The Tactical Trivia Gauntlet Part 2

A fortified hospital, a flickering power grid, and a psych ward that plays tricks on your head—this gauntlet throws everything at us and then some. We set a single objective—reach the roof for extraction—and make a series of messy, decisive moves to get there: a salt “oval” for confidence, a tarp that doubles as a map and gear hauler, a compass that turns into crowd bait, and just enough tiger spray to open lanes when the stairwells close in.

The psych ward forces us to solve for perception first: hallucinations, real humans, and the question that matters—do we treat it like a ghost or a threat? We keep roles tight and rules simple: back-to-back movement, short commands, and constant forward progress. When a locked door halts the run, we go full puzzle-solver and unearth a hidden code with lemon juice and heat. On the roof, scaffolding transforms from background noise to a proper barricade, buying the time needed to plan a quiet descent via a covered trash chute and a loud distraction pitched to the far side of the building.

The parking structure is the final test: fifth-floor pickup, limited spray, and a shadow on our heels. We choose the side stairwell for predictable geometry and use nuisance tactics—pocket salt, noise control, spacing—to avoid the crush. The last moments are pure coordination: one of us braces the door while the other grabs the ladder; then a tarp toss and pocket sand break the final grab, and the helicopter pulls us into clean air. Through jokes and chaos, the theme stays serious: preparedness is a mindset. Small tools and smart timing can outpace bigger problems, whether it’s blackout, storm, or full-on zombie circus.

If tactical problem-solving, survival psychology, and cinematic chaos are your thing, you’ll love this run. Stick around to hear who wins the gauntlet, what movie we’re queuing up next, and why a simple tarp might be the most underrated tool in your kit. Enjoyed the ride? Follow, share with a friend who loves zombies, and drop a review with the one item you’d never leave behind.

Transcript

Welcome Back And Setup

SPEAKER_02 0:00

Hello survivors, it's TJ here. This is a part two to our tactical trivia gauntlet. If you haven't heard part one, it was posted last week and you should go check that out so you have a little bit of context on what's happening. And yeah, enjoy the episode. Alex is the dungeon master who makes shit ten times too complicated and you forget 99% of the shit, is what Sam says.

SPEAKER_04 0:47

Hey.

SPEAKER_03 0:48

That is so accurate. I wasn't taking notes because you said we didn't have to, and now I wish I was taking notes.

SPEAKER_01 0:56

You don't need to take notes. I took everything. I have it all.

SPEAKER_02 0:59

I'd like to use my blunt of invincibility.

SPEAKER_01 1:03

Go ahead.

SPEAKER_02 1:07

As long as I'm smoking, I'm invincible.

Rules, Gear, And The Only Exit

SPEAKER_01 1:10

Okay, so here we go. Good idea. You have all of your gear, all of your skills. You wake up in a fortified hospital. Okay. The power is flickering. There's zombies roaming all around outside in the streets. Inside of the building, you're plagued with a few things. You have a psych ward that will mess you up just like 1408. Okay. Okay. But now, well, let me finish this. You have 15 minutes before help is gonna arrive. You have to find a way that you can get out, and the only way through is through the psych ward. Okay? You have your salt circle, you have your pile bioluminescent compass, you have your tactical unity, you do have your mental fortitude, and you guys have you have plenty of plot armor tokens.

SPEAKER_02 2:04

Okay, I'm sorry. What's the goal? To get out. We have a tarp. Tarp equals map. We have a map of the hospital.

SPEAKER_01 2:11

You have a map of the hospital. The only way out is through the psych ward. That's why I told you that. Okay. You didn't have to figure any of that stuff out. So who do you want to be the team leader?

SPEAKER_02 2:19

TJ. Eric is the leader of the podcast, as I've been saying.

SPEAKER_03 2:23

Homie, I am not to be included in this episode. I'm so tired right now. I am not the person you want leading this right now.

unknown 2:32

Ooh.

Choosing Rooftop Over Tunnels

SPEAKER_02 2:34

Ooh. Okay, I'll be the fucking team leader.

SPEAKER_01 2:39

Okay. So you're gonna have to go through the psych ward, but you have to pick which way you want to go, either to the rooftop or to the underground underground tunnel.

SPEAKER_03 2:49

I think we kind of decided this right. Rooftop? Yeah, what we were saying, like uh no really good option there, but fuck a tunnel. Let's go to the roof. Alright, we go to the roof.

Hallucinations And The Salt Oval Plan

SPEAKER_01 3:01

So as you go through the uh the psych ward, you experience hallucinations. God damn it, I'm so sorry. This thing is so fidgety, it keeps jumping all the way back up to the top, and then I have to scroll all the way back down again. You're suffering hallucinations, memory manipulation, and fear-based illusions. Now, you're able to maintain your your sanity with your mental fortitude. How would you choose to combat these these entities? Number one, do you believe they're entities? Do you believe they're in your head?

SPEAKER_03 3:32

What were what were some of the items we had again?

