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Snap Judgment
Saturdays at 5 p.m. and Sundays at 1 p.m.

Snap Judgment tells intriguing stories about extraordinary and defining events in people's lives. The show's fast-paced, intimate, and musical brand of storytelling dares listeners to see a sliver of the world through another's eye.

It's the show about the decisions people make that change EVERYTHING. Raw, intimate, and surprising, host Glynn Washington explores real life drama that will leave you breathless.

Find out more at the Snap Judgment website.

  • Back in the days when Williamsburg was still rough, Lou Diaz learned how to hustle. He returned as an adult, and found that the hustle was still handy - but in a completely new way.
  • Snap Judgment favorite Joyce Lee remembers a student from her teaching days that reminds her that sometimes, the easy way out is not the best way.
  • W.C. Jameson has searched for a recovered buried treasure across the world. But on a search in Arizona, he found something he never expected.
  • The notorious showman Chicken John creates a traveling circus that has only one rule: you can't have any talent to perform. Designed to fail, instead they face a new foe: success.
  • When a circus elephant terrifies a small town in Tennessee in 1916, the town wants revenge.
  • When one boy runs away with the carnival, every kid's dream turns into one man's nightmare.
  • Doc is an old time carnival grifter. He breaks down a con called "The Razzle" and one of his biggest scores ever.
  • When Snap Judgment producer Davey Kim was in 9th grade, he was the lead guitarist of a screamo emo band... but he almost wasn't.
  • A young Iraqi man fought against the government that terrorized his family for his whole life. His tactics were controversial, but they were very effective.
  • Dylan Evans had hit a wall. Life was becoming too routine, too mundane. So he did something very few of us would do to change that.