Survival Guess-Off

What happens when you describe The Martian as a “work retreat gone badly” or The Purge as a “civic exercise with rules that fail”? We turned our survival podcast into a high-stakes guessing game built on outrageously bad synopses of movies we’ve covered—Sinners, The Purge, The Day After Tomorrow, Cast Away, The Martian, Outside, 2012, The Thing, Nope, Cargo, and Warm Bodies—and it got competitive fast.

Across the chaos, a clear throughline emerges: survival lives or dies on trust, timing, and adaptation. We dig into why rule-based systems crumble when people stop cooperating, how delay and denial make disasters worse, and where logistics turn into ethics when resources and time run out. From paranoia under pressure in The Thing to spectacle versus safety in Nope, from the quiet burden of responsibility in Cargo to the problem-solving grind of The Martian, we unpack what these stories teach about planning, communication, and staying human when everything else breaks.

We also share which disaster movies still hit—why 2012 feels like wild comfort food, how The Day After Tomorrow works as a climate caution, and what makes Outside and Sinners stick as moral reckonings rather than simple thrills. Plus, we sketch future game mechanics to make the challenge even sharper: timed hints, point-for-hint trades, and progressively worse clues that force faster pattern recognition.

Play along, shout your guesses, and tell us where we blew it. If you love survival strategy, disaster films, zombie lore, and the art of decoding plots under pressure, this one’s for you. Subscribe, share with a friend who swears they’d survive, and drop your movie picks for our next round—we’ll read the best on air.

Chapters

• 0:26 Chaotic Hello And Format Reset
• 1:01 Explaining The Bad Synopsis Game
• 3:43 Round One: Sinners Revealed
• 7:58 Purge Guess And Buzzer Debate
• 10:21 Disaster Movies And Day After Tomorrow
• 13:10 Cast Away, The Martian, And Outsiders
• 17:45 2012, Geostorm, And Emmerich Tangent
• 21:15 The Thing And Nope Lightning Rounds
• 24:30 Tiebreakers: Cargo And Warm Bodies
• 28:06 Reflections, Future Game Mechanics, And Win
• 31:45 Socials, Requests, And Preparedness Sign-Off

Transcript

SPEAKER_02 0:26

Hello, survivors, and welcome to another episode of Will You Survive the Podcast.

SPEAKER_07 0:33

Whoa.

SPEAKER_02 0:34

Love the enthusiasm. You must have had a pretty good nap over there. That's TJ, by the way.

SPEAKER_00 0:40

That's me.

SPEAKER_02 0:42

And I'm also joined by our other co-host, Eric.

SPEAKER_00 0:45

That's me, Mr. Macy. Ooooooooh.

SPEAKER_02 0:50

This is getting weird already.

SPEAKER_00 0:51

I'm Mr. Macy. Look at me.

SPEAKER_02 0:53

We're gonna go ahead and roll me into this.

SPEAKER_05 0:58

We're just at a different wavelength today.

Explaining The Bad Synopsis Game

SPEAKER_02 1:00

We are a survival podcast that usually we reference movies and talk about whether you would survive or not. I guess we're surviving different ways. And uh lately we've been on a different path. So I want to uh bring some attention to some of the movies we've done over the past years. Uh TJ's been with us now for is it three years?

SPEAKER_06 1:26

How long have we been doing this?

SPEAKER_02 1:27

Two great question.

SPEAKER_07 1:30

Almost two?

SPEAKER_06 1:30

Well is it two years? He started hang on, I could do some quick research. He started season three. Season three episode. Our first was 2024. So almost two years. Almost two years. Yeah, it was April 12th.

SPEAKER_07 1:42

No, because it yeah.

SPEAKER_06 1:44

Almost two years. Almost two years.

SPEAKER_02 1:47

So uh I've only picked from movies that we've done with you, TJ, and they are all movies. But now here. So I was gonna come up with a very complicated, convoluted way to do this, but we're just gonna do a straight guessing game. And either one of you can chime in. Whoever has the guess first and gets it will get the points.

SPEAKER_07 2:05

Okay. Completely original concept. Welcome back to one to a hundred part four.

SPEAKER_02 2:12

This is the difference here, the difference is these are very bad synopses of the movies.

SPEAKER_06 2:18

Oh, it's this idea. I thought you were gonna be like, the difference is it's actually one to a thousand.

SPEAKER_07 2:23

So he's gonna be like white bitch in the water with a wet and Nemo! Oh, wait, sorry.

SPEAKER_02 2:29

Yeah, kind of like that. That's what I that's what I'm looking for here.

SPEAKER_07 2:32

My guy Gum got stuck in a box in the dirt.

