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to do for Christmas Eve? Oh? My goodness. Uh, the stockings are hung by the chimney with care. Um. I'm gonna throw a dura flame log in the fireplace and watch a Christmas movie, maybe make a gingerbread house at a boy all the Christmas stuff. What's your favorite Christmas movie? My favorite Christmas movie is Gremlins. What that's a Christmas movie? Oh, it's a Christmas movie. It's very if you watch it, it's very Christmas. Takes place on Christmas Eve, sand is

all over the place, they're in the snow. Gremlins is a Christmas movie. You're right, that's like a diet the die hard conversation exactly. I believe die Hard as a Christmas movie. I think the argument of die Hard is that it released in the summertime, and I don't know about Gremlins. I think Gremlins released around Christmas. But that's where the die Hard discourse comes in. That's that carries some weight that's understandable. Well, what do you guy? So

we're just gonna hang out as a fan. We got the in laws in town, and so we have a tradition where we're able to open one present on Christmas Eve? So what present are we gonna let the kids open? Honestly, I wrapped the presents so long ago that I don't remember what's in the presents. So I'm really I don't know. I'll just go Emi MENI Moneymi, And we just want to grab a big one who knows so small and

could be just as tricky. Well, this is fun. We're on you know, Live wind Down on the stereo app Um, we're gonna have a good friend of your yours, Bethany joy Lynds from Wintry Hill. She's gonna be on the show later. Yeah, she has a new album out called Snow. It's so good. So if you want a good Christmas

album to listen to, definitely give it a listen. Um, I just can't believe tomorrow's Christmas, Like we finally made it to Christmas time when we gonna take direct decorations down because I know like once the holiday is over, you just want to move on to the next The day after everything down, maybe like a few days later, but it has to be down before New Year's, Before New Year's. I know some people that like to keep their tree rips on New Year's down gone, get it gone?

What about you Eastern you know, uh called last year. I think we left ours up until New Year's, but I don't know. I think I like to say that we're going to take down the twenty six, but that's not gonna happen. We'll probably start taking down the outside stuff on the s and the tree probably around New Year's Like no, yeah, I feel like is a good?

Is a good? Like in between? I know that a Swift song came out where she's like, we can leave the Christmas lights up till January, and I'm like, oh man, that's a that's a slippery slope. Go. Then it goes to February. Then March. Then you start justifying to leave him up all year exactly. Work smart, not hard. Hey, so I know we're going to do some Q and A. Uh this show. You've got some things lined up for us. I certainly do. I mean, these are some hard hitting

questions you guys. Ready, let's do it all right, let's uh, let's do the first one here. Uh, what's your best advice for a newly engaged couple? Mm hmm, what honey? Um? I would just say, enjoy the newlywed phase because it's it's kind of fade. No, I mean, just enjoy, just enjoy the the time together and try not to rush and just yeah, I just enjoy the moment, enjoy the

enjoy the feeling that you have with your partner. Yeah, I would say, just enjoy getting to know each other, like continuing to get to know each other, and that that doesn't stop for the rest of your relationship. And you know, if you continue to learn more about each other, I think you can find ways to keep the relationship

and marriage interesting and fun. Yeah. I find people, uh, when they're getting age, they jumped pretty quickly into like wedding planning mode, even if they're not gonna get married right away, and that's a very until you have children. I think that might be the most stressful thing a couple does, like early in your relationship is playing the wedding.

So I mean I always say, like, give yourself at least a couple of months of just like enjoying being engaged before you get into that, because there's plenty of time for all that stuff. But yeah, all right, Uh, let's how about this, how does Mike? How did Mike feel when you were on Dancing with the Stars, Janet? Did you watch? Um? Mike was in rehab and he did not watch. Um, I don't know if I watched

at the end. And it's more so, you know, I was just sad that I couldn't be there throughout the whole journey with her because she did so well on it and I would have loved to have been there to support her all the way to the end into the final four. That's a's a supportive husband right there. What are your favorite attributes about each other? Um? I

would say that Mike's a great dad. Um, he's really hands on, interactive, always you know, on the ground with them, and you know, just yeah, he's just he's one of the best dads. Um I know. UM. For me, it's Janna's just kind of relentlessness when it comes to to work and providing for the family because she's she inspires me to like to be creative and to think outside the box because she's always creating something or finding something

to do, or finding ways to earn. And it's just it's motivating because you know, I'm come from a different background. It's very structured and what I did, so it's it's nice to kind of strengthen my create creativity muscles and and think outside the box. Right now, we're gonna turn it on turn this next question on its head. If you guys could swap places for a day, what's one thing you think the other person does that you think you could do so much better? Mm hmmm. We'd save

that one more time. So, if you could swap places for a day, what's one thing you think you could do? One thing the other person does that you think you could do better. Mhm. So if I was Janna for the day, Yeah, what would I do as Janna? Like, Like, what's something that Janna does that you think you could do better? If you this is a high concept question if you inhabited her body for the day, so like Little Dickey style exactly, Um, oh what can I do?

