The Penultimate Episode of the Season | Calm Background Listening

In The Penultimate Episode of the Season, Amanda and Marco ease into a cozy, softly spoken conversation designed to help you unwind at the end of the day. As the season gently approaches its close, they reflect on their favourite types of massages, the small luxuries of well-chosen treatments, and Marco’s amused discovery of the proper term for the person providing one. The tone stays light and companionable, lingering on the soothing details that make everyday comforts feel special.
Midway through, Marco shares a few thoughtful listener reviews, celebrating the warmth of this quiet community. The conversation then drifts outdoors, turning toward upcoming mushroom foraging plans and the gentle thrill of searching for hidden treasures in the woods.
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. Let this penultimate chapter of the season guide you softly toward rest.

​The Penultimate Episode of the Season 9
(Original airdate: Nov 13, 2024)

Welcome to the Insomnia Project. I'm Amanda. Thank you for joining us

Welcome to the Insomnia Project. Sit back, relax, and listen as we have a calm conversation that's meant to help you sort of find your way to sleep or just chill. Thank you for joining us. I'm your host, Marco Timpano.

Amanda: And I'm Amanda. And I've been mouthing every word he says.

Marco: Is that what we're. They're hearing in the background?

Amanda: That's a fun game we play here, Amanda.

Marco: I, you know, you know the word bamboozled?

Amanda: Yeah.

Marco: I feel like I got massage oozled. Oh, just a few hours ago, I got a massage, but it was like my neck was hurting. And my masseuse really said, well, can I go hard on your. On your neck? And I said, yes.

Amanda: I don't Think they're called masseuse anymore?

Marco: Oh, no.

Amanda: Registered massage therapist. Rmt.

Marco: No, you don't call them masseuse, I guess. No.

Amanda: Okay. Unless it's in the 70s in Sweden, I suppose.

Marco: Well, I wasn't in Sweden, and I

Amanda: was like, my masseuse. I don't know. It feels like something from a movie of the week.

Marco: I think you're right. You know, this person is a trained massage licensed therapist. You know, like, all that stuff.

Amanda: So that's part of our care that we all get or should be getting, hopefully. But when you say masseuse, I just think of that scene in a movie where it's like, a guy on the phone and he's. To show how rich he is, there's, like, two massage people, like, chopping his back while he has a towel, and there's like a golf course nearby or something.

Marco: Right, right. Well, forgive me.

Amanda: Not you.

Marco: No, it's definitely not me. forgive me if, I've offended you by saying masseuse. If you're out there, massage therapist, I just. Well, somebody could be offended, and I don't want to offend them.

Amanda: I will say. Yeah, and this offended me a little bit. You came home with a lot of hickeys on your neck.

Marco: I know, right?

Amanda: From the massage.

Marco: I know. I think they look like fingerprints, and I'm worried they're gonna bruise into Morgan. I have these fingerprint.

Amanda: It looks like you have a cat and that a cat, like, scratched you, except they're not scratches. They're like bruises. I don't know. It's. It was a little weird.

Marco: Yeah, it's weird. And I'm,

Amanda: Like, swollen or a rash, like, it could be.

Marco: Looks. Maybe it's a rash, too.

Amanda: Well, I don't think it's a. I mean, I think it's. Can I see? Oh, yeah, that's like a rash, but it's on the other side where the most of the things are.

Marco: Okay, well, I got massage. Usual is what happened.

Amanda: Okay, gotcha.

Marco: and I'm grateful, though. My massage. My licensed massage therapist does. Does not talk during the massage. They're silent. They have, like, bird noises is what. What they play in the background.

Amanda: That place is a real clinic, so there's doctors there. There's people getting, like, you know, on mats, doing work on their.

Marco: Like, lumbar.

Amanda: Yeah, lumbar work. It's a. Your cervical spine is well attended to there. your psoas muscle, they're all up in it.

Marco: A couple of trapezoids.

Amanda: Get it's one of those places. It's not like, you know, my preferred registered massage therapy.

Marco: What's your preferred?

Amanda: I like a steam room. I like not having to. Not hearing people as they walk through the door. You know, that little door baby thing. I don't want to know that. I don't want to hear people having conversations.

