Marshmallow Day - Snap Classic

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🗓️ 6 March 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Katie falls hard for Barys during a whirlwind trip to Belarus. But there’s a giant red flag she can’t ignore any longer. And two people who have the same name, live in the same city, and have the same professional interests soon find out what else they have in common.

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Real Love

Boston-based writer Katie Simon is on assignment in Belarus when she meets and falls hard for Barys in less than a week. When she’s back home, her friends alert her to a giant red flag she can no longer afford to ignore.

This story briefly mentions sex, sensitive listeners please be advised.

Thank you, Katie, for sharing this story with Snap! Keep up with her latest work, including an upcoming book about falling in love and generational storytelling here. Learn more about Katie on her Facebook, Twitter, & Instagram.

Produced by Regina Bediako, original score by Renzo Gorrio, artwork by Teo Ducot.

Ovrkast “Love Somebody” – Music Spotlight

This week’s Snap Music Spotlight features Oakland artist Ovrkast with the song, “Love Somebody” watch the video here!

Listen to Ovrkast’s latest album, Try Again (DELUXE) out now!! To stay up to date with all things Ovrkast, be sure to follow them on Twitter and Instagram.

Katie vs. Katie

When Katie Crouch learned there was another Katie Crouch who lived in the same city and apparently had the same professional interests as her she thought, huh, what else do we have in common? She would soon find out.

This story was done in collaboration with Ozy.com, the online magazine that published both Katies’ essays: The Other Me and Doppelgangers Unite?

Katie Crouch continues to virtually cross paths with her name twin from her new city of Chicago, where she works for an educational publisher, raises a toddler on her own, and writes a blog.

Katie Crouch is a New York Times best-selling novelist. Her books include Girls in Trucks and Abroad, among others.

Produced by Nancy López, original score by Renzo Gorrio

Season 16 – Episode 10 - Snap Classic

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0:00.0	SNAP Studios.
0:05.0	NPR's throughline podcast sort of feels like stepping into a time machine.
0:13.0	Each episode, our Peabody award-winning show travels beyond the headlines to answer the question,
0:19.0	how did we get here? Listen to one of Apple's favorite
0:22.2	podcasts of 2024 by searching for ThruLine on Apple Podcasts or on your favorite podcast app. Okay, so the first thing, the very first thing you have to understand about Japanese society is, if you want to live there, that this is a gift-giving culture.
0:53.8	If you're granted the high honor of paying exorbitant rent to your landlord,
0:59.8	you got to give them a gift for their generosity of spirit.
1:04.3	Or if you're meeting a potential business client, bring a gift.
1:08.4	The mailman, look at you funny, give them a gift.
1:10.7	Gift, gift, gift, gift, gift, gift, gift, gift, gift. How does anyone afford it? Do you buy a nicely packaged gift for every day of the week? No, my friends, that is a rookie mistake, a costly mistake. What you do is you re-gift the gift someone gave you. That's right. You just
1:31.2	snip out the personalized card and pass it on. You're good to go. Get and give. Get and give.
1:37.5	Stick and jab. Everybody does it. But these Valentine marketers, Always one step ahead.
1:47.6	They know what all the Romo's and Julietts will do.
1:50.5	Get the present from one, pass it to the next.
1:53.5	So they set up this diabolical plan.
1:57.5	They make Valentine's Day just for the fallas.
1:58.5	That's right.
2:04.9	Women and only women must give dark chocolate to the men in their lives. Boyfriends, husbands, sure, but coworkers, bosses, dog walkers, the whole bit. And what do the
2:11.2	women get in return? They get Jack. That's what they get. It's a pretty good deal for the dudes, but the ladies aren't having it.
2:20.3	They invent a brand new holiday, marshmallow day or white day.
2:24.9	It's March 14th where the dudes are obligated to get something for the women.
2:30.0	And if you think you're slick, no.
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