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Butterflies, Spigots, and Sweet Syrup | A Relaxing Chat with Marco and Nidhi - Episode 12
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Welcome to the Insomnia Project. Sit back, relax, and of course, listen as we have a conversation about the mundane. One thing we can promise is that our conversation will be less than fascinating so that you can just drift off. We want to thank you for joining us and we hope you will in fact, listen and sleep. Follow us on Twitter Listen and Sleep. Tell your friends, your family if they need something to help them. Listen and sleep. To tune into our podcast, the Insomnia Project, I'm your host, Marco Timpano, and
Nidhi Khanna: I'm your co Host Nidhi Khanna Marco.
Do you ever get butterflies in your stomach before performing on stage
My stomach was rumbling a little bit there.
Marco Timpano: You got a little bit of the rumbles?
Nidhi Khanna: Yeah, a little bit of the rumbles. and it reminded me, oddly enough, about, you know, when they talk about having butterflies in your stomach.
Marco Timpano: Oh, yes. Yeah.
Nidhi Khanna: do you ever get that when you're about to step on stage or anything like that?
Marco Timpano: Oh, that's a great question because I just got on stage last week and I performed at Confabulation. Remember we had Paula Flalo.
Nidhi Khanna: Yeah.
Marco Timpano: so he did a short storytelling where they did 28 stories. I did not have butterflies in my stomach. I don't really don't get butterflies, but I know that I do. I do get a little anxious before I go on stage. And then, funny enough, Nidhi, when I step on stage, I'm fine. I don't even think about it.
Nidhi Khanna: Yeah, that's what happens to me too. It's like I have butterflies just until the moment that I'm actually on stage. And it's, it's. Oddly enough, it's a little bit like comforting now because I know the ritual of that feeling.
Marco Timpano: Sure.
Nidhi Khanna: And so it's almost like it's a pre. Cognitive, like, it's like just. It's very cognitive. It's just like a. Something my body does.
Marco Timpano: Okay.
Nidhi Khanna: Rather than being freaked out.
Marco Timpano: Sure, sure. do you. Have you ever. I once had a butterfly land on me. Have you ever had a butterfly land on you? Landed on my shoulder. It was a monarch butterfly. And it stayed there for quite some time. it was cool.
Nidhi Khanna: Did it, like, flap its wings?
Marco Timpano: It flapped its wings and then eventually it just kind of like said, see? And took off. But it was a really interesting sort of.
Nidhi Khanna: And monarchs are the ones, that are kind of like orange and black.
Marco Timpano: Yes. And they go to, They. What's the word? Not hibernate. When you travel, you migrate. They migrate to Mexico somewhere. And they all sort of gather in a forest and. And it's just covered in. In monarch butterflies, really?
Nidhi Khanna: how long do they live, do you think? Like, are they.
Marco Timpano: Oh, that's a great question. I know that they, they. They feed on milkweed. Oh, are you familiar with milkweed? No.
Nidhi Khanna: It's milkweed.
Marco Timpano: The milkweed is a, weed that if you break the. The stem, the liquid that comes out of it is sticky and white. White like milk. And they tend to have these little pods that are kind of like a. They kind of look like a small misshapen cucumber. And if you open them up, they've got, like, a fluffy interior. Oh, yeah.
Nidhi Khanna: okay, that's odd. So apparently butterflies are only around for, like, 12 months.
Marco Timpano: They last just a year.
Nidhi Khanna: Yeah. Oh, at least the Vanessa Cardui. Cardir. I don't know how to pronounce it. My Latin's not top notch, but, yeah, it's that colorful. Oh. It's also known as the painted lady. and it's about 12 months in the wild that it lasts. So I wonder what a monarch's, lifespan is. The. Oh, here we go. Oh, wow. Monarchs only live for about two to six weeks.
Marco Timpano: No, that can't be right because they migrate. They migrate to Florida and stuff.
Nidhi Khanna: Oh, sorry. Okay, wait. During the summer breeding season, monarchs live for only two to six weeks. But the monarchs that migrate to Mexico in the fall are different. They are born in late summer, stay alive all winter, and migrate north the following spring.
Marco Timpano: Seems like.
