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PseudoPod 1022: All the Good You Did Not Do

March 27, 2026·38 min·3 clips

Saul learns the names and the histories of the people he shot, and considers what he might have noticed if he had looked harder.

Pseudopod opens with ritual mischief. Graeme Dunlop welcomes listeners back to Pseudopod Towers, then brings in Joely Tumajan's All the Good You Did Not Do. The intro has teeth. Tumajan is introduced as a writer, editor, ghoul, Shirley Jackson award-winning editor, and scholar of women who wrote weird tales. Eric Valdez narrates, and his bio gets the show's fond sideways treatment: coffee, puns, family chaos, creative life, all of it warm before the floor drops out. Then Saul Friedman is stuck on a therapy call, trying to make paperwork admit what his body already knows. The representative has procedure where a person should be. Therapy exists for a qualifying event, but Saul is told this one does not qualify because the people he shot supposedly were not human. That is the line that lands hardest. Gregory Babajanian and Heather Summers get turned into a policy exception before anyone is allowed to call them dead people. Saul goes quiet. It is not polite silence; it sounds like thought being sanded down under pressure. When he finally asks what he gets, the answer is a discounted set of four therapy sessions, cheaper only if he finishes them in the same month. Then the news voice arrives with Gregory, Heather, ODHS, the High Containment Laboratory, the unnamed pathogen, and that official phrase, erratic behavior. Saul remembers torn bodies, a whistle, fists vanishing into a gashed throat. The language cannot hold what happened, and Pseudopod lets the gap stay ugly.

As heard by us

Bureaucracy and bodily horror collide.

Joely Tumajan follows a security guard after he shoots two researchers infected with a zombie virus, and the episode works best when it lets official language carry the harm.

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A virus, a lawsuit, and a phone line make the outbreak feel like bad service.

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