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First! Oh my god, YES!
3rd!
3RD OMFG
GOD DAMMIT! I was number 2. A big ol’ piece of poo!
haha bitch, im 3rd!
Im not sure why does retards always yell out, that they were first :S
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Nice.
I am so gonna watch that movie
I’d survive, and to be honest, this world is heading down a dark path, it all started more than hundred years ago. The story is long and I will not trouble you with details, but soon, very soon, we will have to make some tough decisions…and we will have a choice. And I’m afraid because I have “seen” what will happen… I hope we change. Othervise, game over.
That was cool :D
radio, batteries, lb’s of grits, water purifier, OPAR, clothes, tent.
A towel. If I had a towel, I would last forever.
DON’T PANIC
Your style oozes out of every pore, sir.
all i need is a kalashnikov and a few magazines ammunition and i’m ready to go
First thing I would need is Ella., so we could repopulate the planet ;-P
aaah don’t go comment begging Rocketboom! I had some respect for this channel. Next minute you’ll be saying “5 Stars for Hot Presenter lolol”
Ford? IS THAT YOU!
IT’S ZAPHOD!
Zombies would be in my backpack, then it would be a real apocalypse.
You owe me a lot of money Mr. Beeblebrox!
in my backpack?
food, booze, water, my pillow, a laser pointer and few packets of cigarettes and a spare shirt
I would defiantly have the stalker shadow of chernobyl, clear sky and Pripyet manuel, it will teach me everything i need to know
What’s that? I didn’t hear you….I’m in an…..asteroid field…..with asteroids. Gotta go.
This movie looks fantastic. And I’d have some guns and ammo in that backpack.
I would last 140 characters…
Elmo & infinity!
WIN! Ford Prefect salutes you.
I genuinely want to know what you think! I’m taking notes just in case this whole apocalypse thing actually happens.
No twitter? really?
I don’t care
Are you telling me that a global cataclysm would not be a significant enough event to get you to stop smoking?
Well, I guess it’d be stress-inducing…
i would totally do like Batman in The Dark Knight Returns where the power goes out and he starts lasso-ing rioters and recruiting them into his army to rebuild society.
i just have to learn to lasso.
and ride a horse.
and be Batman.
I’ll have a hatchet and gloves and a guide for survival
ya def a good manual to have
I once knew this surrealist genius who was a fan of carrots, marker pens and pretending to be a bouncer at Malaysian opera performances. Somehow I feel these things will be vital when Shane Dawson lays the world to ruin.
I am so excited!
amen brother
global apocalypse/cataclysm would be fun
In my backpack I would have guns, ammo, canned foods, a how to survive the apocalypse book and a solar powered laptop.
computers are great and all, but if the world ended you would probably have better things to worry about than your facebook status.
reminds me of the stalker games lol
Spam??? I guess my backpack would have to be filled with food then… mostly cereal…
what’s in my Backpack? lots of Ammo and some canned Food… well… i think i can survive a little bit longer than 10 minutes… I think i’d make it a week or so…
my own portibul sun to fix the world ^_^
Hm a katana, some guns, as much food and water as I could take, maybe blanket :D
that’s exactly it!
though I’m more of a social smoker, not sure I’d find many ppl to socialise with …
ah well, I’ll figure something out xD
Backpack: matches, water flask, canned foods, a gun.
Plus a bowl, aluminum foil, and a knife…
i’m 14 and i live on can food so about 120
I’d kill someone eventually. Use those tips from Survivorman to get some food in the wild.
Post apocalyptic survival…. a crow bar, need I say more?
Freeman style.
i’d eat people
I totally forgot about this movie. Looks good.
I’m ready.
That would make a great t-shirt
I would probably last the entire first and then freeze to death the first night.
Dude, I read that book, truly amazing, can’t wait to see the movie.
hope they don’t butcher it.
twinkies
i’d pack slim jims with cheese, grey goose, and ginger ale, and a tooth brush.
what else do you really need?
I’d just go live in a drugstore. They have everything you need to relieve stress from living in a post-apocalyptic world right there.
id pack the internet (yes) but nothing to use it with
OH THE IRONY!!
liutenghou i’d help you eat people.
You can have Ella, I’ll have Ellie, but eventually we have to trade off to have a wider gene selection. Boy, this post-apocalyptic world scenario sounds kinda fun. :)
roman omg so much roman and a pot so i can boil the water
chrisquick123451966,
This reminds me, we should have mock drills as well. We want to perfect this as soon as possible.
i read the book too…was excellent. hope the movie lives up to the book.
I DON’T LIKE SPAM!
I’d want in my backpack a big warm blanket and tent. Canned soups, not spam, yuck. Or if I had to dehydrated soups if the water was drinkable. And flour to make bread.
