Hi, I'm Jonathan Goldstein, host of the hit podcast Heavyweight. Our fourth season will

begin on September 26th, but worry not. I've prepared a delicious Amuse Boos, to Amuse your Boosh while you wait.

Over the next eight weeks I'll present the Heavyweight diaries.

Short Peabody-worthy pieces of hard-hitting journalism sprinkled, as all journalism is, with subtle,

tastefully executed, barely noticeable instances of paid product placements.

Set your heavyweight timers for eight weeks and start

polishing your silver-plated heavyweight dessert spoons because you're in for a treat. Alex wants to see you in the studio, Harper says.

Alex is Gimlet Media CEO and founder Alex Bloomberg.

Harper is his executive assistant, and the studio is the special one, with the shag carpeting

and the silent grandfather clock that, rather than potentially interrupting a recording session with an ill-time dong,

emits at the stroke of each hour an expensive puff of Chanel Number five. Of course I know why Bloomberg wants to see me.

I've been working on the new season of heavyweight for months now,

without a single thing to show for it. Where did the time go? It's all a panicky blur. In January there was the week-long team-building event at the Dude Ranch where my producers

and I learned to ride donkeys, learned to milk-donkeys, and learned the importance of teamwork by doing trust falls off our donkeys.

And most of March was spent preparing for my big news media profile.

We want to understand your moves, the reporter told me, the way you embrace death with such calm resolve.

I thought the interview would be fog of warlike in its depth and Barbara Walters like in its national

prime time audiencesness. But instead it ended up being a four minute appearance

on a mixed martial arts podcast that thought heavyweight was a an And now the day of reckoning is upon me.

Bloomberg wants to see me.

Oh, why today of all days had I chosen to wear socks with holes.

Earlier in the day, putting them on made me feel capricious.

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