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Chasing the Rainbow

Snap Judgment

Snap Judgment and PRX

Snap, Glynn, Storytelling, Wnyc, Society & Culture/personal Journals, Performing Arts, Washington, Society & Culture/documentary, Arts/performing Arts, Music, Arts

4.811.2K Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2024

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Your daddy is a bank robber, the world is on fire, and grandma’s last dress is in stitches. There’s got to be some way out of this... Chasing the Rainbow.

STORIES

Salmon Daddy

After being fed up with life in rural Virginia, 15-year-old Deni Béchard calls his estranged father with one request: “I want to go live with you.” His dad, he found out, was a bank robber and Deni wanted a life right out of a crime novel. But when he finally gets to Vancouver, he finds out his dad doesn’t quite live up to the legend.

Thanks, Deni, for sharing your story with Snap! Check out all of Deni's books and see what he's up to on his website. You can also follow him on Instagram or X.

Produced by David Exumé. Original Score by Renzo Gorrio.

As the World Burns

What happens when the world around you starts to burn?

Performed by Josh Healey at Snap Judgment LIVE! at San Francisco's Nourse Theater.

Music composed by Alex Mandel and performed by Alex Mandel, Tim Frick, and David Brandt.

The Funeral Dress

Paul Valdez loved making dresses with his grandmother at her bridal shop in Santa Fe, but one particular dress he didn’t want to make…

Thanks, Paul, for sharing your story!

Produced by Jazmin Aguilera. Sound Design by Renzo Gorrio.

Season 15 - Episode 31

Transcript

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0:00.0

Snap Studios.

0:08.0

The mouth podcast shares incredible true stories told live.

0:11.0

And for our next episode, we're doing a special collaboration with

0:14.2

Ear Hustle. Ear Hustle is a podcast about everyday life in prison told from

0:19.8

the perspective of those experiencing it. People exist, they still here, you know,

0:24.2

their stories didn't end when they were in courtroom

0:26.8

and sentence, you know, life goes on.

0:29.2

Stories about incarceration and resilience.

0:32.0

The episodes available right now.

0:33.5

Subscribe to the moth podcast to make sure you hear it. When I was a kid, every October I tell my pals, see ya, because we, my family,

0:51.1

we're going on vacation, which is odd because we're obviously poor. I mean, everybody is poor, but we're poor poor and poor. And poor people don't go on vacation in Northern Michigan now really.

1:03.6

My go to your grandma's house, but vacation?

1:09.1

Now, and if you do somehow go on this vacation,

1:12.1

you go in the summertime like you've got some sense.

1:14.5

You don't take a week and a half out of school in the middle of October.

1:19.1

So they ask me, what are y'all doing?

1:28.0

And I tell them about the hotel with the pool, the hot tub, the indoor water slide, all you can eat buffet everything Wisconsin Dells has to offer and we're going with a bunch of family friends.

1:37.0

Lots of cute girls gonna be there.

1:41.0

No way!

1:42.0

Yo, I'm the envy of everyone I know and it is all true. True, thish.

1:50.0

I don't mention the church bar where the dude in charge of our church commands

1:57.5

that to save 10% of the family income for a year in order to attend a week-long event.

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