SPEAKER_01 3:34

So you have your gear is the salt circle. You have a compass, you have a map, you have your mental fortitude, and you have uh your tactical unity.

SPEAKER_03 3:42

I say we use our tactical unity to make a giant salt circle while we walk through the through the uh cycle.

SPEAKER_01 3:52

You're gonna you're gonna make a salt circle while you Right.

SPEAKER_03 3:56

So what I'm thinking is like we both start at the same point, and then we go opposite sides, and as we're walking down this hallway, uh down the sideboard, we're just uh pouring salt, and then if it ever seems like a ghost is coming at us, we quickly close the circle because we're back to back. That makes sense. We're making more like a salt oval.

SPEAKER_01 4:14

So you get it.

SPEAKER_02 4:15

We want a circle, that's an oval.

SPEAKER_01 4:18

What is that from?

SPEAKER_02 4:20

Uh fucking Spongebob. They're fucking trying to fend off sea bears. I remember that. You drew an oval, you're supposed to draw a circle, and then Squidward gets fucked up by the sea bear. How does that work?

SPEAKER_01 4:33

So, what I need you to do, TJ, is you're gonna tell us, you're gonna tell us a traumatic memory. It could be real, it could be fake. Doesn't matter.

SPEAKER_02 4:42

I was walking down the street one day, you know, with my clown girlfriend. She was so hot. Great honkers. And we're walking down the street, and up comes this this little ass car skirts right in front of us on the fucking sidewalk. Damn near lost my life. Then out jumps 32 of her clown exes. And when I say they they beat the shit out of me, they kick the fuck out of me with them big ass clown shoes. They make you a balloon animal? I'm I'm still afraid of balloon animals to this day.

SPEAKER_03 5:17

They beat you with balloon bats, huh?

SPEAKER_02 5:19

Yeah.

Real Threats Versus Illusions

SPEAKER_03 5:20

Fuck, I'm so sorry, dude.

SPEAKER_02 5:21

All the all the squeaky noises and fucking flowers with water spraying everywhere. They pulled out guns and they pulled the trigger, and then all that came out was a flag that said bang. Oh my, they banged you? They banged me, man. The bun, they're a bunch of clown bangers on this corner of the street.

SPEAKER_01 5:40

No, I'm traumatized.

SPEAKER_03 5:41

Not clown bangs, dude. I'm so sorry, man.

SPEAKER_01 5:44

I'm traumatized.

SPEAKER_03 5:46

Back clown bangs, I would be too.

SPEAKER_01 5:49

That was that was that was clever. Okay. Your uh your salt oval works.

unknown 5:56

Yes.

SPEAKER_03 5:57

Yeah. That was awful. That's what we were determining right there.

SPEAKER_01 6:00

That was terrible.

SPEAKER_02 6:01

37 of them, dude, out of this little ass car.

SPEAKER_01 6:04

I love it. I love it.

SPEAKER_02 6:05

That number increased.

SPEAKER_01 6:06

But I I like even better how she was your clown girlfriend. You had to you had to set that up.

SPEAKER_02 6:12

Clown girlfriend. She had great honkers. I love that one. That's a good job. Honk honk awoga. Anyways, um, what do we do next?

SPEAKER_03 6:24

We have to hard eyes that yeah, they'll fucking come out. Yeah. Just a fucking Looney Tune character. Boat horn.

SPEAKER_01 6:33

As you continue through the psych ward, you notice that there are real people in here, and they are coming at you with ferocity. They want to hurt you. What is your what is your reaction? What is your response? How do you defend yourself from what you think is real and what you think is a hallucination?

Tray Fights, Pocket Salt, And Recovery

SPEAKER_02 6:54

Well, hear me out. Me and Eric, we just like continue being back to back, and then we got our tiger spray, and we just spray. We just spin around in a circle and spray. That will get in our eyes. It's Leon and I think Chris Redfield, and they're in a hallway. And Leon's doing this shit fucking backflips and shit. That's all right.

SPEAKER_03 7:29

I'm here for it. What does that do for us?

SPEAKER_01 7:31

Say it again. How how is it?

SPEAKER_02 7:33

You know? And then we we spin around in circles and shit. We're doing backflips. It looks dope. It looks dope as fuck.

SPEAKER_01 7:40

Okay. Yeah, you spray Eric in the eyes.

SPEAKER_02 7:44

What the fuck?

SPEAKER_01 7:46

And now he falls and smears the salt circle. So now you have both the ghosts and the people coming at you. What do you do, TJ?

SPEAKER_02 7:58

Do we do we have a mirror we can trap these in? I heard mirrors are really good for this situation. Yeah, is that in our item list somewhere? Not no mirror. I check the walls. Is there any reflections on the walls? Do we have holy water?

SPEAKER_01 8:16

There's there's no you don't see a mirror on the wall, but you do see a tray that has a uh reflective surface.

SPEAKER_02 8:25

I think I think I'm gonna trap them all into that reflective surface. I I think I think it's a portal to the other world.

