New show on NatGEO premiers Feb 7th. Should be interesting.
http://channel.nationalgeographic.co...sday-preppers/
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New show on NatGEO premiers Feb 7th. Should be interesting.
http://channel.nationalgeographic.co...sday-preppers/
Yeah, let's just broadcast just how crazy preppers look so FEMA knows where to go the next time there's a problem in that area! I can't believe people did this! :gagged:
the show has been aired at least twice before.
I saw it advertised. I will check it out and see what it is like.
I believe that its the same 4 families that advertised themselves last year. All the best to them, hope ones close to my house so everybody and there brother will br beatin down their door.
This is a new one. I actually think they advertised for this here on WSF.
It's going to be an interesting year in the 'survival' arena as the countdown to 2012 December prediction gets closer. Prepare to see alot of this crap on TV.
Read the bios of some of the people. This could be funny. Some guy spent $40,000 collecting a seed bank.
Megan, lots of guns and a seed bank. In downtown Houston. Wonder if she plans on planting those seeds in my garden plot? Don't bet on it.
Dennis, an army of a family and a yard full of sculptures. No comment
Kellene, lots of food stored in the Mormon way. With neighbors of the same cloth to help out. Still, I like the last line of the bio written by the filmographer, "In the improbable chance the world ends in my lifetime and I had to choose one place to wait it out, I think I’d choose a place with the freshly baked smell of a four-cheese Italian risotto." Yeah, you and everyone else. Be interesting to see if she has plans for cooking that risotto.
David, again no comment. A "Hillbilly" prepper. Going for the bizarre?
Christopher, living off the land in LA should the Big One occur. I wonder if he realizes he'll be living off the land with about 9.8 MILLION other people.
Kathy Harrison, this one holds some promise as a bug in, but there must be something sensationalist to have made the cut.
Paul and Gloria, a doomsday pod?
Dennis, this is your pool garden guy again.
There seems to be several others that didn't make the bio page based on the airing lineup.
Reality shows make me sick, and the people in them are just doing it for the money. Sometimes I think that the entre shows are staged and the people in them are just told what to say and do! That show is propbably going to make real prepers and survivalists look stupid which is far from reality! I mean really, " Doomsday Prepers " just the name tells me how this is going to go!
I haven't the slightest hope that this will be anything but a joke. David Sarti, the hillbilly prepper is on it so nothing serious can come of it. Too bad, too. They are just painting preppers as morons.
I just watched some of what I guess was the old on, on youtube. I kinda like the pool garden family. I think they are screwed if TSHTF (I think they are a big target.), but I like their self sufficient ways, as a daily way of life.
I'm not by any stretch of the imagination an environmental wacko, but I do believe that we all need to be more efficient. (I guess I was just raised not to be wasteful.)
And if nothing else......fresh, un-processed food is GOOD! LOL
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Originally Posted by Rick
So, I'm....ummm.....dang, nevermind.:blush:
Moron is beyond 2Dumb. There's dense, dumb, 2dumb, Hey ya'll watch this then moron.
It will be interesting only perhaps for the comments of their 'survival experts' on what these folks are doing wrong.
Or, it could just be a show painting preppers as morons.
Hey Rick, do you have your 2012 End of The World marketing materials out there yet for the Safe Zone? I'd be feeding off that hype like a shark on chum (with a satellite site of course, gotta keep a serious tone for the serious people).
I've started a new web site to take advantage of the paranoia. You can visit www.realmayanjunktosaveyourjunk.com
Hey, link didn't work....WOT UP?
Uh.......um........It's, like made up?........but I'll get on that right away. Should be up by 2013 at the latest.
All I gonna say, was there was a big sale on gen sets about the end of January, 2000, right after the Y2K thing....LOL.
I guess it's the nature of the beast to have shows showing people in a loony light, even commericals always depict the male, husband/boyfriend/friends as "Dumas's"....and no I not gonna put my TP in a decorated coffee can, unless it's in the truck.
Show was never intended to put peppers in a good light. A friends distant relative was one of the casting folks. He suggested me to them. I got through three steps of the process and was told "your not extreme enough or paranoid enough, thanks, have a good day." At that I was glad to have no part of it.
I'm excited for the new season of The Colony.
My wife is a great "couponer" and saves us tons of money; so when the reality show "extreme couponing" came out she was pretty excited to watch it. However it soon turned out that the show was "rigged" to make the couponers all look either crazy or super-paranoid. My wife knows some of the people on the show from her forums and found out from them what lengths the producers go to to create conflict within the family, at the stores, and so on. I would advise folks to avoid having anything to do with these type of programs. On Cody's web-site he blames Steve Irwin's death on the producers of Steve's show. :cool2:
I doubt they said exactly that TresMon. No smart casting director or producer is going to tip their hand like that.
Well, I have been trying to get on "Survivor" for years as the token "Old guy" and get voted off first.....Then hang out at the hotel for 38 more days on their dime.....so far no joy.
