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"Zombeavers" Zombesties and Power Outages, oh my! | Zombie Book Club Ep 72
What do beavers, zombies, and a winter blackout in Vermont have in common? Join Leah and Dan on this wild ride as they navigate half-cooked holiday dinners, candlelit chaos, and a satirical dive into the cult classic Zombeavers. With their signature humor, the duo unpacks the film’s absurd charm, LGBTQ representation, and plot holes so big, even zombie rodents can slip through. Along the way, they share personal anecdotes about power outages, emergency preparedness, and how a little laughter can keep the darkness at bay.
Tune in as Leah and Dan dissect the zany world of Zombeavers and spark conversations about community, adaptation, and embracing life’s unexpected curveballs. It’s an episode filled with heart, hilarity, and a little chaos—perfect for anyone who loves zombies, unconventional storytelling, or just a good laugh under the flicker of candlelight.
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Welcome to the Zombie Book Club, the only book club where the internet is out and I can't access my notes. I'm Dan, and when I'm not not accessing the internet, I'm writing a book, and in that book there's probably no internet, but there are zombies. There are zombies. Is there internet at any point in the book? Probably you know what when zombies show up, the internet goes out, that's how it works.
Speaker 2:Which is the worst part, the zombies or the no internet? Oh, no internet. I'm leah, and if you're new here, welcome. This is a casual dead episode and one that will be particularly unhinged, particularly ranty. So if that's not what you'd like as your first entree to the book club, uh, may I suggest you start with elm juniper's episode, which is episode 69.
Speaker 1:That's a really great interview yeah, episode 69, it's a number, it's a number that people.
Speaker 2:What did your brother say last night? I don't remember. He was like that's the bad number because you're all just laughing about 69. Yeah, in the truck because we had nothing else to do but drive we were sitting in the truck because we didn't have any electricity. Yeah, it was warmer in there and we could charge our phones.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so we upload every Sunday in the morning like 7 o'clock Eastern time, so subscribe. See, this is what happens. When I can't see my notes, I say the word right, properly no subscribbles, no subscri happens when I can't see my notes.
Speaker 2:I say the word right properly no subscribbles, no subscribes. Subscribe is my favorite. I think subscribe is, and it's also the longest standing typo, because we were just copy pasting a template intro over and over again. Yeah with it. Um, for those who are new and are still sticking around, we're a podcast that talks about things that are all zombie related as both an escape from our reality and as metaphors for the real life human struggles we face. We regularly feature zombie and apocalypse books, specifically by indie authors, and then just talk about whatever the fuck we want yeah, that's gonna be one of these episodes.
Speaker 2:Yes, and uh, welcome back to those who are long-time listeners.
Speaker 1:Yeah one of our besties.
Speaker 2:Can't promise quality, but can promise what can we? That this may or may not come out on time.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we don't know if this is going to come out on time. That's the biggest update right now, is that? So last night we might have mentioned didn't have electricity. Today we don't have internet. So what happened is, just down the street from us, a tree just fell over onto the power lines at the same time that the same thing apparently happened in 50 other places in Vermont. So, yeah, because storms, yeah, and since we're like, this affects like three people, they just don't care about us.
Speaker 2:No, because we're just a tiny little road on the side of a private road. We're like a private road that branches off another private road that's in the middle of nowhere.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you know, you know the, uh, the, the ethical dilemma where they ask you to choose um on a on a railroad, like a train's coming and they're like you can, it's, it's pointed at one person, like one person standing on one, or you could switch it to another track where there's 10 people, or like it's going towards 10 people, or there's one you have to choose. Is my point? Yeah, one or 10. Yeah, we're the one, yeah. They're like train.
Speaker 2:It felt like that. It was actually a very interesting power metaphor, because I was, when we were driving around looking at everybody else with their lovely house lights on.
Speaker 1:Yeah, spending time with their families Eating their meals, smiling and laughing.
Speaker 2:You can see them through the windows. Even people have the audacity to have like fake electric candles glowing in each window, cause that's like a big thing in Vermont as a way of decorating for Christmas.
Speaker 1:They had fake candles just to show off how much electricity.
Speaker 2:Yes, and I were driving around and I'm like I don't have any electricity. This is a really big reminder of what it feels like when you can see the whole world or other people really having a ton of things when you don't have it. That's true, which is a story for a lot of people.
Speaker 2:It is, yeah, you know, and that it's always more noticeable when you don't have something than when you do yeah, that's true uh, it's really easy to forget all the things we have, so we do have a lot, even looking at their electric candles no, yeah, they weren't.
Speaker 1:Who knows if they were even home, they were watching football with their family and eating the turkey. That wasn't half cooked because the power didn't go out halfway through cooking.
Speaker 2:They were having a great time, not knowing that Simon Dan and I were sitting in the dark, in the cold, very high, trying to eat pumpkin pie but not really sure what's happening because we can't really see it.
Speaker 1:When the power goes out, out, it's the worst time for your edible to kick in. Yeah, just you, your thoughts and the dark yeah and uh, and all of these suggestions of like good ideas to do when the power goes out, like we need water, we need lights, we need to do this and that it's like what?
Speaker 2:yeah dan was, we'll get into it. We do actually have an agenda today, dan. Oh yeah, what is that?
Speaker 1:the agenda is.
Speaker 2:I know yeah, because so basically normally we have um documents, google documents, oh yeah, that we each access and we can see them and, like we don't write copious notes, although maybe more than some people, I did in the last one we did in the last one, yeah it depends on the time, but casual deads we usually don't write a ton, but still we have like a guideline. We're both looking at it.
Speaker 1:It keeps two people with adhd sometimes on those, on those rails that we were talking about before. Yeah, that we don't have one person or 10 people.
Speaker 2:I guess I am the rails like when I was high for episode whatever that was after episode 70 yeah, after we realized that the next four years are going to suck anyways, we do have an agenda, isn't a point, and the agenda is a life update, because we do do that. We're going to talk about, uh, our latest experience of being without power, things we learned the good, the bad, the ugly. Also some reflections on what it's like to not have internet, even when you have power. And then, on a fun note, we're going to reminisce about our ZomBesties and ZomBeavers, because just a week ago we were all hanging out on the internet, the wonderful internet, streaming ZomBeavers and laughing about it together on Discord.