SPEAKER_01 8:33

So you lift it up to try to trap the the entity, and it's a uh a real person who smashes the tray right back into your face. TJ falls down on the ground. What do you do, Eric?

SPEAKER_03 8:47

Uh, I smashed the mirror on their face.

SPEAKER_01 8:49

It's not a mirror, it's a tray.

SPEAKER_03 8:50

We don't have a mirror?

SPEAKER_01 8:52

It's down on the ground with TJ. You want to grab it? Or are you gonna try to defend him?

SPEAKER_03 8:57

What does this other guy have?

SPEAKER_01 8:58

His hands. And all he did was he grabbed like like TJ put up the the tray in front of his face, and the guy just grabbed it and smashed it into TJ's face, and they both fell down on the ground.

SPEAKER_03 9:10

I'm gonna pocket salt him really quick.

SPEAKER_01 9:13

Pocket salt.

SPEAKER_03 9:14

Yeah, I always keep a little you try the pocket salt and you get shot in your left.

Decoding Danger And Finding The Door Code

SPEAKER_01 9:18

You nail him. You nail him right in the eyes. Yeah, he falls off the side.

SPEAKER_03 9:24

And then I grab the tray and I whack him.

SPEAKER_01 9:26

Okay. And you you hit him in the perfect spot, knock him cold out.

SPEAKER_03 9:32

I want to loony tunes him so hard that a bump grows on his head.

SPEAKER_01 9:35

He he's he's out, he's unconscious. What do you want to do?

SPEAKER_03 9:38

Uh is TJ unconscious?

SPEAKER_01 9:40

No, TJ's not unconscious. He just got knocked the hell down.

SPEAKER_03 9:42

Okay, I pull out speaking salts that I brought from home and I put them right up to TJ's nose.

SPEAKER_01 9:48

You're gonna you brought smelling salts?

SPEAKER_03 9:50

Yeah, I was I was keeping them with me.

SPEAKER_01 9:52

Okay, your smelling salts you that you thought you had, you mistook was just chapstick.

SPEAKER_03 9:57

I just use regular salt then.

SPEAKER_01 9:59

And throw it in his face?

SPEAKER_03 10:01

I just put it up TJ's nose.

SPEAKER_01 10:03

You put salt up TJ's nose. It's good enough. It uh bothers him so much, he uh gets up off of the ground because he was never knocked out. He was just lying down because he got knocked down.

SPEAKER_03 10:14

I'm making smelling salt.

SPEAKER_01 10:16

You're cause you're saying he smells? Yeah, he's smelling them. Well, he got so annoyed with you that he slapped your hand away and he's standing up now. You what are you guys doing? Why you gotta be like that, TJ?

SPEAKER_02 10:29

Uh well, you know, I'm looking at the map and I know the exact perfect route. So I just take that.

SPEAKER_01 10:36

I follow. You're you're looking at the map.

SPEAKER_02 10:39

At our tarp, yeah. Yeah, at our tarp map. It's a square you see, so that makes it a map.

SPEAKER_01 10:44

Now the route is is perfect, but now you have enemies in your in your path. How are you going to get past how would you dis how would you decipher between hallucination ghosts and real people?

SPEAKER_02 10:59

Um it's simple. I too have mental health issues. So I've had years of practice. I can decipher which ones are which.

SPEAKER_03 11:11

Uh, I call out and I say, uh, ghosts say what?

Stairwell Stakes And Fire Axe Gambit

SPEAKER_01 11:16

Ghosts say what? Uh yeah, TJ's didn't work.

SPEAKER_03 11:20

Um I turned into yours.

SPEAKER_01 11:24

Ironically enough, you say uh ghosts say what, and um you at least got some kind of a response. So you have an idea of the ghosts. You still don't know the hallucination or the real people one from the other. What do you do?

SPEAKER_03 11:38

I rub my eyes like a Looney Tunes carry and do that.

SPEAKER_02 11:42

Uh I I take my eyeballs out like SpongeBob, clean them on my shirt, and then put them back in.

SPEAKER_01 11:48

Okay. Uh that that happened to work. Uh not TJ's. Your uh Looney Tunes.

SPEAKER_03 11:55

Yeah, TJ's eyes are now outside of his skull.

SPEAKER_01 11:58

And uh I'm counting there, dude. I'm counting that as you guys telling me that you're using your mental fortitude. That's what I was going for, by the way. You only have fucking three items. Yeah, it's pretty much what we said. Yeah, that's what you said. You rubbed your eyes like a Looney Tunes character, like a wee, wee, wee.

SPEAKER_02 12:15

And what I do next is I run and then I paint a thing on the wall that looks like a tunnel. I run through that tunnel, and then the ghosts try to come after me, but they it's just a wall.

SPEAKER_01 12:28

Okay, yeah, that didn't work, and you run right into the wall and fall down.

SPEAKER_03 12:31

Hey, I walk up behind you and I pat you on the back and I caught you. That was a really good try.

