Will You Survive... The Podcast
Immerse yourself in the world of cinema as we embark on a journey to equip you with the skills to tackle any disaster head-on. Through the lens of thrilling tales, particularly those of the zombie apocalypse, we'll unravel the secrets of preparedness. Join us as we explore the silver screen to empower you for the challenges that lie ahead.
Will You Survive... The Podcast
Will You Survive: AI Horror Bonanza
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Ever wondered what happens when AI tries to scare three sleep-deprived hosts who can’t resist breaking character? We put four machine-written horror stories to the test—reading them aloud, acting them out, and grading them with ruthless honesty. From a backyard camera that says “Hello, homeowner” to a silent second floor that refuses to light up, from a circling shark that turns “calm” into “controlled panic” to a polite phone alert about a gravitational anomaly, the night swings between genuine tension and glorious derailment.
We start with the show’s rotating-judge format and jump straight into the chaos: a security-cam creep that almost works, a haunted-house walk-through that mistakes doors for dread, an ocean encounter where clear staging actually builds momentum, and a cosmic-horror premise with bureaucratic phone notifications that feel eerily plausible. Along the way, we unpack why AI nails setup but fumbles character voice, escalation, and payoff. Horror breathes through choices, stakes, and sensory detail; prompts can sketch the scene, but people have to make it pulse.
There’s plenty of laughter—improv accents, GTA quotes, and a new classic line about “controlled panic”—but we also dig into real craft notes any writer can use. We talk geography in survival horror, how to avoid filler dialogue, when to reveal the monster, and why cosmic dread needs awe plus consequence. The result is part live table read, part writing workshop, and part roast of our robot collaborator.
If you like found footage vibes, urban legends, shark thrillers, or cosmic weirdness, you’ll find a moment that sticks. Hit play, rate the stories with us, and tell us which one you’d rewrite—or which one actually gave you chills. Subscribe, share with a friend who loves horror, and drop your own AI prompts or fixes in a review so we can try them next time.
Late-Night Setup & Format
SPEAKER_09Hello, survivors, and welcome to another episode of Will You Survive the Podcast Late Edition. I am your host. Yeah, this one's later than normal, though, and I'm already sleepy. But so I'm your sleepy host, Eric, and I'm joined by my two co-hosts, Alex and TJ. Say hi, boys. I'm Alex.
SPEAKER_02Harrow.
SPEAKER_09There's backstory there that won't be in the edit.
SPEAKER_02So today.
SPEAKER_09Oh no, I don't know if we can put that in. So, I mean, my idea is already known to you guys because uh I presented it so that I could win last episode. Oh, that well, I guess I should have we don't really do this that often. I we should kind of explain how the podcast works, I suppose. Basically, one of us hosts, the other two are contestants slash co-hosts, I guess. Um, and then the host will pick a winner at the end of the episode, and then that person will host the next episode. I won the last one because I'm a winner, uh, and I totally didn't uh win mostly because of my idea for this episode. And uh I believe TJ's the loser, just not winner, I guess.
SPEAKER_02I don't know. Total and complete, not ripoff of any other podcast. This is a completely original idea.
SPEAKER_09Yes, absolutely. Um not that easy for sure.
SPEAKER_02Actually, technically, it would be a ripoff of a ripoff because I think it's more of a concept.
SPEAKER_09I think it's more of a concept. We are very different in a sense that we don't follow any fucking rules that we have set in place other than whoever wins hosts the next episode. And I think that's more just to alleviate it from all of us. Okay, I think it works out.
SPEAKER_02I mean, mostly it kind of just goes in a circle.
SPEAKER_09Yeah, I mean, for the most part. I mean, except last season where Alex won like 33% less than both of us. Listen. Rigged.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, it was rigged.
SPEAKER_12I saw all those votes come in at 3 a.m.
SPEAKER_09I I mean, we just can't help that we're funnier at 3 a.m.
SPEAKER_12Dude, we neither one of you was funnier at 3 a.m.
SPEAKER_02Classics last season, my guy.
SPEAKER_09So there was some good ones. We looked at the movies, we saw why we won more. There were there was cold hard evidence and facts.
SPEAKER_12The hell are you talking about?
SPEAKER_09I'm pretty sure most of the like we went through the movies and we were like, oh yeah, we both had some bangers, and then you had like some good ones, and then there was other ones like War of the Worlds.
Season Banter & Tier List Tease
SPEAKER_02What the fuck? We're getting kind of close to uh next season.
SPEAKER_09We are, we're almost at the end of season six. It's almost time for a tier list.
SPEAKER_02Tune in fucking five Fridays from now.
SPEAKER_09Yeah. Maybe we might have to take next uh maybe two Wednesdays from now off. Are we gonna go to the family house? It would likely happen on a Wednesday.
SPEAKER_12Oh, yeah, maybe.
The AI Horror Concept
SPEAKER_09Yeah, in like two or three weeks. Maybe we might have to take away it might be more like six Wednesdays, but we'll figure it out. Okay, so what I have here are uh it well is a controversial topic, AI. Um, but I like to fuck with AI because I think it's kind of funny. Uh so I asked AI to really amp up the AI a little bit. Although I I'm gonna be honest, I don't think it did. I think it's still a little too coherent, but we'll see. AI wrote these horror stories, and I gave it some criteria, and then I told it have at it, and uh it made a couple, and then I gave it some specific scenarios. Um so we have six stories here that should all take approximately five minutes to read, but I think we're all a little dumb, so I think it might take a little longer for me and TJ to read certain parts. Um, but there are six stories to pick from, and I think well, I actually haven't read all of these. I purposely didn't want to read these because I wanted it to be kind of a surprise for me. But each one of these stories has a narrator and two characters, and we will alternate who is reading those parts. Um, and hopefully we can get through three stories, I think would be kind of a I think baseline starting point, and we'll kind of see how fast we get through those. All of them. I don't think so. Are we gonna discuss? Yeah, yeah. I mean, we could stop in the middle of it and discuss. I think the point is that it's gonna be a little funny, they're gonna be a little silly, uh, and we're just gonna kind of roll with it.
