Can You Survive This Podcast?

Jeff Apple

Play along as we explore hypothetical life-threatening situations with a touch of dark humor and ask a simple question: CAN YOU SURVIVE THIS PODCAST? From earthquakes to home invasions... tsunamis to global pandemics... each episode puts you smack in the middle of a new disaster scenario and provides the essential tools, knowledge and confidence necessary to face any potentially deadly event – and most importantly: SURVIVE. read less

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Can You Survive This Podcast? is about preparing for the worst that could happen. No one wants or expects terrible things to happen, but they do. Host Cade Courtley offers insights about what to do in a variety of dangerous situations. He addresses how to handle a free-falling airplane and active shooter situations. Conversations revolve around building survival skills and extreme survival scenarios. Guests include retired generals and scientists. Others are Green Berets, Special Forces members, survivalists, and more.

Cade is a former US Navy Seal platoon commander. The lifelong outdoor enthusiast joined the Navy immediately after graduating college. Cade is an author and the one-time host of Surviving Disaster on the Discovery Channel. SEAL Survival Guide: A Navy SEAL's Secrets to Surviving Any Disaster is one of the host's books. He debuted the podcast in 2020. He shares many survival tips and strategies for dangerous situations on the show.

Several famous guests from the US and beyond join Cade on the podcast. Neil deGrasse Tyson is one such guest. Another renowned guest is Captain Richard Phillips, who was captain of the merchant ship MV Maersk Alabama. On the podcast, he relates his and his crew's ordeal at the hands of Somali pirates who hijacked the ship in 2009. This episode also discusses the book and movie about the hijacking, among many other topics. The 2013 movie Captain Phillips is an adaptation of Phillips' book about the incident. Tom Hanks portrays Phillips in the film.

Can You Survive This Podcast? is a high-energy listen. It contains many near-death experiences. While some stories on the show can be scary, the survival tips compensate for the fear factor. The host says his mission is to educate and equip people with survival techniques. The series addresses topics including home invasions and breaking an ankle while hiking. New episodes debut weekly.

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