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Marco Timpano and Nidhi Khanna explore the element of air, reflecting on breathing, breezes, and the invisible presence that surrounds us every day. As part of their ongoing series on the elements, this episode offers low-stimulation, easygoing content perfect for bedtime listening.
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Episode 15: The Air Episode | Gentle Conversations on Breathing Easy
Marco Timpano: Welcome to the Insomnia Project. Sit back, relax and listen as we have a conversation about the mundane. One thing that we can promise is that our conversation will be less than fascinating so that you can just drift off. Thank you for joining us. We hope you will listen and sleep. I'm your host, Marco Timpano.
Nidhi Khanna: And I'm your co host Nidhi
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This is the air episode. If you haven't already guessed it, listeners
Marco, when you think of the word air, what is the first image that pops into your mind?
Marco Timpano: I guess wind.
Speaker A: Really?
Marco Timpano: Air.
Nidhi Khanna: Yeah. I think of oxygen. Yeah.
Marco Timpano: Okay, Fair.
Nidhi Khanna: Breathing.
Marco Timpano: Sure.
Nidhi Khanna: This is the air episode. If you haven't already guessed it, listeners,
Marco Timpano: we had a water episode, a fire episode, and we thought it only appropriate to have an air episode since those are the three elements. Well, I guess earth. We should have an earth episode too because that's that. That that'll be coming because future episode on earth.
What are the elements in air? Do you know
Nidhi Khanna: But for now, we're gonna talk about air.
Marco Timpano: Sure.
Nidhi Khanna: What Are the elements in air? Do you know?
Marco Timpano: Oh, I don't. I have no idea.
Nidhi Khanna: Like atmospheric. I don't know.
Marco Timpano: Oxygen, Nitrogen. I think it's made primarily of nitrogen, isn't it? There's more nitrogen molecules in the air that we breathe, our atmosphere, than, Than on other planets. I don't know. Help me out.
Nidhi Khanna: That's.
Marco Timpano: You're looking at me in a strange way, so I.
Nidhi Khanna: Well, I don't know. I was trying to figure out where you were going with that sentence. Really.
Marco Timpano: I know there's a plentitude of nitrogen in our. In the oxygen. In the oxygen that we breathe. Does that make sense?
Nidhi Khanna: Yeah, it. Well, I mean, not the oxygen in the air that we breathe.
Marco Timpano: The air that we breathe in the air.
Nidhi Khanna: yeah. And it makes me think of a song that has that lyric in the air that we breathe, which makes me think of the band Air. Was there not a band in Air?
Marco Timpano: I don't know. A band named Air.
Nidhi Khanna: Okay.
Marco Timpano: I know there was a band named Earth, Wind and Fire.
Nidhi Khanna: Well, maybe it's not.
Marco Timpano: And I know that, Phil Collins sang a song called Air the Air tonight.
Nidhi Khanna: Of course.
Marco Timpano: But, this other band. Air. Air Supply?
Nidhi Khanna: No, it's a French band, apparently.
Marco Timpano: I know Air Supply.
Nidhi Khanna: Air Supply. Maybe I was thinking about Air Supply.
Marco Timpano: Perhaps.
Nidhi Khanna: I was probably thinking about it.
Marco Timpano: You weren't thinking of the French band Air?
Nidhi Khanna: No, because I just found that when I Googled air.
Marco Timpano: But. So what is our atmospheric, air made up of? Okay, Nadia's gonna be looking at that. Other things that I think of when I think of air is I think of, you know, blowing a balloon and, you know, versus, say, using helium to make the balloon float up. I also remember as a kid watching a magician or some sort of, I don't think. I don't know if he was. He was a magician, but he was someone who would use. Who would make giant bubbles, you know, with what you could make those giant bubbles. And what he would do is inside a bubble. Inside a giant bubble, he'd blow another bubble. But when he blew that bubble into the giant bubble, you know, with. With soapy water, whatever they use, he. He was smoking a cigarette, so he would blow smoke into the bubble that was inside the bubble. So what happens is the smoke gets trapped in the bubble and you see this gray. This light gray, swirling smoke and trapped inside a bubble. Now, I remember it as a kid, and I remember it to this day.