SPEAKER_05 2:36

Oh uh uh uh uh Toy Story. I just guess nothing but Disney movies the whole time.

SPEAKER_07 2:48

They are all movies that we've covered. Guys, make sure to check out our Disney spinoff podcast.

SPEAKER_02 2:55

Uh Will You Survive?

SPEAKER_07 2:56

Will You Princess?

SPEAKER_02 2:58

TJ Will.

SPEAKER_07 2:59

Will it princess? Which day we're talking about this fucking bitch Elsa.

SPEAKER_06 3:10

She will be a princess. We'll talk about one of my favorite princesses. Uh Princess Jasmine. Someone say the best princess. So are you guys ready? Uh sure. I prefer Rapunzel. I'm just saying, Princess Jasmine is where my love for Middle Eastern women came from.

SPEAKER_02 3:25

Let's throw this down. At any point, you can throw out your guess for the name of the movie.

SPEAKER_07 3:29

Do we need a buzzer?

SPEAKER_02 3:31

You don't need buzzers. I feel like that's the one. I don't think you guys are gonna be I don't think you guys are gonna be like right on right on top of each other anyway. This one should be a little on the easier side, so I'm I'm hoping you guys get it.

SPEAKER_06 3:43

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 3:43

Synopsis is several people make the deeply questionable choice to reunite in one building at night to prove they're different now. They are not. A lot of talking happens about past mistakes, destiny, and whether tonight is special, which it is, but not in any way anyone enjoys. Music plays, things escalate. Someone explains the rules after they would have been useful. By sunrise, the building is ruined, the group is smaller, survivors are emotionally wrecked, and the story makes it clear this was never a fresh start. It was a reckoning that took a very long time to arrive.

SPEAKER_06 4:24

What the f this sounds like the concept of many hor a horror movies, but we covered one like this? Uh-huh. Oh my god, I thought.

SPEAKER_07 4:36

Wait. What you said a group? Shawn of the Dead?

SPEAKER_03 4:44

Nope.

SPEAKER_07 4:45

No.

SPEAKER_02 4:48

Give a guess. Eric, and I'll give you uh I'll give you a hint if you don't get it.

SPEAKER_06 4:53

I don't think it's an of the dead movie. No. Three people like it gives me like truth or dare of the movie. We didn't do truth or dare.

SPEAKER_02 5:01

Several people make the deeply questionable choice to reunite in one building at night to prove they're different now. They are not. A lot of talking happens about past mistakes, destiny, and whether tonight is special, which it is, but not in a way anyone enjoys. Music plays, things escalate, someone explains the rules after they would have been useful.

SPEAKER_03 5:23

That's a debate.

SPEAKER_02 5:24

By sunrise, the building is ruined, the group is smaller, the survivors are emotionally wrecked, and the story makes it clear this was never a fresh start.

SPEAKER_07 5:36

Uh can I make my guess?

SPEAKER_02 5:40

Go ahead.

SPEAKER_06 5:41

The blackening?

SPEAKER_03 5:43

No.

SPEAKER_06 5:44

Well, that's a good guess, though. A group of friends? I'm trying to think of any movie that has a group of friends, and I'm blanking on literally every movie.

SPEAKER_07 5:52

Is there like a limit on how many times we can guess?

SPEAKER_02 5:54

Uh I I just I want you to give me a guess.

SPEAKER_06 5:57

Nothing, dude. I got nothing. Because my only other guess was hush, but that's not a group of friends.

SPEAKER_02 6:02

Not a group of friends. Throw out okay, hush. We'll say that, right? Yeah, bad guess. This might this might be too big of a hint, but this has already taken longer than I thought. It takes place in the deep south. Sinners? Sinners!

SPEAKER_06 6:16

Yes! Oh, no way! Oh, the music makes sense. The rules thing makes sense.

SPEAKER_02 6:22

I tried to emphasize I tried to emphasize music plays.

SPEAKER_06 6:26

A group of friends, I think is what threw me off. I guess they were friends. Yeah, I didn't did I'm I didn't really consider them friends.

SPEAKER_02 6:34

I don't think I said a group of friends. Several people make the make the deeply questionable choice to reunite in one building at night.

SPEAKER_06 6:41

Oh, yeah. No, I guess I added the friends thing.

SPEAKER_02 6:44

You both did. That's what's weird. I kept hearing you guys say that, and I'm like, I I don't think I said that. I kept reading it over and over again. All right. Number two. Let's go with this. A man with an intense commitment to routine and personal growth invites three teenagers into his home without asking their parents. What follows is a very long series of conversations about discipline, trauma, and why the door is locked from the outside. The girls attempt teamwork, emotional intelligence, and light manipulation while their host cycles through wildly different moods, wardrobes, children.

