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let's just say the people on there are not a accurate representation and there is a lot influence from the production team. Most of the people on there have a book or product to sell.

here is 3 of the 4 from last years episode

http://thesurvivalmom.com/

survivalmom has come out and stated that the night time delivery portrayed was fake and set up

http://gardenpool.org/

the mcclung's have been referred to as the carpet baggers of the preparedness world, they have been on 3 different show's, this one, livin for the apocalypse and a cbc production called apocalypse 2012. even with that being said he had some interesting things to say how he was represented

It is good to know you understand the media. Some are much better than others. I had high hopes for this particular project since it was Nat Geo.

WHAT WAS **YOUR** take on how your family was portrayed?

Our family thought that it was great to see prepping on TV, however it was very sensationalized and scripted. The producers insisted that we only talk about solar activity in 2012 because they already had folks talking about the normal stuff. After everything I said, and much of it was coached, they made me add something about 2012. I turned on my 2012 countdown during the interview to advertise my business, but the editors took out any mention of my survival supply website. We do not believe in doomsday, as they made us seem to appear. Doomsday was never mentioned. The show was simply called "Preppers" through all of the production. The time I did say doomsday was out of context. We refused to mention a great part of our plan, including our bug out locations and defense. We felt that they would just exploit it and blow our operational security. We also happened to film shortly following the Tucson shootings so it really appropriate to show weapons at the time.

What would you have changed?

I would have been more aware of how they could have edited my family.

What was COMPLETELY misquoted?

Any mention that we believe in 2012 doomsday. We believe in the possibility of increased solar activity in this time frame, but we aren't prophets. My wife and I decided to be as self-sufficient and prepared as we could with a five year plan beginning in 2007. I guess that makes us 2012ers to the media. I admit that the 2012 calendar exposed me to the solar activity in cycle 24. We decided to base our prepping strategy on surviving what we seen as the worst case scenario thus preparing us for more than the average prepper. The Garden Pool is a byproduct of this.

The two producers were very pushy and we were very worried how they were portraying us from the beginning. We never really trusted them and we felt they were mocking us. We insisted that they pay us for our time and they went ballistic. I believe that we were the only folks paid for this piece. I think they took it out on us in the editing room. We actually filmed for four days, and by days I mean 13 hour days. We felt our time was worth something.

To make a long story short: the editors were creeps who made us something we are not, crazy. We planned with self-sufficiency in mind and they refused to make us look anywhere near rational. They did not show the whole picture, only their story

http://www.practical.....ppers.com/

these guys are known as southerpreppers on youtube and are now the expert's who do the assessments on this season.

There have already been reports from some people in this seasons episode that they were misrepresented or pressured to portray something that wasn't the truth. Here is the girl from Houston Megan

http://freethoughtbl.....n-hurwitt/

great call, and for the record I despise alex jones

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