After scoring zero pints on his seventh-grade basketball team, Hammad Zaidi takes on LA Lakers standout player Kareem Rush in a game of 1-on-1, to see if he can score on NBA talent.
Manifesting your dreams can do magical things, like turn a funeral in the middle of Kansas into befriending a Rock N' Roll star (Julian Lennon) in Cannes, France just weeks later
"How a Dying Man Taught Me How To Live at a Killer Concert" chronicles my life-changing trip to the Knebworth Festival in England on June 30, 1990, in order to witness one of the greatest concerts in the history of Rock N' Roll.
This life altering moment was triggered by racism, guns and mirrors. Here's a great clip on the day the US Hostages were freed after 444 days of captivity.
"Minorities Not Wanted" chronicles why I was ousted from a "Royal" celebration. Here's the final out of the KC Royals sweeping the NY Yankees in the 1980 American League Championship Series to advance to their first World Series.
Welcome to the 20th edition of "Limping on Cloud 9." Today we chronicle a memorable time in 1999, when I lunched with and befriended an Original Gangster. Film director Steve Anderson (South Central) introduced me.
Doctor's Orders and the Amazing Healing Powers of Dr. Pepper is about my lifelong love of Dr. Pepper, and how it helped to heal my medical condition as a child.
"From Inspiration to Incarceration" shares a moment in time when Hammad Zaidi was involved in acquiring the life rights to a young American hero, whose life became anything but heroic.
Life Experience, a Concert, a Cop, and a 1979 Oldsmobile Delta 88 explores the importance of allowing yourself to engage in memorable life experiences.
Hear how a blind date at the Final Four led to a memorable road trip. Below is the concert we attended in Las Vegas on Friday, April 5, 2002. It was exactly 15 years ago today, the date of this podcast.
Explore how a horrible dentist unknowingly teaches confidence. This is how I felt during the entire dentist ordeal. This may well be how the dentist-in-training felt...Thank you for lending me your ears and eyes.
This is how "not being disabled enough" can arrest a bucket-list dream. Here is a key moment from the 1988 Paralympics in Seoul, Korea. As Always, I thank you for lending me your ears and eyes.