SPEAKER_04 7:13

Fuck!

SPEAKER_07 7:17

Fuck! Fucking delay, dude.

SPEAKER_04 7:20

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_07 7:21

It's fucking open.

SPEAKER_05 7:24

The audience can't see it, but DJ got like visibly FOO!

SPEAKER_07 7:29

That's fucking annoying. There needs to be the fucking buzzer.

SPEAKER_05 7:39

Alright, how do you want to do it? How do you want to do a buzzer? You're still gonna hear a delay. We're in the same room. I have the natural advan. I have the high ground.

SPEAKER_07 7:50

I think you just fucking call on us or something, because the fucking delay, dude. Okay, okay, okay, okay, okay.

Purge Guess And Buzzer Debate

SPEAKER_02 7:56

All right. How about how about this? How about this? I'll go. I still have plenty. So I'll go. This one is for TJ. And if he doesn't get it, then it goes to Eric. He could steal. You ready?

SPEAKER_06 8:09

How long does he have? None of this like buzzing in and then thinking about it for three minutes.

SPEAKER_02 8:15

No, no, no. It'll just be this is TJ's question. He gets to guess it. Um, we'll start a timer after uh it becomes uncomfortable. Okay. You ready, TJ? So you don't you don't have to worry about Eric guessing this one. This is all you.

SPEAKER_06 8:32

We guess it at the same time. Because I'm too good at this game.

SPEAKER_02 8:36

You ready?

SPEAKER_06 8:37

Yeah. Fuck!

SPEAKER_02 8:39

A well-off family spends most of one evening preparing for something they swear is totally normal and very safe. So long as everyone follow follows the rules. Once the rules start feeling optional, the night becomes a series of bad decisions involving locked doors, moral debates, and people realizing the security system only works if everyone agrees to be terrible in an orderly way. I know it. Strangers show up, tempers flare, and the idea of community standards completely collapses.

SPEAKER_06 9:05

I already know it!

SPEAKER_02 9:06

By morning, the house is damaged, the family is changed, and everyone pretends this was a necessary civic exercise instead of deeply avoidable disaster.

SPEAKER_07 9:14

You gave it away so much with that. Are you serious? The fuck do you mean am I serious? He's meant to describe him bad, dog.

SPEAKER_06 9:22

I he gave it away with so many lines. I feel like I should be able to guess here. Fucking guess it. I don't care.

SPEAKER_04 9:29

The purge.

SPEAKER_02 9:34

Okay, TJ. I'm surprised you didn't get that one.

SPEAKER_05 9:37

Come on! The civic thing was like that one is like the icing on the on the cake. Yeah, I'm looking into the fucking words.

SPEAKER_07 9:44

Yeah, lick my fucking ball sack.

SPEAKER_02 9:46

He's describing it. What do you mean? What am I supposed to what are you supposed to look at? It's supposed to be the words.

SPEAKER_07 9:54

He's just listening to your tone. He's trying to get it from your tone.

SPEAKER_02 9:58

Are you?

SPEAKER_07 9:58

No, I'm trying to get it from the fucking synopsis itself.

SPEAKER_02 10:01

Those are words. You're confusing.

SPEAKER_07 10:04

Can you reread it? I'll tell you exactly where I go. Don't fucking reread it. Just go to the next one.

SPEAKER_02 10:08

I heard you. Alright. Well, Eric has a commanding lead, so um we're gonna go back to you, TJ. It's not meant to insult, it's just meant to, you know, try to help. Anyway.

SPEAKER_05 10:21

Can we start that timer?

SPEAKER_02 10:22

A lot of very serious people spend several days warning everyone that something extremely bad is coming, only to be ignored until it arrives immediately and everywhere at once. Weather stops following suggestions, transportation becomes a memory, and multiple governments realize too late that meetings do not count as preparation. A small group of people hole up indoors and burn things that were never meant to be fuel while waiting for science to finish being correct. By the end, the planet is still here, some landmarks are not, and everyone agrees that should have listened earlier, but probably won't next time.

SPEAKER_07 10:58

The day after tomorrow.

SPEAKER_02 11:00

Yes.

SPEAKER_06 11:00

The day after tomorrow?

SPEAKER_07 11:02

He said the word civic, so that clearly means the government. Oh shut up. So let me connect the top that you didn't get.

SPEAKER_06 11:09

Government He literally said security systems uh like the house. Like come on, he can't.

SPEAKER_07 11:16

You know how in movies it's like, oh, there's people in a house, crazy shit happened. He literally the one he said before that was the exact same thing.

