Gary, Tom and a very special guest expert on the topic pontificate about everything involving restaurants, and what eats at them about the whole experience.

Tom and Gary talk about the things that slowly kill them, and all of us: insidious mobile-provider messages, the unpleasantness of grocery-store pleasantries, Super Bowl ads. Plus we offer flaming-hot Oscar takes, viewer mail and an intriguing preview for an upcoming episode.

Gary and Tom return to their rustic one-bedroom cabin deep in the Minnesota woods, with a very special guest: Jane from New Jersey. Jane treats us to some singing of hers, while we torture Jane with some (air quotes) “singing” of ours.

Tom and Gary test your patience and your endurance with a very special extended-play episode of the pod. We decree you will love it, unless you don’t.

On the eve of the 2019 NFL season, Gary and Tom tackle would-be player nicknames and tearjerker football movies. Plus: the intriguing relationship of the Sonic guys, and viewer mail.

In the most explicit "So There!" episode yet, Gary and Tom field mail from our small but witty and engaged listenership. Also: interstate observations, backpack women and how in the end, we all end up on the Mongolian side.

In which Tom and Gary discuss the maniacal branding of the Liberty Mutual advertising, people who spit on the street, puzzling TV-commercial tropes and the existential humiliation of outlet malls. Plus a teaser of a very special upcoming episode.

It’s been months since our last pod, but this will make it well worth the wait: awkward karaoke songs, whining about wine, pretentious city pronunciations and thoughts on those inane Matthew McConaughey Lincoln commercials.

Gary and Tom reveal trenchant truths about the Oscars, fake farms, Wisconsin, and gastro-intestinal distress at 40,000 feet.

Even with one of them in a diminished mental state, Tom and Gary still deliver the Super Bowl ad review against which all others shall be judged. Also, a loving “So There Redux”, and a bundled up “I Wonder Why”.