The Sign Post Up Ahead: A Twilight Zone Podcast

And When The Sky Was Opened (Season 1, Episode 11)

Patrick and Matt go through the eleventh episode of The Twilight Zone: "And When The Sky Was Opened." Three astronauts go into space, and then some Twilight Zone shit happens to them. It's really cool, honestly. "And When The Sky Was Opened" originally aired December 11, 1959; directed by Douglas Hayes; written by Rod Serling, based on a story by Richard Matheson; starring Rod Taylor, Charles Aidman, Jim Hutton, Maxine Cooper, and Sue Randall as The nurse. Music credit: "Something Is Coming" by Rural Route Nine. listen on Spotify (https://bit.ly/3QzvDQE) [https://bit.ly/3QzvDQE)], Apple Music (https://bit.ly/3DaYsQl [https://bit.ly/3DaYsQl]), or YouTube (https://youtu.be/EErrn2Zt9mA) [https://youtu.be/EErrn2Zt9mA)]. Listen to Matt's movie podcast, 1-Week Rental: A Movie Podcast. New episodes out every Friday, a deep-dive into a different movie every week. Listen on Apple Podcast (https://bit.ly/45fA9IW [https://bit.ly/45fA9IW]), Spotify (https://bit.ly/3tk7FAr [https://bit.ly/3tk7FAr]), or YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/@1weekrental) [https://www.youtube.com/@1weekrental)]. Give Patrick money: https://ko-fi.com/signpostupahead [https://ko-fi.com/signpostupahead]

Judgment Night (Season 1, Episode 10)

Matt Stokes and Patrick Perot go through the tenth episode of The Twilight Zone: "Judgment Night." Carl Lanser finds himself aboard a British cargo liner in 1942, on a foggy night, pursued by an unknown menace out in the ocean. He doesn't know who he is or why he's here. It probably has something to do with hell. It usually does in The Twilight Zone. "Judgment Night" originally aired December 4, 1959; directed by John Brahm; written by Rod Serling; starring Nehemiah Persoff as Carl Lanser, Ben Wright, Patrick Macnee, and James Franciscus as Herr Mueller. Music credit: "Something Is Coming" by Rural Route Nine. listen on Spotify (https://bit.ly/3QzvDQE) [https://bit.ly/3QzvDQE)], Apple Music (https://bit.ly/3DaYsQl [https://bit.ly/3DaYsQl]), or YouTube (https://youtu.be/EErrn2Zt9mA) [https://youtu.be/EErrn2Zt9mA)]. Listen to Matt's movie podcast, 1-Week Rental: A Movie Podcast. New episodes out every Friday, a deep-dive into a different movie every week. Listen on Apple Podcast (https://bit.ly/45fA9IW [https://bit.ly/45fA9IW]), Spotify (https://bit.ly/3tk7FAr [https://bit.ly/3tk7FAr]), or YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/@1weekrental) [https://www.youtube.com/@1weekrental)]. Give Patrick money: https://ko-fi.com/signpostupahead [https://ko-fi.com/signpostupahead]

Perchance To Dream (Season 1, Episode 9)

Matt Stokes and Patrick Perot go through the ninth episode of The Twilight Zone: "Perchance To Dream." Richard Conte (Don Barzini from The Godfather) plays Edward Hall, a 35-year-old(!) who is convinced that if he goes to sleep, he'll die. He has a heart murmor, you see, and any excitement will put him down forever. Further complicating things is a sexy BDSM cat lady who visits him in his dreams. Is this just the story of a man who thinks a wet dream will kill him? Is it a metaphor for repressed homosexuality? Or something else? Patrick and Matt definitively answer these questions. "Perchance To Dream" originally aired November 27, 1959; directed by Robert Florey; written by Charles Beaumont; based on "Perchance To Dream" by Charles Beaumont; starring Richard Conte as Edward Hall, John Larch as Dr. Rathmann, and Suzanne Lloyd as the cat lady. Music credit: "Something Is Coming" by Rural Route Nine. listen on Spotify (https://bit.ly/3QzvDQE) [https://bit.ly/3QzvDQE)], Apple Music (https://bit.ly/3DaYsQl [https://bit.ly/3DaYsQl]), or YouTube (https://youtu.be/EErrn2Zt9mA) [https://youtu.be/EErrn2Zt9mA)]. Listen to Matt's movie podcast, 1-Week Rental: A Movie Podcast. New episodes out every Friday, a deep-dive into a different movie every week. Listen on Apple Podcast (https://bit.ly/45fA9IW [https://bit.ly/45fA9IW]), Spotify (https://bit.ly/3tk7FAr [https://bit.ly/3tk7FAr]), or YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/@loadbearingbeamspod) [https://www.youtube.com/@loadbearingbeamspod)]. Give Patrick money: https://ko-fi.com/signpostupahead [https://ko-fi.com/signpostupahead]

