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In the spirit of places that sound much less exotic after they’re translated, here’s a political map of China.

A proxy war in the Middle East: Kingdom of Saudi Arabia vs. Islamic Republic of Iran.

Walking Dead showrunner Scott M. Gimple tells Fresh Air producer Sam Briger watching the violence on the show and creating it are very different experiences: 

“Watching it is one thing and doing it is another. And even the most violent moments on this show — even … where Rick bites out the neck of that gentlemen — it’s a very strange thing because I know how hard it is to make that look real, and I know the work of everybody that went into it, and I know the people who worked on it. And so when I’m on set and it’s 2 o'clock in the morning and Andy is biting into pieces of chicken of somebody’s throat and somebody is standing off to the side pumping the blood that’s coming out of that person’s neck, and I’m thinking about the actor being freezing with the blood running down his shirt — it isn’t getting desensitized to the violence, I see everything that went into it to make it horrifying and to make it hopefully emotionally resonant, but it’s more like looking at a football play or a dance.