Ask Us Anything August 2024!

Unknown Speaker  0:08  
Ask us anything. In podcast show,

Unknown Speaker  0:16  
hey,

Jann Arden  0:16  
just came from my singing lesson.

Caitlin Green  0:19  
Sounds great.

Jann Arden  0:20  
Caitlin green. Sarah Burke. It's an exciting day. It's our Ask Us Anything episode.

Caitlin Green  0:24  
It's kind of like a summer adventure. I like doing this in the summer. I don't know why it feels right for a themed episode. This in the holidays, you can kind of do no wrong,

Sarah Burke  0:33  
we will do another one because the questions are funny.

Caitlin Green  0:35  
There's a lot of them. Yeah,

Jann Arden  0:37  
we have so many questions, you guys. But as promised, our Patreon members, which there are now 143 of you, yay, will be so excited. We're gonna start with the Patreon questions. And there's a lot of them Caitlin and Sarah don't really know what I'm going to ask them. But before we get all, you know, all crazy with the questions. Is there anything we need to update from last week? Is there anything we need to discuss?

Sarah Burke  1:03  
Kailyn you went to a podcast live tape yesterday. Maybe you want to tell us

Caitlin Green  1:06  
so it wasn't a podcast live taping. It was a podcast live event. So other than our podcast, my very favorite podcast is called sexy unique podcast or Sup, which is a play on the restaurant title from Vanderpump Rules, sir sexy, unique restaurant, and it's to comedy writers, Lara Shane halls and Carrie O'Donnell and their comedy writers in LA. They are hilariously funny. They put on an amazing show. They did songs, like I laughed harder at this than I have at most stand up shows. It was incredible. They had a slideshow. They're both from the US. They're talking about like politics in the US. They have the funniest take on pop culture and politics and everything. And then they do an episode recap of like a classic Vanderpump episode. And oh, my God and I I paid for VIP Meet and Greet before.

Jann Arden  1:59  
How much was that?

Caitlin Green  2:01  
It was $75 Oh, it's nothing. It wasn't honestly wasn't bad. And they were there. And like they just the crowd was so cool. And everyone is all in on like the vernacular of the show. And all their little catchphrases and inside jokes. And it was a super fun night. And it just was also very informative to me on like, if we were to do a live event, when obviously we could record an episode, but also they didn't record an episode. They just do this tour in the summer. And, and so they just did you know, it's this living on its own content. And it was it was incredible. Fun was at the Great Hall. A very fun venue. I would guess there was 200 people there at least. Okay,

Jann Arden  2:38  
well, that's a nice sized crowd. Sarah stayed at my house. She's an excellent house guest her and her friend Aaron did my Jann Arden Invitational Golf Classic for in virus, and they stayed here one night and it was so fun. I made them a vegan male. So male, it wasn't a male it was a meal. But I'll tell you what, the score is very high for me, Caitlin, and these girls stripped all their sheets off, got them in the wash machine, all their towels and everything and made the GED beds. Everything was made, everything was done. The pillows were placed meticulously perfect. I think Sara took a picture of the I

Sarah Burke  3:17  
had to because there was like seven pills. I was like I'm gonna try and remember how to Jigsaw this back together.

Caitlin Green  3:22  
fluffed and then chopped.

Sarah Burke  3:24  
I don't think I did the chop.

Caitlin Green  3:25  
I don't do this often chop. Come on, guys. Well, Jan, if I ever come and stay, you'll be like, What are these? And I'll be like fluffed and chopped pillows.

Jann Arden  3:32  
Okay, well, listen, we have so many questions to get to. And I'm going to tell you right now, we're not going to get to all of these questions, because it was pretty spectacular. Patreon. Guys, we're going to nail your questions. First. We're going to go, I'm just going to start right out of the box. Here's our first Patreon question. Megan from Saskatchewan. Hello, from Saskatchewan. Come back to Regina. I will I'm gonna get back there. I promise. You can bring the live podcast show here too. My question for all three ladies is what do you do when everything in the world just feels like too much? How do you unwind and self care? Caitlin, you're out of the gate.

Caitlin Green  4:15  
Oh, I love reality TV. I love going into a place of complete isolation and I don't want to read the news and I don't want any real life information I want to hide away in the world that Bravo has created for me. And I want also I do I know that I really like ASMR videos. So that is a type of video where from I mean there's lots of ones people like whisper and make weird mouth sounds. I don't like that as much. I really enjoy watching people. Clean I'm a clean freak so I love watching people fold towels with a very relaxing instructional voice on how you fold your towels or fold your napkins or iron. I just think it turns my The Brain often sends me until like a meditative state. So I really enjoy that. And I also love running. I love going for a run, and energetically very different than my ASMR. I have a playlist, it's a shared playlist with two friends. And it's deafening dance beats. And I go on the treadmill and I crush as hard of a difficult of a run as I can get. While I essentially damage my hearing listening to dance beats.

Jann Arden  5:26  
Sarah, what's your answer that how do you wind down here,

Sarah Burke  5:29  
if it's in the middle of the day, and I have other things left to do, but I can recognize I need a break. I will do the bike ride or get outside need to have like my feet in the grass or be able to see the water, things like that. So like a one hour bike ride usually cures all for me. And I will often do it as a lunch break to take a break from things if I need to. If it's like end of the day, and it's about winding down and it's been maybe a tough day. I'm like a smoke a joint and listen to an audiobook type person. I don't actually have many subscriptions or watch a lot of TV like I only have subscriptions when it's hockey season. Really. So I'm more of an audio person versus like sports net. Exactly. And I do have sports, like through from the cottage I'm stealing my parents Sportsnet at home so I don't really need it myself. But yeah, other than watching like Blue Jays and hockey I don't watch a lot of TV unless there's something like a documentary I want to like check out that I'll pay for but yeah, audiobooks all the time. Very relaxing for me. I would say Jan, over to you. Oh,

Jann Arden  6:30  
I thought I was going to be exempt from this. I love doing so many things. I live by myself in the trees. I love hanging out with my dog. And I don't really get stressed out I have to tell you I'm on an even keel but I'm older than you guys and I'm just in a point in my life where things just do not get to me I shit doesn't get to me. Yeah, the world sometimes politics or war shit happening on a daily basis that comes at you like a freight train. The moment you open your eyes, but I like you guys. I like being physical. I go down into my little stupid gym and I do the elliptical. I ride the bike. I do a little bit of weights. I walk around my yard. I love reading love reading. Now I'm reading three books at a time I do something autobiographical, I do a novel and I do something historical. And I do like 20 pages of each book every night so I'm going to bed now at 5:30pm Can we can we get my Shall we so I can get my reading in so

Sarah Burke  7:28  
you'll do 20 pages of like say book one then you switch over to book two or you rotate every night?

Jann Arden  7:34  
No, I read all three in the night. Enjoy. I love that. I love it. And I don't get confused or like how to keep track I know exactly what's going on. So I'm maybe came from being paranoid about am I ever going to get through all these books in my room that I've been buying? But yeah, I love to read love hanging out with my friends love having friends over. I love watching movies in my movie room with friends making popcorn and going down there. I usually have people here a couple times a week. But I think generally being creative. I love writing. It's not it's not a job to me love writing music. And I also love doing fucking nothing. I like people who like to never stop. I'm like I stop all the time. Sometimes I'll just sit out on my deck or if it's in the winter I'll sit in front of the fire. I love keeping in touch with people. I like doing that I'm a texter. I love reaching out. Am I FaceTime or love doing that? I think it's really important those social connections, especially when you live alone, but yeah, things like that. Cool. Do you guys ever

Caitlin Green  8:32  
get facials or like go to the spa? Oh, I went to the spa last week Wallington I also I think of that too. I'm like, okay, yeah, no, those are that's good. If I'm upset I'll I'll book a facial and if one of my girlfriend's is telling me she's upset, I'm like, go get a facial.

