Asking For It

The Heart

Kaitlin Prest

Relationships, Society & Culture

4.5 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2020

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Meet Goldie.

The cycle begins, in episode 1 of Asking For It, a new fictional series from Mermaid Palace.

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0:00.0	My name is Maddie Kelly. I'm a writer and comedian and along with my co-host, Mark
0:04.6	Chavez, and Ryan Biel. We are setting out to write a romantic comedy movie script that
0:09.5	is genuinely romantic and actually funny.
0:12.9	Give me something that's both sexy and romantic.
0:15.6	LaCrosse. The sport.
0:18.2	And when we run into trouble, we'll get help from some serious rom-com experts. People
0:22.3	who have worked on everything from 10 things I hate about you to Mamma Mia.
0:25.5	This is all gold.
0:27.7	It's Let's Bake a Rom-com.
0:29.7	Available now on CBC Listen and everywhere you get your podcasts.
0:33.5	Welcome to the heart.
0:36.6	I'm Caitlin Prest.
0:42.9	Today on the show we have a very special feature of a show that I just finished making with
0:53.6	filmmaker Drew Denny and CBC Podcast.
0:58.1	It's a seven episode fiction series and it's really lush and allahart. It's a love story
1:13.6	that gets at some really important truths about love, sexuality, and violence.
1:32.0	Intimate partner violence to be specific. It's about a woman trying to break the cycle
1:40.4	of abuse and trying to find her strength and her voice.
1:47.8	In the face of falling in love with people who have a lot of shit going on and take that
1:54.0	shit out on the people who are closest to them.
1:57.8	It's really special. I'm so proud of it.
2:02.0	And I think if you've had experience with violence and your relationships, it will really
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