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Snap Judgment

No Angel

Snap Judgment

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Snap, Glynn, Storytelling, Wnyc, Society & Culture/personal Journals, Performing Arts, Washington, Society & Culture/documentary, Arts/performing Arts, Music, Arts

4.811.2K Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

An undercover ATF agent is going full throttle on a highway to hell as he tries to infiltrate the most notorious motorcycle club on the planet.

This story contains police violence, descriptions of violence, and graphic imagery. Sensitive listeners, please be advised.

BIG thanks to Jay Dobyns for sharing his story with Snap. There is so much that we were not able to share with you about Jay’s experience. To find out more check out his memoirs “No Angel” and “Catching Hell.”

Special thanks to George Christie.

The Hells Angels Motorcycle Club did not respond to requests for comment on this story.

Produced by Bo Walsh, original score by Dirk Schwarzhoff, artwork by Teo Ducot

Season 13 - Episode 34

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0:00.0

Snap Judgment Studios

0:15.0

Growing up, I marveled at the kids in high school who insisted on standing out.

0:21.0

The one sporting spiky, multi-colored hair, vampire makeup, platform boots,

0:27.0

wearing the whole ensemble to history class, they rejected the social order,

0:33.0

even as I tried so desperately to work myself into it.

0:38.0

Meet Cass and Bob like a new arrival from a different country because basically,

0:44.0

for all intents and purposes, I was born.

0:49.0

My home, my church, the places where my family spent the majority of our time

0:54.0

was a land apart from high school.

0:57.0

We're not only that our apostle Herbert W. Armstrong routinely speaks the Lord God of the Universe,

1:03.0

the Lord God of the Universe, spoke back.

1:11.0

Every week in services, we learn the intents were nigh,

1:15.0

and our secret world devils were cast out of centers and feelings were performed in the name of Jesus.

1:22.0

Through the nooning cloth and holy olive oil.

1:27.0

Come out, spirit of cancer.

1:30.0

Be gone! We could just call.

1:33.0

Be gone in the name of Jesus the Christ!

1:36.0

I did not speak of this land in high school.

1:41.0

No, instead I put out a mask and disparaged other religious kids as damn crazy holy routers.

1:49.0

Just in case somebody messed up me for them.

2:01.0

Well today in Stem's judgment, I'm going to ask you to put on a very different type of mask.

2:07.0

We probably present no angel.

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