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Snap Judgment

Weight For It

Snap Judgment

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4.811.2K Ratings

🗓️ 29 February 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

We’re going back to college with Ronald Young Jr., where he couldn’t wait to explore a world beyond the watchful gaze of his churchgoing parents. He meets an amazing girl, but their story would not be a love story… because of their 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. This podcast series was a Tribeca Official Selection. It was also picked by the New York Times as one of the best podcasts of the year. Listen to Weight For It wherever you get your podcasts. Follow Ronald Young Jr. on Twitter, Threads, IG, and TikTok - @ohitsbigron

Episodes of Weight For It were produced and written by Ronald Young Jr., with editing from Sarah Dealey. The version you heard was edited for Snap by Regina Bediako.

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.

Special thanks to Caitlin Scanlan, Jessica Taylor Dickin, Myra Mejia, and Dr. Caitlin Gunn. Artwork by Heather Wilder.

Support Resources

If you need support for disordered eating or your body image; please check out the links below:

Crescent Counseling Center

Intuitive Growth Counseling

National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated disorders

Project Heal

Muti-service eating disorders association

National Alliance for Eating Disorders

Eating Recovery Center

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

Season 15 - Episode 10

Transcript

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0:00.0

Snap Studios.

0:07.0

At a time when information continues to come at us faster and faster.

0:11.0

Sometimes you need to hit pause. And rewind.

0:17.0

NPR's Thule line takes you back in time to the source of the news stories filling your feed.

0:26.0

Find NPR's through line wherever you get your podcasts. When we're here at the Snap Judgment, we're preparing for this show which is a stunning episode by

0:45.0

the way I can't wait for you to hear it one of our producers whose name

0:49.4

Regina Bediaco I will not mention she said to me that given the show deals with one person's struggle with weight,

0:58.0

perhaps I should start with a personal story of my own journey.

1:02.0

What do you mean?

1:04.0

And she said, well, you know, you know how you're, um, you know, no, I don't know.

1:16.0

What is it, what is it, with Tina Betty Aco, you're trying to say?

1:20.0

Just that you are a stranger to a robust body type

1:25.9

How dare you are you trying to call me

1:31.2

Fat? No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, just that you would understand. Oh, now I'm fat enough to understand

1:38.5

fatness? Is that what you're trying to say? And she said, please don't use this conversation

1:46.2

as the opening of the show.

1:48.1

I assured her.

1:49.7

But of course I wouldn't.

1:51.6

But the fact. Of course I wouldn't. I wouldn't. The fact that we're too scared even to save the word

1:57.6

fat to each other is something I will also avoid mentioning in the open. I'll just say this.

2:05.0

We should know that this episode does get heavy in more waste in one.

2:14.0

Stamp judgment probably presents,

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