"Heavyweight" is about a man's quest to find the voice message that captivated students at Columbia University in the late 90s. "I think of some early this American life stories," says host and co-creator Chris Hardwick. The show was not played for laughs, it was pretty straight ahead with real people dealing with real problems.
Jonathan Goldstein is an audio producer and the host of Heavyweight.
“I wasn’t taking myself very seriously, initially. I liked working with my friends and family because I think I was a little more comfortable with them. Then in the second season people were writing in with real problems, and they were looking at me as a kind of expert. It was terrifying to meet with these people and see the look of hopefulness in their eyes. ... I realized I need to step it up and even if I didn’t feel like an expert—an expert in an invented field that doesn’t really exist—that I’d really have to take that on with seriousness.”
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