Speaker 1: Hi, this is Christina, and this is as Spooky Tales,
the podcast for all Things as Spooky. Today we are
taking in an actual break for once because it was
just Christmas and we were just together. I flew to
Sea Carmen and we had posole when we went to
see Christmas lights, we opened presents, we listened to a
lot of music, and like always, we did not record
together even though we said we were going to, because
we were just too busy enjoying each other's company. So instead,
here is a Patreon episode, and you know this way,
you get a little sink peak and if you like
what you listen, then you can check out Patreon officially
and Patreon members don't worry, we will have bonus episodes
to make up for not having an episode today. This
episode we shared our top favorite zombie medias. But usually
over on Patreon we read creepy readit stories to each other.
Sometimes we share a order case, a shorter true crime case,
or urban legends. Most of the time we just read
creepy stories to each other and react to them. But
this time we did our favorite zombie medias. We're also
going to be doing vampire media, religious horror, supernatural, horror.
This is just where we share our favorite books, movies,
shows related to that topic and it was a lot
of fun. So yeah, thanks for your support as always,
and yeah, here is this Patreon episode just for this
week because we didn't have anything to share. And yeah,
we'll be back next week with a regular episode. Stay
as spooky. Hi. This is Christina and Carmen and this
is a Patreon episode. Finally, you might hear my children
in the background or the TV. Sorry, okay, And I
don't know if anyone remembers, but a couple was it
a couple episodes ago? Probably? I think so. But we
said we were going to go through We're gonna go
through our favorite horror so genre media, so like zombie vampire,
what was a zombie vampire? Religious horror not just possession,
but religious horror was the other one? Is there another?
I guess supernatural kind of it's a separate yeah, like
like the normal Yeah yeah, yeah, And it's like everything movies, shows, books,
and we're just gonna go through our top like media
of each of those categories. And today is zombies because
I've been obsessed of course as zombies. Yes, yes, did
you make a list or anything? Or no, No, I
did not. I'm just going off the top of your
noggin there. Yeah, okay, well that's what I'll saying. I
don't know you. I don't know how you're gonna start
off with this, but mm hmm, I feel like we're
gonna have the same answer. But what was the thing
that got you like hooked on zombies? Like, what wasn't Oh,
Donna the Dead? Okay, then yeah, it's the same of course,
because we watched it multiple times for I mean, we
watched it together multiple times. Yeah we first did we
go watch it in the theater? We did? No, I
don't remember. I think we did. When did it come
out with Donna the Dead? We're talking about the remakes?
We were in high school? Yeah, the remake don the
two thousand and four. Wait, so the like middle school
still we're I was gonna say, we're still in middle school.
I don't think we want to see it in the theater.
Didn't know. We watched it probably on TV. But yeah,
that was the movie that kicked off for obsession. I've
never seen the og I feel like I seen it once,
but I don't remember if that was Down of the
Dead or the other one that has a similar Night
of the Living Dead, right, I think that's the one
I've seen. Okay, I think we watched that one together too. Okay,
So what did you want to talk more about Donna
the Dead or like, did you want to go to
your favorite? Okay, yeah, just a little bit about That
of the Dead and why it was like I don't
think a movie. I don't even think it was in
the original. I could be wrong, though, because I've only
like listened to things about the original. I haven't seen it.
But I don't think we have seen like a Little
Girl Go a Little Girl zombie before this. I mean
I don't think we had to watch watched much zombie
things before this, at least I don't remember. No, I
don't think we had. But even just in general, before
this movie came out, I feel like it was one
of the first movies to show this much like uh
like at least zombie wise, like Gore and just like
like a pregnant Yeah that was like wild, insane, yeah,
super creepy. Yeah all right, next, but that's still that's
not my that's like the movie that's my favorite. Oh
it's not my favorite? Which is your favorite? Trained to Busan.
I haven't seen ith o. My god, you must, you
must watch it. It's so good. My favorite one's unseerious.
It's Sean of the Dead. I love Shanna the Dead,
but no, it's the one where the guy makes the
rules or whatever for oh my gosh, zombie Land. Yeah. Yeah,
that one's my favorite. It's a fun one. Yeah, it
is a fun one. Yeah. Yeah, that one in Shanta
the Dead are my favorite horror comedy ones, although I
love a horror comedy. Actually, you know what A new
favorite is the one I watched at your house that
had us dying laughing. I can't believe I missed it
back after Beth. Yeah, yeah, I gotta say I think
that's my favorite. Yeah, Life after Beth. That was that
was fun. Yeah, we hadn't seen it before because it's
not even winter to come out. It's like from I
want to say. Yeah, it had very twenty ten humor,
and that's why I feel like it did then fourteen
Oh okay, yeah, yeah, like I completely missed it that
year and all the twenty ten Yeah that one. It
was Aubrey Plaza as a zombie. Yeah, I mean I
love her, honestly, and everything that she's in so yeah,
I'll watch any tea she's in you. But this was
hilarious and also our favorite from Criminal Minds. Oh read,
it was hilarious and he's honestly so funny, like yeah,
he has good like comedic timing whatever they call it. Yeah, yeah,
that's a good one. I just can't believe we hadn't
seen it before, and since we're on horror comedy right now.
Another one that I also really liked that I wasn't
there to watch it sometimes last year. But Little Monsters, Oh,
that one is good. I just didn't like all the
Taylor Swift song singing, you know, oh like a lot.
It's just one song that the hater one, what does
it shake my shake it off? Shake it off? Yeah yeah,
that's a lot of being like at the end, and
then the one They're scared. Yeah that's right. Yeah, I
really didn't like that movie though. Yes, Little Monster is
also very fun. And then that one. Honestly I didn't
care for the guy actor, but neither I honestly feel
like he was not up to part to Lupita Jongo's acting.
Chops exactly, she was amazing. He was whatever. Yeah, very
many it was Barbie, he was Ken Yeah, yeah, but
Alexander England is his name. I don't even know whover
seen him anything. This a guy hold on the guy
because the movie for you know those that I guess
we haven't really been describing movie plots what gone through? God,
we haven't. No. I just figure I thought everyone knew them.
I know everyone knows Zombiellance, I know that and and that. Yeah,
but little monsters they get It's like the zombie outbreak
starts and she's she's a school teacher, Lupita Young, and
she's on a field trip with her kindergarteners. Is that
what they are? I believe their kindergarten? Yes, Okay, when
it all happens, and the deadbeat uncle of a kindergartener
volunteers as a chaperone because he sees her when he's
picking up the nephew, and he's like, all right, I
want to be with her, but he doesn't deserve her. No, no,
And of course he gets her. Yeah. I don't honestly
wish they wouldn't have if they just would have let her,
I don't know, yeah, not be with him. But so
they goes down this field trip and in the Field Trip,
there's like a kid character like think Blippy, but that's
not what he is. Oh that was so funny. I
feel like he was on the funniest part of the movie.
He is, And I don't know his Name's why I
love him. He's the guy that's Bear and New Girl. Yes,
he's bar a you girl. His name is Josh Gadd
But he's also Olaf and Frozen. Oh I don't know
he was Olof. Yeah I didn't know that either, but
yeah again New Girl. And like any funny show, he'll
randomly pop up as like some random funny character. Yeah, funny,
but he's like a Blippy and this universe. But he's
also like the worst. Yeah, he's like mean and like
he hates his job. Yes, and kids, I think. Yeah. Also,
that's like the worst place you want to be during
the start of a zombie apocalypse. Yeah, with a bunch
of kids. Yeah. Historically, they just don't do well. I
wouldn't do well either. I mean, they don't have surrovel
instincts the way that adults do. They don't have common
sense thinking or like rational thinking decision making skills, and
that's why they need protection from adults. But sometimes you
got to look out for number one, but you can't
because you have to protect the whole class of kids. Yeah. Really, truly,
it shows what a good teacher she is because her
classroom medic. I still love her. I love what save
them through. She's like, they all listen to her. They all, yeah,
she has a little game to calm them down. They
immediately do it because if that was like if I
was the teacher and my dad, we would die so fast. Yeah.
