Roger Cook & Henry Gross

Gilbert and Frank returned to the famed New York Friars Club to sit down with Gilbert’s old pal, magician-illusionist-comedian-provocateur Penn Jillette of Penn & Teller fame. Over the course of an amusing and highly informative hour, Penn shared fond memories of Johnny Carson, G ...  Show more

One of Gilbert and Frank's favorite interviews was this 2014 sitdown with a legend of local broadcasting, the one and only Joe Franklin. In this episode, the boys dropped in on Joe’s infamously cluttered (an understatement!) Manhattan office to nosh on (very old) chicken salad, d ...  Show more

Hi neighbor! March 20 is the birthday of Fred Rogers, "Mister Rogers" to millions of children who once frolicked in the "Neighborhood of Make Believe" with he and his pals on PBS. Today we welcome two-time Grammy & Emmy award winning composer and producer, Dennis Scott, who has t ...  Show more

Malcolm Gladwell talks to three songwriters who helped transform country music in the 1970s. Gone were cowboy hats, train whistles and church suppers. In came songs about desperation, loss, changes, and regret that changed how Nashville made music and spoke to a new generation of ...  Show more

Tom Fletcher of McFly, Silent Film pianist Neil Brand, Bookshop frequenter Erica Jones and extreme engineer Jimmy de Ville join Richard Coles and Aasmah Mir.

Tom Fletcher is best known as singer and songwriter of McFly, he's also written for Busted and One Direction, clo ...

How the worst McDonald’s commercial ever made came to be. And how Bobby got mixed up in it.

Credits

Heavyweight is hosted and produced by Jonathan Goldstein.

This episode was produced by Stevie Lane, along with Kalila Holt.< ...