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The Heart

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The Heart

Kaitlin Prest

Relationships, Society & Culture

4.52.3K Ratings

🗓️ 15 January 2026

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

A series of episodes quietly created from her parents' garage in the sleepy government city of Ottawa. In an era of well-crafted tightly edited, lushly designed and rigorously vetted (either by the network execs that hold the purse strings, by the powers of the algorithm, or by the monster of our own digital footprint-fueled perfectionism), these new episodes do more than just show the hand of the maker, they extend open palms, bow, kneel and lay foreheads to the ground. 

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0:00.0

Articles of Interest is a show about clothing for people who don't necessarily think they're interested in clothing.

0:09.1

My name is Avery Truffleman. I make the show, and I just finished a whole season about the intersection between the military and the outdoor industry.

0:17.5

Would you believe they are deeply, deeply interwoven?

0:20.4

And this year in

0:21.8

26, they're going to be new episodes about tattoos and what they mean for our self-expression,

0:28.0

about bras and whether or not their technology is outdated, an episode about the greatest

0:33.2

designer you've never heard of, and a look at what it means to make clothes truly accessible

0:39.4

for everyone. If you're ready to change your relationship with the clothes you wear every day,

0:45.2

check out articles of interest wherever you get your podcasts.

0:48.7

From Mermaid Palace and Radiotopia,

0:53.5

welcome to the heart. and Radiotopia.

0:58.1

Welcome to the heart.

1:03.1

I'm Caitlin Prest.

1:09.4

In the year 2025, coming home from a trip to celebrate the graduation of somebody that I had just recently

1:14.0

met with the last of the money that I could extravagantly spend. I frantically packed up my

1:23.3

Toronto apartment and took the next step in what I've been jokingly calling, the world's longest

1:29.2

move from Toronto to Montreal. You know, I'm getting, you know, I finally kind of like, I'm making

1:35.9

my way over and I decide I'm going to stop over at my parents' place. It's between Toronto and

1:40.7

Montreal. And I'm going to stay with them for a couple of weeks while I go back and forth

1:45.0

looking at places in Montreal and making the leap.

1:49.0

And as soon as I land in Ottawa,

2:04.6

inertia sets in when my parents' friends

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