The League of Impersonators

Snap Judgment

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4.8 • 11.2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 November 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

When Umid Isabaev is trapped behind enemy lines, he gets help… from two of the world’s most dangerous men.

This story contains some strong language. Sensitive listeners, please be advised.

Thank you, Umid, for sharing your story with Snap!

Thanks to Ethan Herschenfeld who voiced Umid’s words, and to, Mars Lipowski, who was the voice of Steve Poland. BIG thanks as well to our translators for this piece, Muhitdin Ahunhodjaev and Magdalena Balz.

Want more from the Kim Jong Un Look-alike? Check out his Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Trying to hear from the Putin Look-alike? Visit his website.

The three fake heads of state reunited recently in Poland for a magazine photo shoot! We have a link to that photo on our website and it will also be posted on our social media accounts.

Produced by John Fecile & Anne Ford, original score by Renzo Gorrio, artwork by Teo Ducot

Season 13 - Episode 55

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0:00.0	Now, Judgment Studios.
0:13.5	Okay, so, Kyoto, Japan, Friday night.
0:17.2	I'm fresh dressed like a million bucks got on my blazing white tea and some brand new
0:21.4	chucks.
0:22.4	There's a spring in my step, but I move real slow.
0:25.8	Meet up with my crew, cuz my crew say so.
0:28.9	We step up to the line, but then the bouts are coming get us.
0:32.7	First I get kind of scared, but they don't try to hit us.
0:36.0	Instead they take us through the back like I'm some kind of Mack pour us hope and jack
0:40.6	figure must be cuz I'm black.
0:43.7	We got the VIP.
0:45.7	We're looking down at the crowd and they start up the music and the ticket real loud.
0:50.3	A man takes the stage and they stop the beat.
0:53.7	He's like, this is liberty in the house that y'all need to meet.
0:57.8	He points up in my crew.
1:00.0	We start looking around.
1:01.6	Then he shouts out, that goes Bobby Brown.
1:05.6	Yeah, up in the club and from hundreds of people and the spotlight comes on, the dude
1:13.8	says, I'm Bobby Brown.
1:15.5	What would you do?
1:18.2	What would you do?
1:19.2	I'm gonna tell you what I did.
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