Bonus - Snap Judgment: Fight Club

What's Ray Saying?

Ray Christian

Blackhistory, Storyteller, Blackculture, History, Story, Storytelling, Arts, Slam, Africanamerican

5 • 625 Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2024

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

A Ray story produced by Snap judgment: The first rule about fight club is you do not talk about fight club. Ray Christian breaks that rule. Produced by Mark Ristich, original score by Renzo Gorrio.

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0:00.0	Hi, friends. This is Ray. Let me introduce you to Snap Judgment, a storytelling radio show and
0:06.9	podcasts that transports you into someone else's world. A show that has generously allowed me a
0:14.4	platform to introduce you to mine. A show that presents stories that are profound, provocative, richly scored, and hosted by the amazing podcast Hall of Famer, Glenn Washington.
0:32.6	Listener supported, WNYC Studios.
0:50.3	Music Listener supported, WNYC Studios. Hey, Snapas, today's story comes to us from Ray Christian. Now, you've heard his stories on Snap, the one about jumping from an airplane in the military, on acid, or maybe our gratitude special about sausage and grit.
1:00.4	Before Ray was Staff Sergeant Christian, he was just a kid living in a tough area of Richmond, Virginia, from the 1970s.
1:09.4	Now, sensitive listeners should know
1:10.8	this story does contain
1:12.7	graphic violence.
1:14.9	Snap Judgment.
1:34.3	At our house, probably one of our favorite days of the week, and we didn't do much in common as a family. But on Saturday afternoons, my mama and my sister and I, we would look at wrestling on TV.
1:39.3	It was like probably our biggest family event of the week.
1:42.3	Our little 12-inch black and white television,
1:45.2	we'd be almost in the screen.
1:47.4	Our favorite rassel at the time was Rick Flair.
1:50.6	The way he would stand up and go,
1:52.4	woo, it used to just drive my mama crazy.
1:56.4	We were just scream and holler,
1:58.2	and I'd love to show my mom and my sister,
2:00.2	all my little
2:00.9	rassling moves.
2:02.9	Rassling was everything then.
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