Getting Through This with Tom and Scott

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.

There's something to be said about rooting for both teams in the Super Bowl. There's a lot more happiness, and virtually no anxiety. Along those same lines, we propose Universal Hair and Makeup for all Americans, with no co-pay!

When Tom and Scott both misidentify an episode number, Scott refuses to bury the lede and speaks the truth, unlike our lying leaders in the White House. The incident will be included in their yet to be written 800 page tome, Crisis of Confidence: 12 Seconds That Changed Podcasts Forever.

Tom upends the art world by eschewing the traditional gallery route,, by viewing and purchasing Ginger's paintings over a BBQ dinner with chocolate mousse cake for dessert. Plus, we debut Hallmark sketches, a 3 to 5 minute version of a happy ending Hallmark movie.

The best way to see the light during these sometimes dark times, is to celebrate the fact that even though it's cold and wintry, the days are actually getting longer By the time the summer solstice arrives in June, we'll enjoy almost six hours more of daylight than during the December solstice!

Tom is the first person ever to thank Mother Earth for his birthday celebration, for continuimg to rotate on its axis. But while his birthday was an earthly creation, his post birthday bash was otherwordly.

From the inception of this podcast in April 2020 to June 2021, Tom opened each episode with, " I'm Tom Saunders Getting Through This in Pacific Palisades", from the home he lived in for 20 years. We relive some of the Palisades stories that we discussed in those early days of the pandemic, as well as our shared remembrance about the happy times we experienced in that bucolic small town.

The people who do nothing deserve statues in their honor. So Tom should be rewarded for not calling for Coffee Prohibition simply because he tends to drink too much caffeine.

After two failed attempts to have Tom and Sandy over to dinner at Ginger and Scott's apartment, the third time is the charm. And it's a New Year's Eve to remember or as Sandy put it, "Best dinner and most favorite New Year of my life."

Tom's drive from New York to his family Christmas outside of Chicago includes a wondrous drive along the mansion filled Sheridan Road. As well as a blown tire on the Ohio Pennsylvania border, which turns out to be the best place to find a rare tire for his Volvo, which is yet another Christmas miracle.

Tom takes the wrong bus to start his journey to Chicago, but Scott sees the silver lining, and imagines a Hallmark film where Tom is dressed as Santa carrying a bag of gifts because he thinks he's on the express bus to see his relatives. But by taking a local bus, he discovers the true meaning of Christmas and distributes his gifts to the more needy passengers.

When a pipe bursts and floods the kitchen floor at Tom's fiancee Sandy's inn, he displays calm during the storm, and thanks to his heroic efforts, the living quarters and common areas emerge unscathed. And Tom also avoids frostbite, by not fleeing into the frigid forest without a coat.

Tom and Scott became players for one night, when they enter the private sanctum of The Players Club to enjoy a fascinating book presentation by Joe Radding about The Mee-Ow Show at 50, about the Northwestern University, Scott's alma mater, show that changed the cultural landscape.

Tom laments the end of the Saks Fifth Avenue light and sound Christmas display, but Scott sees a silver lining. And Tom and Sandy deliver a Christmas miracle to the lobby of Scott and Ginger's building.