Will You Survive... The Podcast

Will You Survive... The Podcast
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Immerse yourself in the world of cinema as we embark on a journey to equip you with the skills to tackle any disaster head-on. Through the lens of thrilling tales, particularly those of the zombie apocalypse, we'll unravel the secrets of preparedness. Join us as we explore the silver screen to empower you for the challenges that lie ahead.

  1. 4D AGO

    Plastic Bags, Neck Pillows, And Other Terrible Survival Plans

    Send us Fan Mail 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 dangerous in minutes when planning fails or panic hits. We pull lessons from infamous event disasters, argue about what people should expect from organizers, and admit how quickly most of us stop thinking like “prepared” adults the moment we’re on a trip and trying to have fun.  Finally, we get practical about travel safety and TSA reality. If you’re flying to a packed event, what can you actually bring that helps in an emergency? We debate the boring answers that work: water, snacks, basic first aid, and a flashlight, plus the simple strategy of buying what you need after security. It’s messy, it’s chaotic, and yes, it derails into internet weirdness and “Humanimals” improv, but the takeaway is real: preparedness has to be portable, legal, and simple.  Subscribe to Will You Survive the Podcast, share this with your most “I’ll figure it out later” friend, and leave a review if you want more scenarios like this. What’s one item you always carry that makes you feel safer in a crowd?

    1h 4m

  2. APR 24

    Will You Survive Our Fifth Tier List pt 2

    Send us Fan Mail 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 through  • breaking down what Weapons does well and what it reveals too early  • talking Maggie as a moral gut-punch zombie story  • putting war and outbreak movies head-to-head  • landing the final picks and naming a personal favorite  • wrapping the season with socials and next-season ideas  Alright, everybody, make sure you go check us out on all of our socials. We are on YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook. You can find us by searching Will You Survive the Podcast. You can also send us emails, give us criticisms, critiques, tell us what you would like us to cover, any movies that we haven't named in our mega tier list, and send those emails off to the boys at Will You SurviveThePodcast.com. That's T-H-E-B-O-Y-S at Will You SurviveThePodcast.com. Make sure to like, subscribe, comment, uh, send us your movie suggestions and such.

    53 min

  3. APR 17

    Will You Survive Our Fifth Tier List

    Send us Fan Mail 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, we stress-test what makes a great survival story actually work: clear rules, real stakes, characters who feel like humans under pressure, and a threat that stays consistent long enough to be scary. We argue about sequels that improve the formula versus sequels that get too cheesy, and we keep coming back to rewatchability. Some films are unforgettable once and then lose their magic, while others get better when you know what to look for. If you love zombie movies, survival thrillers, horror franchises, and ranking chaos with strong opinions, this is your roadmap for what to watch next and what to skip. Listen, then subscribe and share the episode with a friend, and leave us a review with your picks: what deserves S Tier and what is truly Dog Water?

    55 min

  4. APR 10

    Will You Survive REMIX: #Alive

    Send us Fan Mail 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 sequence. Along the way we call out the movie logic that drives us crazy, especially how sound travels in an apartment complex and why the zombies suddenly know exactly where to go. It’s part comedy roast, part zombie movie review, and part accidental lesson in risk, noise, and decision-making under stress. Then we hit the later beats: looting the neighbor’s apartment, the rescue mission that goes off the rails, the kidnapper twist, and the final sprint to the roof with a helicopter overhead. The scorecard keeps us honest, the riffs keep escalating, and by the end you’ll have a clear list of what not to do in a zombie apocalypse even if you’ve never seen Hashtag Alive. Follow Will You Survive, share this with a friend who would absolutely die first, and leave a review with your own worst survival plan: what’s the first terrible move you’d make?

