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76. Something is wrong with the fungus... (What Moves the Dead) · The Book-Watchers

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  Speaker 1: Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher. T King Fisher is
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  Speaker 1: a pen name for the author Ursula Vernon Vernon I
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  Speaker 1: just lexic. But it's a pen name for T. King Fisher.
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  Speaker 1: She has written. She has a bunch of different she
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  Speaker 1: different pen names, but she writes a lot of fantasy series.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, this series, which is more horror centric and
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  Speaker 1: mostly fantasy books it looks like and then some web comics,
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  Speaker 1: but pretty much it's like there. This is her horror
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  Speaker 1: series that she writes as T. J. Fisher or T
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  Speaker 1: t J. Fisher t Kingfisher. So What Moves the Dead
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  Speaker 1: is a short story that is based on the idea
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  Speaker 1: of the story of the Fall of the House Elector
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  Speaker 1: from Atgar Allan Poe. This is a retailer of that
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  Speaker 1: story in a very weird, roundabout way. If you and
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  Speaker 1: this is gonna be a trigger warning, if you find
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  Speaker 1: fungus creepy or terrifying in any way, this book might
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  Speaker 1: not be for you, babe. Let me tell you.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, if you gainst some of the Last of Us
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  Speaker 2: TV show on HBO, Max I'm sorry, Max, Max, Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: Or if you can't stomach those games, this yeah the
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  Speaker 2: book for you.
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  Speaker 1: No, it's most certainly not, because the Body Horror is
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  Speaker 1: dealing with fungus and it's a kind of gross. So
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  Speaker 1: the first book of a series known as God What
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  Speaker 1: the What? What does she call? This series? The Swan
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  Speaker 1: not Swan the Sworn Soldiers Sworn Soldier books because it
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  Speaker 1: follows a character through both these books What Moves the
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  Speaker 1: Dead and What Feasts That it's all about the same character.
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  Speaker 1: His name or They're sorry. Their name is Alex Easton
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  Speaker 1: Easton and he is or sorry. They they are formerly
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  Speaker 1: part of the of the Oh God. How did they
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  Speaker 1: pronounce the country Galatian? It's a they. I think this
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  Speaker 1: country is a made up Eastern European country. But this guy, Alex,
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  Speaker 1: this person Alex was a soldier in the Galatian army.
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  Speaker 1: And and they received word that their childhood friend Madeline
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  Speaker 1: Usher is currently dying lauren deathbed. So they travel to
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  Speaker 1: the Usher's house and they find that the place is
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  Speaker 1: in disrepair, surrounded by this dark darkness, fungus, something evil, unsettling.
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  Speaker 1: It's very unsettling. We pull it, peers up like you
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  Speaker 1: see it. You see signs of these weird fungus looking
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  Speaker 1: things running about, and they see like, oh god, you
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  Speaker 1: see or they see animals that have like fungus growing
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  Speaker 1: up with There's one the cover of the book is
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  Speaker 1: a rabbit that has its fungus growing out of it.
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  Speaker 1: And you actually see that in the book where they
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  Speaker 1: see ah fungus growing out of a rabbit and they're
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  Speaker 1: not in the rabbits acting very sporadically. So throughout this
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  Speaker 1: whole book kind of gives you a hint of like,
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  Speaker 1: something's wrong with this fungus that doesn't that doesn't seem
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  Speaker 1: right like the rabbits in particular, it's like something's wrong
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  Speaker 1: with the rabbits. They run around very frantically, almost like
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  Speaker 1: a chicken with its head cut off. You're just like
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  Speaker 1: side Eye should be be concerned because obviously in real
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  Speaker 1: world fungi doesn't take over brains of creatures outside of
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  Speaker 1: like bugs, because you do have fung guy that take
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  Speaker 1: over ants brain brain of an ant to spread it
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  Speaker 1: spores to other ants to continue spreading. So this is
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  Speaker 1: kind of.
