Getting Through This with Tom and Scott

Tom boldly declares his opposition to a national dress code, which no one has yet proposed but better safe than sorry. Scott proposes he recieve for this a Nobel Prize.

A spur-of-the moment trip to glorious Lake George New York with a shockingly delightful outing to a summer camp for musical prodigies is marred only by loud and unwelcome trivia contests. But fortunately Tom's ordeal is not shared by Scott, whose 4th of July was flawless.

A fantastic dinner at an iconic Italian restaurant in Queens could result in a hostile congressional hearing in which Scott must defend the truth of his claim that he "traveled around the world" but never ate such good chicken parmigiana.

A torrid 'heat dome' that plunged the Northeast into record uncomfortable people, and a new slogan to promote a mass movement to a mountainous region north of New York City..

Scott intro is actually a review of an evening built around friends performance at the Bitter End nightclub in New York City. Tom claims Scott's intro is far more eloquent than the best society column, but sadly \ history may applaud Scott's podcast intro more than the talented singer he praises.

After much cooking and preparation Sandy and Tom find out the party is on another day, but everyone makes the best of it.

Scott's appreciation of church mosaics in Italy confirm that he may be a saint, and his powers would be tested on fixing a historic 45 year old snippet of audio of a younger Tom Saunders.but which is much too short

After an unprecidented hiatus Tom and Scott reveal fascinating details of historic recent trips to Scotland and Italy.

Scott is packing for a trip to Italy and worries about which clothes to bring and also how will the clothes he leaves behind handle their feelings of abandonment. Tom prepares for a trip to Scotland wondering if he should wear a kilt, and recalls how he similarly imagined the secret lives of his dirty dishes, in the process inventing an exciting new word: anthropomorphinanima

Tom and Scott's recent walkabout in Manhattan heralds the opening of the flaneur season and leads to a deep preshistoric mystery: will archeologists ever discover who was the first person who figured out how to walk, and how was that ancient person regarded by his still-crawling peers?

Scott explains to Tom that the days will be getting longer until the summer solstice, and in so doing saves Tom from anxietym depression and the expense of years of psychotherapy.

A dinner at Scott and Ginger's apartment ends with ems workers attaching wires to Tom after he overdosed on edibles and champagne.

A T-bone steak sends Tom five hundred thousand years back in time, giving him an amazing "taste" of prehistoric life.

Scott reveals he recently attended a demonstration in New York against Trump, which made Tom excited as it could be the demonstration that ends Trump's reign of terror once and for all, which also means planning the big party to celebrate it all must begin immediately.

Tom's fesses up about his unintentional abuse of his cousin's bicycle in 1963.

Scott's struggle with procrastination finds him with seven days to vacate a storage unit in Brooklyn filled with decades of his families memorabilia, or continue to continue storing it at ruinous expense. Will he do it? The only certainty is that this thrilling story will some day become a major motion picture.

Being the podcast of record Getting Through This deals with massive tariffs, but in the process develop a new expression: "on the pod".

Celebrating 5 years of "Getting Through This", with a focus on the huge number of laughs, our time machine and what if we put Abe Lincoln on the Tonight show in 1970

Tom in Bellevue Hospital after a fall.

Scott's 70th birthday celebration is one for the ages, which is precisely the definition of any birthday. It's for the ages. Tom and Sandy join Scott and Ginger for dinner at an Auatrian restaurant on Fifth Avenue, which felt like traveling to Vienna for the price of a Reduced Fare Senior Metrocard. But Tom and Sandy took an Uber, which was almost what a flight would cost.

Tom and Scott dish the non dirt on vacuuming. With Tom's against the clock method of a very fast vacuuming on selected areas, followed by an old school pick dust up with his fingers, and Scott's love of the Swifter(pet care and regular models), homc cleaning is a breeze.

Scott opens every episode saying that he's podcasting from "Murray's Hill" in Manhattan, but for the first time he reveals his true feelings about this little known neighborhood, and uncovers some of its hidden gems.

First, Tom revolutionized dentistry by prescribing his high leg walk method to avoid falls that could lead to missing teeth. Now, he adds to that with the first cure for winter falls. Yes, calcium chloride pellets melt ice without discoloring your lawn and floors. While Scott concedes that a salesman with missing front teeth doesn't in any way deter him or Ginger from patronizing a high end co...

Tom and Scott are non skiers, who can still talk about skiing from a perspective most skiers don't have. Tom's also an expert on Trudging, which we hope will soon be an Olympic sport. And Scott's an expert on keeping his head still while his barber shaves his sideburns with a straight edge razor.

Scott has seen the fiuture in San Francisco, and also got to sit in it. Despite vowing, on this podcast, to never get in a self driving car, Scott found the experience surprisingly worry free. Tom wonders if some day, driverless cars will yell at each other on city streets, or on a positive note, be ideal conversation partners with passengers since they can be programmed to know about everything.