SPEAKER_01 12:35

But you do have birds flying over your head in a con in a uh perfect circle.

SPEAKER_02 12:41

Why are we going the Looney Tunes right now? I shoe the birds away. No, we shoot the birds away.

SPEAKER_01 12:47

Okay, you shoe the birds away. What are you doing now? All you have are psychopaths in your in your way now.

SPEAKER_03 12:53

Uh I get a camera with night vision.

SPEAKER_01 12:55

Well, you can see them.

SPEAKER_03 12:57

I was making an outlast one.

Roof Barricade And Scaffolding Fix

SPEAKER_02 12:59

I actually I look exactly like the uh the monsters from uh from the one movie with Sandra Bullock. A quiet place. No, other one bird box. Bird box. I was gonna say a blind side because the movie you absolutely hate. The monster from the blind side? I look like Michael Orr.

SPEAKER_01 13:24

Don't do that. Wow. Okay. So uh yeah, no. They're actually they're it doesn't work. Um they do not think that you're beautiful. They're lost, they swipe at you, start smacking you all over the face. What are our items? Beating you about the face and neck. You have the tiger spray, which you've kind of used, so let's be sparing on that.

SPEAKER_02 13:52

I would like to use the tiger spray and spray them in the face. I'd like to use our tiger whistle and summon a tiger. I'd like to I'd like to pull a pokeyball out of my back pocket and summon that silverback gorilla from earlier.

SPEAKER_01 14:09

So you do have a uh primate distraction kit. Ooh, yeah, that's it.

SPEAKER_03 14:15

Wait, that that's what we said.

Noise Decoy And Trash Chute Descent

SPEAKER_02 14:17

Yeah, I that's what I meant. The primate distraction kit. I want to use that because people are primates. Evolution, I think.

SPEAKER_01 14:25

Technically, right? I told you that. So that works. You get some of them to leave your path. You have a door in front of you with just two or three of these psychopaths in your way. Do you try to fight them or try to dodge them?

SPEAKER_02 14:44

I feel like we should walk past. Hello, my fellow psychopath.

SPEAKER_03 14:49

I feel like we should dodge because I think we've taken enough head injuries so far.

SPEAKER_00 14:53

TJ has.

SPEAKER_01 14:56

Okay. So they come back. You get by the first two, and the third one, as you think you're getting past him, he turns back around and grabs Eric by the arm. Starts rambling nonsense in his ears. Three! Three, four, four! Three! What are you doing?

SPEAKER_02 15:21

I type that code into the door.

SPEAKER_03 15:23

Yeah, three, three, four, four, three.

SPEAKER_01 15:26

And that's not the right code.

Parking Structure Run And Tiger Spray

SPEAKER_03 15:29

It just uh it just do we know how many digits this code is?

SPEAKER_01 15:35

No. We have no clue.

SPEAKER_03 15:37

Try three four three.

SPEAKER_01 15:39

Nope, that's not the code, and now this guy's getting agitated, and he's grabbed you by both arms, Eric, and he's shaking you violently and just screaming random nonsense in your face. What do you do?

SPEAKER_03 15:55

Uh fuck. What other items do we have?

SPEAKER_01 15:59

You have uh compass, you have the salt, you have the tiger deterrent spray.

SPEAKER_03 16:08

Okay. I pocket salt him. Just give the pocket salt, dude.

SPEAKER_01 16:13

You salt him in the eyes, he lets go of your arms, and what are you doing?

SPEAKER_02 16:18

I take the compass and I'm like, ooh, look, shiny, shiny compass, look, and then I throw it away. Far, far away, and he he'll follow it.

SPEAKER_01 16:28

So he follows it, uh, but you've good thinking. You've attracted a couple of others to you. What are you guys gonna do?

SPEAKER_03 16:35

Uh I heard that compass was Teddy Roosevelt's. It's probably worth a lot of money.

Final Rooftop Standoff And Extraction

SPEAKER_01 16:42

It works. They all run over to the compass. What uh what are you doing now?

SPEAKER_02 16:48

Idiots is actually frank.

SPEAKER_01 16:50

They're all fighting for it.

SPEAKER_02 16:51

Hey, also, what's the code?

SPEAKER_01 16:54

You're asking them what the code is? Yeah. Uh they don't even answer you.

SPEAKER_03 16:58

Yeah, that checks out.

SPEAKER_02 16:59

I uh I ask uh I I I ask I grab a piece of paper and I I make a Ouija board.

SPEAKER_03 17:08

I have a great idea before we do this. Yes. I I flip the map over, I get lemon juice and a match, and I go full national treasure on this bitch, and I'm looking for the secret code in the back of the map.

SPEAKER_01 17:25

Okay, you find a code written on the back of the map. It's the Templars, man. It is 61315.

SPEAKER_02 17:36

I type in 61315 into the door.

SPEAKER_01 17:40

It opens. You enter into a stairwell. Which way did you guys say you want to go? Rooftop? Up rooftop. Rooftop. So you're going close.

SPEAKER_02 17:49

Stop going up.

