Don't Make Movies In Your Head
The Heart
Kaitlin Prest
4.5 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 3 October 2023
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Have you ever fallen a little too hard a little too fast in love with someone you’ve just met? Have you ever caught yourself imagining the beautiful house in the country the two of you would grow old together in?
We go back in time to the era before the term ‘ghosting’ had been coined and explore the phenomenon that Ayinde Bennett calls “making movies in your head”.
Featuring: the Prix Italia Gold Award winning radio play (the first podcast to win a Prix Italia! That’s some radio history!) co-created with composer and sound designer Shani Aviram. Associate production by Shira Bannerman, editing and performance by Mitra Kaboli, advising by Sharon Mashihi, performed written and directed by Kaitlin Prest, art by Jen Ng.
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| 0:00.0 | My name is Maddie Kelly. |
| 0:01.8 | I'm a writer and comedian, and along with my co-host, Mark Chavez, and Ryan Biel, we are |
| 0:06.8 | setting out to write a romantic comedy movie script that is genuinely romantic and actually |
| 0:12.4 | funny. |
| 0:13.4 | And when we run into trouble, we'll get help from some serious rom-com experts. |
| 0:22.2 | People who have worked on everything from 10 things I hate about you to Mamma Mia. |
| 0:25.6 | This is all gold. |
| 0:27.9 | It's Let's Bake a Rom-com. |
| 0:29.5 | Available now on CBC Listen and everywhere you get your podcasts. |
| 0:33.6 | From Mermaid Palace and Radiotopia, welcome to The Heart. |
| 0:44.0 | I'm Caitlin Prest. |
| 0:48.6 | Allow me to set the scene. |
| 0:52.3 | It's 2014. |
| 0:54.1 | Tinder has just been invented. |
| 0:58.1 | It hasn't really taken over the dating world yet. |
| 1:01.2 | Some people are dabbling and okay-cupid, but mostly people meet each other via parties, |
| 1:08.6 | friends and sometimes via chance encounters and a coffee shop on the subway platform. |
| 1:18.5 | Everybody has cell phones. |
| 1:19.9 | It's been that way for a while now, but the etiquette hasn't really sorted itself out. |
| 1:26.5 | We have the feeling that we prefer to text over call when we're talking about difficult |
| 1:31.1 | things with people we barely know. |
| 1:33.8 | The term ghosting has not yet taken hold. |
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