Strange Highways

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...

This week Terry and Paul kick of the start of season 3 of the 80's iteration of the Twilight Zone by meeting Mr. Edgar Witherspoon, an eccentric old man that scours the neighborhood and its residents seeking random items at varying times of the day. When Dr. Jeremy Sinclair goes to check on Edgar's mental health, he finds out what all of those objects are being used for... Added Bonus: Terry wraps up Moist Boi Summer™ with a oceanic quiz for Paul.   

This week Terry and Paul wrap up Moist Boi Summer™ by celebrating the life of recently passed Donald Sutherland with 1999's Virus. A crew of a slowly sinking tugboat come across a Russian research vessel that has plenty of blood and evidence of violence but no one is alive on it,  they decide to board it in hopes of finding anything of value...  

This week Terry and Paul take another voyage at sea and are joined by Richard and El Goro of The Talk Without Rhythm Podcast to talk about Alfred Hitchcock's 1944 film, Lifeboat. After a German U-boat sinks a commercial vessel, eight Americans of various walks and class wait for rescue along with one German officer in a damaged life boat. Tensions flare as supplies run out with little hope of being found...

This week Terry and Paul take to the seas again with 1998's Deep Rising. What do you get when you mix a heist movie with a disaster movie with a monster film? We still aren't quite sure, and Deep Rising isn't quite sure either. We can all agree that Treat Williams riding a jet ski inside a sinking ocean liner while firing a shotgun at a very large tentacle monster is really cool though...  

We kick off Moist Boi Summer™ by booking two tickets on 1972's The Poseidon Adventure. A an aging ship on its last voyage is hit by a massive wave that causes it to turn complete upside down. Those that remain alive have two choices, wait for help to arrive or to try to work their way to the bottom (now top) of the ship as it is rapidly sinking into the ocean... 

This week Terry and Paul continue on their detours and visit The Outer Limits. They meet Trent, a man who is being chased for reasons he does not know and has a glass hand missing three fingers. As he starts to recover the lost pieces, his purpose is slowly revealed to him... 

This week Terry and Paul continue their detours with a trip back to Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities with Lot 36. Nick makes his money off of bidding on abandoned storage units and the remains of those people's lives. What he finds in Lot 36 is more than he could have ever bargained for...

This week Terry and Paul continue their detours by heading to 1977 via the 2023 film, Late Night with the Devil. Jack Delroy is a night time TV talk show host who's star is fading and needs something big to get back on top. He books a young lady that is the sole survivor of a satanic cult that killed themselves and believes she has a demon inside her... 

This week Terry and Paul continue their detours but revisiting the original series with season 2's The Obsolete Man. Does the story of one man being on trial against The State for the crime of being a librarian still resonate today? Spoilers: It does.    Here's the link for the episode of Talk Without Rhythm that Paul was on that was mentioned during the show; https://tworpodcast.blogspot.com/2024/04/episode-717-black-sunday-1977-and.html

This week Terry and Paul continue their detours and head north to Maine with 1979's Prophecy. A papermill wants to expand their logging operations. The native people want to keep the papermill out of their ancestral home. A mutant bear just wants to eat everyone regardless of their position on the logging issue...  

This week Terry and Paul continue their detours and head to the darkside and meet Mrs. Katie Weiderman, a loving mother and supportive wife. When she gets a static filled phone call that is from someone clearly distraught but sounds familiar to her, Katie won't let it go until she figures out who the caller is...