Zombie Book Club

Zombie Book Club
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Welcome to Zombie Book Club! We're a Podcast that's also a book club! We talk about Zombie / Apocalyptic horror novels, TV and movies.

  1. We're Back from the Dead | Zombie Book Club Ep. 149

    2D AGO

    We're Back from the Dead | Zombie Book Club Ep. 149

    We crawl back from the zombie plague with a fever-dream catch-up that somehow turns into a sharp conversation about power, autonomy, and who gets to make the rules. We dig into our HOA annual meeting; a real-life "Survivor" moment where alliances formed around one loaded question: do we leave each other alone, or do we pile on rules to control what neighbors do on their own land? From petty bylaw enforcement to short-term rental panic, we trace how community governance becomes a proxy war for fear, control, and NIMBY instincts. Then we pull the thread from our previous Apocalypse Tech episode and go deep on surveillance capitalism, degoogling, and the creeping feeling that the internet has shifted from a decentralized commons into a centralized control mechanism. We cover data brokers, AI as a "truth gatekeeper," always-on vehicle tracking, and why your "free" apps aren't free. We end on a hopeful note: LoRa radios, Meshtastic mesh networks, DIY cyberdecks, and the case for physical media ownership as a practical act of digital self-defense and zombie preparedness. Relevant Links: Meshtastic (off-grid mesh networking): meshtastic.orgPrivacy Guides (degoogling & privacy tool recommendations): privacyguides.orgr/degoogle (community): reddit.com/r/degoogleDuckDuckGo (private search engine): duckduckgo.comCyberdeck Cafe (the hub of the Cyberdeck community, FAQ, build guide, curated parts list): cyberdeck.cafer/cyberDeck (Reddit community — builds, inspiration, troubleshooting): reddit.com/r/cyberDeckSupport the show Zombie Book Club Links Join us on on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cw/ZombieBookClubJoin the Brain Muncher’s Zombie Collective: https://discord.gg/rn3nPDa4CBZBC Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/zombiebookclubpodcast/ZBC Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/710957975263518/Zombie Book Club Voicemail: (614) 699-0006‬Zombie Book Club Email: ZombieBookClubPodcast@gmail.com

    1h 1m
  2. Apocalypse Tech (Casual Dead) | Zombie Book Club Ep 148

    MAY 10

    Apocalypse Tech (Casual Dead) | Zombie Book Club Ep 148

    In this episode, we dig into the real-world tools for communicating and coordinating without cell towers or cloud services: Meshtastic mesh radios, ham radio via Winlink and JS8Call, GMRS repeater networks, and the more radical vision of Reticulum — a cryptographic network stack built for a post-internet world. We also cover the surprisingly active landscape of community mesh networks already running in cities like New York and Philadelphia, and why building decentralized infrastructure now is mutual aid, not just prepper fantasy. Offline Wikipedia via Kiwix, self-hosted media libraries with Jellyfin, Calibre, and Audiobookshelf, and knowledge preservation archives like Open Source Ecology and Appropedia can turn a Raspberry Pi into a local server that keeps your community informed, entertained, and capable. Communications Meshtastic — https://meshtastic.orgReticulum Network — https://reticulum.networkWinlink (email over radio) — https://www.winlink.orgJS8Call — http://js8call.comLocal networks NYC Mesh — https://www.nycmesh.netPhilly Community Wireless — https://phillycommunitywireless.orgPeople's Open Network (Oakland) — https://peoplesopen.netEntertainment / media Jellyfin — https://jellyfin.orgKiwix — https://kiwix.orgInternet-in-a-Box — https://internet-in-a-box.orgCalibre — https://calibre-ebook.comNavidrome — https://www.navidrome.orgAudiobookshelf — https://www.audiobookshelf.orgKnowledge preservation Survivor Library — http://www.survivorlibrary.comAppropedia — https://www.appropedia.orgOpen Source Ecology — https://www.opensourceecology.orgFarm Hack — https://farmhack.orgPrecious Plastic — https://www.preciousplastic.com Support the show Zombie Book Club Links Join us on on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cw/ZombieBookClubJoin the Brain Muncher’s Zombie Collective: https://discord.gg/rn3nPDa4CBZBC Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/zombiebookclubpodcast/ZBC Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/710957975263518/Zombie Book Club Voicemail: (614) 699-0006‬Zombie Book Club Email: ZombieBookClubPodcast@gmail.com