Nidhi Khanna: Why would they. Seems like a really short lifespan, but.
Marco Timpano: Well, I mean, what do I
Nidhi Khanna: know about Asian lifespans?
A lot of people get butterfly tattoos. Would you get a butterfly tattoo
Marco Timpano: I guess you want to be a monarch that's born in the fall because you get to migrate to Mexico.
Nidhi Khanna: Well, there you go.
Marco Timpano: Do you like butterflies?
Nidhi Khanna: I'm kind of neither here nor there about them. They're not my insects of choice.
Marco Timpano: Oh, what would be your insect of choice? A lot of people get butterfly tattoos.
Nidhi Khanna: Yeah, I don't know what that's about. I gotta say, I have a problem with that.
Marco Timpano: Really?
Nidhi Khanna: Yeah. Ah, like, this is another one of these rant moments. Oh, my goodness, you pushed a button.
Marco Timpano: Okay, well, maybe we should just go to your instinct of choice.
Nidhi Khanna: I just find. What is the point of a butterfly tattoo?
Marco Timpano: Well, I think it has a lot of symbolic meaning for people. You know, butterfly flies and has beautiful wings and sort of flutters and does its thing and, you know, I'm sure it has.
Nidhi Khanna: Would you get a butterfly tattoo?
Marco Timpano: I don't think so. That wouldn't be my tattoo of choice.
Nidhi Khanna: But what would be your tattoo of choice?
Marco Timpano: You know, I've been thinking of couple tattoos. I don't have any tattoos, but I've been thinking of a couple of tattoos I would get. I don't know, I've never. I haven't found. I found the tattoo artist that I like, but I haven't found the tattoo that I want.
Nidhi Khanna: Who's a tattoo artist?
Marco Timpano: she's a tattoo artist that works not too far from here. That I follow her on Instagram and I just like her work. Tammy something is her name. I've got to look it up. But what's your insect of choice? I'm curious.
Nidhi Khanna: Oh, my insect of choice. You know, I don't know. It's not a butterfly. I want to say maybe. Actually, now that I'm thinking about it, they're all pretty gross, insect wise, I mean.
Marco Timpano: Oh, really?
Nidhi Khanna: Ladybugs, you know, they can be cute, but I know they're kind of like, Like, it's not good to have ladybugs, right? Because they're. Don't they just. Aren't they,
Marco Timpano: What are they called? You really don't know much about insects, do you?
Nidhi Khanna: Don't they? Aren't they, Oh, my gosh.
Marco Timpano: Why can't I think of the words while you're thinking? Butterflies symbolize rebirth and resurrection.
Nidhi Khanna: Okay.
Marco Timpano: And that's why they're there.
Nidhi Khanna: I still think it's a lame tattoo.
Marco Timpano: Well, listen, you don't have to get one, I guess, right?
Nidhi Khanna: No, but clearly I'm gonna judge hard anyone who has one.
Marco Timpano: Yeah, they, they. They stand for love, resurrection and rebirth. Transformation, spirituality and the soul. A connection with nature and the natural elements, grace and femininity.
Nidhi Khanna: Oh, wait. Caterpillars turn into butterflies, Right?
Marco Timpano: Right, of course.
Nidhi Khanna: Oh, yeah, No, I like butterflies. Like, in terms of an insect of choice.
Marco Timpano: One second you're like, it would stop my insect of choice. Then you realize a butterfly transforms from a caterpillar.
Nidhi Khanna: Yeah.
Marco Timpano: And they go into.
Nidhi Khanna: That's kind of cool.
Marco Timpano: Yeah, sure it is. And they go into that poopa stage and, you know, they.
Nidhi Khanna: Yeah, that's cool.
Marco Timpano: Have you ever seen a butterfly come out of its cocoon?
Nidhi Khanna: No, that's not something I'd like to see.
Marco Timpano: I think it'd be awesome. Like, have you never seen time lapse photography of a. Of a butterfly?
Nidhi Khanna: No. To me it's like birth. I don't want to see anyone giving birth.
Marco Timpano: Okay, fair enough. It's rebirth because they've been born from the larvae stage to the caterpillar stage, then they transform into the butterfly. It's very significant.
