Tape Sync – Gastropod

This might be my favorite tape sync so far. It’s hard to compete with an expert on cannibalism who’s friends with Alice Cooper.

I headed out to Hamptons Bay to record Bill Schutt for Gastropod, in an interview about his latest book: Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History. Schutt is a former professor and biology researcher for the Smithsonian, as a well as a fiction and nonfiction author. After finishing his first book, on blood-feeding animals, Schutt was contacted by Alice Cooper, for the rockstar’s podcast. There’s a large, signed Cooper poster on the wall of his study. Talk about a juicy career…

I was worried going in that I’d be queasy, but this glowing New York Times review of Cannibalism gives a pretty good idea of how interesting and entertaining the interview ended up being. Did you know medicinal cannibalism was commonplace in Europe up until the Enlightenment?

Here’s Gastropod’s episode on cannibalism.