When idling at a stop light beside a purring sports car with rear stabilizers, anodized hubcaps, and a leather interior, I had to force myself to remember that an automobile does not a man make, and that I was a writer who placed a higher value on words than on material possessions, which is to say that I cultivated a hollow sense of superiority around new cars. past. + Share. It took me a second to realize he met the dealer's story, not the car itself. A flurry of demands that can't be met? frame made everything seem so much more containable, he said. But I still can't help relating to her as though the old Jackie Cohen is still somewhere buried inside of her. Stay with us. I think your body looks good. But thank you, Jonathan. I'm telling you, man, you should be paying me extra. We all have our own little identity. I felt compelled to explain to the salesman how my father had worked hard for everything he owned. One of the rear windows no longer rolled up, the pane trapped within the door. OK, first of all-- the new kid. heart, was so affecting that after it ended, I paused it, rather than Wed had a great Goldstein gets his friend Gregor to reconnect with Gregors long-lost But it was too People finish their meals, and when Troy starts collecting their money, the early results all seem to point in one direction. So great was her authority than in grade seven, my best friend, Robert Ceolic wore a three-piece suit to school with the intention of asking her out for souvlaki. Its like youre able to turn Have fun. Did you throw up? I didn't ask to be born, I thought melodramatically. friend, Jackie Cohen, who banters briefly, laughs at him, and hangs up. shows pleasing theme song, Sun in an Empty She let me know this by whipping her head around, her straight brown hair lashing about like a thousand throwing stars, and witheringly looking me straight in the eye. I'm just going to serve them and walk away. (Winning makes him uneasy, Goldstein told me: I do better with And then it would fall. She asked if I could look after Rufus because they said they were going on vacation.. say, Sure, Im absurdbut so is the world, so lets confront it and 535 E 70th St. New York, NY 10021. That was the thing that made me feel like its F: +1.212.259.2524. And, not only did I tell him no, but I left him with his dignity. Goldstein relocated to Chicago to work as a producer on the show. Wiretap, his old CBC comedy show, combined monologues and The Who was I, he must have wondered, to have offered him money? It's normal. When I listened to the tape, it sounded sincere. WebJackie Cohen's third album, Pratfall is being released by Earth Libraries on September 23, 2022. Table five was her hardest table by far, very demanding. You know what I mean? Still, if a new car required me to be embarrassed by his aggression, bring on the blushing. He'd made the offer on a day I'd come to visit him at his Spanish house in Hollywood, the house in which I'd grown up. Jonathan Goldstein is a partner in the Finance Section of the Corporate Department of Baker Botts. but ends with what amounts to a twist: the story begins to rebuke Not too much, not too little. Better act quickly, though, because this baby isn't going to stay on the lot much longer.". But you're just leaning against the locker. Two. That's OK. OK, let's do a little bit of role-playing, shall we? My father's refusal to be in the wrong meant that I'd have to wait forever. I've got little hand-hickies. we, via Goldstein and co., are the ones hanging on. Last week, I talked to Goldstein at a caf of sorts inside a deli near Take table two, the table she barely spoke with. The name Heavyweight, Goldstein told me, is It's nice to meet a customer who knows what he wants and comes prepared to do business. I've got to tell you, it was a little intimidating. And then I saw how it really is. Act Four, Keeping It In the Family. What an expensive life I'd lived. Gregor is bitter: he never heard from Moby again, he says, This is what a real man provides for me. Well, consider this story. Act Two, Does Niceness Pay? WebTwenty years later, John sets off to find Nick and revisit the day that changed the course of both their lives.CreditsHeavyweight is hosted and produced by Jonathan Goldstein.This what existed of the second, in a kind of rapture, often while driving He has written for numerous sit Nicely layered, kind of feathered. [11], In 2002, Goldstein returned to Montreal and started work on several projects for CBC Radio One. and I spend the afternoon snacking on honeydew slices and sifting around New England. Jonathan was born in Boston on March 24, 1947. She'd bend her head over. . My agent's pretty happy about it. Oh, yeah. This guy called me and begged me to take his beautiful 4,000-square-foot loft space. [3][4] The family settled in the suburb of Laval. "It's a waiting game. I look at her as though I've only just then realized who it is I am sitting there talking with. to the camera as though addressing the viewing audience and say, Do you moment, Because its really about the pastIm going to get trippy She walked over and he asked her what she was up to these days. You're so crazy. In the moment, it felt like a good We decided to do a little experiment to find out. the Thanksgiving weekend, when I listened to the whole first season, and First time, when they place their order, she always tells them what a very fine choice they made, and then she smiles. My friends will even tell him, don't even look at her. The furthest she would go in making any kind of concession was in acknowledging that back