Fiddle and Pipe

CONTENT WARNING: Sexual assault, r*pe, domestic abuse, eating disorders, etc. Some of y'all have been waiting very patiently with us covering this book, and it's FINALLY here! In this episode, we get together with Matt, Izzy, and Marie (host of Culture Cult Travel Show) as we discuss Jennette McCurdy's memoir, I'm Glad My Mom Died along with related topics from the Quiet on Set documentary that was released earlier this year. Cover art by Clayton Smith Theme "Wee Fiddle, Wee Pipe" composed by Catherine Flinchum Hosted by ⁠⁠⁠Catherine Flinchum⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠⁠Brittany Ross⁠⁠⁠⁠ FOLLOW OUR SOCIALS Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠⁠@fiddleandpipepod⁠⁠⁠⁠ TikTok: ⁠⁠⁠⁠@fiddleandpipepod⁠⁠⁠⁠ Facebook: ⁠⁠⁠⁠Fiddle & Pipe Podcast

We read books! (Duh.) As we prepare for our next big read, we thought we'd share what books have been on our radar so far!  Hear Catherine's progress on her 20 million-year journey reading the Outlander series and all of the dystopian novels in Brittany's possession as we dive into all the books we've read so far in 2024!  Cover art by Clayton Smith Theme "Wee Fiddle, Wee Pipe" composed by Catherine Flinchum Hosted by ⁠⁠Catherine Flinchum⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠Brittany Ross⁠⁠⁠ FOLLOW OUR SOCIALS Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠@fiddleandpipepod⁠⁠⁠ TikTok: ⁠⁠⁠@fiddleandpipepod⁠⁠⁠ Facebook: ⁠⁠⁠Fiddle & Pipe Podcast

TW: Self-harm, suicide   2020 brought us a lot of stress and sadness, but author V.E. Schwab gifted us with one magical yet heartbreaking read. It's no Warrior Cats novel, but we see a cat in this book, along with many historical events, Beethoven, love, loss, super-toxic relationships, awkward dinner parties, and more! Want to know why Addie's life is so invisible? Join us and our friend Reiner as we dive into The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue!  Cover art by Clayton Smith Theme "Wee Fiddle, Wee Pipe" composed by Catherine Flinchum Hosted by ⁠Catherine Flinchum⁠ and ⁠⁠Brittany Ross⁠⁠ FOLLOW OUR SOCIALS Instagram: ⁠⁠@fiddleandpipepod⁠⁠ TikTok: ⁠⁠@fiddleandpipepod⁠⁠ Facebook: ⁠⁠Fiddle & Pipe Podcast

It's been a hot minute since you've heard Fiddle & Pipe, so we thought it would be a fun idea to sit back and discuss our favorite and worst reads of 2023 were. What books are they, do you ask? Listen to find out! Cover art by Clayton Smith Theme "Wee Fiddle, Wee Pipe" composed by Catherine Flinchum Hosted by Catherine Flinchum and ⁠Brittany Ross⁠ FOLLOW OUR SOCIALS Instagram: ⁠@fiddleandpipepod⁠ TikTok: ⁠@fiddleandpipepod⁠ Facebook: ⁠Fiddle & Pipe Podcast

Brittany is out sick, but she dodged a bullet because we talk about WAR forever, ever, and ever…literally. Joined by Lex from Chasing Childhood Podcast, we agree Agamemnon is the WORST and shocked he hasn’t been killed yet. The odds are never in Patroclus’s favor, and is Achilles really THAT awesome of a guy? Tune in as we complete our journey with Madeline Miller’s, Song of Achilles!   Cover art by Clayton Smith Theme "Wee Fiddle, Wee Pipe" composed by Catherine Flinchum Hosted by Catherine Flinchum and Brittany Ross   ACCESS BONUS EPISODES & CONTENT Fiddle & Pipe Patreon   FOLLOW OUR SOCIALS Instagram: @fiddleandpipepod TikTok: @fiddleandpipepod Facebook: Fiddle & Pipe Podcast

TW: sexual assault & rape After a brief hiatus, we are back and ready to go with a new book on our TBR list which is Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller! Joined by our friends Reiner and Wendy, we’re introduced to our protagonist Patroclus whose life changes after murdering a bully (by accident) and is exiled off to where he meets his forever main squeeze Achilles. Along with the awkward budding romance scenes and possible war looming in that will greatly affect our main protagonists, Brittany shares her elementary school romance trauma, Catherine doesn’t understand sexual fruit imagery, and Bartok makes a small appearance because he’s hungry for plump ripe figs.    Cover art by Clayton Smith. Theme "Wee Fiddle, Wee Pipe" composed by Catherine Flinchum and performed by Brittany Ross and Catherine Flinchum. Follow us on Instagram: Fiddle & Pipe: ⁠@fiddleandpipe⁠ Brittany Ross: ⁠@bmrossmusic⁠ Catherine Flinchum: ⁠@catflinchflute⁠ ⁠Join Our Facebook Group.⁠ We have a ⁠TikTok⁠! Support us on ⁠Patreon⁠. Rate, subscribe, and follow us on your podcasting app. Share with your friends and family! Every bit helps us so much.

