The 2020 Gratitude Special
Snap Judgment
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🗓️ 20 November 2020
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Glynn gets a new friend. A wolf in Yellowstone becomes a legend in her own time. And a woman’s life changes forever when a hurricane heads towards her house full of birds. Snap Judgment presents, “The 2020 Gratitude Special.”
We are grateful to lift voices up, to tell stories, and we are so SO thankful for you Snap Nation! We appreciate each and every one of you Snappas… for all of the love and support you’ve shown us, thank you.
STORIES
Bardot
Everyone needs a scratch behind the ears sometimes.
Produced by Pat Mesiti-Miller
06 Female
In 2006, a wolf was born in Yellowstone who would become a legend in her own time. For more about the 06 Female and the debate surrounding wolves in Yellowstone, be sure to check out Jeff Hull's article in Outside Magazine and Nate Rott's special report for NPR.
Produced by Joe Rosenberg, original score by Renzo Gorrio
The Birds
With a houseful of her favorite birds and a hurricane on the way, Nikki's whole life is about to be upturned.
Find out more about Nikki's life story on her website, and in her book, "The Bird Market of Paris."
Produced by Anna Sussman, original score by Renzo Gorrio
Artwork by Teo Ducot
Sound design by Pat Mesiti-Miller
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Snap, judgment, studios. |
| 0:11.8 | Okay, so if 2020 has taught us nothing, |
| 0:16.5 | is that people can truly be horrible, right? |
| 0:20.7 | And some folks, they'll drive to the middle of an urban wood |
| 0:24.6 | and abandon their own pet there to perish. |
| 0:29.5 | Yeah, but I have a friend, Petrina, |
| 0:32.8 | who makes it her business to find these dogs. |
| 0:36.0 | Sometimes it takes weeks, patience, special traps |
| 0:39.1 | before she's able to finally put a collar |
| 0:41.6 | on some emaciated, tripling mongrel. |
| 0:45.1 | And then, then she's got to find this dog a home. |
| 0:49.2 | Now we already have a dog. |
| 0:51.0 | A month, the East Bay SPCA found on the side of the road, |
| 0:55.4 | got him a few years back and he's a good boy. |
| 0:58.6 | That's really, but this family of mine. |
| 1:02.4 | They start talking about next year, |
| 1:05.2 | a magical, glorious period when the land is virus-free, |
| 1:09.1 | where we can leave the house to go to school |
| 1:11.5 | and to work in our dog, who has gotten used to people |
| 1:15.4 | being around 24 or 7 lonely, be lonely. |
| 1:19.8 | I'm sure I'll get used to it. |
| 1:20.9 | We should give him a playmate. |
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