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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 "2012": Disastrous Escapades and Apocalypse Preparedness
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Ever wondered what might happen if the world started cracking open like an egg and a limo became your getaway car? Feast your ears as we humorously tackle the 2009 disaster film "2012" while munching through a mukbang and dipping into some ASMR. From the impossible escapades of Jackson Curtis to imagining Nicholas Cage stepping into John Cusack’s shoes, we speculate on how the "Fast & Furious" crew might handle apocalyptic mayhem with their usual panache. It's the ultimate disaster movie breakdown with a twist of humor and a dash of cinematic disbelief.
As the earth shakes beneath our imaginary feet, we explore the family's emotional core in the movie and the desperate bids for survival amid the chaos. Characters face dire choices and moral quandaries, which we dissect with a pinch of skepticism and empathy. We toy with scientific theories like Earth's magnetic shifts and tsunamis, all while pondering whether these cataclysmic events are just cinematic fantasy or something rooted in a kernel of truth. Expect a hearty mix of insight and laughter as we navigate through these tumultuous waters.
But it’s not just all fun and games; we also get serious about real-life natural disasters. Learn about historical earthquakes like the 1964 Alaska quake and the 2011 Japan earthquake, reflecting on government preparedness and inefficiencies that could leave us all in the lurch. We share tips on crafting the ultimate bug-out bag, complete with essentials like a LifeStraw and a fire starter, sprinkled with our trademark wit. So grab your popcorn—or emergency rations—and join us for a wild ride through cinematic and real-world catastrophes, reminding us all to stay prepared and keep our spirits high, regardless of what the tectonic plates decide to do next.
Hello survivors and welcome back to another episode of Will you Survive, the podcast. I am Alex and I'm your host today. I'm joined by my co-hosts. There's Eric.
Speaker 2I'm Eric. I'm eating a donut.
Speaker 1And there's TJ.
Speaker 1And he's gonna be eating chicken soon this is our mukbang episode, um, also our asmr episode. Here we go and, oh my god, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. And this time we all actually watched it. I'm looking at two people.
Speaker 1I don't know what you're talking about. I don't know what you're insinuating. Oh yeah, yeah, Nice deflection. Remember, when you point your fingers at me, there's three pointed back at you.
Speaker 3I do bite my thumb at you, sir.
Speaker 1I do bite my thumb at you Now. If there's anybody listening to the podcast who has not seen the movie 2012,. Let me just give you a quick storyline here. Dr Adrian Helmsley, part of a worldwide geophysical team investigating the effect on the Earth of radiation from unprecedented solar storms, learns that the crust of the earth is becoming unstable and that, without proper preparations for saving a fraction of the world's population, the entire race is doomed. Meanwhile, writer Jackson Curtis stumbles on the same information. While the world's leaders race to build arcs to escape the impending cataclysm, Curtis struggles to find a way to save his family. Meanwhile, volcanic eruptions and earthquakes of unprecedented strength wreak havoc around the world.
Speaker 3Pretty good what did you guys think fun fact about this movie? Um nicholas cage isn't in this?
Speaker 2you know, but I feel like he could be. I feel like any role that that actor plays could be played by nick cage, and it would be the exact same. You're talking about john Cusack, yeah, he can just get rid of him.
Speaker 3Just throw some that part. You can imagine Nicholas Cage in this. What really sucks.
Speaker 1I just got that because I also recently watched the movie 1408. That could have been Nicholas Cage.
Speaker 2Yeah. So basically that scene where he in the very beginning, where he runs in the very beginning, where he runs in the house and they're all under the table during the earthquake and he's like get in the car. And they're like I think we're safer under the table and he's like get in the fucking car. I was like I could totally see Nick Cage being in that scene?
Speaker 1That could totally be him. But about the movie, what did you guys think? I don't want to say too much first.
Speaker 2Well, so much plot armor. I agree Very. First thing. I actually read it in our live chat room right now. I think it was Josh who just brought up the limo would not have made it anywhere near as far as it did. Immediately, though, there's no way you're steering through all that and taking jumps in a limo. That car is done.
Speaker 1Well, I mean limos are Lincoln Town cars. They're pretty beefy.
Speaker 2I don't know if any car can handle that. To be honest, that is more accurate yeah.
Speaker 1Because once you've jumped I've done it with a car before and small jumps Nothing even remotely close to what they did.
Speaker 3Yeah, you think those engine mounts are withstanding friggin' 20-foot drops. Okay, that was one thing.
Speaker 1I blew out two engine mounts and it was a three-foot jump and it was an old car, so it wasn't that big of a deal. It was a Toyota Tercel and it was a God. It really does make me feel old because I was driving a 1982 Toyota Tercel in 1995. And I jumped this little three-foot chasm. It had a natural dirt ramp on it.
