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The Contingency Planner
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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Biological War: A Scenario with Annie Jacobsen
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.

In This Episode

Why Annie wrote Biological War after Nuclear War: A Scenario

The basic scenario behind the new book

Why public trust may be one of the biggest survival factors

How Covid changed the way people respond to public health warnings

Biological weapons, engineered pathogens, and institutional failure

How misinformation, rumors, and panic could accelerate collapse

Why a biological event could lead to military escalation

How a pathogen crisis could potentially trigger nuclear decisions

Continuity of government, martial law, and emergency powers

What regular people should do with terrifying information like this

How to take biological threats seriously without becoming consumed by fear

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CPP Classics: 2020 Halloween Special – Legendary Creatures
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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Listener Q&A: Apocalypse Superpowers, Cave Bugouts and the Stay Survived Sandwich
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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THE 2026 PREPPER MOVIE DRAFT!
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.

Who built the better prepper movie lineup?

MAD MAD WORLD
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