Jann Arden  8:43  
Yeah, what was it called again?

Sarah Burke  8:45  
Canna Nast kiss. We could say it that's the spot and ask us in the mountains. We went before we came to Jan's with our girlfriend, Danny who was in the foursome. And it was like, it's one thing to go to a spa and just relax. It's another thing to be able to see the mountains while you do it. God, okay,

Jann Arden  9:05  
a whole change of gear here. This is from Deb. Hello, ladies. Have you ever asked for anyone's autograph? And do you still have it? Hmm. I thought that was kind of a fun one.

Sarah Burke  9:16  
I have so I have I have Ozzy Osbourne.

Caitlin Green  9:20  
You do.

Sarah Burke  9:20  
Do you still have it funny? Yeah. We were doing a broadcast at Budweiser gardens in London. That arena when he came with Black Sabbath, the reunion tour and I got my record signed. So that was cool. That's cute. Yeah, Jen.

Jann Arden  9:34  
I have a few. I have Richard carpenters. I was at some kind of a publishing party years ago in Los Angeles and Richard was there. Karen had already passed away. And I went up to him and I had some sheet music from we've only just begun. And yes, I brought it with me to this party. And I had him sign it. And it's he's got the most beautiful, long, beautiful signature. Sure. I also waited in line for I'm going to say eight hours with my friend Anita at the Bay downtown in Calgary in 1976. For Cheryl Ladd, she was the new Charlie's Angel. And I got her autograph and I was so ridiculous. I had been holding on to this little tiny piece of paper that had the address of the red Dutton arena, which is out in spring bank and invited her to come and see our girls hockey game. That's how ridiculous I was like Cheryl Ladd was going to show up to the girls hockey game. And the other one I have is Olivia Newton, John. Oh, and she just sent me a signed picture of herself. I didn't ask for it. But I'm so glad that I have it. After I sang with her on a duets record that she did. That's really and I really, I've got them all. I still have all of them. I've got my Cheryl Ladd poster somewhere. I should put it up in the movie room. I have

Caitlin Green  10:56  
autographs I just have never asked. Oh, I like somewhere at my parents house. Is an autographed album of living under June by you, Jan?

Jann Arden  11:04  
Oh, yeah,

Caitlin Green  11:05  
did I because that's I'm very flattered. My dad worked in, in music for a minute. And I guess you had come around to I forget what the name of this like entertainment company was, and done some like press and saw people at the office or whatever. And I really liked the album. And so he got it for me. And I thought that was very sweet of him. And when I was a kid, I had a bunch of signed old signed Blue Jays stuff and I don't know where that is like T shirts or things like that. Because

Sarah Burke  11:30  
am I talking about I have every Blue Jays autograph? How did I forget

Jann Arden  11:35  
why you're being prompted that's why I've been having people ask us questions. You

Sarah Burke  11:38  
know, if I pulled out a bunch of records from my collection, I know like over the years you know just as you do an interview someone like casually will like sign something for you if you had it in the studio. So I know I have a ton of those in there. The Ozzie one just kind of stood out as like a big moment. But the Blue Jays with their season ticket holders, they do this thing once a season usually where you can like go on the field, and they'll do like a meet and greet with players of that year. So over the years, you know, I've collected I have one jersey that is basically all signatures that Oh, I think I

Jann Arden  12:10  
feel like we maybe mount any sign balls. You got any sign ball,

Sarah Burke  12:14  
no sign balls. No. And I've never caught a ball. Although my section definitely has received many balls. But yeah, I have a jersey that you know, to be mounted and whatever when I'm done collecting. Okay, well, that's good.

Jann Arden  12:27  
And here's another question. Hello ladies. This is from Lisa awakes. Lisa is a new Patreon member highly I just became a member of your Patreon community and happy to be here. Great episode this week. My question for each of you what is your top travel destination on your bucket list that you haven't been to?

Sarah Burke  12:44  
We also had a voice note for this one. Hi,

Speaker 1  12:46  
Jen, Caitlin, and Sarah. This is Stephanie from Guelph, Ontario. I just wanted to say first off, I love you ladies so so much and your podcasts, you're on my weekly dose of positivity. And thank you for doing all that you do. One swearing word, one laugh one chuckle and one podcast at a time. Thank you. If you could go anywhere tomorrow, if you could travel anywhere tomorrow, all expenses paid paid. Where would it be and why? Thank you so much for listening to me and have a fabulous day. I'll be looking forward to the next recording. You're simply the best Japan

Caitlin Green  13:28  
Hmm, that was quick. Number one can't wait to go so excited. I'm like planning this trip in my head already. I know it's gonna be a minute until we can go but I cannot wait to see that country. I am so excited. I'm gonna go top to tail. See the whole thing. eat all the food go on all the trains, like see the big cities and the forest and hike and I just I'm so enamored with Japanese culture. I'm very excited to go I love that.

Jann Arden  13:55  
You can get champagne out of a vending machine. I love that shoes. And cheeseburgers you can get anything out of a vending machine. In Japan. They're just Ultra. You can go into a restaurant, scan your credit card, and the food will like pop out at your table. It's so automated they're like they've eliminated they're eliminating people which is really fun. Well

Caitlin Green  14:18  
their food their like their 711 food is so good that they're exiled sandwiches at 711 Sell out usually before 10am every morning. They bring in a new stock of them and they are fantastic they're like coveted the world over for being so delicious. I love Japanese food I love how clean and orderly everything is it really just it really does it for me so I'm I'm excited to go I also love going somewhere where no one speaks the same language as you because it feels exciting and shocking. So I'll have my Google Translate out. Sarah,

Sarah Burke  14:49  
New Zealand I would say but I would put your like I would put your pan right underneath it New Zealand and Australia might be just on on top just to think about like, you know, we have that one list. who's like, oh, you know when it's summer for you guys, it's winter for us like I think that would be such a mindfuck.

Jann Arden  15:04  
I too am going to say Japan. And it's very bizarre. Chris and I were on route to Japan. So on one of my corporate jobs one of because they didn't have a lot of money, I think it was a charity. They'd given us two tickets to anywhere that Air Canada flew. And then COVID happened while we had picked, Chris had bought me. Japan phrases Japan places to go things to do in Japan train schedules. Just really cool TripAdvisor stuff to do not so much touristy things. And we never ended up going. So it was kind of a bummer. It was March and we're going to see the cherry blossoms, and all that kind of stuff. But my second place would be and we will get there, I'll definitely I definitely want to go. It's easy on this side of the world a little easier than it is for you guys. Because we just go straight from Vancouver, Egypt, there is a Nile cruise that they do. So imagine going you don't have to deal with a hotel, you put your stuff on. The bus picks you up at the airport, you put all your things on this beautiful little was cruise ship that is like 60 people, you go down the Nile, and then they take you to the Valley of the Kings and they take you to the pyramids and all this stuff. And I would love to do that. It's I think it's quite pricey. But hopefully one day I'll get there. So that's that's that Heather McGill, Patreon, Heather McGill, longtime fan, I'd be remiss if I didn't mention Heather. Hello, lovely ladies, you are all so amazing. Jan, what is one song that you would love to sing live that you've never performed in concert? I'll tell you right now what it is whether it's a song called Pink, and I think I'm going to pull it out on my next tour somehow, some way. It's pretty extravagant, the production's kind of wild, but we'll figure it out. Plus, there's a giant choir in it. So I have to figure that out. And for the three of you. Heather is facing some major career decisions, and she is super anxious about them. How do you find the strength to do what you know in your heart is right, even though everything is very uncertain,

Caitlin Green  17:00  
I feel like I'm like I want more info?

