The Mormon's Love Affair With Disaster - Why Mormons Are The Original Preppers.
Link for The Real Housewives of Salt Lake Watch Party:
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Hosts Claire and Mel (The Salty Hoes) catch up on busy workweeks, Mel finishing backyard landscaping with help from family, and Claire’s ongoing light-bulb saga and dismantled dining fixture. They announce a free Real Housewives of Salt Lake watch party on Thursday, September 17 at 6:30 PM with partners RoHa Brewing, Tanner Humanities, and Amplify Utah, noting tickets are nearly “sold out” for headcount and themed cocktails; optional dress theme is “slutty pioneer” attire. The episode topic is Mormon end-times prepping: the expectation of a year’s “food storage,” including buying wheat through the church, the anxiety and waste it caused (mice/weevils), and cultural pressure including suggestions to own guns to protect supplies. They connect apocalyptic prepping to Mormon history and right-wing influences (Ezra Taft Benson, Cleon Skousen, John Birch Society, Glenn Beck), discuss modern splinter doomsday figures like Julie Rowe and links to the Daybell case, and note the church’s shift toward “temporal preparedness” as more general emergency readiness.
00:00 Introductions and Banter01:02 Mel’s Week and Backyard Project03:17 Claire’s Week and Light Bulb Saga04:50 Watch Party Event Details06:43 Slutty Pioneer Dress Code08:12 Mormon Preppers Explained12:02 Claire’s Wheat and Mice Disaster15:14 Church vs Prepper Businesses17:04 Footloose and Utah Flour Mills21:45 Apocalypse Messaging and Guns27:04 Glenn Beck and John Birch Links30:01 Racism Undertones in Prepping32:08 Disaster Fantasy Culture34:08 Prepper Seminars and Mom Guilt35:07 Relief Society Survival Lessons38:02 Dryer Lint and Privilege39:07 Faith Questions and Charity40:59 Brigham Young and Separatism43:49 Julie Rowe White Tent Prophecy50:30 Daybell Links and Revelation Risks52:38 Clearing Out Old Food Storage54:48 Temporal Preparedness Today57:06 Christmas Cupboard Rebrand58:21 Women Carry the Burden58:41 Wrap Up and Community Plug