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Snap Judgment

Snap Judgment and PRX

Storytelling, Performing Arts, Music, Society & Culture/personal Journals, Snap, Society & Culture/documentary, Personal Journals, Arts/performing Arts, Arts

4.711.5K Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2023

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

When a tsunami wipes out everything Rizal’s ever known, he has to find a way to survive on his own.

Thanks so much to, Rizal Sahputra, who spoke with us over the course of several years for this story! Learn more about Rizal’s story or email him: rizalcalang1984@gmail.com

Produced by Liz Mak, original score by Renzo Gorrio, artwork by Teo Ducot

Season 14 - Episode 7

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0:00.0

Snap. Judgment studios?

0:10.7

Right now-

0:17.4

New Reef

0:18.3

X1

0:21.3

Right now, the delivery

0:23.2

When I was a kid, eight, nine years old, rule-mishing, and out in the sticks, grapes, green,

0:34.1

purple, grapes, they're really hard to come by.

0:37.1

I love them, I love them, so exotic, still on the vine, so civilized, like on the TV.

0:44.5

Something that we might get to taste only if the white folks are coming over from church,

0:51.8

this day, nobody extras and buys it inside the house.

0:56.3

It's the word, face, it's time.

0:59.8

The hush voices time.

1:01.1

My mother scoops us out oatmeal for breakfast.

1:04.8

Later on, we eat from that same pot of oatmeal for lunch.

1:11.4

And when my mother brings us out bowls of oatmeal for dinner, my brothers start to cry,

1:21.5

because they're younger than me, they don't know any better.

1:24.4

I don't cry.

1:25.7

Instead, I tell them how good it tastes, especially if we don't put nothing on it.

1:31.8

No honey, no butter, no sugar, all that stuff we don't have makes it nasty.

1:36.8

Look, look, look, look, look, look, look.

1:37.8

I'm shoving spoonfuls of oatmeal in my face, not a laughing, and eating.

1:42.7

As my parents turn away, we go to bed.

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