That 70s Episode: Organizing, Masterpiece, and Gentle TV Memories | A Cozy Nighttime Wind-Down

In That ’70s Episode: Organizing, Masterpiece, and Gentle TV Memories, Marco and Amanda ease into a softly nostalgic, relaxing conversation inspired by the comforting rhythms of the 1970s. This calming podcast episode begins with the quiet satisfaction of organizing — the simple pleasure of putting things in order — before gently wandering into memories of the board game Masterpiece and the familiar charm of classic television characters from decades past. Reflections on the music of Helen Reddy and Mel Tormé add another warm layer to the atmosphere, creating a soothing backdrop for bedtime listening.
As with every episode of The Insomnia Project, the tone is unhurried, meandering, and intentionally low-stakes — designed to help you fall asleep, ease anxiety, or simply soften quiet racing thoughts at the end of the day. Whether you’re settling into bed, navigating a middle-of-the-night wake-up, or using this as background listening while you unwind, this gentle conversation offers steady companionship without demanding your attention. It’s a safe, cozy space where nothing urgent happens — just calm voices, light nostalgia, and a peaceful drift toward rest.

Originally recorded: February 18, 2026

 Welcome to the Insomnia Project. Sit back, relax and listen as we have a calm conversation. Season 11 if you want ad free episodes Amanda, you could go to the insomnia project supercast cat and they will be available for you there I'm your host, Marco::  Timpano.


Amanda Barker: He was talking. Yes, I was talking to you

AmandaHey, I'm Amanda Barker. The lady. He was talking.

Marco: Yes, I was talking to you. I kind of, What do they call it when you tip your hat?

Amanda:Throw to.

Marco::  Throw to. Sure.

Amanda: I don't know.

Marco::  Yeah.


Folks, we've been organizing. We all have too much stuff

Amanda: Folks, we've been organizing.

Marco::  We've been organizing, and that's never fun, but it's good.

Amanda: And it's what should happen this time of year. You know, the new year, new beginning. Clean out your space. I think a lot of people do that.

Marco::  Clean out your desk. I always find I collect all these pens and things I don't need. And then it's like, oh, I've got all this stuff on my desk.

Amanda: We all have too much stuff. And by we all, I mean you and I.

Marco::  It's true.

Amanda: Too much stuff. It's amazing how things accumulate, really, honestly. And I'm so bad. I so believe. Like, I love watching a minimalist video. I love. I'm right now listening to a book called Tidy up youp Life. Like, I'm a big fan of all the things that tell me to get rid of things and to organize things and to clean out things and to minimalize and capsule wardrobe. I don't actually do any of it. I, just like the thought that I will do it. And I try to do. I mean, I listen to all that stuff so that I do more than I would otherwise.

Marco::  Sure, sure. I have to refrain from collecting things because, remember, I had a salt and pepper collection at one point.

Amanda: I mean, you still technically do. We just. You downsized it quite a bit.

Marco::  Well, I just have the oranges that look like shelter.

Amanda: Is that the only things you have?

Marco::  Yeah, that's. That's it. Everything else.

Amanda: Collected salt and pepper shakers. When we got into this marriage, this relationship, before we were married even, he collected salt and pepper shakers. I collected, masks, of which I had masks from every country. In some countries, multiple masks. like, if they had a strong tradition of performing masks, then I got, like, all of them.

Marco::  And one time we put all of them on a wall.

Amanda: I had all. Before you and I were a thing. Way back in the day. I had an apartment where I had a big, long, white wall sort of hallway as you walked into it. And that entire hallway was covered in masks. It was quite a. Quite a thing.

Marco::  Yeah.

Amanda: But, you need a big white wall, and you need to want to do that. And I've had neither the want nor the wall. I mean, we probably technically have walls where we could do it, but I Don't know. Then it's a mask wall. And then you're the mask. Then you're the. So anyways, we had. The point being, we both had collections coming into the partnership. I don't think we had a huge love for each other's collections, and we both minimized our collections.

