In this delightfully unhinged episode, Dan and Leah dive into the 2016 cult classic Zoombies, where a wildlife sanctuary becomes ground zero for a zombie animal outbreak. From roaring giraffes (which, fun fact, don't have vocal cords) to a suspiciously taxidermied koala, the film's laughable CGI and plot holes provide endless entertainment. The hosts also share highlights from their community watch party, where snarky commentary enhanced every absurd moment.
The hosts also countdown their top five zombie animals in horror media, notably excluding any from Zoombies. From the iconic Church the cat in Pet Sematary to the terrifying sheep in New Zealand's Black Sheep, they explore what makes these undead creatures so memorable. Additionally, they touch on real-life zombie phenomena like "zombie deer" and cordyceps fungi.
Special Elevator pitch from Katheryn Breen with her zombie romance novel, Rod the Zombie, set to release on August 5th.
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Speaker 1 (00:20):
Welcome to the Zombie Book Club, the only book club
where the book is a zoo and thatzoo is poorly managed and has
no visitors.
I'm Dan, and when I'm outdealing with a zoo of roadside
construction where the animalsare covered in asphalt and chew
tobacco, I'm writing a bookabout the collapse of our modern
world, where the zoo might be agood place to stop for a quick
snack.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
I hope you're talking about actual snacks and not
animals.
Sure.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
I'm Leah and I like animals better than most people,
but maybe not zombie animals.
Yeah, you know what I learnedyesterday.
I take it back.
I'd rather not eat the the zooanimals and instead, um, I'm
trying to think of a way to makethese words work.
Um, let's trade the zoo animalsfor the animals I work with you
want to eat them yeah, and thenI'll eat the.
Yeah, it's.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
It's a long way to go you want to eat the asphalt
covered tobacco chewing humans?
Speaker 1 (01:10):
yeah, for a snack at the zoo yeah, I'd probably boil
them just to be safe maybe youcould do boiled peanuts as like
a side to have a full boiledexperience I never really liked
boiled peanuts.
I think they're delicious.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
I thought they were weird I mean they are weird they
are and very salty.
Uh curious, everybody out thereloves boiled peanuts.
Nobody's ever said a can ofboiled peanuts in our question
of shelf-stable food.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
They come in a can.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
When I had them, they came in a paper bag well,
that's when you buy them from,like, the convenience store or
the gas station.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Yeah, it was a guy on the side of the road.
Yeah, it was just some guy.
That's authentic.
You can get them in a can, likeit was in the back of his
pickup truck.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Yeah, this was Georgia High quality boiled
peanuts.
Either you know what we'retalking about or you're like.
What in the ever-loving fuck isa boiled peanut?
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
I feel like it would be a popular thing in the
apocalypse, because you can growthe peanuts and boil them yeah
if you live in the right climateand you just need some salt.
Go to the ocean, get some saltand you have a nice snack.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
We can't grow peanuts here, can we?
I feel like that's definitely adown south thing, right?
I don't know.
We need to find this out.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
What zone can you grow peanuts?
We're in zone four.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Oh great, Now everybody knows where we we
cannot.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Hardiness zone is 8 to 11, so much further south
than here.
Yeah, that's what I thoughtthat's what I thought that's why
that's why you don't get wellwe do boiled walnuts yeah, let's
do walnuts boiled, boiledwalnuts this also sounds even
more disgusting today we aredissociating for a casual dead
episode.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Yeah, I'm hardcore dissociating.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Yes, we've got a book pitch from an awesome new
author to us, catherine Breen,and we're going to review a
movie called Zoombies.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Yeah, we watched this movie.
Yeah, have you heard of a moviecalled Zoombies?
Speaker 2 (03:00):
I didn't know.
I just knew that Ollie washosting a watch party.
I had no idea we were watchingwhen we showed up Me either.
I didn't know, I just knew that.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
Ollie was hosting a watch party.
I had no idea we were watchingwhen we showed up Me either.
I had no idea.
In fact, ads started playing.
I thought the ads were themovie we were watching.
It was for Eve Online.
Yeah, I couldn't figure outwhat was going on.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
I was very confused Like this is in space.
I mean space zombies.
That'd be fun.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Yeah, yeah.
Today is really a break fromall of the hardcore, depressing
topics we've been doing lately.
Yeah, we figured we need it.
You probably need it too.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Oh God, we need it, yeah, but we release episodes
every Sunday.
So subspiddle is what Leahwrote.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
I'm really struggling , yeah, with new subscribe words
.
Yeah, maybe we should just saysubscribe one of these days I
wonder if anybody, if we didn'ttalk about how it's actually
subscribed, anyone would knowwhat we're talking about yeah,
they're like.
They told me to subscramble orwhatever subspittle yeah, I'm
subspittling into the, into themicrophone some subskittles or
(04:01):
something but let's get to theelevator author pitch.
Yeah, this one I'm reallyexcited about, because the book
is named Rod the Zombie and I'mwondering if it's a biography or
possibly an autobiography ofour Rod Zombie, yeah, who lives
on our front porch.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Yeah, Well now Rod lives on the back porch.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Yeah, he's taking a break, he's sitting down.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
He's on vacation he stood all winter.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
He's on vacation and now he's sitting in a chair.
Yeah, he's taking a breakbefore he goes to Living Dead
weekend, where he's going tohold a sign for us.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
He's stood so much that his shoes exploded.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
It's true, and his legs have slowly evaporated.
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
Disintegrated, yeah they've kind of turned into dust
.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Yeah, I wonder if this rod also has leg and shoe
problems.
But I did when we got an emailfrom Catherine Breen, the author
, and I saw the name of the bookand I was just like this is
clearly meant to be written inthe stars.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Well, I think it's written in the book.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Yes, also that it's Catherine's debut novel.
It's set to release August 5thand she's actually going to be
on the show on August 3rd totalk about it.
Yay, so we've got a pitch fromher.
You ready to listen to it?
Yeah, I'm ready.
Okay, which floor are we goingto, dan?
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Oh, let's go to three Okay.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Ding, ding ding.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
Hi Leah, hi Dan.
Author from Syracuse, new York,my debut novel, rod the Zombie,
is coming out this August.
It's a paranormal romance thatblends horror and humor in a
story about love and what itreally means to be alive.
This story flips the horrortrope on its head and invites
the reader to reflect onidentity, belonging and the
(05:38):
value of every soul, living orotherwise.
So Rod isn't your typical zombie.
He's complex, conflicted andsurprisingly tender.
He's haunted by the memories ofhis past life and unsure of his
place in the world.
When he meets a human girlnamed Bethany, he's immediately
intrigued by her fearless andunapologetic attitude in this
post-apocalyptic world.
(05:58):
When it turns out thatBethany's mysterious exterior is
hiding dangerous secrets, rodis forced to choose between
exploring his second chance atlife or risking it all for his
only shot at love.
As Rod is faced with thesinister force that has brought
him back, he's forced to askhimself questions about identity
, free will and what reallymakes life worth living.
(06:19):
Rod the Zombie is a love storyand a horror comedy that helps
remind the reader that even inthe darkest, most unexpected
places, like the decaying heartof a half-rotted corpse, there
is still room for love, laughterand second chances.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Aww, I didn't know Rod Zombie had such a backstory.
He's never told us all of this.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Yeah, he keeps on trying to sell us some extended
warranties through Walmart.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
It's true.
Yeah, he's got a couple ofbuttons from Walmart.
Yeah, he's got a Walmart hat.
Catherine, does your Rod alsowork?
Or did they work at Walmartbefore?
They were a zombie?
Very curious, I feel like Ijust had insight, though, into
his real story.
Yeah, I really hope.
Insight though, into his, hisreal story, I really hope.
Well, actually, if, if Rodliving on our back porch is an
indicator, I don't think thelove story goes well with
(07:09):
Bethany, but we're going to haveto read the book to find out,
and I can't wait to talk toCatherine soon.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
Also, I love that you're from Syracuse, New York.
I used to work there, Kind of Ispent a lot of time in Syracuse
and I'm curious what aboutupstate New York is so inspiring
to zombie apocalypse authors.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Yeah, because Alice B Sullivan, also from upstate New
York, epic zombie author.
There's something there.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Yeah, there's something going on.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
You know how Atlanta was the hotbed of hip hop for a
while.
Yeah, is upstate New York thenew hotbed of the zombie
apocalypse genre?
Speaker 1 (07:48):
It could be the town that I lived in.
Any time of the day, you couldwalk out into the middle of the
street and it felt like theapocalypse.
There was just derelict cars onthe sides of the roads, nobody
out walking on the street.
The occasional person wouldpeek at you through the blinds
of their, of their window andthen like quickly close them.
When you looked at them, um anduh.
(08:08):
I mean, the Daryl cars werejust the cars that people drove,
but it looked.
It looked like it was the endof the world every single day.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
It sounds like it could be and in the meantime, I
just want to say that, sinceCatherine's book is not yet out,
you can go follow her at klb,as in bob, not rod.
Uh dot writes on instagram, uh,and I think you can sign up for
her newsletter.
Am I making that up right now?
Speaker 1 (08:33):
let's find out yeah, and also I'll have a link in the
description for that, so youcould just click on it or put
your finger on it.
You could.
You could double tap with your,your fingy.
Yeah, you could.
You could finger the link youcan't.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
There is a newsletter .
I knew I'd signed up forsomething life updates leah, I
forgot about those.
What are?
What are our life updates?
uh, you've got some life updatesabout living dead weekend I
feel like we talk about thatevery week because it's become
my whole life.
Uh, yeah, stickers have come in.
They're really.
I love all my little zombiecartoon buddies.
I just made a special edition,one that I will only ever print
(09:09):
once, which is the Hare Krishnazombie from Dawn of the dead.
Um, dan, how would you describemy Hare Krishna zombie?
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Uh, it's like handsome Squidward, if you know.
If you know handsome Squidward,um, then you know what I'm
talking about.
If you don't know, handsomesquidward, then like um, the
easter island heads, but as azombie wearing orange robes and
(09:37):
glasses and gluing a tambourine,yeah, yeah I mean, he looks
fabulous, yeah well, it's aspecial edition one I'm gonna
just have for living deadweekend.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
If there's any left, I'll sell them online after.
Yeah, but, yeah, very excitedabout that event, also excited
for it to be over so I can stopthinking about that event.
But I will also be sad whenit's over, because it'll be over
.
It feels like way more workthan getting married to you.
Getting married to you was soeasy.
We just eloped.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
yeah, this feels like a full-on wedding event we're
planning yeah, yeah, I mean,when we got married, like they
like the, the, uh, the placethat we went for our marriage
slash honeymoon coveredeverything.
Um, we just paid them money andthen they're like here's the
ceremony, here's the cake,here's the place that you're
gonna stay for a couple dayshere's the officiant.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
Yeah who by?
The way also loves horses.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
She's great and forget her name easy, but living
dead weekend, it's like uh, howdo we do this?
Speaker 2 (10:31):
there's no rules yeah , also, like we're a podcast,
I'm like I don't really.
We don't have a lot to sell,hence the stickers.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
Yeah and a couple of posters.
Really, we're just hoping thatpeople come talk to us.
Yeah, that's the goal, even if,even if they come talk to us to
be like, what do you guys sell?
Speaker 2 (10:47):
I I'm hoping that the crown I'm making just for
living dead weekend attractspeople, but it might not.
It might scare them away, but Ifeel like this is the crowd,
that they'll be attracted to ityeah, I think they'll be pulled
in by the not sexually attractedto.
I mean, I guess that's okay ifthey are no judgments um they
might have some latentnecrophilia going on.
Yeah, I feel like this is mysecond necrophilia sex joke.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
I've made in as many weeks.
I think it's okay to joke aboutnecrophilia.
Okay, for one, their victimsare already dead.
And two, I feel like it's akink that we can shame.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
All right, that works for me.
We do have a little bit of newsthat you wanted to share.
That is real life depressingzombies in the news.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Zombies in the news.
Leah, the zombies, um, are inthe government.
So I found.
I found this, um, this article.
I'll leave a link for it in thedescription.
Uh, it's called uh, the attackof the Sadistic Zombies.
I first heard about this whenthey were discussing this
sweeping budget bill that youmight have heard about called
(11:52):
the Big Beautiful Bill, whichpromises to take away our
Medicaid, our Medicare, allkinds of stuff, snap benefits.
