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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Radiolab · Atomic Artifacts · 3 Jul 2026 podcast

I'm Jad Abumrad.

This story begins, I guess you could say, with a mystery.

Hi, it's Garrett.

Hey, Garrett.

Simon here.

How are you?

I'm well, sorry I'm late.

And it comes from producer Simon Adler.

Yeah, so this mystery all started just a couple years back when this guy... I'm Garrett Graff.

I'm a historian, journalist, author, etc., etc.

...was handed an ID badge.

So I was working at Washingtonian Magazine at the time, and one of my colleagues found a government ID badge as he was commuting in one day.

Garrett says his colleague was just walking down the street when he saw on the ground this ID.

And the colleague pretty immediately realized that this was not just any ID.

It belonged to somebody with like a pretty high security clearance.

You know, he brought it into me and he goes, hey, like you cover this stuff like you can probably figure out how to get this badge back to this guy.

So I'm looking at the badge and trying to figure out, you know, sort of where this guy works.

And it's clear it's for someone who works in the intelligence community.

And when I turned the badge over, it had two sets of driving directions on the back.

One labeled short-term, one labeled long-term.

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