From Scuba to Mathnet | Cozy, Soothing Chat to Quiet Your Mind

Looking for a relaxing sleep podcast to help you unwind, quiet busy thoughts, or gently fall asleep? In this episode of The Insomnia Project, Marco and Nidhi settle in for a calm and curious conversation that drifts from scuba diving to classic kids’ television.
Nidhi shares her experiences learning to scuba dive, reflecting on the peaceful sensation of being underwater and the small details that come with mastering the basics. From there, the conversation gently shifts to Mathnet, the memorable educational segment from the children’s show Square One Television, sparking light and nostalgic reflections.
As always, the discussion unfolds in a relaxed, meandering style — low-stakes and soothing, designed to quiet the mind, ease anxiety, and guide you toward rest.
Whether you’re winding down before bed, relaxing during the day, or enjoying soft background listening while you work, this episode offers a tranquil escape. And if you fall asleep before it ends, that’s exactly what we hope for.
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​From Scuba to Mathnet
(Original airdate: Aug 1 , 2018)

Marco: Welcome to the Insomnia Project. Sit back, uh, relax and listen as we have a relaxing conversation with you here. I'm your host, Marco Gimpano.

Nidhi:  And I'm your co host, Nidhi Khanna. And you can always find us on Instagram. In particular, right now we seem to be posting some photos.

Marco: Actually, we need to post the photo of your spoon with the orange on the handle, so we need to take one.

Nidhi:  My bad. But you can find us at the Insomnia Project on Insta. And you can also find us on itunes as usual, and rate or review us if this is your first time listening.

Marco: And on stitcher and on iHeartRadio and on SoundCloud. And here at Pipa. If you're following us on Pipa, there's. We're in so many. We're everywhere, Niddy. And of course, we hope you listen and sleep. And first, I'm going to start by saying thank you, Nidhi, for making a wonderful tea because I, um, as you may hear, am kind of losing my voice today. And so I came over and Nidhi was just pouring the tea in a teapot and it was like music to my eyes. So, Nidhi, thank you for that.

Nidhi:  You're welcome. Welcome. We were in sync.

Marco: We were in sync. And it's a lovely tea.

Nidhi:  Oh, I thought you were gonna slurp it, like, enough. That would have been the perfect moment.

Marco: I know, but it's hot.

Marco: I did what?

Marco: My throat is sore enough. I don't need to.

Marco: I was on stage last night and I was doing a scene where I was in a tent, and in that tent, Nitty I decided to scream. Uh, and that's not good. When you haven't warmed up your voice.

Nidhi:  No.

Marco: And scream loud and for a long time.

Nidhi:  So I once had a terrible audition. Marco.

Marco: Okay.

Nidhi:  Where I had to, um, passionately give this, uh, speech and in the monologue. And, uh, I yelled the entire thing. It was very. I was very young and very inexperienced. And then afterwards I was like, I don't. I don't think I did that right.

Marco: What a great lesson.

Nidhi:  It was a great lesson.

Marco: There you go.

Nidhi:  Sometimes throat stress to hurt.

Marco: It's a good lesson.

Nidhi:  It's a good lesson.

Marco: It's your body's lesson. Telling you stop doing that.

Nidhi:  Ain't doing it right.

Marco: Speaking of lessons.

Nidhi:  Yes.

Marco: You just took your scuba lessons.

Nidhi:  I did.

Marco: Okay, I need to know everything from start to finish. Now, prior to these lessons, you had taken lessons to get to here or no. No.

Nidhi:  Okay. So prior to this, all I've ever done is snorkeling.

Marco: Ok.

Nidhi:  However, I'm going away in August to Bonaire. If I'm not miracle.

Marco: I don't know if you want that reveal.

Nidhi:  See you all in Bonaire. Um, and my friend, uh, who I'm going with, she is a big diver. She's logged in like 70 dives.

Marco: Oh, that's great.

Nidhi:  I know.