SPEAKER_06 11:24

The security system was such a big part of the purge, and the whole like it only works as well as everybody follows the rules. There's rules for the night, like everybody's holed up in one spot. Like, come on, he gave it away.

SPEAKER_07 11:38

I'm pretty sure the purge is like the last on my list that's like remind me. What was that movie? Jake Gyllenhaal gets trapped in a snowy building with a bunch of motherfuckers in the fucking snowball. I didn't like that movie. Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 11:52

Bunch of crap. I remember now. See, I was thinking 2012 for a little bit because then I was like, I didn't even watch that episode. I was also thinking it was uh what's that one movie, Don't Look Up, with Leo DiCaprio? And I was thinking that one, but I was like, I don't think we covered that one.

SPEAKER_02 12:07

We haven't done that one.

SPEAKER_06 12:07

Yeah, that's why I was like, I I feel like I don't know this one.

SPEAKER_02 12:10

So you didn't like Day After Tomorrow? No, I didn't care.

SPEAKER_07 12:13

What did you think about it, TJ? I I didn't fucking watch it. I didn't want to watch it.

SPEAKER_06 12:17

It was mid Wow. Yeah, I think it was it was okay. It wasn't bad. I just I like 2012 better. Which is why isn't it the same director? Is it? Yeah, I think the guy only makes natural disaster movies? Yes.

SPEAKER_07 12:32

Oh no. That's funny. He made Moonfall also and San Andreas, I think. I like San Andreas. Okay, genius.

SPEAKER_02 12:42

Okay, day after tomorrow was directed by Roland Emmerich.

SPEAKER_07 12:47

Yep, same guy. Same guy. I don't recognize the name, yeah. He just does disaster movies.

SPEAKER_02 12:52

He likes disaster.

SPEAKER_07 12:53

His last one was Moonfall, I'm pretty sure. Which, like, how are you gonna top the moon falling?

SPEAKER_01 12:57

Is that what it is?

SPEAKER_07 12:58

The moon is falling towards Earth, and turns out there is an alien inside the moon.

SPEAKER_02 13:04

Oh.

SPEAKER_07 13:04

The moon is fake.

SPEAKER_02 13:06

Oh.

SPEAKER_06 13:06

Oh, we knew that.

SPEAKER_02 13:08

I might be able to get into that.

Cast Away, The Martian, And Outsiders

SPEAKER_06 13:10

So it's a nonfiction? Yeah. Films on location.

SPEAKER_07 13:17

Really expensive budget. Yeah, practical effects all the way.

SPEAKER_06 13:21

Yeah, that was crazy when they brought the moon down to Earth for that one scene. That was insane. Dude, when they split.

SPEAKER_07 13:28

For some reason, California keeps getting split in half. Crazy day at work for me, let me tell you.

SPEAKER_02 13:34

Okay. Are you ready? Yeah. This is Eric's turn. A man whose entire personality is scheduling learns the hard way that efficiency is not transferable skills training. After an unexpected travel issue, he spends several years having one-sided conversations, inventing routines that do nothing, and becoming emotionally dependent on the only thing that doesn't leave. Time passes, facial hair happens, hope is misplaced, and then lost again. Eventually returns to civilization, only to s to discover that surviving something does not mean you get your old life back.

SPEAKER_06 14:08

Gotcha. Am I allowed to hear it one more time? Because I think I know what it is, but I didn't ask.

SPEAKER_07 14:13

I could have asked for it one more time before, then.

SPEAKER_06 14:16

But you didn't. You're not l you gotta listen to the synopsis. Is it castaway?

SPEAKER_07 14:21

It is.

SPEAKER_06 14:22

Okay. Shut up, TJ.

SPEAKER_07 14:24

No, you're trying to get a fucking one up on me when you already got the up.

SPEAKER_02 14:27

Okay. I already knew it. All right, TJ. TJ, you gotta fucking back off because you ruined my whole joke. What I was gonna do to Eric right away is as soon as I got to the end and he went to go guess, I was gonna say, Oh, sorry, time just ran out. But it was just gonna be a joke. I wasn't gonna give you the point. It's not, it's not for any reason that you think.

SPEAKER_06 14:53

What was the first line you said?

SPEAKER_02 14:55

The first line was a man whose entire personality is scheduling learns the hard way that efficiency is not transferable skills training.

SPEAKER_06 15:02

Yeah, I was so hung up on the scheduling part that I was like, who the fuck was a scheduler? FedEx scheduling. Yeah, it took me a second. You ready, TJ?

