Getting Through This with Tom and Scott

Scott gets his second jab from a friendly nurse, but he makes sure not to be too funny so he doesn’t distract her from delivering the vaccine properly. Tom sings the plaintive song of the inbetweener as he awaits his second dose.

We imagine what it would be like if there was no such thing as a mirror. Why, we would have to hire people to describe what we look like. We celebrate and appreciate the world’s first selfie.

Scott, in his high pitched Brooklyn accent, did Rangers hockey play by play as a kid, and Tom had a standup persona as a German comedian. All part of .our “Accent on Accents”.

Allbirds shoes has the same magic effect on Scott as it does on Tom. But they fear that singing the praises of products will cause multinational advertising conglomerates to try to lure them away with promises of diamond shoes and solid gold Rolls Royces.

When we were growing up, everyone watched television at the same time and talked about it the next day at the office water cooler. Did the decline in water coolers lead to streaming content that you could watch and talk about anytime? We propose the Museum of Water Coolers, and you heard it here first.

As they wait for their second vaccine, Tom and Scott are The Inbetweeners, which sounds like the name of a long running British farce in the West End. And even though Tom got the Moderna and Scott the Pfizer, they are still great friends who live in peace and harmony.

Tom and Scott think they should be co-CEO’s of Amazon. Because if they can do a podcast, they can run a $1.4 trillion company. And offer their friends free subscriptions to the Washington Post.

Scott would politely decline a free Bentley because it would require a lot of work, and have an adverse effect on his social life. Tom reveals another reason: The free Bentley scam. Plus, we retire the expression, “Hoping against hope.”

Scott trudges through the blowing snow, hoping his walk will be seen on local news coverage. And Tom recalls shoveling snow as a teenager in a kind of suburban chain gang.

Tom’s anxiety melts away as he slaloms around the orange pylons at Dodger Stadium and gets the vaccine. The only thing missing was a concession stand with vaccine caps, mugs and t-shirts

A helicopter hovers and shines a beacon of light on Tom’s house. What happens next will thrill and delight you, as will our analysis of the expression “on the lam”, not lamb. Plus, a preview of our lecture to prisoners on why crime doesn’t pay, or at least not as much as it used to.

300 shows in 300 days. Helping you get through this by escaping to a plus positive world where there’s always a silver lining. With flights of fancy and time travel that take you on a journey without getting up from your LaZboy chair.

Tom and Scott are so well stocked with suitcases and shelves respectively, of paper towels and toilet paper, they have become a distribution center for just themselves. And Scott’s 175 mini York Peppermint Patties should cover his desserts through April.

Scott’s Task Rabbit Elizabeth can break the glass ceiling, and then immediately repair it. She assembled his mid century modern sofa after a thrilling Craigslist experience finds a taker for his old sofa.

The weekend will be coming back in a few months, so should we start getting anxious now about not having weekend plans?

Tom and Scott ponder life after the pandemic. While some may inexplicably choose to still stay at home, we’re getting ready for the next dance craze. And if maypole dancing becomes the rage, should the Defense Production Act be instituted to ramp up production of maypoles?

Scott gets his first Covid vaccine with the happiest group of people he’s ever seen in a hospital. And it didn’t hurt a bit! Tommy gets his jab next week at Dodger Stadium, and wonders if there’ll be Dodger Dogs for sale.

Scott performs a real time intervention to get Tom to try Facebook. What follows is a groundbreaking new kind of non compensated advertising that recalls the vim and vigor of 1950’s ads.

If you hear us breathing a sigh of relief on this episode, it’s because it’s the first one we’ve done without Trump as President. This is the end of a monster movie, where the good and decent people defeat him and save our country.

We celebrate and appreciate the loafer. A shoe so comfortable it makes you feel like you’re on a South Seas island. And we’re amazed by the “Try Me” feature on the AllBirds app that makes it look like you’re actually wearing that wool mizzle. you’re eyeing.

Thrill to this never before told story about Tom, Mark Burnett, Commando Nanny and The Apprentice.. Scott wonders if the meeting had gone a little differently, maybe Donald Trump would never have been President.

Scott wants to make enough money, and not a penny more, to afford fully assembled furniture. Tom wants to get rid of two couches but they’re the ones his cat claws apart and sleeps on. Plus, we propose separating field from track, so runners need not fear an errant discus throw or shot put.

Thinking about the 1960’s CBS series Mission Impossible triggers Tom’s fear of insomnia as a teenager. For Scott, the show merely conjures up the fact that the co-stars Martin Landau and Barbara Bain were married in real life.

In this special Tom Saunders 70th birthday edition, Life Magazine should return to feature a black and white photo of Tom with the headline “Tom at 70”. Tom and Scott celebrate being late bloomers, which sure beats peaking at 23.

Tom and Scott both have to do lists, which they pad just a little. Scott includes ”Get up” and Tom starts off with “”Do to do list”.