Getting Through This with Tom and Scott

Scott's herculean struggle to cancel a subscription to a small town digital newspaper exposes the dark underbelly of seemingly innocuous media imprisoning its readers like the octopussian "Trusts" of the gilded age.

Tom and Scott take on the daunting task of redefining and updating the "American Dream". The "American Dream" used to be a house in the suburbs surrounded by a picket fence, but now it's more vague and still somewhat exclusionary.

In a stirring public statement Tom declares he has "done nothing wrong" and that any accusations of illegality that may be made against him are completely fabricated. Why he is professing his innocence is shockingly different from the many public figures who have made the same clasim of innocence in years past.

Knicks win leads to surprising discovery.

Why a compassionate effort to spread the joy of perfect weather in New York to other less fortunate climates won't work, but deserves acolades anyway.

A chance get together with Scott, Tom and their girlfriends leads to fascinating speculation: could Scott live at the Morgan Library.?

For years Tom has podcasted frome the "Flatiron district" of Manhattan. But what is the story of the Flatiron building after which the district is named and why was it called a "folly"? This is the first episode where we attempted to video the actual building, as seen from the ;podcast studio.

Time is moving too fast! What can we do about it? We take on the problem, and in the process answer Hillel's famous question "if not now, when?"

A quickly aborted exploration of pavement turns into a spirited discussion of why someone in North Korea with a laptop can turn off America's electric grid.

Scott tells of his recent trip to Maine where he at old inns. Tom hopes the matter of fact travel tale can turn into a "tall tale" or a "shaggy dog story" with a rollicking kick-ass ending that hadn't been created yet! Would they pull off this anecdotal knuckle biter?

Quite simply, we reveal the fatal flaw with AI, in how it's like a nerdy would-be friend who actually doesn't get you.

When wil the fashion industry join forces with the security industry and create bulletproof riot gear for everyone, enabling the average Joe casually walk into into even the most dangerous places without fear?

Finally an insightful appreciation of lunch. From stories of TV writers obsession with the lunch break to a chilling warning of what could happen if all lunches "went away" and there was no noontime meal for anyone anywhere -- and how we must perhaps learn to navigate a world without lunch.

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?