In that role, she's responsible for all aspects of the podcast's production, including development of episode concepts, interviewing guests, and sound design. Casey: People ask me this all of the time, and my one-sentence answer is that my job is to do pretty much everything you could imagine except conduct the actual interview, and have my voice on the air. Rund Abdelfatah is the co-host and producer of Throughline, a podcast that explores the history of current events.In that role, she's responsible for all aspects of the podcast's production, including development of episode concepts, interviewing guests, and sound design.

While I've never sat more than 100 feet from where I interned in the three years I've been here, it definitely wasn't a given that I'd ever get to work on a show like HIBT.

Robyn Park/NPR What does that mean? Casey: A purple stegosaurus with succulents growing out of it, a gift from my little sister.

Don't get discouraged. And just know that so much of your success will boil down to timing and luck. Rund Abdelfatah. How did you end up at TED Radio Hour and How I Built This? Rund Abdelfatah is the co-host and producer of Throughline, a podcast that explores the history of current events. Alexandria Lee/NPR Grand Forks, Rund: My advice? Rund: For me, it means working with some great producers to create (hopefully) an entertaining, informative and inspiring listening experience. Six months later, I got a call from Guy about coming to work on a pilot for a new podcast that would become How I Built This. They are producers for NPR's podcasts How I Built This and TED Radio Hour. Farms got bigger, and people who couldn’t make it had to find other ways to live. Since then, I've worked on so many different things in my role on Team Atlas— Spark, tracking voicemails with Carl Kasell, pilot projects, and a bunch of different podcasts like Pop Culture Happy Hour, the NPR Politics Podcast and Code Switch. Rund Abdelfatah. The hosts, Rund Abdelfatah and Ramtin Arablouei, talked about how tractors made farm work more efficient and lowered food prices, but they also drove many farmers out of business. Casey: Brief advice: work harder than required and try to learn from every single thing you do. Mike Morgan / NPR.

“Hoeing” might not be the right word; some years, the only way to battle the weeds was with machetes. Ramtin: The only advice I can offer anyone hoping to become a producer or composer is to work REALLY hard at becoming precise and FAST at what you do. I think the tipping point eventually will come, though. Ramtin: U Street Music Hall, Union Arts, and the greatest bar on earth, Stan's. We’d end up hoeing the worst ones ourselves, as no work crews were interested. Rund Abdelfatah is the co-host and producer of Throughline, a podcast that explores the history of current events.

I can't say that I have a favorite. Public domain photo, 375 2nd Ave N, I had basically no radio producing experience but learned on the job.

In that role, she's responsible for all aspects of the podcast's production, including development of episode concepts, interviewing guests, and sound design. She can be reached at jschlecht@agweek.com or 701-595-0425. The tractors won. It's been quite the ride!

Rund Abdelfatah is the co-host and producer of Throughline, a podcast that explores the history of current events.In that role, she's responsible for all aspects of the podcast's production, including development of episode concepts, interviewing guests, and sound design. They greatly influenced my taste in music.

Ramtin: I grew up listening to Stretch and Bobbito on the radio.

Rund Abdelfatah/NPR hide caption toggle caption Rund Abdelfatah/NPR Runners form a human bridge at the finish line to cheer fellow racers. I probably made such a fool out of myself when I met them. Casey: I attended the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies in Portland, Maine at the beginning of 2015 when I decided I wanted to pursue a radio-related career. My instructor was the esteemed Michael May (now of the NPR Story Lab) and apparently I impressed him enough during the course to recommend me when TED Radio Hour was looking for a temp producer. Participants completed a 3-mile loop around the National Mall — without food or water since sunrise. Also, I love post-its and my to do list is basically a big post-it calendar that takes up half my desk. Mike Morgan / NPR. hide caption. New technology has always been met with resistance, Moline advertised their Universal tractor in the May 3, 1918, issue of Country Gentleman magazine. My dad and grandpa grew sugar beets when I was a kid. Casey: A tie between Lara St. John and Natalie Merchant. This is, in large part, because of the fact that we’ve launched the Agweek Podcast (look for it on Apple Podcasts or Google Play Music). Ramtin: A tie between Anthony Hamilton and Saul Williams. Rund Abdelfatah is the co-host and producer of Throughline, a podcast that explores the history of current events. When fields got especially weedy, cleaning the weeds out by hand was the only option.

