Hey everybody, it's Kai Rizdahl. Thanks for downloading this episode of the Corner Office podcast. This time around, well, we're talking about a thing I normally wouldn't have much to do with because it's about zombies and I don't do zombies. But I made an exception for this one. The Walking Dead originally started out as a hit comic book series written by Robert

Kirkman, illustrated by Tony Moore, but went on to be one of the highest rated television shows

ever. The flagship series is now in its 10th season, which is nothing to sneeze at. There's been a

spin-off in video games, another spinoff and a movie in the works, which is to say the Walking

Dead is now what you call a content universe.

And that leads me to my corner office conversation this week.

Scott Gimple is the chief content officer for the franchise.

He's had that job for nearly two years now.

Before that, he was the showrunner for five seasons.

We made the trip out to the Walking Dead offices in Burbank up on the 22nd floor. Nice view of the Southern California mountains ruined, in my opinion, by zombie knickknacks. Yeah, no, look at this stuff on the walls. I am never watching this show. I don't know what these people are thinking. There were also some life-sized zombie statues, by the way. We met up with Scott, though, in his personal office, which was, surprisingly, not zombie-filled. Still working progress in here. Really? Yes. Because there's like all kinds of stuff on the walls here. Well, but there's a lot of stuff on the floor behind it. Oh, that's true. Did you just move in? Is that the deal? When you do this job, it takes a while to move in.

We've been here almost two years.

We took a seat and got right to it.

We're expecting you.

Won't you have a seat?

Ready to go to work?

Thank you for doing this.

No, really appreciate you.

I do press.

But the burst of enthusiasm over this has been unlike anything.

Good.

Good.

Now I have to confess something.

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