Just send us into the dark ageswhere the people who are poor
now will be even more poor andthe people who are rich now will
become even more rich.
(12:13):
Yeah, and also fuck the climate.
Nobel Prize winner and a formercolumnist of the New York Times
wrote this Substack article onhis Substack where he says that
the bill that was just passed byCongress this week Just the
(12:35):
House so far, yeah.
And it still has to go throughthe Senate.
Which fingers crossed.
Maybe by the time this episodecomes out, we're already in the
dark ages, we don't know.
Maybe by the time this episodecomes out, uh, we're already in
the dark ages, we don't know, um.
But he, he says um, this is thework of sadistic zombies, and
that's why I'm mentioning it,because zombies came up in the
news and I thought it was reallyfunny that somebody would say
(12:56):
that.
But what he's talking about arezombie ideas, um, and these
ideas are, uh, things that keepon coming up in discussion,
despite the fact that they'vebeen proven false many, many
times and are therefore undeadideas that continue to live even
though they should be dead.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
This country is full of those and haven't for a long
time.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
So really good examples of these would be that
poor people are poor becausethey're just lazy, they're
malingering and they're justdraining the system, like if we,
if we just have people onSocial Security, they just don't
want to work.
It's not that they have aproblem, they have an injury,
(13:43):
it's just that they're trying tofool the system and get free
money for doing nothing, andit's very important to know that
.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
the underlying values here is that if you can't be a
good worker and make acapitalist money, you have no
value.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
Yeah, and then another idea that he brings up
is that tax cuts for the richwill spur some sort of economic
miracle, the trickle-down effect.
This has been proven wrongsince probably before Reagan but
Reagan was big in trickle-downeconomics which it was proved
(14:19):
time and time again that richpeople will only use
trickle-down economics to enrichthemselves and drain value from
everything around them itdoesn't trickle, no a lot of my
undergrad education was ontrickle-down economics and how
it was yeah, so that's a zombieidea.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
You studied a zombie idea, wow, I have so many other
zombie ideas.
Uh, yeah, we.
We went to war in Iraq for toget rid of weapons of mass
destruction.
Getting rid of trans people outof sports will save, will make
trans people disappear, yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
What else Also, that it's a problem At all?
Yeah, like there's.
There are fewer trans people insports than there are felonies
that the president has convictedof.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
Oh, I have another zombie idea.
So many children are beingforced into having gender
reassignment surgeries beforethe age of 18.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
At the nurse's office .
Yes, in school.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
Yeah, that's also not true.
Yeah, and if any of thosethings we just said you're like,
oh, that's not true, I got theresources to back it up, it's
probably too many articles toput in the show notes, so come
at me in the dms.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
But yeah, I just wanted to bring up this, uh,
these sadistic zombies.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
We currently have sadistic zombies, um we do
passing laws and uh, that's,that's my life update they're
eating us, which is why we needto eat them.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
Yeah, we need to eat.
We need our own zombies,different kinds of zombies, we
need different zombies to fightthe old zombies.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
Yeah, and much less depressing as we watch zombies
on the zombie collective discordwith a few of our zombies,
including Megan Ollie andCaptain Magenta, who I don't
know your real name, CaptainMagenta, but honestly, Captain
Magenta is pretty great.
Magenta is a good color, yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
I agree, magenta is a great color yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
Thanks for hosting Ollie, it was really fun.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
Yeah, zoombies.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
It's a movie.
We're going to do a rapid firereview of it, yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
At the request of captain magenta.
We're here for you, buddy, yeah, so um, let's, let's break down
real quick what is?
Speaker 2 (16:30):
what is zombies?
Well, I don't think it'llsurprise anybody.
That's a low budget film, is it?
Yeah?
Wow you fooled me, uh, may in2016, so nine years old now and
basically there's a virusoutbreak at a wildlife safari
park which is uh sort of talkedabout as like a rescue for rare
animals, but unfortunately, thisvirus outbreak turns those
(16:53):
animals, including lions,giraffes and a gorilla, and many
other animals koalas, what else?
Monkeys, lemurs, birds, birdsuh yeah, so many things into
fast, very fast, bloodthirstyalso a taxidermied koala yes,
but they only seem interested ineating up people.
Yeah and the virus doesn'tinfect people, just animals yeah
(17:16):
, that's very interesting and Ithink there's, like some maybe
underlying themes of vengeanceof the non-human animal type
against people.
I feel that, and the filmfollows the staff and interns of
eden wildlife zoo because ithasn't been opened yet to the
public.
Convenient.
Convenient because all thoseextras would cost a lot of money
also the outbreak would havebeen worse and basically they
(17:39):
have to navigate the zoo'sdangers to prevent the outbreak
from spreading.
Particularly they're veryconcerned about crossing over to
the birds and the birds gettingout of the aviary yeah, yeah,
that that's.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
That is a thing that they, that they bring up a lot
in this movie.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
It's like we gotta get, get to get to the aviary,
kill all those birds, yeah, umwell, the birds are so cute,
except for the one that's likehelp, help, help over and over.
Didn't it eat somebody, or wasit just sad that their person
had been eaten?
It's really unclear either theparrot ate somebody that they
loved before they were a zombie,and then repeated the person's
(18:17):
last word, which was help, overand over again, or the parrot
witnessed it, yeah, and wassaying help, help, help, help
over again.
Could, be Not clear.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
Yeah, If we're looking for a blurb, I would say
imagine Jurassic Park with nodinosaurs.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
With giraffes.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
And just regular zoo animals and also no budget.
So if you've ever wanted to seethat movie, but a feminist
lens- is there.
I think, so, I think a littlebit, yeah, I guess yeah compared
to zombie averse that true,that is true.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
It is more feminist than zombie there are a lot of
characters like so many, it washard to keep track of them all
um, a lot of interns and workers.
Many of them die, but I thinkthe two characters that are
probably worth naming is drellen rogers, who is the zoo
manager and owner andveterinarian yeah, trying to
control the chaos, and scientistand scientist yeah, and her
well, veterinarian scientist.
(19:19):
And her daughter, thea, who'slike how old do you think?
Eight.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
I think, actually I think they do say that she's
eight.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
Okay, I was guesstimating by her size.
Pretty good yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
Thea is the comic relief.
Also, the smartest person inthe room Is she, she is.
She is the one that figureseverything out all the time.
Never underestimate a child.
Yeah, especially when they'velike read the script.
I guess They've read ahead inthe scripts so they know what's
going on.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
What do we love about this movie Dan?
Speaker 1 (19:52):
Oh well, we've got a bunch.
I'm going to read some of thethings that I liked.
Okay, okay, I loved howcompletely fucking stupid this
movie was.
It was.
You're not going to get deepermeanings or, like I tried Deep,
I looked for it Character-drivenstorylines.
(20:13):
You're not going to be like,wow, that really makes you think
.
You're going to be like, wow,that was fucking dumb.
Yeah, and if you want somethingreally dumb, then you're in
luck, because you're going to besmiling ear to ear.
Being like that is the dumbestthing I've ever seen.
It's intentionally dumb and Iappreciate intentionally dumb,
(20:34):
going along with intentionallydumb.
It's also an obvious JurassicPark ripoff.
But it's also aware of itself.
It even says at some point likerelax, guys, it's not like
we're at jurassic park.
And then they smile and look atthe camera, break the fourth
wall.
That didn't actually happen,but I felt like they were
breaking the fourth wall withthe joke.
I felt like they were saying itto me and I'm like I know, guys
(20:57):
, I know you need to have afucking Jurassic Park Jeep.
It's pretty derivative.
Yeah, Also there's a characterwho wears a business suit.
He's a businessman.
He's a blue on blue on bluebusiness suit, which was a
choice of whoever it was thatdid the costumes.
When I first saw this guy and Isaw how he was getting involved
(21:19):
with the story, I'm like, oh,this guy's losing his sleeves,
his sleeves are going to be gone.
The pipes came out, yeah, andthey did not let me down on that
because immediately lost hissleeves, lost his coat.
Not only that, lost the bottompart of his pants.
So he has shorts, he has asleeveless shirt, a tie and a
(21:42):
vest.
Sounds like a male stripper itdoes.
But also it's like that's alook.
You know, if you're going to bein a movie like Zoombies, I'd
absolutely be like, look, I'mglad to be in this movie, but I
want to look fucking ridiculous.
I want sleeveless business suit.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
I will be in this movie if I get to be in a
sleeveless business suit.
I will be in this movie if Iget to be in a sleeveless
business suit and also it's 97degrees out.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
Here I'm ripping the bottoms of my pants off.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
Yeah, I need air flow up down there.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
What did you love about this movie?
Speaker 2 (22:15):
You know, I think what I love the most is watching
other people and all the snarkycomments in the chat.
I'm trying to remember some ofthem.
I'm not very good at that, butthey were very good, good snark.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
Yeah, that's the fun part of it doing the live watch
parties, yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
Snark.
I don't know if I would enjoythe movie without the snark
comments from others Like that'skind of what makes it fun is
hearing people's hot takes about.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
What they're describing is exactly what that
show is, where they watch reallystupid movies like this and
they just make jokes over top ofthe dialogue.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
Yeah, but I want to be in it, I don't want to.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
I want to be immersed in it.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
I also.
I also really loved Thea,because her character made no
sense.
Sometimes she loved the animals, sometimes she's ready to
murder them, particularly whenshe went to cuddle a stuffed
koala that ended up being azombie yeah, that part was
unclear.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
Like was the?
Was there a live koala in theroom that she was playing in the
entire time?
Was it a taxidermied koala?
How did it get in?
Was it a stuff?
Was it actually a stuffed koalathat turned into a zombie
because it's a animal?
Speaker 2 (23:24):
and that's how the virus works.
Is she barehanded?
Fucked that thing up and to thepoint where, like literally,
its fur was on one side of theroom and its deferred body skin
body was on the other.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
She beat it to death and skinned it apparently.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
And then got hit in the head somewhere and was still
seemed totally fine, although Ifeel like that's when her
personality changed and she waslike, yeah, let's kill the
animals it's okay it's okay, momkill the animals maybe she got
a concussion and then she's likefuck animals, yeah, animals
suck I also like the doubleentendre of the name.
Yeah, dogs get zoomies, zoomies.
Yeah, do you think zoomies wasa part of it?
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Well they, those animals, hadzoomies for sure some of them
did yeah uh, and zombies,zoomies, zombies, zoomies,
zombies.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
Yeah smart um, let's talk about what we hated the
thing that killed it for me itdefinitely.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
Uh, my disbelief was no longer suspended was when the
giraffes made zombie noisesyeah, like, like, really like
snarling, like growling,snarling, zombie noises.
And once I checked, they don'thave vocal cords, they don't
make sounds.
Yeah yeah, If those giraffeswere zombies they wouldn't be
making zombie noises, not tomention all the people that were
being picked up and eaten bythe giraffe zombies and then
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thrown onto the ground Everytime they landed on the ground.
They thrown onto the groundEvery time they landed on the
ground.
They were perfectly fine andjust would like get back up.
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
Yeah, they just fell 27 feet.
They're fine.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
Yeah, it was really not realistic.
And also the CG was so bad.
Yeah, it's like so bad.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
It's like they were just like let's get on
TurboSquid and download agiraffe model.
We'll go with the free one.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
We're not gonna pay 25 dollars, yeah for a giraffe
model also, the, the, theelephants, them riding on the
elephants.
It really bothered me.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
I don't know why a lot of, a lot of the mixed cgs
shots were like they just didlike a close-up, while they're
like riding on the top of a ofan elephant.
We're just like so badly donegreen screen style, like it was
so clear that they're like wecan't, we don't have the budget
to show you on top of a anelephant, so we're just going to
show you from like the waist upand you just pretend to ride
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that elephant.
There's also a car crash scenewhere literally like the jeep
goes off the road and you see ithit a tree, but then they hard
cut to one of the characters,just kind of flying over the
camera and then, as if it's anepisode of the mighty morphin
power rangers, they all justkind of like tuck and roll and
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fall on the ground.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
In the next shot they're just fine in front of
some trees and they're like oh,we just got thrown out of the
jeep, ouch yeah, megan had avery, uh, astute critique if I
may put some big words in herefor our zombies yeah review,
which is that the people kepttrying to escape the zombies by
climbing into trees, but theoriginal zombies were monkeys,
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yeah, who are always coming outof trees.
