Jad Abumrad

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6,321 appearances 21 recordings 5 series first heard May 2025 last heard 11 Sep

Jad Abumrad’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Radiolab · Patient Zero · 21 Aug 2026 podcast

Well you've got to go beyond Glenn Burke's story.

I've wanted you to believe that he was the hero at this point, right?

So maybe I should tell you a little bit about

So maybe I should tell you a little bit about Derek's.

Was at practice.

And a guy named Wiley Brown uh went up to Derek Smith and was gonna give him just a ordinary low five.

And Derek Smith looked him in the eye.

This is what Wiley Brown told me.

Derek Smith looked him in the eye and said no, up high.

That year's Louisville team, they were they were known as the Doctors of Dunk.

You know, they're a high flying team, they played above the rim.

And John says when Louisville played in the nineteen eighty NCAA finals, why they

I haven't seen it, but apparently the broadcaster referred actually to the high five handshake.

He felt compelled to explain it to America, you know.

Wow, and di did at the moment that Derek Smith did it, did an asteroid fall on his head or something?

Well, in nineteen ninety six I believe, in in the nineties, he had an undiagnosed heart condition and he just died all of a sudden on a on a cruise ship.

What?

Yes.

And um he said explicitly to Wiley Brown, This is something I'm gonna be remembered for.

You know, our kids and our grandkids are gonna talk about this, and in fact our kids and grandkids do talk about it.

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