It's been a long time coming but we are back! We are coming off our hiatus with Priya Parker's The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why it Matters. We both went into this book thinking that it was going to be about literally why we gather (maybe from an anthropology approach) and in any context. Parker focuses a lot of her book on gathering in a formal context (work meetings, etc) and events with a specific purpose (weddings, baby showers, etc.). She does make some good points that we can apply to our day to day lives though! Parker argues that any gathering of three or more people with a specific purpose should be organized in such a way to maximize the experience, and she states that most of us aren't doing so. She leads the reader how to host these gatherings to transform the experience. We might not have gotten everything out of it that Parker was intending, but we were able to apply many of her points to mental health and our podcast. We also are in awe that we are drinking the same seltzer and we discuss the idea of We are Here Days in Atlanta. Catherine pulls a Reiner and shows up to the podcast after watching an interview with Parker and Brittany decides to bring the whole staff of Olive Garden to Catherine's wedding. This, and more, on your favorite podcast! Cover art by Clayton Smith. Theme "Wee Fiddle, Wee Pipe" composed by Catherine Flinchum and performed by Brittany Ross and Catherine Flinchum. Follow us on Instagram: Fiddle & Pipe: ⁠@fiddleandpipe⁠ Brittany Ross: ⁠@bmrossmusic⁠ Catherine Flinchum: ⁠@catflinchflute⁠ ⁠Join Our Facebook Group.⁠ We have a ⁠TikTok⁠! Support us on ⁠Patreon⁠. Rate, subscribe, and follow us on your podcasting app. Share with your friends and family! Every bit helps us so much.

TW: panic disorder, anxiety, depression, suicidal ideation, & suicide After much delay, we are happy to be back and give you the final installment of The Midnight Library! We are joined by one old friend and one new friend! You know him, you love him, Reiner Slay (vocalist of Concrete Supergun) is back! We also have a new guest, Marie Walker, host of Culture Cult Show! Nora has become tired of life jumping, but has life jumping become tired of her? After literally trying every life available to her, Nora thinks that she has found the life that she can live in, but certain aspects of that life keep her from being 100% satisfied, so she finds herself back at the library. It turns out that the library is falling apart and on fire. What happens next? Does Nora want to live or die? We go on a mega rant about caffeine (if you want to hear more on that, feel free to join us on Patreon). We do have some serious conversations about gauging happiness, chess, and marmite. Marie tells us why modern marriages don't last, Reiner is convinced that Nora is a serial killer, Catherine gets overwhelmed by chess, and Brittany explains how she listens to the instructions of games (she doesn't). This and more on your favorite podcast. Cover art by Clayton Smith. Theme "Wee Fiddle, Wee Pipe" composed by Catherine Flinchum and performed by Brittany Ross and Catherine Flinchum. Follow us on Instagram: Fiddle & Pipe: ⁠@fiddleandpipe⁠ Brittany Ross: ⁠@bmrossmusic⁠ Catherine Flinchum: ⁠@catflinchflute⁠ ⁠Join Our Facebook Group.⁠ We have a ⁠TikTok⁠! Support us on ⁠Patreon⁠. Rate, subscribe, and follow us on your podcasting app. Share with your friends and family! Every bit helps us so much.

TW: suicide, depression, pet death, self-harm We are back and ready to continue our journey through the different lives of Nora Seed. Will she find the life that will make her happy? Joining us on this adventure are friends new and old! We have Dr. Chelsea Tanner, flutist, mindset coach, and host of Align Your Mind and Laurel Rockall, co-host of Hightailing Through History. Nora Seed has come back from Australia to the realization that grief has kept her locked in one place, too depressed to take any action or move anywhere else. She decides to try life out an an Olympic swimmer, a glaciologist, and as a member of her old band, The Labyrinths, in the hopes that she can find a happier life elsewhere. She comes to realize how important her family is to her, what the value of her life is, and  what a successful life means. What is the meaning of success? We ask and explore this question as well as a variety of other subjects, such as physics, solitude versus loneliness, the grey zone between life and death, and being so focused on one thing that you lose sight of everything else. Laurel asks what our personal libraries would be, Chelsea reminds us that the brain is an organ, Brittany is an audiophile, and Catherine is a glaciologist.  Cover art by Clayton Smith. Theme "Wee Fiddle, Wee Pipe" composed by Catherine Flinchum and performed by Brittany Ross and Catherine Flinchum. Follow us on Instagram: Fiddle & Pipe: ⁠@fiddleandpipe⁠ Brittany Ross: ⁠@bmrossmusic⁠ Catherine Flinchum: ⁠@catflinchflute⁠ ⁠Join Our Facebook Group.⁠ We have a ⁠TikTok⁠! Support us on ⁠Patreon⁠. Rate, subscribe, and follow us on your podcasting app. Share with your friends and family! Every bit helps us so much.

