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4.8 • 11.2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 October 2021

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

An Afghan man is asked the unexpected by one of the most notorious Talibs in his neighborhood. A boy is picked on at school but it isn’t the other kids he has to worry about. Glynn flies too close to the sun. And not even death can keep true friends apart.

STORIES

Extremist Makeover

A young boy in Afghanistan was approached by one of the most notorious Talibs in his neighborhood. He never expected the request the Talib made.

Find out more about Qais Akbar Omar’s journey during Afghanistan’s long wars in his book, Fort of Nine Towers.

Produced by Anna Sussman, sound design by Renzo Gorrio

Nellie’s Pond

When Peter Aguero got picked on as a kid, it wasn’t the other kids he had to worry about.

Produced by Ana Adlerstein & Joe Rosenberg, sound design by Leon Morimoto

Icarus

How close can Glynn get to the sun?

Produced by Pat Mesiti Miller

Cece’s Ghost

Not even death can keep true friends apart.

Susan Kent is a Brooklyn-based writer and performer who curates the storytelling show, Tell It: Brooklyn. Learn all about her on her blog.

Produced by Ana Adlerstein, sound design by Pat Mesiti Miller

Artwork by Teo Ducot

Snap Classic - Season 12 - Episode 40

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0:00.0	Now, Judgment Studios.
0:07.0	Okay, so I used to work for a big corporate accounting firm.
0:18.4	I had two bosses for the purposes of this story.
0:23.0	I'm going to call them Gilligan and the Skipper because we call it Gilligan and the Skipper.
0:28.7	And yes, they both perfectly looked like, acted like, bantered like, exactly like their
0:35.1	name-sex was untanied.
0:37.7	For make no mistake, the Skipper was the Skipper.
0:42.2	The Captain, Ace Guy, Man in Charge, and Gilligan hit the same boss man title but everyone
0:47.2	knew.
0:48.2	Gilligan was really just a Skipper's little buddy.
0:50.4	That's how it worked.
0:52.0	It did work.
0:53.0	They were the best of friends from way back.
0:56.0	Just each other's sentences spoken of battle only they understood until one day.
1:02.7	No one knows why or what happened backstage but one day they just stopped talking.
1:10.2	Close doors, no little buddy, no finished sentences.
1:13.6	The workplace was an accounting uproar.
1:18.0	In the middle of the rumors and the seats, Gilligan called me into his office and he says,
1:24.1	oh casual like.
1:26.3	Hey, you know, I think it's about time you moved on to some bigger projects.
1:32.6	I want you to start helping out in the Clemson file.
1:37.5	The big money file.
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