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Billionaires Prepping for the Apocalypse

Story of the Week with Joel Stein

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Aren't You Guys Got Rocket Ships?

Douglas Roshkoff is a podcaster, media theorist and apparently a therapist to billionaires with anxiety issues. One of them said their actuaries or whoever and their insurance division had calculated there's a 20% chance of a global catastrophe in their lifetimes. So many of them are harboring a fantasy to have any excuse whatsoever to play this kind of survival game. They read like Jamie wheel and some other people they've all like trained Navy seals, you know, the mindset of the Navy seals.

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