World War Z Explored - Part 1 : Blame

[@cro-magnoncarol4017]

I love the idea of the Zombie virus just being a disease from primal past, with it only becoming world ending because it never accounted for us living at such ridiculous population densities we do in modern day.

[@vardiganxpl1698]

Plus with many people becoming more "soft" The common civilian today are less determined to quickly dispatch their fellow man who has become infected, then the common civilian of more ancient cultures like Rome in where they immediately recognize the threat,

[@SirToaster9330]

I loved the prequel comic which shows the history of zombie outbreaks from the Stone Age, to Ancient Egypt, to Roman times

[@diegotepalma]

@@SirToaster9330there is a precuel comic??????? :0

[@SirToaster9330]

@@diegotepalma a graphic novel basically explaining the long history of the zombie virus from Stone Age to modern times

[@diegotepalma]

@@SirToaster9330 cool, so the zombies are like a curse like in red dead redemption?

[@flygonsarchives]

Microbiology in fiction is a really fascinating subject not explored too deep in fiction and could go more than just deadly virus kills everything. Although I think that Subnautica’s ecology and virus could make for a great video.

[@TragikDino]

I do like Subnautica and I think UHC could give some very interesting points on it. But as someone else once said Subnautica is kinda over saturated with content like that. I would personally like a video on Ark Survival Evolved or I guess Ark Survival Ascended now, with namely a video on Rock Drakes, Nameless, and Reapers and how these top predators have evolved in the heavily radiated caverns of Aberration. Or even Extinction’s various creatures that seem to have been affected by element in a none corrupted way, rather evolving in tandem with the alien element

[@BlueThing64]

The book Children of Time has a cool reversal of the usual deadly virus trope. Humans invented a virus that increases brain power and some other fun stuff and they end up infecting some spiders with it on a terraformed planet. The spider civilization eventually grows large, complex, and intelligent enough to find and manipulate the virus itself. Really a great book highly recommended

[@sultanaljuhani1571]

Agree. Are u old enough to have played a game called Syphon Filter?

[@oddballskull1941]

Bruh..michael chrichton..Andromeda strain..the lost world novel (vastly different from film) Stephen kings grey matter Last of us Etc Microbiology is pretty damn common..

[@JamesBarry-j7m]

​@@oddballskull1941I have to say The Andromeda strain 1971 film Is comparable to the original Star wars in its brilliance

[@TheMambojack]

this book got me checking for secondary exits and possible weapons in every building i entered from 15 to 23 yo

[@TheXGamers]

Absolutely terrifying book, I slept with my hammer under my pillow for a while.

[@kainepeterson6638]

100%, I have bug out supplies ready because I read this book and the ZSG as a teen. While not everything was accurate, the thought planted in my brain is completely attributable to his books. I have essential medicine, a first aid and trauma kit, copies of documents, water purification, a couple MREs, tampons, batteries and flashlights, and a crank radio in my bag. It’s important to have these things just in case of an emergency. Back home in California, out of control fire or a bad earthquake were why I kept it, and now here in Texas I keep it in case of a tornado or other severe weather. It’s just always a good idea to have a plan, and a bag ready to go.

[@johnwolf2829]

You know, these habits are NOT the worst ones you could have. Might even be very helpful in the near future.

[@sh3940]

I'm in the middle of a large city. My plan is to head down to the pub and wait for this to all blow over.

[@ur_really_salty]

@@sh3940underrated comment 😂

[@joejoeington6899]

lol the idea of Roman’s not being superstitious about zombies is insane

[@MultiNaruto900]

"Ah shit, Acutius came back from the dead." "Kill him again." [Edit] Because the method for killing zombies was made known and codified (likely written in a very straightforward manner) as an army order, there is very little reason to panic when confidence is high.

[@SirToaster9330]

in this universe, zombies had been a threat since the Stone Age

[@joejoeington6899]

@@SirToaster9330 even more reason they would be superstitious about them

[@TheKain202]

@@SirToaster9330 That's the thing. They weren't a threat. They were just a nuisance in the grand scheme of things. A few dozen ghouls are created, some guys grab some pointy sticks and heavy rocks and go deal with it. The only reason it spiraled so far out of control in the book, is because of how soft people became, the ridiculous population densities nowadays, and how small the world has become because of our transport networks allowing it to spread like wildfire.

