The Awakening

Snap Judgment

Snap Judgment and PRX

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🗓️ 3 July 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

When Michelle moves into The Gearbox on the Caribbean island of Montserrat, she meets a new dance partner. And in Yauco, the mountain is alive. It knows you. It is aware of you. And when you pass, it will not let you leave unforgotten.

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The Gearbox

When Michelle moves into The Gearbox on the Caribbean island of Montserrat, she meets a new dance partner.

Produced by Anne Ford, original score by Doug Stuart.

Spirit of the Mountain

In Yauco, the mountain is alive. It knows you. It is aware of you. And when you pass, it will not let you leave unforgotten.

Thank you Adam, for sharing your story with us.

Produced by Erick Yáñez, original score by Doug Stuart, artwork by Teo Ducot.

Season 16 - Episode 28

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0:00.0	Snap Studios
0:02.0	Okay, so I have a friend who always has the most wacky, ridiculous stories.
0:18.0	Stories where, okay, something like this might happen once,
0:21.6	but it seems like every time he checks the mail
0:24.6	or picks up a box of cereal, something crazy happens.
0:28.6	Fires, car crashes, mysterious acquaintances from decades ago pop up
0:33.6	and it's gotten so that lots of people
0:36.6	they think he's full of crap.
0:39.8	I don't believe his little tales, and I didn't believe his stories at first, but I like hearing
0:45.5	him anyway. Every blue moon, we hang out. Once we go to shoot some pool, just chilling, a couple
0:53.2	of bruise, then just like in just chilling, a couple of bruise.
0:58.6	Then just like in the movies, a bar fight breaks out around us.
1:03.2	He doesn't even blink, just misses the eight ball in the corner pocket as we scramble out,
1:06.1	ducking punches, trying to find the exit outside.
1:06.7	I'm tripping.
1:08.2	That was crazy, yo!
1:10.5	He's like, yeah.
1:15.6	The time, walking around Lake Merritt in Oakland, and this huge, gigantic wolf-dogan thing
1:19.6	comes bounding at a top speed, snarling like I made a park chop.
1:23.6	Damn!
1:24.6	And right before it tears a chunk out of my hind parts, it just
1:29.0	flaps down in front of my buddy.
	...

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