TW: pet death, suicide, depression If you could live other variations of your life where you made different choices, would you? We explore that concept with Matt Haig's The Midnight Library with long time friends of the podcast, trombonist Izzy Holman (@sweetizzy123) and photographer/graphic designer Wendy Tabor (@designerwithfire). Our protagonist, Nora Seed, leads a crummy life. Or at least she thinks she does. Nora decides to kill herself and she finds herself in the Midnight Library, a place where she can be transported to other possible lives she could have lived if she had made different decisions. As long as the time is 00:00:00 in military or metric time, she is safe in the library. Nora finds herself living the life she (thought) she would have with Dan, the live where Volts is an indoor cat, and living in Australia with Izzy (not Holman!).  Join us for an episode filled with heartfelt feelings and good friends. Izzy and Brittany bond on their shared loved of the smell of gasoline, Catherine relates to "life fright," and Wendy gets personal about her hearing loss. Oh, and Brittany ran a marathon. This and more on your favorite podcast. Cover art by Clayton Smith. Theme "Wee Fiddle, Wee Pipe" composed by Catherine Flinchum and performed by Brittany Ross and Catherine Flinchum. Follow us on Instagram: Fiddle & Pipe: @fiddleandpipe Brittany Ross: @bmrossmusic Catherine Flinchum: @catflinchflute Join Our Facebook Group. We have a TikTok! Support us on Patreon. Rate, subscribe, and follow us on your podcasting app. Share with your friends and family! Every bit helps us so much.

Have you thought too much about Think Again? We promise this is the last time you'll hear us thinking about our thoughts! Adam Grant finishes out this book discussing rethinking in our communities and how we can affect our surroundings with those rethoughts, as well as the world's largest SparkNotes. We hit the education section pretty hard, discussing what we really wanted from this section. We also give ourselves a life check up and give some advice to performance majors. Brittany shares her dream job os being a horse rider and Catherine gets overwhelmed by thinking for the second time. This, and more, on your favorite podcast! Cover art by Clayton Smith. Theme "Wee Fiddle, Wee Pipe" composed by Catherine Flinchum and performed by Brittany Ross and Catherine Flinchum. Follow us on Instagram: Fiddle & Pipe: @fiddleandpipe Brittany Ross: @bmrossmusic Catherine Flinchum: @catflinchflute Join Our Facebook Group. We have a TikTok! Support us on Patreon. Rate, subscribe, and follow us on your podcasting app. Share with your friends and family! Every bit helps us so much.

Have you ever thought so much about thinking that you wanted to Think Again again? We did as well! In perhaps our shortest episode yet, we discuss when to offer comfort versus solutions, revisit toxic friendships, and chat about when people are just wrong. Want more? It's a 30 minute episode, we can't give more without spoiling the whole episode, so tune in and enjoy! Cover art by Clayton Smith. Theme "Wee Fiddle, Wee Pipe" composed by Catherine Flinchum and performed by Brittany Ross and Catherine Flinchum. Follow us on Instagram: Fiddle & Pipe: @fiddleandpipe Brittany Ross: @bmrossmusic Catherine Flinchum: @catflinchflute Join Our Facebook Group. We have a TikTok! Support us on Patreon. Rate, subscribe, and follow us on your podcasting app. Share with your friends and family! Every bit helps us so much.

