Belly of the Beast - Snap Classic
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🗓️ 4 April 2024
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Things go horribly wrong for a safari guide on the Zambezi River when he comes face-to-face with a rogue hippo. And Dr. Ray Christian breaks the first rule about Fight Club and tells us all about it.
This episode contains graphic imagery. Please take care while listening.
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Belly of the Beast
Things go horribly wrong for a safari guide on the Zambezi River when he comes face-to-face with a rogue hippo.
Thank you, Paul, for sharing your story with Snap! Check out Paul Templer’s memoir, What’s Left of Me.
Produced by Erika Lantz, original score by Renzo Gorrio, artwork by Teo Ducot
Fight Club
The first rule about fight club is you do not talk about fight club. Dr. Ray Christian breaks that rule.
You can hear more of Ray on his podcast: What's Ray Saying?
Produced by Mark Ristich, original score by Renzo Gorrio
Snap Classic - Season 15 - Episode 15
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| 0:00.0 | Snap Studios. |
| 0:07.5 | Hey, it's Glenn Washington, the host of Snap Judgment, and Snap's bringing something very special. |
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| 0:32.4 | A Snap Judgment five-part series about scarcity, survival, community, and the one thing people in this group want it most, control over their own lives. A tiny plot. Episodes are dropping now. Listen right here on Snap Judgment. I Okay, so I briefly work for the city of San Francisco, and my boss hates me with a passion, and I know this, because she tells everyone that will listen that she hates me with a passion. And I know this because she tells everyone that will listen that she hates me with a passion. |
| 1:16.2 | So her supervisor, my boss's boss, decides that we all need to go out to lunch to clear the air. |
| 1:23.1 | And I don't want to go. |
| 1:24.9 | And my boss doesn't want to go, but you don't do what you want to do at work so i |
| 1:31.1 | walk over to the place the rendez with the greens on the sandwich spot and i wait for them to arrive |
| 1:38.3 | and waiting and looking i realize i've made a rookie mistake because I see my boss walking toward the spot |
| 1:51.0 | with her boss walking and talking and walking and talking and when they finally arrive |
| 1:59.0 | from the gleam of triumph, the joy in my boss's eyes, |
| 2:04.2 | I know that this lunch has just transformed from one person that hates me to two. |
| 2:22.3 | Today in Snap Judgment, we probably present Belly of the Beast. |
| 2:25.9 | Amazing stories directly from the firing line. |
| 2:27.3 | My name is when Washington. |
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| 2:33.1 | When you're listening to the Snap Jud listening. The snap judgment. |
| 2:48.0 | Now then, Paul Templer. |
| 2:53.8 | He grew up in Zimbabwe, and when he was in his 20s, Paul started working as a safari guide. |
| 3:05.5 | To him, it was a dream job. And one of his favorite things was taking tourists out into the Zambezi River on something that he and fellow safari guides called the Royal Drift. |
| 3:10.0 | Sensitive listeners should know this story does contain graphic imagery. |
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