Baseball spring training games start Monday with fans in attendance, so what will happen to the cardboard cutouts? We salute the unsung hero, the catcher, who must squat for three hours, wear a mask and heavy padding, while trying to catch a 100 mile fastball with the umpire hovering over his shoulder.

Tom and Scott discover they both did play by play sports announcing from home when they were 12. They imagine a world where Scott and his sister are welcomed into the Motown family after recording their New Year’s Eve song in 1966 on Scott’s Panasonic cassette recorder.

Tom gets his second vaccine on Saturday, and plans to celebrate by returning to Trader Joe’s for the first time in a year and buying desiccated sponges. Scott becomes fully immunized tomorrow, two weeks after his second jab, but he won’t walk to Times Square and kiss a woman, as in the iconic V-E day photo,

After listening to jazz and watching a Motown documentary last night, Scott becomes “The Man Who Remembered There Was Music”. Plus, why we should be sleeping much better than they did in the early 1900’s, even though they wore sleep hats.

In our speculative investigative report, we look at whether algorithms are actually low paid workers with no union benefits, working in a giant underground facility.

We were cheering right along with the NASA scientists yesterday as Perseverance landed on Mars. Next time, the spacecraft should land in one of the suburbs of Mars, to increase the likelihood of intelligent life being there.

We think it’s important to remind people that “standing on the shoulders of the people who came before me” is a metaphor, and should only be attempted by circus acts.

Tom and Scott vow not to let their podcast be bought out by a private equity hedge fund.

“Saving time saves lives” is the headline of our WPA poster, as we create the word “bleakscape” instead of the time consuming “bleak landscape”. Plus, creating a movie poster with rave reviews BEFORE you make a film.

Our listeners are geniuses because they can discern between pure unbridled speculation and fully bridled truth. Which is a far more reliable indicator of intelligence than the outdated “IQ tests”.