I think, Oh, man, you could relax better. I think I could. I would sing. And the reason I say that, we all know Janna has a beautiful voice, but I feel like if her voice is better than she even thinks it is. And so I'll go out there and just sing my ass off, all right, because you think you can sing better than me, because I hear you from my ears and know how good you are. You know that you that you hold back at times. So I'll go out there and just let loose. Mhm um, yep, good.

I would probably say. I mean cleaning, you know, just like when he's like, I'll get the dishes and clean, but it's like he leaves like the one side of the counter like filthy with his like grease stains from like cooking. So I'm just like I just finished the job better. But the meal was amazing. It all right. We have some live questions I'm gonna get I'm gonna get this. What is one thing that you two have learned or discovered about each other that you didn't know

before quarantine and COVID. Oh, I don't know. I feel like I feel like we know each other pretty well. Mike. Why don't you start mm hmmm. Something we learned knew about each other that we didn't there before, man, Daniel, I mean, the thing is not much changed for us

because we're always together anyway. Yeah, I would say honestly, there was nothing new, just because we are always together anyways and do life together that we're pretty normal to this kind of working from home and being around each other environment. But good question, nonetheless, which one of you would win in the dance battle? Me? Okay, quick answer? Wow, I'm gonna say me, just because when we did take dance lessons, Mike was like falling over his feet. You're

out of your mind. I was correcting you, okay, But you also didn't come in fourth place on Dancing with the Stars and half of the stuff that I didn't Dancing with the Stars just until they do couples All Stars. Yeah. How did you come up with kids names? Did you disagree on some names or agree on some names? And

who had the finals? Say? Julie was always a name that I had for I had that name for a while, probably like twenty years yeah, um, and it was just always something so pretty and then he liked it right off the Yeah. And then our boy name. We had a few names. Um, I really my friend came up

with Jason, and I really liked it. Mike wasn't a thousand percent sold on it in the very beginning, but I kept just pushing, like what it means, and you know, the Jay's and and then I once I was able to kind of bring in the middle name and he would have the same initials as his grandfather and great grandfather. That was the connection for me. I was like, boom done, Mike, do you feel left out because your name doesn't begin with the J? Good question? Easton. I told him he

could change it if he wanted, you know, Eastern. My middle name is John, Um, so I could start going by John. You know, who's to say I can't um, But yeah, at times I do. It's like, hey, there's Janna, Jolie and Chase and Mike just there existing. But you stand out. You know, You're Yeah, you're different. You want to be different, that's coment. Have a great personality, all right, you see what are the questions you got over there? Okay, this one I saw this on the rundown, and I

was really excited about it. Janna, I want to know what are the stories, What's what's the t behind the non Mike related songs you wrote? And you're saying, like whiskey, I got the boy, I won't give up. So why you Wanna is about my first relationship in Nashville that broke my heart. Um, so that song has always been about him. Um, I got the boys out, my high school sweetheart, Matthew. And then I mean most of my songs are about an act of kind of like the

I'm the old Taylor Swift you know. Yeah, well, how this Taylor Swift is trying to be Jana Kramer? That's what I've always said. Uh oh, here's a here's a question from Mike. Are you having your vasectomy reversed? Nope, No, I'm not chance. If anything, we'll just do it a different way, all right, all right? So what what was the name you almost had? Like you guys, if you like,

were you almost not Jana or not Mike? I was supposed to be Jessica or Ariel And I'm just glad, I mean, no, no hate to like Jessica or the Ariels out there, but um yeah or no, sorry, it was Jennifer and Ariel. Um. So last minute, my mom, you know, decided against Ariel, and I really appreciated it. But I mean, I love arials out there. If there's I mean, that's you, you're a Disney princess. I just don't think that I could have, you know, lived up

to being the Disney Mermaid. I was Michael from from Jumps Street, like no no exciting story behind it. Yeah, I was almost Maverick. I was gonna be Maverick until like the night before and then my dad was like, you know, I got a name. People, Starbucks will screw up even more than that. Let's do Easton. Let's sea.

The fact that your dad was the one that last minute called off Maverick is very surprising, I know, right he like, honestly, someone is doing work at our house and he's like, oh, my son's named Easton, and like that was it. They just called it that at the last minute. Your dad looks like a Maverick. He's like a bodybuilder, you know. He liked to joke with me that it was a top gun thing, but it was it was from a Western TV show. But again, I'm kind of glad I wasn't Maverick, I would have just

gone by Rick probably Rick. Uh. We are live on the stereo app. This is a wind Down Live with Joanna Kramer and Michael Cosson. Hey, guys, have your kids ever walked in on you? Oh my gosh? No? Uh no, is there a gray area, Mike, It is a gray area. I think I think Jolie has like this quarantine. We're just like I go back and watch TV. We'll be out there in a minute, but not like fully walked in. I don't remember that happening. I'm gonna go with now. Okay, Uh,

how do you guys? Comp reminds your differences in parenting? Fortunately, we don't really have that many. No. I mean I feel like there's times and like I might be a little harder and like Michael be like, hey, you know either like check yourself and vice versa, where like He'll be like I have a stronger reaction and I'll be like, okay, like we'll we'll just like tag. Um. But I feel

