We crack open Resident Evil (2002) to expose Umbrella Corp’s playbook: a secret underground lab, an AI “Red Queen” that chooses lethal containment over humanity, and a virus that turns a research facility into an underground tomb. By mapping the film’s thrills onto today’s corporate landscape, we explore how shareholder‑driven incentives, corporate personhood, and profit‑first logic can become a real‑world horror story—​a corporate psychopath that “kills” for efficiency.

From the legal roots of corporate personhood (the 14th Amendment) to the documentary The Corporation that diagnoses corporations as psychopaths, we discuss how the Red Queen’s logic is a cautionary AI‑governance tale and a mirror of unchecked corporate power. We finish with concrete steps: building mutual‑aid networks, supporting cooperatives, and demanding transparency to “shoot the corporate head” before the next outbreak.

Relevant Links

• Wikipedia – Resident Evil (2002 film) – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resident_Evil_(film)
• NPR – “When Did Companies Become People?” – https://www.npr.org/2014/07/28/335288388/when-did-companies-become-people-excavating-the-legal-evolution
• The Corporation documentary official site – https://thecorporation.com/
• Beagle Freedom Project – https://bfp.org/
• Leah’s Etsy shop (Sunset Cloud Parade) – https://www.etsy.com/shop/SunsetCloudParade

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The plan for this episode was simple: fire zombies, protest frogs, and a life update. What we got was a quiet living room, two handheld mics, and the kind of day that makes everything else feel small. Our old boy Nero, a once-feral, endlessly loving dog who shaped our routines and taught us patience, took a sharp turn. We walked into the ER carrying an 80lb dog like a duffle bag and left with a simple truth: sometimes love is mercy, and mercy means letting go.

If this resonates, tell us about a pet who left this world and the ritual that helped you say goodbye.

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Can a film adaptation ever capture the quiet ache of its source? In this crossover with Wicked Words Book Club, we dissect Isaac Marion’s Warm Bodies and its sleek, sanitized movie version, tracing the emotional, ideological, and tonal shifts that split page and screen. We celebrate the bits that land, like visual metaphors of zombified liminality and clever sight gags, and lament the simplifications that undercut weight: interchangeable bonies, narrative shortcuts, and a romance that skips its own gritty labor.

Did the adaptation elevate or erode the zombie genre? Tune in and decide with us.

Contact & Links

Wicked Words Book Club

• Website / Blog: Wicked-Words.com
  
  
• Spotify: Wicked Words Book Club
  
  
• Instagram: @wickedwordsbc
  
• Discord: https://discord.gg/J5DF983yMg
  

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Join us for a smart, irreverent dive into Aquarium of the Dead with marine biologist and festival fanatic Jacob Quijas. We map undead tropes onto real marine science—waves, buoyancy, detritivores, keystone species—and even speculate: can the ocean digest zombies faster than we expect and would their bones become coral?

Then we dive in to the movie: shark mix-ups, roaring octopi, and what Aquarium of the Dead gets hilariously wrong about marine life and systems. Along the way, Jacob’s wisdom about eating down the food chain, building communities under pressure, and finding science in the absurd will have you laughing, learning, and maybe even rethinking your next seaside horror flick.

Jacob Quijas

• Instagram — @vivalafestivapodcast
• Viva La Festiva Podcast — https://tr.ee/prdMZjTMeJ

Movie / Topic Links

• Aquarium of the Dead (2021) — Wikipedia page with production notes
• Trailer on YouTube

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When a zombie named 'R' rescues a living girl instead of devouring her, everything shifts. Told through R’s reflective, darkly witty inner monologue, Warm Bodies challenges our assumptions of life, death, and what it means to feel. As R consumes Perry’s brain and begins to access memories, he forges a strange intimacy with Perry’s consciousness—raising the question: whose identity is really influencing R’s journey?

In this crossover episode, we join Sara and Greg from Wicked Words Bookclub Podcast dive deep into Isaac Marion’s bold reimagining of the zombie mythos. We examine how the mirrored, stagnating societies of zombies at an airport and humans in a stadium reflect each other, how R’s transformations mirror emotional rebirth, and whether love alone can shake entire systems.

Contact / Social Media for Wicked Words Bookclub + Relevant Links

Wicked Words / Wicked Words Bookclub

• Website: wicked-words.com
• Podcast (Spotify): Wicked Words Book Club
• Instagram: @WickedWordsBC
• Threads: @wickedwordsbc

Isaac Marion (author of Warm Bodies)

• Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Marion
• Website: isaacmarion.com

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This episode digs into how the Trump Administration has rolled back decades of clean energy progress—through sweeping executive orders, budget cuts, and cancelled programs—and how those moves are hitting communities of color, the poor, and Indigenous Nations the hardest. Leah shares her own loss of work in environmental justice, and we break down what that means in real terms: higher energy bills, fewer clean-energy jobs, loss of protections, and more pollution in the places that already bear the worst burdens.

Relevant Information and Links:

• The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is terminating the $7 billion “Solar for All” program — a key initiative intended to bring solar access to low-income and disadvantaged communities.
  https://www.cbsnews.com/news/epa-considers-ending-solar-for-all-program-funding/
• There is also a broader regulatory rollback: dozens of Biden-era environmental, climate, and clean air protections are being dismantled or suspended.
  https://eelp.law.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/EELP-Environmental-and-Energy-Executive-Orders-Jan.-2025.pdf
• What’s Left of Federal Environmental Justice
• Wiring the Divide: The Impact of Redlining on Electric Infrastructure
• Race: The Power of an Illusion

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Jason Strutz joins us on Zombie Book Club Ep 113 to talk about Returned, his medieval horror graphic novel where the undead aren’t just monsters — they’re souls trapped in bodies that have turned violent, forced to watch as loved ones try to bring them back. When warrior Vale dies and becomes one such undead, her partner Hal and their son Ragno must navigate the horror, the betrayal, and the slim chance of redemption.

We dive into how Jason’s own life — from caring for a parent with frontotemporal dementia to balancing art with fatherhood — inspired the emotional core of Returned. We also talk about his creative process, the unique zombie mythos he’s built, and what comes next in the Kickstarter rollout.

Guest Links:

• Website: strutzart.com
• Comic/Webcomic Website: ReturnedComic.com
• Kickstarter: Returned – Part One & Two of Four
• Instagram: @strutzart
• Facebook: StrutzArt page

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In this episode, we bring you face-to-face with acclaimed author Alice B. Sullivan, as we crack open The Collapse: Book 0 in her Aftermath series. Alice takes us behind the scenes of how a character backstory written in just three whirlwind weeks during the pandemic became a full-blown prequel, introducing young Sadie and her fearless Yorkshire Terrier, Trooper. Prepare to reframe your assumptions about apocalypse pets—Alice argues small dogs are more than liabilities, they’re surprising survival assets.

We also dig into the ethical trenches: from the ethical dilemma of shielding children from hard truths, to the moral weight of utilitarian “preservation” communities—and why sometimes, protecting what you love overrides survival logic. Plus, Alice teases what’s next in the Aftermath universe. Whether you’re a dog lover, zombie fiction fan, or fascinated by human resilience, this episode will make you reconsider who—or what—you’d save when society collapses.

Guest Contact

• Website: alicebsullivan.com
• Facebook: Alice B. Sullivan
• Instagram: @zombieauthor_alicebsullivan
• Goodreads: author page: Alice B. Sullivan
• Buy Alices Books: Amazon

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