Most insects are pretty gross, but spiders generally don't bother me
A butterfly, tattoo. Now that I think that the more I'm talking about it, the more it makes sense to me.
Nidhi Khanna: I don't know, I'm, not curious.
Marco Timpano: Not for me. But I can see how valid it is for our listeners who have butterfly tattoos. I'm on your side if you want to write, nasty letters. Letter directed, sweet. Solely to nitty, who one moment has a problem with it. And it's not her instinct of choice. And now it's your instinct of choice.
Nidhi Khanna: Well, no, I mean, out of all the insects. Because most insects are pretty gross. Right?
Marco Timpano: Like to you, not to everyone name
Nidhi Khanna: me a non gross insect like an insect that you'd be like. I'm fine with that being in my house other than a butterfly. And like I said, ladybugs are like parasites. Right? Like they're not good to have them.
Marco Timpano: No, they're good to have because they eat a lot of the parasitic aphids and whatnot.
Nidhi Khanna: Okay, well, you know, clearly, well,
Marco Timpano: I don't think I'd want an insect in the home, but insects generally don't bother me.
Nidhi Khanna: Okay.
Marco Timpano: So let's say, you know, spiders are good. Don't make a face. Spiders are really good for. If it wasn't for spiders, there'd be all kinds of mosquitoes and other insects that you're not a fan of.
Nidhi Khanna: So they're disgusting though.
Marco Timpano: They're not.
Nidhi Khanna: They are.
Marco Timpano: Okay, well there you go. We, we differ. I think spiders are very lovely people
Nidhi Khanna: have, you know, traumatic, fears of spiders. Sure. They're pretty gross.
Marco Timpano: Okay, fair enough.
Nidhi Khanna: I'm not saying that they don't have a place in this world and obviously they exist for a reason and you know, are good in terms of all the things that you said about eating other bugs.
Marco Timpano: Right.
Nidhi Khanna: But I'm still going to kill one if it's in my.
Marco Timpano: I try not to. So there you go. Once again. Send your, send your messages to nitty. The person who is very against animal welfare. bees. I like bees. That's an insect of choice because they make honey and honey is fantastic. And there you go. If you're, if you get in their way and stuff, I don't blame them. A dog will bite you. But we're not afraid of dogs necessarily. So there you go.
Nidhi Khanna: and I guess honeybees are different from wasps, right?
Marco Timpano: Right.
Nidhi Khanna: Because wasps don't make honey.
Marco Timpano: No, they don't.
Nidhi Khanna: Just honeybees.
Marco Timpano: Right.
Nidhi Khanna: Okay.
Marco Timpano: Do you like honey?
Nidhi Khanna: I do, I do. I don't have it in everything. I don't, I don't.
Marco Timpano: When do you use honey?
Nidhi Khanna: okay. So sometimes when I'm, you know, stressed out and want like to relax before going to bed, I will have a warm cup of milk with honey. Yum.
Marco Timpano: yeah.
Nidhi Khanna: Cuz that's like a child, you know, like how there's some childhood like comfort things.
Marco Timpano: Sure.
Nidhi Khanna: And that's what my mom used to always give us. It's like more warm milk with honey. So I will have it then. But I don't usually like. I know Amanda loves honey.
Marco Timpano: She loves honey. She puts it on everything.
Nidhi Khanna: I recently tried, honey whiskey. No, it was a honey with, It was a honey syrup with, like a, Like a hot sauce in it. So it was infused with, like. I can't remember if it was like, Tabasco honey.
Marco Timpano: How was it?
Nidhi Khanna: It was really good, actually. On pancakes. Oh, my gosh. It was really yummy.
Marco Timpano: That's, I would try that for sure.
Nidhi Khanna: I had it at old school, which is like a brunch place.
Marco Timpano: see, But I prefer maple syrup with my pancakes. And right now I've noticed a lot of places nitty, and I think we've mentioned that Toronto's definitely a brunch town. Yeah, A lot of pancake places are not giving me my maple m. Syrup. They're giving me some sort of blueberry combo, an espresso homemade syrup. I want pure Canadian maple syrup.
Nidhi Khanna: You know what's, interesting?
Marco Timpano: Have you ever tapped for syrup?