Marco::  It's true. I have a tendency to look at tchotchkas in stores and bring them home. And then now I just look at them and I put them down. Amanda will see me every once in a while. She'll be like, you can get that and I'll get it.

Amanda: Oh, don't make it like that.

Marco::  No, no. Like, I'll look at you.

Amanda: Ball and chain.

Marco::  No, you're not the old.

Amanda: You can get. I hate.

Marco::  What I mean is, like, sometimes I'll

Amanda: look at that concept. Just for the record, I just need to say, because we talked about planning our wedding for whatever reason last episode. One of my main goals in life was to never marry a person that was like, I don't know. I just show up and she does all the work. I always said, if that's the person that I'm marrying, then we not going to have a wedding. And that would be fine by me.

Marco::  Okay.


What's the last tchotchka I bought

Amanda: You are not that person.

Marco::  No, I'm not that person. I have a lot of opinions.

Amanda: Yeah. Which is great. Which is we have dialogue and discourse

Marco::  and what's the last tchotchka I bought?

Amanda: Oh, gosh, what a question. So it serves no purpose other than to be cute.

Marco::  Yeah.

Amanda: Oh, it's a very good question. I think it's. Why do I keep thinking of, like, a little owl? Did you buy a little owl?

Marco::  No, but now I want to.

Amanda: I feel like you bought a little owl.

Marco::  I should buy a little owl. I don't think we have a little owl. Owl in the house.

Amanda: I think you bought one at one point.

Marco::  No, I never bought a little owl. I bought a little owl necklace that has amber eyes for my aunt.

Amanda: Yeah.

Marco::  On her 80th birthday.

Amanda: I don't know what the last tchotchka. But here's the other thing. We inherited a lifetime of tchotchkas and dishware and all the other things. So, yeah, we just. We've always had more stuff than we wanted to have, I think. But then clearly we want. We want it on some level, or we wouldn't have it.

Marco::  Yeah. Fair enough.

Amanda: You know, so we're always. It's always that, that little tightrope. But I don't know. Do you know the last chocolate I don't.

Marco::  The one that I can think of is we were in California and I. And I think we bought a, like jadeite or like, like a little jade looking thing for sugar packets.

Amanda: What?

Marco::  You know, we were in that place in California. I don't know. It's the color of jade. The. It's a little rectangle and you put sugar packets in it.

Amanda: Oh, you bought that? I didn't.

Marco::  I think that's.

Amanda: I don't. You. I wasn't even part of that purchase or that discussion. Where is that thing? Do we have it?

Marco::  It's somewhere.

Amanda: Exactly. Are sugar packets in it?

Marco::  I think so.

Amanda: in the kitchen, I'm guessing. Wait, was that a fruit fly?

Marco::  No.

Amanda: People are going to think we're hoarders.

Marco::  We're not. We're not hoarders. Not yet. Not yet.

Amanda: I mean, it's a fine line, but I. Listen, I. It'll. It's my life's work to try and dehoardify myself. And yes, I'm making that a verb.

Marco::  Fair enough.

Amanda: Dehortify myself.

Marco::  You have pretty nails happening right now. Turquoise. Turquoise.

Amanda: What is this?

Marco::  Well, listen, I had to get out of the hoarding situation.

Amanda: Okay, fair enough. I have turquoise nails. And you know, I got a compliment. I'm taking a writing class. A writer's boot camp. Did I say that? Very Canadian Y. I hope so. Boot boot camp. Writer's boot camp. And, one of the lovely attendants, private messaged me and said, I love how your males match your chair.

Marco::  How your nails match your chair.

Amanda: Yeah. Did I say males match your chair? I did.

Marco::  I think so.

Amanda: How your nails match your chair? Because I have a wing back chair that has like a cover that's so they're like Tiffany blue.

