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Published podcast speaker
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7 transcript-backed records
01 / preference
“The french fry to me is a vehicle for mayonnaise. I’m using it essentially to spoon up small globs of mayonnaise.”
02 / preference
“I need more unstimulated saliva right now because otherwise you can get those horrible mouth sounds that radio people hate.”
03 / preference
“[laughter] I think that I don’t have any — it isn’t a talent, it may be a character flaw — I don’t have a lot of hesitation or self-censoring when it comes to asking questions.”
04 / preference
“My favorite study from Spook, my second book, was a University of Virginia psychologist who studies near-death experience, had this idea, because near-death people who’ve had a near-death experience often report floating in the operating room, looking down onto their body on the operating table.”
05 / preference
“I don’t know for the first few months, really, even six months, I don’t really know what this book should contain, what fits and what doesn’t fit. It’s not very good advice to give anybody, to feel comfortable with randomness and chaos — because I think that is the healthy first stages of a book — well, for me anyway.”
06 / preference
“Well, when I travel, I’m often traveling in the context of research, which is my favorite way to travel because it’s a way in.”
07 / preference
“I’m trying things on and rejecting them. They’re not quite working because most of science doesn’t work for me.”