"As the host and creator of the podcast Heavyweight, he acts as a kind of time-traveling therapist, helping people shoulder regrets that never quite went away: a pain, a mystery, a grievance, a memory. Goldstein and his team chase answers the old-fashioned way, by making phone calls and getting on planes in a bid to literally confront the past. The stories run wide."
"But recent years have been unkind. Spotify has since largely abandoned the narrative format. Gimlet has since died. The platform officially canceled Heavyweight at the end of 2023 and laid off Goldstein and his team, which included producers Stevie Lane and Kalila Holt. For a year, the show hung in limbo, until February, when Pushkin Industries, the company founded by Malcolm Gladwell and Jacob Weisberg (and now led by Gretta Cohn), stepped in to revive it."
Jonathan Goldstein hosts Heavyweight, a podcast that helps people confront lingering regrets, mysteries, grievances, and memories by investigating past events. Goldstein and his team make calls and travel to reunite people with figures from their histories, producing bittersweet, unpredictable narratives. Heavyweight launched in 2016 at Gimlet Media and showcased Goldstein's wry, melancholic voice shaped by work on CBC's Wiretap and This American Life. The show faced cancellation after Gimlet's collapse and Spotify's retreat from narrative podcasts, with the team laid off at the end of 2023. Pushkin Industries acquired and revived the series, which returns September 18 with a ten-episode season.
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