like we parents pretty much the same way. Um. I might be a little bit more sensitive to like aggressiveness, but um, I think we pretty much parents the same way. What do you think has been This is a question for me. What do you think has been the biggest challenge, like the biggest difference you guys have had in parenting. Like I know there was a last year there was some difference on like where to go for the holidays,

but like, has there been a bigger hurdle other than that? Um? No, I think the only foreseeable thing is, you know, this year hasn't really been a big issue because of the quarantine stuff, and you know, Janna hasn't filmed as many things or we haven't had to travel as much. But you know, I'm big on like the kid's routine and them not getting taken out of their routine that much, especially with them getting a little older. And you know,

Janna so used to traveling, especially with Jolie. She was our little you know, our travel bug, like she came everywhere with us. Um you know, and Jason was the same too when he was an infant. But now with the kids getting older and when things were normal, you know, Juliet soccer, she has dance, she has this. You know, if Janna has to go film something, I don't want to just have the drop of the hat take the kids completely out of what they have going on to

go just sit somewhere for a couple of weeks. But I also don't want Janna to be without a family. So those are the biggest things, especially once like Julie starts like school, school, you know, that's going to be a challenge I think for us, UM, I feel like, you know, the difference is like you know, when you travel somewhere, like you're not just gonna go sit somewhere, because like it's now that the kids are getting older.

I've talked to so many people that, um, you know, have traveled with their parents and what they get to see and experience different cultures in different states and different countries. You know, they say it's it was the best experience as a kid to be able to travel with their

you know, they're working parents. So I feel like, yes, I can understand where it would might be hard, but at the same time, the fact that they could go experience new places, I think is a gift that like I wish that I could have done with my parents or my mom or my dad, um, so that I could have seen more things and experience different cultures and um be more whatever that word is like, um, yeah,

just would have traveled more to see more things. I think as a kid, that's stuff that you can't you know, you can't. I mean, that's just it's fine. I don't know. You learn things. You you get to see other places, and you better to do when you're a kid, you know, Oh my god, of course you know. I got to go with you to work one time, to the same and I got to experience New Iberia Louisiana. That was like, sincerely, that was an experience I think about every day, and

it really was exciting. I couldn't imagine being your child and getting to see all these different places. And and also when you watch mom work, you have such a cool job, and uh, you know, it's just such a cool thing to be around. Uh. Who's per personality does each of the kids have or are closest to. I think Jace has my like love side, and Julie has um.

I mean I feel like both kids are like jas has more of like my cuddly, very kind of needy personality, and then Julie has Mike's like now I'm good, like I don't need affection like whatever. But then I feel like she's got like you know, um, her independence too from Mike and and then she's got my sass. What do you think? Yeah, I mean there's you know, parts

of them that are both like us. Um. Yeah, I think the biggest things are what Janna said, and then also it just comes down to the biology of them. I mean, Julie is a girl like Jase's your typical boy like jumping off couches, smashing trucks together, wrestling, all of that. So it's you know, there, they're there, they're being themselves and it's just awesome to see. So the kids are back at school earlier. I'm not sure about Ja's, but at least Julie, I know it is like going

to school in person right now? Is that right? Yeah? Julia is? What was that? Was that a hard decision to make in terms of like there's a question here, how did you come to the decision to send your kids back to school? And I'm assuming that means because of the pandemic. Yeah, I mean it's one of those things like, you know, because Julie technically goes to a daycare, they had to stay open, So we could have sent Julie the whole time if we wanted to but we

took her out in March. We didn't send her back to what August. Yeah, And so we had the whole spring and summer with her, with both kids, and it was just for us, you know, we were still wanting to live our lives, and we're like, look, the kids need school. We tried schooling ourselves. We're not teachers, and you know they need it's it's it was only fair

to Jolie at that point. It was fair to the kids to have that social interaction, to play with friends, to to learn, and so it almost got to the point where we felt like it would be selfish if we kept them home any longer. I will say, though, it is kind of freaking me out because Tennessee is now the highest state of coronavirus new cases. So I am starting to be like, maybe we should lock down

again because it's kind of freaking me out. I can't imagine, like being a young kid and having to do your classes like on the computer, you know, Like I had a hard enough time like being social and making friends, like going to school normally, I can imagine having to do that virtually. Oh my god, yeah, do your do Jolie and James get along with each other, do they play really well, and oh my gosh, they're the best. They are best buds until they're not until they're not.

But but that's what's funny to see. I mean, they will be so cute one second, and then Jas will be like bodies trying to you know, jump off the couch, arm onto Jolie and wrestle with her, and Joelie will start crying and Jas will viciously pulled her hair and it's it's so funny to see though. It's funny, but it's also sad, like they're they're you know, they're so cute, but then it's the next you know, five minutes later, Yeah, Jason is pulling her hair trying to wrestle with her.

