2025 Update: The Marshes

Heavyweight

Pushkin Industries

Relationships, Comedy, Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.9 • 17.2K Ratings

🗓️ 3 July 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

This week, we talk to Steve Marsh from our episode, The Marshes. The family has changed in ways they could never have guessed at when the story was first published in 2019.

After a drunken slip of the tongue, Steve and his siblings discovered a secret their mother had been keeping for almost 40 years. Steve decides to step in and help his mom take action.

This episode was produced by Jonathan Goldstein, Kalila Holt, BA Parker and Stevie Lane, with editing by Jorge Just. Special thanks to Emily Condon, Lulu Miller, Hans Buetow, Damiano Marchetti, Alex Blumberg, and Jackie Cohen. The show was mixed by Bobby Lord. Music by Christine Fellows, John K Samson, Blue Dot Sessions, and Bobby Lord. Our theme song is by The Weakerthans courtesy of Epitaph Records.

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0:00.0	Pushkin.
0:11.0	Hello, welcome to the studio, Kalila Holt.
0:13.4	I've been welcomed to this studio so many times.
0:17.3	We're going to be listening to an encore presentation of The Marshes.
0:21.5	This is one of my favorite episodes.
0:23.6	What is it about it that you think makes it a favorite?
0:26.8	Part of it is just Steve.
0:28.5	I think he is like such a lovable, enjoyable person to hear from.
0:34.6	But also just like it's one where I felt genuinely emotional in the reporting at what
0:41.1	was unfolding and then my hope is that we translated that into the episode itself and this is an
0:47.3	episode that you produced yes it is with your own bare hands well in the computer brick by brick
0:52.9	yeah I mean this was years in the making yeah this was at the time
0:57.4	it was the longest production of an episode i think this was the first episode that we did not name
1:04.8	after an individual but a but a group of people because we i don't know by the end of the story it felt
1:10.5	like every single person um brought something unique to it.
1:14.8	And it was everybody's heavyweight in a sense.
1:18.4	That's true.
1:19.7	All right.
1:20.0	Well, great.
1:20.6	Let's give it a listen.
1:21.8	I'm excited to.
1:23.1	It's been a while.
	...

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