Jad Abumrad loves a butterfly knife and a good springy pillow
It’s hard to overstate Jad Abumrad’s impact on the podcasting world. He created and hosted Dolly Parton’s America and Fela Kuti: Fear No Man, two Peabody Award-winning shows that offered unprecedented looks at the lives of two of the most important music icons of the last century.
Before that, though, he created Radiolab, an experimental NPR show that leaned heavily on creative sound design and eventually helped redefine what a podcast could be. In the early days of podcasting, shows were often just a couple of people talking at each other at a table (some still are), or lazily repackaged radio broadcasts. Radiolab instead told deeply reported stories in themed episodes with original music and cinematic sound effects that helped enhance the storytelling. And often, the sounds and music were created by Abumrad himself.
Abumrad retired from Radiolabin 2022, leaving it in the capable hands of Latif...
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