They're just typical siblings. Man. It's it's just it's awesome. They're gonna be so close when they get older too. It's a cool thing to see. Uh, let's see we're a great moderator. By the way, Easton here on the stereo app. Thanks for doing this Christmas even all got you're working on a holiday. Thanks guys. You know they always say when you get to uh work with your heroes, it's never work. It's just living my dream right now. I'm and I hope, I'm hope I'm doing a good

job here. I usually just turn the microphones on enough. But let's see, got some more questions here on on the stereo app. Mike, would you ever rejoin the NFL? Sure if they'd have me. Yeah, no, My my body's done and there's no market for a thirty three year old retiree. I mean it'd be cool to see, like like a stunt casting kind of thing, though, like we're bringing them out of retirement. Michael Cousins coming back. Sure,

I would. We'll need the next year to to train. Uh. You know, actually some of you guys talked about earlier that I was thinking about when you did when you dance, when you took because you said you took like a dance class together, right, mm hmm. Did you feel that your football training helped with that? Yeah? I think general athleticism will help with that, you know, I mean I think it will definitely have I think that's why part of why Jana did so well, because she's she's just

she is an athlete, you know. She I skated for a long time, and that stating an athletic sports. I never took it away from you. Yeah that's cheer leading. Um, but now if you watch cheer on Netflix. Come on now, hey, we have a couple of live live questions. Who were your role models growing up? Or your couple goals or your relationship goals? M Do you have a role model grown up? Um? Don't have a role model growing up? Uh? I think it was like Diane Sawyer because I wanted

to be an anger woman. Yeah, I don't know if I you know, I had like favorite players or whatever, But I don't know if I really had like a role model that you know. Now I look back and I've taken the the positive things I've inherited from my from my dad, and so I look at him as a role model in aspects. But other than that, I can't really don't give anything. What are some of your

New Year's resolutions for? So? I read a book called The Happiness Project, and it was really cool because they basically said, setting new Year's resolutions, you're you're basically setting yourself up to fail. Um, but if you and like and how like, it was like they rated people doing it, But if you did it in monthly increment so like January, I want to swear less. February I wanna you know, eat better. In March, I really want to be softer

and kinder to myself. And you know, over time, like you want to carry those other ones into each other month. But like, just setting like one goal for that one month, it's gonna be easier. It's gonna be easier for you to attain that goal because you're not just like and to like I don't know, I mean like if you look back at your list, but like I look back on my list almost every month to be like, Okay, what what have I kept putting back on the backburner

of my goals this year? Um? Because it's easy to write your goals on a sheet of paper or tell yourself it, But if you're not gonna look at it and see it and remind yourself of what you set out to do, you're never going to fulfill what you want to do. Um. And you know there's things on my list that I you know, there's only one thing I didn't do this year on my list, and you know it was something that I decided to put, you know,

to to my next year. But to be like the top of what I'm gonna do because I didn't fulfill everything I wanted to do. But I think it is like writing things out and for me, like, um, you know, I have my work goals and then my personal goals, and I think just I'm gonna keep my own personal ones to myself. But um, I have I have very high goals. What about you? Um, you know I gotta write them out? I don't. I don't. I have them off the top of my head. But I think I

got to look back on my list. Is one thing I didn't do is look back on my list enough. But also looking to see you both are so talented. What are some hidden talents that you don't know about? I can carty and I can do the splits, which I feel like for thirty seven year old is pretty darn good. Um, don't a great swimmer. You're a great cook, but everyone knows that you are a good swimmer, strong summer. I would drown you. See your back on the clock

with us. You're on the stereo app. All right, we got we got some more questions coming in from social Jane. I'm sorry when you say you can do the splits? Is it like the like uh was it Jean Claude being damn like straight out or like in front and behind you? Which way? Well, front and behind. I can't do this straight out. I don't think I've ever been able to do that, that one. It's always just been

so I guess that's like kind of cheating. But no, no, that's I mean, that's that's the splits in my mind. It's still the splits. Right. M uh let's see. Oh, I'm being told you didn't get to them. What were the resolutions you didn't get to? Jannah? Can you share the one you put off for next year? Yes? Um, I never I really wanted to do a blog, um, and I I I just I didn't do it. And

I'm bummed that I didn't do that. Um. But I'm gonna start putting the things that I want to do at the forefront and um and make sure that I everything else I did. Um, but I that was the one. So I'm gonna I like to write things down, even though I'm not the best writer, but I like to just kind of write out things and um, have a safe place to express things because I feel like on Instagram it's really hard to write right certain things because

you get a lot of negative feedback. But if I have a blog, it's kind of like hopefully the only hopefully people that like me, we'll just go to the blog and not that people that hate on me. Um, And you know, can it can be like a nicer environment to share vulnerable things. So it would be like like a general kind of like place to share your thoughts as opposed to like like it won't be just about parenting or just about your marriage, like everything related

to Janna, everything and everything, anything and everything. And that brings me to my next question. I'm actually holding my hand a copy of The Good Fight, which is an amazing book everyone should check out by Jenna Clamer Michael Cosson. Is there going to be another book? That's the plan. That's the plan. We're just you know, we're working on the topic and how we want to structure things and