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  Speaker 2: Because there's a reason for that too, because it's the
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  Speaker 2: heat Cordyceps. And there's a couple other uh miicilian species
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  Speaker 2: that uh that also infect bodies the bodies of insects
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  Speaker 2: and cause them to exhibit like zombie like tendencies. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: but these fungus, they they need a specific they can
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  Speaker 2: only cultivate in specific uh temperatures. Yea, And yeah, and
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  Speaker 2: the thing about human like mammals or like warm blooded animals,
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  Speaker 2: is that our body heat is too hostile for them,
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  Speaker 2: so they can't properly grow. So the thing is so
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  Speaker 2: like people. That's the trend though. It is like people
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  Speaker 2: are afraid that these fungus will mutate to survive in
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  Speaker 2: higher temperatures and allow them to like infect human hosts.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, there are fungus that can survive, that can
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  Speaker 2: survive in humans, but they're for now, thank god, like that,
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  Speaker 2: and they're not cordyceps or other.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, if funga, if zombies are gonna happen, it's
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  Speaker 1: not gonna be the normal zombies. It's gonna be the
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  Speaker 1: fun guy, the corseps. They're going to do it.
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  Speaker 2: If I had anything, if we're talking like if we're
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  Speaker 2: talking like the Walking Dead, then definitely. But if we're
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  Speaker 2: talking like infected people losing their minds and it's hacking
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  Speaker 2: other people twenty eight days, twenty eight weeks later.
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  Speaker 1: But I'd be like fung guy instead of a Rabi's
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  Speaker 1: rage virus or whatever.
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  Speaker 2: Well, no, I'm talking about like because those weren't zombies.
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  Speaker 2: Those were like infected.
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  Speaker 1: People with the other they were Yeah, they were infected
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  Speaker 1: with like a.
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  Speaker 2: It would yeah, and that's actually more plausible because like
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  Speaker 2: rabies does cause animals to act very aggressively and when
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  Speaker 2: they bite you, you get infected. But the thing about rabies,
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  Speaker 2: thank god, is that it's curable.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, so that's why if you get bit by
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  Speaker 1: an animal, ladies and gents, please get yourself checked out
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  Speaker 1: a SAP.
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  Speaker 2: Get that Raby's virus, get that Raby's shot.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, so something's wrong with the life here, plant life, fungui.
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  Speaker 1: It just that the the property looks very uncapped and
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  Speaker 1: very just like ew, this is weird, this is creepy.
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  Speaker 1: And Roderick Usher, which is Madeline's twin brother, Oh god,
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  Speaker 1: I loves my trand thought Robert Roderick And okay, so
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  Speaker 1: there we got my train of thought back. I was like,
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  Speaker 1: what my brain? So my line is twin brother Roderick
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  Speaker 1: has been very fearful that of course his sister has
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  Speaker 1: been very frail these last couple of years in the book,
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  Speaker 1: and that she is terminally ill, suffering from cat collapsia
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  Speaker 1: collopsia collapsia. It's a muscle. Oh, I think this is
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  Speaker 1: a when you're what how lots of muscle control. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: this is a I think catalepsy callpsy, which is basically
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  Speaker 1: a neudological condition where your muscles lay all about on
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  Speaker 1: their own or they get stuck in the same position. Basically,
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  Speaker 1: she her body kind of just like freezes up or
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  Speaker 1: she has she doesn't have control of her limbs and stuff,
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  Speaker 1: and eventually that will kill you. So she has that,
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  Speaker 1: and she appears basically like skin and bones. She's on
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  Speaker 1: her last legs. Basically, she's on she's on the death doorstep.
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  Speaker 1: And Alex is disturbed by the appearance of Madeline. Madeline
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  Speaker 1: who's like thin, wispy, wispy like white hair coming from
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  Speaker 1: her hair on her arms. Keep note of that wispy
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  Speaker 1: white hair on her arms. It also present, uh is
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  Speaker 1: a miss Potter who's a micrologist. She loves fun guy.
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  Speaker 1: And then of course there's an American doctor named James Denton,
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  Speaker 1: an Agnes, a person named Agnes, which is which is
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  Speaker 1: another soldier that came with Alex. It's his quote unquote,
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  Speaker 1: his batman quote unquote. So it's a fellow soldier of
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  Speaker 1: his that came with him or theirs that came with them.