Marco: Do I know her?

Nidhi:  Do you know Lisa?

Marco: Can we get Lisa on the show?

Nidhi:  Yeah, we should.

Marco: Okay. Um, Lisa, this is an invitation.

Nidhi:  This is an invite. Lise. Uh, and so she has been into diving for a while, and every time she talks about it, she talks about it with such passion. And so when I went away on vacation in January, I actually went with her as well. And her, um, fam. And they, her and her son were divers. And so, um, they just were so passionate about it. And when I was snorkeling in the Caribbean, I was like, I want to do this. I want to see what's under the sea.

Marco: So. Great.

Nidhi:  And so, uh, I had come back in January saying, I'm going to get my scuba certification. And then life kind of happened, and I didn't really think much of it.

Marco: It's one of the first things you drop when life gets busy.

Nidhi:  It's your scuba certification. And I hadn't had any plans to go back to the Caribbean, um, at all, uh, this year. And then a few weeks ago, not

Marco: that you have anything against the Caribbean.

Nidhi:  You just. No, I just wasn't planning on taking a vacation there. And a few weeks ago, I was talking to Lisa and we were both like, we just need to get away and talk turned into, should we just go back down to the Dutch Caribbean? And uh, this time we decided to go to Bonaire. Last time we were in Caribbean, which

Marco: is awesome because you don't hear a lot of people going to Bonaire.

Nidhi:  No, no, it's fantastic. Uh, and you don't hear a lot of people going to sort of that part of the Caribbean, uh, other than Aruba. You hear people going to Aruba.

Marco: Is Curacao part of that? Because I've heard Curacao.

Nidhi:  Yes, abc.

Marco: Yeah, but it's a lot less. Of the three, Bonaire is the last

Nidhi:  one I ever hear anybody say no, because it's tiny. It can take you like 45 minutes to get from like one end to the other. That type of thing. Like an hour. Um, but the diving is supposed to be amazing. And so she said, why don't we go there? And I said great, I should get my certification.

Marco: Yeah, of course.

Nidhi:  And so a couple of weeks ago I did the, um. Sorry, that's just Xena.

Marco: Let's just start. Xena squeak toy. In case you're wondering what's going on.

Nidhi:  In case you need to.

Marco: And I knew when I threw the squeak toy when I first came in, I'm like, this is a mistake. But she's so cute. I just had like, you just, you just, just have to.

Nidhi:  I know. She gets so excited when Marco's here.

Marco: Anyways, we'll get off the detour and

Nidhi:  back to the scuba. Sorry about that. I digress. Um, and so the. So I, I tried to look on Groupon because that's, you know, a lot of the times you'll get these scuba courses, etc. And I actually found one, uh, that was pretty, uh, good, called Aquarius Scuba.

Marco: Oh, I know that I drive past

Nidhi:  it's undone and so, so, uh, and they look professional.

Marco: Like they look. Everything about it looks really top. Not that there's shady Scuba scoop.

Nidhi:  I bet you there are scuba.

Marco: Maybe there is, maybe there is. But they're.

Nidhi:  But this one was great. And so it's uh, a two day course. Uh, so the first part, the two days that you do, um, the mornings are theory. And then the afternoons you go in pool and practice certain skills which I will get to Marco. And then you have to do four open water dives in order to get your full certification. So I'm going to be doing the four open water dives in Bonaire in the ocean.

Marco: That's so amazing.

Nidhi:  So it's what we call a referral course. So you have your paperwork and then you bring it down to you to the certification center in Bonaire, and you

Marco: get certified and it'll be recognized by the certification center in Bonaire. Discourse.

Nidhi:  Yeah. So this is all like, Padi is the diving, uh, international diving.

Marco: I don't even paddi, if I'm not mistaken, 1D. Padi.

