Jad Abumrad loves a butterfly knife and a good springy pillow

It's hard to overstate Jad Abumrad's interaction connected the podcasting world. He created and hosted Dolly Parton's America and Fela Kuti: Fear No Man, 2 Peabody Award-winning shows that offered unprecedented looks astatine the lives of 2 of the astir important euphony icons of the past century.

Before that, though, helium created Radiolab, an experimental NPR amusement that leaned heavy connected originative dependable plan and yet helped redefine what a podcast could be. In the aboriginal days of podcasting, shows were often conscionable a mates of radical talking astatine each different astatine a array (some inactive are), oregon lazily repackaged vigor broadcasts. Radiolab alternatively told profoundly repor …

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