Speaker 2Were you one of those two people in Ohio in like the 1800s, who were the only people on the road who crashed into each other.
Speaker 1No, I didn't crash into anybody. Oh okay, but I did break two motor mounts and busted the axle. No, I didn't know who that was.
Speaker 3Jesus.
Speaker 1That's another one that that somebody just said in the chat, unless you are that driver or vin diesel. So oh, with the power. Oh, that's something else I brought up.
Speaker 3I literally said why haven't, like they done natural disasters in. You know like they can make it. You know, like, on their level of, like you know, science fiction, where they're like, oh my god, they going to set off the earthquake machine.
Speaker 1That's right, and all we have is family to stop it.
Speaker 3And then just imagine Vin.
Speaker 1Diesel in a muscle car and then freaking Paul.
Speaker 3Walker comes back, all CGI. It's been a long day. And then they freaking all come together, him in his little Japanese car, freaking, the Rock comes back big ass like truck, you know, and then they like but wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, they drift the fault line.
Speaker 1I need to know something. Hold on, hold on. You need to explain something. You need to explain something to me. How do you really feel about the rock?
Speaker 3fuck ass. I don't like this man. He sucks as an actor.
Speaker 2I disagree with that. I will say the whole Maui fires thing, where he was like donate to us so that we could donate back to our community. And then everyone's like aren't you a multimillionaire?
Speaker 1So I definitely like all of this banter with this movie from the live. Chances of survival in a 2012 event in real life is 1% Less than Possibly an accurate number. I don't know the number. Oh way less than there's no way. But then I really love Josh's comment. Vin Diesel versus the earthquake.
Speaker 3Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1That's your idea, like no san andreas is going off, you need to go and drift your car and push that fault back together so it doesn't separate one of.
Speaker 3I forgot which one, it was probably like fast five or something. They're on like a collapsing parking light garage and they're like fighting and then he like stomps the concrete and it cracks and, freaking, falls down like he. He's an earthbender, bro, he, he can stop, he can stop the fault line with the power of family. You can do anything. A quarter mile at a time, brother a quarter mile at a time, wow and uh, I agree.
Speaker 1So you know, we now let's uh that limo would have exploded.
Speaker 2I'm divert away from the limo a little bit well, one more thing about the limo before we divert. There's no way that those wheels are still turning after like two of those jumps I can't imagine that your back wheels and your front wheels are still connected there's glass, there's like sharp shit everywhere.
Family Dynamics in Disaster Movie Analysis
Speaker 1I'm sure all the tires would have been popped yeah, that shit's crazy yeah so, uh, one of the things that I would say about this I liked the point that they were making with the whole theme of john Cusack and his family, which was he was willing to do anything it took to rescue his family.
Speaker 2It seemed like every parent was in that movie.
Speaker 1Well, what was interesting about it that they did in this movie was he was adamant to save his ex as well.
Speaker 2What's the mother of his kid?
Speaker 1I don't know what that's like. I know the mother of my kid. I don't know what that's like. I know the uh, the mother of of my kid.
Speaker 2I would leave her well, so so here's the thing okay okay, I'm not 12 or nine and I'm not sure I would have saved her back then.
Speaker 3No, no, no, hear me out, that's I, you know it's fair feelings there, you know he was.
Speaker 2it's true, it's true, yo fuck. The clearly had feelings there. You know he was still it's true, it's true, he was like yo fuck the stepdad guy.
Speaker 3You know like-.
Speaker 2Well, wait a minute, Wait a minute. Gotta hang on really quick. Nerdy Vet in the comments. Yeah, we gotta fact check that one it's the opposite.
Speaker 3The Russian wasn't.
Speaker 2Absolutely not. It seemed like it at he put himself before his kids, but at the very end all he wanted was to get his kids on the ark. He was willing to save his last kid and he sacrificed himself.
Speaker 3Yeah, he sacrificed himself. He watched that fat-ass kid into the air.
Speaker 2Yeah, that Russian was dope. I liked the Russian guy.
Speaker 3I agree.
Speaker 2We take the Bentley.
Speaker 1We take the Bentley there was a lot.
Speaker 3Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah right.
Speaker 1Shut up Engine.
Speaker 2Start. I love that guy. Now I.
Speaker 3Only because.
Speaker 2He's a little out of touch with reality, with how much fucking money he has. But the guy Cared about his kids and that was his main priority.
Speaker 1Oh, oh, oh oh, nerdy was talking about the girlfriend. Oh, he didn't give a shit about the. He didn't give a shit about the girlfriend.
Speaker 2He didn't give a shit about the girlfriend, but, to be fair, she was sleeping with Sasha. That's true. It's true. It's true. Hear me out.
Speaker 3I would have still taken her, because I don't know if money would even matter, if the whole world is gone.