Nidhi:  Yes, for our listeners. Exactly. And so, uh, it's all padi courses. Yeah, it's all standardized. And so the morning, um, like, wow, it was like nine to five each day of theory. Theory in the morning and then pool in the afternoon.

Marco: Okay, so let me ask you about theory.

Nidhi:  Okay.

Marco: What was, what was the one thing that you learned that you're like, wow, I didn't know that.

Nidhi:  Oh, what was the one thing that

Marco: stood out for you? Or a couple of things that you're like, this is awesome. This is interesting. This is like what resonated with you.

Nidhi:  So it's quite intense, the theory. So first they give you a book and like, videos, and you have to watch them. You have to do a bunch of pre work. If you don't. So anyone who's considering doing this, do the pre work. Do the pre work. Because the pace at which they go in the actual classroom, you're not going to understand much if you haven't done the pre work.

Marco: Isn't that incredible?

Nidhi:  Yeah. And it's not that it's difficult content, it's just that, like, you need to wrap your head around barometric bars and equalization and some of the terminology of diving. And like, what's a BCD and all the equipment and a regulator, et cetera. And so if you're not. If you're only going to be exposed to that for the first time in the actual classroom setting, it becomes a little bit, um, intense.

Marco: So that leads me to my question. Did you do the pre work?

Nidhi:  I did. I did the pre work the first three chapters. And then after the first day, I was like, I better do chapter four and five, which were the easier chapters? Um, but watching the videos was helpful. So the. So basically the work really takes you, uh, into the theory of diving about like, you know, pressure on the body. And essentially it's this. It's like as you go down, your, uh, the water pressure increases and so your, like, cells get more compressed and your density increases. Um, and so you have to constantly be aware, like, you need to do what's called equalization to make sure you don't burst eardrums, et cetera, et cetera. Uh, and then, you know, the idea of buoyancy and some really, uh, technical terms that you will probably remember from like grade nine science just applied in a different way in a more tangible way. And so it actually makes sense. Right. Um, and then there's a lot of like, uh, um, multiple choice tests and stuff that you need to do.

Marco: It sounds very thorough. Like they don't. They don't.

Nidhi:  Yeah, they don't mess. Because, I mean, it's sort of like anything that has potential risk. And so, um, you know, you have to always be with a buddy. You need to be very respectful for the. To the wildlife.

Marco: Oh, that's great.

Nidhi:  Yeah, there's. There's certain things, things that you need to, as a, as a conscious diver know. Right. And, and it. I'm excited. I'm terrified, but I'm excited.

Marco: For example, what's one thing you have to be conscious of with regards to wildlife?

Nidhi:  Well, I mean, just don't. Some people, Marco, are stupid, I have to say. And it's like, let me touch the turtle or let me touch this, like, random thing that might end up being a jellyfish. Or like just, just don't touch things. It's like you're in their home.

Marco: It's like shopping.

Nidhi:  Can I go into your home and touch your medicine cabinet?

Marco: No, you shouldn't. No, you shouldn't. And if you're at my house, don't touch my turtle either.

Nidhi:  No, exactly.

Marco: No, but, like, it's shopping rules. Do not touch. Uh, no, I guess I'm. Unless you're ready to buy. No, forget that. But don't touch stuff. Just don't touch stuff. Just don't.

Nidhi:  Yeah, exactly.

Marco: I once touched a sea urchin by mistake and its spine broke in my finger and it was painful. Niddy.

Nidhi:  Yeah.

Marco: For a while. So don't touch the sea urchin either.

Nidhi:  Your guests in the water.

Marco: Guests in the water. I love it. Be respectful.

Nidhi:  Be respectful.

Marco: Enjoy. Touch with your eyes. Like observe.

Nidhi:  Yes.

Marco: And enjoy.

Nidhi:  And so what was really interesting to me is actually how almost meditative it is because once you're at a certain depth and you're kind of like, you know, gliding around. Cause you've got the flippers.

Marco: So now we're in the water.

Nidhi:  Now we're. Yes. Okay. Yeah.

