Hi, everyone. Welcome to Positively Dreadful with me, your host, Brian Boyler.

Okay, here's a quick story about my childhood. When I was a kid, and so this must have been

the late 1980s or early 1990s, the Southern California TV network that owned the rights to the

Twilight Zone would broadcast a Twilight Zone marathon every Thanksgiving, something

like 9 or 10 uninterrupted hours of just the Twilight Zone. And I learned about this

and of the Twilight Zone itself, because one year we went to visit my grandparents

for Thanksgiving, and my grandfather spent the whole day recording the episodes of the

Twilight Zone on his VCR hour after hour until dinner, so he could add them to his home

movie or video library. And that was great for the time, because there was really no other

way for him to pull up a favorite episode whenever he wanted, let alone watch a few classic

ones when his grandson came to town. It was either fast forwarding through videocassets

or just hoping that at some point we'd all be in the same place, and the Twilight Zone

would be on incindication, and it'd happen to be an episode we'd all enjoy.

So back then, that's how we did things. We'd buy some videotapes, the legitimate way,

or we'd pirate things from television with VCRs, and if you did that enough, you could

more or less watch your favorite movies and TV shows whenever you wanted. Over time, obviously

technology made this method obsolete. By the time my grandfather died, every episode

of the Twilight Zone was available for purchase in a DVD box set, and televisions had

TVOs, so you could just record a Twilight Zone marathon and watch the episodes as time

allowed. And that's still more or less the reigning technology, unless you happen to

subscribe to a streaming service that currently has the rights to the Twilight Zone, in

which case you don't even need to bother with shelf space or DVR space or anything like

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