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The Heart

by Kaitlin Prest
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  • Suburban Paradise | Bewilderment and a Bar Called Cassette

    September 24, 2026 · 20 min

    Summer is over. Fall begins. Out of a reverence, romance and preparation for Canadian winter: we go back in time to January when KP was trapped in the Briargreen suburb of Nepean due to the snow. Biking anywhere: impossible. Learner's…

  • Suburban Paradise | The Hitchhiking Summer of '09

    August 19, 2026 · 23 min

    SUMMER ADVENTURE THROWBACK SPECIAL FROM ANCIENT HISTORY 2009. Circle K Max protection. Three women hitchhike across NewFoundland. Three soon-to-be-life-long-friends sing the Beatles waiting for a ride to Gros Mourne. Three become one: Two…

  • Suburban Paradise | The Yellow Line, and the Rabbit Hole

    July 19, 2026 · 21 min

    Stealing the car to drive to a fancier suburb for yoga and coffee. Micro-dosing mushrooms. Reflections on rules broken and rules followed. Suicidal ideation spoken ofin a blasé and non-plussed manner. Therapy session wherein KP assures…

  • Suburban Paradise | Madness, Hell, and the Eternal Fire

    June 27, 2026 · 18 min

    One year ago in June 2025 wearing combat boots in bed I watch Man on the Moon. A mad genius performs as a mad genius. Mozart dies writing death music in the director's cut of Amadeus. Two films by one director doing studies of artistic…

  • Suburban Paradise | Water, Honour, Anger, Grief

    June 4, 2026 · 55 min

    The sound of the water in a river in Wissahickon, Philadelphia. An episode in honour of organizers. Greg aka my dad learns that most of the time we call "activism" "organizing" now. We listen to an episode made by Yowei Shaw, the…

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  • Suburban Paradise | Canada Geese, Perfect Circles and Crying Messes

    May 26, 2026 · 18 min

    Is done still better than perfect? Is the Canada goose a swan in less glamourous clothing? Are people who need people lucky or unlucky? The Queen of the Ducks (my bff Bekky) advises not to appear to be chasing the geese. The definition of…

  • Suburban Paradise | The Bike Ride, the Abortion and the Swans

    April 18, 2026 · 20 min

    A driveway moment. Time travel back to October 2020; the lover that Aliya Pabani once joked I was doing "straight womanhood" fetish play with; to everyone else it was just a conventional relationship wherein we performed traditional gender…

  • Suburban Paradise | All Kinds of Blue

    March 18, 2026 · 18 min

    Typewriter ribbons, shutters, jays, french, dusty, periwinkle, the desk of a currently abandoned short film, a door that isn’t really blue. A non-practicing coven, a shack full of runner ducks, and a massive malamute dog named Maple. A…

  • Suburban Paradise | Suburban Where-a-dise?

    February 18, 2026 · 16 min

    Parenthood vs Adulthood. Birds singing. Pen on paper. Play first work later. Admin avalanche. The customer is always right on hold. Daddy (age 68) saves the day with the anti-to do list. KP (age 38) gets a refund for a yearly subscription…

  • Welcome to Suburban Paradise

    January 15, 2026 · 15 min

    A series of episodes quietly created from her parents' garage in the sleepy government city of Ottawa. In an era of well-crafted tightly edited, lushly designed and rigorously vetted (either by the network execs that hold the purse…

  • NO: Questions + More Questions

    October 8, 2025 · 42 min

    [Ep 4 of 4 and more to come] We were all left with burning questions after the first three episodes. In the final installment of the original ‘NO’ series from 2017, KP and the team play VMs and read letters from the audience and have a big…

  • NO: Answers + Updates

    September 5, 2025 · 54 min

    [Ep 3 of 4] Answers: Kaitlin’s search asking why coercion is so omnipresent lands her in one obvious place. Straight, cis-gendered men. In this episode, Kaitlin consults the men in her life that she loves, her friends, her father, her exes…

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About the show

Since 2014 this longstanding podcast favourite has been creating hard-hitting cinematic stories about love, bodies and all of the things between humans that we don’t know how to name. Creator Kaitlin Prest works with her friends, idols and all kinds of loved ones to bring you into an expansive sonic universe that challenges what we think we know about love.