How to pronounce “jad” in English

Jad Abumrad: Are you ready?

Jad Abumrad: We should be so lucky.

Jad Abumrad: Well, I figure since we're here with Zoë, honored to be here with Zoë and thank you all for the invitation.

Jad Abumrad: We are radio.

Jad Abumrad: We are radio, after all.

Jad Abumrad: So, you've got these two poles of sound.

Jad Abumrad: No, it wasn't that exactly.

Jad Abumrad: No, that's absolutely true, but you wouldn't-- Robert Krulwich: I don't know.

Jad Abumrad: Well, I mean what's the big debate, actually as to whether music has a universal meaning.

Jad Abumrad: And let's begin today with something deceptively familiar.

Jad Abumrad: That's all fireflies do, flash.

Jad Abumrad: Where fireflies don't just flash randomly, like we're used to.

Jad Abumrad: Tens of thousands.

Jad Abumrad: All of them in sync.

Jad Abumrad: Well, not until 1965.

Jad Abumrad: Twenty years later, John Buck is still asking this question.

Jad Abumrad: Because no one knows.

Jad Abumrad: What seems to be clear, says Steve, is there is no one firefly that makes it all happen.

Jad Abumrad: I'll stop it right there.

Jad Abumrad: So here's the music.

Jad Abumrad: It's giving you feeling.

Jad Abumrad: If it made sense to have a tricycle, sure.

Jad Abumrad: That's right.

Jad Abumrad: Absolutely.

Jad Abumrad: Well, but, OK it's on your hip now.

Jad Abumrad: That's a, that's a, it's a little bit of the music and then I made the beep a third above it.

Jad Abumrad: Yeah.

Jad Abumrad: That's, yes.

Jad Abumrad: Wow.

Jad Abumrad: You know?

Jad Abumrad: In what sense?

Jad Abumrad: Yeah.

Jad Abumrad: What phrase was this?

Jad Abumrad: So, here's what happened.

Jad Abumrad: She realizes, "Wait a second.

Jad Abumrad: It's weird.

Jad Abumrad and Diana Deutsch: Sometimes behave so strangely.

Jad Abumrad: All right.

Jad Abumrad: I'll just drop it out there.

Jad Abumrad: Yeah.

Jad Abumrad: It's not an entirely rational thing.

Jad Abumrad: Are they all with you in that place?

Jad Abumrad: You do close your eyes.

Jad Abumrad: Together, but alone.

Jad Abumrad: What do you mean?

Jad Abumrad: Like, part of the whole, part of the whole thing for us is just, 'cause we're two idiots who are wandering through the world trying to figure things out.

Jad Abumrad: And it's also, I mean it's just generally, like, it's tune out time when there's the credits.

Jad Abumrad: Well, we try and keep those from not being pronounced.

Jad Abumrad: It's true.