SPEAKER_12Are we getting points? Are we getting points for acting? Chat GPT.
SPEAKER_09Okay. Uh yes. So I would like us to act as much as possible. Um, but also none of us are really great actors either. So we'll see. Uh what comes of this one. For yourself. Yeah, Alex actually is one of BAFTA.
SPEAKER_12So I guess BAFTA's better than a Razzie, isn't it?
SPEAKER_09I don't even know what a Razzie is. I call Aaron. Okay.
SPEAKER_12I think it's the host's decision.
Story 1: Motion Detected
SPEAKER_09I mean, I don't care. I call Africa's. So for this first one. Whoa, the secret fourth character. So this story is called Motion Detected. The characters are a narrator, Aaron, and Miles. Uh TJ, you'll be Aaron, and Alex, you'll be Miles. Alright. And I will be the narrator. Are we ready? Ready. Alright, here we go. The alert came at 2 32 AM. Aaron's phone buzzed sharply on the nightstand. He blinked awake, heart already beating faster for reasons he couldn't explain yet. He picked up the phone. Motion detected, backyard camera. Aaron frowned and nudges Miles. Hey! Hey!
SPEAKER_12Wake up! If this is about the thermostat again, the backyard camera just tripped.
SPEAKER_09Miles cracked one eye open. Probably a cat.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_09Maybe. Aaron opened the camera app. The live feed took a second to load. Buffering. Then the backyard appeared. Grass. A fence. The old shed in the corner. Nothing moved.
SPEAKER_12Told ya. Cat activities. We don't even have cats back there. Congratulations. We do now.
SPEAKER_09Aaron was about to lock the phone when the motion marker flashed again. Near the shed. Both men leaned closer. You saw that. Right?
SPEAKER_12Yeah. Something moved.
SPEAKER_09The video stuttered for half a second, just enough to be noticeable. Then it smoothed out again. The shed door was closed. Still. Camera glitch?
SPEAKER_02Maybe.
SPEAKER_09Aaron's phone buzzed again. Motion detected. Backyard camera. The feed refreshed automatically. This time both men went silent. The shed door was open, just a few inches. Okay, oh me as the narrator, I feel like I'm lost here. What are they looking on a phone?
SPEAKER_14Yeah.
SPEAKER_09Yeah. So why are y'all cuddled up in bed? Is kind of my question here. Listen.
SPEAKER_12It's for warmth.
SPEAKER_02We're roommates.
SPEAKER_09And they were roommates.
SPEAKER_02We fuck.
SPEAKER_12It gets cold and lonely in Washington.
SPEAKER_02I don't give a shit about the pussy in the backyard. I'm giving a fuck about the pussy in the start.
SPEAKER_14I'm gonna start reading this like a fucking character. Like a hand taken.
SPEAKER_08Did you go out there tonight?
SPEAKER_10Okay. It's like that one anime where they they didn't have the script.
SPEAKER_02Fucking what? Will you survive anime coming soon?
SPEAKER_09Man, we should we should have Chat GPT write us a raunchy anime to read.
SPEAKER_02You know what? I feel like that would be hilarious. We could have Maddie guest star.
SPEAKER_09Okay, who's Miles?
SPEAKER_02That guy. The bald one.
SPEAKER_09Ready?
SPEAKER_02Here we go.
SPEAKER_09Did you go out there tonight?
SPEAKER_02No. Did you? No.
SPEAKER_09They stared at the screen. The camera exposure adjusted, brightening the dark interior of the shed just slightly. Something inside shifted, not stepping forward, but just moving.
SPEAKER_12Okay.
SPEAKER_09That's not a cat.
SPEAKER_12Nope. Do not use the two-way thing.
SPEAKER_09Aaron had already tapped it. Aaron! Hello? For a moment there was only the soft hiss of the outdoor microphone. Then, from the shed, a voice answered. Hello, homeowner. Nope, nope, nope. Did that just Yes, yes it did. Aaron tried to disconnect the audio. The app hesitated. Small buffering circles spinning. On the screen, the darkness inside the shed shifted again. Something leaned closer to the doorway. Its shape wasn't stable, like the camera couldn't quite lock onto it.
SPEAKER_06Thank you for charging.
SPEAKER_09Turn it off, Aaron. Turn it off. I'm trying. The video glitched sharply. For one frame, the figure was much closer. Then the shed was empty. Door still open, nothing inside. Okay. You saw that too? Unfortunately?
SPEAKER_12Yes.
SPEAKER_09Aaron's phone vibrated again. Both men flinched. Motion detected. Side yard camera. Do we even want to look?
SPEAKER_02We have to.
SPEAKER_09Aaron tapped the alert. The side yard appeared on screen. Narrow walkway, trash bins, fence. Empty. Miles let out a slow breath.
SPEAKER_12Okay. Maybe it's just the system bugging out tonight.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, maybe.
SPEAKER_09The camera adjusted its brightness. At the far end of the walkway, something stood just beyond the light. Both men went very still.
SPEAKER_02Aaron, I see it. Tell me that's a shadow. That is not behaving like a shadow.
SPEAKER_09The figure leaned forward slightly. The camera struggled to focus on its face, almost human, but not quite aligned. Aaron's phone chimed softly. A new message appeared beneath the feed. Live viewer detected.
SPEAKER_12Why does it say viewer?
SPEAKER_09I don't know.
SPEAKER_12I don't like that it knows we're watching.
SPEAKER_09On the screen, the figure slowly raised one arm. Aaron. Yeah.
SPEAKER_12It's waving.
SPEAKER_09The hand moved back and forth, slow, deliberate, like it had practiced the motion, but not the timing.
SPEAKER_12Turn the lights on. Already doing it.
