Some of them do and some of the don’t, but you make a good point. I like the episodes about economic collapse the best.
From what I’ve seen, these shows go out of their way to film the most extreme and usually foolish “preppers” out there.
I especially liked the guy bragging up his “spooky” surveillance system that sends pictures to his cell phone. No mention of what happens when he has no cell signal.
While being in a big city isn’t the best place to survive, I’m not a big fan of running off to the wilderness. With all these people running off to the wilderness it won’t be wilderness for long. Also a lone survivalist is an easier target than a group. I prefer the middle ground of my tiny rural town with trusted friends and neighbors.
I think these shows are promoting a fantasy anyway. I’ve been hearing about the coming inner city riots for years now and they never happen. They were going to riot when the emergency manager took over in Detroit and nothing happened, they were going to riot when Detroit declared bankruptcy and it never happened.
Doomsday Preppers (”DP”) since its inception has been nothing more than propaganda, and pablum for the low-information masses.
They deliberately select the most wild-eyed tinfoil-hat conspiracy nutjobs and offer them up to the low-info’s for their freak-show value. It reinforces the meme of the “crazy-wingnut-knucledragging-teabagger” that the Left has successfully established.
Case in point, the demographics: the “preppers” are overwhelmingly Causacian male veterans: the main three groups that the Left has vilified since the regime took power five years ago. The number of non-Caucasians I have seen on that program, I can count on three fingers.
From a prepper perspective, The Bride and I point and laugh at the very notion of letting media types see the layout of your disaster preps. Occasionally we might see a bright idea, but mostly DP is an example of WHAT NOT TO DO.
What are the first two rules of Prep Club?
This “storage in the sea” concept is STUPID!
You won’t have the shoreline landmarks, following a tsunami.
You WILL have a bay full of debris, above and below the surface.
Since they live a couple hundred feet above the bay, bury your stuff up there!
NGC even made “American Blackout” to help promote their prepper shows.
Its infotainment at best imho. . .
There was a good show last night called American Blackout.. all hell broke loose in a week when the power grids went out.
You have those that ADMIT that the S-will-HTF...
and those that will NOT admit the SHTF BUT....
Everybody KNOWS the S will HTF.....
UNLESS the S will hit two or three fans... maybe four or five of them..
As surely as their is S and F to hit... its just common sense..
LOL
This underwater storage plan reminds me of......
Back in 1971, hubby and I (young and foolish) had a saltwater aquarium which we loved but found buying fish for it way over our budget. Since all our vacations were low-budget camping trips, that year we went to Key West in our VW Camper Bus, camped on the beach in a remote area ans spent 5 days snorkeling offshore, netting beautiful amazing little fish. Our “storage plan” was to keep them in a huge chicken-wire cage we made and anchored safely underwater where no one would see it. Each day we would swim out to it, and gather more fish.
On the last day, we went out to bring our cache in and lo-and-behold, all the fish were gone. Someone had been watching us and waited till the cage was full and just took them.
I like Doomsday Castle.
I think some of them sell this junk. This is advertising for their products and lectures.