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🗓️ 1 May 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

A young woman wakes up in her Beijing dorm room to a call. A strange voice, a man she barely remembers, is asking her a question that will change her destiny. And a doctor hears one of her classical music idols play one of the greatest serenades of all time.

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Ping

A young woman wakes up in her Beijing dorm room to a call. A strange voice, a man she barely remembers, is asking her a question that will change her destiny.

Thank you, Wang Ping, for sharing your story with us! Wang Ping is a poet, writer, photographer, performance and multimedia artist. Want to learn more about her? Check out her website.

Produced by Annie Nguyen, original score by Daniel Riera, artwork by Teo Ducot.

“Dying to Tchaikovsky”

Family medicine physician Catherine Sonquist Forest listens to one of her classical music idols serenade a dying loved one in the hospital.

This story came to us from The Nocturnists podcast, it was told by Catherine Forest, MD. The Nocturnists are a vibrant community of healthcare workers who are celebrating their humanity through storytelling. They have live performances, a podcast, and so much more. Listen & subscribe now!

Hosted by Emily Silverman. Produced by Emily Silverman and Marina Poole. Story Development by Adelaide Papazoglou. Sound Engineering by Alberto Hernandez. Assistant Producing by Kirk Klocke. Original theme music by Yosef Munro, additional music by Blue Dot Sessions.

Snap Classic - Season 16 – Episode 19

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0:00.0	In
0:07.0	Snap Studios In order to just maintain, to live my life, I have to kind of trick myself with a series of choices.
0:33.6	Red jacket or gray jacket.
0:36.5	Oatmeal or toasts just to get the blood flowing.
0:39.4	And yeah, some of the choices get harder.
0:43.5	Is today the day you tear the band-aid off that conversation you do not want to have or not?
0:51.1	Pay this overdue bill or that overdue bill.
0:55.5	And when I'm trying to trick myself, framing is everything.
0:59.2	Is you're lazy behind going to get to the gym or not?
1:03.6	Hey, I'm not lazy.
1:05.5	Then go to the gym.
1:07.6	Do you love your mother?
1:09.1	Of course I love my mama.
1:10.8	Then call her.
1:13.0	And I know full well that this is a simplification, a game,
1:18.6	that my universe of what to do at any given moment is not binary.
1:23.4	It's infinite.
1:24.5	But engaging this game feels safer, feels more confident, far less bewildering
1:29.9	than the fact that I don't have to play.
1:34.3	Today, on Snap Judgment, we probably present Ping.
1:52.0	A story about one woman who chooses to play a different game altogether.
1:59.0	My name is in Washington,
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