SPEAKER_09Miles reached over and flipped the bedside lamp on. Warm light flooded the room. Aaron looked down oh looked back down at the phone. The side yard was empty again. No figure. No movement. Just the narrow strip of concrete. Both men sat frozen. Seconds passed in their undies. Then Aaron's phone buzzed again. They both looked down at the same time. Motion detected hallway camera inside the house.
SPEAKER_12Aaron, yeah.
SPEAKER_09We don't have pets. Neither of them moved to open the feed. The end.
SPEAKER_02That shit was dog water. I'm so 90% of my dialogue was yeah.
SPEAKER_09So here's the thing. I had to tell it to give the characters more uh dialogue, and I think that it just gave a lot of filler. Yeah. Uh-huh. Maybe. You get to practice all your uh-s and yes and maybes.
SPEAKER_02Aaron, no.
SPEAKER_12Miles. Yeah. What?
SPEAKER_02Yeah. Maybe. You know what? I give that a solid five out of ten.
SPEAKER_09Wow. Wow. That's more than I would have given. Yeah, I was gonna say three out of ten.
SPEAKER_02I think I think if we're rating AI stories for AI story, I get you know somewhat.
SPEAKER_12Okay, all right. Average.
SPEAKER_02Yeah. Well, you know, it's a start for the tier list of AI stories.
SPEAKER_09Yeah, yeah. Okay, so I got some other ones here. I've got a shark one, I've got a haunted house, and I've got a kind of end of the world one.
SPEAKER_12Ooh, I like the I like the haunted house.
SPEAKER_09Okay. Alex, you will be the narrator, the second floor. Alex, you'll be the narrator, and then uh you can decide who will be. One second. Let me find it, let me find it.
SPEAKER_12This one's called the second floor. I'm gonna narrate. Eric is Ethan, TJ is Noah. Here we go. The house had been empty for twelve years. At least. That was what the listing said. Noah stood on the front porch, keys in hand, staring at the dark windows like they might blink back at him. Behind him, uh Ethan shifted his weight.
SPEAKER_09You're sure this is the place? Uh an address matches.
SPEAKER_08Uh uh because it looks like the kind of place that comes with uh extra problems.
SPEAKER_12Uh Noah pushed the door open. The hinges gave a long, tired creak that echoed deeper into the house than it should have. The air inside was cool and stale with that faint dusty smell of somewhere closed too long. They stepped inside. The door shut behind them with a soft but definite click. Both men paused.
SPEAKER_07Did you shut that? Uh no.
Ratings & Why It Fell Flat
SPEAKER_12The entryway stretched ahead into the narrow hallway. To the right, the living room sat in shadow, straight ahead. The staircase climbed into darkness. Noah pulled out his phone and turned on the flashlight. The beam cut through the dust in the air.
SPEAKER_08Okay. Quick walkthrough, then we're done. That's the plan.
SPEAKER_12They moved slowly through the first floor. Kitchen, empty. Dining room, empty. Living room Noah stopped.
SPEAKER_04What? Did you hear that?
SPEAKER_12They both stood still. For a moment, nothing. Then faintly from upstairs.
SPEAKER_01Nope.
SPEAKER_07Houses don't thump.
SPEAKER_12The sound came again. Softer this time, but clearly from the second floor. Noah's flashlight slowly lifted toward the staircase.
SPEAKER_07We don't actually have to go up there. We kinda do. Do we though?
SPEAKER_12Noah started toward the stairs. After a brief internal struggle, Ethan followed. The steps creaked under their weight, each one loud in the still house. Halfway up, Noah paused and swept the light across the second floor hallway. Four doors all closed.
SPEAKER_08Which one was that one from? Which one was that one from?
SPEAKER_02I'm not sure.
SPEAKER_08Okay.
Story 2: The Second Floor
SPEAKER_12We stepped onto the landing. The air felt colder up here. Not dramatically. Just enough to notice. Noah moved to the first door and pushed it open. Empty bedroom. Dusty carpet. Bare walls.
SPEAKER_09Okay.
SPEAKER_12Second door. Bathroom. Nothing. Noah reached the third door, his hand hover his hand hovered over the knob.
SPEAKER_09It ain't open this morning yet, right?
unknownNo.
SPEAKER_09Because because I think it was open earlier.
SPEAKER_12Noah slowly turned the knob, the door creeped inward. Another bedroom. Empty. But the window was open slightly. Noah frowned. That's weird.
SPEAKER_07You think?
SPEAKER_12Behind them, soft, careful. Click. Both men froze.
SPEAKER_00That was a door.
SPEAKER_12Yeah. Very slowly. They turned away. The door at the end of the hall was now open. Just a few inches. But neither of them had touched it. We didn't. How are you talking to me? Nor The gap of darkness beyond the door felt deeper than the rest of the house. Noah's flashlight beam shook slightly as he raised it.
SPEAKER_02Nor Yeah, might.
SPEAKER_10Oh, I don't think we should, mate.
SPEAKER_12From inside the room, a slow sound, like fabric shifting, or someone adjusting their weight. Noah swallowed. Took one careful step forward. The flashlight beam reached the doorway and stopped. Because the light didn't go into the room. It hit something just inside. Tall, standing behind the door. The thing inside the room lifted its head slowly into the beam. Its face was pale, still, watching them like it had been waiting. A voice?
SPEAKER_00You came upstairs.
SPEAKER_12Neither. Neither of them.
SPEAKER_08I wouldn't. I'm gonna be honest. I also wouldn't move if I heard that voice.
SPEAKER_12That was not what I was expecting at all.
SPEAKER_08And I heard you came upstairs. And I'm looking like, what the fuck?
SPEAKER_12We're not moving. That was a whole lot of fucking no.
SPEAKER_13Yeah.
SPEAKER_02No? Yeah. I don't think Yeah. No. We didn't know.
SPEAKER_09I'm getting the I'm getting the the feeling here that I might I should have maybe read these a little more. That was terrible. Okay, TJ. We've got. Well, that was the end of that one, by the way. Um, well let's rate this one.