Sarah Burke  17:04  
Can I find a friend know?

Jann Arden  17:06  
When you are not exactly sure how to move forward? What are the kinds of things that you might tell yourself, I think we can be a little bit more general about this without knowing the specifics. I know that I I trust myself, implicitly, at my age. And I know whether you're a little bit younger than me, you have a young teenage daughter, I think your daughter is in her teens now. I just don't doubt my decisions. And I'm not worried about making the wrong decision. And she and I've talked about that before. You know, my mom used to say to me, Jan, the hardest part is making a decision, that decision doesn't have to be the right one. And that really shifted how I thought about making up my mind about things. And my dad said something similar to when I went to college for the first time when I was 19. And I didn't know what to take, and I took theater arts and he said to me at the dinner table, while you're sure as hell find out what you don't want to do. So true. And that is a different way of looking at things. So don't worry about making the wrong decision, Heather, that's my humble opinion. And you will get to where you're going is sometimes it takes us a long time. It took me five years to end a relationship five years that I knew at the beginning of that five years that I should be out of. And I just wasn't in a place in my life where I could make that decision. So my wrong decision was to stay. But I still think I did the right thing in hindsight.

Caitlin Green  18:30  
Yeah, I don't think you'll ever go wrong with taking action. Generally speaking, I think my larger regrets are periods of inaction. So that's what that's what I think because you know, at least if you're doing something and switching it up and changing it, you're moving forward in some way. But I think you know, inertia creeps, and you don't want to get stuck in the muck for too long. So if you already have that gut feeling, just just do something about it, whatever that something looks like for you.

Sarah Burke  18:58  
I think my pause there where I was thinking about that question was because I often feel like my gut does make the right decision. I don't think about those things too much. And you know, just piggybacking on what you both said, you know, every failure is a lesson. So there's really not like, it's a win win situation, whether you're learning a lesson and changing something and your path forward. Or, you know, you made the right decision and things went well. So that's my sort of take on that.

Jann Arden  19:28  
Whether you hang in there, and try not to worry and make sure you look after yourself. You're number one. My 92 year old friend Mary Ann Seeley always says Who do we look after Jen, who's first? And I'm like me, and she goes That's right. There's

Sarah Burke  19:45  
this analogy of like, even if you're just an individual, the board of directors, and on your personal board of directors, there should be a few different opinions that you value from like all different perspectives, you know, and that can help you make decisions if you find your Sell frozen in what to do? Like, you know, I have one friend that I always talk to about business stuff. I have one friend that's more about personal stuff and they can, on the same subject give you two different perspectives that might help

Jann Arden  20:12  
you. We love you, Heather, we are just going to take a real quick break. We're going to be right back. Don't go away, you're listening to the Jann Arden podcast.

Next question, and then I'm going to you guys prep because you're going to ask the next few questions, but I cannot skip Arlen, ar l e. N. First of all, I want to read her comment, because it's really interesting. She said Someone recently asked her what it felt like to be in love at your age at 77. And she told the person asking the question, she had no clue because number one, I've never been 77 before. And I haven't been in love since 1983. Number two, I have avoided romantic relationships like the plague since that time. Number three, I'm pretty sure falling in love is facilitated by hormones. And I don't have any. Hahaha. But I'll ask my panel of experts, which I guess is us. Now that I have the question in the experts, I realize you guys are all too young to even know this. So I'm going to have to come up with a new question. So she asked us individually, Caitlyn, she asks you, if you could only teach your son three things? What would they be? Oh.

Caitlin Green  21:25  
I think I would try to teach him how to like cultivate a very valuable inner circle, probably, you know, the whole belief that you're like the sum total of the people you spend the most time with, I think that rings pretty true. So I would want that. I also feel like I would want to teach him how to be curious sort of about the world and himself and like a kind of like a curiosity about how things work and why people will make people tick and how to navigate yourself. And then lastly, I'm gonna try real, real hard to have him be way better with money than I was when I was younger. Because that's ultimately security, you know, and in our capitalistic society. So yeah, I'll be like, I'm going to be on him about finances. You're

Jann Arden  22:15  
already doing everything. So great. I look at you with such awe you and you and Kyle are just what a lucky boy, we love really, it's really, really, really fun to watch him and his outfits and I just want to bite his kneecaps and just

Caitlin Green  22:31  
good luck. There's so you know, he

Jann Arden  22:35  
just you just want to do raspberries everywhere. And there's something that happens to us as grown as adults that you just know what's wrong in your head to want to bite fingers off. It's so

Caitlin Green  22:46  
cute aggression. It's there's a name for it. It's called cute aggression. And it's a real compulsion that people have because it's the cutest thing you've ever seen and yet handle it. Your brain can't handle it.

Jann Arden  22:57  
You're gonna bust your teeth off doing that I know. Okay, from Ireland. And this is Sarah, what is your biggest pet peeve? And I think this is a great question for you in particular, Oh, God.

Sarah Burke  23:06  
I feel like if I had to sum it up, whichever environment you're in, if you are having your conversation so loud, that someone else cannot have their own, like, on an airplane, like at the gym, I might have stopped going to the gym because I couldn't stand hearing the people while I was working out. Amen sister. Like, I just want to turn around and be like, I shouldn't be able to fucking hear you over this fucking music. Like I get so angry might also be part of the ADHD stuff. Anyway, on the airplane. On the way home from Alberta. The girl beside me was turning around to talk between the two chairs to the two girls behind her the entire the whole of the entire flight. I had headphones in I was editing a podcast and I could still hear their entire conversation. I could not Oh my God truly Shut up all of those people and the people who can't this is my last one. I realized I'm on a rant. The people who hold their phones like this here like this. What like why? Why are you having it's okay if you're doing Siri and sending a quick message back to someone. But if you're having a full conversation in public like in the grocery store line on your phone like this, no, I'm speaking

Caitlin Green  24:17  
from No Yeah, no, absolutely. Nobody wants to hear your conversation. You're sick idiot and the fuck out. Exactly.

Sarah Burke  24:22  
Okay, I'm done. I'm done. It's

Jann Arden  24:25  
the guys pacing in an airport. They've got their earbuds in and they're pacing around and they're talking business shes and it's so goddamn loud. I don't know how they can be and they only have one thing in and before little earbuds came in those goddamn Bluetooth things that were like giant it looked like they were literally walking around with a phone stuck onto their ear. But it's just those guys with sandals with no socks or little shoes with a sock at I don't know why the

Caitlin Green  24:53  
dry is least you've ever seen in your life and then cargo shorts. Yes.

