Strange Highways

This week Terry and Paul revisit Rod Serling's only Christmas Twilight Zone episode, The Night of the Meek. They learn about the power of cheer and cherry bourbon...

This week Terry and Paul get caught in the every flowing hair of Mr. Tom Bennett, a cut throat business man that recently received a heart transplant. Soon, Tom, starts not feeling like himself and starts acting out in various ways...

This week Terry and Paul check into a very sleazy hotel and meet Mr. Willy Gardner, the manager and one of the few nice people to inhabit the building. After stumbling across a trunk that can give him whatever he wants, Willy tries to get the one thing it can't bring him... 

This week Terry and Paul endure one of the most boring episodes of the Twilight Zone, There Was an Old Woman. Will they survive? 

This week Terry and Paul head to the bank and meet Mr. Warren Cribbens, a quiet man that prefers numbers over people. He accidently fractures a lens in his glasses and it gives him the ability to see into future. Will he use this ability to help others or himself...

This week Terry and Paul are joined by El Goro of The Talk Without Rhythm Podcast as they meet Mrs. Louise Simson, a woman who is trapped in an abusive marriage. After receiving a birthday gift from her sister of a porcelain dog, her pent up anger and desperation starts to manifest in unusual ways...   

This week Terry and Paul take one last detour before heading back to the Twilight Zone to talk about 1983's The Dead Zone. Johnny Smith didn't ask to lose five years of his life to a coma and awaken with the power to see glimpses of the past and future. Feeling it is more of a burden than gift, Johnny thinks he has found a way to help the world avoid a terrible fate...

This week we are joined by Nathaniel of the At the Devil's Ball Podcast to finish out Hansktober™ with 1989's The Burbs. With mysterious new neighbors moving in, the rest of the residents in the cul-de-sac start noticing odd things going on and choose to investigate...

Hankstober continues on as Terry and Paul meet Mr. Howard Prince, a con-artist that targets wealthy older women to marry and then poison so that he can get their money. While courting his next victim, Howard starts getting anonymous notes about his recent activities... 

This week Terry and Paul continue Hankstober™ with a look at Tom Hanks's first major role in 1982's made for TV film, Mazes and Monsters. A group of four college students take a table top role playing game out into the real world, thinking that it would just make the game more fun. Unfortunately, one of the players starts to blur the line between reality and fantasy...

This week Terry and Paul kick of Hankstober™ by starting with Tom Hanks first film, 1980's He Know You're Alone. There's killer on the loose and he only targets brides to be but somehow he's not the worst person in the film. Come along as we talk about a tonally inaccurate score, amusement parks in the dead of winter, and the best pornos in town... 

This week Terry and Paul meet Delos, er, Mr. Leonard Randall, someone who claims they can summon an ancient being that delivers wisdom to those that pay to hear it. Just as Leonard is about to hit the big time, a different, uncontrolled voice, starts coming out of his mouth... 

This week Terry and Paul attempt to save a parakeet's life and meet Mr. Noman Blane, a very lonely man living a very lonely life. He dials a wrong number and happens to find another lonely person just looking to connect with someone... 

This week Terry and Paul are joined by Richard as they meet Brockman family and their dying matriarch, Selena. While it appears she may pass away at any moment, she has a miraculous recovery while be waited on by her niece...

This week Terry and Paul stop by the bar and meet Mr. Miley Judson, a man whose life is being lost at the bottom of a bottle. When a stranger provides Miley a way out of his addiction, he takes the opportunity not thinking about the potential consequences... 

This week Terry and Paul stare at a spinning crystal and meet Ms. Mary McNeal, a regression therapist who specializes in helping people recall their past lives. While she can help others remember who they once were, Mary has not been able to figure out if she has existed before this life...

This week Terry and Paul stop by a senior assisted living facility and meet Mr. Roger Leeds, a sour man that hasn't been the same since his wife passed away three years earlier. Roger keeps finding himself in a nightmare with a woman he does not know asking for his help from something trying to break down the door to the room they are in... 

This week Terry and Paul go walking through a field and fall into a hole and find cave paintings that could be over 12,000 years old. As soon as the local university starts investigating the cave, strange things start happening and nearby farm animals start dying... 

This week Terry and Paul go to church and meet Father Mark Cassidy, a leader of a small parish that he has made thrive through his 20 years of constant service without taking any time off. He escapes in his work so he doesn't have to think about the one regret in his past, until it shows up one day outside with the engine idling... 

This week Terry and Paul meet Mr. Ed Hamner (HAMMMMMNER!), a professional baseball player that had to retire due to a leg injury and can't move on in life. When presented with a baseball card from 1910 of a player that looks a lot like him, Ed gets a second chance to play the game he loves...