Marco: Okay, I definitely hear people having conversations and paying for their.

Amanda: Their, see, that's not my. But you go to specifically work an area. Yeah, I go to pretend I'm a rich lady in a night in that 1982 movie of the week where you're getting your back chopped or whatever.

Marco: I don't think they chop your back.

Amanda: Well, what is the thing called where there's like, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

Marco: It's a massage. It's type of, whatever that is.


Tuning massage is supposed to be therapeutic, but sometimes it's not

Tuning massage. I don't know.

Amanda: Well, anyway, I. I want to believe that I'm pampering myself with a spa experience.

Marco: That's fair.

Amanda: That's fair.

Marco: And you don't like it when they talk to you, Right? Too much?

Amanda: No, but they do often. And I'm a chatty person.

Marco: Yes.

Amanda: Now, there's one person who gives massages who we love, and she's been on this program before. I do enjoy talking to her. I. Because we know a lot of the same people.

Marco: Sure.

Amanda: And she goes long, so it could be 90 minutes of just solid gossip.

Marco: Right.

Amanda: And there is something, kind of relaxing in that.

Marco: Fair enough.

Amanda: You know, like watching bad TV and eating junk food. It has that kind of effect.

Marco: Right, Right. So, I mean, one's supposed to be therapeutic. One is not good for you. But it is.

Amanda: I think it's all therapeutic. I think reality tv, when it's well timed and in short moments and, you know, a bowl of popcorn and some something can. Your favorite candy, I think that can be really converting and therapeutic.

Marco: Is there, a, therapeutic candy that you enjoy?

Amanda: Depends on the mood I'm in. But I should say that's because she and I know each other. Fair enough. So that's a different world. What happens to me very often is I write my profession, which is I usually write actor, or sometimes I'll write casting, but either way, you know, I get on the table. So you're an actor, right? I don't want to talk about this. Fair enough. I had one woman not too long ago, well, probably a year ago now, but it was like her therapy session. And I'm an empathetic person and I do like having conversations with people. But what Happens is, well, we're having a nice conversation about things as you do, and then next thing I know, it's their therapy session and I'm like, I just lost out of my massage. Even though we're 20 minutes in. Because this person is not going to stop talking.

Marco: They're chatting to you and asking for advice. Etc.

Amanda: Yeah, exactly. No, that happens to me all the time. No, all the time.

Marco: sometimes I'll do this. So I have a chatty, hygienist and a wife. My wife is not my hygienist. It's Amanda here in front of me. But my hygienist at the dentist office really likes to chat and likes to have me download apps for them because they are not able to.

Amanda: Sorry, I did not expect you to say that. You're doing tech support while you're, while your mouth is open and you're drooling.

Marco: That's really funny and awful and I don't love it.

Amanda: No.

Marco: So what I do now is I walk in with headphones.

Marco: And I say, I'm so sorry, I need to listen to this podcast for work.

Marco: And I put it in my ears.

Amanda: I think that's great.

Marco: And then people, because of that, at the end of M. One of my last sessions with her, she asked what podcast should she listen to and maybe download the podcast app. And then those podcasts.

Amanda: And then she listens to this one and then she hears you, talking about her.

Marco: The truth is, I now request a different hygienist.

Amanda: Oh, really?

Marco: Yeah. I don't. I just can't. I feel badly that, that I have to. But I can't, engage in a conversation when you're, when you're like, working on.

Amanda: It's tricky. And you want to pretend sometimes that going to the dentist especially, especially if they have a nice tv. Wouldn't it be great if that chair was a massage chair?

Marco: Oh my goodness.

Amanda: Why don't they do that? They should.

Marco: I think the rumbling if they're. If they use.

Amanda: You can do. Listen, if the talented women who do my nails and my toes can do it and there's a. You just. You don't put it on flap. Maybe that's what the chop chop thing is called. Flap. You don't put it on flap. You put it on need.

Marco: Okay.

Amanda: Those are the settings of the massage chairs.

Marco: Do you like a chatty nail technician?

Amanda: that I don't mind. Because you lose the ability to use your hands for a while.


