When I was a kid, I could blame anything I did wrong on the animated wind-up toy Mr. Machine. Five decades later, Mr. Machine has been replaced. By algorithms.
Sometimes, you come across something that's too good to be true. When NPR announced it wanted a more podcast-like sound it created one of those somethings.
“Why, just today I threw a young lady out of the office four times for four different books. The one she wrote before breakfast, the one she wrote after I threw her out the first time, the one she wrote after I threw her out the second time and the one she just finished."