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Kyle mentions the main character Rick and his weapon choice from the show.
Woody ✓ voice-verified● neutral · passing mention, not scored
“rick always had a python i think”
Discussion of Norman Reedus's acting quality throughout the series, with specific scene analysis from a motorcycle gang encounter
Woody ✓ voice-verified◆ mixed
“norman retus at the start of walking dead he is a one out of ten and he improves to be a good four or five out of ten by the 11th year”
Kyle ✓ voice-verified▲ positive
“that's when he killed that scene i know that scene perfectly he has two lines in that entire scene like like everybody”
Hosts critique the show's unrealistic zombie behavior and character decision-making.
Kyle ✓ voice-verified▼ negative
“Every time a walker would sneak up on somebody and a forest full of dead leaves and twigs. You can't sneak up on... Fuck! You hear an acorn fall out of a tree 50 yards away.”
Criticism of the show's inaccurate portrayal of crossbow mechanics and the lack of proper military/weapons consulting
Woody ✓ voice-verified◆ mixed
“I like the show but everything they do with regards to like warfare is pretty terrible”
Comparison to The Last of Us regarding community building and character arcs across seasons
Kyle ✓ voice-verified● neutral · passing mention, not scored
“Walking Dead was always every season they give you a new community”
Discussion of Negan character and anxiety from the show, comparison to Invincible tension, comics versus show differences
Woody ✓ voice-verified◆ mixed
“i went through this experience with walking dead i got into it enough that i wanted to read the comic and uh this site i just scrolled down so the thing that you're worried about doesn't really happen like the the pick t”
Kyle ✓ voice-verified▼ negative
“I had not felt that kind of anxiety watching a show since the last time Negan was on my TV about to kill one of my favorite heroes. When he had Rick and he was telling Rick to cut his hand off with a hatchet, that's the ”
Discussion of weapon choices and character specialization in the post-apocalyptic series
Woody ✓ voice-verified▲ positive · passing mention, not scored
“I promise I won't talk about Walking Dead. But Walking Dead spurred my little mini interest in swords. I think about like everyone in Walking Dead chooses a different weapon, right? The one guy has a crossbow. There's a ”
Mentioned as planned viewing activity with someone named Colin, willing to abandon for other entertainment
Woody ✓ voice-verified● neutral · passing mention, not scored
“I was going to watch three episodes of walking dead with Colin, but maybe I can get them interested in thunder thoughts”
Extended discussion of show quality over time, violence escalation, Negan's character introduction, casting improvements, and acting performance
Woody ✓ voice-verified◆ mixed
“The tragedy of Walking Dead is that the show took a dip after they introduced Negan. They just took too long to beat down the survivors. It took a couple dips. Took a dip around season two. Took a dip around season seven”
Kyle · likely● neutral · passing mention, not scored
“we're almost out of walking dead content there's only two more episodes and they're from this year and then we have to wait week by week”
Kyle ✓ voice-verified▲ positive
“He's so scary”
Kyle · unverified▲ positive
“i like I like that guy's an actor he was great in Supernatural um and uh I've enjoyed him in everything he's ever done but uh I love his like I love his cadence he's just got this way of talking and I'm just like yeah I ”
Extensive discussion of character arcs, Negan antagonist, community conflicts, and narrative choices across multiple seasons
Woody ✓ voice-verified▲ positive
“When they met Negan, that was the best episode of the whole 13 years”
Woody · unverified▼ negative
“I didn't like that. I thought that it was enough that you were torturing them so much that Carl lost his eye.”
Kyle · unverified▲ positive
“I loved it. Loved it.”
Woody · unverified◆ mixed
“I did like the King. The King was great.”
