Who Would Survive the Longest in a Zombie Apocalypse?? 

Apparently Chainsaws don’t cut through flesh as easily as people think. It can get caught on the meat and bone & shut off pretty easy so Machete unironically would be more efficient haha

Garnt searching for a melee than using a gun makes more sense because what these boys don't realize is how loud a gun shot is. You gonna attract hordes of zombies if you're gonna headshot just one or two zombie.

Connor: assembles guns, ammo, armor. Forgets firing pin due to jinx Garnt: cult leader of anime Joey: chilling in bunkeronii with food, water and games

If you have a 10 year old in a zombie apocalypse, you aren't the main character. You're future character development

Joey is right. Fundamentally zombies don't make sense. The only way they might make any sense is if you think about the parasitic route like The Last Of Us explored in part one. Theoretically, if you could create a zombie, what kinda parasite would it take, what realistic functions and strengths could a zombie actually have, given that they should be in a weakened state surely? Being controlled by a parasite shouldn't add any strength to you, actually you technically should deteriorate over time because the natural function of a parasite is to feed off you and use you to reproduce.

A zombie apocalypse would solve itself in less than a year. Unless they're technically alive zombies, they'd decay in, like, a month - not all the way, but they'd rot enough to not be able to move.

Chainsaws are hella overrated as anti-zombie weaponry. People regularly hurt themselves with chainsaws even when they're just trying to cut inanimate objects. Now imagine the log you're trying to split is fighting back. Plus, they're heavy and use gas that you want for your car.

Trust me, guys, you don’t want a basement. It’s literally like having a mold machine. You want a bunker, an actual bunker!

Scientifically speaking, I stand by Connor. although zombies are dead and can’t feel pain the parasite within the zombie (bacteria, worms ect) would suffer the sudden temperature rise which basically turns it back into a dead corpse

Garnt deciding not to use a gun is actually pretty damn smart if you consider the fact that guns are just really dangerous airhorns that alert everyone in a half mile radius to where you are.

I think it would be pretty funny if there was a zombie apocalypse story where normal antibiotics (like stuff that you can currently find in the pharmacies and shit) could actually stop the zombie infection and the survivors would realize they killed people that got bitten for no reason at all

Surviving special could be very fun. A challenge where they have to survive a day in a forest or an island, with 4 basic objections, like finding water, building a sleeping place, finding food and starting a fire.

How does Connor and Joey vastly underestimate how long and hard it is to burn/chop off a limb?

The biggest advantage to surviving a zombie apocalypse in America is there's lots of guns. The biggest disadvantage to surviving a zombie apocalypse in America is there's lots of Americans with guns.

In Switzerland there was a time where everyone that build a Home was required to have a fallout shelter in there celler. "In 2006, there were 300,000 shelters in Swiss dwellings, institutions and hospitals, as well as 5,100 public shelters, providing protection for a total of 8.6 million individuals - a coverage of 114 per cent."

I think it was Shadiversity who once made the point that medieval armor would be great for protection against zombies.

How is it hard to survive a zombie apocalypse? You just don't die, gg right there.

Something I think about is: What happens when all the zombies are gone? There are barely any people left and they are all too scared to leave their bases. Even if you find a radio broadcast, what’s the chances that’ll get to everyone?

One thing I’ve learned from watching videos on where to survive in a zombie apocalypse, your house is good place to stay. A lot of media says you should leave your home at the first sign of danger, when you should actually stay there. You know it’s strengths and can fix it’s weaknesses, rather than risk your 10/10 spot being ransacked or already taken, you can make sure you have every already there before shit hits the fan.

I'd take the biggest Home Depot I could find and make it into a fortress.

Connor is probably the first in the group to be aware of the apocalypse, know what to do, and then can’t resist making content from the apocalypse and ends up getting killed. Garnt is that zombie movie character with no survival skills but somehow manages to survive by joining the lead. Joey last to know about the apocalypse but will probably use some distant memory to devise some inventive plan to survive the apocalypse but ends up getting bit for saving Aki.

