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i am andrew ryan. Is a man not entitled to the sweat of his brow? No, says the man in washington. It belongs to this audio you're hearing is from the beginning of a video game byo shock. I rejected those answers. Instead, i chose something different. I chose the impossible. And at this point in the story of that game, you, the player, are descending under the ocean,. Deep, deep, deep, inside a bathsphere, headed into the underwater city of rapture.

In this episode we sit down with Douglas Rushkoff, a media scholar, journalist, and professor of digital economics who has a new fire in his belly when it comes to the world of billionaire preppers, which comes across in his new book Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires – inspired by his invitation to consult a group of the world’s richest people on how to spend their money now to survive an apocalypse they fear is coming within their lifetimes.