Episodes

This past week was spring break for us here in north Georgia where the That Would Be Rad headquarters is located. So, Woody packed up his kids, turned off his phone and headed out for some cryptid hunting, comic book reading, and site seeing adventures with his family. Tyler is inky knuckles deep in a top secret comic book project that has been commanding the majority of the 24 hours we have in a day - especially as the deadline for the project approaches. Although we CAN'T WAIT to tell you al...

Ever since we started this podcast we have received questions, comments, ideas, theories from listeners via comments on our social media channels, direct messages, or emails. Whether it's simply a message to thank us for what we do or, an expanded discussion on one of the topics we discussed previously on a show, topics you want us to cover in future episodes, or even just random questions - we are always grateful. This week, we thought we'd dive into the mail bag and answer some of the questio...

In 1924, Paul Amadeus Dienach a German language teacher living in Greece, became gravely ill. He was dying of tuberculosis, and he wanted to return home, for one last time, to his country of origin Switzerland before he died. But - before he left, he gave hundreds of pages of his own handwritten notes to his favorite language student Georgios Papachatzis. Dienach thought translating his notes would help Papachatzis in his study of the German language. They said goodbye and never saw each other a...

In all honesty, this week we had an entirely different show researched, planned, and ready. BUT, after heading to the movie theater to watch the brand new released THE BATMAN...we had to turn on our mics and talk about this film immediately. Both of us being comic book fans/nerds since our youth, Tyler being a comic book artist, and both of us being GIANT-SIZED fans of Batman we knew we couldn't wait until this movie was "streaming" at home. We really had to see if Robert Pattinson could pull ...

There’s just something wonderful about packing up the ole family car and heading out of town on an All-American road trip… All across the “lower 48” you’ll see various types of sites, roadside attractions, and truthfully you never really know what you might find. Mixed in with the world’s largest ball of twine, or dinosaurs made of gigantic pieces of welded iron - there are some that are truly mysterious, perhaps even made using other worldly technology or expertise. This week we tell the sto...

It was Sunday night November 22, 1987 during a typical Chicago Bears highlights show when suddenly the broadcast signal was disrupted...the screen went black...and then a strange figure appeared on viewers television screens. There was hardly any sound, but the image was still frightening. The figure bobbed around in front of a spinning background as a buzzing noise played. Dressed in a rubber mask and wearing sunglasses, the mysterious intruder looked like TV character Max Headroom. The scree...

No matter where you grew up - chances are there were a handful of urban legends and mysteries that surrounded your town. Maybe it was an old abandoned house, a condemned factory, or perhaps even a haunted road… With origins often steeped in tragedy, shrouded in mystery, and terribly fascinating - these stories end up becoming staples of teenage conversations. Their physical locations even becoming a part of our cultural coming of age traditions. Our super rad friend and listener Brendan* s...

Yes, we know it’s actually Valentines Day today - so, Happy Valentines Day! We thought we’d mix it up a little this year and instead of talking about flower bouquets and chalky candy hearts with tiny messages on them…we’re going to chat about one of our all-time favorite Bill Murray movies: Groundhog Day. This week we dive into the genius of Harold Ramis, our huge crush on Andie MacDowell, the odd but hilarious Chris Elliott, and of course the unstoppable Bill Murray. This movies concept of b...

Well before the streets of London were terrorized by the murderous "Jack the Ripper"...or even before the criminals of Gotham City were terrified of a winged figure lurking in the shadows...there existed a creature/being/assailant called - "SPRING-HEELED JACK". The 1837 dimly lit cobble stone streets of Victorian England would have been spooky enough but, when women began being attacked at night by a mysterious shape-shifting figure, ghostly in appearance, and with gloves in the shape of claws ...

It was 1944...anxiety was at an all time high in most of the United States as World War II raged overseas. Rumors of spies and sleeper cells whispered across small towns. So many households were left with mothers caring for their children and simultaneously working to do their part for their family or the war effort, or sometimes both. In late August, 1944 in the small industrial Illinois town of Mattoon...the town came face to face with terror in their own tiny neighborhoods. A strange figur...

It's a bird, it's a plane, wait...my neighbor burst into flames?? As if we didn't have enough to worry about in the world - why not add the strange and mysterious phenomenon of spontaneous human combustion to the list. On this week's show we explore Spontaneous Human Combustion (SHC), a phenomenon that is well documented throughout history - dating back as far as the 17th Century. It is the strange and mysterious occurrence where a human body ignites and burns without any known contact with a...

After taking a nice holiday break where we unplugged, spent uninterrupted time with our families, and even vacationed from social media for the most part... We are rested, recharged, and ready to ROCK AND ROLL. Join us this week as we catch up on a lot of what we've been wanting to talk about during the past few weeks we were away. You'll hear our thoughts on Ghostbusters Afterlife, Spider-man: No Way Home, and whether or not you should watch The Matrix Resurrections. We'll discuss Woody's co...

