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The Hello, dear listeners, and welcome back to What Went Wrong, your favorite podcast full stop that just so happens to be about movies and how it is nearly impossible to make them, let alone a good one.

In advance of our coverage of Danny Boyle's revivifying 28 days later, we've put together a little primer on zombies.

Today, we'll explore the origins of the word, its mythology, and Hollywood lineage.

I hope you find it as informative and entertaining as I did researching it.

As always, if you have a correction or any additional insights into any of the films that we

cover, send us a note at what went wrongpod

at gmail.com. Without further ado, I give you zombies. On September 10th, 2024, former Vice President

Kamala Harris and former and now current President Donald Trump sparred

in their first and sole presidential debate.

Now this is not a show about politics, but this televised event yielded an unusual proclamation

from the president about an alleged outbreak of sorts taking place in the Midwest.

In Springfield, they're eating the dogs, the people that came in,

they're eating the cats, they're eating the pets of the people that live there. And this is what's

happening in our country, and it's a shame. These assertions that Haitian migrants were eating local pets were quickly proven false.

They were the result of a conspiratorial social media post, which stemmed from racial tensions

in a small town, coupled with an unrelated case from Canton, Ohio, in which a 27-year-old

U.S.-born woman was arrested on charges she killed and ate a cat.

The world moved on, but the fearmongering lingered and a very particular word stumbled

around the back of my mind.

Zombies.

Don't say that.

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