The Wedding Guest - Snap Classic
Snap Judgment
Snap Judgment and PRX
4.7 • 11.5K Ratings
🗓️ 29 May 2025
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
After years of fighting battles as a child soldier, a Sudanese man finds himself a refugee in Australia. As he struggles to overcome his past, he comes face-to-face with his childhood tormentor on a TV show.
This episode recounts real events that happened to a child soldier, including graphic scenes inside a prison camp, listener discretion is advised.
Thank you, Ayik, for sharing your incredible story with us! To learn more about Ayik’s life, check out his memoir, The Lost Boy. You can also catch Ayik on Harrow, a crime drama on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
Produced by Ruby Schwartz, edited by Nancy López. Special thanks to Wendy Love. Original score by Renzo Gorrio. Artwork by Teo Ducot.
This week’s music spotlight features the song “Rocketeer” from our very own Renzo Gorrio! Renzo scores so many stories on Snap (like this one!) and he produces under the name Hydroplane. Listen to “Rocketeer” from his album “Rockets” available on cassette, vinyl, and digitally on Bandcamp.
Snap Classic – Season 16 – Episode 23
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| 0:00.0 | Snap Studios. |
| 0:07.5 | Hey, it's Glenn Washington, the host of Snap Judgment, and Snap's bringing something very special. |
| 0:14.2 | Join Snap producer Shana Shealy as she follows a small group of homeless people in Oakland, California, for years years documenting their epic battle for their own place on their own terms. |
| 0:26.2 | We're excited to finally bring that story to you and recalling it a tiny plot. |
| 0:32.4 | A Snap Judgment five-part series about scarcity, survival, community, and the one thing people in this group want it most |
| 0:38.9 | control over their own lives. A tiny plot. Episodes are dropping now. Listen right here on Snap Judgment. Okay, so there's a story that I wanted to tell you. |
| 1:10.2 | It's a personal story. |
| 1:11.6 | An odd story for sure. |
| 1:13.6 | And I work on this story for probably two weeks. |
| 1:17.6 | Rewriding, refining, tweaking. |
| 1:20.6 | Then finally, I go into the studio. |
| 1:24.6 | And I perform the hell out of this story, if I do say so myself. |
| 1:30.1 | Bam! |
| 1:31.3 | And I know that you are going to love it. |
| 1:35.3 | But then a few days later, my partner and all things snap, the Uber producer, he wants to have a chat. |
| 1:42.6 | Okay. |
| 1:44.3 | First starts in talking about the old days. |
| 1:47.6 | We've known each other since we were in school in Michigan many, many years ago. |
| 1:53.8 | He asked me, yeah, where'd you go on that college trip with your daughter? |
| 1:57.9 | And I started to get a little suspicious. |
| 2:01.4 | What is it? |
| 2:03.2 | Where's the knife? |
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