PODCAST · comedy
Getting Through This with Tom and Scott
by Tom Saunders
The podcast that's 40 years in the making, because they're both procrastinators. Comedy writer Tom Saunders and political comedian Scott Blakeman help you navigate The New Normal, which is The Old Normal for them, since their comedy careers already require that they spend huge amounts of time at home. Their show peers back into the past, stares unflinchingly at the present, and imagines a more hopeful future, with flights of fancy and many tangents as well.
Episodes
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episode 866
Scott tells of his return to his alma mater, Northwestern University, and shares his joy for "multiple receptions". But would his old classmates remember what he did when he was a student 50 years ago and a stripper canceled an event he was involved with? (spoiler alert: no clothing was…
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episode 865
The business in a Chicago suburb that supported Tom's family for 80 years is closing down, resulting in a large party of family members and close friends, Tom's fiancee Sandy -- and his ex-wife CiCi! Did sparks fly? Did Tom get more than he bargained for? Yes, to both questions, but for an...
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Episode 864
The Great Pedestrian speaks! Will those who stifle sidewalk traffic by looking at cell phones listen? This episode is a festival of thrilling ideas, including a revisit to the greatest pedestrianic idea of all: the trans-continental sidewalk!
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episode 863
What is really the greatest invention of our modern age? The answer, supplied by Tom and Scott, may surprise you. But even more exciting: a huge new museum proposed by Scott to honor this most vital of all of human invention: Indoor Plumbing!
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episode 862
After Labor Day, lolling on the beach or wearing white clothes is an act of social disobedience - but we did it anyway. Today's podcast tells the story of what happened after we smashed conventional norms.
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episode 861
Tom reveals the astonishing truth about how congealed toothpaste on the bathroom sink led him to meet the love of his life!
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episode 860
Tom imagines a nightmare scenario that might have spun out of Scott's recent trip to Flushing Meadow Queens to watch the US Open tennis qualifying match. What if the unthinkable were to happen, resulting in Scott on the wrong side of Serena William's wrath? What is this "unthinkable" nightmare?…
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episode 859
What is it like to eat at one of the most expensive restaurants in world.? Tom recounts celebrating his fiancee's birthday at Eleven Madison. Was it worth the hype and expense? And were there any "unintended consequences"?
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episode 858
Scott enjoys a day at the beach, but a partial eclipse prompts our podcast to issue a timely warning and thereby saving the eyesight of perhaps countless listeners. But keep listening to the end to hear how humble we still are.
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episode 857
A scandal in Academia that is quietly going unnoticed, no college currently offers an advanced degree in time travel! But we have an exciting solution. This leads to a discussion of how Tom acquired his PhD without incurring massive student dept..
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Episode 856
Our podcast once again scoops the Atlantic Monthly! How long before this very scoop-ability becomes an Atlantic or NYTimes story that we scoop?
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episode 855
A wierd unexplained noise leads Tom and Scott to enthusiastically appreciating something many people take for granted but is a miracle that helos to make modern life livable.
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episode 853
FLANEUR ALERT! Smoke from threatens the art of walking around town and looking at people and things -- will Flaneurs be forced to remain indoors? The answer might shock you.
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Episode 852
Scott's herculean struggle to cancel a subscription to a small town digital newspaper exposes the dark underbelly of seemingly innocuous media imprisoning its readers like the octopussian "Trusts" of the gilded age.
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episode 850
Tom and Scott take on the daunting task of redefining and updating the "American Dream". The "American Dream" used to be a house in the suburbs surrounded by a picket fence, but now it's more vague and still somewhat exclusionary.
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episode 848
In a stirring public statement Tom declares he has "done nothing wrong" and that any accusations of illegality that may be made against him are completely fabricated. Why he is professing his innocence is shockingly different from the many public figures who have made the same clasim of innocence...
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Episode 847
Knicks win leads to surprising discovery.
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episode 846
Why a compassionate effort to spread the joy of perfect weather in New York to other less fortunate climates won't work, but deserves acolades anyway.
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episode 845
A chance get together with Scott, Tom and their girlfriends leads to fascinating speculation: could Scott live at the Morgan Library.?
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episode 844
For years Tom has podcasted frome the "Flatiron district" of Manhattan. But what is the story of the Flatiron building after which the district is named and why was it called a "folly"? This is the first episode where we attempted to video the actual building, as seen from the ;podcast studio.
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episode 843
Time is moving too fast! What can we do about it? We take on the problem, and in the process answer Hillel's famous question "if not now, when?"
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episode 842
A quickly aborted exploration of pavement turns into a spirited discussion of why someone in North Korea with a laptop can turn off America's electric grid.
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episode 841
Scott tells of his recent trip to Maine where he at old inns. Tom hopes the matter of fact travel tale can turn into a "tall tale" or a "shaggy dog story" with a rollicking kick-ass ending that hadn't been created yet! Would they pull off this anecdotal knuckle biter?
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episode 840
Quite simply, we reveal the fatal flaw with AI, in how it's like a nerdy would-be friend who actually doesn't get you.
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Episode 838
When wil the fashion industry join forces with the security industry and create bulletproof riot gear for everyone, enabling the average Joe casually walk into into even the most dangerous places without fear?
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episode 837
Finally an insightful appreciation of lunch. From stories of TV writers obsession with the lunch break to a chilling warning of what could happen if all lunches "went away" and there was no noontime meal for anyone anywhere -- and how we must perhaps learn to navigate a world without lunch.
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episode 835
The swiffer is an excellent cleaning device, that but has Scott thrown his girlfriend "under the bus" by blaming Ginger for making him think the name is actually "Swifter". This leads to a discussion about guys puffing up their friends credentials as Tom describes Scott as "President of Macy's...