SPEAKER_02What's the rating?
SPEAKER_09So what the fuck happened in this story? Two out of ten. Absolutely nothing happened.
SPEAKER_02I'm gonna say one. I don't even know what happened.
SPEAKER_09Yeah, the theme for this one, I said let's do a haunted house one, and it said, I got you. And then it spit this out.
SPEAKER_12No, this was awful.
SPEAKER_09Dog water. Uh TJ and I were just practicing our accents for a while there.
SPEAKER_12I was I was trying to stay in character, but you two fuckers made that very difficult.
SPEAKER_09Well, at first I was like, oh, we're just gonna do this whole anime, but then I think TJ realized about halfway, well, about halfway through when we were doing it that, oh, this is gonna get annoying really quick.
SPEAKER_03I don't know. Or something.
SPEAKER_09You went like Swedish at one point, and I was like, I don't know, I don't know how to do that. I think I'm just gonna go back to Southern.
SPEAKER_12So Desta said he couldn't even follow because of the voice changes. He was too busy laughing to follow the plot.
SPEAKER_03What fucking plot?
SPEAKER_12Yeah, you didn't miss anything.
SPEAKER_10Good news. It was a whole lot of opening doors. We walked in.
SPEAKER_12We opened the doors behind us. A door clicked. A bathroom empty. At one point. A living room. That was a door.
SPEAKER_08That was a door. Yeah.
unknownNo fucking snow.
SPEAKER_12So which one are we doing next, TJ?
SPEAKER_02Oh, um, I'm trying to find one.
SPEAKER_09I think it's so whiteout is like a winter, like a snow themed one. Unknown caller, I think is a little more self-explanatory. 30 feet is is the uh shark one.
SPEAKER_0730 feet down, and then uh the sky is wrong, is like a uh end of the world. I feel like I feel like the shark one's gonna be fucking stupid. We should do that one. Okay. 30 feet?
SPEAKER_09I want to call it 30 feet down because I meant to edit it. Uh to add there we go. Oh, you can edit editing it. Yeah, that's great. All right. This is how people write papers as a great. Yes. TJ, who am I? Uh I think you should be Dylan.
SPEAKER_02That makes me my goal.
SPEAKER_05No, no, no.
SPEAKER_10I like how it also says that I wrote that. That's crazy. Dylan's first, which is everybody.
SPEAKER_13I'm fucking, you can edit it and see it in real time. And I just changed one of the lines.
SPEAKER_02TJ adds that and he is like, uh, so Eric is Dylan. Eric is Dylan. Oh my Eric, yeah, Eric has to read this one. This one. Am I in the next one?
SPEAKER_09This is gonna be like what I read to kill a mockingbird in in fifth grade all over again. Is he Dylan?
SPEAKER_07Yeah. Alright. You missed my to kill a mockingbird joke. If it was to kill a mockingbird, you could read it. This is fifth grade all over again.
SPEAKER_09Fifth grade is crazy. Yeah, I read that book in fifth grade. Can you believe that?
SPEAKER_02I read that in the high school.
SPEAKER_09Yeah, it was crazy. Texas, man.
SPEAKER_0230 feet down. The water was calm when they walked in. Too calm. Dylan would think later. The kind of flat, glassy surface that makes everything underneath feel deeper than it should be. Okay, so I'm gonna go.
SPEAKER_09I hate to interrupt you. I did read that opening paragraph for this one. What the fuck does that mean? The kind of flat glassy surface that makes everything underneath feel deeper than it should be. What does that even mean? I feel like that was a whole lot.
SPEAKER_02The water looked like water.
SPEAKER_12The water was watery. Oh, I think it's I think AI is playing on the phrase, still waters run deep.
SPEAKER_07The water was low. The ocean was deep.
SPEAKER_02Marco had a her bubbly sparkling water. But the water was salty. But the water was salty. Thirty feet down.
SPEAKER_05The title shows up.
SPEAKER_03Still in order theme song. I couldn't think of nothing.
SPEAKER_02Anyways, it's it's Marco's.
SPEAKER_12Turn his feet. Thirty feet down. Quick look around, then back up. Easy.
SPEAKER_07Our narrators too busy laughing.
SPEAKER_02They rolled backward off the small charter boat and slipped into the Pacific. Cold wrapped around Dylan's chest immediately. Clear water. Good visibility. The reef shelf dropped off not far below them into the darker blue. For the first minute everything was perfect. Fish scattered in the loose cool sunlight streamed down in pale long shafts. Marco pointed toward the drop-off and started kicking forward. Dylan followed. They dove together at ten feet. Fifteen. Pressure built gently into Dylan's ears as the reef wall came into sharper focus. The bottom leveled out around thirty feet. Pale sand broken by dark coral patches. Marco hovered near the edge. Dylan surfaced beside him. You see anything? The narrator keeps fucking talking for like eight lines, and they get one. Marco didn't point right away. That was the first bad sign. When he finally lifted his hand, the motion was slow. Careful. Dylan squinted into deeper water at first. Nothing. Just blue fading into darker blue. Just water looking like water and shit. Then something shifted. Long gray. Moving slow. Deliberate confidence. Oh, it's B fucker.
SPEAKER_10Sorry. I'm getting lost because it really is the narrator's talking so much. Well, keep going, watch. It's so funny. Because I keep looking down and it's just two lines and then another eight for the narrator. And it's so funny.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, yeah. Come on, this is my my this is my big break right here.
SPEAKER_02Hollywood's gonna notice me for this line back in the center than the fucking Wilder brothers do their big thing.
SPEAKER_07I'm pulling it together.
SPEAKER_09I'm pulling it together. Here we go. Here we go. Okay.
SPEAKER_04Yeah.
SPEAKER_03And that was it, by the way, guys. I delivered that. I delivered. I delivered. Those were the lines. Those were the lines. Okay, and yeah.