Marco: Which is great.

Nidhi:  I, um, mean, it's a little bit different because in a pool you can only go so deep, but you can learn certain technical aspects. So I'm really looking forward to actually seeing wildlife and fishes and sea creatures.

Marco: Um, but you were saying it's meditative because.

Nidhi:  Yeah, because you're really slow. Right. You're just kind of gliding through water. So think about it. How many times in your life are you actually immersed completely in water? Uh, you're not.

Marco: No, you're not. I mean, you can, you can sort of dive in for a few seconds and pop back out, or you can swim underwater, but you can only. It's not a relaxing. Right.

Nidhi:  And because you can breathe through the regulator, it's like you're, you're. And you need to breathe very deeply and slowly in order to. Well, because people can panic underwater, it can become, um. But you need to kind of remain level headed. So some of the things that we had to learn how to do, for example, underwater, Michael. Um, is we had to, for example, learn how to. If your regulator stops working, how to use someone else's.

Marco: Yes, of course. Like the buddy system or something.

Nidhi:  The buddy system, exactly. And then how you can both, like if I'm attached to your secondary regulator, how we both come up to the surface.

Marco: Oh, yes, of course. Yeah.

Nidhi:  Um, at one point they, uh, actually turn off your air underwater to show you what the, um, gauge looks like. Yes. And you have literally two breaths before the gauge runs out. Right. So and then they turn it back on. You have to take off your entire, uh, vest with all your things underwater and put it back on. You have to clear your mask. So if your mask gets full of water, they, they show you how to do that. Or if your mask comes out underwater, out underwater, they show you how to clear it so that the water comes out of the actual mask.

Marco: Even underwater, you can do, uh, that. Oh, that's fascinating.

Nidhi:  I know.

Marco: Did your yoga practice help with the breathing underwater when you say deep breath?

Nidhi:  Yeah, it does, it does. Or just to get in that state of don't, uh, panic, breathe. I think part of that is also maybe actor training.

Marco: Okay.

Nidhi:  Um, like your first response can't be like, oh, my God. Right. Um, but I think that's true. So, yeah, so I'm really looking for. So it's really what I'm interested in about is so some of the skills they practice in the pool, you need to practice, um, underwater in the ocean again. And so like, the clearing of the mask is easier in the pool because it's like normal chlorine water.

Nidhi:  Right, of course.

Nidhi:  But if it's salt water.

Marco: Well, of course.

Nidhi:  Because in order to clear it, you have to actually like exhale through your nose and clear it a bit.

Marco: Oh, I see. Okay.

Nidhi:  And so that's what brings a lot water out. But if it's salt water I'm like, oh, get salt in my nose.

Marco: Yeah. I, uh, guess so.

Nidhi:  Things like that will be interesting.

Marco: Wow.

Nidhi:  And then. Yeah. So I'm looking forward to, to, to. Yeah, to experiencing also, like just, you know, because essentially through with air, you're going up and down. Right. And so, uh, just to feel weightless.

Marco: Yeah.

Nidhi:  Underwater is going to be an interesting sensation.

Marco: It's kind of like some people have weightless dreams or like floating dreams. It really can bring you to the most relaxed state you can be in.

Nidhi:  Right. Yeah. Yeah, hopefully.

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Marco: I want to ask you this, did they tell you you should eat a lot of lemons and limes so you don't get scurvy?

Marco: That's one of the things.

Marco: You don't want to have scurvy when

Marco: you're, when you're scuba diving.

Nidhi:  Because I'm going on a long journey, I'm m not actually taking a boat to the Caribbean.

Marco: Listen, whenever you're doing water things, things,

Marco: whether it be on a boat or not, I always say a little tequila, a little lemon, a little lime is gonna certainly help you.

Nidhi:  This is true.

Marco: So, okay, so you've done everything that you can do up until this point and now you have four open water dives that you're gonna do in Bonaire.