Speaker 1:You see, the internet allows you to stream anything you want to see immediately, without having to wait in any lines or anything. So we watched zombie beaver movies.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that was what we used the internet for was to watch zombie beavers, to laugh at them, to debate whether it was a good movie or not. Yeah, to make fun of it the whole way through. And it was because people came and celebrated Dan being done for the work season, because it's definitely winter now. Yeah, yeah, winter came. Yeah, how much snow do you think we got, dan?
Speaker 1:Oh, at least a foot.
Speaker 2:Yeah, which is not that much for Vermont, where we live, because we're up in the hills too. So whatever it is that they say it's going to be down the valley, like we usually double it, but this snow was extremely heavy.
Speaker 1:Like a lot of our Super wet, super heavy, yeah, mega dense snow.
Speaker 2:Which is what made a giant fucking limb break off of a very large old pine tree and take our power down.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and apparently in several other places in Vermont at the same exact time. Yeah, and that's what happens.
Speaker 2:It is, and we lost power for 12 hours. Uh, it was on the national day of mourning, also known by most settler americans as thanksgiving yeah, or uh fall harvest yeah, we like to call it like our fall harvest celebration.
Speaker 2:It's like a weird way of being able to still eat really good food, uh, while acknowledging that the quote unquote holiday is a holiday about genocide for the folks who are indigenous. Yeah, so Thanksgiving is weird A little bit weird for me once I learned more about that, and but I still really like the food and I like being together with family, and it's also a day where you know most people are going to have it off and in this case, simon had it off. I had a whole week off. Dan's done for the season, yeah, so we usually eat the food on Friday. That's also how we psychologically make the feasting, okay, I don't know.
Speaker 1:But this was different because Simon has to work on Black Friday. Yeah, which?
Speaker 2:is not a good In a retail store that we will not name. Not a fun time, yeah, which?
Speaker 1:is not in a retail store that we will not name, not a fun time. Yeah, a big retail store. Yeah, the biggest, a big evil one, the biggest and evilest.
Speaker 2:Do you think it's the evilest? I don't know. There's probably a chart over there out there of like evilest retail corporations.
Speaker 1:Let us know which corporation's the evilest.
Speaker 2:That's a retail big box.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so, yeah, big box, yeah, yeah, um, so, yeah, okay, so this one was on our list, or my list, dan, okay, um, oh, I forgot an important detail the power went out in the middle of cooking, yeah, so we had to quit cooking, and it gets dark in vermont by like four. Yeah, o'clock this time of year it's very dark out yeah, 3, 30 it's like it's pretty much, especially because we are on the east side of the hill, so we get a lot of sunlight in the morning, not so much at night, yeah, so it gets dark very early and I made a list of the best parts that I thought we could talk about, like the parts that were actually good. About losing power oh, about losing power, yeah, and we're also going to talk about survival and how this is always practiced for the apocalypse, but we're gonna talk about the best parts, the worst parts, uh, and then our preparedness and we need to do better next time. That's my mini agenda for this segment okay, okay, so, um.
Speaker 2:So there were good things about losing power yeah, um simon reading to us his kirk and spock's children's book by candlelight oh my god, that was amazing, especially considering how high I was.
Speaker 1:That.
Speaker 2:That was after dinner, so Simon sat down, put a headlamp in a jar to create light for himself and for us, and then held up his storybook of Star Trek characters doing things and read it aloud to us. It was wonderful.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's like see the Enterprise, see the Enterprise go warp speed. Go Enterprise go.
Speaker 2:That's basically it. It's very's very lovely. I guess can we officially put it on our zombie book club red list.
Speaker 1:I think because we're talking about it here. I mean it has the tribbles in it. I think tribbles are kind of like zombies. I don't know what a triple is, a little fuzzy things oh, I don't remember them yeah, they, they multiply really fast. Oh, okay, definitely zombies the episode is called the trouble with tribbles are they from a specific planet?
Speaker 2:uh, some probably yeah well, yeah, that was fun. Also, I read um one of the origin stories of ayahuasca, because I have this really beautiful book of artwork by pablo amaringo, who is or was I think he's passed away now uh, peruvian curandero, who specifically was very skilled in ayahuasca, and it has these like and beautiful artists, like incredible visuals and then these visions that go along with them, and that was also very fun to read. What a story I learned about a golden king, I think yeah, and that, what was that thing called?
Speaker 2:that was like a, was like a cross between a stingray, oh, and like a fish that's like flat and on the ground and it was furry.
Speaker 1:It was like a giant furry ray.
Speaker 2:Yeah and it's all about like how they were instructed to put the specific plants together to create um, the vine of the soul, or the vine of death, which is what ayahuasca?
Speaker 2:means which grew from a dead guy. Yes, oh, that's a very important point. Yeah, uh, and don't listen to us and our terrible version of this. If you're interested, I can put the name of the book in the show notes. It's one of my favorites and it was very fun to read yeah, out loud and look at the pictures. That was fun, being forced to socialize with each other and not watch Home Alone, which was our original plan. Yeah, which was our original plan, which is actually related to our episode that we're going to do for December 22nd, not going to say anymore, but we are watching home alone with a zombie lens. Thanks, greg the writer. You know we're talking about. It was your suggestion.
Speaker 1:I didn't know that. Yeah, I thought it was just an amazing idea that you had.
Speaker 2:Absolutely not. I'm not that smart, I just take other people's good ideas.
Speaker 1:Well, keep an eye out on the 22nd.
Speaker 2:I guess we were given permission for this good idea. Okay, but what I would recommend is you should also watch Home Alone, if you have not, before December 22nd, so you can enjoy this episode even more.
Speaker 1:It holds up surprisingly well. I remember we watched it like last year and we were like wow.
Speaker 2:It does Now imagine zombies. Yeah, that's all we're going to say. So other best parts that I wrote down was driving around.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we drove around a bit because we needed to know what was going on out there in the world. Yeah, to see who else had power and also our phones were dying Very very.
Speaker 2:Mine was like at 5%. It was scary. Yeah, mine was at 65% because I'm way cooler, not that we could do anything with them. I want to point out we had internet. We had like a backup battery or I don't really know how it was that we had internet and then eventually we didn't.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's the backup battery on our router, but the whole wire got pulled down, so it must have happened a little bit later, because we lost power and then we had internet for a couple of hours maybe. Yeah, and then bit later because we lost power and then we had internet for a couple of hours, maybe.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and then that was gone. You know, maybe I got cut um later, maybe yeah, probably you know what.
