Middle-Aged and Mediocre

Natalie Bollinger was a 19-year-old whose life tragically ended execution-style on the side of the road. All fingers pointed towards 42-year-old Shawn Schwartz as the trigger man. Natalie had known him for two years, told friends and family that she was terrified of him, and had been granted a restraining order because she feared that he was stalking her. Shawn relentlessly proclaimed his innocenc...

We've got three bizarre unsolved mysteries for you today including the death of British intelligence agent, Gareth Williams, who was found dead in a padlocked duffel bag with almost zero evidence left behind. Theories ranged from a BDSM game gone bad to Gareth being taken out by his own agency because he knew too much to the Russian KGB snuffing him out because he wouldn't turn double agent for th...

We are back with the conclusion of our H.H. Holmes two-parter plus the guys talk about Joel's recent comedy show and Cash is seeing ghosts! 

***In this version, I have replaced the songs with some radio tuning sound effects so it is available everywhere*** Welcome to The Cosmic Whiskey Hour presented by Ray Gun Radio with one-half of Middle-Aged and Mediocre! Cash has got his very own Spotify-exclusive show where he's enjoying some bourbon (Wild Turkey 101), playing y'all some tunes, and talking about his career in professional wrestli...

It took us a while but we finally got around to talking about the original Triple H, H.H. Holmes!  This guy was a dastardly sonofabitch who used the World's Fair to draw both guests and victims into his custom-built "Murder Castle" that featured secret passages, various kill rooms, and everything else you would expect to see a mad scientist utilizing to kill off multiple characters in an old-...

We've got a terrifying story about someone living inside the walls of a family's home, an Australian family who goes on a bizarre road trip, and a doctor who takes loving someone to death a bit too far.  And is there a Middle-Aged and Mediocre movie in the works? Check out the episode now to find out!

DEA Agent, Brady Wilson, tracks down the source of the abrupt rise in the sale of fentanyl and meth in his small hometown of St. George, Utah, which had a devastating impact on the community after overdose deaths were on becoming more and more frequent. It was a similar story in the rest of the United States, and Wilson, along with the rest of the DEA, were on the lookout for the main operators of...

Joel found two stories from each month of 2022 and he's here to tell us all about them in our year-in-review episode! We've got people getting out of prison after being proven innocent, people going into prison that are guilty as hell, fun animal stories, and so much more! This is a fun, laid-back episode that we know you'll enjoy, so give it a listen! Huge thanks to our sponsor for this episode,...

We start the episode off with two stories that would make great mystery/criminal mastermind/heist-style movies. We're thinking you bring in Rian Johnson and let him tell the story of Juan Carlos Guzmán, a young man who literally fell out of the sky and began a life of crime at 13 years old only to be caught years later by accident when he reached for the same apple that a Scotland Yard detective w...

A couple of episodes ago, we briefly looked at the case in Moscow, Idaho where 4 college students were murdered in their sleep on November 13, 2022. After more information has come out, we decided to take a closer look at everything that is known about the unsolved murders in this episode.  Sticking with the unsolved murder theme, we also take a look at 5 cases that have remained unsolved and...

Cash and Joel sit down with Dr. Devilish DMD, Shaman, Doom Coon, and Blake Tornado, better known collectively as the band Triceratops, for a catastrophically destructive disaster of an interview.  The Middle-Aged and Mediocre duo spoke with the Interdimensional Combat Wrestling Alliance's Quartet of Chaos... the Bog Dwelling Sons of Satan... the Rock & Wrestlin' Warriors about a vast arra...

Benjamin Lay was an abolitionist, vegetarian, pacifist, gender-conscious, anti-capitalist, environmentalist Quaker, with dwarfism and a hunchback, and he was an all-around badass who refused to remain quiet about what he believed in. Oh, and he lived in a cave. Mostly, though, this story goes to show you that being "woke" isn't new. It's not a scary boogeyman like some Tucker Carlsons would have y...