All you have is your mouth or your eyes to watch TV

So all you have is your mouth or your eyes to watch TV. Like, if the TV's good, then whatever. But if it's just a YouTube channel or something, which it often is, then I don't mind chatting with a nail person. But usually they're so intent on their

Marco: work that they don't want to chat with you.

Amanda: Yeah.

Marco: Isn't the tables have turned.

Amanda: Yeah, exactly.

Marco: So to speak.


This is our penultimate show for this season

Speaking of tables turning, this is our penultimate show for this season. For season nine, the second last.

Amanda: I didn't realize that's what that meant.

Marco: What did you think that meant?

Amanda: I don't know. It's like a fortnight. Do you know what a fortnight means? Yeah.

Marco: four nights from now.

Amanda: No, that's not what that.

Marco: 40 nights from now did.

Amanda: Definitely also not what that means.

Marco: Four and a half hours from now,

Amanda: it means two weeks. Did you know that?

Marco: No, I didn't. I mean, I didn't. I didn't. I knew it was a certain amount of time.

Amanda: You say it all the time in a fortnight. Can you imagine?

Marco: No, but I do say penultimate a lot.

Amanda: Okay, well, what other things in your life are penultimate?

Marco: I don't know, but I just say it. When it's the second last. I say penultimate.

Amanda: This is the penultimate dinner.

Marco: I wish you wouldn't say because you

Amanda: pop your peas, this is the penultimate meal of the day.

Marco: No, no. I don't know.

Amanda: When I say it's an ultimate hour of work, I'm trying not to pop my piece.


This podcast captures me but doesn't over capture me, Sherry says

Marco: I, wanted to say, since it is our penultimate episode, I've been looking at some of the reviews from the past a little bit. No, they're good. And, Apple has it so that I have to change the country location to see the review. I need to find an app that'll show us our reviews. But I'm going to read a couple of our reviews from Canada. No, I've got yes. And the US and Australia.

Amanda: Okay.

Marco: Okay, so this one's. This one's from Australia.

Amanda: Okay.

Marco: I was actually showing my class how to do this when I saw it. I was like, oh, my goodness. I can't believe this has been up since March 26, 2024. Okay, so Sherry, B.4 says five stars. I've been listening to the Insomnia Project for a few years and love to recommend. That's so lovely. Thank you, Sherry. It's entertaining enough to catch and, catch and keep my attention, but calm and inconsequential enough for me not to worry to get involved. Most definitely. You never have to worry about entertaining us or getting involved you just chill and Sherry continues. Other sleep podcasts, I've tried have been quite boring, and my mind wanders. Oh, I didn't think that. Thanks, Amanda. Sorry. Thanks, Marco and Amanda, slash friends, our other guests, and a smiley emoji.

Amanda: That's so nice. I need the same thing. Whether it's podcast or when I'm going to sleep. I want something that captures me but doesn't over capture me.

Marco: Right.

Amanda: Captures without stimulating. Does that make sense?

Marco: Yeah, of course.

Amanda: Maybe that should be our new tagline, captures without stimulating.

Marco: Okay.

Amanda: maybe not. All right.

Marco: It sounds wrong on two levels.

Amanda: Okay, focus. Grouping now.

Marco: All right, let's let us know if you think that's a great. A great catchphrase for us.

Amanda: I don't think so.

Marco: Capture without stimulating.


Do we know where in the U.S. Amanda is from

Okay, so this is from our U.S. listeners. Okay.

Amanda: Do we know where in the U.S. amanda?

Marco: no, I don't. I don't.

Amanda: You only say my name to me when we do this podcast.

Marco: Oh, really?

Amanda: Yeah. You never. You would never say that in a normal conversation. I wouldn't say, like, hey, babe, do you know where this is? And you wouldn't go up, Amanda. No.

Marco: What do I say?

Amanda: You call me babe.

Marco: Okay.

Amanda: Or you just don't. Or hate you, like, you know.

Marco: Okay. What do you call me?

Amanda: I don't know. I say Marco.

Marco: You do say Marco.

Amanda: H m. H m. I guess I care enough to say your name.