Look, Garnt... a flamethrower was never meant to challenge firearms. The flamethrower is for dealing with trenches, encampments, tight corridors, etc. where a gun would generally be less effective. The flamethrower is also practically a guaranteed kill, whereas the gun requires aim (or luck). The flamethrower also has a residual effect, as the fire will spread to objects and even other people, thus making it incredibly efficient in specific circumstances. Against zombies... tough to say. For the sprinting variety, sure, you'll get a few kills, but you'll die. For the Walking Dead style zombies? Now THAT'S a lot of damage. Group them up, set a few ablaze, and enjoy the barbecue. Just gotta take note that they won't stop while they burn, and avoid being collateral damage of the fire when it spreads. Regardless of how the zombies work, though, if their flesh can be burned, then they can be made immobile (can't do anything without good ol' muscle), and thus "eliminated". Then there's the fuel to be considered, which will be just as valuable, if not more so, than ammunition. So I'd say better to use molotovs or makeshift flamethrowers than running around with one of those deathtraps on your back. Oh yeah, right, the weight... yeah, no thank you to flamethrowers unless it's mounted onto a vehicle or something like that. Hellllllll no to chainsaws. Too slow to cut through, too dangerous for your own well-being, extremely prone to jamming/chain coming loose or breaking/bar snapping/quitting/stalling, plus you have the same problem with gasoline (and 2-stroke oil) or electricity for the electrical powered ones. Seriously... you're better off with a blunt or sharp melee weapon than expecting a chainsaw to be serviceable. They're made for trees, not flesh and bone lol. Regardless of how highly I think of myself (or others), the noxious fumes from all those walking corpses or even just blood-to-skin contact would be GG. People tend to ignore how zombie blood on the skin would be a death sentence (assuming the virus/parasite/etc. causes infection through fluid transfer). I remember one movie, where the father got a drop of zombie blood into his eye and immediately started turning. You're just... absolutely screwed. Full body needs to be covered at all times, taking off clothing would have to be done meticulously and the clothing disposed of every time (or disinfected, if that's possible), and any cuts/holes/openings would need to be dealt with immediately. Trip on the concrete and make a hole in those new pants? Welp, outfit change time... or else. But yeah, the other humans would probably kill me/get me killed before a zombie could even get me :( .

I wear a lot of tanktops and my top running speed is 2 mph. I'll be fine. Shaun of the Dead and (funnily enough) Resident Evil (the games) showed that a zombie apocalypse lasts for a few hours. A full day tops.

The biggest problem wouldn’t be the zombies but it’d be the people. After the whole toilet paper and hand sanitiser incident we know how stupid people can be.

13:45 lmao. I had a treehouse as a kid. My best friend was my next door neighbor, and we built it in the trees which bordered our yards. It was dope. His dad helped us build it initially when we were like 7-8, but by the time we were 9 or 10, we were actively modifying and building additions. At one point the tree fort (it wasn't a tree house at that point) had two different levels, and a secondary "building" about 15 feet away in a different tree - but connected with a big ass board we were able to shimmy across. Good times. I miss that fucking disaster of a construction. (it was amazing, but also mostly built by me n' sam, and we were like 10 when most of it happened. So structural integrity was mostly a roll of the dice. We got lucky and never got hurt.

With regard to the whole gas hoarding, don't forget that gas goes bad after just 3-6 months. All the zombie apocalypse shows that show survivors jumping into cars and running generators years after civilization collapses ignore that without active refineries, most internal combustion engines will be useless in 2 seasons.

Bow and arrow is the best weapon for a zombie apocalypse. The make no noise so that it doesn't attract more zombies and you won't have to worry about wasting bullets.

"How would you kill zombie when they already dead ?" I never understand the logic behind this. These zombies are functioning, able to walk and all. That means motor functions. Don't you think if their brain are really dead, they wouldn't be able to have motor functions and all.

I like the wwz book idea. Where the zombie apocalypse comes, and everyone's panicking until eventually the us army is like "Wait a minute we're the god damn us army, why are we panicking?"

Garnt should learn archery and how to craft arrows, has the benefits of range and he can be stingy as hell because he can just pick them up for later use, If those arrows are infectrd he can use them to fight other survivors.

Them talking about Katanas made me think "Sword Smithing would be a good Trash Taste Special"

Wouldn't their muscles and tendons be really decayed after a while of being a zombie? Wouldn't it be easy to cut them up or even rip their arms off bare handed?

Malls in an apocalypse are terrible because of the fact they're fantastic. You've got open space, various lines of sight, water, food, it's fantastic. But they're terrible because everyone would be heading for them, and there's no way you could make a fortified position by the time other people started arriving, even if you were the first one there.

