Hello, hello everybody. Welcome back to another episode of Fluently Forward. We are back with some lovely

repeat guests, the Let's Get Haunted Girls. Welcome back to Fluently Forward. How are you guys doing?

Oh, so good. So happy to be here with you. As always. This is what, our third time collaborating

on something together, maybe fourth. I think it is so excited.

I know.

I feel like everybody loves when we get together for the collab because it's always nice to talk to weirdos slash realists about a lot of things that are going on.

And I feel like for today's topic, it is both weird.

And then it also is frighteningly so, so real.

And I've wanted to do an episode for months now about bunkers in pop culture and just the general zeitgeist.

Because whether it's all the TV shows like Silo, Fallout, Paradise, or all of these billionaires who keep, like forget about an architectural digest house tour.

Everybody's building bunkers now

and i feel like they're so of the moment so that's what we're going to talk about for today and my

very first question for you guys is are you also noticing a lot of bunker discourse and headlines at

astronomical rates what have you guys been seeing oh Oh, definitely. Nat can probably chime in about

billionaire bunkers. I feel like she's very good at- I love conspiracies. Like, that's my jam.

I absolutely love them. And have I done a virtual tour of the Paris underground catacombs where you can

walk through like a 1940s era, like World War II era bunker, where there's like an old bicycle that you can ride to like power the electricity.

Yes, I have.

I am so fascinated with the idea of bunkers.

I'm fascinated with the idea of like, I always talk about this, the disillusion of self,

like to just peel away all of the layers that make you a human or that just make you an

individual and like what would be left because I feel like as humans, we are so tied to like

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