SPEAKER_01 17:51

And as you're going up, uh you hear there are zombies inside of this stairwell just below you. You what do you do?

SPEAKER_03 18:05

What other items do we have left?

SPEAKER_01 18:07

You just have your map, your primate distraction kit, your tiger spray, your compass, and your salt. I mean, the answer could just be fucking run.

Debrief, Winner Pick, And Next Movie Talk

SPEAKER_03 18:20

Yeah, well I was gonna say, like, is there anything like World War Z style, like in the stairwell that we could use to fire axe on the wall? Unlodge and let it crush them?

SPEAKER_01 18:34

There there is a fire axe, but it's up uh another flight of stairs. You see the the box on the wall?

SPEAKER_03 18:41

Let's rush to that.

SPEAKER_01 18:43

You wanna run?

SPEAKER_03 18:45

Oh, do they know we're there?

SPEAKER_01 18:47

No, they don't know you're there yet.

SPEAKER_02 18:48

Oh, oh, we'd be quiet until they notice you. Be quiet and walk very lightly up the stairs.

SPEAKER_01 18:54

Okay, so I'm gonna assume you also want to quietly close the door.

SPEAKER_03 18:59

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 19:00

Because the um you gotta be quick about this, right?

SPEAKER_03 19:04

The second they notice us, we're gonna bolt, but we're gonna try to get as far up as we can without them noticing.

SPEAKER_01 19:11

As you guys are closing the door behind you, one of the fucking lunatics comes running up and gets his arm in the door before you've got it closed, and he's yelling and screaming. Calling, calling out.

SPEAKER_02 19:24

Now I quickly run up and grab that fire axe, run back down and chop his arm off.

SPEAKER_01 19:30

Okay, you successfully get up, get the fire axe, come back down, chop his arm off. Door closes, zombies are are aware of you, they are running up the stairs. They're two flights below you.

SPEAKER_02 19:41

I grab the arm and I use it as bait, and I throw it down the stairs, and they'll be distracted by it.

SPEAKER_01 19:48

And your uh your bait is working for the first uh group of them. The rest who can't get to that arm are climbing over those that are going after the arm.

SPEAKER_03 20:01

Got another another lane.

SPEAKER_01 20:04

You have the axe, and you are three stories below the roof. What do you do?

SPEAKER_03 20:10

I say we just make our way to the roof, yeah? Yeah, run to up to the roof.

Socials, Merch, And Preparedness Message

SPEAKER_01 20:14

Okay, you guys are running up to the roof. You get all the way up to the top landing, and a zombie reaches out and grabs Eric uh on the the pant legs from behind. So he's holding him up. He can't he can't get away. What do you do?

SPEAKER_02 20:30

I chop the zombie's arm off.

SPEAKER_01 20:34

Success. You chop the arm off.

SPEAKER_02 20:37

You guys get to the chop Eric chop Eric's leg off.

SPEAKER_01 20:41

You get to the roof door, you're outside of the door. What do you do?

SPEAKER_03 20:46

Can we peek in or like peek out? Is there anything on the roof?

SPEAKER_01 20:50

You can peek out, but they're running. Like they're they're coming for you.

SPEAKER_03 20:55

Oh, then I think uh can we get out onto the roof? And then is there any way to use our axe to barricade the door? Like, is there a lock slot or something?

SPEAKER_01 21:05

So you get out onto the roof, and there is a way that you can lock the you can bar use the axe to barricade the door. It's not extremely firm, so it clearly won't hold for long. What are you doing?

SPEAKER_02 21:19

Uh well clearly these zombies are being controlled by a witch. You guys want to that's paranormal. So I put a lens at the door and then do what Eric said and barricade it.

SPEAKER_01 21:32

Okay. Uh the the axe is gonna work, it's gonna hold temporarily. The salt apparently does nothing to them. They're still trying to get out at you. Wow, it's worth a try. Um, you guys want to do any kind of uh a search around the roof? See what you got?

SPEAKER_02 21:47

Yes. What's on the roof?

SPEAKER_01 21:49

So what you've noticed up there is you have a scaffolding that the bars and uh joints would work perfectly for locking that door, and it would cross the entire frame of the door and work as a an effective barricade blocking the zombies from coming up.

SPEAKER_02 22:09

We can do that.

SPEAKER_01 22:10

You're gonna have to dismantle it before they get through the before they break the axe.

SPEAKER_03 22:15

I think we could do that. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 22:17

Okay. Both of you? You're both gonna work on this?

SPEAKER_03 22:20

Yeah. Two more.

SPEAKER_01 22:23

Uh you guys are successful. You break down the scaffolding, you get the pipes lodged uh both horizontally and vertically, that number one, they're holding the the uh doorknob so that they can't pull, and it's a uh it's a pull open door, so they can't pull it, they can't get it open without uh breaking apart the entire thing, and they're not really smart enough to do it. So you hear the the knocks subsiding, and you guys go over to your you've already looked for the um the equipment on the roof. Now you're gonna look for an escape route, I'm assuming. Would that be accurate? Uh uh. So uh yeah. So all you've got to do is get out of here for the helicopter to come and get you, okay?