Yeah, it's, yeah.
What more is there to say aboutthat?
Speaker 1 (26:24):
There's a lot of things, that there's a lot of
plot holes.
One of the things that I hatedwas the writing, and that kind
of sums up everything, becausethe writing was bad, really
really bad, full of plot holes,including so we that they're
riding elephants at some point.
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The reason they're ridingelephants after being attacked
by giraffes is because, they say, elephants don't have any
natural predators, thereforethey didn't get turned into
zombies, so they're riding onthe elephants.
Here's the thing.
Neither do fucking giraffesalso predators.
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Neither do lions, who becamezombies yeah, but giraffes do
have predators are they tinymonkeys?
Speaker 2 (27:16):
no, but when they have to drink, they've got to do
this thing.
Where they've got to like bendtheir front legs in this very
vulnerable way, and that's whenthey're most likely to get
preyed upon is when they'redrinking.
Yeah, I know this because Iwent on a safari once okay, well
, you've got me an expert, but Ifeel like and baby elephants
are at risk, but not adultelephants, and all of these were
adult african elephants yeah,um, I'm just saying it doesn't
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make it their.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
Their own rules are inconsistent, because not only
did they make this rule whereelephants don't get infected
because they're they don't haveany natural predators, lions get
infected somehow.
Who the fuck attacks the lions,like the monkeys, I guess, I
don't know.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
Then later, zombie elephants but also never zombie
people.
Speaker 1 (27:59):
Yeah, never zombie people.
But the, the, the elephantsturned into zombies later and
then, like no, everybody'sstanding there, it wasn't like,
oh, I guess we were wrong aboutthem having to have a natural
predator for them to be infected.
Now they just, they just gowith it.
They're just like, ah, zombie,elephant, zombie elephant zombie
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elephant.
You know it just completelyundid this thing that we told
the audience was the reason thatthey were fine.
They're not.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
Also the CDC, totally useless kind of like it is now.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
Yeah, they never showed up.
No, they're like we have towait for the CDC to show up and
they just didn't.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
It must have been.
I know it was 2016.
So yeah, Trump was elected, sothat makes sense.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
CDC also was defanged .
Speaker 1 (28:47):
Also, there's this hilarious scene where zombie
lions come out of the woodworkand chase them down.
They get in, they get in theirJeep and they drive away.
They're being chased by a prideof zombie lions.
However, every single one ofthem is a male lion, not a
single female lion.
So they all have manes.
And we're watching this andwe're all like are there only
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male lions at the zoo?
And I think that it's a gaylion zoo.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
I love that.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
It's a gay preserve.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
I mean giraffes are one of the first animals to be
observed and documented by aWestern scientist as engaging in
a lot of queer behavior, andthe scientists that observed
that and wrote about it nobodywould publish their work back in
the 60s because they're like noanimals can't be gay.
So I kind of like this sideidea of like.
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Maybe that's what it is it's asanctuary for gay animals.
But then we end up up then themoral of the story is kill them
all.
So I'm taking this back.
That's not good yeah, um yeah.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
I'm pretty sure the takeaway of the of the whole
movie is uh, animals areassholes and we need to kill all
of them before they kill us.
Speaker 2 (30:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
It was.
There's a sequel and I want towatch it, so I guess there's
that.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
There is a sequel.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
And I want to watch it, but I only want to watch it
with all the people.
We watched the first one.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
Yeah, it's got to be the next one.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
Yeah, we're going to do a way back playback because
we've done a lot of moviereviews lately sexist,
capitalist, colonial, ableistmisogyny of the living dead, of
zombies, which, I'm pleased tosay, it was actually very
inclusive yeah, it was a goodmovie.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
Yeah, the there's a lot of diversity in the cast.
Yep, it's not a big cast either, so, like you know, you've only
got like six or sevencharacters total yeah, there's
racial diversity.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
Women are at the center of the narrative.
They talk about something otherthan boys all the time.
Yeah, they're not overtlyobjectified, they're not like I
mean.
All of them are conventionallyattractive, but nobody is like
hyper-sexualized in their role.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
You don't think the main security guard woman is
somewhat Tomb Raider-ified?
I didn't notice, but I don'thave a male gaze, so I mean it
wasn't, it wasn't like over, butI like the.
The styling of her characterwas very like, reminiscent of
like laura croft, tomb raider,and I feel like that was a
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choice yeah, probably okay.
Speaker 2 (31:16):
Well, it's again like it's okay for there to be
sexuality in movies and alsolike people to be sexy.
It's when it's all the time inevery character that's a problem
.
Um, so it was good that way.
However, I do think it had somecolonial overtones of like
rescuing the animals at firstbut then realizing they can't
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rescue them, so they're justgonna kill them all.
I don't know.
There was something weird there.
I think it's because I thinkwhat's weird is that I don't
like zoos.
I'm gonna come out of thecloset and say that I'm not a
fan of zoos and this, quoteunquote zoo is supposed to be
like a rescue of exotic animals,but then we killed them all and
I just was really strugglingwith what the point of this
story was.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
Also, I think that there's a bit of human
exceptionalism in the story,because all the zoo animals turn
into zombies and it's unclearhow it transfers.
They don't even figure it outin the movie.
Yeah, because sometimes itseems like it's airborne Just
one animal being near anotheranimal is enough to infect it,
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whereas, uh, humans don't get itthe airborne way and in fact
they're bitten multiple times byzombie giraffes, zombie monkeys
, um they can die from injuries,but they don't seem to become
zombies.
Speaker 2 (32:34):
It is, yeah, yeah, sort of an exceptionalism of
like humans are not animals, butuh, yeah, I hate to tell
everybody we are indeed and thenthey've.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
They've got to kill all the animals at the zoo to
save the rest of the world'sanimals.
Otherwise, the only solutionthen is to kill every last
animal on earth.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
Yeah, so that humans may live it just the math is not
mathing, as naela king mightsay.
And also, like it's alwaysinteresting to me that zoo
animals in this case they're allanimals from the continent of
africa, pretty much trying tothink if there's any that aren't
.
Uh, I can't say for sure wherethe monkeys are from, what
continent they're from, but whyis it that the, the animals that
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are at risk and need rescuing,are always animals from a
continent that has beenexploited and pillaged and
colonized?
I don't know, I don't know,there were koalas and there's a
white lady savior, but then thewhite lady savior is also like
nope, we're gonna kill him.
It's just weird, yeah, it'sweird yeah, yeah, yeah,
everything about this movie wasweird, yeah yeah, I was really
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searching for a sequel or not asequel, because there is one of
those.
Maybe our questions will beanswered in the sequel.
How many zeds would you givethis movie, dan?
Speaker 1 (33:46):
um three, three, uh, as as a movie, I can't say I
particularly enjoyed it.
I didn't enjoy the storybecause it was not cohesive.
I didn't enjoy the charactersbecause, honestly, there wasn't
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a likable one.
Even the kid um was unlikable,because suddenly she's just like
, yeah, let's kill animals, Ilove killing animals.
Uh, yeah, no, no likablecharacters.
Speaker 2 (34:20):
Um, the only, the only thing that I truly enjoyed
was how not good it was Ienjoyed making fun of it with
other people, but I think so Igive that a 10 out of 10.
10 out of 10 experience.
3 out of 10 movie yeah, I agreeI think that's a good way to put
it.
Also, there is a sequel to thesequel, aquarium of the Dead.
(34:41):
That came out in 2021.
I am kind of curious with thatbecause I'm not going to pretend
this didn't go through my mindwhere it's like what would an
Aquarium of the Dead look like?
And then I read it and I waslike, oh, there's actually a
movie.
So I think the next two movieuh, parties watch parties need
to be zombies too in aquarium ofthe dead.
Speaker 1 (34:57):
Yeah and you know what I will say.
I've watched worse movies.
Yes, um, bigfoot versus zombiesis a worse movie than this.
Speaker 2 (35:05):
That was the movie I chose to watch with you and
ollie.
I'm sorry that I chose it it'svery bad.
Speaker 1 (35:10):
I well, I want to see the end of it.
Speaker 2 (35:11):
We didn't watch the whole thing true, uh, I don't
think I need to, it's okay it'sexceptionally bad.
Yeah uh, let's talk about ourfive favorite zombie animals
yeah, this was like honestly thething I really wanted to talk
about inspired by zombies, butthen we had to talk about
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zombies too, and none of our topfive zombie animals are from
zombies.
Speaker 1 (35:38):
I don't know, I kind of like the lions.
Speaker 2 (35:40):
I mean they're cool, but there's way better zombie
animals and other things, yeah,like the zombie fish and blood
quantum Speaking of Aquarium ofthe Dead.
Speaker 1 (35:49):
You know that was a cool moment for discovering that
there was a virus that wasbringing things back from the
dead.
Interesting way to do that in amovie, Because usually it's
like, oh, what's up with thisweird guy with the milky eyes
that seems like he wants to eatme?
Oh no, how do I kill it?
Yeah, and you got to go throughthat.
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This was just like yeah, Iremoved all the guts from this
fish and it's still alive.
There were a whole bunch ofthem.
Speaker 2 (36:16):
I think there was like four or five in that bucket
.
Speaker 1 (36:19):
Yeah, also there was a dog that came back, zombie dog
.
Yes, yep.
Speaker 2 (36:24):
But the fish was more unique.
The fishies.
Speaker 1 (36:26):
It was, yeah, very unique.
Speaker 2 (36:27):
Zombfish which again plugging Aquarium of the Dead.
I want to see it.
I want to zombie fish betterthan blood quantum how's your
fish?
Number four big james the bearyeah, big james everybody loves
big james.
Yeah, if you don't know bigjames is, go read path of the
pale rider and you will learnvery quickly that big james is
an undead, very mad, grizzlybear.
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Yeah, and he's murderous, cannever die.
Yeah, and he's, of course,conveniently located on a path
to a place that the only way toget to that place is to go by
Big James the Bear.
Speaker 1 (37:00):
Yeah, and you got to put special sneakers on your
horse.
Speaker 2 (37:03):
Yeah, but then your horse still gets killed and
their eye gets popped out.
Spoilers, oh no, poor Prince.
Speaker 1 (37:09):
Yeah, shout out to Laurie Calcaterra.
Speaker 2 (37:13):
Yeah, tara, yeah, I think, uh, I really love both
the art of big james the bearbut also how big james the bear
has become like a cult.
Yeah, uh, following inside ofthe path of pale rider community
, like everybody loves big james.
Uh, this last kickstarter thatlaurie did for issue six had
like a big james burger boysticker.
There's big james plushies.
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Like big james is famous in theworld of path of pale rider.
Speaker 1 (37:38):
Yeah, excellent choice to go with the zombie
bear that can't die and can onlybecome more insane.
Yeah, honorable mention to pathof the pale riders.
A swarm of undead, unkillablebeetles.
What kind of beetles were those?
Oh, I forget, but they're crazyacid beetles yes, they yeah
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they blister beetles, blisterbeetles, yeah, yeah, those also
sad.
Speaker 2 (38:05):
Pancake the dog yeah, there's a lot of great undead
animals in path of pale rider,but I feel like big james,
because of the cult followingthat he has deserve the number
four slot yeah, uh, who deservesthe number three slot?
Um, have you seen both?
Uh, how have you seen bothmovies pet cemetery, the
original and the next one?
Speaker 1 (38:25):
you know um the, the original pet cemetery?
I was not allowed to watch as akid because my parents knew it
would fuck me up.
That's true.
Speaker 2 (38:33):
I mean you weren't really, though, you played
around with a rabbit's dead head, and that's why they didn't
want me to watch a movie aboutdead animals coming back to life
Got it.
Speaker 1 (38:43):
However, I hadn't the audio experience because I was
sitting in the in front of myfamily's computer, the Tandy
T2000, probably writing my firstbook at eight years old, which
is still.
I'm still working on it, and Ilistened to the entire movie and
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it scared the shit out of me.
Speaker 2 (39:08):
I feel like that's.
I wonder if that's anexperience that kids still get,
because it feels very 80s to methat I would also.
I was not like writing a bookor anything.
