Lebanon, USA 2.0
Kerning Cultures
Kerning Cultures Network
4.9 • 529 Ratings
🗓️ 21 August 2020
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
This week, a special collaboration with one of our all time favourite podcasts: Radiolab. We produced the episode - Lebanon USA - last year, and Radiolab have taken that original story and elevated it to a whole new level.
This is a story of a road trip. After a particularly traumatic Valentine's Day, Fadi Boukaram was surfing google maps and noticed that there was a town called Lebanon... in Oregon. Being Lebanese himself, he wondered, how many Lebanons exist in the US? The answer: 47. Thus began his journey to visit them all and find an America he'd never expected, and the homeland he'd been searching for all along.
The original "Lebanon USA" story was produced by Alex Atack with editorial support from Bella Ibrahim, Dana Ballout, Zeina Dowidar and Hebah Fisher. Sound design by Alex Atack. Kerning Cultures is a Kerning Cultures Network production.
The new update of the story was produced and produced by Shima Oliaee and Jad Abumrad, with original music by Thomas Koner and Jad Atoui.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey guys, I'm Hibah Fisher, and today we have a very special episode to share with you. |
| 0:10.5 | It's a collaboration with one of our all-time favorite podcasts, Radio Lab. |
| 0:15.6 | The collaboration is for an episode that we produced about a year ago. |
| 0:19.9 | It's called Lebanon, USA. |
| 0:22.0 | But this version is different. |
| 0:25.5 | It's better, frankly. |
| 0:27.6 | And so we wanted to share it with you here. |
| 0:31.5 | But first, to cue it up, |
| 0:33.5 | I want to play you some tape of a conversation producer Alex Atak and I had the other day. |
| 0:39.5 | So, okay, so we're here talking to talk about Radio Lab. |
| 0:46.5 | Yeah, yes we are. |
| 0:50.7 | How do you want to do that? |
| 0:52.8 | Maybe we could start with just like how does it feel to know that we are going to have a story air on Radio Lab? |
| 1:02.1 | Well, I, I, I, it feels insane and amazing and like, I don't, I don't, it's a weird thing because we like I I was thinking about this |
| 1:15.5 | earlier today and I I don't know if you remember the first time we met which was in Dubai in |
| 1:21.5 | at that cafe on Boulevard yeah we had coffee and it and it was the and I had made no radio stories at that point and I think you had made about four for about four episodes into coloning cultures maybe five and we and that was the and I and I and I and I and I and I and I and I and I and I and I and I and I remember one of the things we talked about was Radio Lab because we were both |
| 1:45.3 | massive fans of it and we I think we both sort of felt like there was no one else around |
| 1:50.7 | us to talk to about like podcasts and Radio Lab and like how excited we were by all of this stuff |
| 1:56.0 | that we were just kind of learning how to do and to make something that sounded like anywhere close to radio |
| 2:03.6 | lab would have been amazing so there are a few you know there's a few times with cunning cultures |
| 2:09.0 | where we've had like milestones and I feel like this is the biggest one we've had so far |
| 2:14.6 | because it makes me think of that first time we met and how |
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