And then it's like, uh, you get to see them
all live, So that's also like a happy that too. Yeah. Yeah, yeah,
some people don't like that none of the kids died.
Other people die, but not other none of the kids. Yeah.
And it's so funny just watching them go through, Like
she's like trying to calm them down when they're because
at some point they're on this little cart and they're
trying to get to like where the army's at to
go be safe. Yeah, and so she's like look over here,
look over here, because you can see like the zombies
running back and fard on those sites. It's so funny,
you know what. Help. I liked that the military was
able to contain the outbreak and I obviously spoilers. It's
too late to sayna, all of us, all of us
don't have spoilers on every single thing we talk about there.
The outpak was contained by the military, which never happens
in zombie movies. So like it happened. It was like
your typical zombie movie, right, and that they're trying to survive.
But the rest of the world also like the band. Yeah,
I love a happy ending. I do. I want to say, No,
I can't remember if Trained Toubusan has like a ending
where the military does end up containing everything or if
they get overrun. Oh but back to that movie, since
we moved from it very oh yeah, we didn't even
why am I who like it so much? They like,
none of them were ready against spoilers, and none of
them were ready for the zombie because you know, in
sir on the zombieland they're very aware and it's the
whole Oh, I see the point of it. It already
happened in yeah Land when the movie we got in
the beginning of it. Yeah, I think we see like
little flashbacks that he had, Yeah yeah, when it happens
the his hot neighbor who is Yeah, is it Blake Lively.
I can't remember. I want to say the neighbor is
Blake Live. It's someone that I was surprised at. It's
either Blake Lively or Amberhard I one of America's most
hated women of the week. You know how that goes.
It's everheard. Okay, it's Everhard. I just looked it up. Oh,
I forgot about that. Bill Murray also hilariously. Yeah. Yeah,
Also I like that one better than the second one. Oh.
I don't even remember the second one, honestly. Yeah, Kyle
just said the second one sucks. And so what are
the few day nights we got we went to go
watch it? Wow, you wasted date night? We wasted? Yeah,
date night on Wow? Wow. Yeah it was not the
first one's way better, way better. I don't recommend the
second one at all. But what was the trained Tubustan? Yeah,
so they're not like aware it's the beginning of it,
and so they're on a train and they're in Korea,
so there's no they're not like, you know, it's not
the United States where every other person has like ten
twenty guns, so nobody nobody has like weapons, and you know,
every like zombie movie, everyone everyone's like armed, but here
they have nothing. They barely even I don't even think
they have knives. There they have nothing, and they're on
the train. They have to try and like give themselves. Yeah,
it's insane. And there's parts that are so creepy because
they go through it's like the zombies can't see in
the dark or something, so they stop moving and so
they plan like they're moving through the train as it's
going through a tunnel. It's completely dark. It's just it's
it's so suspenseful, these parts where they're trying to get
through the little bit of darkness that they have. Again,
nobody has weapons. They're trying to like actually use whatever
they have to uh what's it called, like protect themselves,
so like putting like cardboarder around their arms or something
like that, which another movies people some people just don't do.
It took them way too long and then walking there
to figure that out to protect there, Yeah, extremities or whatever. Yeah,
and then the end is so sad. I could not
stop crying at the ending of it. Yeah, I'm not
gonna spoil it, damn it to anyone else. Yes, yes, okay, yeah,
skip like ten seconds if you don't want to hear
the the spoilers. So it's we're following, like it's a
dad and he's a super shitty dad, Like he's just
all about his job. He at some point like he's
just not there for the daughter. He's also divorced, and
the daughter is gonna is with him. I think he's
picking her up to be with him for like I
don't know, the weekend or the summer or something, because
he doesn't have like the primary custody and so they're
traveling together. He's never been there for her. He's been
all about his job. Also, his job has something to
do with the outbreak. The cause for the outbreak has
to do with his job. After some while in the movie,
it's basically his journey from becoming a super shitty person
to like a good person, and it took like the
outbreak for him to do that. But by the end,
his whole point is trying to protect his daughter. Obviously
dies at the end, doesn't he does? This reminds me
what which one is it? The show that we watched
also on Zombies where they're looking for her dad the
whole time and then they find her parents or something.
The other the Koreans B show all of us are dead.
I guess yeah, we have a similar yeah scene like that, Yeah, yeah,
and yeah he dies and it's just it's so sad.
But yeah, that's it's just it's an amazing movie. And okay,
so that was trained Tubisan. We already talked about Donna
the Dead Shot of the Dead. We a little bit.
It's just so funny that then, Yeah, it's so good.
I feel like it came out almost. I don't remember
when I came remember. I mean, it's old now too,
but I think honestly it holds up pretty well too.
Donna the Dead has this moments where it's like, oh, really,
someone says the N word in it, like a white person. Yeah,
obviously because it's one of the guys that ends up
in the mall. Is like I remember that. Yeah, I
feel like he has a handlebar mustache. But that could
be wrong. I could see it. Yeah, trying it right now,
I'm pretty sure. I just want to Done of the Dead.
Let me look at the cast really quick. Cast, let's see. No,
there's too many people. I don't remember who was who? Yeah,
but I feel like that happens. But Shot of the Dead,
I mean they're in England and the two main guys
are complete, like, I don't know, irresponsible, yeah, trash and
yeah it takes the zombie apocalypse for them to also
grow into responsible people, especially the main guy, not the
chubbier Yeah. Yeah, sometimes the best thing for self growth
is a zombie apocalypse. Apparently that might be what it
takes for some. But yeah, no, that movie is. It's
just so funny and I feel like at some point
they also are singing together. I don't know if the
zombies join in, maybe not, but I feel like that happens.
I don't remember, but like that sounds familiar. Yeah, yeah,
it's just it's super funny, I think. Yeah, out of
a zombie horror comedies, it's probably the funniest. I like
it better than Zombie Land. Shut of the Dead, you
like better, Yeah, I do. I feel like I have
to rewatch Shana the Daddy. I recently rewatch Zombie Land.
That's why it's fresh in my head. I have to
rewatch Shan of the Dead to see. Yeah, it has
been a while since I rewatched it. I used to
rewatch it a lot. The roommates I lived with after
Germany and Fort Lewis, she would rewatch Shot of the Dead,
and then another Simon Peg movie. I don't remember. Hmm,
there's the one where he's a cop. Another comedy, but
it's not a horror comedy Simon Peg movies. Let's see,
Oh there's there's too much hot fuzz. Oh yeah, I've
seen that that. She would rewatch that a lot, but
still I like Shot out of the Dead better. Okay,
And then let's see another one that I haven't. I
saw it one time and I never rewatched it after that.
But I just the whole fast zombie thing is like
the freakingever. I can't handle that. That's actual days later.
