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A look at what’s to come this season. Heavyweight returns on September 18. 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 for privacy information.
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Speaker 1:Pushkin.
Speaker 2:One thing I like to say about your Heavyweight podcast is that it always inculcates a high vibrational frequency.
Speaker 1:From Pushkin Industries. I'm Jonathan Goldstein, and this fall the return of Heavyweight. The new season will be bigger than ever, bigger hopes.
Speaker 3:I keep waiting for this moment when he says, mom, I get it, I'm sorry.
Speaker 1:Bigger dreams. He's like Tom Hanks wants to meet with you. This is a real chance and bigger heartbreaks.
Speaker 4:I thought it would be my movie moment, and maybe he would even whisper in my ear. I've always been in love with you.
Speaker 1:We bring you the story of a big budget movie built on a lie, a centenarian who falls head over heels with a love lost eighty years ago.
Speaker 5:How can one hundred and one year old woman fall in love again?
Speaker 1:And a fourteen year old boy who wanted to change his life by robbing a bank.
Speaker 6:And so I pointed the gun at him and said this isn't a joke, and he got down, and I remember feeling kind of a surge of like, Okay, this is power.
Speaker 1:Plus, my old friend Gregor is back and he and his brother try to solve my problems. Through hypnotism, we could give you a whole brand new thing where you're like super charming all the time.
Speaker 2:Being more able to look people in the eye.
Speaker 1:And not always hide behind a microphone. Starting September eighteenth, I'll be hiding behind my microphone like a sneaky but well meaning weasel in the bramble when Heavyweight returns.
Speaker 5:Okay, mister gold Sting, said the old Lighty to the young man.
Transcript supplied by the publisher with the episode.
Heavyweight
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