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SLAC The Gaslight Zone recap from August 6th, 2026 · The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of

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  Speaker 1: So we talked about this, uh quite a bit. But
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  Speaker 1: we went to the Salt Lake Acting Company last Saturday
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  Speaker 1: and the three of us there with a good, good audience,
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  Speaker 1: and we watched their summer show called The Gaslight Zone
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  Speaker 1: and it's a it's very funny and it's very it's
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  Speaker 1: very satirical and there's music and uh, and each each
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  Speaker 1: little vignette or scene was based on a Twilight Zone episode,
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  Speaker 1: which I didn't realize.
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  Speaker 2: I just thought it was inspired by but no, they
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  Speaker 2: were very specific.
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  Speaker 1: Episode and you don't have to know those episodes to
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  Speaker 1: enjoy the show, but if you do, it kind of
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  Speaker 1: gives you a little little more depth to it. And
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  Speaker 1: the performers are all excellent. Scotti Fletcher who plays the
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  Speaker 1: host the The Drag Queen as a broad surling broad surling.
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  Speaker 2: What amazing costumes.
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  Speaker 3: Beautiful costumes and he's very very good.
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  Speaker 1: And but the all the Castle just U Beck, Gene Knowles,
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  Speaker 1: Angel Martinez, Mark Nielsen, Mikayla, Paulos Rodriguez, Bryce Horn, Hornet,
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  Speaker 1: Horror lesk Omleski, Harrison, Tim Stephanie, Gene White and Aquina
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  Speaker 1: Yes Yamazuki. All of them excellent, just excellent. They danced,
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  Speaker 1: they sing very funny script and then at the end,
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  Speaker 1: after they've just skewered Donald Trump and Spencer Cox, at
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  Speaker 1: the very end it got sort of a little bit serious.
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  Speaker 1: And there was a quote at the end of the
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  Speaker 1: show that from Rod Serling that that impressed all of
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  Speaker 1: us and we but we didn't know quite where it
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  Speaker 1: was from, and I couldn't find it and find so
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  Speaker 1: I sent an email to Cynthia Fleming and said, could
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  Speaker 1: you give me that quote? And she did, and then
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  Speaker 1: I was able to look up what it was from.
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  Speaker 1: It's from an episode of The Twilight Zone called He's Alive.
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  Speaker 4: I knew the I knew it was Rod's word, but
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  Speaker 4: I couldn't remember the episode.
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  Speaker 1: Or it was from season four, episode four in nineteen
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  Speaker 1: sixty three January of nineteen sixty three, called He's Alive
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  Speaker 1: and is. It tells the story of an American neo
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  Speaker 1: Nazi played by Dennis Hopper.
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  Speaker 3: Very young Dennis hop Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And he is visited by the ghost of Adolf Hitler
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  Speaker 1: because he's not being very successful as a neo Nazi.
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  Speaker 1: People throw apples and tomatoes at him. I think we
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  Speaker 1: have a picture of him. There's a picture of him Ada,
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  Speaker 1: and that's the guy who played Hitler. Looks a lot
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  Speaker 1: like Hitler. There's at the beginning of the episode, people
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  Speaker 1: throw tomatoes at him. There he is with tomato all
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  Speaker 1: over his face. But Hitler coaches him and his crowds
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  Speaker 1: get bigger and better. Hitler coaches him how to be.
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  Speaker 4: It's kind of like the ghost of Hitler or the
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  Speaker 4: memory of Hitler, because he never appears in front of anybody.
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  Speaker 3: Bud Dennis Hopper, right, it's a shadowy figure.
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  Speaker 4: Shadowy figure in the back of the room, and.
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  Speaker 1: We don't even see that it's Hitler, although you suspect
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  Speaker 1: that it is until toward the end when he steps
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  Speaker 1: out of the shadows and it's this guy Hitler playing Hitler. So,
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  Speaker 1: and there are some other details. But at the end
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  Speaker 1: of the episode, Dennis Hopper gets killed by the police,
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  Speaker 1: and we won't go into all of those details about that.
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  Speaker 1: And then Rod Stewart, Rod Stuart Rod Serling comes on
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  Speaker 1: with that quote and here's the whole thing. They chopped
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  Speaker 1: it down a little bit. Where will he go next?
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  Speaker 1: This phantom from another time, this resurrected ghost of a
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  Speaker 1: previous nightmare Chicago, Los Angeles, Miami, Florida, Vinces, Indiana, Syracuse.
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  Speaker 3: New York, mar A Lago.
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  Speaker 1: No, I put that in there any place, every place,
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  Speaker 1: where there's hate, where there's prejudice, where there's bigotry, He's alive.
