Jad Abumrad
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6,321 appearances
21 recordings
5 series
first heard May 2025
last heard 5d ago
Jad Abumrad’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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But when he went around playing away games, other teams picked it up and it sort of spread out.
So he was sort of both the inventor of the high five and the kind of Johnny Appleseed of it.
The high five at the same time.
And within a few weeks of John getting this press release?
The story was everywhere.
Went kind of viral.
It wound up sort of all over the internet.
There were some local newspapers who, you know, picked it up.
You know, Murray State suddenly became very proud of the fact that they were the the home of the high five.
It became sort of part of the institutional lore in the athletic department there.
And then you read this and you thought what?
Uh I thought, uh, how sad.
How sad.
Uh why how sad?
Because I knew the story of Glenn Burke.
Turns out John had already been poking around into this question of who invented the high five and he had stumbled on this photograph.
You know what, maybe I I don't have it, but uh black and white picture.
Oh yeah, here we go.
Two baseball players facing each other, afros, huge smiles.
And their hands are in the air, right about to connect.
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