Support for LISD comes from Pasadena Playhouse presenting Eureka Day.

Jonathan Spector's Razor Sharp 2025 Tony Award-winning satire.

Eureka Day is on stage at Pasadena Playhouse beginning September 10th.

Tickets are on sale now at Pasadenaplayhouse.org.

Music I'm

I'm Antonio Seregido, and this is Norco 80, a series about God guns survivalism and the bank robbery that changed policing forever.

Today, we're going to focus on the survivalism aspect of this story.

My conversation with Dr. Casey Kelly about survivalism's enduring allure, from pioneer days to today's

prepper conventions. Long before Casey Kelly was a media studies professor, he was a kid

growing up in northern Idaho. And in Idaho,

in the 80s and 90s, a lot of people he knew were doomsday preppers. I had a number of acquaintances

in elementary, middle, and high school who bragged of having underground bunkers and

stockpiling weapons.

At the time, Casey didn't think much about it.

I don't think we had a name for it until much later.

Once he had moved away from Idaho and had become a professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln,

a TV program put survivalists back on his radar. The Nat Geo program Doomsday Preppers actually is what

began to peak my interest. Across the country, ordinary Americans from all walks of life are taking

whatever measures necessary to prepare. I'm preparing my family for the total destruction of the

power grid. The Yellowstone Super Volcano.

A financial collapse.

And protect themselves from what they perceive is the fast approaching end of the world as we know it.

...