Marco::  Yeah, that's a good way to describe them.


In writer's boot camp, we get prompts about childhood games

Amanda: Yeah, that sort of turquoisey bluey green and like that aqua. And I do have a wing back chair that I usually zoom from. And it's actually a white chair, but it has a cover on it that's turquoise that I see got somewhere on a buy nothing group, I think. and yeah, they do match that chair. So I love it. Thank you. Oh, and the same person, she's a big. We started talking about childhood games. So in this writer's boot camp, we get prompts and what happens is, our teacher, our professor, our teacher, he'll give us a prompt and say, make a list of this. Make a list of what the color green means to you. Make a list of. So it just kind of Gets your creative brain going in different directions and, you know, you start to realize there's no right answers and you just let your stream of consciousness start to flow. Inform. Yeah, sure. And so one was childhood games. And so it ended up, we had a nice lively discussion after about childhood games that we all remembered. And of course, we're all, some of us are different ages, so we have different points of reference for that. But this same woman said, does anyone remember the game Masterpiece?

Marco::  Oh, my goodness.

Amanda: And I said, not only do I, I actually don't remember it from childhood, but we play it on the regular. And not only that, we had a birth. My husband had a Masterpiece birthday a few years back. it was a very small celebration because it was, had to be because it was, the time when we couldn't have a lot of people in one room. So anyhow, and so I sent her a picture of the cake I had made.

Marco::  Oh, you didn't tell me this.

Amanda: Yeah, I know. I'm telling you.

Marco::  What did she say?

Amanda: She was like, this is amazing. This is like my dream. This is so incredible. And then she thought I made the cake, so I had to tell her, no, no, no, no. The very talented Arlene Lott, the cake maven, made it.

Marco::  Follow her on Instagram because her cakes are amazing.

Amanda: L O T T Arlene Lott. She's just amazing. Shall I go to her for all my cake and pie needs?


Masterpiece is a board game that involves bidding on famous paintings

Marco::  So for our listeners who listen to our podcast often, you know that I'm really into board games. And for any new listeners or people who aren't familiar with Masterpiece, let me explain the game for you.

Amanda: It's so good.

Marco::  So it was a game, I think, in the 60s that came out and they, they published the game only until the early 80s and they stopped making it, if I'm not mistaken. And what it is, it's a board. And on the original game, it has, I believe, Vincent Van Gogh's face on it.

Amanda: Okay.

Marco::  With a big hat with plumage on it.

Amanda: Okay.

Marco::  And you've got all these little cards, I would say about three by three by five cards, not that the size matter. And on the face of these cards are famous works of art. So you've got the Mona Lisa, you've got, Cezanne, you have Monet, and you have a bunch of art that would be in the Louvre that you would, you would not necessarily know the artist or I don't know the artist's name, but it's like, oh, a lady with a thing on her head. From the 1700s.

Amanda: Lady with a pearl earring. Although I don't think that's one of them.

Marco::  No, but there's a woman who has, you know, that look with the thing anyways.

Amanda: Yes, the look with the thing.

Marco::  Yeah, it looks like she's got a mop kind of thing on her head, but it's like it's Dutch. I'm assuming it's a Dutch.

Amanda: Dutch Masters.

Marco::  No, one of the Dutch Masters.

Amanda: Any Vermeer?

Marco::  It's not important. But you've got these images, right? And what you do is you get a card of the same size and you don't look at it and you put them together and they have little clips. So every painting has a price on the back of it, but you don't know how much they're worth. And there's two forgeries in the game and you don't know which paintings are forgeries.

Amanda: And then it becomes how much they're worth. And that for the record, just if he's not being clear, because I'm not great with game explanations, by the way, it's a real weakness of mine, as Marco::  knows. That because you're clipping them on every game, the forgeries and the value of each painting changes.

Marco::  Right. So you could have the Mona Lisa, but It's only worth $100,000, which is the lowest amount.

