That Would Be Rad

By Woody Brown and Tyler BenceSociety & Culture

That Would Be Rad episodes

October 17, 2022 S2 E51: The Stroudsburg Rain Man - The Devil & Don Decker
The mind is a powerful thing. There are certain memories that stick with you forever - sometimes triggered by a smell, or a sound, that will take you immediately back to a moment in time.
Whether a fond memory, or a complete nightmare, it seems that we have very little control of when this will happen. For us, the moment we hear the theme song for Unsolved Mysteries, or hear Robert Stack's voice - suddenly we're pre-teen kids again.
This week we talk about a case that both of us remember hearing about on our old favorite show Unsolved Mysteries - one that back in 1993 they referred to as the "Rain Boy".
This case is a perfectly creepy example of just how powerful the mind potentially is. Don Decker (the Rain Boy, or Rain Man) could seemingly make it start to rain wherever he was, a phenomenon that was witnessed by many including police...one which no one could explain.
Was it a case of hydrokenisis, a demonic possession, or simply what would be arguably one of the most elaborate and difficult hoaxes for the time?

Find out what we think and decide for yourself this week on THAT WOULD BE RAD...

Thank you so much for listening - stay spooky & BE RAD!
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🎧 That Would Be Rad is written and produced by Woody Brown & Tyler Bence
🎧 That Would Be Rad is recorded at Midnight Radio Studios
🎧 Editing, Mixing, Music, and Sound Design by Woody Brown
🎧 Mixing and Mastering by Tyler Bence
🎧 Episode Graphics, Art & Art Design by Tyler Bence
🎧 Our Outro Song "Ghost Story" written by Woody Brown & Tyler Bence + Performed by The Modern Society
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1 hr 32 min
October 10, 2022 S2 E50: After Hours - Ghosts, Werewolves, and Psycho Killers
We've all experienced something that terrified us to our very core - in some way or another. Whether it was something we watched on TV as a kid, a book we read, or something we experienced in real life...we all have a story.
Some of them can perhaps be explained away...but, too many of them cannot.

This week's episode is one of our favorites within our annual tradition of all things spooky during our OCTOBER SPOOKTACULAR.
That's because - in this show, we harvest all the gooey, bloody, and hair raising tales from YOU our listeners - and present them in all their terrifying glory!

It turns out that truth is MUCH MORE terrifying than fiction...as you will come to see when you hear stories that deal with ghosts, ghastly projections, Georgia's own werewolf, and the psycho-killer hiding in your house.
WARNING: If you are easily frightened, you may want to STAY AWAY from this episode.

Otherwise - if you're ready to listen and get spooky - we HIGHLY RECOMMEND doing so with headphones so that you can enjoy all the 3D sound design/spatial audio.

Thank you so much for listening - stay spooky & BE RAD!

Special thanks this week to: JJ, Sean, Nancy R., and a dusty old book - for the stories, inspiration, and opportunity to share it with the world.
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🎧 That Would Be Rad is written and produced by Woody Brown & Tyler Bence
🎧 That Would Be Rad is recorded at Midnight Radio Studios
🎧 Editing, Mixing, Music, and Sound Design by Woody Brown
🎧 Mixing and Mastering by Tyler Bence
🎧 Episode Graphics, Art & Art Design by Tyler Bence
🎧 Our Outro Song "Ghost Story" written by Woody Brown & Tyler Bence + Performed by The Modern Society
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1 hr 8 min
October 03, 2022 S2 E49: Mysterious Moving Coffins & Wandering Graves
Sometimes things happen that cannot be explained. Objects in your house for example - ending up in places other than where you remember leaving them.
Your keys, your wallet, or something simple for example - which can easily be explained away as "just a lapse in memory".
But what about coffins and graves? Generally those stay put right?
WELCOME TO OUR OCTOBER SPOOKTACULAR!
This week we explore the strange and spooky mysterious phenomenon of Moving Coffins & Wandering Graves. This topic was sent to us by one of our super rad listeners - and it was one that we actually weren't all too familiar with.
We dusted off the books in our studio library and between an old volume of "Folklore" (Vol 18, 1907) and a book illustrated by Will Eisner, we have put together the perfect episode to kick of the spooky season!
Moving coffins, mummies, ghosts, vampires...we cover it all.
So - grab a handful of your favorite Halloween candy, put in your headphones, and let's get spooky!

