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Rooty The Pig - Snap Classic

Snap Judgment

Snap Judgment and PRX

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

4.811.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 November 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Rooty isn’t like most farm pigs, she’s a city pig. This 300-pound Vietnamese pot-bellied pig is a New Orleans girl. But when Hurricane Katrina hits, everything in Rooty’s world is threatened.

BIG thanks to Jim & Connie for sharing their story with us! Thanks as well to Jeffery Tam & Dr. Alison Barca.

Produced by Annie Nguyen, original score by Cheflee, artwork by Teo Ducot

Season 14 - Episode 47 - Snap Classic

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0:00.0

Snap Judgment Studios.

0:07.0

Studios. Okay, so I grew up on a small farm, right? Animals everywhere. Cows, horses, goats,

0:28.8

chickens, dogs, cats. My brother had a snake and a turtle. I had a parakeet. And on a small farm like ours,

0:36.8

it is super hard work. Long, long year, back-breaking labor,

0:42.1

through the freezing cold, the tropical heat.

0:45.0

And so what of some point, after all that, you want to go on vacation?

0:51.0

To take a break, head down to Florida, lay on the beach for a while, maybe even a

0:56.3

quick trip to Disney World. What do you do? What do you do? You stay your sorry but at home. That's what you do because these

1:06.7

cows ain't gonna milk themselves. These chickens are gonna muck their own coops.

1:12.1

I promise you that.

1:13.4

So pull up a chair from her boy, you ain't going nowhere.

1:17.2

Nowhere, never, never, nowhere, never.

1:20.2

Farmers, they like the trade stories over the fire, about how Jack McNair thought he could

1:27.1

go to the cabin out by the lake and stay overnight with his little lady friend. Oh, the night came back to find his barn a smoldering ruin.

1:38.0

You do not get a day off because in having an animal, you make a pack with the animal. Yes you might

1:47.3

eat it later on someday but until that time arrives you have a responsibility, asylum obligation to take care of that animal.

1:57.0

So even if you want to ride, Pirates of the Caribbean, visit the Gibbs Shop, there are certain things you can't do.

2:05.0

And that's why today,

2:08.0

on-stamp judgment, we proudly present

2:11.0

Rudy the Pig.

2:15.0

A very different kind of animal story.

2:18.0

Remember, never think for even a moment about where they can come from when you're listening.

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