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episode 834
Tom speaks to the people listening to the podcast 1000 years from now and asks them an awkward question: why haven't you used your time machines, which will be commonplace by then, to come back to our time period and help us build the first time machine? This discussion evolves into another...
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episode 833
Scott reveals his shocking true story from when he was a Northwestern student in the 1970s and he was in charge of an campus event but the guest of honor -- a stripper -- didn't show up. What he did next made local TV news.
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episode 832
What with half of all office workers still working from home even five years after the pandemic, what to do with those huge empty office buildings? It's not an academic question, as they are becoming so inexpensive it may be that we will have no choice but to buy one. Then what? Tom thinks the…
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Episode 831
A spur-of-the-moment get together of four friends for dinner redefines the traditional "dinner party" and in the process unearths memories of The Sophisticates, a group of culturally advanced friends from Tom's middle school days.
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episode 830
Tom's eight hour road trip to Columbus Ohio with 20 year friend yields another podcast, this time about political influencers, once known as pundits. This leads to a revelation that dyi-eschewing Scott used to play a tool-belt wearing carpenter for an advertising campagn!
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episode 829
Tom describes a historic 8 hour road trip from New York City to Columbus Ohio with a 20 year old dude -- a meeting of boomer and gen z guy that thrillingly bridges a vast generation gap.
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episode 828
Tom takes listeners through a micro-history of "wayward youth" in America, ending with a surprising twist as pandemic-traumatized Gen Z reportedly cower from social life and eschew parties, dating and sex. Will Hollywood make B-movies about wild older "Boomers" like us like in 1950s drive-in…
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episode 827
Is the crazy weather in New York, changing from cold to hot to cold, a harbinger of hyper changable weather patterns to come? Scott and Tom muse about a future of snowy freezing mornings that become tropical by noon, forcing skiers to shed clothes halfway down the slope and everyone to always…
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episode 826
A middle of the night call from the police in Windham New York requires Tom and his fiancee to drive 220 miles to their second home in the Catskills. In so doing they become victims of international events on the other side of the world!
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episode 825
A Flaneur In LA. That what Scotty was last week, and that is the title of what may someday be an award winning movie or a beloved 10-part Netflix series about Scott's experience of walking uphill in 90 degree heat from Beverly Hills to Westwood, passing virtually no other pedestrians, and...
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episode 824
In a local coffee shop Tom sees someone he is sure is a literary star and great wit, but doesn't specifically recognizes him. Should he approach him?
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episode 824
Scott recieves a birthday offer for a free dessert that would normally cost $14. The problem is, the restaurant is in the Virgin Islands, over a thousand miles from his home on Manhattan's Murray's Hill neighborhood. This results in a dilemma that will some day be studied on the graduate level at...
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episode 823
Tom is puzzled by the slogan on the sign of a neighborhood Pizza Parlor, leading to an exploration of what makes an advertising slogan hugely successful.
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episode 822
Lots of snow in New York makes Scotty worry thgat complaining about it will years later make him look "old". The conversation evolves into a study of why nothing should make anyone feel old, ever..
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Episode 821
As scrupulously honest and transparent hosts, who accept no recompense(not even cows), for their praise of products, Tom and Scott hope the day never comes when betting will taint the podcast world with hosts tipping off their friends about what they're going to talk about.
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Episode 820
The Flaneur in Winter. As the foremost flaneurs in America, Tom and Scott stroll with no set purpose or destination in mind. But how do they navigate their flaneuring under freezing conditions?
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Episode 819
Tom fears wearing a scarf. But more shockingly, Scott not only embraces scarf wearing, but he recently bought one that feels so soft on his neck that he feels like a million dollars. Which is different than actually being a millionaire.
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Episode 818
Facial tissues are nothing to sniff about. Scott never leaves the house without them, and we explain, rather persuasively, why you should too.
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Episode 817
Tom hasn't slipped on the ice so far this winter, but will celebrating that fact tempt fate?
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episode 816
Scott announces that he is adding a new profession to his resume which already includes comedian, comedy teacher, self appointed unelected co-mayor of Irving Place in Manhattan, and of course Nobel Prize deserving podcaster. What is this profession and how will he work it into his busy schedule?...
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episode 815
Skiing is expensive, difficult to learn and causes injury, so we propose a teturn of long neglected winter sports, and lavish resorts exclusively for sledding, tobagganning, and making snowmen.
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episode 815
A trip to the nations capital and a particular exhibet at a huge museum yields a brain storming event about how to make using the dishwasher, taking care of a demanding cat and even shaving extremely fun and creative.
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episode 812
Scooping legacy media, Tom and Scott vividly describe a birthday dinner for 10 in Chinatown's best restaurant that was completely ignored by the press. The event, managed ably by Tom's fiancee Sandy, is likened to a festive scene in a Bob Hope-Bing Crosby road picture. But that reference raises a...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
The podcast that's 40 years in the making, because they're both procrastinators. Comedy writer Tom Saunders and political comedian Scott Blakeman help you navigate The New Normal, which is The Old Normal for them, since their comedy careers already require that they spend huge amounts of time at home. Their show peers back into the past, stares unflinchingly at the present, and imagines a more hopeful future, with flights of fancy and many tangents as well.
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Tom Saunders
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The podcast that's 40 years in the making, because they're both procrastinators. Comedy writer Tom Saunders and political comedian Scott Blakeman help you navigate The New Normal, which is The Old Normal for them, since their comedy careers already require that they spend huge amounts of time at...
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