Have you ever thought? Have you ever thought again? Have you ever thought about thinking again? Take a break from thinking with us and tune into our first part of Adam Grant's Think Again along with friend and guest of the podcast Dr. Chelsea Tanner, flutist, mindset coach, and host of Align Your Mind! The first section of Think Again deals with individual rethinking. What does this mean exactly? Something along the lines of reprocessing our thoughts and habits to make ourselves better, whether that's better at your job or better as a person. Some deep discussions came out of this conversation, such as an imposter syndrome deep dive, how to think again in music, and a throw back to Rebecca Black. As per rush, Brittany opens up about her grad school experience, Chelsea tells us how she tried to stop playing flute, and Catherine gets overwhelmed by rethinking. This, and more, on your favorite podcast. Cover art by Clayton Smith. Theme "Wee Fiddle, Wee Pipe" composed by Catherine Flinchum and performed by Brittany Ross and Catherine Flinchum. Follow us on Instagram: Fiddle & Pipe: @fiddleandpipe Brittany Ross: @bmrossmusic Catherine Flinchum: @catflinchflute Join Our Facebook Group. We have a TikTok! Support us on Patreon. Rate, subscribe, and follow us on your podcasting app. Share with your friends and family! Every bit helps us so much.

TW: murder, pet death, rape Welcome to The Three Sopranos! Featuring Brittany the violin, Catherine the flutist, and Emily Crisp, the actual soprano and co-host of MMM Conversations! Your favorite team of sexy detectives is here to solve the latest mystery of...the last few weeks: who dun killed Andie Bell in A Good Girl's Guide to Murder! We did it, we finally got to the end. Did you figure out who the murder is? Catherine did. Brittany didn't. This section opens with Pip, again, not having any self-preservation instinct or boundaries as she (and Ravi) continue to figure out who framed Sal and why. But to what limits will Pip go to uncover this series of crimes? We learn surprising details about people we once thought were friends... Brittany realizes that she is, in fact, a violin, Catherine seriously unleashes her Daniel theory, and Emily brags about her easy-to-open locker in middle school. This, and more, on your favorite podcast. Cover art by Clayton Smith. Theme "Wee Fiddle, Wee Pipe" composed by Catherine Flinchum and performed by Brittany Ross and Catherine Flinchum. Follow us on Instagram: Fiddle & Pipe: @fiddleandpipe Brittany Ross: @bmrossmusic Catherine Flinchum: @catflinchflute Join Our Facebook Group. We have a TikTok! Support us on Patreon. Rate, subscribe, and follow us on your podcasting app. Share with your friends and family! Every bit helps us so much.

TW: suicide, rape, self harm, pedophilia, murder Okay, so, who dun it? We don't know yet, but we read and discussed Part Two of Holly Jackson's A Good Girl's Guide to Murder with two dear friends: trombonist and YouTuber Izzy Holman and graphic designer and photographer Wendy Tabor! We get into the meat and potatoes of the story here. Turns out that Pip thinks she's an actual detective and has gotten super swept away with figuring out who killed Andie, and her methodology involves a lack of boundaries and a disregard for personal safety. We begin Part Two thinking that Naomi might have had something to do with the murder, but learning more about Mr. Ward, Max Hastings, Howie the drug dealer, and Daniel de Silva makes us have other suspects. What do we think? Brittany thinks Max dun it, Izzy and Catherine think Max is too much of an idiot to have dun it, and Catherine is very convinced that Daniel dun it. Who really dun it? Find out next episode! In this episode, we learn about the street names for marijuana. Catherine and Wendy reminisce on better times doing their senior capstone projects (Vision Quest), Izzy makes some wild Pretty Little Liars connections, and Brittany gets meta about Wifi. This, and more, on your favorite podcast! Cover art by Clayton Smith. Theme "Wee Fiddle, Wee Pipe" composed by Catherine Flinchum and performed by Brittany Ross and Catherine Flinchum. Follow us on Instagram: Fiddle & Pipe: @fiddleandpipe Brittany Ross: @bmrossmusic Catherine Flinchum: @catflinchflute Join Our Facebook Group. We have a TikTok! Support us on Patreon. Rate, subscribe, and follow us on your podcasting app. Share with your friends and family! Every bit helps us so much.

TW: suicide, murder, self-harm 2023 is starting with our Listener's Choice book, decided by y'all, the listeners, which is Holly Jackson's A Good Girl's Guide to Murder! Reiner Slay, vocalist of Concrete Supergun, has joined us again! We open on a fictional city in fictional Connecticut where a gruesome murder-suicide of Andie Bell and Sal Singh that occurred five years ago. Pippa Fitz-Amobi chooses to prove Sal's innocence with her high school senior capstone project. Pippa befriends Ravi, Sal's brother, and together they begin to unravel this murder mystery. Who dun it? Brittany has a time limit for dinner parties, Catherine realizes that she's the only one who had to do a capstone project in high school, and Reiner tells the youth how he spoke to people before cell phones. This, and more, on your favorite podcast! Cover art by Clayton Smith. Theme "Wee Fiddle, Wee Pipe" composed by Catherine Flinchum and performed by Brittany Ross and Catherine Flinchum. Follow us on Instagram: Fiddle & Pipe: @fiddleandpipe Brittany Ross: @bmrossmusic Catherine Flinchum: @catflinchflute Join Our Facebook Group. We have a TikTok! Support us on Patreon. Rate, subscribe, and follow us on your podcasting app. Share with your friends and family! Every bit helps us so much.

