Strange Highways

This week Terry and Paul go wandering off to the woods and meet Jeff, a lonely kid who shares time between recently divorced parents. When his father tells him to go  outside and use his imagination to create his own fun, Jeff meets Mike, another young kid that wants to play... 

This week Terry and Paul take a sad walk along the beach at night and meet Margaret, a waitress who just wants to find love and acceptance. She lived a very lonely life until one day a mysterious object in the sky choose her to receive its message... 

This week Terry and Paul start Season 2 of the 1980's Twilight Zone and meet Mr. Gary Pitkin, an Elvis impersonator that enjoys performing the earlier works of Elvis but thinks the later stuff was not rock n' roll. After a near fatal encounter with a drunk driver, Gary comes face to face with the man himself... 

This week Terry and Paul round out the last of their detours before starting season 2 of the 1980's Twilight Zone by looking at a film that could have been an episode of the original series with 1962's Carnival of Souls. Miss Mary Henry, the recent survivor of a car crash, heads west for a job opportunity and for a fresh start. Once there, she feels compelled to go to an odd structure on the edge of the Great Salt Lake and to see who or what is inside... 

This week Terry and Paul continue their detours by racing for pink slips out west with 1986's The Wraith. A mysterious black clad figure is taking out members of a gang one by one in a series of street races with an unearthly car...  

This week Terry and Paul are joined again by Leiann of the Skewered Universe Podcast as they revisit the very first episode of the original Twilight Zone, Where is Everybody? They talk about screaming out breakfast orders, flirting inappropriately with mannequins, and how this episode would set the stage for the series to follow. 

This week Terry and Paul continue their detours and learn the dangers of picking up strangers in 1986's The Hitcher. Other things they learn are about the importance of taking a good shower, avoid driving cars engulfed in flames, and making sure to check french fries before eating them.... 

This week we continue our detours by heading back to the Masters of Horror series and watch the second episode that John Carpenter directed, Pro-Life. A young girl is needing help and ends up at a family planning clinic with her father not far behind trying to get her back. Soon the clinic is under siege by forces man made and supernatural... 

This week Terry and Paul take a detour back to 1971 and visit Steven Spielberg's first film, Duel. Based upon a short story by Richard Matheson, it is a tale of how one random encounter can lead to a deadly game of cat and mouse on a two lane road in the middle of nowhere... 

This week Terry and Paul take a detour into some more Black Mirror with the season 6 episode, Demon 79. Nida lives a quiet life selling shoes in a department store. One day, after being forced to eat her lunch in the basement due to her terrible coworker's complaints, Nida finds a strange talisman that may or may not cause the world to end...