Sometimes you'll pay more for real maple syrup syrup rather than faux syrup
Nidhi Khanna: I have.
Marco Timpano: Okay.
Nidhi Khanna: I've gone sugar.
Marco Timpano: Okay, before we go there, tell them, tell me what's interesting, because I want
Nidhi Khanna: to know what's interesting that. Now I find, like, sometimes you'll go to breakfast places and you have to pay more for real maple syrup syrup rather than the, Like, Aunt Jemima.
Marco Timpano: Yeah, the. Like the faux syrup. The syrup. The syrup that's just made with sugar.
Nidhi Khanna: Yeah. and I find that very interesting because it never used to be the case.
Marco Timpano: I know. Because syrup's so expensive. It's such a commodity, if you will.
Nidhi Khanna: Did you hear about the maple syrup heist?
Marco Timpano: Yes, yes.
Tell us about the process of making maple syrup, since you've experienced
But before we get into that, tell me about the process of making maple syrup, since you've experienced.
Nidhi Khanna: Oh, so you tap it from
Marco Timpano: the tree, essentially with a spigot, right?
Nidhi Khanna: Yeah. So you. You go into the maple tree and Wait, wait, wait.
Marco Timpano: Before we go there, okay, you gotta preface it with how. Where were you? How did this happen? Okay, like, like, give me the background here. Because you're from Quebec, and Quebec is often associated with. With maple syrup. Even though being an ontarian, I have to say Ontario has fantastic maple syrup. And I support the Ontario maple syrup farmers. But anyways, I digress. Please tell us about.
Nidhi Khanna: Fair enough. Well, if you grow up in Quebec, one of your school trips will always be to go, like, to the Cabane Sucre, like the sugaring off or the Sugar Shack. Right, Sugar shack. and it's usually. I mean, in Montreal, we'd go up north a little bit, and you've got all the maple trees in the forest
Marco Timpano: where we have a lot of Listeners in Quebec, we have a lot of like when I look at the stats of our people listening.
Nidhi Khanna: Yeah, there's a lot.
Marco Timpano: I'm always, I'm always asking Nidhi, where's this? And you're like, oh, it's about an hour from Montreal or that's a suburb of Montreal or that's close to Quebec City. Yes, but, so where were you? Where would you be doing this?
Nidhi Khanna: Like I mean the one. Oh, gosh, the last time we did it I think it was closer to Quebec City. But I could be wrong.
Marco Timpano: Fair.
Nidhi Khanna: Like this is, we're talking about 25 years ago.
Marco Timpano: Okay.
Nidhi Khanna: M. But yeah, so, so usually you go to like a, a ah, maple syrup farmer for lack of a better word and they'll have like you go out into the woods and their trees are these large maple trees.
Marco Timpano: They're not just maple trees. Right. So for our listeners, Nidhi, I love it when we get into like a really Canadian topic because then we have to sort of explain it to our listeners who are overseas. Overseas listeners. It's only the sugar maple that makes maple syrup.
Nidhi Khanna: Sure.
Marco Timpano: I know you're looking at me like I'm an idiot, but it's because we're around maple trees and so we know the sugar maple. And the sugar maple, for listeners who aren't, aren't familiar with maple trees is the, is the maple tree that produces the red red leaf in fall. And that if you look at a Canadian flag, that's the leaf is the sugar maple. So I'm sorry Nidhi, I know I've stopped you in your story so but we, we need to hear how this exciting trip to. The trip to the sugar Shack ends.
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Okay. So well you go, you're walking amongst the sugar maples.
Nidhi Khanna: Yes. And they're all sort of pre tapped. Right.
Marco Timpano: Oh, so you haven't tapped this bigot in.
Nidhi Khanna: No, I mean they're usually like kind of in a weird way. It's like they're farmed a bit. You know what I mean?
Marco Timpano: Yeah.
Nidhi Khanna: So yeah, so the spigot's tapped but you, you kind of like bring you, you, you have the bucket underneath, right?
Marco Timpano: The spigot? Yeah, the.
Nidhi Khanna: But it this like describe a spigot. It's like it's almost like a large pin type. I ah, don't even know how you would describe it.
