Batwoman
Snap Judgment
Snap Judgment and PRX
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🗓️ 17 August 2023
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
A woman takes animal rehabilitation to new heights when she brings over a thousand bats back from the dead. And a Snap producer reveals he owes a lot to one single hairy flying creature. Snap Judgment presents, “Batwoman.” True stories about animals told by humans.
STORIES
Batwoman
A woman in Texas takes animal rehabilitation to new heights when she brings over a thousand bats back from the dead.
There is an explicit word in this story. Sensitive listeners, please be advised.
Thank you, Mary Warwick, for sharing your story with us!
Big thanks also to The Houston Humane Society, The TWRC Wildlife Center, and the Batworld Sanctuary in Texas – whose staff protect and rehabilitate bats, and provide education and training on the proper treatment of bats to people all over the US.
Original score by Dirk Schwarzhoff, produced by Shaina Shealy
Bless the Bat
Snap Producer, John Fecile, tells us how he got where is he today.
Original score by Dirk Schwarzhoff, produced by John Fecile
Artwork by Teo Ducot
Season 14 - Episode 35
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| 0:00.0 | Okay, so first you gotta understand, I'm chilling, chilling, how's sitting for some fancy |
| 0:22.1 | people. |
| 0:23.1 | This beautiful, gorgeous estate like something out of a James Bond movie, each of the bathrooms |
| 0:29.2 | bigger than my entire apartment, and I'm king of this castle for two full weeks. |
| 0:36.8 | All I gotta do is make sure nobody like me gets in here, private movie theater, wine |
| 0:43.2 | seller, infinity pool, no secret layer worth of salt can be a secret layer without the |
| 0:49.1 | infinity pool, so instead, in the pool I recline on the flotation device, the cocktail, |
| 0:57.1 | shaker, not stirred, sweating in the cup holder, even as night time descends upon the city |
| 1:03.7 | below, I said I was chilling, and then, then this keening, chittering, clicking, a man-sized |
| 1:17.9 | shadow, a specter, drops from the sky, just above the far end of the pool, terror, icy |
| 1:28.6 | terror in the darkness, I see him gliding, gliding maybe two, three inches above the water, |
| 1:37.0 | gliding directly toward me, closer, closer, and I can't even scream as this shadow passes |
| 1:47.4 | directly over my nose, and then I'm under the water, failing, frantic craze, running |
| 1:53.4 | for the house, more shadows fall from the sky, blind fear I dive, soaking wet into the house, |
| 2:02.5 | kicking the door behind me, and the phone rings, I snatch it up like it's holy water, hello, |
| 2:10.8 | hello, hey Glenn, hope you're enjoying the place, just want to let you know, if you're lucky |
| 2:17.5 | a little after sunset, you might see the foxes, the what? the frying foxes, and it's taken me a while, |
| 2:26.8 | I'm from Michigan, I know foxes don't fly, but the bats, the bats, they sometimes swoop down |
| 2:33.6 | drink from the pool, some of them are just huge, they're super fun to see, |
| 2:41.6 | I didn't notice, they let me know, I'll be sure to look out for them, sure, sure, sure, |
| 2:49.7 | well today on staff judgment, an exploration, a journey, a communion across space and time between |
| 3:00.0 | species, from KQED, and staff studios, we probably present that woman, my name is from |
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