If you would read, it is not the end of the world, it's just a transition/change. If you would have prepared for the rapture, you've had at least two good chances already, you'd be ready now.Quote:
Originally Posted by LowKey
Both are/were simply predicting change. I figure you only need to be ready for both 60hz and 50hz power. Somewhere, somebodies life is going to change. That's all.
Sheesh.
LOL
Your free to doubt.Quote:
Originally Posted by LowKey
I guess I'll watch the first episode, but I pretty much agree with everyone on the thread, they are just going to make these people out to be wackos, and IMHO they certainly are. It's is contrary to true survivalism to advertise your preparations, as everyone knows. Especially on national TV. If it was ME;
"Hey we're doing a new show on people who are preparing for Doomsday, would you like to be on it?" "I don't know what you're talking about, I only have 2 cans of soup , some TV dinners, and half a carton of milk in the house".
these shows are interesting and not really on the realistic side , they always show people with some bizarre twist , like he's a normal guy stores food correctly ,reloads ammo , builds his own knives everything sounds good , until he opens his mouth , then its clear he's either a transexual , or homosexual (which I dont care but when your on tv trying to show the seriousness of survival and these turds all of a sudden talk about hormones ,etc , ****) Look the media is gonnaa make these people look bad because lets face it , the government is our savior!!
Reality shows always take things to the extreme. Scenarios are far overplayed by the worlds worst actors or people that are far gone.
The shows positive angle is that it helps spread more of a "Taboo" lifestyle. If I were to tell a friend I was packing a ferro rod and a mylar blanket among other things on a simple hike, he would think I was paranoid. Too many people overlook prepping for emergency situations and it's in those emergencies where one person who planned accordingly helped the group or they all died.
It will help those on the edge and had a thought to prep. These people may just end up prepping a few things rather than nothing at all. As far as others, they won't watch it, and in the case something does happen, they will be knocking on the wrong neighbors door. You cannot laugh at people, then decide to ask for their help in times of need, especially extreme need.
As to the rapture, first, all those who plan on being raptured, please sign over all your earthly wealth to me. Second, get off my planet already!
Wow Tres, if they did not think you were wako what WERE they looking for? I have conversed with you a lot and I do not doubt your insanity for an instant!Quote:
Originally Posted by TresMon
sniker, sniker... I simply could not pass that chance up!
This is why I come here. I learn so much. Thanks for the clarification. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Rick
Remember how crazy things got in 1999, prepairng for the year 2000, People went nuts. Nothing happened.
$hit hits when you least expect it. Otherwise we'd hide the fans.
End of the World, Supernova, 5-mile meteor, Solar Mass Ejection, eruption of yellowstone, Rapture, any of those you're pretty much hosed as far as living on this world.
I was inferring TEOTWAWKI, in other words, a rather sudden change in fortune, not leaving this plane of existence entirely...
LOL.
Well, as the year progresses and more "prepping" topics become exposed in various media outlets, the paranoia will rise. Chaos arises when people feel they've fallen behind, so a quick run to the store among other crazies will be interesting. This will lead to local tv stations airing the chaos, thus adding more chaos.Quote:
Originally Posted by waukasha
Just think of the insanity that is Black Friday, imagine adding in the thought of not making it to Christmas. You have people buying presents out of "hope" along with whatever supplies they feel they might "need" to survive.
I really hope we don't have a bad storm December 21, or people are going to go crazy and that's when SHTF. In essence, nothing big can happen, but people's last minute paranoia versus true preparedness is what will cause mass chaos.
5-mile meteor (head slap!). Crap. How did I miss that? Now I have more planning to do.
I absolutely hate the Survivor series! That is not survival!
And it's never what you expect (which I think is what many survivalists forget).Quote:
Originally Posted by BENESSE
This may have already been posted somewhere and not even sure whether this is the proper forum for this,,,,,I'm not even sure if this is proper period but,,,,
Just scrolling through the TV Menu and noticed Doomsday Preppers Documentary/Series airing at 9PM EST/8PM CST National Geo Channel
http://channel.nationalgeographic.co...sday-preppers/
I promise that I am in no way affiliated with National Geographics.
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Doomsday
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Originally Posted by LowKey
I doubt they said exactly that TresMon. No smart casting director or producer is going to tip their hand like that.
Over the years while living and working in Los Angeles, and "the Business," I've known quite a few casting directors and producers. I've no doubt at all that some are that open about whom they want to cast.Quote:
Originally Posted by TresMon
These "reality" shows are all about conflict, extremes, and then some final resolution for whomever the producers have selected to "win." Therefore they are looking for people who will offer the most opportunity for an "entertaining" show. Someone -- the actor -- who is very informed and familiar with whatever is the show's premise, is not what they want. No real conflict as that person just does what's necessary and not much happens on screen.
It's not called "show business" for nuthin', folks. ;)
S.M.
Watched my first episode last night that included Megan Hurwitt, The Young Urban Prepper I was surprised that she was storing over 160 condums. I didn't think she could carry that much water. :-)
LOL, I just watch that one last night......a very friendly young lady no doubt....Quote:
Originally Posted by Beans
It was kinda interesting being critiqued by "experts'....then she just joined the military.
I did find it kinda intresting in a late nite 3 beers kinda way.........