The Shadows: Decision
The Heart
Kaitlin Prest
4.5 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 22 December 2023
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
What is love? What is it really? bell hooks writes that love is something that we do. Not something that we feel. Not a story. So what do we do when we’re inside of a love that feels like a great love of the ages? The kind of romance that has a life of its own?
The story underneath the story in this episode is meeting Johnny Spence. The performer and musician that breathed life into the character “Devon”. Former owner of sweater.
This is episode 4 of The Shadows, from CBC Podcasts, made by Kaitlin Prest in collaboration with Phoebe Wang. Musician and artist Johnny Spence performs as Devon. Mitchell Akiyama as Charlie Park. Edited by Sharon Mashihi. Appearances by playwright and animator (former puppeteer) Bekky O’Neill and Max Kelly. Assistant production on this episode by Yasaman Mansoori.
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| 0:00.0 | From Mermaid Palace and Radiotopia, welcome to the heart. |
| 0:06.0 | I'm Caitlin Pressed. |
| 0:12.0 | I'm so happy to be doing this. Yeah, I'm so happy to be doing this. Yeah I'm so happy you're perfect it's just nice it's the |
| 0:16.6 | sound you are now hearing. |
| 0:18.8 | Is the sound of a radio play being. I'm just gonna, can I just |
| 0:29.2 | for my underpants? Created. Yeah, go for it. Maybe I should take it. Yes, underpants. The man you are now hearing. |
| 0:36.0 | Okay. Is the sound of a man named Johnny Spence. |
| 0:42.0 | And a non-character, I'm being John. named Johnny Spence. Spence. |
| 0:43.0 | And I'm not a character. I'm being Johnny right now. |
| 0:45.0 | Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. |
| 0:46.0 | That's good. |
| 0:47.0 | I first met Johnny Spence |
| 0:50.0 | at the very same faraway place where the original real life sweater from last episode was lent to me. |
| 1:00.0 | It was a few years later in that same cold church. |
| 1:06.2 | Johnny and I drank Irish tea. |
| 1:09.3 | Along those same Irish roads, |
| 1:11.9 | we walked to local country pubs. |
| 1:14.0 | This fucking thing is my best friend. |
| 1:16.0 | Makes every Michael of Albert Einstein. |
| 1:18.0 | It's really good. |
| 1:20.0 | And in the same little cabins that the artists get to sleep, we spooned after a long night of drinking. |
| 1:28.0 | Meeting Johnny was like meeting a version of myself I had forgotten. |
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