Interview: Jad Abumrad On 'Dolly Parton's America'

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🗓️ 7 January 2020

⏱️ 38 minutes

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You may know Jad Abumrad as the host of WNYC's 'Radiolab.' He tells Sam why he created another podcast, Dolly Parton's America, examining the life and work of music legend Dolly Parton. Jad himself grew up in Nashville, where his physician father, a Lebanese immigrant, struck up an unlikely friendship with the singer. Jad uses this podcast to ask what divides us, and how we can transcend those divides like Dolly does. Maybe. Email the show at samsanders@npr.org.

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0:00.0	Are we recording on our end? Are you recording on your end?
0:02.4	I know we're recording on our end right now.
0:04.4	Okay. I bet all the ends are covered.
0:06.0	Okay. Good. Good.
0:07.2	Most interviews I do, the guests don't think to ask who's recording what.
0:11.4	They aren't concerned with the technical of the conversation.
0:14.2	But my guest today, he is different.
0:17.0	First things first, tell me your full name in the title you prefer.
0:21.4	Because you go by many titles at this point.
0:23.2	Yeah, I mean, my name is Chad Abumrod.
0:25.8	And I am the host creator of Radio Lab in more perfect and Dolly Parton's America.
0:31.8	Yeah.
0:32.8	I'll guess I'll go with that as a title.
0:34.8	That's a good title. Let's keep it in there.
0:39.8	I am Sam Sanders. You are listening to It's Been a Minute from NPR.
0:42.8	And as you heard, my guest today is Chad Abumrod.
0:46.8	I'm calling on podcast royalty.
0:48.8	His WNYC Show Radio Lab has been one of the biggest podcasts in the country for years now.
0:54.8	And just this past year, Chad released a podcast series that was just magical.
0:59.8	As you said there, it's called Dolly Parton's America also from WNYC.
1:03.8	I've been to this show recently in two days.
1:06.8	And I love me some Dolly Parton.
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