Nidhi:  Yes. And can I just say, the weekend that I took the course was the same weekend that those divers are rescuing everyone in.

Marco: Right. So it must have been very interesting for you.

Nidhi:  It was fascinating. It was fascinating because it's like all of a sudden I'm learning this and then I would go home and uh, learn about all the complexities of that dive or like that situation. And I actually understood it in a different way. So yeah, that's fascinating.

Marco: Like I was thinking about that. I'm m. Like, she's learning things that she can probably. You can watch CNN and be like, I know exactly what they're talking about right now. In real time. In real learning, learning time anyways.

Nidhi:  Exactly.

Marco: Wow. Um, Nitty. Um, so my, here's, here's something interesting. So you did that this weekend? Yes, I went to Christian island this weekend.

Nidhi:  Okay.

Marco: So Christian island, have you heard of it?

Nidhi:  No.

Marco: So Christian island is an island in Georgian Bay that is just north of La Fontaine. I may have mentioned La Fontaine. So my cottage is on Georgian Bay. La Fontaine is on Georgian Bay. La Fontaine is a French community.

Nidhi:  Mhm.

Marco: In the township of Tiny.

Nidhi:  Okay.

Marco: And it's been French since the settlers were there. So it's, it has a very pure old French, I've been told. And they have this festival, it's called the Festival de Loup. It's a wolf festival based on a myth of, uh, wolf eating children in the town.

Nidhi:  Um, I love it already.

Marco: I know.

Marco: I'm sure it's. Listeners are like trying to relax and

Marco: I'm talking about that. But it's like this, it happened, the myth happened in the 1800s. So they celebrate the banishment of the wolf in this town. And this town is about 20 minutes from my cottage. And then Christian island is about 30 minutes away from that town. So I Said to Amanda, let's go to the festival of the Louvre, and then let's go to Christian Island. So you. You. You hop on a boat and you go to Christian island. And it's a, um, first nations island. M. So you're allowed to be on it. There's, um, there's cottages you can. You can own, but you cannot rent. So they'll allow you. Let's sort of lease the cottage.

Nidhi:  Okay.

Marco: And there's some beautiful beaches there. And so we decided just to kind of go and see the island and explore and see the beaches. There's a beautiful lighthouse. It's really wonderful. Niddi. It's really, really wonderful.

Nidhi:  Sounds great.

Marco: You know, there's everyone that I encountered. I helped launch a boat.

Nidhi:  Nitty. You launch a boat?

Marco: Well, you, you know, you launch a boat in the water. So I happened to be walking on the beach and I was like, hey, can I help you launch the boat? And they're like, if you don't mind. And so we got in the water and pushed it. It was a lot of fun. Okay. The reason I bring up Christian island is not to tell you about my

Marco: lovely weekend jaunt on this beautiful island.

Nidhi:  I'm. I like that.

Marco: But they have seven wrecks in that area, and so there's a lot of scuba diving that's happening there. And so when we got on the boat, so. Or, sorry, the ferry to get to the island, I noticed that there was a little inlet where there was a lot of scuba divers. And I thought of you. And because it's fresh water and not salt water, the boats are still intact and very, very much intact. So I know a lot of people love to, um, to dive in fresh water. So I just wanted to bring that to your attention if you ever want to do wreck diving with your friend. It's not that far from my cottage, so.

Nidhi:  Amazing.

Marco: Bring your gear.

Nidhi:  Could do that.

Marco: Yeah.

Nidhi:  It's very exciting.

Marco: Yeah. Sorry about my voice. I had a friend who, anytime I was doing a show with him, every time I had this kind of a voice, he was like, you sound like Brenda Vaccaro. So this is my Brenda Vaccar.

Nidhi:  Brenda Vaccaro.