Speaker 2:No, yeah, that would make sense. No, because we didn't have internet, I don't know whatever. At some point we lost internet. That's the point. We had internet, then we didn't. I don't know what happened, I just know there's a bunch of wires on the ground and a tree. Yeah, that's all we know. Um, but we did get to drive around yeah, we drove around.
Speaker 1:Um, you can always spout the out-of-towners. Oh, my god, there's a big, long hill. That's like leaving our neighborhood and you know these are all dirt roads in the back. I think people, when they come up here, they don't think that people actually drive on these roads. No, they really don't, don't they think?
Speaker 1:it's just tourists. It's clear that these people from Florida. They got halfway up the hill and maybe they just couldn't make it any further or something, so they just stopped in the middle of the road, not the side of the road, just the middle, no the middle and just parked their car there.
Speaker 2:I don't know where they were. They must have walked for like a long time, because this is a Vermont hill. Okay, for those of you in the West Coast you're like those are baby hills. That's true. For those of you in flatter areas this is a mountain, so we sort of figure out. It's in between those two things. I don't know where they went. That's the other curiosity, because there were some houses, but they were a long way in any direction.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:They were just gone. They just parked their car in the middle of the road because they couldn't get up the hill. Then we went through a second time and they were gone. Yeah, Don't know what happened to them. I bet you they either got they maybe got a tow truck they were gone for a bit that was a pretty short period of time or they backed up or somebody.
Speaker 2:they probably went and got their Vermont cousin and was like yo, please get me out of this situation, I can't drive up this hill, just pull in the driveway that you're in front of, just turn, and they're like, oh, I have to confess something People up here told me the roads are serious. You need winter tires, better off if you have studded tires. Four-wheel drive or all-wheel drive is a really important thing to have and I was like it's fine, my Elantra will be fine in regular all seasons. And I take all that back.
Speaker 1:I wish I had a four-wheel drive I mean that's great with one wheel tires, but it is, but it still can be. There definitely could be times where it would not be a good idea to drive that our tacoma does a much, much better job I don't like toyota yes, I mean it's gonna happen one day, but so far it's, it's felt like at least in the winter time.
Speaker 2:It is unstoppable yeah, but it was fun driving around because we joked around, joked about 69, the number right. Um, we looked at all the people who are really happy in their houses eating their dinners with their family yeah and glared at them. Um, and we drove around our little loop of our neighborhood and, like, looked at all the snow and it's very beautiful. It went from being like 70 degrees literally a week and a half ago outside to a fucking snowstorm. So we were not prepared. I wasn't anyways psychologically.
Speaker 1:We went from shorts and t-shirts to a foot of snow yeah, almost overnight.
Speaker 2:What else was?
Speaker 1:a best part, Dan. I think we've run out of best things.
Speaker 2:I think eating food high in the dark was fun yeah.
Speaker 1:Very immersive. I do things, I think eating food high in the dark was fun. Yeah, very immersive. I do, I like. Personally, I do actually enjoy when the power goes out sometimes. Yeah, um, for a small period of time but, like I, I like the solitude, like we're being reminded of, of what it's like to not have electricity, because, uh, it's a whole different world when the power is out, and I mean that sparks so much creativity inside of my brain. I'm like trying to absorb every little detail for my book. Oh, that's fun.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:I remember a different time that we lost power. I remember going outside and just like watching as you were walking from room to room with a flashlight and just like when did you do that.
Speaker 2:You were outside. This was a long time. This was over the summer oh okay, wait, did we lose power in the summer, I don't know, I don't remember I guess we must have um, but it was a different time. Oh yeah, we did lose power this summer. Anyways, we lose power a lot in vermont, I think is the point.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I just remember, uh, just like seeing how dark the world was, but then also seeing how much I could tell exactly where you were in the house because I could see so much light coming out of the windows. And it was like this very eerie feeling, but also like I'm just absorbing all that information.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so in other words, light could really get you killed. Yeah, in a world where there's no power, because it's just, you're literally a beacon. Yeah, it makes me think about that part of the fallout um series where she, she leaves a little fire to keep herself warm at night.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, the giant cockroach comes won't ruin anything else, in case people haven't watched it yet. Highly recommend, yeah, but yeah, I don't think there are any other best parts. It was nice to hang out for a bit and it would have been more fun if we'd had better lighting options, because we could barely see anything. We dan put a bunch of little tiny candles yeah, what are they called? Tea lights, tea lights together, and that actually created a lot of heat.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we lit like I don't know, like 15 of them yeah, they were all on one plate, kept things nice and warm around the table, but you still couldn't see very well. And when it gets dark at like 4 by 6 30, we we're all like you know what. Let's go to bed.
Speaker 1:There's nothing else to do. Another worst thing is having well water means that you have to have electricity in order to draw that water out of the well. Yeah, so we have a very limited supply of water once the power goes out. Supply of water once the power goes out, like there's, it's a pressurized system, so you have as much water as that, uh, that pressure in the lines will allow, which is, you know, maybe a flush or two, maybe half a gallon of water I accidentally flushed too.
Speaker 1:I went pee and then I was like, fuck, why did I do that? So, uh, so yeah, um, that is not great, because, especially as the night grows long and you didn't expect to be without power this long, and it's like now I'm thirsty and the dogs are thirsty, yeah, In this case, we do have water.
Speaker 2:First of all, simon has water in his place, yeah, which like in jugs. To be clear, he's got like a bunch of three gallon and seven no, five and seven gallon jugs of water. So we could have gone over there, but we're lazy folks, we didn't want to go all the way over there to get water, and then we have some backup water, but it's also way up in the loft and we're down the basement, yeah and I filled them up like a year ago.
Speaker 1:So, yeah, I don't necessarily want to drink that water, but in see this, this is the the stuff that I did last year, the last time that we talked about having no electricity. I'm like I'm gonna do these things and we're gonna be more prepared. Yeah, um, and the thing is is that I, we were a lot more prepared than I thought we were, yeah, and I forgot how prepared we were because you were very high. Yeah, like, for example, we have a battery-powered lantern that was in the garage, which would have been really great, because we could have each read independently with that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we could have played a board game with that, yeah could done a lot, and I discovered that, like hours and hours into it after, like like a few tea, lights have already burned out and and also they last for four hours.
