{"podcast":{"title":"How To Survive The Apocalypse","slug":"how-to-survive-the-apocalypse-7291302","podcast_index_feed_id":7291302,"rss_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/show/7257554/episodes/feed","website_url":"http://www.FKNpods.com","image_url":"https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/ffc6978174ccba009763f9d9c5e0cd0e.jpg","author":"Brandon Lee Bates","episode_count":62,"summary":"How To Survive The Apocalypse explores real-world collapse scenarios, survival strategies, and the breakdown of modern systems. Hosted by Ben Carter, each episode investigates nuclear war, grid failures, pandemics, artificial intelligence threats, and civil unrest through a structured, documentary-style approach. Focusing on practical survival, decision-making, and real conditions, the series examines what it would take to survive the fall of modern civilization. Unlock bonus content and full video episodes: https://www.patreon.com/theforbiddenknowledgenetwork","last_synced_at":"2026-09-13T06:24:39.794057+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/how-to-survive-the-apocalypse-7291302"},"episode":{"title":"The First 72 Hours After a Carrington-Level Solar Storm","slug":"the-first-72-hours-after-a-carrington-level-solar-storm","published_at":"2026-08-30T11:48:15+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/how-to-survive-the-apocalypse-7291302/the-first-72-hours-after-a-carrington-level-solar-storm","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/how-to-survive-the-apocalypse-7291302","url":"https://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-first-72-hours-after-a-carrington-level-solar-storm--74755014","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/74755014/the_first_72_hours_after_a_carrington_level_solar_storm.mp3","summary":"A severe solar storm would not behave like a fictional device that instantly destroys every phone, vehicle, and appliance. Its major terrestrial danger is more specific: rapidly changing magnetic fields can affect long electrical conductors, high-voltage transmission systems, satellites, radio communications, navigation, and the essential services that depend on electricity. This episode begins with the documented March 1989 Hydro-Québec blackout, when a geomagnetic storm contributed to a grid collapse in less than a minute. It then follows the evidence back to Richard Carrington’s 1859 observation, through telegraph disruptions, the extreme 2012 solar eruption measured by NASA’s STEREO-A spacecraft, and into a conditional modern outage timeline. The practical focus is surviving a major power disruption: protecting medical needs, preserving communications, managing food and water safely, avoiding carbon-monoxide and traffic hazards, and understanding when official evacuation orders override normal shelter guidance. The scenario is not a prediction that every region would lose power or that a nationwide outage would last for years. Modern grid operators have forecasting, monitoring, and geomagnetic-disturbance procedures. The unanswered question is whether those protections would limit the next extreme event to controlled outages or whether physical damage could prolong restoration in the hardest-hit areas. This podcast uses artificial intelligence in its research, writing, production, and narration. Episodes are editorially reviewed before publication. #HowToSurviveTheApocalypse #CivilizationRiskSurvivalCriticalInfrastructureFa #CarringtonEvent #SolarSuperstorm #PowerGridCollapse YES OR NO: Would your household be ready for a three-day solar-storm blackout?????? Explor…","meta_description":"A severe solar storm would not behave like a fictional device that instantly destroys every phone, vehicle, and appliance. Its major terrestrial danger is…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1521,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/how-to-survive-the-apocalypse-7291302/episodes/the-first-72-hours-after-a-carrington-level-solar-storm/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/how-to-survive-the-apocalypse-7291302/the-first-72-hours-after-a-carrington-level-solar-storm.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}