Shangri-La - Snap Classic
Snap Judgment
Snap Judgment and PRX
4.7 • 11.5K Ratings
🗓️ 1 August 2019
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Glynn unearths paradise. A geoscientist journeys deep into the Amazon Jungle, where rivers rage and legends come true. And a revolutionary living in exile does the unexpected. Snap presents a classic, "Shangri-La."
STORIES
"The Perfect Spot"
Backpackers are scouring Southeast Asia looking for the magical spot, but Glynn has the inside tip.
"Boiling River"
Andres Ruzo tried to track down a legendary he’s heard his grandfather talk about in stories when he was a little boy. He found the stuff of legends, and then was faced with the choices, and burdens of knowing a valuable secret.
Producer: Anna Sussman
"For Love and Revolution"
In the 1970’s Truman Capote interviewed Watani Stiner, a young revolutionary serving time in San Quentin for the death of two Black Panthers. Then... things got interesting.
Producer: Sukey Lewis and Mark Ristich
Season 7 Episode 12
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Shana Shealy. I've been a producer on Snap Judgment for nearly a decade. And years ago, I started following a small group of homeless people in Oakland, California, documenting their epic battle for their own place on their own terms. |
| 0:23.6 | I got totally sucked into this group's drama and I couldn't stop. |
| 0:28.6 | And now, we're finally bringing that story to you. |
| 0:32.6 | A tiny plot, a five-part series about scarcity, survival, and the one thing people in this group |
| 0:40.0 | wanted most. Control over their own lives. A tiny plot, a story told by the people who lived |
| 0:48.1 | it. Episode one drops August 21st in the Snap Judgment podcast feed. |
| 0:59.7 | Music drops August 21st in the Snap Judgment podcast feed. Okay, so in Southeast Asia, Westerners are always running around looking for the magic spot. |
| 1:07.9 | The perfect place we can live in the beach. Get your chakras align. Meet the person of your |
| 1:14.3 | dreams. Live off the fruit trees with the free massages and whatnot. And every few months, |
| 1:20.1 | the supposed spot changes. First, it's somewhere outside of Chang Mai. Then, oh, N, G, you just |
| 1:27.4 | got to go to Ubit. |
| 1:28.8 | It's different there, man, different. |
| 1:31.9 | Then two words. |
| 1:33.5 | Gilly Islands. |
| 1:35.6 | Whatever. |
| 1:36.9 | I love travel. |
| 1:38.2 | I do, but there's no such thing as Neverland. |
| 1:41.8 | And that's what I'm telling this Australian woman. |
| 1:45.7 | I meet on the train to Bangkok. |
| 1:52.8 | But she's going on about this new magic spot near Hattiyai on the southern border of Thailand. |
| 1:55.8 | It's supposed to be brilliant, life-changing. |
| 1:56.8 | Word. |
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