Speaker 2:You bought three headlamps and I said to you, Dan, we should go get the headlamps before it's dark. We should go get the headlamps, and you're like it's fine. It's fine. I'm like fuck, and I don't know where they are. They're somewhere in the truck which is it's messy. Okay, the truck has not been cleaned since Dan finished work and it's busy, so there's stuff in there.
Speaker 1:I took everything that was arranged in my dump truck and threw it in the back seat of the truck and I used a leaf blower to blow everything from my truck into the pickup truck. You did not. I did, really. Yeah, that's how I clean out the truck. Oh, my God, I wish. I'd seen that I go to work with a leaf blower and I'm just like I open both doors and I'm on one side just like bee, just blowing all the stuff out the other side.
Speaker 2:That's quite a drop down, though I'm impressed by your directional ability with a leaf blower. Yeah, that's kind of sexy.
Speaker 1:Who knew. There's a few other things. We actually did have some gasoline for the generator, like possibly like half half a gallon. I didn't realize that there was still fuel in the fuel can, and there was, so you know we might have gotten a couple hours but we didn't really need a generator.
Speaker 2:Um, I like to save it for when it's like bitterly fucking cool, then we need to plug in our pellet stove to heat just the living room of our house, which is what we had to do a couple of years ago.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and if you don't know what a pellet stove is, it's kind of like a wood stove. It runs on wood pellets and it's like compressed sawdust.
Speaker 2:It's much cleaner.
Speaker 1:You don't have any smoke coming into your house, but it requires a small amount of electricity to turn an auger to feed the pellets into the stove and for the fan to blow air into it, and without it it just dies instantly. I remember watching the flames die out.
Speaker 2:You know what's great about our house? Actually, I haven't really thought about this, but if it was a genuine apocalypse, we could just pull the insert out and make it a fireplace again. Yeah, it can be a fireplace, once it doesn't meet code. It's five feet too short the chimney, but, like in the apocalypse, I don't care yeah, and one other way, uh, that we were more prepared than I thought.
Speaker 1:You know. Oh, I was saying today that I wanted to, you know, to be more prepared. I wanted to get some kerosene for the kerosene heater that I keep in the garage. Yeah, um, I have like 20 gallons in the garage. Do you that I bought when we last talked about this and then forgot that we had? We have.
Speaker 2:ADHD. We both do. We have object impermanence. It's a real problem.
Speaker 1:So we could have brought out the kerosene heater and been nice and toasty, oh my God.
Speaker 2:Okay, okay, speaking of things that we could improve, what if we created a list of all the things we have for an emergency, somewhere that will at least remember this list exists, yeah, so that we can be like, oh the power's out, let's see what we've got and where it is, because I don't think that you or I could remember. I did find a couple of flashlights I was very happy about, yeah.
Speaker 1:And we did eventually find two of the headlamps. I don't know where the third one went.
Speaker 2:Yeah, who knows? And I will say one of the benefits. I hate saying this as somebody who's all about electrification of our society, but we do have a gas stove and that enabled us to cook without fire.
Speaker 1:On the stovetop.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you can't use the oven, but we could. At least I could finish my mushroom gravy, which was really important.
Speaker 1:It was that was important.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and Simon was working on the stuffing on the stovetop too.
Speaker 1:And also we had mashed potatoes. They were already made, we just heated them up on the stove, so we were able to eat a warm meal, which is really nice.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean, could you imagine if we couldn't? Oh, my god, I think we've talked. I wish I remember which episode that is that we talked about the snowpocalypse. Whatever snow. I don't know if it was a snow, whatever you're just nobody's ever gonna know. If somebody randomly listening to this knows, please tell us which episode it was.
Speaker 1:Chris knows yeah, chris.
Speaker 2:Chris, tell us which episode was that, because we should have been able to reference it here, but we can't look at our own records so we don't know. Um, but we lost power for multiple days and the the food situation got really shitty really fast, yeah, but uh, worst parts, cooking in the dark while we could cook. I didn't realize how much I relied on my eyeballs to, like assess the state of food, like my mushroom gravy. I was just like I could only go by, feel and taste. Yeah, it was a very interesting experience.
Speaker 2:Um, a big thing I thought a lot about in the middle of the night, when I had nothing else to do but just be with my thoughts, is that I've grown attached to you all. Out there there's a lot of folks that have become real friends of ours, and I also have a lot of friends and family that don't live anywhere near me. They're either in Canada or they're in Georgia and or a couple other places. But if the internet's gone and an apocalypse happens, all I could think about last night at like two in the morning was like I'll never be able to hear these people, I'll never talk to them again, I'll never know if they're okay, that's it we'll have to go on the end.
Speaker 2:Go on the the zombie apocalypse road trip but then who knows what everybody else is doing? We need a zombie? Okay, we need. We require a zombesties survival game plan yeah, we gotta have.
Speaker 1:We gotta have a place to meet up. We do, yeah, or like an agreement, like just to like here.
Speaker 2:Enough, tell us enough of what you're gonna do, that we'll be like all right, they're okay. Or, and if we were, if you wanted to meet up, at what point would you want to meet up? We need to have this discussion, yeah, because I need to know that you're okay, even if you are in chicago or california or atlanta or or Montreal or Ottawa. Like I need to know and it bothers me. That was what I was thinking about a lot last night.
Speaker 1:You want to know the thing that was the hardest for me.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I do.
Speaker 1:So I have pretty severe sleep apnea and it's you know, I'm treating it with a CPAP machine and this does miraculous levels of things. I went multiple decades not sleeping at all. I mean, my eyes closed, my brain turned off and I woke up in the morning, but what I did you could not classify as sleep, so that causes a lot of problems. What I've realized now is that without the mask on, when I start to snore, I wake myself up. Now you get woken up by your own snoring. Yeah, because my brain turns on and it's like oh, you don't have your mask on. You need to wake up and put your mask on. And I can't put it on because there's no electricity. So like, if I put the mask on, I literally just would suffocate. That's fucking terrifying, yeah, so, like I, like I did sleep, but I it was.
Speaker 2:it was a very unrestful sleep that's funny because I was wondering at many points because I also didn't sleep very well and I don't know if you snoring a couple times you're snoring woken up. But there were many times where I was like man Dan's really quiet over there, because I'm not breathing. But usually, I mean, you were very loud, your snoring was intense.
Speaker 1:Maybe it's gotten better.
Speaker 2:I mean, that's what I was actually, that was my hypothesis last night.
