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Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Jan Arden Podcast. My teammates are chuckling because I guess the record button was hit and I was just sitting here. And, you know, 10 seconds is a long time just to sit in radio land. Hello, everybody. Nice to see you, Caitlin. Nice to see you, Adam. Good morning. Nice to see you. Hello, friends. We're thinking about actually recording some of these podcasts.

in a video version, so stay tuned for that. At the very least, we're going to do some segments to start off with.

I don't know where they will be available. Perhaps on Crave. No, I'm kidding. I have no idea where they're in shop. That would be great. Oh, my gosh. If we turned this podcast into a show that was on Crave, I would die. Well, listen, Crave, CGV, Bell, we're just putting it out there. That would be great.

Caitlin, you have a story right out of the gate. And I think it's always really good to start any kind of show with sexual content. I think it gets people's attention. I think they pull the car over. Honey, they're going to talk about sex. Pull over. It might have something to do with your inability to service me. So, Caitlin...

I love that. I'm imagining like a Dodge Ram going off road and like moose jaw somewhere. Okay, Dodge Ram was a bit... I have nothing to do with the...

That was a very good, actually, a metaphor, a Dodge Ram. That's right. Go ahead. You like what I did there? Okay, so this came across my desk, my proverbial desk with regards to trending stories this week. And it was a study that showed even though people have less sex, so they're less frequent sex over the age of 50, they...

report a much higher level of sexual satisfaction after the age of 50. So they're saying I'm having sex like half as much or a third as often as I did when I was in my 30s. But when I do, it's way better.

And this sparked this whole conversation on our show, on the morning show that I work on where we're like, why is that? So, you know, because you know your body better, maybe you've been engaged in a long-term relationship. So, you know, your partner, you guys know what you like, or is it because, you know, like the kids are out of the house now. So you don't have to like have silent sex. What is it? Adam, Adam, the parent is laughing, but I want to know. Well, one of the worst moments that I can remember as a teenager is,

And I was not like 13 or 14. I was like 17. And I had come home to get something out of the basement. I can't even remember what it was. I feel like it was a badminton racket. And my friend was waiting in the driveway, you know, in her car. And I ran down there. And for some reason, my mom and dad were upstairs.

But I just, I, I, and for the first time in my life, I just thought I, the shame and the, the horror of realizing it. But I, I never, ever said anything to my parents about kind of, and I didn't listen for long. Trust me. As soon as I figured out what it was.

I was out of the house and I was like screaming to my friend. I think my parents were having sex. And she's like, is that the first time you've ever heard? Oh, my God. My parents have sex all the time. Oh, my God. Yeah. So anyway, I don't know why it's still such a very difficult thing.

topic for any of us to talk about. I do get the pleasure at 50 though. Let's put a few things into perspective. Don't you think you know yourself better as each year unfolds? Totally. Yes, absolutely.

And I feel like if you, you know yourself better, your partner knows you better. Presumably if you have the same partner. Um, yeah, I just feel like it is. You're just a little more in sync. Oh, Adam, Adam raised his hand. I'm dying to know what this is. I want to know too. Here's the male perspective. Yeah. I think you get freakier when you get older. Oh, okay.

I didn't think this was going to go in this direction, but now we're learning about kinks. Why not? Why not? Try out new things. Well, do you think it's a long-term partnership? I mean, either you quit having sex altogether after you've been together for 30 years, or I guess you would ramp it up. Like, anything goes. You know the person so well. Right.

Maybe is it the lack of or the absence of the fear of rejection? Oh, yeah, that could be for sure. That could be it.

And also, maybe now that we're thinking about, you know, egos and fear of rejection and all that, maybe it's also that you're really comfortable, more comfortable with your body. I think it's such a it does such a disservice to all of us that at least I felt this way. I know a lot of my girlfriends did that I was the least secure about how I looked when I was arguably my hottest.

Like I was in the best shape. I looked incredible. And every time I saw a photo of myself, I would just pick it apart. You are gorgeous. You are, you have the most, you have such a wonderful body. Your fricking, your personality, your integrity, your intelligence. You have a beautiful face. You have gorgeous skin. You have a killer body. So for me to look at a young woman like you, to think that you have any,

hesitation to just wrap your arms around your own self and take it all in.