Scene where survivors encounter feral domestic dogs and resort to eating them while traveling to DC
Taylor ✓ voice-verified● neutral · passing mention, not scored
“I got to the walking dead episode where they're making this very long walk because their car's out of gas they're traveling from atlanta to dc and this pack of domestic domestic dogs that's now been feral for years like ”
Extensive critique of the show's writing, character arcs, dialogue, tactics, and final season quality
Kyle ✓ voice-verified▼ negative
“every bullet Eugene made was an exploding bullet. Every one of them had to have been”
Taylor ✓ voice-verified▼ negative
“if you put me if you put me in charge of it and said Taylor I want you to fuck this up it would be a better product”
Woody ✓ voice-verified▼ negative
“daryl's a terrible actor people don't even recognize it but he's a god awful terrible actor who just plays pouty”
Taylor ✓ voice-verified▼ negative
“the dumbest group of low IQ individuals in the history of the planet”
Taylor ✓ voice-verified▼ negative
“this is this is this is i gotta this is unreal dude like it's it's honestly it unreal how bad this show is”
Taylor ✓ voice-verified◆ mixed
“The leader – frankly, the only person who's had a good idea in the past entire season has been Negan”
Discussion of zombie threat consistency, comparison to other zombie shows
Woody ✓ voice-verified▼ negative
“the level of threat that a zombie is and walking dead is so inconsistent”
Taylor ✓ voice-verified◆ mixed
“walking dead did a pretty good job now walking dead wasn't an a plus show”
Original Walking Dead series discussed in context of spinoff, hosts criticize show's decline after Rick left and Carl died, discuss terrible war storyline and gunfight scenes
Kyle ✓ voice-verified▼ negative
“the show dropped off so much after he left it and after his who was the son? Carl after Carl got killed for me and then the story in general just took a huge dip”
Woody ✓ voice-verified▼ negative
“the war was terrible the war was terrible the war was terrible like there negan on the balcony We have rifles I thinking like you lucky I not there boys because I can hit that guy less than a second Got him! That's all i”
Kyle ✓ voice-verified▼ negative
“it peaked when they met um jeffrey morgan negan yeah jeffrey dean morgan yeah jeffrey dean morgan who played negan that's where that when they met him it was the greatest and then the first episode of the next season was”
Colin asks Woody about Rick's status; Woody speculates about the character's fate in the final season
Woody ✓ voice-verified◆ mixed · passing mention, not scored
“dad is Rick dead on the walking dead and I'm like well we don't know for sure you know I got a feeling he's gonna come back in this last season”
Discussion of weapons and tactical choices in the show, focusing on Daryl Dixon's use of a crossbow versus other weapons like spears and swords
Woody ✓ voice-verified▼ negative · passing mention, not scored
“the one of the main characters daryl dixon uses a crossbow what is a crossbow for who is it for”
Woody ✓ voice-verified● neutral · passing mention, not scored
“i don't think it's good for what he's using it for but but the reason it exists um primarily is hunting”
Kyle ✓ voice-verified◆ mixed · passing mention, not scored
“i'm watching walking dead again and uh in walking dead in an effort to keep it fresh ish they bring in more and more weapons so i think we know the ultimate zombie weapon is probably a spear”
Discussion of how characters commit suicide in the show; mentioned watching it twice
Unknown · unverified● neutral · passing mention, not scored
“i watched a lot of what i've seen all of walking dead twice and a lot of people in that like not the stars of the show but people kill themselves It's a normal thing”
Extended discussion of the show's quality, character development, and specific seasons; Taylor watching with his son Colin
Woody ✓ voice-verified▲ positive
“There is not another show in the history of TV that I can think of that killed characters as well as of Walking Dead.”
Kyle ✓ voice-verified▼ negative
“it had the potential to be an incredible incredible show and and they really threw it away the network ruined it”
Kyle ✓ voice-verified▲ positive
“that Negan season, that first Negan season, amazing. Season one is amazing.”
Woody ✓ voice-verified▲ positive
“everyone has you all need to watch this shit for real it's very fucking good”
Taylor discusses watching The Walking Dead with his son Colin, who is autistic and hyper-focuses on every detail. They use closed captions so Colin reads along.
Taylor ✓ voice-verified▲ positive · passing mention, not scored
“I pulled a fast one on colin so as people know i'm watching walking dead with colin what they might not know is just how seriously he takes The Walking Dead”
Brief mention of watching Walking Dead with Colin in the evening.
Woody ✓ voice-verified● neutral
“Then I hit the gym, watched Walking Dead with Colin. It's a good day, right?”
Woody mentions watching three episodes the previous night after returning home
Woody ✓ voice-verified▲ positive
“We watched three episodes of Walking Dead last night into the night. Nice. Good to be home.”
Extended criticism of characters and plot; discussion of Commonwealth storyline and character portrayals
Taylor ✓ voice-verified▼ negative
“It's so fucking stupid. Don't you want to know what's going to happen to the Commonwealth? It's not one character left who I'm like, oh, no, I hope the annoying guy with the false arms.”
