The First Radiolab

Radiolab

WNYC Studios

Science, Natural Sciences, History, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.6 • 43.5K Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2022

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

Jad started Radiolab roughly 20 years ago. And now he is stepping aside from hosting and producing the show to replenish, to think, to rock in his chair and be with his kids and wife, and maybe make some music. The news has been all over twitter and there’s a letter from Jad and our hosts Latif and Lulu on the website. But in this episode, Jad talks through his decision to leave and the future of the show with Lulu and Latif. And then, as a parting gift, we play him the very first episode of Radiolab (“The Radio Lab” as he called it then). He tells us about biking the CDs over the Brooklyn bridge just before the show was supposed to air, reading the news and weather between segments, and then we just sit back together and listen to where it all began.

Jad, for those of us who have been radically changed by the thing you put out into the world, we are both sad to lose you in our ears and endlessly grateful for what you’ve given us.

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0:00.0	Wait, you're listening to radio lab from W and Y
0:13.7	I'll say the thing you guys know what I'm gonna say because I've already said it I probably won't cry this time
0:23.8	Yeah, we can't do something you oh shit what is it hey jet here a couple days ago I sat down with Lulu and
0:32.3	LaTiff because I had something that I wanted to tell everybody maybe you've already seen this on
0:38.5	Twitter or heard about it but I just wanted to say it here to all of you and also to have them with me when I did
0:45.5	Yeah, do a rough like get yourself in the mood. Yeah, okay. Well, sorry everybody. Hello everybody. This is Jad
0:53.1	I have I would say I was gonna start the year with some big news, but actually we're already into the year
0:58.8	But what is time really these days? I have some news that'd like to share I
1:04.8	It's almost 20 years ago roughly that I started radio lab and
1:11.0	It has grown and grown and become this incredibly
1:15.8	vibrant amazing team of people and for a while now
1:19.6	I've been wondering to myself when would be the right time for me to step aside as host and
1:29.9	Allow this thing that I've created to
1:33.4	evolve into its next
1:36.4	chapter and
1:38.4	I
1:40.4	Think that time is now
1:42.4	So I've decided to step aside as host of radio lab
1:50.0	My last episode will be on your story Lulu coming up in the middle of next month
1:56.3	You guys know that you'll never completely get rid of me
2:00.0	I'll be around a plan to take long walks with all of you in Fort Green Park at least the Brooklyn contingent and
2:07.0	I'm I plan to support you guys however I can but
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