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Just came from my singing lesson. Sounds great. Caitlin Green, Sarah Burke. It's an exciting day. It's our Ask Us Anything episode. 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 and the holidays, you can kind of do no wrong. We will do another one because the questions are fun, eh? There's a lot of them. Yeah. We have so many questions, you guys, but as promised...

our Patreon members, which there are now 143 of you. Yay! We're so excited. We're going to 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? Caitlin, you went to a podcast live tape yesterday. Maybe you want to tell us. 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 two comedy writers, Laura Shane Halls and Carrie O'Donnell, and they're comedy writers in L.A. 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 U.S. They're talking about politics in the U.S. They have the funniest take on pop culture and politics and everything. And then they do an episode recap of a classic Vanderpump episode. And oh my God. And I paid...

for a VIP meet and greet beforehand. How much was that? It was $75. Oh, that's nothing. It wasn't honestly, it 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 of 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, I mean, obviously we could work

record an episode, but also they didn't record an episode. They just do this tour in the summer. And, um, and so they just, you know, it's this living on its own content and it was, it was incredible. Fun. It was at the great hall, a very fun venue. I would guess there was 200 people there at least. Okay. Well, that's a nice size crowd. Um, Sarah just stayed at my house. She's an excellent house guest. Her and her friend, Aaron did my Jan Arden invitational golf classic. Um,

for Enviros and they stayed here one night and it was so fun. I made them a vegan meal. Oh, so good. It wasn't a meal, it was a meal. Yeah.

But I'll tell you what, and this 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 GD beds. Everything was made. Everything was done. The pillows were placed meticulously. Perfect. I think Sarah took a picture of the- I had to because there was like seven pillows. I was like, I'm going to try and remember how to jigsaw this back together. Fluffed and then chopped. I don't think I did the chopping. I don't do the fluff and 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. 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 going to 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. Ooh, I love this.

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, what else will I do? I know I really like ASMR videos.

So that is a type of video where for, I mean, there's lots of ones where 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 brain off and sends me into 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.

dance beats. Sarah, what's your answer to that? How do you wind down self-care? 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 audio book 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.

Exactly. And I do have Sportsnet 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, 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. Shit doesn't get to me. Yeah, the world sometimes, politics or war or 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 5.30 p.m. Can we just... Just so I can get my reading in. So you'll do 20 pages of like, say, book one, then you switch over to book two or you rotate every night? No, I read all three in a night. Oh, I love that. I love it. And I don't get confused. They're like, how do you keep track? I know exactly what's going on. So...

I'm, maybe it 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, love writing. It's not a, it's not a job to me. Love writing music.

And I also love doing fucking nothing. I like people like, do you ever 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.

I'm a FaceTimer. 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 get facials or like go to the spa? Yes. I went to the spa last week while in Calgary. I think of that too. I'm like, okay, yeah, no, that's good. If I'm upset, I'll book a facial. And if one of my girlfriends is telling me she's upset, I'm like, go get a facial. Yeah.

Yeah. What was it called again? Kananaskis? We couldn't say it. That's the spa in the mountains. We went before we came to Jans with our girlfriend, Dani, 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. Oh, God. Okay. 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. I have. I think so. I have. I have Ozzy Osbourne's autograph. You do? That's great. Do you still have it? That's 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? 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 he's got the most beautiful, long, beautiful signature. 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 that,

I had been holding onto this little tiny piece of paper that had the address of the Red Dutton Arena, which is out in Springbank, 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. 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 sweet. 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 autographs. I just have never asked for them. Oh, I see. Somewhere at my parents' house is an autographed album of Living Under June by you, Jan. Oh, wow. Did I? Because that's, I'm very flattered. My dad worked 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 albums.

old signed Blue Jays stuff and I don't know where that is like t-shirts and things like that because I was a big Blue Jays fan. What am I talking about? I have every Blue Jays autograph. How did I forget? Well you're being prompted that's why you're having people ask us questions. You 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 Aussie 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 I think, I feel like we maybe mounted it. Any signed balls? You got any signed balls? No signed balls. No. And I've never caught a ball, although my section definitely has received many balls. But yeah, I have a,

a Jersey that, you know, to be mounted and whatever, when I'm done collecting. Okay. Well, that's good. And here's another question. Hello ladies. This is from Lisa wakes. Lisa is a new Patreon member. Hi, 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? We also had a voice note for this one. Hi, Jen, Caitlin and Sarah. Um,