I guess we're all guilty of that, of not appreciating who we are. We all look at photographs at some point, even from five years ago, and go, OMG, I looked freaking fantastic five years ago, and I thought I looked like crap. That's exactly what I'm saying. I look back at photos, and I'm like, why was I being so hard on myself? I wish I looked like that now. And it's just unfair that you never- Do guys do that, Adam? Yeah.

Yes, totally. I do that. But if I look far, far back, like I was a really heavy guy back in the day. Like, I think I'm better now. So when I look, I don't wish I was the way I was back in university. Those were not good years. So but if I look back five or six years, even I'm like, oh, my hair was my beard hair was a little less gray or I didn't have a beard five years ago or, you know, little things like that. I didn't either, but now look at me. Yeah.

This is also a thing like I think sometimes like some guys especially experience a later in life, like a glow up almost like they look better. And it is a cruel, you know, twist of fate that some guys just get better as they get older. It's so true. I mean, I always think my husband was good looking, but I look back at photos and I'm like, he looked great then. I think he still looks great now. And he's going to be one of those guys that will have the body fat percentage of a swimmer when he's 70 probably.

I'm so mad at him. I know. Does he have a fast metabolism? Yes. Yeah, I lost 70 pounds. Oh, how'd you do it? Oh, I just stopped putting creamer in my coffee. Like when I hear these stories from men and the metabolism, yeah, I lost a quick 20 last month. What did you do? Oh, I just stopped drinking Clamato juice.

You literally want to set your hair on fire. They're like, oh, I switched to light beer or something very like did not sacrifice much. And you're like, okay, this is very rude. For me, if I think of a piece of chocolate cake, I will gain weight. I don't have a good metabolism. So I'm not one of those people. I wish I was. Adam, you've had some success with intermittent fasting. You and I have discussed this before. So how has that worked for you?

It'll be three years, basically to the week, three years of doing intermittent fasting. And it's really been successful for me. Now, I'm not saying...

I won't break the rule if there's a special occasion or if I'm on vacation or something. There's always exceptions to the rule. But I would say for the most part, I follow intermittent fasting. My window of time to eat is between 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. And I find it highly successful for me. I do something called intermittent eating. And I've had a lot of success with it. Like I'll eat for an hour.

I'll stop for like a half hour. Yeah.

And then I'll eat for like 10 minutes. I'll stop. Can you imagine? I can do that. Jan, you're another case though. You look so great. And I think if you like, you do, you like look almost like younger and brighter. And I've heard you talk about it on like shows and on social and stuff. But I mean, did that coincide for you with when you a stop drinking and be switched your diet around and focus more on plant based eating?

I think it's a little bit, I think I feel happy. I mean, I was in a terrible relationship for 10 years and I, and my face looked it. I just, I was so stressed out all the time and,

you know, when you're like two years into something and you're like, I'm not happy, I need to get out of this. And then eight years goes by. I mean, that is one of my biggest faults. Um, and that's on me. Yeah. But yeah, I, I think stopping drinking really made a difference. I, I was always like in triage mode. I was always too hung over to go for a walk and

canceling nice lunches and things with my friends. And I just thought my drinking got in the way of my life. And, you know, a lot of people, when you abuse alcohol, life gets in the way of your drinking. Yes. And when I swapped those things out, I

And I'm really happy that I did it and certainly eating better. I mean, when you are in triage, I think I'll have fries and gravy just to feel better about the day and maybe a fry up some eggs and bacon and sausage and hash browns and toast. And then you kind of feel human again because your body's kind of,

getting all this crap and you, maybe you just forget about your hangover for a second, but thanks for saying that. I feel happier generally just because I feel better and I'm able to tackle things. And more than anything, I've, I know that I'm a person of my word, except when I forget to do the podcast and I'm getting on a plane. You're like, are you going to log on? What's going on? We have a guest in studio. No,

That was me every day of my life, you guys. Oh, my gosh. I'm just missing things, screwing up. But, yeah, I feel... No, I'm not having sex anymore, even at my age, you know, getting back to our topic right out of the gate. But I'm...

