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Heavyweight

2026 Update: Elyse

Heavyweight

Pushkin Industries

Society & Culture, Personal Journals, Relationships, Comedy

4.917.2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2026

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

When Elyse was 21, her father, Billy, disappeared without explanation. When Elyse finally learned of his whereabouts, she was shocked by the new life he was living.

Seven years after the release of this episode, we check back in with Elyse, and she tells us all about what's happened with her dad in the time since.

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This episode was produced by Jonathan Goldstein, B.A. Parker, Kalila Holt, and Stevie Lane, with editing by Jorge Just and Alex Blumberg. Special thanks to Emily Condon, Kaitlin Roberts, Alex Goldman, Caitlin Kenney, and Jackie Cohen. The show was mixed by Bobby Lord. Music by Christine Fellows, John K Samson, Blue Dot Sessions, Michael Hearst, Shanghai Restoration Project, and Bobby Lord. Our theme song is by The Weakerthans courtesy of Epitaph Records. Mixing on this update by Sarah Bruguiere.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Pushkin.

0:11.0

Hi, Jonathan.

0:12.3

Hi, come on in.

0:13.3

You should make yourself at home in the studio because it is like a second.

0:16.3

You've been spending so much time in here.

0:17.9

Yeah, I actually sometimes just sleep in here.

0:19.7

It's just easier than

0:20.9

having to go home. I don't know if you should be telling me that. This might be a conversation

0:24.5

out with HR. Yeah, what are we listening to today? Speaking of the studio, today we're going to

0:32.4

revisit an episode that started with us sitting around in the studio. It's called Elise.

0:38.4

Yeah, of course.

0:39.6

I love this episode.

0:40.8

It's a really good one that came to us,

0:42.9

as you'll hear in a unconventional way.

0:45.9

Yeah, we were trying something new.

0:47.6

We were trying to do a call-in show,

0:49.8

but in our case, that basically failed.

0:52.8

But it succeeded because we wouldn't have had this story without it.

0:56.6

And we have a check-in with Elise at the end about what's happened since.

1:00.8

And truly some of the wildest updates, I would say, of any of these update conversations.

1:07.6

Yeah, I know.

1:08.5

You have a tendency to skew towards clickbait, but in this case, it's true. It's very eventful. Yeah. What else is there to say? To quote, Jay-Z, what more can I say?

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