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Survival Tactics for Apocalypse and Pondering Time Loops -- The Boys Chat #39
Ever wondered if you could survive the end of the world? Get ready to sketch out your survival strategy as we dive headfirst into the terrifying realms of zombie apocalypses, nuclear fallouts, and even alien invasions. From escaping infected cities to embracing the safety of government bunkers, we're about to put our survival skills to the test in a world suddenly gone chaotic.
But that's not all. Ever thought about being stuck in a time loop, reliving the same day over and over again? We take a humorous yet compelling look at this conundrum, exploring the benefits and drawbacks of living in a temporal paradox. Whether you fancy honing a new skill or fear making the wrong choices, join us in our lively debate. We challenge you, our listeners, to share your survival tactics and to ponder, what would you do if caught in a time loop? Tune in and let's unravel these intriguing scenarios together.
Well, welcome back to the boys. Chat, tanner and Colby back with you again. I don't got a lot of updates of anything crazy going on. Many of them Just work in school. I'm just boring, yeah just work.
Speaker 2:When does your fall semester start? August 30th, so you got a couple weeks. When does summer end? 21st? So you got like a week and a half, a week and a half, two weeks or something. Yeah, that's about a week. The high school start next week.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's crazy. I'm like it's already August. There's no way it's August. No way they start on a Tuesday. I start on Wednesdays, or the 15th.
Speaker 2:Is that a? Is that that's Tuesday? Yeah, that's a Tuesday. I think that's a Wednesday is not as weird, cause it's like the middle of the week. I feel like it's either Monday or Wednesday, cause they used to start on Thursdays when you come for two days.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's always stupid. I mean, could be worse? Could show up on a Friday and then be done.
Speaker 2:I mean that'd be pointless.
Speaker 1:Anyways, public education, man, what are you going to do? Love it, love that. Anyways, we're going to go a little crazy today, kind of a little out there topic, I mean. I feel like this kind of goes in phases with people. I don't know. We were going to talk about a couple of different apocalypse scenarios and kind of what we do, what happens. I mean, there's always the preppers out there preparing for weird crazy. Who knows what would happen. They got a bomb shelter in their basement. Last one, yeah.
Speaker 2:Great movie.
Speaker 1:Or stockpiling ammunition or whatever it is. Oh yeah, I mean, you always got to do that anyways. That's just my. But I feel like there's been a lot of movies not as recently, but there's a phase there, like 10 years, that there's always like end of the world, crazy scenarios like World War Z. I've never seen that movie, but I know it's like a apocalypse movie or like what was the other one I just thought of? Anyways, there's a list of them out there.
Speaker 1:So what we're going to do today is we're kind of going to run through some scenarios of different situations, so like zombie apocalypses, like solar flares, kind of a few different topics. So I'll give kind of a scenario and then I'll ask you, tanner, what would you do to survive, like what's going to be your downfall and what's going to keep you from keeping going? So we're just going to start off with the probably most popular one. I feel like all of them, for the most part, is a zombie apocalypse. So, honestly, thinking about it, I don't know how zombie apocalypses start Like I've never I'm not into that stuff completely, so I don't even know.
Speaker 2:From the little bit I know it's like some virus, either an alien, or they discover something in a lab or they eat a mushroom, something like that, and all of a sudden they get the zombie virus or something, or they just like pop out of the ground like dead people, which is, you know, some spell over some land, that is, michael Jackson thriller out of the ground and then, but I feel like with like all the mainstream stuff, either movies or video games or TV shows I guess it's always like the big cities that get hit first, and I feel like a lot of these are set in a big city, and then the people have to get out of the city to where there's less people.
Speaker 1:Right, I feel like that's like part of it too is like, if you think about like the plague or like anything like that, like some big disease, it's always in the big cities because everybody's so close together, and like when you get out it spreads faster, yeah, and then you get out in the country or whatever, and it's not as bad. Crazy things happen. Who knows, who knows if it could be real or not. Anything's possible at this point, but Right.
Speaker 2:So I feel like for us it probably be Vegas, that's like the closest major city that would get hit.
