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Snap Judgment
Snap Judgment mixes real stories with beats to produce cinematic, dramatic audio. Snap’s raw, musical brand of storytelling dares listeners to see the world through the eyes of another. It's storytelling... with a BEAT.
Episodes
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The Fire Tapes Special
What do you do when you are trying to give birth... in the middle of a wildfire? Nicole Veum is interviewed live by producer April Demobosky for "The Fire…
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Counted: An Oakland Story
Counted: An Oakland Story is the story of the people lost to Oakland’s violence. During 2017, a team of Snap Judgment producers, learned about Oakland’s…
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Snap LIVE! in NYC
Legendary "Snap LIVE! in NYC" at RadioLoveFest featuring Tariq "Black Thought" Trotter from The Roots and The Tonight Show, comedian Jen Kober, and Snap…
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Creepy Crawly - Spooked IX
The Birds: As a little boy in Richmond Virginia, raising pigeons, Ray Christian made a friend with the same hobby. But there was something mysterious about…
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Trapped - Spooked IX
Get 13 all-new episodes of Spooked Season 2 at Spookedpodcast.org. THE IRON GATE When Dallas Sanchez was stationed in Iraq, he saw danger every single day. But…
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Back To The Wall
Pro rock climbers Jason Smith and Tommy Caldwell know a thing or two about dangerous even life threatening adventures, but when they go on an expedition to the…
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Two Brains
What if you had two choices. Either risk death, or start over in a completely new life. Now imagine you had to make that decision for your child. Season 9…
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Love Lessons
How do you imagine falling in love when you know you might never get the chance to? A story from inside the walls of Guantanamo Bay Prison. Season 9 Episode 27…
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Beyond Faces of Death
In the mid-70s, Conan was hired to direct and produce a nature documentary. But he wanted to do something more ambitious. The film he made "Faces of Death"…
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My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
Sometimes the only word you hear is "No." But what if you always said "Yes"? Snap Judgment proudly presents "My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy". Forbidden…
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The Proxy
What if you could be you without all of the responsibility, the guilt, and the self-loathing? Too good to be true? ...Maybe not. Marwencol When Mark Hogancamp…
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Belly Of The Beast
When you’re a safari guide on the Zambezi River, you always know that things could go horribly wrong. Season 9 Episode 25 Learn about your ad choices…
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The Real Black Klansman
Featuring a new story from the "Real Black Klansman" Detective Ron Stallworth...we're going face to face with "The Klan." Includes a bonus Snap Classic story…
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All Eyes On Me
"Mirror Touch" Neurologist Joel Salinas on mirror-touch synesthesia. "What Accent?" Ellen Spencer with Foreign Accent Syndrome. "The Bat Boy and the Pine Tar…
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Talk Of The Town
After a salesman at Oakland’s Lake Merritt disappears, journalist Tammerlin Drummond investigates what happened to him. Season 9 Episode 23 Learn about your ad…
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My Private Utopia - Snap Classic
Dylan Evans had hit a wall. Life was becoming too routine, too mundane. So he did something very few of us would do to change that. For more check out Dylan…
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Return To Kuku Island
In the 1970s, thousands of Vietnamese refugees were left on the remote Anambas Islands in Indonesia. They were stranded without food, water, and shelter…
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Suitcase Of Love And Shame - Snap Classic
In 2009, Jane Gillooly came across an item on Ebay that piqued her imagination. The picture was of a suitcase filled with old audiotapes. The listing’s title…
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Night At The Mirage
The story of The Mirage, the famous undercover Chicago Sun bar, as told by two reporters posing as bartenders. Pam Zekman currently works as an investigative…
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Campfire Tales V
An all new season of Spooked, the podcast, is dropping early August. In this episode, we’re featuring some of our favorite stories from Spooked, season one…
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Fight Club
The first rule about fight club is you do not talk about fight club. Ray Christian breaks that rule. Season 9 Episode 19 Learn about your ad choices…
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Ear Hustle's "Thick Glass" - Snap Special
Snap Judgment joins the podcast Ear Hustle for a look at parenting from inside San Quentin State Prison. In this episode incarcerated fathers share their…
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06 Female - Snap Classic
In 2006, a wolf was born in Yellowstone who would become a legend in her own time. For more about the 06 Female and the debate surrounding wolves in…
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Beyond Belief
What do you do when someone tells you something you know to be false, and yet...you can just tell they're telling the truth? Chaotic Good Malaclypse was part…
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Tin Man - Snap Classic
What if you don't have a heart? If I Only Had A Heart The sum of the parts cannot equal the hole in your heart. The Scientist And The Psychopath Neuroanatomist…
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Shrapnel
When the fight is over we still have to deal with the pieces of the battle that remain inside. Featuring The Warrior Box and Soul of a Soldier. Season 9…
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Secrets In The Stacks - Snap Classic
When Avi Steinberg became a prison librarian, he thought his job would be to keep track of the books. Then he started reading between the lines. Producer: Joe…
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Lucky
Hear how one of Yugoslavia’s top basketball players attempts to escape the Siege of Sarajevo and don't miss The Nocturnists late night meltdown at the morgue…
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Where No One Should Go - Snap Classic
In the desert of northern South Africa you come across a little puddle. If you dive down into that puddle, at the bottom there is a slot. This is the entrance…
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The Iron Curtain