Amanda: Or it's a forgery.

Marco::  Or it's worth 2 mil.

Amanda: By the way, the Louvre going through a lot right now.

Marco::  It's going through so much. But maybe they should play Masterpiece because that would kind of set things straight and there's certain. And so you move these little tokens on the board and every once in a while there's an auction and so everyone sort of bids on a painting that's up for sale. Or, or you move your token and you can choose to sell your painting to the crowd or to the bank. And so the person with the most value at the end of the game in either cash money or in paintings, wins the game.

Marco::  So you could bid $2 million on a painting that's a forgery. So you've got to be careful in the high price world of art collecting, it's quite the fun game.

Amanda: And you're all characters.

Marco::  Oh that's.

Amanda: Yes, I forgot. So that's a fun one. One of them is. I was bitsy. but they're, they're all fun characters and they're the type of people. Here's how I would describe them. The, the type of characters that that celebrities would play on the Love Boat.

Marco::  Yes.

Amanda: Like they're all like. You know how in the Love Boat people would come in and they'd be seeking their. Or Fantasy island, actually.

Marco::  Sure.

Amanda: Maybe even more. Because Fantasy Island. Weren't they all rich? Maybe, maybe to afford the.

Marco::  You have like an oil tycoon.

Amanda: Yeah. You, Bitsy something or other. And she's been through many marriages.

Marco::  You've got the. The librarian who never married, who has

Amanda: a lot of money, who inherited. You have the guy that's mysteriously German in the 70s, but living in Brazil. I'll just leave that there.

Marco::  Right. You've got, the.

Amanda: I'm trying to think of who else.

Marco::  Anyway, there's the busty woman. Is that bitsy?

Amanda: That's bitsy. I know there's three women, three men, I can't remember.

Marco::  But anyway, anyway, so that's the game.


We should write a show called Undercover Nuns. I think it's a great idea

So we also play the characters and we act like the characters when we play Master.

Amanda: What would your name be? What character would you like to play on either the Love Boat or Fantasy Island?

Marco::  Okay. So our listeners might know that I'm reading a lot of Agatha Christie books.

Amanda: Right.

Marco::  And I'm reading the 1920s. And what's funny about that, these books is that there's this character, this archetype of a character that appears often in the books.

Amanda: Hm.

Marco::  That you used to see on a lot of television shows in the 70s like Love Boat or the 80s, like Fantasy Fantasy island. And it was a big game hunter. You don't see that much anymore, right?

Amanda: Well, because they're shamed.

Marco::  Yes. And. And we probably don't need to see them. Right.

Amanda: But there's somebody's. There's somebody's weird dentist that they're like, oh, I didn't realize. That's what he does in his spare time.

Marco::  Right. So this character, I think they were celebr.

Amanda: A bit.

Marco::  It appears a lot in her books, at least the early books. Right. So it's always like. Yeah, we don't see a lot of those characters on Game Hunter people or remember when you would watch television and there would always be a nun walking by or there'd be a lot of nuns.

Amanda: There were a lot of nuns in the 70s and I think to myself, in the 80s. More in the 80s.

Marco::  How often do I actually run into a nun? on a yearly basis that you know of. That I know of. True. Fair enough.

Amanda: Plain clothes nuns.

Marco::  But on these shows they're always in their habit. I'm not talking about the undercover nuns.

Amanda: Undercover nuns.

Marco::  Undercover nun is A great TV show. We should write a show called Undercover Nuns.

Amanda: Undercover Nuns. But what are they undercovering? Are they nuns? And in their spare time, they're cops.

Marco::  Oh, that's even better.

Amanda: That's a better show.

Marco::  How about they're cop nuns? Cop nuns who are undercover for both. So they can. They can for God and for justice. I love that. Okay, folks, stay tuned for Undercover Nuns.

Amanda: Undercovered nuns is a great idea.

