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On the next all-NEW Snap..."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.

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Home Run / Snap Judgment, "Breakfast of Champions"

On Atlas Peak there is one way in and one way out.  When wildfire threatened their homes, the only escape route...was up.

Sukey Lewis is an investigative reporter for KQED public radio out of San Francisco. The Atlas Peak fire was just one of a series of catastrophic fires that broke out that night across northern California. 44 people in all died in those fires.  Check out KQED's fire investigation.

Original Score: Davey Kim

Producer: Sukey Lewis

26 Lives On Atlas Peak / Snap Judgment, "Lifted"

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.

For more information about issues facing African migrants in Israel and resources on how to help, visit Israeli organization Kav LaOved’s website:
http://www.kavlaoved.org.il/en/about/aboutkavlaoved/ 

Teklit Michal writes a blog for Times of Israel and hosts a news channel in Tirgrinya for fellow Eritreans in Israel. You can follow his work on his Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/fissehaye.teklit
Producer: Shaina Shealy

Running Man / Snap Judgment - Exodus

When a young man is told is he going deaf, he sets out on a challenge to memorize the songs that defined his life. He had no idea that those songs would come back to him in the most unexpected way.

A version of this story aired on KQED's Q'ed up Podcast.

Producer: April Dembosky

Original Score: Renzo Gorrio

Sound Design: Leon Morimoto and April Dembosky

Soundtrack of Silence / Snap Judgment, "The Muse"

Nada Rothbart thought she’d have plenty of time to get her family out of Sarajevo. Suddenly, it was too late.

This story originally aired on Lucky podcast, listen to part two of Nada’s story "The Choice" here.https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/lucky-podcast/id1248736230?mt=2

Producer: Briana Breen

The Choice from Lucky Podcast

What do you do when the morgue has a total meltdown. Galen Laserson tells her story live at The Nocturnist.  Its host and creator is Emily Silverman, MD, its executive producer is Ali Block, MD, and its podcast producer is Marina Poole.

http://thenocturnists.com/podcast/

Live At The Morgue from The Nocturnists Podcast

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.

 

To learn more about Avi’s time behind bars -- and between the stacks -- be sure to check out his memoir, Running The Books.  His latest book, The Lost Book of Mormon, which was nominated for the Thurber Prize for American Humor, will be out in paperback in November.


Producer: Joe Rosenberg

Secrets In The Stacks - Snap Classic

An American soldier in Vietnam comes face to face with a sureal, lone North Vietnamese soldier in the jungle one hot afternoon. Decades later, he returns to Vietnam to help put the Vietnamese soldier’s soul to rest. Check out Wayne Karlin’s book “Wandering Souls.” And Homer Steedly’s website here. 
http://www.swampfox.info/

Producer: Anna Sussman and Eliza Smith
Sound Design: Renzo Gorrio

Soul Of A Soldier / Snap Judgment, "Shrapnel"

Brian is a marine, a war veteran that served in Iraq, but after he was wounded in battle, he was about to face his toughest fight of all.  His world felt like it was collapsing until his therapist showed him something that could save his life… a Warrior Box.

The Warrior Box Project is a mission that is grounded by a bond of trust and a common goal shared by its co-founders, Dr. Shauna Springer and Brian Vargas. They believe that the same bonds of love that drive Veterans to risk their lives for the people and values they hold sacred can help them stay in the good fight.
The Warrior Box Project gives Veterans a tangible way to reconnect with what they vowed to protect: the tribe of those they love and trust and the values they hold most sacred. In creating a Warrior Box, Veterans accept their worth in this world, control the warrior within themselves, and execute an effective action plan that is driven by their deepest values.  The Warrior Box is one part of a larger strategic plan that works within the cultural values and language common to many who have served in the military. 
 
To learn more, please visit us online: www.warriorcode.org     


Producer:  Jake Halpern and Nancy Lopez

Warrior Box / Snap Judgment, "Shrapnel"

When Stephanie Saldana was 27 years old, she thought her calling was to become a nun. But at a monastery in the Syrian desert, she met a monk who made her rethink everything.

