Thoughts on Doomsday Preppers and the Hollywoodification of Prepparedness

08/28/14
Prepping

Doomsday Preppers...I'm not talking about individuals, I'm talking about the TV show. I watch it but at the same time I can't stand it. To me, watching Doomsday Preppers is like watching Bobs Burgers. It's enjoyable to watch, it's humorous and sometimes  funny in a dumb way, but it sucks compared to shows in the same genre like South Park or Family Guy.
I think a lot of people still don't understand that there is a huge difference between real life and the Entertainment industry. Hollywood, or as I call it Commiewood, has given millions of Americans the gift of stupidity and disconnection through movies and "reality" TV shows. In the Entertainment industry, Jack Bower can shoot a guy once, and the dude drops dead. In real life, people (and even animals) don't always go down with one shot. Doomsday Preppers has forever tarnished the preparedness industry and hobby.

There are two types of people: Preppers and Prepared individuals. Doomsday Preppers doesn't show either, they cherry pick the "preppers" based on what the Entertainment industry standards believe will get viewers. In all honesty, if you want to see real preppers, just go onto YouTube and view the home videos of people who show off their Bug Out Bags. Yea, it's probably more boring than watching a guy with 4 kids shooting a bucket full of Tannerite with a .50cal to blow up a 1 ton truck. Real life IS boring. It's nothing crazy for the most part! I used to watch shows on TruTV like Operation Repo until I realized that there is no business on the planet that would operate like that. I know real preppers and I know people who are prepared which is why I can distinguish the TV preppers from the real ones. The problem with the Entertainment industry is that people who watch this crap somehow don't understand that reality TV is not real.

If I had a dollar for every person who watches the Walking Dead and then thinks that they know everything about a Zombie Apocalypse, I'd have enough money to buy an island and build a SHTF castle on it. Everything about a Zombie Apocalypse is fiction and science based theory, there has never been an Outbreak of a Zombie Virus and it is more likely that Ebola HR will kill 150,000,000 people in the next 5 years than a Zombie Virus will infect all (or most) humans in the next 100 years.

My main problem with Doomsday Preppers is that they claim to show everyday Americans, when we all know that everyday Americans don't turn school buses into up-armored campers or have $80,000 to buy a bunker. Doomsday Preppers only shows people with a lot of money. I've seen every episode of the show since it began and I guarantee that every prepper family on there makes at least $350,000 a year. If you were to catalog everything a Doomsday Prepper family has, you would find that they spend a lot of money on being prepared for shit that likely will never happen.

Atlas survival bunkers start at around $60,000. Then you have land and then property taxes on your home,your BOL and your vehicles which most likely cost over $800,000. All that financial security aka bullion cost you 30K, you spent 15k on firearms and ammo and then over 10k on survival gear. 3 meals a day for 365 days is 1,095 meals. How many mouths do you need to feed? 4 people? Okay so that's 4,380 meals but the biggest package Wise sells is 4,320 servings so you buy that one for $7,000 and then you buy another 780 servings for $1,449.99. I bet you still plan on putting your 4 kids through college. You have 3 dogs, 5 chickens, 4 goats, 20 meat rabbits and .50 acre garden? You probably spend over $10,000 a year on feed and farm supplies.

My point is that rich people can buy nice things and things that middle class people can't buy. Things like that is what Hollywood knows gets views. People watch shows like Doomsday Preppers that are designed to get you to watch once and then watch again and again and again. The Entertainment industry doesn't care about how real normal people prepare for an economic collapse and to be honest, the Doomsday Preppers preppers are going to be the people going to prison for life for being trigger happy freaks who kill their neighbors as a precaution that they don't follow them to the bunker.

If you want to see how real normal prepared people "prep," check out my YouTube channel, Pajama Prepper, or check out some of my favorite YouTube guys like Southernrepper1 and Cumberlandprepper1.
Follow my blogs and read what I post. I have no agenda and I don't get paid to say anything or push any products (sadly). If you want reality, you'll get it from someone like me. Doomday Preppers is a good TV show, but it should be watched for shits and giggles only, it is NOT an educational show and it certainly is not a show about real preppers.

Thanks.