Getting Through This with Tom and Scott

The swiffer is an excellent cleaning device, that but has Scott thrown his girlfriend "under the bus" by blaming Ginger for making him think the name is actually "Swifter". This leads to a discussion about guys puffing up their friends credentials as Tom describes Scott as "President of Macy's worldwide" even though he was once only an advertising copywriter for t...

Tom speaks to the people listening to the podcast 1000 years from now and asks them an awkward question: why haven't you used your time machines, which will be commonplace by then, to come back to our time period and help us build the first time machine? This discussion evolves into another uncomfortable conversation that Scott would have to have with his girlfriend Ginger about whether they s...

Scott reveals his shocking true story from when he was a Northwestern student in the 1970s and he was in charge of an campus event but the guest of honor -- a stripper -- didn't show up. What he did next made local TV news.

What with half of all office workers still working from home even five years after the pandemic, what to do with those huge empty office buildings? It's not an academic question, as they are becoming so inexpensive it may be that we will have no choice but to buy one. Then what? Tom thinks the only possibility is to turn them into giant indoor water park, but the very question somehow leads to...

A spur-of-the-moment get together of four friends for dinner redefines the traditional "dinner party" and in the process unearths memories of The Sophisticates, a group of culturally advanced friends from Tom's middle school days.

Tom's eight hour road trip to Columbus Ohio with 20 year friend yields another podcast, this time about political influencers, once known as pundits. This leads to a revelation that dyi-eschewing Scott used to play a tool-belt wearing carpenter for an advertising campagn!

Tom describes a historic 8 hour road trip from New York City to Columbus Ohio with a 20 year old dude -- a meeting of boomer and gen z guy that thrillingly bridges a vast generation gap.

Tom takes listeners through a micro-history of "wayward youth" in America, ending with a surprising twist as pandemic-traumatized Gen Z reportedly cower from social life and eschew parties, dating and sex. Will Hollywood make B-movies about wild older "Boomers" like us like in 1950s drive-in films about teenage juvenile delinquents? And will humans die out from lack of reproduc...

Is the crazy weather in New York, changing from cold to hot to cold, a harbinger of hyper changable weather patterns to come? Scott and Tom muse about a future of snowy freezing mornings that become tropical by noon, forcing skiers to shed clothes halfway down the slope and everyone to always carry massive suitcases filled with coats, sweaters, shorts and swimwear!

A middle of the night call from the police in Windham New York requires Tom and his fiancee to drive 220 miles to their second home in the Catskills. In so doing they become victims of international events on the other side of the world!

A Flaneur In LA. That what Scotty was last week, and that is the title of what may someday be an award winning movie or a beloved 10-part Netflix series about Scott's experience of walking uphill in 90 degree heat from Beverly Hills to Westwood, passing virtually no other pedestrians, and discovering something amazing about himself.

In a local coffee shop Tom sees someone he is sure is a literary star and great wit, but doesn't specifically recognizes him. Should he approach him?

Scott recieves a birthday offer for a free dessert that would normally cost $14. The problem is, the restaurant is in the Virgin Islands, over a thousand miles from his home on Manhattan's Murray's Hill neighborhood. This results in a dilemma that will some day be studied on the graduate level at The University of Chicago's Kenneth C Griffin school of economics, and no doubt will be re...

Tom is puzzled by the slogan on the sign of a neighborhood Pizza Parlor, leading to an exploration of what makes an advertising slogan hugely successful.

Lots of snow in New York makes Scotty worry thgat complaining about it will years later make him look "old". The conversation evolves into a study of why nothing should make anyone feel old, ever..

As scrupulously honest and transparent hosts, who accept no recompense(not even cows), for their praise of products, Tom and Scott hope the day never comes when betting will taint the podcast world with hosts tipping off their friends about what they're going to talk about.

The Flaneur in Winter. As the foremost flaneurs in America, Tom and Scott stroll with no set purpose or destination in mind. But how do they navigate their flaneuring under freezing conditions?

Tom fears wearing a scarf. But more shockingly, Scott not only embraces scarf wearing, but he recently bought one that feels so soft on his neck that he feels like a million dollars. Which is different than actually being a millionaire.

Facial tissues are nothing to sniff about. Scott never leaves the house without them, and we explain, rather persuasively, why you should too.

Tom hasn't slipped on the ice so far this winter, but will celebrating that fact tempt fate?

Scott announces that he is adding a new profession to his resume which already includes comedian, comedy teacher, self appointed unelected co-mayor of Irving Place in Manhattan, and of course Nobel Prize deserving podcaster. What is this profession and how will he work it into his busy schedule? The answer may surprise you.

Skiing is expensive, difficult to learn and causes injury, so we propose a teturn of long neglected winter sports, and lavish resorts exclusively for sledding, tobagganning, and making snowmen.

A trip to the nations capital and a particular exhibet at a huge museum yields a brain storming event about how to make using the dishwasher, taking care of a demanding cat and even shaving extremely fun and creative.

Scooping legacy media, Tom and Scott vividly describe a birthday dinner for 10 in Chinatown's best restaurant that was completely ignored by the press. The event, managed ably by Tom's fiancee Sandy, is likened to a festive scene in a Bob Hope-Bing Crosby road picture. But that reference raises a dark question: what if, as in those old films from Hollywood's "golden age", we...

The entire news media, from The New York Times to youtubers with selfie sticks, ignored Tom's birthday -- and he couldn't be happier. This leads to a discussion of a bizarre birthday tradition affecting children in the Midwest during Tom's childhood. Trigger alert, this could be traumatizing to older, extremely sensitive listeners.