Garlic, Movies, and Demi Moore | A Gentle Bedtime Conversation

In Garlic, Movies, and Demi Moore, Marco and Amanda return with a softly spoken, gently nostalgic conversation designed to keep you company as your day winds down. Marco reflects on two films he remembers fondly — one featuring Demi Moore and another that lingers in his memory for different reasons — while the duo reaches out to friend of the podcast Daniel Krolik for a few clarifications and cinematic insights. The tone stays light and curious, more about the feeling of movie memories than deep analysis.
The conversation drifts from film into the fragrant world of a recent Garlic Festival, complete with sensory recollections and a promise of a garlic-themed poem in a future episode. Marco also shares a thoughtful listener message, adding a warm, personal touch, and they briefly rave about a memorable meal at Borrel in Toronto.
As always, this calming podcast unfolds at an unhurried pace, offering a relaxing conversation meant to help you fall asleep, ease anxiety, or quiet racing thoughts. It’s perfect for background listening at bedtime or during a middle-of-the-night wake-up — just gentle nostalgia, easy banter, and steady companionship to guide you toward rest.

​Garlic, Movies, and Demi Moore.
(Original airdate: October 2, 2024)
Welcome to the Insomnia Project. Sit back, relax and listen as we have a 20, 26 minute conversation.

Amanda:Oh, no. 20 cynics.

Marco: there are probably 20 cynics listening right now. Amanda, to the Insomnia Project. We just want you to chill on this episode.

Amanda:Imagine being a cynic listening to this podcast.

Marco: You're like, yeah, ah, I'm here for this, but I'm gonna judge it.

Amanda:Yeah. Like, yeah, I thought you were cutting me off.

Marco: No, no.

Amanda:Being like, I don't think this is gonna make me sleep. And then like sitting with your arms crossed. I'm sure there are people that do that.

Marco: Oh, certainly.

Amanda:I think that happens a lot when people overhype movies or TV shows. I have such a hard time in Oscar season when some movies get really overhyped and then, you know, it's like that thing of like.

Marco: Nah.

Amanda:Ah. It really wasn't that good.

Marco: Yeah.

Amanda:Whereas if you just see something out of the blue and you have no expectations. Maybe you haven't even seen the trailer. it's one of the reasons I love the Toronto Fringe Festival, or any fringe festival. You know, just going into random plays or musicals or whatever it ends up being. And just seeing something without any expectation. It's such a great way to experience something.

Marco: Do you remember the double feature?

Amanda:Like in movies?

Marco: Yeah. Like there was a time. I only remember it for a short glimmer of time.

Amanda:Wasn't it in the 50s?

Marco: No, I wasn't around in the 50s, but. And that's why maybe it disappeared. Maybe I was really young. I was in my teens. Okay. And we went to go see a movie, and then at the start of the movie, they said they would say they'd make this announcement. This is a double feature. We're going to play a film before the film that you've paid for, which means you're going to be here for two films. If you cannot be here for two films, please, exit. We'll give you a refund or we'll get you another movie or something like that.

Amanda:This. Oh, so you had to watch the

Marco: second movie, or I think they played it first before. So you would go. You'd pay to see a movie. Yeah. So this happened only twice.

Amanda:I can understand. I have a theory about it.

Marco: Both times the movie was a surprise, excellent film. So once it was, Do you remember the movie Beaches with Bette Midler and.

Amanda:I mean, do I remember the movie Beaches?

Marco: And, Was it Demi Moore or something else?

Amanda:Not. It was, Oh, if you hadn't asked me, I would remember.

Marco: They were singers and they were in a band or something.

Amanda:No. What?

Marco: No, she was a Broadway star.

Amanda:Yeah. I. Are you actually, you know, I know this movie inside and out.

Marco: I saw it as a teen by accident, like at a double feature.

Amanda:What was that woman's name? I just remember she got lip injections for the movie. for some reason.

Marco: Isn't she the one who plays on Downton Abbey, the wife of Mr. No?

Amanda:Oh my gosh, this is gonna drive me crazy.

Marco: Well, you'll think about it. But anyway, so we saw that and it was like, wow, what a great film. And then we saw the film that we paid for. I want to say it was Planes, Trains and Automobiles, which also was a great film.

Amanda:But Beaches actually didn't do that well in theaters, truthfully.

Marco: Oh, really? Okay, Well, I didn't. Knew nothing about it when they played it. And it was like, oh, what a cool film. Right. We weren't expecting it. This kind of, like, film about pals through the ages or something like that.

