SURVIVAL DISPATCH: REMNANT is a fictional post-collapse survival podcast where failure isn’t theoretical, it’s fatal. Follow the Smith family as they fight to survive in a broken America shaped by chaos, scarcity, and constant threat.
Built on realistic scenarios, tactical decision-making, and faith-driven resilience, REMNANT blends storytelling with real-world survival principles to show what it actually takes to endure when the system fails and no one is coming to save you.
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Six men walk up the lane to Mercy Ridge at first light with their rifles slung, and the one in front is talking before he reaches the wagons. He said he would come in the morning. He said to have the one who counts at the gate. Mark Smith is standing behind the cattle gate with his hands open, a farmer beside him, and four rifles on a tin roof behind him that have not fired.
They do not rush the gate. They stop at the edge of the plowed strip where the roof can see them, and the man in front names where he is from and says what he wants in the voice of somebody reading off a list. It is not a raid. That goes through the yard like cold water.
Eli Turner has held that hill all winter against men who come to look. He has never held it against a man who comes to explain. Twenty-six people, three rifles, forty rounds, a cellar that has to reach spring. Every one of those numbers is now something a stranger wants to talk about, with the understanding that the talk can go another way later. Mark has heard this voice before, in a church with a bolted-on cross, and he knows the hill will not believe him until it has buried somebody for it. The men below the hill came up like they promised. They did not come to fight.
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Everyone else waits until 700pm ET.
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8 Nov 2026
Night Tax S02EP032 Part ONE
Six men walk up the lane to Mercy Ridge at first light with their rifles slung, and the one in front is talking before he reaches the wagons. He said he would come in the morning. He said to have the one who counts at the gate. Mark Smith is standing behind the cattle gate with his hands open, a farmer beside him, and four rifles on a tin roof behind him that have not fired.
They do not rush the gate. They stop at the edge of the plowed strip where the roof can see them, and the man in front names where he is from and says what he wants in the voice of somebody reading off a list. It is not a raid. That goes through the yard like cold water.
Eli Turner has held that hill all winter against men who come to look. He has never held it against a man who comes to explain. Twenty-six people, three rifles, forty rounds, a cellar that has to reach spring. Every one of those numbers is now something a stranger wants to talk about, with the understanding that the talk can go another way later. Mark has heard this voice before, in a church with a bolted-on cross, and he knows the hill will not believe him until it has buried somebody for it. The men below the hill came up like they promised. They did not come to fight.
Subscribers also get the companion article that expands the story beyond what the audio carries, plus access to the community where Guardians work through what each episode means for their own families.
Everyone else waits until 700pm ET.
Subscribe HERE (https://www.survivaldispatchremnant.com/) — don't wait on the story that's already being told.
2 Nov 2026
Mercy Ridge S02EP031 Part TWO
Smoke stands straight up off a chimney on a hill ahead, the first fire anybody has let burn in daylight since the family left the river. Morris puts the column down in the timber. Seven people, a dog on a litter, days without a meal, eleven rounds in Mark's rifle, and three Black Vulture scouts somewhere behind them who have opened their book by now and found a page gone.
The hill is a farm that somebody turned into a position. A plowed strip around it, the lane blocked, a man on the barn roof with a rifle. Mark has stood at a gate like that before, in October, with a stranger going through his pockets. He knows what the questions are. Then a child's cry comes down the hill, and a mother's voice over it that has run out of things to try. Sarah has not.
Mercy Ridge offers more than a roof. It offers work, and the first chance since the collapse to stop walking. Mark walks it counting, the way Reilly taught him: mouths, rifles, rounds, ways out, and who can see a hill with smoke on it in daylight. A fixed position holds you. It also shows you to everyone for ten miles. The Smiths have answered a gate's questions twice this winter, and both times the answers were written down and kept. Whatever Sarah's hands buy at this gate, the family will be asked to pay for it at a price nobody has named yet.
Subscribers also get the companion article that expands the story beyond what the audio carries, plus access to the community where Guardians work through what each episode means for their own families.
Everyone else waits until 700pm ET.
Subscribe HERE (https://www.survivaldispatchremnant.com/) — don't wait on the story that's already being told.
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