Nidhi Khanna: Did you ever play air guitar?
Marco Timpano: Oh, I'm sure I have. I remember going to see friends in an air guitar competition. Competition or something?
Nidhi Khanna: Yeah, that's. That's always. I mean, what did you think about that? When they were like, come to my air guitar competition.
Marco Timpano: It was fine for the first two minutes, and then it was people just lip syncing and air guitar into music. And I was like, oh, this isn't for me.
Nidhi Khanna: What's, like a good air guitar song, really? I mean, needs to have that solo piece to it, right? Like, Thunder, for example. ACDC is a good air guitar song.
Marco Timpano: I feel like crazy. Train by Ozzy Osborne. The beginning. The car is really intense.
Nidhi Khanna: Okay.
Marco Timpano: Yeah.
Have you ever gone to an oxygen bar where they give you pure oxygen
Nidhi Khanna: to get back to your atmosphere
Marco Timpano: of the earth, the composition of the
Nidhi Khanna: earth, the composition of the earth, the earth's atmosphere. You are indeed correct. Nitrogen is about 78% of the Earth's atmosphere.
Marco Timpano: There you go. I remember that from when I. 78.
Nidhi Khanna: You said 78. And oxygen is like. Is 20%. and then. Hold on, because.
Marco Timpano: Have you ever gone to an oxygen bar where they give you pure oxygen to breathe? They were popular at one point.
Nidhi Khanna: I haven't. I feel like this is like the floating tanks, you know, the same type of thing, right? It's like, I gotta pay for, oxygen now.
Marco Timpano: Yeah, they give you pure oxygen. And supposedly a lot of people feel lighter or they feel more. What's the word? Like rejuvenated. I did it nitty. And they can put flavors in it too, which sounds weird. So you could get like, you pick your, like, green apple scent or. I think I picked lavender.
Nidhi Khanna: And how was it?
Marco Timpano: Did nothing for me. The plastic tubes that go in your nose kind of irritated me, and that's about it. Oh, like irritated. Like, not irritated me, but you know how it's.
Nidhi Khanna: So was it like an oxygen. Did they wheel out an oxygen tank full of, like, lavender flavored oxygen?
Marco Timpano: No, as I remember it. And this was years ago, you sat at a little bar and it had all these tubes. I guess the tanks were underneath the bar and they had all these little tubes and they were like, okay, here, like, use this to put in your mo. In your nose. It was like a hygienic one. So they would replace that part of the tube, depending on who was the new client. And, they then asked me what scent or flavor I wanted. I think flavor is the wrong word. I guess scent. And. And I think I said lavender, if that was one of the flavors or scents. And, away we went. And I think it was. I paid for 15 minutes and it did nothing for me.
Nidhi Khanna: Do you remember how much it cost for those 15 minutes.
Marco Timpano: Oh, this was years ago. I don't remember. I feel like I did it at an airport.
Nidhi Khanna: Oh, interesting.
Marco Timpano: I feel like it was at an airport. And, you know, you have got that time to kill, and you're like, what are you gonna do? And sure enough, you know what else I've done? Have you ever seen those tanks where people put their feet in and the little fish sort of nibble away at your calluses and stuff?
Nidhi Khanna: Oh, yeah, it's like this weird pedicure thing that is.
Marco Timpano: Yeah, I've done that.
Nidhi Khanna: Really?
Marco Timpano: In Thailand.
Nidhi Khanna: How was that experience?
Marco Timpano: That was, interesting because as soon as I put my feet in and they all sort of like. And the tank that I did had hundreds of fish in it. It wasn't like some of the, you know, tanks that you see at beauty parlors in Beverly Hills that have, like, a handful of fish. No, this had hundreds. And as soon as they attacked my feet, I felt a little nauseous. It was a really odd sensation. It made me feel a little bit. I wouldn't say queasy, but a little bit like, oh, this is not so much fun. But then you get used to it and it's like, fine. But it's a. It's a very interesting, different sort of. Sort of feeling. Hard to describe because people are like, what does it feel like? Little pinches? It's like, no, it just feels like pressure from a million different places on your feet. And not hard pressure, but like a sort of constant sort of rubbing in different areas.
