Getting Through This with Tom and Scott

While Scott is in Italy,with his girlfriend Ginger, Tom admits he exagerrated his friends Scott and Ginger's relationship to Italian Royalty when describing them to his visiting nephew. In an effort to keep from disappointing his nephew, Tom tries to get Scott and Ginger to return to New York for just one hour and pretend to be related to Italian royalty, then return to Italy. Will Scott make such a grueling trip, just to keep Tom from being embarrassed?

Tom made a visit to New York by his nephew, nieceand grand niece by describing cohost Scott as Italian royalty, even though he isn't Italian or royal. Adding to the pickle, Tom promised that Scott and his girlfriend would fly back from Italy just for one hour to regale Tom's relatives with royal Italian anecdote, then fly back. What would be Scott's response?

Scott is a modern day jet setter, suavely performing on a podcast by day, jetting off to Italy with his lady friend by night. Yet, weighing on him is the unfinished business of a storage unit in Brooklyn. Obviously this led to a time-travel enabled 1960s style movie half in color depicting Scott's swinging flight to Italy and the other half a black and white 1950s Italian neorelist movie grimly forcing us to look at the Scott's struggle to empty a bleak storage unit.

A recent dinner results in no acts of heroism, which Scott recalls in an intro that explores acts of non-heroism. The intro is positive and pleasant that Tom imagines it could shock a huge auditorium of a well-dressed podcast audience into complete quietude. But what happens next will even warm the hearts of the congenitally cynical.

Tom struggles with a new identity: hero. For driving his fiancee and friends to, around and back from the Catskills he is amply lauded by his grateful passengers . But will random strangers find out about his heroism and expect him to perform heroic acts at their beck and call and whim? "you'd be a REAL hero if you drove our toddler to school while my husband and I have breakfast in bed" Yikes!

Scott gets a covid shot, igniting a spirited Lasker Prize-worthy discussion of the pandemic and its lingering effects that inspires Tom to devise a totally new take on the "breath of fresh air" cliche.

Tom stares a horrible truth in the face: in college he came within a hairs breadth of choosing to pursue a career in philosophy, but instead how he dodged a bullet that would have resulted in never coming to New York, never pursuing comedy, never doing this podcast, and the rest of his life being tragically worse than pointless.

Scott's summertime ferry ride to Far Rockaway adds to a growing mountain of evidence that he is not the land-lubber he and everyone else has always assumed, and in fact he could eventually become the captain of a huge cruise ship, almost by default.

On a rainy day in the Catskills Tom finds himself forced to check in guests to a hotel, despite it not being his job or even something he kmows how to do. This while his fiancee, the actual owner of the hotel, has gone sightseeing with an extremely talkative home-wrecker.

When Scott attended a "cabaret concert" at a nearby Polish Consulate, he couldn't have known he would wind up having a lengthy face-to-face conversation with a high ranking official in the Polish government -- or that his conversation may have averted an international incident, just by not causing one as the result of a joke or something that doesn't translate well and causes serious confusion.

Despite being on the list of the 500 most embarrassing people in North America and despite the fact that many of the embarrassing events that put Tom on that list occurred at parties, Tom accepted an invitation to a friend's labor day gathering in New Jersey. Spoiler alert: get ready to cringe.

Scott describes his walk in Central Park and ponders the end of summer in an intro that Tom claims is better than anything ever written in The New Yorker. To drive home his point, Tom declares that as soon as they finish building their time machine, the first stop should be New York in the 1920s, when Scotty will join the wits and literary giants who share their bon mots around the famed Algonquin Round Table.

This one is hard, as we revisit the fact that Tom is one of the 500 most embarrassing people in North America, mostly because of a horrifying series of party fouls. But we also talk about Tom's brave struggle to finally get off "the list that no one wants to be on".

Cab you have a memorable meal in a 106 year old Italian restaurant in the Bronx and live to tell about it? Scott Blakeman's true story reveals the surprising answer to that seldom asked question, and the stakes couldn't be higher.

Beauty has always been and always will be skin deep and even more deeply unfair -- until someone invents "lovliness glasses". These digital marvels will make anyone who wears them think everyone else is amazing looking. But there could be unintended consequences.

While therapists flee their profession during the August "dog days", Tom and Scott continue our podcast mission, while exploding our assumptions about the origin of the term "dog days".

Have we created a new digital type of archeology? Tom unearths past episodes of Getting Through This, that reveal the dawn of our podcast. The result is like exploring King Tut's tomb for the second time, which is still very thrilling. The many fascinating and signficant treasures include the true story of a heroic young woman who once upon a time made Scott's Hanukka very special, using only her hands.

Hollywood keeps this part of the process hidden, but in a historic behind the scenes peek at the birth of a new youtube series Tom and Scot discuss the ideas that will turn them and their friend Bill into the Three Non-Stooges! The opposite of the famous Stooges of yore, they would respect each other and never hurt each other, especially not putting their fingers in anyone's eyes. Oh, and they will explore the best ideas culled from the podcast over the years, competently.

Francis Ford Coppola's efforts to make his film Megalopolis profitable by appearing at screenings to answer questions prompts Tom to imagine the next level of movie Q and A sessions in which he and Scott appear on stage in large theaters with no movie, just Q and A sessions in which they discuss with audiences a film that was not yet made, and probably never will be.

Scotty dares to does what on this podcast has been controversial, to put it mildly: He opens the episode with a travel anecdote, in this case about a recent trip to Chicago and the northern suburbs of Northbrook and Evanston, in which everything is wonderful and no accidents occur, no mishaps, no embarrassments... no etc. Everything is wonderful. Instead of chiding Scott about this yet again, this time Tom goes future-positive and imagines Scott's ultra happy anecdotes herald a new kind of story telling, fiction and non fiction, with no villains, no conflicts of any sort, only lovely people being nice!