Jad Abumrad loves a butterfly knife and a good springy pillow

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorJad Abumrad, the podcast creator behind Dolly Parton's America and Fela Kuti: Fear No Man, is out with an interview about his favorite things, The Verge reports.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorBoth of those shows won Peabody Awards. The headline, however, is about a butterfly knife and a springy pillow.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorA knife and a pillow. That's either a very good night's sleep or a very short one.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorIt's a gadget interview, Dale. He likes a pillow with some spring in it.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorSpringy. Nobody tells you what a spring does to a man's neck over thirty years.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorHe also ran Radiolab from two thousand two to January twenty twenty-two, and won a MacArthur Genius Grant in two thousand eleven.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorA genius grant, and the public wants to know about his bedding.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThe interview does not say what the pillow was made of. I checked.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorThree Peabodys, one Genius Grant, and the headline goes to the pillow.