go from there. Yeah. I mean, I've gotten a bunch of ideas and I hope that you know, we can sit down and come together and and you know, work on it. So we'll see fingers crossed The Good Fight round to come and do a bestsellers list near you. Let's hey, what are some couples getaways? That you guys have done you really enjoyed, and you'd recommend to some parents that need a break. Um. I mean I think

there's a place. Um, we just went to Cabo. We went to pedrogal Um Kaboul is a diamond resorts property that's really nice. Um. And if you want to just do something local, there's a place in Tennessee called BlackBerry Farms that's all farm to table, really good food. Um. And honestly, like for me, like just you know, you can just get away anywhere with Airbnb. I mean pick a place, get on Airbnb and and just get away. Um. I'm trying to think of other places. I think you know,

a staycation is highly underrated. Um. You know, even in your city or or a nearby city that's a close to travel to and just get away and just so you're waking up somewhere different together and just doing something different. What's one word of advice you guys can share for a long happy marriage. One word? One word? But that's all you got patients, Um, Empathy, grace, communication. Yeah, my mom would be grace that. Yeah. So when this is a question that came in when one of you is

in trouble, who gets over the silent treatment? First? What do you mean? I'm I'm sorry, I'm trying to kind of worth this out with it. What they mean? I you do give each other the silent treatment? Like do you do? You there? You guys like shut down when you're when you're upset at the other one. Yeah, I think we both do. And when that happens, which of you is fastest to break that? Probably? Yeah, because it's usually me that's in trouble. So usually the culprit is

the one that needs to break the silence. So it's the easiest spot to start waving the white flag. Let's see here. Um. You know, I I personally have just learned so much about about marriage from you guys, and like working on this show has been like just a master class I think in in conflict management and listening

and patience. And I just want to thank you guys as we end the end of the year here or uh, for for all the you know, I can't imagine the thousands of other couples you're helping, but just I'm just one case. This has been I just appreciate you guys sharing your your journey and sharing these things that you've learned along the way. It's helping everybody else than thanks Easter. Appreciative buddy. Uh. Let's see, it's not always easy, right,

That's that's right. Uh, you know you got to keep on fighting the good fight because you know, if it was easy, everyone would do it, and uh not everybody does it, that's for sure, not every h So you know you mentioned on the show the other uh last week, I think, um, that you were thinking about maybe surrogacy if you're gonna go for baby number three? Uh? Is that's is that something as I have looked into, how do you feel about about like how would you react

over someone else like carrying your child? Yeah, you know it's something that we we've just kind of thrown at the board, just talking out all sorts of options if we want to end up having a third And I think it's you know, you gotta weigh the options, and you know, for us, it's it's in the possible equation. But I have my you know, right, my reservations about it as well, are my hesitations about it as well, Um,

just you know, not feeling as the dad. We already don't feel as connected because we're not carrying the child, right, so there's not that initial maternal bond like a mother and a child have. And so now you know, as the dad, will feel even more kind of displaced because now we're not even able to be next to the child on a regular basis and talk to the child.

You would think, though, that that would help you, like because we're both like we're like doing it together where it's like we're both like going through it and being like, do you know what I mean? Yeah, I do, but I think i'd be closer to you. But I'm not comparing it to to your to like your connection or like the mother's connection. I'm I'm just kind of saying like in general, like now I wouldn't be able to see it at all or not at all, but you know,

but yeah, I get what you're saying. Would you like, I'm not sure exactly how it works, but like when you like hang out with the with the surrogate, like I'd be inclined to just be like macking down sushi and drinking, like you know, doing all the stuff you can't do when you're pregnant, like so that that, I mean, that's an attractive thing, right, I mean, the only thing that's really attractive to me is the fact that I wouldn't be puking the entire time, and I would, like,

who knows if I'd be able to carry it, you know, like if I would have another miscarriage again. So it's just and I'm being sure, having wine is a nice thing, but I mean it was easy to give it up when when I was pregnant because the thought of wine tasted disgusting, which is not something that would happen for me. I got another live question here at East Do either of you have any crazy holiday stories, like anything that

went wrong or any holiday blunders or forgotten things. Um, The only thing that I can remember when when I was five years old, those around Joy's age, I was playing this little Mermaid game with my uncle Polly, and I threw up all over my red dress. So that was like one of my early Christmas memories. And I just remember being so upset and apologizing to my uncle

and saying sorry. I don't know if I have I still have this DEVI memory when I was a kid though, and it was snowstorm in Virginia and we're coming back from my grandfather's house, which was just a couple of alls away we couldn't even make it home in our car. We had to park our car at like this gas station and then walk home and like a foot of snow. And I remember just doing that when I was shoot,

