Episode 030 - Sounds and Silences (w/ Jacob Shelton)

This week we watch "Sounds and Silences", a particularly campy episode of the Twilight Zone (Episode 27 of Season 5). In a fitting punishment for being both noisy and emotionally abusive, Roswell G. Flemington becomes deaf to the world. Our guest is Jacob Shelton. Jacob is a writer and very funny boy. We discuss the open-endedness of this episode and wonder whether or not we're supposed to sympathize with the protagonist. Is he a veteran with PTSD or simply a horrible husband and boss with a paranoid delusional fantasy about having been in the war? All this and more in this gripping episode of The Twilight Zone Zone! Jacob also shares some very interesting and entirely true facts about Rod Serling. Jacob is the author of Minor Phrases, a collection of short stories about found photographs. You can find it here: http://www.minorphrases.com/ or peruse his other things here: http://www.thisisjacobshelton.com/