I was just hiding around thecorner of the living room, yeah,
and like peeking around to seethings like the gremlins, which
absolutely maybe not want to goto the bathroom or use the
toilet for years, yeah I would.
I was not washing my hands, I'lltell you that much.
I would flush the toilet andfucking run, yeah, in terror
(39:31):
yeah, I, I was.
Speaker 1 (39:33):
I was scared of all kinds of monsters.
I used to run all like thehallway in our house.
My bedroom was at the very end,the kitchen and living room was
at the other end and I wouldrun as fast as I could to get
from one end to the other and itwasn't fast enough.
So by the end I would just jumpand dive Because I'm like
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there's a monster right behindme and maybe if I'm just like in
the air, flying through the air, even if it catches me, the
momentum will just carry usthrough to safety, where my
family is, and they'll kill themonster.
Um, so yeah, totally makessense.
Speaker 2 (40:09):
That's very logical.
Yeah, kid logic.
Um, so the cat yes, petcemetery winston churchill the
cat.
I haven't looked into why theydecided to call this cat Winston
Churchill I feel like there'ssomething there as the prime
minister during World War II.
That's correct.
Right, I'm not making that up.
Yeah, my little memory isremembering correctly Winston
Churchill.
Speaker 1 (40:29):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (40:30):
Oh maybe yes, let's just be yes.
Prime minister of Great Britainfrom 1940 to 45.
Speaker 1 (40:38):
Glad that my memory did not fail me there Also the
reason that large cigars arecalled Churchill's, because he
famously smoked very largecigars.
Speaker 2 (40:49):
Things I didn't know.
I needed to know that.
Now I know Well.
Church, the cat, also calledWinston Churchill, is the pet
cat of young Ellie Creed in PetSematary.
They had a different name inthe 1989 version.
I'm pretty sure it's Ellie inthe 2019 version.
Don't quote me on that.
But basically Church gets hitby a truck while Ellie is away
and Ellie's dad, louis, is adoctor and he is afraid of how
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devastated his daughter is goingto be when she finds out that
her cat is dead.
So he decides to bury church ina cursed burial ground, with
help from their neighbor juddyeah, the pet cemetery, yes, the
pet cemetery.
And uh, he comes back, churchcomes back church comes back.
He looks like.
He looks like a really old,stinky, feral cat.
Speaker 1 (41:37):
When he comes back, he comes from, he starts like
off as like the sleek, very cutekitty he comes back as a it
looks like a poorly taxidermiedcat yes, had never groomed
itself like just a total messand, honestly, even though it
like becomes an evil cat, um, Ididn't really notice much of a
difference between evil cat andregular cat.
Speaker 2 (41:59):
Well, the biggest thing is that he starts killing
animals and leaving their bodiesaround the house, but also
that's what cats do, yeah, andobviously he's very scary.
We got to watch the rest of themovie.
We should do Pet Sematarybecause it is technically a
zombie.
It is technically a zombie.
I give that number threebecause it's a classic.
Yeah, they're magical zombies,yes, and also it's not just
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church the cat.
Speaker 1 (42:24):
There's so many zombie animals in the pet
cemetery zombie people, yes,yeah, um, love it.
Number two is something thatleah hasn't seen but I have, and
it's something that I think weneed to talk about in the future
Black Sheep.
The Sheeps from Black SheepLike the song by Metric.
Exactly, that's why Metric madethe song Black Sheep it's
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because of this movie from 2006.
It is a New Zealand zombiemovie where sheep turn into
zombies zombie movie where sheepturn into zombies and it's
really it's.
It's weird because I feel likeI went into it expecting it to
be a comedy and then it tookitself a little bit more
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seriously than I thought it wasgoing to, but still had moments
that were fucking hilarious.
Speaker 2 (43:14):
So is well, just quickly, how many zeds would you
give black sheep?
Speaker 1 (43:26):
Five, Okay so better than zombies, but hence why it
makes its way into this list oftop five zombie animals.
It's black sheep is likezombies.
If zombies was written bypeople who know knew how to
write and filmed by people whoknew how to make a movie.
Speaker 2 (43:38):
I really just like the idea of a sheep, because
there's all the sayings of like,like leading a sheep to
slaughter, yeah, don't be asheep, you'll just fall.
Like there's this zombie ideathat sheep are just helpless
yeah, so I love a sheep revengestory.
Speaker 1 (43:55):
Yeah, it is very much a sheep revenge story.
Yeah, it is very much a sheeprevenge story.
Um, there is also, uh, aninterspecies relationship, oh,
um and oh wow, you should seedan's face.
I'm concerned it's in thetrailer, so this isn't a spoiler
, okay, it's.
It's kind of the the thing thatmade me think it was a comedy,
because one of the one of themain characters in the story is
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kind of just like losing hismind and uh, he opens up the
door for another main characterto come in and uh, and it's
clear that he's sharing hisbedroom with a sheep.
Um, and they're having aninappropriate human and sheep
relationship.
Speaker 2 (44:41):
And he just says you wouldn't understand what did the
sheep say?
I asked that question just soyou would do that.
Did the sheep appear to haveconsented to this relationship?
Speaker 1 (44:50):
It's unclear, but you know what?
That guy I'm pretty sure dies ahorrible death.
Speaker 2 (44:58):
This is bringing back for me a disturbing childhood
memory.
A couple this episode's gettinginto necrophilia, bestiality,
you know what I think I'm notgoing to share that story.
I'm just going to say that Ilived around a lot of farmers
and there was some weird stuffhappening at this one barn.
So they put a camera up up andthey found a farmhand doing
things that are not okay becauseanimals can't consent, even if
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they look, even if they'resaying bah yeah it's not yes
it's.
Speaker 1 (45:27):
This is getting weird , it's not?
Yes, yeah let's move on tonumber one.
Number one, you know what?
Another movie that includes ananimal that you would not expect
to be fighting back?
Zombieverse, zombieverse.
Yeah, this is your favorite,for sure.
Speaker 2 (45:44):
I love this movie yes .
Speaker 1 (45:47):
Zombieverse was way better than I thought it was
going to be.
Speaker 2 (45:50):
Same.
I mean, especially the first 20minutes I was like this is
fucking bad.
And then I remember realizingno, no, no, it's.
They know exactly what they'redoing.
And then it was wonderful yeah,there's.
Speaker 1 (46:02):
There's so many movies that we've watched lately
that are like that, where it'sjust like like what, what the
fuck are we watching?
What is this?
The dead don't die, the deaddon't die.
And then like what?
Like the closer we get to theend, the more we we're like is
this secretly genius?
Speaker 2 (46:20):
Zombie versus definitely secretly genius.
I forget what I gave it in Zeds, but very high.
We have an episode about itfrom the fall of 2024.
I forget exactly when wouldhave been like November,
december timeframe, should Iactually?
Speaker 1 (46:32):
find the episode number.
No, I think it was November,because it was right after I got
off of work.
Speaker 2 (46:36):
Also, we on the episode number oh, no, I think
it was November, because it wasright after I got off of work.
Plus, we watched it, but whendid we have the review come out?
Oh, I don't know.
Let me look it up real quick.
We can put a link in the shownotes if you want to hear more
of our thoughts on Zombieverse.
Because I love it I think mypersonal theme is episode 72,
because I just love animalvengeance.
I, as a vegan, I love whenother non-human animals fuck up
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people.
I really do.
That's why Zoombees wasdisappointing.
In that sense it needed to bebetter.
Speaker 1 (47:04):
They're going to do it.
You know what?
The giraffes got theirs.
That's true.
The giraffes did get theirs.
The giraffes did the mostdamage, except maybe the gorilla
.
Kifo Kifo.
Yeah, Kifo Kifo, yeah Kifomessed somebody up in a very bad
way, but the giraffes have apretty high kill count at this
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point.
Speaker 2 (47:25):
And it was fun seeing them swing people around with
their giant long necks.
Yeah, I'll give them that.
Speaker 1 (47:30):
While they're snarling and roaring.
Speaker 2 (47:33):
So there you have it, those are our top five zombie
animals.
Yeah, so there you have it,those are our top five zombie
animals.
Speaker 1 (47:37):
Yeah, honorable mention, the zombie deer.
From Train to Busan, definitely, but I think that the zombie
deer just gets hit by a car, ifI remember right.
Speaker 2 (47:49):
Or I thought it got hit by a car and then got back
up and that's why people knew itwas a zombie.
Maybe, I don't know, there's somany good zombie animals.
I'd love to hear your numberone zombie animal.
Let us know.
Yeah, what do?
Speaker 1 (47:59):
you think?
Speaker 2 (48:00):
Did we get it right or what did we miss?
Speaker 1 (48:01):
Yeah, send us an email.
Speaker 2 (48:03):
Yeah or no, send me an unhinged voicemail at
614-699-0006 about which zombieanimal we neglected to give its
due credit.
Speaker 1 (48:13):
Yeah, also, are there zombie animals that we don't
even know about yet?
There's got to be.
Speaker 2 (48:18):
Well, you know, there are real life ones which I
guess we could have woven inhere.
Speaker 1 (48:21):
Yeah, like real life zombie deer, yeah, yeah, yeah.
And zombie ants, which is nowapparently?
Now there's zombie spiders.
That's terrifying.
Yeah, cordyceps has infectedzombie spiders.
Speaker 2 (48:38):
The Last of Us is not that far away, yeah, which I
can't wait till we do a reviewof season two of the Last of Us,
which we might be doing ajuxtaposition between season two
of the Last of Us and seasontwo of Dead City, because, boy,
they could not be more different, yeah.
Speaker 1 (48:54):
We were watching season two of the Last of Us and
I'm just like and meanwhilethey're making a third season of
Daryl Dixon.
Speaker 2 (49:04):
But that's actually to give context for how bad
Zoombies is.
Daryl Dixon is better thanZoombies.
Speaker 1 (49:09):
Oh, yeah, yeah, definitely.
Speaker 2 (49:11):
And I'm so sorry, if you love Daryl Dixon, I know
there's a few people who listenwho are offended by our hatred
for that show, so forgive us,it's less hatred and more
disappointment.
Yeah, I'm disappointed in you,Norman Reedus.
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (49:24):
The fuck Norman.
Speaker 2 (49:25):
I am.
He phoned it in.
He just wants his money.
Speaker 1 (49:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (49:29):
Where's your artistic integrity, Norman?
We should tag him in thisepisode and I should just make
the name of this episode when isyour artistic integrity, Norman
?
Speaker 1 (49:36):
Yeah, that'll be really helpful for people who
want to hear about our zombieanimal opinions.
Speaker 2 (49:42):
Makes complete sense for this episode.
Thanks everybody for joining us.
Speaker 1 (49:46):
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Speaker 2 (49:58):
it went to everyone's spam folder and he shit talked
me in this newsletter too I didcheck your spam folders.
Speaker 1 (50:05):
I gotta, I gotta figure out why it goes to spam
folders.
There's a whole science behindit that I now need to understand
.
On top of everything else wehave to do, like understanding
the algorithm for social media,knowing how to promote ourselves
, figuring out how to makegraphics and sell t-shirts.
Now I got to figure out whyeverybody's fucking newsletter
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goes to their spam folder.
Speaker 2 (50:29):
I mean, I'm the one who said to you, dan, don't make
a newsletter right now.
He's like, no, I want one to goout every Saturday.
I'm like, okay, you add that toyour to-do list, buddy, I love
you Not every Saturday?
Speaker 1 (50:39):
Just the ones that I feel like doing it.
Speaker 2 (50:41):
Oh Well, hey, at least we can promise that the
emails will be sporadic and notannoyingly constant.
Speaker 1 (50:48):
They will be very sporadic, at the whims of myself
.
In fact, it's entirely possiblethat I'll send a newsletter,
forget that I sent it and sendone the day after, yeah.
Speaker 2 (50:59):
Last but not least, if you want to join us for our
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He Eats Brains, brain Munchers,zombie Collective.
Discord Links are in thedescription.
Yeah, that's where the watchparty happens.
The links are in thedescription for everything.
Speaker 3 (51:12):
Instagram.
Speaker 2 (51:13):
Yeah the newsletter.
Yeah, come find us.
Yeah, yeah the newsletter.
Yeah, come find us.
Yeah, there's there's so muchdown there, come check it out.
