Heavyweight
Snap Judgment
Snap Judgment and PRX
4.7 • 11.5K Ratings
🗓️ 14 May 2026
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
At 101 years old, Deborah discovered a box she'd stashed away a lifetime ago. What was inside reignited an old love and turned her life upside down.
This is an episode from a podcast we love, Heavyweight. We are so excited to share it with you! Heavyweight, hosted by Jonathan Goldstein, creates space for difficult conversations and resolving long-standing regrets and unanswered questions. Balancing humor and empathy, host Jonathan Goldstein helps his subjects pinpoint the moment things went wrong and joins them on a quest to make them right.
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| 0:00.0 | Snap Studios |
| 0:02.0 | Okay, so about a decade ago, I wander into the wrong Chicago Hilton conference room, and there's this guy |
| 0:17.0 | he shaggle, the speckled, sort of surrounded, speaking to a group of young writers, |
| 0:24.1 | audio producers and makers. He's talking to them about how to speak to people. And he says something |
| 0:30.0 | to the effect of whoever you are, just be there. Just do that. |
| 0:43.1 | And really since then, I've marveled watching him do that. |
| 0:45.8 | This unfolding, evolving, |
| 0:48.4 | stretching into his own singular voice, |
| 0:53.0 | now lauded as one of the most celebrated storytellers of our time, |
| 0:54.7 | Jonathan Goldstein. |
| 0:57.6 | His podcast is called Heavyway. |
| 1:01.8 | And on it, on Heavyway, and you're going to want to subscribe immediately, |
| 1:06.7 | Jonathan sits down with people to help them solve one of those problems. |
| 1:08.9 | They don't know how to tackle any other way. |
| 1:12.9 | Maybe a lost connection, unsolved mystery, |
| 1:16.4 | perhaps a friendship that ended without closure, whatever it is. |
| 1:20.2 | Jonathan digs in and tries to help them make it right, |
| 1:21.8 | and I kid you not, |
| 1:23.7 | but you're about to hear, |
| 1:26.9 | I'm in a grocery store, and this episode, stop me. Stop me in my tracks. And I think |
| 1:33.7 | it's going to stop you too. I saw all the setup there is. Snap Judgment probably presents, |
| 1:40.7 | very proudly presents, heavyweight. |
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