Jann Arden  24:57  
And they're just in a very bad tattoo, a very bad tattoo, maybe a Tweety Bird or I don't know something juvenile like, I don't know. But yeah, the talking out loud. Sarah, well said, Okay, I'm gonna hand it over to you. You guys can ask a few questions if you have them in front of you

Sarah Burke  25:14  
have more Patreon questions since they are I've got

Jann Arden  25:17  
so many. There's a billion I

Sarah Burke  25:20  
have. So let's do some of those. And then we'll do socials.

Caitlin Green  25:21  
One is specifically from a listener named Jennifer. And she said that she has three questions, one for each of us. She said, Jan, my favorite song of all time from you is counting mercies are you able to share where the inspiration or the meaning behind the song came from? Very

Jann Arden  25:36  
quickly. I love counting mercies too. I've been finishing my, my tours for probably a decade with that song. It's about passing away. I think basically, I think it is about mortality, essentially. And realizing that you did the best you could with the information that you had at the time as a person, how much I love and value my parents and their flawed guidance, and their inability to also be perfect the whole time. Like I'm able to look at that now as a grown ass adult and go, Man, they did the best they could at the time, I was just mad about things my dad didn't do, or my mom kind of martyring herself a little bit and now I'm just like, oh my god, they were people they were worried about their own stuff. So that's essentially what that song is about. But thank you for for enjoying it.

Caitlin Green  26:24  
I love that. Okay, and Sarah, she says, I know you'd like to golf, and I'm in the process of buying new golf clubs. My current clubs are from Canadian Tire $150 circa 2007. What clubs do you use? Are they new? Did you have a golf fitting? You

Sarah Burke  26:40  
know, like when the next big check comes in, I would 100% go get fitted like two of my girlfriends this summer got fitted and have their new clubs and it is changing their game completely. And I'm so jealous, but like the realistic investment there is like $3,000 so I at the beginning of the pandemic lost my clubs. I don't know how it happened. I think it was when I went to take my car and to get my winters off. And I

Jann Arden  27:06  
don't know just back up a bit here. How do you lose a set of fine? No,

Sarah Burke  27:10  
I know. But this is this is classic Sarah. So they were either taken out of my trunk when I was getting my winter swapped out. Or because I helped a friend move and she was using all these you know, storage buckets from my storage unit downstairs. I might have taken the clubs out and put them back in might have been my cat. Anyway, so this prompted me to get the current set I have which are magnolias do not buy the magnolias because they are so dumbed up like It's like they can't even take a friggin golf ball. So I'm, I'm sad that I got those and I want new ones at the jannard and Invitational I used a set of I think they were tailor made, and I really liked them. But I honestly think you you have to like the fitting is you know, they help you with your angles and everything. So it's a totally different situation. But most golf clubs that are like 500 to 700 bucks, you know, if you're just playing like, you know, a couple times a month, you're going to be totally fine. Like I wouldn't stress about it. If you're like joining the ladies League and super crazy about it, then you want to invest. So I have to

Jann Arden  28:13  
ask you this, Caitlin before you go because I know you want to ask yourself a question, but this is from Amy F Patreon. Being on the radio for so long. What was your favorite on air radio moment from your radio days? And on the other side of that coin? What was your one of your most embarrassing moments ABF Patreon who loved this quest on air. Okay,

Caitlin Green  28:32  
so on the air. This one's a combo when I was still kind of behind the scenes on chum. We had an interview setup with Prince Prince was doing some phone in interviews. And normally what happens in a phone interview is there's like 10 layers of PR or outlet management or whatever between you and the person. So you know they call in Hey, we have prints on the line and prints PR comes and they tell you all the stuff you can and can't ask him points you have to hit ask you for timing blah, blah, blah. If they don't even have to wait 30 seconds. Sometimes they like say okay, we'll call you back. Like they're so important. They can't even wait 30 seconds on hold. Foner is happening at like 810. So I'm like okay, so we have a hotline in the studio, the hotline rings. It's like the Bat Signal flashes in the studio and like it's starting. Everyone's on pins and needles. And I answer the phone and I'm like, you know, hi, Trump's studio, and it's just friggin prints right away. And he's just like, hi, it's me, like, I swear to God, purple smoke came out of the receiver of the phone. It was it was just a treat. And like that's kind of what

Unknown Speaker  29:41  
Moog smooth.

Caitlin Green  29:45  
And it was just I was like, Oh my God. I said, Oh, my god is this prince and he laughed and was like, Yes, it's me. And I was like, oh my god, I couldn't believe it. I was just tickled. And he was wonderful and he had this wonderful smooth voice And he was, you know, he knew the value of still doing radio interviews and, and he obviously is familiar with Toronto, we had a house in the bridle path. And just so that was like that was like magic. That was very, very cool. And also to I always found like when celebrities were down home, that always impressed me. I always remember that, like Michael Cera came by himself, in like a neon orange tuk, and wanted to come with me, I offered to make him some coffee from our terrible coffee makers. And he was like, Oh, come with you. And like, walked with me. And like, wanted to see the coffee maker. And we were like cracking jokes about how gross it was. And he drank the coffee anyways. And he came on the air and talked about how he used to listen to beat the bank. Like he was just the regular pneus of Michael Cera. And this was when he was like he was, you know, he was it was a big deal for him to becoming at the time. So that I really liked most embarrassing. I don't know, I can't remember, like, when you pronounce something wrong on the air charters,

Sarah Burke  30:54  
I've done that. That you said that Foo Fighters Yep. So that

Jann Arden  31:00  
I'm never gonna say Foo Fighters again. I'm gonna say Foo Fighters.

Caitlin Green  31:03  
we've rebranded them officially love the Foo Fighters. I'm trying to think it's like it is something by the wrong. It's when you call someone, usually it was a tennis player. It's a tennis player with like 50 consonants in their last name. And I just had to say their name. And then and the the thing is, the sickos out there who can't wait to call and say. I'm like, Well, let me get rid of processing your refund for the Free Radio show. We're doing Yeah. So anytime you do that you do feel like a full idiot and you come back on the air. So if you get something wrong, you do want to correct it. Like you don't like to get something wrong. But I can't think of a specific one. Like if I didn't have Foo Fighters. I wish I did. I wish I did.

Sarah Burke  31:44  
I have to tell you, you guys, these I know I wasn't asked and I'm sorry. But I

Jann Arden  31:48  
feel like this is what these conversations are about. It's this is what makes them fun. It's it prompts us all to think of these things. Okay,

Sarah Burke  31:55  
so just a quick one. It's always music because I did so many years of music radio. Led Zeppelin has a song called drum maker. And it's D apostrophe y er, and then the word maker. So Sarah Burke circuit 2009 doing her first like 6am radio show on a weekend. Saturday morning, says Dyer maker. Here's Dyer maker on FM 96. Yeah, the call came in within three seconds. And

Jann Arden  32:22  
yeah, yeah, people want to jump on you. And like

Sarah Burke  32:25  
you, you're like, No one's here. But I'm so embarrassed, right? Like it's totally. And then I also ruined Christmas one time for a child who was in the car when I was doing a bit about Santa. No, I know. And now that that's the cardinal rule radio, I know. But it was also it was also a classic rock station. So I just wasn't anticipating the listener anyway, big I, oh, my goodness. Oh, my God.

Caitlin Green  32:49  
It's funny because I wouldn't have thought of that when I got started in radio. And I then realized that the magic of it all was that you play along with all of those like saying you have so I but that was it. Like if that's not explicitly told to you, it is not something you're naturally aware of as an adult. And so I remember Roger and Marilyn and our program director would all you know, you knew seasonally what you were and weren't saying like just

Sarah Burke  33:13  
have a pep talk with the job before she starts radio, please. That's

Caitlin Green  33:16  
fair. That's fair. I you know what, that's your that's your program directors fault.

