Tonight, we take on Zombies. The legends, the lore, the films, the video games…the world of Zombies! One of my favorite shows ever, so tune in! (Or download I guess.)
And a bonus show was posted of my interview with Daniel McNicol, director of Reclaiming the Blade, a documentary about swords. Wicked cool stuff. (It is also in the RSS feed so you can get both episodes no problem through iTunes or whatever you are using.)
Additional thanks to GoDaddy (codes LIFE1, LIFE2, and LIFE3), YouBuyNow.com, O, Brian, Mark, Scott Fletcher, Rob Goobers, Skyhawk, Sebastiaan van Dijk, various contributors, and YOU!
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Thanks Scott, Brian and O.
Can’t wait for my train commute so I can listen to ELR.
Btw. I really like the new two week schedule.
It gives you more time to work on other projects (like you’re not busy enough already), and I no longer feel disappointed when you skip a week (because I now know exactly what to expect
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Greetings from a very happy camper in the Netherlands and keep up the good work
PS. could you do a poll on your listeners country of residence? I’d love to know how international this show really is.
Best first post ever.
No mention of the Image Comic’s series: ‘The Walking Dead’? BLASPHEMY.
Best zombie comic ever.
Well, I’m pretty sure we missed plenty of stuff. I mean, there’s no way we could cover everything.
INTERESTING FACT: That cat Scott threw out the window of his car eventually came back as a zombie and ate one of his kids. You use, the Johnson’s used to have 4 kids and not 3 as most people think they do.
HE was called Shirley.
Shirley Swirly Johnson.
Looks like O found the sugar stash
Still O, could have mentioned at least one comic that covered zombies.
And in my view, The Walking Dead gets across the panic and fear that a real zombie apocolypse would bring! The arts great, done entirely in black and white.
If anybody hasn’t read it, I reccomend picking up a copy of the first TPB
I mentioned Marvel Zombies!! We did have it listed on things we wanted to talk about. We just ran out of time.
I’ll have to check out The Walking Dead. send me your copy.
Was gonna send in a clip about fast/slow zombies, but much like my Rorshack contest entry, I uh… didn’t make it in time.
Oh also… listened to the sword documentary guy on the way to work. Very nice! Both podcasts downloaded together with the sword one first, so that’s what I listened to.
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Skype was wiggin’ out though in a weird way – like echoing back pieces of Scott audio, or someone else’s from another channel.
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And don’t think I didn’t notice the piece of audio from an Instance segment bumper.
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My dad was in WWII and brought back an old Japanese sword. Since he had no emotional attachment to it, I sold it to a collector with his story. All with dad’s ok of course. And that’s my sword story.
You guys just made my thursday morning much much better. Funny stuff. Cheers from Chile
@Darrell if you sold the sword and story then you can’t tell it here.
and I have to say…the freaking piano/organ stuff was awesome…thanks ROB!
Sound quality is a little fishy due again to the way that Audible does their file stitch process. Working on ways to ensure we don’t have that issue again.
Quick Frankenstein facts:
-In the original Mary Shelleys’ concept, she never ever mentions that the monster is made of dead body parts
-He’s never controlled by Dr Frankenstein
-He has a mind of his own, and emotions (he’s acutally pretty emotive and intelligent)
-Dr Frankenstein sets him lose by panicking… ’cause his creation was so damn ugly. Yep, pretty shallow and narcisistic decision
-He eats vegetables and even helps a blind farmer
So n my opininon… he was made into a more “zombiesque” figure much later, when the old movies were made. So I think he couldn’t be qualified as the 1st Zombie.
No invasion movie set in Canada? What about “The 49th Parallel?” That is a great, classic movie about a small Nazi invasion of Canada. Could make a good premise for a game…
Yeah, its stinking hold and extremely hokey, but it’s entertaining.
Err, that should be stinking “old.”
Sword movie guy correction:
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He said something about the Star Wars universe being in the future. We all know that it was “A long time ago in a galaxy far far away…”
The earliest example of zombies I can think of also happens to be from one of my favorite mythical poem: the Babylonian goddess Ishtar (the goddess of love, a.k.a. the Daughter of Sin), wanting to get into the underworld, threatened the gatekeeper with the coolest line ever:
“If thou openest not the gate to let me enter,
I will break the door, I will wrench the lock,
I will smash the door-posts, I will force the doors.
I will bring up the dead to eat the living.
And the dead will outnumber the living.”
(This particular episode also occurs in the Epic of Gilgamesh, only there it’s translated as “I shall bring up the dead to eat food like the living”, which, while still quite icky, isn’t nearly as thrilling.)
Just goes to show that zombies really are as old as fiction.
the guy in teh reclaiming the blade interview sounds so much like randy
It was Randy…he is everywhere…actually this is Randy typing this right now.
That was a great show, one of my favorites. Well being a horror writer, I guess I’m biased, but O, with as much as you know about Zombies, no love for the Italian Zombie movies? Those are as important and influential as anything romero has ever done.
I know you can’t cover everything, but that was a pretty big oversight.
Frankenstein is a construct -I would not consider him a true zombie – definitely fits in with the canon of undead but not a zombie –
And Scotts “Puttin on the RITZZZZ!” Awesome – really great episode
Where can I get Francis’ little mix song? Was pretty funny. Canadian Bacon was sort of a Canadian invasion movie. =)
I managed to catch an early screening of a zombie movie that will be coming out in wide release this summer: Pontypool.
http://pontypoolmovie.com/
It’s set in a small Ontario town not far from where I live. It’s a lot more intellectual than your usual vampire movie; but that doesn’t make it any less scary. The virus spreads through speech, and the main characters in the film work at a small local radio station located in a church basement.
@greg
I think you mean your usual zombie movie – and i saw the trailer as well – that looks messed up
I got the audiobook of World War Z. It was excellent. Red by Alan Alda and Henry Rollins (among others). Great stuff
I know I’m late since I only am just now (and I mean AS I write this) listening to the podcast (been busy), but now that I am, I can try to add in something that wasn’t brought up.
I know the debate was whether Frankenstein’s Monster counted as a Zombie/Undead and I agree with O on it, but doesn’t Frankenstein’s Monster count as an “Homunculus”.
It is a creature that isn’t human but was constructed to resemble humans and be an artificial human and was an attempt to recreate human life.
I have heard this before, but would someone disagree?
I agree completele Shinobi-kin… homunculus is a great way to put it!
I’ll admit it… I was lazy.