    1h 17m
  3. Joseph Pesavento's World of Horror | Zombie Book Club Ep 147

    MAY 3

    Joseph Pesavento's World of Horror | Zombie Book Club Ep 147

    Horror and zombie author Joseph Pesavento joins us to dig into what really drives undead fiction; the freedom, the collapse of rules, and the uncomfortable truth that the living are often the bigger threat. We trace his writing journey from a childhood journal inspired by Nickelodeon's Doug through film school screenplays to seven published books, and get into the practical, unfiltered reality of going indie. Joseph also breaks down Death Cleanse, his militarized zombie road-trip novel about the man who caused the outbreak, now trapped in an eerie Montauk bunker steeped in real conspiratorial history with a gore level that doesn't flinch. Guest Links & Contact Joseph Pesavento Website: josephpesavento.comInstagram: @josephpesaventowritesDeath Cleanse (signed copy): josephpesavento.com/product-page/death-cleanse-signedSupport the show Zombie Book Club Links Join us on on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cw/ZombieBookClubJoin the Brain Muncher’s Zombie Collective: https://discord.gg/rn3nPDa4CBZBC Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/zombiebookclubpodcast/ZBC Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/710957975263518/Zombie Book Club Voicemail: (614) 699-0006‬Zombie Book Club Email: ZombieBookClubPodcast@gmail.com

    1h 22m
  4. V for Vendetta Feels Like Current Events (Casual Dead) | Zombie Book Club Ep. 146

    APR 26

    V for Vendetta Feels Like Current Events (Casual Dead) | Zombie Book Club Ep. 146

    A Kimberly-Clark warehouse worker lit a 1.2-million-square-foot facility on fire and filmed himself saying "all you had to do was pay us enough to f*****g live." Media coverage mourned the inventory. Dan and Leah come in burned out but reach for a comfort watch (V for Vendetta) and find it hitting like current events. The movie may be twenty years old, but the machinery it describes; propaganda, scapegoating, fear-based unity, and a public conditioned to accept cruelty as normal — is running at full speed right now. From the Kimberly-Clark fire to stock buybacks that consumed 106% of company profits, to union-busting and Amazon workplace horror stories, the episode traces the pressure that builds when a system refuses to reform. Then we talk about V for Vendetta itself: the Guy Fawkes mask, the long game of symbolism, queer liberation themes, and what it looks like when people stop believing the polite path leads anywhere. Elevator Pitch Neal Noakes on Instagram: @Neal.Noakes.Books We Will Not Survive on Amazon: Pre Order Here TOPICS DISCUSSED: The Kimberly-Clark Fire / Chamel Abdulkarim Wikipedia summary: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Kimberly-Clark_Distribution_Center_fireDemocracy Now! coverage: https://www.democracynow.org/2026/4/13/headlines/all_you_had_to_do_was_pay_us_enough_to_live_worker_sets_fire_to_california_paper_warehouseJacobin deep dive on Kimberly-Clark financials: https://jacobin.com/2026/04/california-kimberly-clark-warehouse-arsonV for Vendetta Graphic novel (Wikipedia): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V_for_VendettaMovie quotes: https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/392838-v-for-vendettaCritical essay — V for Vendetta and the limits of liberal protest: https://bloodknife.com/v-for-vendetta-and-the-limits-of-liberal-protest/ Support the show Zombie Book Club Links Join us on on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cw/ZombieBookClubJoin the Brain Muncher’s Zombie Collective: https://discord.gg/rn3nPDa4CBZBC Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/zombiebookclubpodcast/ZBC Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/710957975263518/Zombie Book Club Voicemail: (614) 699-0006‬Zombie Book Club Email: ZombieBookClubPodcast@gmail.com

