Con Man Daddy

Snap Judgment

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4.8 • 11.2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2021

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

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

Season 12 - Episode 45

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0:00.0	I was too little to kid to know anything about cars but my uncle pulls up with his gleaming
0:24.8	turquoise calac.
0:27.1	I know it's sharp.
0:29.2	My cousins know it too.
0:30.9	Whoa snap wow.
0:33.5	Jumping up and down all excited, my uncle slides out of the driver's side, sporting
0:39.1	a suit.
0:40.1	The same color as his gleaming automobile smiling.
0:44.0	Like he just invented the sunny day.
0:46.8	I suck in the new car smell through the slightly open window.
0:51.0	Uncle, uncle, can we go for a ride?
0:54.4	I know good and well he's going to give us a ride.
1:02.5	Please, please.
1:05.6	He grins over at my dad, my auntie, my mama, and instead of grinning back, they frown
1:14.1	and disgust.
1:16.8	And I wonder how they're just going to hate a my uncle like this.
1:20.0	It takes me several years to piece it all out.
1:24.7	But I'm going to give the game a way to you in the title of this episode because today
1:29.3	on Snap Judgment, we proudly present Con Man Daddy.
1:37.8	For love, family, and criminality are mixed into the same stew.
1:41.3	My name is Gun Washington.
1:43.4	Understand.
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