The Vacuum Episode | 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 cozy conversation about a household staple: the vacuum cleaner.
From the simple satisfaction of cleaning to the quiet details of how vacuums work, this everyday topic becomes the perfect backdrop for a soothing, meandering discussion. Marco and Nidhi explore the small rituals of tidying up, turning an ordinary chore into a calming listening experience designed to ease your mind and reduce stress.
As always, the conversation unfolds at a gentle pace, offering low-stakes, comforting dialogue that helps create the ideal environment for sleep, relaxation, or peaceful background listening while you go about your day.
Whether you’re winding down before bed, tackling chores, or simply looking for a calming sleep podcast to quiet your thoughts, this episode delivers a soft and tranquil escape. And if you fall asleep before it ends, that’s exactly what we hope for.
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The Vacuum Episode
(Original airdate: June 13, 2018)

Marco: Welcome to to the Insomnia Project. Sit back, relax, listen. As we're about to 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 feel free to just drift off. Follow us. Listenandsleep. I'm your host, Marco Timpano.

Nidhi:  And I'm your co host, Nidhi Khanna. And Marco, are we going to have a conversation?

Marco: I hope we have a conversation.

Nidhi:  Hello. We've been waiting all season for that.

Marco: It's true. It's true. You just made a purchase.

Nidhi:  I did, thank you. I did. It was for a vacuum.

Marco: Cool.

Nidhi:  Because my vacuum of five years or so conked out on me and it was a really oddly difficult purchase.

Marco: A vacuum?

Nidhi:  Yeah.

Marco: How so?

Nidhi:  You know, I had a vacuum before that was ah, not an upright vacuum, but sort of had a um, um, I don't know how you would call it really. Like it had a connection that was um, a three wheeler kind of a tricycle of vacuums.

Marco: It kind of looked like an old Robot, like an R2D2 kind of vacuum.

Nidhi:  And it went everywhere and it got to all those spaces that you know, are difficult to get to.

Marco: Sure.

Nidhi:  And then when it was time to buy the new vacuum, you know, I had all these different options and I ended up going with an upright vacuum.

Marco: Oh, like a proper upright. Not, not like a stick, um, vacuum. Do you know what a stick vacuum is versus an upright stick vacuum is like a Dyson.

Nidhi:  Oh, no.

Marco: You know, like, like, like. I mean, a Dyson. That, that. No, because a Dyson also has an upright. Is that it right there? Is that the. Yeah. Okay. So that is a, A proper upright vacuum.

Nidhi:  Okay.

Marco: So where the vacuum is upright and your handle, you can sort of tilt it and then you have to kind of go back and forth with it.

Nidhi:  Exactly.

Marco: Versus a stick vacuum that has like a, A, ah, vessel that collects it and then you attach pieces to it so that it's long and you're just holding the thing like a wand, let's say. Okay.

Nidhi:  Yeah. No, it's an upright vacuum.

Marco: I sound like a vacuum salesman. I don't.

Nidhi:  I know. That was really good. I was like, wow. Tell me more about these vacuum. Where were you when I was trying to buy a vacuum? I, uh, love how much I find out about your RA Pieces of knowledge on everyday items.

Marco: The reason I find this fascinating is I remember when I made the big vacuum purchase and what I went through to purchase vacuums. So I sympathize with your.

Nidhi:  You know, growing up, we had one of those vacuums that attached to the air vent.

Marco: Yeah. They're called central vacs.

Nidhi:  Oh, yeah.

Marco: We had it too. That's why. I know. Yeah. I'm not trying to be condescending here. Clearly a vacuum expert is who you've got on the show today.

Nidhi:  Well, um, yeah, I'm not liking the upright.

Marco: Oh, really?

Nidhi:  I find it too bulky. I find it doesn't maneuver in hard to reach spaces very quickly.

Marco: I'll be honest with you. Your home is not set up for an upright vacuum.

Nidhi:  I know. I wish. I wish you had come to triage this situation.

Marco: I didn't know this because. Okay. And our listeners can correct me if I'm wrong and feel free to tweet us listen and sleep and tell me where I'm wrong here. But an upright vacuum is best served if you have carpets.

Nidhi:  Ah. Uh, okay.

Marco: And as I look around your lovely

Nidhi:  home, there's no, there's no. There's one carpet.

Marco: You have one rug that's actually a rug. And, uh, it's gonna be really clean. It's gonna be super clean. No, actually I'm. There's two. Because My feet are on a.

