Forever is a Long Time
Snap Judgment
Snap Judgment and PRX
4.8 • 11.2K Ratings
🗓️ 19 August 2021
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
When Ian Coss decided to get married, every living member of his family who had ever been married had also been divorced. He wonders: are we doomed to recycle the patterns of behavior we get from our ancestors? And a fictional tale of marital mayhem!
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Forever is a Long Time
When Ian Coss decided to get married, every living member of his family who had ever been married had also gotten divorced: parents, grandparents, and all his aunts and uncles on both sides — some of them twice. Seven years later, he’s still married, but has questions: What is the value of a lifetime commitment? Are we doomed to recycle the patterns of behavior we get from our ancestors? Are we all just better off alone? Forever is a Long Time is a five-episode series that weaves reflection and original music through Ian’s conversations with his wife and divorced family members — a look at love with people who have made mistakes.
The full series is available now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, or wherever you listen to podcasts.
Forever is a Long Time is created by Ian Coss and edited by Lacy Roberts. The music is co-produced by Alex Chakour, and mastered by Nick Zampiello at New Alliance East. The artwork is by Kelsey Tyssowski.
Miniature Wife
What happens when you shrink your wife… literally? Writer Manuel Gonzales brings us a fictional tale of marital mayhem.
Check out more of Manuel’s writing.
Thank you, to our VO Actors:
Narrator: Thao Nguyen
Husband: Sam Fischmann
Wife: Eliza Smith
Produced by Eliza Smith, sound design by Pat Mesiti-Miller
Season 12 - Episode 33
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| 0:00.0 | Snap, judgment, studios. |
| 0:08.3 | There are certain things that are never discussed in polite families. |
| 0:22.3 | Around the dinner table in the car, in front of the TV, I didn't even have a polite family. |
| 0:28.0 | And there are things we didn't discuss. |
| 0:30.6 | Big things, important things, waiting things, things that matter. |
| 0:36.1 | And our storyteller today, when he decided to get married, he also decided, you know what? |
| 0:42.2 | Screw it. |
| 0:43.2 | But he was going to tackle the elephant in the room head on. |
| 0:46.1 | He was going to ask every single family member that he had left. |
| 0:50.2 | He was going to ask him the big question, because they all did the ritual. |
| 0:55.1 | They all set the vials. |
| 0:57.1 | He wanted to know exactly why each and every one of their own marriages didn't make it. |
| 1:04.3 | Why did they all end it in divorce? |
| 1:07.5 | And not only was he going to ask them to open up about their deepest secrets, because |
| 1:11.2 | Ian cost to composer and an audio producer. |
| 1:14.4 | He was going to stick a microphone in their faces, record everything they said. |
| 1:20.2 | And what we're about to hear right now is the first episode in Ian's five part series. |
| 1:25.2 | It's called Forever is a Long Time. |
| 1:28.3 | It's about marriage and divorce and how they play out across an entire family, his own |
| 1:36.7 | family. |
| 1:38.9 | Step touch with. |
| 1:41.4 | My name is Ian Koss and what you're listening to is a collection of songs and conversations |
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