Marco: I guess I,

Amanda: I guess you care enough when I'm working the mic.

Marco: I think babe is a lovely thing to call somebody if you're a pig. No, if you. If. Well, I guess you shouldn't call someone you don't know babe. Like, if you go get a coffee, people do. People do.

Amanda: There's a whole culture of. Of girls who were like, hey, girl, or, there's another one. Well, anyway, that one is a big one. Or, hey, gorgeous. It's like, you don't know me, but

Marco: what if they're just saying you're gorgeous? You can say. You can call me hey, gorgeous if you want.

Amanda: And I'll be honest, I do it. I say, hey.

Marco: Oh, do you?

Amanda: Yeah.

Marco: Okay.

Amanda: Okay. do you want me to say more?

Marco: No, I'm going to. I'm going to read our reviews. Cool. Okay, so these are from the U.S. there's just two. We have more.

Amanda: My question was simply, do you know where in the US and then I got an Amanda.

Marco: My. The answer to that question, babe, is no.

Amanda: Okay.

Marco: Okay, so here's.

Amanda: I'm going to pretend they're from places. This one is definitely from Kansas.

Marco: Okay, so Katie. Mh. M. So that could be where they're from.

Amanda: MH or nh.

Marco: M as in Mary and H as in Harry.

Amanda: New Hampshire.

Marco: New Hampshire. Okay. Oh, it's actually Kathy. Sorry, not Katie.

Amanda: K A T. Do you want me to read these? I feel like there's a bit of a struggle. Maybe the light is dim.

Marco: There's no struggle. The struggle is. I'm trying to get through it. I'm trying to read it. Okay, but it's Kathy, spelled K A

Amanda: T, H, I, E. That's how you spell Kathy. Margot.

Marco: Not with a Y.

Amanda: You can do anything that's with a Y. Can also be with an ie.

Marco: Okay, so Mandy, your nickname is with

Amanda: a Y, but I went through a phase where it was with an ie. So there you go. And you could also just do I like our dear sister in law, Carrie can be with an ie. It can be with an I. It can be with a Y.

Marco: That's true. That's true.

Marco: Okay, well, there you go. So, Kathy, I stand corrected.

Amanda: There we go.


This podcast provides a peacefulness I've enjoyed on many nights

Marco: Kathy. MH sent this September 27, 2024, and they write the very best. Five stars. This podcast has been amazing. Truly a great find. The voices are so pleasing and the conversations and the back and forth dialogue are wonderful. Marco goes above and beyond in creating calmness throughout the episodes. I think I can just stop there. I don't have to read anything else.

Amanda: and Amanda? Good enough?

Marco: No, there's no mention of Amanda. The show provides a, ah, peacefulness I've enjoyed for many on many nights where I've suffered with pain and anxiety. It is a soothing and it is tranquilizing.

Amanda: Oh, Kathy, we love you. Thank you so much. And I hope for less pain and less suffering.

Marco: Yes, Kathy, thank you so much. I hope I didn't cause pain by saying you don't spell Kathy with an ie, because now I stand corrected.

Amanda: You did cause suffering for me.

Marco: Well, Kathy didn't mention you. That's all I'm going to say.


Next review is from Jessox. They left this review on, uh, 2024

All right, the next one.

Amanda: Listen, it's fine. I'm a late bloomer on this podcast.

Marco: The next review is from Jessox. J E S I O X. How would you say that?

Amanda: I don't know, but I'm definitely saying that they live in Oregon.

Marco: Okay.

Amanda: I'm just picking states.

Marco: Fair enough. They left this review on, April 2nd, 2024.

Amanda: Okay.

Marco: Asleep in 10 minutes. Five stars. It works. This podcast put me to sleep within 10 minutes. 10 out of 10.

Amanda: Wow. Right thank you. Jess or Jesse Ox or Jess Ox. However you say your name. Hopefully you're not awake to.

Marco: To hear us.

Amanda: To hear us talking about you. Yeah.

Marco: All right. And then the ones from Canada. I'm just going to read the. The last three. Okay.

Amanda: Do we know what province they're from?

Marco: No, but I'll let you guess.