SPEAKER_02Okay, Marco. Yeah. Narrator, take it away. The shark stayed at the edge of visibility, circling wide. Not rushing. Not curious in a playful way, divers sometimes hope for. Just present. Watching. We head back up. Slow and steady. They began ascending carefully, keeping their movements controlled. No splashing. No sudden kicks. Halfway up, Dylan glanced down. The shark was closer. Still not fast, but definitely closer.
SPEAKER_12Marco. Anar. They reached the You okay? Come on, I'm in heavy anticipation. I know I know. Come on.
SPEAKER_02They reached the surface together. The boats f the boat floated about forty yards away. Rocking gently. Too far. Not impossibly far. But far enough to matter. Okay. We swim calm.
SPEAKER_12Calm.
SPEAKER_03This fucking ridiculous. Okay. I also Why are you saying the last thing that he said? I'm just repeating. You're getting every last word and just repeating it back.
SPEAKER_09So okay, here's something that irrationally infuriates me. The title is 30 feet down. Why is the boat 40 yards away? Why why what are we doing?
SPEAKER_03We were 30 feet down for like two minutes, seen a shark and went back on this.
SPEAKER_09Saw a shark in its natural habitat and went. No. Nah. Calm. Ah no.
SPEAKER_08Okay, we swim calm. Calm.
SPEAKER_12No, I sing calm.
SPEAKER_08Calm.
SPEAKER_12I'm just gonna repeat everything you say.
SPEAKER_06Long spitty strokes. The kind you practice. The kind you don't panic at the water. No, I practice. A shadow pass when he beating chills things. Too big to ignore.
SPEAKER_00It just went under me.
SPEAKER_12Don't speed up.
SPEAKER_00It's easy for you to say. The water around them suddenly felt enormous. Empty in every direction. Dylan forced himself to keep the rhythm. Kick! Glide! Breathe! Kick! Something bumped into his fin. Light. Testing. Dylan shirked instinctively. Water splashed.
SPEAKER_12Hey, easy.
SPEAKER_00It touched me! Marco risked a glance down, his face tightened behind the mask.
SPEAKER_12Okay, it's getting curious.
SPEAKER_00The boat was closer now. Maybe twenty yards. Still too far. The shark appeared again beneath them, more clearly this time. Broadhead. Slow tail! Sweep! Unhurried.
SPEAKER_08Why is it still here?
SPEAKER_12Because we're in its water.
SPEAKER_02The shark angled upwards slightly, not a full approach. Just enough to change the tone of the moment. Marco's voice dropped lower.
SPEAKER_12Dylan, when I say go, we sprint the last stretch. That sounds like panic. It's controlled panic.
SPEAKER_08Look, I'm scared shitless. But we gotta do this.
SPEAKER_04This is the dumbest line of this whole story, and that says something.
SPEAKER_09I just like that you're reading it as a badass.
SPEAKER_08Controlled panic. No, no, no, no, no. You may think this is just some ordinary panic.
SPEAKER_05No.
SPEAKER_08This is precise, deliberate, controlled panic. When I scream like a girl, that's controlled. That's intentional to scare the shark. All intentional.
SPEAKER_02The shark passed beneath them again. Closer. Dylan felt the pressure wave this time. Marco's voice cut through the water. Go now. They kicked hard. Water exploded behind them. The boat ladder was right there. Ten feet. Five. Dylan grabbed the metal rung and hauled himself up with shaken arms. Marco surged up right behind him. They collapsed onto the deck, breathing hard. For several seconds neither man spoke. Marco finally pushed himself up and looked over to the side. His expression didn't relax.
SPEAKER_08It gone?
SPEAKER_02Nar. The shark circled slowly beneath the boat, patient, unbothered. Like it knew the water would still be there tomorrow. But it wouldn't because the sun evaporated the ocean. Jesus. Finn.
SPEAKER_09Finn. Beautiful. Beautiful. A masterpiece, really. Who needs dialogue when you have such a great narrator? This this right here is meant for Sundance.
SPEAKER_12Yes.
SPEAKER_02Exactly 24. Come get me.
SPEAKER_12Next day 24 film. If we do this right and we get even more pretentious than this, we can win Sundance, guys. I'm seeing um It's controlled panic. It's controlled panic.
SPEAKER_09I'm seeing Hugh Jackman and Snoop Dogg. Snoop Dogg. No. Yes. Snoop Dogg as Dylan. This is what I see.
Controlled Panic & Shark Cinema
SPEAKER_12I say. Okay, that's good. I say we go to Bollywood and we get the Hugh Jackman doppelganger and the Matthew McConaughey doppelganger.
SPEAKER_02Oh no, we are in our lead roles.
SPEAKER_07Matthew McConaughey. Matthew McConaughey would be a good pick.
SPEAKER_02Punches the shark. Five explosions happen. Matthew. Vin Diesel is fucking just invincible in the fact that.
SPEAKER_12Oh my god, that's what his name would be in the movie. Finn Diesel. Finn Diesel. Yes.
SPEAKER_04You know how Vin Diesel played Groot?
SPEAKER_08Now he just plays a shark. I am Groot. I am shark. I am shark.
SPEAKER_03I am shark. That's all the shark says.
SPEAKER_12I am shark. He's and that would be my absolute favorite thing.
SPEAKER_05The credit.
SPEAKER_12And as Finn Diesel, Vin Diesel. Yeah. Yeah.
SPEAKER_02And it's actually a really, you know, heartfelt story about a mother shark protecting her young from these two divers.
SPEAKER_12Yeah, because the diver stole her young before. The shark just pulls up.
SPEAKER_09Oi, bruv. Oi! Oi, let me get a bite, mate. Just a little nibble.
SPEAKER_03Foster's Australian for beer.
SPEAKER_07I think I'll give it a three, maybe. I think I'll give it a 30 out of a hundred.
