about the science and history of alcohol.
0:55.1	Right.
0:55.7	And you were deep in research, as I recall.
0:58.8	Yes, and panicked.
1:01.0	And panicked.
1:04.6	Yeah, I'm trying to remember.
1:08.5	I think I had the contract.
1:11.4	Like I knew I was writing it.
1:12.8	The book was actually happening.
1:14.0	Yes.
1:14.9	But you weren't even like breaking down.
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