Klein/Ally Show: The Podcast - An AMA with a Prepper

Episode Date: September 11, 2026

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Not at San Bernardino International Airport. And now we send you on a direct flight into our podcast, which starts right now. KROQ, we are Klein Ali's show. Used to be zombies and natural disasters were our biggest fear. And then there was this recently, earlier this week. It doesn't get bigger or more direct than this. Quote, AI could kill all humans, according to a lead researcher at Anthropic, within the next decade. So then everyone started thinking about, oh, man, this is now a new thing we have to be concerned about.

And we want to make sure that we are as prepared as humanly possible. So we're going to say hello to Will in just a moment, who is going to help us be prepared for an AMA with someone that spends a lot of their life making sure that they are fully prepared for what potentially could happen. And this guy doesn't like the term prepper because I think a lot of crazies go like, oh, this is my crazy uncle. He's a prepper. He sits under his garage with a gun all the time waiting for end of days. and he just wants to be a prepared citizen and let us know what we should be doing as well, especially because we've been hearing a lot of talk lately

about how the big one is going to hit any day now in California. So prepper is a derogatory term? It's like the P word. Yeah, we don't say it, I think. We'll say hi to Will in a moment. But first, I just want to say good morning to Zeke. Zeke, you're on KROQ at 800-520-1067. Hello.

Hey, man, what's the deal? How's it going? Sweet gibbets. Top of the ham. I just want to let you know, you see me? It's a real dog hearted day today. You know why? Because I'm turning 32 today.

It's my birthday and I got some great news, man. I'm getting off parole early next year. I'll be a free man. They're going to take five years off my parole. You see what I'm saying? No. I think you're saying you're getting off parole early and it's your birthday. Is that correct?

That's right. All right. Happy birthday wheelchair. Beautiful. What a tribute. We met Zeke. Zeke, thanks, man. The happy early parole, I guess.

Hey, guys, y'all told me. All right, there he is. Aw, what a great day for you. That's Zeke. Good day. Let me say hi now to, oh, we got a lot of people on the phone with questions for our prep. Yeah, there's a lot on the text line, too. Get them to us, 800-520-1067.

You may know Will from his YouTube channel where he helps get us all prepared for what could happen. Good morning, Will, and thank you for joining us on KROQ. Good morning. Thank you so much for having me. I appreciate it. So, Allie, first question. You don't like the term prepper. Why is that?

Well, because every time you hear the word prepper, you think of, like you said, some guy under the porch with a shotgun or, you know, wearing a tinfoil hat waiting for the super volcano to erupt in Yellowstone Park. And it's just, you know, when you say that term, people just kind of have an icky feeling about it. So that's why we go with a prepared citizen because you don't have to be a weird person to be a prepared citizen. So your tinfoil hat is interfering with the signal right now. I want to make sure we hear you clearly. You can't get good reception in your bunker. Hold on, I'm going to put you back on hold so Vanessa can try to figure out how you sound crystal clear. Because we must have good quality if you're going to share this information with us.

And I'm going over, Allie, I've got, as I said, I've got my red backpack. This is what my plan is. My trusty red backpack. I've got my red backpack. A survival. Full of whistles and ponchos and that tinfoil stuff to wrap your body in. You won't be able to fight anyone, but they'll know you're there because you've got a whistle. And then I've got a couple of old golf clubs as weapons.

And that's kind of my plan. I have my kid's baseball bat. That's a plan as well. I would imagine, of the show. I think, why would Walking Dead put, like, nails on it? Yeah. You know, kind of make a weapon. I would fashion a weapon, I think.

So, Will, let's start with, if you have done nothing to prepare, what is the first thing that a person listening could do or should be doing right now to prepare for whatever it is? Could be natural disaster, could be AI, could be zombie apocalypse. One of the things that I recommend to people, especially who watch my channel, is to get training. We like to use the term liquidate. You know, people spend a lot of money on this. So we like to liquidate our time into skills. And I am a big proponent of self-defense training. I think that that's where every type of preparedness scenario really should start,

is learning how to protect what you have. Jiu-jitsu, karate? Or does it matter? Well, more along the lines, I mean, you guys are in California. I'm on the other side. Firearms training. is generally the, yeah, that's the place where I like to start.