Hosts discuss the decline of The Walking Dead series and the zombie genre trend, reflecting on weak seasons and the show's mismanagement
Taylor ✓ voice-verified◆ mixed
“walking dead it wasn't always good it had too many highs and lows like there were some weak seasons in there season two or was it three but i think it was two was super slow when they were on the farm”
Woody ✓ voice-verified▼ negative
“some of the more recent seasons have been kind of slow i could do a whole podcast about the the follies of the walking dead”
Kyle ✓ voice-verified▼ negative
“the walking dead really just dug that grave towards the end where it was just like this is too much it's too much zombie stuff”
Discussion of zombie show quality decline and comparison to other zombie media in genre trends
Woody ✓ voice-verified▼ negative
“I think Walking Dead only had three four seasons that were really good and a lot of that other stuff was actually not good”
Woody ✓ voice-verified▼ negative
“World War Z comes out everyone's incredibly disappointed It was bad”
Discussion of Jon Bernthal's character Shane and his final scene, with discussion of how the actor wanted it to end
Taylor ✓ voice-verified● neutral
“because when I watched that the first season, I was like this this Bernthal guy or whatever his character's name was.”
Unknown · unverified▲ positive
“I this is when I watched that the first season, I was like this this Bernthal guy or whatever his character's name was. I was like this guy I like this guy.”
Extensive discussion of The Walking Dead seasons, character deaths, writing quality, and Negan storyline
Woody ✓ voice-verified◆ mixed
“I like it when they kill important people. Plot armor ruins TV shows.”
Kyle · unverified▼ negative
“You took it so long. They made it like a two-year fight. It was boring. And it was bad writing.”
Extended discussion of The Walking Dead series, characters like Carl, Michonne, Ezekiel, Carol, and criticisms of later seasons
Woody ✓ voice-verified▼ negative
“Walking Dead was a bad show to the second after season 7. It was a bad show.”
Taylor ✓ voice-verified▲ positive
“Carol's my favorite character. I liked Carol a lot. I never liked Michonne.”
Woody ✓ voice-verified▲ positive
“The Whisperers arc I thought was very good. I thought it I thought it brought back the anyone could die aspect of The Walking Dead.”
Brief mention of Gregory character as a villain and coward who is eventually hanged
Woody ✓ voice-verified▼ negative
“Gregory is a good name. There's a Gregory in Walking Dead. Yes, he's absolutely horrible. He's a coward. He sells out his own people. He's a villain. They eventually hang him for being a traitor.”
Discussed as the best show for killing off main characters
Woody ✓ voice-verified▲ positive
“Walking Dead is the best character killer of any show I've ever seen”
Extensive discussion of the show's premise, survival strategy, and tone
Woody ✓ voice-verified◆ mixed · passing mention, not scored
“I think the move is to kill yourself in that Universe... you will never have joy again”
Discussion of the show's setting where people are more dangerous than zombies, comparison to 28 Days Later
Woody ✓ voice-verified▲ positive
“I think You' still argue the zombies are the biggest problem in that Universe”
Woody ✓ voice-verified▲ positive
“the most dangerous people in the walking dead Universe were not the zombies”
Discussed show quit partway through, later rewatched and found better than initially thought
Kyle · unverified◆ mixed
“I quit watching The Walking Dead because I just I got so frustrated so then I go back and watch him on Netflix and I'm like now that I could just watch it it's not as bad”
Long-running zombie series criticized for inconsistent zombie threat difficulty across episodes
Woody ✓ voice-verified▼ negative
“I watched every Walking Dead episode more than once and it is frustrating when sometimes a single zombie Walking on a pile of Dead Leaves sneaking up on you is a catastrophe and other times literally hundreds of zombies ”
Extended discussion of zombie series covering seasons 1-11, criticisms of pacing with Negan arc, CDC episode, and overall quality decline
Kyle ✓ voice-verified▼ negative
“they fought Negan for too long Negan was so popular with the fans I think that they were like oh we can't kill Negan off let's figure out how he's going to be part of the tribe forever”
Kyle ✓ voice-verified▼ negative
“they have like two seasons per year it felt like for Four Seasons almost we were at war with Negan or just trying to get Negan and it's like man this isn't sticks and Stone”
Woody ✓ voice-verified▲ positive
