Zombie Therapy
Imaginary Worlds
Eric Molinsky
4.8 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 25 March 2015
⏱️ 18 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Sometimes running a business can feel like cycling uphill with square wheels. |
| 0:07.0 | But zero online accounting software can help predict the future cash flow of your business. |
| 0:15.0 | So you can stay one step ahead. Soon it'll feel more like free-wearing downhill. |
| 0:21.0 | On a tandem! What, mate? With a messer on the back. |
| 0:25.0 | Oh, that's nice. |
| 0:55.0 | I'm listening to Imaginary Worlds, a show about science fiction and other fantasy genres. |
| 1:00.0 | American Malinsky. |
| 1:02.0 | Steven Schlossman is a psychiatrist at Mass General Hospital in Boston. |
| 1:06.0 | And he's been obsessed with zombies since he was a kid. |
| 1:10.0 | I could walk to the theater where I grew up. I snuck into Don of the Dead and I was 11 years old. |
| 1:14.0 | I told my parents I was going to see the jerk, but instead snuck into the saw-rated movie. |
| 1:20.0 | But I loved it. It was great movies. |
| 1:21.0 | The first time it occurred to me that horror films could also have embedded social commentary. |
| 1:26.0 | I could have phrased it that way when I was 11. |
| 1:28.0 | And then on top of that, I think the thing that really got to me, it was funny. |
| 1:33.0 | There were funny zombies on an ice skating rink are funny. They're objectively funny. |
| 1:37.0 | And the ability to sort of laugh and be frightened at the same time, that was scary. |
| 1:43.0 | And then I had to call my parents and tell them that I lied to them and they'd come pick me up |
| 1:48.0 | because I was too afraid to walk home. And they said, didn't you just see the jerk? |
| 1:51.0 | I said, I was on the dead eye line. |
| 1:57.0 | For a long time, zombies were a guilty pleasure for him. |
| 2:00.0 | But a few years ago, his personal and his professional interest collided. |
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