Getting Through This with Tom and Scott

Our podcast has been shown to have a curative, but not preventive, effect on the virus. And it’s not because Scott is a scholar on the 1918 Spanish Flu because he has read the first seven pages of The Great Influenza. Or because Tom earned a PHD through graduate home schooling. But we do hope to get the endorsement of the CDC.

Tom and Scott make the much awaited announcement that they will seek unreelection as self appointed, unelected co-Mayors of Irving Place. And they get ahead of the rumors about Tom allegedly being a no show on the street, by proving that both Tom and Scott are showing up all the time, without making a big show about it. Except for this show.

It’s a very special Getting Through This New Year’s Laughin’ Eve with Tom and Scott. In the world we have created, there were plenty of great moments for us in 2021. We have inspired ourselves, and we hope you, dear listeners, as well. Our show is a digital time capsule, an ebullient and hopeful record of an uncertain time. Where delusional ideas quickly become quite plausible. Happy and Healthy N...

Scott is back home from Florida, where he managed to turn a positive Covid test into a positive experience. And he’s thankful for the friendly servers who called him “Hon”, and for the warm, sunny days on the white sands of Clearwater Beach. Tom’s Christmas was a happy family tale, despite the presence of a white van mysteriously parked in front of his room at the Holiday Inn Express in Libertyvil...

We celebrate pre spring, where the beginning of winter is offset by the days getting longer and lighter. Plus, we urge the rehabilitation of the word “amateur”, as we proclaim ourselves medical amateurs. No Big Pharma for us. Plus, why trees in cold climes love this time of year. Tommy reports from Libertyville Illinois while Scott is in Clearwater Beach Florida, showing that temperature disparity...

An historic podcast as Scott reveals he tested positive for Covid on Sunday. But Tom and Scott discover that doing a podcast can definitely be an effective treatment, but they stress, cannot prevent you from getting it.

Our listeners are geniuses, and so they are members of an exclusive club, that has no initiation fee. Or dress code! Plus, although you would never know it from our upbeat disposition, not being nominated for a Nobel Prize this year was quite disappointing to us.

Life imitates art that imitates life as Tom and Scott experience the exact same scenario at brunch at Friend of a Farmer as they did the last time they were there. Plus, a rare behind the scenes look at how they choose a restaurant on the Upper West Side after a film screening.

Tom and Scott feel like the toast of the town, as they bask in the elegance and gracious service at a reception after a film screening.

Tom is eating pastries every day since the pandemic began, but rather than judge harshly, Scott lauds Tom’s desire to enjoy mmmm good cinnamon buns. They wonder if Tom can find a way to get paid for eating pastries, and get paid for not eating them as well.

The lighting of the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree brings back memories of the days when there were lots of Christmas television specials and weekly variety shows that the whole family could watch together. Those days may be gone, but at least we have Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales to bring joy to all, and to all a good night.

As part time speculative etymologists, we wonder if panic is derived from pancakes, originally known as panic free cakes. And as speculative film historians, we think people will still be going to movie theaters 1000 years from now.

Tom and Scott head to New Jersey for Thanksgiving, but they first must face the challenge of getting Tom’s car out of the garage just steps from the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade route. What if a wrong turn puts his Volvo in the parade procession for 30 blocks?

Although we are not known for our financial advice, we dole out some holiday nuggets of wisdom, like not putting all of your money into anything, since then you’ll have none left. Especially when it comes to buying a $1 million suit.

After months of diligently and enthusiastically fulfilling his duties on the SAG Film Nominating Committee, Scott finds himself at the New York Premiere of “Tick Tick Boom” at a Broadway theater! Plus, why we think the stars would rather hang out with us after a Q&A, instead of getting into their Escalade.

Baby, it’s cold outside, and Tom and Scott salute the concept of layering. We eagerly peruse the Eddie Bauer catalog and other purveyors of cold weather clothing. And we solve the mystery of why people ever chose to live in cold winter places, instead of tropical climes.

If Daylight Savings Time is meant to help farmers, why not have farms be the only place where it takes effect? We shed light on the increasingly early darkness to help you get through the next few weeks. Plus we pitch the idea of why there are so many varied definitions of the word “pitch”.

The Unelected, Self Appointed Co-Mayors of Irving Place are back on their beat, and score a table for brunch at Friend of a Farmer, simply by asking for it. Soon to be a hit Off Broadway show, The Empty Table, which will then move to a larger house on Broadway.

Tom and Scott create Finders Keepers, a show about a detective who searches for personal items that are lost or misplaced. Co-starring Tom’s savvy cleaning woman who usually finds his lost items before he does.

Scott takes the redeye home from San Francisco, and gives the gift of time(the best gift of all), to our listeners, imploring them to tune out the anti redeye skeptics, and enjoy an extra full day of vacation. Tom comes up with a Nobel worthy idea to build museums and entertainment venues at our airports, to turn the drudgery of waiting into opportunities for fun and enrichment.

Tom discovers garbage strewn about the porch of his Catskills Victorian inn, , and later determines the culprit is a bear! Scott is in the Santa Cruz mountains for his nephew’s wedding, where only bears who are registered guests are permitted on the premises.

Our time machine is almost ready to go, except for the minor detail of not yet having the mechanism to allow us to travel in time. But the walk in cedar closets and lie flat seats are already in place. As is our plan to recruit time travel agents.

When Tom’s cousin good naturedly mocks his mountains, the Catskills, he decides not to immediately get on a plane to Boise to confront him. Scott lauds this diplomatic gesture which is surely worthy of the Nobel Peace Prize.

On this podcast, we leave no milestone unturned. Scott gets his booster shot, and despite his mild reaction, walks four miles to attend a screening of George Clooney’s film The Tender Bar, with a q and a with Clooney. Tom suggests that Scott become the first Q and A reviewer. And Scott ponders what question he could have asked that might have led to he and Clooney becoming friends.

Tom invents the expression, “The best parade is the one that’s unexpected.”Scott stumbles upon the Columbus Day parade and watches floats with sash wearing, waving people, and marching bands, as he gawks and walks 20 blocks along the Fifth Avenue parade route.