I think I've seen that one like twice, and man, no,
it's just spious to be. I don't think it's out yet,
but I think there's supposed to be a remake twenty
eight years later, and I'm twenty eight month Is it
a remake or like a sequel type thing? Sequel? Yeah,
I've heard of that, that it's coming. Oh it is
years a time. I was kidding when I said them,
twenty eight years later. Maybe I'll I spent ye like
I watched twenty eight days later when it was like
almost new and I don't even remember much about it
except the beginning of it. It's almost And you know,
it's funny because I think it came out almost at
the same time as Walking Dead and oh no, the
Walking Dead came out a little bit after, and people
were saying that the Walking Dead copied twenty eight days
later because he gets out of a hospital. Oh that
live so the streets. But the show came out after
the movie the comic, because the Walking Dead is oh, okay, okay,
Well the comic didn't start much after, so they're saying
that the comic copied. Yeah, but he had been he
started writing it like like way before the movie came out.
That there's just no way. But I mean it's I
feel like it's a thing to make sense, Like it
makes sense to write it like that, Like I don't think, like, yeah,
it's like if somebody does like a common thing and
then you try to say, oh, they copyed me, but
it's like anybody could think of that, Like it's yeah,
because like if you want to make a zombie outbreak
type thing and you don't want to show it, you're
gonna just show someone coming out of the hospital computes yeah,
and that's what both movies did or both shows whatever,
But they both like start out the same way, and
he's like walking through the streets and they're so empty
and he's in like, you know, his hospital gown. But
I kind of I want to watch it again before
the twenty eight years later thing comes out, And yeah,
it's supposed to have I can never said. I feel
like I always say his name wrong. Killian. I think
it's Killing Okay Murphy. Yeah, it's supposed to be in
it again twhen he I forgot who else. I saw
a picture of it. I heard who, and I can't
remember anymore, Like, oh, that guy that's with who, the
guy from kick Ass, the guy from kick Ass, a
guy from kick Ass, Aaron Taylor Johnson. Oh, I didn't
realize when it was him, the guy with that old lady. Yeah,
who grooms him? Poor guy, poor guy. Yeah, I have
like kids and everything together. Yeah, he likes he like
defends her, fends it and yeah, she's a friend that
he sees the light one day one day. Who knows.
But yeah, I saw a picture of Killing Murphy and
Aaron Taylor Johnson still from the movie. Oh yeah, yeah,
that's what it was that I saw, but yeah, him,
the guy that's Boltimore Ralph Yeah, yeah, Fiens. I don't
know if I'm saying that wrong. Yeah, but it looks
like it's good. So, because you know, sequels are sometimes
and this is like so many years later. Yeah, and
sometimes they can be disappointing, like Zombielan that came out
Zombielan and Zambulan two were like very part two. They
weren't they I don't remember. I thought, maybe not that
far apart. But we'll see. I feel like this for
just and you can't judge it from just pictures, but
it looks like it's gonna be good. Yeah, we'll see, okay.
And then another one that's on my list that I
actually haven't watched, but I heard it's good. It's called
Virus thirty two and it's since it's set in Chile,
I think why sorry. One of the three, it's on
Shutter Plus if you have a MC plus because you
get shuttered with it. But that looks good. I don't
know what it's about. I know that Weko Road has
an episode on it or really yeah, so I want
to watch it and then listen to their episode. But
that's just in case anyone is looking for zombies and Fanish,
that would be probably the one to watch. I watched
one that's set in Mexico. It's like Las Armas something,
but I was not it was it was not good
to me. It was was it too slow? Way too slow?
Why do the newer Mexican horn movies? Why are they
so fucking slow? Like yeah, this one though, it was like,
I'm a dumb bitch. You have to have cat my attention,
like I'm not gonna you know, like because there's some
that are like slow, but still not as terrible as
this one. Like to me, was not that bad. She
went me, fuck up. Oh it really was like a
line you're freaking line. I'm not, she's freaking line stopping.
She is. This movie was way slower. Oh my god,
I'm not paying that one. I was dying. I was like,
oh my god. Yeah, well we can talk about what
that another time. Yeah it's not time be related, but yeah,
so and I don't even remember the movie the name
of the movie, so I but I don't because it's
not Netflix. If someone comes across it, like, it's not
which one the Mexican zombie one? Like The premise sounded
really cool. It was said during I want to say
the Mexican Revolution, Oh you talked about this, yes, yeah,
this group of men stumbles upon ancienda and uh, in
this ascienda, there's only these sisters left and they're trying
to raid it because you know, they're just they left
their group they were with, like the army, and they
are just going around raiding estenda's basically. And so this
the reason this estenda is still standing is because they
have zombies. They have they're like Broucaster or something they
did to bring back zombies and that's what's protecting them.
And so slowly they're picking off each man that like
invaded their home with a zombie and they are then
turned into zombies. But it's like one of the sisters
are both I don't know, can control them, so they're
not in danger. And the premise was it sounded cool,
but yeah, it's just it was way too slow together
and even like once things started, it's like, oh all right,
it's not that it was not that fun. Damn. Yeah.
But I mean if anyone like is the desp person to
watched that, I remember it was like Last Man as something,
but another one that was in Spanish, also set in
the war, but in Spain. That was good. I thought
it's called Valley of the Dead. It's set during I
want to say it was like during World War Two
that it's set, because you know, during World War two,
Spain was going through also its own like war where
people the fastest particular over and then there's like the
people that are trying to stand up to all that,
and so then the zombie outbreak happens and now they
have to work together. Basically that's too much to handle,
it is because now it's it was like a war
and now it's like now you have a new enemy
and it's like damn, and it's it's like starting this,
I think it was like this young soldier is like
he's bad, he's not a good soldier, and they're trying
to get rid of him by giving him like a
shitt assignment. But his like someone related to him is
in the unit as well, and so he gets stuck
with him to go to another base to give them
something and they start, you know, they set out on
their own and they come across uh like leftists and
while they're like trying to take them hostages the outbreak
happens something like that. This one was for now they
have to work to gather the enemies. Yes, yeah, and
also the Nazis are somehow related. They like created the
zombie Oh yeah, yeah, so that was fun. Valley of
the Dead. And then let's see one more I wanted
to talk about because it's also fun. It's kind of
like Warm Bodies but better. Do you remember Warm Bodies? Oh?
I like that one too. Yeah. Warm Bodies is kind
because I love him? Yeah, me too, from Skins. Yes, yeah,
that's when my love for him started. Same Warm Body
Nicholas Holt. Yes, yeah, I know his name because I
love him. Yeah, that's rare. You don't know anyone I know, don't.
That's how much I love him. Yeah, yeah, that's that's
a fun one too. But me for sale is oh god,
when I'm pretty sure it's Korean. Hold on the problem
with me watching movies and I just I if I
force myself, I will read the subtitles. But it's not
for it. I can't have food because then the yes,
look I watch I only like to watch movies with snacks.
A little shark herd, you born in front of me? Popcorn? Yeah, yeah. Yeah,
I have to be in the right like brain space
to watch movies that need subtitles, and this one does.
But yeah, it is a Korean movie. I guess. The
full official name is The Odd Family Zombie on Sale,
although Zombie first while is also like both our names
free or something. But it came out in twenty nineteen.
It's a horror comedy. But this pharmaceutical company has like
experiments on drugs and it goes wrong and he creates
a zombie and he escapes and wow. Then this family
runs across this first zombie and the girl in the
family wants to like keep him as like I don't
know if it's a pair or boyfriend right away, but
like like she's like trying to hide him and protect him.
And then like slowly, more and more zombies you know,
began like start being created. Wow. But like there's like
the actual outbreak. But it's it's it's cute and it's funny. Yeah,
it's it's like the premise of it. Yeah, it just
has it has a lot of funny moments too, So
I definitely recommend that one. I'm trying to remember where
I watched it. At some point it was on Netflix.
I don't think it's on Netflix anymore. I watched it
on Shutter probably back when I had Shutter. I had Shutter,
then I canceled it, and then I got it with
AMC because I wanted to watch all the walking disk spin.