SPEAKER_02 15:12

Uh this one, I'm gonna be honest, this one is fucked. I love it. A man is left alone after a work retreat goes badly, and is immediately forced to turn to problem solving into a full-time personality. Sorry. And is immediately forced to turn problem solving into a full-time personality. Holy shit. Wow. Yes, it is. That's impressive. You could you can see my laptop, can't you? I definitely can't.

SPEAKER_06 15:41

What was the first line of that one? That was impressive.

SPEAKER_02 15:44

A man is left alone after a work retreat goes badly.

SPEAKER_07 15:47

And is immediately that's a crazy way to describe that.

SPEAKER_02 15:50

Isn't it a work retreat? I love it.

SPEAKER_07 15:52

I was just like, dude, left alone, Martian. A trip to Mars.

SPEAKER_06 15:57

A work retreat. Alright.

SPEAKER_02 15:58

TJ's locking in. Alright, you ready, Eric?

SPEAKER_06 16:01

Yeah, I'm locking too.

SPEAKER_02 16:03

A family decides that the best plan for surviving the end of the world is to move into the creepiest old house possible instead of, you know, anywhere else. They spend most of the movie arguing about whether staying put or leaving is a good idea, while occasionally looking at the creepy woods like it might apologize. The only real monsters aren't the ones outside. They're the guy who insists he knows best. His ever improving passive aggressive decision making, and really long silences that are supposed to be spooky, but mostly just feel like dinner with someone you're quietly judging. Zombies show up sometimes, usually when someone makes a worse choice than the last one. By the end, I've had it. The family has fewer limbs, literally, more secrets, and a firm belief that the person you shouldn't trust is dot dot dot.

SPEAKER_07 16:54

Oh my. Now, how long is the uh timer?

SPEAKER_06 16:57

He said when it gets uncomfortable. I'm already uncomfortable. It hasn't gotten uncomfortable. I'm already uncomfortable. I was born uncomfortable. I'm not gonna get it. Go ahead, TJ. Outside?

SPEAKER_01 17:08

Yes, it is.

SPEAKER_07 17:09

Moving to the creepiest house possible. Zombies.

SPEAKER_06 17:13

Outside. Did I not watch this movie? Oh, wait. Really good one. Filipinos. Oh, I I literally couldn't tell you what the name of that movie was.

SPEAKER_02 17:22

Oh no. I've been referring to it will ruin your chances. I've been referring to it for like episodes. I love that movie.

SPEAKER_06 17:29

I agree. I love that movie, but for like the last two months, anytime I've referenced that movie, I've just called it the Filipino movie.

2012, Geostorm, And Emmerich Tangent

SPEAKER_02 17:36

See, it was it was so bad that they made both characters, the the mom and the dad, they made them both such monsters that it was like it was hard to hate one over the other.

SPEAKER_06 17:49

Yeah, that was a really good movie. That's that's a good synopsis. I would not have gotten it.

SPEAKER_02 17:54

All right. You ready, TJ?

SPEAKER_06 17:55

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_02 17:56

Here we go. A lot of very important people spend most of the movie explaining that the world is about to end. Then immediately forget all practical plans in favor of running around in expensive vehicles while buildings explode in slow motion. Entire countries are casually demolished, geography is completely ignored, and anyone not on a very exclusive survival list is. One man spends hours convincing everyone he loves to climb into improbable escape pods while the rest of humanity demonstrates that panicking efficiently is a skill no one possesses. By the end, the planet is still vaguely recognizable, some people are still alive, and the movie leaves you wondering why anyone thought this was a good idea in the first place.

SPEAKER_07 18:41

Uh what is 2012, Alex? That is right. He's raising his hand like, I know it, I know it, but like I already knew it. I just wanted you to, you know, the people know.

SPEAKER_02 18:52

So what what what was your thought on that episode?

SPEAKER_07 18:54

I like 2012. 2012 is a good movie to uh you know, it's a good fun movie.

SPEAKER_02 19:00

Do you think the two like compare the 2012 and the day after tomorrow?

SPEAKER_06 19:05

I think 2012 is way better. I agree. I really I think they compare, but I think 2012 is way better.

SPEAKER_02 19:12

See, that's interesting.

SPEAKER_06 19:13

I I think they're the same movie. I definitely think 2012 is better.

SPEAKER_02 19:17

I watch the day after tomorrow far more frequently than I watch 2012. I'll watch it if it's on, if I go across it, I'm like, eh, I'll put it on. Uh, but I don't I don't go out of my way to watch 2012. And I don't watch either.

SPEAKER_06 19:32

And like when 2012 came out, dude, that shit was topical as fuck. Do you remember uh the storm uh what is what is the movie called? Like Geostorm or something like that? Yeah, I like that one.