So are we gonna get a secondtime?
Speaker 1 (51:24):
of you singing uh, the end of no, I would never
sing that song you did lastepisode.
Speaker 2 (51:28):
I'm staring them down right now to see if he'll do it
.
No, okay, zombie verse, bye-bye, I don't know, that was bad.
I don't know what happens afterthat word in the song awkward
ending, isn't it?
Always, the end is nigh.
Welcome to the Zombie Book Club, the only book club
where the book is a zoo and thatzoo is poorly managed and has
no visitors.
I'm Dan, and when I'm outdealing with a zoo of roadside
construction where the animalsare covered in asphalt and chew
tobacco, I'm writing a bookabout the collapse of our modern
world, where the zoo might be agood place to stop for a quick
snack.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
I hope you're talking about actual snacks and not
animals.
Sure.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
I'm Leah and I like animals better than most people,
but maybe not zombie animals.
Yeah, you know what I learnedyesterday.
I take it back.
I'd rather not eat the the zooanimals and instead, um, I'm
trying to think of a way to makethese words work.
Um, let's trade the zoo animalsfor the animals I work with you
want to eat them yeah, and thenI'll eat the.
Yeah, it's.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
It's a long way to go you want to eat the asphalt
covered tobacco chewing humans?
Speaker 1 (01:10):
yeah, for a snack at the zoo yeah, I'd probably boil
them just to be safe maybe youcould do boiled peanuts as like
a side to have a full boiledexperience I never really liked
boiled peanuts.
I think they're delicious.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
I thought they were weird I mean they are weird they
are and very salty.
Uh curious, everybody out thereloves boiled peanuts.
Nobody's ever said a can ofboiled peanuts in our question
of shelf-stable food.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
They come in a can.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
When I had them, they came in a paper bag well,
that's when you buy them from,like, the convenience store or
the gas station.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Yeah, it was a guy on the side of the road.
Yeah, it was just some guy.
That's authentic.
You can get them in a can, likeit was in the back of his
pickup truck.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Yeah, this was Georgia High quality boiled
peanuts.
Either you know what we'retalking about or you're like.
What in the ever-loving fuck isa boiled peanut?
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
I feel like it would be a popular thing in the
apocalypse, because you can growthe peanuts and boil them yeah
if you live in the right climateand you just need some salt.
Go to the ocean, get some saltand you have a nice snack.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
We can't grow peanuts here, can we?
I feel like that's definitely adown south thing, right?
I don't know.
We need to find this out.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
What zone can you grow peanuts?
We're in zone four.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Oh great, Now everybody knows where we we
cannot.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Hardiness zone is 8 to 11, so much further south
than here.
Yeah, that's what I thoughtthat's what I thought that's why
that's why you don't get wellwe do boiled walnuts yeah, let's
do walnuts boiled, boiledwalnuts this also sounds even
more disgusting today we aredissociating for a casual dead
episode.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Yeah, I'm hardcore dissociating.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Yes, we've got a book pitch from an awesome new
author to us, catherine Breen,and we're going to review a
movie called Zoombies.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Yeah, we watched this movie.
Yeah, have you heard of a moviecalled Zoombies?
Speaker 2 (03:00):
I didn't know.
I just knew that Ollie washosting a watch party.
I had no idea we were watchingwhen we showed up Me either.
I didn't know, I just knew that.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
Ollie was hosting a watch party.
I had no idea we were watchingwhen we showed up Me either.
I had no idea.
In fact, ads started playing.
I thought the ads were themovie we were watching.
It was for Eve Online.
Yeah, I couldn't figure outwhat was going on.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
I was very confused Like this is in space.
I mean space zombies.
That'd be fun.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Yeah, yeah.
Today is really a break fromall of the hardcore, depressing
topics we've been doing lately.
Yeah, we figured we need it.
You probably need it too.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Oh God, we need it, yeah, but we release episodes
every Sunday.
So subspiddle is what Leahwrote.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
I'm really struggling , yeah, with new subscribe words
.
Yeah, maybe we should just saysubscribe one of these days I
wonder if anybody, if we didn'ttalk about how it's actually
subscribed, anyone would knowwhat we're talking about yeah,
they're like.
They told me to subscramble orwhatever subspittle yeah, I'm
subspittling into the, into themicrophone some subskittles or
(04:01):
something but let's get to theelevator author pitch.
Yeah, this one I'm reallyexcited about, because the book
is named Rod the Zombie and I'mwondering if it's a biography or
possibly an autobiography ofour Rod Zombie, yeah, who lives
on our front porch.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Yeah, Well now Rod lives on the back porch.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Yeah, he's taking a break, he's sitting down.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
He's on vacation he stood all winter.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
He's on vacation and now he's sitting in a chair.
Yeah, he's taking a breakbefore he goes to Living Dead
weekend, where he's going tohold a sign for us.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
He's stood so much that his shoes exploded.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
It's true, and his legs have slowly evaporated.
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
Disintegrated, yeah they've kind of turned into dust
.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Yeah, I wonder if this rod also has leg and shoe
problems.
But I did when we got an emailfrom Catherine Breen, the author
, and I saw the name of the bookand I was just like this is
clearly meant to be written inthe stars.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Well, I think it's written in the book.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Yes, also that it's Catherine's debut novel.
It's set to release August 5thand she's actually going to be
on the show on August 3rd totalk about it.
Yay, so we've got a pitch fromher.
You ready to listen to it?
Yeah, I'm ready.
Okay, which floor are we goingto, dan?
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Oh, let's go to three Okay.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Ding, ding ding.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
Hi Leah, hi Dan.
Author from Syracuse, new York,my debut novel, rod the Zombie,
is coming out this August.
It's a paranormal romance thatblends horror and humor in a
story about love and what itreally means to be alive.
This story flips the horrortrope on its head and invites
the reader to reflect onidentity, belonging and the
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value of every soul, living orotherwise.
So Rod isn't your typical zombie.
He's complex, conflicted andsurprisingly tender.
He's haunted by the memories ofhis past life and unsure of his
place in the world.
When he meets a human girlnamed Bethany, he's immediately
intrigued by her fearless andunapologetic attitude in this
post-apocalyptic world.
(05:58):
When it turns out thatBethany's mysterious exterior is
hiding dangerous secrets, rodis forced to choose between
exploring his second chance atlife or risking it all for his
only shot at love.
As Rod is faced with thesinister force that has brought
him back, he's forced to askhimself questions about identity
, free will and what reallymakes life worth living.
(06:19):
Rod the Zombie is a love storyand a horror comedy that helps
remind the reader that even inthe darkest, most unexpected
places, like the decaying heartof a half-rotted corpse, there
is still room for love, laughterand second chances.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Aww, I didn't know Rod Zombie had such a backstory.
He's never told us all of this.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Yeah, he keeps on trying to sell us some extended
warranties through Walmart.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
It's true.
Yeah, he's got a couple ofbuttons from Walmart.
Yeah, he's got a Walmart hat.
Catherine, does your Rod alsowork?
Or did they work at Walmartbefore?
They were a zombie?
Very curious, I feel like Ijust had insight, though, into
his real story.
Yeah, I really hope.
Insight though, into his, hisreal story, I really hope.
Well, actually, if, if Rodliving on our back porch is an
indicator, I don't think thelove story goes well with
(07:09):
Bethany, but we're going to haveto read the book to find out,
and I can't wait to talk toCatherine soon.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
Also, I love that you're from Syracuse, New York.
I used to work there, Kind of Ispent a lot of time in Syracuse
and I'm curious what aboutupstate New York is so inspiring
to zombie apocalypse authors.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Yeah, because Alice B Sullivan, also from upstate New
York, epic zombie author.
There's something there.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Yeah, there's something going on.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
You know how Atlanta was the hotbed of hip hop for a
while.
Yeah, is upstate New York thenew hotbed of the zombie
apocalypse genre?
Speaker 1 (07:48):
It could be the town that I lived in.
Any time of the day, you couldwalk out into the middle of the
street and it felt like theapocalypse.
There was just derelict cars onthe sides of the roads, nobody
out walking on the street.
The occasional person wouldpeek at you through the blinds
of their, of their window andthen like quickly close them.
When you looked at them, um anduh.
(08:08):
I mean, the Daryl cars werejust the cars that people drove,
but it looked.
It looked like it was the endof the world every single day.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
It sounds like it could be and in the meantime, I
just want to say that, sinceCatherine's book is not yet out,
you can go follow her at klb,as in bob, not rod.
Uh dot writes on instagram, uh,and I think you can sign up for
her newsletter.
Am I making that up right now?
Speaker 1 (08:33):
let's find out yeah, and also I'll have a link in the
description for that, so youcould just click on it or put
your finger on it.
You could.
You could double tap with your,your fingy.
Yeah, you could.
You could finger the link youcan't.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
There is a newsletter .
I knew I'd signed up forsomething life updates leah, I
forgot about those.
What are?
What are our life updates?
uh, you've got some life updatesabout living dead weekend I
feel like we talk about thatevery week because it's become
my whole life.
Uh, yeah, stickers have come in.
They're really.
I love all my little zombiecartoon buddies.
I just made a special edition,one that I will only ever print
(09:09):
once, which is the Hare Krishnazombie from Dawn of the dead.
Um, dan, how would you describemy Hare Krishna zombie?
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Uh, it's like handsome Squidward, if you know.
If you know handsome Squidward,um, then you know what I'm
talking about.
If you don't know, handsomesquidward, then like um, the
easter island heads, but as azombie wearing orange robes and
(09:37):
glasses and gluing a tambourine,yeah, yeah I mean, he looks
fabulous, yeah well, it's aspecial edition one I'm gonna
just have for living deadweekend.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
If there's any left, I'll sell them online after.
Yeah, but, yeah, very excitedabout that event, also excited
for it to be over so I can stopthinking about that event.
But I will also be sad whenit's over, because it'll be over
.
It feels like way more workthan getting married to you.
Getting married to you was soeasy.
We just eloped.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
yeah, this feels like a full-on wedding event we're
planning yeah, yeah, I mean,when we got married, like they
like the, the, uh, the placethat we went for our marriage
slash honeymoon coveredeverything.
Um, we just paid them money andthen they're like here's the
ceremony, here's the cake,here's the place that you're
gonna stay for a couple dayshere's the officiant.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
Yeah who by?
The way also loves horses.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
She's great and forget her name easy, but living
dead weekend, it's like uh, howdo we do this?
Speaker 2 (10:31):
there's no rules yeah , also, like we're a podcast,
I'm like I don't really.
We don't have a lot to sell,hence the stickers.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
Yeah and a couple of posters.
Really, we're just hoping thatpeople come talk to us.
Yeah, that's the goal, even if,even if they come talk to us to
be like, what do you guys sell?
Speaker 2 (10:47):
I I'm hoping that the crown I'm making just for
living dead weekend attractspeople, but it might not.
It might scare them away, but Ifeel like this is the crowd,
that they'll be attracted to ityeah, I think they'll be pulled
in by the not sexually attractedto.
I mean, I guess that's okay ifthey are no judgments um they
might have some latentnecrophilia going on.
Yeah, I feel like this is mysecond necrophilia sex joke.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
I've made in as many weeks.
I think it's okay to joke aboutnecrophilia.
Okay, for one, their victimsare already dead.
And two, I feel like it's akink that we can shame.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
All right, that works for me.
We do have a little bit of newsthat you wanted to share.
That is real life depressingzombies in the news.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Zombies in the news.
Leah, the zombies, um, are inthe government.
So I found.
I found this, um, this article.
I'll leave a link for it in thedescription.
Uh, it's called uh, the attackof the Sadistic Zombies.
I first heard about this whenthey were discussing this
sweeping budget bill that youmight have heard about called
(11:52):
the Big Beautiful Bill, whichpromises to take away our
Medicaid, our Medicare, allkinds of stuff, snap benefits.
Just send us into the dark ageswhere the people who are poor
now will be even more poor andthe people who are rich now will
become even more rich.
(12:13):
Yeah, and also fuck the climate.
Nobel Prize winner and a formercolumnist of the New York Times
wrote this Substack article onhis Substack where he says that
the bill that was just passed byCongress this week Just the
(12:35):
House so far, yeah.
And it still has to go throughthe Senate.
Which fingers crossed.