SPEAKER_02 23:09

Well, good thing this uh this mall was clearly under construction because there was scaffolding there, so there must be a trash chute hanging off the side of the building.

SPEAKER_01 23:18

That is accurate.

SPEAKER_03 23:20

Are there zombies down there?

SPEAKER_01 23:22

There are zombies, but they're not near the uh the trash chute. And the trash chute happens to be uh it's it's one of those that is um it's the protective coating so that the trash doesn't go flying everywhere. So if you wanted to, you could climb down it without causing a lot of noise.

SPEAKER_02 23:42

Is there anything we can use on the roof that could make noise somewhere further away?

SPEAKER_01 23:48

Yes, you still have more scaffolding and you have uh they have some rope and you have some netting. I think the kind of netting to block things from falling down on top of people.

SPEAKER_02 24:00

We want that right now, right? I think we just take uh like a bunch of the parts of the scaffolding and chuck them off the side of the roof that the trash chute's not on, so it makes a bunch of metal clanging noises, and then we quickly go to the trash chute, make no noise going down it, hopefully.

SPEAKER_01 24:16

Okay. The throwing the scaffolding on the opposite side of the building is a success. You throw it over, and some of the metal, you know, hits them on the head, so it doesn't make a whole lot of noise, but a lot of it and the the wood uh planks themselves are smacking flat on the ground, so they make loud slapping noises, they draw a lot of attention, and you guys then go climb down the the trash chute. Uh as you're climbing down, you slip and fall down, and or yeah, you you do, TJ. You slip and you fall down, you twist your ankle, not sprain, you twist your ankle, and so you're gonna need a couple of seconds to recoup. You've made enough noise that a few zombies have heard you. What are you doing?

SPEAKER_03 25:00

Eric, you gotta leave me. Okay, I'm sorry.

SPEAKER_02 25:03

Crash course the situation. We climbed down the ship. I fell. I twisted my ankle. You're okay. Multiple zombies are heading towards our direction. You need to run in a different direction and scream so that they go towards you, and then I can stumble away. Okay, I do that.

SPEAKER_01 25:22

Okay. You successfully uh decoy the zombies to you. So now you're attracting even more because they they hear you, they see you, they smell you, they're coming all at you. TJ is able to get up and start moving. He's walking it off, and now he's starting to even jog. What do you do?

SPEAKER_03 25:42

Um good thing you got the prime a distraction device. I was gonna say, what is it? Do we still have that or did we use it?

SPEAKER_01 25:48

You have it.

SPEAKER_03 25:49

I'm gonna use that. I'm gonna try to use that so I can get back to TJ.

SPEAKER_01 25:52

Okay, so it works on some of them, but the mass horde is coming after both of you. Do you join back together or split up?

SPEAKER_03 26:01

Oh, join back together, right? Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 26:03

Okay. You're able to. There's no zombies in the middle of you guys. What you're trying to do is get out of this parking lot. Now it's a hospital. I know you said mall. It's a hospital. You're trying to get out of this parking lot without getting torn up by these zombies. Uh, this this uh escape route is gonna be on the top of the neighboring parking lot uh parking structure. So you gotta get up onto the fifth floor of the parking structure. You guys are on the second floor.

SPEAKER_03 26:28

I say we just we should start making our way up, right?

SPEAKER_01 26:30

Do you want to go straight for a stairwell? Do you want to go up the car ramp? Do you want to try to climb up the outside?

SPEAKER_02 26:38

I think one of those stairwells like that are on the side would be like the fastest, probably. I agree.

SPEAKER_03 26:44

Probably the least safe, but I think we can handle it.

SPEAKER_01 26:47

And when you first open it up, you see there's a couple of zombies right up inside. What do you do?

SPEAKER_03 26:52

Uh, I say we spray them and run. Yep.

SPEAKER_01 26:56

It works just long enough. You can get by them. You're going up, you're on the third floor now. You gotta get to the fifth floor. Fifth floor floor is the root, is the rooftop, and you are aware that the helicopter is coming. All you have to do is get onto that rooftop.

SPEAKER_03 27:11

Okay, so we keep going up to the fifth floor.

SPEAKER_01 27:13

Okay, you have another zombie coming at you from behind. He's uh shaking off the the spray, and he's not a he's not a runner, but he's a little more fresh, so he's on your heels. Do you try to do you try to slow him down or just run faster?

unknown 27:30

Shh.

SPEAKER_03 27:30

I we could probably trip him, right, with something.

SPEAKER_02 27:33

We have our tarp. What if we just chuck our tarp on top of him?

SPEAKER_03 27:36

I feel like the tarp's so versatile, but maybe. What else?

SPEAKER_02 27:40

We got salt. Pocket salt.

SPEAKER_01 27:43

If you toss your if you toss your tarp, you're getting rid of all of your equipment. That's what's holding all of your equipment. Uh but it is versatile.

