The 14-Year-Old Bank Robber | From Heavyweight
7/6/202639 min
If you liked this past season of Deep Cover, The Family Man, you'll enjoy this episode from another Pushkin podcast, Heavyweight. It's a great companion to our bank robbery story from this season. Heavyweight, hosted by Jonathan Goldstein, creates space for difficult conversations and resolving long-standing regrets and unanswered questions. In this episode: A young man had just turned 14 when he took his father’s shotgun, skipped school, and robbed a bank for $40,000. Now, 33 years later, he wants to apologize to the people he harmed that day.
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First 90 secondsJake Halpern· Host0:00
[intro music] Pushkin. Hey, it's Jake. I hope you enjoyed listening to this last season of Deep Cover. And today, I'm back in the feed to bring you an episode of a great companion story to The Family Man. It's an episode from Heavyweight, another Pushkin podcast, about what happens when you get to go back to the unresolved moments of your past. This episode follows the story of a 14-year-old kid who robbed a bank for $40,000 with his father's sawed-off shotgun. 33 years later, he talked with Heavyweight's host, Jonathan Goldstein, about apologizing to the people he harmed that fateful day. If you like the episode, listen to Heavyweight wherever you get your podcasts. Here's Jonathan with the story.
Jonathan Goldstein· Host0:59
[phone ringing] How's it going? Dr. Jackie Cohen? Yep. How about this, ♪ Jackie Cohen, Dr. Jackie Cohen. ♪ [laughing] So, okay, so now that I am officially in my late 50s, what do you think I could do to start improving my health? Yeah, you could build up that little noodle body of yours. Get some meatballs on the spaghetti. [laughing] Yes. Yes. Oh, you're laughing? Is that a medical term? Why aren't you doing any weightlifting? Because I don't live near a gym. You don't have to live near a gym. Why don't you do something at home? Like, where I just go