Amanda: Okay.

Marco: It doesn't tell me that information, Amanda. that's why I can't tell you. I wish it. I wish it did.

Amanda: There's my name again.

Marco: I can't call you babe on the podcast. It just doesn't feel right.

Amanda: Okay.


Amanda: Saying the word gentleman is funny to me

Marco: All right, so here we go.

Amanda: There's no one else in this room. Like I'll know you're talking to me.

Marco: I know, but m. Maybe our listeners, new listeners, are like, who is that gentleman speaking to? Amanda? I'm reinforcing the name.

Amanda: People thinking. People's mind voice. Saying the word gentleman is funny to me. Oh, who's that gentleman?

Marco: That's true. I say gentleman a lot.

Amanda: You do.

Marco: I do.

Amanda: And yet you don't say gentle woman.

Marco: It feels wrong. Should I say gentlewoman now?

Amanda: You should.

Marco: If I see.

Amanda: So I would like you to start using the word gentlewoman and fortnite. Okay. That's your task for the next.

Marco: I'll do my. I'll do my best.


Kaylee Kate says she falls asleep to Marco and Amanda's voices

All right, so here we go. Kaylee Kate. June 3, 2024.

Amanda: Definitely from Texas.

Marco: This is Canadian Reviews.

Amanda: Oh, still from Texas.

Marco: Okay, fair enough.

Amanda: From Alberta.

Marco: Okay. Love this pod. Exclamation mark. Five stars. Have been listening most nights for over a year now. I look forward to a new episode every week, which I rarely finish. That's music to my ear. I don't think I could ever meet them in person since I think I've trained myself to fall asleep to Marco and Amanda's voices. Haha.

Amanda: That's a fair thing. I will tell you, Kaylee Kate, of. Of what I've determined to be Alberta, but I have no idea. I will tell you. We, myself and my husband, for quite a while, were listening to British things, British TV shows to fall asleep to. And then we took a British class of, really wonderful people that were doing, best practices.

Marco: Friends of ours.

Amanda: Friends of ours. Yeah. And that we work with work colleagues and friends. Anyway, they're lovely. They're very engaging. It was not a relax. Not meant to be a relaxing class at all. But Marco kept falling asleep.

Marco: I kept falling asleep because we were

Amanda: so trained that British discussion means it's sleepy time.

Marco: Right. Well, it was also in A very, sort of, you know, parceled out, way so of. Of a class and somewhat serious. So of course I fell asleep.

Amanda: I, like, you said music to my ear. Just the one ear. Yeah.

Marco: Ah, the other ear is busy listening.

Amanda: Got it. Oh, I like that.


The next podcast goes back to September 24, 2023

Marco: All right, so here we go. The next one. Sleep Sleepless, north of Seattle.

Amanda: Okay.

Marco: That's their name.

Amanda: So definitely they're in Nova Scotia.

Marco: Right? I was waiting for you to. Great. Podcast is the title. Five stars. Eggnog in my coffee. Eggnog in my frother, panettone French toast. I'm definitely living, like, every week is Shark Week since I found this podcast.

Amanda: Oh, my God, I love this. You get us, you understand us, and you must be in bc. I was joking about the Nova Scotia thing. Obviously.

Marco: This was left December 18, 2023, but I had to read it because when I saw it, it really brought warmth, to it.

Amanda: Live every week like it's Shark Week.

Marco: Live every week like it's Shark Week.

Amanda: We need to put that on a mug, a T shirt, a plaque of some kind, something.

Marco: Something.

Amanda: Maybe put it on our front door.

Marco: Wouldn't that be great?

Amanda: Live every week like it's.

Marco: I would do it.

Amanda: Okay, let's do it.

Marco: All right, this one goes back to September 24, 2023.

Amanda: Oh, going into the vault.

Marco: Yeah, we're going. We're going back here.


Marco keeps showing me people's names after, and I'm not sure why

Amanda: And Marco keeps showing me people's names after, and I'm not sure why did you want me to say their name?

Marco: Just in case I'm saying them wrong? Because now I. I feel very,

Amanda: Judged.