Marco::  Oh, we might have to write this down. Okay.

Amanda: And we have this episode for trademarking purposes. Yes.

Marco::  Get ready for the latest podcast called Undercover Nuns.

Amanda: Oh, my gosh, that's such a funny idea.

Marco::  Oh, I think we'll have to develop this.

Amanda: Yeah, I think it's a good idea.

Marco::  I think it's a great idea.

Amanda: Okay.

Marco::  Okay.


How many times in a year do you run into an undercover nun

So anyways, back to my original question. How many times in a year do you run into a non undercover nun? A nun in full habit, A nun

Amanda: who's not afraid to show her nunnery.

Marco::  Right.

Amanda: okay. Now, I mean, we did go to Rome.

Marco::  We did see, for the jubilee. So there was a lot of nuns there.

Amanda: A lot of nuns.

Marco::  On a non jubilee year. Let me ask you this. On a non jubilee year, how many times do you run into a nun? And this is no offense to nuns or people who are related to nuns.

Amanda: No, not at all. Just like somebody that you're like, oh, she's a nun.

Marco::  Yeah.

Amanda: I'm gonna go with at best, two a year.

Marco::  I'm gonna say one a year.

Amanda: Yeah, one or two a year.

Marco::  And I'm Catholic, so. But I'm more likely to run into a nun than you.

Amanda: But think about it. Any airport scene from the 80s, any movie in the 80s.

Marco::  Oh, in the 70s, if you're chasing scene. If you were on a plane in the 70s, in a movie.

Amanda: Yeah.

Marco::  You were likely sitting next to a nun.

Amanda: You were smoking next to a nun.

Marco::  Oh, my goodness. Yes, it's true. And probably an oil baron was on the plane.

Amanda: And I was gonna say Bitsy Collins, but I think I'm saying that because Bootsy Collins. Maybe Bootsy Collins was on your plane

Marco::  too, in the 70s for sure. Bootsy Collins and Bitsy. Oh, now that's.

Amanda: Ah, that would be our names.

Marco::  I love it. That's the name of the lead characters on Undercover Nun.

Amanda: Bootsy and Bitsy.

Marco::  Yeah.

Amanda: Oh, my God, this is great.

Marco::  This writes itself. I mean, oh, my goodness.


Mel: We had a snow day today and it was an ice storm

We had. I think we're a little bit, punchy because we had a snow day today and it was an ice storm day.

Amanda: I have not Gone outside. And I've actually had quite a few. So as we established, I was outside like I was in Florida and then I was in St. Kitts. And so I've had a lot of summer in my winter so far. But since I've been home, which has been for a week now.

Marco::  You've had a lot of winter in your winter?

Amanda: I've had a lot of winter in my winter and I haven't really been outside barely at all. And I think I'm starting to be the worse for it. And I spent a lot of today organizing and I don't know if we say the T word, but that's what I was doing. Taxes, My taxes.

Marco::  Okay, let me just say this. So I got a electric snow. An electric shovel a couple years ago.

Amanda: Explain what that means because not a lot of people might know what that means. We have, I know we have strong listeners in Los Angeles.

Marco::  We have listeners in warm places too. Not just Los Angeles, but.

Amanda: Okay.

Marco::  All right. So for people who Los Angeles is

Amanda: warm, is it not?

Marco::  Oh, it's very warm.

Amanda: Sure. We made it sound like other. And in warm places.

Marco::  No, but we have listeners in India, in Bahrain. We have listeners all over in, in places that don't require an electric shovel is what I'm trying to say. So an electric shovel is this great invention which is. It looks more like a, like a big push broom.

Marco::  It's, it's. But it's, it's. It has the rotation of a snowblower so it rotates like a gear inside and that gear crushes snow and then it blows it in the air so that you don't have to actually shovel. You just have to push this electric shovel and it will do the rest. It's kind of part shovel, part snowblower. Tinier.

