TOPS Bunker: The Original Prepper Survivalist Podcast
byKeith Otworth & Rhonda Triggs
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Formerly known as the OGTX Bunker... We are now TOPS Bunker. The Original Prepper Survivalist Podcast. By no means are we the actual, original podcast within the preparedness genre, but we really wanted to have a mascot for the show and of course, that had to be the hairy man himself... BIGFOOT. If anyone was to be crowned, The Original Prepper Survivalist, that title should most definitely go to Sasquatch. As if y'all couldn't tell, we like to keep things light and fun. And in most cases, that includes this show and as well TOPS Bunker Group on Facebook. We get...
Episodes(40 episodes)
S8E229 - 229 Do This Now - Buddy's TOP10 Winter Garden Starts
Text Our Show HostsPlease Help Us - Support TOPS Bunker as Low as 3$ mo. Click Here...!!!Tonight, we’re talking about Winter Garden Starts.I know… it’s January… it’s a frozen tundra out there… it’s below freezing and in some places like here, it’s below zero. I sure as hell don’t want to be working in my garden in ski pants and snow boots… hands all numb and frozen boogers in my beard. Hell No.And therein lies the beauty of it…</b...
Published: Jan 24, 2026Duration: 1:02:40
S8E228 - 228 A Prepper Style Sit-Down - Listener Q&A and Talking Shop
Text Our Show HostsPlease Help Us - Support TOPS Bunker as Low as 3$ mo. Click Here...!!!Tonight, Buddy and I are talking shop. We’ll hear from a few listeners who sent us voice messages through Speakpipe and play a quasi round of Stump The Prepper with long-time listener and TOPS Bunker Podcast contributor, Casey Lambert. We’ll also hear from Zach from Pennsylvania who’s got us thinking about motivation and spending budgets.As y’all may know, Buddy has been booking the guests on the show and...
Published: Jan 17, 2026Duration: 59:29
S8E227 - 227 Trump Roulette - Is POTUS a Gambler or Master Tactician
Text Our Show HostsPlease Help Us - Support TOPS Bunker as Low as 3$ mo. Click Here...!!!Tonight we’re talking with special guest, Dave from Pennsylvania. Dave is a master Prepper Survivalist with a wide range of useful skills to bring to the table and we’re excited to bring him back as a recurring Subject Matter Specialist.Buddy has named this episode Trump Bingo, which is I guess, appropriate but I’d rather call it Trump Roulette.Either way you look at it, it does appear that President Trump has a lot...
Published: Jan 10, 2026Duration: 1:03:28
S8E226 - 226 Readiness Trumps Resolutions - Setting Realistic Goals for 2026
Text Our Show HostsPlease Help Us - Support TOPS Bunker as Low as 3$ mo. Click Here...!!!So, Tonight, Let’s talk about goals for 2026. Every New Year's day, historically, we all get a sense of renewal. Wind in our sales, so to speak. Excitement for the year to come. We close the door to last year, but not before Last Year puts its big’ol foot in the door and whispers… “Not so fast. Ya see, we all hope for this grand change to happen when the clock tur...
Published: Jan 3, 2026Duration: 51:32
S8E225 - 225 Prepper Regrets - Disappointments Fails & Misfires of 2025
Text Our Show HostsPlease Help Us - Support TOPS Bunker as Low as 3$ mo. Click Here...!!!So, Tonight, we're talking about…Regrets and Disappointments of 2025And 2025 didn’t pull any punches.It tested our focus… drained our energy…And for a lot of us with prepared lifestyles, it exposed a hard truth that we don’t like hearing…We knew better, but we didn’t always DO better.Not because we didn’t care...
Published: Dec 28, 2025Duration: 56:11
S8E224 - 224 WARNING !!! Burn-Out Imminent - Prepper Fatigue is Real
Text Our Show HostsPlease Help Us - Support TOPS Bunker as Low as 3$ mo. Click Here...!!!Tonight, we're talking about exhaustion.The type of tired that sleep doesn't fix. Not tired from splitting firewood or hauling water or putting in the long honest day's work. That kind of tired makes sense. That kind of tiredness comes with purpose and fades quickly.No, I'm talking about the tired that settles into your bones when you've been watching the horizon for too long. If you've been in this world that is preparedness...
