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.