Have you been bit? Join Dr. Zed and special guest Dr. Jake Jensen for a live Q and A on best practices for zombie wound care and learn what you should do if you or a family member gets bitten during the zombie apocalypse.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.