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4.8 • 11.2K Ratings

🗓️ 1 July 2021

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

A tiny, pirate radio station broadcasts to the thousands of families trapped in ISIS-controlled Mosul. A man’s fingers fly across the keys with ease when he sits down at a piano for the first time. And a young kid learns a lesson in friendship.

STORIES

Mixed up Mixtape

Glynn tries to front as an angsty mixtape master, and it's got him all mixed up.

Produced by Pat Mesiti-Miller

Good Morning Mosul

A tiny, pirate radio station broadcasts to the thousands of families trapped in ISIS-controlled Mosul. When listeners start calling in, something remarkable happens.

This story contains graphic depictions of war, sensitive listeners please be advised.

Produced by Anna Sussman

Original score & sound design by Leon Morimoto & Pat Mesiti-Miller

Sudden Savant

Although most musicians spend decades honing their craft, musical genius Derek Amato never had to practice a day in his life. One day, he just sat down at the piano and his fingers began to fly across the keys with ease.

As an immediate musical genius, Derek is one of the few people on Earth diagnosed with Acquired Musical Savant Syndrome. Derek takes us into the inner workings of his amazing gift.

Produced by Anna Sussman & Pat Mesiti-Miller

Original score & sound design by Pat Mesiti-Miller

DK and DJ

Back when Urkel and Beanie Babies ruled the world, Snap Judgment producer Davey Kim was trying to keep his ‘frenemyship’ with his neighbor afloat.

This story contains a racial slur, sensitive listeners please be advised.

For more of Davey’s radio stories, check out his website -- daveykim.com

Producer and Sound Design by Davey Kim

Artwork by Teo Ducot

Season 12 - Episode 26

Transcript

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0:00.0	Snap, judgment, studios.
0:07.0	In high school, had a buddy Mark, his older brother DJed at a college radio station,
0:17.0	which made Mark, by default, the coolest person it was possible to be.
0:23.0	Because if there was an obscure underground, back room, hidden label record that no one knew
0:29.0	existed and everyone still wanted, Mark had it.
0:33.0	Final, original artwork, signed, the whole package, bonus of never-familitary pool.
0:40.0	And now, I personally didn't want to hear a record of Oz on Guards screeching on these
0:46.0	moody, turtle-necked suburbanites mumbling their angsty grievances.
0:50.0	No, I like Michael Jackson.
0:53.0	Still, still, I wanted people to think I was a kind of person that would listen to that
0:58.0	stuff.
0:59.0	Someone who's unconventional, someone who's cutting edge, dismissive of your pedestrian
1:05.0	trends.
1:06.0	So when I met in that, the girl I wanted to impress, I found out the most important task of
1:14.0	all.
1:16.0	I asked Mark to make her a mixed tape.
1:22.0	And I know I should have done it myself, but it was still early in the relationship.
1:28.0	I needed to be someone else in order for her to like me for me.
1:34.0	I'm Mark's a good dude.
1:36.0	He made it extra dark and gloomy and obscure, to give a true window into my tortured soul.
1:43.0	When I saw that, I looked her in the eyes, I pushed it into her hands and said,
1:50.0	I made you something.
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