The Third. A TED Talk.

Radiolab

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

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🗓️ 25 June 2020

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Jad gives a TED talk about his life as a journalist and how Radiolab has evolved over the years. Here's how TED described it:How do you end a story? Host of Radiolab Jad Abumrad tells how his search for an answer led him home to the mountains of Tennessee, where he met an unexpected teacher: Dolly Parton.Jad Nicholas Abumrad is a Lebanese-American radio host, composer and producer. He is the founder of the syndicated public radio program Radiolab, which is broadcast on over 600 radio stations nationwide and is downloaded more than 120 million times a year as a podcast. He also created More Perfect, a podcast that tells the stories behind the Supreme Court's most famous decisions. And most recently, Dolly Parton's America, a nine-episode podcast exploring the life and times of the iconic country music star. Abumrad has received three Peabody Awards and was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2011.

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0:00.0	Wait, you're listening.
0:03.1	Okay.
0:04.4	All right.
0:05.6	Okay.
0:07.0	All right.
0:08.5	You're listening to Radio Lab.
0:11.4	Radio Lab.
0:11.9	From W. N. Y.
0:13.9	C.
0:14.3	See?
0:14.9	Yeah.
0:19.2	This is Radio Lab. I'm Chad Abumrod. Today, a little something different. I was invited to give a
0:25.6	TED talk a few months ago. It's out today. And it's sort of a personal talk for me. It's about my life as a
0:34.6	journalist. And I also think it helps explain a little bit of the journey that Radio Lab has been on for the last decade or so.
0:44.8	So I want to play the audio of that talk here in the podcast.
0:48.5	I mean, obviously, it is a video in its native format, and you should definitely check out the video.
0:55.0	Because, you know, with COVID, there was no TED conference this year which actually meant for me I got to work with this
1:00.0	amazing video artist a friend of mine Mac Primo and we sort of reimagined the entire form of a
1:08.6	TED talk in that video soup he is incredible so So you should, you should watch the talk.
1:14.6	But in the meantime, we don't listen to it here because I think it says something about how I personally
1:21.0	and how we as a show are trying to kind of approach this complicated moment.
1:29.3	So here it is. I want to tell you about my search for purpose as a journalist and how Dolly Parton helped
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