Cable news pundits have discovered that "two things can be true at once" but we start out by making fun of obvious truth and wind up telling true stories about chicken feet in China.

Scott's annual proclamation in earlyJanuary heralding the beginning of slightly longer days also inaugurates the season invented on this podcast of "pre-spring". Tom predicts our little tradition will one day become a world-wide week of wild celebration -- but will sarcastic "snarkos" spoil the party?

Under garments thrown at celebrities leads to a realization Scott could be a CEO for any company at least for a year. We also explain the potental dangers of "the golden parachute".

Socks have gone missing for centuries, but Getting Through This reveals one man's lonely but determined effort to get to the bottom of the neglected problem and track down missing socks as if they were missing people.

On this podcast we tell a true-life modern Christmas Story about four adults and their effort to enjoy a Christmas meal in New York City. But will "Twas A Dinner In Chinatown" take it's place in the pantheon of 'Christmas literature alongside such enduring classics as "How the Grinch Stole Christmas"? Or will our story evaporate from the public consciousness like snow on a warm weekend in March?

Two vacation trips, one idyllic, with Scott lolling in the Carribean with his girlfriend Ginger while Tom and his fiancee Sandy's trip to Lisbon runs into a road block: a general strike in Portugal means all flights are cancelled. No trains either. But Sandy and Tom don't give up -- which in this case is rather costly.

Finally our "podcast of record" deals with Artificial intelligence, but as always the conversation evolves, and the discovery of a new pleasure and source of secret pride: being the "first laugher".

Tom reveals he is not on Facebook and tells why in a devastating rant that could end social media in general. But then he drops the other shoe, in a twist that will flummox media experts.

A possibly historic SNAFU resulted in the 800th episode of GTT turning out to be episode 801! But if that weren't shocking enough, in an important and serious twist we imagine the world leaders gathering in Tom's Fiancee Sandy's 9 bedroom bed and breakfast in the Catskill Mountains and working out their differences over one historic weekend. But would Putin be happy with the "Gazebo Room?" or would he still complain? More questions than answers, but still lots of shocking answers.

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.