[@sabotabby3372]

@@SirToaster9330 the romans were superstitious about their beard hairs and baths. they 100% would've been superstitious about zombies

[@attichen4749]

After about the second story I caved and read the entire book. Holly shit. This might be some of, if not the best zombie media out there! You did an excellent job breaking down each story without having enough detail to be copyrighted.

[@unnaturalhistorychannel]

Thank you! Great to see it's getting a few more to read the OG text.

[@KingKhanate1997]

If you’re a fan of zombie fiction I’d implore you read Day by Day Armageddon. It’s much in the same vein of WWZ, albeit from the perspective of only one character. A US Navy pilot stationed in Texas.

[@chrisnotyou]

Written by Mel Brook's son. Of space balls, blazing saddles, men in tights fame. And believe it or not The fly, starring Jeff Goldblum.

[@SpadeDraco]

@@KingKhanate1997 While I thought the plot got a bit wacky in the later books I have to praise JL Bourne for managing to do a REALLY good job of actually selling zombies as both a credible threat and a terrifying concept.

[@zachblack768]

This book is still one of my favorites, the movie didn't even come close to doing it justice.

[@xemiii]

Wow, as someone who never understood the appeal of zombies this was fascinating. The amount of real world history and biology being intertwined makes a haunting inevitable doom come to mind, with every fact really nailing in the way that the many features of the archetypical zombie could actually come to be. I also now really see the difference in old vs new zombies thematically you brought up in a prior video; there's an inescapable terror in a slow, tireless monster that will have years to finally catch you, and all it needs it one little bite to seal your doom.

[@lilyeves892]

So what you're saying is that zombies are just that meme where there's a snail hunting you down for the rest of your life and will kill you if it ever touches you

[@Indochicyon]

@@lilyeves892 Okay, but that's essentially it. But instead of one snail only, there's millions of them.

[@xemiii]

@@lilyeves892 yeah but the snail is a spooky guy

[@baneofbanes]

@@lilyeves892except there’s billions of them.

[@sporepics]

I hope you know that zombies already changed the moment they came to the States. Zombies were from africa, they were more a concept than a horror monster. When George A. Romero came out with that famous movie, zombies became much different, fast moving, flesh eating, aggressive ghouls. And the world then took notice and followed up!

[@SynchronicitySOS]

I am ethnically Chinese, but am born an American by first generation immigrants. From the perspective of someone who had been told from birth to learn Mandarin because China was the up-and-coming economic power, it never occurred to me that China would ever attempt to cover up such a disastrous disease. After all, this could only ever be movie logic like every disaster movie involving the US government. There simply couldn't be an incentive for a modern government to cover up something when no one had immunity and so much was at stake. And then Covid-19 occurred, with the disease being poorly covered up in Wuhan. Reading the news reports, beginning with the disease having high hospitalization rates, to the Wuhan city government and the later the municipal government claiming everything was fine, to the Chinese central government stepping in, the mass hospital constructions, to the intimidation and death of Dr Li Wenliang, to the quarantine that was obviously too little too late before the disease that spread to the entire country during the Chinese New Years travels. The only silver lining from this is that average Chinese people are more aware of how badly their governments can behave and the importance of the freedom of speech. Many Chinese academics are correct in saying that Covid-19 was a man-made disaster. That World War Z somehow predicted the approximate actions of the Chinese government in hindsight is both disturbing and disgusting.

[@connorbranscombe6819]

Its not exactly unique to China, most authoritarian governments enact insane levels of coverups for all kinds of stuff in the name of saving face, look at the Soviet Lunar program, or the Chernobyl incident, hell to a smaller extent look at countries like America covering up nuclear tests like Operation Castle.

[@samueln.rnascimentodosreis6918]

He's finnally back.

[@daniell1483]

I don't know how I missed this, but I love the idea of Roman Legions battling the occasional undead uprising, so routine as to avoid wider notice in the modern day. How has this not been made into a movie yet?!

[@Bipolar.Baddie]

Hollywood would find a way to turn into a soulless marvel movie ripoff with CGI green screen battles and the blandest characters imaginable

[@crimzonpegasus9714]

They did. And it pales in comparison to the book

[@Necromediancer]

​@@crimzonpegasus9714technically 🤓 the Roman lore is not from World War Z but a different book so it wasn't made into a movie. Different books.

[@travisjohnson622]

perhaps it explains the mysterious collapse of civilization at the bronze age? We pretty much had a big apocalypse and know one even knows what happened or why.