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  Speaker 1: He's alive so long as these evils exist. Remember that
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  Speaker 1: when he comes to your town. Remember it when you
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  Speaker 1: hear his voice speaking out through others. Remember it when
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  Speaker 1: you hear a name called a minority attacked, any blind,
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  Speaker 1: unreasoning assault on a people or human being. He is
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  Speaker 1: alive because through those things we keep him alive. Nineteen
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  Speaker 1: sixty three. Yeah, so it's just pay attention today. Remember
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  Speaker 1: when Miller. Remember remember when he comes to your town.
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  Speaker 1: Remember it when you hear his voice speaking, speaking out
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  Speaker 1: through others.
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  Speaker 3: But do you anyway?
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  Speaker 1: And I watched the episode. They're all available for free
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  Speaker 1: on I think it was on twob And.
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  Speaker 4: They've started running him on the Sci Fi Channel on Sunday.
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  Speaker 4: It used to be just over holidays and they'd have
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  Speaker 4: a marathon. Now they've started running.
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  Speaker 1: It a lot. So anyway, and Dennis hopper is is
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  Speaker 1: really good and it's I think this was the role
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  Speaker 1: a role, but I think seems to be he was
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  Speaker 1: in a movie with John Wayne before this, but not
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  Speaker 1: he hadn't done much and this this role.
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  Speaker 3: People went, hey, that guy's pretty good, you know.
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  Speaker 2: Speaking of Dennis Hopper and ghosts. Oh yeah, So he
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  Speaker 2: was married to Catherine Lenasa and Catherine LaNasa is the
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  Speaker 2: head nurse.
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  Speaker 3: On the pit, the tough talking, tough talking.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and uh they they were married for for quite
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  Speaker 2: a while and uh then then divorced and he passed away.
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  Speaker 2: And she tells these stories about how he haunted her like.
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  Speaker 1: He he would, and she totally believes it, seriously, he
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  Speaker 1: haunted Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: She recently opened up about being intensely haunted by his
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  Speaker 2: ghost after his twenty ten death, experiencing visitations until a
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  Speaker 2: peaceful dream in Greece finally brought her closure. But she
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  Speaker 2: absolutely believes that Dennis Hopper was like showing up at
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  Speaker 2: her house, she said. Lenassa revealed that Hopper's ghost would
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  Speaker 2: not leave her alone for a long time, initially appearing
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  Speaker 2: in upsetting ways, such as him falling out of his
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  Speaker 2: wheelchair or looming over her in a sweat. After telling
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  Speaker 2: her friend about a distress, she coincidentally walked past a
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  Speaker 2: gallery featuring his photography and saw a picture I've been
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  Speaker 2: wearing a fedora and winking like the picture winked at
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  Speaker 2: her when she walked. One percent believes this.
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  Speaker 1: I believe it too. Dennis Hopper had he was an
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  Speaker 1: interesting fellow. He he uh. I think I remember him
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  Speaker 1: from Rooster Cogber. You know what's the true Gret, True
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  Speaker 1: Grit John with the John Wayne the John Wayne Won
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  Speaker 1: And I think he was one of the bad gang
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  Speaker 1: members and he was just excellent just being a slimy,
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  Speaker 1: mean guy.
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  Speaker 4: Back to Rod Serling though, and he had a lot
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  Speaker 4: of Twilight's on episodes that had social commentary, and.
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  Speaker 2: They had woke TV all the way back then.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, not just TV.
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  Speaker 4: There was a Superman comic from long time ago, No,
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  Speaker 4: this is woke. It was originally a radio program and
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  Speaker 4: then then it was put in the comic book and
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  Speaker 4: then they reprinted it just recently called Superman versus the Clan.
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  Speaker 4: Oh yeah, I've seen that, and uh yeah, so it's
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  Speaker 4: it's him fighting the kkk uh and then another Superman thing.
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  Speaker 4: Because you know, I keep hearing about this woke Superman.
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  Speaker 4: I'm like, no, check your comics. Yeah, here's an old
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  Speaker 4: old this is from god. I can't remember how long
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  Speaker 4: ago it was, But it's Superman talking to a bunch
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  Speaker 4: of kids, and it says, uh, and remember, boys and girls,
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  Speaker 4: your school, like our country, is made up of Americans
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  Speaker 4: of many different races, religions, and national origins. So if
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  Speaker 4: you hear anybody talk against a schoolmate or anyone else
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  Speaker 4: because of his religion, race, or national origin, don't wait
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  Speaker 4: tell him that that kind of talk is un American.
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  Speaker 3: You're here? When did that come out? I thanks Superman
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  Speaker 3: to find nineteen forty nine? Nice? So yeah, always Ben woke? Sorry, yes, yes, yes,
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  Speaker 3: but are we listening?
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  Speaker 2: That's the question?
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  Speaker 3: Were not?
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  Speaker 2: Well?
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  Speaker 1: I was nineteen sixty three, and I think I think
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  Speaker 1: what Maybe Rod Serlings knows that that people never change.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, humanity doesn't change. Yep.