Con Man Daddy - Snap Classic

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4.8 • 11.2K Ratings

🗓️ 4 January 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

A charming father wins just about everyone over until his criminal ways force his family on a ten-year journey running from the law. A secret artist becomes an art world sensation but unearths a family scandal. And a bank manager who loves to gamble gets into trouble.

Sometimes the con job hits close to home.

STORIES

Con Man Daddy

You’re young, fun, and on the run from the law. One kid’s journey across the Deep South leads to a big confrontation with the man who inspired it all… Con Man Daddy.

BIG thanks to Jason Russel Waller as well as his brothers, Randy and Kel, for sharing your story with Snap!

Produced by Bo Walsh, original score by Renzo Gorrio, artwork by Teo Ducot

The Art Of The Con

What if the real story is even better than the fake story they made up? A secret artist, an art world sensation, a family scandal.

Thanks, Ron, for sharing your story with us!

Produced by Andrew Stelzer with support from Anna Sussman

Insidious by Shannon Cason LIVE

And a bank manager who loves to gamble gets into trouble.

This story was told live by Shannon Cason at Snap LIVE in Los Angeles. Original music by Alex Mandel and Tim Frick.

Snap Classic - Season 15 - Episode 1

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0:00.0	Snap Studios. I was too little kid to know anything about cars but my uncle pulls up with this gleaming
0:16.6	turquoise calac I know it sharp my cousins know it too. Whoa!
0:23.0	Snap, wow!
0:25.0	Jumping up and down, all excited.
0:27.0	My uncle slides out of the driver's side,
0:30.0	sporting a suit the same color as his gleaming automobile smiling like he just
0:36.2	invented the sunny day I suck in the new car smell through the slightly open
0:42.1	window I'll call new car smell through the slightly open window.
0:42.8	Uncle, Uncle, can we go for a ride?
0:46.0	Uh-uh.
0:47.0	See, ain't no dirty little boys getting up in my car.
0:51.0	I know good and well he's going to give us a ride please please he grins over at my dad
0:58.5	my auntie my mama and instead of grinning back, they frown in disgust. And I wonder how they're just going to
1:09.5	hate on my uncle like this. It takes me several years to piece it all out.
1:16.0	But I'm going to give the game away to you in the title of this episode
1:20.0	because today on snap judgment, we proudly present
1:23.8	Khan Man Daddy.
1:25.9	For love, family, and criminality are mixed into the same stew. My name is
1:33.3	going to Washington. Understand? A Honda Civic after the car wash
1:38.3	gleams just as bright as a brand new caddy. When you're listening to snap judgment.
1:50.0	We begin with a chase.
1:53.1	Sirens get louder and louder, wind,
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