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I'm author filmmaker and book devour Mallory omera and I'm Brea, actress filmmaker and e-reader. This episode we're talking about

cult books and interviewing author Erica Boyce Murphy.

But first, what are you reading, Bria?

I'm reading a book. You're going to notice a pattern in my reading for the next moment

it's called Working Stiff two years 262 bodies and the Making of a Medical

Examiner by Judy Melanick I listened to that audio book recently.

Did you?

Yeah, I talked about it on the show.

Oh, that's probably why it was on my list.

I was like, how did I know about this book?

I had no idea, but then it was on my list and I was like,

oh, this is very relevant for things that are happening to me right now,

not that I'm becoming a medical examiner.

It's not a movie I do.

Well, so you know that it's very hard to put down.

It's incredible. She became a medical examiner and I won't talk about it too much since you've already talked about it but it goes through like the different ways people die and like how important autopsies are it walks you it's not for the faint of heart

at all like trigger warnings for everything and she was there during 9-11 she was doing she was a

medical examiner during 9-11, so that's super fascinating.

I did have this moment while reading this book

where I was like, oh, I think in another life

I could have done this job.

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