Nidhi:  It's true.

Marco: Okay. So there's two rugs.

Nidhi:  And I do like the sound that it makes when it's picking up. Whatever it's picking up.

Marco: Sure.

Nidhi:  Because it makes me feel really, um. Like I get really excited. Like all that dirt's gone.

Marco: Okay, fair.

>> Karim: Yeah.

Marco: There's something really lovely about, um. And something very calming about knowing. Well, one, the sound of a vacuum for me has a very calm effect because my mom had the vacuum going 24 all the time from the. It would be. My wake up call would be a vacuum and it would be true.

Nidhi:  It's like if you grew up in the 80s and your house had central vacuums, it was always on.

Marco: Oh, man. Like, and especially with central vac and that sneaky hose that you would have to bring up and down.

Nidhi:  It's so cumbersome. Like, it's actually the worst. Yeah. Snaky hose.

Marco: For our listeners who don't know what a central vac is and they're like, what are these two talking about? And Nidhi, you correct me, the vacuum expert, if I go astray here. What it is is you've got this really large vacuum system in your. We had it in our garage. Was yours in your garage? Some people have it in their laundry room or something.

Nidhi:  My fingers in the laundry.

Marco: So it stays secured to the wall. And then throughout your home where you would have heating and cooling vents was a little tiny, um, vent for the vacuum. So it would. You would connect to that vent in any room in the house that had that plate that you would lift up and connect. And whatever you vacuumed would go through the house into that central vac unit that was in your garage or your basement or your laundry room. Correct.

Nidhi:  That. That sounds great. That's a great. And it also seems to be in homes that were built in suburban areas 100% and similar. And I feel like it's gone the way of like the Garberator. You never see garbage in people's homes anymore.

Marco: And for our American listeners and people who don't know what a garburator is, because my wife is American and she said we don't call that it that in the US It's a garbage disposal, uh, system that is connected to your sink.

Nidhi:  Well, then we're going to. Who are you?

Marco: I'm the definition king. But the beautiful thing about a central vac is that it had great suction power. Now, the three wheeler or the R2D2 vacuum.

Nidhi:  Yes, I like that. Let's call it that.

Marco: I don't know what that one's called. I'm going to call it a three wheeler. Um, that is always funny because it kind of follows you around and it's always about to topple. And people might know it best. If you think of a shop vac that's kind of in the vein of

Nidhi:  a shop vac and it's great for smaller kind of spaces.

Marco: Uh, I have a shop vac.

Nidhi:  Oh, do you?

Marco: If you ever need a shop vac. Because if you have a flood or if you have like water, a shop vac can pick that up, whereas a vacuum can't. So I have a shop vac and I can bring it over in a jiffy.

Nidhi:  I know who to call if there's a flood here. Not the plumber.

Marco: Not the plumber. The thing you have to be careful about with a shop vac. So a shop vac is the vacuum that's used by, um, professionals like mechanics or people who are, um, industrial. Industrial, um, dirt or stuff that you have to pick up with a vacuum or what one might have in their shop. Um, whether it be a. I don't know, a saw. Yeah, saw. Ah, shop or. I don't know. Anyways, it's called a shop vac. I can't define.

Nidhi:  Narrative is breaking down very quickly here.

Marco: Sorry. Um, it picks up that kind of stuff. You've got to be careful though. If you pick up fine, fine particles like cement, that's, that hasn't been um, like grit or cement because it'll wreck the vacuum. You need a special filter on that shop vac. And I found that out the hard way.

Nidhi:  Oh no.

Marco: Plaster and stuff that's very, very fine.

Nidhi:  What do you think about these vacuums that are uh, like the round robotic ones where you just turn it on and it does. And it sort of goes around mysteriously

Marco: vacuuming the Roomba type vacuum. Those robotic and they're kind of neat because my sister has one and my mom has one.

Nidhi:  Okay.

Marco: But once again, they're not suited for every home. So for example, you have a little bit of a lip there.

Nidhi:  Mhm.

Marco: Well, if that little disc type vacuum flipped off that lip, it wouldn't come back. Right.

Nidhi:  It would kind of be like on its side.

Marco: Well, even if it just hops over, it's gonna stay in that area. It can't climb back up.

Nidhi:  I see.

Marco: Once again, it serves a purpose for the place that it's in. And what's lovely about that type of vacuum is that when you're at home at night in bed, it can do the work. Because it takes quite a bit of time to do your. Now funny story, Okay. I was looking at a Facebook post where someone had a puppy. Right. And so, you know, puppies have accidents.