This is Stephanie from Guelph, Ontario. I just wanted to say first off, I love you ladies so, so much and your podcast. You're 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. 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 going to be a minute until we can go, but I cannot wait to see that country. I am so excited. I'm going to 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. You can get champagne out of a vending machine. I love that. And 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 there. They're the robots. They're eliminating people, which is really fun. Well, their food, like their 7-Eleven food is so good that their egg salad sandwiches at 7-Eleven sell out usually before 10 a.m. 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 excited to go. I also love going somewhere where no one speaks the same language as you because it feels exciting and shocking. Mm-hmm.

So I'll have my Google Translate out. Sarah? New Zealand, I would say. But I would put Japan right underneath it. New Zealand and Australia might be just on top. Just to think about like, you know, we have that one listener 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. I too am going to say Japan. Yes! And this is very bizarre.

Chris and I were en 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. Well, we had picked, Chris had bought me Japan phrases, Japan places to go, things to do in Japan, train schedules, just really cool trip advisor 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 were 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, the bus picks you up at the airport. You put all your things on this beautiful little cruise ship that is like 60 people. You go down the Nile and then they take you to Egypt.

the Valley of the Kings and they take you to the pyramids and all the stuff. And I would love to do that. 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, Heather. It's a song called Pink. And I think I'm going to pull it out on my next tour. Somehow, someway. 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'll 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? I feel like I'm like, I want more info. Can I phone a friend? No, I'm joking.

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 trust myself implicitly at my age. And I know, Heather, 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 have talked about that before.

You know, my mom used to say to me, Jan, the hardest part is making a decision. The 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 too 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,

Well, you'll 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. 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.

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 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 relax.

just do something about it, whatever that something looks like for you. 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 in your path forward or, you

You know, you made the right decision and things went well. So that's my sort of take on that. Heather, 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, Jan? Who's first? And I'm like, me. And she goes, that's right.

There's 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 yourself 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 business.

personal stuff and they can on the same subject give you two different perspectives that might help 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 jan arden podcast

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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. A-R-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.

Ha ha ha. But I'll ask my panel of experts, which I guess is us. Now that I have the question and 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 asks us individually, Caitlin, she asks you, if you could only teach your son three things, what would they be? Oh, 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 what makes people tick and how to navigate yourself and

Um, and then lastly, I'm going to 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, in, in our capitalistic society. So yeah, I'll be like, I'm going to be on him about finances. You're 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 him. It's really, really, really fun to watch him and his outfits. And I just want to bite his kneecaps. I'm just going to say that. Good luck. I mean, they're so big. You know how you just want to do raspberries everywhere? And there's something that happens to us as grown-ass adults that you just...

know what's wrong in your head to want to bite fingers off. It's called cute aggression. It's the 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 you can't handle it. Your brain can't handle it. You're going to bust your teeth off doing that. I know. Okay. From Arlen. And this is Sarah. What is your biggest pet peeve? And I think this is a great question for you in particular. Oh, God.

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. Yeah.

Amen, sister. I just want to turn around and be like, I shouldn't be able to fucking hear you over this fucking music. 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 Shut the hell up. 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 Okay, this is my last one. I realize I'm on a rant. The people who hold their phones like this here like this 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 out conversation in public, like in the grocery store line on your phone like this, no, no, no, absolutely not. Nobody wants to hear your conversation. You're a sick idiot. Get the fuck out. Exactly. Okay. I'm done. I'm done. Okay. Love that. It's the guys pacing in an airport. They've got their earbuds in and they're pacing around and they're talking business shiz 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 driest looking calf you've ever seen in your life and then cargo shorts. Yes. And they're just, and a very bad tattoo, a very bad tattoo. Maybe a Tweety bird or something.