    56 min

  5. APR 3

    Survival Word Association Challenge 4: TJ Edition

    Send us Fan Mail 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 emergency preparedness thinking. We bounce through the usual bug out bag staples like water filters, lighters, first aid supplies, and navigation tools, then stumble into why signaling matters when you actually need rescue. A signal mirror becomes the perfect example of lightweight, battery-free survival equipment that’s easy to forget until you need it most. From there, the conversation turns into multi-use gear and survival priorities: why paracord is basically a cheat code for shelter building and improvisation, why “sleep system” choices spiral into a full sleeping pad argument, and how food planning turns into a final-round obsession that ends with a fishing pole. It’s messy, loud, and genuinely useful if you like survival scenarios, wilderness survival talk, and gear debates that don’t take themselves too seriously. Subscribe for more survival podcast chaos, share this one with a friend who overthinks gear lists, and leave a review with the survival item you think should be an automatic 100.

    52 min

  6. MAR 27

    Will You Survive: Resident Evil Welcome To Raccoon City

    Send us Fan Mail 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: Leon Kennedy as a “rookie” who can’t shoot, Jill Valentine’s personality feeling off, and whether Wesker comes across as the Wesker people remember. We also talk monsters and moments that nailed the vibe, including the licker design, the Lisa Trevor sequence, and the game-accurate shots that feel ripped straight from classic cutscenes. Along the way we dig into Resident Evil lore like the T virus vs G virus and how the franchise shifted from survival horror into action, then back again with newer entries. Then we pivot to the part where “Will you survive?” stops being hypothetical. If the outbreak is in the water, what do you do first: filter, boil, or both? We talk emergency water purification, activated charcoal, LifeStraw-style filtration, bathtub and water heater sourcing, why pool water is a trap unless you distill it, and the boring supplies that become priceless when everything collapses. If you’re into zombie movies, Umbrella Corporation conspiracies, Resident Evil game lore, and practical emergency preparedness, hit play. Subscribe, share this with a friend who loves zombies, and leave a review with your hottest take: should Welcome To Raccoon City have been a mini-series?

    1h 5m

  7. MAR 20

    Will You Survive REMIX: The Official WYS Zombie pt 2

    Send us Fan Mail 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 practical: how would transmission work if the goal is pure spread? We debate eggs in the mouth, contamination from scratches, and a truly gross barf vector that makes close contact a nightmare. We also nerd out on “realistic zombie blood” and what it would look like as oxygen drops and circulation fails, plus how the parasite could shift stages from fast rage to slow husk reanimation. Then we pull the thread that collapses civilization: incubation period. If symptoms take days or weeks, quarantine becomes a fantasy, travel keeps happening, and infection outruns every rule you try to enforce. We even put a rough R0 on it, and we explore a darker biology angle where immune function falls apart through lymph nodes and bone marrow, meaning “anything” can finish you off once the parasite has control. Finally, we look for weaknesses that make survival possible without breaking the rules, from heat and dehydration to the lore-friendly curveball of pumpkin seeds and cucurbitacin. If you like zombie science, parasite horror, and worldbuilding with consequences, hit play. Subscribe, share this with a friend who loves outbreak stories, and leave a review telling us what weakness you’d add.

    41 min

  8. MAR 13

    Will You Survive REMIX: The Official WYS Zombie pt 1

    Send us Fan Mail 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 body” turns a simple monster into grief you can’t outrun. If you’ve ever wondered what makes a zombie story stick in your chest instead of just splattering on a screen, this is the thread we keep pulling. From there we workshop our favorite compromise, “fast when fresh,” and use it to design an outbreak timeline that feels both cinematic and weirdly plausible. We compare virus logic from classic zombie science, bring up the blood-brain barrier and fever limits, and end up in the same dark place: parasites. We build a macro parasite zombie that spreads through bites, uses the mouth as an egg factory, can lie dormant, and burns through the body like disposable equipment. If you’re into zombie worldbuilding, apocalypse strategy, and the kind of biology talk that makes you reconsider swimming in lakes, hit play. Subscribe for more, share the episode with a friend who loves zombies, and leave a review with your vote: fast zombies, slow zombies, or fast when fresh?

    41 min
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Immerse yourself in the world of cinema as we embark on a journey to equip you with the skills to tackle any disaster head-on. Through the lens of thrilling tales, particularly those of the zombie apocalypse, we'll unravel the secrets of preparedness. Join us as we explore the silver screen to empower you for the challenges that lie ahead.

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    Will You Survive... The Podcast
  • Years Active
    2023 - 2026
  • Episodes
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