[@wilburforce8046]

@@travisjohnson622doubt it tbh methods of transportation were so bad back then that cultural degradation (the main theorized cause for most dark ages) would out-class zombies by a mile.

[@sidneyrosey]

Still one of my favorite books of all time. Read it first in a horror literature class ~

[@unnaturalhistorychannel]

I wish I had those at school!

[@davidegaruti2582]

Ok gotta say : the dry and factual narration using papers worked very well making it a sort of mokumentary : When you whent from the "how the infected work" to "how viruses work" to "hunter gatherer population dynamics" to "we actually have cavepaintings" I had to double check the source used , Wich is how those animal planet mockumentaries worked in the end : Mixing in new real stuff with plausible fake stuff in order to trick you into beliving those ... It's a cool trick to see happen in your brain ngl

[@RoyalFusilier]

Stuff like this presented in a sort of SCP style is basically the story of our modern world and frame of view going up against the primal terrors in our own brain, and no matter who wins, it's bound to be interesting and relevant since we've still got both of those parts of us.

[@spooter79]

You should listen to the audio book version of Max Brooks’ The Zombie Survival Guide. It’s read like an survival manual. It’s read in the same informational manner, and the effect is excellent.

[@Woodswalker96]

I don’t know why but right at 27:58, the image of the eyes and the statement “three hours later, reanimation occurs”, was very unsettling

[@recessional5560]

Image of the eyes? What image of the eyes? I hope you don’t mean when the red x mark disappears

[@Woodswalker96]

@@recessional5560 just how the eyes open again after the individual died, coupled with the knowledge that a zombie is about to come and get you if you’re in the same place. That’s what I meant.

[@recessional5560]

@@Woodswalker96 oOoOoOh! If zombies attack, I’m coming to your house!

[@SirToaster9330]

WWZ was one of my favorite mockumentaries, and probably the best one, going over the politics and environmental affects on a zombie outbreak

[@billybbishop]

Not only do I think this content fits your style and the scope of your content- but I think you've executed on it really well and I'm looking forward to more of it!

[@happynihilist2573]

Did not expect this but I'm happy to have it, i listened trough the wwZ audio book just last summer and loved it

[@TheAnimalzz]

I've never really liked zombies, but seeing this video makes me want to know more. This is a genuinley fascinating portrayal of a zombie apocalypse, and your coverage has been fantastic.

[@HuffinStufff]

It’s a great book.

[@JpegDog]

The book is great. Completely different from the movie. It’s a collection of interviews of various people around the world telling their story 12 years after the outbreak. It feels incredibly real

[@HunterMJenkins]

@@JpegDogI want him to make another but it would pointless lol I just want more stories of people surviving the outbreak and other events of the war

[@svenrio8521]

​@hunterjenkins576 Theres a group of "fanfiction" writers on alternate history forums who make stories about world war z

[@dot2562]

Want to know more .... starship troopers 😛😝

[@Ankation]

I love that you're covering World War Z; I read it a long while ago and your breakdown is refreshing those old memories. Since you have an interest in doing videos on Max Brooks' work, will you be doing one on Devolution? I learned of it from one of your earlier videos and would happily watch one talking about the spec evo of that Bigfoot species.

[@kimberlycaritas]

Max Brooks' zombie construction is simply the best the world has ever seen. Thank you for sharing his work with so many more people!!

[@AwesomeRaptor21]

I absolutely cannot wait for the next few parts. I haven't read WWZ in over 10 years but it has stuck with me ever since.

[@kruaser123]

It's been a single month yet 84 years Seriously though nice to have you back and I hope you enjoyed your time off

[@TheAntiAzdarcho]

I loved this book, it’s absolutely fantastic

[@LyndaCollier-yb1rg]

A favorite for me as good as Andromeda strain.

[@maks7802]

He’s back and talking about one of my favorite books. It feels like Christmas.

[@_Mawk_]

The beginning of this is unrelated but, as someone relatively new to the monster hunter fandom mostly cause of rise, I was never really interested in the series beyond touching world back in 2018. However my interest never really peaked until I stumbled upon your channel, and along side MH some of the other video topics you’ve covered as well (this included). Tldr; This channel has opened me up to a bunch of stuff I wouldn’t have known I’d like so much prior to seeing your videos. Love your content, & can’t wait to see you go more in-depth with WWZ and whatever content is planned afterwards. 👍

[@thecreator8683]

Bro is this a wwz video essay?!?! Bro this book is soo good it’s been stuck in my head for years!!! I wish they made like a series on it would be so popular!