But no, that's a fun one. I definitely recommend it. Okay,
And that's it for movies. Do you have any other movies?
I don't think so, Okay. Do you want to do
books or shows? Let's do books. I feel like that's
gonna be shorter because I feel like the only zombie
book I remember that I read is World War Z. Oh,
and I loved World War Z. I loved it way
better than well, that's on my list too. Yeah, it
is way better than the movie because I loved the
morning interview style. Yes, and if anyone hasn't read it,
it's it's just it's so good. It's so fun. But
it's basically goes through different people, like I think it's
like thirteen or fourteen different like point of views and yeah,
were there from different countries? Yeah? Yeah, And it's just
it's so fun because I don't think anything else does
it like like that? Yeah, and a lot of places
you don't even get to see or a lot of
like movies, you don't even get to see the beginning
of that break, or like, yeah, how different countries handle
it as it was, uh spreading, I can't remember the
word for spreading. Yeah. Yeah, so yeah, that was that
was a lot of fun. And I hear I've heard
the audiobook is super good. I really see it. Yeah,
it has like a full cast, like different people doing
each voice, including hold on. I'm gonna check my library
has it, but I don't think they do. Maybe Spotify
they don't have anything due they don't, they don't, But
I have like two hundred TVR Taggon Booby. Uh so
the author does someone Max Brooks, Simon Pegg from Really
sh the Dead, Mark hamil hammil M from Star Wars.
I mean, I'd be surprised, but no one knows who
that is. But uh, Nathan Fillion from I mean, oh
my god, he's been so many things Firefly. Uh you
know that new cop show that I was watching for
a while. No, the rookie, he is the rookie. You
never seen the rookie. But Castle he's doing a bunch
of things. But he's in the audiobook. A lot of
a lot of names, Martin Scorsese. Wow, so I've been
wanting to I think I still have the physical book.
You probably do. I think I see your copy or
is it? It probably is? And Kyle bought me one
that came with the Zombie Survival Guide. Oh, yeah it was.
It was a I don't remember. It was like Birthday.
There was a lot of those type of books, like
how does about zombie Zion? But no, one doesn't like
Max Brooks. No, no, no, not at all. Do you
have any other books zombie books you like? Yeah? Do
you remember? Well, I don't know if you read it now,
The Girl with all the Gifts? No, you have even
read it? No? Oh, my Girl with all the Gifts. Yes,
it's also a movie. I have not seen the movie,
but I've heard a whole it's pretty good compared to
the book too. But The Girl with all the Gifts
not film book. There we go. I just want to find,
like the synopsis to read it to you. You would
like it. It's really good. So The Girl with all the
Gifts it came out in twenty thirteen, I want to say, oh,
twenty fourteen. It's written by M. R. Carrey here's this
is the plot. This is just from Wikipedia. Twenty years ago,
humanity was infected by a variants of the fungus native
to South America called oh Yo corse deeps. You know. Okay,
enough of that. Okay, sorry, I can't, I can't say it.
I feel like this is the same fungus that's used
in the Last of Us. Let me see if it's
on the thrift book. But it's a zombie and fungus.
I don't for a fungus on the Last of Us.
Oh my god, did you? Oh wait, anyone wants it?
I'm going to that all of us are dead? Okay, no, weather, Yes,
it's the whole thing that started it in the Last
of Us anyway, So it led to the breakdown, the
end of civilization as it was before. The infected refers
to as hungries, referred to as hungary is quickly lose
their mental powers and feed on the flesh of healthy humans.
The disease spreads through blood and saliva, but can also
spread airborne through spores created by the fungus, so that
anything with fungus, I'm like, ah, no, fuck that. It's
so much worse than like, say, the Walking Dead where
it's done and The Dead and then so in English, wait,
what is in the Walking Dead? So it's never been explained?
Are you serious with all the fucking series? Oh my god,
gotta be shitting me. I'm not okay. So there's a sequel,
The Boy on the Brinch. Yeah, and I actually have
not read that, and I've been meaning too. I don't
know if it's like if it holds ups, but the
girl with all the gifts is amazing. But it's different
because it's also set. It's not set right as the
outbreak happened. It's way later, and it's like a school
and they have a group of kids who are child
hungryes so zombies and they're basically like prisoners in this
uh school, but they're being studied and slowly, like you know,
one goes missing because you have to kill it, just
like study it. And there's a ten year old who's
a zombie and she is a genius level IQ. She
is so aware. There's the teacher, so that girl is Melanie.
And then the teacher her name is Helen justin just
to know, just to know, I don't know how to
say her name. She's the only one who sees them
as children. Everyone else the military runs the school, and
you know, to them, they're they're just zombies. Melanie, the
super smart zombie girl, sees the teacher as like her mom,
like a surian mom. I mean, these kids don't have parents,
they're zombies. She doesn't understand that the teacher is the
only one who've used that differently than the doctor at
the school to try and find a cure for the
funk is. He wants to dissect the girl, Melanie. The
teacher tries to save her, and because of that, the
base is attacked. Oh wow, by Hungary's and by people.
Teachers hurt, and Melanie to try and save the teacher
eats flesh for the first time. Because these kids are
not they're fed something else. And so yeah, it's basically
then after that, just like their journey to try and
get somewhere else. I don't remember where they're trying to go.
And I want to say that the ending, I'm ordering
it right now. Oh no, you should, it's so good.
And the sequel. I need to get the And then
as I was looking through it and said, you might
like and Station eleven, and I've heard really good things
about by Station eleve and it's an post up apocalyptic book,
but it's not zombies. It's like dystopian. Oh my god. See,
well it's the same thing as post yeah. Yeah, but
yeah that one has to say. Sometimes it's dystopian, but
there wasn't an apocalypse, you know what I mean? That's true,
that's true, or like a specific event that like we're
gonna have to do dystopian also as a time that's actually,
let's do a separate dystopian because I also I've actually
read more dystopian books than zombies specific books. But this
is a this is a really good one. I do
highly recommend The Girl with All the Gifts and so
aside from that and then World Wars E. The only
other zombie book that I remember, I know, I've read
a couple more, but the only one other one I
remember is Survival Song by Paul Tremplay. Oh. I like
his books. It's good and very sad. What is it
called Survival Song? It follows, I want to say, at
the beginning of the outbreak, a doctor and her pregnant friend,
and it's basically their journey trying to get her to
a hospital that hasn't been overrun they run into misfit
youth is too teen called yeah survival song by Paul
Tremblay not coming up at all. That's not possible. Maybe
I'm getting the name wrong. I know that's what I'm saying.
It is survival. Oh sorry, what did I say? Survival
or survivor. I knew it. I knew it. I knew
it Survivor Survivor song. Yeah. Some people find one of
the friends annoying. I thought it was fine. I never
had a problem with either one of them. But yeah,
they were like, oh, she's so insufferable blah blah blah.
But uh, it's really good if you don't because some
people like want their characters to be perfect. Oh I
don't care about that. It's so realistic. It is. It
really is. So it follows Nat and Rams two friends,
one of them is pregnant, I don't remember which one,
and they're trying to get to the hospital. They run
into these two teens who are basically on their bikes,
and so these teens to get them to the hospital
faster because they're they don't know what's still standing. It's
literally the beginning of it. And so then they're trying
to get the pregnant women on the bike, you know,
like pegs, bikes that have pegs on. They're trying to
get out to the hospital on these pegs. And so
we start out with like getting a chapter from each
one of them, and then once the two teens are introduced,
we also get to our point of view. It's really good.