Amanda: Okay.

Marco::  And so I have this device, especially when there's a lot of snow. It's great. The only lament I have with this particular thing is it shoots snow four feet straight in the air. So I have no way to direct the snow because if you shovel you can put it wherever you want. So I've been blowing snow.

Amanda: He blew snow down my back. I don't know how it managed to get past the hood of my coat

Marco::  because it shot straight up and landed.

Amanda: Suddenly all the snow was slithering down my bare back.

Marco::  Yeah. So that's the only deal.

Amanda: Even though I had a coat and a sweater on, somehow it did that.

Marco::  So I was doing the sidewalk, but I was blowing snow straight onto the sidewalk further down oh, no. and then people came out of their house where I was blowing snow, but I was trying to direct it not on the street, but rather on the pile of snow between the street and the sidewalk.

Amanda: Our city is having an issue where there's just more and more snow and it's not melting and it's high. It's so high, it's taking up a lot of parking. that's a real issue in the city. Like, there's so much less parking right now.

Marco::  So what I did, Amanda, was I blew snow straight in the air, and then I shoveled our sidewalk, our neighbor's sidewalk, which I always do, and then her neighbor's sidewalk, because that's where I blew the snow as they were coming out.

Amanda: Work for the city now.

Marco::  I. I practically did the whole neighborhood. And, it was not light snow.

Amanda: Do we tip you?

Marco::  I hope it was not light snow. This was not a light snow.

Amanda: No, it's not a light. Today's snow was a icy situation. Like, icy, watery, heavy. You know, the kind. This is the kind of snow that, like, breaks tree branches.

Marco::  Yeah, this is. This was not a fun snow. Sometimes you get a fun snow. This was not a fun snow.

Amanda: Some people might find it fun because it's good packing snow, I think.

Marco::  No, it wasn't even.

Amanda: No, it wasn't. It's so icy.

Marco::  It was too wet and icy.

Amanda: Oh, my goodness. Ah.

Marco::  Anyways, if you're in a warm country, be grateful. And if you're in a cold country, spring is around the corner.

Amanda: I'm feeling. Maybe you want to feel a little cold. Maybe you're hot right now and you want to feel the chill. That's why, Mel. Whoever. Whatever his name was, wrote Mel Torme the Christmas song.

Marco::  Did he write the Christmas chestnuts roasting on Melbourne? Yeah.

Amanda: Mel Torme. Yeah.

Marco::  The man your father bumped into and gently laid onto the ground.

Amanda: My dad. My dad ran around him and Mel Torme. It's like a Benny Hill farce.

Marco::  It's like a 70s.


Your dad bumped into Mel Torme on a sitcom

Amanda: Yeah.

Marco::  Moment in a sitcom.

Amanda: Mel Torme. They were both rounding a corner, and they bumped square into each other right at the corner, and Mel Torme fell over, and my dad was, like, over him and was trying to help him and, like, laid him gently on the ground. And then he looked at him right as he's on top of him, looked at him in his face and said, you're Mel Torme. Right. And what did Mel Torme say?

Marco::  I believe it happened like this. Your dad was running Mel Torminet. Was just walking. Your dad turned the corner.

Amanda: Oops.

Marco::  Turned the corner. And that was the sound of me bumping my hand on the table. But your dad bumped into Mel Torme. And because he shot at him so fast with such force, Mel Torme was falling back. Your father, who's a. Who's a large man.

Amanda: I know he was a young dude

Marco::  when this happened, but he's a tall man. Your father. What is he, six three, six four?

Amanda: No, no, no. My dad's not that tall.

Marco::  Your dad is tall.

Amanda: I don't think he's as tall as you think he is.

Marco::  He's tall. He's at least six one.

Amanda: Really? Yes.

Marco::  I think he's six three.

Amanda: My dad is not six three.

Marco::  Okay, let's say six two. Okay, so your dad's six two.