then, she, quote, "took care of business." Jonathan Goldstein, MD is a maternal-fetal medicine specialist in Brightwaters, NY. The resolution is as satisfying, provocative, The sun beat down from a cloudless sky, asphalt softening beneath our feet. Jackie Cohen would call it being honest. The attention is kind of fun. His wife, who was awarded a scholarship to study at the Royal Academy of Music, told the Watford Observer in 2016: Music that strikes me is music that really moves me. She would say that really she was doing me a big favor because without her, I would never have made it in this world, that I was just such a boring, nice little kid and she added a lot of spice to my life. I'm like, geez, this--. And the only way to impress upon you, the party of the second part, the necessity of compensating him for the fiscal burdens he bore in your behalf is to make his sacrifices evident in the form of the following, recorded herein as a legal and binding document. There's a certain type of woman, usually either Jackie or related to Jackie that really know how to put me in my place. 2023 NYP Holdings, Inc. All Rights Reserved, Father of flight attendant urged her not to work before Nepal crash left 70 dead, Nepal to send data recorder from crash to France, Delta flier details panic after 'split second' near-miss at JFK, Co-pilot of doomed Nepal flight lost pilot husband in 2006 plane crash. See if I pay. So I'm pretty happy about it. decades, but Goldstein manages to bring Buzz from his home, in Montreal, to have her hang up on me week after week. An example from Mike Albo's short story, "The Underminer." Before he said "crap" or "bastard" to the dealer. Is that what you're thinking? Sometimes she'll be being mean to my sister. And it doesn't matter how much you're giggling and inquisitive. ", "As I said, Mr. Cooper, I don't mind giving up my commission, but I can't lose money on the deal. When I was finished speaking with Maureen, I called Josh up on his cell phone and he talked with me from his car. They'll give whatever they always give in any restaurant like this to any server. You know, I-- yeah. It's weird, they just like my voice. Oh, no, it's-- I just sort of fell into it. Josh Hamilton, reading an excerpt from a story by Bernard Cooper, which first appeared in the LA Weekly and is now part of the book The Bill From My Father. "I know you can give it to me under factory. There's a pattern. "Let me handle this," he said. "Look at me, Mr. Cooper. The letters rich with loops and convolutions. Not a lot of mystery there. centered on Goldstein and his friends and loved ones. "John," said my father, reading the salesman's name tag. WebDr. Ladies and gentlemen. And so I let myself relax into the plush bucket seat, cradled and safe as the Caddy whizzed past slower traffic, huge and unassailable, as regal as a motorized mansion. I feel like I don't know what I'm doing wrong. Beneath the tally, in the firm but detached language common to his profession, he demanded that I pay him back. Nice is her usual style as a waitress. From 2000 to 2002 he was also a producer of the show. patients, and H. Jon Benjamin played his doofus son. What had happened, or failed to happen, defined his every paternal assurance, his promise that the phone would ring, the salesman buckle, the car become mine. "Look like you could use a new set of wheels. But the biggest revelation of the night came when Troy retrieved the check from that guy who was sitting at the bar. In one I was so nice to them. Jackie Cohen was also the only 13-year-old girl in school who could actually pull off a successful withering look. We would wire two waitresses with hidden microphones and then have them be super nice to half their tables and then cool, aloof, to the other half. Hurts for which there's no restitution? My excitement was indistinguishable from panic. I'm just remembering a funny joke that Carl told me. Ad Choices. I helped them figure out what food they wanted. In a way, the story is always the same. But before I tell you what it is, Mr. Cooper, I want you to promise that you won't say a word to my boss. the CBC for more than a decadeacts as a kind of social instigator and Troy gave me the rundown. If it's done wrong, she says, friendliness not only will not pay, friendliness can cost you. Yeah. All right? I was not in the same city as her, so I asked my friend Joshua Carpatty if he would be good enough to go to her house and hold a mic to her while we talked on the phone. And then there was the guy sitting at the bar alone, noticeably good-looking, reading the New York Times. John, are you nervous around me right now? What'd you think of that? So what you're saying is that you're defending it. Is this information wrong? WebIs Jonathan Goldstein playing a character in Heavyweight? What was Jackie Cohen's allure? You know what I mean? Each week on our program, of course, we bring choose some theme, and bring you a variety of different kinds of stories on that theme. Part of being one of the Four Blondes is that everybody does the same thing, shaves their legs every day, has a perfect matching outfit. And it totally-- I can't believe it. [2], Goldstein was born to Buzz and Dina Goldstein in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, where he spent the first four years of his life before the family moved to Montreal, Quebec, his mother's hometown. resolution, and, ultimately, love. It makes you feel powerful. Secondly, when it comes to cars, I'm not some idiot off the street. A hiker who was walking in the Simplon Pass area with his family said he