2026 Update: Brandon
Heavyweight
Pushkin Industries
4.9 • 18.7K Ratings
🗓️ 4 June 2026
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Throughout high school, Brandon was a misfit. Then one day, out of the blue, one of the school’s prettiest, most popular girls asked him to prom. Fifteen years later, Brandon wants to know: why him?
Four years after the release of his episode, we check back in with Brandon to learn what's changed and get an update on his underwear situation.
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This episode was produced by Stevie Lane and Mohini Madgavkar. The senior producer is Kalila Holt. Special thanks to Emily Condon, Alex Blumberg, Sharon Mashihi, Mimi O’Donnell, Jessica Yung, and Jackie Cohen. The show was mixed by Bobby Lord. Music by Christine Fellows, John K Samson, Michael Hearst, the Jacobi Family Band, Podington Bear, and Bobby Lord. Our theme song is by The Weakerthans courtesy of Epitaph Records. Mixing on this update by Sarah Bruguiere, with production by Lisa Wang.
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| 0:00.0 | Pushkin. |
| 0:10.6 | Hello. |
| 0:12.3 | Welcome to the studio. |
| 0:15.2 | Are you going to tell people who I am? |
| 0:17.1 | Before that, even, I was going to apologize for the smell of egg salad. |
| 0:22.3 | I don't know why it smells like egg salad in here. It's not like I was eating an egg salad sandwich or anything, but... |
| 0:29.3 | What's those little pieces of yolk that are stuck all over your beard? |
| 0:33.1 | Nothing. That's total circumstantial evidence. You can't hang someone for circumstantial evidence. I did see Malcolm Gladwell exiting the studio strutting around with an egg salad sandwich poking out of his fanny pack like he owned the joint. So there's some circumstantial evidence you might want to investigate, you intrepid reporter you. |
| 0:57.4 | So, hello, Stevie Lane, producer. |
| 1:02.4 | Yes, of the episode that we're about to listen to. |
| 1:06.3 | Brandon? |
| 1:07.5 | Yeah, Brandon. |
| 1:08.7 | I will say, and he doesn't even know this, he's not even going to know this until he listens to this. |
| 1:13.4 | Yeah. |
| 1:13.6 | One of my all-time favorite guests, I think. |
| 1:17.1 | Really? |
| 1:18.2 | Yeah, I don't know. He just had such a nice attitude. |
| 1:20.5 | And I feel like the two of you had a really lovely rapport. |
| 1:25.5 | Yeah, and it was like an example of how sometimes a small question can have |
| 1:29.1 | like a lot of emotional impact and can just really echo through the years. And you know, |
| 1:37.0 | with these updates, a lot of times I start off by saying that the subject of the episode has |
| 1:42.8 | gone through a lot of changes. But in the case with |
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