This week we put the finishing touches on our three-part series about UFOs in Australia by diving deeper into the infamous disappearance of Australian amateur pilot Frederick Valentich. 43 years ago at 6:19 PM local time, Frederick Valentich took off in a rented Cessna 182L from Moorabbin Airport in Victoria. He was en route to King Island, a 130-nautical-mile journey over a body of water known as the Bass Strait. Although the strait is famous for its difficult flying conditions - on this night...

This week is part two of our discussion on UFOs and all the crazy things people have seen in the skies of Australia. We begin our discussion by diving deeper into the story of the Knowles family's encounter and we hop into our theories on what they saw that night in 1988. That night the Knowles family - a mother and 3 of her sons - were terrorized by what they say was a strange bright light that followed them at high speeds, seemed to be toying with them, and then ultimately lifted + dropped t...

In this week's episode - our super rad Australian friend and listener Matt tells us all about his own true UFO encounter he had as a kid just outside of Syndey, Australia. Matt (aka "Mattman") left us this voicemail on the That Would Be Rad hotline several weeks ago - after which immediately we wanted to share it with you. But instead, we wanted to wait so we could tell a few other incredible UFO stories from THE LAND DOWN UNDER as part one of our series of the weird, rad, and strange things l...

Even though we both happen to be on opposite coasts of the USA and despite traveling during one of the busiest travel periods of the year... We put together our mobile studio set-up and play catch up with one another as we talk about Woody's recent visit to New York City, how it ended up being a GHOSTBUSTERS sight-seeing trip, why you should choose to stay in Chinatown, the love/hate flavor of Durian, West Coast vs East Coast Hip Hop, and a terrifying docking experience on the Statue Ferry. We...

Are we all living in the most realistic video game of all time? I’m not sure. While looking into the idea of reincarnation and having a conversation about past lives, our conversation continued, evolved, and was impossible to ignore talking about the SIMULATION THEORY or SIMULATION HYPOTHESIS. While seemingly a relatively modern concept (perhaps because of the usage of terminology like “computers”) it’s actually been thought about even as far back as Zhuang Zhou in 370 BC, and even perhaps in ...

Since we started this podcast, we’ve noticed that sometimes we just have to “give in” to whatever it is out there - in the universe - that may be steering us in a direction we hadn’t planned for, in regards to episode topic. Sometimes something just lands in our field of vision that ends up occupying our minds so fully that we spend every waking hour we can reading, discovering, and thinking about that particular phenomenon, concept, idea, theory, or event. That’s exactly what happened this we...

It’s time to dump out all your candy on the floor, eat a few handfuls of your favorites, and in the midst of a sugar rush talk about all the fun you had this Halloween. In this week’s episode, we talk about the importance of NEVER trying the so-called “healthy candy” and just going for the good stuff...otherwise - you might end up with a dental emergency much like Woody ended up having. You’ll hear our thoughts about the latest in the Halloween movie franchise “Halloween Kills”, the amazing pr...

Well, spooky friends - it is finally here! Halloween is upon us - and we couldn’t be more excited. We put together something extra special and extra spooky for you once again this year - 4 terrifying tales that prove that horror is all around us. First, a ghastly ghost story from the pages of a dusty volume from our shelves...a book published in 1875 called “Glimpses of the Supernatural” by The Rev. Frederick George Lee. But don’t stop there - you’ll want to keep listening as the terror unfo...

On Halloween, 1962, the sleepy town of Willowpoint Falls wakes up forever. Locked overnight in the school cloakroom, the victim of a Halloween prank, young Frankie Scarlatti witnesses an eerie apparition - a girl- ghost in the grip of a mysterious killer. Suddenly Frankie himself is grabbed and almost strangled. Hovering between life and death, he has another vision - of the same girl, begging him to expose the killer and put her spirit to rest. Join us this week as we talk about one of our ...

In a small, rural region of southern France amongst the 75 miles of hills, valleys, and rugged mountains...a true monster once roamed. Between the years of 1764 and 1767, a mysterious man-eating creature took the lives of hundreds. This rural area, at the time known as "Gévaudan", was just as mysterious as its monster...simply referred to as "The Beast". Gévaudan had the reputation for being a remote, isolated region, where the forces of nature had not been fully tamed, and where the forests ...

There seem to be objects in this world that draw to themselves some sort of mysterious, dark energy. For whatever reasons unexplained forces, spirits, entities, or curses are said to gravitate towards these items, imbuing them with some ominous quality beyond our ability to explain or even comprehend. This week we kick off our annual “October Spooktacular” with one such baffling object. One that turned up for sale on the Internet nearly 20 years ago and ever since has stirred the imagination ...

Cryptic codes, alter egos, psychological experiments, time travel, eternal life, multiple personality disorder, ingenious marketing, secret identity, alternate reality, time travel… This week on our show we talk about one of the strangest mysteries we never knew existed. One that, on the surface level, initially seems: easy to solve, shallow, and perhaps even non-existent. But, like us, as you delve deeper and deeper into the interesting story that is “Andrew W.K.” - you begin to realize the ...