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Snap Judgment

Spartan Hall - Snap Classic

Snap Judgment

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

4.811.2K Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2021

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Glynn finds a cheap place to spend the summer… at a halfway house.

This story was performed at Snap LIVE in Los Angeles and was presented by KPCC.

Original Music by Alex Mandel, performed by Alex Mandel and the Snap Players (David Brand and Tim Frick).

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Sound design by Pat Mesiti-Miller

Artwork by Teo Ducot

Season 12 - Episode 10

Transcript

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0:00.0

Snap Judgment Studios

0:07.6

Snap Classic

0:11.6

Snap Judgment's orbiting hull of justice, and it was from Washington, and we take you

0:19.3

now.

0:20.3

The Los Angeles Snap Judgment Live stage, where yours truly, is about to break it down.

0:34.0

Now that, it was one summer.

0:38.0

When I had to leave my university and go to a summer job, and I needed a place to stay,

0:45.8

and I saw this spot, it's called Spartan Hall.

0:51.9

It's great, I went and checked it out, signed the lease, started moving in.

0:57.6

It was this big huge dormant-looking building, kind of had a communal kitchen and everything

1:02.2

like that, came in the rest room, and I was moving in, and this woman comes in.

1:10.0

And she has this wire, and she takes it, and she starts threading it through her eyebrow,

1:22.0

and she starts screaming.

1:25.0

And I tell her, I tell her, that's gonna hurt if you do that.

1:31.2

She runs off down the hall.

1:33.9

I go to the kitchen, and there's a woman there sobbing.

1:37.8

She tells me she's locked her soul in a bottle of ketchup and can't get it out.

1:44.9

I open it up.

1:47.8

She's thankful.

1:52.9

I leave.

1:54.4

I go next door.

1:56.9

I knock on the door, and the woman comes out.

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