I just bought a Groupon for a bunch of karate classes. What a waste of time that was. I'll kill you with that. Don't do the Teemo karate. I'm going to break this board in half right now. That guy shoots me. So you obviously have training for, do you have different training that you're going to use to fight different enemies?

Like, hey, here's what I'm going to do for robots versus here's what I'm going to do for zombies? Well, I'm not too worried about the robots, although Elon is, you know, he's got the You know, they're coming out, but definitely more people are the biggest threat. You were mentioning The Walking Dead before, and if you watch that, they kind of stop focusing on the zombies after a while and start focusing on the people.

So that's definitely the biggest threat is people taking what you have. Right. You've got some canned chili sitting around there. Someone else wants your canned chili, and they'll kill you for it. Right. Right. That's what we say on my channel. You want to, you know, start hoarding your beans, peas, and MREs because that's what most of the preppers do. They focus on food and water and not on, you know,

people like me coming in and just taking everything that you have. You hear that, Jake? Beans are the big thing that's going to save us all. It's going to be like filet mignon. That's right. Apocalypse beans. Doomsday beans. So say you're somebody like me who does not have any skills

and does not have any firearms in their house. What is something that I can do? Should I just befriend somebody like you who has skills or what the hell am I going to do? Sexual favors, probably. Like, if this happened right now or tomorrow, what the hell do I do? I mean, you really want to, you know,

it's good to focus on, you know, learning a skill. And it can be any type of skill because, you know, if everything goes to, you know, hell in a handbasket, you know, you're going to join a group of people and you're going to need to have a skill. It's like prison. You've got to have that prison skill on the ready. God, I'm good at things that don't matter.

I know. Allie's useless. Does anyone need an Australian accent right now? Or to put on an iPhone screen. I'm very good at putting on those screen protectors. Daniel, you're on with our prepared citizen, Will, who has made this his mission for many years now. What is your question? Well, hey, if you were stuck and lost in an island and could only bring one item with you, what item would you bring?

I don't think you should be preparing for that situation because that's very unlikely. Did you say fleshlight? Flashlight, that's the answer. I think he's right about that, by the way. Flashlight is the answer. Because it is a flashlight and also a vagina. That's right. That's all you need.

That's all you need, Ali. It's light and a vagina. 562 wanted to know, what is the most valuable thing to have in an apocalypse? Is it firearms and guns? Is it gasoline? Or is it like medical supplies? If you could only grab one, what are you grabbing first? I'm always going straight for the firearms.

For the guns. Got it. Yeah. If it turns to cannibalism, which happens eventually when we run out of food, what is the best way to season human flesh? Anything Gordon Ramsay says to do is what you do. So salt, pepper, thyme, you know, a little bit of garlic. Do you think there's going to be a new currency in the apocalypse? And if so, what would it be?

Because is it like Pokemon cards? Is it ramen? What are we going to be fighting over and trading? Batteries and ammunition. That's everything. Batteries. Yeah. And then with, say, for example, there's a big fire, some kind of natural disaster that happens right now.

Everyone's trying to get out of town. Do I get in a gas car or an electric car? Or does it depend? Because, you know, obviously, if everyone's fighting over gas, you don't want to be the person who's going to run out of gas. But then if you get an electric car and there's a power outage, you're screwed there, too. Well, yeah, but electric cars are just stupid. So, you know, just have a gas car. So gas car is the answer, Ali.

He's judging you. in your weird California ways. Yeah, but what if there's no gas, but there is electricity? Well, there won't be. Well, there might be. I don't know. I mean, but, you know,

what do you want to do? Do you want to wait 37 hours for your car to charge to 20%? Or do you want to just hop in and turn the PNP off? Oliver, it shoots you for your chili. We're talking to Will right now. He's a prepared citizen.

He's on YouTube. Hundreds and thousands of people that have watched his prepared videos to get ready for what could be end of days. We heard recently this week AI could be the cause of it. We don't necessarily know. But you said that at the beginning, you wasted a lot of time.

