Getting Through This with Tom and Scott

Tom’s life with Asian fiancée in both NYC and tiny town in Catskills inspires a serious plan to go back to 1960s and pitch it as sitcom (BEFORE “Green Acres” is launched) using our hopefully soon-to-be built Time Machine!

Scott on a layover near LAX regales Tom and listeners with an astonishing but true Hallmark Channel worthy true story of a broken Casio watch.

Tom and Scott happily don their navy suits to celebrate the life of a true original.

Thomas Wolfe is proven wrong when Scott shows you can go home again.

Short trips revealed to be exciting low carbon alternative travel trend. This despite paving stone causing expensive gear shift shearing.

Tom and Sandy’s thrilling Ponce de Leon-like discovery of how great Boston is these days, plus Scotty and Ginger’s near mishaps in Paris result in “a podcastical triumph” (Clive Barnes)

Scott’s Paris anecdote with no mishaps yields joy not jealousy promising to end war in months

Paris to New York we discuss the portal from NYC to Dublin and our friends amazing reactions!

Scott’s appreciation of his loud neighbor may lead to his long sought Nobel Prize for Neighborliness. And Tom is also on track to be the first to win the Nobel Prize for Cleaning the Nobel Prize.

Tom goes back to 1887, without our soon to be completed Time Machine, to West Orange, New Jersey, where the future was invented almost 150 years. Yes, the Edison campus is preserved just as it was when the Wizard of West Orange created his wondrous inventions for all the world to see!

As Co-Mayor of Irving Place with Tommy, Scott proclaims the State of our Street to be strong. And Tom encourages Scott to pursue his non legal career as a lawyer without a law degree who nonetheless defends both of them from those who seek to take their self appointed, unelected roles away.

If anyone who is jealous of the 143 times we deserved a Nobel Prize with this podcast, and decides to file articles of impeachment against us in our roles as self appointed, unelected Co-Mayors of Irving Place, we have a simple legal strategy that you don’t even have to be a Yale lawyer to use. Although you can wear a Yale sweatshirt to court anyway.

Scott is complimented on his outerwear by two different employees at Trader Joe’s, a place that should be the role model for the world. Tom thinks that supermarket self checkout machines should talk to you and engage in casual banter.

We don’t just talk about how time seems to be flying by, we try to do something about it. And we don’t do it on the shoulders of those dreamers who came before us. But a cheerleader definitely should be able to say that she won an award on the shoulders of Greg.

In a shocking admission, Tom reveals that he routinely ignores requests to update apps online. Scott, on the other hand, earnestly clicks the Update box immediately, so he doesn’t miss out on anything. Can he influence Tom and other folks who choose not to update? No such updates required to listen to this episode.

When Scott proposes an idea to make the temperature in NYC always range from 60 to 90 degrees, Tom suggests that Scott introduce the idea at Davos. But he cautions that the rapturous ovation Scott will ultimately receive will be preceded by an uncomfortable hour punctuated by one slow clap every few minutes.

Tom drives back in time when he visits the grand old architecture of Richmond and Charleston. Then he’s back to the present when he stays at a DC hotel called the Sslamander. Scott’s intrepid research reveals that most salamanders look like a cross between a lizard and a frog. Which explains why a hotel would want to be named after them.

Tom worries that he will be chastised for “double bucket listing”, but Scott assures him, in his role as a “podcast only” lawyer, that since bucket law is nonexistent, there are no grounds for him to suffer any consequences for his bucket list wish of traveling from chilly temperatures to a balmy climate in Charleston, after already doing so in Savannah.

Now that Scott is going to bed and waking up early, does that make him 50 percent qualified to be a farmer? Tom is also an early riser these days but fears he won’t be effective feeding slop to the pigs.

Tom proposes another in our long line of inventions- this time it’s inflatable pants. Should he invest all of his assets into this idea even though no prototype exists? One thing we know for certain, on a different front, is that eating peanut butter and jelly sandwiches make you feel and appear younger, which is why Scott suggests a Biden commercial showing him enjoying a PB&J with Jill.

Tom takes Scott and Ginger to dinner at the famed steakhouse Peter Luger, and it’s a dream come true for a kid from Brooklyn who had never before eaten there. Even the space age technology of the “doggie bag” was impressive, especially since Tom and Scott didn’t get into a tugging match that spilled over into the entire restaurant, with the patrons on their hands and knees vying for the precious s...

Thanks to a crumbling retaining wall at Tom’s house, Scott learns the difference between cement and concrete, and vows to share his newfound knowledge with the free world.

A trip to Kaaterskill Falls in the Catskills used to require traveling by a horse drawn carriage offering a bumpy, unpleasant ride. Now Tom zips up the Palisades Parkway in padded luxury in just 2.5 hours. Why isn’t this travel breakthrough on the front pages of every major metropolitan newspaper?

Our kind of town Chicago is, as Scott sings its praises from his visit earlier this week. Our theme is once again “time”, as Scott devises a plan to not lose an hour sleep when we set the clocks ahead. Tom tells the story of his first elevator ride ever, at Marshall Field, which we hope to rescue from the clutches of Macy’s and return to the city and its people. For that, we would happily accept t...

Why do pundits refer to what a President says in the State of the Union speech as a “laundry list”, which is something that doesn’t exist. Plus, we would like to see a State of the Union where a couple addresses Congress about the state of their relationship, a different kind of Union, with a rebuttal after the speech by the other partner. And Scott would love to be the opening act for the speech,...