Speaker 1He only had three tickets. He only had three tickets. You want to know the fucked up thing about it. Chuck the fucked up thing about it was he never bought her a ticket.
Speaker 2Yeah, he never bought her a ticket. That's kind of okay, that's kind of to be fair, they were a billion euros per ticket One billion euros.
Speaker 1How much so? I don't blame him.
Speaker 2He must have he's Russian, he's, I don't know.
Speaker 1He's Russian, he must have a lot of money.
Speaker 2How do Russians have money? Do they have oil?
Speaker 1money. Well, he was a business tycoon, so he was probably just massively corrupt.
Speaker 2So he's just yeah, okay, never mind, I was going to compare him to somebody, but oh, and the freaking.
Speaker 3The only reason that our main character even knew about said arcs is because of those little Russian kids. True.
Speaker 1Yeah, that's true. Knew about said arcs is because of those little russian kids. True, my dad, we have tickets for a shit. Fuck you and you're gonna die.
Speaker 2Yep, little fuckers you know, their attitudes did change by the end of the movie, though they it's like it kicked in that they were like, oh no, people are really dying. This isn't just like it's hard to distance yourself from it when you're watching it in front of you so.
Speaker 1So let's try to separate some things from this movie. Ok, we're going to try to separate the real from the spectacle. In the the, of course, the LA scene was heavily, heavily focused on the earthquakes. Yeah, we know in in reality even the worst of all earthquakes, a, I think the highest recorded so far has been in the nines in northern california, but nonetheless you don't have things like this happening in reality.
Speaker 3Now they use some of the things and that tectonic plates and all of that, but is heating the core and it's doing things and then that happens is basically Well, ok, the reason why I'm not.
Speaker 1This isn't ridiculous. Ok, I've watched documentaries regarding the magnetic fields of the Earth that the sun's rays do strip away. The magnetic field like layers of an onion being peeled back, and once it reaches a certain point, it will peel them all the way back. The Earth will lose its magnetic poles, it will spin on hundreds of axes rather than the one that it has, and then it will re-center and it will have a new pole, similar to what they did in the movie which we've talked about that in this podcast, the the idea of the pole shifting.
Speaker 2It's happened in history. It's it's stupid for to like. For me, it's stupid that I didn't consider the tsunamis that would clearly happen if the world just fucking free spun for a bit before finding its magnetic poles again. Well, the.
Speaker 1The sad thing about that. The wonder is would it happen that way? I don't know that it would. There's no evidence in the um, in the. What is that word? Archaeology?
Speaker 2it would have to be, so like the tectonic plates would have to shift so fast. I think right. But to cause that massive, even when that happens.
Speaker 1See, there's there's some contradicting evidence, right, you look at the land and there's no evidence that there's been a tsunami that large that has covered all land or a majority of land on the earth, right? But then there is. That's why there's there's contradictory evidence. There's people who believe, because there is evidence to support a worldwide flood.
Speaker 1Yes, then there's then there's contradictory evidence that says it wasn't rapid. That says it wasn't rapid, but then there's more evidence that says it was, such as in Antarctica. There's evidence that there are tropical plants on the land far below the ice. How did that happen? That would have had to have happened by massive flooding and then rapid cooling before the floods could recede.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 1Right. So that would kind of support the idea of a pole shift, which none of this has happened in human history. No, humans have ever, at least at least not in written human history, like where humans could have written down.
Speaker 2I don't, I don't think we, anybody listening to this, will ever be alive.
Speaker 3If something like that happens, you're forgetting like the main point You're, you're acting like I'm going to let this happen. I'm not going to let this happen to you, guys. I got you.
Speaker 2I feel better already.
Speaker 3How are you going to stop it? Power of family, quarter mile at a time.
Speaker 2You know, actually I trust this guy with my life, Whether you win by an inch or a mile.
Speaker 1a win is a win, it's the driver, not the car.
Speaker 3It's my drive, it's my button, so we start hungry, we devour, fuck you. Wait, isn't it?
Speaker 1Isn't that your hero's song? Yeah, it is.
Speaker 3I don't know why it's a meme. It's honestly a banger.
Speaker 1Let me get back to the reality of this, the reality of an earthquake. A major right it will be catastrophic, a major, nine-plus earthquake. There's evidence to support that a nine-point-something earthquake in California could last for an extended period of time, meaning it could cause shaking for minutes.
Speaker 2Didn't Alaska have like a nine point something?
Speaker 1yes, that was pretty fucking devastating it was very devastating, yeah so that but la la is far more populated than alaska was now we are.
Speaker 2I don't know if actually I, I don't know if alaska builds their architecture with earthquakes particularly in mind, because I know California does almost every bill. Well, every building is built with earthquakes in the back of the mind, thinking about that, especially our skyscrapers. But if a nine point, something hit. We've seen something similar to this on the show 9-1-1. Do we think skyscrapers are falling?
