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Ender’s Game

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A brilliant scifi novel written by Orson Scott Card about children that are raised to be soldiers from birth in preparation for an anticipated invasion from an insect like alien race. In this story we follow a young boy named Ender Wiggin as he is raised and trained to be not only a soldier but a leader.

I love everything about this book, from emotion, the action, futuristic tech and everything in between. For what started as a short story released in 1977 and a book released in 1985, Card has an amazing almost foretelling view of the future to include detailed uses of the internet and iPad like devices.

A buddy of mine has been bugging me to read this book for years and I finally made a point to do so over the summer. An additional kick in my butt to go ahead and read this is that I heard about the movie being made. With that said I really wanted to read the book before watching the movie for which I plan to review with Mick.

You can find the book Ender’s Game on Amazon.

Borrowed Time

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Written and performed by Keith Hughes, Borrowed Time is a Scifi audio book about time travel. The story follows Ness Relevant in his struggles to unravel the puzzle of a time travel device built by Dr. Bertrand and keep the device out of the hands of those who will use it for evil. It’s a battle against time and if he looses it could be his life.

Mick and Redbeard enjoyed this story and if you enjoy time travel stories you will too.

You can find Keith Hughes’ books here on podiobooks.com http://podiobooks.com/contributor/keith-hughes/.

Keith Hughes on Twitter @edgizmo

We’re Alive

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Written by KC Wayland and produced by KC Wayland and Shane Salk, We’re Alive is a story about zombie survival that follows three soldiers and a group of civilian survivors from the initial outbreak and into their daily struggles, fights and all out war. This isn’t your grandpa’s audio drama or your grandma’s soaps. This is the best produced audio drama out there today to include it’s well written story line, detailed characters, acting, audio quality and blow your mind sound effects.

We love We’re Alive so much we have a fancast for it.

You can We’re Alive at http://www.zombiepodcast.com

Episode 6: We’re Alive S4 C37 P3 Balance of Power – Divided

Join Mick and RedBeard as we cover We’re Alive Season 4 Ch 37 Ep 3 Balance of Power in a nyquil fueled session. We want you to be a part of the show so send us your theories, ideas and feedback.

Air Force Commander details his Zombie Survival Plan –http://www.10news.com/news/military/dyess-air-force-base-bomb-wing-commander-shares-anti-zombie-response-plan09092013

An Insight:
RedBeard says he is most like Datu. Note that he admires John Cohn from the first season of the Discovery Channel show The Colony (U.S. version). John Cohn would be best described as a mad scientist version of Datu. The Colony is available on Amazon prime for free.

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Be involved in the show:
You can be involved in the show by emailing us text or audio recordings to werealive@mickred.com or by calling (424) Alive – 80 or (424) 254-8380 and leaving a voicemail that we will play on our show. You can even text us at (424) 254-8380.

Shoutouts:
Check out @DeadReviews – Their Youtube Channel can be found here: http://www.youtube.com/walkingd3adnews

Two True Freaks – http://twotruefreaks.com

In the Rabbit Hole – Urban Survival Podcast – http://www.intherabbithole.com/

Music Credits

Ghostpocalypse – 4 Temptress and Lone Harvest by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a CC Attribution 3.0.
http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100665. http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100409.

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Preparedness vs Reaction

Being prepared and reacting are two separate things. Preparedness is what resources, training and the mindset you have. Reaction is how you respond to a situation. You may be saying to yourself those are directly related and not necessarily something that can be compared. Just as an example everyone has either met or heard of that guy who has every tool known to man without a clue when it comes to using them or at least using them correctly. Point is that when comes to being prepared and reacting you can’t have one in its fullest capacity without the other.

Imagine yourself having wrecked while driving down the road with friends or loved ones in the vehicle. What is your initial reaction? You see two people injured, who do you help first? If that’s not enough of a stressful situation, if you haven’t had first aid training in a while or not at all you are probably not going to do anyone any good and you may hinder the situation.

If you haven’t trained or practiced in a while, well you know that statement like riding a bicycle? It is never that easy not even with a bicycle. There can’t be enough emphasis on training and practice. With training and practice in place it will be much easier to make those critical quick mental notes and assessments while remaining calm which is the key to dealing with any situation.

In conclusion, you can’t just buy preparedness. Be prepared, be trained and be practiced.

Consider this to be a living document and will be updated and revised when necessary.

