When wil the fashion industry join forces with the security industry and create bulletproof riot gear for everyone, enabling the average Joe casually walk into into even the most dangerous places without fear?

Finally an insightful appreciation of lunch. From stories of TV writers obsession with the lunch break to a chilling warning of what could happen if all lunches "went away" and there was no noontime meal for anyone anywhere -- and how we must perhaps learn to navigate a world without lunch.

The swiffer is an excellent cleaning device, that but has Scott thrown his girlfriend "under the bus" by blaming Ginger for making him think the name is actually "Swifter". This leads to a discussion about guys puffing up their friends credentials as Tom describes Scott as "President of Macy's worldwide" even though he was once only an advertising copywriter for the famed department store chain.

Tom speaks to the people listening to the podcast 1000 years from now and asks them an awkward question: why haven't you used your time machines, which will be commonplace by then, to come back to our time period and help us build the first time machine? This discussion evolves into another uncomfortable conversation that Scott would have to have with his girlfriend Ginger about whether they should try to open an In and Out Burger on the planet Saturn.

Scott reveals his shocking true story from when he was a Northwestern student in the 1970s and he was in charge of an campus event but the guest of honor -- a stripper -- didn't show up. What he did next made local TV news.

What with half of all office workers still working from home even five years after the pandemic, what to do with those huge empty office buildings? It's not an academic question, as they are becoming so inexpensive it may be that we will have no choice but to buy one. Then what? Tom thinks the only possibility is to turn them into giant indoor water park, but the very question somehow leads to a discussion of chewing gum.

A spur-of-the-moment get together of four friends for dinner redefines the traditional "dinner party" and in the process unearths memories of The Sophisticates, a group of culturally advanced friends from Tom's middle school days.

Tom's eight hour road trip to Columbus Ohio with 20 year friend yields another podcast, this time about political influencers, once known as pundits. This leads to a revelation that dyi-eschewing Scott used to play a tool-belt wearing carpenter for an advertising campagn!

Tom describes a historic 8 hour road trip from New York City to Columbus Ohio with a 20 year old dude -- a meeting of boomer and gen z guy that thrillingly bridges a vast generation gap.

Tom takes listeners through a micro-history of "wayward youth" in America, ending with a surprising twist as pandemic-traumatized Gen Z reportedly cower from social life and eschew parties, dating and sex. Will Hollywood make B-movies about wild older "Boomers" like us like in 1950s drive-in films about teenage juvenile delinquents? And will humans die out from lack of reproduction?