SPEAKER_09I'd be well, that'd be crazy. It's a three. Uh uh, Alex, you will be Julian. TJ, you will be DeMarcus. It was just Marcus, but somebody added a DE before Marcus. And someone is still adding a D E before every Marcus. And what's frustrating me is that the D is not capitalized. It's French. There's also a Demarcus. Demarcus. Uh Demarcus right here. De Marcus voice tight.
SPEAKER_07Ooh, kinky.
unknownAlright.
SPEAKER_07Okay. I gotta get my ready black scent going.
SPEAKER_02I don't know how to speak black.
SPEAKER_07I know.
SPEAKER_02You're too. I should have knew I should have done method acting. I'm a little upset at you. I should have lived as a black man for days. Weeks on end. Drinking only Hennessy and driving my Hellcat.
SPEAKER_09You should have done the uh the Robert Denner Jr. method. I just seen a clip of that shit today. Yeah, I think we saw the same exact clip.
SPEAKER_08That word has kept us down.
SPEAKER_02Now we're in the big leagues.
SPEAKER_08What?
SPEAKER_07Alright, we ready? Uh favorite black actor.
SPEAKER_08Robert Denner Jr.
SPEAKER_13Yeah.
SPEAKER_09Julian noticed it first at 422 p.m. He was standing in the driveway, keys in hand, halfway through deciding whether he actually wanted groceries or just the idea of groceries. Do I actually want to eat or do I just like the idea of it? When he looked up and stopped moving, the sky didn't look right. Not darker, not stormy, just wrong. You good, nigga? Come here. Marcus stepped out, wiping grease off his hands with a rag.
SPEAKER_01What, nigga?
SPEAKER_10Not after every line. It's just an episode of the boondocks at this point. He said. He stopped beside De Julian. Looked up. Didn't speak for a full three seconds.
SPEAKER_13Okay.
SPEAKER_09You see it too? High above the afternoon clouds, something subtle was happening to the blue. Not a shape. Not exactly. More like the sky was bending. Like a heat shimmer. But colder. Much colder.
SPEAKER_02Hey nigga, is that some sort kind of atmospheric thing, nigga?
SPEAKER_09I don't think the atmosphere usually folds. Their phones buzzed at the same time. Not the harsh emergency tone, just a soft, almost polite notification. Oh hello. The Julian opened his. His stomach dropped.
SPEAKER_12Gravitational anomaly detected?
SPEAKER_09That shit ain't normal. Nick? Okay, this is my favorite line here. That is not a normal alert.
SPEAKER_07That's what the actual script says. That is not a normal alert. I mean character, okay?
SPEAKER_09Because Marcus and you know the the original Marcus and Julian, not DeMarcus and De Julian. The original ones were like the widest sounding. The script is what does it say? Gravitational anomaly detected.
SPEAKER_02Gravitational anomaly detected.
SPEAKER_09That is not a normal alert. Marcus pulled up his own phone. Same message. Beneath it, a loading bar slowly creeping forward, calculating trajectory.
SPEAKER_02The trajectory of what, Nick?
SPEAKER_09Overhead, the distortion in the sky deepened. Clouds near the center of it were stretching slightly, like taffy being pulled too thin. DeJulian took a slow step back. Clouds don't do that, Nick.
SPEAKER_02Man, hell no, they don't. Lil Home.
SPEAKER_03He didn't notice it the first time, so I was like, dude, this is gonna be so funny when you gonna look at it. I didn't notice it before. Literally just that one.
SPEAKER_10Oh man, this isn't gonna be as funny for the listeners. Lil Ho! Instead of narrator, it just says Lil Ho.
SPEAKER_09A low sound rolled across the neighborhood. Not thunder, not mechanical, more like pressure. Something vast shifting far above the atmosphere. Car alarms began going off down the street, one by one.
SPEAKER_02Hey nigga, we should probably head back into the crib. And where?
SPEAKER_13Nigga's trip.
SPEAKER_02It's not even the line at all. That's not a plus.
SPEAKER_10It's the opposite of that.
SPEAKER_07Hey, you you right, you right. You right. Nigga, you right. You're goddamn right.
SPEAKER_08You're goddamn right.
SPEAKER_09The air felt heavier. Not wind. Wait. DeJulian's phone buzzed again. The message updated. Object approaching. Size unresolved.
SPEAKER_07Too big of a word? Unresolved is not comforting. Man, that shit don't feel good. Oh, that ain't right. Yeah. Oh, that ain't right. That boy ain't right.
SPEAKER_09High overhead, something new appeared. At first, the Julian thought it was a shadow. Then he realized shadows don't appear in the sky. It was a dark circle, perfectly round, and perfectly still, and slowly getting larger.
SPEAKER_08Oh, shut up.
SPEAKER_12Demarcus.
SPEAKER_02It's good, eh?
SPEAKER_12Tell me that's just me.
SPEAKER_02Shit, I would. I would love to me bumbuck. Just fucking just in my brain.
SPEAKER_07That's what I'm laughing at. Well, okay, here we go.
SPEAKER_09Quick pause from that. Why are you upside down? I don't know. Oh, okay. There we go. I fixed it.
SPEAKER_03I looked over the house by a laughing. Ugh.
SPEAKER_09For sure, man. The circle deepened in color, swallowing more of the blue around it. The clouds near its edge began to curve inward, spiraling slightly. Not fast, but unmistakably. Streetlights flickered on. It was still full daylight. Like I should know. Another phone alert. This time louder. Urgent. Seek shelter. Gravitational distortion increasing.
SPEAKER_02I think they really want us to head back in the crib.
SPEAKER_09Man, the crib ain't gonna help us if the sky's fucking falling. The pressure in the air increased again. The Julian felt it in his chest, in his ears, like being slowly pushed downward by something enormous and massive. Or and invisible. Somewhere nearby the glass shattered something enormous and massive. Somewhere nearby, glass shattered.
SPEAKER_13You feel that?
SPEAKER_09You hear like dicks in my ears? Overhead. The dark circle expanded another fraction. The edges of it shimmered faintly. And for just a moment, the Julian could swear there was dicks in his ears. Like the sky was being pulled.