I am happier. And I think people do look better when they are proud of themselves and when they are following through on things they want to follow through on, you know, being, being, being able to do the tasks you set out for yourself. And I think getting older now is so different. Like there's getting older, but then there's also vitality.

And I think that means like feeling good and feeling healthy and energized. And that seems to that feeling of vitality seems to go with people into their later years now way more than it used to. And I even look at honestly, I'm a huge fan of the Real Housewives. I don't care what anyone says. I just love this show so much. And I've never seen an episode I have to watch. It's magic. And these women are living their best lives and looking their best well past 50.

Well, when we come back, we've got lots to talk about today. We're going to talk about Disneyland. You're listening to the Jan Arden Podcast. I'm with Caitlin Green, Adam Karsh. Don't go away.

Welcome back to the Jen Arden Podcast. Caitlin and Adam are with me. We're so glad that you're here. You can listen to us on all your favorite outlets where podcasts are offered. Spotify and iTunes comes to mind. Disneyland. We all have stories about Disneyland. Well, this week, October the 1st, 1971...

10,000 individuals, which was a very large group in 1971. I think comparatively it would be like 100,000 people in today's numbers. They walked into the Magic Kingdom. Walt Disney Park, it was called at the time. And admission was $3.50. Oh my God, that's it? Cannot get a napkin with Mickey's face on it for $3.50 at Disneyland today.

So, yeah, so 50 years of Disney. I have so many memories of even just the television programs. I think Disney ruled my childhood. When that castle came on on Sunday night, and I had no clue there was even a land. I didn't know there was a land I could go to. But watching those Disney films was, it was amazing.

There was so much upheaval in my family, but those Sunday nights watching that for an hour...

really took me away. It, it really was a, such a wonderful part of my childhood. Any Disneyland memories guys of actually going to California? Well, I didn't go to California. I went to Walt Disney world in Florida. Oh, right. Was that happening when in the eighties? That's that's a newer one, isn't it? I think it might be newer and I loved it. And I went there and stayed at the Polynesian resort. Me too. Me too. Yeah. And it was so great. And that,

the monorail and the way that my parents did it was they surprised me. They didn't tell me we were going. So all of a sudden lunchtime hits, I'm in grade two and my parents show up at lunch and they're like, we're leaving to go to Walt Disney world today. And,

And they'd already packed all my stuff. Like, my head just exploded. It's the greatest reveal for any parent listening that wants to take your kids to Disneyland or World. Just go get them at lunch. And their little faces, I just can't even imagine. I wish that we had phones that would record video back then because I don't know what I must have looked like. And it was so amazing. You'll probably remember this, Adam. When you go to the Polynesian Resort there, they have a breakfast called Minnie's Monohula. And you can go...

And you can go and have breakfast with all the characters. There's like a big water slide. When you walk in, it's like this smell of like chlorine, which I kind of still now have an association with Disneyland because there's a huge indoor waterfall with like peacocks and birds. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's so beautiful. I loved it. That was the very first time I went on a real vacation. I was eight years old, seven or eight. It was the first time I ever went on a plane. Disney World, not Disneyland. And I...

My mom tells me the story that I would write in my journal at school. I was so happy to go on this trip that I would write every single day, I'm going to Disney World, I'm going to Disney World. And it was the most memorable trip. We stayed at the Polynesian. My room was 1511. I still remember that. Oh, Adam. The room that we stayed in was 1511. And it was the greatest time. And it was so magical and wonderful. And Disney World, it was amazing. I went back again when I was 15.

And then I went back again with children and, oh, we went to the Polynesian and did the character breakfast. Oh, it brought tears to my eyes because it just all came full circle. And, oh, wow, it was crazy. Well, I mean, I didn't go till I was 16. And you're kind of too old and too cool to go to Disneyland. But I set all that crap aside. Yes. When my mom and dad planned this trip and, of course, years later, mom said it cost dad and I so much money. We paid for that trip for two years to pay it off.

