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"?
Getting Through This with Tom and Scott
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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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.
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..
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 in years past.
Episode 847
Knicks win leads to surprising discovery.
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.