Government Fallout Shelters

Winnow · Post by **Winnow** » October 2, 2006, 7:15 am

I wasn't sure what forum to put this post in but anything nuclear oriented can always be squeezed into current events!

There's a pod/zencast called "History According to Bob" which covers an oddball topic each day for 10 minutes and it typically pretty interesting. Bob made a video though to cover what the government provides for official fallout shelters in the U.S...the little cracker rations, etc...this video might go well with watching the series "Jericho" on TV. It ends up being pretty funny (it's not meant to be comedy though) as you can't help but laugh at what the government expects people to do during a nuclear attack.

Here's the video link. it's mp4 (need quicktime or quicktime alternative) and runs 15 minutes ~52mb:

http://summahistorica.podlot.net/gov_fa ... helter.mp4

You have to download the whole thing before it plays I think. Pnly download it if you have high bandwidth and are curious about what you'd get in an offical fallout shelter.

Yahoo has a decent directory for pod/zencastst these days. Here's the Bob list of recent podcasts you can listed to directly from the page:

http://podcasts.yahoo.com/series?s=3b75 ... c7fb264d9c

Yahoo's top 100:

http://podcasts.yahoo.com/popular?c=p

Zaelath · Post by **Zaelath** » October 2, 2006, 7:43 am

Speaking of Jericho, and Aussie TV (as we were last week), strangely this series is being played concurrently here (we've had 2 episodes too).

Annoying really, I was hoping to find out if I'm wasting my time watching it from ya'll like usual

Winnow · Post by **Winnow** » October 2, 2006, 12:51 pm

Zaelath wrote:Speaking of Jericho, and Aussie TV (as we were last week), strangely this series is being played concurrently here (we've had 2 episodes too).

Annoying really, I was hoping to find out if I'm wasting my time watching it from ya'll like usual

Even though I get the stations these new shows are on and have a DVR, I've been downloading new shows off the newsgroups. I watched the first two episodes of Jericho. It's ok but nothing great so far IMO. I'll keep watching though.

[Show]: I thought the main character beating out the radioactive rain by less than a second getting into the basement of the house was a little hokey.

I'm also still having trouble not picturing the mayor of Jericho as being Hearst from Deadwood. I don't trust him based on his previous role!

*~*stragi*~* · Post by ***~*stragi*~*** » October 2, 2006, 3:12 pm

i watched the first two seasons of deadwood and the first season of rome on my vacation!

Zaelath · Post by **Zaelath** » October 2, 2006, 9:08 pm

Winnow wrote: Even though I get the stations these new shows are on and have a DVR, I've been downloading new shows off the newsgroups. I watched the first two episodes of Jericho. It's ok but nothing great so far IMO. I'll keep watching though.

[Show]
I thought the main character beating out the radioactive rain by less than a second getting into the basement of the house was a little hokey.

I'm also still having trouble not picturing the mayor of Jericho as being Hearst from Deadwood. I don't trust him based on his previous role!

[hide]Am I the only one that thought the first episode had all the narrative of a video game storyline?

I'm also getting a little sick of every show thinking they need to tease you with storyline, or that it's a great device for stretching 5 minutes of story into 5 weeks. I get that they're trying to put you in the "survivor's" perspective, but it's hardly first-person narrative, so really they're just fucking with us a'la Lost.[/hide]