The Marfa Munchies

giovanni gallucci (@gallucciNET)
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The Marfa Munchies is a daily fiction podcast about the food, beverage, and lifestyle side of a creative agency in West Texas. Five women hold up the surface. Strawberries two weeks early. A podcast launched without making a thing of it. Ten quiet minutes at a Dallas lake. A pitch held back two weeks for the right moment. The frame that came out right. Each day is a Show. Each day is also a Tell. New episodes weekday mornings. For more info: https://marfastrategy.com | ai assisted fiction

Episodes

  1. Marfa Munchies: Episode 1, Monday - The Market Before the Market

    Episode 1

    Marfa Munchies: Episode 1, Monday - The Market Before the Market

    The standard is decided by the strawberry, not the boss. Frida Martinez at the Marfa farmers market at 5:40 in the morning, before the canopies go up. A grower named Dolores. Strawberries that came in two weeks early. *Won't last,* Dolores says, the way growers say everything. *Heat's coming.* This is not a content moment. Frida runs the food and beverage division of a creative agency. She comes here because at the market she is nobody's boss, and the truth is just true, and you can hold it in your hand. Featured: Frida Martinez, division lead. The Marfa Munchies is a daily fiction podcast about a food, beverage, and lifestyle division of a creative agency between Marfa and Dallas. New episodes weekday mornings. Follow the world at @marfamunchies on Instagram, TikTok, Threads, and Bluesky. . . . | ai-assisted fiction

    4 min
  2. Marfa Munchies: Episode 1, Tuesday - The Ease Is Earned

    Episode 2

    Marfa Munchies: Episode 1, Tuesday - The Ease Is Earned

    The takes are right. People can go verify. Chloe Dawn is twenty-two and she has a podcast, and the two facts coexist in her without any of the friction older people seem to expect. She is on the floor of the styling room with her back against a cabinet, listening to her own cut for the sixth time. Casandra sits down next to her without being invited, which is the whole basis of the friendship. They have noted something about somebody else this week, and they are not going to elaborate. Cataloguing the room is its own quiet pleasure. The ease is earned. That's the part you don't get to see. You just get the ease. Featured: Chloe Dawn, junior cohost. Casandra Cass, junior strategist. The Marfa Munchies is a daily fiction podcast about a food, beverage, and lifestyle division of a creative agency between Marfa and Dallas. New episodes weekday mornings. Follow the world at @marfamunchies on Instagram, TikTok, Threads, and Bluesky. . . . | ai-assisted fiction

    4 min
  3. Marfa Munchies: Episode 1, Wednesday - Ten Minutes

    Episode 3

    Marfa Munchies: Episode 1, Wednesday - Ten Minutes

    The water is the same every time. That helps. Jayme Nichols on a dock at the edge of a Dallas lake in the blue before sunrise. Ten minutes of not holding anything together. It is a practice, not a mood, and the distinction matters to her more than she can explain. She is the senior strategist of the Munchies division and in practice its center of gravity. She is carrying something she has told no one. The dock is for not examining things. You set the weight down. Then you choose, freshly, to pick it back up. That is the other half of the practice. Featured: Jayme Nichols, senior strategist. The Marfa Munchies is a daily fiction podcast about a food, beverage, and lifestyle division of a creative agency between Marfa and Dallas. New episodes weekday mornings. Follow the world at @marfamunchies on Instagram, TikTok, Threads, and Bluesky. . . . | ai-assisted fiction

    3 min
  4. Marfa Munchies: Episode 1, Thursday - Ready for Two Weeks

    Episode 4

    Marfa Munchies: Episode 1, Thursday - Ready for Two Weeks

    The vision is clear. The timeline is the question. Melissa Sanderson is building something faster than the people around her know. The pitch has been ready for two weeks. The pitch is not a client brief. The problem is Jayme. Not Jayme as an obstacle, exactly. Melissa loves Jayme, in the complicated way you love a person you have known long enough to predict. Fifteen years of partnership. A divergence of wanting nobody has named cleanly. Answers arrive, but you have to be ready for them. Being ready, Melissa is starting to understand, sometimes means making them arrive. Featured: Melissa Sanderson, strategist. The Marfa Munchies is a daily fiction podcast about a food, beverage, and lifestyle division of a creative agency between Marfa and Dallas. New episodes weekday mornings. Follow the world at @marfamunchies on Instagram, TikTok, Threads, and Bluesky. . . . | ai-assisted fiction

