Prologue

There’s a machine lots of us encounter as a big impersonal, mechanical apparatus, that has a ghost in it.

Producer Sean Cole scrubs in to observe heart surgeon Dr.

When Adele wrote into our show last summer, she described herself as “the worst phlebotomist in the whole hospital.” Producer Diane Wu couldn’t resist calling her up to find out exactly what she meant by that.

There’s a machine lots of us encounter as a big impersonal, mechanical apparatus, that has a ghost in it.

Brian and Peg disagree over a very important thing.

Carmen Milito tells Ira the story of a date she went on as a teenager, and the bird her mom brought to the occasion.