In this Halloween spectacular (yes, I avoided saying "spooktacular" on purpose) The Boys are joined by Two Men And A Ghost. The Two Men in question, Mike Kazybrid and Andrew Wooding have been working in comics for over 30 years and have written and drawn characters such as Spider-Man, Desperate Dan, Transformers, Bananaman, The Bash Street Kids, The Tick, Count Duckula, Do-Do Man, Savage Sidney, Shaun the Sheep, and many, many more. Recently, they've turned their talents to the supernatural, and are searching Sheffield for the truth about local ghostly legends... that's if they remember their flashlights, of course.

00:00 Good LORD above, does the technical torment never stop with these two? More computer issues? It might be the ghosts that are messing with the Paul And Spike Show equipment, or - Occam's razor - it might be operator error.

05:41 Neither of The Boys are going to go and see "This Is It!", the Michael Jackson movie (ee-hee! oohhh!), but Rush Limbaugh gets fished in by a thesis that turned out to not have been written by Barack Obama, and refuses to deny it's hoaxeyness, so there's that to talk about in a slow news week.

14:45 Wait, did we say "slow news week"? Not bloody likely - there's plenty to talk about, via the gift of banjos, mandolins and crystal meth, in "Pickin' And Grinnin'!".

17:06 You know that "This Week In Stuff" is the segment of the show where The Boys disclose their media week in order to help you make better TV/movie/literature decisions, right? Well! This week, it's Celebrity This Week In Stuff as the British comic industry's finest artist slash writer combo Andrew Wooding and Mike Kazybrid join The Boys. Andrew's looking to the future and has Terry Gilliam's "The Imaginarium Of Doctor Parnassus" and the new season of "The Sarah Jane Adventures" to see. Marvel artist Mike's had a rip-rolling time with the "X-Men Origins: Wolverine" movie, and has a very interesting story about how an ex-Time Bandit almost became his uncle... Poor Mrs Higginbotham; she's being driven crazy thanks to Paul's re-discovery of Fleetwood Mac, and he has crossed another Ebert movie off the list; "Gates Of Heaven" - a documentary about pet cemeteries. Yes, you read that right. As for Spike, another week listening to South African talk station Talk Radio 702 has provided him with "the greatest piece of radio I have ever heard in my life". His South African accent's not gotten any better, though.

41:36 Some listener mail poses interesting discussion points: does Morrissey have "a dark appetite for tofu"? Can "The Wizard Of Oz" get any more garish? Does "The Nightmare Before Christmas" count as a Halloween movie, or a Christmas movie? Or both? Has Andrew's Mom ever been proposed to by Sneezy? And how does one put a record turntable into shuffle mode?

46:37 You simply won't believe what the Two Men And A Ghost have found roaming around Sheffield after midnight. Between shining lights into private residences, muddy trousers and police helicopters, it's only a matter of time before they end up in jail.

57:00 What are ghosts? Are they the wandering souls of dead people, are they hidden recordings, or are they hallucinations conjured up by electrical energy? The Two Men and The Boys discuss their beliefs, but what do you think? Let them know at The Usual Address.
1:11:10 It being Halloween and all, The Boys and The Men discuss their picks for best movie or TV show to get someone in the mood for the spooky holiday. What did you watch? Email the show and let 'em know.

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Bloody Nora, the show is all over the place this week! A visit from Spike's Dad Old Spike throws everything into technical turmoil, and Paul's on the road in Kansas. Honestly, you let a married man loose to a conference, and how does he spend his evenings? He chats to two bores over hotel wi-fi. Oh well. Whatever floateth the boateth.

On this show this week, all the usual shenanigans including The Boys' week in stuff, and they discuss what 20th century science fiction visions of the 21st century we're getting jipped out of. I mean, really. It's 2009. Shouldn't we all be in flying cars by now?

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Don't forget the Two Men And A Ghost competition running through October - deadline is Halloween. Visit twomenandaghost.blogspot.com and answer a ludicrously easy question; A mask based on a famous sci-fi actor was turned inside out in order to become the villain of the movie, Halloween - who was that famous sci-fi actor? Come on now, it's easy! Send your answers to twomenandaghost@hotmail.com and you could win an original pen and ink cartoon of those fearless seekers of the para-abnormal, 'Two Men and a Ghost', drawded by artist Mychailo 'Mike' Kazybrid, who has worked in the cartoon and comic book industry since 1975. His portfolio includes artwork for countless licensed characters ranging from Wallace & Gromit, Shaun the Sheep, The Tick, Count Duckula and DangerMouse to name but a small few. He has been a featured guest at a number of Transformers conventions, and UK comics luminary Dez Skinn (former editorial director of Marvel UK and editor of Comics International) says of him in the book Comic Art Now: '...his detailed pensmanship on his backgrounds is little short of 19th century engravings, and in stark contrast with the foreground hero...''

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The Paul And Spike Show airs weekly, every Friday night on the mighty Radio Six International, from 11pm UK time and 6pm US eastern time. It also airs on 88.5 World FM in Wellington New Zealand at 7pm Saturday night local time. You can listen online every Saturday morning at 2am US eastern, or 6am UK time. Check out the other great programming on both stations; Radio Six brings you specialist music shows and unsigned artists, plus drama and comedies. World FM's varied schedule includes the best in international news, and music from around the world. You might also hear us on shortwave anywhere in the world, via WBCQ's 5.110MHz and 9.330MHz frequencies, or on any of the other FM and AM stations across the world that carry Radio Six's quality programming.
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