Amanda:Women. Yeah. About women's friendship, which I guess is pals, but yeah, we don't usually use pals for women. We usually use it for men.

Marco: Sure.

Amanda:her name. I'm trying to come.

Marco: I guess you could call it, like, Barbara Hershey.

Amanda:Right, right.


Bee should have been made into a Broadway musical, you say

Marco: That's what I said, didn't I?

Amanda:I believe you said Demi Moore.

Marco: Okay, well, So it was a buddy picture, Right? So it was really great.

Amanda:Yeah. It was a story of friendship. Again, with women. We don't usually call them a buddy

Marco: picture, but that's what that genre of film is called.

Amanda:I think a buddy picture is. Usually has a comedic ending. Which Beaches, Spoiler alert. Came out in 1989. Does not have a comedic ending.

Marco: It doesn't? A little bit.

Amanda:Are you joking?

Marco: Oh, that's right. Okay. Yes. right.

Amanda:For real. Are you joking? No, no, no. Okay.

Marco: There are comedic moments in it, though.

Amanda:Oh, yeah. Well, because Bette Miller's amazing. Yeah. And she plays this aspiring actress singer. I mean, she's amazing in it. She's so good. I mean, I know the movie inside. And how they have not made that into a Broadway musical is beyond me. Of all the things that have become Broadway musicals that, like Back to the Future or, you know, Waitress the movie. Never saw that as a Broadway musical.

Marco: Huey Lewis in the news album.

Amanda:I mean, that's a jute. What we call a jute box or jute. It's really juke box, isn't it? But I always say jute with, like,

Marco: t. No, jute is a fabric made of, like.

Amanda:I know I'm pronouncing it wrong. Anyway, that's what the Huey Lewis and the news one was. And there's several others. Others, like. I mean, that's what Mamma Mia Is. Mamma Mia is a jukebox. You go with the story. But, But Bee just should be made into a musical.

Marco: I agree. I couldn't agree with you more.

Amanda:Producers of Broadway.

Marco: So the other and only other.

Amanda:You could do the musical within the musical because she's in. There's actually two musicals featured in that movie. I think it's one of the reasons it's so big with people like me who love musicals and watching them. do you remember the two musicals?

Marco: Yeah. One is, like, a body M Musical.

Amanda:Yes. It's called. It's like the one I was in, which was called Spank.

Marco: That's the one you were in, but

Amanda:I think hers is called Honk or something.

Marco: Okay. And then the other one was some avant m garde thing.

Amanda:Yeah, that's right. The song was called oh, Misery. And it was like about industrialization and stuff.

Marco: Right.

Amanda:Which is funny to watch Bette Midler in anything that's like that because it's. She's so great and her voice is so distinctive and so on. but I don't know, like, I don't think she would be the person you would go to to cast for that. But anyway.


Marco Timpano: It's been two weeks since we aired an episode

Marco: Okay, well, while Amanda's looking something up, I'm going to talk about the other movie that I saw.

Amanda:I'm looking at the other musical that's in the movie Beaches.

Marco: We should. We, you know, we never introduced ourselves. I'm Marco Timpano.

Amanda:I'm Amanda Parker.

Marco: And thank you for joining us. Thank you for being patient because it's been two weeks since we aired an episode. I was sick last week and prior to that we had to. We had a bit of a family emergency we were dealing with. So, we're back on the air. And thank you for being patient. And remind me, Amanda M. I have a message that I have to read after I talk about my next film that I saw at a double feature.

Amanda:Oh, my goodness. Well, anyways, I would say, Oh, hang on. How long is Beach? Is the musical I'm seeing.

Marco: Oh, okay.

Amanda:So someone has made it into a musical.

Marco: Well, how long is it? That's what I need to know now.

Amanda:It's a two and a half hour show with a 20 minute intermission. So this has happened. Okay. It came out in May of this year. Yeah.

Marco: Okay, well.

Amanda:But May. So where did it go? Because Beaches M Theater Calgary is doing Beaches the musical.

Marco: Maybe it just didn't live up to what you hoped it lived up to.

Amanda:I really do need to know what the name of that musical is. It's like one. It's like. Because I remember when I was touring with Spank, I'm like, oh my God, I've become Bette Midler and Beaches.

Marco: Right.

Amanda:well, that's gonna bother me.


One movie I saw on the double feature was the movie Ghost

Marco: All right, well, while it bothers you, can I talk about the other movie I saw on the double feature?