But we flew down on some ragtag airline. It didn't even have a name.

And we just, we, we, I was so excited to go and my friends were excited for me. I meant to have the small country school and, but just going down there. But one of the sidebar trips that my mom and dad wanted to do. So Disneyland was great. We did that for three days, which is a lot. I mean, we were all exhausted from walking around Disneyland. They wanted to take us on this bus, like a, a picture of Greyhound from 1949 and,

to Tijuana. So they took us down there. I don't remember showing passports or identification of any kind. We went to Tijuana. And as soon as you cross the border, you enter into this land of kiosks, people pulling on your arms to sell you leather vests and tchotchkes and shakers and sombreros and

My dad started drinking tequila. Oh, boy. Down there, a lunch turned into a thing. Just leave me here. Come back and get me. We were lost in this market. When I think about Disneyland, my mind goes back to this experience in Tijuana. It kind of took over the trip.

Anyway, fast forward now, folks, to 2021. There are four theme parks that Disneyland owns, two water parks, 27 themed resort hotels, and nine non-Disney hotels. I don't know what that means, but they have grown into this...

thing. I mean, they're films alone. They have obviously a film studio. I wonder if Walt Disney had any idea of what he was creating. And I think about a guy drawing this in Anaheim, which was basically Swampland. Yeah.

And turning it into what it is now. What is a day pass for Disneyland? I mean, $3.50 and $7.71. Is it $80 to go through there? It has to be $80. I think it's $100. Yeah, it has to be $100. It's prohibited. But I will say this. And the last time I was there was three, four years ago. It's worth it because it is a premium experience. So, yes, you're paying a lot, but you're getting a premium experience. So, dare I say it's worth it.

And I also feel like I went back when I was an adult. So I, I had, I went back with my ex boyfriend cause his family had a place in Florida. And so we were like, ha ha, let's do a day trip or stay overnight and go to Disneyland. And it was,

It was really different to go back and they have like adult Disney where everyone drinks and they have like Irish. And they have adult entertainment. You can sleep with Mickey. No, but do you want to know something super messed up? There was a guy that I once went on a few dates with in university. And I remember this was one of my like worst date ever stories. When we got to his apartment, I saw, he was like, Oh, look at like, I saw Walt Disney poster and,

And it was all these like Walt Disney characters, but it had like a weird vibe to it. It didn't seem like a real piece of authentic Disney merchandise to me. It was weird enough that it was there. And I was like, why the heck do you have a Walt Disney poster here? Like I have to leave. And he literally turned on a black light and the black light revealed that all the Disney characters were engaging in very not safe for work activities with each other.

You did not want to be Snow White on this poster. I don't think that was sanctioned by Walt. Yeah, that was the last time I saw him. That was the last time I saw him. I went for my 52nd birthday?

I went to Florida. Oh, wow. And I went with some friends and we just went down there and it was, we really had fun. I just remember being in, what's that land where they have all the different countries? Oh, small world. It's a small world after all. Is it small world or is it, anyway, they had a Tim Hortons thing. It was like the Canadian. Yeah. Sorry. Different one. Yeah. Yeah.

Oh, people are going to be writing in saying, you idiot. Epcot. I think you mean Epcot, like the Canadian Pavilion. Sorry to everyone out there. We got there. It was an Epcot, but they asked you trivia questions, and I was so...

I was so Canadian. I was very competitive wanting to answer all the Canadian questions. Anyway, next time you're in California or in any of the Disney world, just know that you are walking over top of a very complicated tunnel system and all the cast members to everything are wandering around down there holding their heads under their arms like dead mouse and

trying to, you know, find where they're going. I don't know. I just imagine all those cast members just hooking up all the time and having wild parties and,

I remember reading years and years ago that there was some kind of an outbreak of either gonorrhea or it was something like that. It was a transmit with the cast members of one of the Disney worlds. Don't sue me. Because they have those underground tunnels in the Magic Kingdom for the cast members, and I don't think they're just used for getting around. I think they're used for getting it on. When we say magic tunnel, I think we all know what we mean.

