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Snap Judgment

Kismet

Snap Judgment

Snap Judgment and PRX

Arts/performing Arts, Society & Culture/documentary, Performing Arts, Arts, Snap, Music, Storytelling, Personal Journals, Society & Culture/personal Journals

4.711.6K Ratings

🗓️ 15 February 2019

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Two women, a tiny boat, the wide open ocean...and kismet.  

Season 8 Episode 28

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0:00.0

Snap Studios.

0:07.5

Hey, it's Glenn Washington, the host of Snap Judgment, and Snap's bringing something very special.

0:14.2

Join Snap producer Shana Shealy as she follows a small group of homeless people in Oakland, California, for years years documenting their epic battle for their own place on their own terms.

0:26.2

We're excited to finally bring that story to you and recalling it a tiny plot.

0:32.4

A Snap Judgment five-part series about scarcity, survival, community, and the one thing people in this group want it most,

0:39.6

control over their own lives.

0:42.0

A tiny plot.

0:43.4

Episodes are dropping now.

0:45.1

Listen right here on Snap Judgment.

0:49.5

Introducing the five-year price guarantee from Xfinity.

0:52.9

No matter how your life or your taste and music changes in five years, your internet price

0:57.6

will stay exactly the same.

0:59.9

Restrictions apply new residential customers only, taxes and fees extra and subject to change.

1:09.3

Okay, so, sophomore year, Grand Valley State University, and on the laundry room bulletin board,

1:16.6

I see a poster about jobs available and food services, and I write down the number to call.

1:23.6

But when I finish my laundry, I can't read my own writing, so I go back to the bulletin board, and the poster's gone.

1:32.0

And that doesn't make any sense, I'm sure that someone just stapled another poster on top of the poster I'm looking for.

1:38.9

So I start excavating the bulletin board, pulling stuff off to see what's underneath.

1:48.0

Missing dogs, chess club party, tutoring needed.

1:52.0

And I see half a sign.

1:58.0

And it says, apply now fellowships to Asia. And I don't know why, but I look at that sign and I do need to get out of Dodge.

2:05.6

The likelihood is less than zero, but so what?

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