Amanda:Yes.

Marco: So the second movie that I saw this was a few years later and once again, this movie hadn't come out. I hadn't seen a trailer for it was totally unaware was the movie Ghost with Patrick Swayze, whoopi Goldberg and of course now Demi Moore.

Marco: And that we were like, wow, what a great film. And once, again, a film that did not receive great critical, acclaim from critics but found its not. No, I didn't realize that. Yeah, yeah, it got Panda, I believe.

Amanda:Oh, interesting.

Marco: But I enjoyed that. And I was like, this movie is great. And you know, when you see something without that sort of baggage, attached to it of everyone loving it.

Marco: You can sort of form your own opinion. And though both those movies I have a very good impression of because I saw them before the film that we were actually going to see. And I wish I could remember the films that we actually saw because the. This preview. Was it called a double feature? Was it called a preview? Preview? It had a really interesting. This name. When you'd go to the theater and they'd say, all right, you're here at our theater and it's going to be a preview screening double feature. I can't remember. But, it was so long ago, if you will.


The name of Otto Titzeling was taken from a 1971 satire

Amanda:I have gone down a deep rabbit hole as you were talking about. I don't know if, Well, the name of the song. It's a name. Is Otto Titzeling and that's the name of the song from the musical. And now I've learned a whole bunch that that was actually taken from a 1971 satire called Bust, the uplifting tale of Otto Titzeling by New Zealand humorist Wallace Rayburn. and it was a book and that's so interesting. Oh, and it was a hoax because this guy never existed.

Marco: Who? Auto Titzeling never existed? No, I thought he invented the brassiere.

Amanda:Well, and that's why it's a hoax. It was even made it into Trovio Pursuit. Who invented the brassiere? Auto Titling.

Marco: Trovial Pursuit.

Amanda:Yeah.

Marco: Trivial Pursuit.

Amanda:Yeah, yeah, that's the off brand version.

Marco: A trivial person, a knockoff.

Amanda:and so they used all of that from the book Philip de Brassiere, which is in the book too for this fictitious musical that lives within Beaches. However, the fictitious musical, I still cannot find the name. I really think it's like one word. It's like honk or spank, but it's not spank or it's something like that. Like it's one word. Now I do have friends I could message.

Marco: Okay. It is early in the morning, but maybe not too early.

Amanda:You know what? Here's how you know when you have good friends. I'm gonna go ahead and text. It is early in the Morning. I'm gonna go ahead and text my friend Daniel and see how quickly I get her.

Marco: Daniel's a friend of the podcast.

Amanda:He's a good friend of the podcast. And a friend of mine.

Marco: And a good friend of mine. And while Amanda does that, I'm going to read a Instagram message that we received from one of our listeners. Okay, Amanda, So thank you for everyone who does send us messages, especially messages of support and. And, you know, corrections and whatnot. We really do appreciate it. We don't always get to them as quickly as we can, but we do appreciate them. Amanda is texting. I'll just wait till she's done texting before I read this.

Amanda:Well, here's what I'm texting. This is the live feed, folks. Okay. I need the name of the Otto Titley musical in Beaches. I know it is early, but you are the only one I can trust with.

Marco: Okay, there we go. We'll see if Daniel gets back to us before the end of this podcast. Okay, so, Amanda, do you want to read this message or shall I?

Amanda:I think you can. You have it in your hand.


Janelle W. recalls a cheap perfume called exclamation Mark

Marco: All right, so Janelle W. Says the following. I love the Insomnia Project podcast. Exclamation mark, Amanda. You know it's true when there's an exclamation mark that follows it.

Marco: Were you talking about a perfume called exclamation Mark?

Amanda:Exclamation? Yep.

Marco: Okay. Did you own that perfume?

Amanda:Everyone owned that perfume. And we have gotten so much response from that show. and I was with a group of friends who were talking about their daughters, and how their daughters what? Their daughter's version of what we had as exclamation in the 80s.

Marco: So it was exclamation like a cheaper perfume, or was it an eau de toilette?

Amanda:No, it was very cheap and very cheerful.

Marco: Okay.

Amanda:You know, it might have been $15. I don't know. Like, it was cheap perfume. They got to bring it back, and we loved it. I remember loving the smell of exclamation.

Marco: Was the bottle an exclamation mark?

Amanda:Yes. Y. We've covered this.

Marco: Yeah, we did. On the podcast.

Amanda:Yeah.

Marco: Oh, I don't remember.

