As Scott recovers from a bout of laryngitis, we raise our voices in support of the temporary voiceless. Tom even creates an original 18th century poet quotation about it, since no poet from the 18th century ever bothered to write one.

Scott visits Tom’s former homeland of Pacific Palisades, and imagines an Hitchcockian tale of a podcast host who assumes the identity of his cohost who has moved to New York. Will we use our soon to be completed Time Machine to go back to 1946 and make that film?

The podcast of record for these times takes on the uptick in cases, with a hearty laugh and a can do attitude. And to demonstrate that, we each quote a line from Faulkner! Can a Nobel or two be next?

Tom and Scott are relieved that our country’s Constitution does not mandate compulsory water skiing. Plus, we raise our voices on behalf of the potato, since it is the only food object tied to sitting on the couch. And we also stand up for the rights of the easily indictable ham sandwich.

Scott and Ginger get away from it all without taking a kayak to Quincy or Nyack. But they manage to spend a day at the pool without leaving their friends’s house, which would be impossible for apartment dwellers like us. Plus, after a weekend of using his “dog voice”, coupled with his regular use of his “cat voice”, could Scott eventually eschew his human voice altogether?

A change in our usual recording time doesn’t create a crisis of confidence, since we openly and transparently reveal this fact to our listening audience. Something that sets us apart from less principled podcasters.

You heard it here first! Our latest film idea is The Hiker and the Flaneur, which finds an urban explorer, like Renoir and Degas, who ventures to a small Catskills town with only a very limited sidewalk area. Then he wanders off Main Street and encounters a spirited hiker woman, and romance later ensues.

Scott stands in the middle of Park Avenue, but thankfully it’s during the Summer Streets hours, when cars are banished from that tony boulevard. We revisit our proposal for a pedestrian walkway that extends from New York to California.

At a Pyle(Tom’s real last name)family gathering, most of the next generation of Pyles have had kids of their own. Lots of kids. Which leads Tom to discover a shocking statistical trend, that in just two or three generations, most Americans will be Pyles! Which will make for a more quiet and self conscious country.

A day at the ballpark begins with attempting the daredevil, high wire act of trying to coordinate meeting on the same subway car as it arrives into the station. Newly released text messages reveal Tom’s anxiety over which train Scott would be arriving on. The maneuver is successful, although there is none of the anticipated applause by subway riders.