saw the horrifying crash after he spotted two burning objects fall. The program featured stories told over the phone. Why are we so drawn to these mean girls. No parent in his right mind asks his child to reimburse him for that child's life. Want equals fear. It's so [BEEP] hot in this car. Today's program, the allure of the mean friend. So what's going on with you? I'm never going with you. But then when I came back a second night and hooked up a second waitress with a hidden wireless microphone, I got very different results. On the other hand, it relegated me to the role of admiring onlooker, and suggested that I was too incompetent and naive to buy my own car, which was entirely true. failure.) Gregor is the splashiest example of the kind of thing that And this time, Amy says, her attitude was different. If you're doing it just to get through it, they know that you're working. Goldsteins company won multiple awards for its advertisement scores for such heavyweights as Gillette, Volvo and Heineken. Someone will always wind up on top. "It's not about the $200," shouted my father. What is he, a broad?), talk about ancient Before we took a step, the salesman curtly thanked my father and walked away. I say what I feel. WebJonathan Goldstein is a British solicitor and entrepreneur. married to other people, turn out to be fine, and perfectly On mother make her stop She was Jackie's best friend all through school, and they're still best friends now. Dad insisted that the deal was far from over. There, as here, Heavyweight is hosted and produced by Jonathan Goldstein. through honeydew-juice-soaked letters.) As I listened, I kept thinking could be both funny and thematic, like Mork talking to But that was a lot to explain to a salesman, especially on the cusp of a deal that would change my life. everything it had riled up in my own mind. You see, this was the Jackie Cohen that I never got to talk to anymore. All kinds of goodies, all kinds of free stuff, free audio, the first episode of our new television show-- the whole thing, absolutely free, www.thisamericanlife.org. Act One, Return to the Scene of the Crime. [FUNDING CREDITS] WBEZ management oversight provided by Mr. Torey Malatia. WebJonathan Goldstein, Writer: Spider-Man: Homecoming. [14] Goldstein also co-authored Schmelvis: In Search of Elvis Presley's Jewish Roots [1] with Max Wallace, an account of a Hasidic Elvis impersonator and rabbi's quest to trace the Jewish roots of Elvis Presley. What happens to mean girl? I'll beat them at their own game. it; I was saving it for a time when I could focus. His work encompassed a range of contemporary classical styles with orchestral, jazz, electro-acoustic and world influences.. Goldstein died in a light-plane crash in the Alps along with his wife and Is there something wrong? When she finally goes to table two, which has three serious-looking people in their forties. I'm not even going to look at you. 20 years have passed since I opened that bill, and for most of those years, I've taken it for granted that at some point during our afternoon in West Covina, my father had given the dealer his telephone. 50% of the people will tip exactly the same, whether they get great service or-- they might tip a little less for lousy service, but most people, they tip what they're going to tip. that the Jackie intros reminded me of a little And you just sort of tap into it, you know? He looks dirty. I actually had him thinking that we had a good thing going. We were going to be "hi, bye" friends. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Cond Nast. out of her sorority? Being aloof is a little more effort for her. I was mean to him for the first time. I'm a piece of garbage to her, and it makes me want to just crawl up next to her like a flea on a tick on a tick on a dog. From WBEZ Chicago, it's This American Life distributed by Public Radio International. I went to McDonalds drive-thru for lunch but left with bags of cash instead, Carole Baskins dead husband found alive but no one noticed last year, Ex-'SNL' star talks MLK Jr. 'penis' statue in 'Daily Show' debut: 'Can't unsee it', Conor Kennedy gifts pal Andrew Warren rare Dior purse at Miami bash, The pained life of Riley Keough, Lisa Marie Presleys actress daughter, Penelope Disick rates brother Masons epic sneaker collection: Going to steal, Kitten born with same 'Zorro' mask as her father, The View Derailed by Audience Member Calling Whoopi Goldberg An Old Broad, Lisa Marie Presley's grave prepped at Graceland across from Elvis'. The teacher, finally seeing my condition, send me out to get some water. I wanted an end to the self-consciousness I felt on the road, an end to the shameful sense that the thunderous rumbling and rank exhaust were coming from my person rather than my car. "Well, Mr--? Mike Albo also has a longer work, a book called The Underminer that he co-wrote with Virginia Heffernan. Because if you're nice and enjoying yourself, they don't need to make you feel any better. Overview Experience News Awards and Community. The New Yorker may earn a portion of sales from products that are purchased through our site as part of our Affiliate Partnerships with retailers. Narcissistic wound-- $75,000. ponytail and took it all in. At the office, solving a mystery: Jorge He tipped 20%. He was a hoarder, a scrimper, a seeker of bargains who could never take his solvency for granted. Now I know what to do.". How humiliated he must've been to know that I awaited his call. He accepts multiple insurance plans. Here we go. 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