The Weight of Sorrow
Snap Judgment
Snap Judgment and PRX
4.8 • 11.2K Ratings
🗓️ 13 February 2025
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
How long will you hurt yourself before you start loving yourself? Ronald Young Jr. grapples with the impending loss of his mother while still thinking about his weight. And a kid shares what it’s like to live with Gynecomastia (aka Man Boobs).
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The Weight of Sorrow
Ronald Young Jr. grapples with the impending loss of his mother while still thinking about his weight.
This story comes to us from Weight For It, a production of Oh It’s Big Ron Studios and is a proud member of Radiotopia from PRX. Listen to Weight For It wherever you get your podcasts!! Follow Ron on Twitter, Threads, IG, and TikTok – @ohitsbigron
Episodes of Weight For It are produced and written by Ronald Young Jr., with editing from Sarah Dealey. Sound design and mixing from the Reverend John DeLore of Starlight Diner. Theme music from Jay Redd, with additional music from Mass Potential, the artist DT, and the mysterious Breakmaster Cylinder. Episode artwork by Andy J. Pizza.
If you need support for disordered eating or your body image -- please check out the resources below:
National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated disorders
Muti-service eating disorders association
National Alliance for Eating Disorders
What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Fat – Aubrey Gordon
Heavy – Kiese Laymon
Belly of the Beast – Da’ Shaun Harrison
The Body is Not an Apology – Sonya Renee Taylor
The Amazing T*tty Man
How long will you hurt yourself before you start loving yourself? Nygel Turner shares what it’s like to live with Gynecomastia (aka Man Boobs).
This story was produced by YR Media‘s Adult ISH podcast. Adult ISH is a culture, advice, and storytelling show about #adulting, that is produced entirely by folks who are “almost adults”. Subscribe and listen here!
Produced by Nygel Turner and Davey Kim, sound design by Oluwafemi and Davey Kim.
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| 0:00.0 | Can people really change for the better in life, in love, and in relationships? |
| 0:12.2 | I'm Meredith Goldstein, longtime advice columnist at the Boston Globe and host of its podcast, Love Letters. |
| 0:18.6 | In season 10 of Love Letters, we're asking one big question, can people change, |
| 0:23.5 | and if so, how? Get ready to laugh, cry, and learn as guests tell real stories about resilience, |
| 0:30.0 | transformation, and being better at being together. Listen or watch the new season of Love Letters |
| 0:35.2 | wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:45.1 | Music Listen or watch the new season of love letters wherever you get your podcasts. A friend of mine recently told me that whenever anyone has an outsized reaction about anything. |
| 0:56.8 | The reaction is never about the thing. |
| 1:03.4 | Like, if your spouse gets furious at you for leaving the cap off the toothpaste, |
| 1:08.4 | if y'all go into a fight about that, it's not about the toothpaste. |
| 1:10.8 | It's about something else. |
| 1:17.4 | If she weeps because you gave her a teddy bear, it's not about the teddy bear. |
| 1:20.3 | It's about something else. |
| 1:36.6 | And I find that as my mother gets older, everything, everything we talk about, every word is about something else. |
| 1:45.4 | What does, mom, what you have for breakfast? What's it mean? It means how are you? |
| 1:48.0 | Are you getting around okay? |
| 1:50.4 | Will it upset you if I send you something? |
| 1:53.0 | Are you capable of making a meal for yourself? |
| 1:56.2 | Which members of your support system are still around? |
| 1:59.1 | Are you getting the nourishment you require, Mom? |
| 2:01.7 | Are you okay? |
| 2:05.1 | Mama, I have a deep guilt that I live a thousand miles away, but Mama, I love you. |
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