Trailer: Heavyweight Season 9

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A look at what’s to come this season. Heavyweight returns on September 18. Listen wherever you get your podcasts.

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Speaker 1 Pushkin.

Speaker 1 One thing I like to say about your heavyweight podcast is that it always inculcates a high vibrational frequency.

Speaker 1 From Pushkin Industries, I'm Jonathan Goldstein, and this fall, the return of heavyweight. The new season will be bigger than ever.
Bigger hopes. I keep waiting for this moment.

Speaker 1 When he says, Mom, I get it. I'm sorry.
Bigger dreams. He's like, Tom Hanks wants to meet with you.
This is a real chance. And bigger heartbreaks.
I thought it would be my movie moment.

Speaker 1 And maybe he would even whisper in my ear, I've always been in love with you.

Speaker 1 We bring you the story of a big budget movie built on a lie. A centenarian who falls head over heels with a love lost 80 years ago.

Speaker 2 How can a 101-year-old woman fall in love again?

Speaker 1 And a 14-year-old boy who wanted to change his life by robbing a bank.

Speaker 3 And so I

Speaker 3 pointed the gun at him and said, this isn't a joke. And he got down.
And I remember feeling kind of a surge of like, okay, this is power.

Speaker 1 Plus, my old friend Gregor is back. and he and his brother try to solve my problems through hypnotism.
We could give you a whole brand new thing where you're like super charming all the time.

Speaker 1 Not always hide behind a microphone.

Speaker 1 Starting September 18th, I'll be hiding behind my microphone like a sneaky but well-meaning weasel in the bramble when heavyweight returns.

Speaker 2 Okay, Mr. Goldstein, said the old lady to the young man.