    5 min
  5. Marfa Munchies: Episode 1, Friday - Frame 0847

    Episode 5

    Marfa Munchies: Episode 1, Friday - Frame 0847

    Right is not the same as beautiful. Mindy Carpenter in the back room with the lights off, scrubbing through the selects from the week's clean-label shoot. Frame 0847 is the one. The window light did what it was supposed to do. The frame doesn't lie. Her phone lights up on the desk beside the keyboard. She does not pick it up right away. Something passes across her face in the dark that the monitor light catches and that no one is there to see. She turns the phone face down and goes back to the selects. On her way out she tells herself, in the private voice everyone keeps for the lies they need, that it was a good week and everything is fine. She drives home through the Dallas dark with the radio off. Featured: Mindy Carpenter, creative director. The Marfa Munchies is a daily fiction podcast about a food, beverage, and lifestyle division of a creative agency between Marfa and Dallas. New episodes weekday mornings. Follow the world at @marfamunchies on Instagram, TikTok, Threads, and Bluesky. . . . | ai-assisted fiction

    4 min
  6. Marfa Munchies: Episode 1, Saturday - Two Fires Under the Same Stars

    Episode 6

    Marfa Munchies: Episode 1, Saturday - Two Fires Under the Same Stars

    What you see is what it is. And also what it isn't. Frida comes out late, the way Frida always comes out late, and finds Jayme already at the fire pit with a beer she isn't drinking. The Davis Mountains are a darker dark. The stars are obscene. Melissa has a pitch she wants to bring. Jayme is going to do what's responsible, which they both know is not the same word as yes. Mindy does not come to the fire. Chloe and Casandra have built their own smaller fire on the other side of the property and are laughing at something on a phone, twenty-two and twenty-eight, cataloguing the night. On the far side of the compound, a different division has their own fire going. The worlds don't touch tonight. They just burn, separately, under the same indecent stars. The phone is still on the desk in Dallas. The phone will still be there Monday. So will whatever is on it. Featured: Frida Martinez. Jayme Nichols. Casandra Cass. Chloe Dawn. The Marfa Munchies is a daily fiction podcast about a food, beverage, and lifestyle division of a creative agency between Marfa and Dallas. Episode 1 closes here. The phone will still be there Monday. Follow the world at @marfamunchies on Instagram, TikTok, Threads, and Bluesky. . . . | ai-assisted fiction

    7 min
  7. Marfa Munchies: Episode 2, Sunday - Face-Up

    Episode 7

    Marfa Munchies: Episode 2, Sunday - Face-Up

    beat_scene: outdoor_road, travel anchor: Mindy The not-doing of a thing finally costs more than the doing. Mindy Carpenter packs quickly, in the Dallas apartment. The bag is by the door. She's been holding the phone face-down for two weeks. This morning she holds it face-up. The thing on it is not dramatic from the outside - a name, a place, a conversation she's been not-having for eight months. She drives toward it instead of away. Forty minutes. No radio. The city, indifferent the way only cities can be. Not resolved today. She knows that. But she is voyaging now, which is different from sitting still, and sitting still has run its course. Featured: Mindy Carpenter, creative director. The Marfa Munchies is a daily fiction podcast about a food, beverage, and lifestyle division of a creative agency between Marfa and Dallas. New episodes every morning. Follow the world at @marfamunchies on Instagram, TikTok, Threads, and Bluesky. . . . | ai-assisted fiction