Amanda:Oh, you don't remember?

Marco: I mean, there's so many podcast episodes.

Amanda:That's how I've told you about exclamation. And then I sang it in English and French. Exclamation.

Marco: Oh, okay. Yeah, No, I remember you talking recently, just the other day with our friend Dale, who's also a good friend of mine.

Amanda:Yes, about exclamation. Okay. Yeah. But we did a whole podcast episode on it. Anyway. It lives in our memories.

Marco: clearly not mine.

Amanda:Yeah, Right. but her daughter is really into a particular Ariana Grande perfume. And then we went shopping with her niece last night, who, educated me on Sol de Janeiro, which is perfume spray that you put in your hair.

Marco: Hair perfume, I believe Hair perfume.

Amanda:I didn't know that was a thing.

Marco: The woman who worked there said it was a body mist and hair perfume. And I said, there's a thing called a hair perfume.

Amanda:It's really funny. And then our adorable niece, she was like, what are you looking for? And our niece very eruditely said, I'm really looking for more of a fall scent right now. She wanted things that had notes of fall in it, and she got it.

Marco: I respect that because I have so for my cologne, Amanda, I have a spring cologne. I have a fall cologne and have the cologne that you like.

Amanda:Do you really?

Marco: Yeah.

Amanda:Okay. Thank you. The name of the musical is Sizzle 76.

Marco: Okay, what's the.

Amanda:I was thinking it was Sizzle.

Marco: What's the other musical where she's, like, all robotic or whatever called.

Amanda:I don't know if that one had a name.

Marco: Well, you have. You have someone on the hotline there that you can take.

Amanda:I can't believe he got back to me. Okay. And the dystopian off. okay. And did the. This has got to be putting people to sleep.


Daniel Krolik is the co host of the podcast Bad Gay Movies

Marco: Well, it's always fun to listen to people formulate a text while Amanda's doing that. I'll just say, Daniel Krolik is such an awesome person. I don't know anyone who knows more about musicals than Daniel Krolek. And, Daniel actually once got us to read a musical, and I was told I wouldn't have to sing. And then I got there, and there was a whole bunch of, like, these wonderful, musical theater people. And we're all reading. I believe it was Assassins, which was a musical I'd never heard of before.

Amanda:It's a bunch of Assassins singing to each other. And I had to sing I Killed Abraham. I killed Abraham Lincoln.

Marco: And I had to, sing a couple of, notes or something. It would come to me, and I was like, oh, no, here we go.

Amanda:Yeah. So what happened was just to explain our friend. This is the Daniel Krolik podcast. Now.

Marco: I would listen to the Daniel. In fact, I will say this. If you haven't listened to Daniel on our podcast, you can find him as a co host of a fantastic podcast called Bad Gay Movies, Bitchy Gay Men, and that's hosted by Bill, antonui, who's also a huge friend of the, of this podcast. And he's actually the reason I got into podcasting. And Daniel Krolek. And there's one other.

Amanda:Bill is the reason you got into podcasting.

Marco: Yeah, because remember when I wanted to get into podcasting and I didn't know anyone, and you're like, Daniel's friend Bill, who's a friend of mine, you kept saying, is a podcaster. I can reach out to him.

Amanda:I did not remember this at all.

Marco: Yeah. And you're like, do you want me to reach out to Bill? I go, I don't know if Bill will remember me. And you're like, I think he will. And plus, Bill's such a nice guy. And you said, I love Bill, and so I do love Bill. And you're like, I don't know anyone else who would be more, happy to help you or who would.

Amanda:He really is a great guy.

Marco: He is a great guy.

Amanda:Yeah.

Marco: As is Daniel. And, you know. And, you know, whenever I need advice on other things, I'll turn to Daniel. And he always gives very sage advice

Amanda:anyways, like, like, beaches, references, like.

Marco: Like anything like that. but also, I just love. I love going to dinner with Daniel. We need to make it, because Daniel's a lot of fun at dinner, even. And I'm not. I don't even mean fun fun. He's just a great person to go to dinner with. He knows how to order food. We always have a, you know, a lovely time. And I really enjoy hanging, out with him. So there you go.


Janelle: Amanda asked whether Canada has bagged milk

All right. While we're waiting for Daniel's, I don't

Amanda:know if the text has gone through.

Marco: Okay.

Amanda:Oh, there it is.

Marco: Okay.

Amanda:Okay.

Marco: I only read one line.

Amanda:Okay.

