Snap Judgment
Episodes
Quick Fix - Snap Classic
20 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Mouth Of The Dragon When a small child is lost, it's up to Glynn to face the dragon. As The World Burns What happens when the world around you star...
Snap LIVE! The Social Experiment
13 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
THE LEGEND OF SWEETFOOT Comedian Dino Archie gets into a bar fight that blossoms into a bromance. The bond with his soulmate ripens over crab trapp...
Bloodsport - Snap Classic
06 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Point guard Alex Owumi has just landed in North Africa to play basketball for his childhood hero. For more information, check out Alex’s book -- Q...
The Boy On The Beach
30 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Hear the story behind the influential photo of the Syrian boy who drowned while attempting to reach Europe. Read more in Tima Kurdi’s book, The Bo...
The Family Name
23 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Quiet is Best When Julie Lindahl discovered that her grandfather had been an active member of the German SS, she decided to return to the scene of hi...
“The Choice” Josh Healey Live at BAM - Snap Classic
22 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
When Josh Healey learns some unexpected news from his girlfriend, his first thought...is of Grandma Barbara and Grandma Henrietta. Season 7 Episode ...
A Wives' Tale - Snap Classic
17 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Five women, one husband and one goal in life... to get to the Celestial Kingdom. Producer: Tyler Measom & Adizah Eghan Original Score and Sou...
Who's Your Mama? Pt 2 "Nose Job"
12 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
When Roderick turns 18, he gets a special gift from his mom... for the one thing about him, she does not love. Sound Design & Score: Leon Morimo...
Who's Your Mama - Pt 1 "#Waffle Woke"
09 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Comic Jen Kober tells the story of the mother she never expected to find, on a journey she never expected to take. Performed live at The Paramount in...
Tricknology - Snap Classic
02 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
When you're struggling and living in the margins, the powers that be want to keep you ... exactly where you are. Season 8 Episode 12 Learn about y...
No One Calls Me Shooter
25 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
When one couple learns that their teenage son has been identified as a potential school shooter, they do everything they can to prove that he’s not....
Good Morning, Mosul - Snap Classic
18 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
A tiny, pirate radio station broadcasts to the thousands of families trapped in ISIS-controlled Mosul. When listeners start calling in, something rema...
Snap LIVE! At The Paramount
12 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Snap LIVE! At The Paramount featuring Glynn Washington, Don Reed and Joyce Lee telling stories about subjects that are taboo, bizarre and humorous. L...
The Promised Land
05 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The story of a small Christian hill town in Palestine, and the 18 cows that kind of, almost, but never really, changed the course of its future. Seas...
Don Reed "Cardboard Boxes" at Snap LIVE! in Brooklyn
02 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Snap Favorite Don Reed takes the stage with a heartfelt homage to his father's dreams for his son. Performed live by Don Reed at the Brooklyn Academy...
Jen Kober "Skydiving" at Snap LIVE! in Brooklyn
29 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Snap comedy queen Jen Kober thought having an adventurous date meant trying a new restaurant... little did she know she would be free falling into a...
Texas Ranger - Snap Classic
22 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Back in the 1970's Bob Favor signed up to be a Texas Ranger. He helped local police solve some of their toughest cases. But there was one case that ke...
Love Me's "Meet Cute"
15 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
John Cotrocois is obsessed with meet-cutes, but he always falls for the wrong men. Will his dream of a fairy-tale romance come true? Season 10 Episod...
Peace Of Mind with Bhi Bhiman - Snap Spotlight
08 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Snap spotlights "Peace of Mind" with Bhi Bhiman. In the inaugural episode, Bhi interviews Glynn Washington, bestselling author Dave Eggers, and renown...
Reckonings - Snap Spotlight
01 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
After a college party, Anwen* and Sameer* went back to a dorm room. What happened that night was confusing and horrible. But in this story we get the ...
I'm Your Man
22 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The voicemail message says someone from your past needs your help. Would you respond, if it meant getting involved in a murder trial? Season 10 Episo...
Kismet
15 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Two women, a tiny boat, the wide open ocean...and kismet. Season 8 Episode 28 Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
The Border Hacker
08 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
A computer hacker tries to make his way home through two countries, a dense jungle and a seemingly endless string of technical challenges. Season 10 ...
Heaven's Gate
01 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
It was both a tragedy and a punchline. The story behind a cult that changed the world. Season 10 Episode 3 Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.p...
One Wrong Lie
25 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
When a man is falsely accused of kidnapping a police officer, he tells a lie to set himself free. But that lie comes at an enormous cost. Season 10 E...
The North Pond Hermit - Snap Classic
18 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
There was a legend in central Maine, about a hermit who had lived in the woods, unseen, for 30 years. Then, in 2013, the police arrested a man named...
This Is Not A Drill
11 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Ballistic missile threat inbound to Hawaii. Seek immediate shelter. A very special presentation of the day the world almost ended. Season 10 Episo...
The Other Secret Weapon
04 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
A young man has the chance to work on a very secret, very powerful weapon that could put an end to world war II. The project involves no toxins, no ch...
Boxed In
28 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
When you feel the walls coming closer and closer, where do you go? Where do you hide? Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
The Look Back Special
20 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
A special presentation just for you... "Look Back 2018." Coming to terms with events that have happened, but that you don’t want to believe. Featu...
Ear Hustle's The Big No No - Snap Spotlight
14 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Snap Judgment spotlights the amazing podcast Ear Hustle: The Big No No, stories from San Quentin State Prison. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail....
48 Hours In Syria
06 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Kassem Eid had spent two years living in a city under siege. After he and his neighbors took part in the protests during the Arab Spring in 2011, Sy...