I don't know, something juvenile. Like, I don't know. But yeah, the talking out loud, Sarah, well said. Okay, I'm going to hand it over to you. You guys can ask a few questions if you have them in front of you. Do you have more Patreon questions since they are our VIPs? I've got so many. There's a billion. Okay. I have some. Let's do some of those and then we'll do socials. 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 this song came from? Very quickly, I love Counting Mercies too. I've been finishing 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, there 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. Oh, I love that. Okay. And Sarah, she says, I know you 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?

When the next big check comes in, I would 100% go get fitted. 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 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 in to get my winters off. No, no, no. Just back up a bit here. Yeah.

How do you lose a set of fucking golf clubs? I know, I know. But 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 storage buckets from my storage unit downstairs, I might have taken the clubs out and not put them back in. Might have been my fault. Anyway, so this prompted me to get the current set I have, which are Magnolias. Do not buy the Magnolias because they are so dunged up, like...

It's like they can't even take a frigging golf ball. So I'm sad that I got those and I want new ones. At the Jan Arden Invitational, I used a set of, I think they were tailor-made and I really liked them. But I honestly think 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 of times a month, you're going to be totally fine. Like I wouldn't stress about it. If you're like joining a ladies league and super crazy about it, then you want to invest.

So I have to ask you this, Caitlin, before you go, because I know you won't 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? Amy F. Patreon. Love this question. On air. OK, so on the air.

This one's a combo. When I was still kind of behind the scenes on Chum, we had an interview set up with Prince. Prince was doing some phone-in interviews. And normally what happens when you have a phone-in 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 Prince on the line. Then Princess 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, blah. If, if they 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. Phone is happening at like eight, 10. So I'm like, okay, so we have a hotline in the studio. The hotline rings. It's like,

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, Chum Studio. And it's just frigging Prince 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 just a treat. Purple smoke, purple smoke, purple smoke.

And he was just, I was like, oh my, and 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 that 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 bridal path and just, so that was like, that was like magic.

That was very, very cool. And also too, 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 toque and

and wanted to come with me I offered to make him some coffee from our terrible coffee makers and he was like I'll 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 regularness of Michael Cera and this was when he was like he was you know it was a big deal for him to be coming 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, you feel pretty. Foo farters. I've done that. You said that? The foo farters. Yep. So that I haven't done. I'm never going to say foo fighters again. I'm going to say foo farters. We've rebranded them officially. I love the foo farters. 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. Oh, God.

And I had to say their name. And then, and 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. Um, 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 food farters, I wish I did. I wish

I wish I did. I have to tell you guys these. I know I wasn't asked and I'm sorry, but I feel like I have to tell you. No, no, this is what these conversations are about. This is what makes them fun. It's what prompts us all to think of these things. Okay, so just a quick one. It's always music because I did so many years of music radio. Led Zeppelin has a song called Jermaker and it's D apostrophe Y-E-R and then the word maker.

So Sarah Burke, circa 2009, doing her first like 6 a.m. radio show on a weekend Saturday morning, says, Dire Maker. Yeah.

Here's Dire Maker on FM 96. Yeah, the call came in within three seconds. Yeah, people want to jump on any kind of stage you make. You're like, no one's here, but I'm so embarrassed, right? 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. I know. That's the cardinal rule of radio. I know. But it was also a classic rock station, so I just wasn't anticipating the listener. Anyway, that's it.

Oh my

my goodness. Oh my goodness. It's funny. Cause 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 things. And so I, but that was 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 have a pep talk with the Jew before she starts radio, please. That's fair.

that's fair I you know what that's your that's your program director's fault anyway okay so more patreon questions before we move on do we have a few more

Yeah. Yeah. We got more. I 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 dead or alive. 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. Ellen and Stephanie also asked that question too. So just throw them in. Yeah. So 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 VIII. 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 boils and a leg that never healed after a jousting accident. But I won't bore you with all the historic details. Him, um,

Elizabeth I, 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 one more out there. She's having a dinner party. I'd love to have dinner with. Oh my gosh, there's so many people I'd like to have dinner with. Celine Dion. We have a Celine question coming, which...

Okay. So that's it. That's my dinner. But I'm very, very earnest about Henry VIII and Elizabeth I. And his stinky ass leg. They would both be so stinky. I don't even know. She used lead makeup on her face, that white makeup. Her 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, what are they going to eat? They probably have like little, like rotting nubs for teeth. You're going to have to give them pablum. They might want something from planta, you know? They might. They probably just want an orange because they're all dying of scurvy. Ew. Back in the day is gross. Can I pick Hitler so I can kill him? Just kidding. Then I would mess up everyone's timeline, but I could, I mean, I could. I could.

