NO: Questions + More Questions
The Heart
Kaitlin Prest
4.5 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 8 October 2025
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
[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 'ol processing party with Samara Breger, former Heart producer, sex educator and more recently: queer romance novelist.
What do I tell my kids? What if my no DOES mean yes? How bad DOES he have to feel? How are racial dynamics similar? How do I not be depressed about humanity?
This is an extended version of the original episode from 2017, including more questions and more grappling. SEND KP YOUR THOUGHTS in VM form for the update-isode!
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| 0:00.0 | from Mermaid Palace and Radiotopia. |
| 0:06.2 | Welcome to the heart. |
| 0:12.1 | I'm Caitlin Prest. |
| 0:16.0 | Coming to you from the suburbs of Ottawa, Ontario. |
| 0:30.6 | Thank you. Coming to you from the suburbs of Ottawa, Ontario. If you listen very closely, you can hear the sound of a clock ticking in another room. You can hear the sound of my dimmable light bulb. |
| 0:46.3 | Or maybe that's the non-dimmable light bulb that I insisted on dimming, struggling with half the voltage that it's used to. |
| 1:01.0 | It's so quiet in this particular suburb of Ottawa |
| 1:08.0 | that these are the sounds that are audible at night. |
| 1:17.6 | It's a little bit unnerving, I gotta say. This is... |
| 1:37.3 | No. |
| 1:39.3 | Again. |
| 1:41.3 | Again. Again. |
| 1:46.7 | Again. |
| 1:47.1 | Again. |
| 1:49.1 | Again. |
| 1:51.1 | Again. |
| 1:55.1 | Okay. |
| 1:56.6 | So, episode four, questions and more questions. |
| 2:12.5 | Well, guys, I have to say, I'm really grateful and kind of wowed by the support for what I've been calling a much-needed fucking review of this series that I originally made with the heart team of 2017. |
| 2:31.3 | This episode called Questions, referenced in the credits of the last episode, as what I would put out if not enough people donated for a new episode. |
| 2:42.5 | I just want all of you to know that I'm putting out this episode because after re-listening to it, I found it unnervingly relevant to today |
| 2:55.1 | and just know that there is an update coming from the me of now |
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