[@BonesyTucson]

Can you imagine (if it was done properly) how amazing that would be? :)

[@thefraser5131]

I have never read this book, but your narration and covering of the story is amazing, might actually read the book.

[@Ronythereditor]

These early chapters were really gripping, you really felt the tensions rise before coming to a head

[@ThatIrishRose317]

To this day I’m still furious that the movie took this phenomenally intelligent set of interviews and was like “nah bloated international travel celebrity actor follow-along.” The way this could’ve been such a cool documentary style horror movie.

[@Jwsponky]

I have always had one major gripe with this book. It talks about forcible seizing ranchers' land and turning it into farmland... in the American Southwest, a region horrible for farming where about the only things able to grow without copious irrigation is the tough native plants able to survive the arid conditions, hence the regions sprawling ranches. Aye it is perhaps an odd hill to die on, but as the descendant of ranchers on both sides of my family tree die on it I shall.

[@bennygohome4576]

The book is terrible for realism. Great for a laugh though

[@Jwsponky]

@@bennygohome4576 Fair enough, I don't regret reading... listening, I was only able to get an audiobook copy from the library system, to it, but not in a rush to borrow it again.

[@う手ェべっ時]

The Government seized it because they needed to reorganize the western states infrastructure in order to provide basic services like food and shelter in order to keep the US in the fight. Californias agriculture sector was enough to feed everyone once it can be restructured and rationed, they explained that while trying to get the Cattle ranchers to comply with this mandate. The United States once they pulled out and retreated past the Rocky Mountains only had few resources they can work with so anything they could do to get a sufficient enough supply of food,water shelter and material they needed was their first priority. Once they got it restructured they began to build up a surplus of supplies and started air dropping them to strategic locations and military bases in order to keep them running. I understand that their is a gripe to be had and I get you’d have this problem with it, but it’s important to understand the wider situation that humanity was facing, Most countries had to retreat from most of their territory with little material and resources to use so they had to improvise.

[@Jwsponky]

@@う手ェべっ時 That does not change the fact that the land they were seizing was mostly arid unfarmable scrubland.

[@う手ェべっ時]

@@Jwsponky the land that has cattle and domesticated animals that can be cultivated to feed the population in the safe zone?

[@jamescampbell4416]

Wow! First day of the second month and you’re already on the ball, I’ll admit I didn’t expect this.

[@drchickengie2403]

Oh my Godzilla!!! I love World War Z and seeing you making a video about it feels like a birthday gift!! It's a great Zombie universe and it deserves more recognition so thank you!

[@josesosa3337]

So glad you are also covering recorded attacks from the same universe. I love recorded attacks. I think its really cool how it connects different parts of human history.

[@joseal8319]

A good follow up to the Monsters trough the Ages video, even if a loose one and not intended.

[@lizr8452]

An amazing social commentary unlike anything we balm ourselves with today. Also, screw that movie.

[@Incredible_Mister_J]

The build-up at the beginning of the book is some of the best suspense I've ever felt reading a book. Especially a fictional book presented in a nonfiction way.

[@robocrab2224]

Oh boy, oh boy! Another video from my favorite youtuber! The topic is a surprise to be sure, but a welcome one.

[@aaronholmes-black6621]

Honestly as someone who has not read the books, but is aware of how exponentially different and equal points better the book was when compared to the movie, I now want to read the book.

[@ambersandboyland6240]

YOOOOOOO! I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU ARE COVERING THIS??? Quite literally one of my favorite books.

[@TehEpicZippy]

I lioove the audiobook its so good cant wait to see this video!

[@marystone860]

Having only seen the movie, and hadn't been able to get a hold of the book, HOLY S%#@, just THIS is already FAR better than the movie! New Sub!

[@lazyquahog9385]

The complete audiobook is worth a listen as well. Various actors and actresses portray all of the different characters.

[@Wash-tq7ed]

Ooooooh can’t wait to see what this episode is like!!! You’re my favorite channel!!!

[@iSnaaacky]

I highly recommend getting the audiobook for anyone interested in this story. Each character has a different narrator, which really enhances the immersion. It’s probably the best audiobook I’ve listened to.

[@samfritz645]

You didn’t lie, this is very different. I’m here for it though!

