The Along For The Ride Halloween Special – Episode 13

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You’re invited to come Along For The Ride of spooky fun as I strap The Bride in for a Halloween Special aboard The Mystery Train. We discuss multiple horror classics, including The Silence Of The Lambs, It, The Trouble With Girls, The Fly, and The Brady Bunch Variety Hour.

Topics include:

  • Vincent Price
  • The Elvis Movie Era
  • Live A Little, Love A Little
  • The Bride Of Frankenstein
  • The Bride!
  • The Trouble With Girls: Celebrity Appearances
  • More Warner Brothers Baggage For The Salt Mine
  • The Trouble With Girls: DVD Postcards & A Mystery
  • Scooby-Doo
  • Movies That Haunted Us
  • Rod Serling’s Night Gallery
  • The Addams Family

The Along For The Ride Halloween Special is embedded above, or you can watch it directly on YouTube.

You can watch The Trouble With Girls, a focus of this episode, for free over on YouTube. You can also watch the Vincent Price episode of The Brady Bunch Variety Hour, if you dare, over on Archive.org. My apologies if any of the links do not work outside of the United States.

PHOTOS: Elvis Presley, Vincent Price, and Susan Olsen as seen in The Trouble With Girls (1969, MGM).

Exclusive bonus for readers of The Mystery Train

Though we made the Halloween Special a double-length episode, we still had to cut a lot of segments out to keep the running time somewhat acceptable. Coincidentally, it ended up being 13 segments that we removed from episode 13. Here’s one of them.

…and the Ride continues…

We’ll be taking November off from the show, but we should be back with an episode or two in December. Until next time, try to enjoy your daylight.

A Lot of Elvis Nerd Information | Along For The Ride Ep. 1.12

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PHOTOS: Elvis Presley performs at the International Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada, in August 1970, as seen in EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert (2026, NEON).

In the October 14 episode of Along For The Ride, The Bride and I conclude our look at Baz Luhrmann’s EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert, which leads to topics including:

The Bride noticed something funny while reviewing the rough edit of this episode, so be sure to stick around to read about that on a couple of post-credits slides at the end.

The episode is embedded below, or you can watch it directly on YouTube.

Exclusive bonus for readers of The Mystery Train

An outtake from episode 1.12 is included below.

Coming this weekend

Get strapped in with us when The Bride and I take a spooky detour on The Mystery Train. It’s the Along For The Ride Halloween Special!

Where EPiC Should Have Ended | Along For The Ride Ep. 1.11

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In the October 5 episode of Along For The Ride, the Bride and I discuss the climax of Baz Luhrmann’s EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert, which leads to topics including:

  • The greatest version of “Suspicious Minds”
  • Elvis’ finest show
  • The Nashville Marathon
  • EPiC averts a perfect landing

The new episode is embedded above, or you can watch it directly on YouTube.

PHOTO: Elvis Presley sings “Suspicious Minds” at the International Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada, in August 1970, as seen in EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert (2026, NEON). The documentary has prompted many discussions on the Along For The Ride podcast.

Those Salt Mines Have Swingin’ Doors | Along For The Ride Ep. 1.10

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PHOTO: Elvis Presley sings “How Great Thou Art” at the Hampton Coliseum in Hampton Roads, Virginia, on April 9, 1972, as seen in EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert (2026, NEON). The documentary prominently features several songs of inspiration.

Picking up right where “Elvis Is Having Fun” left off, The Bride in today’s episode of Along For The Ride continues her look at my overly long review of Baz Luhrmann’s EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert. Her unscripted comments and questions lead to topics including:

  • Elvis varying up his show
  • EPiC on home media
  • Luhrmann’s creative understanding of Elvis
  • “How Great Thou Art”
  • Previously unseen Elvis
  • Gospel in EPiC
  • Elvis’ musical statements

The new episode is embedded below, or you can watch it directly on YouTube.

Exclusive outtakes for readers of The Mystery Train

In this outtake from episode 1.10 of Along For The Ride, recorded in a hotel room at the beach, we are interrupted again by happy yet uninvited guests.

If you’ve already watched the episode, you’ll know that we both struggled with the outro this time. Though I left portions of it in the final episode for fun, here is the unedited version. And here is where I remind you that neither of us drinks alcohol or does anything of that nature. This is all natural.

“He has given me a new song to sing, a hymn of praise to our God. Many will see what He has done and be amazed. They will put their trust in the LORD.”
Psalm 40:3 NLT

The Mystery Train’s New EPiC Page

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2026 has truly been the year of Baz Luhrmann’s EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert so far here on The Mystery Train. With that in mind, I decided to create a new page to house all of our EPiC content. Check it out here. You can also access it via the “EPiC” link in the main menu. Thank you for reading and listening.

August 16, 1977 | Along For The Ride Ep. 1.9

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In a special Elvis Week episode of the Along For The Ride radio show, we discuss my memories of August 16, 1977, the day Elvis Presley passed away. We also look at some of my mom’s Elvis records from the 1950s and talk about what they mean to me.

The new episode is embedded below, or you can watch it directly on YouTube.

Exclusive outtake for readers of The Mystery Train

In this outtake from today’s episode of Along For The Ride, I struggle saying the outro.

Elvis Is Having Fun | Along For The Ride Ep. 1.8

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“Elvis Is Having Fun,” today’s episode of the Along For The Ride radio show, was recorded while we were still on vacation at the beach. The Bride continued her journey through my overly long review of Baz Luhrmann’s EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert.

Photo: Elvis Presley in EPiC (NEON, 2026)

Among the topics:

  • Elvis’ Opening Acts
  • “Mystery Train/Tiger Man”
  • Sammy Davis Jr.
  • EPiC’s Editing
  • Denise Sanchez | Make-A-Wish
  • The Biggest Necktie Ever
  • Bill Baize
  • “Burning Love” & The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
  • Salt Mine Footage
  • How long did Elvis wear that bra on his head?

The new episode is embedded below, or you can watch it directly on YouTube.

Exclusive outtake for readers of The Mystery Train

We have discussed the possibility of having guests on Along For The Ride. However, these particular guests were uninvited.