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Oct 13, 2026
speaker_1HOST
Yeah.
speaker_0HOST
To promote the 2014 FX horror series The Strain, you remember that one?
speaker_1HOST
Right.
speaker_0HOST
Co-created by Guillermo del Toro, the network plastered cities with a massive ultra-realistic image of a parasitic vampire worm burrowing directly into a human eyeball.
speaker_0HOST
No, the wrong one.
speaker_0HOST
Do you wanna guess again or-
speaker_1HOST
Is it The Strain?
speaker_0HOST
It is the Zachary Quinto one.
Rob HaldenHOST
Otherwise, it's not much of a curse or a weakness.
Will PrestonHOST
The other examples I've seen this with was Preacher on the TV show, I mean, with Cassidy having an umbrella, which I felt was a bit crazy.
Rob HaldenHOST
Well, but Dracula has that in Dracula.
Will PrestonHOST
Was it Bram Stoker's Dracula? There is one point where he's literally walking around in daylight, and I forget why.
Rob HaldenHOST
I've realised at the end it gets concrete.
Rob HaldenHOST
2007, he's in an episode of the sci-fi channel's Painkiller Jane.
Rob HaldenHOST
That's a TV show based on a comic book series by Jimmy Palmiotti and Joe Quisada.
Rob HaldenHOST
it's for their own company, comic book company they own called Event Comics, but Joe Quesada would go on at the end of the 90s to become the editor-in-chief of Marvel Comics.
Phil IscoveHOST
...
Phil IscoveHOST
the other thing that should be mentioned that I forgot to mention, in that gap between, um, fucking Hellboy II and, and Pacific Rim is The Strain.
Emily St. JamesHOST
Mm.
Phil IscoveHOST
Uh, his FX show.
Roxana HadadiGUEST
... right, and then it's three seasons, four seasons?
Emily St. JamesHOST
Four.
Emily St. JamesHOST
Who here has watched all four seasons of The Strain?
Phil IscoveHOST
Nope.
PakeHOST
[laughs]
DaphneHOST
There were elements of this that reminded me of the TV show The Strain because in the later seasons, I think it was the last season, they were trying to figure out how to cultivate a blood supply that would last.
PakeHOST
Mm-hmm.
DaphneHOST
Because as you infect everyone, there's no one left to feed on.
John ReedHOST
Even from Dusk Till Dawn, like, you're only really gonna know him from- ER.
John ReedHOST
You know, he's really only been mostly in TV series and maybe a couple of TV movies before this.
John ReedHOST
And one of the things that I had r- read about this was that this was him really wanting to branch out and do something different.
John ReedHOST
Like, he'd only been known as that doctor from ER.
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John ReedHOST
Now, there were some direct-to-video sequels, I believe, and then there was-
PatHOST
Don't bother
John ReedHOST
... a TV series.
John ReedHOST
Has anybody else seen any of those?
John WooliscroftHOST
... which isn't necessarily our, our alley.
John WooliscroftHOST
So, uh, there, you know, there was The Strain and then he did The Wall.
Brian CottingtonHOST
I love The Strain.
Brian CottingtonHOST
I recently watched that whole series.
Brian CottingtonHOST
Um, and I was blown away by it.
Devon TaylorHOST
It's like, okay, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Devon TaylorHOST
And have you watched any of The Strain or aware of the books? I have not, no.
Devon TaylorHOST
Yeah, so like you said, Del Toro did come to this late, but then I guess he liked the ideas that he was playing with here, and he would go on to collaboratively write a book series that would then get produced into an FX TV series, The Strain.
Devon TaylorHOST
And it's kind of more of a...
Devon TaylorHOST
Kind of more of a sci-fi noir, like where it's like it follows more like the scientists and some like investigators that are investigating this vampire plague.
Brad SimonsHOST
Oh.
Nick HendersonHOST
I'm watching The Strain.
Nick HendersonHOST
Man likes vampires.
Brad SimonsHOST
Crimson? Wait, say again?
Nick HendersonHOST
The S- The Strain.
Nick HendersonHOST
I've like- Strain ...
Nick HendersonHOST
I've started The Strain, like, three times-
Brad SimonsHOST
Oh, that's a show, isn't it?
MitchHOST
10.
MitchHOST
In The Strain, the creatures were called what? this is a latin term or i guess old romanian term either one of you can guess that
TomHOST
vampeter
MitchHOST
no basically i mean i think it's i think it's romanian or transylvanian term for vampire
RobHOST
And I'll explain the link at the end.
RobHOST
But eagle-eared listeners, eagle-eared listeners will have noticed there wasn't one at the start of this show.
RobHOST
Because I'm not doing one for this show.
RobHOST
Because I'm not going to have time to edit one.
RobHOST
Because we are on a jaunt, a jolly jaunt this weekend.
RobHOST
He has
TomHOST
I
RobHOST
have, but now it's on record.
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