I highly recommend it. But it's also very sad. Oh
a book, but the ending is happier. Okay, I like that. Yeah,
so that was a fun one. But yeah, other than that,
I haven't read. There's some that on my my list
to read feed by myrak grant. Oh that's not my
land list. Yeah, and then there's a couple more that
I'm forgetting that are on my list to read. But yeah,
those are the only books that I've read, and you've
only read Worldwardsy, I'm pretty sure, Like I don't remember
any other zombie show book. I was gonna say movie,
and then I said show, and I meant to say
book all along, all along. Yeah, okay, well let's go
on to shows. Now. I need to add as to
one more book to get an even better deal. Oh
my god, that's how they get you, I know. Wait,
how do you have on there too. I have Station eleven,
The Girl with all the Gifts, The Boy on the Bridge.
Have you read the Road? Oh? Wait, I don't even
remember having this one. I don't want this one right now.
Remove Also, I am I finished this one. I have
stuff in my car from before when I was book shopping.
I don't Okay, I have The Survivor's Song, The Boy
on the Bridge, The Girl with all the Gifts, and
Station eleven. Okay, if you ware another post apocalyptic depressing
ass book, not dystopian. Whatever the Road by Cormac mc cormac.
The fuck is the name? Let me see how watch
it is? All these are like under five dollars so
Cormac McCarthy CORMACOO three ninety nine. Depressing but very Oh
it's so depressing. It's what about the classic depressing books? Damn?
It follows a father and his son. Oh there's a movie,
says I haven't seen this now a major motion picture. Yeah,
I don't think i've seen the movie. What are the readings?
Oh it has good readings. Interesting, but yeah, that's a
good one. I have nine safe for later items to
keep it on theme. I was like, well, that's a
good one to add. Wow, I'm so excited to read these. Yeah. Okay,
so that was Survivor's song and not Survival my bad,
not Survival Survivor. So I just said it the other
way around again. Okay, So shows, shows, shows, zombie shows. Yeah,
for sure, all of us are dead. That's I feel.
I feel like that's my number one. Yeah, same, that
is my number one. I love that show. It just
from the beginning, it just it goes and it just
keeps going ever stops. And I never saw like age
death is so tragic. I was like, you get to
love almost everybody except the evil people, you know. Yeah.
I was gonna say, how many episodes is it? I
think it's it's like short, like ten maybe, if not less,
unless on way off twelve. Okay, so that's plenty of
time to get to know them and because I'm like,
some shows take too long to introduce everyone, make you
care about them. Yeah, and sometimes they don't do it
well enough or you just don't care if they if
anything happens to them. Yeah, but no, this show, Yeah,
you get to know each one. Each one is sad
and you don't even you don't even know who. It's
like everyone is fair game. Some people you think are
going to survive, they don't. And yeah, it's just it's
so sad. I could even like, like the dad of
the girl that they're trying to find because he's a
paramedic and he said he was gonna that be right,
Oh so hard breaking all of it. And I love
the girl is it her? The one of paramedic dad
that she's like helps everybody like get to survival mode.
She's like, Okay, my dad taught me this. Yeah, we
had to establish like a bathroom corner and we have
to do this that Like, yeah, she knows what to
do in that instance. Yeah. Also like and then you
see it throughout the show, like her grades are not
the best and she's she wants to do better and
that's like you don't need to know any of that.
What you need to know is this. I love that
and he like prepared her and it was just, Yeah,
it's amazing because it's so funny because in these twelve episodes,
you get to know the characters really well and their families. Yeah,
which is them. It's like and you know what else
I liked about the ending was that they make it
like somewhere safe yeah, because that's another you know, I
feel like Korean shows and movies zombie specifically, like there
is somewhere safe at the end. I think that. I
feel like they just know how to wrap things up
more efficiently. Yeah, whereas something like The Walking Dead that
went on and on and on and it sounds like
there's no answers. Why don't we start talking about that,
because I'm like, what the fuck? Yeah, it's okay. So
The Walking Dead the and I think it's from its creation.
There was never meant to be announcer the Sometimes I
like that, but sometimes I hate it. Yeah. The creator
of the comics has said on records he never intended
anyone to see the beginning of the outbreak or what
caused it, and people were demanding Yeah, But now as
shows and spinoffs have gone on, there's very tiny amount
of answers. Like in The Walking Dead, it's not the
bite that makes you infected. It kills you because it's
like so full of like you know, yeah, like infection.
Yeah that it gives you like a fever and it
makes you so sick you die. But everyone's already infected
in The Walking Dead. Well, they alluded to that in
the first season. In the first season, yeah, and then
Rick keeps it from everyone. That's right, that's right, Yeah,
because he's they're in a rictatorship. M hm. He literally
says it, it's not a democracy. Does he say that
in the first season or when Yeah, when the farm
gets overrun? So season two, the end of season two
or is it? Yeah, it's the end of season two,
I think when the farm gets overrun and they're all
trying to leave and they're looking to him for answers anyway,
and he's like, if you want to survive and you
and it's my leader you're trying to follow, this is
not a democracy. This is not a I mean, that's
what happens with Survival Mode sometimes. Yeah. Yeah, but that's
that's the whole Like that was their explanation for the
longest time. And now with the spinoffs, uh, specifically Darryl
Dixon and then this other spinoff that actually wasn't that popular,
but the world beyond mm hm. Those two kind of
blame the French apparently. Rely it's elluded that the French
were trying to create a super weapon and it went
wrong and then they started messing with like zombies themselves
and created worst zombies like uh, in the Darryl Dixon spinoffs,
there's zombies that are called burners that like if they
like touch you, you they start burning you. And it's
like the French that did it, like the scientists, wow,
and the whole spoilers, the whole like thing and there.
And the reason he ends up in France is because
the French are they have a boat and they go
from back and forth getting American zombies to France to
test on. And also they're not they're a break in France.
Oh there is. They started it. Oh, but I guess
they've they've been able to contain some parts where there's
like a bigger military force. What is the need? Does
this get American? Maybe they need fresh like not some
times they haven't messed with I see. I think it
is what it is. And so he's doing this job
because he ran out of gas on his motorcycle and
he's doing this this job to give them zombies. But
while he's doing this, there's this like younger probably like
early adulthood, like a twenty year old maybe who's like
trying to get Daryl who work with him so he
can get his oil to go back home and Daryl's like, no,
I'm doing this by myself. So then the kid joins
this other group of men, and then Daryl sees those
group of men come back with their zombies and that
kid is in the group of zombies that they have.
Oh wow, so they killed him to have more zombies
and he gets super mad about it. He starts fighting
one of the guys and one of the rules of
this place was like no fighting. So they grabbed Darryl
and the other guy that we're fighting and throw them
on a ship with the zombies and that's the French ship.
And so he's in this like little jail cell in
the ship and he ends up breaking out the ship explodes. Wow,
this is things happened to get to that. Yeah, he
follows off the ship onto like a smaller boat, and
that's how he ends up in France. And in the series,
that's where we learned that the French are doing experiments.
