Getting Through This with Tom and Scott

The streets of Manhattan may feel hot and humid, but when Scott rides the wondrous NYC Ferry along the East River, the trip is a breeze and he arrives at his destination cool and collected.

The airwaves are filled with “so called experts” with made up titles like “strategist “ On the other hand, Tom and Scott have every right to call themselves, The Unelected Self Appointed Co-Mayors of Irving Place.

On Bastille Day, the French Fete Nationale, we come up with the solution to speed up America’s pastime, baseball. The players should go back to wearing wool flannel uniforms and caps, and the tiny gloves of the 1930’s and 1940’s.

We introduce a new expression destined to become famous: “A parking spot helps one person, but an outdoor dining pavilion feeds thousands.” Plies, we present the Pro Bono Corps, a new WPA-like movement, that encourages citizens to help others pick out clothes at a store, choose an item on the menu, and so much more.

We celebrate the joy of socks, the great equalizer, worn by rich and poor alike. And what else can match the unbridled joy of discovering socks you forgot you had?

Once again we take time to appreciate the wondrous inventions of today, and like the visitors to the 1964 World’s Fair, we look forward to the future with breathless excitement. And we make the bold prediction that in 2050, our clothes will look pretty much the same.

We celebrate and appreciate our freedom to walk wherever and whenever we want. No walk paths must be submitted in advance. No Papers Required! Which sounds like the name of a long running show, popular with tourists, on London’s West End.

Thunderstorms are the great equalizer, as people of all backgrounds, huddle together under awnings and scaffolding to ride out the storm. We hope that many of them stay in touch and have yearly reunions, where they can reminisce about the guy who went back out on the street before the rain had let up.

We have another light bulb moment, as Scott fights procrastination and wins, as he replaces his bathroom bulbs. Plus, we would be remiss if we didn’t mention that Tom has a 1000 batting average in never being remiss. Should he be named baseball’s MVP despite opposition from baseball purists?

Unlike most podcasts, we rolled up our sleeves and got to work on the day after July 4, even though it’s a national holiday. We imagine a world where the only explosions in wars are fireworks, that don’t destroy, but entertain. And while we celebrate America’s independence, we concede that if we had lost the Revolutionary War, we would have been like Canada. Which wouldn’t have been a bad Plan B.

Can Siri be programmed to find lost keys, wallets and 3 oz hand sanitizer bottles? And why do supermarkets have that aimless robot with no discernible purpose other than to look scary?

If Tom and Scott recorded one podcast a week for 15 months, this would be our 60th episode. Instead, after doing our show seven days a week and now five days a week, we’ve reached our 400th episode. If you’ve never given us a listen, this episode is a great introduction to our world of time travel, speculative history, science and more, and talking about everything, anywhere that ever happened.

It’s the great unmasking as Scott and his two favorite building staff people see each other without a mask for the first time. After that poignant milestone, Scott shocks Tom by revealing he still plans to wear his mask in the elevator and lobby of his building

We recall the I Can Hear It Now: 1933-1945, CBS News album, moderated by Edward R. Murrow, as we compare the sound quality of our own voices on this podcast.

How many tenants does it take to screw in a light bulb? In Scott’s case, none. He just calls the maintenance office. But now Scott decides it’s time to start on the road to becoming a Mr. Fix-It.

We would take ranked choice voting one step further and have people vote for the character traits they like about each candidate, and then use a gene editing tool to create a person with all of those qualities.

Tom and Scott are proud to be tourists in their own city. We gawk at great architecture and giant skyscrapers. We love to be around other tourists because they’re always in a good mood and thrilled to be where they are. Like us.

One of the upsides of NYC not being fully back is the lack of cars driving on side streets. So you don’t have to wait for the walk sign, unless there’s a young family with kids waiting to cross, and you want to set a good example.

Are gun cliches stopping us from having the gun control this country needs? Let’s drop the tired and inaccurate cliches like, “I’m under the gun.” If you’re under it, you have nothing to worry about. Let’s use common sense by eliminating gun cliches.

Scott sings the praises of his deep dental cleaning, and laughing gas has nothing to do with it. Tom and Scott make a groundbreaking plea for a more positive attitude towards dentistry, despite the unattractive, contorted way we look in the chair. And it’s the only branch of medicine, that gives you a free parting gift, no matter how old you are.

Tom revels in the Victorian splendor of a Catskills inn, which Scott speculates was once the home of a railroad magnate. Are there still magnates today, and if so, can anyone claim to be one, without the authorities trying to prove it?

Tom proposes that another monument, plaque or animatronic figure of Scott be erected at Citi Field to honor his commitment to ending hatred and rancor directed at the opposing team’s fans.

We recorded this episode at 11 am ET, the earliest ever, which meant that Scott was still wearing his pajamas. We envision a city of pajamas, where everyone is clad in this not just for nighttime garb. Tom is old school, so he wears a rubberized podcast suit, in the unlikely event of a tsunami in the Flatiron District.

Tom and Scott are both in Manhattan, where they compare Tom’s road trip to the first moon walk. Scott would love to take a road trip too, but he proposes a giant Sidewalk Across America to let the pedestrian share the joy of cross country travel.

Tom’s historic cross country road trip takes him to wondrous Pittsburgh, the last stop before he arrives at his home in New York. Scott hails Tom as the new Ponce deLeon, and we speculate that the famed explorer found the Fountain of Youth, and is alive and well running a bar called Ponce’s Place in Florida.