In Mont Vernon, New Hampshire, a horrific home invasion in the early morning hours of October 4, 2009, four teens who called themselves the "Disciples of Destruction" invade the home of 42-year-old Kimberly Cates and her 11-year-old daughter, Jamie Cates.  The bloodbath that ensued was horrific and the aftermath proved just how depraved 19-year-old Christopher Gribble and 17-year-old Steven S...

In this episode, we cover five truly strange true crime stories filled with twists & turns that would make for great television plots (some even have already!).  We have a man found dead in a hotel room with a small hole in his scrotum and internal injuries but no evidence that anything caused him to end up that way.  A man is found dead in the desert from an apparent mob-style assas...

Three suitcases were found floating near the islands of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnels between May 5, 2004, and May 16, 2004.  After investigators released a composite sketch of the victim, he was identified as Bill McGuire, a Navy veteran and computer programmer who had two young sons with his wife, Melanie, who would quickly become the prime suspect. Every piece of evidence found during the i...

Lance Henriksen stars as Ed Harley in this 1988 horror classic that warns of the dangers of letting hate and revenge consume you. When Ed's son is fatally injured in an accident involving a group of friends out on a camping trip, Ed turns to an old witch named Haggis to bring his son back to life. Haggis can't give Ed his son back but she can unleash a creature known as Pumpkinhead to get vengeanc...

Chandler Halderson worked extremely hard not to have a job. He built a world of lies that came crumbling down around him, and instead of just owning up to his lies, Chandler decided to double down on his bad decisions by committing a double homicide. Continuing the trend of losers committing murder, we discuss the Children of Thunder cult... which had a member count of... 3. Brothers Glenn and Jus...

We know, we know... Michael Myers isn't in the movie! This was the type of movie that John Carpenter originally envisioned the Halloween franchise producing. He wanted Halloween to be an anthology series that would tell a different story that took place during the spookiest season of the year but after the success of the first Halloween movie, the studio's eyes were replaced with dollar signs and...

The final movie in David Gordon Green's HALLOWEEN trilogy has arrived and we have some thoughts.  Are we glad this trilogy has ended or did it leave us wanting more?  Check out the review to find out!

We review the slasher/home invasion flick called YOU'RE NEXT, released in 2013, from Adam Wingard featuring Sharni Vinson, AJ Bowen, Joe Swanberg, Ti West, Barbara Crampton, and Amy Seimetz.  "In an attempt to mend their broken family ties, Aubrey and Paul Davison decide to celebrate their wedding anniversary by inviting family members to their weekend estate. The celebration gets off to a ro...

It's 4 AM in Bryant, Arkansas in 1987 as a 6,000-ton cargo train is making its nightly route from Texarkana to Little Rock when the engineer notices two immobile figures lying parallel across the tracks, covered from the waist down with a light green tarp, and with their arms straight down by their sides. The engineer immediately lays down the horn and places the train into a frantic emergency sto...

Cash and Joel review the 2022 film, PEARL, and then review the reviews of PEARL. Tons of SPOILERS so be warned!  After the review, the guys talk about a tragedy from the 1800s that was caused by a clown being pulled downriver by four geese. If that sentence made no sense to you, you aren't alone! Check out the episode to hear what the hell it means. Then stick around for a story about a man w...

Fights, stabbings, sexual assaults, shots fired — all at 312 Riverside Drive. Thousands of 911 calls going back more than two years flood, reporting major crimes occurring at this address — without question, the most dangerous address in New York City.  Police officers race to the tree-lined block of the Upper West Side, between West 103rd and 104th Streets, again and again with firefighters...

We've got two movie reviews for you this episode! We also review babies. It's reviewpalooza around here!

In this episode, we review the 2018 horror/comedy, "Blood Fest", available to stream on Amazon Prime Video. Fans flock to a festival celebrating the most iconic horror movies, only to discover that the charismatic showman behind the event has a diabolical agenda. As festival attendees start dying, three teenagers -- more schooled in horror-film cliches than practical knowledge about neutralizing p...