The Zombie Apocalypse

Strange Matters Podcast

Campfire Audio Productions

Science, History, Social Sciences, Natural Sciences

4.4 • 987 Ratings

🗓️ 9 November 2016

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Strange Matters we talk all about the undead monsters known as zombies. These terrifying creatures are reanimated human corpses that have risen yet again, this time with an insatiable urge to consume living flesh. As the popularity of zombies spread in the modern culture, many people wonder what life would be like surviving in a zombie apocalypse.
Originally linked to Haitain folkore, where human corpses would rise by use of dark magic, the concept of zombies have changed over the past century. In the early stages of the idea, most zombies were depicted in films and literature as simply mindless creatures who served their masters. That all changed in the late 1960’s when suddenly zombies were shown to be the stumbling, violent, and hungry monsters that we know and love them as today!
Along with discussing the history of zombies, we go into details about what would life be like in the zombie apocalypse. We talk about how the outbreak might spread, the impacts it would have on society, and our thoughts on the best strategies to avoid becoming yet another unleaded being.
Finally we also go over the listener feedback sent in for our Zombie Survival Challenge! From what the best weapon is to fight off the undead horde, the ideal settlement location and type, and general strategies to survive in a world overtaken by walking corpses, we discuss the different answers we got in response to the challenge. Thanks to everyone who participated!

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Strange Matters Podcast. Here at Strange Matters we discuss
0:17.8	everything that is bizarre, mysterious, and unexplained. I'm your host for this episode Eric joined by my fellow
0:25.2	co-host Sean. Hey everybody. So on this episode we're going to be talking all
0:30.6	about the living undead, the rotting monsters commonly known as zombies.
0:35.8	Now most people are pretty familiar with zombies in one way or another, the
0:40.6	reanimated corpses that have an insatiable urge to consume human flesh.
0:45.0	zombies as a whole are pretty popular and trendy right now spanning across a wide range of media and genres,
0:52.0	especially with the popularity of shows like The Walking Dead, and recent movies like World War Z, video game series like Dead Rising and Left for Dead. zombies can pretty much be found everywhere in our culture nowadays.
1:06.9	So on this episode we're going to be discussing some of the history and lore of zombies
1:11.8	and how their popularity has taken off in the modern culture.
1:15.0	And talking about just what would happen to the world in the case of a global zombie outbreak.
1:20.0	Also, as we have been mentioning in our previous episodes, in this show we will be going
1:25.8	over the feedback to our zombie survival challenge.
1:29.2	We would like to thank everyone who sent in their responses and answers to that,
1:32.8	as it was a great fun to read all of your different answers.
1:36.3	So this is probably one of the most romanticized
1:39.4	types of apocalyptic events, especially in modern times as a result of, you know, some movies, TV shows, video games, stuff like that.
1:48.0	And there's a ton of people out there, especially on the internet, who would like to try their hand at surviving the zombie
1:55.0	apocalypse.
1:56.0	And I'm not going to pretend that I, too, haven't fantasized about this sort of situation.
2:01.2	I mean, if you think about it, this sort of situation. I mean if you think about it this sort of situation kind of
2:05.0	makes money and credit cards become obsolete and you don't have to wake up and
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