I could poison him. Like I could have dinner with Hitler and I would just poison him. Put like rat poison in the soup or something that's like, I don't know. Send your letters to the women. No, to Caitlin Green on this one. If you have issues with me killing Hitler, I have issues for you. I would back you up. I would be your getaway car driver. Oh, love this. I want to hear who you would actually have dinner with.

with them. Okay, fine. Rihanna, obviously. Oh, nice. I'm obviously hanging out with Rihanna. We're going to try and make these dreams come true, folks. Not so much the dead people, but... Not so much Hitler. 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'd probably like to talk to a saucy politician. I love Bernie Sanders. I'd love to hear what he has to say about stuff and the state of the world. I feel like he'd give it to you real. None of the hey you people?

Oh my God. Andy Cohen. What? Jan, thank you for doing this for me. Andy Cohen, obviously. I'm sitting here in front of you going, what is happening here? Why isn't it like... Andy Cohen. Yes, Andy. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Well, you know, I sat beside him in a theater in New York. I can't. I would have like lunged at him. I smiled and I grabbed his wiener, but that was it. Can you imagine? I didn't say one word because I thought he does not need a lunatic woman to...

To go... I didn't say one word. I smiled. I sat down. I looked forward. The glass menagerie was Sally Field. It was the most... It was heavy. Okay. Anyway, Sarah. Okay. Current times, it's easy because I have forever been obsessed with the front man of my favorite band ever, which is Weezer. So... Oh, my God. Rivers Cuomo. Rivers Cuomo is my little nerdo. I would die to have... 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. I just told him to play Pinkerton again, but he won't. I love, that's my favorite record, obviously. And I have interviewed the rest of the band, but not him. So still on the bucket list, see what happens later in life. We're going to make that happen. We're going to try. This is like a dead or alive situation. From the past, one of my grandmothers, my mom's mom, passed away when I was like really

really young. Like I think I was, I think I was five years old if I have it 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 and,

So I just would have loved to learn more about her and my mom growing up. Like my mom as a kid. That's the sweetest. That's very cute. 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. Now you make me feel like I should be saying my mom and dad. Well, we know that you would anyway. I feel like that goes on, you know, without you having to say it. Jan, don't feel bad. I said Hitler. Like if anyone needs to...

I mean, mine was for killing purposes, but anyways. Oh, Jan, we also had a couple voice notes. Hi, this is Darren from New Brunswick. This question's for Jan. I was wondering what inspired you to write the song Was I Ever 13 from your last CD? I really like 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, uh, it's so catchy. Like, uh, anyways, I, um, I really enjoy listening to the podcast and the guests each week. Uh, keep up the good work and, uh,

Have a good week coming up. Thank you. Bye. Oh, it's about my mom and dad, my dad's alcoholism. Was I ever 13 living in my parents' house? So that's how this song starts out. And I really was. I was reflecting upon, oh, my God, my mom 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 I 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.

I'm going to do some more like quicker fire ones here. And then I'm going to save the deep ones that we might do for bonus content. Um, Janet, if you were being evacuated from your home, you can only take two things with you and Jan besides poppy. What are the two things for all three of us? Poppy's not one of them. Poppy's not one of them. Basically poppies in your little knapsack thing. What other two things are you getting? Oh my gosh. There's my phone. I'm sorry. That's terrible. Um,

And, um, I would probably try and grab my stack of diaries cause 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 19th. 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 at about 10, 12, 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 cloud. They're not on the cloud. That's a great name for an episode title. We should bring that back. Caitlin, how about you? Well, I'm assuming if we replace...

Poppy with Will. And Kyle. Will and Kyle are coming. Will and Kyle are, I'm assuming. You're carrying them both out. They're strapped to my back. We're going full backdraft for me. 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 too. It has like his initials and this little, it's from this really amazing jewelry designer, uh, out of New York called foundry. It would be a grab between those three, all things, Sam. Okay. I love that. How about you, Sarah?