The 2018 Gratitude Special
22 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Heroes come in all shapes and sizes: little girls, traveling dogs and men who save strangers from disaster... on the Snap Judgment 2018 Gratitude Spec...
The Cut
16 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
When the man in charge of a small, insular northern Ohio town wreaks havoc on his followers, a young Amish boy with a passion for good hair tries to c...
The Fire Tapes Special
13 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Counted: An Oakland Story
09 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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 Oakla...
Snap LIVE! in NYC
02 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Legendary "Snap LIVE! in NYC" at RadioLoveFest featuring Tariq "Black Thought" Trotter from The Roots and The Tonight Show, comedian Jen Kober, and S...
Creepy Crawly - Spooked IX
25 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Trapped - Spooked IX
19 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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 si...
Back To The Wall
12 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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 expediti...
Two Brains
05 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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. Sea...
Love Lessons
28 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Beyond Faces of Death
21 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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 D...
My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
14 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Sometimes the only word you hear is "No." But what if you always said "Yes"? Snap Judgment proudly presents "My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy". Forb...
The Proxy
07 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Belly Of The Beast
30 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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 choi...
The Real Black Klansman
24 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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 Class...
All Eyes On Me
17 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
"Mirror Touch" Neurologist Joel Salinas on mirror-touch synesthesia. "What Accent?" Ellen Spencer with Foreign Accent Syndrome. "The Bat Boy and ...
Talk Of The Town
09 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
After a salesman at Oakland’s Lake Merritt disappears, journalist Tammerlin Drummond investigates what happened to him. Season 9 Episode 23 Learn...
My Private Utopia - Snap Classic
03 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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 ou...
Return To Kuku Island
24 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In the 1970s, thousands of Vietnamese refugees were left on the remote Anambas Islands in Indonesia. They were stranded without food, water, and shelt...
Suitcase Of Love And Shame - Snap Classic
19 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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 listin...
Night At The Mirage
12 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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 inve...
Campfire Tales V
05 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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, sea...
Fight Club
28 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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 choic...
Ear Hustle's "Thick Glass" - Snap Special
21 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Snap Judgment joins the podcast Ear Hustle for a look at parenting from inside San Quentin State Prison. In this episode incarcerated fathers share t...
06 Female - Snap Classic
14 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Beyond Belief
07 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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 Malaclyp...
Tin Man - Snap Classic
31 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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 N...
Shrapnel
24 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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. Sea...
Secrets In The Stacks - Snap Classic
17 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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. Pr...
Lucky
11 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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 t...
Where No One Should Go - Snap Classic
04 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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 Iron Curtain
26 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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 thin...
The Badlands
19 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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 wo...
Running Man
12 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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....
26 Lives On Atlas Peak
06 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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 inve...
Unforgiven
29 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Breakfast Of Champions
22 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Fargo - Snap Classic
16 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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 th...
The Trouble With Shannon Cason
09 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Counted: An Oakland Story
01 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Big Girls Don't Cry - Snap Classic
26 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
When the going gets tough, the tough make stuff happen. Featuring stories about rattlesnakes pageant queens, Apache orphans, and the legendary Xiao Xi...
Lifted
22 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Avraham’s story was included in a 12-part Hebrew webseries called Neviim: Operation Amramby Elad Ben Elul (@Eladbenelul) and Yossi Brauman. Read hun...
Quake City Hero
15 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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 h...
The Spelling Bee - Snap Classic
13 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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. ...
Monk Of Mokha
08 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Ear Hustle Special - Left Behind
31 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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 A...
Senior Year Mixtape
25 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Soundtrack Of Silence
22 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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 S...
Linda, Loretta, and Me
18 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
What happens when boy meets girl and… fungus? Season 9 Episode 2 Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
How Estee Got Her Zumba Back
13 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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. Fin...
Tonya For Hire - Snap Classic
10 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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, commentat...
Stoopid
05 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Snap Special - Zim Heavy: Rock and Revolution in Zimbabwe
28 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Snap Holiday Special 2017
22 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Down With The Ship: The Sinking Of The Oceanos - Snap Classic
15 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Let Moss Hills take you on sea cruise… Producer: Joe Rosenberg Sound Design: Renzo Gorrio Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choice...
Finding Rebecca
07 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Dadbot
01 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Jay J. Armes: Private Eye - Snap Classic
28 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
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. ...
Snap LIVE! The Passion
24 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
We're dropping the story-pocalypse...performed LIVE! at San Francisco's Nourse Theater. Season 5 Episode 21 Learn about your ad choices: dovetail....
The Gratitude Special 2017
16 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
"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...
Kismet
10 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
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 t...
Duality
02 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Spooked Presents - The Vanishing
27 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Cowboy Ghost Valerie is lost in a snowstorm in rural Montana. She thinks she might not be able to get out, when she sees two headlights coming to her...
Spooked Presents - Sanctify
24 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Great Aunt Rose When Christina McKenna’s cruel aunt comes back from the grave to make amends--she’s not sure if she can forgive. Read more about ...
Confessions Of A Baby Snatcher
20 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Confessions of a Baby Snatcher The ‘work’ of social work is a lot more complicated than Katie Leavitt first thought. Luckily, a little voice help...
The Incident At Poison Spider Mesa
13 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The story of two men who come face to face one night in the canyon lands of southern Utah. Producer: Joe Rosenberg Original Score and Sound Design...
Lost In Time
10 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Time Warp Saloon The neon sign blinks at the roadhouse bar. The jukebox plays an old tune as the bartender shouts, "Last Call." Just one more. Why n...
Man Of Steel
06 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
When an immovable object meets an unstoppable force, what is left standing? Season 7 Episode 14 Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-cho...