Glynn Washington
Host of WNYC & NPR's Snap Judgment℠ podcast
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Glynn Washington
@glynnwashington · Host / Executive Producer, Snap Judgment
Before creating the hit WNYC / NPR show "Snap Judgment" (Storytelling, with a BEAT) I worked as an educator, diplomat, community activist, actor, political strategist, fist-shaker, mountain-hollerer, and foot stomper.
I composed music for the Kunst Stoff dance performances in San Francisco, rocked live spoken word poetry in Detroit, joined a band in Indonesia, wrote several screenplays, painted a daring series of self portraits, released a blues album. My stories are best served with cocktails. ;) Happy to be here, ask away!
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Jacqueline von Tesmar
@jacqvon · Community, Product Hunt ✌️😻
Wow Glynn! What an intro 🙌 Makes me wonder: Where is one place you want to visit that you haven't been before?
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Glynn Washington
@glynnwashington · Host / Executive Producer, Snap Judgment
@jacqvon I really have a hankering to go to North Africa. Maybe Morocco. The writer Tahir Shah (who has been featured on Snap) has a restored a Caliphate home near a shantytown on the outskirts of Casablanca. I have to find a way to get there!
Alex Carter
@alexcartaz · Operations @ 60dB. Ex-PH Podcasts 😻
What are your thoughts on the future of podcasts? What do you think is currently most broken? What are you excited to see improve?
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Glynn Washington
@glynnwashington · Host / Executive Producer, Snap Judgment
@alexcartaz We are are the very beginning of the Golden Age of audio. The vitaltiy of the podcast space is inviting so many new and talented storytellers to the medium, it's super exciting to watch. But the archetecture of podcasting is broken. Their is still no universal app that let's people share and comment socially, and provides the two-way between the podcaster and the audience.
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Glynn Washington
@glynnwashington · Host / Executive Producer, Snap Judgment
@alexcartaz Organizing and optimizing this space from both a listener perspective and a creator perspective is key. Someone's gonna crack that nut, and it's gonna be awesome.
Erik Lundberg
@erikclundberg · Fireside
@glynnwashington @alexcartaz have you seen Fireside? https://www.producthunt.com/tech...
Alex Carter
@alexcartaz · Operations @ 60dB. Ex-PH Podcasts 😻
Hi Glynn, thanks for joining us today! What story featured in Snap Judgement have you found the most interesting or moving over the entire history of the show?
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Glynn Washington
@glynnwashington · Host / Executive Producer, Snap Judgment
@alexcartaz Alex, that's like asking me "what is your favorite child?" But here are a few that really stick with me:
J Dilla's Lost Scrolls / http://snapjudgment.org/j-dilla%...
Get Right With Your God: http://snapjudgment.org/get-righ...
The Girl in the Hallway:
Insidious:
Alex Carter
@alexcartaz · Operations @ 60dB. Ex-PH Podcasts 😻
What are your favorite podcasts?
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Glynn Washington
@glynnwashington · Host / Executive Producer, Snap Judgment
@alexcartaz So many! 99 Percent Invisible, The Heart, Benjamin Walker's Theory of Everything, Another Round, Escape Pod, Strangers, the Moth, The Church of What's Happening, Death Sex, and Money, etc
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Glynn Washington
@glynnwashington · Host / Executive Producer, Snap Judgment
@alexcartaz Radiolab, This American Life, This Week In Blackness . . .
Emily Hodgins
@ems_hodge · Community and Marketing, Product Hunt
@glynnwashington thanks for joining us today! 🙌what has been the most surprising moment working on Snap Judgement?
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Glynn Washington
@glynnwashington · Host / Executive Producer, Snap Judgment
@ems_hodge The good news is that I'm surprised often. Mostly by the incredible kindness and humanity of the people that share their stories with us. Don't be fooled -- there are good people left in the world.
Ryan Hoover
@rrhoover · Founder, Product Hunt
You mentioned cocktails. What's your favorite beverage, Glynn? 😊
Melissa Joy Kong
@melissajoykong · Content, Product Hunt
What's the most challenging thing about being a podcast host?
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Glynn Washington
@glynnwashington · Host / Executive Producer, Snap Judgment
@melissajoykong The business of podcast / radio / audio is by far the most challenging thing. It took a tremendous amount of energy, luck, and planning, love, tears, and elbow grease to start Snap. It has always been hard keeping the lights on at a small arts organization. We have had a real roller coaster from a sustainability perspective.
Hash_tag_jeff
@jeffumbro · Book Marketing and PR - get in touch
What's your favorite WNYC show outside of your own?
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Glynn Washington
@glynnwashington · Host / Executive Producer, Snap Judgment
@jeffumbro I'm new to WNYC, and I haven't heard everything yet. But what a roster! On the Media, Death Sex & Money, Note to Self, Radiolab, Only Human -- shoot -- can't wait to dive in . . .
Harry Stebbings
@harrystebbings · Podcast Host @ The Twenty Minute VC
Thanks for joining us. What are your favourite questions to ask in an interview and what would you advise someone starting out in the interview industry?
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Glynn Washington
@glynnwashington · Host / Executive Producer, Snap Judgment
@harrystebbings Listen to everything and everybody. And not just interview. Listen to storytellers, comics, and everybody else. And you may not believe it, but one of the very best interviewers in the world is Howard Stern. He gets stuff out of people that no one does.
Take notes on Howard . . .