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The Sign Post Up Ahead: A Twilight Zone PodcastPerchance To Dream (Season 1, Episode 9)Matt Stokes and Patrick Perot go through the ninth episode of The Twilight Zone: "Perchance To Dream." Richard Conte (Don Barzini from The Godfather) plays Edward Hall, a 35-year-old(!) who is convinced that if he goes to sleep, he'll die. He has a heart murmor, you see, and any excitement will put him down forever. Further complicating things is a sexy BDSM cat lady who visits him in his dreams. Is this just the story of a man who thinks a wet dream will kill him? Is it a metaphor for repressed homosexuality? Or something else? Patrick...
2026-01-2644 min
1-Week Rental: A Movie PodcastNickelodeon's Doug (with Wade Hymel & Patrick Perot)As Matt and Laci work on the transition from Load Bearing Beams to 1-Week Rental, they are unlocking some episodes from behind the Patreon paywall to hold you over. First up: Matt is joined by his friends and bandmates Wade Hymel and Patrick Perot to cover two episodes of Nickelodeon's Doug. "Bangin' On A Trash Can" is one of the best songs ever written for a fictional character, right? We gush endlessly about it, as well as its "Think Big" remix, and try to find parallels between Doug's band and our own individual musical endeavors. Plus, you'll...
2025-11-141h 32
The Sign Post Up Ahead: A Twilight Zone PodcastTime Enough At Last (Season 1, Episode 8)Matt Stokes and Patrick Perot go through the eighth episode of The Twilight Zone: "Time Enough At Last." Burgess Meredith is Henry Bemis, a freakin' loser who just wants to read BOOKS. Books??? "What's this swill you're reading?!" his shrew of a wife demands. "David Copperfield? Sounds positively pornographic!" she yells as she rolls over it with a bulldozer. Then the apocalypse happens and Henry finally gets some Me Time to read. But the universe is cruel and, we shall learn by the end of this classic episode, not fair. "Time Eno...
2025-09-301h 02
1-Week Rental: A Movie PodcastNickelodeon's Doug (Patreon Preview)Matt has assembled his friends Wade Hymel and Patrick Perot to do a deep dive into Nickelodeon's Doug—specifically, the episodes "Doug Can't Dance" and "Doug's Garage Band." In this free preview from the longer premium episode (available on Patreon: https://bit.ly/47U3oGh), Matt, Wade, and Patrick explore the long history of the TV show and of Doug himself, both before, during, and after his show on Nickelodeon. Created by Jim Jinkins, Doug is a show that looks great, sounds even better, and its humor and sensibilities have aged beautifully. We chart the his...
2025-09-2235 min
The Sign Post Up Ahead: A Twilight Zone PodcastThe Lonely (Season 1, Episode 7)Matt Stokes and Patrick Perot go through the seventh episode of The Twilight Zone: "The Lonely." Jack Warden plays Corry, a man wrongfully convicted of murder and sentenced to a most fiscally irresponsible imprisonment: solitary confinement on a faraway asteroid. His only human contact comes every three months, when space merchant marines spend 15 minutes on his asteroid delivering him supplies. He's lonely, folks. But that's about to change when he's given a miraculous gift: an artificially intelligent ladybot. But can a robot (or, as they repeatedly say it, "ro-but") replace a human being? What is a...
2025-08-191h 13
Daily Paper CastGemini 2.5: Pushing the Frontier with Advanced Reasoning, Multimodality, Long Context, and Next Generation Agentic Capabilities
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2025-07-1520 min
The Sign Post Up Ahead: A Twilight Zone PodcastEscape Clause (Season 1, Episode 6)Matt Stokes and Patrick Perot go through the sixth episode of The Twilight Zone: "Escape Clause." Walter Bedeker is a hypochondriac who convinces himself he's constantly dying, even though his doctor repeatedly gives him a clean bill of health. But he knows the truth, and anyone who tells him otherwise must be lying. His only way out of perpetual illness leading to an early grave is to strike a deal with the devil, here portrayed in the form of a man named Cadwallader. In exchange for Bedeker's immortal soul, Cadwallader will give Bedeker an indefinite extension of...
2025-07-141h 08
The Sign Post Up Ahead: A Twilight Zone PodcastWalking Distance (Season 1, Episode 5)Patrick Perot and Matt Stokes go through the fifth episode of The Twilight Zone: "Walking Distance." Gig Young plays Martin Sloan, who's just sick of it all. Sick of his successful career as an unspecific 1950s business dad. Sick of all the phone calls. Sick of the hustle and bustle of the big city. Wouldn't it be great if he could just step back in time, back to his lovely 1930s childhood when he was hanging out at the merry-go-round and the bandstand, and everything was fine with the world? He just might get more than he...
