Jad Abumrad
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6,321 appearances
21 recordings
5 series
first heard May 2025
last heard 11 Sep
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And I think the reason I bristle or I chafe at that is I remember as a kid growing up in Wisconsin watching the news or listening to the news at the end of the day and hearing reporters talk about what was going on in America and just not relating to it or not seeing any of it on the ground at all.
And I came to believe that either the news was exaggerating everything or they just weren't talking about me or anyone I had ever met.
And so there's an arrogance in thinking you can take the nation's temperature.
Yeah.
However, here I just spent the last two months doing this, and I think it's because despite everything I just said, secretly, deep down, I wanted to find something that we could all agree on, even now.
And I'll say there was one thing that kept coming up.
And I don't think it was ever anyone's first choice, but...
Oh, maybe you should put a... I know what it is.
Oh, yeah.
An image from the moon looking at Earth.
Almost everyone said they'd want to preserve something from the Apollo moon missions.
And everyone had their own reason as to why.
It's like people are still yearning for that sense of like unity and transcendence.
And a project.
Yeah, a common mission, a common purpose.
But I think what I actually like most about it is America did this at a time when we were more polarized potentially than we even are right now.
Like America was going through far more radical changes than I think we face today.
And yet out of that maelstrom, we did this transcendent thing.
Yeah.
And so what this leaves me with is the feeling that I want to live in a time and a place in an iteration of America where we achieve something that inspiring.
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