Shut Up Rick
Snap Judgment
Snap Judgment and PRX
4.8 • 11.2K Ratings
🗓️ 24 August 2023
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Did you ever have that one friend that you didn’t want but it turns out you really need? This week on Snap, epic stories about unexpected companionship.
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Shut Up Rick
He’s called Shut Up Rick. Let’s hear what he has to say.
Thank you Bucky Sinister and Rick Loddy.
Bucky is a poet, author, and comedian — to learn more about Bucky’s work and what he’s up to now, subscribe to his substack.
Original score by Clay Xavier, produced by Zahra Noorbaksh and John Fecile
Rock Paper Scissors
When the two greatest auction houses in the world – Christie’s and Sotheby’s – vied for the privilege of auctioning off $20 million worth of art in 2004, little did they know that they would be forced to engage in an ancient form of ritualized combat known as… rock paper scissors.
Be sure to check out Carol Vogel’s original New York Times article.
Produced by Joe Rosenberg
The Kipling Hotel - LIVE
A young, penniless student arrives at UCLA with no place to stay and is forced to improvise.
Performed by Don Reed at Snap LIVE in San Francisco, CA.
Music composed by Alex Mandel, performed by the Snap Judgment Players: Alex Mandel, David Brandt, and Tim Frick
Artwork by Teo Ducot
Season 14 – Episode 36
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, hello, snap judgment listeners. This is Nima Gobeer, co-host of MindShift, a podcast |
| 0:17.6 | all about the future of learning and how we raise our kids. MindShift dies into topics |
| 0:22.9 | like math education, consent, student activism, and dress codes. So if you're curious about |
| 0:29.4 | child development and care about how your kids can flourish, check out MindShift wherever |
| 0:34.6 | you get your podcasts. |
| 0:59.4 | So we're like, all right, we get tickets, and I've never been to London, so I'm excited, right? |
| 1:06.5 | For followers square, fish and chips, Westminster Abbey, this is right around the time Queen Elizabeth |
| 1:12.5 | passes away. Before I even get on the plane, raise cinema all these texts about how everyone |
| 1:19.4 | in all the British colonies from Nigeria to Sri Lanka love the Queen so much. So I better |
| 1:27.1 | bow to head and put some respect in my tone. If I dare mention her name, whatever, whatever, |
| 1:32.1 | whatever, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, I don't know anything about the Queen of England, but |
| 1:38.9 | I do know this. I'm not just going to sit here and be lectured to by some guy from Michigan |
| 1:45.1 | on the benefits of colonialism, just because he happens to live in London now. No, no. |
| 1:52.8 | So I start badmouthing the Queen, badmouthing England, Ray, Ray, why are the great pyramids |
| 2:01.8 | in Egypt? Why? Because they're too heavy to carry to the British Museum. All right, Ray, |
| 2:08.1 | Ray, why did the colonizer get a library car? Because he likes to bottle things and definitely |
| 2:14.9 | stop it. Why do I do this? Why? Because I know it takes Ray off and Ticket Ray off brings |
| 2:24.8 | me such great joy. On the plane right over, I arm myself for the arguments I read Legacy |
| 2:32.9 | of Violence, a history of the British Empire by the Pulitzer Prize winning historian Carolyn |
| 2:37.9 | Elkins, and it's brutal. So the moment we touch down at the London airport, begin our |
| 2:45.5 | tour of all of England's loot. I'm ready. Ray tries to explain to me that any great power |
| 2:51.9 | would have done the same thing. I'm not having a word of it. The monarchy is just a fancy |
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