Oh my god. When we say it's a small world after all. We are terrible. You're listening to the CBC Evening News.

Scarlett, I mean, there's a dark side to Disney too. And I don't think there's a person alive that doesn't realize that. I mean, was Walt Disney not a Hitler sympathizer? I heard that, yeah. Why do I feel like I've heard that? I've definitely heard that. There's some negative connotations. I don't even know what that means as far as, well, he's doing the right thing or I don't know. I have no idea what that means.

I think Disneyland is now out as far as sponsoring the Jan Arden podcast. They were in until this break. They were in until we did this. But like, for instance, in like, as of a month ago, Scarlett Johansson was suing. We're going to come back. We have more to talk about. We are moving on from Disneyland, but Scarlett Johansson is suing them for like $50 million. You're listening to the Jan Arden podcast. We'll be right back.

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Welcome back to the Jan Arden Podcast. I just have a few fun headlines that I want to share with you guys. Because I don't know about you, but I always sort of try and find some happy news in the world of what's going on. Maybe not necessarily happy, but stuff that makes me smile. This woman kept losing her packages, her Amazon or whatever. She was getting deliveries. She was in Tennessee. She was in Tennessee.

And so she went out, her and her husband, and they got one of those doorbell cameras. They went and they spent, and they're not even that expensive. You can probably pick up a doorbell cam for, I would imagine, 40 or 50 bucks. So-

And Christmas is coming. We're going to all get deliveries, I'm sure. So they're looking out there. And lo and behold, these packages were not being stolen by a neighbor. So they were all ready to march over to the neighbors, call the cops. They were mad at the neighbor for months because assuming that he was the guy taking this stuff. Well, it was a bear. What? It was a small bear that was just coming up to them, to their door, and just taking their packages. Wow.

And the last one he took was like a 33 pound box filled with swimming pool chemicals, which made me really nervous because he's going to now go anyway. So they realized that they could no longer leave packages. But that's always so funny. You make these assumptions that it's the neighbor that didn't return your shovel three years ago.

You know, he's the guy. And it was a bear the entire time. The other little story that I came across that I thought was so funny, because I'm single, so I'm always very jealous if I'm driving anywhere and there's a lane that you have to have two people. Yes, yeah. Two or more people to drive in the lane. Yep.

You see that in the States. All the time. The carpool lane, basically. The carpool. Do you have that in Ontario? Yeah, we do. We have a more official name for it, which I'm forgetting now, but definitely they're everywhere. So this guy gets pulled over. Who knows how long he's been getting away with it, but he had a skeleton, like a Halloween skeleton dressed up.

With glasses on and a hat. And I'm thinking to myself, these are the lengths that people are going to go through. This is in Texas. Of course it is. But just pulling him over and, you know, obviously they find him for having a dressed up mannequin. Well, it wasn't even a mannequin. It was a skeleton. Like,

Someone is going to look in your car. If you're seeing someone out buying Halloween decorations right now and they buy one of these skeletons, it might not be for their front lawn. It might be a great option for their passenger so they can use the carpool lane. Honestly, though, this is a kind of good idea for everyone listening in Toronto. You know that when you see...

what do they call them? The HOV lanes. So when you see the HOV lanes here in Toronto and Adam, you know, cause you live north of the city, kind of in a bit of a suburb, the traffic to and from downtown Toronto is a no,

nightmare. It is a total nightmare getting around the city now. And so, yeah, if someone told me you put a glue, a wig onto a skeleton and call it a day, I would do it in a second. Caitlin, you wouldn't. Yes, I would. I would. I absolutely would. If I lived outside of the city, I would do this because I'll tell you no matter what the ticket is, when you get it, it's worth it for the hours you saved.

with the skeleton next to you. I'm fine with breaking this law. I want to say that the views shared by the other cast members of the Jan Arden podcast are not necessarily shared by iHeartRadio, which is our network. You know that you can take the HOV lane as a single if you have a green vehicle.