Maybe by the time this episodecomes out, we're already in the
dark ages, we don't know.
Maybe by the time this episodecomes out, uh, we're already in
the dark ages, we don't know, um.
But he, he says um, this is thework of sadistic zombies, and
that's why I'm mentioning it,because zombies came up in the
news and I thought it was reallyfunny that somebody would say
(12:56):
that.
But what he's talking about arezombie ideas, um, and these
ideas are, uh, things that keepon coming up in discussion,
despite the fact that they'vebeen proven false many, many
times and are therefore undeadideas that continue to live even
though they should be dead.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
This country is full of those and haven't for a long
time.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
So really good examples of these would be that
poor people are poor becausethey're just lazy, they're
malingering and they're justdraining the system, like if we,
if we just have people onSocial Security, they just don't
want to work.
It's not that they have aproblem, they have an injury,
(13:43):
it's just that they're trying tofool the system and get free
money for doing nothing, andit's very important to know that
.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
the underlying values here is that if you can't be a
good worker and make acapitalist money, you have no
value.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
Yeah, and then another idea that he brings up
is that tax cuts for the richwill spur some sort of economic
miracle, the trickle-down effect.
This has been proven wrongsince probably before Reagan but
Reagan was big in trickle-downeconomics which it was proved
(14:19):
time and time again that richpeople will only use
trickle-down economics to enrichthemselves and drain value from
everything around them itdoesn't trickle, no a lot of my
undergrad education was ontrickle-down economics and how
it was yeah, so that's a zombieidea.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
You studied a zombie idea, wow, I have so many other
zombie ideas.
Uh, yeah, we.
We went to war in Iraq for toget rid of weapons of mass
destruction.
Getting rid of trans people outof sports will save, will make
trans people disappear, yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
What else Also, that it's a problem At all?
Yeah, like there's.
There are fewer trans people insports than there are felonies
that the president has convictedof.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
Oh, I have another zombie idea.
So many children are beingforced into having gender
reassignment surgeries beforethe age of 18.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
At the nurse's office .
Yes, in school.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
Yeah, that's also not true.
Yeah, and if any of thosethings we just said you're like,
oh, that's not true, I got theresources to back it up, it's
probably too many articles toput in the show notes, so come
at me in the dms.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
But yeah, I just wanted to bring up this, uh,
these sadistic zombies.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
We currently have sadistic zombies, um we do
passing laws and uh, that's,that's my life update they're
eating us, which is why we needto eat them.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
Yeah, we need to eat.
We need our own zombies,different kinds of zombies, we
need different zombies to fightthe old zombies.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
Yeah, and much less depressing as we watch zombies
on the zombie collective discordwith a few of our zombies,
including Megan Ollie andCaptain Magenta, who I don't
know your real name, CaptainMagenta, but honestly, Captain
Magenta is pretty great.
Magenta is a good color, yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
I agree, magenta is a great color yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
Thanks for hosting Ollie, it was really fun.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
Yeah, zoombies.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
It's a movie.
We're going to do a rapid firereview of it, yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
At the request of captain magenta.
We're here for you, buddy, yeah, so um, let's, let's break down
real quick what is?
Speaker 2 (16:30):
what is zombies?
Well, I don't think it'llsurprise anybody.
That's a low budget film, is it?
Yeah?
Wow you fooled me, uh, may in2016, so nine years old now and
basically there's a virusoutbreak at a wildlife safari
park which is uh sort of talkedabout as like a rescue for rare
animals, but unfortunately, thisvirus outbreak turns those
(16:53):
animals, including lions,giraffes and a gorilla, and many
other animals koalas, what else?
Monkeys, lemurs, birds, birdsuh yeah, so many things into
fast, very fast, bloodthirstyalso a taxidermied koala yes,
but they only seem interested ineating up people.
Yeah and the virus doesn'tinfect people, just animals yeah
(17:16):
, that's very interesting and Ithink there's, like some maybe
underlying themes of vengeanceof the non-human animal type
against people.
I feel that, and the filmfollows the staff and interns of
eden wildlife zoo because ithasn't been opened yet to the
public.
Convenient.
Convenient because all thoseextras would cost a lot of money
also the outbreak would havebeen worse and basically they
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have to navigate the zoo'sdangers to prevent the outbreak
from spreading.
Particularly they're veryconcerned about crossing over to
the birds and the birds gettingout of the aviary yeah, yeah,
that that's.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
That is a thing that they, that they bring up a lot
in this movie.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
It's like we gotta get, get to get to the aviary,
kill all those birds, yeah, umwell, the birds are so cute,
except for the one that's likehelp, help, help over and over.
Didn't it eat somebody, or wasit just sad that their person
had been eaten?
It's really unclear either theparrot ate somebody that they
loved before they were a zombie,and then repeated the person's
(18:17):
last word, which was help, overand over again, or the parrot
witnessed it, yeah, and wassaying help, help, help, help
over again.
Could, be Not clear.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
Yeah, If we're looking for a blurb, I would say
imagine Jurassic Park with nodinosaurs.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
With giraffes.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
And just regular zoo animals and also no budget.
So if you've ever wanted to seethat movie, but a feminist
lens- is there.
I think, so, I think a littlebit, yeah, I guess yeah compared
to zombie averse that true,that is true.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
It is more feminist than zombie there are a lot of
characters like so many, it washard to keep track of them all
um, a lot of interns and workers.
Many of them die, but I thinkthe two characters that are
probably worth naming is drellen rogers, who is the zoo
manager and owner andveterinarian yeah, trying to
control the chaos, and scientistand scientist yeah, and her
well, veterinarian scientist.
(19:19):
And her daughter, thea, who'slike how old do you think?
Eight.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
I think, actually I think they do say that she's
eight.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
Okay, I was guesstimating by her size.
Pretty good yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
Thea is the comic relief.
Also, the smartest person inthe room Is she, she is.
She is the one that figureseverything out all the time.
Never underestimate a child.
Yeah, especially when they'velike read the script.
I guess They've read ahead inthe scripts so they know what's
going on.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
What do we love about this movie Dan?
Speaker 1 (19:52):
Oh well, we've got a bunch.
I'm going to read some of thethings that I liked.
Okay, okay, I loved howcompletely fucking stupid this
movie was.
It was.
You're not going to get deepermeanings or, like I tried Deep,
I looked for it Character-drivenstorylines.
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You're not going to be like,wow, that really makes you think
.
You're going to be like, wow,that was fucking dumb.
Yeah, and if you want somethingreally dumb, then you're in
luck, because you're going to besmiling ear to ear.
Being like that is the dumbestthing I've ever seen.
It's intentionally dumb and Iappreciate intentionally dumb,
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going along with intentionallydumb.
It's also an obvious JurassicPark ripoff.
But it's also aware of itself.
It even says at some point likerelax, guys, it's not like
we're at jurassic park.
And then they smile and look atthe camera, break the fourth
wall.
That didn't actually happen,but I felt like they were
breaking the fourth wall withthe joke.
I felt like they were saying itto me and I'm like I know, guys
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, I know you need to have afucking Jurassic Park Jeep.
It's pretty derivative.
Yeah, Also there's a characterwho wears a business suit.
He's a businessman.
He's a blue on blue on bluebusiness suit, which was a
choice of whoever it was thatdid the costumes.
When I first saw this guy and Isaw how he was getting involved
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with the story, I'm like, oh,this guy's losing his sleeves,
his sleeves are going to be gone.
The pipes came out, yeah, andthey did not let me down on that
because immediately lost hissleeves, lost his coat.
Not only that, lost the bottompart of his pants.
So he has shorts, he has asleeveless shirt, a tie and a
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vest.
Sounds like a male stripper itdoes.
But also it's like that's alook.
You know, if you're going to bein a movie like Zoombies, I'd
absolutely be like, look, I'mglad to be in this movie, but I
want to look fucking ridiculous.
I want sleeveless business suit.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
I will be in this movie if I get to be in a
sleeveless business suit.
I will be in this movie if Iget to be in a sleeveless
business suit and also it's 97degrees out.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
Here I'm ripping the bottoms of my pants off.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
Yeah, I need air flow up down there.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
What did you love about this movie?
Speaker 2 (22:15):
You know, I think what I love the most is watching
other people and all the snarkycomments in the chat.
I'm trying to remember some ofthem.
I'm not very good at that, butthey were very good, good snark.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
Yeah, that's the fun part of it doing the live watch
parties, yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
Snark.
I don't know if I would enjoythe movie without the snark
comments from others Like that'skind of what makes it fun is
hearing people's hot takes about.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
What they're describing is exactly what that
show is, where they watch reallystupid movies like this and
they just make jokes over top ofthe dialogue.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
Yeah, but I want to be in it, I don't want to.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
I want to be immersed in it.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
I also.
I also really loved Thea,because her character made no
sense.
Sometimes she loved the animals, sometimes she's ready to
murder them, particularly whenshe went to cuddle a stuffed
koala that ended up being azombie yeah, that part was
unclear.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
Like was the?
Was there a live koala in theroom that she was playing in the
entire time?
Was it a taxidermied koala?
How did it get in?
Was it a stuff?
Was it actually a stuffed koalathat turned into a zombie
because it's a animal?
Speaker 2 (23:24):
and that's how the virus works.
Is she barehanded?
Fucked that thing up and to thepoint where, like literally,
its fur was on one side of theroom and its deferred body skin
body was on the other.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
She beat it to death and skinned it apparently.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
And then got hit in the head somewhere and was still
seemed totally fine, although Ifeel like that's when her
personality changed and she waslike, yeah, let's kill the
animals it's okay it's okay, momkill the animals maybe she got
a concussion and then she's likefuck animals, yeah, animals
suck I also like the doubleentendre of the name.
Yeah, dogs get zoomies, zoomies.
Yeah, do you think zoomies wasa part of it?
(24:00):
Well they, those animals, hadzoomies for sure some of them
did yeah uh, and zombies,zoomies, zombies, zoomies,
zombies.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
Yeah smart um, let's talk about what we hated the
thing that killed it for me itdefinitely.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
Uh, my disbelief was no longer suspended was when the
giraffes made zombie noisesyeah, like, like, really like
snarling, like growling,snarling, zombie noises.
And once I checked, they don'thave vocal cords, they don't
make sounds.
Yeah yeah, If those giraffeswere zombies they wouldn't be
making zombie noises, not tomention all the people that were
being picked up and eaten bythe giraffe zombies and then
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thrown onto the ground Everytime they landed on the ground.
They thrown onto the groundEvery time they landed on the
ground.
They were perfectly fine andjust would like get back up.
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
Yeah, they just fell 27 feet.
They're fine.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
Yeah, it was really not realistic.
And also the CG was so bad.
Yeah, it's like so bad.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
It's like they were just like let's get on
TurboSquid and download agiraffe model.
We'll go with the free one.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
We're not gonna pay 25 dollars, yeah for a giraffe
model also, the, the, theelephants, them riding on the
elephants.
It really bothered me.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
I don't know why a lot of, a lot of the mixed cgs
shots were like they just didlike a close-up, while they're
like riding on the top of a ofan elephant.
We're just like so badly donegreen screen style, like it was
so clear that they're like wecan't, we don't have the budget
to show you on top of a anelephant, so we're just going to
show you from like the waist upand you just pretend to ride
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that elephant.
There's also a car crash scenewhere literally like the jeep
goes off the road and you see ithit a tree, but then they hard
cut to one of the characters,just kind of flying over the
camera and then, as if it's anepisode of the mighty morphin
power rangers, they all justkind of like tuck and roll and
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fall on the ground.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
In the next shot they're just fine in front of
some trees and they're like oh,we just got thrown out of the
jeep, ouch yeah, megan had avery, uh, astute critique if I
may put some big words in herefor our zombies yeah review,
which is that the people kepttrying to escape the zombies by
climbing into trees, but theoriginal zombies were monkeys,
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yeah, who are always coming outof trees.
Yeah, it's, yeah.
What more is there to say aboutthat?
Speaker 1 (26:24):
There's a lot of things, that there's a lot of
plot holes.
One of the things that I hatedwas the writing, and that kind
of sums up everything, becausethe writing was bad, really
really bad, full of plot holes,including so we that they're
riding elephants at some point.