Thank you so much for listening - BE RAD!
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🎧 That Would Be Rad is recorded at Midnight Radio Studios
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🎧 Mixing and Mastering by Tyler Bence
🎧 Episode Graphics, Art & Art Design by Tyler Bence

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1 hr 31 min
September 26, 2022 S2 E48: The Hexham Heads Episode
In late spring of 1971, two brothers Colin and Leslie Robson, were playing in their garden. As they played and looked for things to throw they began to dig in the dirt - and found something that seemed both interesting and strange. The boys had dug up 2 small heads carved in stone. Roughly the size of an orange or tennis ball. The stone heads had flecks of greenish-grey and glistened with quartz crystals. The heads seemed to be carved of local stone, and had irregularly shaped features, holes for the mouth and eyes, ridges for the nose, and they were not identical.
Fascinated by the mysterious treasure they had found…they decided to keep them.
Little did they know all the strange things that would happen from then on… This is the story of The Hexham Heads.

Thank you so much for listening - BE RAD!
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🎧 That Would Be Rad is written and produced by Woody Brown & Tyler Bence
🎧 That Would Be Rad is recorded at Midnight Radio Studios
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🎧 Mixing and Mastering by Tyler Bence
🎧 Episode Graphics, Art & Art Design by Tyler Bence

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1 hr 20 min
September 19, 2022 S2 E47: Shapeshifters - The Pooka, Changelings, and The Nix
Three simple words have been etched into our brains since we started this show. "FOLLOW THE FOLKLORE".
It's simple, and 100% true.
We continuously uncover a commonality as we navigate through the "rad strangeness" we end up rifling through and discussing on our show. What we continue to find is that for as long as humans were capable of passing down stories...similar archetypes, creatures, characters, and encounters have occurred all around the world.
Despite being separated by physical proximity and even time...the parallels and similarities are astounding.
Such is the case with what can be generalized as "SHAPESHIFTERS".
The God's honest truth is we fully intended for this episode to just be about SHAPESHIFTERS in general. Initially sparked by a curious photograph taken recently by a group of paranormal researchers, we started with the Irish legend of the Pooka (or Puca).
But, as we dove in - we dove deep, and found we couldn't get out...not quite yet.

So - sit back, grab a few pieces of pure Iron (Fe), and listen to us discuss some of the interesting folklore/legends of The Pooka, Changelings, and the Nix.

Thank you so much for listening - BE RAD!
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🎧 That Would Be Rad is written and produced by Woody Brown & Tyler Bence
🎧 That Would Be Rad is recorded at Midnight Radio Studios
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1 hr 27 min
September 12, 2022 S2 E46: Tyler Finally Watches Dune
I wish that I could express just how bad I want to underline, enlarge, and make bold - the word "FINALLY" in this episode's title.
In the 20+ years we've known each other I've been trying to convince Tyler to, at the very least, read DUNE by Frank Herbert. Or even to just come over and pop the 1984 David Lynch adaptation in my VCR. (That should have been an easy "yes" because of Sean Young, and Sting being in the movie).
But, much to my disappointment - he continued to not be interested in giving it a chance.
He didn't even listen when I described the greatness of the newest adaptation by Denis Villeneuve and the Allstar cast that came out in 2021.

But - finally the day has come. Get ready to dive into an episode where not only was I proven correct - but, we talk about all there is to love about one of sci-fi's greatest stories - DUNE. A story that I've been obsessed with since I was around 10 years old.
Somehow we dive into a few rabbit trails as to be expected - somehow even going down one on a Radiohead...

Listen to our thoughts about David Lynch's version, the truth behind Tyler's long wait to dive into this universe, what he thinks now, and the magic of Denis Villeneuve.

Thank you so much for listening - BE RAD!

- Woody -
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🎧 That Would Be Rad is recorded at Midnight Radio Studios
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🎧 Mixing and Mastering by Tyler Bence
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1 hr 31 min
September 05, 2022 S2 E45: Star Jelly, Angel Hair, & The Missing Thunderbird Photo
For literally thousands of years, accounts of strange things from above have been documented. Perhaps one of the earliest accounts occurs in the Book of Joshua in the Old Testament.
Each year at the beginning of the rainy season, the people of Yoro, Honduras, gather buckets, barrels, pails, and nets in anticipation of fish that will fall from the sky.
Frogs, and toads have also fallen numerous time and in monstrous numbers; but so have winkles, worms, and snakes.
Blood has been seen dribbling or pouring from the sky as if lifted right off the screenplay of Jordan Peele's newest movie NOPE, beans and grains fall, and so do meat, muscle and fat.
Coins, swathes of silklike material, strange mysterious material known as "angel hair", buttery substances, and even something called "Star Jelly" are only some of the long list of "skyfall" we dive into on this episode.

Join us as we uncover the strange and mysterious rad things that have rained down from the heavens - seemingly since the dawn of mankind.
Are they gifts from above?
Weird oddities of nature?
or
Evidence of strange "window areas"?

