Back Through The Basement Episode 25 - "Rubber Fred Flintstone" and Asthma Attacks
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“The random nature of the Hodgepodge Bin” continues and…wait for it...they found a box WITHIN the bin of… you guessed it...PINS!! Oh Brother. Yes: BROTHER!! Brother Tom, really!! Enough with the pins! The bin also unearths: a funny plumber fox/cat toy thing that Julee can’t help but voice, and a rubber toy she thinks is perhaps the most boring and uninteresting thing ever. Oh yeah: and a dead insect in a glass. You can imagine the laughter that comes out of this episode -- so much so that Tom needed an albuterol hit! More importantly, “Back Through The Basement” shows us that you can stumble across what appears to be merely an insignificant rubber Fred Flintstone eraser until Tom, just by seeing it, recalls a life-changing chain of events that shaped a piece of his entire approach to living!
Now in their forties, Julee and Tom Antonellis are reconnecting as brother and sister in THE MOST distant a socially-distant podcast can be in the United States. While recording on each coast (and seeing each other over FaceTime) all the way from Los Angeles (Tom) to Boston (Julee), they start unearthing the core lessons, laughs and connections of their childhood. Plus, Julee has to fight her fear of cobwebs while Tom enjoys the comfort of his office -- yet he CAN'T touch his beloved toys like she can.
As their Instagram bio indicates -- @backthroughthebasementpod -- you can follow them there to see pictures of everything they unearth -- Tom & Julee (actors, comics, voiceover artists & siblings), children of the 80s, must go through all their toys and belongings in their parents’ basement. Oh boy!
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