Middle-Aged and Mediocre

Raffi Kodikian and David Coughlin were best friends on a cross-country road trip to get David to California, where he'd be starting his new life with his girlfriend. Along the way, the pair decided to go hiking in Rattlesnake Canyon, found in Carlsbad, New Mexico. After days of wandering through the canyon, lost and running out of hope, only one of the two men would make it out alive. So what exac...

A Canadian man apparently on the run from something or someone, winds up dead in Knoxville, Tennessee under extremely mysterious circumstances. Who or what made this man so determined to cross the border into the United States and how did he wind up dead in a parking lot only hours after arriving in Knoxville? This is the story of the Unexplained Death of Blair Adams. We also talk about a dude sui...

Bill Goldberg... yes, that Bill Goldberg... dons his slay apparel and spreads murder and mayhem for... reasons?  With the hustle and/or bustle of the holidays, we decided to do a quick movie review episode for you all and announce a giveaway contest that we will doing in January. The movie is easily the worst that we have watched so far, and we try our best to explain it all to you, but it mo...

A mother and her two daughters are found dead in their home on Christmas Day in 2002. It doesn’t take police long to connect some dots and arrest someone very close to the victims for their murders. Just to warn you ahead of time, this story is a rough one and involves sexual assault of minors and some dark discoveries. Fortunately, or as fortunate as it can be, I suppose, there are no graphic det...

On December 24, 2007, six people –- three generations of one family --- were killed near Carnation, Washington, a small rural town 25 miles east of Seattle. The events on Christmas Eve inside the home of Wayne and Judy Anderson have become known as the Carnation Murders, and we’re gonna talk about them. We got off track when it came to discussing true crime, but we are coming back at you real stro...

It's our 1 Year Anniversary Show! In this episode we review what all went down in the year 2020 while avoiding talking about Trump or COVID-19. We talk about a 17-year old kid discovering a planet, a bungee-jumping pig, bachelor schemes, UFO videos, blue bees, two-faced cats, selfie safety, a cartwheeling criminal, a sea scooter escape, and so much more! A mix of dumb news, funny news, and true cr...

From Blumhouse Productions and Universal Horror, "Freaky" stars Vince Vaughn and Kathryn Newton in a slasher horror take on the classic body-swap story made famous by "Freaky Friday" (this film was even originally titled "Freaky Friday the 13th"). Cash and Joel review this new take on the classic story and there are a ton of SPOILERS, so beware! Check out the episode and find out what the fellas t...

22-year-old Victor Licata murdered his family with an axe on October 13, 1933 in Tampa, Florida. Victor was a mentally-ill young man with a well-documented past but it didn't take long for his story to become the driving force behind anti-marijuana campaigns, even influencing new laws. This is a story of a tragic and horrific crime, the media's ability to create a narrative and sensationalize a st...

Listen up, JOCKASSES! Cash and Joel put on their finest spandex workout gear and sit down to watch the 1989 Hulk Hogan classic, "No Holds Barred". Starring Hulk as Rip, Tiny Lister as Zeus, and Kurt Fuller as Brell, this disasterpiece was written by Vince McMahon and Hulk Hogan in a 72-hour coke-fueled writing session while the two locked themselves away in a hotel room... and it shows! Come hang...

With so much going on right now, we just wanted to have fun this episode. We didn't want to talk about someone dying, so instead we decided to pack as much ridiculousness into 77 minutes as we could... and it turned out to be a lot! We answer some big questions like, "How does a mom know the baby is hers?", "Can you tell if your husband is cheating on you by smelling his gas?", "Is Canada real?",...

We welcome the night. We welcome the master. We welcome terrible horror movies from the 80s!  "Hack-O-Lantern" was made in 1988 and was written by a college student who was paid $300.00 for his efforts. An Indian-born fella by the name Jag Mundhra was brought on board to direct but had no real concept of what Halloween was aside from the fact that he knew there was a movie named that and it h...

In this 2010 made-for-TV SyFy channel movie we find out what would happen if the Mothman was in "I Know What You Did Last Summer"... and we regret ever acquiring such cursed knowledge! This one was hard to get through but we survived this CGI nightmare and we are still around to tell you all about it! Honestly, all criticism side, this movie does take all of the Mothman lore, throws it in a blende...