Nidhi Khanna: Are you ticklish on your feet?
Marco Timpano: No, I don't think I am. Maybe. Maybe. Maybe that's why it was bothersome. But anyways, that's another one of those unusual things, like the oxygen bar that I went to. This was like a plunge your feet in a fish tank.
Nidhi Khanna: So I need to ask how your feet felt after the fish tank experience.
Marco Timpano: They looked kind of marginally better. I don't think it was enough. Like, I think if you go to an actual pedicurist.
Nidhi Khanna: Yeah.
Marco Timpano: You get a better job than what the actual fish do. Yeah.
Nidhi Khanna: Interesting.
Marco Timpano: It's more like, oh, look at all these fish nibbling at me. It was kind of one of those. I think it was a waste of doing it. Once is great, but then it becomes a little bit of a waste of time or a m. Waste of money,
Nidhi Khanna: I should say so if you like.
If you could have a superpower based on the elements, what would it be
So sometimes I think about the elements, and I think about the superpowers that are associated with each element. So, for example, I mean, when we did the fire episode, obviously. You know, you think of maybe Superman's laser vision.
Marco Timpano: Sure.
Nidhi Khanna: Or other water.
Marco Timpano: You would think of Aquaman's ability.
Nidhi Khanna: Sure. Earth. I'm not really sure who would have what particularly, but air, of course. You think of flying maybe.
Marco Timpano: You know, I think of storm.
Nidhi Khanna: Oh, of storm. Okay, that makes sense, because she manipulates,
Marco Timpano: weather and, atmosphere change and whatnot.
Nidhi Khanna: Right, Good point.
Marco Timpano: But flying would be right, too.
Nidhi Khanna: Yep. so if you could have a particular superpower that's based on the elements, what would it be?
Marco Timpano: Oh, that's great. Well, I don't think it would be flying because I'm scared of heights. I'd like to have Aquaman's water abilities and stuff.
Nidhi Khanna: Because you can't swim?
Marco Timpano: M and I can't swim, but that's the one I'd want.
Nidhi Khanna: You'd really? Oh, really? Why, why would you want that one?
Marco Timpano: Well, of all the superheroes as a kid, Aquaman was my favorite. And I think it stems from the fact that I wanted to be a marine biologist. Prior to that, I wanted to be a fisherman. So I always had a fascination for the sea and sea creatures. And, so that's probably why it stems from that. And I don't know where that all came from because there's no fisherman in my family.
Nidhi Khanna: And really, like, you know, and fisherman is. Is one of those career choices that, that kind of. You base it on someone else's career path. It's. It's very rare that someone is just randomly, you know, like, I'm gonna be a fisherman.
Marco Timpano: I doubt that there's, you know, high school student counselors or guidance counselors who recommend becoming a fisherman as your career.
Nidhi Khanna: Fair enough. Fair enough. you know, my superpower. I'm not. I feel like I would want. I'd want. I don't know, actually, I kind of
Marco Timpano: make a great storm. If you were.
Nidhi Khanna: Yeah, I probably would, but I. I don't know. What if I were to, like, get into a temper situation.
Marco Timpano: Right.
Nidhi Khanna: I might cause, like a tsunami or something.
Marco Timpano: Fair. So when I was working on a cruise ship, they had a. What they would do is for the staff that worked on the cruise ship, they'd have, like, these fun nights where we would all meet at a bar that was closed off to the general, public, and the staff would go and have a fun night. So it might be like a Hawaiian themed night or whatever. Or like Halloween. They'd have, like. Anyways, one night they had superhero night. So we had to dress up like a superhero. And it was on the top deck bar.
