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The tonight on the Twilight Zone podcast we're going to take a different signpost up ahead and we're going to take a look at one of those other avenues of the Twilight Zone and one of the forms of the Twilight Zone that has been around almost as long as the television show itself is the Twilight Zone in comic book form but I'm not going to take this road alone. Tonight I have a guest with me.

I announced him last time, and it is my good friend, Zach Moore.

How's it going, Zach?

Hey, Tom, happy to be on this supernatural highway with you as we take the signpost up ahead to Comicville.

Yeah, yeah.

Well, this was your idea, so, you know, we'll see how this turns out

and whether I will thank you for that in the end.

Don't hold it against me if we...

Normally, when I do things like this,

I would wait till the end of the show to say to people, you know,

what do you do, what do you do, that kind of thing? But, you know, now I think it's nice to do that up front because it gives the audience a chance to get to know you because I've been on your show. Was it last year now? Yeah, I think it was about a year ago. Yes, sir. But you've not been on this show. So let's introduce you to the audience. Tell us a bit about your podcast. Well, portrait of a, I don't know, I was going to some rod-selling intro about myself. But, no, I'm not 36. I'm 31, actually, for those who are interested. So I'm not a salesman with the midlife crisis. So I do have a podcast, Standard, Orbit Trek FM Star Trek podcasting network and we talk about

the original series. Old, new, animated, anything to have to do with Captain Kirk in the Enterprise.

That's our wheelhouse over there. So that's my, Star Trek is like my first nerd love, if you

will. I grew up watching Star Trek, the movies, the next generation. Those are Deep Space Nine as well. I love all those. And there's a lot of crossover between the Twilight Zone and Star Trek. So that's why we got to talk on our show last year. I believe the episode was called, I'm terrible with episode numbers, but we try to think of catchy names for them, right? So this one was called Defined by a Sword in his hand. And we were talking about George Decay in the encounter episode of The Twilight Zone. And then he's has, it's all about a sword, a samurai sword. And on Star Trek, probably Sulu's most famous moment in episode is in the naked time where he's running out with the sword. So we kind of made that connection.

That's where that title comes from. So for those that you want to hear Tom over on standard orbit, go look it up. And you can find us over there. So love Star Trek. Talk about Star Trek all the time. I also love Smallville. I'm a big Superman fan. And I grew up at the same time as Smallville was on the air. and that's a show, for those not familiar,

it's a show about young Superman,

Clark King growing up in Smallville before he's Superman. And I'd always been a DC Comics fan, I love Super Bowers and things like that. And the main thing with me, though, I was the same age as Clark on the show. So like freshman year of high school Clark was, I was freshman year in high school. So that, to me, that like sealed the deal. Like, oh, man, this is my life.

This is great.

You know, I'm going to grow up with this show. So anyway, those are my two podcasts. Those are my loves. You can find us on Trek FM on Twitter. And you can find us at Always Malville with 1S on Twitter as well. That's the best, quickest way to find us out there. And I just, you know, I love podcasting.

A lot of people, they connect with other fans and express their fandom in different ways. And I just, I just love like this, the conversational aspect of it. And I must say, now that I'm on the Twilight Zone podcast, you, your podcast is one of the big inspirations for me to go into podcasting, because that was back in, what, 2009 was it? You started? started? Maybe 2010. Something like that. Yeah. So I had recently graduated college and I got an iPhone and I'm like, oh, podcast. Let me get into this. And what are some shows that I like? I like the Twilight Zone. Is there a Twilight Zone podcast? There is. It's the Twilight Zone podcast. You can't get more official than that. And there have been many, many have come after you, but you stand head and shoulders above the rest still. So I'm really, really happy to be here on the Twilight Zone podcast talking to you, Tom. Well, thank you, man. I appreciate that. You know, and, you know, let's not compliment these too much, but, you know, I'm a kind of lapsed trekkie but I still I haven't watched the original

series in years but I still listen to stand the door but just because I love the kind of camaraderie

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