In the late 1960s, reports of sightings of a giant, winged creature with a 10-foot wingspan and huge, globe-like red eyes started pouring in by the dozens in the small West Virginia town of Point Pleasant. Within a year, sighting reports numbered in the hundreds, and just a little over a year after the first sighting tragedy struck the small town when the Silver Bridge collapsed, resulting in the...

Cash and Joel review Netflix's SMASH HIT of 2020... "Welcome to Sudden Death", starring Michael Jai White and Gary Owen. IMDB says it is a sequel to the 1995 classic starring Jean-Claude Van Damme, but it feels like more of a reimagining than a sequel. Either way, it's a pretty ridiculous action flick that the boys recommend watching with a few adult beverages. Or just check out the Middle-Aged an...

This episode, Joel brings us the story of Marvin Heemeyer and the destruction he brought upon the small town of Granby, Colorado on June 4, 2004. Deemed the "MK Tank" by Marvin, the monstrosity he built to complete what he stated was his duty; a duty that he was asked by God to complete. Yeah. It's one of those stories... So check out our newest episode and see if you think Marv was justified in h...

For the first time, Cash and Joel tackle a story about a very modern unsolved crime.  This story takes place in the small town of Canadian, Texas and starts on the night of November 23, 2016 when 18-year old Thomas Brown misses his midnight curfew. What takes places in the hours, days, weeks, months, years after his mother's initial call to the Hemphill County Sheriff's Office is sad, tragic, susp...

Cash is being haunted! Maybe. Possibly. Probably not. But maybe!  The guys talk about past experiences with possible paranormal activity and then get into the story of America's First Ghost, Nelly Butler. This one goes all the way back to the year 1800 in the state of Maine. A recently-deceased woman's ghost appears to a family and is apparently on a mission from God. What's the mission, you ask?...

Cash and Joel take a look at a couple of ghost stories from West Virginia. In Greenbrier County, the murder of Elva Zona Heaster leads to the only known case in which testimony from a ghost helped convict a murderer, and in Middleway, West Virginia, the death of a stranger brings forth a spirit with a rather strange trademark. 

Circleville, Ohio. 1976.  Circleville is a small town. One of those small towns where everyone knows each other and everyone likely knows each others business. It would have especially been this way in the 70s and 80s. Back then, it was likely one of those small towns where doors were left unlocked during the night and newcomers settled in there to get away from madness found in bigger cities. Cir...

Cash and Joel take a trip to the flea market and talk about masks before diving deep into the phenomenon known as sleep paralysis. Sleep is crazy!

Cash and Joel take a look at the mystery surrounding two men found dead on a hilltop in Brazil with a note containing strange directions and lead masks lying beside their bodies. They were known as "Scientific Spiritualists" who had reportedly been making attempts to speak with "beings from Mars." Was this one of those attempts gone horribly wrong? Or was it a success and had the two men truly asc...

Today we’re talking about the Taiwanese UFO cult formed by Hon-Ming Chen in 1995. This New Religious Movement was a mix of Buddhism, Taoism, and UFOlogy. It emphasized transmigration of souls and placed great emphasis on spiritual energy. Adherents also believed in "outside souls," who basically acted as bad influences, or even as demons, in the human world.  This is a fun episode without any murd...

This is a longer episode than we usually put out but we had a lot to talk about. We're middle-aged, mediocre, and pissed off for this one. Throughout this episode's story we keep realizing just how little has changed and just how little we, as a society, have learned from our own history. It's not all lecturing and shouting from our soap-boxes, though. We still bring the funny! Find out who the or...

After years of political corruption and police brutality & misconduct, and voter intimidation, the citizens of McKinn County, led by recently-returned-home World War II vets, rebelled against their oppressors and took back their way of life by any means necessary.  What was initially viewed as civil unrest and the wrong way to go about changing things, this story is now viewed as a tale of America...

Gay Devil Worshipers! Psychedelic Drugs! Wild Sex Orgies! MURDER!!! Corpsewood Manor was a labor of love for Dr. Charles Scudder and his longtime partner, Joseph Odom.  Deciding to leave city life behind to live in the backwoods of Georgia, the pair built what would go from being their dream home to the site of their unfortunate demise.