Strange Highways

This week Terry and Paul wander into the world's smallest drug store and meet Andrea, a quiet and shy woman who finds an escape in romance novels. While hoping one day for a love like those in the pages she reads, a mysterious figure enters her house... 

This week Terry and Paul end up in a science basement and meet Major Alex McAndrews, an accomplished and decorated test pilot that has spent his whole life serving his country, unquestioned. When he is tasked with traveling through a glowing hole between worlds, he starts to have doubts that he is doing the right thing by just following orders...

This week Terry, Paul, and guest Mary take a box of junk to the pawn shop and meet Mr. Simon Foster, who is unemployed and the rent is due. Simon gets an offer that will solve his current problems, but it does come with a steep cost... 

This week Terry and Paul get thrown into Room 2426 and meet Mr. Martin Decker, a scientist who has been locked up because he won't reveal where he hid his research on a potential bioweapon. As the powers that be keep trying to break Martin, he meets another detainee who believes there is a way both of them can escape...

This week Terry and Paul rack'em up as meet Mr. Jesse Cardiff, a young pool shark with a chip on his shoulder that he will never be considered the best unless he beats the best there ever was, James 'Fats' Brown. Jesse gets his chance as Fats appears and challenges him to one game, for life or death...

This week Terry and Paul meet Dr. Mallory Craig on the first day of his new job, helping institutionalized patients with their various challenges. One is unlike the others, as they admitted themselves after seeing faces in every day things: wallpaper, clothing, their children's drawings...  

This week Terry and Paul stumble into a shelter to watch some football and meet Mr. Steve Cranston, a man out of work and running out time to care for his family. He decides to rob the house of a very wealthy man when a gun shot and thrown bottle of liquor changes the course of both their lives... 

This week Terry and Paul go wandering into the woods and meet Danny (we know this because he wearing a shirt with his name on it), a young boy that lives in a trailer with his single mother. Danny then meets a man that doesn't seem to know much about the world around him... 

This week Terry and Paul head to outer space and meet Mr. Thomas Bartin, a man tasked with taking needed medicine to a distant colony, who discovers that a young lady has stowed away without his knowledge. He immediately understands the dire situation that they are both in... 

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...