Getting Through This with Tom and Scott

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 confectionary store.

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. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tom-saunders9/support

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. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tom-saunders9/support

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. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tom-saunders9/support

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. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tom-saunders9/support

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. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tom-saunders9/support

The new Johnny Carson biography puts Scott in a literary predicament. Should he put aside his quest to finish the remaining 962 pages of The Power Broker by his birthday in March, to revisit the first Carson biography Tom gave him ten years ago, so he can procrastinate reading the new one? --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tom-saunders9/support

Pardon us, but why should a President have the power to pardon someone, an act more fit for a king? And we speculate what might happen if Scott used the French term for "excuse me", "Pardon", to someone while walking down a Paris street, and that person happened to have a criminal record. Would French law automatically pardon that person, and would that lead to Scott and Tom being named co-Prime Ministers of France? --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tom-saunders9/support

We give thanks for what didn't happen at our Thanksgiving dinner, like Tom falling on top of the delicious side dishes. And that's something he's very proud of. In an historic breakthrough, those very side dishes at the dinner were no longer mere opening acts, and stole the spotlight from the tasty but non headlining turkey. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tom-saunders9/support

We celebrate our 732nd episode, because we don't see the point in only commemorating round numbers with 00 and 50. And we propose using our soon to be completed time machine to go back to 1959 and produce a black and white game show called What's Your Problem? --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tom-saunders9/support

Scott faces a night of toilet terror when his bathroom is off limits because of floor retiling. The tension is Hitchcockian, except that Hitch doesn't make a cameo appearance in the bathroom. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tom-saunders9/support

Cliche Court is in session, but rest assured we won't be throwing the baby out with the bath water, because that's one of those disturbing cliches that has no place on this podcast. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tom-saunders9/support

We take another look at CRISPR, the genetic tool that earned Doudna and Charpentier the Nobel Prize, to ask the question on everyone's mind. Can we use CRISPR to produce a super intelligent bear? --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tom-saunders9/support

After a long run of balmy weather, the first autumnal day causes Scott to face his seasonal outerwear amnesia. He must use trial and error to remember which coats and jackets he employs when the temperature takes a dip. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tom-saunders9/support

Tom hasn't done anything embarassing lately, yet he still can't get his name off the list of the 400 Most Embarassing People in America. He has no idea who the people are behind this list, so contacting them to make his case is impossible. Or is it? --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tom-saunders9/support

Scott revisits a literary commitment he made two years ago, and vows to finish the remaining 960 pages of The Power Broker by Robert A. Caro, by his birthday on March 5. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tom-saunders9/support

Tom's visit to New Orleans takes a surprising turn when he runs into an old friend he hasn't seen in years. We calculate that the odds of that happening are less than winning two Lottos in the same day while being struck by lightning from three different storms. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tom-saunders9/support

Tom and Scott do their part to cure the election blues of their constituents, as the self appointed, unelected co-Mayors of Irving place in Manhattan. Thanks to their "not seen and not heard" style of governance, the mood on the street of their five block district is cool, calm and collected. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tom-saunders9/support

We reveal the previously unknown solution to your Election Day blues, that involves a delicious chocolate pastry and other details that you can only discover in this episode. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tom-saunders9/support

In a heart warming antidote to post election blues, Tom and Scott proudly proclaim that Irving Place in New York is calm and free of angry rioters. As unelected self appointed co-mayors of those five blocks in Manhattan we take credit for no cars on fire and no garbage cans hurled through windows! But there's an exciting new twist to this story. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tom-saunders9/support

This one boggles the mind: Tom and Scott do something so unlikely it's the equivalent of winning the lottery twice while getting hit by lightning from three different seriously. Only the truth is way better than the metaphor because of the lightening,obviously. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tom-saunders9/support

As we countdown to election day Tom and Scott boldly challenge pundits who fill the air with "what to watch for" advice, desperately given because it's impossible to intelligently talk for hours and hours about an event that has not yet happened. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tom-saunders9/support

Scott vigorously defends the UN, but the conversation soon ltakes on the rarely-discussed danger of walking too close to the UN building and getting swept up in a crowded demonstration, followed by an additional series of mishaps that accidentally results in the hapless pedestrian being expected to address the General Assembly -- without a written speech or even an idea of what to say! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tom-saunders9/support

The historic run of lovely weather continues unabated prompting Tom and Scott to wonder why it isn't covered b local TV news the way weather disasters are covered, with reporters in parts of the city most affected by the pleasant temperature. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tom-saunders9/support

A rare historic follow up to our previous nice weather alert, Scotty walks back a forecast of inclimate weather that thankfully did not pan out. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tom-saunders9/support

A relentless string of perfect weather in New York has us asking a question no climatologist has dared to ask: Why stop with ending global warming? Why not keep not burning fossil fuels until every single day of the year is perfect weather everywhere on the planet? --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tom-saunders9/support

Tom and Scott describe how they searched Madison Square Park for a place to put a statue to honor Tom and Scott for having saved democracy with a novel voting idea that borrowed from American Idol. Much effort is made by both Tom and Scot so that the future statue does not mean fewer tables or benches in the park --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tom-saunders9/support