Suburban Paradise | Canada Geese, Perfect Circles and Crying Messes
The Heart
Kaitlin Prest
4.5 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 26 May 2026
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
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 sloth I printed out ends up being a diversion at the dinner table. "At least you're honest with yourself" says my Aunt Patti. The favorite podcast is not a podcast at all. It is: a VM from Yowei Shaw.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey listeners, right now there are some amazing new stories coming out of Ear Hustle, our fellow |
| 0:06.7 | Radiotopia show and the podcast about the daily realities of prison life. There's one episode called |
| 0:12.3 | My Favorite Color, where we hear the conversation between a father and daughter who haven't seen |
| 0:17.1 | each other in 26 years, partly because the daughter followed in her dad's footsteps |
| 0:22.0 | and paid a heavy price for it. |
| 0:24.1 | In another, we meet a guy who at the age of 13 got a tattoo job on his face that would |
| 0:28.6 | influence the course of his life. |
| 0:30.6 | And you know what? |
| 0:31.6 | He's got no regrets. |
| 0:33.5 | There's a story about what it's like to be betrayed by a dog and another that explains how to hug someone when hugging itself is against the rules. |
| 0:41.4 | These are the kinds of stories you hear on Ear Hustle. |
| 0:44.4 | They're raw, they're deep, often very funny, and what Ira Glass calls decidedly untragic. |
| 0:50.5 | Listen wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:52.1 | Also check out their live show, which is swinging through the Northeast U.S. at the end of May. |
| 0:56.5 | Details are at Ear Hustlesq.com slash tour. |
| 1:05.1 | From Studio G in Radiotopia and Mermaid Palace. |
| 1:12.6 | Welcome to the heart. |
| 1:23.6 | I'm Caitlin Prest. |
| 1:25.6 | These are the very first I'm Caitlin Prest. |
| 1:37.0 | These are the very first sounds of lawn mowing that I've heard since the snow melted. |
| 1:44.1 | The sounds you are now hearing are not added after the fact they are happening right now as I record this with the garage door open because it's springtime. |
| 1:49.4 | Before that, I was hearing the sounds of shovels in the morning. |
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