Speaker 1:But now I'm just like maybe you're just awake, maybe I was just awake we were both awake with our thoughts and we could have been talking to each other. I was. I was a level of exhaustion where my eyes were closed and my brain was halfway between being awake and being asleep, but I wasn't actually asleep I was aware with that place, I was aware of laying in bed and being very tired.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and and then. Every now and then I'd like I'd like a little snore would come out of me and I'd wake back up.
Speaker 2:They were kind of cute last night. Compared to your snores, it was mostly just an oink.
Speaker 1:I would oink, and then I'd wake up.
Speaker 2:Definitely. It was very cute, little like um micro piglet oink, uh, um, yeah, soar, yeah. I think electricity at this point in our society should be a human right, should be a public, democratically controlled good, and I think people with medical devices should have some kind of flag on their accounts so that they know to prioritize us. I mean, your sleep apnea is not going to kill you that night. But there are a lot of people that when they lose power, like this is a life or death situation for them and honestly it could be if we didn't have a backup generator, it had been colder that night if it had gone on longer. Like there are a lot of things that could go wrong with regular people, but for people with medical devices, like we need it, yeah, um. So I think about that a lot.
Speaker 2:My job is related to electrification and solar, so these are things I think about a lot, and I could go on a whole tirade about how Puerto Rico went um weeks and weeks and weeks and weeks and weeks and weeks and weeks and weeks and weeks without power after a few hurricanes and like nobody gives a shit, um, and by nobody I mean that people they ha, they actually had public power. It was privatized. It's a Canadian company, I think, called Luma, and they make tons of money off of Puerto Rico, but don't give a shit when there's a hurricane and people just died. So that's my dark comment for the day. I remember that In real apocalyptic news, utility companies are evil. We need like a kit. That's what we need. We need like a tool kit that has the most essential immediate items and then a note in it that says dear leah and dan this is from past, leah and dan to remind you that you have how many gallons of kerosene uh I think like 20.
Speaker 2:You have 20 gallons of kerosene, a kerosene lamp, a lantern that has a battery ready to go, some, uh, flashlights over here, headlamps, um, whatever, like we. I think we could create like a little kit with the most essential things we need and then a reminder note of all the other things that we have so that we can, and also like a list of like okay, the power's out.
Speaker 1:Here's the things you need to do before sundown, so you'll be okay, that would be a helpful list because you know, especially during the times when you think, oh, it'll only be a couple hours, it's never just a couple hours.
Speaker 2:No, it's the. You know, when I always know it's not going to be just a couple hours, as if I, so you can text, the one thing I was able to do. It was slow but I was able to text and sometimes it would go out. So I but I was able to text and sometimes it would go out. So I just kept texting green mountain power out over and over and over again, and then you get response and when it says to you we are assessing the situation, you know you're fucked, yeah yeah, they, they're not, they're not even on, they're nowhere near you.
Speaker 1:They're not, they're not assessing anything?
Speaker 2:nobody's assessing shit, yeah, except for there was a road closed sign, so somebody like somebody saw, oh yeah well by the time we closed the road inspected and I do wonder who. Who made that call to say, hey, like there's um live wires on the ground and a giant tree in the road, I think the town came by, but how did they?
Speaker 1:know? Uh well, they probably got a call from green mountain power. After people come, uh called in yeah I think. And then they went to check it out Because Green Mountain, the power company, has a lot of employees but they don't have enough to respond to every single thing instantaneously.
Speaker 2:No, that's true.
Speaker 1:They're going to reach out to local places that can go out and not be idiots.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and there's also another thing I'm thinking about. I don't know if our power company has this I hope they do, but I know larger ones. Um, I've seen models of like they can actually see where the power is out or not out themselves. So they may have known and then called the city, and by city I mean population 600 in the town we live near. They might have called it and been like, hey, yeah, you should, but they wouldn't know why right for our street.
Speaker 1:It affected so few people that they might not have even seen it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, if, if people didn't report and I and I went out and reported right away well, for all we know, we were the only people home last night in our little area of the like eight houses that were affected. Yeah, um, but yeah, I don't. Is there any other way that we could improve? Oh, yeah, but it's gonna cost money well, yeah, let's talk about our dream things. If we had money?
Speaker 1:oh, I want so many battery backups like I'd love to have a battery backup just for the pellet stove so that the pellet stove can continue running for a number of hours after like.
Speaker 2:It might not be like the entirety, but if we could get another three or four hours out of it, that would be great we also need our sump pump with a battery backup, which was a thousand dollars when we asked about it and I was like I don't have a thousand dollars for a fucking battery right now in my life. I would also like like to get battery storage for our solar panels.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but that's also exceedingly expensive right now. One thing that I want to get is I want to get like they make, like it's like a battery generator and like. A lot of companies make things like this, like particularly power tool companies. So, like Milwaukee makes one, ego makes one, a whole bunch of places make these, these, uh, these generators and they're on par with like a gasoline powered generator, but like, instead of having a gas powered generator, it's just battery power stored in in batteries and you can, uh, you can charge batteries and you can store electricity. The best thing is that, because we already have a generator, um, assuming we have fuel to run it- just like a little 500 generator, which was a big investment for us to make.
Speaker 2:But we made it when we first moved here because I was like we need something but if we were able to charge said battery we would actually get a lot more.
Speaker 1:Uh, it would be a lot more efficient for our gasoline generator to charge a battery than to just have a few things plugged into it. That might not equal the 3000 Watts that it's capable of.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and we need to plug the the wow, tie the generator into the power grid.
Speaker 1:Yeah, thank you. Yeah, and that's another thing like we have to have an electrician do that. I'd like to have a battery backup just for my CPAP machine, because that was the biggest thing is that I couldn't sleep. I couldn't sleep through this.
Speaker 2:I think that that's a priority, actually of all the things is to get you a battery backup. That would also enable us to do things like interior camping again, where we could go out and you'd still have your CPAP.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it'd be pretty great it would.
Speaker 2:Let's talk about zombie beavers first of all, if you haven't watched zombie beavers and you want to get a bit of a sense of what it's about, go to youtube, put in zombie beavers, listen to the is it's called? I think it's just called. Listen to the theme song of zombie beavers.
Speaker 1:It's like. It's like a song that talks about literally every single thing that happens in the movie. It's like I remember sitting there at the end of the movie and we looked it up to watch it. Yeah, why would we watch the movie when we just watch this music video?