But I forget which season or what even happened in
because there's you know, so many different Walking dis shows now,
but it's also at some point alluded to, like, oh no,
it is in the main Walking Dead when they end
up at the CDC oh. The guy at the CDC
told the group that he believed the French were the
last ones to hold out and that they were if
anyone was going to come up with the cure would
be them. I probably because they caused it. Yeah wow, yeah,
but sorry, I just remember and I didn't talk about
I am legend in the that's vampires. I thought there
were zombies. No, the vampires. Are you serious? I'm pretty
sure this whole time there were zombe. I was saving
it for the vampire. Look it up. I am so
sure there's zombies. No, oh wait, they can't go out
in the daytime. But they're like they can't like think
except for one of them. Most asked thing on Google,
and I am legend vampires or zombies? Okay, what is
the what is the answer? The vampires? What the fuck? Okay, wow,
never mind, Okay, we'll save it for They're very they're
different type of vampires. That vampire reminded me of this
other vampire show I watched but I never finished. And
I guess I'll save that for the vampires. But yeah, wow,
I do this whole time. I thought that. You know,
it's because like in most cases, vampires smart they they
are smart, and I am legend I thought one of
them was smart, like the leader who wants to get
revenge on Will Smith. Yeah, I think because most of
the time vampires have their own own turn into the apocalypse.
They're not post apocalyptic. Yeah. The show people, the show
that I'm talking about, it did. Yeah, Okay, I'm excited
to hear what this is kind of spun a little
like as one we had a good prime. Okay, whatever,
we'll say, we'll save it. Okay, we'll say, do we
do vampires next? We will do vampires next. Actually that
was my plan. Yeah, okay, okay, so no, those are
vampires so wow shocked but erry zombie like, yeah they are.
I will say, yeah, yeah. The oh more on The
Walking Dead because it went on forever, but it does
get worse as it goes on, although by the end
it's like, all right, that wasn't too bad, but the
first four seasons way better. But I think there are
reason because that's still my number two. All of us
are Dead is still number one for me. It's just
still good. But the Walking Dead for me is number two.
It's just like I think I already said it when
we were I was doing my speaking recommendation. But like
the first two seasons just captured like this, the like
him walking on the highway by himself and there's like nothing,
and then you hear like the growls him inside the
tank and then he's like he's I mean I had
almost all of America hooked for the first few seasons.
It did. It really did. I had like the most
viewership of yeah for sure in the Zombie show, but
even just shows, and like it was doing numbers for
a long time until it really went downhill. Yeah, especially
after Gladden. Yeah. But another thing, I think it's like
one of the first shows that and they like worked
hard to improve because in the beginning, you're like it
really falls into those stereotypes, like the only black guy
in the show, his name is tea Dog, Like really
you can remember that, and then he dies when a
new black character is and then when another black character,
his name is Noah, but everybody loves Chris. You know
abbat Elementary, that's Noah. Really, what's his name? Yeah, I
forgot I forgot his name, but he's everybody loves the
main character, right, Yeah, that's him. That's Noah. He's he's
not there for long, but when he's in tire to
remember him, actually Tyrese dies and it's like only one
black character is allowed obviously aside from me shown. Yeah,
like only one black man is eat at some point
there's two. But like by the end of the show,
this gets way better. It's normal, you know, like the
cast is way more diverse, and it's not weird about it,
like naming the only black guy tea dog, and then
he has so little lines then he disappears, so so
they get better in that aspect because then you know,
later on we have way more people I don't know.
I don't think you know who they are because they're
already like a season eleven. But like, uh, there's just
a bunch of like diverse characters that actually have like
arcs and they have more lines and they're full blown characters,
because that doesn't happen a lot. But like obviously you
know Rosita, but like Father Gabriel, I think you might
remember him, the priest, Yeah, yeah, but there's this guy
named Jerry who's super funny, and his wife I don't
remember her name, and then like the guy that runs
the kingdom, his name is Ezekiel. He has a terrible,
but like also majestic looking wig, but you can tell
it's a wig obviously. Me shown is like, you know,
for her time, one of the strongest like black leads
ever and just you know, it gets it gets a
lot more diverse as the show goes on, but in
the beginning to kind of just struggle there because like,
but also I think it's like the point you know
people are racist because also there's like an N word,
the N word, and yeah, like the first episode, Uh,
Darryl and his brother right, yeah Merle Meryl, I can't
remember his name, Merle. Yeah, but they even they improve
as time goes on. But it's like, you know, you
can't lie about what people really are, like yeah, at
the same time, so yeah, it's very like, you know,
focused on the human aspect of it. I think other
shows are more focused on like the zombies. So a
lot of people didn't like that it gets more soap
opera ish, you know what, because I feel like people
are still going to be people wherever they are, you
know what I mean. So it doesn't make sense to
just focus on the zombies because how much running from
zombies can there be? Yeah, like people are still gonna
live their lives. No matter what is going on in
the world, people are still living their lives, you know. Yeah,
it's like so people are like, oh, how come like
Glead and Maggie got together so fast, and it's like
because they're desperate. There's desperate for human connection and this
dystopiing apocalyptic world. Yeah, four weeks in the zombie world,
it's like two years in normal world, like please. So yeah,
I mean that's you know, part of the reason I
like it's so much. But then by the like season eight,
it gets really like too drawn out and yeah, yeah
that should have ended. It's still going. I will say, though,
the Recognition spin off is really fun. Really I want
to expressing that because you will like fun in the
sense that it was fun for me, but you get
to see them just you know. It's also infuriating on
some parts. He gets what do you want to know
about it? Or oh no, I guess you get to
me a little bit about you. Okay, So spoilers. So
in when Brick leaves, there's like a bridge I think
I told you. Yeah, when he leaves the show, Yeah,
so the bridge exposed and he isn't actually hurt, but
he gets taken in a helicopter by some people. Those
people are the CRM, the Civic Civic Republic Military or
something like that, and they have like a whole big
ass like city that is thriving. But the reason is thriving,
it's because they the military is running everything. The people
inside are what they call bees, so they are not
the type of people to question anything. They just follow orders,
do what they're told. But yeah, they're not going to
question anything. If they run into what they call an
alpha like Rick, they kill them and the experiment experiments
on them. No, yeah, not good. But he ends up
there because the prison that takes him lies and says
he's a bee. But you can say right away, he's not,
like what do you want? Want to be there? There's
nothing wrong with being to b No, there's nothing wrong,
like if you're trying to survive. Hell yeah, you want
to be there. I'm not gonna I'm not gonna be like,
oh I'm gonna do anyone to do like I'll do you. Yeah. Yeah,
that's similar to the vampire show. It's talking about. Oh
very interesting, Okay, I want to hear about it. I
mean they have ice cream, you know, like imagine not
eating ice cream for years and then you finally see it.
But you know, the a's don't even get a chance
to be there or get taken there, as don't get
a chance to even see the city. They get killed
right away. Wow, because that's how the they supposed to
maintain their powers. They maintain order because in order for safety,
you need some kind of order. Yeah. Yeah, so they're
doing that, but they're also like any survivor that like
goes near them, they bomb like their area. So they're
like killing other people to maintain their secrecy. But also
they're doing like in the beginning, they had other cities
that were part of their alliance that were smaller, when
in Portland and then one they called Omaha, so and
I think it was in Nebraska. They killed everyone there, Wow,
and they like nobody else knows this is happening. It's
like top secret. But then like Rick and Michell and
find out and they basically are like, we're going to
take them down because they can't do this. But also
Rick is trapped there. He tries to escape and then
they can't escape. Oh he cut his own arm off
trying to escape and he can't escape, so then he
like is deepn't want him. No one can leave. Oh
oh yeah, he wants to leave, he's not allowed to leave.
And then the captain in charge of like him, believes
in him and he's like, you need to be part
of this organization and he doesn't want to be there.
Then miche won't finds them, and then right away they
can tell she's an a because she's just this badass.
Oh yeah, okay, but if they take them down, won't
they be putting a bunch of people at risk? Yeah,
but they do it in like a smart way if
you'd work, well, yeah, there's do it in a way
where And it's also it's very rushed because it's only
six episodes, so like really this could have used in
at least another season to like see how everything turns
around when they take down the CRM, you know, because
then at the end it's like you hear a guy
in the rado he's like explaining what happened. So at
the end he's like, during this meeting, blah blah blah
and they destrayed omaha. But now it's like it's not
really good. No, wow, that's about they explain him what happened.
