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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 799

Getting Through This with Tom and Scott ·

2025/11/20

We're back! The historic four week long blackout of our podcast due to technical difficulties has finally ended. And in the returning episode we reveal the folly of lamenting something that never happened.

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00:38:28

episode 797

Getting Through This with Tom and Scott ·

2025/10/24

Scott is back from Italy, and describes how he decided against doing the podcast entirely in Italian since he doesn't know more than a handful of Italian phrases. This turned into a spirited ongoing conversation about whether travel stories need to be primarily about travel mishaps and disasters, and if so, does jet lag count? Jet lag as an excuse for extreme or even criminal behavior is discussed, and as always our discussion results in a workable solution to a problem no one else is talking

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00:35:53

episode 796

Getting Through This with Tom and Scott ·

2025/10/17

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?

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episode 796

Getting Through This with Tom and Scott ·

2025/10/12

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?

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00:36:26

episode 795

Getting Through This with Tom and Scott ·

2025/10/04

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.

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00:35:26

episode 793

Getting Through This with Tom and Scott ·

2025/09/26

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.

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00:36:52

episode 792

Getting Through This with Tom and Scott ·

2025/09/24

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!

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00:38:46

episode 792

Getting Through This with Tom and Scott ·

2025/09/19

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.

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00:37:08

episode 791

Getting Through This with Tom and Scott ·

2025/09/16

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.

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00:36:44

episode 790

Getting Through This with Tom and Scott ·

2025/09/13

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.

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00:41:44

Episode 789

Getting Through This with Tom and Scott ·

2025/09/10

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.

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00:37:10

Episode 788

Getting Through This with Tom and Scott ·

2025/09/05

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.

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00:36:22

episode 787

Getting Through This with Tom and Scott ·

2025/09/04

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.

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00:36:17

episode 786

Getting Through This with Tom and Scott ·

2025/08/29

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.

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00:36:17

episode 785

Getting Through This with Tom and Scott ·

2025/08/28

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".

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00:35:59

episode 785

Getting Through This with Tom and Scott ·

2025/08/23

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.

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00:36:41

episode 784

Getting Through This with Tom and Scott ·

2025/08/20

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.

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00:37:44

episode 783

Getting Through This with Tom and Scott ·

2025/08/17

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".

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00:36:50

episode 782

Getting Through This with Tom and Scott ·

2025/08/11

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.

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00:35:40

Episode 781

Getting Through This with Tom and Scott ·

2025/08/09

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.

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