Speaker 1:And as it came from like LA. Yeah, well, it probably start LA and then work its way up or something. I'm going to kind of set this stage as like a virus of some sort starting and then people are just zombies. So you have this start. You're in St George's. Well, let's put you in St George's. What resources are you using? What are you going to do to try and stay alive and survive until there's a cure or the end of?
Speaker 2:tie-dye. Yeah, so I just have one question the way that you would get infected, is it through a bite, or is it like a scratch or like any type of contact?
Speaker 1:Well, let's do any type of contact. Just kind of keep it a general broad Okay, Makes it harder. Kind of keep it yeah, make it a little harder for us.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's going to say, because usually it's like a bite, as long as you just stay away from their face, you're fine, but like a scratch is always like a little bit easier. But alright, so anything like that. I probably shoot down to my parents because I know they've got like food storage, they've got like 72-hour kits and stuff like that. Right, then they got razors. My dad's got a truck, stuff like that, so it'd be a little bit easier to get out, because I'd probably whoever I end up with, probably family, would. The strategy would be to get out of the city, because if the well, I guess, how soon do we know that it's coming?
Speaker 1:Like it breaks news that there's this big outbreak or something in let's kind of use LA. Like it started in LA. This some lab freak accident Like totally takes over a whole building, and then this everybody spreads from there and then it's working its way across the country.
Speaker 2:Okay, okay, luckily there's a lot of dead space between LA and the rest of towards us, yeah, and if it goes like up and out, there's still some dead space. But let's assume they're heading towards Vegas because there's a lot of people there. So we get together with a lot of people and we blow up the gorge. We blow up the road through the gorge because then, granted, they're not probably getting up and over because that's too hard. And do these zombies die, like if they don't eat something like how long is there?
Speaker 1:Yes, just to keep it like natural. Like a human can't go seven days or whatever without food, so after a few days they die. Yeah, now, can they eat each other. Can they eat each other? I would assume so, because, like there's, all these are not really thinking.
Speaker 2:Right, but eventually they're going to whittle themselves down, okay, right, so we blow up the gorge, because then there's not really easy way to get through, at least not one that's going to be quick. So then their only other way to get around would be the long way, but that would probably take a few days. Walk off the roads from Vegas first, all right, and then still probably high-tail it out of here, um, I don't know where, though, maybe like north and east, like the middle of nowhere, and then, just like, set up camp, find a way to build a wall or something, make like a fort, almost Right, and just wait it out.
Speaker 1:That's honestly probably your best option is just getting away from everybody, setting up Some sort of defense to keep yourself away from everybody else and then either wait it out or just wait till you die. I guess I don't. I mean.
Speaker 2:I don't think.
Speaker 1:I would do anything much different besides, just like not worrying about trying to stop them from moving up from Vegas or whatever, just let it happen and just run off out in the desert or out in the mountains or something and just go hide and just keep everybody away from you. Right, I'd rather do that right now anyways, than sit here and work and go to school, I agree, I agree, I'd much rather become a mountain man than sit here, but oh same. But we do it with what we can. So I think I think that's pretty good answer to that. But what do you think would stop you from succeeding and having that all happen?
Speaker 2:Um, well, it's time not kicking out fast enough, yeah, and then just not like prepping, I guess not building a good enough defense.
Speaker 1:Right, I think probably the other factor is just other people in general, like everybody's trying to get out at once or whatever, right?
Speaker 2:And not just that, just like panic trying to carry the weight. I guess. Right, because if someone can't like somebody just sits there because they're freaking out the whole time and then they're not doing anything at all. Right, because, like Gage, he's in a you know, he has a heart and he's got cerebral palsy, he's in a wheelchair most of the time and he's got a walker but he can't do as many things. Like he couldn't go out and get firewood, he couldn't go out and help, something like that. But I know that we'd put him to work doing something else. Right, and it's like he's doing what he can to help, rather than someone else just kind of sitting there just occasionally doing something small. It'd be like it'd be hard to deal with bringing someone in that's not doing what they can to help, and so it's like we're just wasting rations on you or we're just wasting resources, which sounds horrible.