Nidhi:  Yeah.

Marco: And it had an accident and the vacuum ran over the accident and carried that accident through. So the person walked downstairs and there was.

Nidhi:  It's like we were talking about dogs and Xena, she came over.

Marco: Yeah, she did. You know, she knew. You know how you're supposed to pick up after your dog?

Nidhi:  Yes.

Marco: Well, this vacuum decided to carry it all throughout the house. It was just tracks and tracks.

Nidhi:  Oh my gosh.

Marco: So that's what happened. So I offer that as a caution. Thank you to anyone who has a puppy and a Roomba or one of those disc vacuums I love. So I had an upright. What I hated about the upright was if you have stairs and you have to lug that up the stairs, it's really the worst. And that's one of the benefits of having a central vac is that you're not lugging. All you're lugging is the. The hose.

Nidhi:  It's true. The word vacuum, the spelling.

Marco: Oh, yeah. Double U. Double. Two U's, I should say. Not W. Two U's in the word.

Nidhi:  Yes. Do you know any other words that actually have two U's?

Marco: No, it's.

Nidhi:  So I wonder why vacuum?

Marco: That's a good question. Um, I love. So ideally for your place, you would be suited really well with one of those wand type vacuums, which clearly you don't have yet. Mm. So unfortunately, that's not what you have, Niddy. But that would be perfect for the type of home you have to.

Nidhi:  Have you ever not had a vacuum?

Marco: No, I've always had a vacuum. Because my mom. Like I said, I grew up with the sound of a vacuum. Um, I prefer to vacuum than sweeping. And the sound of a vacuum makes it. Its dull roar, I find relaxing. How about you? Have you ever not had a vacuum?

Nidhi:  I'm sure I've. Yeah, I'm sure I've been in an apartment where I don't necessarily have a vacuum and more of like a Swiffer or something like that. Uh, but I increasingly realize the dire need for vacuums. Especially when you have a dog that sheds.

Marco: Sure. What made you pick this particular vacuum over the rest?

Nidhi:  It was a good price.

Marco: Okay.

Nidhi:  It seemed to be. It was a good brand. It seemed to do the job. I wish, I wish on, um, the packaging when they were trying to sell it because they had the particular brand that I have had different versions. Like, they had the tricycle, had the upright. They had. So I wish on the packaging they had said something like, good for.

Marco: Ideal for homes that have stairs. Ideal for homes that have small apartments with.

Nidhi:  Yeah, exactly.

Marco: Yeah.

Nidhi:  So that's my vacuum adventure.

>> Karim: What about.

Marco: Did you or your family ever have a vacuum packer or vacuum sealer since we're on the vacuum train?

Nidhi:  No. But I feel like I would probably go a little crazy with that because I want to vacuum seal everything.

Marco: And that's just what happens when you first get it. My mom vacuum sealed everything. She was vacuum sealing things like crazy. And then, you know, after a while, you get sort of. It's no longer fun. It's no longer the. The new great thing in the house. But she vacuum seals. She'll buy lots of cheese and she'll cut them in quarters and then she'll vacuum seal it.

Nidhi:  So she's got the cheese.

Marco: Yeah. Or other items, too. She'll make things and she'll vacuum seal them. M. Like beans. Like, if she gets beans, she'll get a bushel of beans and, uh, shell them and then put them in the vacuum sealer, seal it so that you have the beans for winter soups. But it has a real spring or summery sort of taste to them because you vacuum sealed them and froze them.

Nidhi:  Wow.

Marco: Yeah.

Nidhi:  Look at that.

Marco: Things like that vacuum.

Nidhi:  What about, like, being in a vacuum vacuum? Like in a vacuum of like when someone says you're in a vacuum. Oh, what do you think about.

Marco: I don't know. I guess I would think that I'm sort of solitaire and I'm like, hyper focused on something that I'm not thinking outside of that particular. I guess sometimes when I edit our episodes, I'm in a bit of a vacuum because I'll put the headphones on, it'll be me watching audio waves go by as I edit the mistakes that I. Or rarely you make. Or like, sometimes, you know, we'll have a train or some sort of weird sound in the background.

Nidhi:  Um, I always think about space.

Marco: Oh, yeah, sure.

Nidhi:  Because I always wonder if. Okay, this is gonna sound really stupid because I don't know much about the science of space.

Marco: Listen, that's what I'm here for. I'm your vacuum expert.

