The Wedding Guest

Snap Judgment

Snap Judgment and PRX

Snap, Glynn, Storytelling, Wnyc, Society & Culture/personal Journals, Performing Arts, Washington, Society & Culture/documentary, Arts/performing Arts, Music, Arts

4.8 • 11.2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2021

⏱️ 49 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 now airing 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 (just like this one!) and he produces under the name Hydroplane. Listen to “Rocketeer” from his new album Rockets out NOW! Cassette, vinyl, and digital versions are available on Bandcamp.

Season 12 - Episode 17

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0:00.0	Now, Judgment Studios.
0:07.0	Okay, so there's a story that I wanted to tell you.
0:15.0	It's a personal story, an odd story for sure, and I work on this story for probably two weeks.
0:39.0	I perform the hell out of this story if I do say so myself, bam!
0:49.0	And I know that you are going to love it.
0:54.0	A bit of a few days later, my partner and all things snapped the Uber Proooster.
1:00.0	He wants to have a chat.
1:03.0	Okay, first starts in talking about the old days.
1:07.0	We've known each other since we were in school in Michigan many, many years ago.
1:14.0	He asked me, yeah, where'd you go on that college trip with your daughter?
1:18.0	And I started to get a little suspicious.
1:22.0	What is it? Where's the knife?
1:25.0	And he's like, well, I was thinking that story you did?
1:32.0	Yes, that story. Yes. Well, that story doesn't work.
1:41.0	What? What do you mean that story doesn't work?
1:44.0	And I argue, I disagree, but he knows me well enough as a friend to tell me his truth in the way that I can hear it.
1:54.0	Like I said, we've been through some things together, you know.
1:57.0	One of my oldest and dearest compatriots.
2:01.0	So he's already anticipated how I'm going to react.
2:05.0	What I'm going to say before I even know myself, it's one of the universe's greatest gifts to have someone like that.
2:16.0	Not someone like that to actually have him in my life because what if instead,
2:26.0	a person that knows you most of all better than your mama, better than your spouse?
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