Marco Timpano: I don't. It might be called something other than a spigot. It might be called let's see. Because I feel like the bucket has its own name.
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Marco Timpano: And once again, for our listeners who are thinking, what is this crazy thing Canadians do and americans do too? Vermont and places like that have fantastic. New Hampshire has fantastic maple syrup. Massachusetts. So I want to send a shout out to new hampshire. The new england states that do that and other u. S. States that also produce, maple maple syrup. Now, we do this process in around this time of year. Like it's in late January, February when this is happening, if I'm not mistaken. Right, right. Niddy. Like when you would go, it'd always be in the winter months.
Nidhi Khanna: Yeah, it's always in the winter.
Marco Timpano: It's because when the SAP starts flowing in the tree, that's when you're gonna get the maple syrup because you're, you're tapping the tree for SAP, which you then boil, away the liquid so that the sugar remains until you get a syrup.
Nidhi Khanna: Yes. Yeah, essentially, that's exactly what.
Marco Timpano: And they do it in huts and it's traditional and it's fantastic.
Nidhi Khanna: And it's quite lucrative, actually.
Marco Timpano: Oh, yes, for sure.
Nidhi Khanna: it's actually there was like a big heist a few years ago in quebec where someone stole like $3 million worth of maple Syrup.
Marco Timpano: And because a tree will only produce so much SAP, right? So it's like. So, you know, you're tapping all these large trees for the syrup and, Yeah, that's it. Does it say what it's called? Nitty just pulled up on her phone. this what I'm calling a spigot. I feel like you're. I feel like you're taking far too much time to.
Nidhi Khanna: Because there's nothing here that says it's called. I'm trying to find that word. but. But all that to say that the best part of going to, the maple tree syrup area, or the maple. Or the like maple syrup farm, essentially
Marco Timpano: the excursion to the excursion.
Nidhi Khanna: Thank you. Is, you get to do the sugaring off afterwards where they have like a bed of ice on a, almost like a. Kind of similar to like what you would see, like a buffet of shellfish. They'd put it on like a bed of ice. You know what I mean?
Marco Timpano: I have SAP spouts are what they calling them.
Nidhi Khanna: That probably is a lot clearer than a spigot. It really just describes what it does, which is great. but you get to put. Then you put like the, the SAP on this ice and it freezes, immediately. And you take a popsicle stick and then you put the popsicle stick on the, solidified SAP.
Marco Timpano: Well, it's not. It's not frozen. It becomes more like a. Because if it was frozen, you wouldn't be able to do it. It becomes like a taffy. It becomes like a. It's a little bit. Yeah, okay. Sorry. You're right. Because it goes from a liquid to a not complete solid, but more of a sticky solid. Does that make sense?
Nidhi Khanna: Yeah. So it's still flexible. Because when you take the popsicle stick and you put it on like the semi solidified liquid SAP taffy thing, whatever it is, if you twist it, you kind of twist it into almost like a popsicle, and then you're able to. To eat it off of the popsicle stick, essentially. And it's really good. And then you're on a sugar high for like at least two or three hours.
Marco Timpano: There's nothing wrong with that.
Nidhi Khanna: Absolutely not. so. Yeah.
Are you a fan of maple syrup? I love it. I do too. Well, there's different grades and qualities of it
Marco Timpano: Are you a fan of maple syrup? I love it. You know I love it.
Nidhi Khanna: I do too. And it's funny because I think the maple syrup, like when you've tapped it out of the tree and made pure maple syrup actually tastes less sweet than like, it's got like a nuttier flavor. Flavor than the maple syrup that you have, let's say, at brunch, with your pancakes.
Marco Timpano: Well, there's different grades and qualities of it. Right. So I'm sure when it gets. I'm sure when it gets tapped from the tree and you're having it then and there, it's not, What's. What's the term? I'm trying to find, like, it's, like, unrefined. Yeah, that's exactly it. It's. It's an unrefined maple syrup. So it's probably got a beautiful, taste to it as well. But it's not the refined, syrup that's very standard or the grade A quality syrup. Right. There's a lot to be said about that. Right.
Nidhi Khanna: Do you know there's a whole, Have you ever heard of this thing called the lemonade diet?
Marco Timpano: Yes, I have. Yeah.
