#63 Jasmin
Heavyweight
Pushkin Industries
4.9 • 17.2K Ratings
🗓️ 30 October 2025
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Jasmin grew up as one of the few Black girls in a mostly white town. Senior year, she was voted Homecoming Queen and she finally felt accepted. But then, at the dance, they announced someone else's name. Jasmin has always wondered… What happened?
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| 0:00.0 | Pushkin. |
| 0:10.7 | Stevie Lane. |
| 0:16.8 | Hello, Jonathan. |
| 0:18.1 | I thought your generation doesn't abide by telephone calls. When my name popped up, |
| 0:22.5 | did you think this was an emergency? Is it an emergency? It is sort of an emergency. It's a story |
| 0:28.2 | emergency. Oh, that is an emergency. Yeah. Okay, you need my help? No, I actually, I don't need |
| 0:36.9 | your help. I have a story for you today. So you need my help listening to it. Well, why don't you just ask me to listen to your story? Will you please listen to my story? I'm going to say no. What? Yes, of course. You're going to press the play button? I'm going to start it right now. |
| 0:55.1 | Okay, there you go. |
| 0:56.1 | Boom. |
| 1:02.3 | From Pushkin Industries, I'm Stevie Lane, and this is heavyweight. |
| 1:08.8 | Today's episode, Jasmine, right after the break. |
| 1:21.2 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 1:29.3 | Kahlila Holt, heavyweight producer. |
| 1:31.7 | Yes. |
| 1:32.3 | Do you like podcasts? |
| 1:33.6 | Yes. |
| 1:34.3 | Do you ever listen to a podcast called Blank Check with Griffin and David? |
| 1:39.1 | Yes, I do. I enjoy it very much. |
| 1:41.3 | I'm always checking for new episodes. I love that show. It's deep dives into all |
| 1:47.5 | kinds of movies that I am fascinated by. Specifically, it's about directors who have had massive success |
| 1:53.0 | early on in their careers and then are issued a series of blank checks to make whatever |
| 1:58.8 | passion projects they want. Sometimes those projects go well, |
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