Will You Survive... The Podcast

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Deep sea “monsters,” pirate legends, and outer space physics somehow belong in the same conversation and we prove it. We start with a weirdly mind-blowing fact that messes with your mental image of the anglerfish, then spiral into why the ocean still fuels sea monster folklore. From oarfish “sea serpent” sightings to kraken-style stories, we unpack how real animals, bad visibility, and exhausted sailors can turn a normal event into a lifelong bar story.

Then we leave the water and step into the void. Spontaneous decompression kicks off a debate about the most...

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Paris has a world beneath it that most people never see, and As Above So Below turns that fact into a horror movie that feels uncomfortably plausible. We talk through why this 2014 found footage cult favorite still works, from its clean adventure-style opening to the moment the catacombs stop being a setting and start acting like a judge. If you’ve ever searched for an As Above So Below explanation, a Paris catacombs horror movie review, or a breakdown of “what the ending means,” we get into the psychological mechanics that make the fear s...

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We bounce from a ridiculous cold open into a full-on Resident Evil lore spiral that tries to connect mold horror to classic Umbrella virus canon. We debate what counts as canon, why the timeline feels messy, and why the franchise stays fun even when it makes no sense. 
• forgetting a basic word and spiraling into filler talk 
• joking about “porn accessories” before a cat interruption 
• untangling Resident Evil 5 through Resident Evil 8 numbering 
• explaining why RE7 and RE8 feel disconnected from T virus lore 
• breaking down Mother Miranda, mold infection, and cont...

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A horror movie that can’t decide what it wants to be can still be a fun ride, but it’s going to make us argue. We watch The Tunnel (2011), the Australian found footage horror that also leans hard into a mockumentary style, and we immediately clash on the rating: Alex plants a flag in B tier while TJ and Eric push it down toward the C range.

We break down what works and what doesn’t: the creepy underground setting, the feeling of trespassing somewhere you shouldn’t be, and the genu...

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AI isn’t “coming” to media, it’s already running the floor. After a huge week at NAB in Las Vegas, we come back with one big question: what happens when the most powerful tools in broadcasting and content creation move faster than the rules meant to keep people safe? We talk about AI in broadcasting workflows, the uneasy vibe around hacking, and why regulation always seems a few years behind reality. 

Then we pivot to the real “will you survive” angle: crowds. Festivals, conventions, concerts, even malls can go from normal to dan...

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We finish a massive survival movie tier list and argue our way through what deserves Iconic status versus what belongs in dog water. Along the way, we lock in our favorites, roast our “FX movies,” and end the season with a winner and a stack of new picks for next time. 
• debating A Quiet Place spin-offs and memory gaps 
• locking in top-tier zombie movies led by Train To Busan 
• ranking “black movies” and praising originality and suspense 
• building a “white people stuck in places” mini-category 
• calling out movies you always finish halfway t...

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83 movies. One season finale. A tier list big enough to start fights.

We sit down to rank every survival, horror, and zombie title we’ve covered so far, and the real debate hits fast: are we scoring “best movie,” or are we scoring “most iconic”? Because those are not the same thing. From game adaptations that shaped a generation of fans to classics that basically wrote the rules for the genre, we sort movies into tiers based on craft, vibes, and the moments that never leave pop culture.

Along the way, w...

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Wrong answers only, and we mean it. We take the zombie movie Hashtag Alive and turn its biggest survival moments into a rapid-fire improv game where the goal is to give the worst possible advice and somehow make it funnier than the last round.

We start at the outbreak: screaming neighbors, cannibal headlines, and that split second where panic makes people do the dumbest thing imaginable. From there we jump scene to scene, including the injured stranger at the door, the “big zombie busts in” moment, hallway chases, and the drone sequ...

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We started the night saying we watched #Alive, a zombie movie that should have been an easy conversation starter. Then we did what we always do: immediately derailed into a chaotic survival game and argued like our lives depended on it. Welcome to One To One Hundred, where one of us picks a secret survival item and the rest try to guess it, getting a 1 to 100 “closeness” score that makes perfect sense only to the person holding the answer.

What follows is a surprisingly revealing tour through real survival gear and emer...

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A Resident Evil movie that actually tries to look like the games sounds like a win on paper, but the real question is whether it feels like Resident Evil when the camera stops lingering on Easter eggs. We break down Resident Evil: Welcome To Raccoon City with the same energy we bring to every survival horror watch: what works, what breaks immersion, and what choices would have landed harder if the story had room to breathe.

We get into the big fan debates that make or break a video game adaptation...

