2026 Update: James
Heavyweight
Pushkin Industries
4.9 • 18.7K Ratings
🗓️ 2 July 2026
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
James’s father’s dying wish was for his ashes to be spread on the 18th hole of a fancy private golf course. That was 16 years ago. In this episode, James, Jonathan, and their friend Howard attempt a golf heist to get into the club and set things right.
In today's update, Jonathan calls up James for one last interview. Just when James thinks he's out, we pull him back in!
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This episode was produced by Jonathan Goldstein, Wendy Dorr, Chris Neary, and Kalila Holt, with editing by Jorge Just and Alex Blumberg. Special thanks to Emily Condon, Stevie Lane, Derek Hurst, Stephen Hughes, and Jackie Cohen. The show was mixed by Haley Shaw. Music by Christine Fellows, Paul De Jong, Blue Dot Sessions, Benny Reid, Caspar Babypants, and Hew Time. 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. |
| 0:10.8 | Hi. |
| 0:12.3 | Hello. |
| 0:12.9 | Back in the studio again. |
| 0:15.6 | Back in the saddle. |
| 0:16.8 | Today we're going to knock on the door of an old friend of yours named James. |
| 0:21.5 | Ah, okay. |
| 0:23.1 | This is a first season episode. |
| 0:25.3 | Yeah, way back. |
| 0:26.7 | To me, it's one of the funniest episodes. |
| 0:29.2 | Yeah, it's very funny. |
| 0:30.6 | And it's also one that I would come back to when I was kind of missing my friends. |
| 0:38.1 | When I was missing both James and Howard, |
| 0:40.3 | I would just put on this episode |
| 0:41.9 | and it felt like I could spend a little bit of time with them. |
| 0:45.6 | It is funny that at the time, |
| 0:49.1 | when we went off on our mission for this episode, |
| 0:53.9 | full of hope and shenanigans in our heart or whatever |
| 0:56.9 | we felt like kind of over the hill you know we felt like this is like kid stuff you know we're |
| 1:03.0 | like men in our mid 40s you know and what are we doing but now listening to it from the vantage point 10 years later, I feel like, wow, were we ever so young? |
| 1:14.5 | Ten years. My goodness. Yeah. A lot transpires, it turns out, in the course of 10 years. |
| 1:19.9 | It certainly does. Yeah. And at the end of the episode, I check back in with James to see what his life has been all these years later. |
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