Head Games - Snap Classic

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4.8 • 11.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 October 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

This week on Snap, two stories about the human mind and how it can play tricks on you. A young man comes to terms with his mother’s profound mental illness. And a father of five and devout Mormon is dragged into a world that upends everything he knows to be true.

STORIES

“Tracy: My Ride-or-Die“

When Adult ISH host Nyge Turner turned 17, he became the caretaker for his ride-or-die: Tracy. His mom.

This story was produced by YR Media‘s Adult ISH podcast (Mom ISH episode). Adult ISH is a culture, advice, and storytelling show about #adulting, that is produced entirely by folks who are “almost adults.” It’s distributed by PRX’s Radiotopia. Be sure to subscribe and listen here.

Sound Designer: DJ Clay Xavier

“A Short Stay in Hell”

A father of five and devout Mormon is dragged into a world that upends everything he knows to be true.

This story comes to us from Believable, a new podcast from Narratively about how our stories define who we are. Each episode dives into a personal, eye-opening story where narratives conflict and different perspectives about the truth collide.

Steve Peck works at Brigham Young University and tells this story to a microbiology class every year. Check out his novel, “A Short Stay in Hell“\x9d which inspired this story.

Listen and subscribe to Believable wherever you get your podcasts.

Producer: Ash Sanders
Lead Producer & Sound Designer: Ryan Sweikert
Host & Executive Producer, Narratively Podcasts: Noah Rosenberg
Production Assistant: Emily Rostek
Story Consultant: Brendan Spiegel
Art Direction: Vinnie Neuberg
Believable Episode Art: Zoe Van Dijk
Additional Support: Ula Kulpa and Russell Gragg
Special Thanks: Made in New York Media Center and Brigham Young University

“Head Games” episode artwork: Teo Ducot

Season 14 - Episode 42 - Snap Classic

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0:00.0	Hey, what's up? It's Pindarvis Harshoff, host of Hi-Fi Kids God Trauma, a podcast series
0:15.8	from right now in KQED about hip-hop culture, Bay Area history, and my community. Ride
0:21.8	with us as we swing a couple donuts down memory lane and revisit the year 2006. We'll discuss
0:28.1	the energy of the era, the real meaning of the word Hi-Fi, as well as the songs that
0:32.2	we still dance to, and the scars we're still healing from. Hi-Fi Kids God Trauma. Check
0:37.6	it out on any major podcast platform.
0:46.4	Okay, so when I get to the University of Michigan, it's not that I suddenly realize I'm stupid
0:52.9	because I'm not stupid. I'm not. But after taking myself through a few conversations about
1:00.6	Kant, about Aristotle, about Michael finance strategies for female empowerment, I would
1:07.0	encourage me that all the books that I read until this point either have dragons or spaceships
1:14.5	on the cover. But these people, these people here, they have real educations. They've flown
1:20.9	in planes. They make jokes to each other in French. Not my hilarious fake French accent.
1:27.0	Leave me, wah-wah-wah. No, no, no. The actual French. I have the sudden dread, this fear
1:34.2	that I don't know anything about anything. I do not belong, I'm an imposter, I'm fake,
1:41.8	and I don't even know where to start playing catch-up. So I just met a pool just because
1:49.5	I don't know something, doesn't mean I can't have strong opinions about it.
1:55.8	I'm a Mrs. Mormon and good Lord. Not only does she know stuff, she's like the most beautiful person
2:03.5	I've ever seen. Help me. And so I get a plan and I try to study up on a subject, right?
2:12.4	Maybe the theology, the study of fishes, maybe Roman history, I get the Cliff Notes version of
2:18.9	whatever it is. I read it. I'm not kind of steer. Almost accidentally we can steer the conversation
2:28.0	toward my newfound area of expertise. Hey, um, you know, the ark in the law school, it is so pretty.
2:36.4	So pretty remind me of another pseudo-gothic scheme from Germany's Cologne Cathedral, you know.
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