Nidhi Khanna: Oh, okay.
Marco Timpano: So it was outside on the highest level. It wasn't actually even a bar. It was just an area. Area that was on the top part of the ship.
Nidhi Khanna: So it was very airy.
Marco Timpano: Was extremely airy. So I. What was my superhero? Oh, I. I dressed as Snape from the Harry Potter series.
Nidhi Khanna: Of course you did.
Marco Timpano: Amanda dressed as Wonder Woman.
Nidhi Khanna: Amazing.
Marco Timpano: And so, you know, we're. We were with all the performers. Every performer really got into it.
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Nidhi Khanna: Before you continue, you're on a cruise ship, right? Where did you find your costumes?
Marco Timpano: Oh, that's a great question. That's a really great question. So we would dock every week in New York City. And so we'd have about a day in New York while people, while passengers were getting on or getting off and then getting onto our ship. So we had a day in New York, and we went and scoured different areas of New York to get our costumes.
Nidhi Khanna: Oh, so you knew there was going to be a costume?
Marco Timpano: We knew it was so, you know, way beforehand, like, you know that. Okay, on the 15th, we're gonna have superhero night, so get ready kind of thing. So I obviously got a black wig that looked like Snape. And I think I got a wand or I made a wand. And there you go.
Nidhi Khanna: And was this was at the height of the Harry Potter craze?
Marco Timpano: Yes, the last book had just come out.
Nidhi Khanna: Okay.
Marco Timpano: The point is one of the singers dressed as Storm. So she had, like, white. White cotton hair. I think she just got a lot of cotton batting. So she got cotton hair. It was like this white, white, white hair. And then she had all this, cotton batting all over her. Her bodysuit or whatever to mimic I don't know what. But. But it was like all this cotton. Well, when. When she stepped onto the area where we were, the wind up there was so great because we were on the top. Her hair blew off her head.
Nidhi Khanna: Oh, no.
Marco Timpano: And then all her costume. And I feel like it was cotton or whatever, but there was, like, all her costume started to blow off her.
Nidhi Khanna: Oh, no.
Marco Timpano: So at the end of. Within five minutes, her costume was gone, and all she had left was just a bodysuit that was under the costume. And, I was lucky enough to. And what was funny was she came out and it was kind of windy, so she was pretending to be Storm. Like, she was, like, getting into all this position pretending to be Storm until it got so windy that her entire costume blew off. It was fantastic.
Nidhi Khanna: Oh, poor girl.
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Do you like popcorn? I do, I do. Do you get popcorn when you go to the movies
Marco Timpano: You know what else you can make with air is popcorn. Oh yeah, you have warm air that
Nidhi Khanna: causes a popcorn cause popcorn to pop. Now we just had some really wild popcorn. Yeah, it was pretty cool before recording this episode which was like caramel cashew popcorn or something like that.
Marco Timpano: I prefer sweet popcorn. You know how you can get it with sweet or with savory. And there's the Chicago mix which mixes both the sweet and the savory. I think it's like a cheddar and a caramel popcorn.
Nidhi Khanna: Yeah, that Chicago mix is amazing and deadly at the same time.
Marco Timpano: I just eat the sweet part.
Nidhi Khanna: Oh, really?
Marco Timpano: Yeah, I don't like it. Oh, I don't like the combination.
Nidhi Khanna: See, I like kettle corn because I like the combination of like sweet and salty. But I will. I just like popcorn.
Marco Timpano: Do you like popcorn?
Nidhi Khanna: I do, I do. It's not something that I like. It's not a go to that. I'm like, oh, popcorn. But when it's around, I thoroughly enjoy it, I think.
Marco Timpano: When I was 15, I worked at a movie theater. It was at the. I don't know if you've ever been to this mall, Nidhi, but it was the Woodbine Center. Are you familiar with that mall?
Nidhi Khanna: I am not. I am not. But please do describe it.
