Money Truck - Snap Classic
Snap Judgment
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🗓️ 23 February 2024
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Armored trucks spew clouds of cash into the sky and the people who happen upon it are faced with an unexpected moral dilemma. And a kid from Harlem becomes the biggest heroin dealer in upstate New York. He soon learns what it will take for him to turn his back on a mountain of cash.
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Money Truck
Six people, six different times and places, but they all find themselves in the same predicament, asking the same question, should they stop or should they go?
This episode contains strong language, sensitive listeners please be advised.
BIG thanks to Tyler Estep, who first reported Philip Dean’s story for the Atlanta-Journal Constitution. Thanks also to Cole Richards and Randy Scott Carroll for recording assistance.
Thank you to everyone interviewed for this story: Troy Stokes, Philip Dean, Betsy Richards, Delrish Moss, Carol Steele, and the Lucky Guy.
Big love and thanks to Shannon Cason, who narrated this piece. Check out Shannon’s podcast ‘Homemade Stories’ to hear more from him.
Produced by Anna Sussman, John Fecile & Nancy López, original score by Renzo Gorrio, artwork by Teo Ducot
Whiteboy John and The Seven Saints
A kid from Harlem becomes the biggest heroin dealer in upstate New York. He soon learns what it will take for him to turn his back on a mountain of cash.
Abdul-Kenyatta has performed as a workshop facilitator and motivational speaker. He is a poet, storyteller, jazz and blues vocalist, and a novelist.
He was an actor with the San Francisco Neighborhood Arts Children’s Theater for five years, and a San Francisco State University, Black Studies Department Associate Professor, lecturing on African and African-American History and Literature.
His novel Five Thousand Urgently Pointless Distractions was published in 2000. He is the 2005 Berkeley Poetry Festival Slam Poetry Champion. He was a member of the Oakland 2004 National Slam Team and the 2006 San Francisco Slam Master, the 2007 Marin County Fair Slam Poetry Champion, and a member of the 2007 San Francisco National Slam Team. He appeared in the Jamie De Wolfe film “SMOKED”.
Produced by Anna Sussman, original score by Renzo Gorrio
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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 |
| 0:38.9 | control over their own lives. A tiny plot. Episodes are dropping now. Listen right here on Snap Judgment. Okay, so this is what I remember. |
| 1:03.4 | And someone's going to have to help me fill in the blanks. |
| 1:05.8 | It's Michigan. |
| 1:06.9 | A TV show, I do not recall the name. |
| 1:11.1 | It came on before the local news. |
| 1:13.5 | Maybe part of the local news? |
| 1:14.8 | I can't recollect for what I do know. |
| 1:18.0 | I sit there in keen anticipation next to my little brother behind our TV trays. |
| 1:23.4 | Both of us transfixed. |
| 1:25.5 | And this cheesy announcer guy. |
| 1:28.3 | Cornball. Polyester suit smiling, |
| 1:31.3 | in some kind of studio, he'd look around. |
| 1:36.3 | Pick a screaming lady from the crowd. |
| 1:39.3 | Oh my god, oh my god, everybody's excited. |
| 1:42.3 | He escorts her into a glass |
| 1:45.9 | boot. |
| 1:49.0 | Okay. |
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