writing after the stump episode on october 4th, the editing, music, and all-out fun over something so simple incentivized me to finally review after recently discovering

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Excellent Pod

This was once the best podcast available. Jad and Robert were stunningly good. Since they handed it over, it’s hardly worth listening to. In fact, I no longer do. It’s a shame. RadioLab was the king, the standard.

Excellent podcast. Informative, interesting.

Excellent topics that are endlessly interesting. That being said, the new hosts are awful. Lulu Miller’s constant giggling ruins every episode she’s on.

One of the originals in the space. One of the best ever. Since Jan and Robert are gone, it’s either a repeat or something woke.

Please do not arrange cohosting just for the sake of making those annoying and fake sounds and giggling. This is not a children’s show. We are talking about the elective college episode here. Stopped listening just after 10 mins.

They just rewind previous episodes

The Jad and Robert days were the best; wish they were still on.

Good topics but the narrators constantly interrupt each other and their guests and finish other people ‘s sentences. It’s difficult to listen to.

I’m dying laughing at the bonus Latif v. bot episode: Electric sheep, omg, so funny, the bot is hilarious! All the episodes are fantastic. They go to the ends of the earth (literally) to research and fact check every episode Ive been in several situations where I’m meeting strangers and I have broken the ice by saying “There was this episode of Radiolab ……….“ and someone always knows what I’m talking about and it launches a very cool conversation. Trees growing on trees, for example. The blue blood of horseshoe crabs that fuels the economy and bird migration. Quasi moons out and about; and our planet just had one briefly. Vive La Zoozve! Get the subscription, it’s better than all the others.

It used to be better, but it’s become too “woke” (especially Lulu Miller), and I don’t feel like I can trust what they are telling me anymore. Please just stick to the science.

I used to love this show but find the new hosts insufferable. The energy is chaotic and deeply unpleasant.

I ve been listening to Radiolab for 10+ years. The latest episode, Octomom is my all time favorite and I think about it all the time. Had I never discovered Radiolab my life would not be as inquisitive. If yuu have the means, supporting this show with a monthly donation will be ensure that it keeps creating and producing the best audio content you can find.

new hosts are terrible 🤷‍♂️

I gave the new host more than a fair chance. Sadly, they are not up to the task. It's no surprise that they are always begging people to subscribe.

Love the show! And I love seeing the world as if I were a child, but I don’t love it presented to me as if I’m actually a child.

I love the show content but unfortunately am not able to tolerate Latif’s voice. It has such dramatic rise and fall; the sudden and frequent strident pitch is like a stick poking my brain. It is squeaky and overly emphasized. I have a feeling he loves the sound of his own voice but we do not share that sentiment.

Radiolab “old testament” is something I deeply loved, identified with, I listened to each episode multiple times, wrote poetry about, shared with family, friends and strangers, and would break into a radiolab story at the slightest provocation. It was science communication at its finest, the pure unadulterated joy of discovery funneled through the headphones in my junkie brain with a side of hearty Robert Krulwich humor. On a personal level this show uplifted me from a period of severe depression and helped me find my passion towards a career in science. I can not relate to the new version of the show anymore. I have tried hard but I dont enjoy the shift that happened after Jad decided to make Radiolab about social complexities. We live in those complexities and that’s enough for me, I used to come to Radiolab for a different purpose: the simple wonder of scientific discovery and curiosity, told with stories that had heart and humor, and, not to mention, impeccable sound engineering. I miss that unique essence of Radiolab, which can be found in some of the new stories by Molly Webster still, but the show has lost its core meaning to me overall. I know I am cranky and old, and I don’t want to dismiss the hard work of the Radiolab team, but I do dream of a dedicated old-timey science spinoff by Molly and others.

I’ve been a fan for years, love the show, please keep up the good work!

Radiolab is a standard in pop science radio. They cover so many fascinating topics and distill the information into consumable little 1 hour bits for idiots like me. That said, it is edited in a way that both makes it sound like a commercial for Malcom in the Middle and belies the hosts’ inability to refrain from interjecting while someone else is talking. So yeah, that’s annoying to the point that I nearly turn it off every time. But then I don’t. Because I am a masochist.

I’ve listened to your show a few times, and this episode was too woke for me, I stomached other episodes on your leftward leaning, but sorry you’re off my list.

Radiolab has been my favorite show for years. Since I am a self employed gardener I often listen to your podcast while working and I have listened to almost all of the episodes. It seems recently that you mostly play reruns from the past usually shows I have already heard. I am craving new content!!!

This podcast was once the gold standard for radio shows and podcasts alike. Nowadays, they should rename it replay lab. I understand that the changing economies of podcasting has made it far more difficult for podcasts to survive and managed to pay their staff from week to week. However, other podcasts seem to do just fine at creating original content. The only reason that Radiolab is continuing to benefit from subscriptionsand other related revenues currently while presenting us with old replayed content at least 80 to 85% of the time is because it was once such a gold standard. Resting on your laurels is clearly an understatement for this flagging and anemic outfit.

Used to be a great show. Hot leftist garbage now.

