Weight For It
Hosted by Ronald Young Jr and RYJ · ohitsBigRon Studios
4.9from 1,679 ratings
- 28
- Episodes
- 3
- Transcribed
- 1,679
- Ratings
- 2023
- First episode
About Weight For It
Named one of the Best podcasts of 2023 by the New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/04/arts/best-podcasts-2023.html), Vogue (https://www.vogue.com/article/best-podcasts-2023), and Vulture (https://www.vulture.com/article/best-podcasts-industry-survey-2023.html) Weight For It is a four time Podcast Academy Award winning narrative podcast that explores the ways we think about our bodies. Through personal storytelling and deep dive interviews, host Ronald Young Jr. unpacks the navigation of the world around him that just doesn't seem to fit.
- Publisher
- ohitsBigRon Studios
- Category
- society & culture
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 5 May 2023
- Latest episode
- 4 Feb 2026
Latest episodes
3 of 28 episodes have a transcript.
4 Feb 2026TRANSCRIPT
Treadmill
5 Jan 2026TRANSCRIPT
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8 Dec 2025TRANSCRIPT
Season 3 Update
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Treadmill
Published 4 Feb 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] He's at least 8 hours away in South Carolina. So as we grew up he kind of just became someone I heard about but never actually spoke to. As an adult I began to realize all the decisions my father made that made me who I am today. One of those decisions was when he chose to leave South Carolina and eventually join the military which effectively meant he never went back. This put permanent physical distance between my mother, sister and I and all of my family in South Carolina. They're still family but we're not close. I saw my cousin for the first time in over 20 years last summer at his father's funeral. […]
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- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.8 / 5
- 988 ratings
- Spotify
- 5.0 / 5
- 691 ratings
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- 68
- Social presence
- 94
- YouTube
- 0
- Engagement
- 76
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Ronald Young Jr and RYJ host the show. Published by ohitsBigRon Studios.
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