TW: depression We are successfully comforted by Matt Haig's The Comfort Book! We hope you are comforted as well and that your holiday season has been merry! We dive into our comforting movie list, discuss work/life balance, and give y'all an easy episode to end the year on. See you in 2023! Cover art by Clayton Smith. Theme "Wee Fiddle, Wee Pipe" composed by Catherine Flinchum and performed by Brittany Ross and Catherine Flinchum. Follow us on Instagram: Fiddle & Pipe: @fiddleandpipe Brittany Ross: @bmrossmusic Catherine Flinchum: @catflinchflute Join Our Facebook Group. We have a TikTok! Support us on Patreon. Rate, subscribe, and follow us on your podcasting app. Share with your friends and family! Every bit helps us so much.

TW: depression, anxiety, panic attacks, suicidal thoughts, suicidal ideation, suicide In another moment of amazing planning, we have read two books back to back that can be related to each other! This week we are starting Matt Haig's The Comfort Book, which did the whole hope thing much better than our last read, Everything is Fucked. In Haig's book, he has written a book filled with blurbs. Each blurb ranges anywhere from a few lines to a few pages, and the book is broken into four parts. In the first two parts, which Brittany has dubbed "Birth" and "Water," Haig dips into themes of comforting lists, hope, self-validation, and getting through hardship. We learn, for the first time, Catherine's true feelings on bread and Brittany is sick! This, and more, on your favorite podcast. Haig's comfort music playlist. I Said Bitch - Key & Peele Cover art by Clayton Smith. Theme "Wee Fiddle, Wee Pipe" composed by Catherine Flinchum and performed by Brittany Ross and Catherine Flinchum. Follow us on Instagram: Fiddle & Pipe: @fiddleandpipe Brittany Ross: @bmrossmusic Catherine Flinchum: @catflinchflute Join Our Facebook Group. We have a TikTok! Support us on Patreon. Rate, subscribe, and follow us on your podcasting app. Share with your friends and family! Every bit helps us so much.

Today we are joined by our friends Emily Crisp (soprano and co-host of MMM Conversations) and Malachi Marshall (baritone and cohost of MMM Conversations and Kiki with Kye) to discuss the end of Everything is Fucked, and oh boy, this is something else. We thought Mark took a different direction with some of his previous chapters. But no, we were so wrong. We went from a book that was about being the hope that you want to see and how to take action so the hope you want is the life you live, to complete AI take over. Were you surprised reading that? So were we. Listen to our hot takes and how we reacted to this book, as well as some deep conversations about kids and technology and social media. Malachi tells us about a seventh grade science project he did, Emily reminisces singing to customers at Starbucks, Brittany observes how obnoxious vocalists are, and Catherine questions her reality. This, and more, on your favorite podcast. Cover art by Clayton Smith. Theme "Wee Fiddle, Wee Pipe" composed by Catherine Flinchum and performed by Brittany Ross and Catherine Flinchum. Follow us on Instagram: Fiddle & Pipe: @fiddleandpipe Brittany Ross: @bmrossmusic Catherine Flinchum: @catflinchflute Join Our Facebook Group. We have a TikTok! Support us on Patreon. Rate, subscribe, and follow us on your podcasting app. Share with your friends and family! Every bit helps us so much.

TW: childhood trauma How would we rate our happiness? Probably a seven, even with Brittany not having internet and Catherine not having water. How would Mark Manson rate his happiness in Everything is Fucked? Well, you'll need to ask him for that, but we did dive deeper into his book and into his budding philosophical mind. Mark takes another turn in this section of his book, discussing pleasure seeking behavior, and the work of Kant and Nietzsche. We learn just how much Catherine wants too seduce Brittany, how shallow Brittany is, and we throw back to the fifty question surveys that we publicly gave away all our personal info on. This and more on your favorite podcast! Cover art by Clayton Smith. Theme "Wee Fiddle, Wee Pipe" composed by Catherine Flinchum and performed by Brittany Ross and Catherine Flinchum. Follow us on Instagram: Fiddle & Pipe: @fiddleandpipe Brittany Ross: @bmrossmusic Catherine Flinchum: @catflinchflute Join Our Facebook Group. We have a TikTok! Support us on Patreon. Rate, subscribe, and follow us on your podcasting app. Share with your friends and family! Every bit helps us so much.