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You know that moment in a zombie movie where the infected person “turns” and the story stops caring about what it feels like inside their head? We go the opposite direction and design a parasite zombie where the scariest phase happens before the body looks undead. Our monster doesn’t just bite. It hunts for the adrenal glands, manipulates stress hormones like adrenaline and cortisol, and pushes the host into a fight-or-flight spiral that can turn violent while they’re still aware enough to remember it.

From there we get uncomfortably practica...

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You can’t build a good zombie apocalypse without rules, so we start by arguing like nerds with standards. A zombie has to die, come back, and lose agency, otherwise it’s just an infection with better marketing. Once we lock that in, everything gets sharper: speed, transmission, decay, and what “reanimation” even means when the body shouldn’t be able to move.

Then we chase the most brutal angle for survival horror: the person is still in there. We talk about the nightmare of consciousness without control and why “trapped inside your...

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Ever wondered what happens when AI tries to scare three sleep-deprived hosts who can’t resist breaking character? We put four machine-written horror stories to the test—reading them aloud, acting them out, and grading them with ruthless honesty. From a backyard camera that says “Hello, homeowner” to a silent second floor that refuses to light up, from a circling shark that turns “calm” into “controlled panic” to a polite phone alert about a gravitational anomaly, the night swings between genuine tension and glorious derailment.

We start with the show’s rotating-judge for...

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A runaway train, a fractured society, and a father who has to choose what kind of man he’ll be with minutes to spare—Train to Busan still hits like a freight car. We revisit the instant classic and treat it like a survival lab: what actually works on a moving train, what fails fast, and how tiny choices—gloves, light control, a shared plan—change the odds when the doors slide open and everything screams.

We start with character: the arc from selfish to selfless, why “big man” steals every scene, and h...

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Start with a misdelivered toy and a retail nightmare, add a barrage of Bad Dragon jokes, and you might expect pure chaos—except the chaos hides sharper questions about taste, ethics, and where creators draw the line. We go from laughing at absurd sponsorship ideas to weighing what it means to attach a show’s identity to adult brands and whether shock value is worth the association.

Then we pivot to movies with a double-take: the clean precision of 1917’s one-shot illusion versus the slower burn of 1922, and a heated breakdown of zom...

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What do you call the dead who come back not to feast, but to finish what life wouldn’t let them complete? We dive into We Bury The Dead and unravel a story that swaps infection rules for ritual, jump scares for the slow press of guilt, and tidy answers for unnerving questions.

We start with the spark: an experimental U.S. blast off Tasmania that isn’t nuclear but still shatters a city and scrambles what returns. From there, we track Ava’s mission to find her missing husband, and how th...

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What happens when you describe The Martian as a “work retreat gone badly” or The Purge as a “civic exercise with rules that fail”? We turned our survival podcast into a high-stakes guessing game built on outrageously bad synopses of movies we’ve covered—Sinners, The Purge, The Day After Tomorrow, Cast Away, The Martian, Outside, 2012, The Thing, Nope, Cargo, and Warm Bodies—and it got competitive fast.

Across the chaos, a clear throughline emerges: survival lives or dies on trust, timing, and adaptation. We dig into why rule-based systems crumble when people st...

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A veiled woman stands in the yard, palms open, blood dripping, and everything feels slightly off—clocks run backward, shadows stretch, and a grieving family can’t trust their senses. We dive into a new psychological horror film that disguises its core as a home-invasion scare, then reveals something far more intimate: how grief can haunt a house from the inside out. We talk through what the movie shows, what it withholds, and why the smartest survival choices fall apart when adrenaline narrows your world to a single, shaky frame.

Eric, Alex...

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Ever been so late and so fried that your best plan is to turn chaos into a game? We took a missed movie night and spun it into a ruthless one-to-one hundred showdown, where single-word clues and sharp instincts pulled us through a gauntlet of survival films we’ve covered. The rules are simple, the execution is not: say a word, get a score, triangulate the movie. Along the way we collide with Bird Box, Maggie, Hush, 1408, and The Mist.

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Time steals differently when gravity gets involved, and nothing makes that hit harder than the moment Interstellar turns three hours into 23 years. We use that gut punch as a launchpad to explore how stories honor science, why fidelity to source material matters, and where casting can make or break immersion. One minute we’re laughing at New Year slipups, the next we’re arguing over Miller’s ankle-deep ocean, and then we’re knee-deep in light warping at the event horizon. It’s chaotic, curious, and surprisingly heartfelt—exactly the tone that kept us thinking...

