Will You Survive... The Podcast

Send us Fan Mail A killer clown is scary. The way fear makes smart people do dumb things is worse. We sit down with It Chapter One (2017) and use it as an excuse to pull out real, practical survival lessons you can actually carry into everyday life, whether that is dealing with strangers, navigating risky places, or keeping your head when your body wants to panic. We start with our first reactions...

Send us Fan Mail A party island. A slasher with a machete. A cast of suspects who keep doing the exact wrong thing at the exact wrong time. We jump into Club Dread, the Broken Lizard horror comedy that leans so hard into the tropes that it circles back into being genuinely funny, even when it makes you say “come on” out loud. We talk through what works, what doesn’t, and why a movie can be “dumb o...

Send us Fan Mail A listener sends a custom Will You Survive decanter as a birthday gift, and that one wholesome moment cracks the door open for pure chaos. We go from prank memories and the shaving-cream “Michelin man” setup to the most important debate of all: which juices actually slap and why cranberry sauce feels like jello pretending to be food. If you’re into comedy podcasts built on real fr...

Send us Fan Mail A zombie movie where the scariest part isn’t the bite, it’s the biology. We’re breaking down The Girl With All The Gifts with Alex, Eric and TJ, and the deeper we go, the more this story feels like a survival warning wrapped in horror. The infected aren’t magic monsters. They’re a fungal infection with stages, rules, and one inevitable upgrade that changes everything. We talk thro...

Send us Fan Mail One snap. One wish. One relationship that stops being messy and turns outright predatory. We watched Obsession and couldn’t stop circling the same question: if you were handed a “one-wish willow,” would you actually use it, and would you recognize the moment it starts using you back? We break down the movie as a psychological horror story with possession vibes that feel disturbing...

Send us Fan Mail One sentence can ruin a life if it’s spoken to the wrong object. We sit down after watching Obsession and unpack how a seemingly simple wish, “make her love me more than anything,” twists into something way darker than a typical dating horror story. What starts as Bear’s crush on his coworker Nikki turns into a “perfect relationship” that feels less like romance and more like capt...

Send us Fan Mail You get trapped in a farmhouse at night. The dead are outside, testing doors and windows, and you cannot safely leave yet. Now you have one tool that feels powerful and dangerous at the same time: $1,000 to spend at a survival auction, bidding blind before we tell you the exact scenario. That is the game, and it gets chaotic fast. We run three scored rounds inspired by Night of th...

Send us Fan Mail One man walks into one of the most horrifying battles of World War II with no gun, no intent to kill, and a promise to himself that he will not leave men behind. That’s the heartbeat of our Hacksaw Ridge conversation, and it’s why Desmond Doss still messes with our heads in the best way. We break down what makes the movie so hard to watch and so impossible to forget: the youth of...

Send us Fan Mail A man walks into World War II without a weapon and somehow becomes the person everyone counts on when the fighting turns into a meat grinder. We sit down with Hacksaw Ridge and trace why Desmond Doss still grabs your attention years later: not because the violence is cinematic, but because his conviction makes every decision feel like it has a moral price tag attached. We talk thr...

Send us Fan Mail You ever think you know your friends, then realize you cannot predict their movie taste to save your life? We turn a Top 100 movies list into a wheel-driven guessing game where every spin forces a snap judgment, a mini review, and a number we’ll regret seconds later. The picks bounce across Quentin Tarantino, war movies like 1917, animated comfort watches like WALL-E, zombie chaos...

Send us Fan Mail We’re back on TJ’s Top 100 movie list, and we’re doing it the only way that makes sense for our brains: spinning a wheel, pulling a random title, and immediately putting a number on it like we’re absolutely sure. The catch is we’re guessing TJ’s rankings, not our own, so every pick turns into a mini argument about vibes, rewatches, and the one scene you can’t forget. If you like m...

Send us Fan Mail You know a conversation is going off the rails when it starts with a fight about how to clap “up and down” and ends with survival prep, wildfire smoke migraines, van life logistics, and a full-blown war over Fahrenheit. That’s exactly what we deliver in this loose, funny yap sesh from Will You Survive, where the jokes are constant but the real-world takeaways sneak up on you. We p...

Send us Fan Mail Trying to guess a friend’s Top 100 movies sounds easy until you’re staring at a blank list, a spinning wheel, and a host who refuses to give you clean hints. TJ takes the chair and turns our film chat into a ranking game: the wheel pulls a random movie from his personal Top 100 list, and Eric and Alex have to lock in a number before we move on. The result is part competition, part...

Send us Fan Mail The best horror twist is the one that makes you replay the whole story in your head, and Hidden (2015) earns that kind of second look. We start with a family locked in a bunker for 301 days, listening to “breathers” stomp and hiss above them, rationing food, clinging to routine, and trying to keep their daughter calm when the walls feel like they are closing in. It’s survival horr...

Send us Fan Mail They wake a man up alone in deep space, point him at a dying star, and call it humanity’s best shot. We have a lot of fun tearing into Project Hail Mary, but the more we talk, the heavier the core question gets: what do you owe the world after the world treats you like equipment? We break down what makes this sci-fi survival movie hit so hard, from the opening amnesia and creeping...

Send us Fan Mail A post-apocalyptic wasteland is scary enough. Add a locked Bible that everyone wants, and suddenly you’re not just fighting for water and food, you’re fighting over meaning and power. We put The Book of Eli (2010) under the microscope and ask the survival question that sits under every scene: what actually keeps you alive when society collapses, skill, faith, or pure luck? We talk...

Send us Fan Mail A man gets sealed inside a rusted coffin of steel and lowered into an ocean of human blood. The radio tells him it’s a mission, but every new instruction feels like another layer of the sentence. We watched Markiplier’s Iron Lung and then went line by line through the details that make it hit so hard: the Quiet Rapture lore, the uneasy silence, and the constant fear that the only...

Send us Fan Mail You can learn a lot about survival by watching people make the worst possible choices under pressure, so we decided to turn that chaos into a game. We’re playing “Who Wants To Be A Gajillionaire,” a trivia showdown built from the horror movies we’ve covered and the preparedness lessons we can’t stop arguing about. It’s part game show, part horror movie survival guide, and part exc...

Send us Fan Mail Nine months underground sounds survivable until you ask the only question that matters: what kind of world are you walking into when the door opens? We take the disaster movie Greenland and stress-test it like a real survival scenario, from the physics of comet impacts to the human behavior that makes everything worse. Along the way, we call out the little details movies reuse to...

Send us Fan Mail The comet is terrifying, but the part that sticks with us is what people do when they think the clock hit zero. We take on Greenland as a surprisingly grounded disaster movie and use it as a survival thought experiment: how fast normal life collapses, how quickly “help” turns into risk, and why a family plan matters more than any heroic speech. We talk through the movie’s big choi...

Send us Fan Mail 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...

Send us Fan Mail 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...

Send us Fan Mail 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 interrup...

Send us Fan Mail 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’...

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 y...