SPEAKER_02 19:41

I like that one too. But you're right, TJ. It was so topical because it came out in 2009, and like the whole controversy of the Mayan calendar ending in 2012 was was all a big deal.

SPEAKER_07 19:54

We're all gonna die.

SPEAKER_02 19:55

That was that was how they they viewed it. That was a it was a good gimmick though.

SPEAKER_07 20:00

How the fuck these mothers know what's going on? They're over here building pyramids, bro. They don't know shit. Dude, some pretty cool pyramids.

SPEAKER_02 20:07

You guys have heard that uh that comedian was like, you guys ever hear?

SPEAKER_07 20:11

Nobody questioned who built those. Is it Andrew Schultz?

SPEAKER_02 20:14

Yeah, freaking died laughing.

SPEAKER_06 20:17

Oh no, we don't need your help. Go help the Egyptians.

SPEAKER_02 20:20

The one that the one that makes me laugh though was they got a quincinetta on Saturday.

SPEAKER_06 20:23

We'll have that shit up by Friday.

SPEAKER_02 20:25

Somebody posted pictures of it and was like, yeah, look at the difference. Because the the the pyramids in Mexico, they're ziggurods, they're not pyramids. But it's like just a funny comparison when you see the pyramids in Egypt are all like straight and lined up, and then the pyramids in uh in Mexico are like stepped there on steps all the way up. I think that's comedy.

SPEAKER_06 20:48

It's just about the houses.

SPEAKER_07 20:50

How the hell are they moving those giant pieces of fucking limestone?

SPEAKER_06 20:53

You know, uh physics and really cool techniques that we know of. Aliens.

SPEAKER_02 21:00

Yeah, I'm I'm going the alien route. I don't know anywhere that humans can lift 500 tons.

SPEAKER_06 21:05

He's the meme. I think it's my turn, right?

The Thing And Nope Lightning Rounds

SPEAKER_02 21:11

It's your turn. It's my turn. Ready? Uh-huh. Alright. Told you this is gonna be a short episode. You guys are blowing through these. A bunch of adults with winter jackets and questionable trust issues spend most of their time staring at each other suspiciously while occasionally screaming and running through snow. Something is in the group, but they all refuse to agree on what it is. Oh. So they just keep making the worst possible decisions. People die, people hide, people accuse each other of being the thing, and no one remembers the He said the thing! Don't do that. It's the thing.

SPEAKER_07 21:48

That needs to be a point for both of us. It says the frickin' name of it in the thing.

SPEAKER_06 21:52

I can't yeah, that was crazy. I did know it like right away. Just I knew it well before four people in a house.

SPEAKER_07 22:00

And they see signs of alien activity.

SPEAKER_06 22:03

Brother Brother Stop. Well, when he said uh when he said the snow coats thing, I was like, well, it's either that movie where they got stuck on the lift or yeah, or it's uh the thing. Yeah. And then he was like when he was like uh they're accusing each other, I'm like, okay, the thing.

SPEAKER_07 22:22

But it's actually the it's it's not which thing you talking about? There's two. There's two things.

SPEAKER_06 22:33

2012?

SPEAKER_07 22:35

No.

SPEAKER_06 22:36

Oh, the 1980.

SPEAKER_07 22:38

Well, he already made his guess. The 1982 thing. Shut up. But take the college. You guys desperate for points. I don't even know what how many points we have.

SPEAKER_02 22:53

You guys think that points matter?

SPEAKER_07 22:55

Well, yeah. Somewhat.

SPEAKER_06 22:57

At least to me.

SPEAKER_02 22:59

Okay. You ready, TJ?

SPEAKER_06 23:00

Yep.

SPEAKER_02 23:01

Here we go. A small business family notice a small business family notices something unusual. They decide that their one job is to stare at it, film it, and come up with a plan that somehow involves more risk than sense. People argue, people climb things, and the world's most expensive equipment is used to solve problems that could probably have been avoided by staying indoors. Everyone spends a suspiciously long time worrying about spectacle while chaos literally descends from above. By the end, some people survive, some people do not, some things do not, and the movie makes it very clear that curiosity is overrated when the universe is actively unimpressed by your ambition.

SPEAKER_07 23:43

Nope.

SPEAKER_02 23:44

Huh? Nope. No, that's what it is. Yeah, nope. No, that's the fucking synopsis. Yeah, nope. That's all you get. That's not the synopsis. Nope.

SPEAKER_06 23:53

That is it! The the double gaslighting each other is crazy.

SPEAKER_07 24:00

You can't gaslight me, I created it. Okay. I am the one who knocks.

SPEAKER_02 24:10

You guys are tied. How?

SPEAKER_07 24:13

Because I got the Martian and within two sentences.