Marco Timpano: Well, at the time, it was quite the mall. And it had a little, what do you call it, like a theme park within the mall. I guess it had a Ferris wheel. It had a train that took you around. It had. I feel like it had swings that would, you know, those swings that you kind of rise and then it swings you around. There's a bunch of you on. Had all these crazy things. And I was an usher at a theater at the Woodbine Mall. And, I'd come home smelling like popcorn. And there was so much popcorn around that I. I just got sick of popcorn. So I really don't. It's not my go to. And I'll always be like, when we go to the movies, I'll never really buy popcorn, really. Sometimes I'll have some of, whoever's with me. Some. I'll share some of theirs. But really I could do without. I prefer candies and things like that. How about you? Do you.
Nidhi Khanna: It pretty. It scarred you that much?
Marco Timpano: Hey, I guess do you and I know that's many, many years later. Do you get popcorn when you go to the movies?
Nidhi Khanna: I do. I get popcorn. I don't usually get like, the butter on the popcorn. I find it messes with everything.
Marco Timpano: Okay.
Nidhi Khanna: And then you have greasy hands, etc. So I do like it if I get popcorn and whoever I'm with gets some candy because that's a nice little savory and sweet option.
Marco Timpano: Sure.
Nidhi Khanna: But I don't really like movie theater popcorn either. No, I find it too. Too salty. But I like, you know, those, what is it called? Colonels. Any of those specialty popcorn, stores where you can get expensive. yeah, but I have expensive taste.
Marco Timpano: Oh, there you go. And you can tell by the popcorn she chooses.
Nidhi Khanna: Exactly. You can tell a lot about a girl. Buy the popcorn.
Marco Timpano: Really? See, I never thought. But that makes a lot of sense. It's like, so, I mean, our podcast is to help people relax. But gentlemen, if you. Or ladies, if you want to know something about the woman you happen to be with, take a look at the popcorn.
Marco Timpano: That she chooses M. And then make your.
Nidhi Khanna: Make your assessment.
Marco Timpano: Let us know.
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Nidhi Khanna: We're the new Tinder, apparently.
Marco Timpano: I guess.
So what's the bucket list there? Hot air balloon, gentle gliding
so have you ever done some of these fun air things? Like, have you ever, parachuted or. Or glided or whatever?
Nidhi Khanna: Right. This is great. So, bucket list. I, would like to say that I want to skydive.
Marco Timpano: Okay.
Nidhi Khanna: In my heart, I want to.
Marco Timpano: Sure.
Nidhi Khanna: In my head, I know I would never actually jump.
Marco Timpano: Okay.
Nidhi Khanna: It just wouldn't happen. even though I really, really want to. But I've never been one to be like, let me go bungee jumping.
Marco Timpano: Right.
Nidhi Khanna: However, I would be intrigued in a hot air balloon.
Marco Timpano: Okay.
Nidhi Khanna: Possibly.
Marco Timpano: Sure, sure.
Nidhi Khanna: Possibly. I don't know. I mean, it's a bucket list. Like, if I had the opportunity.
Marco Timpano: So what's the bucket list there? Hot air balloon, gentle gliding in the air, or the jumping out of a plane with a parachute?
Nidhi Khanna: So they're all.
Marco Timpano: Because you're like, bucket list, but you haven't said which one, so.
Nidhi Khanna: No, because they're all kind of on the bucket list.
Marco Timpano: Okay.
Nidhi Khanna: But whether or not I would actually fulfill the bucket list if I was given an opportunity.
Marco Timpano: Sure.
Nidhi Khanna: I'm not sure.
Marco Timpano: No desire to jump out of a plane. I'm scared of heights. No desire to. Now, have you ever seen this? Well, I mean, I shouldn't say no desired in a hot air balloon, because I think I would do that. But have you ever seen these new things where it's like skydiving in an enclosed, like. Like area? Like, it's kind of like, see?
Nidhi Khanna: That I would do.
