277: George Romero Tribute w/ Arnold T. Blumberg (Doctor of the Dead)

The Walking Dead 'Cast

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🗓️ 7 September 2017

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Here it is, our tribute to the father of the modern zombie (and the reason why The Walking Dead and this podcast exists), George A. Romero. Join me and Dr. Arnold T. Blumberg, a.k.a. Doctor of the Dead, as we talk about Mr. Romero's career. This podcast is made possible by listeners like you who have supported us at patreon.com/jasonandkaren. So thank you. Our next call-in show (with Jason and Karen) will be on Thurs, Sep 21 at 5pm Pacific. Join us! Links: Dr. Arnold T. Blumberg a.k.a. Doctor of the Dead: https://twitter.com/DoctoroftheDead?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor Red, White, and Who: The Story of Doctor Who in America: http://www.atbpublishing.com/product/red-white-and-who-the-story-of-doctor-who-in-america/ Original TWD artist Tony Moore draws Glenn's demise :( https://www.instagram.com/p/BYjKRrMlejr/?taken-by=coloneltonymoore This episode brought to you by: Fracture: Your photos, in vivid color, printed directly on glass. Go to fractureme.com/podcast and click The Walking Dead 'Cast. If you'd like to give us a call, you can call us at (650) 485-3323 or email brains@podcastica.com. You can download, subscribe, rate, and review us on Apple Podcasts or in iTunes by going to walkingdeadcast.com/itunes. Look for us on Facebook at facebook.com/deadcast and on Twitter at twitter.com/jasonandkaren. And don't forget to use our Amazon link, walkingdeadcast.com/amazon, for all your Amazon shopping! Every time you buy something using that link, we get a little kickback at no extra cost to you. Thank you! Next week: Fear the Walking Dead season 3.5! Support the show: https://patreon.com/jasonandkaren

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0:00.0	Hmm?
0:02.0	Ah! Oh.
0:04.0	On gets to go. Yeah! So, Welcome to the Walking Deadcast. A Podcast dedicated to the show.
0:48.0	The Walking Dead.
0:50.0	Hey, Z-heads, welcome to our podcast. I'm Jason. This is The
0:55.0	Walking Dead Cast episode two seventy seven as pretty much I'm sure all of you
1:01.0	know this year on July 16th George Romero passed on that
1:07.0	really hit me you know we've had so many deaths lately but George Romero's so
1:10.6	tied into what we do here and also just you know a lot of my life is
1:14.1	spent watching these zombie movies and loving zombies and he's kind of at the
1:19.0	core of that so I thought we should do an episode in tribute of George Romero. So this is it and to help me with that we have a special guest. It's Dr. Arnold Bloomberg. Welcome to the podcast.
1:31.0	Thank you so much.
1:33.0	It's a pleasure to be here, but not for the reason that we're here, but
1:38.0	but you know I'm certainly very happy to chat about someone who's certainly had a big influence on both of us and so many others.
1:44.1	Yeah and I've thought about so just for people listening, Arnold and I met at Walker Stucker and he's helped out a few times he's been the subject of a couple of panels because well let me just tell you so among other things Arnold's the co-author of
2:00.2	zombie mania 80 movies to die for that just talks about well I think it's 85 now right
2:05.3	Just talks about a ton of of zombie movies and goes into detail about them and then he also taught or maybe teaches a course about zombies and popular media at the University of Baltimore.
2:18.0	You have your zombie focused podcast called Doctor of the Dead.
2:23.0	I mean, there's a ton of other, I know you've been in several zombie documentaries.
2:26.7	How else would you describe your relationship with zombies over the years?
2:31.6	It went from being a hobby to a cottage industry. It grew from doing the book
2:38.6	and doing the college course into something where it's just a major part of the pop culture
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