Tin Man - Snap Classic
Snap Judgment
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4.8 • 11.2K Ratings
🗓️ 8 April 2021
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
A scientist studying the minds of psychopaths gets dangerously close. A father’s inability to recognize faces tests his relationships. And a brother is reunited with his North Korean sister for the first time in over five decades.
You can look human and you can sound human... but what happens when you take a good hard look inside and realize... you're missing something?
STORIES
If I Only Had a Heart
Glynn knows… sometimes the sum of the parts does not equal the hole.
Produced by Pat Mesiti-Miller
The Scientist and the Psychopath
Neuroanatomist James Fallon, Ph.D. studies the most dangerous kind of person: the psychopath. His job is to get up close and personal with the mind of the psychopath so that we can better understand what makes them tick. He treats their brains with the cold calculation of a scientist at work. But in the process, things get mighty personal.
James Fallon, Ph.D. is a neuroanatomist and geneticist at UC-Irvine. For more about his work and his own life, check out his book: The Psychopath Inside: A Neuroscientist's Personal Journey into the Dark Side of the Brain.
Produced by Julia DeWitt
About Face
You’ve heard the saying, right? You can’t see the forest for the trees. Well, imagine if your whole life all you could do, all you knew how to do, was see the trees, the details, the minutiae of the world. What would you miss out on? Let’s take a walk in Tom Conces’ shoes and find out.
Produced by Nancy López, original score by Renzo Gorrio
Across the DMZ
What happens when you are reunited with your North Korean sister for the first time in over five decades?
Thank you to our voice actors, Yongnam and Mikyung Kim!
Produced and scored by Davey Kim
Artwork by Teo Ducot
Sound design by Pat Mesiti-Miller
Season 12 - Episode 13
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| 0:00.0 | Snap Judgment Studios |
| 0:14.5 | The first thing that they want to ask me after they stop staring is how it happened. |
| 0:21.8 | How did you do that to yourself? |
| 0:28.0 | And first I told folks the truth. |
| 0:31.5 | But when they looked away, I understood that no one cared what I said. |
| 0:38.9 | They just wanted to hear that it was my fault that I did something wrong because if I |
| 0:44.0 | didn't, if this just happened to me, it could happen to them too. |
| 0:53.0 | But I could not oblige because one does not simply grab and act and cut off their own |
| 1:00.3 | legs and replace them with metal. |
| 1:04.0 | It's not done. |
| 1:06.4 | And after I remember thinking that getting rid of my arms, that too was a good idea that |
| 1:12.2 | metal arms would be far superior. |
| 1:17.0 | And it's metal arms. |
| 1:18.4 | Why not a whole metal torso? |
| 1:22.1 | Every after I had removed my head and replaced with a shiny new one, fashioned of tin, to |
| 1:30.1 | match the rest of my physique. |
| 1:32.8 | Then what to visit my lady fair and saw the look of horror in her eyes only then did I |
| 1:38.8 | realize that I'd been bewitched. |
| 1:44.1 | But as she screamed and waved her hands about, I understood as well that… |
| 1:50.6 | Well, I didn't care about her anymore. |
| 1:59.6 | I wondered why. |
| 2:02.6 | Perhaps it was because I'd neglected to get a heart. |
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