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Heavyweight

#33 Bobby

Heavyweight

Pushkin Industries

Relationships, Comedy, Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.917.2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2020

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

How the worst McDonald’s commercial ever made came to be. And how Bobby got mixed up in it. Credits Heavyweight is hosted and produced by Jonathan Goldstein. This episode was produced by Stevie Lane, along with Kalila Holt. Special thanks to Emily Condon, Alex Blumberg, Chris Neary, Nazanin Rafsanjani, Phoebe Flanigan, Nabeel Chollampat, Jake Anderson, Billy Klein, Nicholas Papaleo, and Jackie Cohen. The show was mixed by Bobby Lord. Music by Christine Fellows, John K Samson, Michael Hearst, Podington Bear, Blue Dot Sessions, Lost Condors, Hew Time, and Bobby Lord. Our theme song is by The Weakerthans courtesy of Epitaph Records. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Yeah, I'm looking out out my window. I'm looking at the clouds. Yeah, and I could tell you about the things that I see and you could tell me about the things that you see.

0:11.4

All right, what do you see, John? I see.

0:13.8

I don't know if it's whispered over to me. She doesn't know where this is going.

0:16.6

I know where this is going.

0:19.2

Wait, what? No, this is two friends sharing their, you know, what they see in the clouds. Nothing wrong with that.

0:25.1

Why does it have to go somewhere?

0:26.7

Okay, now what I see is a wheelbarrow full of what looks like teddy bears. What do you see?

0:34.4

I see just a great cloud.

0:36.6

Oh, that's not good at all. Very bad sign. I come from Lithuanian stock and we're cloud readers.

0:44.8

We see prophetic visions in the clouds. Did you know that?

0:47.6

That's why I wanted to trick you into looking at the cloud so that I could tell you your future.

0:52.4

Yeah, I should have seen that coming.

1:02.3

From Gimlet Media, I'm Jonathan Goldstein and this is Heavyweight.

1:08.0

Today's episode, Bobby.

1:16.0

Right after the break.

1:23.4

All right. I got it. We're on.

1:26.3

Thanks, Bobby. Bobby Lord is my music composer and sound engineer.

1:31.6

Each word I lay down goes through Bobby's complex network of accelerometers and acorn tubes.

1:38.4

Jonathan, I don't need acorn tubes. I've been using four or two.

1:43.9

Can I get a smear of music here, Bob?

1:52.8

As a sound engineer, Bobby normally has to keep his yaps shut.

1:59.0

Should he feel compelled to sneeze or say, have a heart attack?

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