Sarah Burke  33:22  
Anyway, okay, so more Patreon questions before we move on? Do we have a few more? Yeah,

Caitlin Green  33:27  
yeah, we got more.

Jann Arden  33:28  
We've got so many sitting in front of me. It's crazy. In general, this was interesting. And I'll just throw this out there. I'm going to sort of condense this into Carrie from Patreon. Thank you very much for your question. And thank you for signing up for our Patreon. Generally, a lot of people like I'm going to say 25 People have asked us who we would have dinner with live who wants to start, you start? Well, gosh, I just have so many. And don't make fun of me. Because you said Dead or Alive Carrie,

Sarah Burke  33:59  
Ellen and Stephanie also asked that question too. So just throwing them yeah, there's so

Jann Arden  34:03  
yes to all you people that asked a similar along those lines. Who would you have at your dinner party? I'm going to dig back in history. I'm going to say Henry the eighth. I think that would be so mind boggling to sit in front of this man. 400 pound man with a red beard and a really weird looking dude with a stinky leg because he had Boyles and a leg that never healed after a jousting accident, but I won't bore you with all the historic details him. Elizabeth the first which was his daughter through Anne Boleyn. So that would have been like outrageously cool, and I guess I should say somebody modern. Bette Midler, of course, is always very high on my list. And one other person, I'm going to just throw whatever no dinner party love to have dinner with oh my gosh, there's so many people. I'd like to have dinner with Celine Dion.

Sarah Burke  34:56  
We have a saline question coming which

Jann Arden  34:59  
is That's it. That's That's my dinner but I'm very very earnest about Henry the Eighth and Elizabeth the first and I think he asked like, they would both be so stinky. I don't even know what she used led makeup on her face that white makeup. Our teeth were rotting out. Okay, I would I probably have to just serve some kind of peacock covered in sugar and cinnamon. I don't know. What would I serve? What honestly,

Caitlin Green  35:21  
what are they going to eat? They probably have like little like, herbs for teeth. You're gonna have to give them pablum.

Jann Arden  35:26  
They might want something from planta you know?

Caitlin Green  35:29  
They probably just want an orange. They're all dying of scurvy. Day is growth. Can I pick Hitler so I can kill him? Just kidding. Then I would mess up everyone's timeline but I could mean I could I could poison him. Like I could have dinner with Hitler. And I've just poisoned him put like rat poison in the soup or something that's

Jann Arden  35:46  
like, send your letters to the women no to Caitlyn green.

Caitlin Green  35:53  
If you have issues with me killing Hitler, I wish

Jann Arden  35:57  
I would I would back you up. I would be your getaway car driver. Love

Sarah Burke  36:02  
this. It's really just seemed like here who you would actually have dinner with.

Caitlin Green  36:05  
Okay, fine. Rihanna obvious.

Sarah Burke  36:07  
oh nine.

Caitlin Green  36:08  
The ously hanging out with Rihanna.

Jann Arden  36:10  
We're gonna try and make these dreams come true folks. Not so much the dead people but not so much Hillary.

Caitlin Green  36:17  
So yeah, definitely Rihanna. I love Conan O'Brien. I have revered him since I first saw him on like late late night. So I would love to speak with him. I adore Tina Fey. I have a huge amount of respect for her. So I think she would be a real thrill to talk to and I probably should talk to like a saucy politician. I love Bernie Sanders. I'd love to hear what he has to say about stuff and like the state of the world and like, I just because I feel like he'd give it to your real like, you

Jann Arden  36:43  
know the Hey, you people.

Caitlin Green  36:45  
Oh my god. Andy Cohen. What? Dan, thank you for doing this for me. Andy Cohen off sitting here

Jann Arden  36:50  
in front of you going what is happening here? Why isn't it

Caitlin Green  36:54  
like Andy Cohen? Yes, Andy? Yeah, okay. Okay.

Jann Arden  36:57  
Well, you know, I sat beside him in a theater and I can't I smiled and I grabbed his Wiener, but that was it. Can you imagine? I didn't say one word because I thought he is not need a lunatic woman to go and hey, I didn't say one word. I smiled. I sat down. I looked forward The Glass Menagerie with Sally Field. It was the most it was heavy. Okay. Anyway, sir.

Sarah Burke  37:19  
Okay, current times it's easy because I have forever been obsessed with the frontman of my favorite band ever,

Caitlin Green  37:26  
which is Weezer. So oh my god rivers Cuomo, rivers

Sarah Burke  37:29  
Cuomo is my little nerdo I would die to have it like and he is a brilliant genius went to Harvard, but has this rock band. So I just think having a conversation with him over dinner would be amazing.

Caitlin Green  37:40  
I just tell him to play Pinkerton again, but he won't I love that's my favorite record, obviously.

Sarah Burke  37:43  
And I have interviewed the rest of the band but not him. So still on the bucket list. See what happens later in life. I'm gonna make that happen. We're gonna try. This is like a dead or alive situation from from the past. One of my grandmother's my mom's mom passed away when I was like, really young. Like I think I was. I think it was five years old. If I haven't Correct. I just would have loved to learn more about her and my mom because I had the, you know, the privilege of having my other grandparents until university. So I just would have loved to learn more about her and my mom growing up like my mom is a kid. That's the sweetest that's. And yeah, my grandfather who fucks with the lights in my place that you guys have heard me talk about, like, come on back for dinner. Tell me what you think of life now. Like I would. I mean, I just think about those things sometimes. So

Jann Arden  38:33  
now you make me feel like I shouldn't be saying my mom and dad. Well, we know that you would.

Sarah Burke  38:37  
Anyway, I feel like that goes on, you know without you having to say and don't feel bad. I said Hitler. Like if anyone

Caitlin Green  38:44  
has been mindless for killing purposes, but anyways. Oh, Jim. We

Sarah Burke  38:47  
also had a couple of voice notes.

Speaker 2  38:48  
Hi, this is Darren from New Brunswick. This questions for Jane was wondering what inspired you to write the song was I ever 13 from your last CD? I really liked that song. It's really catchy. When I saw it when I heard you play it. On your last tour at the Avenir center. I was really impressed how It's so catchy like, anyways, I really enjoy listen to the podcast and the guests each week. Keep up the good work and have a good week coming up. Thank you. Bye.

Jann Arden  39:23  
Oh, it's about my my mom and dad. My dad's alcoholism. Was I ever 13 living in my parents house. So that's how the song starts out. And I really was I was reflecting upon, oh my God, my mum and dad were young. I was in the house, ironing in my mom's ironing room watching Star Trek and eating generic Salt and Vinegar, potato chips from Co Op and pop shop pop. And there was like a storm cloud in my house all the time with my dad. And my mom was always trying to mitigate his behavior. And that's what that song is about. It's about the tumultuous times of growing up and actually reflecting back and go on to say was I ever 15 Was I ever 18 You know, was I ever was I ever that person and it just seemed very hard to believe. So I wrote a song about it

Sarah Burke  40:15  
I'm going to do some more like quicker fire ones here. And then I'm gonna save the deep ones that we might do for bonus content. Janeth if you were being evacuated from your home, you can only take two things with you and Jen. Besides Poppy, what are the two things for all three puppies? Not one of them? Puppies, not one of them. Basically, puppies in your little knapsack thing. What other two things are you getting?

