Scott takes the redeye home from San Francisco, and gives the gift of time(the best gift of all), to our listeners, imploring them to tune out the anti redeye skeptics, and enjoy an extra full day of vacation. Tom comes up with a Nobel worthy idea to build museums and entertainment venues at our airports, to turn the drudgery of waiting into opportunities for fun and enrichment.

Tom discovers garbage strewn about the porch of his Catskills Victorian inn, , and later determines the culprit is a bear! Scott is in the Santa Cruz mountains for his nephew’s wedding, where only bears who are registered guests are permitted on the premises.

Our time machine is almost ready to go, except for the minor detail of not yet having the mechanism to allow us to travel in time. But the walk in cedar closets and lie flat seats are already in place. As is our plan to recruit time travel agents.

When Tom’s cousin good naturedly mocks his mountains, the Catskills, he decides not to immediately get on a plane to Boise to confront him. Scott lauds this diplomatic gesture which is surely worthy of the Nobel Peace Prize.

On this podcast, we leave no milestone unturned. Scott gets his booster shot, and despite his mild reaction, walks four miles to attend a screening of George Clooney’s film The Tender Bar, with a q and a with Clooney. Tom suggests that Scott become the first Q and A reviewer. And Scott ponders what question he could have asked that might have led to he and Clooney becoming friends.

Tom invents the expression, “The best parade is the one that’s unexpected.”Scott stumbles upon the Columbus Day parade and watches floats with sash wearing, waving people, and marching bands, as he gawks and walks 20 blocks along the Fifth Avenue parade route.

We salute those who ogle fall foliage, for these leaf peepers are the least dangerous people on earth. We marvel at the teeming throngs in Times Square, observed by Tom upon his arrival from the Catskills, and Scott after seeing his first Broadway show since March 2020.

Sunday in New York. Tom and Scott are On The Town, perusing vintage Playbills at the Broadway Flea. A film screening later that evening, reveals a secret Tom can only now tell the listening public.

Autumn has just begun, but Tom is already dreading winter in the Catskill Mountains. Scott says the upside is that Tom will be able to complain with the other locals about the arrival of the “ski people”. We rejoice and exhale deeply, because we both don’t ski, so all we have to worry about is procuring the proper weather resistant apparel.

Tom and Scott imagine the Broadway musical inspired by Tom’s family reunion last weekend. With so many family members ready to pass judgment on Tom’s handling of the party, Tom sings the showstopper at the end of Act One, “It’s All Up to Me”.