rant · moment 11 of 18
Billionaire Doomsday Bunkers and the Crowd's Apocalypse Compounds
from Tin Foil Hat and Tim at Skankfest · #105
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5 minRiffing on a Douglas Rushkoff story about hedge fund billionaires asking about surviving societal collapse, the crowd is polled on where they'd build their own doomsday compounds (Wisconsin, Long Island, Africa, etc).
- 33:52Douglas Rushkoff recounts being pulled into a room by five billionaires asking him where to build doomsday bunkers and how to keep staff loyal after money collapses.
- 34:55Tim jokes that one of the five billionaires must be Magic Johnson with his magic AIDS as survival strategy.
- 35:29Audience member reveals he's an Eagle Scout; Tim responds that Eagle Scouts are virgins forever.
- 35:51Audience member picks Wisconsin for his apocalypse compound because of the dairy.
- 36:08Tim describes a zombie apocalypse scenario where the Wisconsin guy prioritizes cheese and milk over survival.
- 36:46Audience member says Seattle for the compound to be around weird people during the apocalypse.
- 37:10Woman in crowd says Long Island, noting the apocalypse has already happened there.
- 37:37Tim contrasts billionaires' soft hands from doing nothing with the crew's microphone-hardened hands from podcasting.
- 38:07Audience member answers Africa when asked where he'd build a doomsday compound.
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