You did what a lot of the, quote, preppers did. You loaded up, you just held a toothpaste and buckets of rations and all that stuff. And you said if you were to start again today, you would do things very differently. And you mentioned earlier that means get a skill. And that skill should be self-defense, protection, et cetera. But as far as things you should have, if someone is going to put together a pack, what do you think needs to be in that pack? uh court rope cordage um flashlight tons of batteries uh you know fire starters of some kind matches stuff like that um and some type of uh you know you can buy pretty much everything on

the internet now so like a like a small portable little shelter um and then something to purify water is probably a pretty big thing to have um but but then how do you because there's question on text line about how far do you go do you do like three days worth of water and expired batteries or do you do full-on like 30-year nuclear fallout shelter preparation preparation yeah i i get a lot of hateful comments on my youtube channel about that i don't focus enough on water um and and i think that that kind of that's more like a geographical thing um i have a uh i have a river literally 500 feet from my house um i have plenty of water but a lot of people don't um but you also remember water goes bad uh if it sits for years so it's pretty much if you're

gonna buy stuff you have to you have to you know cycle it out you gotta replace it replenish it use it um because in all honesty you know you're gonna have this stuff for probably a pretty long time but i guess it's better to have it than not have it we don't have basements in california sadly most most places do not but uh where would uh the best where would us california pussies go yeah where do we hide in our electric cars what do we do exactly what's the answer we don't put in your electric car um i i me personally i just uh i just took over my wife's closet oh i'm sure she loves that no she hates it all of his bunker stuff in my closet my shoes have been replaced by this giant 12 pound bucket of rice that's right so you don't have an official

bunker you just have a closet with supplies yeah no i don't i don't have a bunker uh there's plenty of other things i'll waste my money on before that and so do you do you fear though i fear that in the apocalypse we're just going to be stuck with a bunch of one percent rich people who bought bunkers you know and it's just we're going to be surrounded by the world's most annoying people no they're not going to make it because you have to remember uh they all have security teams and those security teams are highly trained individuals and those those mega rich are not going to make it very far because the guys with the guns are going to just put them down so the people that will do the best in an apocalypse are the people that are the best at being quote

security trained properly trained etc yeah and also uh the medical field too that's going to be as as a person who needs a skill that's going to probably be the highest commodity is someone who can uh sew you back up i'm gonna wear i'm gonna wear a naughty nurse uniform so that no one takes me out and they assume that i can sew them up yeah well what about entertainment because other than clining a nursey costume you know are you do you at least pack some dvds or something how are we going to entertain ourselves i'm concerned about that every day is a fight for your own life. It's one giant reality competition show.

If it was me, I would just offline download a bunch of your shows and just listen to that on my phone. Until I want to end it myself. And I will use my skills to shoot myself in the face.

Can it either be great or up the suicide rate? Serious question though because you do spend a lot of your time looking into this and preparing people. You didn't mention radio

And one of the joys we have being in this medium is that everyone says you've got to keep a crank radio on the ready just in case this happens. How important in everything that, you know, we must have guns, et cetera, is our radio? Radio is very important, but not just the hand crank radio, but actually, you know, like you could call it a walkie-talkie, you know, a two-way radio. That's going to be important for communication. And most of the ones that you can buy nowadays, you can actually get the FM bands on as well and AM bands. So do you think people like Klein and I, we should just rush for the nearest radio tower because that's where we'll be the most useful is just to tell everybody what the hell's going on? Yeah, and your stations are very secure. So, you know, it'd be a good place to hold up.

So we've got to come here, Klein. Not if you look at the recent profit report, they're not. But regardless, thank you. All right, well, everyone says it's been just a wildly entertaining and informative chat with you. In fact, I've heard a lot of surprising things 949 said, but nothing more surprising than the fact that this guy has a wife. So people are surprised by lots of things. It surprises me every morning. Hey, Will, thank you for joining us, and thank you for potentially keeping us safe in case we meet our doomsday scenario.

And now we know. So, Ali, all we've got to do is get across country and get to Will's River, and we're going to be safe. You're welcome, anytime. All right, there he is, the great Will. A prepared citizen saving the world. We're just going to get on a donkey and try to head over to Will. That's right. I'll be the naughty nurse.