Getting Through This with Tom and Scott

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.

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...