Earthquake and Tsunami Catastrophes
Speaker 1so it's, it's a possibility. It's a possibility, okay. So the um just to answer the question in the chat. Uh, yeah, the 89, but we're talking about the 64 alaska earthquake. That was a 9.5 and it's um, it was nearly five minutes long.
Speaker 2So that's so long. It was nearly five minutes long.
Speaker 1That's so long, five minutes For an earthquake At that magnitude, I mean the entire fucking earth is like the earth is moving underneath you.
Speaker 2I think that's enough to think the world is ending Right, when it's going on for five minutes.
Speaker 1Right.
Speaker 2That's insane.
Speaker 1So with that, all of that can cause devastating effects. All of that can cause devastating effects. But mind you that even if the buildings don't fall, I don't want to say that's the least of your concern. It's not the least of your concern, but the buildings don't. That's the beginning of your concern. Let me say it that way the buildings falling or not falling is only the beginning of your real concern, because after that you're going to have problems with electricity, you're going to have a problem with sewage, you're going to have a problem with fresh water, you're going to have tainted water all over the place, sewage backing up coming out, disease is going to start running rampant. That's the kind of stuff that you can expect with a major, catastrophic earthquake like that yeah, the stuff that happens in this film.
Speaker 3You're not, that's not going to happen, like the whole, the whole california in this film, just like slid into the water.
Speaker 2That's not gonna happen, right, but so you know, but tsunamis tsunamis are things that happen after earthquakes. How bad of a tsunami if we were to get a nine point, something here in la well, tsunamis occur for a very specific reason it's it's's the tectonic plates slipping underwater.
Speaker 1It's not just an earthquake, right yeah, so they're constant.
Speaker 3Plates are constantly moving. They're like this right yes but if one gets under another and that pressure starts to build, it'll snap. So all the water that's here goes up, pushes the water and then it goes this way. Yep, that's why when, yeah, tsunamis happen the water gets pulled, it's because it's getting pulled from the snap it gets pulled. You know this way yeah, it starts.
Speaker 2So there's man thinking of the magnitude of that a whole fucking tectonic plate.
Speaker 1So snapping up if you want to, if you want to see if you want to see a good comparison of why tsunamis are so devastating, um, and how they become so big is. I realized that you know TJ was exaggerating his hands right now when he was showing you, but you can see an example of a tsunami from something as small. Now it's not small, but as small as glaciers breaking off in Alaska. They cause enormous swells to rise up and then if you look at where that water lands, like hits shore, how far that water goes inland and then comes back out and it's just from a glacier breaking off and you can see from the land up there. It happens all the time. So people do this all the time. They'll go on boats just to watch these glaciers break off and they know how to survive it and stuff like that.
Speaker 1It's not catastrophic. Some crazy people do this in canoes. That wouldn't be my style. But in any case, what you would see is an overlapping of tectonic plates, one above, one below, and they typically ride over each other smoothly. But when it moves too quickly and it will push against the other tectonic plate, then you will see massive land shifting and you're talking about miles and miles and miles long and all of that water gets displaced and that energy has to go somewhere. It's going to go to land so that, and, of course, remember that, like the Japan one, that happened in 2011. Japan suffered so badly because the fault lines that affected, that caused the earthquake, are so close to Japan.
Speaker 3Ring of fire baby. Well, that's South Americaica, that's that one was all like the it's surrounding the pacific, isn't it? No, it's it's the.
Speaker 1the ring of fire is specifically south america, chile, uh, all along the coast of south america it's always on fire, it's always a volcano. And basically the tsunami that hit hawaii I think that was also in the 60s, let me just look that up real quick. But the tsunami that hit Hawaii, it also hit Japan and that was what Japan modeled their tsunami protection off of. Was that earthquake? Because that was believed to be the strongest earthquake possible in the world? Because that was believed to be the strongest earthquake possible in the world. And when a larger one closer hit, of course all of their tsunami barricades and everything, the tsunamis went right up and over those walls and it was absolutely devastating.
Speaker 3So I have something pulled up.
Speaker 2If you put it on the screen, eric. Oh yeah, there we go. That's what I'm referring to. Yeah, yeah, so yeah, it's the whole pacific.
Speaker 3That's the, yeah, the pacific plate and then there's, like you know, all the plates around it. That's yeah oh, that's interesting yeah so, and japan's right there. So that's uh, that's a big, you know I've never seen it like that.
Speaker 1I'm going to go because we want to take the kids to the Natural History Museum and I just learned recently that it's free to go for Los Angeles residents. You didn't know that? No, I didn't. So I want to take the kids there. And what's funny is I remember this the Ring of Fire display, but they only show it to you as a South American destination.
