Roommate Wanted

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4.8 • 11.2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2022

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Brian’s desperate for cash, until a random ghost writer answers his Craigslist ad for a roommate. Now, he's about to get more drama than he ever imagined.

BIG thanks to Brian Boucher for sharing his story with Snap!

Brian wrote about this experience in New York Magazine titled “My Roommate, The Diamond Thief.” Read more about it.

Produced by Bo Walsh, original score by Dirk Schwarzhoff, artwork by Teo Ducot

Season 13 - Episode 28

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0:00.0	Snap, judgment, studios.
0:07.0	Often times, in today's urbanized, depersonalized, atomized society, who is it that actually
0:19.4	knows you?
0:21.0	Who knows you better than your mama, better than your friends, better than your cousins,
0:25.3	your lover?
0:26.3	Who sits next to you on the couch for your greatest joy and who knows your dirty little secret?
0:33.5	Who else?
0:34.9	But your roommate?
0:37.6	Because one thing we can all be agreed upon, left or right, city fighter rule, all or
0:43.7	poor, the one thing that unites all of us is the certain knowledge that the rent is too
0:50.4	damn high.
0:52.8	This means that living alone all by yourself and some glorious salitude is a luxury.
0:58.7	Reserve for trust fund kids and drug dealers and if you are neither of these, at some point
1:04.5	you may have to open your life to someone who is more than a stranger.
1:09.8	More than an intimate, a person arriving out of nowhere to pierce your inner sanctum
1:14.1	who can change the very course of your destiny simply by proven to you that on the first of
1:19.2	the month they absolutely, positively.
1:22.0	We'll come through with their share of the rent.
1:29.0	Today, Snap probably presents roommate wanted.
1:33.6	My name is from Washington.
1:35.6	We've scoured the newspaper so you don't have to because you're listening to Snap
1:41.6	Judgment.
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