cases and because they re relying on the system and local politicians a lot of people were suffering. tucker: yeah. you prep so you don t have to take part of that fiasco when it happens. tucker: yeah. so you were a fireman for a lot of your life. when did you decide that you can t rely on the system to save your life? i relied on the system when i read a book and the book was called one second after. but when i watched the fiasco, again, that was super storm sandy and hurricane irene, i realized that we are dependent on one another and we re dependent on ourselves. tucker: yeah. so prepping was the object of much ridicule for a lng time. preppers were considered crazy, you were probably called crazy. how do people respond now? people, secretly ask me questions without please don t let anybody know but how do you get ready for this, how do you do that. and i let them know. i don t have i don t pass
you should have multiple wayss o to start a fire. never just want kee p ropen stuff around. you can build a shelter. this way you could build a quick shelter, hammocks or what i normally it s just because i m old thatuse i m the old people s water, obviously try to carry anywhere between, i would say, one or two of these. my advico wae to people who wane to start prepping, write down gg a list of the things you t need is going to keep you focused on what you need to get instead of doing whai t i did haphazardy ,just buying my life. set. jason charles joins us onucho set. jason , thank you so mucr h fory coming here. and for the parted you docum pll the central part you played inep this documentary, unlikepers w t of preppers who live in ruralinw arkansas, you live in a new york . why is it important for someone who lives in a city as mostp in americans do, to prep? it s important to prep a city like new york because as we saw by hurricane irene, and superstorm sandy, yeah, we wen
a shelter. hammocks are usually what i use because i m old. this is an old people s show. water obviously. try to carry anywhere between i would say one or two of these. my advice to people who want to start preparing, write down a list of the things you need. it s going to keep you focused on what you need to get instead of doing what i did, haphazardly just buying [bleep] on line. tucker: jason charles joins us on set. jason thank you so much for coming here and for the part you played, the central part you played in this documentary. unlike a lot of preppers who live in rural arkansas, you live in new york. why is it important for someone who lives in a city, as most americans do, to prep? it s important to prep in a city like new york because, as we saw with hurricane irene and super storm sandy people went
series tucker carlson originals. for decades preppers, people who have been preparing have been ridiculed as paranoid nut cases, extreme doom sayers, the world s going to end and obvious religious nuts, people with mental illness. but as the media made fun of these people hurricanes wildfires and pandemics upended the lives of millions of americans. in the end it turns out preppers weren t entirely crazy. here s an exclusive first look at our upcoming drummondtary, documentary meet the preppers. i am jason charles, a retired fireman who also does emergency preparedness. prepping in the city can be done. i ve been doing it for longer than ten years. you live on an island with two million people on it, and if you had to bug out, how would you even do that. it all depends on what event is unfolding. if it s an earthquake and the bridges and tunnels collapse.
judgment on people. tucker: yeah. like i told you you should have did this. no, i don t do that. because people will eventually wake up the worse this gets. tucker: and so but people are embarrassed to ask you. that s interesting. so how do i purify my water but they don t want others to know they re asking you this. right. i think people are more embarrassed because they used to break our chops, right? so while breaking our chops and laughing in a circle with their friends, when they started seeing these emergencies happening elsewhere, especially with what just happened to east palestine, people are now asking me water filtering questions. i m not a chemist so i tell them i really don t know. these chemicals i know you can t filter out but it s still good to have a water filter for any other problems that might happen. right, other than the train derailment. right, other than a train derailment. tucker: jason charles you were a huge part of this documentary and i know t