Marco Timpano: Because Amanda wants to do that. She's like, I want to do that. We drive by it. I think it's in Mississauga, and it's like this. So here's what I think you do. I'm m just gonna repeat this as many times until. Until it's clear in my head. You put on a puffy suit. They turn on these mega fans underneath you. You jump into the air and you just let it. Let you float. And then you move your hands and feet around till you, till you. I don't know what, but I think
Nidhi Khanna: this would be the perfect activity for your birthday.
Marco Timpano: No.
Nidhi Khanna: Why?
Marco Timpano: Amanda wants to do it. So we'll do it for hers. I don't know. I don't know if I want to do that.
Nidhi Khanna: Why? What are you like? Because you're not actually in the air. Right.
Marco Timpano: But it blows you up high.
Nidhi Khanna: Oh, does it?
Marco Timpano: I think it does. I don't know how many feet it goes up, but.
Nidhi Khanna: But then what happens when the air stops? Do you just fall down?
Marco Timpano: No, they slowly lower the air. I don't, I've never done it. I'm just assuming I'm making this or something. It sounds like I know what I'm talking about, but I don't. But it is a air sport.
Marco Timpano: Have you ever seen those people who like, they're kind of on a, like surfboard with a parachute attached to them? Like a. What's it called? Windsurfing.
Nidhi Khanna: Oh, right.
Marco Timpano: Is that what it's called?
Nidhi Khanna: I don't know.
Marco Timpano: They've got newfangled ones. So there's windsurfing and there's this one where you kind of have like a glider type, like a kite parachute type looking thing.
Nidhi Khanna: Oh, I know what you're talking.
Marco Timpano: And then you're on a board in the world water and the, the air will kind of lift you and the board up.
Nidhi Khanna: yeah.
Marco Timpano: And you can do all these like fun tricks and stuff.
Nidhi Khanna: Yeah, I don't have any desire to do that.
Marco Timpano: No, no.
Nidhi Khanna: We're not adventurous when it comes to air.
Marco Timpano: Is the element that we like, you know? No, air is not an element.
Nidhi Khanna: It's really not.
I like air shows because I'm on the ground and not in the air
Marco Timpano: I'm trying to think of more air
Nidhi Khanna: stuff like, I enjoy, an air show every now and then, you know, I mean, I recently moved into a new place as you know, and there is an air show by the water that happens every summer. And so it was really cool this year to actually see some of them practicing. Sure, it was incredibly noisy. But I like the flyovers. I've been to, I can't remember if it was F1 or Indy or something like that. And they did a flyover as well, which was kind of neat. so I like air shows.
Marco Timpano: Sure. Air shows are fun because I'm on
Nidhi Khanna: the ground and not in the air.
Marco Timpano: Particularly I've been on. I've been in a helicopter. I've ever been in a helicopter.
Nidhi Khanna: Oh, what was that like?
Marco Timpano: It was cool.
Nidhi Khanna: Is it, is it okay? Because we both kind of have a little bit a thing with flying and height. So being in a helicopter is a different from being in a plane in terms of the feelings you get yes. Oh, interesting. Why?
Marco Timpano: Well, because first, it's much smaller than most planes that. Commercial planes that people go on. And, you can see everywhere around you because this was a plane, this was a helicopter that flew over like, a park so that you could see the changing colors of the leaves during fall. And, so you see all perspectives and it's noisy and, just cool.
Niddy: A lot of people listen to our podcast when they fly
I wanted to ask you about kites. Do you enjoy flying kites or what do you remember about flying kites?
Nidhi Khanna: I was never a good kite flyer. I don't even recall really ever flying one or getting it off the ground. Like, I think I may have done it part of a school project. You know how you used to have those arts and crafts projects? One of them was like, let's make a kite.
Marco Timpano: Right.
Nidhi Khanna: I don't think my kite ever went anywhere. how about you? You used to be really good at this.
Marco Timpano: No, no, no, I just remember. You know what? I think on the episode that I. That we did with Nug, I talked about kites and the black. There's like a black bat kite.
Nidhi Khanna: Yeah. Maybe that was it.
