\u00a0The last episode of Heavyweight was released in December 2023, though there have been short update episodes over summer as it geared up for its new season. The 20-month layoff was due to Heavyweight becoming a victim of the shifting podcast landscape.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Nick Quah at Vulture explained: \u201cLaunched in 2016, Heavyweight was one of Gimlet Media\u2019s crown jewels and one of the last survivors of the so-called golden age of narrative podcasting.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Gimlet was bought by and subsumed into Spotify, but as podcasts shifted from narrative to bantercast and audio to video, Heavyweight got lost in the shuffle. It was cancelled as Spotify laid off one sixth of its staff.<\/p>\n
We\u2019ve featured Heavyweight plenty of times since it launched in 2018. As its bio explains, host Jonathan Goldstein embarks on road trips, thorny reunions, and tricky conversations, backpedaling into the past like a therapist armed with a time machine. It\u2019s often moving, wrenching, and might even inspire a listener to confront a long-buried regret of their own.<\/p>\n
Newly signed to Pushkin Industries, co-founded by Malcolm Gladwell, Goldstein told Vulture: \u201cI just want to make work, you know? I want to be able to do enough to make it sustainable, but not such that it\u2019s going to compromise the ability to achieve some sort of excellence.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n \u00a0Heavyweight returned for episode 59 last week, Etta, named after a parent of one of the show\u2019s most acclaimed guests\/episodes, Gregor. Of course it begins with a call to old friend Jackie, of course things get emotional. It\u2019s just what we wanted from Heavyweight.\n <\/p>\n
Another podcast that returned recently after a two-year break is Get Around to It, hosted by Aoife Barry and Lauren Murphy, two journalists who feature regularly in the Irish Examiner. Named after a lyric by Arthur Russell, it\u2019s a \u201cculture podcast for curious people\u201d with\u00a0 episodes asking questions like \u2018Why is Gen-Z so obsessed with the show Girls?\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n
Barry says the duo restarted the podcast was because they really missed it. \u201cIt felt like a natural thing for us to do, given our friendship, our interests and our careers.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00a0The last episode of Heavyweight was released in December 2023, though there have been short update episodes over…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37674,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[61,60,6405,80],"class_list":{"0":"post-37673","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-music-movies-reviews-munster","11":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37673\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}