Published: Dec 21, 2025Duration: 57:14
S8E223 - 223 TOPS Ultimate Christmas Special Gear Gifts 2025
Text Our Show HostsPlease Help Us - Support TOPS Bunker as Low as 3$ mo. Click Here...!!!… Tonight, we keep it simple stupid for all of our listeners who are still on the fence about what gifts you’ll be giving to the Prepper Survivalist Homesteader in your life for Christmas this year. Ya know, we do this every year before Christmas, and it still amazes me about how many great new and old gadgets and gear the Prepper Survivalist world comes up with every year.You don’t have...
Published: Dec 13, 2025Duration: 1:08:57
S8E222 - 222 Hunter Gatherer Part 2 - Mother Nature's Butchers Shop
Text Our Show HostsPlease Help Us - Support TOPS Bunker as Low as 3$ mo. Click Here...!!!Tonight, we continue our discussion on Hunting for your protein during an SHTF Grid-Down situation. This is a topic seldom discussed within the preparedness world, at least not with any realism or truth.In other words, reality vs fantasy - facts vs hope and desire. Yes, in a grid-down scenario we will all hope and desire to feed ourselves in the best most efficient way we can. We fantasize about...
Published: Dec 6, 2025Duration: 1:01:37
S8E221 - 221 Black Friday - ThanksGiving Traditions Prepper Style
Text Our Show HostsPlease Help Us - Support TOPS Bunker as Low as 3$ mo. Click Here...!!!Tonight we talk Turkey about US Thanksgiving Holiday traditions like Black Friday Prepper Deals, Cooking the Bird, and whatever the hell else we want. Let's get to it.TOPSBunker.comREFUGE MEDICAL - Use TOPSBUNKER10 at checkout for 10% Off Entire OrderLIFESTRAW Personal Water Filtration DeviceOLIGHT Baton4 Premium Edition Flashlight with Charging CaseNestOut Elecom Rugged Power BankSkyOcean...
Published: Nov 28, 2025Duration: 1:03:37
S8E220 - 220 Buying Bug-Out Land - Pitfalls to Avoid with Christina Bowers
Text Our Show HostsPlease Help Us - Support TOPS Bunker as Low as 3$ mo. Click Here...!!!Today we’re talking about one of the biggest decisions a Prepper Survivalist can make, especially if you are an aspiring Homesteader: Choosing the right piece of land to purchase. Whether you’re looking to start a small off-grid setup, build a full working homestead, or to simply move your family toward a more self-reliant lifestyle - real estate choices matter. The land you buy determines your water options, your food production, your security, your daily chal...
Published: Nov 22, 2025Duration: 36:37
S8E219 - 219 The Naughty List - Who’s Watching You w/ Alejandro from SODOG Inc
Text Our Show HostsPlease Help Us - Support TOPS Bunker as Low as 3$ mo. Click Here...!!!The holiday season has a way of lowering our guard.Lights flicker and blink, music fills the air, crowds swell, and everyone moves a little faster, laughs a little louder, and unfortunately, pays a lot less attention.And that… right there… is the crack in the armor that predators wait all year to exploit.While families are shopping… they’re stalking.While travelers rush through airports… they’re watching.</p...
Published: Nov 15, 2025Duration: 1:08:54
S8E218 - 218 Winter Is Coming Part One - We Are The Ready, We Are The Odd, Stay Frosty
Text Our Show HostsPlease Help Us - Support TOPS Bunker as Low as 3$ mo. Click Here...!!!Welcome to TOPS Bunker PodcastThis Episode discusses and reminds us all to Prepare for Winter. Yeah, it's that time of year again. This will be a 2-Part Series with the 2nd half dropping in a week or so. Don't forget your Winterizing Checklists and help support the show by clicking on the product links below.TopsBunker.comWinterizing Checklist PDF...
Published: Nov 8, 2025Duration: 1:11:11
S8E217 - 217 TOPS DGH Halloween Special - Absolutely Nothing Prepper Related LoL
Text Our Show HostsPlease Help Us - Support TOPS Bunker as Low as 3$ mo. Click Here...!!!Tonight, join Rhonda, Missy, Ennette, and Laney at their Halloween Party and have some fun. From Terrifying Criptids to Delicious Chocolate Spiders, we've got your Spooky Desires covered on this episode.Give us a shout out on Speakpipe and we'll put you on the show.SPEAKPIPE.COM/TOPSTOPSBunker.comCreator Credits:Carolina Case Files: Reall 911 Audio...