Speaker 3Yeah, it goes all the way it's a ring South. America up next to Alaska.
Speaker 1So the one that I was talking about was in 1960. That was a tsunami caused by an earthquake off the coast of Chile that traveled across the Pacific Ocean and hit Hilo, hawaii, and it actually continued on to Japan and caused let me see, let me see, let me see I'm sorry, this is from the USGSgov and when it hit Japan, that was why they modeled their whole thing off of it, their whole tsunami warning. Not only their warning, but they also have, because they have channels that run directly through their island that are supposed to allow the ocean to travel through them instead of coming on land, so it's supposed to channel all of the water through. They close their tsunami gates and the water's supposed to hit those walls and go into the channels and go straight through the island safely onto the other side, the uh, the china sea, and that's supposed to save go ahead china, Go ahead China.
Speaker 1Well, the problem was that the water kept rising and rising and rising because in 2011, they didn't model the walls high enough. Now there's a story that I read that there's one particular town in Japan that completely survived unscathed because the mayor at the time fought and fought and fought, got higher tsunami walls. He said that wasn't high enough, that they were going. I think they said five meters and he went 15 meters and they mocked him, they scoffed at him and they actually impeached him because he did force this through and his sacrifice, sacrificing his livelihood and everything, is what saved that town during 2011 tsunami.
Speaker 2But they rehired him, right? Well, they put his name up, he died already.
Speaker 1They put his name up. He died already, they put his name up on the wall.
Speaker 2Yeah, sorry, dude.
Speaker 1So I mean, that's pretty intense. But to get back to real life here, well, this is real life. But to get back to the contradictions, shall I say contradictions, the what would you call it? Well, not contradictions, the contrasts between reality and the, uh, spectacle of hollywood. You also have the super volcano that was shown, yellowstone erupting. So a lot of that would actually happen the eruption, the pyroclastic flow. Now, I do have a little bit of a of a problem with it, because they all got hit by the pyroclastic flow, including the plane, and everybody was fine. Uh, that Flow is, I think, over 200 degrees.
Speaker 2You're talking about the black smoke. Yeah, that blast yeah.
Speaker 1That initial blast Because it's all hot, superheated air from all of that lava and it comes out from the explosion. So I mean it would have melted that RV and, by the way, the flow travels at hundreds of miles per hour, so it would not have been like outrunning it in an rv or a small propeller plane I didn't know that, but that makes a lot of sense the initial blast of a volcano.
Speaker 2I don't know much about volcanoes because I've never really lived around one you don't pay attention in class dude, I know the basics of volcanoes but I didn't know that like that makes a lot of sense that the initial burst would disperse all that hot air. No, it doesn't always happen that way.
Speaker 1It doesn't always happen that way. There are plenty of volcanoes that erupt upward, they release their vent and then the magma spews out. It doesn't shoot out like that. So there's plenty of different types of volcano, but this particular type. If Yellowstone were to go off like that that's what they expect it would uh, it would do it would absolutely cover just everything in like ash, and you wouldn't be able to see the sun and then it'd be a new ice age acid rain.
Speaker 1But yeah, acid rain and then the ash cloud would block out the sun for years, so the earth would not be a farm country anymore.
Speaker 2And you would have our side of the earth with the United States.
Speaker 1It would it would mostly be if Yellowstone went off and no other super volcano. If Yellowstone went off, um the whole Western side of the United States would become pretty much infertile.
Speaker 2For a while.
Speaker 1You think the Eastern side would still be okay, I think so, but it would, uh, the people would suffer, uh, you would have to move out of there right away because the jet streams would push all of the that air, all of the ash cloud to the east all the way across the and it would circle the globe. So you would have ash all over the globe. Um, and, depending on how bad the ash cloud is, uh, because it is so. Uh, what is it caustic? It's so, um, it's so bad for your lungs.
Speaker 2People would die just from breathing it in without respirators or protection is there anything, any sort of technology, that our government has to like? Let's say yellowstone does erupt. Let's say that ash cloud is moving. Is there anything the world governments could do to try and minimize the effects? Of that ash cloud.
Speaker 1Is there any sort of like capturing and dispersing or no, because once it's there, it's there and you can't capture it because it's going to be carried by the jet streams miles above the ground, like think of like wildfires.
Speaker 2You have a wildfire in freaking canada, but it'll reach all the way you know that's right states away, you know that's all the air, currents and stuff up high and you know it'll, it'll cover the earth my, my only point with my, my only thought there is that with a fire, you got bad air quality and ash maybe raining down on you, but I don't. It's not common that you hear people dying of the air from fires blowing through, but I think something like a super volcano going off would cause a lot of people to die. So I think there would be different procedures and maybe more concern for it, rather than just fire smoke blowing across the states. It is what it is. You're going to have a few bad days of air quality, but you'll be okay. That's very different with something that could kill you, and so I wonder if the governments have anything that they could do to try and minimize those effects, maybe prevent acid rain in some way. I guess this all goes down. To how much do we think they can actually manipulate the weather?
