Getting Through This with Tom and Scott

There are the ignorant and selfish non mask wearers, and the terrified and anxious never leave the house people, Scott and Tom have come up with a Better Way.. How to live life to the fullest, while still abiding by CDC guidelines.

Researchers say we’re undergoing a micro evolution which will result in smaller mouths and fewer teeth, including no wisdom teeth. We hope that doesn’t lower the average intelligence even more. Plus we find out we didn’t win the Nobel Prize this year, but we hope to be the entertainment for the ceremony.

We hope to hang out at Nobel Prize parties and after parties with Doudna and Carpentier, the women who won the Nobel Prize for the gene editing device, the Crispr, which is not a dating app for very tan people.

As Supreme Court confirmation hearings begin, we ask the weighty legal question, “Are fast forwarders of football games, like Tom, still considered fans?” And Scott feels guilty for not watching any NBA games this season, despite the sacrifice and courage of the players.

Scott reports on his magical walk alongFifth Avenue and Madison Avenue last night. Tom invents masks with LED images that waiters can use to display specials. And we introduce phrase enforcers who collect royalties from people who use expressions that other people come up with.

Scott marvels at the space age technology of the refrigerator in his new apartment, which for the first time, let’s him enjoy filtered water and crushed and cubed ice. Tom wants to have an heirloom tomato party with nothing but heirloom tomatoes, and songs about heirloom tomatoes.

Gretchen Whitmer’s sign language interpreters are celebrities themselves because of their expressive and theatrical translation. And we propose a peace plan that would end bee stings, and make them living longer.

Scott has his first live performance in seven months, and then the next day travels back to Brooklyn, and gets a haircut, even though Ali’s mask now sits on the top of his upper lip. Which leads to our latest invention, the chin bib.

Tom and Scott address their procrastination, several weeks after they originally planned to talk about it. Plus a technical glitch enables them to contrast their transparency with the lack of that by Trump’s personal physician.

Tom has a Hitchcock-like encounter at a juice bar and Scott finally watches The View. We introduce another invention, fraternal twin beds that look nothing like their standard twin sibling. And we hope The Wave, which is an unwelcome imposition at sporting events, never catches on again or leads to other traditions like standing on your seat and dancing like a ballerina

Our seven days a week production schedule cannot be stopped by sleet. And how did sleet, and not wind or fog, make it to the three things that won’t keep postal workers from completing their appointed rounds. Plus, was King Solomon the first flight attendant? And, since we’re speculative theologians, how will we juggle the anticipated lunch invitations from Princeton, Harvard and other Divinity sc...

In a very special Getting Through This After Dark edition, Scott breathlessly regales Tommy with his hot off the presses tale of the last part of his move from his childhood home in Brooklyn to Manhattan. Spoiler alert: It involves contractor bags.

Tom heroically eschews the use of his air conditioner during unusually warm and muggy LA weather. Scott comes up with two new quotations that he hopes the Bartlett family will publish. Tom suggest a book of non famous quotations. And do you have to be famous to have a famous quotation?

In this historic episode, Scott reports for the first time from the island of Manhattan. And he and Tom agree that fragile is the only word on a box that will have the desired outcome. Plus speculative history about court jesters.

It’s Scott’s last podcast from his childhood home in Brooklyn and as he prepares to podcast from his new apartment in Manhattan starting tomorrow, Tom and Scott discuss this new chapter in Scott’s life, as well as why all apartment buildings should have cheerleaders to welcome home residents.. And our latest invention idea is a small portable heater you can attach to your table for year round outd...

Our About Last Night episode starts with the Presidential debate, but then proceeds into suction cups, shaving, the Algonquin round table and, finally sophistication.

Scott discovers tiny works of art that tell a story- business cards. And especially the raised lettering engraved ones, like his Dad’s card. Tom proposes a way for ghostwriters to get the recognition they deserve with ghostwriting certificates.

While Scott luxuriates with his free print subscription to The Hollywood Reporter, Tom struggles to have his thumbprint accepted for a free one month digital trial. And they propose a trade publication, which is the opposite of Variety and THR, that tells you how poorly everyone’s career is going.

As he’s packing to move, Scott discovers a November 1988 issue of New York magazine, with a typically mean theater review by John Simon, Tom and Scott recall fondly the days of giant restaurants like Lundy’s in Brooklyn.

Tom faces a shortage of dish detergent in the Pacific Palisades, while Scott rejoices as he buys Purell hand sanitizer for the first time in almost seven months. Plus, why opening a can of worms isn’t something to worry about.

We don’t agree with Marie Kondo, and those who tell us to be “merciless “ in deciding what stuff to throw away. We think there’s no time limit on joy. Scott is putting about a hundred videotapes in storage, and Tom has saved numerous partially filled notebooks that he flips through in real time on the show.

In these times, television news pundits share their opinions and show the world their homes at the same time. We think they should always stay home, instead of appearing in studio in front of a generic skyline of an unidentifiable city.

Why just live in the present, and in the moment? We live in all of the moments, past, present and future. And we come up with ideas for 1947 cartoons, as well as making identical versions of classic old cars. And making concept cars available to everyone, too.

Scott finds letters from summer camp when he was 12 years old. Plus a Kent cigarette ad from 1964 that made creative use of the word “adsorptive”. And Tom thinks Scott’s visage should be etched onto the dime.

Which sound engineer responsible for artificial crowd noise on NFL telecasts, will emerge as a famed auteur? And our speculative history takes us back to the 1918 Spanish Flu, where we wish President Wilson had ended World War 1 since soldiers couldn’t socially distance.