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The reason they're ridingelephants after being attacked
by giraffes is because, they say, elephants don't have any
natural predators, thereforethey didn't get turned into
zombies, so they're riding onthe elephants.
Here's the thing.
Neither do fucking giraffesalso predators.
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Neither do lions, who becamezombies yeah, but giraffes do
have predators are they tinymonkeys?
Speaker 2 (27:16):
no, but when they have to drink, they've got to do
this thing.
Where they've got to like bendtheir front legs in this very
vulnerable way, and that's whenthey're most likely to get
preyed upon is when they'redrinking.
Yeah, I know this because Iwent on a safari once okay, well
, you've got me an expert, but Ifeel like and baby elephants
are at risk, but not adultelephants, and all of these were
adult african elephants yeah,um, I'm just saying it doesn't
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make it their.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
Their own rules are inconsistent, because not only
did they make this rule whereelephants don't get infected
because they're they don't haveany natural predators, lions get
infected somehow.
Who the fuck attacks the lions,like the monkeys, I guess, I
don't know.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
Then later, zombie elephants but also never zombie
people.
Speaker 1 (27:59):
Yeah, never zombie people.
But the, the, the elephantsturned into zombies later and
then, like no, everybody'sstanding there, it wasn't like,
oh, I guess we were wrong aboutthem having to have a natural
predator for them to be infected.
Now they just, they just gowith it.
They're just like, ah, zombie,elephant, zombie elephant zombie
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elephant.
You know it just completelyundid this thing that we told
the audience was the reason thatthey were fine.
They're not.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
Also the CDC, totally useless kind of like it is now.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
Yeah, they never showed up.
No, they're like we have towait for the CDC to show up and
they just didn't.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
It must have been.
I know it was 2016.
So yeah, Trump was elected, sothat makes sense.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
CDC also was defanged .
Speaker 1 (28:47):
Also, there's this hilarious scene where zombie
lions come out of the woodworkand chase them down.
They get in, they get in theirJeep and they drive away.
They're being chased by a prideof zombie lions.
However, every single one ofthem is a male lion, not a
single female lion.
So they all have manes.
And we're watching this andwe're all like are there only
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male lions at the zoo?
And I think that it's a gaylion zoo.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
I love that.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
It's a gay preserve.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
I mean giraffes are one of the first animals to be
observed and documented by aWestern scientist as engaging in
a lot of queer behavior, andthe scientists that observed
that and wrote about it nobodywould publish their work back in
the 60s because they're like noanimals can't be gay.
So I kind of like this sideidea of like.
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Maybe that's what it is it's asanctuary for gay animals.
But then we end up up then themoral of the story is kill them
all.
So I'm taking this back.
That's not good yeah, um yeah.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
I'm pretty sure the takeaway of the of the whole
movie is uh, animals areassholes and we need to kill all
of them before they kill us.
Speaker 2 (30:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
It was.
There's a sequel and I want towatch it, so I guess there's
that.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
There is a sequel.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
And I want to watch it, but I only want to watch it
with all the people.
We watched the first one.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
Yeah, it's got to be the next one.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
Yeah, we're going to do a way back playback because
we've done a lot of moviereviews lately sexist,
capitalist, colonial, ableistmisogyny of the living dead, of
zombies, which, I'm pleased tosay, it was actually very
inclusive yeah, it was a goodmovie.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
Yeah, the there's a lot of diversity in the cast.
Yep, it's not a big cast either, so, like you know, you've only
got like six or sevencharacters total yeah, there's
racial diversity.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
Women are at the center of the narrative.
They talk about something otherthan boys all the time.
Yeah, they're not overtlyobjectified, they're not like I
mean.
All of them are conventionallyattractive, but nobody is like
hyper-sexualized in their role.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
You don't think the main security guard woman is
somewhat Tomb Raider-ified?
I didn't notice, but I don'thave a male gaze, so I mean it
wasn't, it wasn't like over, butI like the.
The styling of her characterwas very like, reminiscent of
like laura croft, tomb raider,and I feel like that was a
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choice yeah, probably okay.
Speaker 2 (31:16):
Well, it's again like it's okay for there to be
sexuality in movies and alsolike people to be sexy.
It's when it's all the time inevery character that's a problem
.
Um, so it was good that way.
However, I do think it had somecolonial overtones of like
rescuing the animals at firstbut then realizing they can't
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rescue them, so they're justgonna kill them all.
I don't know.
There was something weird there.
I think it's because I thinkwhat's weird is that I don't
like zoos.
I'm gonna come out of thecloset and say that I'm not a
fan of zoos and this, quoteunquote zoo is supposed to be
like a rescue of exotic animals,but then we killed them all and
I just was really strugglingwith what the point of this
story was.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
Also, I think that there's a bit of human
exceptionalism in the story,because all the zoo animals turn
into zombies and it's unclearhow it transfers.
They don't even figure it outin the movie.
Yeah, because sometimes itseems like it's airborne Just
one animal being near anotheranimal is enough to infect it,
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whereas, uh, humans don't get itthe airborne way and in fact
they're bitten multiple times byzombie giraffes, zombie monkeys
, um they can die from injuries,but they don't seem to become
zombies.
Speaker 2 (32:34):
It is, yeah, yeah, sort of an exceptionalism of
like humans are not animals, butuh, yeah, I hate to tell
everybody we are indeed and thenthey've.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
They've got to kill all the animals at the zoo to
save the rest of the world'sanimals.
Otherwise, the only solutionthen is to kill every last
animal on earth.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
Yeah, so that humans may live it just the math is not
mathing, as naela king mightsay.
And also, like it's alwaysinteresting to me that zoo
animals in this case they're allanimals from the continent of
africa, pretty much trying tothink if there's any that aren't
.
Uh, I can't say for sure wherethe monkeys are from, what
continent they're from, but whyis it that the, the animals that
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are at risk and need rescuing,are always animals from a
continent that has beenexploited and pillaged and
colonized?
I don't know, I don't know,there were koalas and there's a
white lady savior, but then thewhite lady savior is also like
nope, we're gonna kill him.
It's just weird, yeah, it'sweird yeah, yeah, yeah,
everything about this movie wasweird, yeah yeah, I was really
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searching for a sequel or not asequel, because there is one of
those.
Maybe our questions will beanswered in the sequel.
How many zeds would you givethis movie, dan?
Speaker 1 (33:46):
um three, three, uh, as as a movie, I can't say I
particularly enjoyed it.
I didn't enjoy the storybecause it was not cohesive.
I didn't enjoy the charactersbecause, honestly, there wasn't
(34:06):
a likable one.
Even the kid um was unlikable,because suddenly she's just like
, yeah, let's kill animals, Ilove killing animals.
Uh, yeah, no, no likablecharacters.
Speaker 2 (34:20):
Um, the only, the only thing that I truly enjoyed
was how not good it was Ienjoyed making fun of it with
other people, but I think so Igive that a 10 out of 10.
10 out of 10 experience.
3 out of 10 movie yeah, I agreeI think that's a good way to put
it.
Also, there is a sequel to thesequel, aquarium of the Dead.
(34:41):
That came out in 2021.
I am kind of curious with thatbecause I'm not going to pretend
this didn't go through my mindwhere it's like what would an
Aquarium of the Dead look like?
And then I read it and I waslike, oh, there's actually a
movie.
So I think the next two movieuh, parties watch parties need
to be zombies too in aquarium ofthe dead.
Speaker 1 (34:57):
Yeah and you know what I will say.
I've watched worse movies.
Yes, um, bigfoot versus zombiesis a worse movie than this.
Speaker 2 (35:05):
That was the movie I chose to watch with you and
ollie.
I'm sorry that I chose it it'svery bad.
Speaker 1 (35:10):
I well, I want to see the end of it.
Speaker 2 (35:11):
We didn't watch the whole thing true, uh, I don't
think I need to, it's okay it'sexceptionally bad.
Yeah uh, let's talk about ourfive favorite zombie animals
yeah, this was like honestly thething I really wanted to talk
about inspired by zombies, butthen we had to talk about
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zombies too, and none of our topfive zombie animals are from
zombies.
Speaker 1 (35:38):
I don't know, I kind of like the lions.
Speaker 2 (35:40):
I mean they're cool, but there's way better zombie
animals and other things, yeah,like the zombie fish and blood
quantum Speaking of Aquarium ofthe Dead.
Speaker 1 (35:49):
You know that was a cool moment for discovering that
there was a virus that wasbringing things back from the
dead.
Interesting way to do that in amovie, Because usually it's
like, oh, what's up with thisweird guy with the milky eyes
that seems like he wants to eatme?
Oh no, how do I kill it?
Yeah, and you got to go throughthat.
(36:11):
This was just like yeah, Iremoved all the guts from this
fish and it's still alive.
There were a whole bunch ofthem.
Speaker 2 (36:16):
I think there was like four or five in that bucket
.
Speaker 1 (36:19):
Yeah, also there was a dog that came back, zombie dog
.
Yes, yep.
Speaker 2 (36:24):
But the fish was more unique.
The fishies.
Speaker 1 (36:26):
It was, yeah, very unique.
Speaker 2 (36:27):
Zombfish which again plugging Aquarium of the Dead.
I want to see it.
I want to zombie fish betterthan blood quantum how's your
fish?
Number four big james the bearyeah, big james everybody loves
big james.
Yeah, if you don't know bigjames is, go read path of the
pale rider and you will learnvery quickly that big james is
an undead, very mad, grizzlybear.
(36:50):
Yeah, and he's murderous, cannever die.
Yeah, and he's, of course,conveniently located on a path
to a place that the only way toget to that place is to go by
Big James the Bear.
Speaker 1 (37:00):
Yeah, and you got to put special sneakers on your
horse.
Speaker 2 (37:03):
Yeah, but then your horse still gets killed and
their eye gets popped out.
Spoilers, oh no, poor Prince.
Speaker 1 (37:09):
Yeah, shout out to Laurie Calcaterra.
Speaker 2 (37:13):
Yeah, tara, yeah, I think, uh, I really love both
the art of big james the bearbut also how big james the bear
has become like a cult.
Yeah, uh, following inside ofthe path of pale rider community
, like everybody loves big james.
Uh, this last kickstarter thatlaurie did for issue six had
like a big james burger boysticker.
There's big james plushies.
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Like big james is famous in theworld of path of pale rider.
Speaker 1 (37:38):
Yeah, excellent choice to go with the zombie
bear that can't die and can onlybecome more insane.
Yeah, honorable mention to pathof the pale riders.
A swarm of undead, unkillablebeetles.
What kind of beetles were those?
Oh, I forget, but they're crazyacid beetles yes, they yeah
(38:01):
they blister beetles, blisterbeetles, yeah, yeah, those also
sad.
Speaker 2 (38:05):
Pancake the dog yeah, there's a lot of great undead
animals in path of pale rider,but I feel like big james,
because of the cult followingthat he has deserve the number
four slot yeah, uh, who deservesthe number three slot?
Um, have you seen both?
Uh, how have you seen bothmovies pet cemetery, the
original and the next one?
Speaker 1 (38:25):
you know um the, the original pet cemetery?
I was not allowed to watch as akid because my parents knew it
would fuck me up.
That's true.
Speaker 2 (38:33):
I mean you weren't really, though, you played
around with a rabbit's dead head, and that's why they didn't
want me to watch a movie aboutdead animals coming back to life
Got it.
Speaker 1 (38:43):
However, I hadn't the audio experience because I was
sitting in the in front of myfamily's computer, the Tandy
T2000, probably writing my firstbook at eight years old, which
is still.
I'm still working on it, and Ilistened to the entire movie and
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it scared the shit out of me.
Speaker 2 (39:08):
I feel like that's.
I wonder if that's anexperience that kids still get,
because it feels very 80s to methat I would also.
I was not like writing a bookor anything.
I was just hiding around thecorner of the living room, yeah,
and like peeking around to seethings like the gremlins, which
absolutely maybe not want to goto the bathroom or use the
toilet for years, yeah I would.
I was not washing my hands, I'lltell you that much.
I would flush the toilet andfucking run, yeah, in terror
(39:31):
yeah, I, I was.
Speaker 1 (39:33):
I was scared of all kinds of monsters.
I used to run all like thehallway in our house.
My bedroom was at the very end,the kitchen and living room was
at the other end and I wouldrun as fast as I could to get
from one end to the other and itwasn't fast enough.