Marco: Judged. And I don't. I hate it when people get people's names wrong. So I want to make sure that I get their names.

Amanda: So this is Diane and B. Yeah,

Marco: so this is from Diane and B. Diane.

Amanda: New Beginnings or New Brunswick? New Brunswick, my. My home province.

Marco: There you go.

Amanda: Although I haven't lived there in a long time.

Marco: But it's still your home province because you talk about it quite a bit.

Amanda: Well, it needs. New Brunswick still has not gotten its due as far as I'm concerned. People still treat it like province to drive through to get to other provinces.

Marco: And it's beautiful. It is beautiful, and it's wonderful, and it has lovely people.

Amanda: The best people.

Marco: There you go. Would you say that about Diane and Bea, who you haven't met yet?

Amanda: No, I know.

Marco: Okay.

Amanda: Why is this gonna be a. This would be really funny if I said all this, and then Diane's like, hate this podcast. Two stars, one star.

Marco: No, Diane wouldn't be like that. Cause she's from New Brunswick, we're guessing. And it's wonderful. Five stars. That's the title.

Amanda: That's nice.

Marco: I don't know why I took so long to write a review. Because you're from New Brunswick and that's what it takes.

Amanda: Oh, what is that? What kind of left handed judgmental compliment was that?

Marco: That wasn't meant to be.

Amanda: Because you're from New Brunswick and that's what it takes.

Marco: No, that.

Amanda: Does that mean that we're slow to the. To the review writing?

Marco: That you've got lots to do and you don't necessarily have time to write reviews is what I meant from it.

Amanda: I really don't think that's what you meant.

Marco: Okay, well, I'm sorry if it came out the wrong way.

Amanda: See what I have to put up with, Diane? This is what living it on Ontario is, slander to our people.

Marco: You're gonna offend our Ontarian listeners.

Amanda: Well, I'm also one of them.


I found the Insomnia project at a particular difficult time that included insomnia

Marco: Okay, so. All right, let me. Let me backtrack. I don't know why I took so long to write this writer review. I found the Insomnia project at a particular difficult time that included bouts of insomnia. Listening to Marco and Amanda was soothing. Like having someone else up with you in the middle of the night. Even if I sleep much better now, I look forward to the episodes and play them at bedtime to relax and fall asleep. This podcast helps my mind be quiet so that I can drift off. Come for the sleep aid, stay for their interesting conversations. Highly recommended.

Amanda: That's wonderful.

Marco: And there you go. Very robust review too. And I. I do appreciate that.

Amanda: Marco, should I take your podcasting class? I think maybe I should.

Marco: I don't think you should. I don't know. I don't know how that would work out.

Amanda: I think I want to learn how to edit.

Marco: Do you think you would edit?

Amanda: I think it would be helpful for you.

Marco: It would be certainly helpful for me.

Amanda: I want to support you.

Marco: Well, let's record more often. That would be supportive for me. That would. That would help.

Amanda: So I offered to.

Marco: Why don't you schedule it in?

Amanda: What?

Marco: I don't calendly. I don't have in what calendly calendarly.

Amanda: Listen, when we met, I had every moment scheduled. You taught me how to live in the moment. And now, all these years later, I don't write anything down. Isn't that crazy?

Marco: No, it's not crazy. It's. It's.

Amanda: I literally only know it's because of the nature of my job, too.

Marco: Fair enough.

Amanda: And our lives. But I can tell you at best, next week and that's it. And then I go, okay, what did I tell other people I would do? Oh, I have. I told her I would go there. I told him I'd meet up with him on this night. That's as far as I schedule.


We're going mushroom hunting today. I haven't gone since I was a little kid

Marco: We're going mushroom hunting.

Amanda: I can't believe. Foraging, I believe.

Marco: Foraging, yes. I call it hunting, but I guess,

Amanda: well, see, if you can snag a mushroom. Yeah, yeah.

Marco: I'm excited. I haven't gone since I was a little kid.

Amanda: I. I mean, I once went foraging and I don't even think I've. It wasn't proper foraging.

Marco: What. What was it like? Did you. Was it for mushrooms or was it for just.