I was probably Jolly's age. Yeah, good old days of snow. Mhm. Hey, guys, looking towards what's a guest you've wanted to have on the podcast but you have it yet? I think it'd be fun to have like Dak Shepherd beyond the podcast. Um, And I've always wanted to do his podcast too, but I just like how open he is about his struggles with addictions and marriage and stuff. So I just you know, I would love to have him on. Yeah, Dak Shepherd

would definitely be one. Um. And I would love to talk to a little Dickie as well, so random about what just talk to him? He I just talked to him because I just think we've had great conversations with him. You do know our podcast is about relationships and Yeah, but it'd be great start a new podcast. It's going to be his own podcast past the micro Yeah. Uh and Canada, We're all we're all asking again. This is winding down live on the stereo app. Thanks every way

for listening. But Jana, we we got to know when are we getting new music from you? As soon as I find a producer to produce that. Um. I have a few songs I really want to put out there, but I just got to find the right producer and it's on my to do list for the new year. I've loved everything you've put out over the last you know, the last couple of releases you've done. Those are some kick ass songs. Have you been writing during the quarantine? Um No, I've I only wrote one song. Um. I

wish now looking back, I would have written more. But again I do enjoy like I did enjoy the quarantine time just because I was being able to be like really present with the kids. Um. But I I definitely have some great inspiration to write some new songs. Um. So I'm looking forward to one to be able to write more songs. Alright, everybody, get get get your iTunes saved button ready. I think we got time for like one more They're easty, and then we're gonna part ways

for Christmas eve festivities. All right, again, this is on the Live on the Stereo app. We've had a great time, Hey, Janna. If Mike was asked to do Dancing with the Stars, how would that make you feel? Um, I would want to pick his partner because you know, um things canna be kind of scanned us not dancing with the stars, so um. But no, I mean I would totally support him. Um And I yeah, I think he would do amazing on it. All right, I love it. Uh, but I

hope that happens. Um. Well, it's uh it is Christmas Eve, and uh, I think we're we're getting ready to wrap this, wrap this up like a present for everyone to open. And uh, I hope Santa brings everybody what they want down the chimney this year. And I hope you guys have a great time with your family. This has been so much fun. Thanks for letting me hang out with

the party today. Thanks for moderate Eastern. We know it's not an easy job, but we hope you have a fantastic Christmas and all the listeners a fantastic Christmas as well. And uh, yeah, man, we're looking forward to a new year. And do you and your wife do you know what you're guys are getting each other for Christmas? Or do you guys try to keep a secret we keep it a secret. It's it's definitely a secret. I have no idea what she got me, and hopefully she does not

know what I got her. But we like that surprise and Christmas morning. I love it. It's all about surprise. Do you know what I got you? Mike? Nope, I do not. Never know with you. She's a professional actress. I don't know you can hide it. I wouldn't really say professional, but you know, do you get paid to do something? I don't know what that al Right, guys, well marry Christmas Eve, and we hope everyone has a fantastic and healthy holiday. Goodbye, goodbye, d later ethany h

my friend. Oh my goodness, I'm so I just love you. I'm your album cover. First of all, can we just talk about how beautiful you look like? You look like you're coming out of a window and like Tuscany or something like just done. I was coming out of amazing Thank you. Yeah, we had a good team that day. It was it was a great photographer Juliana Vicore and um just an amazing hair and you know what I mean,

it's like, you know what happens. You wake up in the morning and you're like somebody can like, Oh, I've been a window in Tuscany. I remember Um Tree Hill days. You. I mean you always loved Christmas music. Um, even when we had that Christmas party. I mean you were singing the Christmas songs and you have such a beautiful voice. So, um, I mean Snow is out now, so you guys can get the album. What's your favorite song on the album

that sang? Um? I'm kind of torn. I've got two favorites. Um. One of them is a duet that I do with my friend Anthony Evans, and it's for It's kind of like if you like baby. It's called Outside I think it was. It's kind of a another take on that kind of a song. Um, it's still but it's still in that fifties, forties, fifties scene. Um. And then the other one is called Rejoice. It just feels like a big church song to me. So I love it so good.

Are these original songs, Bethany that you have on the album? Yes? So I did four original and um two covers. We covered jingle Bells and my Favorite Things, which is one of my favorite songs, and uh, and the rest were just songs that I had written. There were two that I had to finish, but I had them started and then others. My Christmas with You was from a play that I had written several years ago, and um, snow was just the thing I wrote this year. So yeah,

I mean that it just kind of came together really fast. Um, which is why we only released it like four days ago, because I'm so last minute. I was like the day after Thanksgiving and I went, it's Christmas time. Now I make some Christmas music. Is writing a Christmas song? Is there any more added stress or difficulty to that because of, you know, it being Christmas time? And I don't know. I feel like Christmas songs are so nostalgic, nostalgic, and

they last, you know, fifty plus years. It's like, here's an original. Yeah, they're good, They're good. Yeah. That For me, I find it a little easier because I grew up with the musical theater background, and so much of that includes American standards, which is that jazzy sort of sound

that you hear in all the classics. I'll be Home for Christmas, White Christmas, the Christmas song, um silver Bells, you know, all of those tunes that if you take the lyrics out, the music still stands up by itself. It still holds up, which is why people are still listening to those songs a hundred years later. Um. And I'm curious to know if some of the modern songs that have been written will also stand the test of time in that way. And I think there are some

