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Snap Judgment

The Promise

Snap Judgment

Snap Judgment and PRX

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

4.711.6K Ratings

🗓️ 1 September 2017

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Promises. Some of them are worthless, and some of them have infinite value, and some you will never know how much they are worth... until you have to cash them in.

Season 7 Episode 7

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Transcript

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0:00.0

If you like radically honest stories, you'll love the podcast.

0:15.2

Risk.

0:16.2

Risk is where people tell true stories they never thought they dared to share.

0:20.8

Like the one about the guy who cooked and served his own leg to his friends as tacos.

0:26.0

Or the woman who found out the person she was sharing kinky fantasies with online was

0:30.7

her dad.

0:31.7

If you think you've heard it all, just wait till you hear risk.

0:36.4

Available now on the Odyssey app or wherever you get your podcasts.

0:43.2

Hey Snathas, if I were to describe an American president accused of colluding with the enemy,

0:52.8

railing against fake news and facing a congress calling for his impeachment, you might wonder.

0:58.8

Do I actually change the channel to CNN to Fox to MSNBC?

1:04.3

Is this thing broken?

1:05.7

Or this broken our eye?

1:07.7

But not the way you think.

1:09.7

Today, through the marvel on the magical technology, we turn your listening device into

1:16.3

a time machine.

1:18.3

The snappers were going back way back.

1:21.3

You feel it?

1:23.1

Back to 1865 to April 15, 1865.

1:28.3

With a 16th president of the United States, Abraham Lincoln has succumbed to an assassin's

1:34.2

bullet and when that tower of a man falls, America changes forever.

1:41.8

Most of us, we don't know the story of what comes next.

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