Marco: From Janelle's, message. Okay, so here we go. Because it's a little bit long. I love the Insomnia Project podcast. Exclamation mark. Not the perfume, but the actual punctuation. I find myself strangely compelled to clarify for both you and Amanda. I'm sorry. I find myself strangely compelled to clarify for you both that Amanda didn't assert that only Canada has bagged milk.

Amanda:Oh, here we are with the bagged milk.

Marco: She inquired whether. Well, this is actually supporting you, she said. You didn't assert it. You inquired whether Canada was the only country with bagged milk. It was Marco with bag. it was Marco. That affirmed incorrectly, apparently, that Canada was the only country with bagged milk. It went like this at about 8 minutes and 10 minutes into the. Into the Shreddies podcast episode. Amanda, you want to read your line there?

Amanda:sure. we'll recreate it. This is a recreation. Amanda, is Canada the only country in the world that has bags of milk?

Marco: And then it comes back to me. Marco, I believe so. that's exactly how it went. So there you have it. This is Janelle. Now, folks, the responsibility for the bagged milk controversy of 2024 is at least shared. 50. 50 or slightly more on Marco's shoulder for affirming that the authoritative or with my authority of tone, as opposed to Amanda's inquiry or inquiry, that left possibilities open. There's no sense crying over and over and over again bagged milk. So please keep the insomnia project going, Janelle. Thank you very much. We will keep that going. And, do you feel vindicated, Amanda, with your bagged milk controversy? Yeah.

Amanda:Daniel's like, what is going on? Why are you asking? I do, because I, you know, listen, I will say this, and maybe this is the final note of the bagged milk situation. One can only hope, because when we were talking about it, I believe it was because we were talking about the fact that I got bagged milk and put it in the freezer.

Marco: Yeah, it was on sale, and you bought. So how are we with that frozen bag?

Amanda:So here's the thing. I looked this morning. I defrosted yet another bag, like, a day or two ago, and I looked this morning. I think we have the final one in the freezer.

Marco: Oh, my goodness.

Amanda:But that's incredible, because we are into October now.

Marco: And when did you buy them?

Amanda:Well, the dates on that. Those milk bags are either August 4th or August 7th, so. So it would have been before August 4th. So August, long weekend, I think so August 1st. So that's two months for $6. I got two months worth of milk. Now, we're not. We don't have, you know, five kids at home, having bowls of cereal. We really just use milk for our coffee. I think I made a cream of broccoli soup last week. So, you know, I use milk daily,

Marco: but not in large quantities daily, but

Amanda:exactly sparingly, but daily, probably, on some level. So I'm still pretty impressed. That was a good find. And I also want to say, I don't know if I talked about the great bagel haul of 2024, but, I got these bagels. I know I'm dating the podcast right now. And I apologize. But I got all these bagels that were like marked down and then further marked down, and we estimated that they all cost us 12 cents a bag. And along with the bag milk, I crammed them into every aspect of my freezer. And I have one more of those bagels in the freezer. And they have lasted for these months too. So, you know, these, these. I feel like, I follow this. Ah, she's not a podcaster. She's. I don't know, she sends me emails and then I get YouTube clips. I think she's a YouTuber.

Marco: Okay.

Amanda:But social media personality that has a whole thing. Should I plug her?

Marco: You can if you want.

Amanda:I never do this because I never follow anybody. But, her name's Tara, I think, and it's called Living on a Dime.

Marco: Okay.

Amanda:And you know, that's always gonna draw me in. And it's really kind of like almost like we're talking like Nevada, Utah, homesteader kind of advice.

Marco: Sure.


She had one yesterday about these, like, grocery hauls

Amanda:And so she had one yesterday about these, like, grocery hauls. I'm like, I've never heard of this grocery store. And you know, it's pretty. It can be pretty local to that world and that area. Always helpful. But she does have this like, Living on a Dime cookbook she's always selling or.

Marco: And it's like how to send recipes, how to maximize your dollars.

Amanda:Really?

Marco: Yeah.

Amanda:yeah. It's all about that, which I'm always, always into. I always try to follow things like that, even if I ideologically am not matched with that person. I like to just see, like, you can always pick up tips. Right.

Marco: Sure.


Amanda Burrell recommends checking out Dutch snack bar in Toronto

Amanda:And speaking of which, who did we run into who's also really good friends with Dan Hookerlich, Actually one of his best friends.

Marco: Oh, that's right.

Amanda:Allison.

Marco: That's right.