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  Speaker 1: They tried to evince Madeline to leave the mansion that
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  Speaker 1: is falling apart and decaying, it seems at the seams,
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  Speaker 1: for her own health. But she refuses to leave. So
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  Speaker 1: they're like, girl, you need to leave. You need to
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  Speaker 1: be in a better situation than this. She's like, I refuse,
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  Speaker 1: I rely, I at wanna, so she doesn't. Alex, of course,
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  Speaker 1: then starts noticing the hairs, the rabbit's hair, rabbit, whatever
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  Speaker 1: term you go buy. They start they're behaving oddly, of course,
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  Speaker 1: with the fun guy and stuff, and they are infected
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  Speaker 1: with an unknown disease. And then they all start seeing
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  Speaker 1: strange lights moving in the tarn, which a tarn is
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  Speaker 1: a a mountain, lake, a pond, a pool of water.
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  Speaker 1: So in this tarn you start seeing these weird hairs
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  Speaker 1: behaving weirdly near it, and lights moving around in the
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  Speaker 1: tarn in this little body of pool of water. It's
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  Speaker 1: basically everything's pointing to that little pool of water. Something's
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  Speaker 1: off with that, something's not right about that water there.
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  Speaker 1: Madeline then starts beginning, begins to start sleepwalking in the
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  Speaker 1: middle of the night, and she keeps talking about and
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  Speaker 1: reminding Alex of the hairs as something's wrong with the hairs.
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  Speaker 1: Over and over again. Alex then tells Madeline that the
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  Speaker 1: hairs have the same millenness as well. She mentions and
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  Speaker 1: that the hairs the rabbits still have the same millness
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  Speaker 1: as she does. And of course he's just like, Alex
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: is like, what the fuck what's going on here? So
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: he's still trying to figure out what the fuck is
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: going on with her. Then they decided to go out
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: there and shoot a hair and they attempt to dissect it.
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: When they dissect the dead hair, it begins to crawl away,
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: is dead carcass. And terrified, he flees back to the
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: mansion from the dead carcass of the hair that he
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: left us, still crawling away. You're like, a what from there?
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: Along this creepy stuff and Madeline just walking, sleep walking,
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: talking in her sleep. She talks to something that's not there.
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: That's another thing that she's been doing. She's been talking
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: to herself like she's having a conversation with something or
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: somebody that isn't there. And when he gets back from
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: the this from when they were trying to cut open
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: the rabbit, see what the hell is going on?
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: Uh?
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: Madeline dies and they moved her body to the crypt
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: and the mansion and this old mansion, and her brother
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: claims to hear her knocking on the doors of the crypt,
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: like she's so alive, trying to get out. So Alex
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: visits Madeline's grave and finds that her neck is broken. Potter,
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: miss Potter, induces that the chances of Madeleine's hair the
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: traces of Madeleine's hair, so throughout the place he's been
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: seeing this white hair everywhere. And miss Potter, who's a
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: microhos who loves fungus, was looking at this hair and
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: I'm like, this is fungus. They're like, what do you
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: mean this is hair, This is from Madeleine. Madeline like, no,
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: this is fungus. They're like, uh what They're like they
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: come to the realization that this is fungus. This white
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: hair is fungus. So Alex brings her to examine the
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: body of his dead friend or their dead friend. But
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: then it vanishes. When they get there, it's gone. The
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: body's gone. Madeline's twin brother, Roderick, is sleeping, and then
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: the others dice. Of course, they continue to dissect the hair,
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: the hair that they killed when they were crawling crawling away,
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: they I think Agnes came, took the body of the hair,
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: brought it and brought it to ms Potter. Ms Potter
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: cuts open the hair. The hair is full of fungus.
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: All his organs, all his enters is all fungus. And
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: I'm just like you know. So the fungus has spread
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: throughout the body of this hair and basically kind of
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: moving on like a puppet. So again, if you hate fungus,
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: you're who you're gonna hate this part.