Marco Timpano: I don't know. But, certainly, certainly there's an episode where we talk about that. But there. I always wanted to fly a triangle or a diamond shaped kite, like, you know, when kids draw them. And I think I tried to make one once and the thing would not fly. It was like, what is this horrible diamond thing? And then when I was a kid, the kites that you would get in the little kit were kind of triangular, and one was called the black. The black bat. And it was black with two yellow eyes and it looked kind of like a bat. They're fun for the. For me for the first five minutes and then that's it. But what I wanted to say, which was during the helicopter part, was a lot of people listen to our podcast when they fly. Do you know that, Niddy?
Nidhi Khanna: I, we've gotten a couple of. A little bit of feedback about that too.
Marco Timpano: Yeah, it really.
Nidhi Khanna: It really helps them.
Marco Timpano: Yeah. So.
Nidhi Khanna: Which is good. I listen to our podcast when I was flying and, I. I enjoyed it because, as you know, I can actually sleep, weirdly enough. No. To our podcast.
Marco Timpano: Oh. Oh.
Nidhi Khanna: I don't know why I can say, like, in terms of hearing my own voice.
Marco Timpano: Right? You're able to listen.
Nidhi Khanna: Yeah, because I know when you listen to our podcast, you can't.
Marco Timpano: No, because I'm judging what I say, but.
Nidhi Khanna: Right. I have no judgment here.
Marco Timpano: There you go. And you just. And so you listened to it on your flight.
Nidhi Khanna: I did, and it was really good. It was. It. You know what? I don't think I fell asleep, but it definitely relaxed me because I'm a nervous flyer.
I think a kite at the beach with a kid is the best place
I was also thinking when you thought it, when you were talking about flying a kite. I know there was an episode that we did like idioms.
Marco Timpano: Okay. Yeah.
Nidhi Khanna: and one of. One of the. It made me think of the idiom, go fly a kite. Yeah. So. Yeah. I don't know. Do you? What? Between a balloon and a kite, though, aren't they essentially the same, like, nonsensical children's toy.
Marco Timpano: I guess I see what you're saying, but you, know, I remember when I was in Florida, my nephew Danny and us, not just myself, it was my brother in law, my sister in law, my wife, we were all helping him to fly a kite. And I feel like it was a ironman kite. I'm gonna say it was an iron man kite. Yeah, it was really cool, I have to say. So much cooler than the kites I remember. And being on the beach flying a kite with a little kid is pretty awesome.
Nidhi Khanna: Is it?
Marco Timpano: It's awesome. It's awesome because they're enjoying it. You're on the beach, there's oftentimes a nice wind there and, and especially with your whole family. It was a lot of fun. Just picture like, you know, some. Some of the families lying on, blankets. Some of us are running around with a, with a kite. We're trying. Everyone's giving our nephew directions on what to do and pull hard and whatnot. And then you see the kite kind of nosedive and everybody's oohing and ah, in. And it was a lot of fun. So I think a kite at the beach with a kid is the best place to be kite flying.
Nidhi Khanna: Fair enough.
Marco Timpano: Have you ever seen those box kites?
Nidhi Khanna: No.
Marco Timpano: They kind of look boxy on both ends.
Nidhi Khanna: Oh, wait, no. I think you have described this.
Marco Timpano: Yeah, I think it was on the episode.
Nidhi Khanna: We must have done an episode because this is sounding very familiar.
We want to thank you for listening to our series on the elements
Marco Timpano: Well, then on that case, we should probably end the air episode since we're getting. We're kind of weaving our way back to a, past episode. We want to thank you for listening to our series on the elements, which
Nidhi Khanna: kind of just came out of nowhere, but we will be doing an episode on Earth soon enough. So until then, we want, to thank you for listening.
Marco Timpano: If you have any suggestions for, shows that you want us to do, please tweet us at listenandsleep with your show idea and we'll be happy to discuss what we know about any random topic you might have.
Nidhi Khanna: As always, we're produced by drumcast Productions and we're recording from Toronto, Canada tonight. thank you. And until the next time, we hope you listen and sleep. Sa