Nidhi:  Thank you. Please. But like, the sounds of space. Space.

Marco: Oh, sure.

Nidhi:  Or does it sound like you're in a vacuum? You know, like of nothingness? Or would that be like a black hole?

Marco: You know, how does the Foley artist or the person who makes the sound for the movies Create the sound of a vacuum? Yeah, it's almost like one of those things, like if a tree falls in the forest and no one's there to hear it doesn't make a sound.

Nidhi:  Yeah.

Marco: How does a Foley expert make the sound of a vacuum? A space or a vacuum of space or a vacuum of.

Nidhi:  Or a vacuum.

Marco: That might be a little bit easier, but. Yeah, that's a great. If you're a Foley artist or know some Foley artists, please have them contact us.

Nidhi:  Yeah, I'd like to know the process on this in. In much detail.

Marco: The other neat thing about vacuum is you mentioned the two U's that are in the word, but even just the vac to use M, like, it's an odd combination of sounds for the sort of English. English language.

Nidhi:  Yeah. So just going back to the Foley artist, do you want to maybe explain to our listeners what a Foley artist does or is.

Marco: Of course, Sorry about that. So a Foley artist is the person who makes the sounds in film and television that are happening within the scene. So oftentimes, when an actor is on set, they're not actually making the sounds that you hear. So if they open a door that's supposed. That's meant to be a little bit creaky, that door might not actually be creaky. So you have a Foley artist, he or she will make or recreate that sound, and then they will put it into. Into the, um, scene.

Nidhi:  Sound effect.

Marco: Yeah, the sound effect.

Nidhi:  Like a sound effect they do.

Marco: And I was in a play recently, actually, and it was a live radio play, so it was an actual play that was taking place in the 1940s in a radio station. And so we had a Foley artist on stage making all the sounds. Uh, and so there's, like, one sound that people may be aware of where it's thunder, and they have a big metal sheet, and they sort of just wrap it or, like, they shake it and it makes the thundering sound.

Nidhi:  Uh, do you have a favorite, like, sound effect, or. When you were doing that play, was there one sound that you really were excited about making?

Marco: That's a great question. So the sound of wind, uh, was always neat when they would. Because the door. Because it was a winter. We were doing the radio play of It's a Wonderful Life with Jimmy Stewart. And so there's a lot of them walking in and out of homes or banks and whatnot. When they'd open the door, it's a cold, wintry, windy night. And so there was always the wind that would happen, and it'd have to, uh, happen as soon as the door opened and have to stop when the door was closed. So there was someone opening a little door on stage, and there was someone with a little piece of a flute. And they'd cover the bottom of it. So it was just the reed kind of thing. And they would have that in their. In their mouth. And they'd be close to a microphone, and they just make the sound as another person's opening the door. And they'd have to cut it as soon as the person closed the door.

Nidhi:  Oh, cool. Did you have to make any sounds?

Marco: I ran up and downstairs, and then I had to, uh. So they had a little, tiny little couple, like three stairs. And I would run up and down it, and then I would have to, um, shuffle. I'd have to shuffle and. Really. No, shuffle. Shuffle my feet angrily as someone else was. I was in the kitchen. The scene was I was in the kitchen. I wasn't in the kitchen. Another actor was in the kitchen. But I was doing the sound effect of them shuffling. And someone else was dealing with cutlery. So I was shuffling, getting. Getting cutlery, but I was shuffling and they were getting cutlery. Making the sound of cutlery.

Nidhi:  Oh, cool. So how would you shuffle angrily versus shuffle? Like, not angrily.

Marco: It was. I was. I would just do shuffle short and very sort of distinct and kind of thumpy. Um, kind of shuffles with my feet. I don't like. I was angry. I put myself in an angry mindset and just tried to recreate that.

Nidhi:  People who shuffle their feet really annoy me.

Marco: Oh, no.

Nidhi:  I know.

Marco: I think I shuffle my feet when

Nidhi:  it's like everyone does it once in a while, but when it's a constant shuffle scrape on the sidewalk thing, it really bothers me.

Marco: Okay.

Nidhi:  The sound of it.

Marco: Fair, Fair enough.

Nidhi:  Because I find it very jarring. Um, yeah, don't shuffle.

Marco: What about shuffleboard? Have you ever played shuffle? No.

Nidhi:  Tell me about shuffle.

Marco: I've never played. Oh, I played it once. I don't get the rules of it so much, but.

Nidhi:  Really?

