The Real Fleetwood Mac - Snap Classic
Snap Judgment
Snap Judgment and PRX
4.7 • 11.5K Ratings
🗓️ 28 May 2026
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Elmer Gantry gets an offer to join a notoriously unstable rock n’ roll band on a tour of the US. What could possibly go wrong? And the infamous Pine Tar Game of baseball superstar George Brett… told by the bat boy.
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The Real Fleetwood Mac
Elmer Gantry gets an offer to join a notoriously unstable rock n’ roll band on a tour of the US. What could possibly go wrong?
Thanks, Elmer, for sharing your story with us! Learn more about Elmer Gantry’s music in this blog post that producer John Fecile wrote for Aquarium Drunkard.
Kirby Gregory still performs with the band Curved Air.
Read an extensive history of Elmer Gantry’s Velvet Opera from the magazine Ugly Things.
Listen to a 10-song Spotify playlist that we put together of Elmer’s songs and other tunes from the story.
Special thanks to Mike Stax, Anja Stax, and David Prest.
Original score by Dirk Schwarzhoff, produced by John Fecile, artwork by Teo Ducot.
The Bat Boy And The Pine Tar Bat
Every baseball fan has heard of the superstar hitter George Brett and his infamous Pine Tar Game…but have you heard of the bat boy’s version?
For more info, check out Daniel Barbarisi’s story in the Wall Street Journal.
Sound design by Renzo Gorrio, produced by Davey Kim.
Season 17 – Episode 25
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| 0:00.0 | Snap Studios |
| 0:07.0 | Snappers |
| 0:11.0 | I have a confession to make |
| 0:15.0 | the truth is |
| 0:17.0 | the truth is that |
| 0:20.0 | every single aspect of my professional life, actually, every single aspect of my life in general has been predicated on the idea of fake it till you make it. |
| 0:35.5 | If someone asked me, hey, can you |
| 0:39.3 | act, |
| 0:40.3 | write, |
| 0:41.3 | dance, draft, |
| 0:42.3 | direct, run, |
| 0:43.3 | draw, and pose swim, |
| 0:44.3 | I've almost always said, |
| 0:45.3 | yeah, |
| 0:47.3 | yeah, I can do that. |
| 0:51.3 | Sometimes it worked. |
| 0:53.3 | Sometimes it absolutely did not work. |
| 0:59.1 | Those times are called hard lessons. |
| 1:02.3 | But generally, I'll tell the kids, go ahead, give whatever it is to go. |
| 1:07.4 | What's the worst that can happen? |
| 1:10.0 | Well, it turns out that there are in fact certain |
| 1:14.5 | things that you might not want to fake. Today's show, The Real Fleetwood Math. |
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