Press and Media
ROLLING STONE | “JOURNAL OF A PROGRESSIVE PREPPER” | MAY 2021 - “It’s March 7th, 2020 and I’m at the Louisville Survival Expo & Gun Show, the last ‘prepper’ event of its kind before the Covid-19 pandemic shuts the country down. … Admission is $12, but I spring for the $14.50 VIP option, which allows me to skip the line. There is no line.” [full article]
PAGE ONE | “EP. 9 - ADAM NEMETT” | DEC 2021 - Conversation with Holly Payne on Booxby’s Page One podcast: “We discuss alter egos, psychedelics, heroes, anti-heroes, “preppers,” and the serendipitous timing of publishing a post-apocalyptic book two years before a global pandemic and some of the worst climate change disasters of our time. Adam Nemett is real, funny, smart, fun and holds an uncanny vision for preparing for the future.” [podcast link]
FATHERLY | “HOMESTEADING TURNS YARDWORK INTO DOOMSDAY PREPPING. I’M ALL IN.” | May 2020 - “I felt confident the pandemic would pass without civilization crumbling (more confident than I feel now), but wondered if this ellipsis could be a useful dry run—an opportunity to prepare my family for the potentially much larger toll of climate change. We’ve decided it’s real and imminent, and we are totally unprepared.” [full article]
DIGGING IN THE DIRT | “STAY-AT-HOMESTEADING” | June 2020 - Conversation with Kevin Gallagher on WKPN Radio [soundcloud link]
Here’s an overview of how we got into this experiment…
Thunderbird Disco was featured in this mini-doc on unjustly maligned subcultures, produced by students at VCU Brandcenter.