SPEAKER_02 24:16

It's true. It's true.

SPEAKER_06 24:17

Does he get extra points for getting it sooner?

SPEAKER_02 24:19

Does he get extra points? Do we? Um no, I wasn't going to.

SPEAKER_06 24:24

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_02 24:25

But I could give you a tiebreaker.

Tiebreakers: Cargo And Warm Bodies

SPEAKER_06 24:27

Sure. We'll buzz in. Let's not do that. Do you have to type it up?

SPEAKER_02 24:40

Uh only kind of. Synopsis. A man spends most of the movie on a strict countdown he can't pause, carrying something very important while slowly realizing he will not be able to finish the job himself. Along the way, he meets various people who prove that good intentions are fragile and survival plans age poorly. There's a lot of quiet walking, sad bargaining with reality, and desperate problem solving that feels practical until it suddenly isn't. By the end, responsibility is transferred in the worst possible way. Hope is out of the first, and the movie is it? Cargo.

SPEAKER_03 25:18

Yep.

SPEAKER_06 25:19

Wow, I wouldn't have gotten that. I forgot about that movie.

SPEAKER_03 25:22

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 25:23

That's one of three. One to TJ. Two. A world that was already having a bad time discovers that simply waiting several decades did not, in fact, fix anything. People who should know better are still living among ruins, still making plans based on hope instead of evidence, and still acting shocked when old problems resurface exactly as advertised. Society exists in fragments, trust is optional, and a survival once again depends on who can run, hide, or make decisions under pressure without panicking. The movie spends a lot of time reminding everyone that time passing does not equal healing. It just gives chaos better memories.

SPEAKER_06 26:08

Can we both request a reread?

SPEAKER_03 26:13

Yeah. Or you could skip it.

SPEAKER_07 26:17

Yeah, let's get it's good let's get a reread on that.

SPEAKER_06 26:20

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 26:21

Okay. A world that was already having a bad time discovers that simply waiting several decades did not fix anything.

SPEAKER_07 26:30

Yes. I needed to hear that part. Several decades.

SPEAKER_03 26:37

Okay.

SPEAKER_07 26:38

Twenty-eight years.

SPEAKER_02 26:39

I'm only doing this one because I want to see if Eric can get this. This is a tough one. A very quiet guy with commitment issues spends most of his time wandering around, thinking about his feelings, needing the wrong thing for personal growth reasons. He meets a woman who is understandably confused, but inexplicably patient, and their awkward hanging out begins to cause problems for everyone else. Society reacts poorly, boundaries are ignored, and communication remains minimal despite the stakes. Over time, basic human interaction is treated like a revolutionary cure, and the movie argues that empathy, hand holding, and vibes alone might fix everything. By the end, feelings have consequences, walls come down, and the apocalypse is solved in a way that raises more questions than it answers.

SPEAKER_07 27:28

I know it. Oh warm bodies.

SPEAKER_06 27:33

Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 27:35

I just wanted to see if Eric got.

SPEAKER_06 27:36

Alright. That took me, I think, too long.

SPEAKER_02 27:39

Oh, you were holding off on purpose?

SPEAKER_06 27:41

Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 27:43

Well, which which you know what's crazy? First movie we did together Warm Bodies. Yeah. It was the interview and then Warm Bodies.

SPEAKER_03 27:55

Nice. Well, I suck at this game.

Reflections, Future Game Mechanics, And Win

SPEAKER_02 28:03

Those were a lot harder than I thought they would be. You guys did blow through them pretty quickly.

SPEAKER_06 28:08

There was some that were really easy, but then I think there was a couple of them that uh like I just didn't like outside never would have gotten that.

SPEAKER_02 28:16

Yeah. But that's because you don't know the name of it.

SPEAKER_06 28:18

Yeah. There's a well, there's a couple of those too, like uh the day after tomorrow. I I know the name of it, but I really did not care for the movie, so I couldn't tell you. There was a couple of those that were tricky.

SPEAKER_07 28:31

Alright. I um well I loved cargo and fucking outside, so they're on my brain all the time.

SPEAKER_02 28:40

Yeah, I like I like both of those movies. I thought they were incredible. You know the one I I I don't remember if you were I don't think you were in the podcast maybe when we did uh Train to Busan.

SPEAKER_07 28:54

Nope. I did recommend it though. I've always been in the background. I've always been here.

SPEAKER_06 29:02

Train to Bootsan's really good. We could probably do that again.

SPEAKER_07 29:05

That's a great movie.

SPEAKER_06 29:07

One of my top zombie movies.

SPEAKER_02 29:11

Well, what'd you guys think?

SPEAKER_06 29:13

I think that's fun. I like that concept.

