After a quick jonesing for some steak fries -- ARRRGGHH! Steak Fries!! -- and coming to grips with a lot of moving parts to the episode including Keeper (listener) feedback and stories...not to mention some "School Island gems", Julee and Tom Tom start plugging through the Basement to find fun and heartwarming treasures! Do you remember doing book reports and making dioramas?! They uncover a classic Judy Blume-inspired diorama Tom made and it’s so impressive! Do your old school projects spur you to do impressions of your favorite movies? Hmmm. Must be an Antonellis thing. There's also a treasured doll that makes Tom feel the feelings and a Spielberg Movie Quote Game -- you can play along! Buckle up for an extended-length ride!
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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