Speaker 1Well, weather is one thing, um so mind you that volcanoes, earthquakes, well, yeah, this is a little more weather these are natural disasters now I still think that there's possibility to to cause and create. I don't know. Right, I'm a conspiracy theorist, I admit it. Um, but just to to reiterate a couple of the comments here. Uh, I would never trust the government, especially after watching this movie. Right, the government's not there to help you, they're there to help themselves.
Speaker 2I think you've said that you said that in one of the past episodes is the government is very efficient at benefiting themselves yeah, they're highly inefficient at helping anybody else I'm not saying that they would do this out of the kindness of their hearts, but I do think something that could affect the air around you. I think there might be a little more concern to okay, let's at the UN, let's have a meeting and see if there's something we can do about this.
Speaker 1I trust the UN even less than I trust the US government, I agree.
Speaker 3What was the government's?
Speaker 2I just wonder if they would protect themselves save themselves the fucking art they were.
Speaker 3Yep, they packed up the mona lisa. They're freaking, you know all this stuff. And then they started making ships for the wealthy people I do think there's a place.
Speaker 2So the whole wealthy thing was, I think, very realistic and I think very dumb. That it's. It's incredibly stupid that the wealthiest people are going to be the ones to survive. That's not but that wasn't just it.
Speaker 1Well, they just, they said funded it by giving the wealthiest people tickets.
Speaker 2Yeah, selling them tickets. The idea was to get the people they chose, the genetically best people, to ensure that the human race goes on, do you?
Speaker 1not see the irony in what they did? They actually carried out Hitler's plan, oh yeah pretty much they found the master race through genetics and said you all get to survive because these super rich people are going to pay for this project. To happen.
Speaker 3I'm holding myself why? I was going to say why are there black people on there? Black, I'm black, I'm black guys the warning never gets old.
Speaker 2I, I will say, a part of me understands it because they're, but the part that the part of me understands it because there is some sort of, I guess, criteria that you could follow to ensure that the human race would survive. You get doctors, you get you get lawyers, you get, you get people who can really contribute to society to, to be on this arc that's supposed to rebuild society.
Speaker 3Going forward, get rid of the short people, only people over six foot. Ha ha, ha, ha ha.
Government Inefficiency in Disaster Response
Speaker 2People with good mustaches, you know. But the way that they went about it was definitely fucked up, because it starts to beg the question who's deciding what these qualifying factors are to ensure that the human race goes on? Because you have that new president, the guy who took over?
Speaker 1That was the government.
Speaker 2Well, yeah, so that's where, like, I see the idea for it. But again, like anything the government does, they always fuck it up, yep. So it just doesn't seem like somebody should allow the government to do.
Speaker 3Because they're using money that doesn't. It won't even matter after the floods. Um, I think if they just got everybody you know, let everybody know what the fuck was happening, you know enough people would help. You know to make the the ships and you know as long as you get your your spot on there? You know, I don't know I've so I have faith in the human race sometimes you know.
Speaker 1So what I wanted to get to what I wanted to get to in this the realism versus the spectacle that hollywood created. We're putting aside the spectacle, we're going to go with the realism. The earthquakes, uh, that would occur would be devastating. No doubt you asked would the buildings collapse? Some buildings would collapse, I'm sorry. I I know they've retrofitted all of that stuff, but the fact of the matter is is when you go above nine point on the richter scale, that is more than anybody can actually anticipate and we're talking just the earthquakes if the earthquake causes a volcano to erupt or a tsunami that can also cause things to you know, because and there is
Speaker 1falling on things so that'll collapse buildings and then there is a super volcano in california as well.
Speaker 2Well, so if the san andreas goes off, that's there's no, no, like our buildings are built for earthquakes, they are all designed for that. All of our big, big giant skyscrapers are very intelligently designed to wobble with earthquakes.
Speaker 1What I'm telling?
Speaker 3you is I know what you mean.
Speaker 2We've never dealt with an earthquake that strong and it would be a guessing game of whether or not the buildings can actually withstand that. And then in this movie I think they said it was a 10.7. I didn't even know. The scale went past 10. It doesn't. I thought 10 was the max.
Speaker 1It's just the strongest earthquake ever known to man. Oh, there was a 10?. So well, there's a hypothetical 10. So, but nowhere have they actually read a 10. Gotcha.
Speaker 2They have no evidence of it actually happening, gotcha so, but the idea is what?
Speaker 1remember? That the Richter scale is not linear, it's exponential. Yeah, so Because like the richter, scale is not linear it's exponential, yeah, so because, like, a five is nothing, a six is nothing, a seven is something, six is something right, five is some, five is something.
