Introducing Heavyweight: The Bank Robber
Death of an Artist
Pushkin Industries
4.6 • 877 Ratings
🗓️ 30 October 2025
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Here's an episode from Heavyweight, a new addition to the Pushkin slate of shows. Heavyweight, hosted by Jonathan Goldstein, creates space for difficult conversations and resolving long-standing regrets and unanswered questions. In this episode: A young man had just turned 14 when he took his father’s shotgun, skipped school, and robbed a bank for $40,000. Now, 33 years later, he wants to apologize to the people he harmed that day.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey listeners, Jonathan Goldstein here. I'm dropping into your feed today to bring you a preview of |
| 0:05.8 | the new season of heavyweight. If you don't know heavyweight, on the show, I return to |
| 0:10.9 | unresolved moments from the lives of my guests, and together we go on a quest to make things right. |
| 0:17.6 | This might mean finding out why your sorority kicked you out, or why your family stopped |
| 0:22.3 | including you in their breakfast plans, or why the most popular girl in school, who you hardly |
| 0:28.2 | even knew, invited you to the prom. I invite you to travel back in time to ask scary questions |
| 0:35.0 | and do scary things, because I, Jonathan Goldstein, will be at your |
| 0:40.3 | ever-love inside every step of the way. And with that, I hope you enjoy this preview. And if you do, |
| 0:47.5 | please find heavyweight wherever you listen to your podcasts. Okay, now onto the episode. |
| 0:58.0 | How's it going? |
| 0:59.1 | Dr. Jackie Cohen? |
| 1:00.4 | Yeah. |
| 1:00.9 | How about this? |
| 1:01.9 | Jackie Cohen, Dr. Jackie Cohen. |
| 1:05.1 | So, okay, so now that I am officially in my late 50s, what do you think I could do to start |
| 1:09.7 | improving my health? |
| 1:10.8 | Yeah, you can build up that little noodle body of yours. Get some meatballs on the spaghetti. Yes, yes. Oh, you're laughing. Is that a medical term? Why aren't you doing any weightlifting? Because I don't live near a gym. You don't have to be near a gym. What should do something at home? Like where I just go around the house and I like lift a couch or try to pull a toilet out or something. |
| 1:31.9 | Yeah, that. |
| 1:39.1 | From Pushkin Industries, I'm Jonathan Goldstein. |
| 1:42.8 | And this is heavyweight. |
| 1:45.7 | Today's episode, The Bank Robber, right after the break. This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 2:06.5 | It was the spring of 1988, northwestern Alabama. |
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