Getting Through This with Tom and Scott

Scott got bumped from his Newsmax appearance today. Was it jack booted thugs trying to stifle opposing points of view? Or were they just running long and he’ll be on again next week. Plus, we get nostalgic for the simpler days when we only had to contend with a pandemic.

Tom and Scott are news junkies, but they like to escape from our current reality sometimes,too. Tom’s newfound appreciation for his sleekly designed time machine, AKA IPad, takes him back to 1970 for such memorable moments as Santana live at Tanglewood, courtesy of YouTube.

Tom and Scott reflect on the mirror, as part of our continuing look at under appreciated products. And to be clear, we receive no financial support from the mirror lobbying Industry.

Tom’s barber is open for business in Los Angeles, but despite their fun conversations, Tom is uneasy about going back. Scott will have to wait at least another three weeks to get a haircut in New York, and his hair now looks the way it did in his 1976 college graduation photo.

We time travel to the 1964 World’s Fair to trace the evolution of the primitive and exorbitantly expensive black and white Picture Phone of 1964 to the basically free but annoying to some, Zoom of today.

Since Tom and Scott are still following stay at home orders in LA and Brooklyn, they think now would be the best time for elective surgery since they could recover at home when they have to stay home anyway. And they imagine a world where the scariest thing we had to worry about was poison ivy.

Tom and Scott have the cure for thinking you have something when you really don’t. Plus a look at parenting during a pandemic from the perspective of not being parents.

Why would anyone risk their life and the lives of others by practically being on top of each other at a water park? If you’re going to take a risk, at least see something memorable like an opera at The Met or a Broadway show. Thankfully theater and opera houses are closed until they are safe again, which makes them better and smarter than water parks.

Tom and Scott sing our praises for the printed newspaper, discuss the current flight of people from the cities to the suburbs, and look at Woodrow Wilson and the 1918 flu pandemic,

Sometimes the best way of getting through this sad time, is to be thankful for the bad things that aren’t happening. Nobody is forcing you to walk on stilts, or to go on a ski lift, which is particularly terrifying to Tom and Scott.

Tom and Scott welcome audio only communication, as Scott’s hair approaches a length not seen since 1976. And while Tom yearns to stick his neck out with confidence, he balks at attempting cosmetic surgery on himself.

It’s the unofficial start of summer, and even in these times, we should look for ways to have fun this weekend, even though Memorial Day is not the happiest name for a celebratory holiday.

Is slow, somber piano music what we need in commercials during these challenging times? And we discuss the euphemisms for the pandemic, like “in these challenging times”, and suggest even more apropos ones. And more euphemistic euphemisms too.

On our gala 50th episode, we put on our metaphorical tuxedo and patent leather shoes, and look back at where we’ve been, and where we are now, since we began this podcast 50 days ago. We’re still essential workers working from home. And since neither of us had a high school prom, we thought it would be fitting to talk about that as well as virtual proms, too.

Tom and Scott think the way to deal with unpleasant and selfish non mask wearers is to not only wear masks with customized anti non mask wearer slogans, but also an LED screen mask that allows you to choose from hundreds of timely comments.

We revisit the resurgence of butter churns, and also unpack, drill down and do a deep dive into the butter versus margarine debate. And there’s no shortage of laughs when we talk about the shortage of flour because of the baking bread craze.

Butter Churns are making a comeback as a frontier hobby, although if you ask butter churns they would say,”What comeback? I never left.” Also Tom and Scott give discussing the value of college the old college try. And a look at the often used and time wasting expression, “In my view”.

Tom and Scott envision a future where our country is run by scientists, economists, historians and other scholarly experts with a figurehead President with only ceremonial powers. And that future would start tomorrow..

Tom and Scott balance their outrage at those who bungled the US response to the pandemic, with seeking comfort by watching episodes of the 1970’s show The Midnight Special and deriving pleasure from the romantic sounds of Miss Gladys Knight and the Pips

Tom and Scott consider themselves essential workers who work at home Now that Twitter has announced that most of its employees can work from home forever, we feel like the first ones to pioneer a trend that will soon be The New Normal.

Tom and Scott spend more than a little bit of time pondering the all too frequent use of the term “a title bit”. Plus, why baseball played with no crowds isn’t so bad after all.

After two months of sheltering in place, people are seeking comfort with bird watching and playing chess. Tom and Scott are bird glancers, but Tom’s cat Oliver is super into staring at them because he views them as the enemy. And we pay tribute to Jerry Stiller, who brought us comfort every day, as did his wife Anne Meara, with their incredible talent on stage and screen, and their warmth and kind...

Scott loves getting mail. And even taking other people’s magazines and catalogs they don’t want. Tom is one of those people who lets the mail pile up because he has no interest in leafing through it. Yet both of us hope the Post Office will survive and prevail, despite Trump’s threats that could put it out of business.

Tom and Scott introduce a new segment called “Walkin’ It Back”, where we revisit a rare moment on the show where we misspoke, and walk it back in a way that hopefully makes us appear more virtuous and intelligent than if we had never misspoke in the first place.

Tom and Scott envy the countries that have handled the virus far better than we have.. which is every country, except Brazil and Belarus. And other countries like Denmark actually pity us so they might run those “Won’t You Help” commercials featuring struggling Americans.