Strange Highways

The week Kevin and Paul head to South America and meet Mr. Ramos Clemente, a man who has just successfully overthrown the oppressive leader of his country with the aide of four of his closest friends and allies. The victory is short lived when Ramos learns that he inherits a mirror that shows him the faces of those that will betray him...

The week Kevin and Paul head on over to a pool hall on Randolph Street to meet Mr. Jesse Cardiff, a man that believes he is the best billards player alive. He can't seem to escape the shadow of 'Fats' Brown, the best billards player that ever lived. Jesse would give anything to play Fats just once...

This week Kevin and Paul head on down the road and meet Mrs. Lavina Godwin, a Civil War widow who sits on the porch of her destroyed home and watches the walking wounded returning from the battlefield. There is something odd about these men and how they are compelled to just keep moving forward as if they are drawn to something... 

This week Kevin and Paul attend the surprise birthday party for Mr. Larry Gates, a well respected doctor that is always thinking ahead, thrown by his very friendly and close knit neighbors. Everything is peachy keen until the radio announces the threat of unknown objects seen in the skies above...

This week Kevin and Paul, being sober and reliable, head out west to meet Mr. Grant Sheckly, a flight investigator brought in to solve an unusual case; a plane that has landed safely with no crew or passengers on it...

This week we start off Season 3 of the Twilight Zone joined by friend of the show, El Goro of the Talk Without Rhythm Podcast, as we take a look at episode one, titled 'Two'. We meet a man and a woman on opposing sides of a conflict that has devastated the world. Will the color of their uniforms keep them from finding a common ground? 

This week we take another detour and head back to 1977 to watch the Don Siegel film, Telefon. A Russian records keeper has fled the country with a top secret document that allows him to locate and activate deep cover sleeper agents in the United States. The Russian government, not wanting to let the US know about the 50+ seeded agents they have stateside, reaches out to the one man who can track down this rogue agent, Major Grigori Borzov aka Charles Bronson. His accent may not be strong but his results are. 

This week we take a look at 1981's The Monster Club, a weird little anthology hybrid horror/comedy/rock and roll show that stars Vincent Price, John Carradine, and Donald Pleasence. We learn what a Shadmock is, to beware of men with violin cases, and whatever the hell a Humgoo is. Monsters rule, Ok?

This week Kevin and Paul take a look at the 1994 made for TV special Rod Serling's Lost Classics. Hosted by James Earl Jones, it presents two stories previously unpublished stories that Carol, Rod's wife, found in a trunk in their attic. The first tale, The Theater, is about a lady who ends up seeing parts of her past, and possible future, play out in front of her on a movie theater screen. The second tale, Where the Dead Are, is about a doctor in 1868 who views death as an opponent to be defeated and after an emergency surgery on a man that should have been dead years before, the doctor heads to a mysterious island where death isn't the worst thing that can happen. 

This week Kevin and Paul take a slight detour into the 1980's anthology series, Amazing Stories. First up is Ghost Train, directed by Steven Speilberg, which is about a grandfather that is convinced a train he missed as a child is coming back to pick him up. And the second one is Mummy Daddy, a story about an actor that is stuck in a mummy costume who is trying to get to the hospital in time for the bith of his child. 

Join us as we take a step back and look at the Twilight Zone Season Two. We go over some highlights of the season, share our Bottom 5 and Top 5 episodes, and never forget about Hyperion, the dangers of windows, and the soft taste of Oasis cigarettes.    

This week Kevin, Paul, and special guest El Goro of the Talk Without Rhythm Podcast, meet Mr. Romney Wordsworth, a liabrian in a future where books are outlawed. He is standing before the Chancellor and the State facing the charge of becoming obsolete...

This week Kevin and Paul end up drinking a lot of cups of coffee at the Hi-Way Cafe with six, no wait, seven passengers whose bus is stopped due to a snowstorm. Suddenly two Troopers enter to let eveyone know that they followed a set of foot prints that led to the diner from a crashed object that landed in the nearby frozen pond... 

This week Kevin and Paul get onto a very crowded subway and meet Mr. Archibald Beechcroft, an easily annoyed man who just wishes he could eliminate all the people in the universe...

This week Kevin and Paul suddenly end up in a court room to see the sentencing of one Mr. Adam Grant, a man who is being sent to his death via the electric chair. He tells everyone that they need to let him live becuase if he dies, everyone in the world dies with him...

The week Kevin and Paul are hanging out at a gentlemen's club (not that kind) and overhear a strange wager between two men. Mr. Archie Taylor challenges Mr. Jamie Tennyson that he can't go a full year without saying a single word...

This week Kevin and Paul head out to a secret cave lair in Death Valley to meet a crew of criminals right after they pull off a complicated heist. The only things left standing between them and their freedom is their own greed, mistrust, and about 100 years of sleep... 

This week Kevin and Paul take a trip back to 1995 and watch an episode of Are You Afraid Of The Dark? We discuss The Tale of Station 109.1 involving a young kid who is obsessed with death, his older brother who is played by Ryan Gosling, and special guest star Gilbert Gottfried. Does the show hold up? Do we survive? Are ghosts allowed to drive? 

This week Kevin and Paul head back to the year 1847 and join a wagon train lead by Mr. Christopher Horn, a man determined to have a better life for his family and those following him. With supplies running short, morale running low, and his son running a fever, Christopher makes a last ditch effort at finding help as he heads out beyond the rim...

This week Kevin and Paul stop by the Bayles household to wish Billy a happy fifth birthday. He is really excited to get a toy telephone from his grandmother because they will always be able to talk to each other no matter what...