Suburban Paradise | The Bike Ride, the Abortion and the Swans
The Heart
Kaitlin Prest
4.5 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 18 April 2026
⏱️ 18 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
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 roles. We called him "the patriarch". A recording from the day of a breakup. Laurie Anderson inspired stasis.
DONATE to the Unemployed Philosopher's Guild (aka: KP + Mermaid Palace)
Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choicesTranscript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | From Mermaid Palace and Radiotopia. |
| 0:06.7 | Suburban Paradise. |
| 0:10.2 | A series of charming and inconsequential creative works |
| 0:15.7 | made during an era of global ethical crisis |
| 0:19.7 | from the unnerving quiet of my dad's suburban garage, |
| 0:25.6 | aka StudioG, on the heart. |
| 0:29.6 | I'm Caitlin Prest, coming to you restless and full of existential angst |
| 0:33.6 | from Studio G. |
| 0:55.0 | Inspired by the types of things that you might have heard on the radio in the afternoon. Segment one. Spadee, you'll let's have to film. Segment one. |
| 1:01.0 | The world. and... Can you guess where I am? |
| 1:33.3 | Do you know what time of year it is? |
| 1:38.3 | What time of day. The time of day. The Julia Cameron, who made the artist's way, talks about attention. |
| 2:21.7 | Attention is an act of connection. |
| 2:26.1 | And when we're listening, observing, we're giving the world around us our attention. |
| 2:52.6 | And in doing that, we're connecting with the world around us our attention and in doing that we're connecting with the world around us and accepting it is the beginning of loving it. |
| 2:54.6 | And so Julia Cameron says that the reward that we get for paying attention is healing. I'm going. Segment two, diary. |
| 3:32.3 | One diary entry from one period of time that has not been altered, shared in its most earnest, honest, and naked form. |
| 3:41.6 | October 26th, 2020. |
| 3:53.6 | Five more days in this quote-unquote month off. |
| 4:00.3 | Today, I will meditate. |
| 4:05.9 | I will read my fall prayer, shower, and maybe exercise. |
| 4:11.8 | Yesterday, Pantalise and I had an epic date. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Kaitlin Prest, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Kaitlin Prest and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.