Published: Oct 31, 2025Duration: 1:03:16
S8E216 - 216 Hunter Gatherer - Collecting Protien From The Forests During SHTF
Text Our Show HostsPlease Help Us - Support TOPS Bunker as Low as 3$ mo. Click Here...!!!Hunter-Gatherer - TOPS Bunker Original Limited Series.The world wasn’t always, concrete and steel. Once, a long time ago, the night sky was our ceiling. The forest was our shelter. The hunt, was our heartbeat. Before empires, before machines, before the grid… there was only man, his will, and the wild.“They” were the first survivors. The Hunter-Gatherers. Men and women who moved like shadows through endless...
Published: Oct 25, 2025Duration: 1:11:08
S8E215 - 215 Fight Back - Self-Defense Survival with Instructor Ron Flowers
Text Our Show HostsPlease Help Us - Support TOPS Bunker as Low as 3$ mo. Click Here...!!!I want to thank y’all for joining us… We’ve got a great show for ya…Self Defense… Have ya ever thought about it? And I mean, really dug deep and thought about it. Have ya ever wondered what you would do if you were faced with a physical threat? A mugging… a robbery… an abduction? If you or a loved one were involved in a life-threatening attack or assault, would you know...
Published: Oct 18, 2025Duration: 1:09:15
S8E214 - 214 Irish Survivalist Group - Irish Prepping with ISG Founder Frank Deegan
Text Our Show Hosts!!!... Our apologies for the sound quality of this episode. Not sure why just yet, but we're working on it. Thank You.I want to thank y’all for joining us… Europe’s cracking under the weight of its own politics. Great Britain’s stumbling through chaos, and Ireland — that quiet, watchful island — is standing at the crossroads of it all.But while most folks are distracted by the headlines and hashtags, a few are paying attention. They’re not waiting for the next di...
Published: Oct 11, 2025Duration: 47:02
S8E213 - 213 Stay Dry Stay Alive - Wet Exposure Bug-Out In The Wilderness
Text Our Show HostsPlease Help Us - Support TOPS Bunker as Low as 3$ mo. Click Here...!!!Camping, Bushcrafting, Survival Skills. The Rules of Three. These are your survival tools now. There’s No thermostat… No four walls or ceilings. No reset button. Out There, it’s you against the elements, every hour, of every day.The sun… it’s gonna scorch you. The nights… you’ll Freeze. The wind will cut through your layers to test your limits.And Rain… Oh… Rain will soak you to your c...
Published: Oct 4, 2025Duration: 49:32
S8E212 - 212 State Of The Union - A Year In Review In Preparedness
Text Our Show HostsPlease Help Us - Support TOPS Bunker as Low as 3$ mo. Click Here...!!!I want to thank y’all for joining us…We’ve got a great show for ya…It’s been a year since we rebooted TOPS Bunker with the new format and hosts, and I have to tell y’all… Wow…! Fifty-Four episodes in twelve months and we’re still rolling strong. We’ve got so much content planned for you guys going forward that I honestly don’t know how we’re...
Published: Sep 27, 2025Duration: 51:58
S7E211 - 211 3i/Atlas - What Every Prepper Survivalist Should Know About This Alien Visitor
Text Our Show HostsPlease Help Us - Support TOPS Bunker as Low as 3$ mo. Click Here...!!!I want to thank y’all for joining us…We’ve got a great show for ya...Tonight, we’re talking about 3I/Atlas. An interstellar object that NASA is calling a Comet that is heading straight through our solar system. But leading astrophysicists, astronomers, and other scientist from around the world have issues with this object. It’s made course corrections, it got brighter and changed colors for...
Published: Sep 20, 2025Duration: 1:14:19
S7E210 - 210 Family Style Situational Awareness - Britt Tells Us How
Text Our Show HostsPlease Help Us - Support TOPS Bunker as Low as 3$ mo. Click Here...!!!Tonight, We’re talking about Family Defense with special guest Britt from The Dirty Garden Hoes Podcast. My co-host and better half, Rhonda also joins us tonight, along with Buddy and myself to hopefully hit this topic head-on, cuz it’s an important one… especially right now with violence popping up in cities all across the US and around the world. Brittany’s gonna tell us how she deals with it and how she prepares her youn...
Published: Sep 13, 2025Duration: 56:23