Speaker 2You're gonna feel it well, six is like whoa, that was kind of something.
Speaker 1Three and fours people don't notice threes and fours.
Speaker 2You're like whoa well, threes and fours, you think, is the trash truck, five people feel, oh, that was an earthquake right we've had a few of those recently.
Speaker 1Six and up. You know it. That's. That's the kind that you it rattles. People are like holy shit. You you're familiar with with earthquakes, you know what they feel like. You don't easily get rattled.
Speaker 2A six is gonna rattle you well, yeah, there was a six point something when we were in that restaurant in burbank. No, that was a five.
Speaker 1That was a five. We haven't had a six in quite some time really, when's the last time we had a six? Not near us, not something that we've okay when's the last time la?
Speaker 3felt us on the government like preparing well not not felt.
Speaker 1What you would want to say is when was the last time la experienced a six point? It'll be like I'm thinking it was northridge and that was. That was huge and I think it was only a 6.4 uh but oh yeah, 6.7 in 1994. Yeah and that was abs. And I mean I was out in the suburbs 30 miles east of los angeles, which is about 40 to 50 miles away from the epicenter.
Speaker 1Shut the fuck up so I'm, I'm about, about, I'm gonna say, 40 miles away from the epicenter and it shook the hell out of us like we were. We were on, you know, liquid land like it.
Speaker 1All of the ground was turning to liquid that was that was a real earthquake, that wasn't you know the the kind that you're describing. Um, and that was just a 6.7. Now you get into sevens, the seven point, the last seven pointer that I remember this. There may have been some in between, but the last one I remember was in san francisco and that one took down the golden gate bridge like one of the whoa, one of the layers of the golden gate bridge. Wait, um, or was that an eight ridge? Where's ridge crest trona?
Speaker 2I'm not familiar with ridge crest okay, there was a 7.1 in 2019 in Ridgecrest, which is in California somewhere.
Speaker 3There was a 6.8 in 2001 in Seattle. That caused a little bit of damage.
Speaker 2Where's Ludlow Do you?
Speaker 1know where that is. I'm not familiar with that either. I'm thinking that these are pretty far away. Ridgecrest is up near Nevada.
Speaker 2Yeah, yeah, way ridge crest is up near nevada.
Speaker 1Yeah, yeah, the, it was the nevada border. Yep, yeah, the bay area, but damn, you guys keep diverting me of of the point that I'm trying to make here survival in a realistic setting. What I wanted to say is a nine point earthquake, nine point something. I mean even an eight point something, but we're going ridiculous and saying a nine point something. The beginning of your concern is going to be these buildings surviving that. Yeah, they will. Most likely there will be some that are going to come down, not because of faulty construction, blah, blah, blah, but just how devastating a nine point plus yeah, earthquake, when the ground is literally cracking and raising and falling all around I don't know that it'll do that.
Speaker 1I haven haven't seen anything like that. It won't open up and create chasms like that I mean unless you're talking about over the subways sure.
Speaker 2But not like a chasm down to hell, but like you even just look at the Alaska earthquake there was roads that were straight up like multiple feet higher than the other half of it.
Speaker 1So that's going to be your first concern is those buildings coming down. People will have to get out of Los Angeles. Something that I haven't thought about, that I just researched regarding the Florida hurricanes is everybody in Los Angeles having to evacuate, right? Oh yeah, we're not talking about. You don't have an option, you have to evacuate. So, once again, something I always say what is the? What is a survival tip? You guys have heard me say this a million times what is a survival tip on getting out of LA, when all of these millions of people are going to be leaving at the same time as you? I have an idea.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 1What? Get a motorcycle, okay, but if you don't have a motorcycle and you're not willing to steal one, what is a survival tip that I always say no, you got to get out because you don't know. These buildings are going to fall.
Speaker 3Take the elevator. Make sure to take the elevator.
Speaker 1Make sure to take the elevator after the earthquake. Oh wait, different movie, no, but solid advice. You guys aren't thinking of my survival tip. I always repeat this, what you should always do. It's regarding travel. I don't want to give you too much of a hint.
Speaker 2I feel like I've never heard this.
Speaker 3What is it? I always have gas? Oh, you always have.
Speaker 1I always have more than a quarter tank Half. Always keep your gas tank above a half a tank. That's never going to be sitting for so long in traffic that it'll burn you will need at least a half a tank and right. If you can have more like this, the gas station is going to be packed you know it, and all the people like eric who have only a a quarter tank or less I have you, it's okay, like we're gonna take two cars in that mess.
