• NEW,  The Twist Podcast

    The Twist Podcast #302: P-town Bound, Rick Reunites with Bev, and Emma Visits Mr. Rogers Neighborhood

    August 20, 2025 / No Comments

    Join co-hosts Mark McNease and Rick Rose in this pre-Provincetown vacation podcast. Rick fills us in on some hot new Rice Krispy treats, chats with Bev about their game show past, and joins Emma for her review of the Mr. Rogers documentary.

    SURVEY RESUKLTS

    Imagine yourself doing something else at the moment. What would it be?

    Walking along a country road or hiking path.  44 percent
    Taking a nap. ZERO –
    Reading a favorite book or watching a favorite show. 20 percent
    Eating a favorite meal or snack.  6 percent
    Something else entirely. What would it be?  22 percent

    SOMETHING ELSE / OTHER:

    Traveling somewhere new and exciting.
    If time travel is permitted: An afternoon of sex at the age of 32!
    Writing.Grocery shopping!
    Relaxing by the Italian seaside with a handsome Italian man.

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  • NEW

    NEW! Audiobook for ‘A House in the Woods 2: The Devil’s Due’ Now Available Directly!

    August 15, 2025 / No Comments

    LISTEN TO THE PREVIEW!

    I’ll be distributing this through INAudio to Spotify and other select retailers, but I’ve also made it available directly from me for half  the cost! Just click here for the product page on my PayHip storefront and check it out. There’s even a free preview you can listen to (or just listen to it with the audio above). This is exciting, and it’s only $8.95 from me. Fasten your headphones!

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  • A House in the Woods 2 Audio,  NEW

    A House in the Woods 2: The Devil’s Due – Chapter 6 (Audio)

    July 29, 2025 / No Comments

    CHAPTER 6

    Welcome to the episodic audio edition of A House in the Woods 2: The Devil’s Due. Fasten your headphones and enjoy one new chapter each week. You can  find all the episodes here.

    About A House in the Woods 2

    A House in the Woods 2: The Devil’s Due picks up where A House in the Woods left off. Laurel Calloway is still in the mysterious town of Strickland, New Jersey, where nothing is as it appears to be. Two years have gone by, and they’ve been good to the Calloways. Laurel and her husband Jeremy have a new house, and a new family with baby Isabel about to celebrate her first birthday. Everything seems perfect, until Laurel begins to have dreams. Bad dreams. Something tells her these dreams could really be memories. But of what? Of whom, and of when?

    Did she really run over a woman in the road at night? Had they once had a dog? Why are these things trying so hard to surface, swimming slowly up from her subconscious? The more she begins to tell the people around her about these dreams, the more convinced she is that they’re part of it, and that these nightmares aren’t really dreams at all. Page after page, the pace escalates as Laurel begins to learn the truth and plot her escape. But will she succeed? The Devil is in the details.

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  • NEW,  The Twist Podcast

    The Twist Podcast #300: Fireworks, Jumbotrons, Birthday Wishes, Zachary James Interview and So Much More

    July 27, 2025 / No Comments

    Join co-hosts Mark McNease and Rick Rose as we throw a studio party for our 300th episode. We started The Twist in 2018 and we’re as irreverent as ever. They’ll never paint over our rainbow lives or our sparkly podcast, as we enjoy a PBS review  from Emma, Rick’s interview with Zachary James, and an up-and-personal chat with Jo Klett, whose wisdom and humor offer a balm for these chaotic times.

    This Week’s Survey Results

    If you could master one thing instantly what would it be?

    Playing an instrument  65 percent
    Speaking multiple languages  47.06
    Cooking like a super chef   5.88
    Painting or drawing  23.53
    Other – what would it be? 5.88

    COMMENTS:

    • Any and all! I always dreamed of being able to speak and understand whatever language of the country i was visiting, instantly and without study. That would be my superpower!
    • Spanish and French so I can speak with my friends in Europe in their language
    • Piano
    • spanish, Portuguese
    • understanding and predicting stock market fluctuations
    • Ukulele
    • Spanish and/or Portuguese, since we might end up moving to a place where that’s the primary language.
    • Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Arabic. Not French tho- I already speak the language of love bahahahahahaha!
    • Singing
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  • NEW,  The Twist Podcast

    The Twist Podcast #299: Disappearing Client Lists, New Wisdom of Jo Audio, and Emma Zoe Lyons Reviews HBO’s ‘Enigma’

    July 11, 2025 / No Comments

    Join co-hosts Mark McNease and Rick Rose as we hunt for Jeffrey Epstein’s mysteriously vanishing client list, share more fan facts and photos, dig the Wisdom of Jo in her own words, and enjoy Emma Zoe Lyons’ review of HBO’s ‘Enigma.’

    Last Week’s Survey Results

    If you could be one of these things, what would you be?

    Thinner 18.75 percent
    Younter 31.25 percent
    Richer 18.75 percent
    Kinder 31.25 percent

    Two ‘others’:

    “Only if I could also still have all my experiential wisdom from 86 years.”
    “Wiser”

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  • NEW,  The Twist Podcast

    The Twist Podcast #298: Big Monstrous Bill, ‘Poop Cruise’ Movie Review, Fan Photos, and a Rick Rose Chat with Adele George

    July 4, 2025 / No Comments

    Join co-hosts Mark McNease and Rick Rose as we choke on the Big Ugly Bill, take our wins where we can get them, learn about the ‘Poop Cruise’ from Emma Zoe Lyons, and enjoy Rick’s conversation with author Adele George. Plus our weekly survey and new fan photos!

    This Week’s Survey

    New weekly survey! Only ONE answer preferred this time. Would you be thinner, younger, richer, kinder? Or something else.

    TAKE THE SURVEY

    A View from Our Listeners


    These are pix of your co-hosts Mark and Rick with fans of the Twist.

    Send us your photo(s) and a line or two to: TheTwistPodcast AT gmail.com

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