My puffer. Cause like your asthma puffer. Yeah. My asthma puffer. That is so depressing. You have to, that's your house is on fire and you need your asthma puffer. Like when the zombie apocalypse hits, I'm only as good as how long my puffers last for. So I know, I know, but it's okay. Um, so puffer being one, uh, and I would say Pinkerton, the album signed by most of the band except rivers.

Are you being quite serious right now? Yes. Okay. Okay. This one's a quick one. Danielle, what's your favorite venue to play? Jan. I mean, I would love to say that Caitlin and I play venues, but you know. We know. My favorite venue to play? Yeah. Oh my gosh. I love so many of them. There's some of these crazy casinos that I freaking love.

These casinos that have like 5,000 people, the seats in them, and it's just these old big warehouses. And there's something about them that are so fun and so charming. That's a funny. There's a big casino in Niagara Falls that I absolutely love to play. There's a casino in London.

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 Bublé. It was okay. It was kind of weird building. But I just, I don't need fancy. 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 before it got remade. I liked it before it was remade. I liked the old dressing rooms that you could just feel the bodies of the Anne Murray's and the Gordon Lightfoot's and the Joni Mitchell's and the Suzanne Vega's and every, the hundreds and hundreds of artists that had been through the prints being one of them. And when they redid the building, I just, it 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, but yeah. Okay. Give me a casino. Give me a casino and I'm a happy girl. Okay. That's so funny. Karen 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 Jans, but go ahead.

No, I'm not going. I just answered one. Caitlin, you go. I know Jan. Jan's an archaeologist. Yep. I thought you were going to say teacher. I'd love to be teaching archaeology. Are you combo them? I'm trying to think. I know what mine would be and it's so weird.

Do yours. I kind of don't know. Dentist. Okay, now you're fucking with me completely. I'm not fucking with you. You want to pierce an abscess with a little metal tool and you'll be sick. No, when I was growing up in grade two, they made us put a thing on the wall. It was like, in the year 2000, I will be. And I was proudly a dentist and I always wanted to be a dentist. I still to this day love going to the dentist. I'm shocked.

I want to be everything whenever I watch it on a movie. So like if I watch a spy movie, I'm like, 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,

I wanted to be a cartoonist. I wanted to be an animator. I was obsessed with Calvin and Hobbes. There was a Calvin and Hobbes and a Garfield, like learn how to do the cartoons books. I had both of those books. The Far Side. I was obsessed with The Far Side. I grew into The Far Side. Obsessed.

But I have – I'm not joking. I have every single Calvin and Hobbes. I basically have them 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 teachers probably didn't like it very much. Yeah, and I love Far Side. I just loved – I loved satire. I loved the, like, dry, sarcastic, satirical take that you could –

pair with an actual like cutesy looking cartoon I thought that was really you're doing the new podcast art next time we need it done I'm not good that's the problem I wish I was good I'm not good I am not good yeah but what is good anyway yeah good is in the eye of the beholder yeah this is time sensitive this is timely from Maddie 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 can

Can't wait to hear your thoughts on Celine at the Olympics. 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 these spasms. Excitement and being in front of a large crowd standing on the Eiffel Tower, I would imagine, would register 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 going to 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 just loved it. I mean, it's the 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.

So this is a follow-up on Olympics from Rachel. She's based in Hamilton. She wrote us on her website. Hi, ladies. It's Rachel calling from Hamilton, Ontario. I just watched Summer McIntosh win the first Canadian medal at the Olympics. So I wondered what your thoughts were on the Olympics. And I wondered if any of you had met any Olympians or have any experience.

Your experiences with past Olympics or if you had any stories around any athletes or favorite memories, what you think about it all? I haven't been watching. I think it's incredible what these young people do. 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 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. Well, let's call it the coach. It wasn't the team. And the team is suffering a lot for it. I would say that flew a drone over. So that was my big splashy Olympic moment. That's

That's what has lingered for me, which is shitty, but that's the media for you. That's what I got. Just imagine 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. I'll see some clips and be like, oh, cool. When they included skateboarding as an Olympic event, 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...

