#53 Leif

Heavyweight

Pushkin Industries

Relationships, Comedy, Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.9 • 17.2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 October 2023

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

On Valentine’s Day in junior high, Leif was supposed to ask Kalila out. But he never did. Seventeen years later, Kalila wants to know why. Credits This episode was hosted and produced by senior producer Kalila Holt, along with Jonathan Goldstein and Phoebe Flanigan. The supervising producer is Stevie Lane. Production assistance from Mohini Madgavkar. Editorial guidance from Emily Condon. Special thanks to Max Green, Flora Lichtman, and Connor Sampson. In the IM recreation, Karina was played by Reagan Didier, and Leif was played by John Claassen—thanks to Greg Holt and Tony John for making that possible. The show was mixed by Bobby Lord. Music by Christine Fellows, John K Samson, Blue Dot Sessions, Katie Mullins, Florian Le Prisé, 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	Kallula? Yeah. Hi, it's Jonathan. Yeah, I called you. So you're hosting the show. Yeah, it's a personal story. Indeed, yeah. It's kind of like an oral report that you're...
0:15.0	Is that what it's like?
0:17.0	Well, I mean it's a report given by the mouth.
0:22.0	I mean sure by that metric all your
0:23.8	episodes are all reports too. Well yeah it doesn't feel so good does it? It
0:29.2	doesn't. Here we go an oral report given by Kalehles.
0:35.0	All right. Put your name at the top of the oral report.
0:38.0	How do you put your name at the top of an oral report?
0:41.0	You say it.
0:44.0	I'm Kalela Holt and this is heavy weight.
0:50.0	I'm Kalela Holt and this is heavyweight.
0:53.4	Today's episode, Laith.
0:56.0	Right after the break. Right after the break.
1:05.0	I'm walking. I'm walking to work
1:11.0	I'm walking to work one morning when I spot Lafe heading towards me.
1:16.6	From the ages of 12 to 14, Lafe was my crush, the object of my junior high obsession.
1:23.0	I still Google him occasionally,
1:25.0	but he's completely absent from the internet.
1:28.0	I have no idea what became of him.
1:30.0	It's like he just disappeared.
1:32.0	So when I see him on the street, I feel my heart speed up.
1:36.0	I wonder if I should say hi.
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