You unlock this door with the key of imagination.

Beyond it is another dimension.

A dimension of sound.

A dimension of sight.

A dimension of mind.

You're moving into a land of both shadow and substance of things and ideas.

You've just crossed over into the Twilight Zone.

If the Twilight Zone has shown as anything over the years, it's that one of the best places you can go to reflect on your life is a squalid room in a boarding house or hotel.

Preferably one that costs less than ten dollars to stay there.

A place that tells you that you have really reached Rock Bottom.

And tonight the conditions are just right to be able to connect with a man called Grady,

who is at Rock Bottom, a jockey who is embroiled in a horse doping scandal and who is about to be tested by the Twilight Zone.

Let's see if we can get them on the line.

Yep.

Hello, Mr. Grady. This is Grady. My name's Tom Elliott. Oh? Tom Elliott. Tom Elliott from the Twilight Zone podcast. Yeah, I know who you are. I know who you are. Mr. Grady. But don't try and nuzzle up to me with that Mr. Grady stuff. If you're here in this room now, I scrape you out the wall and put you in the cup out of that grab you.

Perhaps it's a bad time.

So instead, let's make a call through the fiction barrier, back through time,

and speak with the man who gave Mr. Grady life, the great Mickey Rooney.

Mr. Rooney, this is Tom Elliott, and I'd just like to talk to you about your episode of The Twilight Zone, The Last Night of a Jockey.

Well, it was interesting to make, but I don't see why people enjoy something like this now, but maybe they do.

I'll try them again later.

So what we learn is that Mr. Grady has been complicit in some racing fixes, and as he says,

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