Strange Highways

This week Kevin and Paul celebrate Halloween by taking a detour into 1973's Encounter With The Unknown. This trilogy of paranomal stories; a tale of a mother's revenge against the college kids that inadvertantly killed her son, another about a mysterious hole that has no bottom and is emitting strange sounds, and a story about forbidden love that ends in tragedy all sound great on paper but their production value, story telling choices, acting, and pacing almost drive Kevin and Paul mad. See if they make it out alive after their.... ENCOUNTER WITH THE UNKNOWN!

This week Kevin and Paul get into the Christmas spirit by going to the bar and having a few drinks with Henry Corwin, a sad broken alcoholic in a dirty Santa suit. Henry wants to see hope and love in the world but is disappointed everywhere he looks until he finds a large sack that may some holiday magic in it...

This week Kevin and Paul stop by a classy hotel room to meet the less than classy Chester and Paula Dietrich, a couple of small time crooks that just robbed an antique store. While digging through their haul, they find an old camera that seems to take pictures of the future...

This week Kevin and Paul stop by the Savoy theater to meet Mr. Booth Templeton, an older established stage actor with his eyes always looking to the past... 

This week Kevin and Paul stop by the perfectly run mansion of the Loren family. Dr. Loren and his wife Irene enjoy their insulated existence of the same routine every day while their daughter Jana is beginning to want something, anything, different...

This week Kevin and Paul go get some chicken fried steak at a small diner in Ridgeview, Ohio, and meet newlyweds Don and Patricia Carter. Their future seems bright until they start asking the penny fueled Mystic Seer fortune telling machine what will happen next...

This week Kevin and Paul are joined by special guest Dynamo Marz from Trick or Treat Radio as we all go to the hospital to visit Mrs. Janet Tyler, a young lady whose face is covered in bandages after her 11th attempt to fix her disfigurment that keeps her outside of regular society. Tensions grow as her wrappings are slowly taken off... 

This week Kevin and Paul listen intently to a story of warning from one David Ellington about the time when he ran into a most unusual religious order and the prisoner they kept...

This week Kevin and Paul go to the fancy home of one Mr. Bartlett Finchley, a wealthy critic that hates people as much as he hates technology. We find out that he has not sleep in many days because he believes all the machines he owns are trying to drive him mad or something much worse...

This week Kevin and Paul check into a four dollar hotel room with the nervous and sweaty Jackie Rhoades, a small time criminal that has always taken the easy way out. While reflecting on a terrible decision he has to make, he gets assistance from a familar face...

This week Kevin and Paul go antiquing and meet Arthur and Edna Castle, store owners who are up to their neck in bills and unwanted merchandise. Out of kindness, Arthur buys a worthless wine bottle that comes with a higher cost than he could possibly imagine...

This week Kevin and Paul start off season two of the Twilight Zone by waking up in the desert beside James Embry, Captain of the crashed B-25 bomber, the King Nine. As he searches the wreckage for his missing crew, he starts finding more questions than answers...

This time Kevin and Paul take a detour and talk about two episodes from the BBC tech-horror series, Black Mirror. Fifteen Million Merits: In the not too distant future we meet Bing, a man stuck on a stationary bike in a world of endless advertisements and worthless purchases. He just wants one true authentic moment. Is he willing to pay the price?  White Bear: Victoria wakes up to a headache and not knowing who she is. As she searches for answers, she is being chased by mute hunters and being recorded by passive onlookers with their cell phones, unwilling to help her. Will finding out the truth about White Bear set her free?  

Join us as we take a step back and look at the Twilight Zone Season One. We go over some highlights of the season, share our Bottom 5 and Top 5 episodes, and still mispronunce the name Cadwallader. Also, we reveal the recently discovered secret origin of the title to our show.   

This week Kevin and Paul end Season One by going to go meet Mr. Gregory West, a playwright who has a very lively imagination, and his wife Victoria, who doesn't seem to understand exactly what that means... 

This week Kevin and Paul try out for the Hoboken Zephyrs, a professional baseball team so bad that they would consider us joining them. We then meet team manager Mr. Mouth McGarry, a man willing to put anyone or any thing on the field if it would get him some wins...

Kevin and Paul go shopping at a fancy department store with special guest Tom from the Film For Thought Podcast, when we meet Mrs. Marha White, a young lady searching for the perfect gift for her mother. Inadvertenly, we all get locked inside after the store closes and now it's just us... and all those staring mannequins... 

This week Kevin and Paul push start their 1924 Rickenbacker and head over to meet Mr. James B. W. Bevis, an odd man with odd interests, who's life is about to have some divine intervention, whether he wants it or not...

This week Kevin and Paul bop on down to the local jazz club and meet Mr. Joey Crown, a talented trumpet player whose instrument of late has been a bottle of booze. Thinking he has nothing left, Joey walks in front of a speeding van, but something out there won't let him leave on such a sour note... 

This week Kevin and Paul are waitng in line to use a pay phone that is being monopolized by Mr. Roger Shackleforth, a man so desperately in love he is willing to do anything to get the attention of the woman of his dreams...