#59 Etta
Heavyweight
Pushkin Industries
4.9 • 17.2K Ratings
🗓️ 18 September 2025
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
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. |
| 1:34.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. All right, you ready? You're rolling? You got levels? |
| 1:36.6 | Me, me, ma, mo, moo. Okay, go. |
| 1:42.5 | This is Gregor. You might know him from such previous episodes as Gregor. |
| 1:45.2 | Gregor is one of my oldest friends, |
| 1:48.2 | and today he's coming to me with a problem. |
| 1:49.7 | I'll take it from the top. |
| 1:53.1 | Okay, so I have two parents, Milton and Edda. |
| 1:56.2 | Edda and Milton are both pushing 90, |
| 2:00.6 | and Gregor's problem is that they refuse to move out of their house. It's the same three-story |
| 2:02.9 | Victorian Gregor grew up in. He was 12 when the family first moved in. He still remembers the |
| 2:09.0 | excitement as they unloaded boxes from the moving truck, or moving trucks. You know, normal people move with like a big giant 18-wheeler moving truck. |
| 2:20.5 | I believe when we moved, we had six moving trucks. |
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