Speaker 1:But in that scenario, you're kind of on your own, like you got to do what's best for you. There's not really much saving anybody else, right? Anyways, let's go ahead and move on to the next scenario. Here is a nuclear fallout, so Russia and US nuke each other out and it's this big mess. What do you? I feel like most of these are probably all going to do similar things, but I feel like there should be different objectives with all of it.
Speaker 2:But I'd say probably the best thing to do first would be figure out whether or not your area is going to be affected, because the smart thing and to do would be to target major cities. So like there goes LA, there goes the Bay Area, there goes Vegas, there goes Portland, seattle, dallas, maybe Salt Lake, but they probably hit like LA first, dc, new York yeah, probably the big ones that would get hit first.
Speaker 1:I mean I feel like there's I've seen some projections of stuff of like if a nuke went off here or in Washington DC, like how big of an area is affected? Like okay, yeah, the bomb goes off in DC, 50 mile radius, that's just blown up, and then 100 mile radius or whatever that's pushed out by the solar winds or whatever it's called with that, Like the shock wave or radiation yeah, and I mean it just kind of progressively gets affected outwardly and then eventually kind of dies out.
Speaker 2:But everything gets affected, Right, but like if LA gets hit, because LA is like a little less than 400 miles away from where something like that it's like 350 to 400.
Speaker 2:Yeah between three and four, Right, so there's a potential chance of maybe something coming. But at the same time, how will the mountains stop it? Right, you got the mountains through California, you got the Sierra Nevada's and then you got stuff like that. So it's like how is that going to? Is it going to slow things down or do you think it's going to speed it up? I would imagine it would slow things down. I would hit it and bounce it off. Weird, I mean.
Speaker 1:I feel like that's true. I mean, that's the whole reason the US has never been invaded, like just because of the geography, of everything Right, because we got mountains on both sides.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so because you got the Appalachians on the east and you got the Rockies on the west Right, so I'd probably find the nearest government bunker. I'm sure they got some out here somewhere Probably old facilities or something I mean, if you play Fallout my wife really can't love those games, the older ones, and one of them fall out. New Vegas, there's bunkers all over, or vaults, whatever they call them all over the Vegas area, right, so maybe something like that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I always kind of think it's cool but crazy at the same time, that people make their own bomb shelters or something, or their own hideaway somewhere in the mountains or something, a secret cabin or whatnot. They stipe, stockpile everything on Right. I think that's crazy and it's like okay, is that really going to save you or not? And a nuclear situation is that really going to save you if it's 100 miles away?
Speaker 2:Mm-hmm, have you seen the movie Blast from the Past? I mentioned it earlier. I haven't seen it. So the premise of that is it stars Brandon Frazier. I can't remember who his dad is. No, is it? I can't remember.
Speaker 2:Anyways, what happens is it's like during the 50s, I think, yeah, during the 50s, when it was like the nuclear scare during the Cold War, and this guy was like, oh, what would happen if you know Russia or the USSR or whoever it was? What if they go crazy and they blow everything up, right? And so he builds this crazy bunker beneath his house and this guy was wealthy, like really wealthy because it was job Anyways, builds this bunker below his house. It has self sufficient power and has those hydro plants or plants growing water and it's got sunlight. He pretty much builds a replica of their house in this cement bunker, however many feet below is needed, I guess. And then he's got there's like two exits or something like that, but they're both got time locks on them and it's like 35 years is how long. It's supposedly how long it takes radiation to completely be gone. So he's got these locked up for 35 years. That way they can't get infected at all. And there's, and his wife is pregnant at the beginning of the movie and there's this plane that flies over and something happens with this plane. I want to say it was a like secret type of planaries. It starts coming and it's it's looking like it's going to hit and they're down in the bunker like checking on stuff or whatever, and then the plane hits and blows up their house. Because it happens to land right on their house. They start freaking out, thinking it's, you know, the Russians coming to invade. So they lock the doors and then they, and then his wife has the baby like within a couple, like pretty soon after, so they raise their child in this bunker.
Speaker 2:He never sees the light, he never sees nothing, and he grows up with justice to parents and then 35 years later they unlock and he goes out to see if everything's okay. And what's funny is he wears like a hazmat suit when he goes up, like they've got an elevator, he's in like some hippie store and then like this dude's tripping on whatever, because now it's, you know, the 85 or something like that. Right, and this guy is just like, oh, he's like. He thinks he's like a God or something like that, or the aliens are coming. So then they have like a cold tour, like it progresses through the movie and they're like worshiping the elevator and stuff and he's like, oh yeah, just wait for you know, mother, or something like that.
