Crash Test Cadaver: Mary Roach and the Interstellar Garbage Collectors
We Can Be Weirdos
Global
4.9 • 793 Ratings
🗓️ 19 December 2025
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Mary Roach is a bestselling science writer and explorer of the the odd corners of science that most people wouldn’t dare to investigate. Cadavers, sex labs, space junk, you name it.
Her new book, Replaceable You, takes that curiosity inside the body itself, exploring the world of prosthetics, organ printing, regenerative medicine, and the scientists trying to rebuild (or upgrade) the human parts we lose. From stem-cell “hair nurseries” to xeno-pig organ farms, Roach uncovers the strange, brilliant future of becoming a “new” you.
Host: Dan Schreiber
Guests: Mary Roach
Producer: Cassie Merritt
Head of Podcasts: Al Riddell
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| 0:00.0 | It's time to make a change. |
| 0:02.1 | Stuck in a job that's not really you, there is another option. |
| 0:05.7 | With a BSC in cyber security from Solent centres, |
| 0:08.9 | you'll gain Cisco certification and a whole new set of skills. |
| 0:13.0 | Skills that employers are actively searching for. |
| 0:15.9 | Whoever you are, whatever your skills, there's a future for you in cyber. |
| 0:20.1 | And with three flexible study modes that fit around you, we can help you reach it. |
| 0:25.3 | Maybe it's time to make a change. |
| 0:27.3 | Search cyber degrees at Solent Centers. |
| 0:32.1 | This is a Global Player Original podcast. |
| 0:36.5 | Warning! The following podcast contains strong language, bizarre theories, |
| 0:41.3 | unexplainable experiences, and some curious ectoplasm from down under. |
| 0:45.3 | It may not be suitable for younger weirdos. |
| 0:49.3 | If you go to Mars, you're going to have to have a rig that turns urine into drinking water. |
| 0:59.1 | Like, okay, whatever. See you later. I'm going to NASA to drink my urine now. Oh Weirdos. My name is Dan Schreiber. I am coming to you from my home in Mystic |
| 1:29.6 | Margs and welcome to the show that believes that everyone. No matter how rational they may think |
| 1:35.2 | they are, harbors just a little bit of bat shit in them and that that is no bad thing. We're a |
| 1:41.4 | week away from Christmas now, so we're all going to be on a big break, so I thought I'd |
| 1:44.9 | close the year with an absolute juggernaut from the world of non-fiction. This person has been |
| 1:50.7 | one of my biggest heroes for the last two decades. I've read every single one of her books. |
| 1:55.7 | I have pillaged every single one of her books for no such thing as the fish. So the very fact that she was up for |
| 2:02.2 | coming on the show was a huge, huge honor for me. And I say this now, having recorded the show, |
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