The Twilight Zone is arguably one of the best and most influential shows in television history.

The reason it adores, and is still being washed and talked about more than 60 years after

its debut, can not only be traced to its superior storytelling and innovations in the genres

of horror, science fiction and fantasy, but the fact that each episode is embedded with

a lesson on how to grapple with life's moral and existential dilemmas.

Here to impact those life lessons is Mark DeWeeds'iac, author of,

Everything I Need to Know I Learned in the Twilight Zone.

Tainless show, Mark and I Discussed the Parable-like Morals from a selection of Twilight

Zone episodes, drawn from those that are my favorites, Mark's favorites, and simply classic.

And since Halloween is coming up, Mark and I both offer our picks with the just plain

scariest episodes to watch. After the show is over, check out our show notes at a-wim.is-las-twilight-zone.

Alright, Mark DeWeeds'iac, welcome to the show.

Well, thanks for having me.

So you were in a book a few years ago called Everything I Need to Know I Learned in the Twilight

Zone.

And this book grew out of, I mean, you had been, you had introduced your daughter to the classic

television shows you loved. And when she was a teenager, you decided it was time for her

to watch your very favorite television show, which is also one of the favorite shows in

my family. And that's the Twilight Zone. And as you watch the show together, you found

yourself discussing life lessons that were embedded in the episodes and realized the

Twilight Zone, it really offers a good guide for life. There are parables and morality

plays in the episodes. And so you wrote a book about those lessons.

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