Speaker 2:Except for I love the movie yeah. So why did we choose? Do we remember why we chose Zombieverse as the movie we were going to watch when you finished work for the season?
Speaker 1:I don't know. I think chose zombie versus the movie we're gonna watch when you finished work for the season, I don't know. I think I chose.
Speaker 2:It sounds ridiculous. It does sound ridiculous and I think I think ollie eats brains mentioned it at some point and I was like that's the one we gotta watch, because beavers are my national animal from canada also.
Speaker 1:They're fucking cool I love a beaver.
Speaker 2:Yeah uh, nature's engineers yeah, I mean, we're also nature's engineers.
Speaker 1:Beavers are much better engineers than us.
Speaker 2:They're definitely much better for the environment than us considering. They help us get our water nice and clean.
Speaker 1:Yeah, the things that beavers can do is extraordinary. I remember like I've seen beaver dams before and I'm like, okay, whatever beaver dams before. And I'm like, okay, whatever beaver dam, fine. But it wasn't until I came to vermont and saw like an entire like marsh area that looked like. It looked like a, like a vanishing horizon, like mirror pool, um, just like as far as you could see, like perfectly level water, and it was all held in with sticks. It was wild they're incredible creatures.
Speaker 2:They're they're rodents, but they're very cute rodents and they're very smart rodents and I knew before we even started the movie that I was going to be team zombiever yeah, I'm also team zombiever, for sure and I think we asked so um, a bunch of people came.
Speaker 2:Thank you so much if you joined. If you couldn't join, that's okay, you missed out. Yeah, uh, but a bunch of people came. Thank you so much if you joined. If you couldn't join, that's okay, you missed out. Yeah, uh, but a bunch of people came. Thank you, everybody who came. And I asked before we started are you team zombie or team human? I don't know who the one person was who said human, but I want to know which one of you chose human because, because I'm gonna tell you you, you bet on the wrong on the wrong team.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so almost everybody was like teen zombiever. Uh, and should we give a quick synopsis of this movie?
Speaker 1:just like high level the easiest way to give a synopsis about zombiever is it was made by the same people who made cabin fever and it is essentially exactly cabin fever, with zombie beavers instead of like a flesh-eating bacteria yeah, and the zombie vers are created because of a chemical spill, or not even a spill.
Speaker 2:Then they like deliberately throw up some um metal. It came out of the back of the truck.
Speaker 1:Okay, so it did accidentally spill. Yeah, it was like a some kind of industrial waste canister. Bill burr did it. You know, the comedian bill burr was driving a truck it was a lime green color.
Speaker 2:Yeah, coming out of it, not good for the beavers, apparently turn them into zombie bears.
Speaker 1:Very angry beavers when they discovered the uh, the beaver dam with the lime green stuff all over it, they're like what is this beaver piss?
Speaker 2:yeah like have you ever? Actually never mind, they've never.
Speaker 2:These people in this show had never seen they're like yeah, I think that's probably beaver piss yeah it was incredibly stupid and at first, I would say for the first 30 to 40 minutes of this movie, I was like I fucking hate this. It is every single stereotype about women that I hate. Yeah, it is fucking dumb, although there was a very funny um moment in the beginning that I thought was great, that acknowledged uh, or the that passed the lgbtq test, the vito russo test, right off the bat. Yes, this movie actually passes. It has strong gay and lesbian representation.
Speaker 1:No trans representation I did not realize that, um, probably because I was really high yeah, it passes that one.
Speaker 2:It was great. But the women were like brutally stereotyped and I was like really, and then the plot line was so fucking stupid. And then there was that moment where it dawned on me and I was like, oh, it's trying to be stupid. And then I loved it. If I know that something is intentionally dumb, I can get with it. Yeah, it's when it's unconsciously dumb that I can't.
Speaker 1:I can't do it yeah, you know there was this one. There's this one scene where it uh, it perfectly frames the bear in the woods versus man in the woods argument. Oh my god, before the bear in the woods argument, before the argument ever surfaced, there was literally a bear in the woods. They're like, oh no, a bear. And then a guy came out and shot at the bear and then he's like you girls better cover up them, titties.
Speaker 2:There were so many lecherous men in this movie, so many lecherous men who were trying to force, coerced women into doing things they didn't want to do. Yeah, that's all I'll say about that. That part was annoying and I think I'm team Sylvester Barzee when he said in our interview with him on Planet Dead that there's really no need to have that yeah In any movie, and I think that's probably the one thing that I would say. I would have been okay if that had just been taken out completely.
Speaker 1:I think the movie would have still been wonderful yeah, and like they, they wanted to make a movie that was like it. It hit a whole bunch of tropes, so like there's also all of like the, the uh, like college movie, like it's, it's like a raunchy college movie trope as well. So they put a lot of that in there and that could have remained in there without the weird, the weird non-consensual stuff yeah, I mean, I feel like they use that as a device to be like these dudes suck yeah, these are.
Speaker 2:These are gross dudes yeah, um, and I'm like what other ways can one demonstrate that a dude sucks without implying sexual coercion?
Speaker 1:I mean, there's just so many ways that dudes sucks.
Speaker 2:I mean, the hardest part is just picking one yeah, uh, it also was racially homogenous, so I feel like that was genuinely an area that it could have been better. That one, I don't know if it was so self-aware, but maybe I did realize. Like once I realized that they were intentionally making fun of the way women are stereotyped and objectified in these kinds of movies, I could get with it.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:We have no notes on this, folks. There were some great one-liners. I think that's when I started to clue into like okay, this is actually intentionally stupid. Like what's your favorite one-liner? Oh?
Speaker 1:well, there's this one guy that shows up and his whole thing is he just wants to have sex with his girlfriend, who's on this trip. And they go into the back room and you just hear them just go into town, just like the headboards banging against the wall. They're like yelling and stuff. You hear the headboards banging against the wall. They're like yelling and stuff.
Speaker 2:You hear him from the other room and he's like I feel like a power ranger. That was great. There were so many others that I don't remember now, which is so sad because I wrote them all down. I wrote down everybody's ranking of the movie too, so I could like shit talk everyone who didn't agree with me, but all I remember is that joe salazar, the author of the Dead Weight go read it agreed with me. I'm not sure if anybody else gave it five out of five zeds, but Joe and I were like, yes, would watch again, yeah, would recommend to others.
Speaker 1:That's the weird thing. I did not expect it to be great, and its greatness is in how terrible it is.