Marco: She's this actress from the 70s and 80s who has a deep voice. Um, I think she played Tony's cousin on who's the Boss? And she played, you know who she played. I don't know if you'll know this, but she played the woman who was married to Sophia's son on the Golden Girls. That's Brenda Riccaro. She's done a lot. I think she was even in Saturday Night Fever. Um, if you saw her, you'd be like, oh yeah, she's been on everything. She's always like a guest performer on the Love Boat or CSI or Law and Order. You'll. She'll pop up doing things like that.

Nidhi:  Right.

Marco: But, um, she has a very husky voice, let's say.

Nidhi:  Cool.

Nidhi:  Oh yeah, Midnight Cowboy. Okay.

Marco: Yeah. So you've seen her. You know who she is. If you were to see her, you'd be like, yeah, yeah, that woman that.

Nidhi:  Her, her. Have you, um, watched any Golden Girls lately?

Marco: I haven't actually.

Nidhi:  Yeah. It doesn't like come on syndication.

Marco: No, I. At least not where we are because they, they could be syndicated anywhere. So listeners might be like, it's on every day at 4 o'. Clock. What are you talking about? But, um, as many people know, I, I often will use the Golden Girls as a tool to help me fall asleep. Now I'm using Bob's Burgers.

Nidhi:  Oh, really?

Marco: Yeah, Bob's Burgers does it for me.

Nidhi:  Interesting.

Marco: Uh, I find it very relaxing. So, yeah, that's. And um, what's the other show? There's a planet Earth or the blue planet. Yeah, I think it's, um. What's the, what's the voiceover person's name?

Nidhi:  Oh, Attenborough.

Marco: Attenborough. Thank you. His voice is, is very calming for me.

Nidhi:  Yes.

Nidhi:  Actually I should watch the planet Earth

Marco: and I like a lot of the BBC sort of escape to the continent.

Nidhi:  There's some show like that where I always like the 90 minute mystery shows because it's 90 minutes and there's no interruptions and like.

Marco: But don't you want to get to the end of that? That's why I would have a problem with that because I would stay away wanting to get to the end of

Nidhi:  the mystery because they're so conventional. Like you can always go back.

Marco: You're a mystery enthusiast.

Nidhi:  Yes.

Marco: So you can probably see plot, you know, devices and figure things out right away.

Nidhi:  Right.

Marco: Because you've read so much.

Nidhi:  Sure. I mean, yes. For things like Father Brown or you know, like the old Midsummer Murders or something like that. There's usually. But I just like it because it's so long. So you don't have to like I can fall asleep. The voices are still going.

Marco: Sure.

Marco: You know, it's funny. So my 3 year old nephew likes to watch Paw Patrol.

Nidhi:  Oh, of course.

Marco: So Paw Patrol, for those who may not be familiar with it, there's about four or five dogs. One of the lead dog is Chase, and my nephew loves Chase. And then there's, um, Rumble and Marshall. Marshall.

Nidhi:  What do they do? What do each one of them do? Like, what's their thing?

Marco: Marshall's of like a firefighter. He's like a Dalmatian, so he wears the fire hat.

Nidhi:  Amazing.

Marco: Rumble is like a bulldog, so he wears a construction hat.

Marco: It's like the Village People, but they're dogs.

Marco: And each one, they have their specialties, right? And they, and they, they figure out problems. And this theme song is Chase is on the case.

Marco: Part of it is Chase, Kids. So that's my nephew's favorite show.

Marco: I lately have been getting into this show called Scorpion, which is cancelled and has four seasons. Okay. And my wife says to me, she goes, you and your nephew watch the

Marco: same shows because they're just. Cuz Scorpion is like a group of five people who are geniuses who solve problems, right? So she's like, you and your nephew like the same show. He's three and you're much older and you watch the same show.

Nidhi:  Look at the dog. The flying.

Marco: Yeah, that's, that's Sky, I think is her name. And she. And she can fly a plane.

Marco: And there's more.

Marco: And I can't. And I apologize because I can't remember all their names. Nitty. But certainly Chase is my nephew's favorite.

