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Snap Judgment #212: Fighting Back

Series: Snap Judgment hosted by Glynn Washington
From: Snap Judgment
Length: 01:07:57

Real stories about real people who decided they were sick and tired and weren’t going to take it anymore ... Read the full description.

Fightback-240x240_small To Catch a Thief
Someone stole Karen Lodrick’s identity: her name, her money, her reputation. Life was a living hell, until one day she came face to face with the thief.

Producer: Mitzi Mock

Stonewall

In 1969, serving alcohol to a known homosexual was against the law. But the Stonewall bar in New York City was run by the mob and would sell to anyone. The police raided it on a hot summer night, causing riots that changed the gay rights movement forever. Matthew Levine was there and told his account of the night to Story Corps.

Producer: Stephanie Foo

Frogman
A former French spy moves to Dubai to build a submarine factory, and needs to make a hasty underwater plan. 

Producers: Anna Sussman and Natalia Jeager

I Will Accept the Charges
Poet, actor, playwright, teacher, Chas Jackson is an artist extraordinare.  This is his first Snap Judgment appearance (but we don’t think it’s going to be his last).

Producer: Mark Ristich

Attack on the Tracks
Alan was minding his own beeswax on the New York subway.  But when a little punk started beating people up in the subway, he just had to intervene . . .

Producers: Nick van der Kolk, Adrianne Mathiowetz and Stephanie Foo

La Familia
In a gang-infested neighborhood, a young girl seeks the wrong kind of family...

Producers: Anna Sussman and Pat Mesiti-Miller


Measured Response
Tanya grew up in the boonies of Oregon, where troublemakers prowled the woods looking to stir things up. But what they didn’t know is that Tanya’s sweet little mother was also a Vietnam-era drill sergeant who took no nonsense.

Producer: Stephanie Foo



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To Catch a Thief
Someone stole Karen Lodrick’s identity: her name, her money, her reputation. Life was a living hell, until one day she came face to face with the thief.

Producer: Mitzi Mock

Stonewall

In 1969, serving alcohol to a known homosexual was against the law. But the Stonewall bar in New York City was run by the mob and would sell to anyone. The police raided it on a hot summer night, causing riots that changed the gay rights movement forever. Matthew Levine was there and told his account of the night to Story Corps.

Producer: Stephanie Foo

Frogman
A former French spy moves to Dubai to build a submarine factory, and needs to make a hasty underwater plan. 

Producers: Anna Sussman and Natalia Jeager

I Will Accept the Charges
Poet, actor, playwright, teacher, Chas Jackson is an artist extraordinare.  This is his first Snap Judgment appearance (but we don’t think it’s going to be his last).

Producer: Mark Ristich

Attack on the Tracks
Alan was minding his own beeswax on the New York subway.  But when a little punk started beating people up in the subway, he just had to intervene . . .

Producers: Nick van der Kolk, Adrianne Mathiowetz and Stephanie Foo

La Familia
In a gang-infested neighborhood, a young girl seeks the wrong kind of family...

Producers: Anna Sussman and Pat Mesiti-Miller


Measured Response
Tanya grew up in the boonies of Oregon, where troublemakers prowled the woods looking to stir things up. But what they didn’t know is that Tanya’s sweet little mother was also a Vietnam-era drill sergeant who took no nonsense.

Producer: Stephanie Foo



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Keep on Snappin'!

I liked #210 a bit more, but this one had its moments. Particularly when Glynn was goin' after "The Poopie Man"- LOL @ that one. Liked the Cuban(?)-sounding music bit in Break A.

Oh- and that thing about frightening a bunch of yahoos by firing blanks at 'em with a muzzle loading rifle? Been there, done that. When I was in college, there was a rowdy frat house next door and they used to party all night. (Typically annoying college frat boys, right?) So one night their partying went out on the lawn and woke me up. Well, at the time I was part of a group doing historical Civil War reenactments (yeah- I'm a nerd), and so I just happened to have this working replica of an 1863 .58 caliber Springfield rifle... with some black powder and caps...