#59 Etta from Heavyweight
The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos
Pushkin Industries
4.7 • 14.8K Ratings
🗓️ 13 October 2025
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Today we're sharing an episode from another Pushkin Industries podcast, Heavyweight.
Gregor's parents are pushing 90. Gregor wants to move them out of their big Victorian home. But they refuse. So, he's come up with a bold plan.
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| 0:00.0 | Pushkin. |
| 0:10.6 | Hello. |
| 0:14.5 | I'd like to welcome to the show, Jackie Cohen. |
| 0:17.8 | Jackie? |
| 0:18.6 | It's a new season. |
| 0:20.5 | I'm with the new company, Pushkin Industries, and I thought it might be nice for you to, you know, tell everyone how much the show is meant to you. Can you see the look on my face right now? We're on the telephone. Can you imagine what kind of look I have on my face right now? Extasy. Disgust. Heavyweight is back, Mamala. They thought we were down for the count. Can I hang up now? |
| 0:41.1 | But what's this? Oh, oh, huh, uh, with the right and the left. Heavyweight's back. Pushing it with Pushkin, Mamala. Pushkin Industries. Okay, I got it. I got to go. Okay, you go with that. Bye-bye. |
| 1:05.2 | From Pushkin Industries, I'm Jonathan Goldstein, and this is heavyweight. |
| 1:08.4 | Today's episode, Eda. |
| 1:14.3 | Right after the break. |
| 1:23.1 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 1:29.5 | What I told people, I was making a podcast about Benghazi. |
| 1:36.4 | Nine times out of ten, they called me a masochist, rolled their eyes, or just asked, why? |
| 1:39.3 | Benghazi, the truth became a web of lies. |
| 1:46.2 | From prologue projects and Pushkin Industries, this is Fiasco, Benghazi. |
| 1:49.2 | What difference at this point does it make? |
| 1:51.9 | Yeah, that's right. Lock her up. |
| 1:55.4 | Listen to Fiasco, Benghazi, wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 2:04.1 | All right, you ready? You're rolling? You got levels? |
| 2:06.7 | Me, me, ma, mo, mo. Okay, go. |
| 2:12.6 | This is Gregor. You might know him from such previous episodes as Gregor. |
| 2:18.2 | Gregor is one of my oldest friends, and today he's coming to me with a problem. |
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