Find out this week when you PRESS PLAY.
Thank you so much for listening to our show and all of your support, BE RAD.
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1 hr 31 min
August 29, 2022 S2 E44: The Thunderbird Episode
The Chippewa (or Ojibwe) have a tradition - that in the time BEFORE time began - there existed a bird of supreme majesty that descended to earth...which was then only a vast expanse of water.
The birds eyes were fire; it's glance was lightning, and the motion of it's wings rippled through the air with thunder.
Join us this week as we dive into the amazing legends, of The Thunderbird.
All across North America essentially all tribes of Native Americans shared the legends and stories of the Thunderbird.
They became objects of religious ceremony, sacred, symbols of great power, and even creation.
They were loved, respected, and at times...feared.

But, did this ancient being, that interacted with Native Americans and First nations people die off and become extinct with the arrival of settlers?
Was it a giant bird of an uncharted -but now extinct- species, was it a smaller population of pterosaur flying through the skies, or was it simply a way for story tellers to explain weather patterns?
What was it the Native American people saw circling in the sky?

Press play on this episode and explore questions like this with us, as well as the intriguing modern day sightings that are still occurring!

Thanks so much for listening to our show - Be Rad.
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🎧 That Would Be Rad is recorded at Midnight Radio Studios
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🎧 Mixing and Mastering by Tyler Bence
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1 hr 27 min
August 22, 2022 S2 E43: Nope & Prey - GIANT-SIZE Patreon Preview
In this GIANT-SIZE episode we discuss two movies released in July that we've been wanting to talk about on our show since we watched them both.
SPOILER ALERT: If you haven't watched Nope, or Prey as of yet - you might want to wait before pressing PLAY on this 2HR+ episode, because we dive deep.
This week you'll hear us talk about Jordan Peele, his previous movies "Get Out", "Us" and whether we think he's a cinematic genius - or a flash in the pan. (Spoiler alert: genius)
We go over the acting chops, chemistry, and incredible character development of Daniel Kaluuya, Keke Palmer, Brandon Perea, Michael Wincott, and Steven Yeun.
Plus - what's up with that strange/eerie monkey sub-plot?
And of course...we discuss...the ship.

But wait - there's more!
After re-watching the original Predator and Predator II, Woody feels like an expert on where the newest in the franchise, Dan Trachtenberg's Prey, stacks up.
We talk about the incredible Amber Midthunder (coolest name in Hollywood), Dakota Beavers, and the amazing #girlpower trope that felt incredibly authentic.
We dive into the amazing Thunderbird Native American lore, briefly mentioned in the beginning of the movie, and our theories.
As well as all the easter eggs and tributes sprinkled throughout the movie as a nod to the ones that came before it.
We recorded this episode several weeks ago and tucked it away, along with a few others that we have saved, to be exclusive for our Patreon subscribers.
But, we thought releasing this GIANT-SIZE episode as a way to announce the upcoming launch of our Patreon would be the perfect kick off!

So, PRESS PLAY and hear what we rank these movies, and all the big announcements we have for the exciting things coming up for That Would Be Rad.

Thanks so much for listening to our show - Be Rad.

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2 hr 16 min
August 15, 2022 S2 E42: This Is Not a Mothman Episode
This is NOT a Mothman episode...but, we do end up mentioning the Mothman of Point Pleasant, West Virginia quite a bit...

It was hard not to frankly, because this week on our show, we are focusing on two sightings of a "large, dark, headless creature" with "gigantic wings, and fire red eyes" that occurred on the other side of the world with eerie similarity to America's own Mothman.
We're talking about The Blackbird of Chernobyl and The Freiberg Shrieker.
In April of 1986 the worst nuclear disaster the world has ever seen occurred at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant...but, a few days prior the people living and working at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant began seeing a creature, described as a large black, bird like creature or a headless man with a 20 foot wingspan, and red eyes.

Just a few years previous in September of 1978 at a mine in Freiberg, Germany miners who arrived that morning to work were greeted by a strange dark figure blocking the mine's entrance - keeping the workers from entering...moments later an underground explosion inside the mine caused a collapse that would have killed all 50 men.
Are these the only sightings of a Mothman-like creature...the answer is NO.
PRESS PLAY and get ready to hear about sightings we found in history in areas all around the world dating all the way back to the 1800s.
Hear our theories, and help us decide...is this figure an angel with a warning...or a harbinger of death.

Thanks so much for listening, and Be Rad!
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🎧 That Would Be Rad is written and produced by Woody Brown & Tyler Bence
🎧 That Would Be Rad is recorded at Midnight Radio Studios
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🎧 Mixing and Mastering by Tyler Bence
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1 hr 23 min