I think going to Africa or somewhere really cold like Canada or Russia can be a key. In hot weather, zombies will rot really fast and in cold the opposite, they will just freeze.

Joey was not thinking this episode, it actually makes some sense for zombies to die from headshots. I mean, your head is where your brainstorm is, the thing that regulates the most basic movements and functions of your body, zombie or not, no one’s moving after getting their brain stem blown off. At least as long as there’s no literal magic involved

Surviving a zombie apocalypse would be easy if the zombies were logical. After 6 months to a year, they will have decomposed so much that they can no longer move. If we are talking about the Walking Dead zombies that decompose really, really, really, really, really, really, slowly, then it still isn't an issue because they move so slowly that they shouldn't even be a threat. I feel like the zombies aren't the main problem in a zombie apocalypse... it is other people.

Speaking of Bunkers, theres the Atlas Survival Shelters. They now have a factory in poland and their main factory in texas is selling it to japanese as well. So maybe thats what joey is referring to.

Honestly if I had to survive a zombie apocalypse I'd go the Neagan route and use a blunt weapon like a modified bat against zombies

the truth about zombie apocalypse is that you'll die due to lack of hygiene. I saw alot of zombie movie where the zombie blood just splats every where, their knife, hands, and even mouth and for some unknown reason they don't become zombies out of that.

"are trees harder than bones?" Connor... Ever heard of a fracture?

I think Joey forgot the fact that heads have teeth and that's how zombies turn humans into other zombies. So the point of a headshot isn't exactly to insta-kill, but to make it less likely to get bitten

Why is Connor so confident about burning zombies? Its shown to be really ineffective as zombies just straight up walk through the flames and keep going. The correct definite answer is limb damage. You don't need to lop it off, you just need to ruin the leg's ability to support the weight of the rest of the body and then you just make your escape. As for hiding place? What freaking hiding place? If you got strong high walls or structure sure. But you need enough land to farm and cultivate food. Otherwise staying anywhere is stupid because you'll simply die from lack of replenishing food supply. But the most definite thing you need to fear is humans. Humans without civilisation are assholes. They are savage, selfish and will betray you at the drop of a hat. Especially when their needs aren't met. People will only form tribes if they have a guarantee to survive, but the moment things turn south. You're gonna get shanked by some asshole.

So not talking about World War Z the movie. But the book it's based off is honestly very interesting and more thought out compared to most zombie stories and I really recommend it. It had multiple POV throughout the year it happened across the entire world and how such a stupid virus destroyed the world. Also read a book of a kid finding a zombie in Anchorage Alaska in a glacier melting and got bit and that's how it started. It was very interesting as it had multiple POV characters just going to work and what not and people just had no idea what they were walking into that morning in the city.

I'm a little concerned that there's a jumpcut right after Connor talks about having soot on his face at 7:50

The bois says that we're believing the movie/game logic too much but then suggest to just use katana/swords and stuff so that ammo won't be an issue, but then they forgot that in reality outside of game logic, these weapons will get blunt after slashing 2-3 bodies on average.

Hear me out, imo the best weapon for a zombie apocalypse would be a fireman's axe. They're durable, can easily server limbs, and can be used to pry open doors/locks and you can use it to pull down for escapes or climb over walls with it. Second thing I'd recommend would be some kind of silenced .22lr if you can get your hands on one.

Never thought I watch a highlight since I watched all full episode every week, but some portion of the podcasts do age better and deserve multiple views

*Tries to "adopt" a kid in order to become the main character* *Turns into mentor who dies on the 3rd episode*

LOL, love the longsword call-out. I actually train with longsword (part of a school) and carry it and my armor in the trunk at all times. All set for zombie apocalypse! 😆👍

I had multiple tree houses when I was a kid. Made them with the other kids, it was great and surprisingly safe

Never had a actual tree-house, but behind my first ever school there was this big forest that we'd sometimes play after school while waiting for our parents. At some point me and a few class mates started collecting various broken off branches and otherwise loose debris and striking them up around the trunk of a sturdy pine-- slowly adding onto/fixing it for months until eventually we stopped sticking around after school. Years later my younger sister (who went to the same school) would tell me that she and a friend of hers once had found a certain formation of branches and debris stacked up around a pine tree in pretty much the same location, so I don't really know if our little hut had managed to stand the test of time or if some other kids had taken it over after we left-- but either way that thing remained relatively intact for WAY longer than it should have.