Jann Arden  40:36  
Oh my gosh, there's my phone. I'm sorry. That's terrible. And I would probably try and grab my stack of diaries because I write every night, when I'm in bed. It doesn't matter if I'm exhausted. It doesn't matter. If I write eight words, I am so fucking tired. The plane just landed goodbye, you know, July 19. I would grab that. And they're very fairly substantial. There's a big stack of diaries. And there's a box with my mom's diaries from the time she was a kid. Like she started writing it about 1012 13 years old, and I would grab those. Everything else, I guess it would just be it doesn't matter. But those things are irreplaceable. They're not on the cloud. They're not on the

Sarah Burke  41:19  
cloud. The cloud. That's a great name for an episode title. We should bring them back. Caitlin, how about you?

Caitlin Green  41:26  
Well, I'm assuming if we replace Poppy with will and Kyle Tyler coming up on Kyler or I'm assuming you're

Jann Arden  41:34  
carrying them both strapped to my back.

Caitlin Green  41:38  
We're going full Backdraft. Yeah. Well, we have Sam's ashes here at our house. So he has his own little area. So I would take his ashes and probably the painting of us with him that we had commissioned. And also well, my and my husband gave me a necklace. Like sort of to commemorate his passing to it has like his initials. And this little it's from this really amazing jewelry designer out of New York called foundry. It would be a grab between those three all things, Sam. Okay. I love that.

Jann Arden  42:07  
How about you, Sarah?

Sarah Burke  42:08  
My puffer because like, your asthma puffer Yeah, my asthma.

Jann Arden  42:13  
God, that is so depressing. You have to that's your house is on fire, not your asthma puffer like

Sarah Burke  42:18  
when the zombie apocalypse hits. I'm only as good as how long my puffers lasts for. I know, I know, but it's okay. So puffer being one, and I would say, Pinkerton, the album signed by most of the band except rivers.

Jann Arden  42:37  
Are you being quite serious right now? Yes. Okay.

Sarah Burke  42:39  
Okay. Okay. This one's a quick one. Danielle, what's your favorite venue to play? Jen? I mean, I would love to say that Caitlin, and I play venues. But you know, we

Caitlin Green  42:46  
know my favorite

Jann Arden  42:47  
venue to play. Yeah. Oh my gosh, I love so many them. There's some of these crazy casinos that I frickin love. These casinos that have like 5000 people, the seats in them and that's this, these old big warehouses and there's something about them that are so fun and so charming. That's the first big casino Niagara Falls that I absolutely love to play. There's a casino in London, Ontario that I love to play. Like, I like doing the casinos. And I've played all over the world. I've played the Sydney Opera House, which I didn't particularly like I was with Michael boob lay. It was okay. It was kind of weird building. But I just I don't need fancy i i played a high school gym in northern Alberta at a little town. I'm trying to remember what the town was Chris would know. And they had all these folding chairs out in the gym. It was just part of a tour years ago and we had the greatest time ever. Massey Hall is okay. I liked it. remade. I liked it before it was remade. Yeah, I liked the old dressing rooms that you could just feel the bodies of the Ann Marie's in the Gordon Lightfoot and the Joni Mitchell's and you could see in Vegas and every the hundreds and hundreds of artists that had been through their prints being one of them. And when they redid the building, I just kind of knocked something out of there that is just it'll never be the same. So it's okay I have a terrible time hearing myself in there. Oh yeah. Okay, give me a casino give me a casino and I'm a happy girl. Okay, so

Sarah Burke  44:19  
funny Karen love that says if you had to choose a different career path other than the one you've chosen, what would it be for all three of us? I know I feel like I know dance. But go ahead. No, I'm

Caitlin Green  44:29  
not going I just answered one Caitlin, you go I know Jan Janssen archaeologist yep,

Sarah Burke  44:33  
I thought you're gonna say teacher

Jann Arden  44:34  
I'd love to be teaching archaeology.

Caitlin Green  44:38  
Combo though

Sarah Burke  44:42  
I'm trying to think I know what mine would be in it's so weird. Do

Caitlin Green  44:45  
you're kind of don't know dentist Okay, now

Jann Arden  44:48  
you're fucking with me. I'm

Sarah Burke  44:49  
not fucking with you. When I want to pierce

Caitlin Green  44:51  
an abscess with a little metal tool say no. When

Sarah Burke  44:55  
when I was growing up and like in Grade Two, they made us put a thing on the wall. It was like in the year 2000. I will be an I was probably a dentist and I always wanted to be a dentist. I still to this day, love going to the dentist. I'm shocked.

Caitlin Green  45:09  
I want to be everything whenever I watch it on a movie so like if I watch a spy movie, I'm an I want to be a spy. If I watch a legal drama, I'm like, I should have been a lawyer. You know, I want to be a surgeon I want to be but when I was I will say when I was a child, I wanted to be a cartoonist. I wanted to be an animator who I was obsessed with Calvin and Hobbes, there was like

Sarah Burke  45:29  
Calvin and Hobbes and a Garfield like learn how to do the cartoons, books. I had both of these

Jann Arden  45:34  
far side.

Caitlin Green  45:36  
I was obsessed with the far side. I grew into the far side fast, but I have I'm not joking. I have every single Calvin and Hobbes I basically had the memorized I read them every single day. It entirely formed my childhood view of the world and sense of humor, which I don't know if that's good or bad. My teacher probably didn't like it very much. Yeah, and I love farside I just loved I love satire. I love the like dry, sarcastic, satirical take that you could pair with an actual like cutesy looking cartoon.

Sarah Burke  46:06  
I thought that was really doing the new podcast or next time we need it. Done.

Caitlin Green  46:09  
I'm not good. That's the problem. I wish I was good. I'm not good. I'm not good.

Jann Arden  46:14  
Yeah, but that was good. Anyway. Yeah. Good is in the eye of the beholder. Yeah, this is time sensitive.

Sarah Burke  46:20  
This is timely from maddeningly Maddie on Twitter. She says, Thank you for the laughs as always, there's hope in the US. Thanks for all the info about the voice and love Michael Buble. I can't wait to hear your thoughts on Celine at the Olympics.

Jann Arden  46:34  
I was really emotional. Watching her sing. I can't imagine the preparation, the work that went into the rehabilitation that she did. She worked her ass off both physically, mentally, spiritually, every way she could to get up there. Because as we know from watching, if you've watched the documentary, I am Celine on Amazon, you know that anything could trigger her having the spasms of excitement. And being in front of a large crowd standing on the Eiffel Tower, I would imagine would register on on that front. Anyway, she just got up there. She looked stunning. Her hair pulled back that beautiful. And I just felt like she was so proud and relieved in that moment to be able to pull that off. And it was incredible. You know, you're never done till you're done. And she's gonna decide that. And it was stunning. I'm very, very proud for her. And it's very inspiring. So yeah, it was pretty damn great. I

Caitlin Green  47:30  
just loved it. I mean, exact same thing you just said I loved it. The fashion, the drama, the location, the comeback for her. Incredible. Yeah, she's an inspiration. Just Can't Get Enough.

Sarah Burke  47:40  
So this is a follow up on Olympics from Rachel. She's based in Hamilton, she wrote us on our website. Hi, ladies. It's

Speaker 3  47:47  
Rachel calling from Hamilton, Ontario. I just watched summer McIntosh win the first Canadian medal at the Olympics. So I wondered what your thoughts are on the Olympics. And I wondered if any of you had met any Olympians or have any experiences with past Olympics or if you had any stories around any athletes or favorite memories?

