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Apartment Survival Oct 01, 2026

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Apartment Survival

Living in an apartment changes the entire preparedness equation. You’ve got limited storage, neighbors on every side, shared utilities, elevators that may stop working, lease restrictions, and a whole bunch of critical systems that you don’t actually control.

In this episode, we break down how to realistically prepare when you don’t have a basement, garage, backyard, or unlimited room for supplies. We get into apartment water and food storage, cooking during a blackout, portable power, heating and cooling, fire safety, security, communications, sanitation, dealing with neighbors, and what happens when those elevators stop working.

We also talk about one of the biggest differences with apartment survival: knowing when it’s time to get out. Your apartment might be completely fine while a fire, sewage backup, failed heating system, security problem, or something happening several floors away makes the entire building unsafe.

Apartment prepping isn’t about trying to cram a suburban prepper setup into 700 square feet. It’s about keeping things compact, mobile, useful, and having enough options to handle the emergency or get out before things get worse.

In this episode:

Why apartment preparedness is different
Making limited storage space work
Water and food storage in small spaces
Cooking safely without power
Portable power stations and charging
Heating and cooling during an outage
Elevators, stairwells, and evacuation
Apartment fire safety
Security and home defense
Neighbors and shared resources
Emergency communications
Toilets and sanitation without water
Medical needs and medications
Working with building management and lease restrictions
Bugging in vs. knowing when to bug out
The best practical apartment preps

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Our Top 20 80's Movies - Mindless Banter 156 Sep 10, 2026

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Our Top 20 80’s Movies

This week we’re stepping away from the apocalypse for a very important topic: the greatest movies of the 1980s.

Coby and Cam each bring their personal Top 20, which means plenty of nostalgia, questionable rankings, ties, childhood favorites, and movies we’ve probably watched way too many times.

We’re talking Back to the Future, Predator, The Lost Boys, Indiana Jones, The Burbs, Top Gun, RoboCop, The Goonies, Ghostbusters, Gremlins and a whole pile of other 80s greatness.

Plus, honorable mentions, forgotten classics, Corey Feldman appreciation, dystopian Arnold movies, Spielberg, John Hughes, Christmas movies, and the inevitable argument over what deserves the #1 spot.

Basically, if you grew up in the 80s or just love the movies from that era, this one’s for you.

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72 Hours at the End of the Road - A Scenario Sep 03, 2026

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72 Hours at the End of the Road

What happens when a completely normal neighborhood gets cut off from the outside world for 72 hours?

In this episode, we drop into a fictional cul-de-sac after a violent storm washes out the only road, knocks out power, disrupts water service, and leaves twenty households to figure things out on their own.

As the hours pass, the problems start stacking up: medication shortages, generator fuel, questionable water, stranded family members, neighborhood security, hidden supplies, rumors, theft scares, and one very unfortunate missing gas can.

We work through the scenario hour by hour and ask what we would actually do, what gear really matters, how much we would share with neighbors, and how quickly a group of normal people could either become a functioning community or completely turn on each other.

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The Hopkinsville Goblins Aug 27, 2026

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Mindless Banter 155: The Hopkinsville Goblins

In 1955, a Kentucky family claimed their farmhouse was surrounded for hours by small glowing creatures with huge eyes, clawed hands and a strange ability to shrug off gunfire.

We break down the Hopkinsville Goblins encounter, the police response, the owl theory, the carnival connection, the weirder explanations and how the story became UFO legend.

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The Last Grocery Trip Before SHTF Aug 20, 2026

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The Last Grocery Trip Before SHTF

Something is happening, the shelves are still stocked, and you’ve got one more shot to make a grocery run before things get weird. In this episode, we break down how to handle that last trip without becoming the guy panic-buying 11 cases of water and a pallet of toilet paper.

We cover what to prioritize, how to shop based on the actual emergency, overlooked second-wave shortages, foods that require more water and fuel than you might think, checkout and payment problems, cold storage, and knowing when it’s time to stop shopping and get home. More importantly, we talk about how to build enough everyday preparedness that someday this entire trip becomes optional.

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The Paul Bennewitz Affair - MB 154 Aug 13, 2026

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The Paul Bennewitz Affair

Paul Bennewitz was a successful businessman, pilot and electronics expert who lived near Kirtland Air Force Base and became convinced he was intercepting communications from extraterrestrials. What started with strange lights and bizarre radio signals quickly exploded into claims involving alien abductions, implants, underground bases, cattle mutilations, government-alien treaties, Dulce Base and even an underground war between humans and aliens.

But the craziest part of the story may be what happened behind the scenes. Air Force intelligence figures, including Richard Doty, allegedly encouraged Bennewitz’s beliefs and fed UFO disinformation into his investigation, possibly to keep him away from real classified military activity. Eventually, Bennewitz’s obsession consumed his life and contributed to a severe mental breakdown.

In this episode, we dig into Project Beta, Bennewitz’s bizarre decoded alien messages, Myrna Hansen, cattle mutilations, alien implants, Dulce Base, the alleged government treaty, Phil Schneider’s underground battle, MJ-12, William Moore and one of the strangest alleged government disinformation operations in UFO history.

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The Contingency Planner Aug 06, 2026

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The Contingency Planner

Most families have emergency supplies, but their actual plan is usually scattered across phones, random notes, old conversations, and the brain of one person who supposedly knows where everything is.

In this episode, we break down how to build a family emergency plan that still works when the phones are dead, the roads are blocked, everyone is separated, and the household’s main prepper is not around to run the show.

Using the MAD Gear Contingency Planner and ReadyPlan app as our guide, we cover realistic threats, conditions for action, PACE planning, communication backups, meeting locations, evacuation routes, fuel, family roles, medical information, pets, gear locations, security, and how to create different loadout plans based on how much time you have to leave.

Because owning the gear is only half the job. Your family also needs to know when to act, where to go, what to grab, and what happens when Plan A falls apart.

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Annie Jacobsen - Biological War: A Scenario Jul 30, 2026

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Biological War: A Scenario with Annie Jacobsen

Today we’re joined by bestselling author and investigative journalist Annie Jacobsen to discuss her brand-new book, Biological War: A Scenario. Annie is the author of Area 51, Operation Paperclip, The Pentagon’s Brain, Surprise, Kill, Vanish, and one of our favorites, Nuclear War: A Scenario.

In this episode, we talk with Annie about why she moved from nuclear war to biological war, how a biological attack could unfold, and why the pathogen itself may only be part of the disaster. We get into public distrust after Covid, how misinformation and panic could make a biological event far worse, and how quickly a crisis like this could overwhelm institutions, hospitals, government response, and normal civilian life.

We also discuss how biological war could spiral into military escalation or even nuclear conflict, what continuity-of-government plans and martial law might look like, and how regular people can think about preparedness without living in fear.

This is a heavy one, but it’s an important conversation about one of the most unsettling threats facing the modern world.

In This Episode

Why Annie wrote Biological War after Nuclear War: A Scenario
The basic scenario behind the new book
Why public trust may be one of the biggest survival factors
How Covid changed the way people respond to public health warnings
Biological weapons, engineered pathogens, and institutional failure
How misinformation, rumors, and panic could accelerate collapse
Why a biological event could lead to military escalation
How a pathogen crisis could potentially trigger nuclear decisions
Continuity of government, martial law, and emergency powers
What regular people should do with terrifying information like this
How to take biological threats seriously without becoming consumed by fear

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