[@lilyeves892]

Damn the movie really didn't do the books justice

[@theoneandonlymichaelmccormick]

“Spanish Flu”, “Chinese Virus” and “African Rabies”. The more things change, the more they stay the same.

[@williansnobre]

The book sounds almost prophetic but you realize that it is just history repeating itself

[@williansnobre]

@@mishakirov4717 "China masterfully handled covid " It was a very successful export. Followed by a very successful export of vaccine manufacturing products. It also gave the perfect excuse to close off whole towns and forcefully arrest political enemies by pretending that they were sick. And the numbers were whatever the higher ups said they were. Truly masterful, genius work. Evil genius, but still genius. I also agree with what you said about the USA. it was ridiculous how worse they made their own situation out of sheer stupidity.

[@timothyblinn9734]

​@@mishakirov4717 China masterfully handling COVID is a wild take but sure, whatever you say

[@undeadwill5912]

​@@mishakirov4717they closed internal flights and kept international flight open. Thats mutually assured destruction.

[@mishakirov4717]

@undeadwill5912 yes, and they offered people the opportunity to quarantine but westerners all assumed that it was either a totalitarian crackdown under the guise of disease control or that China's management of it would fail because they're not like wise and far seeing westerners or both. If they had refused to let fleeing westerners out the moment they wanted to do so people like you would have been crying about totalitarianism. But keep blaming China and pretend that the united states would only succeeded had not the all-powerful (and also always flailing) seeseepee confounded our efforts.

[@mlgodzilla4206]

Plants could beat any zombies

[@Arc-ug7dc]

Hyped for this series, I’ve always wanted to k ow more about WWZ

[@glasslaughter824]

The book is one of my favorites out of most of my library and the audio book as well. I have been looking forward to this video ever since I did my review in the discord server of Devolution.

[@Kirovslaya]

I’ve been binging your Monster Hunter videos for a week now at work, glad to see you branch out

[@Oscarthegecko]

Hearing a Zombie story is so fun. Vaal Hazak would love this...

[@calrex4513]

Well this is a bit different than usual, but it seems quite interesting. I’m excited to hear your thoughts on the story.

[@bendavenport4136]

Every man a king!

[@voidgivenfocus]

holy hell A MULTIHOUR PLAYLIST ABOUT WWZ??? I'm not actually a big fan of zombie media in general but WWZ is definitely peak fiction

[@hammerheadxray8152]

Oh hell yeah, WWZ lore/biology. I'd love more of this sort of video

[@IainG10]

ThoughtPotato also did a video on a zombie virus; his virus is his own creation rather than an example from existing fiction, and it's written in a diary style. I'm not saying one is better than the other, and I'm not criticising this wonderful video either; I eagerly await the next episode in a fortnight. I simply aim to provide people who enjoyed this video with another in the same vein.

[@xel_nave]

Pretty wild coincidence that you posted this man I literally finished reading this last week lmao. Glad you're covering it

[@JesseHenderson-xc2kg]

Ny favorite part of the Zombie Survival Guide was the little vignettes at the end, detailing historical outbreaks. World War Z was right up my alley....

[@dr.archaeopteryx5512]

Not finished the video yet so I don't know if you'll end up saying anything about this; but this book has some really wild writing decisions in it (like importing black market donor organs halfway across the world, or importing human trafficking victims from rich countries into poorer ones). I feel like that one SufficientVelocity thread of someone doing an in-universe commentary on it might be the best way to consume the book.

[@Dinotology]

After living through the COVID pandemic, this book feels ahead of its time. Shows how much the movie missed out.

[@Foogi9000]

It'd make for an amazing tv series ngl.

[@happymonkeyfish]

Thank you so much for covering this novel, I love the way the storytelling in this book plays out through interviews and the timeline of events

[@Nintaboy]

Very excited to see where this goes. Never read Max Brooks's books or seen World war Z but looking through his bibliography I think there's some great subjects there for future videos. Also Bigfoot.

[@tedk.6420]

The movie isnt anything like the book. It just shares a name.

[@takenname8053]

Watched the movie but never the books. Still weird how there really was a distinct period in the 2000s just hyper fixated on zombies.

[@coachb2766]

You hit the high points of the novel. I hope Maz Brooks writes more stories in this world

[@Clockwork_Enby]

Never interacted with world war Z but this was interesting and you cover things well so fuck it I’m in can’t wait for part 2

[@its_vintage2601]

Absolutely A+ coverage of the book. Great work man!

