This is excellent news! Pushkin is a good home for it, too. I've been following Goldstein since the days of Wiretap and his early This American Life features. I've really enjoyed everything he's...
This is excellent news! Pushkin is a good home for it, too. I've been following Goldstein since the days of Wiretap and his early This American Life features. I've really enjoyed everything he's done so far.
I think Wendy Zukerman / Science VS is the only surviving show from Gimlet now.
Absolutely love Wiretap even more than Heavyweight! The weird dreamlike monologues and storylines are something I really miss from the more factual latter series. For those who haven't listened,...
Absolutely love Wiretap even more than Heavyweight! The weird dreamlike monologues and storylines are something I really miss from the more factual latter series.
For those who haven't listened, the entire archive is now available as a podcast (and features some characters which also turn up in Heavyweight).
I still think about Ultra-Psychonics every few days. Wiretap really was dreamlike. For me it was the first podcast that wasn't just a straight story. Magical. I should listen to it all again......
I still think about Ultra-Psychonics every few days. Wiretap really was dreamlike. For me it was the first podcast that wasn't just a straight story. Magical.
I should listen to it all again... get my Howard fix.
Link for people who don't use Apple Podcasts (works for every podcast app): https://episodes.fm/1530859807 There's also this separate and distinct Wiretap archive, also available as an RSS feed...
This is great to hear! I absolutely loved Heavy Weights, but honestly I didn't even realize it had ended. Once they went Spotify exclusive, it kind of fell off my radar.
This is great to hear! I absolutely loved Heavy Weights, but honestly I didn't even realize it had ended. Once they went Spotify exclusive, it kind of fell off my radar.
This is excellent news! Pushkin is a good home for it, too. I've been following Goldstein since the days of Wiretap and his early This American Life features. I've really enjoyed everything he's done so far.
I think Wendy Zukerman / Science VS is the only surviving show from Gimlet now.
Absolutely love Wiretap even more than Heavyweight! The weird dreamlike monologues and storylines are something I really miss from the more factual latter series.
For those who haven't listened, the entire archive is now available as a podcast (and features some characters which also turn up in Heavyweight).
I still think about Ultra-Psychonics every few days. Wiretap really was dreamlike. For me it was the first podcast that wasn't just a straight story. Magical.
I should listen to it all again... get my Howard fix.
Thank you for this! Sounds like exactly my jam.
Link for people who don't use Apple Podcasts (works for every podcast app): https://episodes.fm/1530859807
There's also this separate and distinct Wiretap archive, also available as an RSS feed for podcast apps: https://fourble.co.uk/podcast/wiretap
NYT Feature:
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/business/media/heavyweight-podcast-returning.html
Mirror: https://archive.is/pUcva
This is great to hear! I absolutely loved Heavy Weights, but honestly I didn't even realize it had ended. Once they went Spotify exclusive, it kind of fell off my radar.
The Spotify exclusive season should be on the open feed now, if you want to get caught up.
https://feeds.megaphone.fm/heavyweight-spot