So now at the end, it's under better hands that
are gonna like let people leave, or they want to
leave because some people, you know, wanted to find their
families and bring them there and now they can't, but
now they can. After Rick and Me shown and then
Rick and michall go back to their house in Elexandria
and they meet up with their kids and Rick didn't
know who had a son. But it's also so dumb
because at the end, the son is like, are you
the brave man? Instead of saying something normal like are
you my dad? Wow? And cheesy, He's like I knew
you were alive and he's like, how did you know?
He's like, because I believe thenn't. It's like, what you no,
it's gonna say that. M So that part was kind
of dumb, but getting to there was fun, I will
say just seeing them too interesting how they find each other.
So yeah, but for me, The Walking Dead is like
number two. But then if I had to say, like
she just went through five, probably very close to number one.
But I think still all of us are dead? Is
I feel like I've only like the only zombie shows
I've actually seen our all of us are dead and
The Walking Den I don't think I see. Okay, what
about Santa Clarita diet Oh my god, I forgot about that.
I forget my number one. That's my number one. That
is so fun. Yes, I love that sh I wish
I had more seasons. I forget that she's a zombie
because you know, she like stays talking and stuff. Yeah,
it's it's funny because it's like not like other zombie
shows at all, and there's no outbreak. There's just like
slowly they're like there's these serious illness happening. No one
can explain it. And then suddenly people that like we're
supposed to die don't because yeah, there's zombies. It's super fun.
They probably just couldn't afford to keep it going because
of the cast, Like that's yeah, I know they were like, yeah,
Drew Barrymore and what's his name? Oh my god, I
can remember his name. He's in the office. I like him,
but I don't remember his name. Uh. I feel like
there's an O and there's somewhere is it Joel? No,
Joel's his name in the show. That's his name in
the office. That's I see. I told you there's an O. Yeah,
oh no, that is his show? His name in the
show in Santa Clara, Yeah, yeah, and in the office
I remember his name, No me neither. I just remember
that weird ass thing where Jim and Pam I hate
him that day with Pam. Yeah, I hate it. I
hate sometimes You're so fucking cringey. Also, you know what, also,
I fucking hate it. I almost want to skip it every time.
What is the thing when they come back from their
honeymoon and then there's like the nickname, Oh my god,
so stupid. I'm like, are you is she a fucking toddler? Like,
what the fuck is this? I hated it. I hate that,
But then at the same time, I love that episode
because of what Michael does. No, but the cast in
Santa Clear Cleariad Die is yeah, way they couldn't keep
going because okay, and then Barrymore alone. Yeah. But also
Nathan Fillion his head is a zombie. Yeah. Who else
isn't There's so many there's so many people in this
what's his name? The guy used to do the soup?
Isn't he the other realtor that they can't stand? Joel McHale, Yeah, yeah,
Michale Michale. What's her name? It was always said everything
and she's also a new girl. But Mary Elizabeth l
Oh yes, yeah, yeah, yeah, like big names, big names.
The guy Eric, the friend of the daughter. Yeah, he
was one of my favorites. He's just, I don't know,
hilarious and just so adorable. Yeah. But yeah, that show
is so funny, and it just it ended too soon,
I know, like it they should have wrapped things up.
What was gonna happen. He was about to die and
she was gonna throw them into a zombie yeah, yeah,
and then they would have been zombies together and it
would have been so funny. Yeah. I'm sad that that
ended like too, Like it was so good. I actually
should rewatch I hate I I want to rewatch it,
but I don't want to because I know it there's
no conclusion. Yeah, and I like watching rewatching shows that
do have an ending. Yeah, So that's that was just depressing.
And it's like, what would have been one more season,
you know, I know, right, they could have wrapped it
up in one more season. Yeah, seriously, So that was
very upsetting, but it's also so good and so funny.
So yeah, that's like I don't think there's another like
horror comedy zombie show that does it that well at all.
I don't think so. No, I don't think so. Another
one I was going to talk about is Black Summer.
I've mentioned it a little bit, but Black Summer and
Z Nation. Have you heard of those? I feel like
I've heard of z Nation, but not Black Summer. He's
definitely more low budget than The Walking Dead or Z Nation,
and it's more cheesy, but it's meant to be cheesy
at times. It's like a horror comedy, yeah, but also
a little more serious than like sena career dia B.
Z Nation is like this guy is in prison and
he is possibly immune and they're trying he's their last
chance at getting a vaccine all of this, and the
prison is being overrun and they need to get him out.
And then I think after that, I've only watched a
little bit of it, so after that, I think it's
just like them trying to get him where he needs
to go, protecting him. And in Z Nation they refer
to because the Nation is not the beginning of the outbreak,
it's already happened. Uh. And in Z Nation they keep
referring to when the outbreak happened as Black Summer, and
Black Summer is the like essentially the prequel to Z Nation,
but it's way more serious. It's not funny at all,
and it's very depressing. And to me, what are these
on Netflix? Netflix? Or Black Summer is on Netflix. I
don't know about Z Nation. I know it's on AMC now.
It used to be on Netflix. Maybe because they added
a bunch of AMC shows on Netflix they did. It
might be back on there then, but I know Black
Summer is there. But Black Summer I found it hard
to like the characters they I think that's the thing
about the walking there too. It's like they're still trying
to be good the main group. You know, they get
more dark as the time goes on, but they're still
trying to hold onto their humanity. Black Summer right away,
I'm like all these people saw oh no, it's hard
to like to find them in daring or like them
because they're all doing terrible things from the beginning, and also,
I mean, and things that make more sense because you know,
like you're gonna do something dumb, like you're not gonna
be perfect and be safe right away, Like there's a
part in Black summer where one of the characters they're
in a high school and he starts like playing with
a drum set attracting all the zombies and it's like wow.
And then there's another part where some one of the
characters like there's a little girl, and she like runs
after the little girl or they hear I don't even
think she sees the little girl. They just hear like
a kid laughing, and they run. She runs to save them,
and the other guy doesn't want to. He wants to
keep going to look out for himself. And then it
was a trap. It's basically these feral kids that have
gone surt evil and they're hold up in a school,
that same school where that guy is playing with the drums.
They're hold up in the school and basically they kill
like they these kids kill adults to survive. They take
their things. And so I mean, how quick would people
act like that? I feel like right away, honestly, like
I would like to think it would taking time for
people there knows. But then I remember the flies. If
if this month showed you anything, you know, exactly if
this month, and then thinking back to twenty twenty showed
us anything, then yeah, a lot of people would be
shitty right away. It's like they were waiting for this
to become so shitty. And that's why I don't like
Black Summer, because it does that right away. It's dark.
There's no like even the walking down something yeah, where
it's funny, like you know, in the end of the
first episode, when Rick is stuck in the tank, the
last thing it ends on, you hear Glenn on the
walkie talkie say hey, dumbass, and then and then it's
like a fun song that plays and it's over, and
that's supposed to be a little funny. Yeah, Black Summer,
no mom, it's like that, all dark, all depressing. I
don't like that because I feel like people are not
always all dark either exactly. And that's I think that's
one of the reasons that I liked Even all of
us are dead, does it too, I have their funny
moments and funny moments because in these times, people are
still going to hold on to things, you know, yeah, well,
like people are still gonna be people exactly, And Black
Summer is just dark right away. So that's the reason
why I didn't like Get as much. But if you're
in it for the zombie action alone. I think it
is better than The Walking Dead. It's more realistic and
like the sense that you guys just sit around having
conversations around zombies and they're not gonna like write anything, right, Yeah,
So in that sense it is better if that's what
you're looking for in like a zombie show. The other
one I wanted to mention really quick was Kingdom. Did
you ever watch Kingdom? Oh? I started it and I
never finished it. Did you think it was boring? Yeah?