Amanda: I don't even think he's six.

Marco::  But anyway, Mel Torme wasn't very tall. Look up how tall Mel Torme was, because he was probably.

Amanda: Look up how tall my dad is. My dad is not six feet. I don't.

Marco::  He's six two, your dad. He's got to be. He's Trevor's height. Your dad is Trevor's height?

Amanda: No, I think he has a bigger presence than you realize. I don't think he's as tall as you think. Okay, well, anyway, how tall is Mel to.

Marco::  Next week, we're going to tell you how tall Dan Barker fan favorite is. So Dan bumps into Mel Torme with such force that Mel Torme is falling back. So your dad scoops him in his arms and gently lays him to the ground. And then he says, hi, I'm Dan. And he said the other. And Mel says, hi, I'm Mel Torme. And they shake hands while Mel is on his back on the floor. And that's how that story goes.

Amanda: I have no information from the Internet on, how tall Mel Torme is because it's not a question people normally ask.

Marco::  He wasn't a tall man.

Amanda: Well, my dad was probably taller than Mel Torme, but I don't think my dad is a particularly tall man.

Marco::  Tune in next week when we'll have the answer to how tall was Mel Torme? And how tall is Dan Barker? So that's that story.

Amanda: Yeah. Riveting. what were we talking about? I don't even remember Mel Torme. Oh, I was talking about chestnuts roasting on an open fire, Jack Frost nipping at your nose. he wrote those lines to feel cold in Los Angeles during the summer.

Marco::  I see.

Amanda: That's like he just thought if I think of cold things. I'll be feeling like I'm cold. He was trying to psych himself out to feel cold.

Marco::  I love that.

Amanda: That's what they did before air conditioning, I guess.

Marco::  Listen, I'll say this. Yes, it's cold, but it's also the time of year where you get great mandarins and citrus fruit.

Amanda: Yeah, that's true.

Marco::  And there are a couple of mandarins in our fridge, which I'm going to eat.

Amanda: They're so juicy.

Marco::  They're so great.

Amanda: Yeah, we have grapes, too. Don't forget.

Marco::  Oh, I want some grapes. And I don't love grapes, but those grapes are great.

Amanda: We had a discussion tonight about the fridge and Marco:: , because I fear when I'm like, you're home all day and I'm not, and I'm like, remember that these things exist in the fridge.

Marco::  That's the last chachka I bought.

Amanda: What?

Marco::  Tupperware.

Amanda: Colorful. No, Tupperware has a use, though.

Marco::  True.

Amanda: He bought, like, 1970s retro Tupperware that's brand new with no, like, harmful things in it. But Costco was selling Tupperware that looks like your Tupperware that you remember from the 70s Tupperware.

Marco::  And so I bought it while Amanda was away.

Amanda: I came home to lots m of Tupperware, which is fine. I'm happy to have it. I just.


There's no clear lids on this Tupperware. I worry that Marco::  will dismiss it

My thing is, because it's not. There's no clear lids. I worry that Marco::  will just dismiss it in his brain of, I don't know what that is. I'm not going to open it up. Where's the cheese?

Marco::  I know what's in every Tupperware ever since it was made. I'm going to.

Amanda: So not true. That's so not true.

Marco::  Oh, this was a 70s show, wasn't it? Because even Tupperware was big in the 70s.

Amanda: It was that 70s show. That'll be the name of the episode.

Marco::  And people are gonna think we're gonna talk about Mila Kunis and stuff, but

Amanda: we're not Ashton Kutchner.

Marco::  Yeah.

Amanda: So amazing. They were, like little kid actors together, and then they got married eventually.

Marco::  Well, I guess we're talking about them. Yeah, I guess so. There you go.


What do you remember from the 70s? I don't remember the 80s

Well, what do you remember from the 70s?

Amanda: Anything from that 70s show or the actual 70s?

Marco::  From the actual 70s.