Speaker 2:Yeah, a lot of people gave it like a two out of five. I don't remember who it was, so I apologize folks. Somebody was like I cannot give this a single Zed. That cannot be done.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and like it's full of ridiculous stuff. It's full of plot holes, but it's almost like the plot holes are addressed. It's like the plot holes were intentional. Like the zombie beaver that was somehow in the bathroom. Yeah, like a zombie beaver just leaps out of the shower from like the shower head. It just comes out of nowhere, and I just presume that that's like the zombie beaver's spawn.
Speaker 2:That's possible. Yeah, or it got in when they left the door open, or something I don't remember.
Speaker 1:And I feel like there was so many things that they needed to. They needed to address, like, why don't these people just call the cops? Well, they can't, because the beavers chewed up the phone box outside and has, like little beaver claw marks on the outside yeah.
Speaker 2:Are you telling me Very smart zombie? Yeah, they wanted these fuckers to die.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I don't know why they were so offended by these college kids, but they were very offended, yeah, and like everybody shows up at different times, but how come there's only one car when they need to, when a couple of them need to escape? Well, that's because the other guys that showed up wanted to prank the girls, so they parked like a mile down the road so that they can come out of the woods and scare them.
Speaker 1:Yeah, somebody was like note this plot device for future things, which is a good point, like they covered all their bases with all of their plot holes. They fixed them, they filled the holes.
Speaker 2:I won't say what they are in case you haven't watched it, because I don't want to spoil it, because I really, really want you to watch this if you haven't yet. But the couple of things I really wanted to happen happened and I was like thank you, writers, you gave me what I needed out of this movie.
Speaker 1:I know exactly what you're talking about.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I can't say any more without ruining it. If you're watching this the first time and this thought pops in your head like oh my God, I think this is probably going to happen, or like I hope this happens, you're going to get what you want, yeah, it's very satisfying.
Speaker 1:The thing that I wanted to happen before we started the movie is I wanted the zombievers to fell a tree in a way that moved the plot forward, and they did.
Speaker 2:They definitely did. And you know, I think the best way to watch zombievers is on a Discord watch party, because there aren't people talking over the movie, so you can still follow it. But the chat was fucking hilarious and unhinged. I don't even remember half of what it was. I know that our friend Eric, who's actually going to be on the podcast for December 22nd episode Anyways, our friend Eric was there and he kept likening himself to the barrel of toxic sludge the whole way through which is very funny.
Speaker 2:Do you know what else people talked about in the chat?
Speaker 1:Oh, there was a lot of talk about a raft, but that was before a raft showed up and I was appalled that Ollie would spoil such a thing that there would be a raft, because Ollie has watched this before. Yeah, yeah, it was just really fun to watch with everybody such a thing that there would be a raft because ollie has watched this before.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, um, it was just really fun to watch with everybody yeah, it was a beaver good time yeah, oh, I think I told the story which now I have to tell here. I wonder if I've told this on the podcast. I wonder how many stories I've retold repeatedly on the podcast, because I have terrible short-term memory. Anyways, I'm gonna retell it. Do you want to know? Do I want?
Speaker 1:to know. Do you want to know the number? Do you know 26.
Speaker 2:Okay, which stories.
Speaker 1:What was the question?
Speaker 2:We're perfect together. Well, I'm going to tell this story. I don't think I've had a reason to tell it before. So this is the moment when I first moved to Georgia and I was dating my ex-wife it was actually also around Thanksgiving and I was indoctrinating my new, soon to be sister-in-law, who's 11 years old, with the true history of Thanksgiving, which really upset her mother, I bet, because she was devastated. She was like are you fucking serious? Like that's actually what happened. And I was like yeah, and then she was like are you fucking serious? Like that's actually what happened. And I was like yeah, and then she's like why are we celebrating this? I was like, well, let's talk, that's another time. Don't tell your mother. I told you this. But then she did, and then her mom was mad, uh, anyhow.
Speaker 2:Uh, sister-in-law at the time was very cute and very sweet and wanted to draw me a picture and I was like, oh, can you draw me a beaver? Like Like, I love beavers. And so she did, and it was a great beaver and her mother who I think you're getting a flavor of this person for getting mad at me for telling the true story of the history of this country was so disgusted that she pulled me aside and was like how dare you tell her to draw a beaver? I know what you mean by beaver. And I was like what? And she was like you know, I, you know, you know. And I was like it's the national animal for my country. I love beavers. And she did not believe me. I had to show her on the internet that that was actually that. But even so she was like I think you meant the vagina. You want her to draw a vagina. And I was like what? Because I'm with your daughter, so just because I'm gay, I like want to make your 11 year old daughter draw something lewd, yeah fucking weird.
Speaker 2:That's the gay agenda. Yeah, that's my. To get 11 year olds to draw beavers, yeah that's the gay agenda. Yeah, in this case, the specifically lesbian agenda was get young women. I was indoctrinating her to also. Oh my god, now she's in a same-sex marriage. It worked oh see what you did, or not? Marriage? I'm sorry, nouns are hard for me, as you all know, a same-sex relationship Her life would have been so different if you didn't make her draw a beaver.
Speaker 2:Or tell her about the true origins of Thanksgiving, she'd be a different person. Yeah, I, yeah, I think that's actually true. I'm proud. I'm proud of my lesbian agenda. I think if there was one thing that made being with my ex worth it, it was getting to know this person who, if you're ever listening to this, I really love you. There's still like I consider them like a little soul sister, yeah, even though we're not related anymore. Yeah, they're the only person I keep in touch with from that time in my life and they're very special to me. I love you, person whose name I won't say. You're the best. I'm so glad that you're gay now. Good job, they're not.
Speaker 1:I feel bad.
Speaker 2:Congratulations. I actually don't know their sexual identity, but they happen to be in a same sex partnership right now and they seem very happy, and that's what matters. Yeah, we'll send a cake. We should very happy, and that's what matters. Yeah, we'll send a cake, we should.
Speaker 1:it was just their one year anniversary recently actually.
Speaker 2:Yeah, let's send a cake. So anyhow, it was fun. We're gonna do more discord watch parties. Uh, we don't know when. Probably not till 2025, because obviously holiday season is coming.
Speaker 1:Dan and I are gonna go to canada wish us luck for our our family marathon that we have to do up there I had an idea that I just kind of wanted to float and, yeah, I'd, I'd be curious to know what people listening uh what, how they would feel about something like this. But like the uh, the discord watch party room. You know, we can just play movies in there whenever we want. What if we just had like a playlist going on where it's just there's's zombie movies playing in discord all the time.
