Prepping for the Apocalypse: Elites' Foolish Fantasies for Surviving a Collapse of Their Own Creation

Meet Barrett Moore, the bunker-building bullshit artist who helps capitalists survive the apocalypse with beans, bullets, and bravado. Please share this episode with your friends and start a conversation. Warning: This podcast occasionally uses spicy language. For an entertaining deep dive into the theme of season five (Phalse Prophets), read the definitive peer-reviewed taxonomic analysis from our very own Jason Bradford, PhD. Sources/Links/Notes: History of the Kelly Butte Civil Defense Center Article on Kelly Butte in the Atlas Obscura A Day Called X -- video of a dramatized atomic evacuation of Portland, Oregon Donald Fagen's " New Frontier " Sam Biddle, " The Rise and Fall of the Ultimate Doomsday Prepper ," The Intercept , July 5, 2021. " Three Robots: Exit Strategies " -- episode 1 of season 3 of the Netflix series Love, Death & Robots . National Geographic produced the popular video series Doomsday Preppers . Molly Redden, " The American Elite Are Planning Their Escape — And It Starts With Paying For Passports ," Huffington Post , March 19, 2023. John Ramey, " New statistics on modern prepper demographics from FEMA and Cornell ," theprepared.com August 4, 2021. Bradley Garrett, " Living with bunker builders: doomsday prepping in the age of coronavirus ," The Conversation , May 14, 2020. Interview about Bradley Garrett's study of prepping J. Oliver Conroy, " We mocked preppers and survivalists – until the pandemic hit ," The Guardian , April 30, 2020. Walter Karp, " When Bunkers Last in the Backyard Bloom-d ," American Heritage, February/March 1980. Red Cross’s Preparedness Checklist FEMA’s