At the height of the Cold War, Ulrike Poppe just might have been the most surveilled woman in the world. But it was only after the wall fell that things got…
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The Badlands
For two years, ISIS fought to take over the city of Mosul, killing 40,000 civilians. This is a story about a group of men and women from around the world who…
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Running Man
When a rising high school track star in Eritrea, East Africa, is arrested under the military dictatorship, he realizes he might have a way out....run. Season 9…
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26 Lives On Atlas Peak
On Atlas Peak there is one way in and one way out. When wildfire threatened their homes, the only escape route...was up. Check out KQED's fire investigation…
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Unforgiven
There is a line, draw it in the sand, shake on it, mark it in blood, but if you cross it... there is no going back. Season 6 Episode 12 Learn about your ad…
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Breakfast Of Champions
Stories of young people using every trick in their little arsenal to win praise and love, only to find themselves alone in the end. Season 9 Episode 11 Learn…
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Fargo - Snap Classic
Paul Berczeller examines the case of Takako Konishi, who died in a frozen forest on the North Dakota/Minnesota border looking for the treasure from the Coen…
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The Trouble With Shannon Cason
KC was a rising star, improving Detroit’s most troubled public schools. But to do that, she cut some legal corners that put her in prison. Season 9 Episode 10…
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Counted: An Oakland Story
Counted: An Oakland Story is a yearlong look at the people lost to Oakland’s violence. During 2017, a team of Snap Judgment producers learned about Oakland’s…
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Big Girls Don't Cry - Snap Classic
When the going gets tough, the tough make stuff happen. Featuring stories about rattlesnakes pageant queens, Apache orphans, and the legendary Xiao Xiao. Learn…
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Lifted
Avraham’s story was included in a 12-part Hebrew webseries called Neviim: Operation Amramby Elad Ben Elul (@Eladbenelul) and Yossi Brauman. Read hundreds more…
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Quake City Hero
In 1989, an enormous earthquake struck the Bay Area. One of Oakland’s major arteries, the Cypress Freeway, collapsed. And one man named Raven left his home and…
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The Spelling Bee - Snap Classic
When Snap Judgment producer Davey Kim was in eighth grade, he went to the regional level spelling bee with his best friend...and took R-E-V-E-N-G-E. Learn…
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Monk Of Mokha
The story of how Mokhtar Akhanshali braved a civil war to bring Yemeni coffee to the world. Dave Egger’s biography of Mokhtar, The Monk of Mokha, is available…
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Ear Hustle Special - Left Behind
Ear Hustle brings you stories of life inside prison, shared and produced by those living it. The podcast is a partnership between Earlonne Woods and Antwan…
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Senior Year Mixtape
Snap spends a year with three Mission High School seniors Brantin, Damaris, and Alex as they try to make sense of adulthood in a rapidly changing San…
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Soundtrack Of Silence
What sounds would you want memorize if you were told you were going to be completely deaf before you turned 28? Producer: April Dembosky Original Score: Renzo…
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Linda, Loretta, and Me
What happens when boy meets girl and… fungus? Season 9 Episode 2 Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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How Estee Got Her Zumba Back
What if you were born to twerk it, but you didn't know how to work it? Estee Rose grew up in a tight-knit Ultra-Orthodox neighborhood in Brooklyn. Find out how…
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Tonya For Hire - Snap Classic
What if one day you found out you look like one of the most famous people in the country -- who everybody hates? Lynn Harris is an author, commentator…
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Stoopid
There are big stories with weight, little stories with heart, and then the stories that are just STOOPID. Season 8 Episode 33 Learn about your ad choices…
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Snap Special - Zim Heavy: Rock and Revolution in Zimbabwe
Before there was Zimbabwe, there was the “Heavy” scene. In the 1970’s, Rock music rang out from the black townships in Rhodesia. One band, Wells Fargo, became…
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Snap Holiday Special 2017
The Snap Judgment Holiday Special features two good Santas in "Miracle on 22nd Street," a misguided angel in "Preaching to the Choir," and Snap story makers as…
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Down With The Ship: The Sinking Of The Oceanos - Snap Classic
Let Moss Hills take you on sea cruise… Producer: Joe Rosenberg Sound Design: Renzo Gorrio Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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Finding Rebecca
In 1962, in a very small, very white suburb of Chicago, a young couple set out to adopt a baby girl. This story was produced in collaboration with The New York…
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Dadbot
James Vlahos wanted to keep his dad around for as long as possible, so he saved the best part about him in the best way he knew how. Season 8 Episode 30 Learn…
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Jay J. Armes: Private Eye - Snap Classic
Jay J. Armes was a real life superhero ... until real life intruded. Also be sure to check out Gary Cartwright’s original 1976 article on Jay J. Armes for…
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Snap LIVE! The Passion
We're dropping the story-pocalypse...performed LIVE! at San Francisco's Nourse Theater. Season 5 Episode 21 Learn about your ad choices…
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The Gratitude Special 2017
"The Outbreak" - What do you do when a life-threatening disease makes it too dangerous to save the person closest to you. "Grits and Sausages" - When Ray…
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Kismet
From Russia With Love Two women, a tiny boat, the wide-open ocean...and kismet. Elena has written a book about their adventure, called Talking to the Moon. You…
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Duality
Tameer is part of an ethnic minority in northern Israel called Druze. When he is struck on the head as a young boy he inherits an entire new lifetime of…