The show has really gone downhill since I first started listening (and it was one of my favorites!). Original episodes are few and far between as many new episodes are just replayed old episodes. The new hosts are just not that interesting and actually feel like they would be more interested in being anywhere else. I would love to see them step up their game but sometimes I wonder if they might be trying to sabotage it on purpose ever since Jad gave them the reins. If I play the show for friends I’m only choosing old episodes. Which, I guess is the same as the current show runners.

I have been a fan of the show from Day 1… the most engaging and fascinating of the many podcasts I listen to by far….but the background sound effects are SO LOUD that they dominate the entire podcast. Do we have to hear the actual recording of a baby screaming for minutes at a time to convey what a crying baby sounds like? Ouch!

Jad and Robert created a show that was rich, and deep, and fascinating. All that’s left is a hollow imitation. I’ll still listen for background, but I used to listen to learn.

I’m annoyed every time I decide to listen. It’s either a re-air or sister podcast highlight. I love NPR and donate to the cause but this show has wasted too much of my time. Don’t bother.

I think it’s time to retire the show name. This isn’t the same, it isn’t as good and and it isn’t as engaging. Jad provided an unique presentation and Robert gave some seriously insightful, and sometimes profound reporting. I haven’t felt that for a long time here.

Since Jad and Robert left, the content and production has suffered; so many recycled shows with hardly any new content. I used to look forward to this podcast…not so much now. Time to say goodbye.

The classic episodes, the ones that where the only mission was pursuing truth and feeding curiosity, are all lock behind a paywall. The folks who took the reigns ought to be ashamed of themselves for riding the coattails of a once truly great podcast.

Feeds my quirky intellectual curiosity!!

Can’t wait for Lulu’s hiatus! Consider not being on the show anymore? Ok great, you are obnoxious

Hi there. Love the subject matter as always but dang. Is it really necessary to say “like” over and over and over again? The Aphantasia episode is one example. I know you can’t control the way the guests speak (like, like, like), but good grief. Sindu peppers literally every sentence with the word, often multiple times. Yikes. Latif does it, too. Makes you sound like inarticulate teenagers. Like, what’s the deal? Srsly, go back and listen to the episode. (Don’t read the transcript. Some smart transcriber edited all of the likes out.) I keep hearing this on NPR shows. It’s almost as irritating as that other verbal tick: interviewees punctuating virtually every sentence with “Right?” As if it makes them sound hip and cool. (It doesn’t.) Thank goodness most hosts and reporters don’t do this. Or they do it to a lesser extent. I don’t know why the like thing has become a thing — it wasn’t the case with Jad and Robert, at least not that I recall. The deteriorating ability of your hosts and producers to speak intelligently is disappointing.

First heard of this podcast during a freshman Biology class at Oregon State University, have been enthralled ever since! Favorite episode was detailing how HOV crossed over from apes to humans. Chills!

I sometimes miss the content and editing style of the old reporting from Jad and Robert. I pay some money a month because I think the questions asked and pursued are often wonderful but often lean far too dark of late. The lightness yet thorough reporting of the old stuff (less the animal experimentation and when the current show revives similar subjects: distant moons, bugs, curious brain science etc) is a delight.

Just really enjoyed this podcast!

Classics only

This show has changed a lot over the years and I don't like it . For instance, they are now playing not one but two advertisements for Black Rock. Also, for the record I had a life insurance policy as a child and so did my sister. When my children were born, I paid for the life insurance policy for both my kids. This is something that people without a lot of money routinely do and $10,000 is routine. Having two men on a show question a family for getting a life insurance policy on an infant shows your privilege.

Recent ep about Alfred plea cuts off randomly at the end. Incomplete story

Radiolab has a unique format that always makes me think. Some times it is a wild ride. Some times it is a deep dive. But every time they show me solid journalistic work. Every time they engage me emotionally and intellectually. “How have I lived for so long and have not known this?” Just like they say in their advertisement.

I love RadioLab. Thank you to everyone who makes this amazing mind opening podcast. I see the world in whole new ways thank to you.

Used to be such an amazing show

Radiolab used to be my favorite podcast and public radio production. Unfortunately, since Jad Abumrad left (and Robert Krulwich before him), the show has degenerated into a juvenile, trivial, self-indulgent platform for the hosts and producers. In fact, the new content can sometimes be downright idiotic. (See: Small Potatoes episode). Radiolab always had an irreverent element to it, and I appreciate that content must evolve or risk going stale. But Latif Nasser and Lulu Miller have basically turned this once great show into a frivolous Gong Show. What a shame.

New episodes are mostly woke. For example, they think square dancing is racist. Sigh. Like it or not, everyone learns square dancing in elementary school. (Yes, even black kids.) That means more Americans know how to square dance than any other dance. Get over it.

This is one of those informative, quirky, “there are at least a few episodes to fit everyone’s taste,” wonderful podcasts. I enjoy listening to previous episodes, as well as current, and find the questions they ask are insightful and timeless. If I could give them a rating higher than five stars, I would.

I left a five star review about ten years ago. This was one of the original great podcasts before the explosion of podcasts. Latif and Lulu have done some really good things before taking over the show, but the show has seriously suffered since they were given the reins. It’s just not good or it’s recycled content.

Lulu absolutely single handily ruined this show