Follow This | Black Survivalists

You Can’t Make This Up

Netflix

True Crime, Documentary, Tv & Film, Society & Culture, Film Interviews

4.2 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2018

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Follow This is a new pop doc series from BuzzFeed and Netflix. When you read about doomsday preppers, or watch any films about them, you're most often seeing white survivalists. But BuzzFeed senior culture writer Bim Adewunmi was interested in finding out more about preppers who look like her. Bim also co-hosts the podcast Thirst Aid Kit with writer and poet Nichole Perkins. So today on the show, we brought in Nichole to interview Bim about her experience reporting this story and how long she thinks she'd last in a post-apocalypse world.

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0:00.0	Welcome to You Can't Make This Up, a companion podcast from Netflix.
0:03.4	I'm Alexa Diaz. I work at Netflix and I'm super excited to be hosting this week's episode.
0:12.4	Every other week on You Can Make This Up, we bring in super excited to be hosting this week's episode.
0:12.6	Every other week on you can make this up,
0:14.4	we bring in a new interviewer
0:15.9	to talk about different Netflix shows
0:17.7	with special guests.
0:18.9	And do you know what each story has in common?
0:21.1	They're all surprisingly true.
0:23.2	This week, we're looking into the real lives of Black Survivorists,
0:26.8	from people who have learned to live completely off the grid
0:29.8	to those who do bomb drills right in the heart of Times Square.
0:37.0	We first learned about the world of Black Survivalists in one of the episodes of Follow This,
0:42.0	a new pop-dog series from Buzzfeed and Netflix.
0:44.8	Each episode is under 20 minutes and shadows a Buzzfeed journalist while they explore a new story.
0:49.8	And the reporter who wrote about Black Survivalists is our guests on today's show, Bim Aruwumi.
0:55.0	Bim is a senior culture writer at BuzzFeed and co-host the podcast Thirst Aid Kit with poet and writer
1:01.3	Nicole Perkins. Usually Bim and Nicole talk about love. with poet and writer Nicole Perkins.
1:03.0	Usually, Bim and Nicole talk about lust, desire,
1:06.0	and pop culture, but we thought it'd be fun
1:08.0	to bring in Nicole to interview Bim
1:10.0	about her experience reporting on this story,
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