>> Karim: Yeah.

Nidhi:  I feel like it's something that I would play later on in my life.

Marco: You play it typically you play it on a ship, and that's where I played it, on a ship. And it's kind of like you're trying to get your disc or whatever to another triangle. And I don't know. Nitty. To be honest with you. I don't remember it. But you always see it being played on cruise ships. Shuffleboard. Let's play shuffleboard, huh? Yeah.

Nidhi:  Was there cruise Ship, like, um, game that you did used to play when

Marco: I worked on cruise ships.

Nidhi:  Um, like the go to.

Marco: No, there wasn't any sort of typical. Typical. That's Cena barking in the background, in case you're wondering. Um, there wasn't a typical, um, game that we played. I'm trying to think we would go to. Have you ever played the Relax game?

Nidhi:  Oh, I want to hear about it, because I feel like I want to play it.

Marco: So the Relax game is a game that me and a couple of friends sort of invented.

Nidhi:  So how can I play that game?

Marco: Basically, if you're at a picnic or if you're somewhere where there's, you know, a lot of people that you know, the object of the game is to stay. To stay seated and have everyone else do things for you. And the more you do, there's more points involved, and usually you play with a couple of people. So let's say you and I were at a picnic, okay. And we found a comfortable place to sit. And, you know, you don't want to give up that spot, because then you're gonna lose it and you might not have come back. Right?

Nidhi:  Yeah.

Marco: But you want your beverage, let's say.

Nidhi:  Sure.

Marco: And you see Amanda walking by, you might say, amanda, could you please grab me a glass of white wine? And she would most likely do it. Right. But you can only ask people so much to do things for you if you don't have an injury, or can you. Or can you. And that's the point of the. Of the relaxing.

Nidhi:  So has anyone gotten really upset with you?

Marco: No, because we were very stealthy about it, and you sort of. You sort of challenge the person with points. How many points is it to get somebody to. To get used some chips? Right. It's not as many points as getting someone to get you a hamburger and dress it for you the way you like. That's gonna involve more points. Right.

Nidhi:  So, uh, what was, like, your highest points or, like, something that you were able to get? Like, it was.

Marco: Yeah, it was something really, really great. I think someone went. It wasn't for me. It was for this. This woman named Angela. She got someone to go to her car and get something of her glove box.

Nidhi:  Oh, that's pretty good.

Marco: Yeah. So that she kind of went with that. It's like, wow, that's pretty good. I guess.

Nidhi:  At what point would. Like, I'm trying to think, at what point would I just say no at a party?

Marco: But, you know, you're asking many different people. You're not always asking the Same person, so they don't necessarily know. So you're me and you are sitting back as comfortable as can be.

Nidhi:  This is a really great game.

>> Karim: Yeah.

Marco: Uh, and you're just relaxing. The whole thing is the, the less amount of work you have to do, the more relaxed you are. So it's called the relax game. And you're just playing it with someone else and you're like, you're not going to give up your spot. You know, getting someone to massage your feet or your. Your neck would be a lot of points. Right. It's like whatever you can do to make yourself more relaxed is going to earn you more points. That's the relaxed game.

Nidhi:  Wow, that's a great game.

Marco: And you can play it at picnics, on the beach, anywhere. There's many m. People to do your work for you. So I guess that would probably. Probably be one of the things that, That I did well in the ship.

Nidhi:  That's. That's a good game. It's a good game. How to get other people do things you. You don't want to do.

Marco: What about you? What summer games do you like to play?

Nidhi:  That's a good question.

Marco: Have you ever played darts or horseshoes?

Nidhi:  No. I'm horrible at anything that needs to be thrown.

Marco: Really. What about baseball?

Nidhi:  Oh, Marco, on the level of sports,

Marco: because I would think. Think you'd be a great baseball player.

Nidhi:  I'm really bad at baseball. I'm really good at, like, soccer, stuff like that, but not baseball. Uh, I think is. And golf.

Marco: Golf.

Nidhi:  I am one of those people who will take that, like, club and actually club it because I, um, I don't have, like, good coordination. I always miss the mark.

Marco: But you're a good runner. That's your sport. More of your sport.

Nidhi:  Yeah, I guess so. I mean, fast. Not really.

Marco: Okay.

Nidhi:  Steady. Sure.

Marco: Okay.

Nidhi:  Um, but I'm. Yeah, exactly. Uh, not really into the hand eye coordination thing now.