SPEAKER_02 29:16

We could do uh one of the things that I was I was uh looking to do but didn't have enough time, and then I completely abandoned it when we started so late. But I think I want to refine this game to uh I don't give you the whole synopsis. I give you the first sentence and you get uh points at the start. You have points at the start that you could pay uh ten points or ten dollars or whatever you want to call it. Uh you could pay it for another hint for another line, um to ask a yes or no question, etc. And then um by the end, whoever has most of their money left is the winner.

SPEAKER_07 29:59

That could be cool. I was I was also thinking you just you do the same thing, but it gets progressively worse every thing to the point where it's like two words at the end. So like you could get a lot of points at the beginning, but then all the synopsis get harder and harder as you go.

SPEAKER_02 30:19

I can work on that. So it would be good.

SPEAKER_07 30:21

It could be like you know, there's family wakes up and there's a female standing in the garden. Sitting in the garden. Oh, woman in the yard. And then if I can the last one will be like Alpha. A man sexually attracted to a ball. Sexual tension with a volleyball. I wonder what it is.

SPEAKER_05 31:02

It could really be anything.

SPEAKER_02 31:04

Alright. Well, TJ, winner speech. Oh, he won. Well, he won. And I was just fucking with you that the points didn't matter.

SPEAKER_07 31:14

Oh. I was I was I was I was I was expecting it to be like, yo, rock, paper, scissors. I was holding on to hope. Dude, we actually did a thing that the points matter? Crazy. Um That is crazy.

SPEAKER_02 31:30

I'm I'm the only fool that does that kind of stuff.

SPEAKER_07 31:32

Uh thank you to the Academy. Um, I tried my hardest. I was a little, I was a little competitive this episode.

Socials, Requests, And Preparedness Sign-Off

SPEAKER_06 31:43

Um, cut in earlier when you went FUCK! Fuck.

SPEAKER_07 31:53

I will.

SPEAKER_05 31:56

Legitimately that was. It was very funny to me. It was really funny.

SPEAKER_02 32:03

But it it was, you know, unintentionally, it did get harder as it went along. You guys or or maybe you just because you didn't have the competition, you weren't work retreat that goes bad and he gets left alone.

SPEAKER_07 32:16

That's a crazy description of that. Uh insane. How about that? I don't even know.

SPEAKER_06 32:22

Yeah, well, because company work retreat, I there's no part of me that thinks of an astronaut as a company work retreat. An astronaut going to space?

SPEAKER_03 32:38

Company work retreat.

SPEAKER_06 32:39

I don't imagine that as a retreat at all. No good stuff.

SPEAKER_03 32:44

Good stuff.

SPEAKER_07 32:45

I mean, they definitely retreated from the planet and left him alone. Yeah. Anyways, thank you all for my luxurious win. I will take this and treasure it and pick a good movie for next week.

SPEAKER_02 33:02

Excellent. Alright. Thank you for that.

SPEAKER_07 33:04

Zombie movie. We're a zombie podcast.

SPEAKER_03 33:08

Let's do it. Eric.

SPEAKER_06 33:12

Um, I think I shut it off strong. I think I kind of lost it as we went. Uh the wording got trickier and I didn't know some of these movies. Uh I congratulate my opponent. I think uh it was well played. Uh well, you know, we're just gonna come back and uh try try a little bit harder next time. Maybe watch a couple more uh videos and prep for uh for what's to come. And uh just hoping that we can really get out there and give 110% that's the line I was waiting for.

SPEAKER_01 33:42

You know, you just gotta get out there and give it 110%. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose. You're gonna be able to do it.

SPEAKER_06 33:48

You know, sometimes you lose, but I I take it as a learning opportunity. You know, we get to we get we get to improve from that, and uh, we're just gonna come back harder next time.

SPEAKER_02 33:55

Excellent, excellent. All right. As always, everyone remember you FAUK! Fuck you can find us on all of our socials. Go look us up on YouTube, TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, all that will you survive the podcast. You could send us emails, send those to the boys at Will You SurviveThePodcast.com. That's T-H-E-B-O-Y-S at Will You Survive The Podcast.com and give us your criticisms, your critiques, your suggestions. If you have a movie that you would like us to cover, we would love to hear from you. And uh with that, I guess there's nothing else to say, but uh stay prepared. Keep your uh shelves stocked. Remember, rotate through your shelving, your uh canned goods, keep them fresh. And until next time, stay alive.

SPEAKER_06 34:49

It's randomly he just ended the episode with stay prepared.

SPEAKER_07 34:54

Randomly out of nowhere. Randomly, I just switch into that, but I'm thinking of something new for the season.