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- I just listened to this show after watching my son get pummeled in a wrestling meet. While I was listening to the last segment I was thinking, "Oh I can't wait to play this for him!" By the end of the story, I realized I had it all wrong. I made my son put down the XBOX controller and listen to the story as soon as I got home. When it ended, I asked him if he knew why I wanted him to hear it with me (he gets the podcast as well on his own ipod). He said "I know, I should never give up. But the end was sad." I said, "Yeah, when the story was playing I was thinking I really needed to play this for you. Then the reality part of the story came and I thought that this was an illustration of how just because you are a star in high school doesn't guarantee anything for you in life. But when I got to the end, I realized that Chad is MY role model. I love RadioLab because for me (being scientifically-challenged) it is the perfect blend of science and real life. Just because there was no HARD science included in this story, does not detract at all from the impact; Psychiatry and Psychology being such soft sciences anyway. What exactly happened when Chad was shot is not important because it doesn't change the result. One of my favorite stories was in "Oops" about the poison lake and it too had little hard science and was mostly anecdotal. What matters is that my thought processes have changed because of this story. Thank you Radiolab!