“there was in that I don't know if it was season one or two it might have been one but they really nailed it they go to the CDC there's a doctor there and he has this like unknown plan to kill all of us”
Kyle ✓ voice-verified◆ mixed
“I thought the show was quite good I didn't like season 2 um uh but other than that I really liked it up until about a year after Negan”
Discussion of watching show with girlfriend, Terminus cannibals season, Negan character arc, Rick and Michonne spinoff series
Kyle · unverified▲ positive · passing mention, not scored
“I might actually be pulled back to it one thing that just further cements how awful Call of Duty is now I saw that Rick and Michonne her playable characters”
Kyle · unverified▼ negative
“um I watched like pretty sure all of the Regular Show and I was oh I I think I really stopped paying attention the last couple Seasons entirely like didn't they jump forward in time”
Guest mentions a friend who appeared as a zombie extra in an episode where character Merle dies
Kyle ✓ voice-verified▲ positive · passing mention, not scored
“she's in that scene because she's some girls have big eyes she had some big eyes”
Discussion of Daryl Dixon character's necklace
Taylor ✓ voice-verified● neutral · passing mention, not scored
“what animal does Daryl Dixon wear as a necklace he's got a little necklace with an animal on it”
Zombie apocalypse series discussed regarding seasons 5-6, killing methods, and character Negan
Kyle ✓ voice-verified◆ mixed · passing mention, not scored
“the main way they kill zombies keep in mind if the zombie bites you you die”
Woody · unverified▲ positive
“I'm re-watching walking dead and it's so [ __ ] upsetting”
Extensive discussion of TV series, favorite moments including Negan introduction and Terminus arc
Woody ✓ voice-verified▲ positive
“I know Walking Dead better than any other show I know like I've seen Sopranos but I've I've never watched another show where I have to read every word in the closed captions... my favorite scene um I'm gonna add a second”
Woody · unverified◆ mixed
“I think I know it and partly it's the build up... there's an episode when we're first introduced to Negan... that moment negan's introduction speech is to me the very peak of all of Walking Dead”
Discussion of voyeur character Eugene and exhibitionist relationship
Woody ✓ voice-verified● neutral · passing mention, not scored
“there's a Walking Dead I know it's not your favorite show but there's a character named Abraham his girlfriend Rosita and then Elliot I think these names are like 80 right anyway Ellie is this weird like autistic guy”
Discussion of blatant Hyundai product placement throughout the series
Woody ✓ voice-verified▼ negative
“these 2011 hyundai's are all over the place and every car is like a shitty 1986 chrysler k car covered in mud and dirt except for these brand new shiny clearly daily washed hyundai 2011 cars”
Discussed as having slow zombies that are easy to defeat compared to 28 Days Later zombies. Shows are compared for zombie types and difficulty.
Kyle · unverified◆ mixed
“Walking Dead zombies are slow... single people take out dozens of them... it's a numbers issue”
Extensive discussion of The Walking Dead's characters, storytelling, ending, and spin-offs
Kyle ✓ voice-verified▲ positive
“i wanted i wanted a rictator ship i wanted hardcore rick i always want rick to like run into a new bad guy every season”
Woody ✓ voice-verified▼ negative
“how is that different than just walking dead yeah like you kill everyone you always kill everyone that's just what walking dead is”
Kyle ✓ voice-verified▼ negative
“he don't sound like georgia he don't sound like south carolina he don't sound like alabama he don't sound like us at all”
Extended discussion of rewatching all 10 seasons and Season 11, discussion of character deaths, plot armor
Woody ✓ voice-verified▲ positive
“walking dead is actually one of the better shows that's ever been on tv it's there like there aren't too many like sopranos is better the wire is better”
Woody ✓ voice-verified▲ positive
“i re-watched all ten seasons with colin we finished it season 11 which is the last one”
Woody ✓ voice-verified▼ negative
“i stopped watching walking dead but i used to read the books a lot and i loved them”
Discussion of stakes in television shows, mentioning The Walking Dead as having high stakes
Unknown · unverified▲ positive
“the walking dead has higher stakes than any other show there is”
Discussion of AMC zombie drama series, pacing issues, and character deaths
Woody ✓ voice-verified▲ positive · passing mention, not scored
“I'm watching it now and I'm paying very close attention I'm a walking I'm gonna call myself the show's Walking Dead expert at this point”