As consumer technology improves, basic household appliances, like the washing machine, keep sprouting new, high-tech functions. Not surprisingly, they’re also increasingly difficult to repair. So our journalistic gumshoe ventured to find out: Who put us in this jam? And why?
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Written by AARON BRITT
Introduction by PAULINE BARTOLONE
Narrated by MITCH GREENBERG
Produced by PAULINE BARTOLONE
Music by BLUE DOT SESSIONS
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