Jann Arden  48:09  
What you think about it all? I haven't been watching. I think it's incredible what these young people do. Yeah, I mean, I should sit down and watch for a few days but I've honestly just been so busy around here and I was busy on the weekend and I had company and I know that sounds awful. But I don't I don't know much about them. I couldn't tell you who won what where listen, I'm still fucking getting over the goddamn Canadian soccer team flying a drone over somebody else practicing let's

Sarah Burke  48:37  
let's call it the coach. It wasn't the team and the team is suffering. Okay, sorry for it. I will say Oh, yeah,

Jann Arden  48:44  
that flew a drone over so that that was my big splashy Olympic moment that's what has lingered for me which is shitty, but that's the media for you. That's what I got. Just imagine

Sarah Burke  48:54  
being one of those players. This cloud is following you around, but you're still you're at the Olympics and you've trained your whole life for this right so I just can't imagine being in that position.

Caitlin Green  49:03  
I'll see some clips and be like, Oh cool.

Jann Arden  49:05  
When they included skateboarding in as in an Olympic event as some of the things that are like beach volleyball fuck I'm lost here as an Olympic event. I just there's events that are in there is air hockey going to be an Olympic event like two people with the paddles on an air hockey machine and might

Caitlin Green  49:25  
already be like, I'm impressed that people do it. Yeah, but I'm also like, you're the best at exercising like I don't know

Jann Arden  49:30  
if we're the wrong people to ask and I'm sorry. I'm

Caitlin Green  49:33  
sorry for if you asked me about reality TV I'll have I'll have it but i

Jann Arden  49:37  
i So am blown away by the athleticism, the dedication people dedicate their lives to doing the sports and it is awe inspiring, and I'm gonna watch more but I don't watch any sports like I so I'm just not that person.

Sarah Burke  49:55  
Moving on. Jana. Want to play you another voice note here. Hello,

Speaker 4  49:57  
Jan, Caitlin and Sarah. My name is Tracy from Belleville, Ontario. I want to start off by thanking the three of you for providing quality, professional, authentic conversations each week on your podcast. It is my go to every time I walk my dogs or go for a run. In addition to the laughs and tears, there's always something to take away from the show that keeps you thinking or leaves you with a smile on your face. What I enjoy most is listening to your conversations about tough subjects and how you handle them with an open mind in a respectful manner. Somedays, the state of the world can be overwhelming and disappointing, but listening to your conversations. And knowing there are people out there who have similar mindset as myself, gives me hope that we can make this a better place for our children. As a grade three and four teacher this past year, I was disheartened many days to hear the unkind word spoken. And to see the lack of respect from you in this young age group. I felt like I spent half my time trying to teach about kindness and empathy and how we should treat each other. Some days it feels like we live in a society that is becoming more and more selfish. And it saddens me to see the lack of caring toward one another, especially those less fortunate. But I listened to your show and feel like there is hope. If those of us who do keep care, keep on trying to make a difference. So thank you for all that you do. And please know how big of an impact you are making. I also want to add a question to your ask us anything episode if you're that you are working on being an accomplished artists various forms in your own rates, I was wondering what advice you might have for a youngster looking to further his talent. My 10 year old son has an amazing talent in visual arts, he is self taught with a natural ability that I can take almost zero credit for. But seriously, we try to do everything we can to ensure he has the tools and opportunities that will further his talent. Aside from pursuing visual arts programs at the post secondary level one day, is there anything you would recommend for him to do at this young age to keep that passion alive and provide encouragement? Tracy?

Jann Arden  51:55  
Gosh, what a great message. I can't tell you how much it means to me and Sarah and Caitlin, to get such a thoughtful comment, first of all, and as far as your question goes about your 10 year old son, I started writing music. When I was his age, just like him, I found something that I was super passionate about, I stumbled onto my mom's guitar in the basement. And I just picked it up, I played records on our old crappy record player. And I just was hooked. I had a little book that had all the finger like chords on it where you put your fingers on the strings. And literally within I would say three or four or five months, I was making up songs. I won't say writing songs because to this day, I still don't know how to read music like properly. I did it very secretly. For many, many years, my mom and dad didn't even know that I liked music or what that I was passionate about it until I sang at my graduation when I was 18 years old. So what I can say to you, and if I would have had the opportunity to be able to talk to my folks. And I'm going to say right now it was very tumultuous in our home. I just didn't feel comfortable going to my mom or my dad and saying, Oh, I like playing the guitar, can I go take lessons or I just felt like they had enough shit on their plate. And I just, it was just something I wanted to keep from myself. But having said that, if I had the opportunity to do something, it would be so cool if you guys as parents, or if you're a single mom, I'm not sure or if you're if you're with a partner. Ask him say, Son, I know you frickin love art, and your stuff is so great. You're so talented. What can we do to help you? Like, is there anything that we can do to help you? Do you want to? Do you want to take a class? Do you want to, you know, join an art club? I don't know, I bet you any money. There's some kind of frickin art club out there. But I if my parents had asked me, Well, dad, and I noticed you playing guitar in the basement. And we just thought maybe you want to join a band. Like if they'd said that to me. I would have been like,

Speaker 5  54:06  
yes, I want to join a band. Please help

Jann Arden  54:10  
me find a band or can I get an amp? Can I get a guitar? Could you buy me a cassette deck? I just never said anything. So yeah, I think that's a great place to start. You can't push anybody into anything. And he'll find his way with or without anything that you guys do. Passion is unstoppable. But gosh, just support him cheer him on. And you're already doing the right thing because you care. And you've come on the Jann Arden pod, and you've said it out loud for everyone to hear so good for you. And as another little side note, I want to be a teacher so bad, so just bear with those kids. I know. Third, fourth grade seems outrageous for them to be swearing or being combative or being filled with vitriol, it all comes from being frightened. It all comes from what's going to happen to us next, and they are as affected by the world. As you and I. And Sarah and Caitlin are like, we as grown ass adult women wake up every day, and are like, Oh God, now what? But I think if you can be patient and return their vitriol with love and kindness, I think that will resonate with them more than anything you can possibly know. Thank you for your comment. Thank you for your question. And we appreciate you more than you know. Hi, Jen,

Speaker 3  55:38  
Sara, and Caitlin. My name is Tammy. I live in Ontario. Jen, I have been listening to you for almost 30 years now since I was a little girl. So I basically grew up with your music. And it's been with me through many ups and downs. So thank you so much for that. And Sarah, Caitlin, Jan, all three of you. Thank you so much for the wonderful podcast. I really enjoy that. And I apologize if you just heard my cat meowing in the background. He has just jumped up on the couch with me and is now licking my wet hair. Anyway, Jan, I just wanted to let you know that I really connected with your podcast last week about body image. I am a similar height and weight to you. And it really your words really made me feel better. You all seem like such lovely people. And I just can't thank you enough for everything that you do. I hope you have a lovely week. And I look forward to your next podcast. And of course more music from Jen. Thank you. Hi,

Speaker 6  56:41  
Jan, my name is Fatima. I'm 32 years old. I live in Arnprior, Ontario, just outside of Ottawa in the auto Valley. I just wanted to leave a quick Voice Note. Because your recent episode about body image got me thinking about how much actually relate to it. I am just wondering if you have any advice about anything that could maybe lift my spirits, maybe some advice about how to just kind of shake any feelings that are really not real. They're all in my head about just being self conscious or just not self assured with myself. Thank you. Hey, Fatima,

Jann Arden  57:17  
I just wanted to just make sure that I acknowledged your voice note about body image and all the stuff that you have been through the health issues, you know, varying weights, and you know, all the surgeries that you've endured. And and you said a very interesting thing. And that was how much your body had supported you how much your body had cheered you on how much your body had gotten you through those tough times how much your body had supported your life and you know, let you be here on the planet and continue to go forward. It's really amazing. I mean, that really made me reflect on my own body, and how it has been so steadfast, despite any crap that I've put it through. You're doing all the right things. But maybe you just need to be reminded that what you feel in your heart is valid.