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Grief can make smart people do dangerous things—and in Bring Her Back, that grief becomes a weapon. We dive headfirst into the film’s guts: a foster mother trying to rebuild her daughter from borrowed parts, a cursed VHS that promises resurrection, and a house rigged with ritual rules that punish hesitation. From the opening red flags to the final breath, we map where survival was still possible and where the choices slammed shut.

We unpack the lore behind the “Tari Resurrection Tapes,” the unsettling ARG-style website, and the ritual’s structur...

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New year shock, old world problems: we kick off 2026 by stress-testing the everyday stuff that somehow feels harder than outrunning a movie monster. From checks versus direct deposit to stores that reject your card at the worst moment, we turn money mishaps and retail rules into survival drills with jokes as our flashlight. It’s a fast tour through bank anxiety, mobile deposits, convenience fees, and the strange house rules of places like Costco and WinCo—plus the backup systems that keep you from getting stranded at the register.

The vibe shif...

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A quick holiday drop turned into a whirlwind: we start with Merry Christmas chaos, trip over the “three wise men,” detour into reality TV in Utah, and end up interrogating the gap between what looks smart on paper and what actually works in real life. It’s a snack-sized episode that still serves heat—fast jokes, stray facts, and a heartfelt nod to everyone juggling family, faith, and free time this season.

We get candid about relationships and the myth of bandwidth: the “cute level of toxic,” how jealousy sneaks in when people...

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A smile you can’t trust. A request for a simple bowl of water. And a town that looks away as windows go dark. We dig into Weapons with clear eyes and sharp questions, unpacking why a strong performance and clever structure still falter when the villain steps into the light too soon. Our take is candid and unflinching: suspense thrives on restraint, and this story shows how timing can elevate dread or deflate it.

We break down the film’s chaptered perspectives and how they enrich the mystery, then debate a pr...

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Fifty boys, three miles per hour, and a country that turns suffering into spectacle. We sat down with Stephen King’s The Long Walk and followed the road past rules and warnings into the messy questions beneath: who we become under pressure, what we owe our friends, and whether victory means anything when the system owns the prize.

We start with the bones of the story—a near-future police state, televised cruelty, and a “voluntary” contest that looks a lot like a draft. From there, we compare the book’s ravenous crowds wit...

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A polite knock. A perfect harmony. A smile that asks, not forces. That’s where this vampire story sinks its teeth: on the threshold where fear becomes a choice. We pick up part two of our centers breakdown and dig into why the smartest bloodsuckers don’t need to break doors—they make you open them. From the “let me in” dance to that unnerving song at the stoop, we map how social pressure, charm, and ritual turn hospitality into horror.

We unpack haints, folk beliefs, and the power of naming. Calling a...

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A knock at the door, a soft voice asking to be let in We go deep on Sinners, the vampire tale that honors the old rules—no entry without an invite, silver that burns, sunlight that judges—while twisting the myth with a hive link that shares sensation and pain without erasing choice. That thin line between connection and control frames our central question: are these vampires puppets, or corrupted souls still capable of mercy?

We dig into the Smokestack twins and Preacher Boy as the moral core of the story. Stac...

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What happens when we force our co-hosts to argue the exact opposite of what they believe about Shaun of the Dead? Sparks. We flip the table, press every hot button—humor that lands vs humor that dates, heart that sings vs tone that whiplashes—and let the best case win.

We start with the big question: is Edgar Wright’s kinetic style a stroke of comic engineering or noise that undercuts fear? From the record-throwing bit to the Queen-backed bar fight, we pull apart pacing, sound cues, and visual jokes to see wh...

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Three teenagers are taken. A man with 23 personalities holds the key. And somewhere between adrenaline, trauma, and belief, a monster takes shape. We pull Split apart scene by scene to ask the questions the movie dares us to consider: what’s real about Dissociative Identity Disorder, what’s pure cinematic myth, and how should a survivor respond when seconds count.

We start with the craft. James McAvoy’s performance is a clinic in subtlety—posture shifts, eye focus, compulsive tidying, even a pulsing vein that signals Dennis before the script tells you. We...

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The scariest monsters don’t live in forests; they live in your head, in your hallway, and sometimes under your bed. We dive into two viral Reddit horror stories that turn everyday routines into nerve-grinding fear: a wife who peeks from corners with a grin that won’t blink, and a return‑to‑sender package that arrives with a smell no one forgets. We read them aloud, pause to breathe, and break down why these tales work so brutally well.

First, we explore the anatomy of dread in the “peeking wife” story: how a...

