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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 (bit.ly/RSIC-Journal) from our very own Jason Bradford, PhD.
Sources/Links/Notes:
• History of the Kelly Butte Civil Defense Center (oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/kelly_butte_civil_defense_center_and_kelly_butte_natural_area/#.ZBNW53bMK3A)
• Article on Kelly Butte (atlasobscura.com/places/kelly-butte-civil-defense-center) in the Atlas Obscura
• A Day Called X (youtube.com/watch?v=ueEl7A7KaHA) -- video of a dramatized atomic evacuation of Portland, Oregon
• Donald Fagen's "New Frontier (youtube.com/watch?v=FtovFI8etOg) "
• Sam Biddle, "The Rise and Fall of the Ultimate Doomsday Prepper (theintercept.com/2021/07/05/barrett-moore-brad-thor-doomsday-prepper-the-haven/) ," The Intercept, July 5, 2021.
• "Three Robots: Exit Strategies (imdb.com/title/tt20192958/) " -- episode 1 of season 3 of the Netflix series Love, Death & Robots.
• National Geographic produced the popular video series Doomsday Preppers (nationalgeographic.com/tv/shows/doomsday-preppers) .
• Molly Redden, "The American Elite Are Planning Their Escape — And It Starts With Paying For Passports (huffpost.com/entry/backup-passports-secondary-citizenship_n_6414a627e4b0fef15243ec07) ," Huffington Post, March 19, 2023.
• John Ramey, "New statistics on modern prepper demographics from FEMA and Cornell (theprepared.com/blog/new-statistics-on-modern-prepper-demographics-from-fema-and-cornell-university/) ," theprepared.com August 4, 2021.
• Bradley Garrett, "Living with bunker builders: doomsday prepping in the age of coronavirus (theconversation.com/living-with-bunker-builders-doomsday-prepping-in-the-age-of-coronavirus-136635) ,"The Conversation, May 14, 2020.
• Interview about Bradley Garrett's study of prepping (cbsnews.com/news/preppers-60-minutes-2022-11-06/)
• J. Oliver Conroy, "We mocked preppers and survivalists – until the pandemic hit (theguardian.com/global/2020/apr/30/preppers-survivalists-disasters-lessons) ," The Guardian, April 30, 2020.
• Walter Karp, "When Bunkers Last in the Backyard Bloom-d (americanheritage.com/when-bunkers-last-backyard-bloom-d) ," American Heritage, February/March 1980.
• Red Cross’s Preparedness Checklist (redcross.org/content/dam/redcross/get-help/pdfs/preparedness-essentials/EN_Preparedness-Essentials-Checklist.pdf)
• FEMA’s 12 Ways to Prepare (ready.gov/sites/default/files/2021-06/ready_12-ways-to-prepare_postcard.pdf)
• Tom Prugh, "Democracy Rising 1 Introduction: Idiots R Us, (resilience.org/stories/2021-10-27/democracy-rising-introduction-idiots-%d1%8f-us/) " Resilience, October 27, 2021.
• Jana Reiss, "For today’s Latter-day Saints, it’s food storage light (sltrib.com/religion/2023/01/27/jana-riess-todays-latter-day/) ," The Salt Lake Tribune, January 27, 2023.
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Send us a text (buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/244372/open_sms)
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 (bit.ly/RSIC-Journal) from our very own Jason Bradford, PhD.
Sources/Links/Notes:
• History of the Kelly Butte Civil Defense Center (oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/kelly_butte_civil_defense_center_and_kelly_butte_natural_area/#.ZBNW53bMK3A)
• Article on Kelly Butte (atlasobscura.com/places/kelly-butte-civil-defense-center) in the Atlas Obscura
• A Day Called X (youtube.com/watch?v=ueEl7A7KaHA) -- video of a dramatized atomic evacuation of Portland, Oregon
• Donald Fagen's "New Frontier (youtube.com/watch?v=FtovFI8etOg) "
• Sam Biddle, "The Rise and Fall of the Ultimate Doomsday Prepper (theintercept.com/2021/07/05/barrett-moore-brad-thor-doomsday-prepper-the-haven/) ," The Intercept, July 5, 2021.
• "Three Robots: Exit Strategies (imdb.com/title/tt20192958/) " -- episode 1 of season 3 of the Netflix series Love, Death & Robots.
• National Geographic produced the popular video series Doomsday Preppers (nationalgeographic.com/tv/shows/doomsday-preppers) .
• Molly Redden, "The American Elite Are Planning Their Escape — And It Starts With Paying For Passports (huffpost.com/entry/backup-passports-secondary-citizenship_n_6414a627e4b0fef15243ec07) ," Huffington Post, March 19, 2023.
• John Ramey, "New statistics on modern prepper demographics from FEMA and Cornell (theprepared.com/blog/new-statistics-on-modern-prepper-demographics-from-fema-and-cornell-university/) ," theprepared.com August 4, 2021.
• Bradley Garrett, "Living with bunker builders: doomsday prepping in the age of coronavirus (theconversation.com/living-with-bunker-builders-doomsday-prepping-in-the-age-of-coronavirus-136635) ,"The Conversation, May 14, 2020.
• Interview about Bradley Garrett's study of prepping (cbsnews.com/news/preppers-60-minutes-2022-11-06/)
• J. Oliver Conroy, "We mocked preppers and survivalists – until the pandemic hit (theguardian.com/global/2020/apr/30/preppers-survivalists-disasters-lessons) ," The Guardian, April 30, 2020.
• Walter Karp, "When Bunkers Last in the Backyard Bloom-d (americanheritage.com/when-bunkers-last-backyard-bloom-d) ," American Heritage, February/March 1980.
• Red Cross’s Preparedness Checklist (redcross.org/content/dam/redcross/get-help/pdfs/preparedness-essentials/EN_Preparedness-Essentials-Checklist.pdf)
• FEMA’s 12 Ways to Prepare (ready.gov/sites/default/files/2021-06/ready_12-ways-to-prepare_postcard.pdf)
• Tom Prugh, "Democracy Rising 1 Introduction: Idiots R Us, (resilience.org/stories/2021-10-27/democracy-rising-introduction-idiots-%d1%8f-us/) " Resilience, October 27, 2021.
• Jana Reiss, "For today’s Latter-day Saints, it’s food storage light (sltrib.com/religion/2023/01/27/jana-riess-todays-latter-day/) ," The Salt Lake Tribune, January 27, 2023.
Support the show (postcarbon.org/supportcrazytown/)
