If 2020 is getting you down, join us for a trip back to 1901, when there was no such thing as prewar apartment buildings. And since films of that year are upscaled now, pedestrians don’t walk like speedy penguins rocking from side to side.

We remember our elementary school book clubs, Scott’s reading camp in Saranac Lake, and the connection between reading, ping pong and impressing a woman.

After watching YouTube videos of American Bandstand and The Perry Como show from 1959, Scott becomes the foremost authority on Paul Anka. Both Scott and Tom echo Sinatra’s hit written by Anka, because they do this show “My Way”.

We don’t have to dread Monday anymore, since we usually don’t know what day it is anyway. And we also tell you why quicksand isn’t as scary as it seemed in movies we saw as a kid.

We salute Nobel Prize Week, although it is a bittersweet one for us since we were not awarded a Nobel Prize. But in our silver lining mining, we are relieved that now we have another year to book a venue for our after party in Oslo.

Buckle your seat belts, as we take you on a ride back to 1971, and the age of gigantic cars, most notably the iconic Cadillac, which an ad called “The best synonym for quality.” Scott once bought a $10 stapler that the salesman called “The Cadillac of staplers.”

Tom ponders getting cosmetic surgery, or “co -surg”, the phrase he coined. But at Scott’s urging, and due to our current situation, he chooses DIY non surgical alternatives.

Scott overcomes his procrastination, and uses his Waterpik Water Flosser for the first time,, with copious amounts of water shooting out at the shower curtain and on his clothes. Tommy suggests a 310 foot animatronic statue of Scott using a Water Flosser.

We’ve talked about phrase and cliche writers and ghost writers, but what about store name writers? They should avoid soon to be outdated names like 2.0. A restaurant in the 50’s called Blacklist is not likely to be in business today.

We think of ourselves as work from home astronauts who journey into space every single day on this podcast. And we defy the gravity that pulls normal conversations back to Earth.