Speaker 2:And then later on, like the mother comes out and they're like, oh, freaking out, thinking it's God and it's funny, and he's like totally incompetent or not incompetent. He's blissfully ignorant about how the world works now, because from where the 50s were to, you know, now 85, a lot of things are different. And he's got like baseball trading cards. So he ends up with a ton of money and moves his family way and it's a funny movie. It's a funny movie. But then, like at the end of the movie, he gives his dad like this massive house with a big yard and the dad's like looking around and he starts pacing out like the area for a new bunker to build.
Speaker 1:That's funny, I mean. I feel like if you're going to do something like that, you got to do it like at your house, like that. I mean there's pros and cons. It's like all right, how do you make a secret bunker, like unless you can do all the work yourself, like it's not going to be secret, like people are going to know about it.
Speaker 2:All right. Have you heard of the Coca Cola bunker and the Oreo bunker? No, so Coca Cola has like a secret bunker where inside I want to say it's just the recipe to Coca Cola, because only like two or three people alive know the full recipe, so they can't find the same plane, they can't be in the same room together, anything like that, and so it's just you know in case something happens. And then Oreo, it's the same thing. Oreo has a fallout shelter where it has every single flavor of Oreo in it and, I'm sure, the recipe. That way you know, if anything happens, the new generation can figure out how to make Oreos. Or if aliens invade, same thing, you know way in the distant future they can figure out how to make these delicious cookies. So Great.
Speaker 1:I mean you got to save Coca Cola Oreos like staple of America, man, yeah, because they go together. Yeah, perfectly, yeah, anyways, let we can go ahead and move on from nuclear. I mean there's not much you can do, I feel like, but just kind of is what it is. Yeah, now. Now, this one may or may not happen soon, we'll see. Oh, great Aliens.
Speaker 2:Oh, that's gonna happen, they're real.
Speaker 1:So aliens from Mars, or whatever you want to say show up and then take over the world, like you're running in hiding or you just falling into line, or like, realistically, what do you think would happen now Is this like the typical, like alien invasion, or is it just like an alien crashes and it's like? It's like alien one, like alien invasion, like we're here for your leader take us to leader.
Speaker 2:Chances are there's gonna be nothing we can do, because if they do exist and they're coming to invade, they've probably either a done it before and be they have more advanced weaponry vehicles, all that stuff. They probably can fly. So we're screwed, we're done. Unless we get lucky, like independence day, and like figure out a way to blow up the mothership and assuming that blows up everyone else, or like brings them back to wherever, then it's different. Or if we have I'm sure the government's got advanced weaponry hiding well down in there fallout bunker.
Speaker 1:I think it's always kind of funny about how everybody like assumes that aliens have more advanced weaponry, like okay, yeah, they probably have more advanced technology, just because, like right, perfected space travel or time travel or like whatever it is. It's like what if they're still stuck on like bow and arrows and like stuff like that and they only have this in everything else?
Speaker 2:like I know, that's kind of like an extreme contrast or they use swords and spears and stuff like that where they've gotten advanced, like they're advanced enough to where they use that right. I feel like that's in some movies where it's like you know the, you know they're able to cross the galaxy, the galaxy's combined, but then they still use, you know, close combat weapons instead of just a gun. Right, but it's more elegant. Yeah, that's true, you know, because guns are just so uncivilized exactly Obi-Wan Kenobi.
Speaker 1:Yes, sir, kind of another one that's related to this one, I think. I mean it has happened before. For if you, what? If you believe what's happened before is like like what happened to the dinosaurs, like some crazy meteor or planets crashing together, something crazy from space, just nobody knows why less deal yeah, something like that.
Speaker 1:I mean I, I feel like for the most part with this one, you're just kind of stuck, like what are you gonna do? Like, okay, you can have like a bunker or something, but it's not like you can run and hide from it, like there's something that big hits earth, like I love yeah, it's worse than a nuclear weapon.
