Channel Zed - Season 1 (2020)

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Masterpiece Theater meets MST3000 meets the zombie apocalypse in Channel Zed's Brain Dead Theater. Watch clips from In The Flesh and Misfits, and chat about what zombies can teach us about our own humanity.

What's in your go bag? Will you survive the Zombie Apocalypse? Dr. Zed talks with Emily Zarka, host of the Channel Zed show "Go Bag Challenge" about emergency medical kits made to survive zombie attacks and other apocalyptic events.

Surviving the zombie apocalypse isn't just about escaping the undead, it's also about figuring out how to find, store and prepare food so that you can sustain yourself and survive.

Nothing seems to feed restlessness like being stuck inside during the zombie apocalypse. Liz and Ilana talk and show clips from Dawn of the Dead (2004) and make parallels with TikToks from our current apocalyptic moments.

Have you been so zombified by tech that you're thinking of giving it up? Mo Lotman reports from the front lines of technoskepticism, sharing the joys and challenges of rejecting the insidious creep of technology into his life and mind.

Dr. Zed talks with Dr. Steven Schlozman, author of "The Zombie Autopsies," about what to pay attention to and how to prepare when you go out into a world brimming with zombies.

How does horror movie Director, Actor and Producer Larry Fessenden use zombies and apocalyptic settings to help humanity face our collective fears? Larry discusses his approach to filmmaking and show some of his favorite clips.

Zombified podcast talks with immunologist Jessica Brinkworth and zombie apocalypse survival expert Cam Carlson about our current apocalyptish times.

"Red Zone" expert Keith Tidball explains how zombie apocalypse survival is not just about what's in your go-bag, but also about what's in your brain.

Updates from the front lines of the ZA. Steve Schlozman explains how zombie cinema will guide us through the pandemic. Broadcast Thought on free will, ill will and real-life monsters. Anne Jackson on the zombification of disability.

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Peter Todd and Ann Barwich talk about zombie food preferences.

Sarah Hill on how being zombified by The Pill. Summer Lynn Mengelkoch on her new zombie sexual preferences. Christopher Dana Lynn asks if tattoos make you sexier. Esther Borges Florsheim describes the immunological ZA.

Dr. Zed talks with Dr. Amanda Gallagher about survival strategies for the zombie apocalypse.

Danièle Cybulskie gets medieval on packing a Zombie Apocalypse go bag.

David Quammen explains the evolutionary success story behind SARS-CoV-2. Jessica Brinkworth shows how SARS-CoV-2 zombifies our cells. Roger White explains the economic consequences of the ZA. And more.

Steven Schlozman, Sarah Hill and David Quammen share their brains, joined by musical guest Baba Brinkman.

Steven Schlozman guides us through zombie movie clips to save our souls.

SEX and TECH FEATURE Emily Witt on whether marriage is dead or undead. Special feature on the vexing tech of sex moderated by ethics expert, Jason Robert. Diana S. Fleischman reveals the counterfeit fitness behind sex robots. And more.

Master bakers Michael Kalanty and Peter Reinhart discuss how bread-making can restore our humanity in the ZA.

Mzilikazi Koné on zombies, labor, slavery and race. Cathryn Townsend on the cannibalistic Wendigo. Ed Hagen on how depression can protect you from being zombified. Daniel Nettle shows how the pandemic has increased support for UBI.

Dr. Darryl Macias on plague and pandemic medicine tips for surviving the ZA.

Cameron Carlson on communications and intelligence for handling disasters, ZA or otherwise.

Barbara Natterson-Horowitz explains the perils of privilege in nature. Amy Boddy explores why mammals are vulnerable to becoming mombies. Michael Metzger reveals the undead cancers that lurk under the sea. More.

Emily Witt, Mzilikazi Koné and B.N. Horowitz, MD, share their brains, joined by musical guest Baba Brinkman.

Mzilikazi Koné shares her favorite clips from Get Out and Night of the Living Dead.

Donna Zuckerberg on misogynists reanimating the corpses of classic authors, Linda Flores Ohlson on zombie pronouns and dehumanization. Podcasters from Shabam Josh Kurz and Wendy Roderweiss.

Diego Guevara Beltran explains why zombies and humans sometimes don't like to share food. Gwyneth Williams Gordon gives voice to zombies' eating experience, history, and geography.

Sree Sreenivasan on social media's future. W.S. Gray on face recognition algorithms, Jeanette Vigliotti shows how we are both the consumer and the consumed on social media. Vaughn Becker reveals our biases in detecting invisible contagion.

Dr. Zed talks to Clint Kalan about how to deal with zombie-related medical emergencies.

Chelsey Weber-Smith shares lessons for ZA go bag packing from hitchhiking and growing up with a 2012 doomsday prepper parent.

Robin Nelson explains how black zombies animate the white imagination. Sarah Ventre and Chelsey Weber-Smith investigate the truth behind American conspiracy theories. Sam Kestenbaum chats conspiracies and religious movements.

Sree Sreenivasan and Robin Nelson share their brains, joined by musical guest Baba Brinkman.

George Hagman shows how The Walking Dead inspires resilience in the face of trauma.

Rachel Feltman on the weirdest things about sex. Lee Cronk on zombification as a legal defense strategy. B.N. Horowitz shows just how wild consent can be. K. Jakob Patten reveals the acoustic secrets of zombie moans of pleasure and pain.

Greg E. Popovich and Corrie Whisner on the nutritional considerations of eating brains.

