Apocalypse Prepping, on a Budget

The New Yorker Radio Hour

WNYC Studios and The New Yorker

News, Wnyc, David, Arts, Yorker, Society & Culture, Storytelling, Books, New, Remnick, Politics

4.2 • 6.2K Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2018

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Inspired by “Doomsday Prep for the Super-Rich,” by The New Yorker’s Evan Osnos, Patricia Marx gets herself ready for the apocalypse. The only problem: Marx is a writer, not a Silicon Valley mogul. She isn’t super-rich, or even regular-rich. Apocalypse prep on a budget, Marx discovers, is a whole other ball game. Plus: “I’m a Proud Nuclear-Missile Owner”—written by Teddy Wayne, and performed by Nick Offerman—takes the right to bear arms to a whole other level.

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0:20.0	It seems like an incredible story here on many fronts.
0:24.0	From One World Trade Center in Manhattan, this is The New Yorker Radio Hour, a co-production
0:28.9	of WNIC Studios and The New Yorker.
0:32.5	Welcome to The New Yorker Radio Hour.
0:34.5	I'm David Remnick.
0:36.1	Patty Marks has been contributing to the New Yorker for
0:38.4	about 30 years, and on the radio hour, she's tackled such daredevil stunts as trying to fall
0:43.9	asleep on the subway. Good luck. Perfecting her archery skills indoors and foraging for food in
0:50.9	Central Park. But lately her mind has taken a more serious turn.
0:57.0	Last year I read this fantastic piece by Evan Osnos called Doomsday Prep for the Super Rich.
1:04.0	It was about the ways in which the very wealthiest people in America planned to ride out the end of the world.
1:10.0	And let me tell you, being a rich
1:12.2	person in the apocalypse is about as good as it gets. You live in this five-star bunker better than the
1:19.1	Ritz Carlton. You have room service. You have the freshest of broccoli and coconut water and all the movies you want, you have nothing to do
1:30.8	because everybody, you're inside and outside the world is ending.
1:35.2	And it just sounds great.
1:39.1	So, naturally, I wanted to call Evan Osnos up and find out more.
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