SPEAKER_02That ain't no fucking space rock, my n man hell nah!
SPEAKER_09The Julian's phone buzzed one final time. He looked down. Gay porn. But behind that, the loading bar was complete. New text appeared. Event horizon proximity warning.
SPEAKER_02The Julian.
SPEAKER_12What's good?
SPEAKER_02I don't think we're gonna live through this shit beyond blood.
SPEAKER_09Above them, the sky began to fold. And that's that.
SPEAKER_12Tell me, man. I could be black.
SPEAKER_14Man, oh hood.
SPEAKER_12Should have gone with that voice.
SPEAKER_14Yo, straight up.
SPEAKER_09Oh god. I like the idea of these two GTA 5 characters experiencing a black hole coming at them. Don't hate me because I'm beautiful, Nick.
SPEAKER_02You got that really oh, yee yeah ass haircut, you got you some bitches on your dick. Yee yeah. Maybe Tanisha called your dog ass, but she stopped fucking with that brain surgeon Oh Loya, she fucking with. Nick called. I got trimmed up. What?
SPEAKER_12You should see this fucking thing.
SPEAKER_13Uh everybody got that wrapped.
SPEAKER_10Do you know what he was talking about?
SPEAKER_02Was that GTA 5? That's a scene in GTA 5. You ever seen that scene? That's not even like my favor. My favorite GTA quote that I have memorized is Big Smoke's Order. I have two number nines, a number nine large, a number six with extra dip, a number seven, two number 45s, one with cheese, and a large soda.
SPEAKER_09Hell yeah. That's my Taco Bell order.
SPEAKER_02Big Smokes me. Chill, chill! Oh!
SPEAKER_09Okay, well, I think it's time to end this. Um, thank you for listening. Uh how about socials? Yeah, I was gonna say, Alex, you want to hit us with our socials?
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SPEAKER_12How about you go check us out on all of our socials? Go to TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, search Will You Survive the Podcast. We're also on X, where you can find us at Alex and Eric W Y S. No, I'm kidding. The boys at that was a joke for the whole firing trope. It used to be Alex and Eric was Twitter. It's the boys at W I S on X. And uh you can send us your emails to the Boys at Will You SurviveThePodcast.com. That's T-H-E-B-O-Y-S at Will You Survive The Podcast dot com, where you can give us criticisms, critiques, or recommendations for movies you'd like us to cover. You can also leave us comments on Spotify and Apple Podcasts where we can read them on the podcast and give you a shout out. Thank you very much for all of your support. And we hope that you'll go download our new episodes.
SPEAKER_02And check out our merch on the TikTok shop. I still don't have any. I'm sad.
SPEAKER_12Oh yeah.
SPEAKER_09And with all that, uh I guess I have to announce a winner.
SPEAKER_05Uh-huh.
SPEAKER_09Gosh, this is actually a hard one. I feel like we all kind of put an equal shenanigans on this one. Um I don't normally let you guys do this, but what's the next movie? Alex?
SPEAKER_11Or episode. It doesn't have to be a movie, but no, I would I wanted to go back to zombie movies.
SPEAKER_02I th I was gonna do another Will You Survive Remix?
SPEAKER_09I have a movie actually lined up and ready to go for the next time I win, which is very rare for me. Just you don't wanna I don't wanna put that out there, just you know, for whoever hosts next. Um I'll pick you. Y'all ever heard of The Tunnel? No. It's an Australian movie.
SPEAKER_11I actually heard 2011. They're gonna blame the United States again.
SPEAKER_09I swe I I literally when I heard it was an Australian movie, I was like, I'm gonna pick that one because I need to know if they blame America again, I'm gonna lose it.
SPEAKER_02I think I feel like yeah, no, it'd definitely be a will you survive remix.
SPEAKER_10Okay.
SPEAKER_02Maybe I we do a remix of the very first ever where you survive. What was that? Or maybe we should do that on the very first one we didn't do a movie.
SPEAKER_11No, we did uh It begin uh It begins.
SPEAKER_09It begins. It was just us talking for like 45 minutes.
SPEAKER_02Dawn of the Dead was the first one.
SPEAKER_09Yeah, oh we kinda remixed that. We we kind of redid that one recently with the whole I think Alex did it and from like the news anchor perspective. We did that one recently.
SPEAKER_02Did we do Dawn of the Dead?
SPEAKER_09Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_02Oh, so we've already we've done Dawn of the Dead, we've done Shauna the Dead.
SPEAKER_09Yep.
SPEAKER_02So we've already done a couple that I wasn't in there for.
SPEAKER_09Yeah.
SPEAKER_02Maybe Zombieland. Zombieland's a good one.
SPEAKER_09Ooh, that is a good one. Did we do Zombieland 2 with you?
SPEAKER_02Nope. You did Zombieland and then right after Zombieland 2.
SPEAKER_09No way. I swear so many of these I could have sworn we did with it.
SPEAKER_12I know, me too. All of the ones I thought he kept saying. We could also but I recommended it.
SPEAKER_02I was also thinking about we watched the new 28 uh years later. I just watched it.
SPEAKER_11Yeah, there there's that too.
SPEAKER_02So we could we you know we could we could start with uh 28 weeks later and then 28 or 28 days later, 28 weeks later.
SPEAKER_09And then 28 months later, right?
SPEAKER_02Why'd you do 28 weeks later and then 28 days later?
SPEAKER_12Because we couldn't find 28 days anywhere.
SPEAKER_09Oh yeah, because that's one of those movies that was like not on any streaming.
SPEAKER_12I think it was you, TJ, who sent the link. Uh-huh. Probably. Eric told me it was like you got ad blockers. I was like, Yeah, I got I got all of that.
SPEAKER_09Uh on a very totally legal site that is super legal. It's all legal. And uh we only want ad blocker because we're just trying to stay safe. Not for any particular reason, not because a lot of hentai ads pop up.
