Bonus: Is The Last of Us a Zombie Show?

The Walking Dead 'Cast

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4.6 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2023

⏱️ 59 minutes

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The Last of Us premiere is a mere couple of days away, and to tide you over, here’s our promised debate on whether this show qualifies as a zombie show. Erik, Ben, and Jason are joined by special guest Arnold T. Blumberg, author of books on zombie cinema like Journey of the Living Dead and Zombiemania. You can check out Arnold T. Blumberg’s stuff at: • Ghouls in the House podcast: ghoulsinthehouse.com • Pickles & Bean comic strip: picklesandbean.com • Arnold’s books at ATB Publishing: atbpublishing.com Next up: The Last of Us S1E1! Want to write or voice-message in about it? As always, you can find our contact info and all our other shows at: podcastica.com • If you follow / subscribe to all your favorite Podcastica shows, you will make us happy. Show support and get ad-free episodes: patreon.com/jasoncabassi or go to buymeacoffee.com/cabassi for a one-time donation (thank you!) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hmm?
0:02.0	Ah!
0:03.0	Huh.
0:04.0	Podcast to go.
0:06.0	Welcome to the Walking Deadcast, a podcast dedicated to the show.
0:33.3	The Walking Dead.
0:37.6	Hey, Zedheads, welcome to the podcast. I'm Jason.
0:40.7	And I'm Eric.
0:41.8	And I'm Ben.
0:43.3	And this is another special bonus episode of the cast of us because we can't get to
0:47.4	episode 500 yet, so it's a bonus.
0:50.9	This episode as promised, we're talking about what a zombie is and whether the last of us
0:57.2	qualifies as a zombie show or not. And to help in the discussion, we have a special guest,
1:02.3	Mr. Arnold T. Bloomberg, who is publisher at ATB Publishing, author of books on zombie cinema like
1:08.6	Journey the Living Dead and Zombie Mania,
1:15.7	an instructor of one of the first zombie courses and zombies in popular media at the University of Baltimore in the 2010s. Welcome to the podcast, Arnold.
1:19.5	Thank you so much for having me. It's a pleasure.
1:22.2	Actually, when this podcast was called The Walking Deadcast, you came on. I think it was when George Romero, when he passed,
1:30.8	right? To sort of give a tribute to remember that? Yes, we did the episode about Romero and,
1:35.6	yeah, his legacy and everything. Yeah, that's a good thing to do. Yeah. Well, before we get to the
1:41.5	main event, though, I want to mention something that Eric, you pointed out in our private chat earlier that the, or maybe it was Ben, I forget, that the review embargo on The Last of Us has been lifted, and the show has a 97% on Rotten Tomatoes right now after 59 reviews last I checked.
1:57.0	Oh, it's up to 59 reviews already.
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