Nidhi Khanna: Where it's. You drink, like, a concoction of pure maple syrup, cayenne pepper, and, like, lemon juice.
Marco Timpano: And water, right?
Nidhi Khanna: Yeah, and water. Yeah. For days and days and days, which I find bizarre and fascinating at the same time. But I have a friend who used to swear by it.
Marco Timpano: Okay.
Nidhi Khanna: And she'd be looking all over for, like, the pure purple syrup.
Marco Timpano: Yeah.
Nidhi Khanna: and it was. And it's actually quite expensive.
Marco Timpano: Sure.
Nidhi Khanna: When it's that, like, pure grade, it can be, like, 15, 20 bucks.
Marco Timpano: Yeah. But you know what? To be quite honest with you, there's not that much of a noticeable difference, in my opinion between, you know, a. Because, like, the syrups also come in, like, amber, dark and light maple syrup, I guess, much like honey. Because I think we got onto this topic from honey. You know, you can get, like, a buckwheat honey is darker than a wildflower honey and whatnot, Right?
Nidhi Khanna: Yeah.
Marco Timpano: yes, they taste different. But I would argue that for something like that, that kind of a cleanse thing, I think you could use any old maple syrup, to be quite honest, as long as it's. It's a pure maple syrup, because it's a pure product from it. From. From a, you know, tree and whatnot.
Nidhi Khanna: I think so.
Marco Timpano: It's like lemon juice, Right? Like, it's like you could use Meyer M. Lemon juice. You could use regular lemons or whatever, and it's still lemon juice. Yeah. It'll taste a little bit different, but I don't think it would affect necessarily the quality of some cleanse product you're going to use.
Nidhi Khanna: Like, do you think the real lemon stuff in the bottle is just as good as, like, the lemon. Lemon.
Marco Timpano: okay, that's a great question. So the bottled lemon juice will have things like ascorbic acid or, preservatives in it, whereas a lemon. Lemon won't. Right. So you'll get that lemon juice. But, that's not to say lemon from one of those little squeeze bottles isn't great to have, because sometimes you just need lemon juice or. You know, a lot of people say you should have hot water and lemon in the morning, and sometimes you might not have time to, like, slice a lemon and boil the water. You just have to get something on the go. And if you. If it's easier for you to squeeze a little lemon in your hot water and put it in a to go cup, then it's a great alternative. See, I'm very, like, live and let be. And you're like, oh, I've got problems with that.
Nidhi Khanna: Only with butterfly tattoos and insects.
Marco Timpano: Well, that's quite a bit m. But I think you've. I think you've changed your mind on butterfly tattoos.
Nidhi Khanna: I'm a little bit more accepting, but I still.
Marco Timpano: What we need to do is get you an awesome butterfly tattoo.
Nidhi Khanna: Oh, God. Imagine you came up with me. And he's like, here's a gift certificate for a tattoo, and it has to be a butterfly. It has to be a butterfly.
Marco Timpano: Would you get a tattoo? Is that something that you'd be. Oh, you would?
Nidhi Khanna: I would.
Marco Timpano: Oh, that. I'm gonna. I'm gonna show you the Instagram of this tattoo artist. She's pretty awesome.
Nidhi Khanna: Yeah. Where would you get a tattoo?
Marco Timpano: Well, I. I have to be sort of choosy, I think, because I don't want it anywhere that's gonna.
Nidhi Khanna: To be visible.
Marco Timpano: Yeah, I was actually talking about that with Amanda today. I would probably get on my foot.
Nidhi Khanna: Oh, interesting.
Marco Timpano: Weird, huh?
Would you get a tattoo to commemorate something or what would be the purpose
Huh?
Nidhi Khanna: Why. Why the foot?
Marco Timpano: Oh, because you don't really see your feet unless it's the summertime. So I feel like it's kind of inconspicuous in a way, but I can reveal it when I want. On a hot summer day or whenever. I'm like, going, so would you get,
Nidhi Khanna: like, a tattoo to commemorate something or, someone, or would you, like, what would be the purpose?