Oh, that's good. Oh, I like that. So just buy an electric car. So electric car, hybrid car. Yeah. I think a hybrid qualifies. They have parking at the BAM Springs hotel. If you drive a hybrid or an electric vehicle, you park right out in front. You can pull up and park right there. And they have a couple of little, uh, charging stands. Um, and,

A jury's still out for me as far as going completely electric just because I live out of town. Yeah. And not that it's – I mean, you can go 550 kilometers on one charge. It's not like you have to charge it every 10K. I think once there are more charging stations for, like, long-haul rides that they'll become a little bit more popular. I mean, the battery life is supposed to be getting better and better all the time. I know there are environmental concerns over some of the ingredients they use to make those batteries. Yeah.

and how they're mined. Hopefully that's resolved. But an interesting thing, one of my friends works for an investment company and they're really doing a lot of investing in green energy solutions. And one of the things they're really interested in is called V2G.

and it's vehicle to grid power. So if you have an electric vehicle that you plug in at home and you find yourself in a situation, say in the near future, where because of demands on power grids, we're dealing with brownouts and blackouts, that you'll be able to actually plug your vehicle into your house and it will serve the power grid. You'll put energy back into the power grid from your car. And if you needed to plug it into your house and run your house off of the battery in your vehicle, you might be able to do that.

It's really interesting. Wow. We are going to get there. I have no doubt in my mind that they're going to learn how to do those swaps, the power sharing, how to really utilize the sun in a way that we can't even imagine right now. Look at what has happened in the industrial revolution. Really, in the last 150 years,

The planet was going along and we have basically stripped the planet of everything of any value.

Obviously, we can't pump fossil fuels out forever. We only have one little blue ball. It's not like it's remaking itself. No. That system is going to collapse. So we have to start using... We have this ball floating in the sky that is so incredibly amazing. And we're kind of utilizing it. But even solar is...

is difficult. Quite a few of my neighbors have solar and I'm going to say eyesore. And the reason I'm saying that because their panels to run their homes and they are mostly using the solar are a hundred feet long, 20 feet high. They're pointed in absolutely a certain direction.

And I drive by two or three of those homes every day. And I'm like, you have now taken up this whole chunk of land. It's not like it's one little dish that's sitting on top of their house.

It really is difficult. I know that the solar roof panels, like the actual, I mean, I want to say they're almost like shingles. I know that technology is coming along and it's really popular in California so that you can kind of combine the aesthetic look that you want for your home with a green energy solution. But right now, a lot of these things, even with government rebates, they can be very prohibitively expensive. Yeah, they have come down a lot. Yeah.

Yeah, it's not, it hasn't been cheap so far, which is I think why it hasn't been widely adopted. Now you are going to save money on your energy bills. And I think energy bills are going to go way, way up in the, in the coming years. So investing in this now is, is a really great idea. And ultimately, did you guys see that thing where they invent, they've created science, scientists have created the whitest paint. They've

They've created the whitest paint ever, like the whitest shade of white known to man. And the idea is you paint homes with it, you paint roofs with it, and it's going to stand in place of air conditioning because it will reflect all the light off of the building. And you won't have these black roofs absorbing the heat from the sun or

All day and then increasing the temperature inside your homes. Because again, in places like here in Toronto, we're expected to see average summer temperatures that reach, I believe it's 40 degrees by, it's either 40, no, it's 50 degrees by 2040, I think. Really? It's not manageable. Yeah.

No. And so you're going to have to you're going to have really, really increasing demands on your power grids. They just weren't designed to handle everyone needing their AC for five months of the year, 24 hours a day. So that's where these solutions like this white paint can come in and reduce the temperature inside buildings and urban settings by simply just painting the roof a different color.

Things like that are going to make all the difference. I'm going to leave you in this segment with one more story of, you know, kind of good news. I do. I have 60 seconds. A Seattle company is offering a budget wedding and they ship you a container that you can basically set up in your backyard. A budget wedding service in Seattle moved out of a shopping center to set up what the owner describes as America's first and only shipping container wedding chapel.

Bronwyn Stevenson, owner of Shotgun Ceremonies,

Um, just, they will send you, they'll send you a container that you just unpack it and you have like a wedding to go. So all you youngsters out there thinking of getting married, you can, um, you can get a little wedding chapel, set it up in your backyard and it comes with everything that you're going to need. And they start at $350. Oh my gosh. Make your day. Pets are allowed. That's good.

