Rivals - Snap Classic
Snap Judgment
Snap Judgment and PRX
4.7 • 11.5K Ratings
🗓️ 10 February 2023
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
A suitcase filled with old audiotapes ignites a woman’s imagination. A doppelgänger finds out that she looks like one of the most famous people in the country - who everybody hates. And a whirlwind romance goes south.
STORIES
Dueling Dads
Glynn comes face to face with his nemesis in the least likely of places... a playground.
Produced by Pat Mesiti-Miller
Suitcase of Love and Shame
In 2009, Jane Gillooly came across an item on Ebay that piqued her imagination. The picture was of a suitcase filled with old audiotapes. The listing’s title was “Suitcase of Love and Shame.”
This story contains adult situations, young Snappas please be advised.
You can purchase Jane’s feature-length documentary film, Suitcase of Love and Shame, on Amazon and learn more about it at Cinemaguild.
Produced by Joe Rosenberg, original score by Leon Morimoto
Tonya for Hire
What if one day you found out you look like one of the most famous people in the country -- who everybody hates?
Lynn Harris is an author, commentator, award-winning journalist and mostly-retired comedian. She has a business, Gold Comedy, that teaches comedy to teenage girls. You can find her performing on stage as Tonya Harding here.
Produced by Liz Mak, original score by Leon Morimoto
Love Rival
After a whirlwind romance, Brian and Vanessa get married and move to Kinshasa. Everything is going well until she shows up.
Thanks to Vanessa Woods for sharing her story. Love Rival was produced by Mira Burt-Wintonick and Cristal Duhaime with Jodie Taylor You can hear more at cbc.ca/loveme or subscribe on iTunes. Click here to listen to more of Jodie's work.
Produced by Mira Burt-Wintonick, Cristal Duhaime, and Jodie Taylor
Artwork by Teo Ducot
Snap Classic - Season 14 - Episode 5
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| 0:00.0 | Okay, so when my kids were a little smaller, I took them to the park every afternoon. |
| 0:26.6 | I'm the park, the same people, parents, little tinny, little raggief, hello Maria, that's a pretty flower in your hair. |
| 0:33.6 | Kind of a club, you know. Every day I see this guy, looks kind of like a black dude. |
| 0:39.6 | Shave in head, good looking. Okay, maybe it looks like me if I spit more time at the gym, but I'm not on trial here anyway. |
| 0:47.6 | I say hello to this guy, and he says nothing bad. |
| 0:51.6 | I don't know, maybe he's shy, but there he is, talking to all the other mommies and daddies, oh he's the life of the party. |
| 0:58.6 | So I try again, because we see each other every day, hey, how's it going? |
| 1:04.6 | Nothing. |
| 1:06.6 | Next day, what's up? |
| 1:09.6 | Ignore. |
| 1:10.6 | Following day, I go nuclear and give him the black head nod. He keeps looking straight ahead and I know at long last. |
| 1:21.6 | I have an enemy. |
| 1:24.6 | An arch enemy. Now he's got a funny story, he's telling everyone right in front of me while ignoring me. |
| 1:31.6 | Really buddy? Wow. |
| 1:34.6 | I've got a funny story too. About that time, it was in that place. Now we're battling for the affection of the mommies and the daddies. |
| 1:41.6 | I start pushing three kids on three swings at three speeds at the same time. |
| 1:48.6 | But now he's running four others on the merry-go-round thingy. |
| 1:51.6 | Oh, he's got extra snacks for everybody in case someone forgot there. He says not looking at me. |
| 1:57.6 | But I've got plenty of snacks in the stroller and juice boxes for days for the f***. |
| 2:04.6 | Yeah. I bring a kite to the park so all the kids can play with it, point scored. |
| 2:11.6 | Next day, this fool brings a bubble machine. |
| 2:15.6 | Bubbles, anywhere, bubbles, you know. |
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