Rachael is a producer for Radiolab. She started on the show’s Special Projects Unit, where she worked on Radiolab Presents: Gonads and Radiolab Presents: G. Now she mostly spends her time writing about herself in the third person, or trying to craft a masterful pun that makes everyone roll their eyes. Before joining Radiolab, she studied food science and worked as a cheese curd flipper, pastry chef, and egg scrambler. She also spent some time hanging out at NPR, Politico, and Slate.
Rachael Cusick appears in the following:
Baby Shark
Friday, June 20, 2025
There’s a lot more to baby sharks than that song you can’t get out of your head.
Mystery Bay
Thursday, June 19, 2025
What happens when the ocean’s most feared predator comes under attack?
Radiolab Marks 50 Years of 'Jaws' With Shark Stories
Wednesday, June 18, 2025
This summer marks the 50th anniversary of when "Jaws" first terrorized a generation of children in the movie theater. Radiolab is commemorating the anniversary with a week of programm...
The Cage
Tuesday, June 17, 2025
We go to the shark-infested waters of South Australia to meet the monster for ourselves.
Making a Monster
Monday, June 16, 2025
Episode one of Swimming with Shadows: A Radiolab Week of Sharks.
Big Little Questions
Friday, August 30, 2024
Here at the show, we get A LOT of questions—tiny questions, big questions, weird questions, poop questions. Today, we’re dumping the bucket out.
Human vs Horse
Thursday, August 08, 2024
The Summer Olympics are in full swing. Humans are racing against other humans from all across the globe. But you know the one race they don’t have? The one where a human competes agai...
Small Potatoes
Friday, April 19, 2024
An ode to the small, the banal, the overlooked things that make up the fabric of our lives.
G: Relative Genius
Friday, February 02, 2024
When Albert Einstein died, someone stole his brain — and kicked off a scavenger hunt for the origin of genius.
The Internet Dilemma
Friday, August 11, 2023
How the law that created the modern Internet may be destroying it—and us.
The Cataclysm Sentence
Friday, June 30, 2023
What’s the one thing you’d pass on if we all disappeared tomorrow?
Alone Enough
Friday, March 24, 2023
Endurance aloneness, and what the pros have to say about it.
The Flight Before Christmas
Friday, December 23, 2022
Tales of the endurance test that is flying on a commercial airliner with your fellow human.
Hello, My Name Is
Friday, April 29, 2022
This week, we're talking names. They're some of the first labels we get, and they can both reveal and conceal. Do they shape us? Or the other way around?
The Helen Keller Exorcism
Friday, March 11, 2022
Elsa Sjunneson, a fantasy writer and Deafblind woman, was haunted by Hellen Keller. Then, a TikTok conspiracy brought her closer to the disability icon than she ever dreamt.
Flop Off
Friday, December 31, 2021
This year was a flop. Here at Radiolab we wanted to flip that flop, so we dredged up the most mortifying, most cringeworthy, most gravity-defying flops as a Flop Off to 2021.
Of Bombs and Butterflies
Friday, October 15, 2021
One man’s battle, and we mean battle, to save a tiny little butterfly before it vanishes.
HEAVY METAL
Friday, September 24, 2021
What happens when you’re the only one who can see something?