    55 min
  5. 'The Madcaps' Finale Kickstarter with Special Guest DM Ray | Zombie Book Club Ep 145

    APR 19

    'The Madcaps' Finale Kickstarter with Special Guest DM Ray | Zombie Book Club Ep 145

    Ray Jamison — writer, dungeon master, and creator of The Madcaps — returns to close out his medieval fantasy zombie miniseries in style. With his finale Kickstarter live for issues one through three, we dig into what it means to finish a story on purpose: one long night, four friends, and a necromancer standing between Ivywood and sunrise. We talk craft — how a DM mindset shapes pacing and payoff, why intrigue matters as much as action, and what makes these four characters (a brawny intellectual, a devout farmer, a good-hearted charlatan, and a social facilitator) ask the only question that really matters: who am I, and where do I fit? We also get into the nuts and bolts of indie publishing — scripts, art, color, letters, Kickstarter tiers, specialty covers, and why building a complete, jumpable story from issue one is both a creative philosophy and a reader promise. If you've been waiting to get into The Madcaps, this is your window. Go back the Kickstarter now. LINKS & CONTACT: Ray Jamison (DM Ray) on Instagram: @raymondthedmThe Madcaps Issues #1–3 Kickstarter (finale campaign): kickstarter.com/projects/philboentertainment/madcaps-issue-3 Support the show Zombie Book Club Links Join us on on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cw/ZombieBookClubJoin the Brain Muncher’s Zombie Collective: https://discord.gg/rn3nPDa4CBZBC Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/zombiebookclubpodcast/ZBC Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/710957975263518/Zombie Book Club Voicemail: (614) 699-0006‬Zombie Book Club Email: ZombieBookClubPodcast@gmail.com

    1 hr
  6. We can do No Kings, or we can do KillDozer (Casual Dead) | Zombie Book Club Ep. 144

    APR 12

    We can do No Kings, or we can do KillDozer (Casual Dead) | Zombie Book Club Ep. 144

    Eight million people showed up, and many on the internet called it pointless. We don't buy the nihilism; but we also don't pretend a permitted Saturday rally is the same thing as disrupting power. This episode, we dig into what No Kings actually does well (making dissent visible, connecting you to neighbors and organizations, being the tip of a much larger iceberg), and what it doesn't do on its own. We talk Montgomery bus boycott logic, general strike groundwork, mutual aid, and how movements win by targeting pocketbooks and prestige. Paperwork is the unsexy engine of real organizing. Then Dan takes us to Granby, Colorado, and the story of Marvin Heemeyer; a welder who spent 18 months secretly armoring a bulldozer in a shed, then spent two hours demolishing 13 buildings before dying alone in a basement. It's a story about how local capital weaponizes the law, what happens when every legal avenue closes, and why the internet's folk hero version of KillDozer conveniently strips out the part where the people who cheered for it would have sided with the Docheffs in todays political landscape. Links Info No Kings / Protest Organizing NoKings.org — find or host events, training resources: https://www.nokings.orgMobilize with No Kings — volunteer and event finder: https://www.mobilize.us/nokings/Indivisible (lead No Kings organizer): https://indivisible.org50501 Movement (coined "No Kings"): https://www.fiftyfifty.one/MoveOn: https://front.moveon.orgACLU: https://www.aclu.orgNonviolent Resistance Research Erica Chenoweth's 3.5% Rule explainer — Harvard Kennedy School: https://www.hks.harvard.edu/faculty-research/policy-topics/advocacy-social-movements/35-rule-understanding-what-makes-protestWhy Civil Resistance Works (Chenoweth & Stephan, 2011) — Columbia University PressCrowd Counting Consortium: https://ash.harvard.edu/programs/crowd-counting-consortium/KillDozer / Marvin Heemeyer Wikipedia — Marvin Heemeyer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvin_Heemeyer Support the show Zombie Book Club Links Join us on on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cw/ZombieBookClubJoin the Brain Muncher’s Zombie Collective: https://discord.gg/rn3nPDa4CBZBC Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/zombiebookclubpodcast/ZBC Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/710957975263518/Zombie Book Club Voicemail: (614) 699-0006‬Zombie Book Club Email: ZombieBookClubPodcast@gmail.com

