2025 Update: Buzz

Heavyweight

Pushkin Industries

Relationships, Comedy, Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.9 • 17.2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

This week, we catch up with Jonathan's dad about the years since his appearance in our first ever episode — #1 Buzz. Buzz and Sheldon are brothers in their eighties who’ve been estranged for decades. Buzz visits Sheldon to see if there’s still a relationship left to salvage.

Credits

This episode was produced by Jonathan Goldstein, Wendy Dorr, Chris Neary, and Kalila Holt, with editing by Alex Blumberg and Peter Clowney. Special thanks to Caitlin Kenney, Starlee Kine, and Rachel Ward. The episode was mixed by Haley Shaw. Music by Christine Fellows and Haley Shaw. Our theme music is by The Weakerthans courtesy of Epitaph Records.

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0:00.0	Pushkin.
0:10.7	Hello.
0:12.0	Kalila Holt. Don't scare me like that.
0:14.4	I'm sorry.
0:15.0	My God.
0:15.8	Welcome to the studio.
0:17.5	Thank you.
0:18.5	So now that we find ourselves at our new home at Pushkin Industries. Like you're reading it for the studio. Thank you. So now that we find ourselves at our new home at Pushkin Industries,
0:23.6	like you're reading it for the first time. We're celebrating some of our past accomplishments
0:27.9	in the form of encore presentations. Encore. Ravissimo. Today we're going to be listening to the very
0:35.7	first heavyweight.
0:38.1	Yeah.
0:38.5	An episode called Buzz.
0:40.0	And it's an episode that's personal to you.
0:42.7	Spoiler alert.
0:43.9	Sorry.
0:45.0	Yes, it is. It is. Buzz is my father.
0:47.6	I really enjoy your dad whenever I get to hear from him. It warms my heart.
0:52.3	Oh, that's so nice. Yeah. father has um well i'm not gonna say
0:57.2	that my wife married me because of my father but i'm sure it didn't hurt because she's a very
1:01.8	big columbo fan peter falk and my father sounds a lot like he's of that generation in fact
1:08.8	he uh would have grown up in brook Brooklyn around the same time as Peter Falk.
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