The Promise - Snap Classic
Snap Judgment
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4.8 • 11.2K Ratings
🗓️ 12 October 2023
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Promises. Some of them are worthless, some have infinite value, and some you will never know how much they are worth… until you have to cash them in.
STORIES
Birthday
Glynn witnesses a miracle... his daughter's birth.
Produced by Mark Ristich
The Spy’s Son
Bryan Denson was a court reporter for The Oregonian newspaper in Portland. It could be mind-numbing work sitting in the cheap seats of the American justice system. But then one day he got a tip about an espionage case coming in. The defendant was 24-year-old Nathan Nicholson. For Bryan it would turn out to be the story of a lifetime. For Nathan, it was the beginning of the end.
To learn more about Nathan’s story, make sure to grab a copy of Bryan Denson’s book: The Spy’s Son. You can check out his other work on his website. Bryan also wrote a six-part series of Nathan’s story for The Oregonian.
A big thanks to The Oregonian/OregonLive for allowing Snap Judgment to use tape from Bryan Denson’s interview with Nathan Nicholson.
Original score and sound design by Renzo Gorrio, produced by Nancy López, artwork by Teo Ducot
The Admission
Pia's Letter of Acceptance from NYU should have been the best news she heard all day -- but her mother's reaction changed everything.
See the film of Pia's amazing Snap Judgment LIVE in NYC performance. Reach out to Pia via Twitter @PiaGlenn / Insta: @Pia_Glenn
Original score composed by Alex Mandel. Performed by Alex Mandel, Tim Frick, and David Brandt.
Remember The Baby
This radio play is about one of those days that you have that changes you forever. It comes from our friends at The Truth Podcast, and it was commissioned by The Sarah Awards from Sarah Lawrence College.
It was written by Louis Kornfeld, and produced by Jonathan Mitchell. The part of ANN was played by Ann Carr, ADAM was played by Louis Kornfeld, and Amy Warren was the sister. Produced by Jonathan Mitchell
Snap Classic - Season 14 - Episode 43
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | it was a hard birth very hard birth honestly I don't know how my wife did it I |
| 0:26.2 | do not push push no relief the doctors call that first everything's gonna be all right |
| 0:33.3 | everything's fine push I see the worry crease their faces hours my wife looks too |
| 0:43.1 | small too fragile for this I want to tell it just a little bit more almost |
| 0:48.4 | there darling but I don't know so I hold her hand push I've never seen a more |
| 0:58.3 | amazing display of physicality than she gives me a miracle girl I cut the cord |
| 1:10.0 | take it to be clean bring her back to her mother pain forgotten laugh and crying |
| 1:15.9 | then this baby girl gets all quiet looks up at me eyes blazing I'm in her face |
| 1:25.2 | and she's staring up at her father examining me as I examine her and in that space |
| 1:32.3 | I don't even realize it at the time but I make a promise it's holy it's solemn it's |
| 1:42.2 | serious I will do whatever I can to for you until the end of time she looks at me |
| 1:53.1 | like I'm gonna hold you to that and then she puts up a hollare today on snap |
| 2:06.6 | judgment we proudly present the promise amazing stories about the oldest that |
| 2:13.1 | bind my name is Gwen Washington we grab the bram one and ran as fast as we |
| 2:18.5 | could from the hospital because this is the snap judges now then I'm gonna kick |
| 2:33.6 | off the program of the story from the trumpet reporter one who would follow any |
| 2:37.1 | lead climb any mountain but sometimes the story of a lifetime just fall in your |
| 2:43.8 | lap snap judgment a contact of mine at the courthouse called to say that |
| 2:55.3 | something was coming in that you know I'd certainly want to see that's Brian |
| 2:59.0 | Denson and back in 2009 he was reporting for the Oregonian newspaper in |
| 3:03.8 | Portland I grabbed a seat in the front row of a courtroom I was trying to get |
| 3:07.9 | as close as I could to a 24-year-old defendant named Nathaniel Nicholson he |
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