Amanda:And Allison's mother. Should I say her full name? Because she's also a creator. Content creator. Sure. Her name's Allison Broverman. And actually I'm just gonna. It's just become a plug a thon. I hope you're asleep now, but if you're not and you're like, wow, what businesses in Toronto can I support? trying to remember the name of the restaurant.

Marco: Borel.

Amanda:It's fantastic. Thank you.

Marco: It's a Dutch snack bar. Snack bar. And Dutch. And Dutch like, countries that have been influenced by. By the Dutch.

Amanda:Also Indonesian, perhaps.

Marco: There's dishes from all those, like, Dutch. Dutch influenced countries, or however you want to put it.

Amanda:But it's a lovely place. It's in the East End of Toronto

Marco: Burrell, if you're coming to Toronto, two hours in that. It's a hidden gem. So you want to check it out because for sure. and they had an Oscar party there that we went to because you were talking about Oscars and it was lovely. And it was so great she'd do

Amanda:that again this year.

Marco: It was lovely bumping into her and her parents in a drugstore. Drug mart.

Amanda:So we bumped into her. That restaurant's in the East End. We live in the West End. And, we went to a garlic festival actually this weekend we should probably talk about. And it was quite warm. And so we went into, nearby there was a, ah, drugstore and we had our, nephew with us. And so we said, you know, it's, it's hot. Let's step inside the drugstore just to get some air conditioning and then we can figure out our next steps. And as we walked in, there she was with her parents. And the reason I'm bringing any of this up, truly, is because I've talked about her mom and I said to her mother who was there, I think about you so often because you taught me to get ends of cheeses from cheesemongers for your cheese plate.

Marco: So just to explain, if you go to a cheesemonger and you say, I've got $35 that I want to spend, can you give me all the ends of cheeses that you don't know what to do with because it's not enough. And cheese mongers will generally say, wow, of course, I'm happy to. And they end up giving you more cheese than you would if you just bought it by the weight. And you get to try a whole bunch of different cheeses. Often they'll ask you, what cheeses don't you like? So they don't include those cheese ends.

Marco: Into the bundle. But you've always scored very well when you've done that. Amanda.

Amanda:I. Yeah, and I think it's really great to do in different cities because, you know, there's certain cheeses I like, but I don't need to get the best, you know, French or Dutch or whatever cheese. When I'm in Thunder Bay, Ontario, I want to get what's interesting and local to Thunder Bay, Ontario, which there might be Finnish cheese. Actually. Yeah, there's a huge Finnish population and Italian population. So, you know, they'll know what, what they have and be able to showcase it that way. And then you're not committing to any one huge block of cheese.

Marco: Well, there you go. Well, I know what I have in a co host and a wonderful, delightful person who, stopped her work today, to come down and record the podcast so I could get this one out on time and on spec, as we say. And Amanda, I'm going to put this up on our podcast, and then I'm going to head to work, and then you are working as well, and then I come back to my baking class tonight.


Marco, we didn't talk about the garlic festival, though. Tell us about the barbecue

Amanda:Marco, we didn't talk about the garlic festival, though. We really teased it.

Marco: You have one minute. Tell us about the barbecue.

Amanda:Only one minute. Listen, it was lovely. It was a garlic festival that showcased all things garlic. And because it was a garlic festival, there was a nice booth of mouthwash there, and we got some free mouthwash. Not mouthwash. Mouthwash.

Marco: Mouthwash. Yeah. They weren't actually handing out the mouthwash, but because that's a brand I know, and I enjoy. I had mentioned it to them, and I said, are there new brands? She's like, I'm going to give you one. And I was like, all right.

Amanda:It was a great hookup, and there was some live Chaz. And we took, our sweet nephew, one of our nephews, and, and he, ended up getting ice cream. There was no garlic involved in the ice cream.

Marco: No. But I did see gelato that had ice cream in it that they were selling. There was a really big line, and we had.

Amanda:We got garlic poetry. They would write garlic poetry on the spot for you. Yeah.

Marco: They asked you three things, or they asked each one of us things we liked about garlic, and then they incorporated those things. So I liked. I liked, I liked its bulbousness.

Amanda:What did he like? the taste.

Marco: The taste.

Amanda:And I liked its antifungal properties, which she said was quite a challenge to work into a poem, but she made it happen.

Marco: Tune in next week. We will read that poem on air, if we can find it. And, you'll hear that garlic poem.

Amanda:Absolutely.

Marco: Until next time. We hope you were able to listen and sleep.