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A ghost that loathes clocks, a sugar daddy who pays well for eerie “favors,” and a Grand Canyon hike that splits a friendship—tonight’s mix blends chills, laughs, and a debate you’ll want to weigh in on. We kick off with a haunted-home confession that reads like a bad roommate story: windows thrown open in the rain, food containers mysteriously unsealed, and antique timepieces dead on arrival. It’s spooky, but it also opens a conversation about how simple sounds—ticks, drips, creaks—can haunt your head long after the lights go out.

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The Rage virus didn’t just come back. It learned how to live with scarcity, built a pecking order, and forced an island of survivors to build a life between tides. We break down 28 Years Later through the lens of survival logic: what the infection still does in seconds, what’s changed about feeding and endurance, and how the “alpha” signals coordination instead of magic powers. The world beyond the water is humming again, but the UK quarantine reshapes everything—culture, rumor, and the rules parents invent to keep kids brave.

We get gra...

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A fortified hospital, a flickering power grid, and a psych ward that plays tricks on your head—this gauntlet throws everything at us and then some. We set a single objective—reach the roof for extraction—and make a series of messy, decisive moves to get there: a salt “oval” for confidence, a tarp that doubles as a map and gear hauler, a compass that turns into crowd bait, and just enough tiger spray to open lanes when the stairwells close in.

The psych ward forces us to solve for perception first: hal...

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A mall under siege, a rooftop helicopter you might miss, a silverback gorilla staring down a crowd, a farmhouse whispering your name, and a lifeboat that turns a tarp into a lifeline this one takes our Season Five highlights and turns them into a tactical survival game. We put our own debates on trial: Did the survivors in Dawn of the Dead wait too long to claim the roof? Is human coordination the underrated superpower in any “100 vs 1” scenario? Can composure be a stronger exorcism tool than any artifact? And how often does a hu...

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A sealed lab, a tank of pink mist, and a hidden elevator to a place no one should see—our run-and-gun infiltration turns into a sprint against a one-hour countdown to total immolation. We gear up with scavenged Kevlar, swap weapons under stress, and bluff our way into sub-level three to confront the elusive Dr. Thorpe. Behind hastily closed blinds, his chilling reveal rewrites the rules: the threat isn’t airborne or bite-based. It’s a biocataclysm nicknamed “the rust” that hijacks the human appendix as an incubator, triggered by UV light. If you’ve had...

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The operating table was supposed to be the end of your appendix troubles—not the beginning of a nightmare that would leave you fighting for your life in a hospital gone mad.

Welcome back to the terrifying continuation of "Code Black," where we pick up right after our survivors escaped their initial operating room horror. Armed with nothing but an IV stand and a security guard's baton, they now face a hospital transformed into a labyrinth of death and mystery.

What started as a routine medical procedure has spiraled in...

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The ability to communicate clearly during a crisis might be your most valuable survival skill. In this episode, we put our communication abilities to the test with our survival-themed guessing game "1 to 100," where players must identify crucial survival items through a series of clues.

Think of it as "hot and cold" with life-or-death stakes. One person thinks of a survival item or concept, while others guess words and receive a numerical rating from 1-100. The higher the number, the closer they are to the correct answer. It sounds simple, but the...

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Battle Royale burst onto the global cinema scene in 2000, introducing the world to a disturbing vision of dystopian Japan where high school students are forced to fight to the death on a remote island. Two decades later, this cult classic continues to shock, disturb, and fascinate audiences worldwide.

Joined by our special guest and self-proclaimed "#1 Fan" Josh, we navigate the bloody corridors of this influential film that many argue laid the groundwork for everything from The Hunger Games to modern battle royale video games. The conversation quickly ignites into a heated...

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What happens when survival experts face off in a high-stakes trivia battle? Pure chaos and surprising revelations about what they do—and don't—know about survival.

In this special game show episode, hosts Erik, TJ, and Alex compete in "Geopardy," a survival-themed trivia challenge spanning six categories: self-defense, camping, survival, first aid, navigation, and trivia about their own podcast. The competitive tension builds as they buzz in to tackle questions ranging from basic survival techniques to obscure wilderness knowledge.

Despite Erik feeling under the weather on his birthday, the comp...

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Game shows and survival might seem like an unlikely pairing, but in this special birthday episode for Erik, we combine competitive trivia with life-saving knowledge in our revival of "Geopardy" (with a G, not a J—we're very particular about that).

Armed with buzzers and quick reflexes, TJ and Erik face off across six challenging categories: Will You Survive the Podcast, Zombie Knowledge, Urban Survival, The Conjuring, Bushcraft Hacks, and Gear You Forgot. The competition quickly heats up as they dive into questions ranging from easy 200-point softballs to brain-busting 1000-point st...