Speaker 1:Well, all the time sounds a little intense to maintain. Uh, you know it'd be a. You know, I've got another computer that I could set up and I would just just run the whole time and people could just jump in and out whenever they feel like watching a zombie movie or so it's like we have our own private zombie channel?
Speaker 1:yeah, it's like it's like a movie theater that you can just show up to whenever you want. Yeah, let us know. Yeah, I mean you can also just watch these movies in general. Yeah, but it's fun watching them together.
Speaker 2:I will say it was really fun the couple of times that Oliver, who is the host of this Discord called Brain Muncher Zombie Collective, join it if you haven't yet. Link in the description Very fun place. Yeah, oliver has just randomly streamed a couple of times and that was really fun to zoom in and out.
Speaker 1:Yeah, just come say hi, watch for a bit and then move on, but if nothing else, maybe it's just something that we need to do on a regular basis, just like Saturday, saturday, zombie.
Speaker 2:Yeah, joe Salazar, author of the Dead Weight, going to plug that every time I say their name, suggested we do it monthly, so we could potentially do that. I think it might get harder when you're back to work, but also not. It's like really easy. Oh, you know what we didn't talk about from our Zombievers, discord watch party, our snacks. Oh, we got to talk about these snacks. We do, and then we should wrap it up. But the snacks what did I make, dan?
Speaker 1:okay, first of all, leah made popcorn amazing, no notes with nutritional yeast, yes, which somebody asked me.
Speaker 2:How do you do that? And it's actually very simple. You just sprinkle it on like any other topping. There's no like magic and it makes the popcorn taste kind of cheesy.
Speaker 1:It's very nice it's, it's a, it's a thing. It's very good for you has b12 in it and it's just kind of like what it's what us vegans use as like a cheesy, a powdery cheesy topping for things yeah, nothing about it visually is appealing.
Speaker 2:Just want to be clear about that but it is very tasty yeah, but it's like weird, like orangey yellow flakes, like it's not good looking. I'm okay with admitting that, yeah, but yes, I made popcorn, but that was not the piece de resistance.
Speaker 1:Oh no, it was not. Leah made a brain. I did. Leah made a brain A bloody ooey gooey brain yeah we ate the brain.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I don't even remember. I wish I could credit the person who I saw on Instagram who made this. It was the most random thing. It must have been like a halloween thing where somebody put first of all, you can buy a brain, silicone mold to put in the oven and you just like pack in a bunch of um, those like pre-canned made cinnamon rolls, yeah, then you bake it in there. It takes like 15 to 20 minutes longer than it would if you were just baking them as rolls and then you take it out of the mold and you have a brain, but then you mix together the icing that it comes with with strawberry preserves and then you dump it all over and it looks like a very glistening red, gooey, gooey brain.
Speaker 2:It was delicious and very fun to make very easy, really great, and I want to eat other brain shaped things now I think if we're going to do this on a regular basis, that has to be a regular part of what we do. But we could also make other kinds of cakes in there yeah, yeah, I guess so you're. You're sold on the cinnamon roll. Oh, it was really good, didn't we have it for breakfast the next day, which was really good because there's a lot yeah, that was the only thing.
Speaker 1:We had it for a couple days.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it lasted a while um, but yeah, thanks everybody for coming out to that. It was was really fun, and I guess the question is what do we want to watch next?
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:I don't know if anything can replace zombie. Can we just watch that every month?
Speaker 1:We'll just keep rewatching zombie. You know, there's a few times that we joined in when, when Ali was just messing around playing movies in there, we saw some pretty incredible things. Yeah, I mean, mean, this is how we watched uh uh chopper chicks in zombie town. Yep, um, we could. We could definitely do that again. That was a while.
Speaker 2:I don't think I can watch that one again you were also really high that was a one time for me it did not there were, that's true. I did kind of leave the building mentally many times. We all did though. Dan just flexed for me. You all missed it, yeah.
Speaker 2:Folks does it make you uncomfortable how much I objectified Dan on this podcast? What if I did this? Oh, now he's doing like a hero pose. Now he looks like he's stretching his arms in the air. Now he's waving them in front of his face like there's a plane. Now he's modeling with one hand behind his head and the other one up, while looking at me sultrally. Oh now, now he's looking at me innocently with a little one finger on his lip.
Speaker 1:Very cute yeah, I think that's the end of this podcast. It is um. Thanks everybody for for listening. Uh, give us, give us, give us a review.
Speaker 2:We would like one yeah, if you can't do it because you're not listening on apple podcast, which store knowledge is the only place to actually write a review, you can be awesome like joe salazar, author of the dead way, who did a review as one of their stories on instagram, and then we can save it as a highlight. That was such a nice review. It was incredibly nice. Yeah, if I had access to the internet, I'd read it, but I don't. Yeah. Yeah, you can do that. You can give us five stars anywhere five stars can be given. You can email us. It's onlybookclubpodcast at gmailcom. Yeah, you can give us a call. Actually, this is very important.
Speaker 2:I got a notification because we have not been getting a lot of voicemails. We haven't been pushing it lately and they were like we will take your number away if you don't use this voicemail.
Speaker 1:So it's 614-699-0006.
Speaker 2:Please harass us with very random voicemails about zombies, so they don't take our phone number away. Yeah, and it's never too late to do an evil magic chicken cluck.
Speaker 1:No, that's true, you could just give us some clucks. Yeah, yeah, we will not oppose that. Um thanks, thanks, thanks everybody. Thanks for listening.
Speaker 2:Next week We've got polymorphous leaves, the zombie re-erection. Only Sex Can Save Us, so stick around for that. Oh, Polly is wonderful. It is a great episode and a really great 45 pages that's worth reading. You can get it right now and have it ready to read by the time you listen to the episode next week. Hope you have a good week. Hope you all enjoy your internet.
Speaker 1:Enjoy your electricity and your internet.
Speaker 2:Also, I don't know when this episode's coming out, so if it comes out on Sunday, consider it a early Christmas miracle of the internet. Gods, you're welcome, merry.
Speaker 1:Christmas.
Speaker 2:Merry.
Speaker 1:Christmas. The end is nigh. Bye-bye, bye, bye-bye, bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye.
Speaker 2:Bye.
