While Scott luxuriates with his free print subscription to The Hollywood Reporter, Tom struggles to have his thumbprint accepted for a free one month digital trial. And they propose a trade publication, which is the opposite of Variety and THR, that tells you how poorly everyone’s career is going.

As he’s packing to move, Scott discovers a November 1988 issue of New York magazine, with a typically mean theater review by John Simon, Tom and Scott recall fondly the days of giant restaurants like Lundy’s in Brooklyn.

Tom faces a shortage of dish detergent in the Pacific Palisades, while Scott rejoices as he buys Purell hand sanitizer for the first time in almost seven months. Plus, why opening a can of worms isn’t something to worry about.

We don’t agree with Marie Kondo, and those who tell us to be “merciless “ in deciding what stuff to throw away. We think there’s no time limit on joy. Scott is putting about a hundred videotapes in storage, and Tom has saved numerous partially filled notebooks that he flips through in real time on the show.

In these times, television news pundits share their opinions and show the world their homes at the same time. We think they should always stay home, instead of appearing in studio in front of a generic skyline of an unidentifiable city.

Why just live in the present, and in the moment? We live in all of the moments, past, present and future. And we come up with ideas for 1947 cartoons, as well as making identical versions of classic old cars. And making concept cars available to everyone, too.

Scott finds letters from summer camp when he was 12 years old. Plus a Kent cigarette ad from 1964 that made creative use of the word “adsorptive”. And Tom thinks Scott’s visage should be etched onto the dime.

Which sound engineer responsible for artificial crowd noise on NFL telecasts, will emerge as a famed auteur? And our speculative history takes us back to the 1918 Spanish Flu, where we wish President Wilson had ended World War 1 since soldiers couldn’t socially distance.

Scott is moving on up to the East Side, to a deluxe apartment in the sky. Totally as an homage to The Jeffersons. And Tom shares breaking news that Scott’s alma mater Northwestern is ranked ahead of the University of Chicago in the WSJ best university rankings.

Scott tries a different kind of intervention on Tom. Instead of several non socially distanced people in a room telling him what he shouldn’t do, Scott suggests something Tom should do more often. Get out of the house. Even though that could lead to someone asking to box him on the street or force him to learn pole vaulting.