Amanda: I remember one of my strongest memories. And yes, I was born in the 70s. Just let that cat out of the bag there. sorry. No, it's all right. I, remember being in my den and the light streaming onto the orange carpet of my den. And I remember just thinking, Helen Reddy was the best singer that ever lived. And nobody would ever be a better singer than Helen Reddy.

Marco::  I don't think anyone ever has been, to be honest.

Amanda: To be honest, I think I was, like, three. But I just remember being, like, listening to Helen Reddy and being like, I don't know what Helen Reddy album I was jamming to, but she did do the soundtrack to Pete's Dragon. So it was probably Pete's Dragon. But anyway. Which, by the way, I feel like Pete's Dragon, like, that movie needs to come back. I feel like they need to remake that.

Marco::  They did.

Amanda: Oh, did they?

Marco::  They did make a remake.

Amanda: I, don't know. I wasn't around for that.

Marco::  With, like.

Amanda: I don't know.

Marco::  I forget who played the lady. I want to say Jennifer Aniston type or something.

Amanda: Jennifer Aniston.

Marco::  I don't know. Bill Antonio is going to be rolling his eyes.

Amanda: Candle on the Water. Such a good song. Anyway, I remember. So that's. That's a. That's a memory from the 70s. I have a lot of memories from. Cool. Yeah. Oh, yeah. what else? I remember Squam Lake in New Hampshire and, having an accident in my bathing suit. What do you remember from the 70s?

Marco::  I don't remember the 70s. I remember the 80s because that's when

Amanda: I. Oh, well, I wasn't asked about the 80s. Yes.

Marco::  I wasn't born in the 70s, so how can I. Just give me.

Amanda: What is this? What are you spinning?

Marco::  Okay, what I remember from the seventies, I'll tell you.

Amanda: Masterpiece.

Marco::  Masterpiece. Yeah. I used to play with Marco::  V. So my best friend grade school was Marco::  V, because I'm Marco::  T. And we had the same name. So that's how you became friends in the 70s.

Amanda: Does he call you Marco::  T. He

Marco::  did for the longest time.

Amanda: Because you always refer to him these days as me and Marco::  V. Yeah. Will he talk about you to his friends and go, me and Marco::  T. 100%. That's so. funny. It never occurred to me that the mirror has two faces.

Marco::  Now, Marco::  V. Wouldn't refer to me as Marco::  T. When he's talking to me.

Amanda: You always just call each other Marco:: . Yeah, okay.

Marco::  But in the 70s, you became friends because you had the same name. But what I remember is that we had shag carpet. Okay. Ah, but the cool thing M. People remember shag carpet, and now people have shag carpet. But back then, we had a shag comb broom.

Amanda: Oh, wow.

Marco::  It was like a broom, but it didn't have bristles instead, it had big spikes in it.

Amanda: Okay.

Marco::  And you would use it to fluff up your.

Amanda: Your shag.

Marco::  And it was the thing I love to do the most because you could make it go all in one direction.

Amanda: Oh,

Marco::  And look cool.

Amanda: I never heard of this. Yeah, that's cool. We didn't have shag.

Marco::  I don't think he missed, out.

Amanda: We had an orange carpet, but it wasn't shag.

Marco::  Well, listen, if. Whether you had shag, whether you sat next to a nun on a plane, or whether you played masterpiece. Masterpiece. I just want to say thank you for listening to our podcast today. Thank you, Amanda, for showing up tonight. We had nothing planned.

Amanda: No, we really didn't. We just started talking and we just

Marco::  started jamming like Helen ready?

Amanda: Some people have outlines for their podcasts.

Marco::  It's true.

Amanda: That's not us.


We hope this episode you were able to listen and sleep

Marco::  That's not us. And no matter what, whether you're warm or whether you're cool, we wish you a, most lovely sleep. Until next time. We hope this episode you were able to listen and sleep.

Amanda: Groovily..