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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 780

Getting Through This with Tom and Scott ·

2025/08/07

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.

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00:38:09

episode 779

Getting Through This with Tom and Scott ·

2025/08/03

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

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00:38:09

episode 778

Getting Through This with Tom and Scott ·

2025/08/01

Time travel in real time as for the first time ever Tom plays audio recordings he made with a friend 50 years ago in Munich West Germany (before the fall of the Berlin Wall!). Now shocking improv efforts reveal the 1970s, an era when adult comedy knew no bounds and "cancellation" was only something people did with an unneeded airplane reservation.

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00:32:05

Episode 778

Getting Through This with Tom and Scott ·

2025/07/26

Tom and Scott's plans and hopes for the remaining days of summer are threatened by the seductive siren call of Lady Procrastination.

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00:36:13

episode 777

Getting Through This with Tom and Scott ·

2025/07/22

A Tree Is Chopped Down In The Catskills, angers a neighbor and becomes the hottest bestseller yet to be written and published -- then a movie and finally a Tony winning musical!

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00:36:34

Episode 776

Getting Through This with Tom and Scott ·

2025/07/17

Tom and Scott update listeners on the delights and danger of flaneuring during extremely hot weather:

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00:37:56

Episode 775

Getting Through This with Tom and Scott ·

2025/07/16

A terrrified call in the middle of the night sends Scott on a mission in Manhattan to see why Tom is not answering his phone.

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00:36:06

Episode 774

Getting Through This with Tom and Scott ·

2025/07/12

Tom boldly declares his opposition to a national dress code, which no one has yet proposed but better safe than sorry. Scott proposes he recieve for this a Nobel Prize.

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00:37:43

Episode 774

Getting Through This with Tom and Scott ·

2025/07/09

A spur-of-the moment trip to glorious Lake George New York with a shockingly delightful outing to a summer camp for musical prodigies is marred only by loud and unwelcome trivia contests. But fortunately Tom's ordeal is not shared by Scott, whose 4th of July was flawless.

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00:36:16

Episode 771

Getting Through This with Tom and Scott ·

2025/07/02

A fantastic dinner at an iconic Italian restaurant in Queens could result in a hostile congressional hearing in which Scott must defend the truth of his claim that he "traveled around the world" but never ate such good chicken parmigiana.

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00:35:25

Episode 770

Getting Through This with Tom and Scott ·

2025/06/29

A torrid 'heat dome' that plunged the Northeast into record uncomfortable people, and a new slogan to promote a mass movement to a mountainous region north of New York City..

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00:35:09

Episode 769

Getting Through This with Tom and Scott ·

2025/06/25

Scott intro is actually a review of an evening built around friends performance at the Bitter End nightclub in New York City. Tom claims Scott's intro is far more eloquent than the best society column, but sadly \ history may applaud Scott's podcast intro more than the talented singer he praises.

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00:35:19

Episode 768

Getting Through This with Tom and Scott ·

2025/06/20

After much cooking and preparation Sandy and Tom find out the party is on another day, but everyone makes the best of it.

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00:36:58

episode 767

Getting Through This with Tom and Scott ·

2025/06/16

Scott's appreciation of church mosaics in Italy confirm that he may be a saint, and his powers would be tested on fixing a historic 45 year old snippet of audio of a younger Tom Saunders.but which is much too short

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00:36:45

episode 766

Getting Through This with Tom and Scott ·

2025/06/07

After an unprecidented hiatus Tom and Scott reveal fascinating details of historic recent trips to Scotland and Italy.

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00:35:32

episode 765

Getting Through This with Tom and Scott ·

2025/05/10

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

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00:36:53

Episode 754

Getting Through This with Tom and Scott ·

2025/05/07

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?

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00:35:50

Episode 763

Getting Through This with Tom and Scott ·

2025/05/02

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.

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00:36:37

episode 762

Getting Through This with Tom and Scott ·

2025/04/28

A dinner at Scott and Ginger's apartment ends with ems workers attaching wires to Tom after he overdosed on edibles and champagne.

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00:34:35

Episode 761

Getting Through This with Tom and Scott ·

2025/04/23

A T-bone steak sends Tom five hundred thousand years back in time, giving him an amazing "taste" of prehistoric life.

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