Jad Abumrad
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5 series
first heard May 2025
last heard 5d ago
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Two thousand seven or two thousand eight.
John turned on his computer, opened up his email, and found a press release about the the true undisputed inventor of the high five coming, you know, out finally.
National High Five Day, which is a kind of a joke holiday that was invented by a group of high school friends, I think.
So and a and they told the story?
They told the story of Lamont Sleets.
College basketball player at Murray State in Kentucky.
And the story in the press release went something like this.
Sleets' father fought in Vietnam as part of uh the first battalion, 5th Infantry, which was nicknamed the Five.
And they used to greet each other by holding up their hand and saying Five as a kind of prideful thing.
And when Lamont was younger, they would all sort of hang out at the house in Kentucky and he couldn't keep all their names straight.
So when they'd walk in the door and go,
five, he would just sort of smack their hand.
And he goes high five.
Oh, like high, like hello five.
Hello five, yeah.
High, comma five.
You know, he has small hands, he likes to put them up against the big hands of the five guys.
And it was years later that he started playing college basketball at Murray State and started high-fiving all his teammates.
He really never stopped high-fiving.
It was just something he did.
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