Power
Snap Judgment
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🗓️ 11 August 2022
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Starting on live TV at a beauty pageant, we follow four women across two referendums to explore the consequences of talking about abortion and discover the quiet power and hidden dangers of speech itself. And when a young Josh Healy learns some unexpected news from his girlfriend, his first thought is of his grandmothers.
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Lights Out: A Sense of Quietness
This story follows a line of connection through four women across two referendums to explore the unexpected consequences of talking about abortion. Starting on live television at a beauty pageant, we hear from a journalist, a radio producer, the founder of a woman's clinic and a woman traveling from Ireland to the UK - and discover the quiet power and hidden dangers of speech itself.
This story contains threats of sexual assault and discusses abortion. Please take care while listening.
A Sense of Quietness’ was originally produced for Lights Out, a Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4.
It was produced by Eleanor McDowall and features Brianna Parkins, Siobhan McHugh and Anne Connolly, as well as the anonymous woman who traveled. With additional recordings courtesy of Zoë Comyns and Regan Hutchins.
To hear more documentaries from the Lights Out series, everything is freely available on the Falling Tree website.
Barbara & Esther
When Josh Healey learns some unexpected news from his girlfriend, his first thought… is of Grandma Barbara and Grandma Henrietta
This story was told at SNAP LIVE in New York. Watch Josh’s live performance!
The original music was composed by Alex Mandel, and performed by Alex and the Snap Judgment Playaz — Tim Frick and David Brandt. It was recorded and mixed by Pat Mesiti-Miller.
Artwork by Teo Ducot
Special thanks to Yera, Annie Ngyuen, and Richard Bowie for collecting tape out on the streets for this episode.
Season 13 - Episode 37
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| 0:00.0 | Snap Judgment Studios |
| 0:13.0 | Okay, so you might not believe this but in the rashness of ill spent youth I went to law school |
| 0:21.8 | Actually liked it, but in law school they try to trick you |
| 0:25.2 | They tell you that this wrath, the completely different Supreme Court decisions, is some sort of cohesive whole |
| 0:34.2 | They pretend there's such a thing as judicial logic that all these contradictory judgments and philosophies are all power |
| 0:42.2 | Who gets to decide what, but it all makes some sort of sense |
| 0:46.2 | Perhaps you just aren't smart enough to get it and then maybe if you're lucky |
| 0:52.2 | Someone suggests you read some of the other books |
| 0:57.2 | The ones that don't teach in class |
| 1:00.2 | The ones on the back shelf, the ones that ignore the happy talk and instead recount what really goes down |
| 1:07.2 | The ones that let you know all this supposed judicial analysis is noise |
| 1:13.2 | Lipstick on a pig, judicial opinions don't determine who has power |
| 1:17.2 | Judicial opinions follow power |
| 1:22.2 | Judges follow power like dogs follow who ever is holding the treats and if you want to predict a judicial decision for fun and profit |
| 1:29.2 | First determine where the power is |
| 1:33.2 | Don't waste time trying to parse legalese just figure out who has to juice and act accordingly |
| 1:40.2 | So look around our current landscape if you place corporate interest against, I don't know, the environment |
| 1:50.2 | Who's gonna win? |
| 1:53.2 | I know where I'd place my bet |
| 1:56.2 | And if you hear that a long established judicial opinion, a supposed bedrock of modern American legal jurisprudence like Roe v Wade is going to be re-litigated |
| 2:06.2 | Ask yourself, who's going to battle? |
| 2:11.2 | Who has the power? |
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