Marco: I would play bocce. Are you familiar with the game bocce?

Nidhi:  Oh, yeah.

Marco: It's an Italian game that, um, other European cultures will play a version of it, I guess, or other cultures will play a version of it. But basically you've got these big, heavy, um, large ball. So like the size of a small cannonball, if you will. Not that a cannonball is a unit of measurement, but in this case it is. And you have one smaller the size of a golf ball.

Nidhi:  Okay.

Marco: The golf ball sized ball. And I'm sure it has a name to it is thrown. And then there's a team that has. Let's Say green. Green. Large heavy balls. And the other team has red ones. And if it is usually teams of two, so it's like two green and two red. The green team will go, they'll throw, and they'll try to get as close as you can to the original little golf ball as you can. Person closest gets the points. So whoever's, um, you know, cannon sized balls are closest to the small ball, you get more points.

Nidhi:  It's somewhat like curling, maybe in a way.

Marco: Not on ice and not using a curling rock. Using. Using actual heavy. Heavy. Sometimes they're metal, actually.

>> Karim: Or they're like.

Marco: It almost feels like they're made of cement.

Nidhi:  Oh, wow.

Marco: Yeah. And they have a particular look on a particular design. I have them at my cottage. I'll make you play this year.

Nidhi:  Okay.

Marco: We'll play. And you can play it on multi surfaces. Usually it's on gravel or sand, but we often play in the backyard on grass.

Nidhi:  So, uh, would you consider that a sport or a game?

Marco: M. Oh, I'm. I'm in trouble. No matter what I say. I would say it's more of a game.

Nidhi:  I would do.

Marco: Yeah.

Nidhi:  I would do.

Marco: It takes skill.

Nidhi:  Yeah.

Marco: It takes a good eye, good hand coordination.

Nidhi:  Sure.

Marco: All those things. So I could see how someone may. May view it as a sport. The way I play it is definitely a game. So there you go. I'm not a really sporty person.

Nidhi:  No.

Marco: Although I. I love volleyball. I love playing.

Nidhi:  I'm.

Marco: M not good at it. I love it, but because on a hand model, I can't really play it because you can have a lot of hand and finger injuries playing volleyball.

Nidhi:  It's true. Uh, I know the life and times of a hand model.

Marco: That's the new podcast.

Nidhi:  The new podcast.

Marco: What is your favorite sport to play?

Nidhi:  That's a good question. I would say in a team, probably soccer.

Marco: Okay.

Nidhi:  By myself, I enjoy, like running. Really.

Marco: Okay.

Nidhi:  Or, um, yoga or. That's all very solitary. I don't think they're necessarily sports. Well, I guess running's a sport.

Marco: This season we're gonna have a lot of sports on our. On our.

Nidhi:  We're gonna become a sports podcast. I'm telling you because of how. How much knowledge, in depth knowledge each of us has about sports. Yeah, it's almost up there with the vacuum knowledge.

Marco: I can't believe we had like half our show was talking about vacuums.

Nidhi:  No, it's pretty good.

Marco: I'm impressed with myself how much I know about vacuums.

Nidhi:  M. Who knew?

Marco: Now, do you like the vacuum that the Cord. If you pull it, it gets sucked.

Nidhi:  Oh, it has to get sucked.

Marco: Okay.

Nidhi:  It has to. It has to. One of the things I don't like about this upright is that I have to do the whole. Yeah, no, I don't like that. I don't like that.

Marco: It sounds like you got those.

Nidhi:  Really? It was terrible. I. Terrible choice on many levels.

Marco: Can you not take it back? How long ago did you get it?

Nidhi:  It was a while ago.

Marco: How long?

Nidhi:  Part of it is I'm lazy.

Marco: Um, okay, it doesn't matter how long it is. We don't have to tell our listeners. But is it a reputable store that should take it back. Cuz I'll come back with you and be like, the salesperson didn't inform my friend here that this was the wrong vacuum for her.

Nidhi:  Oh, really? Yeah.

Marco: Uh, it would totally. Then we should go back. Do you have the bill? Was it this year? You must have the bill.

Nidhi:  I have to check.
Marco: Always keep your receipts.
Nidhi:  I know, I know. You tell me this all the time. And with that I will tell you. Please do. Uh, check us out on Patreon.
Marco: Thank you.

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Nidhi:  Yes. And if you just want to follow us on good old social media, you can do that too at Listen and Sleep. As always, we are recording from Toronto, Canada and we're produced by Drumcast Productions.