SPEAKER_02 27:50

I think we chuck as we're running up the stairs, we just start chucking salt behind us.

SPEAKER_01 27:56

Okay. You're you're chucking salt, but it's not hitting anything. Are you just gonna make a break for it, sprint to the to the rooftop door?

SPEAKER_00 28:03

I think so. Yes.

SPEAKER_01 28:05

Okay, you successfully get out onto the rooftop door. You slam the door behind you. Both of you are leaning up against the door as you're waiting for the helicopter to come. The zombies have gotten up to that door, they're pounding on it, and you see the helicopter on approach, they're making too much noise, and there's windows in the stairwell, so the other zombies are starting to hear this, starting to come up. The helicopter on approach drops a ladder down. Uh, not it's not gonna land all the way. So one of you is gonna have to leave to go get on that on that ladder first before the other, so that you don't allow all of them to come out at the same time. Which one of you is gonna go?

SPEAKER_02 28:43

I'll hold the door. I'm stronger.

SPEAKER_01 28:44

Okay. Eric successfully gets to the ladder and starts climbing, climbing up some rungs. TJ, you're starting to get pushed off of the door. The door is starting to open. You see their fingers coming through the door. Uh, do you keep pushing back with uh uh with your back? Do you turn around and start pushing with your hands? Which way do you feel like you're stronger?

SPEAKER_02 29:06

Well, you see how doors work. Um, I'm just gonna put my foot at like the base of the door, and no matter how hard they push it, they're just not gonna be able to open it.

SPEAKER_03 29:15

That's a solid strat actually.

SPEAKER_01 29:16

Success. It's working. They're not able to come through. Uh, they're not able to really hurt you. And Eric has now climbed up far enough that you can run and get on the ladder. Do you just go?

SPEAKER_02 29:29

What items do I have with me?

SPEAKER_01 29:31

You have everything. You have the primate distraction kit, you have the tiger spray, you have salt, compass, map.

SPEAKER_02 29:40

Okay. So I somehow majigger the spray and the distraction kit on top of the door. I take the compass needle and I place it on there. So once they open the door, it falls, puncturing the spray can for the tiger spray. Then the impact of that turns on the distraction kit. I then throw the tarp. Uh if they like make it through, I throw the tarp at them, and uh I try to cover their faces as I'm sprinting and jump towards the ladder at the last moment, and I survive because I'm amazing.

SPEAKER_01 30:18

Okay, well, your uh your jiggering uh didn't even work because they're pounding on the door, the top part of it is shaking so much that it falls down. You run and throw the tarp at them, that actually catches quite a few of them. Uh the rest are coming right down on you. You get onto the ladder and you start climbing up. One of them grabs a hold of your leg. What do you do?

SPEAKER_02 30:44

I actually have a uh I got this whole thing where um, you know, like SpongeBob, because it's you know, uh, I can actually regrow limbs after I pop them off. So I just like pop my leg off and then regrow it.

SPEAKER_03 30:57

I throw a pocket sand at him.

SPEAKER_01 30:59

You okay, all right. I'm gonna go with the pocket sand. It actually works. I can't fucking believe the the rolling you guys are getting on this is unfortunate. I if I hadn't gotten so far through with me rolling for you guys, I would have fucking made you roll because this is unreal.

SPEAKER_03 31:23

Like oh, you've been rolling?

SPEAKER_01 31:25

Yeah. The amount of times you guys have gotten 15, 16, I was gonna say, I'm surprised we're gonna go away with 20 minutes. I'm like, this is fucking unreal. Like there were a couple that you have, it's a um it's a digital die, so it's a d20 and a d6, and you guys the highest you guys have gotten so far is 25. But like, I don't I don't know. Uh if I I could have just been like TJ, I guess, and just said you got bit just because, but nope. You guys successfully get away, and both of you survived.

SPEAKER_03 31:56

Hell yeah.

SPEAKER_01 31:57

Those are your bonus points.

SPEAKER_03 31:59

Hey, and that's called uh strategy.

SPEAKER_02 32:02

That's called teamwork makes the dream work on all players escape. WIS baby.

SPEAKER_03 32:07

That's called Wonder Pets right there.

SPEAKER_01 32:09

All players escape with gear intact. That's called full survival. What you guys get to do with that. We keep our tarp. You keep your tarp. Yes. Tarp equals map. That uh tarp equals everything. The tarp after TJ threw it on the zombies was lifted up by the wind and floated right back up to the helicopter.

SPEAKER_02 32:28

Fucking Mjolnir tarp shit came back and wasn't.

SPEAKER_01 32:33

Like this is unreal. Your guys' luck on this. I should have I should have started rolling for me instead of for you.

SPEAKER_03 32:41

Then you would have rolled bad, trust me.

SPEAKER_01 32:43

I know, I I don't know what the heck. It was like it was so high I could have had you guys cornered in no time. But all players escape with gear intact. That means that uh you guys, uh team leader, you get to pick the winner.