The boys once again asking the right questions

Garnt: “Stay in one place and cry.” Connor: “Get someone to help me.” Joey: “I guess we rescheduled the recording today.”

Now I want a trash taste irl special where they have to survive

The issue with swords is that if you aren't trained in how to use said sword your chances of cutting right though might as well be zero, there is quite a lot of evidence on bones from where old battles were fought where the bones had laceration marks from blade type weapons.

“Who the f*ck had a tree house” *me sitting nervously as my tree house shines in the sunlight*

Everyone got the best hairstyles in this video

You see Connor the problem with getting a sidekick to make yourself a main character is that it's easy to slip into the mentor or Sensei character and then at that point it's all over for you. Just look at Kamina from Gurren Lagann. The line between main character with the sidekick and mentor figure is a very slippery slope

If I’ve learned anything from Shaun of the dead it’s barricade yourself in a pub and everything will be fine

The Walking Dead actually has a really good reason why the slow zombies take over: you turn no matter how you die so long as your head is still intact. So you can never out run them so long as you're near other people. Also, covid has shown how "competent" people can be in this scenario. Also Also, the original Dawn Of The Dead shows how boredom and complacency will eventually get you in these scenarios too.

Playing project zomboid changed my perception of zombie apocalypse, i used to ask how can someone die to a slow zombie, after playing PZ now i know how hard it would be to survive

Opens the bone door Connor's voice in the darkness: welcome to the bone zone Ripe and tear starts playing

I'd say chain mail would be a solid choice, especially if you don't mind the weight and have some way of damping the noise, (there are other good armour options, but plate would probably be way overkill) and a good powerful cleaving/cutting weapon. The first thing that comes to mind for me would be an axe or maybe something like a dadao of you were set on a sword. Thing is about an axe though, is a lot of camp/forest axes make pretty decent compromises between the qualities needed for tool axes and battle axes.

Garnt scratching his eye then smelling his finger at 3:19 had me very uncomfortable

Joey: why would you kill a zombie like a normal human being? Me: how are dead corpses walking around trying to eat our faces?

Its clear...Connor has spent far too much time contemplating Zombie Apocalypse 🤣...And Joey far too little!🧟‍♂️🧟‍♀️🧟

Someone has never been in a gun store and it shows, we good on ammo bro.

tbf, I think every group of friends have pondered these questions

Connor would be one of those weird strangers you find in dead rising trying to make you his sidekick

"How much ammo can you really get ahold of?" *[LAUGHS IN AMERICAN ATOP MOUNTAIN OF AMMO]*

Zombie apocalypse starts, no more uber eats. Conner: Aight, imma just lay down and die. LMAO Same, same. It's not like you're gonna last any longer.

Catch me walking around with a Shepards Sling. Spinning the damn thing all day will make one hand severely stronger then the other.

alright I'm stocking up on medieval armor and longsword😁👍

lol most people don't realize that gas goes bad fairly quickly, so if you stored a shit ton of gas right before things went to shit then it would only stay good for 3-6 months. Chainsaws are also not meant to cut any wet objects like flesh and will completely jam up so no go using a chainsaw in a zombie apocalypse. I've helped some friends build houses and we've built "bunkers" on their property. Easiest ones to build are by taking a seacan from a cargo ship and burry it and if you want you can put concrete pillars along and over it if you want them deeper so the weight of the soil doesn't collapse the bunker.

Depending on how much hand eye coordination you have a poleweapon with a hooked blade would be supreme. No matter the zombie type or lore, the pre-existing human musculature is used, a hooked blade to damage/cut the achilles tendon so the movement would be greatly inhibited, on a long polearm to keep safe distance.

Going off of the removing the head and destroying the brain rule for zombies, a flamethrower would get you killed so fast. Sure, a napalm covered zombie would die eventually, but it would probably grab you before it died. Best survival plan is to become conan the barbarian of the hardware store, Protective cut proof clothing and building materials would help a lot I imagine

Conner refused to answer the * so just bait* question made me laugh too much.

18:08 💀 Hey labor laws are gone, it's survival of the fitest, the moral test begins 😂

6:07 "Gears of War got that right." Every Warhammer 40k fan: Thomas had never seen such heresy before.

my friends and I built a giant tree house in the woods. So my parents moved into a brand new neighborhood where they were still building houses so the kids I met and later became my friends stole a SHIT ton of wood carried it to the woods and made an actual good tree house we took our time and came up with plans. This was over 18 years ago and it's still standing today. We also built a mini skateboard with a half pipe and ledges growing up as a kid was really fun.

