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How To Survive The Apocalypse

How To Survive The Apocalypse

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How To Survive The Apocalypse explores real-world collapse scenarios, survival strategies, and the breakdown of modern systems. Hosted by Ben Carter, each episode investigates nuclear war, grid failures, pandemics, artificial intelligence threats, and civil unrest through a structured, documentary-style approach. Focusing on practical survival, decision-making, and real conditions, the series examines what it would take to survive the fall of modern civilization. Unlock bonus content and full video episodes:
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Episodes
  • Nuclear Winter: The First Year After the Bombs Stop Falling

    Nuclear Winter: The First Year After the Bombs Stop Falling
    Oct 24 2026
    A nuclear exchange does not create one single survival problem. It creates a sequence of changing emergencies: blast, fire, fallout, contaminated dust, separation from family, interrupted water and medical care, food spoilage, supply shortages, and possibly disrupted growing seasons far beyond the places that were attacked.
    This episode begins with a documented survivor of Hiroshima, Akiko Takakura, who was inside Geibi Bank about 300 meters from the hypocenter when the atomic bomb detonated on August 6, 1945. Her survival shows the value—and the limits—of shelter. A building may protect someone through the first catastrophe, but it cannot by itself restore clean water, medicine, transportation, or food production.
    Through an illustrative modern household in an agricultural community, the episode follows the first year after a hypothetical large nuclear exchange. The household must shelter from possible fallout, avoid unnecessary travel, decontaminate carefully, protect water and food, manage refrigeration failure, and make difficult choices as local supplies tighten. Months later, the danger may shift again: scientific models indicate that severe urban fires could send soot high into the atmosphere, reducing sunlight and disrupting agriculture under some assumed scenarios.
    Immediate official instructions always come first. Shelter when fallout is the danger, leave only for direct threats such as fire or collapse or when directed by authorities, use protected food and water, and seek verified local information before making long-term decisions.
    This podcast uses artificial intelligence in its research, writing, production, and narration. Episodes are editorially reviewed before publication.
    #HowToSurviveTheApocalypse #NuclearCatastropheAndLongTermSurvival #NuclearWinter #NuclearWarSurvival #GlobalFamine
    YES OR NO: Do you have enough shelf-stable food and water for at least three days????????


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    25 mins
  • EMP Attack: What Fails First When the Lights Go Out

    EMP Attack: What Fails First When the Lights Go Out
    Oct 19 2026
    A blackout after a possible nuclear event creates a dangerous question: is the loss of power the main threat, or a sign that more immediate hazards are outside? This episode follows an illustrative household in an unspecified North American city as a sudden flash, disrupted communications, and failing services force them to choose between driving to loved ones and sheltering where they are.
    The first priority is not diagnosing an electromagnetic pulse. A blackout alone does not prove EMP, and not every phone, car, radio, or electronic device will fail. If a nuclear or radiation emergency may be possible, the immediate protective action is to get inside a substantial building, move toward an interior room or basement if safely accessible, and stay tuned for official instructions. Blast damage, fire, structural collapse, urgent medical needs, and official evacuation orders can change that decision.
    The episode explains how to shelter without delaying for supplies, remove possible radioactive contamination after reaching shelter, protect water and food, conserve communications, manage refrigerated medicines carefully, and avoid deadly indoor carbon-monoxide risks from generators or fuel-burning devices. It also returns to the documented March 13, 1989 Hydro-Québec blackout, when a geomagnetic storm collapsed a major power system in seconds and restoration took about nine hours.
    Use current instructions from emergency management, public-health authorities, and identifiable responders. Local conditions, building safety, fallout measurements, accessibility, medical needs, and the actual cause of the outage determine what comes next.
    This podcast uses artificial intelligence in its research, writing, production, and narration. Episodes are editorially reviewed before publication.
    #HowToSurviveTheApocalypse #InfrastructureCollapseNuclearEmergency #ElectromagneticPulse #PowerGridFailure #NuclearEmergency
    YES OR NO: Do you have a battery-powered or hand-crank radio at home????????


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    22 mins
  • The First 24 Hours After a Deadly Fungus Starts Spreading Between Humans

    The First 24 Hours After a Deadly Fungus Starts Spreading Between Humans
    Oct 11 2026
    A difficult-to-identify yeast appears in two medically fragile patients on the same hospital unit. The danger is real, but it is not a community apocalypse. Candida auris spreads primarily among patients in healthcare settings, where it can persist on skin, shared equipment, and nearby surfaces.
    This episode follows an illustrative first-day scenario inside a 200-bed hospital as an infection-prevention lead, ICU charge nurse, laboratory team, environmental-services supervisor, and public-health officials work to contain a suspected cluster without interrupting essential care. They must decide what to isolate, who to screen, which equipment may have moved between rooms, and whether the cleaning products already in use are effective against C. auris.
    The response is proportionate: take a suspicious result seriously, notify infection prevention and local or state public health, use the precautions required for that setting, confirm identification through the appropriate laboratory process, and communicate patient status before any transfer. The episode explains why a screening-positive result can indicate colonization rather than invasive infection, why healthy household contacts are generally at low risk, and why self-testing or self-treatment is not the answer.
    It also follows the work behind containment: hand hygiene, clear ownership of shared equipment, daily and terminal cleaning with a current EPA-registered product effective against C. auris, continuity of care during restrictions, and careful handoffs between hospitals and nursing facilities. Case-specific decisions belong to the treating team and public-health authorities.
    This podcast uses artificial intelligence in its research, writing, production, and narration. Episodes are editorially reviewed before publication.
    #HowToSurviveTheApocalypse #HealthcareAssociatedInfectiousDiseaseOutbreakHos #CandidaAuris #FungalOutbreak #HealthcareAssociatedTransmission
    YES OR NO: Would you tell a receiving facility about a prior C. auris result before transfer??????


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    24 mins
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