    4 min
  8. Marfa Munchies: Episode 2, Monday - The Shape of an Absence

    Episode 8

    Marfa Munchies: Episode 2, Monday - The Shape of an Absence

    Empty desks have personalities. Mindy is gone. Frida opens the office, stands in the kitchen with coffee still too hot to drink, looks at the desk. Casandra comes in, clocks it: "Yeah." Chloe takes an earbud out when she passes the desk, puts it back, says nothing. The room runs its normal morning. But underneath - the quality of a room that knows something has been set in motion. Melissa comes in from her own Dallas trip at eleven. Sees Mindy's absence, gets the nod from Jayme: *she'll be back.* Opens her laptop. The pitch document is in the third folder, moved there so it's not the first thing she sees. It's still the first thing she notices. She doesn't open it today. But the room is different without Mindy in it. The temperature changed. There's a particular honesty that arrives when the person who was watching isn't there. Melissa closes the laptop and goes to find Jayme - because there's something she wants to say, and today's room is the right room. Featured: Frida Martinez, division lead. Casandra Cass, production. Chloe Dawn, editorial. Melissa Sanderson, strategist. The Marfa Munchies is a daily fiction podcast about a food, beverage, and lifestyle division of a creative agency between Marfa and Dallas. New episodes every morning. Follow the world at @marfamunchies on Instagram, TikTok, Threads, and Bluesky. . . . | ai-assisted fiction

    4 min
  9. Marfa Munchies: Episode 2, Tuesday - I Hear You

    Episode 9

    Marfa Munchies: Episode 2, Tuesday - I Hear You

    Not in a meeting. Not as a briefing. Just here. The back room. Melissa and Jayme, the east-facing room with the low chairs and Jayme's plant. Mindy still gone. Melissa tells Jayme about a brand they worked with two years ago at a different agency. They'd handled it wrong - not incompetently, but safely, talking real founders with real instincts back to what the agency knew would work. It worked. Melissa has been thinking about it for two years because working and being right aren't the same thing. "Scar tissue," Melissa says, and Jayme knows she understands. "I'm not criticizing the choice. I'm saying I don't want to be on the other side of something real that's asking for more than we're ready to give." Jayme: "Is this about the pitch." Melissa: "Not directly. Adjacently." Jayme says: "I hear you." Not yes. Not the gentle tabling. Something new. The pitch can wait. Melissa already said the thing that needed to be said before it. Featured: Melissa Sanderson, strategist. Jayme Nichols, division lead. The Marfa Munchies is a daily fiction podcast about a food, beverage, and lifestyle division of a creative agency between Marfa and Dallas. New episodes every morning. Follow the world at @marfamunchies on Instagram, TikTok, Threads, and Bluesky. . . . | ai-assisted fiction

    4 min
  10. Marfa Munchies: Episode 2, Wednesday - The Name She Says

    Episode 10

    Marfa Munchies: Episode 2, Wednesday - The Name She Says

    The water is reliable. That's what helps. Jayme Nichols, pre-dawn. The reservoir outside DFW. Three years of Wednesday mornings, never missed one. Ten minutes at the end of the dock, gray water, no office, no pitch, no season. She says a name in her head. Her own business, not the audience's - but structural, the thing that makes the rest make sense. The water absorbs it, no opinion. The peace is conditional. The ten minutes are not. The name is not. She carries what Tuesday said. The scar tissue is real - two quarters carried without dropping, marks that look like hesitation from the outside but are knowledge from the inside. But knowledge has its own cost: you can know so much about the weight of a thing that you stop asking whether it's worth lifting. She stands up and goes to the car. She is the same person who sat down. She is also the person who will hear the pitch when Melissa is ready. The tabling is over. Featured: Jayme Nichols, division lead. The Marfa Munchies is a daily fiction podcast about a food, beverage, and lifestyle division of a creative agency between Marfa and Dallas. New episodes every morning. Follow the world at @marfamunchies on Instagram, TikTok, Threads, and Bluesky. . . . | ai-assisted fiction

    4 min
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The Marfa Munchies is a daily fiction podcast about the food, beverage, and lifestyle side of a creative agency in West Texas. Five women hold up the surface. Strawberries two weeks early. A podcast launched without making a thing of it. Ten quiet minutes at a Dallas lake. A pitch held back two weeks for the right moment. The frame that came out right. Each day is a Show. Each day is also a Tell. New episodes weekday mornings. For more info: https://marfastrategy.com | ai assisted fiction

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    giovanni gallucci (@gallucciNET)
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