The 10 Best Prepper Podcasts

Prepper podcasts are a great way to stay informed. The best prepper podcast is the one you feel you can learn the most from. You can listen to podcasts on the go or at home by downloading or streaming. I prefer to stream podcasts on my commute to and from work. It gives me targeted information that I simply could not get from talk radio or the news. For those who are not familiar with podcasts, it is a fancy word for a simple concept. They are pre-recorded radio shows that usually span 30 minutes to an hour.

You can use your computer or smartphone to subscribe to these shows, and they will be automatically delivered when the next episode is available, so you can listen whenever you want. This makes them great for entertainment or information on the go. All you need is a podcast player, and you can be entertained while you brush up on your preparedness.

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Contents (Jump to a Section)

• What are Prepper Podcasts?
• Top 10 Prepper Podcasts
  1. Project 22:3 Preparedness
  2. Stakeholder Prepping
  3. TOPS Bunker
  4. Ready Your Future
  5. Live Like the World is Dying
  6. Practical Prepping Podcast
  7. Mind4Survival
  8. Bear Independent Podcast
  9. The Survival Podcast
  10. The Casual Preppers Podcast
• Honorable Mention Podcasts
• Retired Prepper Podcasts
• How We Rank Podcasts
• The Final Word

This is an updated ranking of the best prepper podcasts for 2026. Our first rankings were in 2017, and we will continue to update these rankings annually. When you buy through our links, we may earn a commission. Disclosure»

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What are Prepper Podcasts?

Podcasts may still seem like a new way to stay informed, but they have been around long enough for many podcasts about prepping to have come and gone. Much like blogs, there are pages and pages of podcasts that have come and gone as the producers grew bored or simply moved on from making podcasts.

For that reason, we do not include any podcasts that no longer show an intention of running in our rankings. Although old podcasts are not valued any less simply because they lack new content, there are plenty of podcasts today that offer fresh perspectives and purposeful content.

There are also a ton of new podcasts. While we’ve kept this list up for several years, there have been several new arrivals over the last few. Prepping, in general, has gained popularity and more mainstream appeal, so it’s not surprising!

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Top 10 Prepper Podcasts

Over the past year, several larger podcasts quit producing content, which shook up the top 10 a bit more than usual. The Survival Show, Dirty Civilian, The Survival Prepper, and Fieldcraft Survival all punched out, along with a few lesser-known podcasts. Some podcasts, like our top pick, also strayed a bit- trying other formats and even creating new podcasts on other topics.

Nonetheless, even if podcasting about prepping is seeing a shift, prepping continues to gain ground as a wider variety of people are understanding how individual preparedness can help them out. Here are the top 10 prepper podcasts for 2026:

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As a Navy veteran and Fire Captain, Brent has plenty of experience to support his thoughts and advice on preparedness. His relatively new podcast highlights his extensive knowledge, but doesn’t get stale as he mixes in interviews and discussions along the way.

The show title is based on the common prepping quote from Proverbs 22:3 that advises “the wise see danger coming and prepare, but the foolish keep going and suffer for it.” It’s repeated in Proverbs 27:12, reinforcing a core message in the Bible about being prepared.

If you live out in Washington, you can also take some courses with him on 2-way radios (contingency communications) and firearms training. His podcast earns high marks from our team, but you’ll need to check it out and leave a review yourself to see him climb the rankings.

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With a massive 244 reviews on Spotify (all with 5 stars), we had to check out what the buzz was about. And we found that Stakeholder Prepping is the real deal- it’s a well-produced and interesting podcast featuring a duo that keep it fast-paced and know what they are talking about.

They are new to our list and the top ten, so we hope to continue to see good content from them through 2026.

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TOPS is unabashedly conservative, so if you want to avoid political talk on your podcasts, you may want to steer clear. Part of this is because they discuss current events thoroughly. While they dip into what government and agencies should be doing, they also talk about what you can do as well.

The production value isn’t at a 10 quite yet, but it’s an entertaining listen to their take on the events unfolding around the world.

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As prepping and preparedness continue to grow more mainstream, they will also become more diverse. This podcast is the perfect example in that it brings a left-leaning anarchist perspective. This may be off-putting to some conservative preppers, but others may appreciate the unique viewpoints and solid preparedness information.

It is produced incredibly well and offers insight into topics even I hadn’t considered. If you are truly looking for podcasts to broaden your horizons, give this one a try.

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Mark and Krista continue their climb with their continued dedication to prepping topics. They recently talked about how to avoid prepping burnout, which is relevant with their huge cache of close to 500 episodes.

They have a folksy family approach to podcasts, and typically talk for 20-30 minutes once per week. I wouldn’t exactly call their delivery exciting, but it is straightforward, informative, and continues to expand its scope.

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Brian shares some thorough preparedness tips that are right on topic for current events. He presents it in a thorough but easy-to-listen way that seems like it wouldn’t work well- but it does. The current event breakdowns with specific actionable advice make it a great podcast to listen to if you want to actively improve your preparedness every week.

His delivery and engagement in the topics make it much less dry than other preparedness-first podcasts that go into such thorough detail. This, along with the departure of other prepping podcasts, is why Brian made such a big jump in the rankings this past year.

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Bear Independent is a fast-growing prepping channel on YouTube, and this podcast is the updates that TJ Morris used to do on the channel. It’s exactly what it aims to be: an information-sharing source based on Christian faith, traditional values, and prepping.

While he’s not a doomsday prophesizer like other big prepping channels, he does share current event hot-takes. I appreciate his perspectives, but it might not be your cup of tea if you are looking for more prepping how-tos and preparedness analysis.

