225. Jad Abumrad (Radiolab, Dolly Parton's America) – American Multiverse

If you’d told me a couple months ago that a podcast about Dolly Parton could move me deeply and raise all kinds of questions that go straight to the wounded heart of America today, I guess I would have been skeptical to say the least. But that skepticism might be exactly the point. America is an image factory. Country music. Rock and Roll. New York City. Nashville. We paint with big, broad brushes. And if we’re not careful, we miss a lot of the details. My guest today is audio storytelling wizard Jad Abumrad. He’s the creator and a host of Radiolab, More Perfect, and now, of Dolly Parton’s America – a nine part podcast series that achieves all those aforementioned implausible things. Jad’s trips into the Dollyverse with his co-producer Shima Oliaee reveal the country singer as something between a bodhisattva and one of those fairytale mirrors that tell you the truth about yourself. – Jason Gots Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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225. Jad Abumrad (Radiolab, Dolly Parton's America) – American Multiverse is an episode from Think Again – a Big Think Podcast by Big Think / Panoply.

This episode is 47:34 long.

This episode was published on Dec 21, 2019.

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