We all have emotional baggage from our past. It could be regrets for things not done or events handled poorly. Or a slip of the tongue or a traumatic episode that refuses to leave our consciousness.
As Heavyweight podcast host / creator and humorist Jonathan Goldstein notes, "Heavyweight" is meant to suggest the emotional burdens that we carry around, as well as "the connotation of the boxer juxtaposed with the connotation of me . . . the non-boxer."
For
seven seasons, Jonathan Goldstein has been helping people like you and I
try to resolve a moment from their past that they wish they could
change.
In each episode, host Goldstein attempts to help a guest find closure for an unresolved question in their lives.
The Atlantic described the podcast by saying, "Each episode finds the host Jonathan Goldstein moderating a fraught moment intensified by years of distance: a time when someone broke a promise, or another person’s heart. The hurt is still there—sometimes for everyone, sometimes for just one person who can’t let something go. Goldstein leads special-ops soul-searching missions, seeking common ground between the aggrieved and the blissfully ignorant."
Season eight of Heavyweight premieres Thursday, October 5 on Spotify and everywhere podcasts are available.
This season of Heavyweight features unconventional love stories… What we owe the people we love, and the extremes we’ll go to in love’s name. In the premiere episode titled ‘Lenny’, available October 5, Heavyweight host Jonathan Goldstein harkens back to meeting his titular childhood best friend and their bonding over recording prank phone calls, their parents' dinner parties, and making radio plays - then jumps to their relationship today, a far cry from the childlike innocence that brought them together. Jonathan asks and attempts to answer a difficult question, “what does one owe to a childhood friend, especially when that friend has changed so much?”
Check out Heavyweight and find out the answers.
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