Time Enough At Last (Season 1, Episode 8)

Matt Stokes and Patrick Perot go through the eighth episode of The Twilight Zone: "Time Enough At Last." Burgess Meredith is Henry Bemis, a freakin' loser who just wants to read BOOKS. Books??? "What's this swill you're reading?!" his shrew of a wife demands. "David Copperfield? Sounds positively pornographic!" she yells as she rolls over it with a bulldozer. Then the apocalypse happens and Henry finally gets some Me Time to read. But the universe is cruel and, we shall learn by the end of this classic episode, not fair. "Time Enough At Last" originally aired November 20, 1959; directed by John Brahm; written by Rod Serling; based on "Time Enough At Last" by Lynn Venable; starring Burgess Meredith, Jacqueline deWit, and Vaughn Taylor as Mr. Carsville. Music credit: "Something Is Coming" by Rural Route Nine. listen on Spotify (https://bit.ly/3QzvDQE) [https://bit.ly/3QzvDQE)], Apple Music (https://bit.ly/3DaYsQl [https://bit.ly/3DaYsQl]), or YouTube (https://youtu.be/EErrn2Zt9mA) [https://youtu.be/EErrn2Zt9mA)]. Listen to Matt's movie podcast, 1-Week Rental. New episodes out every Friday, a deep-dive into a different movie every week. Listen on Apple Podcast (https://bit.ly/45fA9IW [https://bit.ly/45fA9IW]), Spotify (https://bit.ly/3tk7FAr [https://bit.ly/3tk7FAr]), or YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/@loadbearingbeamspod) [https://www.youtube.com/@loadbearingbeamspod)]. Give Patrick money: https://ko-fi.com/signpostupahead [https://ko-fi.com/signpostupahead]

The Lonely (Season 1, Episode 7)

Matt Stokes and Patrick Perot go through the seventh episode of The Twilight Zone: "The Lonely." Jack Warden plays Corry, a man wrongfully convicted of murder and sentenced to a most fiscally irresponsible imprisonment: solitary confinement on a faraway asteroid. His only human contact comes every three months, when space merchant marines spend 15 minutes on his asteroid delivering him supplies. He's lonely, folks. But that's about to change when he's given a miraculous gift: an artificially intelligent ladybot. But can a robot (or, as they repeatedly say it, "ro-but") replace a human being? What is a human being, anyway? And how remarkable is it that this 70-year-old episode maybe predicted a future world of romantic AI chatbots? "The Lonely" originally aired November 13, 1959; directed by Jack Smight; written by Rod Serling; starring Jack Warden, Jean Marsh, John Dehner, and Ted Knight. Source: "'I felt pure, unconditional love': the people who marry their AI chatbots" by Stuart Heritage | The Guardian (2025) - https://bit.ly/4oHvrPd [https://bit.ly/4oHvrPd] Music credit: "Something Is Coming" by Rural Route Nine. listen on Spotify (https://bit.ly/3QzvDQE) [https://bit.ly/3QzvDQE)], Apple Music (https://bit.ly/3DaYsQl [https://bit.ly/3DaYsQl]), or YouTube (https://youtu.be/EErrn2Zt9mA) [https://youtu.be/EErrn2Zt9mA)]. Listen to Matt's movie podcast, Load Bearing Beams. New episodes out every Friday, a deep-dive into a different movie every week. Listen on Apple Podcast (https://bit.ly/45fA9IW [https://bit.ly/45fA9IW]), Spotify (https://bit.ly/3tk7FAr [https://bit.ly/3tk7FAr]), or YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/@loadbearingbeamspod) [https://www.youtube.com/@loadbearingbeamspod)]. Give Patrick money: https://ko-fi.com/signpostupahead [https://ko-fi.com/signpostupahead]