2025-05-141h 12
The Sign Post Up Ahead: A Twilight Zone PodcastThe Sixteen-Millimeter Shrine (Season 1, Episode 4)Patrick Perot and Matt Stokes go through the fourth episode of The Twilight Zone: "The Sixteen-Millimeter Shrine." Ida Lupino plays Barbara Jean, a former movie star whose early-1930s heyday has long since passed. She spends her days sequestered in a screening room of her house, re-watching her own movies... and maybe doing more than that. Patrick calls this the first "real" episode of The Twilight Zone. And he's right. It's great from beginning to end and has the first legitimately inspired Twilight Zone-esque ending of the series. "The Sixteen-Millimeter Shrine" originally aired Octo...
2025-04-091h 07
1-Week Rental: A Movie PodcastMatt has a new monthly podcast about The Twilight Zone! Matt has a new podcast! Don't worry, Load Bearing Beams shall be unaffected. In fact, it can only grow stronger. The new podcast will come out once per month and it's about the classic Twilight Zone series. Along with Friend of the Show Patrick Perot (the 10 Things I Hate About You episode, the Blair Witch Project episode, Rural Route Nine), Matt will go through each episode of The Twilight Zone—one episode per podcast—in chronological order. And you can try out that podcast now: The Sign Post Up Ahead. To catch episodes 2 and 3 of The Sign Post...
2025-03-1356 min
The Sign Post Up Ahead: A Twilight Zone PodcastMr. Denton On Doomsday (Season 1, Episode 3)Matt Stokes and Patrick Perot go through the third episode of The Twilight Zone: "Mr. Denton on Doomsday." A drunkard used to be the fastest gun in the west, but now all he cares about is the bottle. Actually, being the best shooter around is more blessing than curse. Really makes you think. Anyway, some kind of weird stuff happens. This episode could use more Satan. "Mr. Denton on Doomsday" originally aired October 16, 1959; directed by Allen Reisner; written by Rod Serling; starring Dan Duryea, Martin Landau, Jeanne Cooper, and Malcolm Atterbury as Prof. He...
2025-03-1142 min
The Sign Post Up Ahead: A Twilight Zone PodcastOne For The Angels (Season 1, Episode 2)Matt Stokes and Patrick Perot go through the second episode of The Twilight Zone: "One for the Angels." Ed Wynn plays Lew Bookman, a "pitchman." You know, a peddler. A huckster. A hawker. He sells toys, notions, and trinkets, or, as Larry Burns puts it, "If this stuff's too nice for ya, I've also got some crap." Bookman longs to make the world's greatest pitch and sell all of his wares to the most difficult mark. And he'll get his chance, and perhaps much more than he bargained for, when he meets Mr. Death (Murray Hamilton). ...
2025-02-2543 minThe Sign Post Up Ahead: A Twilight Zone PodcastWhere Is Everybody? (Season 1, Episode 1)Matt Stokes and Patrick Perot go through the very first episode of The Twilight Zone: "Where Is Everybody?" An amnesiac wanders through a town, unable to find a single human being, but always feeling like somebody is just out of reach. Creepy! How well does this episode serve as an introduction to The Twilight Zone? How well does it stand on its own? And how much does it hold up now? Plus, there's a lot of talk about the space race, the Cold War, and America's obsession with going to the moon. "...
2025-01-2853 min
1-Week Rental: A Movie Podcast129. 10 Things I Hate About You (with Patrick Perot) Friend of the Show Patrick Perot (bass player for Rural Route Nine, official house band of Load Bearing Beams) stops by to preach the gospel of his favorite movie, 10 Things I Hate About You (1999). And he's right to! It's a lovely and very funny romantic comedy from back when Hollywood still made those. The chemistry between Julia Stiles and Heath Ledger! The, uh, good efforts given by Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Larisa Oleynik! And best of all: Krumholz, Krumholz, Krumholz. A real-life high school teacher, Patrick is also here to school us on how accurate a...
2024-09-202h 13
1-Week Rental: A Movie Podcast128. Friday the 13th, Part 2 Laci and Matt are off to learn how to be better camp counselors by getting back to basics. Safety. Canoeing. Shooting arrows. Singing "Hang Down Your Head Tom Dooley." Making love and drawing the ire of Mrs. Voorhees. Trying to keep their bodies fragrance free, so as not to attract bears. On a totally unrelated note, this episode is about Friday the 13th Part 2, Matt's favorite entry in his favorite horror series. It's the debut of Jason as the killer, although he still hasn't quite nailed his look. Still, it's an absolute blast and a...
2024-09-131h 09
1-Week Rental: A Movie Podcast80. The Blair Witch Project / Meet The Parents (with Wade Hymel & Patrick Perot)The other members of Matt's band Rural Route Nine join the show for a classic two-movie Load Bearing Beams therapy session. Wade Hymel triumphantly returns to the show to convince the gang of the merits of the 2000 Ben Stiller/Robert DeNiro comedy Meet the Parents, while Patrick Perot presents The Blair Witch Project (1999) for consideration. We discuss the history of found footage horror movies, being fooled into thinking The Blair Witch Project was real back in 1999, whether it's possible to make any sense of the Blair Witch lore, and whether any good horror movies were made in the 20...
2023-05-261h 28