that will. Um. But I try and write in that vein because it was really natural to me. So in a way, writing Christmas songs, Um, this is a roundabout way of explaining this. I hope you're following it. In a way, writing Christmas songs is a lot easier because I'm so comfortable with the American standards sound from the forties, you know. I feel like to no one can really say a Christmas song sucks, like like that song sucks. Like They'll be like, oh, it's just not I just

don't like it. It's just not my taste. But I think people just have like high expectations. Like I remember when Taylor Swift came out with her Christmas Tree front and I'm just like, man, like I was wanting like all I want for Christmas or saying to tell me like kind of vibe, and so I was like bummed because you're not like, so it's still Christmas? Are you so much? You're happy? Yeah? I have heard that one, Jannah. What is the vibe on that? I mean I think

it was just a one. She just released one song, so it was like, um, because she grew up on a Christmas tree farm. I mean it's cute, but I was just like I think I was expecting like a bop, you know, and it wasn't like it didn't bought me, Like it didn't bought me in the face, like I really wanted to bop. Have you put out Christmas music? Yeah, Jana, I put out one song like a million years ago when I was on a label. But um, I mean actually that's like my dream is to do a Christmas album.

It would you do a song with me? Though, Like can we do a duet together? Like let's let's let's write it girl on girl, let's write it. Do it? I mean yeah, I mean Christmas Love Story, Christmas song. No. I would like, yeah, next year that would be that would be a total dreamboat scenario because I said I want to do it this year. But I mean with Quarantine and I mean you did it, you got it done, girl, and snow is out now. So I'm like super excited because I listened to the ones that isn't hit the

top ten. Um two days ago we hit the top ten New Christmas albums were right under Maria. That's awesome. And where are you living again? Right now? I am on a ranch. I'm here in California. I found a little place just outside of l A. And UM got some horses. I think I'm going to get a baby goat, I think. So there was this baby goat. I was out shoveling manure the other day and we had to go dump on manure at a local ranch because I don't what am I gonna do with like tons of manure?

So we dumped it, you know, we spent all days shoveling dumped it. And then I see in the corner there's this little it's kind of a collective ranch where people have their chickens and their goat and their horses. And so I went to the cage in the back and this mama goat had just had four babies like twenty minutes before. I mean she was still leading the goat. She was licking all the you know, everything off the goats.

It was like really cute, and there was one in the corner that was just like crumpled up and dying and couldn't get the utters. So I got to go in there and I grabbed the baby goat and I like stuck it on the mom's eat and was like squeezing the goat's milk into its mouth and the colostom and making her it was alive. And now I'm attached to this. You have to keep the goat. You're a farmer, now you're a farm girl. I mean, you've got to keep the goat. It's your baby, I know. Do you

have any animals? Do you guys have urine Nashville? Right, there's two dogs. We had chickens, but our friends farm down the street. Yeah. We apparently we're not allowed to have a coupe with our h o A people, So we're just thinking about I was thinking about getting chickens this week. You recommend chickens, you know, I would because I'm the fact that they can lay eggs and stuff is great, and we eat eggs all the time, so

it's save on that. But also, I mean, and they're like little garbage disposals any like fruit rhymes like anything food lies throw out into the coupe and they eat it. They eat everything there. I think they're I think, and they're so cute as little chicks. They're so cute. But how old is your your kid? Now? He's nine, she's nine, almost ten? Um, are you done done? No? Oh my god, that's great. She's having a baby not today, You're like, right now, just a baby goat is all I'm gonna have.

Are good for me right now? Oh my gosh. I love it. And what are you guys doing for Christmas? Um? Well, Maria's actually with your dad for Christmas this year. So I'm just here, I'm like here on the ranch by myself. I'm kind of just redoing her bedroom. It's kind of convenient for me with the fact that everybody's a lot of people are staying home right now necessarily so uh so I've got a lot of friends in town that are not traveling to see their family and all that.

So there's we've got a kind of a group of misfits that are going to get together. How do you how do you handle because there you know those I've got a lot of We've got a lot of relationship, a lot of mamas on here that you know are not um with their significant other husband. How do you deal with holidays time and maybe not having the holiday this year with your girl? I mean, I love being with her, but it's twenty four set, like it's all me all the time. I have full I'm she's it's

all I'm like the only parents basically in many ways. Um, so, honestly, like it's really nice to it's so, you know, honestly, I get like I feel that though, because sometimes like I'm like, I kind of see the other side of it. I'm like, you know, kind of seems nice sometimes, but then the flip side of it is like when you do become just the only parent, you know, where it can be hard because it's usually the mom that has like most of the time. Yeah, it is, It's true.

