Death, Sex & Money - Jonathan Goldstein, Heavy Weights, and What We Owe Old Friends
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4.2 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 18 October 2023
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
This week, we are very excited to introduce you all to one of our favorite podcasts: Heavyweight, hosted by Jonathan Goldstein. First, Jonathan chats with Anna about the art of asking difficult questions, why he loves awkward phone calls, and the emotional power of deadlines. Then, we're playing the first episode of Heavyweight’s new season. In it, Jonathan finds out his childhood best friend is dying, and though they haven't spoken in years, Jonathan and Lenny begin nightly phone calls.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello. |
| 0:01.2 | Hello. Hi. |
| 0:02.4 | Thanks for being right on time. |
| 0:04.4 | That's all I got, really, is punctuality. |
| 0:06.6 | I can't be guaranteed to say anything interesting. |
| 0:12.3 | This is death, sex, and money. |
| 0:17.1 | The show from WNYC about the things we think about a lot and need to talk about more. |
| 0:26.4 | I'm Anna Sale, and with me this week is Jonathan Goldstein, who you may know, I hope you know from the show Heavyweight. |
| 0:34.6 | It's one of my very, very favorite things that is made, Jonathan. |
| 0:39.2 | I just want to tell you. Welcome. |
| 0:41.0 | Thank you. |
| 0:42.5 | Jonathan Goldstein has long been one of my heroes in audio from This American Life, Wiretap, |
| 0:48.9 | and since 2016 with heavyweight. If you don't know the show, the idea is that Jonathan helps his guest, |
| 0:55.7 | or sometimes himself, do the necessary reporting to track down the answer to some question |
| 1:01.8 | or lay down some burden or regret, usually from years ago, something that's been a heavy |
| 1:09.3 | weight. The episodes can be quite serious or not. |
| 1:13.5 | There's a lot of Jonathan calling strangers out of the blue |
| 1:16.2 | to ask them a question about something |
| 1:17.7 | that you never expect to get a call from a journalist about. |
| 1:21.5 | And you never know where an episode is going to take you. |
| 1:25.3 | But they all start the same way, |
| 1:31.3 | with Jonathan making a random phone call to his childhood friend, Jackie. |
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