The cia saying which is admirable but we cant walk away from the suggesting that is not who we are anymore. It is who we are. We did this is a nation that we need to address it as something that we are capable quite frankly doing again. Host eric fair thank you for sitting down and talking with me. Guest thank you for the opportunity. A so, that is what would happen over and over again. I have not. Any time in the military and i dont have family. My father, my father was very old. He was 65 when i was born. He actually enlisted in world war i he was born in england and lived here and made it as far as basic training where he got a hernia and that was that for the illustrious road to the military career. So in terms of your being kind of this person who wanders into the situations until much about them come the last one i was a little bit similar perhaps was packing for mars where you worked with the nasa Space Program. Was it harder to get access to the military or to the Space Program
A thick blurb from the boston globe, beautifully written and disturbingly funny as her previous books, grunt examines the researchers who are leading the charge in these state of the art developments. An engaging anecdote of reflection. Mary is also the author of the curious coupling of science and sex, spook, science tackles the afterlife and stiff the curious lives of human cadavers. And her writing has a appeared in about every magazine you can possibly imagine. Shes going to be in conversation with our own jeff greenwald, the author of five bestselling books including shopping for buddhas, future perfect how star trek captured planet earth, and jeff is also on our factory factory. [laughter] yeah, jeff works in our factory. [laughter] and besides that, hes also on the faculty of our travel writers conference, so if there are budding writers in the audience tonight, you can find out more about our conferences. Theres a mystery one in july and one in august, and jeff will be on the f
Your attention please. Can everyone hear me back there . Also, if youre in the back end if anyone is standing we also have the monitors on theres a monitoring the cafe and buy one of the registers next to you, so if anyone wants to get a better view you can go to the cafe or two that monitor out there. Again, welcome to book passage. Im dana kelly. Its a pleasure to have your here it is always a pleasure to have mary roach back. Tonight is grunt. Tonight is about what the military has to go through. We are not going to mars tonight. We are going to the front lines and there are some things that i certainly did not know that you will find out tonight about what the military has to go through. I will just mention one which i dont know if mary will talk about tonight and part of the things we learn in this book is about how diarrhea can be a threat to national security. Agreed. Quick blurb from the boston globe, mary roachs latest bit of brilliance as meticulously researched and funny, gr
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