Jad Abumrad / Chad (Radiolab host; primarily Jad Abumrad)
👤 Speaker
367
total appearances
Appearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Radiolab
Los Frikis
Oh man, we listened to Rolling Stone, Sympathy with the Devil.
Radiolab
Los Frikis
In the beginning, everything that came from there in English was good.
Radiolab
Los Frikis
Because, I don't know, that kind of music gives us another door.
Radiolab
Los Frikis
So Vladdy's walking around with ripped jeans, long hair, and that's fine.
Radiolab
Los Frikis
Suddenly, music you listen to became very ideological, and if you listen to rock, you were listening to the enemy of the Cuban state, the United States.
Radiolab
Los Frikis
The government created a police presence in every neighborhood, every five blocks.
Radiolab
Los Frikis
And Vladimir says, if the police found you and you had long hair... They'd beat us.
Radiolab
Los Frikis
Send you away to work cutting sugar cane in the cane fields.