The Munchies

The Munchies

By giovanni gallucci (@gallucciNET)BusinessFictionDramaMarketing
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The Munchies episodes

  • Marfa Munchies: Episode 2, Saturday - The Breakfast Is The Thing
    The breakfast is the thing. The recording was just the proof that the breakfast was real.
    Frida comes in on Saturday before anyone else, the way she always does, but earlier than usual today because she wants the kitchen to be quiet when she does the thing she has decided to do.
    Hope arrives at ten past seven. She does not knock. Frida sets a cup in front of her. Hope takes it but does not drink yet.
    Frida tells her the truth. The whole season was an experiment. To see if a fiction division of a creative agency could run as a serial, the way a real place runs. Whether you could write characters specifically enough, automate production well enough, hold the voice consistently enough, that the thing would feel like a real place to anyone watching. The proof worked. The cast held. The voices held. The show held.
    But the maintenance is heavier than the maker has time for right now. The other work is the work that feeds him. The show goes on hiatus, not into the ground. The kitchen stays open. The studio stays here. The handles stay. If the door opens again, it opens. If it does not, the season we made stands on its own.
    Eleven Eleven keeps going. Hope keeps writing. The diary stays. That is the part he wanted to keep practicing.
    Then Frida makes breakfast, because the breakfast is the thing, and the recording was just the proof that the breakfast was real.
    Featured: Frida Martinez, division lead.
    Hope, narrator.
    The Marfa Munchies is a fiction podcast about a food, beverage, and lifestyle division of a creative agency between Marfa and Dallas. This is the season one finale. The show is on hiatus and may or may not return.
    Follow the world at @marfamunchies on Instagram, TikTok, X, Threads, and Bluesky.
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  • Marfa Munchies: Episode 2, Friday - The Frame Doesn't Lie
    This is the brand they actually have. Not the brand they think they have.
    Mindy runs the creative review for a Texas candle brand - soy wax, foraged botanicals, founders still making it by hand. The first mood board is competent and wrong. She says so, directly, moves to the next one. The frame that's honest, not the frame that's safe. Same person, different frequency. Something cleared the path.
    Casandra makes perfect notes. Chloe asks the question that saves two hours on shoot day. Melissa catalogues it for later.
    Afterward, in the kitchen: "She's different." / "Yeah." Full stop.
    On her walk home, Jayme makes a decision in the company of nobody - the way she makes all her real decisions. She will let Melissa show her the pitch. On Melissa's schedule, not Jayme's. Melissa earned the right to choose the moment.
    The tabling is over.
    Featured: Mindy Carpenter, creative director. Jayme Nichols, division lead. Casandra Cass. Chloe Dawn. Melissa Sanderson.
    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.
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    5 min
  • Marfa Munchies: Episode 2, Thursday - Not Hidden
    The phone was on the desk. Not face-down.
    Mindy comes back Thursday the way she left Sunday - without announcement. She's there and then she's there. Opens the laptop, picks up the selects, works from where she stopped. No transition.
    The phone is on the desk. Face-up. Not a performance. Just not hidden.
    Frida sees it. Jayme sees it. Neither says a word - saying a word would change what it is. Casandra files it. Chloe, low, to Casandra: "She's back." Casandra: "Yeah." Not about Thursday.
    The afternoon: a client call, selects she moves through with a sharpness that's cleaner than usual, less qualified. Casandra gives the fractional nod she gives when someone is landing right.
    Something that had been held at an angle is sitting flat. Nobody asked. The room reorganized around it already.
    Featured: Mindy Carpenter, creative director. Frida Martinez, division lead. 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. New episodes every morning.
    Follow the world at @marfamunchies on Instagram, TikTok, Threads, and Bluesky.
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    4 min
  • Marfa Munchies: Episode 2, Thursday - Not Hidden
    The phone was on the desk. Not face-down.
    Mindy comes back Thursday the way she left Sunday - without announcement. She's there and then she's there. Opens the laptop, picks up the selects, works from where she stopped. No transition.
    The phone is on the desk. Face-up. Not a performance. Just not hidden.
    Frida sees it. Jayme sees it. Neither says a word - saying a word would change what it is. Casandra files it. Chloe, low, to Casandra: "She's back." Casandra: "Yeah." Not about Thursday.
    The afternoon: a client call, selects she moves through with a sharpness that's cleaner than usual, less qualified. Casandra gives the fractional nod she gives when someone is landing right.
    Something that had been held at an angle is sitting flat. Nobody asked. The room reorganized around it already.
    Featured: Mindy Carpenter, creative director. Frida Martinez, division lead. 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. New episodes every morning.
    Follow the world at @marfamunchies on Instagram, TikTok, Threads, and Bluesky.
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    4 min
  • 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.
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  • 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.
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    5 min
  • 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

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

About The Munchies

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The 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…