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Can You Survive This Podcast?

How To: Survive a Post-Apocalyptic United States | Tony Cowden

Can You Survive This Podcast?

Jeff Apple

Education, Leisure, Health & Fitness

4.8599 Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2023

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Part 3 with Tony Cowden, hypothetical survival scenario, how to survive a post apocalyptic United States. Make sure to check out Part 1 for Tony's military background and Part 2 for Tony's story working with Ibogaine and 5-MeO-DMT. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

all right let me get my little notes out and we're going to see if you can survive this

0:11.4

podcast all right here we go for this scenario you are a survivor in a post-apocalyptic United States.

0:23.8

You are low on supplies, and you're starting to feel the effects of hunger and dehydration.

0:31.1

Now, by the way, before the first question, there's always room for wiggle room.

0:35.5

If you push back on an answer that's the fun part is we can

0:39.4

kind of explain to the audience your thought process okay all right so you're low on supplies

0:45.4

you're starting to feel the effects of hunger and dehydration do you a look for a water source

0:52.8

such as a river or stream or b look for edible plants or berries to

0:57.9

eat all of the above in route to the water source i'm going to be looking for something to

1:07.2

eat perfect answer yeah you know you got to got to be doing both. Yeah, survival

1:13.1

situations, man, you better be multitasking, conserving energy. It's all about calories in

1:18.6

versus calories out. Yeah. Fantastic. Okay, so you're on your way. You're looking for a source

1:25.3

of water. You're foraging whatever you can along the

1:30.3

way, you decide to look for a water source and you come across a pond. Do you, A, take a sip

1:39.0

from the pond to rehydrate or B, filter the water.

1:48.6

If you have means to filter, it's definitely worth that while.

1:54.8

Pond, stagnant water, Giardia, other protozoans, you know, the last thing you want to do is drink something that's going to make it worse.

1:58.0

Fuck yeah.

1:58.7

B, filter the water.

2:02.4

I'll just, this is just I'm not paid by any

2:04.6

advertisers but I will say when I went

2:06.6

to the rainforest in April

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