Jad Abumrad

So this—I had— Hey, I'm Chad Abumrad.

I'm Robert Krowitz.

This is Radiolab.

And we have another story for you, another adventure, courtesy of who else?

Well, reporter Letif Nasser.

So the way I first learned about the story is that I saw that there was this article trending in this—

online publication called The Players Tribune, which is like a kind of athlete's magazine.

Which, of course, you subscribe to.

Which, of course, I subscribe to because I'm the, like, scrawniest.

I'm the, like, least athletic.

I'm the only scrawny couch potato, basically.

But anyway, the thing that jumped out to me about this article is that it's a sports story, but it's actually so much more.

Like it's a story about voting.

It's a story about cyberbullying.

It's a story about, you know, sticking it to the establishment.

It's a sports story, but it's like it's one that feels like it could only have happened at this very specific moment that we're living in right now.

Yeah, I mean, I don't know if we can always paint sports as a microcosm of society, but in this case, it's undeniable that it was.

So the whole story starts with this guy, Greg Wyshynski.

hockey stuff.

Greg is a hockey journalist.