What they didn’t show was Terry Gross’ unedited explanation:
“You know, with like the exception of uh, the occasional John Updike, you know, no one speaks like readable uh, perfectly, you know, like grammatical sentences and all that. So, um, ah, you know, like we’ve edited the uh, answers my questions, uh, what’s that fancy word? Oh yeah - elicited - for clarity and uh, like, concision - you know?, um, yeah - what was I saying? Oh uh, like while sticking as uh, closely as possible to like each interviewee’s actual, um, speaking style and stuff?”
