Will You Survive... The Podcast

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...

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 ...

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 reve...

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 a...

Send us Fan Mail 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 sw...

Send us Fan Mail 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 ve...

Send us Fan Mail 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 ...

Send us Fan Mail 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.

Send us Fan Mail 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 Resurrec...

Send us Fan Mail 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 “cut...

Send us Fan Mail 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 ...

Send us Fan Mail 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...

Send us Fan Mail 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, compulsiv...