• 25:05
  Speaker 5: So the the carcass continues to move on its own,
• 25:15
  Speaker 5: controlled by they as seem to be controlled by the fungus, which,
• 25:20
  Speaker 5: if I remember Girkly she describes them that there's like's
• 25:23
  Speaker 5: have a cortucept, because of course it is.
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: But they're in Europe, in Eastern Europe, no less, so
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: this fungus, says here, is quite weird. Apparently, it turns
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: out Roderick killed Madeline, his sister is twin sister, believing
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: her to be possessed, so he killed her. He stapped
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: her neck. They entered Roderick's bedroom to find to try
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: to confront him about it, and they find Madeline is
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: sitting on his bed. Her neck is in a very
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: shocking angle like, it's like, obviously it's broken. Sorry, and
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: I was like, as she's just sitting on the edge
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: of the bed, and Madeline tells them that she has
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: been dead for at least a month and the fungus
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: from the body of water has reanimated her body, and
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: she tells them, she tells Alex that the tarn is
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: conscious and sentient, so she's been communicating with the fungus
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: in her body. So that's who she's been talking to
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: throughout the whole book. Is when she's talking to herself,
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: she's talking to the fungus. It's inside of her body,
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: it's in her head, and the fungus is learning how
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: to communicate with them, So she's teaching the fungus how
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: to communicate from there. She asks Alex to let it
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: infect them, giving them a home after her corpse breaks down,
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: because obviously eventually her corpse is going to rot and
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: the court set the fungus needs a new home. So
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: she's like, hey, can you take the take the fungus
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: from my body when I wither away? And he's like, uh,
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: I don't think so, so Alex, I don't think so,
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: so her brother, and so Alex gets her brother gets
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: her twin brother and they leave the fucking house. Well,
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: actually they try to leave the house, but her twin
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: brother refuses to leave and he sets the place on
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: fire as he stays back in the house. So with
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: him and Madeline's corpse is still inside, or him and
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: Madeline is still inside. Alex Agnes and miss Potter are
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: are survivors, yes, And they decided to kill the remaining
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: fungus and basically kind of just kill off the whole
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: body of water, set on fire, poison it. They put
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: like a poison that will kill fungus, and it kind
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: of just squorks the area of this fungus, of this
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: white fungus, because all the hairs that were on her
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: body arm coming off her head were all this fungus
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: burrowing from her skin, from her skin and her body
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: was nothing but pure fungus at that point. So the
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: fungus was keeping her alive while she was trying to
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: teach it how to communicate. But instead of doing that,
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: they just set the place on fire and killed off
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: the fungus, which I mean, good choice, a good fucking choice,
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: because ew, yeah, yeah, that's a no point now, like no,
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: And that's where The book ends on what moves the
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: Dead is the fact that they is they poison the land,
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: they get rid of all the rest of the fungus
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: on the property before they leave, as they watched the
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: house burn the mansion birds of the ground with Madeline
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: and her twin brother in it. And of course Alice
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: is kind of fucked because this is their childhood friend
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: that they just saw die or admit that they've been
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: dead and take it over by some fungus, fungus among us.
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: Honestly, you gotta do what you gotta do.
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but yeah, and that's the end of the book.
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: I loved this book. Oh, I was on a journey.
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: Those are some of the best four hours I've listened
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: to a book, Like no joke. This is my top
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: five favorite books I've read so far. Like, this book
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: is fucking good.
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: Oh it sounded really good.
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: Again I gave the dumb down version. But the details
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: of this that the author writes about the fungus and
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: how describing that the body's innards of the hair or
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: something but funk gets is gross. But I'm like, oh, home,
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: I listen to more. So if you want to read
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: a short book, please What Moves the Dead. It's a
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: good it's a good short horror novella if you're especially
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: if you're like The Fall of the House of Usher,
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: because this is a retelling of that. It's great. Ten
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: ten spot on. I would love to see a movie
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: out of this, or a series out of this, something
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: television wise out of this or a film, because you
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: could easily it'd be so good. Oh but yes, that
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: is what moves the dead. Next week I'm gonna be
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: talking about it's seql what feasts at night. So tell
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: then feats out. You're gonna say bye bye.