Heavyweight

Conversations exploring unresolved relationships and past regrets AI summary

Pushkin Industries Visit website › Society & Culture · EN · 135 episodes · latest 2026-11-12 · explicit

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Maybe you’ve laid awake and imagined how it could have been, how it might yet be, but the moment to act was never right. Well, the moment is here and the podcast making it happen is Heavyweight. Join Jonathan Goldstein for road trips, thorny reunions, and difficult conversations as he backpedals his way into the past like a therapist with a time machine.

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Hyman Kaplan (A Live Reading)

2026-11-12 · 20 min

As a young reporter in 2001, Jonathan was sent to profile a 93-year-old man known as the “nursing home Casanova.” What Jonathan found instead was something he hadn’t expected at all: A man in the throes of…
#71 La Fortitudo E

2026-11-05 · 40 min · Season 10, episode 5

When Dan was 22, he lied his way into becoming the batting coach for La Fortitudo, one of Italy's most dominant professional baseball teams. What followed was the team's worst season in their history. 30 years later,…
Jonathan + Death of an Artist

2026-10-29 · 12 min

Jonathan talks with married journalists Alice Gregory and Leon Neyfakh, hosts of the new Pushkin series Death of an Artist, Season 3. The series tells the story of another married couple: artists Petra and Michael…
#70 Cayden

2026-10-22 · 33 min · Season 10, episode 4

As a kid, Cayden was repressed, quiet, and very much closeted. But on a church mission trip, he met Andrew, who inspired him to come out. Now, as an adult, Cayden wants to know what became of Andrew.See…
Regrets, I've Had a Slew E

2026-10-15 · 34 min

In February, the Heavyweight team headed to Brooklyn for a live show at On Air Fest. There was a countdown of Jonathan’s most regrettable moments from the show, and an audience Q&A with producers Kalila and Stevie. And…
Gobi | From This Is Love

2026-10-08 · 24 min

We're taking a break to bring you an episode of This Is Love, from the makers of Criminal and hosted by Phoebe Judge. Where Heavyweight explores past regrets, This Is Love looks at the expansiveness of all kinds of love…
#69 Tamara E

2026-10-01 · 47 min · Season 10, episode 3

Tamara and B were best friends and roommates at their Christian boarding school. Then, in 12th grade, a teacher declared B to be possessed by a demon and an exorcism was performed. B and Tamara stopped speaking soon…
#68 Songe E

2026-09-24 · 40 min · Season 10, episode 2

When Songe was 8 years old, he made fun of a girl with a facial tic. Just months later, he developed tics of his own—the first signs of the Tourette Syndrome he still lives with today. It felt like cosmic punishment.…
#67 Jenna E

2026-09-17 · 38 min · Season 10, episode 1

When Jenna was eight years old, she was taken from her mom and placed with a foster family called the Grizzles. For two and a half years, she built a life with them, and when they asked to adopt her, Jenna was thrilled.…
Trailer: Heavyweight Season 10

2026-09-03 · 2 min

Heavyweight returns on September 17. Listen wherever you get your podcasts. Pushkin+ subscribers can get all episodes ad-free! Sign up on the Heavyweight Apple show page or at pushkin.fm/plus.See omnystudio.com/listener…

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Oldest episode in feed: 09/2016 · over 10 years
Typical length: 34 min
Format: Episodic Newest first, episodes stand alone

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