And the crazy thing is that NPR's All Songs Considered helped me get my career off the ground as a composer. All of them were special in their own way. Maximilian Bartie.

Andalucia.

Casey: For HIBT, we did an in-studio interview with Jim Koch, who founded Samuel Adams beer. What are some cool things you've worked on? National Public Radio’s Throughline — a podcast that looks at the historical connection to modern headlines — caught my eye, in part because the most recent episode at that time (Jan. 1) looked, in part, at public concern about the advent of tractors. For TED Radio Hour, I'm most proud of my segments with Dr. BJ Miller, a hospice/palliative care doctor in San Francisco, and the brilliant Dr. Nicholas Christakis, a Yale professor who does fascinating research on the effects of human social networks. Robyn Park/NPR

Each is a new, fun challenge. hide caption, We Insist: A Timeline Of Protest Music In 2020. In that role, she's responsible for Ramtin: It is one of the last media sources where facts matter. Up and down the rows we’d go, in the heat of summer, acre after acre.

They all offer different kinds of fun! Rund Abdelfatah is the co-host and producer of Throughline, a podcast that explores the history of current events.In that role, she's responsible for all aspects of the podcast's production, including development of episode concepts, interviewing guests, and sound design.

Rund: Hm I'll go with Blue Man Group—it was just a lot of fun and interactive, plus there was confetti.

I, for one, am not scared. Ramtin: I can't stop listening to the producer, Arca. Rund Abdelfatah is the co-host and producer of Throughline, a podcast that explores the history of current events.In that role, she's responsible for all aspects of the podcast's production, including development of episode concepts, interviewing guests, and sound design. In that role, she's responsible for all aspects of the podcast's production, including development of episode concepts, interviewing guests, and sound design. Rund Abdelfatah is the co-host and producer of Throughline, a podcast that explores the history of current events.In that role, she's responsible for all aspects of the podcast's production, including development of episode concepts, interviewing guests, and sound design. I guarantee you'll pick up new skills and get a lot more out of it than you expected. The battle even included a tractors-versus-horses competition in Fargo, in which several horses died due to extreme heat. Mike Morgan / NPR. They are producers for NPR's podcasts How I Built This and TED Radio Hour. Casey: I'll exclude NPR podcasts for a second and go for The Memory Palace with Nate DiMeo or Reply All.

Rund: RadioLab, Planet Money. Even if it eventually benefits them with lower food prices, those dots are harder to connect. From left to right: Rund, Casey, Ramtin.

This week's post is our first triple feature—meet Ramtin Arablouei, Casey Herman and Rund Abdelfatah.

The episode also looked at the long resistance many had to coffee, as well as how telephones ushered women into the workplace (because they were superior operators). But I have to say, it was a pretty great feeling the first time I ran a studio recording session by myself (pretty sure it was for a Pop Culture Happy Hour episode). This week's post is our first triple feature—meet Ramtin Arablouei, Casey Herman and Rund Abdelfatah.

But part of it is that it allows me to hear about eclectic topics without having to change the station as I out-drive radio signals. Making a splash around Andalucia. Ramtin: I love all the podcasts at NPR. I produce for the podcast and compose all of its music. It was the most enjoyable interview I have ever recorded. Approach every project, big or small, determined to make it the best it can be. Additionally, industries that benefited from the use of horses in agriculture fought the progress being made by tractors for decades until even the Horse Association of America — formed to lobby against the use of tractors — had to capitulate. Casey: We give away our primary content for free to the listeners. I think part of the consumer outrage over GMOs is that the (very few) approved GMOs have mostly agronomic benefits.

You're all producers for TED Radio Hour and How I Built This. hide caption, Casey: Nick van der Kolk's work on Love + Radio; Notes of Berlin; music from Antje Duvekot, Balsam Range, and Orion Weiss.