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Heavyweight

Heavyweight Short: A Canadian Tale

Heavyweight

Pushkin Industries

Relationships, Personal Journals, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.918.6K Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2021

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Adam swears he met Fidel Castro in Montreal 25 years ago. But ever since, no one’s believed him. Fortunately for Adam, the one person—one Canadian—who can prove his story is Jonathan Goldstein.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Heavyweight hoofs, Jonathan Goldstein, producer Kalila Holt, yeah.

0:10.3

I have what some people are referring to around the water cooler here at Gimlet Media

0:16.8

as possibly the most Canadian story ever told.

0:20.2

I don't know if you're talking to you around the water cooler, the office isn't even open.

0:25.1

It's a metaphor.

0:26.1

Okay.

0:27.1

So these are just imaginary people.

0:28.6

You know what?

0:29.6

See here, this I never knew that you were such a literalist.

0:32.4

I'm taking a flight of fancy.

0:34.6

Will you join me?

0:35.6

Sure.

0:36.6

Trade tables stop.

0:38.5

You know, we received a lot of emails.

0:42.1

People reach out and they want help with problems that they have.

0:46.0

And recently we got this email that was so random and obscure that normally I'd be like

0:53.9

there's nothing I could do to help.

0:57.1

But just by complete coincidence, I know the one person who could actually help this guy.

1:05.6

And I am talking about my friend James.

1:08.4

So the first thing that I had to do was call up James and ask for a favor.

1:15.4

Hi.

1:17.5

And we will get to that story right after the break.

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