Something is happening, the shelves are still stocked, and you’ve got one more shot to make a grocery run before things get weird. In this episode, we break down how to handle that last trip without becoming the guy panic-buying 11 cases of water and a pallet of toilet paper.

We cover what to prioritize, how to shop based on the actual emergency, overlooked second-wave shortages, foods that require more water and fuel than you might think, checkout and payment problems, cold storage, and knowing when it’s time to stop shopping and get home. More importantly, we talk about how to build enough everyday preparedness that someday this entire trip becomes optional.

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Paul Bennewitz was a successful businessman, pilot and electronics expert who lived near Kirtland Air Force Base and became convinced he was intercepting communications from extraterrestrials. What started with strange lights and bizarre radio signals quickly exploded into claims involving alien abductions, implants, underground bases, cattle mutilations, government-alien treaties, Dulce Base and even an underground war between humans and aliens.

But the craziest part of the story may be what happened behind the scenes. Air Force intelligence figures, including Richard Doty, allegedly encouraged Bennewitz’s beliefs and fed UFO disinformation into his investigation, possibly to keep him away from real classified military activity. Eventually, Bennewitz’s obsession consumed his life and contributed to a severe mental breakdown.

In this episode, we dig into Project Beta, Bennewitz’s bizarre decoded alien messages, Myrna Hansen, cattle mutilations, alien implants, Dulce Base, the alleged government treaty, Phil Schneider’s underground battle, MJ-12, William Moore and one of the strangest alleged government disinformation operations in UFO history.

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Most families have emergency supplies, but their actual plan is usually scattered across phones, random notes, old conversations, and the brain of one person who supposedly knows where everything is.

In this episode, we break down how to build a family emergency plan that still works when the phones are dead, the roads are blocked, everyone is separated, and the household’s main prepper is not around to run the show.

Using the MAD Gear Contingency Planner and ReadyPlan app as our guide, we cover realistic threats, conditions for action, PACE planning, communication backups, meeting locations, evacuation routes, fuel, family roles, medical information, pets, gear locations, security, and how to create different loadout plans based on how much time you have to leave.

Because owning the gear is only half the job. Your family also needs to know when to act, where to go, what to grab, and what happens when Plan A falls apart.

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Today we’re joined by bestselling author and investigative journalist Annie Jacobsen to discuss her brand-new book, Biological War: A Scenario. Annie is the author of Area 51, Operation Paperclip, The Pentagon’s Brain, Surprise, Kill, Vanish, and one of our favorites, Nuclear War: A Scenario.

In this episode, we talk with Annie about why she moved from nuclear war to biological war, how a biological attack could unfold, and why the pathogen itself may only be part of the disaster. We get into public distrust after Covid, how misinformation and panic could make a biological event far worse, and how quickly a crisis like this could overwhelm institutions, hospitals, government response, and normal civilian life.

We also discuss how biological war could spiral into military escalation or even nuclear conflict, what continuity-of-government plans and martial law might look like, and how regular people can think about preparedness without living in fear.

This is a heavy one, but it’s an important conversation about one of the most unsettling threats facing the modern world.

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Due to a family emergency, we’re reaching into the vault for one of our favorite Halloween episodes.

In this 2020 Halloween Special, Coby and Cam explore the strange world of legendary creatures, terrifying folklore, and the monsters people have claimed to encounter throughout history. We look at where these stories came from, what might be hiding behind the legends, and how prepared you would actually be if one of these creatures showed up outside your tent.

It’s creepy stories, questionable survival plans, legendary monsters, and classic Casual Preppers nonsense pulled directly from the dirty little archives.

Stay safe. Stay spooky. Stay survived.

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We’re answering another round of listener questions, and this one goes in every possible direction.

Would we use an old diesel tractor to help stranded people after a CME? Is bugging out to a cave actually a good idea? Would we rather survive Jurassic Park or Predator? And which apocalypse superpower would be the most useful?

We also get into camping lantern recommendations, embarrassing early prepping mistakes, keeping an offline phone or tablet in a Faraday bag, Flock cameras, surviving extreme heat versus extreme cold, celebrity man crushes, unfinished Casual Preppers film projects, and what we would change to make the podcast better.

Then we create the ultimate Arby’s collaboration: the Stay Survived Sandwich, featuring every meat on the menu, roughly 180 grams of protein, 3,500 calories, a 72-Hour Calorie Stick and emergency-ready packaging.

Plus, grocery-store survival strategy, questionable childhood movie crushes, biblical survival, machete collections and more completely necessary preparedness discussion.

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It’s time for the first-ever Casual Preppers Movie Draft.

Cam and Coby build their ultimate SHTF movie rosters by drafting from a pool of survival, disaster, apocalypse, alien invasion, zombie, and end-of-the-world movies.

They have to choose which movie world they would survive in, which nightmare they would force their co-host into, the best bug-out vehicle, the most survivable prepper character, the most fun apocalypse, and much more.

Once a movie is picked, it’s gone.

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Wilhelm Reich started as a serious psychoanalyst in Freud’s world and ended up building orgone boxes, weather machines, and UFO-fighting pipe cannons.

This episode has everything: childhood trauma, cosmic sex energy, healing cabinets, Einstein’s basement, FDA raids, burned books, deadly sky poison, blueberry rainmaking, cloudbusters, Arizona UFO battles, and maybe even an alien dad.

Reich believed he had discovered orgone, a universal life force tied to sex, health, weather, radiation, and outer space. Then he spent the rest of his life trying to collect it, measure it, weaponize it, and defend Earth with it.

It’s one of the strangest spirals we’ve ever covered. A Freud guy goes full cosmic plumber.

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The Last Safe Town: Could Your Town Hold It Together?

In most emergencies, people think about two choices: stay home or bug out. But there’s another piece that matters just as much: the town you already live in.

In this episode, we’re looking at your actual town as a survival asset. The roads, water system, grocery stores, fuel, comms, schools, churches, public works, medical care, local businesses, and the people who keep the whole thing running.

Could your town handle 72 hours? What about three weeks? What about three months?

We talk about what could cut your town off, how weather and geography shape your risks, whether people and supplies can actually move, where your water and food really come from, how fuel and power keep the town functioning, and why public works might be one of the most important groups nobody thinks about until something breaks.

We also get into local comms, gathering places, medical weak points, outside support, leadership, outsiders coming in, and how to score your town with a simple green, yellow, or red “hold-together” test.

Your town is not automatically safe because it’s small. It’s not automatically doomed because it has limits. The real question is whether you know what’s actually there and whether those things can hold under pressure.

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This week we’re celebrating 10 years of The Casual Preppers Podcast with a listener Q&A full of survival talk, questionable vehicles, tactical animals, hook-hand attachments, Arby’s controversy, movie kids, horses, cults, FEMA camps, and plenty of mindless banter.

We get into bug out bags for kids, the best SHTF vehicles, which movie crew we’d rather babysit during the apocalypse, survival skill priorities, grid-down celebrity cabin buddies, EMP-proof transportation, stashed motorcycles, checking in on family, and whether prepper anxiety ever really goes away.

Most importantly, thank you. Ten years of this show only happened because you kept listening, sharing, sending questions, supporting sponsors, buying merch, and letting us crawl into your dirty little ear holes every week.

Thanks for 10 years.

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