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The Survival Podcast is still the quintessential podcast on prepping, urban survival, and wilderness survival. You don’t have to take our word for it either; he has a ton of episodes, a slew of rave reviews, and a huge base of subscribers.

Jack’s podcast resilience parallels his preparedness- no other prepper podcast will come close to his body of work at this point, with over 3700 episodes over the years.

If you haven’t checked out Jack’s podcast, you need to try it out at least once to see why it sits at the top of the downloads list. He keeps a variety of guests rotating through and covers a very broad range, so the podcast never seems to get stale, no matter how many episodes he cranks out. Jack delivers a new show every weekday, so the content adds up quickly.

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These guys were a new-ish podcast when they showed up in our top 10 back in 2017, but they have blown up since then. Coby and Cam have honed their banter into a well-oiled prepping information machine, but don’t take themselves too seriously. When you listen to the show, we can promise you that you will not be bored.

2025 was an odd year for CPP, as they tried out several new formats with varied listener interest. They also attempted a spin-off podcast on another subject that didn’t work out as they hoped. For 2026, it looks like they are getting back to their roots- prepping, mindless banter, and more of what we’ve come to expect from the pair over the years.

They have always been down-to-earth and interesting guys and are doing a fantastic job of making prepping accessible and keeping existing preppers engaged. We’re convinced that prepping advice is best served by a couple of guys committed to staying survived.

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Honorable Mention Podcasts

These podcasts were reviewed and have good content, but did not have the body of work to stack up against our top 10. Still, they may be a good option for you if you are looking for fresh content on survival and prepping.

• Banzai Prepping – Spotify – Never ranked.
• Canadian Prepper Podcast – Audible – Apple – Spotify – Highest rank = 8.
• Prepping Academy – Apple – Never ranked.
• Prepping 2.0 Podcast – Apple – Spotify – Highest rank = 7.
• Survival and Basic Badass Podcast – Audible – Apple – Spotify – Highest rank = 6.
• The Politics Prepping & Paranormal Podcast – Audible – Apple – Spotify – Never ranked.
• The Survival Punk Podcast – Audible – Apple – Never ranked, returned in 2025 after a long hiatus.

Some of these regularly veer off the track of prepping, talking about politics and conspiracies here and there. Still, we find them worth including here for those who are digging for more content.

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Retired Prepper Podcasts

There are plenty of great podcasts that are no longer producing content but are worth a listen. These include:

• Fieldcraft Survival – Apple – Spotify – Highest rank = 2, last aired in 2025. The rails started coming off when Mike Glover “chose to resign and stepped down to pursue personal and other endeavors.” The show was good while it lasted.
• Get Ready Podcast – Audible – Apple – Spotify – Never ranked, last aired in 2024.
• In the Rabbit Hole Survival –  Apple – Highest rank = 3, last aired in 2019. Aaron, Jonathan, and Jason were ahead of their time in the 2010s, stringing together 300 engaging and interesting episodes of preparedness content over the decade.
• Modern Outdoor Survival – Audible – Apple – Spotify – Highest rank = 10, last aired in 2024.
• Prepping for Everything – Apple – Spotify – Never ranked, last aired in 2024.
• Survivalist Prepper Podcast – Audible – Apple – Spotify – Highest rank = 4, last aired in 2025.
• The Apocalypse Survival Guide – Apple – Never ranked, last aired in 2018.
• The Big One / The Big Burn – Apple – Never ranked, last aired in 2022.
• The Dirty Civilian Podcast – Audible – Apple – Spotify – Highest rank = 6, last aired in 2024.
• The Holistic Prepper Podcast – Apple – Never ranked, last aired in 2023.
• The Practical Prepper Podcast – Audible – Spotify – 55 episodes – Highest rank = 8, last aired in 2022.
• The Prepper Website Podcast – Not a dead podcast, it simply changed its name to The Ready Your Future Podcast.
• The Survival Preppers with Duff & Dale – Audible – Never ranked, last aired in 2023.
• The Survival Show – Apple – Spotify – Highest rank = 3, last aired in 2025.
• Today’s Survival Show – Highest rank = 4, last aired in 2016.
• Urban Prepping’s Podcast – Apple – Never ranked, last aired in 2014.

Just because a podcast is retired doesn’t mean you can’t find value in its shows. Out of all of these, In the Rabbit Hole is probably the most beloved by the prepping community and worth revisiting.

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How We Rank Podcasts

We’ve been ranking these podcasts based on our own preference over the years, but we’ve decided to switch over the past few years. The list of the top 10 prepper podcasts is now a combination of iTunes and Spotify ratings and our own prepper rating, with a one-third to two-thirds split.

If you’d like to see a podcast higher up the list, make sure you have left a positive review on their iTunes or Spotify podcast page.

For our own scoring, we weighed prepping subject matter and entertainment value highly. If a podcast covers a range of broad prepping topics and presents them in an interesting and entertaining way, we’ll rank it more highly than a niche-focused podcast that presents material with a dry delivery. If you are familiar with prepper podcasts, you may notice a few big names missing, and that is not a mistake. Bland content and having almost as much ad time as podcast time will not land you in the rankings.

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The Final Word

Prepper podcasts can give you the information you need to have an edge if SHTF. There is plenty of knowledge out there, and podcasts make it easier to borrow some of it while you are on the go. There is a wide range of topics and personalities just inside the prepping community. 

If you are looking for other media to explore prepping and survival topics, check out these rankings and roundups:

• The 10 Best Prepper YouTube Channels
• 21 Prepper TV Shows Worth Watching
• Bug Out Bag List | 44 Essentials

If you have any favorite podcasts that we may have missed or chosen not to rank, weigh in below in the comment section. We’ll always take the time to review it before our next roundup and see where it stacks up.

Keep exploring, stay prepared, and be safe.

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