Jad Abumrad / Chad (Radiolab host; primarily Jad Abumrad)
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Radiolab
Los Frikis
In school, they'd often cut your hair against your will.
Radiolab
Los Frikis
And just to jump in, this is the point in the story where things take a very, no other way to say it, a very punk rock turn.
Radiolab
Los Frikis
Because into this cultural war... Steps a guy named... Papo.
Radiolab
Los Frikis
He went several times in the 90s to Cuba to interview Papu, who he calls the Kurt Cobain of the freakies.
Radiolab
Los Frikis
Those are two friends of Papo's, Jesus Diaz and Luis Hernandez, who was also a bandmate of his.
Radiolab
Los Frikis
So Luis remembers the first time he met Papo, and it was...
Radiolab
Los Frikis
on a night that a Communist Party meeting was taking place right outside his house.