Nidhi:  Chase, of course. The name is Chase too. Like everything about it.

Marco: Yeah.

Nidhi:  Uh, yeah, the only. I remember when I was visiting, um, my friends in the uk, they both, uh, separately have children who are the same age, essentially. And Peppa Pig.

Marco: Yeah, Peppa Pig is huge.

Nidhi:  Was huge.

Marco: M. I love muddy, um, puddles. Do you know that?

Nidhi:  No.

Marco: So one of the pigs. This is.

Marco: Anybody. Anybody who's listening right now, like, you guys are getting this all wrong.

Nidhi:  So they're like, clearly these two have no children.

Marco: Peppa likes to put on her rain boots. Oh, I hope it's a her, because I'm really gonna get in trouble. Peppa the pig, regardless of gender, likes to put on their rain boots and jump in muddy puddles.

Nidhi:  Amazing.

Marco: And I think Peppa has a younger brother named George. I. I went to see Peppa Pig live with my niece and nephew, so I should.

Nidhi:  Marco, how are you not taking notes?

Marco: Not only that, Nidhi, I have friends who are on.

Marco: Involved in the. Of course in the show, so you would think I would pay more attention.

Marco: And then we had a meet and greet with Peppa and the friends.

Nidhi:  You're such a rock star. The rock star Uncle.

Marco: It's true.

Marco: Um, I love the Aquanauts.

Nidhi:  The.

Marco: I wish when I was a kid, because you know me, I love undersea life. I know. I love fish. I love. I know so much about it. We could have a show where you just ask me about different fish and I'll give you information. I used to watch Jacques Cousteau. I used anything that was under the sea. Oceans alive. I watched it all. So the Aquanauts are these. One's a cat. One's a. One's a. Something like a cat. I don't remember. One's a dog. I think they're all in, like, a submarine. And they.

Nidhi:  They go.

Marco: And they'll go under underwater, and they'll have adventures, and then they'll feature an underwater animal, and they'll tell the kids who are watching about a sea cucumber, a giant squid and whatnot, and all these things. When I was a kid, I would have loved. And unfortunately, it wasn't around when I was a kid. So my favorite cartoon was Jabber Jaw because it took place underwater.

Nidhi:  Oh, amazing.

Marco: And if, uh, you're not familiar with Jabberjaw, it was a Hanna Barbera cartoon. So, like, Scooby Doo that didn't have much success that followed around a shark and the shark's friends as they got into adventures.

Nidhi:  Although the Aquanauts was a TV show in the 1960s.

Marco: No, but this is not the Aquanauts. I'm talking about this.

Nidhi:  No, these are two guys who are, like, diving around.

Marco: No, I wish I would have seen that. I didn't even see that. Not that I was around in the 60s, but.

Nidhi:  Although, in an episode, an upcoming M episode, we should talk about your experience. The Hot Squad.

Marco: Oh, yeah, that's right. That was a kids show that I got to be on it. Yeah, I was, um. Double date. Double.

Nidhi:  I like that one because, like, it, again, had the mystery element to it. I loved growing up. Math Net. Ah, drag. Yeah, Math Net.

Marco: Math Net.

Nidhi:  Um, which used to be on this show. It was like, um. Oh, my God, what was the name of the show? And they used to have these, like, different vignettes during the half hour. And one of the, like, main ones was MathNet. And they would try and solve these math problems, and it was like, these two private eyes who were.

Marco: And that's what got you into mystery novels.

Nidhi:  And that got me into mystery.

Marco: And that got us to the end of our show. Niddy.

Nidhi:  I know. Look at that.

Marco: How time flies.

Nidhi:  From Scuba to mathnet.

Marco: Well, we hope you enjoyed this episode of the Insomnia project. As always, it's produced by drumcast Productions and this episode was recorded in Toronto.

Nidhi:  And as always, we hope that you listen and sleep.