Episode 5: We’re Alive S4 C37 P2 Balance of Power – Awkward

Mr. RedBeard and Mick cover We’re Alive Season 4 Ch 37 Ep 2 Balance of Power. We want our listeners to be involved in, scratch that, we want you to be a part of the show so send us your theories, ideas and feedback.

The song from We’re Alive Season 4 Chapter 37 Episode 2 where CJ is going under for surgery is called Sweating Bullets by Feste and can be found on Reverb Nation or Feste on Youtube.

Visit us at: MickRed.com

Shoutouts:
Check out @DeadReviews – Their Youtube Channel can be found here: http://www.youtube.com/walkingd3adnews

Two True Freaks – http://twotruefreaks.com

In the Rabbit Hole – Urban Survival Podcast – http://www.intherabbithole.com/

Music Credits

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Episode 4: Special Edition of WAFancast Interview with Claire Dodin

Photo of Claire Dodin curtosey of www.clairedodin.com and photo by Zack Zublena

Mr. RedBeard and Mick interview Claire Dodin who plays Riley on We’re Alive. It was an awesome experience to be able to interview the beautiful and amazingly talented Claire Dodin. We hope you enjoy this interview as much as we did.

You can find more about Claire Dodin at http://www.clairedodin.com/
On IMDB http://www.imdb.me/clairedodin
Follow her @ClaireDodin on twitter Checkout Claire’s work on The Leviathan Chronicles at http://leviathanchronicles.com/

A special thanks to DeadReviews for setting this interview up for us – Their Youtube Channel can be found here: http://www.youtube.com/walkingd3adnews

Visit us at: www.mickred.com Be involved in the show: You can be involved in the show by emailing us text or audio recordings to werealive@mickred.com or by calling (424) Alive – 80 or (424) 254-8380 and leaving a voicemail that we will play on our show. You can even text us at (424) 254-8380.

Music Credits Ghostpocalypse – 4 Temptress by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a CC Attribution 3.0. http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100665.

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Episode 3: Special Edition of WAFancast Interview with Elisa Eliot

Elisa Eliot Photo Courtesy of http://www.elisaeliot.com

Mr. RedBeard and Mick interview Elisa Eliot who plays Pegs on We’re Alive. It was a pleasure to be able to interview the very sweet and talented Elisa Eliot. We hope you enjoy this interview as much as we did.

You can find more about Elisa Eliot at http://www.elisaeliot.com
On IMDB http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1799605/
Follow her @elisaeliot on twitter

A special thanks to DeadReviews for setting this interview up for us – Their Youtube Channel can be found here: http://www.youtube.com/walkingd3adnews

Visit us at: www.mickred.com

Music Credits

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Episode 2: We’re Alive S4 C37 P1 Balance of Power – Datu Fix

Mr. RedBeard and Mick review of We’re Alive Season 4 Ch 37 Ep 1 Balance of Power. We want our listeners to be involved in, scratch that, we want you to be a part of the show so send us your theories, ideas and feedback.

Visit us at: www.mickred.com

Check out @DeadReviews – Their Youtube Channel can be found here: http://www.youtube.com/walkingd3adnews

Two True Freaks – http://twotruefreaks.com

Music Credits

Ghostpocalypse – 4 Temptress by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a CC Attribution 3.0.
http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100665.

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Urban Survival Part 1

What is Urban Survival? Part 1

So when most people think about disasters they most likely associate Fema and the Red Cross. Others may stumble across wiki articles on survival, survival websites, survival blogs, simple search results, etc. Don’t misunderstand, these may be good resources or starting places and you should consider reviewing them. Just remember that you can know anything but if you don’t practice that knowledge could be useless.

Boiled down to the basics for Urban Survival

Be aware
Know your surroundings
- Threats and/or Dangers (Environmental, Structural, People)
Know what resources you have and note the unlikely resources (Environmental, Structural, People)
- One man’s trash is another man’s treasure
Do what’s neccessary
Inventory
Make a plan
Shelter options
Water
Food
Energy
- Normally fire and still could be but can also include power, lights, etc
Don’t take unnecessary risks

Good resources for those starting out

In The Rabbit Hole Urban Survival Podcast What’s easier than listening while carrying out other tasks like driving?

Ready.gov Disaster types and response plans

Consider this to be a living document and will be updated and revised when necessary.