Getting Through This with Tom and Scott

Scott tells a riveting and important story of how he recently opened an old earbud case and found a wad of cash which he had forgotten about. Tom suggests this powerful true life account could warm the hearts of every human, even criminals. This leads to exciting speculation about Scott reading his podcast intro to convicts, a la Johnny Cash singing at Folsum Prison!

Cable news pundits have discovered that "two things can be true at once" but we start out by making fun of obvious truth and wind up telling true stories about chicken feet in China.

Scott's annual proclamation in earlyJanuary heralding the beginning of slightly longer days also inaugurates the season invented on this podcast of "pre-spring". Tom predicts our little tradition will one day become a world-wide week of wild celebration -- but will sarcastic "snarkos" spoil the party?

Under garments thrown at celebrities leads to a realization Scott could be a CEO for any company at least for a year. We also explain the potental dangers of "the golden parachute".

Socks have gone missing for centuries, but Getting Through This reveals one man's lonely but determined effort to get to the bottom of the neglected problem and track down missing socks as if they were missing people.

On this podcast we tell a true-life modern Christmas Story about four adults and their effort to enjoy a Christmas meal in New York City. But will "Twas A Dinner In Chinatown" take it's place in the pantheon of 'Christmas literature alongside such enduring classics as "How the Grinch Stole Christmas"? Or will our story evaporate from the public consciousness like snow o...

Two vacation trips, one idyllic, with Scott lolling in the Carribean with his girlfriend Ginger while Tom and his fiancee Sandy's trip to Lisbon runs into a road block: a general strike in Portugal means all flights are cancelled. No trains either. But Sandy and Tom don't give up -- which in this case is rather costly.

Finally our "podcast of record" deals with Artificial intelligence, but as always the conversation evolves, and the discovery of a new pleasure and source of secret pride: being the "first laugher".

Tom reveals he is not on Facebook and tells why in a devastating rant that could end social media in general. But then he drops the other shoe, in a twist that will flummox media experts.

A possibly historic SNAFU resulted in the 800th episode of GTT turning out to be episode 801! But if that weren't shocking enough, in an important and serious twist we imagine the world leaders gathering in Tom's Fiancee Sandy's 9 bedroom bed and breakfast in the Catskill Mountains and working out their differences over one historic weekend. But would Putin be happy with the "Gaze...

We're back! The historic four week long blackout of our podcast due to technical difficulties has finally ended. And in the returning episode we reveal the folly of lamenting something that never happened.

Scott is back from Italy, and describes how he decided against doing the podcast entirely in Italian since he doesn't know more than a handful of Italian phrases. This turned into a spirited ongoing conversation about whether travel stories need to be primarily about travel mishaps and disasters, and if so, does jet lag count? Jet lag as an excuse for extreme or even criminal behavior is discu...

While Scott is in Italy,with his girlfriend Ginger, Tom admits he exagerrated his friends Scott and Ginger's relationship to Italian Royalty when describing them to his visiting nephew. In an effort to keep from disappointing his nephew, Tom tries to get Scott and Ginger to return to New York for just one hour and pretend to be related to Italian royalty, then return to Italy. Will Scott make...

Tom made a visit to New York by his nephew, nieceand grand niece by describing cohost Scott as Italian royalty, even though he isn't Italian or royal. Adding to the pickle, Tom promised that Scott and his girlfriend would fly back from Italy just for one hour to regale Tom's relatives with royal Italian anecdote, then fly back. What would be Scott's response?

Scott is a modern day jet setter, suavely performing on a podcast by day, jetting off to Italy with his lady friend by night. Yet, weighing on him is the unfinished business of a storage unit in Brooklyn. Obviously this led to a time-travel enabled 1960s style movie half in color depicting Scott's swinging flight to Italy and the other half a black and white 1950s Italian neorelist movie griml...

A recent dinner results in no acts of heroism, which Scott recalls in an intro that explores acts of non-heroism. The intro is positive and pleasant that Tom imagines it could shock a huge auditorium of a well-dressed podcast audience into complete quietude. But what happens next will even warm the hearts of the congenitally cynical.

Tom struggles with a new identity: hero. For driving his fiancee and friends to, around and back from the Catskills he is amply lauded by his grateful passengers . But will random strangers find out about his heroism and expect him to perform heroic acts at their beck and call and whim? "you'd be a REAL hero if you drove our toddler to school while my husband and I have breakfast in bed&q...

Scott gets a covid shot, igniting a spirited Lasker Prize-worthy discussion of the pandemic and its lingering effects that inspires Tom to devise a totally new take on the "breath of fresh air" cliche.

Tom stares a horrible truth in the face: in college he came within a hairs breadth of choosing to pursue a career in philosophy, but instead how he dodged a bullet that would have resulted in never coming to New York, never pursuing comedy, never doing this podcast, and the rest of his life being tragically worse than pointless.

Scott's summertime ferry ride to Far Rockaway adds to a growing mountain of evidence that he is not the land-lubber he and everyone else has always assumed, and in fact he could eventually become the captain of a huge cruise ship, almost by default.

On a rainy day in the Catskills Tom finds himself forced to check in guests to a hotel, despite it not being his job or even something he kmows how to do. This while his fiancee, the actual owner of the hotel, has gone sightseeing with an extremely talkative home-wrecker.

When Scott attended a "cabaret concert" at a nearby Polish Consulate, he couldn't have known he would wind up having a lengthy face-to-face conversation with a high ranking official in the Polish government -- or that his conversation may have averted an international incident, just by not causing one as the result of a joke or something that doesn't translate well and causes ser...

Despite being on the list of the 500 most embarrassing people in North America and despite the fact that many of the embarrassing events that put Tom on that list occurred at parties, Tom accepted an invitation to a friend's labor day gathering in New Jersey. Spoiler alert: get ready to cringe.

Scott describes his walk in Central Park and ponders the end of summer in an intro that Tom claims is better than anything ever written in The New Yorker. To drive home his point, Tom declares that as soon as they finish building their time machine, the first stop should be New York in the 1920s, when Scotty will join the wits and literary giants who share their bon mots around the famed Algonquin...

This one is hard, as we revisit the fact that Tom is one of the 500 most embarrassing people in North America, mostly because of a horrifying series of party fouls. But we also talk about Tom's brave struggle to finally get off "the list that no one wants to be on".