This story comes to us from Modern Love: The Podcast. It’s a collaboration between The New York Times and WBUR in Boston, where they take pieces from the Modern Love column, and ask actors to perform them.  This story is read by Linda Cardellini.

Check out WBUR for more on the interview with author Stephanie Saldana, and the interview with Linda Cardellini, the actor who performed this story. 

Producer: Caitlin O’Keefe

Sound Design: John Perotti

Signs, Wonders And Fates Fulfilled | With Linda Cardellini / Snap 918, "Beyond Belief"

Malaclypse was part of a dangerous anarchist group. They stole, they killed, they escaped, until one day when Malaclypse could run no further...

Dan has been playing and organizing larps for 20 years. He posts bad larp advice on twitter at LarpTips:https: //twitter.com/LarpTips

Producer: Jazmin Aguilera
Original Score: Renzo Gorrio

Chaotic Good / Snap 918, "Beyond Belief"

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 Yellowstone, be sure to check out Jeff Hull's article in Outside Magazine (http://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/nature/Out-of-Bounds-The-Death-of-832F-Yellowstones-Most-Famous-Wolf.html?page=all)  and Nate Rott's special report for NPR (http://apps.npr.org/wolves/)


Producer: Joe Rosenberg

Snap Classic - 06 Female

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 stories of striving to be present in their children's lives. One inmate reconnects with his son after 20 years. Another stays very involved through letters and visits. And a third gets the opportunity to give his teenage son a haircut.

Ear Hustle's "Thick Glass" - Snap Special

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.

The Night Mother / Snap Judgment, "Campfire Tales V"

Mark Spencer lived in the haunted house with the ghost of Ladell - and we are eternally grateful that he stuck around long enough to bring us his story.

Love Letters / Snap Judgment, "Campfire Tales V"

The Gift Horse / Snap Judgment, "Campfire Tales V"

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 reporter for CBS 2 Chicago. You can find Zay Smith’s book about The Mirage, his humor column and a his novel, at zaysmith.com.

A previous version of this story incorrectly referred to the Chicago Sun-Time’s collaborator as the Better Business Bureau. It was the Better Government Association

Producers: Joe Rosenberg and Anna Sussman

Original Score: Leon Morimoto

Night At The Mirage / Snap Judgment, "Subterfuge"

In the 1970s, thousands of Vietnamese refugees were left on the remote Anambas Islands in Indonesia. They were stranded without food, water, and shelter, forced to survive off the land. Now, almost 40 years later, one woman wants to go back to those distant islands, one last time.

    Snap Judgment: Return to Kuku Island Gallery: https://imgur.com/hIaOcZl

Thank you so much to Carina Hoang. Carina is a Special Representative for Australia for UNHCR. Check out her book, “Boat People: Personal Stories from the Vietnamese Exodus 1976-1996,” available in both English and Vietnamese. http://carinahoang.com/

https://www.amazon.com/Boat-People-Personal-Vietnamese-1975-1996/dp/0825306906

Carina is now filming a new Australian Broadcasting Corporation TV series, “The Heights." Be sure to check it out. 

Our heartfelt thanks to Tony Luu; his mother Truong On, his brother, Daniel, and the rest of the Luu family.

Thanks to the Outside Podcast from Outside Magazine, where you can also hear this show. Also, check Public Radio International’s The World for a shorter version of this audio story.


This story would not have been possible without the generous support of the International Women’s Media Foundation.

Listen to Snap Judgment's Epic - "Return To Kuku Island"

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 Evan’s book: The Utopia Experiment
http://www.amazon.com/The-Utopia-Experiment-Dylan-Evans/dp/1447261321

Producer: Nancy Lopez

Sound design: Pat Mesiti-Miller

My Private Utopia - Snap Classic

After a salesman at Oakland’s Lake Merritt disappears, journalist Tammerlin Drummond investigates what happened to him.
 
Video used in story provided by user ritchhazel on YouTube.

Producer: Adizah Eghan

Original Score: Renzo Gorrio

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