You are about to enter another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound, but of mind,

a journey into a wondrous land of imagination.

Next stop, The Twilight Zone.

Tonight on the Twilight Zone podcast, we take a break from our analysis of season two of the new show to say, welcome to an old friend of the show and someone who has maybe something to distract us from what's going on

in the world at the moment. But he is my friend, Arlen Schumer, Arlen, welcome back to the Twilight Zone podcast.

Thanks for having me on, Tom. It's great to see you and great to be here.

You are the author of Visions from the Twilight Zone, a book which, you know, sits proudly on my

shelf. You're a Twilight Zone historian. In a situation like this, we've got to find a new way

of being passionate about what we love. We've got to find a new way of talking about these things.

And you seem to have been able to do that.

So that's why I wanted to speak to you tonight.

Tell us about what you've been doing since all this broke.

Well, you know, Tom, every negative always has a positive come out of it.

Something good always comes out of something bad, all those cliches, like there's a silver

lining in every cloud.

So of course, I mean, look, even when the United States was in the depression, you know,

in a sense, World War II brought us out of that and into prosperity.

So it's always darkest before the dawn.

For me personally, I find it interesting that one of the things I notice in this whole

quarantining and social distancing is that I'm a freelance artist.

I work out of my home.

I'm used to getting up and being my own boss and having to discipline

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