    1h 6m
  7. Tomorrow Never Came with Special Guest Alice B. Sullivan | Zombie Book Club Ep 143

    APR 5

    Tomorrow Never Came with Special Guest Alice B. Sullivan | Zombie Book Club Ep 143

    Alice B. Sullivan is back, and this time she brought the apocalypse with her. We're celebrating the release of Tomorrow Never Came, Book 2 in her Aftermath series, and digging into everything that makes it tick; the virus science behind goners and vectors, infected animals that will haunt your nightmares, and get into the messy, beautiful question at the heart of this book: how far do you bend your morals before you don't recognize yourself anymore? We also pull back the curtain on Alice's wildly fun Facebook "choose your own adventure" apocalypse, what it's like to write fast and and how reader expectations (and the occasional one-star review) shape the way we talk about genre fiction. If you love post-apocalyptic thrillers, slow-burn relationships, lesbian zombie novels, and dogs that never die under any circumstance; this one's for you. Guest & Relevant Links Alice B. Sullivan — Contact & Socials Website: https://alicebsullivan.comFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/AliceBSullivan01Newsletter: https://alicebsullivan.com/newsletter-signup/Alice's Books — Amazon Tomorrow Never Came (Aftermath #2): https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GRKHX4Z2Yesterday's Gone (Aftermath #1): https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CK75RB5SFull Author Page: https://www.amazon.com/stores/Alice-B.-Sullivan/author/B09BX4BRR7 Support the show Zombie Book Club Links Join us on on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cw/ZombieBookClubJoin the Brain Muncher’s Zombie Collective: https://discord.gg/rn3nPDa4CBZBC Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/zombiebookclubpodcast/ZBC Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/710957975263518/Zombie Book Club Voicemail: (614) 699-0006‬Zombie Book Club Email: ZombieBookClubPodcast@gmail.com

    1h 23m
  8. Mental Health for the Zombie Apocalypse Writer | Zombie Book Club Ep 142

    MAR 29

    Mental Health for the Zombie Apocalypse Writer | Zombie Book Club Ep 142

    The heart of this bonus episode is writing craft and writer mental health. Dan breaks down why it wasn’t “writer’s block” so much as an emotional block, what it feels like to stare at the page and produce nothing but an ellipsis, and how he rebuilt momentum with a routine, a weekly word-count goal, and permission to skip ahead to the scenes that actually matter. We also swap notes on writing books that help, revision realities, and the long game of finishing a zombie novel without hating what you make. We talk about coping in a nonstop political news cycle, why social media can turn into both therapy and trauma, and how roasting trolls on Threads becomes a pressure release when everything feels unreal. We also highlight a creator we’ve been following who baits bad-faith DMs into accidental lessons on history and feminism. Support the show Zombie Book Club Links Join us on on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cw/ZombieBookClubJoin the Brain Muncher’s Zombie Collective: https://discord.gg/rn3nPDa4CBZBC Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/zombiebookclubpodcast/ZBC Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/710957975263518/Zombie Book Club Voicemail: (614) 699-0006‬Zombie Book Club Email: ZombieBookClubPodcast@gmail.com

    51 min
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Welcome to Zombie Book Club! We're a Podcast that's also a book club! We talk about Zombie / Apocalyptic horror novels, TV and movies.

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    Zombie Book Club
  • Years Active
    2023 - 2026
  • Episodes
    152
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