Podcast Episodes

Check In: Holiday Special

Just before the holidays, we recorded three Spotify-exclusive check ins, and today we’re excited to release one of them internet-wide. Stevie confronts her grandfather with a question she’s been afra…

Published on 4 years, 11 months ago

Check In: Holiday Special

Season 5

Happy holidays! In our last check in of 2020, Stevie confronts her grandfather with a question she’s been afraid to ask for over twenty years, and Kalila solves the mystery of an enigmatic gravestone…

Published on 4 years, 11 months ago

Check In: Curtis Sittenfeld

Season 5

Jonathan speaks with Curtis Sittenfeld about her novel Rodham, which deals with many of the themes we explore on Heavyweight: things like returning to the past to change it, and the question of what …

Published on 5 years ago

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Published on 5 years ago

Check In: Do You Like Music?

Season 5

Jonathan, Stevie, and Kalila are back, to talk about Thanksgiving and music.

Music and mix by Bobby Lord. Additional music by Sean, Ryan, Kevin, and Brian Jacobi.

Find our playlist, "Goldstein's Party …

Published on 5 years ago

#35 Rachel and Jon

Season 5 Episode 35

Rachel and Jon are siblings who were separated as young children. Jonathan helps them confront the woman responsible... fifty years later.

Credits

Heavyweight is hosted and produced by Jonathan Goldste…

Published on 5 years, 1 month ago

#34 Annie

Season 5 Episode 34

Every time Annie’s family comes to town, they exclude her from their plans. Annie needs to know why.

Credits

This episode of Heavyweight was hosted and produced by Kalila Holt, along with Stevie Lane…

Published on 5 years, 1 month ago

Introducing: Resistance

Heavyweight will be back with a new episode next week. In the meantime, we’re excited to introduce you to a new Gimlet show. It’s called Resistance, and it’s all about stories from the BLM movement. …

Published on 5 years, 1 month ago

#33 Bobby

Season 5 Episode 33

How the worst McDonald’s commercial ever made came to be. And how Bobby got mixed up in it.

Credits

Heavyweight is hosted and produced by Jonathan Goldstein.

This episode was produced by Stevie Lane,…

Published on 5 years, 1 month ago

#32 Vivian

Season 5 Episode 32

In 1995, Vivian’s uncle Helio died of AIDS. Now, 25 years later, Vivian’s on a search to find the man who cared for him until his death.

Credits

Heavyweight is hosted and produced by Jonathan Goldste…

Published on 5 years, 2 months ago