So by the end I would just jumpand dive Because I'm like
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there's a monster right behindme and maybe if I'm just like in
the air, flying through the air, even if it catches me, the
momentum will just carry usthrough to safety, where my
family is, and they'll kill themonster.
Um, so yeah, totally makessense.
Speaker 2 (40:09):
That's very logical.
Yeah, kid logic.
Um, so the cat yes, petcemetery winston churchill the
cat.
I haven't looked into why theydecided to call this cat Winston
Churchill I feel like there'ssomething there as the prime
minister during World War II.
That's correct.
Right, I'm not making that up.
Yeah, my little memory isremembering correctly Winston
Churchill.
Speaker 1 (40:29):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (40:30):
Oh maybe yes, let's just be yes.
Prime minister of Great Britainfrom 1940 to 45.
Speaker 1 (40:38):
Glad that my memory did not fail me there Also the
reason that large cigars arecalled Churchill's, because he
famously smoked very largecigars.
Speaker 2 (40:49):
Things I didn't know.
I needed to know that.
Now I know Well.
Church, the cat, also calledWinston Churchill, is the pet
cat of young Ellie Creed in PetSematary.
They had a different name inthe 1989 version.
I'm pretty sure it's Ellie inthe 2019 version.
Don't quote me on that.
But basically Church gets hitby a truck while Ellie is away
and Ellie's dad, louis, is adoctor and he is afraid of how
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devastated his daughter is goingto be when she finds out that
her cat is dead.
So he decides to bury church ina cursed burial ground, with
help from their neighbor juddyeah, the pet cemetery, yes, the
pet cemetery.
And uh, he comes back, churchcomes back church comes back.
He looks like.
He looks like a really old,stinky, feral cat.
Speaker 1 (41:37):
When he comes back, he comes from, he starts like
off as like the sleek, very cutekitty he comes back as a it
looks like a poorly taxidermiedcat yes, had never groomed
itself like just a total messand, honestly, even though it
like becomes an evil cat, um, Ididn't really notice much of a
difference between evil cat andregular cat.
Speaker 2 (41:59):
Well, the biggest thing is that he starts killing
animals and leaving their bodiesaround the house, but also
that's what cats do, yeah, andobviously he's very scary.
We got to watch the rest of themovie.
We should do Pet Sematarybecause it is technically a
zombie.
It is technically a zombie.
I give that number threebecause it's a classic.
Yeah, they're magical zombies,yes, and also it's not just
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church the cat.
Speaker 1 (42:24):
There's so many zombie animals in the pet
cemetery zombie people, yes,yeah, um, love it.
Number two is something thatleah hasn't seen but I have, and
it's something that I think weneed to talk about in the future
Black Sheep.
The Sheeps from Black SheepLike the song by Metric.
Exactly, that's why Metric madethe song Black Sheep it's
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because of this movie from 2006.
It is a New Zealand zombiemovie where sheep turn into
zombies zombie movie where sheepturn into zombies and it's
really it's.
It's weird because I feel likeI went into it expecting it to
be a comedy and then it tookitself a little bit more
(43:07):
seriously than I thought it wasgoing to, but still had moments
that were fucking hilarious.
Speaker 2 (43:14):
So is well, just quickly, how many zeds would you
give black sheep?
Speaker 1 (43:26):
Five, Okay so better than zombies, but hence why it
makes its way into this list oftop five zombie animals.
It's black sheep is likezombies.
If zombies was written bypeople who know knew how to
write and filmed by people whoknew how to make a movie.
Speaker 2 (43:38):
I really just like the idea of a sheep, because
there's all the sayings of like,like leading a sheep to
slaughter, yeah, don't be asheep, you'll just fall.
Like there's this zombie ideathat sheep are just helpless
yeah, so I love a sheep revengestory.
Speaker 1 (43:55):
Yeah, it is very much a sheep revenge story.
Yeah, it is very much a sheeprevenge story.
Um, there is also, uh, aninterspecies relationship, oh,
um and oh wow, you should seedan's face.
I'm concerned it's in thetrailer, so this isn't a spoiler
, okay, it's.
It's kind of the the thing thatmade me think it was a comedy,
because one of the one of themain characters in the story is
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kind of just like losing hismind and uh, he opens up the
door for another main characterto come in and uh, and it's
clear that he's sharing hisbedroom with a sheep.
Um, and they're having aninappropriate human and sheep
relationship.
Speaker 2 (44:41):
And he just says you wouldn't understand what did the
sheep say?
I asked that question just soyou would do that.
Did the sheep appear to haveconsented to this relationship?
Speaker 1 (44:50):
It's unclear, but you know what?
That guy I'm pretty sure dies ahorrible death.
Speaker 2 (44:58):
This is bringing back for me a disturbing childhood
memory.
A couple this episode's gettinginto necrophilia, bestiality,
you know what I think I'm notgoing to share that story.
I'm just going to say that Ilived around a lot of farmers
and there was some weird stuffhappening at this one barn.
So they put a camera up up andthey found a farmhand doing
things that are not okay becauseanimals can't consent, even if
(45:21):
they look, even if they'resaying bah yeah it's not yes
it's.
Speaker 1 (45:27):
This is getting weird , it's not?
Yes, yeah let's move on tonumber one.
Number one, you know what?
Another movie that includes ananimal that you would not expect
to be fighting back?
Zombieverse, zombieverse.
Yeah, this is your favorite,for sure.
Speaker 2 (45:44):
I love this movie yes .
Speaker 1 (45:47):
Zombieverse was way better than I thought it was
going to be.
Speaker 2 (45:50):
Same.
I mean, especially the first 20minutes I was like this is
fucking bad.
And then I remember realizingno, no, no, it's.
They know exactly what they'redoing.
And then it was wonderful yeah,there's.
Speaker 1 (46:02):
There's so many movies that we've watched lately
that are like that, where it'sjust like like what, what the
fuck are we watching?
What is this?
The dead don't die, the deaddon't die.
And then like what?
Like the closer we get to theend, the more we we're like is
this secretly genius?
Speaker 2 (46:20):
Zombie versus definitely secretly genius.
I forget what I gave it in Zeds, but very high.
We have an episode about itfrom the fall of 2024.
I forget exactly when wouldhave been like November,
december timeframe, should Iactually?
Speaker 1 (46:32):
find the episode number.
No, I think it was November,because it was right after I got
off of work.
Speaker 2 (46:36):
Also, we on the episode number oh, no, I think
it was November, because it wasright after I got off of work.
Plus, we watched it, but whendid we have the review come out?
Oh, I don't know.
Let me look it up real quick.
We can put a link in the shownotes if you want to hear more
of our thoughts on Zombieverse.
Because I love it I think mypersonal theme is episode 72,
because I just love animalvengeance.
I, as a vegan, I love whenother non-human animals fuck up
(46:58):
people.
I really do.
That's why Zoombees wasdisappointing.
In that sense it needed to bebetter.
Speaker 1 (47:04):
They're going to do it.
You know what?
The giraffes got theirs.
That's true.
The giraffes did get theirs.
The giraffes did the mostdamage, except maybe the gorilla
.
Kifo Kifo.
Yeah, Kifo Kifo, yeah Kifomessed somebody up in a very bad
way, but the giraffes have apretty high kill count at this
(47:24):
point.
Speaker 2 (47:25):
And it was fun seeing them swing people around with
their giant long necks.
Yeah, I'll give them that.
Speaker 1 (47:30):
While they're snarling and roaring.
Speaker 2 (47:33):
So there you have it, those are our top five zombie
animals.
Yeah, so there you have it,those are our top five zombie
animals.
Speaker 1 (47:37):
Yeah, honorable mention, the zombie deer.
From Train to Busan, definitely, but I think that the zombie
deer just gets hit by a car, ifI remember right.
Speaker 2 (47:49):
Or I thought it got hit by a car and then got back
up and that's why people knew itwas a zombie.
Maybe, I don't know, there's somany good zombie animals.
I'd love to hear your numberone zombie animal.
Let us know.
Yeah, what do?
Speaker 1 (47:59):
you think?
Speaker 2 (48:00):
Did we get it right or what did we miss?
Speaker 1 (48:01):
Yeah, send us an email.
Speaker 2 (48:03):
Yeah or no, send me an unhinged voicemail at
614-699-0006 about which zombieanimal we neglected to give its
due credit.
Speaker 1 (48:13):
Yeah, also, are there zombie animals that we don't
even know about yet?
There's got to be.
Speaker 2 (48:18):
Well, you know, there are real life ones which I
guess we could have woven inhere.
Speaker 1 (48:21):
Yeah, like real life zombie deer, yeah, yeah, yeah.
And zombie ants, which is nowapparently?
Now there's zombie spiders.
That's terrifying.
Yeah, cordyceps has infectedzombie spiders.
Speaker 2 (48:38):
The Last of Us is not that far away, yeah, which I
can't wait till we do a reviewof season two of the Last of Us,
which we might be doing ajuxtaposition between season two
of the Last of Us and seasontwo of Dead City, because, boy,
they could not be more different, yeah.
Speaker 1 (48:54):
We were watching season two of the Last of Us and
I'm just like and meanwhilethey're making a third season of
Daryl Dixon.
Speaker 2 (49:04):
But that's actually to give context for how bad
Zoombies is.
Daryl Dixon is better thanZoombies.
Speaker 1 (49:09):
Oh, yeah, yeah, definitely.
Speaker 2 (49:11):
And I'm so sorry, if you love Daryl Dixon, I know
there's a few people who listenwho are offended by our hatred
for that show, so forgive us,it's less hatred and more
disappointment.
Yeah, I'm disappointed in you,Norman Reedus.
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (49:24):
The fuck Norman.
Speaker 2 (49:25):
I am.
He phoned it in.
He just wants his money.
Speaker 1 (49:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (49:29):
Where's your artistic integrity, Norman?
We should tag him in thisepisode and I should just make
the name of this episode when isyour artistic integrity, Norman
?
Speaker 1 (49:36):
Yeah, that'll be really helpful for people who
want to hear about our zombieanimal opinions.
Speaker 2 (49:42):
Makes complete sense for this episode.
Thanks everybody for joining us.
Speaker 1 (49:46):
Yeah, be sure to help us out by leaving us a rating
or a review.
Join the newsletter.
I sent out the first newslettertoday.
Speaker 2 (49:58):
it went to everyone's spam folder and he shit talked
me in this newsletter too I didcheck your spam folders.
Speaker 1 (50:05):
I gotta, I gotta figure out why it goes to spam
folders.
There's a whole science behindit that I now need to understand
.
On top of everything else wehave to do, like understanding
the algorithm for social media,knowing how to promote ourselves
, figuring out how to makegraphics and sell t-shirts.
Now I got to figure out whyeverybody's fucking newsletter
(50:27):
goes to their spam folder.
Speaker 2 (50:29):
I mean, I'm the one who said to you, dan, don't make
a newsletter right now.
He's like, no, I want one to goout every Saturday.
I'm like, okay, you add that toyour to-do list, buddy, I love
you Not every Saturday?
Speaker 1 (50:39):
Just the ones that I feel like doing it.
Speaker 2 (50:41):
Oh Well, hey, at least we can promise that the
emails will be sporadic and notannoyingly constant.
Speaker 1 (50:48):
They will be very sporadic, at the whims of myself
.
In fact, it's entirely possiblethat I'll send a newsletter,
forget that I sent it and sendone the day after, yeah.
Speaker 2 (50:59):
Last but not least, if you want to join us for our
watch party, come join All.
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Discord Links are in thedescription.
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The links are in thedescription for everything.
Speaker 3 (51:12):
Instagram.
Speaker 2 (51:13):
Yeah the newsletter.
Yeah, come find us.
Yeah, yeah the newsletter.
Yeah, come find us.
Yeah, there's there's so muchdown there, come check it out.
So are we gonna get a secondtime?
Speaker 1 (51:24):
of you singing uh, the end of no, I would never
sing that song you did lastepisode.
Speaker 2 (51:28):
I'm staring them down right now to see if he'll do it
.
No, okay, zombie verse, bye-bye, I don't know, that was bad.
I don't know what happens afterthat word in the song awkward
ending, isn't it?
Always, the end is nigh.
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