And, oh, my Lord. Anyway, if you're thinking of getting married, where's the name of the company here? I don't know what it's called. Well, Shotgun Ceremonies. There you go. You're listening to the Jan Arden Podcast. We'll be right back. Just the two of us. We can make it if we try. Just the two of us. Just the two of us.

Welcome back to the Jan Arden podcast. Well, Caitlin has surprised Adam and I. You know, it's hard to find good help, isn't it, Adam? She just left. I mean, end of segment three. She said to us, listen, I have something better to do. I have something more important to do.

And Adam and I just looked at her like, fine, leave us here alone. Welcome back. No, she's got, she does. She has important stuff to do. Caitlin is a very, she's very high up at, at, at, at CTV at bell. And we're just lowly. We're just the people.

The peasants. So I don't know if you saw this lately, Adam, but Florida, I'm still, I'm so interested by these headlines. Like when I opened up this thing this morning, I'm like, ooh, this is chock full of fantastic, interesting things that people have done. You might have seen this on the last day or so. This guy goes out, of course, this is Florida. Right. Looks in his front yard and there's a frigging giant alligator. Right.

But he jumps into action. He gets his garbage can out that's empty. You know what? I saw that. You know, the big green things that we all have for recycling. He pulls the lid back and he rolls this thing on its side against the alligator. And he actually, the alligator is so taken aback that he gets him in.

pulls the thing right side up and flips the lid down. Yeah. But you know what the great part of this story is, is that he now rolls this guy, this alligator. You'd think that a lot of people would be like, oh, I'm going to shoot him. I'm going to kill him. I'm going to hit him over the head. This guy rolls him down to this creek and lets him go.

I'm calling someone. I am not messing with an alligator. I'm not going head to head with an alligator. Listen, if you had to, did you see the clip of the guy that this alligator, he's walking his dog along this river. This is also in Florida. Yes. Giant alligator came up, grabbed his little, like my little dog. I saw that. And went under the water. Yeah. The guy dove into the water, grabbed this crocodile's head and,

Or alligator. Am I getting it wrong? I know there's a huge difference here. Forgive me. And he wrestled his little dog out of the jaws and he got really hurt. Like he had stitches and ripped his arm open and he got his dog out. Yeah, I would do that for an animal or a person. For sure. Would you do that, Adam? Yes. Yes, I would. Imagine if it was one of your... Listen, I loved my dog more than anything on the planet. And I think...

I don't know. In a moment, I think I actually would have gone into the water myself. In that scenario, yes. I think I would have gone. I wouldn't even have thought about what the outcome was going to be. I would have just thought...

I can't believe the guy got him out. I must have watched that six or seven times of him going in, grabbing his jaw. And they actually interviewed the guy afterwards. And he's like, I have no idea where I got the courage or the strength. Like, I'm not a super courageous guy. Right. I couldn't believe what I was doing. But this thing had my dog. The adrenaline kicks in, right? The adrenaline kicks in. Well, there's so many great stories of people...

lifting cars off of, of, uh, off their kid pinned underneath it. Um, you know, going, and I don't recommend anyone running into a burning house, but people that absolutely bypass, uh,

the fear, the reluctance, the hesitation, the common sense. Yes. They bypass that and they go in and they do things that they never, ever dreamed possible. It's an amazing thing that can happen to people and you have great feats of strength and courage, right? I have never experienced that myself. I've never picked anybody up or lifted up a car. No, me neither. I've run from a bear. I've actually run, my friend Sue and I, when we were just kids...

We're out in the bush as you are in Alberta when you're growing up. And we just, we heard something crackling in the bush. We were sitting there. I don't even know what we were doing, but I don't think I've ever run so fast in my life. And hearing this little black bear behind us was like unbelievable. Yeah.