SPEAKER_02 32:58

I get to pick the winner of the episode? Yep. Yep. Eric, do you got a movie for next week? No, you should pick yourself, homie.

SPEAKER_01 33:09

I wonder if what is the one 28 days later isn't out on streaming yet, is it? 28 years later? 28 years, sorry. I don't think so.

SPEAKER_03 33:19

But like is weapons finding yet?

SPEAKER_02 33:24

Dude, if I don't know, is weapons let me look weapons. It says Apple TV. Came out in August.

SPEAKER_03 33:32

Yeah, rent or buy.

SPEAKER_02 33:33

Oh, for 20 bucks.

SPEAKER_01 33:35

Oh my god. It's still in it, huh?

SPEAKER_02 33:37

What about uh 20 bucks everywhere? I was gonna say Sinners.

SPEAKER_01 33:42

That's unreal. You guys watch Sinners Interested in Sinners?

SPEAKER_03 33:46

I haven't seen it. That's a great movie.

SPEAKER_01 33:48

I've only seen that that uh commercial that keeps playing with Terry Cruz. What about the Vivch? What is that?

SPEAKER_03 33:55

It's the witch, except they just uh they separate out the W, so it looks like two V.

SPEAKER_02 34:00

I mean that's how they did W's back in the day. Um another one with uh Anya Taylor Joy, because she was in the Vitch. Um The Gorge. You seen The Gorge? Oh, I haven't seen that one. Never. It's not a horror movie, it's it's an action sci-fi, but it's about it has um Anya Taylor Joy and Miles Teller and Saborney Weavers in.

SPEAKER_01 34:26

I'd watch 28 Years Later. I haven't seen that one yet. And Big Daddy Mo keeps calling us out for not watching that one yet.

SPEAKER_02 34:32

I'm kinda down.

SPEAKER_03 34:33

Did you guys already you you did 28 days later? We did 28 days, and 28 weeks and months kind of sucks.

SPEAKER_01 34:41

We had kind of uh we had kind of toyed with the idea of redoing it with you, but we never followed up with that.

SPEAKER_02 34:48

What if we do that? What if we watch 28 days? Years days.

SPEAKER_01 34:53

No, he's saying re redo 28 days with him involved.

SPEAKER_02 34:57

What if okay, hear me out. What if we do both? What if we do 28 days and then 28 years and then we compare and contrast them? I ask you questions about both and how you feel about, you know. You want us to watch two movies in one week?

SPEAKER_01 35:11

I mean, like Could also are are we are we doing well? Are we kind of ahead? With Jeopardy being two episodes. Is it really?

SPEAKER_02 35:22

Yeah, this is Oh yeah, no. Um we hold on.

SPEAKER_00 35:25

We're almost no glasses. I can't see. We're almost at two episodes.

SPEAKER_02 35:28

Are we? The last one we put out was the one with Josh, right? Yeah. And then what was after that? Um Josh Geopardy. Oh, Code Black's gonna be two episodes probably. We're very far ahead. That's great. So we could I don't know. I pick myself as the winner, and then I will I will let you guys know what the movie is.

SPEAKER_03 35:53

Sounds good.

SPEAKER_02 35:54

Alright. I think it it will be a zombie movie or a horror-ish movie. Cool.

SPEAKER_03 36:03

Well, thank you, Alex, for that game.

SPEAKER_02 36:05

It won't be weapons because apparently fucking$20 is ridiculous.$20.

SPEAKER_03 36:10

Yeah, it's crazy. I can't wait to go.

SPEAKER_02 36:11

I mean, I could give you the website.

SPEAKER_03 36:14

I was gonna say, yeah, we could figure it out, but we'll we'll do I 28 years has been out for a little bit. We should definitely watch that one.

SPEAKER_02 36:22

Well, nobody cares what you think, Eric. Alright, socials. Eric, do the socials.

SPEAKER_03 36:27

You don't want me to do the socials right now.

SPEAKER_01 36:30

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SPEAKER_02 37:15

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SPEAKER_01 37:23

I like that. This episode was sponsored by our merch.

SPEAKER_02 37:27

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SPEAKER_01 37:32

Oh hell yeah, we will. We will uh it it uh it's this logo that you see on the screen uh for you chatters.

SPEAKER_02 37:40

And you know, little little little maybe there there could possibly be another logo happening.

SPEAKER_01 37:47

I hope so. That'll be awesome. All right, everybody. Thank you so much for joining us. This was uh my first crack at doing a roleplay style game. We will get better at this, of course, as we go along. The next one sounds like it's gonna be more of our familiar tactics. So join in, follow along. We talk about survival and preparation, and uh we use the lens of cinema to bring forth these ideas. The whole purpose is to make sure people take preparation a little more seriously than they currently do. Remember to stock up your supplies, be ready for any disaster. If you're ready for the zombie apocalypse, you'll be ready for any natural disaster. So, with that, until the next time we talk to you, you stay alive.