Marco Timpano: It's a great question. Like, you know, I was telling Amanda that a friend of mine had a little cow on his backside. And I said, why did you get that? And he goes, I just thought it was funny. And I thought that was kind of neat. I'm like, that's kind of cool, right? It's kind of, like, a tattoo that doesn't have meaning other than he thought it was funny.
Nidhi Khanna: Right. Yeah.
Marco Timpano: And so I would probably do something like that that I thought was kind of funny or that had personal meaning.
Nidhi Khanna: Fair enough.
Marco Timpano: I don't think I would get one to commemorate someone. That's just not my style.
Nidhi Khanna: Yep.
Marco Timpano: I say that, but who knows, right? You never know. But I think tattoos are great. If there's something you like and you want to do, I say more power to you. Like, I think it's. It's interesting.
Nidhi Khanna: Yeah, I do, too. I find it, I would probably get one on my forearm, actually.
Marco Timpano: Oh, really?
Nidhi Khanna: Yeah, like a fray. I feel like I would probably get a phrase or something. Something very personal that I can reference.
Marco Timpano: Yeah, I love that. I think that's great. Like, especially when there's a catchphrase or, like a. You, ah, know me. I love, sayings. I love, like, certain things. That's my. That's one of the things I just, you know, I could spend an hour on the computer just looking up different. Different people's sayings and whatnot.
Nidhi Khanna: Right.
Marco Timpano: And there was just one. There was one I heard about WC Fields, which was like, it's not what people call you, it's what you answer to or something like that. Yeah. Ah, it was kind of neat. It was kind of neat.
Nidhi Khanna: I like that.
Marco Timpano: It's in a book that I read called, Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert. I got that for my birthday, and I really enjoyed that book, even though I wasn't a huge fan of the author.
Nidhi Khanna: Oh, really?
Marco Timpano: She wrote Eat, Pray, Love. It wasn't for me, I don't think. I didn't dislike it. But anyways, I really. I love that book.
For Marco's birthday, I got him a cardamom espresso syrup
Nidhi Khanna: Hey, speaking of birthday gifts, have you tried?
Marco Timpano: I have.
Nidhi Khanna: Okay, so we need to tell the listeners.
Marco Timpano: Yes, please.
Nidhi Khanna: That. So for Marco's birthday, I got him, like, a cardamom espresso syrup.
Marco Timpano: Speaking of syrups.
Nidhi Khanna: Exactly.
Marco Timpano: Isn't that apropos? Yeah.
Nidhi Khanna: and so, because Marco just loves cardamom. It's his favorite spice. So anyway, it was good.
Marco Timpano: It's good. It doesn't, I think I need to use more m. Because it was very subtle.
Nidhi Khanna: Yeah.
Marco Timpano: Because I don't want to. I want. I didn't want to waste it or, like, put too much. Right. So, like, I'm gauging it.
Nidhi Khanna: Yeah.
Marco Timpano: but, yeah, it was. It's neat. It's neat to have it. I'll make it. Next time you're here, I'll make it. Because we're enjoying tea right now. So unless you want to try it in your tea, but I don't know if it would go.
Nidhi Khanna: But coffee or something.
Marco Timpano: Yeah, I was. I was like, oh, I'm gonna try the syrup.
Nidhi Khanna: They said, oddly enough, you could put it in, like, your Soda Stream.
Marco Timpano: Oh, I believe it.
Nidhi Khanna: so that would be interesting because
Marco Timpano: we talked about that with, I think, Nug, about, like, using different sort of, flavorings from, I don't even know, like, tinctures and whatnot. Right. And I totally understand that you could do that.
Nidhi Khanna: Yeah.
This episode was about things Niddy hates. Honey, syrup, maple syrup
Marco Timpano: Well, there you go. This episode was about things Niddy hates. Butterflies, insects, Insects of choice. Honey, syrup, maple syrup, going to a sugar shack, tapping trees, tattoos, you name it. This was the. The episode that just had multifaceted episodes.
Nidhi Khanna: True. Lots of layers here. and as always, we are, produced by drumcast Productions and recording from Toronto, Canada. And until the next time, in our next conversation, you should get listen
Marco Timpano: and sleep tattooed on your forearm.
Nidhi Khanna: There's a challenge. I like that. and we hope that you indeed listen and sleep, Sam.