Now all i can imagine is Connor taking a 10year old as his sidekick and when shit hits the fan connor is gonna toss that kind into the herd of zombis and be like "jebaited kid"😂😂😂

6:11 The bones vs. wood debate is an interesting tangent, and I would like to add to it. Bones (dry) are brittle and erode quick if exposed(hence why human bones are supported by tissue, muscles, skin, tendons, bone-marrow regeneration), and wood is much more flexible(hence why we build with it) and contains moisture better. Wood is also living tissue, but thats neithe h ere nor there. A bone is just a bone when its not inside a body. Except the marrow. So, bones would probably not clog the chainsaw, but it would create a lot of bone dust/bonemeal(useful for fertilizer, bad for breathing). So dry bone could be fine, but wet bones - with a mix of flesh, hair, maybe cloth adds a challenge of tangling up. And wood is very consistent tissue - which is relevant because a chainsaw skipping can cause problems with the machine, but also, it sometimes is a problem if the target is mobile(because weight and momentum). The chainsaw skipping can run off with you because of its power - especially if its being moved or jostled. The difference is probably marginal, it will still kill and shred, but if its survival scenario and your chainsaw tangles or breaks in some other way, its attached to the thing you're trying to kill - so you either have to leave it or first get the machine free of it. Plus, the chainsaw useful in other ways, making it valuable - cutting wood, that can be used to make barriers. Also useful for breaking barriers. Chainsaw is useful! But for many more things than making zombie sushi. This is all speculation - Im not a machinist, but I do like science, especially biology, and watch alot of crafters breaking down their engineering method, field or process in my sparetime.

People overestimate flamethrowers like the'yre disintegrater rays. It will take several minutes to hours to significantly damage a full zombie like that. That zombie within thrower range is now on fire and still coming at you. Unless it's dead rising zombies which quickly die to almost anything quickly.

Martha Stewart in the apocalypse: the bones of your rival warlords make a sturdy building material and most importantly they send a message

8:53 under appreciated heat rising joke ngl😂

The most effective weapons would be a machete or a 12 gauge shotgun because they are weapons for close combat that don’t weigh a lot are rather small and easy to carry and you can use them in smaller spaces and 12 gauge is one very common ammo type all over the world. Shotguns are actually decent at smaller distances unlike in games and they also have slug rounds that increase the range as well.

Connor became pure Britisher at the end !! 😂 🤣

Fire does not kill a person outright. A flamethrower is a pain inducer. Zombies do not feel pain, this become a walking fire hazard. They will melt, but it would take minutes or even hours before it stops them. Chainsaws aren't good at chopping people up, despite what horror movies tell us. Plus even if you could, it would break or run out of fuel. Mellie weapons are best, but not against hordes. Guns are better, but need a supresser added to reduce sound. And bullets. Bows and crossbows are good, but Bows take time to learn to use and crossbows are slow to reload.

Flame throwers were very effective at clearing out bunkers and enemies dug into the ground. Iwo Jima saw them used quite a lot.

this started as surviving zombie apocalypse, devolved into talking about basements, and then get back on track.

i built my own tree house when i was a kid, pretty scuffed but was super fun to build and destroy eventually

with the flame throwers of old like ww2 korea and vietnam was gasoline, the same as some modern ones, and a tar agent. other modern ones use propane, butane or mapp gas, all which would probably be in short supply, plus have limited range. a better incendiary route would be home made napalm Napalm B, the stuff used in vietnam by the americans burns at about 4000 degrees farenheit

1:40 Joey kinda described the SAS Zombie assault games lol.

Covid made me realize that a zombie apocalypse (even with the slow and weak type) is totally possible

Garnt: do guys think you are gonna survive the zombie apocalypse CONNOR: nn ooo

I can not believe Connor acknowledged my home state that definitely exists

Joey in an apocalypse is going to be running around with a halberd🤣

lmao i'm just imagining joe dress up as vergil and going around doing judgement cut

If a Zombie Apocalypse would happen, believe me when I say that there are people that would be against killing zombies. #ZombieRightsBill #69thAmmendmentNoKillingOfZombies I wouldn't be surprised.

5:55 I can hear the song in my head lol