Monster experts Jim Perry, Coltan Scrivner, Chelsey Weber-Smith, and Emily Zarka on why we believe in the undead. Reports from the front lines of the ZA.

Jessica Brinkworth on the perceived and actual risks of trick-or-treating. Explore the actual risks of gathering ghouls for Halloween, versus the perceived anxieties that truly never die-razorblades in apples, anyone?

This is your chance to help the world make the MOST IMPORTANT DECISION of our lives. That's right: who is the cutest monster? Emily Zarka (host of PBS's Monstrum) and her crew of cute monster experts will join us for the big decision.

Join our psychology expert and "friends" Psychologist Jaimie Krems and Anthropologist Nicole Hess as we take a look at clips from the movie, Mean Girls, and discuss the ways status, trust, and betrayal affect your closest friendships.

A group of experts who have different attitudes discuss quarantining, social distancing and whether or not we should still spit in our palms before we shake hands. Join us from your bubble, bunker or barstool.

Do zombies feel pain? Dr. Zed talks to neuroscientist Robyn Crook about the function and evolution of pain, and what zombies' inability to feel pain might mean for their evolutionary viability and the ethics of zombie research.

When the zombie apocalypse hits and you're in the dorms, will you be ready? Survival expert Cam Carlson, and being-in-college expert Michelle Jang discuss how to create the perfect dorm-room go bag and shelter-in-place kit.

Do you always need to call the same four dudes? We explore the 2016 Ghostbusters re-boot and the ghostbro-driven backlash against it, and how you can build your own diverse team for fighting ghosts, zombies or rabid manbaby super-fans.

Are you getting enough sleep? Neither are we. If you're worried that sleep deprivation will compromise you in the ZA, you're probably right. You'll learn why it's dangerous if you don't sleep. And even more dangerous if you do.

Grow, fish, and forage your holiday meal for a very merry hyperlocal holiday. Erica and Rob talk to anthropologist, ecologist and localist Keith Tidball about how to have a festive free-range holiday even when you're stuck at home.

We discuss the 1964 holiday special "Rudolph the red nosed reindeer," and chat about how horrifyingly traumatic this ostensible children's Christmas special actually is.

Ann Barwich and Peter Todd join to discuss anosmia (when you can't smell), paraosmia (when things smell like something they're not) and the importance of our sense of smell in triggering memories and traditions during the holiday season.

Carl Flink talks about how we can literally and metaphorically move forward by embracing the bizarreness that is our current world: outlasting and out-dancing the apocalypse by frolicking in hazmat suits, for example.

Ilana and Liz talk to Dr. Jason Scott about how dystopian and utopian science fiction gives creators the freedom to imagine liberal (or, liberatory) landscapes in which queerness is celebrated, or, even better, not tokenized.

Even if you survive the apocalypse, could you build a shelter, stay warm, and find food? After spending two years discussing this idea from the safety of civilization, we're going to give it a try.

Today we discuss the hope that comes with a renewal of democracy and the rolling out of vaccines against a deadly virus, but we also ask the question on everyones minds: Is the shit show really over?

When the apocalypse hits, how will you connect with your audience, protect your brand, and capture the attention of the media? Marvin Stockwell, Dir. of Media Relations at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, discusses these challenges.

We talk with infectious disease expert and Director of the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences, Andrew Read, about vaccine escape, when new variants spread that can infect people who are already vaccinated.

How can animals help shape our response to the zombie apocalypse? Jo Shaw, The Equus Projects Artistic Director, discusses working with horses and interspecies collaboration to help us survive the ZA and forge meaningful connections.

Groundwater levels are plunging . Are we running out of water? Are we running out of time? We talk with Civic/Environmental Engineering Student Brook Thompson about how we can best manage (or fight for) both. Tune in to see if Dave dies.

John Rudolph and anthropologist Meredith F. Small and unschooling researcher Kevin Currie-Knight discuss and debate how kids should and can learn in times of calm and in times of crisis.

Esma Gel and infectious disease expert Jessica Brinkworth discuss the hidden logistics behind getting the country vaccinated, the loopholes that people find in the system and the ethical challenges that arise along the way.

Biologist and epidemiologist Michael Metzger on transmissible cancer in clams: how they arise, why they spread, and why we humans don't have to worry about transmissible cancer (except if you're being chased by zombies).

Are you part of a system that exploits free labor, perpetuates existing power structures and has been completely zombified by corporate interests? So are we. Jeremy Sykes reveals how skewed incentives no longer match rewards.

We talk about whether endotoxin is fundamentally an agent of destruction, a regulator of our immune systems or an indestructible zombie party crasher that just knows how to trigger us.

We talk with Britt Bunyard, editor in chief of Fungi magazine, about the magical, mystical, and mind-bending abilities of fungi and what this means for the apocalypses of the past and future.

Rebecca Wragg Sykes, of "Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art," and Anna Burges-Lumsden, writer and food stylist, discuss how Neanderthals prepared and enjoyed their meals as Anna walks us through a Neanderthal-inspired meal.

Preparing for emergency scenarios is hard enough for adults, but what happens when children enter the equation? Emily chats with comedy author and father of four James Breakwell, and author and psychologist Dr. Steven Kirsh .

Now that we're all getting vaccinated against the zombie virus, does this mean the apocalypse is over? Today we talk with apocalypse experts about what the future holds and how they plan to stay safe over the coming months.