Sarah Burke  58:12  
Do we want to throw to our Patreon? For the rest of our questions today? I'll tell you what the questions are. And then maybe you'll want to subscribe on Patreon to hear the mansard. How do we feel about that? Okay, we can go over there. We're going to talk about karma. We're going to talk about regret. And maybe we'll also talk about who we'd like to interview on this show. Okay, okay. And maybe you'll meet my foster puppy. Maybe, maybe if you want. Yeah, hello, meet and greet. No,

Jann Arden  58:45  
that'd be perfect. Okay, we will definitely be doing that. Listen, we've had so many questions today. I feel like I should end with one question. And it's from Ross Richards.

Unknown Speaker  58:54  
Oh, that's a great question. Russ

Jann Arden  58:56  
would like to know, basically, a secret that we might have that nobody else knows about. That they're about to find out here on the Janardan podcast. Something that let's put it this way, Russ. I'll rephrase it for the girls. Something that most people don't know about you. How about that? Because secrets. I don't know. Anybody.

Sarah Burke  59:18  
I've already talked about the Moscow parking lot. I mean, I talked

Jann Arden  59:21  
about shitting my pants and Cologne. That was

Sarah Burke  59:23  
we don't keep a lot of secrets from you.

Caitlin Green  59:25  
I'm just gonna say I'm like, I feel like I'm an overshare. If anything, I

Jann Arden  59:28  
used to bite my nails. I bit my nails for many, many, many years. That doesn't

Caitlin Green  59:33  
surprise me because your nails always strike me as quite short. So I could see that I used to eat ice cubes a lot. I still kind of secretly really liked them. And I used to love the way freezer air smelled when I was a child.

Sarah Burke  59:44  
So what's this random thing? But I

Caitlin Green  59:47  
mean that just made me think of it like a strange like addiction. I ate ice cubes. I would fill a full glass of ice with ice and I would then fill it up with just a little bit of water to start the melting process. I don't want to go in there like super light just right out of the freezer. I needed a slight melt. But I liked the way when you would be in the grocery store as a kid before they had the everything behind the doors. And when they would just have that like big like open pit freezer with the plastic strips hanging in front of it, sometimes plastic sometimes not. And it would just be the coldest aisle in the grocery store. And I would stick my whole damn head in there, and the cold clean smell of that freezer air and probably free on when I think about it. I was obsessed with it. I thought that the ice cubes tasted kind of like the way freezer air smelled. And so I ate them all the time. And I love ice cubes. I love those little tiny ice cubes. You get hospitals, the ice machines in the hospitals. Oh, my God. If I'm at a hospital, I'm bringing a giant jug with me because I'm loading up on that tiny ice. I want one of those machines actually.

Jann Arden  1:00:45  
I occasionally will tweeze fairly lengthy, long black hairs out of my chin that aren't very attractive. I just want everyone to know that.

Speaker 5  1:00:56  
You should get laser. It's not something I want people to know. But it's it's right there. And I have to really keep my eye on it because sometimes I wake up in the morning. And it's a football.

Jann Arden  1:01:07  
No. What else I have? I don't I probably I talk about fricking free things. I don't I don't have anything but Ross I appreciate it if I think it's something really secret. I'm gonna tweet him but that's it. Oh, my

Caitlin Green  1:01:23  
nipple was pierced for two weeks.

Unknown Speaker  1:01:25  
Jesus Christ.

Sarah Burke  1:01:26  
There we go. For what two weeks? Did it get infected? Is that what you took it out? No.

Caitlin Green  1:01:30  
I just was like, What am I doing? Oh, I did it when I was drunk. And I was like as this was a bad idea. I did it with five of my other girlfriends. We were all leaving Halifax at the same time. We were all moving out. And we were we went drinking. It was Margarita Mondays at Mexicali roses. And we all had a lot of margaritas and then thought that we were going to in unison

Sarah Burke  1:01:52  
Oh, like I just need to hold my breath. Like I can't even think about it.

Caitlin Green  1:01:55  
I mean, yeah, I don't know. I do admittedly. And doctors have told me this and camp counselors have told me this and teachers told my parents this. I have a very high pain tolerance. So I think of all of us, I fared the best. And like most I think a lot of them kept theirs for a long time. I didn't have two weeks and I was like this isn't for me. It was team spirit. Okay, that okay, drunken team spirit. There you go.

Sarah Burke  1:02:17  
I once stole a chapstick from a variety store. And this cuts rock and roll. Yeah, this comes. This comes from another secret where me and my best friend at the time her name was Laurie. We used to go to this little variety shop. We laughed so hard this one time and it's burned into my brain because I was wearing gray sweatpants. And we laughed so hard that I peed my pants. Oh, you peed gray sweat, right sweat pants, you can see why it's burned into my brain. I think I was maybe like 12 years old, 10 years old, like you don't pee your pants at 12 years old. So there's one of my secrets, I had to ride my bike home with my peepee grey pants. That's really all I got, I think

Jann Arden  1:02:59  
makes you human. I think this has been very, very interesting. Yeah. And I've learned a lot today. I'm kind of blown away by the Japan thing, to be honest. It's a big old world. And that the fact that the three of us who all have lots of different things going on are very attracted to that culture and to that place. And you know, we better get there. And I'll be very jealous whoever goes first,

Sarah Burke  1:03:21  
or we're doing a podcast live tape. So let's get the Japanese fans out. Let's go.

Jann Arden  1:03:26  
Let's get the Japanese board of tourism onboard. Guys, I'll pitch that. Okay, you just pitch full full on the consulate. Anyway, that's our show for today. Once again, Patreon Do you can sign up for three or $5 a month, we're going to have a live event, Chris and I are actually sitting in discussing venues and stuff this very week. And we're gonna get that up and running and find the venue we're working on the T shirts, we have to decide on a design and then we're gonna go ahead for that because the first 50 people that sign up for our Patreon

Sarah Burke  1:03:58  
are getting a free T shirt, we'll let you vote on which designs you like, which you just

Jann Arden  1:04:02  
decide to just now. We're just stuff and then after that, we appreciate it so much. We appreciate your support. We appreciate all these questions, and we're going to do this again. We'll try and do maybe a holiday edition of acid, which I think would be really super fun. Once again, Caitlin green, Sarah Burke, you guys are awesome. And it was it was a lot of fun today, I had a great time I learned the odd thing or two. And we will see you on the other side. We're going to continue this discussion for 15 or 20 minutes on the Patreon page, and probably answer some stuff that will make us squeamish ly uncomfortable but only the Patreon members are going to hear what that is. So thanks for listening. Leave us a review. You can find us on all your favorite podcast streaming devices wherever you find your favorite podcasts. That's where we'll be. So we'll see you next time to leading