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2026 Update: Skye

Heavyweight

Pushkin Industries

Society & Culture, Personal Journals, Relationships, Comedy

4.917.2K Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2026

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

When Skye was in middle school, her best friends showed up at her home one night and wrote “f*ck you” on her garage door. After that, they never spoke again. Decades later, at the urging of her eleven-year-old son, Clark, Skye sets off to finally ask them why.

In this update, Skye tells us how that confrontation has shaped her and Clark in the years since.

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This episode was produced by Jonathan Goldstein, Kalila Holt, Peter Bresnan, and Stevie Lane, with editing by Jorge Just and Alex Blumberg. Special thanks to Emily Condon, Devon Taylor, Annika Pillsbury, and Jackie Cohen. The show was mixed by Bobby Lord. Music by Christine Fellows, John K Samson, Bobby Lord, Edwin, Blue Dot Sessions, Michael Hearst, and Hew Time. Our theme song is by The Weakerthans courtesy of Epitaph Records. Mixing on this update by Sarah Bruguiere.

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0:00.0

Pushkin

0:06.6

Hi.

0:12.1

Hello.

0:13.1

I think people probably know the drill.

0:15.6

We're going to revisit an old episode,

0:18.3

and we're going to have an update.

0:19.8

That's not good broadcasting. Oh, you don't say to people they know the drill. Okay. You tell them the drill. You use your powers as a storyteller. Hey, everyone. Here's the drill. And drills are exciting. Think of a fire drill when you were in elementary school. How great was that? You're getting out of class.

0:38.2

Especially if you were in gym, like you ran outside in the winter snow in your shorts. It was great.

0:44.7

So yeah, here's the drill. Today, we're going to re-listen to an episode called Sky.

0:50.1

Oh, it's a classic episode. You know, we get a lot of pitches about being cut out of friend groups, about being bullied in some way.

1:00.1

I think it's unfortunately, like, a pretty common story that a lot of people can relate to.

1:05.4

But what we really liked about Sky's story is that we really liked that it involved her son and that she was doing

1:11.9

it at the encouragement of her son. And now that same son from the story, get this, this is a bit of a

1:18.9

spoiler alert. He's now an adult. Yeah, a young adult. That's what time will do to you.

1:25.5

Yeah, that's true. Make a little kid a young man, make an old man like me an even

1:29.5

older man. Yeah. Sad, really. You remember the Joey episode? I do, of course. Do you remember how you did

1:36.0

Sky and Joey on the same trip? Oh yeah, that's right. You did just like a week of knocking out people's

1:41.1

problems. So productive, so helpful. Yeah.

1:46.1

I should have a private jet.

1:48.4

And on the side, it would say, Mr. Helpful.

1:53.1

And when you took off, people would clap like Superman, and they'd say, thank you, Mr. Helpful.

1:56.7

Do you think there's room in the Marvel universe for Mr. Helpful?

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