And we didn't look back, but we just, Adam, I bet you we ran for three miles without even thinking we were out of breath. You don't even think about being tired. We could hardly stand up. Our legs were like jelly at the end of that. I'd be so scared if I ran into a bear. I would freak out and I would

I absolutely run as fast as I could and as far as I could, for sure. This is a little bit of a change of topic. Did you have Hot Wheels when you were a kid, Adam? Yes, I did. So did you have the orange track and the thing that you put together and the loops and everything? I sure did. Yeah. I don't think I have anything anymore. Like, I don't have any remnants of cars or tracks, but I absolutely had one and I played with it all the time.

My brothers and I were always, and it's almost like Tupperware lids, we were always missing the pieces to put the tracks together. You know, there was these little gray things that you would stick the orange tracks together. Well, here's another weird news story of the day. Hot Wheels track with 10 loops breaks the world record. So it's in the Guinness book that from dropping the car down, I guess there's a real criteria to breaking this record,

Ten loops this car went through. Cool. There's a little... You can go online. I think it's on YouTube. Just go Guinness Book of World Records Hot Wheels Loops. I mean, I have to say when I looked at it, they have sort of a board that is...

15, 20 feet long. So it's quite a drop. It's not like they pushed the car on a flat kitchen floor. They had it pointing down. But these are grown men that are...

you know, that broke this world record with 10 loops. I appreciate it. Yeah. I really appreciated it too, but it really brought back memories of childhood toys and just things that we had. And I talk about this a lot with my friends, that the John and Jane West dolls, they were blue plastic Western dolls. Do you remember those? I don't know if I remember those. I don't know if I ever, that I can't recall now.

This might be before my time a little bit. There was a Maine fisherman. We're still on this. This is how we're going out of the show today. A guy in Maine accidentally, and I don't even know what this means. He accidentally caught a 600 pound tuna. What?

Which breaks my heart. I don't know what that means. A Maine fishing crew's accidental catch of a 600-pound tuna became, well, they donated it to a food bank. They donated it to a soup kitchen. It became 350 servings of food at a local soup kitchen. Ross Alex, captain of the Catherine Ann, said he and his crew were fishing for lobster. Lobster.

off the coast of Belfast, and their nets captured something unexpected, and it was a 600-pound tuna, which breaks my heart. As you guys all know, I'm vegan. Anyway, they just said it was sort of beyond...

It wasn't like they could throw him back. But they did donate it to a food bank. I think they're... Not a food bank, a soup kitchen. Maybe soup kitchens have a little different rules than we have here. I cannot see anyone in Canada taking a...

600 pound tuna and using it in their kitchen. I'm sure there'd be some kind of government regulations going. There's no way in hell you're doing that. Oh, that's too big. I think that's way too big. Tunas are big fish, but not 600 pounds, big fish. And in Wisconsin, here's a new one, a sculpture of Humpty Dumpty sitting on a toilet.

was stolen, and it's worth $1,400. It's a bronze Humpty Dumpty. So if you're in Wisconsin and you happen to see a Humpty Dumpty bronze statue, like who would steal this thing? That's ridiculous. We're going out with these good news stories. I like this. This is fun. Another world record got broken this week too, Adam. Oh, you got 30 seconds. Tell me. You couldn't guess this.

In 30 seconds, a giant tooth sculpture. And I mean, this thing is, I don't know, 15 feet high. It was made out of 80,000 toothbrushes.

So there's some happy stories to leave people with. Caitlin, you really missed out on some fascinating stuff. We're always so grateful to our listeners. Stay tuned for the video segments of our podcast. It's coming soon because, as you know, all these podcasts are taped on formats where the video is being recorded as well. So Caitlin was like, we should start putting clips of these up.

And I'm all for it. So we're going to be doing that in the future. Check us out on Spotify. Check us out on iTunes. Hit the subscribe button so you don't have to search for us anymore. We will just show up for you magically. I think Adam posts these very late on Friday night so that you have them on Saturday. Thank you for listening. I hope you're looking after yourself out there. Look after yourselves. Look after your neighbors. Look after your friends. Look after the people you don't even know. We're going to get through this.

Adam Karsh, Caitlin Green. I'm Jan Arden. You've been listening to the Jan Arden Podcast. We'll be right back.