Welcome to Karen Hunter is awesome.

I am Karen Hunter.

I also host a radio show on SiriusXM where every Friday I do a hashtag KH what to watch list.

And on my list a couple of weeks ago was earth abides a series

dystopian series featured on amazon prime it was everything that i didn't expect i'm a

walking dead fanatic this was so much. And I got to interview the star

Jessica Francis Dukes. Oh my goodness. It was an amazing interview. I hope you enjoy. Up next,

Earth Abides, Jessica Dukes. Earth Abides and joining me one of the stars, I will say the star,

of Earth Abides. Let me welcome the great, the wondrous. Jessica

Francis Dukes is here. Welcome. Thank you so much for having me. Oh my gosh, I'm excited to be here.

This thing, episode five, I think four or five, I was about to tune it out, but I stuck with

this thing. I watched it in a couple of days during a break and I'm a huge walking

walking dead all of Z nation everything I watch zombies because it's always about the people so at first I was like

am I going to be upset with the people and you know at each, at each time I was like, is he going to kill her? She going to kill him. And it was like a beautiful love story, beautiful family. And every time somebody came in the, I was like, oh, are there going to be a problem? And it was like, no, they're all together. And the children are growing up. And I was very happy. Okay. So Earth the Bias,

tell us the plot and everything for people who aren't familiar with it, Jessica.

Well, there's a virus that sweeps through and sort of takes everyone instantly. It's almost

like three weeks and everyone is gone. And our main character ish wakes up after being bitten by rattlesnake

and this coma has sort of saved him from witnessing the end of the world. He thinks he's the last

person on earth until he meets another person who is also, you know, a year into being by herself.

She thinks she's the last person on Earth.

And I play that role. That's Emma. And the two of them sort of decide to join forces and try to

survive this new world. So it's like it's very much so about the end of the world, but also

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