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Nerdette

Author Mary Roach wants you to spit in your food

Nerdette

WBEZ

Tv & Film, Self, Nerd, Books, Technology, Tv, Improvement, Culture, Wbez, Society & Culture, Pop, Nerdette, Nerds

4.71.4K Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2014

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Pop science author Mary Roach tells Nerdette hosts Tricia and Greta about answering gross questions most of us are too afraid to ask. Plus a conversation about the nerdy new AMC show Halt And Catch Fire. And, of course, your #nerdconfessions. http://nerdettepodcast.com

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0:00.0

This fall, W bez invites you to our upcoming live events.

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Join us in person for smart discussions, heartfelt storytelling, and more.

0:09.0

Check out the full calendar now at W be easy.org slash events.

0:15.0

You have to listen to guys go on and on about how they're turning their

0:21.9

Twitter feeds into blogs, their

0:22.9

blogs into books, their books into Twitter feeds.

0:25.0

Stop pretending that your podcast is work, right?

0:30.0

I'm Greta Johnson. I'm Tricia Bobita, from W BEZ Chicago this is Nurdette. This week on the show

0:38.0

and one of the mythbusters Adam Savage described me as a nerd whisper.

0:44.7

That's author Mary Roach who wrote books like Stiff, Spook, and Bunk, all about weird gross

0:49.1

science.

0:50.1

You've always wanted to know more about what we're afraid to ask. That and odds are, even if you haven't been watching Orange

0:55.0

in the new black, you've been hearing a lot about it.

0:57.5

But we want to get another new show on your radar.

0:59.8

We talk with the TV Ephiciano about the new AMC show we think you should be watching,

1:04.0

halt and catch fire.

1:05.0

Computers aren't the thing.

1:07.0

They're the thing that gets us to the thing.

1:10.0

All that plus your nerd confessions, Star Trek Voyager style, on this week's nerdette.

1:15.0

Program complete, enter when ready.

1:18.0

In a minute we'll talk with pop science writer Mary Roach, but first we want to bring

1:26.7

your attention to a show that might not be on your radar. It's called Halt and

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