[@DakotaCoughlin]

One of my favorite books thanks for the video

[@The_PokeSaurus]

This book was way ahead of its time. I hope you tackle Devolution some day.

[@OttoKreml]

I also don't really understand the controversy around the palestine part. The only thing that seems like probably wouldn't happen is the repatriation of palestinians. Though in 2006 that was at least a possibility. The idea that israel would be rather uniquely prepared, that the palestinians would be skeptical, and that the events playing out at they did would lead to internal conflict all seem pretty... uncontravercial to me. Bearing in mind I haven't read the book, so maybe there's bits you didn't mention that are actually controversial. I can see japan, taiwan, south korea, and singapore also potentially adopting an effective quarantine. Of course singapore couldn't feed itself in such a scenario. But I expect at least one of those countries would survive more or less intact. The US military would almost certainly succeed in securing hawaii and some other Pacific islands. And I find it hard to believe that literally no one but Israel would establish a walled city in which to carry on. Creating multiple layers of defense through a network of alleyways, and making sure that each internal apartment is defended from any on the street is not that hard. It's like a 72 hour job in crunch time, if even.

[@RubyCarrots3232]

The King has returned.

[@thetalkingbear]

For a minute I thought you said the zombies were looking for El Dorado.

[@MinecraftWorld1954]

Oh damn! This was unexpected. I’m currently reading the book in my dystopia class in school, and it’s really good so far.

[@Emanon...]

One of my absolute fav's. Loved the "making a documentary" anthological style of telling the story.

[@MrMotastic]

Just when I was about to re-watch Mr Turf War for the 8th time.

[@thenerdbeast7375]

The timing of this getting released is giving me a dark chuckle

[@Ali-bu6lo]

I don't think the Kashi mentioned in the book is in India, it's clearly somewhere in China. Very likely the city of Kashgar in Xinjiang (East Turkistan) which is called Kashi in Chinese.

[@bonemarrow3439]

Would make sense, as Kashgar is closer to Ex-soviet states as mentioned in the book. Than the Indian Kashi. I am Indian myself, and the name of the dude is not something you'd find in the Indian Kashi either.

[@microphone_styxosaurus7078]

Dude, this was awesome. Can't wait to see more! Hope you enjoyed the break. Also, happy 69k subs

[@gogglesesm9122]

What a great return video! I am loving reading world war Z just started the Ukraine tale.

[@samfish2550]

Is it wierd that this kinda stuff never used to feel like horror to me until recently now that I'm currently finishing the first year of my vet tech degree. Having learned about how we have to act with rabies and basically anything with encephalitis in the name..... Like the idea of ANY even remotely common disease, even a UNCOMMON one, that would make us HAVE to do that to people.... Like you see the ideas of this extremeness explored in any zombie outbreak that shows things pre society collapseing. It just always felt like something that isn't really.... Real, that it would be different irl... It wouldn't be, and it would be objectively wrong to try anything less. Brain diseases are f*cking scarry dude, I find them fascinating, but they are the literal ONLY diseases I see with a sense of fear.

[@dichotomusprime6646]

25:13 I really appreciate you putting this note. A lot of creators would've dismissed it as "not the subject mater of this video" or otherwise 'not my problem.' It might only last a second or two, but it was real responsible and principled of you. I've commented on videos before, and have long been a huge fan of this channel, but unemployed. Once the pay starts coming in, this is the thing that's made me want to become a Patron. Good fuckin' show, UHC.

[@plumpmoose]

Thank you so much for making this series. This is in my top 3 favourite books

[@kaijukingdom2686]

Wow, this stuff is good. Seriously I can’t wait for more.

[@Klinker0913]

Never really had a big interest in World War Z, but im sure you made this an interesting watch, UHC!

[@yetipotato8567]

When I read that book I was glued in for hours. Such anxiety and human horror and then defiance of humans overcoming such horror

[@alvaroherrero498]

I was wondering how come no new video in so long and lo and behold, KZbin didn’t even bother to recommend it. Great video as always, that’s some really cool theory crafting about how a zombie virus could have interacted with primitive humans.

[@DipseyDex]

Trust the romans to lose an empire to the barbarians but stop a zombie plague by spawn camping the undead.

[@Hooy-Jaymay]

Oooh a series on zombies until april? Hopefully this does as well as the Kong video.

