The Wager
Snap Judgment
Snap Judgment and PRX
4.7 • 11.5K Ratings
🗓️ 16 October 2025
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
A young man gets “rollers” — the gift of a lifetime from a mysterious friend. Plus, an epic mixup at the funeral home is about to bring the house down.
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The Birds - LIVE
A young man gets “rollers” — the gift of a lifetime from a mysterious friend.
This story was told at the Orpheum Theatre at Spooked LIVE in 2023. Join us at our shows next week in Los Angeles and Oakland! Get your tix. Cross over.
Thank you, Dr. Ray Christian! Check out Ray’s podcast: What’s Ray Saying
Original music performed live by Doug Stuart and Brijean Murphy. Produced by Anna Sussman. Mixed by Miles Lassi. Special thanks to Ryan Davis, Sarah Rose Leonard, Jon Cohn, Rebecca Stumme, Kristen Payne, and the LA Orpheum Team.
That's Not Mama
An epic mixup at the funeral home is about to bring the house down.
Thank you, Sheri Booker, for sharing her story with Snap! Sheri is an author, poet, spoken word artist, and professor. If you want to read more of Sheri's tales from her near-decade of work in the funeral business, check out her memoir: Nine Years Under: Coming of Age in an Inner-City Funeral Home.
Big thanks to Jessica Henkin and Laura Wexler at The Stoop Storytelling Series in Baltimore for introducing us to Sheri.
Original score by Clay Xavier, edited by Nancy López, produced by Justin Kramon.
Season 16 - Episode 49
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| 0:00.0 | Snap Studios |
| 0:02.0 | Okay, so after the sound of the call to prayer fades, outside a tiny village, I'm walking down this path to either side is jungle |
| 0:23.0 | critters bark overhead |
| 0:26.2 | it's hot it's lush |
| 0:27.6 | I do not know this place |
| 0:29.8 | rural Indonesia |
| 0:31.8 | and it's just me by myself |
| 0:34.4 | until I see a kid |
| 0:36.5 | maybe 11 or 12 he's grinning he says he says something Just me by myself. Do I see a kid? |
| 0:38.8 | Maybe 11 or 12. |
| 0:39.4 | He's grinning. |
| 0:41.5 | He says something. |
| 0:45.7 | Then he starts walking into the jungle. |
| 0:47.5 | Motions me to follow him. |
| 0:51.9 | Trail behind a strange boy in the woods. |
| 0:55.4 | I tripped after him over stumps off branches. |
| 0:56.1 | What? |
| 0:58.7 | I'm about to turn back. |
| 1:06.9 | When I hear voices, music, we turn left, right. |
| 1:11.6 | And now I understand where all the village menfolk went. |
| 1:17.6 | Cut out of the foliage emerges a whole secret world. |
| 1:28.3 | The dudes squatting around circles, pressing fistfuls of cash from one person's hand to the next, smoking, eating, laughing. All of them framed by rows and rows of wicker cages. |
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