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The Imposter Zombies - Do Go On Mini

Do Go On

Matt Stewart, Jess Perkins & Dave Warneke

History, Comedy, Fact, Facts

4.92.5K Ratings

🗓️ 5 July 2020

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

The Zombies are an influential psychedelic rock band from England, and in the late 1960’s they set off on a tour of North America. The only problem: they were not the real Zombies…


This is the podcast version of episode six of our new web series that we made with Stupid Old Studios. You can watch the video of the episode complete with animations, props and lots and lots of regret face right now on The Stupid Old Channel YouTube page (link below).


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References/Further Reading

https://www.buzzfeed.com/danielralston/the-true-story-of-the-fake-zombies-the-strangest-con-in-rock?utm_term=.fuGGo51D6#.drOr9az1m

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/zombies-band-interview-podcast-842990/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odessey_and_Oracle

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Zombies

https://ultimateclassicrock.com/fake-zombies-zz-top/


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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey mates, Matt here dropping in to let you know that this is the sixth episode of our web series.

0:06.2

You can watch the video version of it over at the Stupid Old Channel. There's a link in the show notes.

0:11.3

Also, want to let you know that we are doing some live streams coming up.

0:15.4

You get tickets to those. There's a link to the tickets as well in the show notes here.

0:21.1

But that's really all I wanted to let you know. I think these episodes are more fun to watch if

0:26.0

you have the chance to but they also work just fine in the audio format. So without further ado,

0:33.3

here is the episode about the fake zombies. But I'll let me explain it more now.

0:39.8

The zombies were an influential psychedelic pop band from England. And in the late 1960s,

0:44.3

they set off on a tour of North America. The only thing is they were not the real zombies.

0:49.4

This story involves deceit, intrigue and bad English accents. This week I'm talking about the

0:55.1

imposter zombies. Welcome to the show. I'm Matt Stewart. Here are my two sidekicks, Jessica Perkins

1:06.9

and David Hornicky. I'm even side of a kick. Even side of kick. Okay. Come on further away.

1:15.6

You know, I understood the logic, but even side of kick just sounds ridiculous.

1:21.8

Well, I was going for silly. That is something that a side of kick would say.

1:25.8

Yeah, you're third banana now. That's why. That's why. Three of us. I'll pipe down.

1:31.9

You go shush for a while. Can we make him fourth banana? I'm thinking about this pop plant.

1:36.5

Still a little heavy lifting for three. No, I like it.

1:41.2

Let's begin. Please.

1:43.8

Formed in 1962, the zombies are an English psychedelic pop five piece. They scored a worldwide

1:49.3

hit with She's Not There in 1964 and a few months later had another big hit with Teller No,

1:54.6

which we could play a little bit of now.

1:56.4

Oh.

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