Amanda: It was me, you and your dad, and your dad showing me mushrooms.

Marco: Oh, okay.

Amanda: We. And him putting them in a bag. And then your mom saying, throw out this bag and tell him you ate them.

Marco: Okay.

Amanda: So that's what that was.

Marco: All right.

Amanda: She was too afraid the mushrooms were poisonous. She didn't trust them, so she wouldn't let me eat any of them.

Marco: Fair enough. But my dad knew mushrooms.

Amanda: I know, but your mom was your. Is your mom.

Marco: Fair enough. If you go foraging, make sure you go with an expert forager, which we are doing.

Amanda: You go foraging, isn't there? If you go to the woods today. What is that?

Marco: You're in for a big surprise. It's the day the teddy bears have their picnic.

Amanda: Oh, the teddy is. That's the. How do we both know the teddy bear picnic song?

Marco: It's a song kids sing, I think.

Amanda: Yeah, My brother was into that song.

Marco: Yeah. Let me ask you this.

Amanda: Yeah.

Marco: Are. Is there a mushroom you're excited to forage for?

Amanda: I would love. I don't know if they're in season, but those lobster mushrooms. Oh, yeah, those big orangey ones. Yes, that would be the one. How about you?

Marco: Listen, would I love to find a porcini mushroom? A porcino? Yes. Will I find it in Ontario? No.

Amanda: Okay.

Marco: So if I can't find that, I would love to find some chanterelles.

Amanda: Okay.

Marco: Or morels.

Amanda: Okay.

Marco: Or any mushroom that ends in l. Okay. A morale would make chantrell morel or any. Anything that incident.

Amanda: Okay.

Marco: Yeah. I'm not in the mood to find those oyster, mushrooms or things that.

Amanda: What, when you say you're not in the mood to find, are they particularly hard or something?

Marco: No, they're pedestrian. Like, you know, you see them in the store all the time.

Amanda: Pedestrian.

Marco: Yeah. Ah, I'm using all the P words today. Penultimate. Pedestrian.

Amanda: Wow.

Marco: Pterodactyl. Stay tuned. I'll use that. but there's an episode of the Golden Girls where the guys, the person that the Golden Girls are talking to, his name is Pfeiffer. Ah. They say Mr. Pfeiffer. And he says, no, it's Pfeiffer. And then he says something rude to Sophia and she goes, watch it, Pfeiffer. I'll punch you in the face. And it's a very funny line. And I think of that anytime there's a silent pee.

Amanda: Very funny.

Marco: So those are the mushrooms I'm looking forward to. We will talk about that on next week's show. And I'm going to be working on the holiday episodes.

Amanda: I can't believe it.

Marco: So get set for those.


We've already started it on the eggnog in our coffee

Amanda: We've already started it on the eggnog in our coffee.

Marco: Yeah, Amanda got eggnog. Actually. Amanda, didn't you scorch my mouth with the eggnog?

Amanda: No, I scorched your mouth with the almond, pumpkin spice coffee creamer. Yeah, it had large promise. But also I didn't realize because it's almond and oat, apparently that heats up quicker. And I put in eggnog prior to that. So I was used to going even longer with the little frother because not that I control how long it froths, but, because eggnog takes longer. But then I put in this oat oil, almond pumpkin spice stuff that I got on sale because you know me, and put it in the coffee, not realizing that it was like scalding hot. How's your mouth? Has it recovered? That was last week.

Marco: It's fine, it's fine. I almost bought peanut milk. It was on sale.

Amanda: What? I know, I've never heard of that.

Marco: Yeah, it's a little box of peanut milk. Yeah, I think it's used in, in some, some ethnic cuisine. I don't know which one.

Amanda: Never heard of that.

Marco: Yeah, I almost bought. It was 24 cents.

Amanda: Well, right now we've got the almond. Oh, it's almond and oat. And then I've got a candy cane eggnog and then a normal eggnog.

Marco: Just so we have just so much

Amanda: seasonal drink for our coffee in this house right now. So much.

Marco: We hope whatever you are drinking next to you right now, it's getting cold because you're fast asleep. And until next time, we hope you listen and sleep.