Episode #1515
Dr. Bradley Garrett
Books mentioned
Epic of Gilgamesh
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The Bible
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Wool
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Lights Out
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The Precipice
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Coyote America
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The Black Swan
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Explore Everything
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Dr. Bradley Garrett is a cultural geographer and author who discusses the motivations, psychology, and communities surrounding survivalism, doomsday preparation, and bunker living. The conversation also explores pandemic anxiety, urban exploration, abandoned infrastructure, supply-chain risks, waste, Indigenous histories, catastrophic-impact theories, and the social pressures surrounding controversial ideas.
What they talked about
- Prepper culture and bunker communities
- Psychological impact of the pandemic
- Nuclear war and disaster preparedness
- New Zealand as a survival destination
- Flintknapping and ancient arrowheads
- Oral histories and indigenous memory
- Conspiracy theories and ancient Sumer
- Urban exploration and trespassing photography
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