2026 Update: Julia
Heavyweight
Pushkin Industries
4.9 • 18.7K Ratings
🗓️ 18 June 2026
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
In grade 8, Julia was bullied so badly by a group of girls that she changed schools without telling anyone. Soon after, the girls from her old school showed up at her house and rang her doorbell. She didn’t answer it. For the past 20 years, Julia’s been wondering what those girls wanted.
Ten years after the release of this episode, we check back in with Julia, to hear how her life changed in the aftermath of the episode.
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This episode was produced by Jonathan Goldstein, Chris Neary, and Kalila Holt, with senior production by Wendy Dorr. Editing by Alex Blumberg and Jorge Just. Special thanks to Emily Condon, Maya Goldberg-Safir, Lina Chambers, Emily Kennedy, Laura Scott, and Jackie Cohen. The show was mixed by Haley Shaw. Music for this episode by Christine Fellows, with additional music by Blue Dot Sessions and Keen Collective. Our theme song is by The Weakerthans courtesy of Epitaph Records, and our ad music is by Haley Shaw. Mixing on this update by Sarah Bruguiere, with production by Lisa Wang.
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| 0:00.0 | Pushkin. |
| 0:10.6 | Hi. |
| 0:12.0 | Hello. |
| 0:13.1 | We're back again in the studio. |
| 0:15.9 | Yes, and in your earbuds. |
| 0:17.7 | And who do we have on the docket today? |
| 0:20.2 | This one, her name's Julia. |
| 0:22.3 | Okay, this episode is the first one that I ever did with a stranger. |
| 0:25.9 | Yeah. |
| 0:26.1 | Like someone that wasn't a friend or a family and it was a little scary. |
| 0:28.6 | It was a little intimidating. |
| 0:30.9 | Julia's a journalist and I needed to like step up. |
| 0:35.7 | It's a great episode. |
| 0:37.3 | Partly because of Julia kept me on the straight and narrow. Yeah, no, I was going to um it's a great episode partly because of julia kept me on the straight |
| 0:39.5 | and narrow yeah no i was going to say it's great not because of us but because of julia and |
| 0:43.9 | spoiler alert another woman we talk to uh if you stick around at the end of the episode i talk |
| 0:50.4 | again with julia and uh what was really very gratifying to me was how the episode really did have an important impact on her life. |
| 1:02.8 | All right. |
| 1:03.4 | Well, I'm looking forward to listening to this one again. |
| 1:05.6 | Yes. |
| 1:06.1 | Let's both sit down. |
| 1:09.8 | I'm already seated. |
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