[@migueljose5161]

I should've expected something like this and I'm not disappointed

[@Atomic_Dusky]

If you really think about it, this book basically is ahead of its time as many of the things that let the zombie plague spread also was what caused COVID to get as bad as it got back in 2019-2022

[@lucaspapadopoulos3063]

I'm happy this book is becoming popular again, it really is a great piece of fiction. Great video!!!

[@professorsimosuchus7954]

I think the virus may be a little too quick-acting to be factible for spread on hunter-gatherer docieties, but it’s efectiveness would also be hampered by being more slow, so i think that maybe another reason why it target specifically the brain is that maybe it’s incubation time reacts according to chemical cues related to sociality, acting slower when detecting that the human host is alone, or among few people, allowing it to spread more eficiently, but reacting rapindly when the host brain reacts to social stimuli or to being among a lot of people, and as said, in modern times, most infected are among large groups, so it always reacts rapidly. It also may be that like in other pathogens, it may coerce the host into seeking favorable conditions for spread, like ants & snails seeking high places, or mice loosing fear of going out in the open to get eaten and spread the pathogens that coerced them, maybe in it’s slow incubation phase, the virus makes the host crave proximity and socialization more than usual, making it more likely to seek other groups if alone or if being the only survivor, or craving to return to their original group if the infection was discovered and they were outcasted.

[@colonelhammerhead3025]

Thank you for making a video about the book! I read it 2 years ago and have been disappointed by the movie, and whenever someone mentions World War Z, they mostly mean the film. The book, if it's ever adapted into live action media again it should be a show like a fake documentary series.

[@user-ik8yw8eo6s]

Awesome video! I love when you branch out of monster hunter you always do a great job

[@carolinanava3300]

This got me to try reading the book 😮

[@Trollogrefey]

Good video although I wish the summation of what occurred during the beginning of the outbreaks in the novel could have been shortened. It felt like it dragged on a bit, although that might just be me since I've read WWZ multiple times.

[@sofieselene]

I read this book long ago when I was just a high school student. Today, it is more poignant than ever. It isn't a surprise that most countries in the world were more concerned with looking out for themselves while a pandemic was brewing, this book learned the lessons of history where world leaders did not -and likely never will.

[@billyholland5156]

i guess he will eventually reach the battle of yonkers, i.e., where the humans were arguably dumber than the zombies, and would have won anyways if the humans hadn't run out of ammo...or Max Brooks known a little more about military stuff. don't get me wrong, Max Brooks is a good author, but in the years since i first read it, i cannot long read that one chapter of the book without breaking my suspension of disbelief.

[@Jwsponky]

For me it was that chapter and the one with the plan to turn the arid ranches of the American Southwest into farmland. The very reason ranches are so big in that region is that it's nigh unfarmable and the ranchers had little competition for buying the land.

[@highjumpstudios2384]

@@Jwsponkydid they turn it to farmland? I just thought the government requisitioned the majority of cattle to feed what was left of the US population

[@Jwsponky]

@@highjumpstudios2384 Nope. In the chapter narrated by Hawkeye Pierce, I'm sure the actor has an actual name but like most of them from that show I can only see or hear him as his M*A*S*H* role, it is outright said that they confiscate most of the grazing land of the southwestern cattle ranchers to try and farm it, treating it as a stroke of brilliance instead of an idea that failed back in the days of the Wild West. Though grant the ranchers the 'courtesy' of keeping the cattle herds they lawfully owned.

[@highjumpstudios2384]

@@Jwsponky oh, well… it’s been awhile since I read, and listened to that chapter so I believe you.

[@Jwsponky]

@@highjumpstudios2384 I thank you for your faith in me stranger.

[@mandrakeblake-tw1uv]

UHC, I have autism! And I blame you for making WWZ an fixed interest of mine, which caused me to edit the country pages in the World War Z Fandom Wiki. /J

[@bignelly9476]

Glad to see you branching out to different subjects. The monster Hunter stuff is obviously my favourite but I’d be fibing if I said that these other videos didn’t get me interested is the subject matter

[@sensei4042]

27:57 I don't know why but the way those eyes appeared caught me off guard and I was spooked for a moment

[@tidalgrunt]

Oh hell yeah, multi part AND 40 minutes.

[@Spooky_Dooky]

Found your channel because of this. Subbing to see more of your content.

[@chancegivens9390]

This is a great listen! Excellent job man!!