Getting Through This with Tom and Scott

Tom laments the end of the Saks Fifth Avenue light and sound Christmas display, but Scott sees a silver lining. And Tom and Sandy deliver a Christmas miracle to the lobby of Scott and Ginger's building.

The new Johnny Carson biography puts Scott in a literary predicament. Should he put aside his quest to finish the remaining 962 pages of The Power Broker by his birthday in March, to revisit the first Carson biography Tom gave him ten years ago, so he can procrastinate reading the new one?

Pardon us, but why should a President have the power to pardon someone, an act more fit for a king? And we speculate what might happen if Scott used the French term for "excuse me", "Pardon", to someone while walking down a Paris street, and that person happened to have a criminal record. Would French law automatically pardon that person, and would that lead to Scott and Tom being named co-Prime M...

We give thanks for what didn't happen at our Thanksgiving dinner, like Tom falling on top of the delicious side dishes. And that's something he's very proud of. In an historic breakthrough, those very side dishes at the dinner were no longer mere opening acts, and stole the spotlight from the tasty but non headlining turkey.

We celebrate our 732nd episode, because we don't see the point in only commemorating round numbers with 00 and 50. And we propose using our soon to be completed time machine to go back to 1959 and produce a black and white game show called What's Your Problem?

Scott faces a night of toilet terror when his bathroom is off limits because of floor retiling. The tension is Hitchcockian, except that Hitch doesn't make a cameo appearance in the bathroom.

Cliche Court is in session, but rest assured we won't be throwing the baby out with the bath water, because that's one of those disturbing cliches that has no place on this podcast.

We take another look at CRISPR, the genetic tool that earned Doudna and Charpentier the Nobel Prize, to ask the question on everyone's mind. Can we use CRISPR to produce a super intelligent bear?

After a long run of balmy weather, the first autumnal day causes Scott to face his seasonal outerwear amnesia. He must use trial and error to remember which coats and jackets he employs when the temperature takes a dip.

Tom hasn't done anything embarassing lately, yet he still can't get his name off the list of the 400 Most Embarassing People in America. He has no idea who the people are behind this list, so contacting them to make his case is impossible. Or is it?

Scott revisits a literary commitment he made two years ago, and vows to finish the remaining 960 pages of The Power Broker by Robert A. Caro, by his birthday on March 5.

Tom's visit to New Orleans takes a surprising turn when he runs into an old friend he hasn't seen in years. We calculate that the odds of that happening are less than winning two Lottos in the same day while being struck by lightning from three different storms.

Tom and Scott do their part to cure the election blues of their constituents, as the self appointed, unelected co-Mayors of Irving place in Manhattan. Thanks to their "not seen and not heard" style of governance, the mood on the street of their five block district is cool, calm and collected.

We reveal the previously unknown solution to your Election Day blues, that involves a delicious chocolate pastry and other details that you can only discover in this episode.

This one boggles the mind: Tom and Scott do something so unlikely it's the equivalent of winning the lottery twice while getting hit by lightning from three different seriously. Only the truth is way better than the metaphor because of the lightening,obviously.

As we countdown to election day Tom and Scott boldly challenge pundits who fill the air with "what to watch for" advice, desperately given because it's impossible to intelligently talk for hours and hours about an event that has not yet happened.

Scott vigorously defends the UN, but the conversation soon ltakes on the rarely-discussed danger of walking too close to the UN building and getting swept up in a crowded demonstration, followed by an additional series of mishaps that accidentally results in the hapless pedestrian being expected to address the General Assembly -- without a written speech or even an idea of what to say!

The historic run of lovely weather continues unabated prompting Tom and Scott to wonder why it isn't covered b local TV news the way weather disasters are covered, with reporters in parts of the city most affected by the pleasant temperature.

A rare historic follow up to our previous nice weather alert, Scotty walks back a forecast of inclimate weather that thankfully did not pan out.

A relentless string of perfect weather in New York has us asking a question no climatologist has dared to ask: Why stop with ending global warming? Why not keep not burning fossil fuels until every single day of the year is perfect weather everywhere on the planet?

Tom and Scott describe how they searched Madison Square Park for a place to put a statue to honor Tom and Scott for having saved democracy with a novel voting idea that borrowed from American Idol. Much effort is made by both Tom and Scot so that the future statue does not mean fewer tables or benches in the park

The debate between Trump and Kamala Harris inspires Scott to suggest just make Kamala president. Tom offers a democracy-saving compromise: after a debate allow everyone to immediatelyvote with their phones like American Idol. Also we expressed hope that the host of the debate never has the power to pick the winner and therefore president. But saving democracy leaves us with a dilemma: where to put...

The end of summer? Not so fast, as Scotty proves in a stunning word symphony that by Scott's own eloquence about his and his girlfriend's late summer pleasures. But Tom vigilantly faces down an possible unintended consequence: will listeners find Scott's joyful elegy to the not yet end of summer inspirational and a vicarious delight? Or will there be envy, jealousy and bitterness?

Tom reveals (again) he is one of the 400 most most embarrassing people in North America but proudly reveals that at a recent party several extremely embarrassing things did NOT happen, including the fact that Tom did not drive his car into his friends living room, which would have been hugely awkward.

After more than 700 performances the Broadway show "Wicked" is finally criticized by Tom Saunders, who finds the tunes not "catchy" enough, but who also is joyful that no one critic, including himself, has the power to close a show.