I mean there's definitely a lot of challenges that come with that. But I love being a mom and she's a great kid and makes it easy and we have a good relationship. So um, but yeah, to be able to just have a break and have a movie calling my name, Nobody needs me to make lunch, nobody's knocking on my door, nobody needs anything. Just it's like what it was like before a kid. Nobody needs anything for me. I have no responsibilities for two weeks. It's so bizarre,

but I kind of love it. So I'm just painting the house and you know, I'm redoing her room and taking care of the horses and the dogs and just being I'm goofing off, you know, just being a goat mom, just being a goat mom picking up poop. You have a movie out right now, too, don't you blind well, yea blind Fire is out and Star Chrism is also out with that's on Hallmarks. We have to wait for the reruns on that, which, by the way, you were

with Victor, which is Chantelle. So it was Sean Tell so your sister Quinn it was now her like real life boyfriend, which I think is really cute because you guys were like making out and you're like, hey, this is like my best friends. It's like, you know, boyfriend. I know, it's not funny, it's just small town. I think that's kind of like part for the course, And then,

isn't it It really was? I was like, wow, this is I mean, hey, if there's anybody to make out with, like someone like mis will be someone that you trust, you know, and you know we weren't really making out. There was like Hallmarkets kiss and it was a Hallmark kiss. Yeah, it's not like we're ripping each other's clothes off. But even when I have to do things like that, like in Pierson, there's just such a as long as both people come in with really clean energy and it's just

like work, it's not. It's not really it's not like you go home you're like, oh that was that was steamy. There was twelve people watching, and no way, I hope to say. It's a world I don't understand that heart isn't hard for you, as like knowing that your wife is like sometimes like, how are you to tell about this last Door Lifetime movie? Well, when I the thing is, fortunately, since we've been married for the past five six years,

she's only done like Hallmark Lifetime kisses. So when she does whenever she does a movie or series that has something a little bit more intense, that's gonna be a different story. Daddy's not gonna want to know. I'm not going to be there on set that day. I'm not gonna watch it when it comes out. Well, it's funny because this last Lifetime when I had like more of a longer, steamy, er kiss and he was like, that's a little long. I was like, sorry, oh no, And

there's what two or three kisses? Yeah, there was a lot in this one. Yeah. She's like, oh, there's just one kiss I'm watching. I'm like, okay, that's one. There's another one five minutes later, another. Okay, you're just kissing the whole movie. Get okay. So funny, it's I wonder like because I don't know what that's like. I've been acting since I was twelve years old, you know, kissing, like it's just become a such a natural part of I don't know. I like, is that like that can

I say curse words? On this show? Us up? Like the fact that we're like I could kiss anybody and walk away and be fine. It's all about compartmentalization. But I think it is because it's like, I mean, I remember even doing scenes with the COLLETTI like we'd be rolling around and bad making out and then they call Cotton. I'm like, are you gonna have the Caesar salad for lunch today? Like or do you think you're gonna? Like you?

Because when you add the shrimp on top. It's really good, like, but it's like I don't think, I mean, you know, because because it's just work. And even like with this last movie to like Kiss and Dudes, it's like, you know, it's just it's just work and you go home to your reality. That's just none of that's reality. It's just work. And our work us involves lip blocking a few times

or yeah, dry humping. It's a real naughty show. You have to have like an inner monitor that's really keeping it clean because yeah, a lot of people do fall in love on set because they're having problems with their partner or they're like, you know, they're single, and then it's because you've got somebody that you a lot of cuddily time with, and then you start to imagine that it is real even what's not so, I mean, you do have to like have a good inner guard and

boundaries and keep it clean. You know, you go in everybody's just keeping it clean. Oh yeah, you have to because if not, I mean, you spend so much time with you spend like fifteen hours a day with this person.

You're just like telling your deepest, darkest and then you're like you're so connected and the thing is too for Jane and I, you know, she always wants me on set, and so I try to go early on in the process just to not to mark my territory, but just to get comfortable myself with everybody and and get to know them and know them as people and human beings and what they like and don't like and so that, and then just having boundaries with you know, you're not

going to read lines in each other's trailer by yourself and you know what I mean, stuff like that. So healthy boundaries. But you know what is healthy? Christmas music and Enjoy has an album out. It's called Snow. You guys can get it now, um and rewatch her on five Star Christmas on Hallmark on Christmas Day, so check your local listings, um, and get her albums Snow, it's so good originals and a few classics. Um. Bethany, thanks for coming on. Thank you so much. Thanks you guys,

thank you, thanks for coming on. Bethany, thank you well, that was fun talking to Bethany. And of course Eastern and Easton. OK, we love him. It's Christmas Eve. Oh we have to go open a present yep. So every kid gets a present. Every adult gets a present. I was just cleaning myself as one of the kids. I was like, yep, I sure do. I'm so excited. Can we get to pick them? Well, no, you can pick the one you want to give me. I'll pick the one I want to give you, because like you don't

want to pick, like you're like you're the present. The one. Then what movie are we gonna watch tonight? It's a wonderful life. I'm so excited. We hope all of you guys have the most amazing Christmas. We know it looks a little different this year, but just know that you were loved and you were cherished, and we just hope you enjoy relaxing holiday and the biggest presents that you have are the people you're with, are the people you're

talking to and listening to see what I mean. We'll be back Monday for an all new, very exciting episode.