Essential Items for Bug Out Bag
Speaker 1So that was one. Now, regarding the super volcano, again, this is another case of you can't hunker down. It's going to go off. It goes off in. You know you're being warned, right. They're telling you hey, this is coming, you got to get out. Now. You have your half a tank of gas, or plus. Let's say you were prepared. You have a full tank of gas and you're bugging out. What kind of things should you take with you in your car when you bug out?
Speaker 3You should take your bug out bag. You should always have a bug out bag.
Speaker 2That's what I was going to say. You should make sure to take yourself.
Speaker 1You should. But what kind of stuff should you have in your bug out bag?
Speaker 2First aid- kit shortwave radio short-term food and water supply.
Speaker 3Make sure not to take the I-5. Some sort of fire source. I-5 sucks.
Speaker 2What was that Fire starter of some sort, something for shelter, those would be like the main things, like a knife.
Speaker 1Just the basics. What about for longer term support regarding your water supply?
Speaker 3Oh, a LifeStraw or a filter of some kind yeah.
Speaker 2LifeStraw's filters. So what's the common saying?
Speaker 1What's the common saying? One is none. You know the rest.
Speaker 2I mean, I've heard it, but I couldn't quote it to you. One is none. Two is one.
Speaker 1Three is none. You know the rest. I mean, I've heard it but I couldn't quote it to you. One is none, two is one, three is enough. You should always have three forms of water Physical water and two ways to create water. And then, regarding food, you just have food.
Speaker 2And then you'd be willing to kill squirrels or rats. I can create water.
Speaker 3I just gotta dance around a little bit. I could just piss.
Speaker 1Yeah, I don't think, I don't think.
Speaker 2No, no yeah it'll work once maybe twice Did y'all see that scene? Did y'all see that scene where he got stung by a jellyfish and Mel B from the Spice Girls peed on his hand? Oh, that's true, and it's like a well-known thing that that's kind of a myth.
Speaker 1No, ammonia. Ammonia neutralizes the acid, neutralizes the stain.
Speaker 3Okay, but hear me out, though, hear me out, had to do it. Hey, game is game, bro, game is game, game is game.
Speaker 2That's the thing. All the comments I saw were like isn't it a well-known thing? Wouldn't you expect him to know that this isn't actually going to help? And they're like look, when Mel B offers to pee on your hand, you don't say no, they're here. Who the zombies? I thought the gate would stop them. They knocked it down instantly.
Speaker 1How much time do we have? They're already here, we should have bought that beautiful Los Angeles dream house in that safe neighborhood that Corinne showed us.
Speaker 2I know it was so much more defensible and Corinne would have had us moved in before the apocalypse.
Speaker 1Do you think it's too late to call her now? I'll try, no, no.
Speaker 2We should have called Corinne sooner.
Speaker 1Don't wait until it's too late. Call Corinne Salas today at 714-510-6443 and buy your Los Angeles dream house now. That's 714-510-6443. You can also find her on Instagram at NextHomeByCorinne, or visit her website at CorinneSalasNextHomeGrandViewcom. That's C-O-R-I-N-N-E-S-A-L-A-S dot NextHomeGrandViewcom.
Speaker 2There was so much in this movie, but almost all of it was plot armor. There is no shot you survive this, because one you have to be somewhat important enough to even know that these arcs exist.
Speaker 1Yeah, and then you have to make your way to china in the midst of all of this, to to get on it, and then china has to move 1500 miles closer to you so that you can actually make it to it with your tank of gas and your plane.
Speaker 2And survive a plane crash in a Bentley and survive a plane crash in a Bentley.
Speaker 1Hey, that was very Fast and Furious-esque, I think that's why we said it, because I was talking about either Fast and Furious.
Speaker 2It was when you saw the cars.
Speaker 3I think I was also talking about the game Uncharted. That's very.
Speaker 2Uncharted type.
Speaker 1Although I will say something the most realistic thing they did in this whole entire movie at least they didn't drive that. Bentley out of there, yeah that would have been Fast and Furious would have.
Speaker 3They would have just drove it because there would have been a road right there for them.
Speaker 2And then driven through the snow.
Speaker 1yeah, Absolutely so. Last thoughts 2012,.
Speaker 2You could say survival, or you could say this movie was retarded, or whatever you want to say, I mean you don't survive it, but it's a good movie.
Speaker 3To say, I mean, I mean, you don't survive it, but it's a good movie. Yeah, nobody survives this, unless you are incredibly lucky. Um, yeah, I would also like to say that that monk was definitely sleeping and not meditating at the last part when he, before he, rang the bell bro was passed out and he was like oh, what's?
Speaker 2that noise woke up bro, when he saw that wave coming you, you know you saw his face and it was just oh shit, he was right but yeah, uh, nobody survives this all right.
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Speaker 3and until next time, guys, remember, stay alive alive Unless you are Dwayne the rock Johnson, trip and fall. What is your deal with this guy? Keep just fall down some stairs.
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