Heavyweight

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Hello and welcome to Dailyish
for Thursday, October 1st, 2026.
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Welcome to the month of Halloween.
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I'm recording an episode every day
for this, my 50th year on the planet
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so today, the day after International
Podcast Day, I wanna recommend a
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podcast that you should listen to.
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And, it's probably one
of my favorite podcasts.
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Uh, it's not my most favorite
one to listen to because it
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inevitably punches me in the gut.
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I'll be walking Neville and listening to
a story and, like, fighting back tears
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as I try to hold it together on the
path, and people are f- passing me and
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wondering why this, uh, man is emotionally
drained just from walking his dog.
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But it's not in the manipulative way
that sometimes storytelling can be done.
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I feel like Heavyweight manages to sort
of thread the needle of telling a really
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human story while still maintaining,
uh, the dignity of the storyteller,
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of the person or the people's stories
they're telling, because they kind
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of like are brought along with them.
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And Jonathan Goldstein, the host,
is really good at, I don't know how
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the, how he does it, but drawing out
the stories from the people that he's
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been asked to tell their story with
or for in a way that they get to be
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the narrators of their story, even
though he's technically the narrator.
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I don't know how to explain it exactly.
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That's not doing it justice.
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But It might help that Jonathan
Goldstein, he was, uh, the host of
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a show in Canada here on CBC Radio
called Wiretap for over a decade.
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And, and then he's done stuff
with American, This American
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Life, and then is also a writer
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And the show has been running for,
well, there's 10 seasons anyways,
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and I think maybe 10 years.
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I'm not sure if it's a yearly show.
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I know there was some, like, stoppage
during, as they switched various
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hosting companies and, and production
companies and stuff like that.
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But, So don't be intimidated.
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Sometimes when you look at a show and
there's 10 seasons, this isn't s- a show
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where there's, you know, a narrative
arc that flows between each episode.
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Sometimes they call back to previous
episodes and stuff, but it's
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not in any way that you need to
understand all the details and stuff.
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So season 10 just started in, uh,
September here, and I just listened
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as I was walking Neville this
morning to, uh, episode 67, Jenna.
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And I…
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It was a story that I l- I wasn't thinking
I was gonna be even that interested in, to
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be honest, when I was first pressed play,
and by the end of it, I was like, my view
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on parenting, children, life, friendship,
family, all those things was severely, uh,
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impacted in, in a, the best possible way
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I don't wanna spoil it, but I'll just
play a little clip here just so you
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get a sense of what the show sounds
like, 'cause I know that can sometimes
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be, uh, either a helpful, helpful or a
hindrance if you tune into a show and
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you don't like the sound of it for some
reason, or you love the sound of it.
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So here's a little clip from,
uh, season 10, episode 67, Jenna
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Jonathan: Jenna still doesn't
understand how the Grizzles were able
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to give her up so easily, especially
since she saw the lengths they
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went to for their eldest son, Cody.
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Jenna: For the sake of their son, they
picked up and they moved, and as I got
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older, I began to s- to ask myself,
"Why couldn't they have moved for me?"
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Jonathan: For Jenna, this
resulted in her always feeling
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like she just wasn't good enough.
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Jenna: Not pretty enough, not smart
enough, just not lovable enough.
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I, I didn't matter.
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I just didn't matter to them.
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There's got to be…
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I know there's more to it, but I carried
those stories into my teenage years,
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into all of my dating relationships,
into my marriage, into my divorce.
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I've been carrying this weight
of not belonging and not being
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enough for nearly 30 years.
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So yeah, I don't know if that
resonates with you or doesn't,
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but check it out if it does.
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Heavyweight Podcast, wherever
you get your podcasts.
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They're on Apple Podcasts, It's one
of those shows that, uh, sometimes
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when I tell people I edit and
produce podcasts for clients, that's
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the kind of show they picture.
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And while I would love to someday figure
out how and a way to work on a show
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like that, 'cause it would be amazing,
I think, just an experience to, to craft
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episodes in a, in a way that isn't like,
"We need to get this out tomorrow,"
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or, "We recorded this today and it's
going out today," kind of feeling.
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But having time to, like, simmer
and stew on a, on an episode and cut
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things and put things back in and
move things around and go back for
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more story and, and things like that.
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Um, the shows I work on for clients,
which I, like I said, I've said before,
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I do enjoy working on, but are much more
like, here's a thing we're talking about,
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two people talking about a topic or
sharing their expertise on a thing, not
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a narrative-driven, uh, story or podcast.
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And they both have their place.
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But, in some ways, I guess I'm, I'm
blessed to be able to understand enough
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about the industry and how podcasts work
to understand the effort and time and,
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um, experience that goes into a show like
this, but not knowing exactly how the
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sausage is made, so to speak, so that I
can still just sit back and enjoy, uh, in
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episodes like what Heavyweight puts out.
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So yeah, check it out.
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As always, you can feel free to
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where I told you about this episode,
or leave a comment on YouTube.
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What kind of podcasts
are you listening to?
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Do you listen to Heavyweight already?
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Any of the episodes in
particular that stuck out to you?
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Or you can email me at
chris.enns@gmail.com.
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think is how I was saying it.
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And I hope you'll be back tomorrow.
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Thank you listening.
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Have a great day.
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Bye.