Probably. It might 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. We're the wrong people to ask, obviously. I'm sorry for... If you ask me about reality TV, I'll have a... I'll have a PhD thesis. But I so am blown away by the athleticism, the dedication. People dedicate their lives to doing these sports. And it is awe-inspiring. And I'm going to watch more. But I don't watch any sports. Like, I...

So I'm just not that person. Moving on. Jan, I want to play you another voice note here. Hello, 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 and a respectful manner. Some days 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 words spoken and to see the lack of respect from even 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 listen to your show and feel like there is hope if those of us who do 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 wanted to add a question to your Ask Us Anything episode that you are working on. Being an accomplished artist of various forms in your own right, 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

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, 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 in

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

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 songs.

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 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 for myself. But having said that, if I had the opportunity to

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 with a partner, ask him, say, son, I know you freaking 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 at any money, there's some kind of fricking art club out there. But I, if, 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, yes, I want to join a band. Please help 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 Jan 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, Sarah and Caitlin. My name is Tammy. I live in Ontario. Uh, 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. Uh,

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 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 Jan. Thank you. Hi Jan, my name is Fatima. I'm 32 years old. I live in Armprior, Ontario, just outside of Ottawa in the Ottawa Valley.

I just wanted to leave a quick voice note because your recent episode about body image got me thinking about how much I 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. 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 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 challenges

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. 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 them answered. How do we feel about that? Oh,

Okay. 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. A little meet and greet. No, 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 Russ Richards. That's a great question. Russ 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 Jan Arden 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? I've already talked about the mosque parking lot. I mean. I talked about shitting my pants in Cologne. I mean, that was. We don't keep a lot of secrets from you guys. I was just going to say, I'm like, I feel like I'm an oversharer, if anything. I used to bite my nails. I bit my nails for many, many, many years. Mm-hmm.

That doesn't 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 like them. And I used to love the way freezer air smelled when I was a child. It's a random thing, but okay. But I 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 like just right out of the freezer. I needed a slight melt, but I liked the

The way when you would be in the grocery store as a kid before they had the everything behind the doors 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 Freon 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 at 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.

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 I do that. You should get laser. It's not something I want people to know, but it's right there. Just get laser. And I have to really keep my eye on it because sometimes I wake up in the morning and it's a foot long. No. What else? I have...

I don't, I really, I talk about fricking everything. You do. It's true. I don't, I don't have anything. But Russ, I appreciate it. If I think of something really secret, I'm going to bring that up. You'll tweet him. But that's it. Oh, my nipple was pierced for two weeks. Jesus Christ. There you go. For what? Two weeks. Did it get infected? Is that why you took it out? No. I just was like, what am I doing? Oh.

I did it when I was drunk and I was like, 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, um, we went day drinking. It was Margarita Mondays at Mexicali Rosas. And we all had a lot of margaritas and then thought that we were going to in unison. Oh, like I just need to hold my breath. Like I can't even think about it.

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. Like two weeks in, I was like, this isn't for me. It was team spirit. I'll say that. Drunken team spirit. There you go. I once stole a chapstick from a variety store. That's rock and roll. Yeah. This comes...

This comes from another secret where me and my best friend at the time, her name was Lori. 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 sweatpants? Gray sweatpants. 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 pee-pee gray pants. Love that. Yeah, that's really all I got, I think. Makes you human. I think this has been very, very interesting. Yeah. And I've learned a lot today. I've learned things that 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. Or we're doing a podcast live tape. So let's get the Japanese fans out. Let's go. Let's get the Japanese board of tourism on board. We should. Guys, I'll pitch that. Okay. You just pitched, phone the consulate. Anyway, that's our show for today. Once again, Patreon, you can sign up for three or $5 a month. We're going to have a live event. Chris and I are actually sitting and discussing venues and stuff.

this very week. And we're going to 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 going to go ahead for that because the first 50 people that sign up for our Patreon are getting a free t-shirt. We'll let you vote on which designs you like. We should just decide it just now. We just say stuff and then have to do it. But we appreciate it so much. We appreciate your support. We appreciate all these questions and we're going to do this again next

We'll try and do maybe a holiday edition of Ask If Anything, which I think would be really super fun. Once again, Caitlin Green, Sarah Burke, you guys are awesome. And it was a lot of fun today. I had a great time. I learned the odd thing or two.

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