Speaker 2:Like a nuclear weapon will leave you know radiation behind. But if you look at, you know Japan, you look at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. They are way more advanced now. They're crazy, crazy cities now. So you can't reveal but like if an asteroid hits, like if it did with the dinosaurs, about what happened to them and wiped out life on the planet, there's nothing we can do about it. Even if we have, like an advanced asteroid, you know deflective system where we shoot a massive rocket at it and blow it up, what about all the pieces? So what happens to those?
Speaker 1:yeah, they just end up falling to earth. I mean right.
Speaker 2:I mean, what is it like? You can have an asteroid the size of something that's not even like that big in comparison to the earth and it hits the earth and it wipes out half the planet, yeah, something. So it's like if that happens even if it's a the size of a football field, which seems big, yes, but in comparison to the earth it's microscopic that will do yeah, you know, it could do a lot of damage, right? So, assuming you get a massive one, because I mean, technically, the earth gets hit with little asteroids like thousands and thousands of times a day.
Speaker 1:So yeah, I mean, what I was kind of imagining was like something the size of like a football field or like a couple football fields, like something pretty large and you could see it in the daylight. Come and hit earth, I mean, for the most part right, right.
Speaker 2:And then you're just we're all screwed, yeah it ease what it ease it ease. My time has come, has come, so, but yeah, there's something you can do to defend against that.
Speaker 1:So yeah, I mean like I feel like most of these like when I was researching this and kind of researching this, look, looking up like different apocalypses and stuff, like I'm like there's nothing you can do in this situation, like, yeah, you can try and survive it, but it is what it is, like you can't, there's nothing you can do to stop it.
Speaker 1:Like right you're a one-man show like, especially like for me. I look at and going I'm a one-man show, like there's nothing, even like in my family. I look at like there's really not a lot that we could do honestly, like we could have some celestial, like that yeah, let's, let's hit one more, and this one's kind of more.
Speaker 1:Not an apocalypse I guess, but like it kind of come up and when I was looking up ones but like time loops so like groundhog over and over and over, like okay, again, there's nothing you can really do, like that's where you're stuck, unless you learn and figure out how to do time travel or whatnot.
Speaker 2:Yeah, see, I've thought about this actually, because there's so many movies that do it, you know, or TV shows that have an episode that has a time limit, where they repeat the same day over and over again. My thoughts always like, well, I could do a lot of things, because it has no effect, because at the end of the day, restart, beginning the day like nothing happened. It's like you could do a lot of different things. But then it's like what if you're on like you just decided to do whatever you want, no matter what, and you make, like the worst decisions. That what if, oh, we're done with the time loop, then you live with that, right? But in all the movies it's always you got to figure out the exact right way to do that day and then it ends you know, you got to figure it out somehow, right? I don't know, I've probably just freaked out for the first little bit, but then who knows? Yeah, I mean, I realize all this.
Speaker 2:Yeah, if it doesn't seem like there's a clear outcome and if you're not like aging, because you're just starting that day over and over again, but you still have, you still recall all the events then probably just like take up a hobby, start reading a bunch, maybe learn how to do a bunch of other things, because then it's like, if you do eventually break it, oh boom, look at me, I can do all these things Right.
Speaker 1:I think that'd be cool. No, I mean, I think you'd have its advantage, like redoing things over. Like if you think back of, oh man, I wish I would have done that differently. Like what if that was the one day that you have to relive and fix that because you did that one thing? Like that'd be kind of cool. But then it's like okay, I've been doing this for 30 straight days at the same over again.
Speaker 2:But what if, like, the time loop is like one of the worst days ever, like you've got a close family member that dies and you just got to. You know there's nothing you can do, but you just have to keep reliving it over and over again? That would suck Right.
Speaker 1:Well, if you guys have any crazy conspiracy theories or apocalypses or things that you would do differently, let us know in the comments. Like subscribe, download, share, whatever it is you need to do. Do it for us.
Speaker 2:And let us know what you would do in your time loop. How would you spend your time loop?
Speaker 1:Well, I think that wraps it up for today. So thanks for joining us. We'll catch you guys next week. Adios, bye.