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Heavyweight

2025 Update: Dina

Heavyweight

Pushkin Industries

Relationships, Comedy, Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.917.2K Ratings

🗓️ 24 July 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

It’s the last Heavyweight encore before our new season begins on September 18th! This week, we talk to Jonathan's mom about life in the years since her appearance in #15: Dina. During a visit back home, Jonathan’s mother Dina inadvertently admits something that forces him to question his past — and turn the mic on himself.

Credits

This episode was produced by Jonathan Goldstein, Kalila Holt, and Kaitlin Roberts. Editing by Jorge Just, Alex Blumberg, and Wendy Dorr. Special thanks to Emily Condon, Emanuele Berry, Pat Walters, and Jackie Cohen. The show was mixed by Kate Bilinski. Music by Christine Fellows and John K Samson, with additional music by Y La Bamba, Caspar Babypants, Michael Charles Smith, and Blue Dot Sessions. Our theme song is by The Weakerthans courtesy of Epitaph Records.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Pushkin.

0:11.0

Kalila Holt, welcome to the studio.

0:13.2

Thanks.

0:13.9

Today's encore presentation is an episode called Dina.

0:18.1

Spoiler alert.

0:19.2

You know who Dina is?

0:20.3

Your mom. She's my mother. Yeah. That's right. Even I have a mother, Kalila Hold. You know, when you, like, call me, like, what is it? You call me a motherless cuss. I've never called me that. When you get upset. No, this episode is about my mother. What do you remember about the production? I remember it and I hope I'm not speaking out of turn.

0:39.1

No, please. But I remember it being like an emotional one for you to work on. Like there was a lot you had to

0:43.7

delve into. Yeah, that's true. My wife, Emily, was like, you know, you're doing all these

0:49.6

episodes about other people and intimate moments from their lives. You have to have a little skin in the game. And yeah, it was kind of scary. But I came out the other end, stronger and jollier and balder than ever.

1:05.3

And if our listeners come out the other end of this episode, they'll get to hear an update from Dina herself on her birthday.

1:13.5

That's right. Yeah, I talked to my mother to catch up with her on her various projects.

1:19.2

So let's get ready to listen, voraciously.

1:23.1

I'm ready.

1:23.8

But before we do, let's hear a word from our sponsors.

1:26.9

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1:31.1

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1:35.8

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1:39.4

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1:41.8

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1:44.4

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1:46.3

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