SPEAKER_02Actually, I think we need to update a certain thing. Fuck.
SPEAKER_09Sirens. Someone's committing a crime.
SPEAKER_02I think we need to update the official WIS zombie.
SPEAKER_09Oh, that would be fun.
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SPEAKER_02That's my idea. I'm locking it in.
SPEAKER_09Oh, that's a really good one.
SPEAKER_02Two years from that date, I think. Because it came out March 8th, 2024. Sorry.
SPEAKER_09Um literally everybody is deciding to either race or commit a crime right now that's involving sirens.
SPEAKER_12Desta, no, we have not done Day of the Dead.
SPEAKER_11Alex, what's your idea? I am looking here. I think. I was looking to see.
SPEAKER_09The official WIS zombie, I'm not gonna lie, that is intriguing.
SPEAKER_02Y'all did that like right before I joined.
SPEAKER_12Oh, that's true, huh? We also still have good old uh Dawn of the Dead. Or I'm sorry, uh Resident Evil. I'm looking at two different things right here.
SPEAKER_09Resident Evil.
SPEAKER_12Hokey. But I gotta admit, even the hokey one I'm interested in. Which is called Until Dawn.
SPEAKER_09Oh, yeah, based on the game?
SPEAKER_02Yeah, no, that movie's gonna be hog shit.
SPEAKER_09Yeah, the game is honestly. Well, the game is like a movie.
SPEAKER_02No, they they really like didn't even like isn't it like a groundhogs day scenario in the movie? But that's just that's not what the fucking game is.
SPEAKER_12Yeah, no, that's exactly what it is. It's like Groundhog's Day.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, that's not even at all what the game is.
SPEAKER_09So it's based on a game which was incredible. Um, it was like one of the first games that really delved into the whole like butterfly effect thing. There's so many different endings, and there's no saving in that game. Oh, geez, so somebody dies.
SPEAKER_02Your goal is to survive until dawn.
SPEAKER_09Yeah, yeah, you want to have as many characters survive as possible. Markiplier once got like 70% through the game, and then one of the characters he really liked died, and he off camera redid the whole thing to get back to that spot. He made all the same decisions to get back to that exact spot so that she wouldn't die. Because there's no saving, so you can't just like reload your last save. You have to go all the way back.
SPEAKER_12Alright, what do you think of this? This is the synopsis. After a mother and son get in a car wreck, they soon become hunted by a mutated, grief-stricken deer on a deadly rampage seeking revenge for the death of his mother. Bambi the Reckoning.
SPEAKER_09Wow. Okay, so for a second I thought you were reading the description of Until Dawn, and I was like, what did they do to this movie? Oh no, no. I was like, oh my god, it's awful.
SPEAKER_12Bambi the Reckoning. Are you joking me?
SPEAKER_09Okay. Man, okay, I'm sorry, Alex. I did actually want to give you the win here, but I will say I also did enjoy that TJ changed all the names to DeMarcus and DeJulian. It was a lot of effort on that last one.
SPEAKER_12I changed De Julian. Oh, you changed those ones?
SPEAKER_09He changed DeMarcus, and then he changed a few lines. Also, Lil'Ho made me laugh a lot. Um, and I am very interested in re-assessing what the official WIS zombie is now that we have our new not so new host. I've been there for two years. Yeah. So I think I'm gonna give the win to TJ.
SPEAKER_02Yeah. Rick. Shout out to the BAFTAs.
SPEAKER_12Way to go out to the Razzies.
SPEAKER_09Shout out to that one guy who said a slur during the BATA. No, kidding. Did you hear about that guy?
SPEAKER_12No, but that was TJ in this episode.
SPEAKER_09Uh apparently a guy with Tourette's uh said a racial slur. Oh I think it was during the BAFTAs, or was it the BET Wars? I don't know. Um during the BAFTAs, and like a lot of people got really upset about it.
SPEAKER_04Oh.
unknownYeah.
SPEAKER_09But okay, uh winner speech, TJ.
SPEAKER_02Uh I think that winning is just in my bloodline because you know, we was kangs and shit us back in the day. Before we were brought over here against our will. Remember my young black brothers and sisters. We're in this together. We're here to fight against those whiteies. And uh yeah, all right. Um I am running for president in 2028. Uh hit me up if you uh can fund that. Uh I don't think I can compete. But I'm gonna be real. You're not even old enough. You know, it you it'll be the first in history, you know. I'll I'll it I'm gonna change the constitution. I'm old for my age, you know. I'm wiser than you know.
SPEAKER_09I'm old for my age. Look, uh you know, mentally, I'm 50.
SPEAKER_02No, guys, guys, listen, listen. I'll I'll I'll even talk like Obama. I think so uh my line with Joe. Uh Italy uh just cause.
SPEAKER_09So one of my coworkers, we noticed that she kind of shares some similar uh vocal patterns as Obama, and someone pointed that out recently. Was like, you know, you kind of talk like Obama, and then all of us at the same time were like, huh? Yeah, I kind of hear that. And she was like, What do you mean? We're like, you kind of do that whole like um let me explain.
SPEAKER_10Um you kind of do that, like you kind of have similar vocal patterns. Let me be clear, let me let me be clear, Michelle.
SPEAKER_09Michelle. Have you guys seen this? Is off topic and not relevant. We're done with the episode, but have you seen those uh those stupid memes where it's like let me be clear, and then it's a piece of glass.
SPEAKER_12Let me be dear.
SPEAKER_10Let me be dear. Thank you.
SPEAKER_09For listening to this episode of Will You Survive the Podcast? Um, what he said.
SPEAKER_02It's 1 34 a.m. Remember, keep it calm, keep it, keep it clear, keep it Obamader.
SPEAKER_14Oh, maybe I mean I was trying to think of a rhyme.
SPEAKER_02Keep it calm, keep it clear, keep it queer. Okay, bitch.
SPEAKER_07Uh next time. Maybe it's me.
SPEAKER_02Stay alive.