What's it the subtitles or no? Yeah? Yeah, no, I
don't even think it was. Sometimes because alves are dead,
sometimes it matter to me because like I feel like
actions started it goes. Yeah, Kingdom is like if Game
of Thrones and zombies. Yeah, meg in like pre I
don't know, modern times, times whatever, I don't know. Yeah,
it's set in Yeah, so it's South Korean. Someone said
it's it was set in like ancient Japan times, but
that doesn't make sense. But medieval inspired Medieval times, okay,
And so it's very like they do do like the
political like sneaky things like uh, like Game of Thrones.
I think it was very much like I feel like
I watched like three episodes maybe, but it does take
a little bit. Yeah, it really does. But it's it's
so creepy because again it's like there's not a lot
of things to protect yourself in these times, like there
is in like I don't know, the Walking Dead. But
it's also so creepy because the zombies come out when
it's cold. It has to be like below not below freezing,
but very cold, and they start coming so it doesn't
even matter, like nighttime is worse. But then there's like
the winter and they're like just overrunning like the cities.
Oh wow. But I think it's only like, uh, there's
two seasons. I don't think the third season ever happened,
but there was a movie that takes place somewhere between
the two. I want to say so to some people
like that, like the political part of the show is
like also interesting because it's not just I couldn't see that.
And I do like that kind of stuff sometimes, but
sometimes it's just too slow. It's funny because I know
it was like that Showgun, Showgun. Oh, I never I
wanted to watch that. I watched it only because Paul
was watching it. Oh, but it was good. It was yeah, Okay,
and sometimes yeah, subtitles, but not always. Oh oh, I see,
I can't remember where where the movie takes place, and
be it Diggs in between the seasons. But it's a
it's a fun watch if yeah, if you don't mind subtitles.
But the zombies are very different like that alone makes
them a love unique zombie. Yeah yeah, and I guess also,
I didn't even put it on my list, but the
Loss of Us, I forgot the Lost of Us. Oh,
I'm only the you not again. I never watched it.
I never played the game because we're not like you.
I only play Starry Valley. So right, that's why we
don't have a game category of zombies because I played
this one game of Jesus sounds no, it's this like cartoony,
very cute, oh like indie game where your Jesus and
zombies you just punched the interesting. I used to play
that too much. It was embarrassing when we were young
game younger like PlayStation one days. Our cousin Bolon had
Resident Evil and yeah, and I never played it because
it scared me too much. It scared me meat so much.
But I used to watch him play it, and I
think maybe our brother played it sometimes, but I don't
think so he was younger. Back to the Never Scared. Also, yeah,
I think it was just our cousin. We just watch
our cousin play it, and oh my god, it was
so scary. It really was. And I've actually never even
seen the movies neither, Like there are must if we're
like talking about zombies, but that maybe you never watched them.
I don't know. Maybe I feel like it's one of
those things where at this point I'm like, I don't know, Yeah,
that's how I feel about what is it? Game of Thrones? Yeah,
and I don't blame you on. And also an eight
terrible eight the last season I don't know, I don't
remember with the number of it, but yeah, the last
season terrible. Also that has zombies, sort of what does
the dead the Game of Thrones? Oh really? The White
Walkers Yeah, oh I forgot about that, but they're very
like I kind of wish they would have been a
bigger threat than they become. And then the way the
Maiden like White Woker dies is so dumb. So oh wow,
oh last of us I forgot because you haven't watched it,
because a lot of these you all have also seen
and that's why I put them on the list, not
all of them, but Last of Us also really good.
Some people debate if they're zombies or not. But if
the Girl with all the Gifts is on here, then
so is the Last of Us because it's the same
fungus both things, but it has like very unique type
of zombies. Why do they think it's not zombies because
it was caused by the funks or because they like
they're Yeah, it's differently and they're the undead, right, Yeah,
they're dead and they bite people or no do they do? Yeah?
They attack people and it's breads it. Oh yeah, the spores.
But I'm wondering why how is it? Oh? So some
people say, no, the creatures are not the Last of
Us are not zombies. They are people who have been
taken over by a fungal infection. But it's like at
the end of the day, Okay, I see, I see.
Oh you know what is like that? What moves the dead?
Or what be said night? And forget which one? Did
you read that? Yeah? I remember, you don't remember when
they talked about it, even recommendations. It was because I
forgot about it. I listened to the audiobook and it's
by T Kingfisher. I want to say yes, I don't
remember which one is the first one because it follows
the sworn Soldier with the name that I remember right now,
hm Alex something. Anyway, and in the first one, it's
like a retelling of the House of Usher with zombies. Yeah,
but it's not really zombies. It's like fungus and they
take over the body, so it's similar to like sounds
like it's similar to the Last of Us, right, yeah,
and like the people are there, they would just take
it over by the zombie, by the fungus, but there's
no cure and they eat other people. Okay to me,
I'll take it zombie. Yeah, and the the fungus is
a real fungus called the zombie and fungus oh, which
is the same as the girl with all the gifts.
But so yeah, that's why to me, it's still a
zombie show slash game which I tried playing, but like,
I can't play games that I have to think. I'm sorry,
I can't if I had to follow more than one thing, Like,
I don't know, it doesn't make sense because I don't
know Starty Valley just click things and collect things game. Yeah,
I can only play one cozy game, Starty Valley. That's it.
Sometimes I would play this other game called super Wagon
Adventure where you're you're in a wagon and you're trying
to jump over things to survive, and I'm not good
at it, but I played that a lot. So yeah,
no games that I have to follow instructions like that
was too much for me. But it's supposed to be
a really good game probably is. That's so good, got
a lot of awards. And the show also also really good.
I don't know I can compare the two because I
didn't play the game, but the show was really good.
I had that wet episode with the guy from Parkston
rec oh Ron Yeah Ron, Yeah, episode ever, saddest episode
ever I've heard of the episode, Yeah, iconic. I don't
like I want to watch this in too, But at
the same time, I hate the that I now know
the inspiration of The Last of Us May One. I
want to watch the second season, but at the same time,
I hate oh that I know the inspiration of the
game and the show. Yeah, it's very like off putting,
so but like I love better Pascal, you know. Yeah, Well,
I feel like you guys, don't watch it, honestly, Yeah,
it's already made hard for me. But yeah, yeah, what's
whatever gonna do? Nothing? No, right exactly, but that's off putting.
So but but yeah, that's another really good one, probably
number three for me, because again I still put The
Walking Dead above it, even though that probably does not
make a lot of sense to a lot of people.
They're just they're different, they're not just like you know. Yeah,
so yeah, I think we can end it here. It
was this went on longer than I meant too. This
is like a full episode of zombies. Oh my god.
Next one, vampires. I feel like I've consumed a lot
more vampire things, so I think I've consumed less vampire things.
I think, Yeah, I think. I think for me, we're
gonna like, I'm gonna have to actually make a list
so I remember though, Yeah, I'm gonna make a list too,
but it's gonna be way shorter than my zombie Okay,
so movies show them books, yeah, okay, okay, okay, okay,
because we don't play games, yeah no, but yeah, all right,
thanks everyone for listening. This was a lot of fun.
I love talking about shows and movies, so yeah, all right,
and stay spooky. We'll catch everyone next time by