If my basic needs of water, food and warmth were met, I guess I would last until I went banana’s for missing TV, Internet and gadgets that need electricity.
Ahm, then again, after a while you’d get used to it and there are so many books out there. I’d set up house in a library with source of food close by.
Almost forgot to compliment Ella with getting that first sentence out without stuttering :D.
1 - A recent poll by the Pew Research Institute showed a dramatic fall in 12 months in the American people who believe that global warming is real and is caused by human activity (that is the refusal of scientific evidence). May it be that why the “apocalyptic event” is left unnamed? To not upset the denialists among the audience?
2 - I read not long ago a great story of testimonies by which shortly after the collapse of the Twin Towers, in the Sep 11, 2001, New Yorkers didn’t jump at each other with knives and axes, but took care of themselves in a huge display of mutual assistance. I remember that the same happened in Indonesia and Sumatra at the time of the Tsunami, in 2004. Maybe that is any indication that the human race isn’t that trash implied in the cannibalistic and hobbesian scenario of The Road.
3 - Very good interview, Ella.
Thanks Elle for using my question “What would you have in your backpack?” to close your story. I survived for six years on the road as an artist-in-residence all over Europe carrying l all I had in my backpack, including way too many books for those lonely moments in the subways of Paris and London.
hmmm what would i have in my backpack.. Maybe a bottle of wine and two glasses for us Ella…lol… Hows that for a strange comment. lol
Comments on this video make the post apocalyptic world sound like Oregon trail.
WIGGLY INTERVIEW SHOULDERS
Good interview. I would last a long time as I have already prepared but not intentionally. I hunt so I have a 30 day supply of food and fuel. I can carry a 60 pound pack and have the pack to do that. I have lived on freeze dried food for almost 4 weeks on a prolonged hunting trip in late fall when there was little way of foraging. Also, the military trained me to forage one way or the other if supplies are getable.
I would last for around 4 years. I would be very good at survival and picking my location and equipment — however, I would end up killing myself because of boredom, lack of human contact and low quality of life as opposed to what I’m used to. I would be too scared to keep people near me, that would be my survival tool and my final death sentence.
terrorist will be taken to New York for trial therefore a possible terror attack is ill be possible. :-(
YES!! you asked a techie question about production!
That was awesome.
It’s Chris Elliot! The man under the seats. Anyone? Anyone?
Yeah, they definitely should have considered some post techniques to pull the saturation out as well. This would have been one movie that needed some bleach bypass.
She was hot and smart until the last 30 seconds.
I think how long I would last would depend on what I had to live for. In other words, my companions. Where there’s a will there’s a way.
I love how Ella wiggles her shoulders when she speaks. :)
Something to fend off the roving rape gangs from ravaging my soft supple body.
I’d carry a gun so I could shoot myself in the head and put myself out of my misery quickly! Who the hell would want to “survive” in a devastated world? What for?
I’m with you Vermeer. What happened to the Nneka interview?
I am going with a syringe of cobra venom as it is less likely to leave you half alive and much more pleasant.
When and where do we meet up?
I will carry 2 bullets in case I mess up the first shot. There’s a bar at the corner of Angel St. and OM avenue. The best beer and whiskey in the universe. We can hook up there and discuss the good ole days: not BC but BV — Before Vaccines.
Anybody in NYC go to the Nneka concert? If so, how was it?
“Beer for my horses, whiskey for my men.”
A chemistry text book… cuz everyone wants to do stoichiometry problems when the world has ended…….
It really depends what kind of apocalypse. I think I’d live a lot longer in a zombie apocalypse than a nuclear apocalypse. I’d say just stock up on jerkey, that’s what the drifters in the old west used to eat so I’ll give that a go
I wuv spam!!! Nom nom nom spam yum.
I will last for a long time….
Because I am crazy and keep a stash of weapons in my basement along with lots of spam and canned peaches… mmmh.. peaches.
Wait thats not true :( maybe about 10 days?
yay! film!!!!!
I’d take an FN Five-Seven single action for self defense and a Remington .22 for hunting and spare parts. (Big guns are heavy and the rounds cost more backpack space and weight.)
But ammunition will run out, so a sturdy, low maintenance bow. Not a compound as it will be strung with whatever I can fashion at some point if I live that long. Some stuff for snares and small animal traps.
A couple excellent knives. As much useful clothing and as big a variety of lines, including fishing line, space blankets and thin tarps as I could fit. A variety of sturdy, sealable containers.
Simple tools and repair materials including an extensive boot repair kit.
Peanuts and smoked fish. A water purifier with reusable filters. Penicillin, Dilaudid, a topical antiseptic and dental anesthetic. A well sealed syringe of cobra venom.
Maybe some jellied alcohol and some non-electric blasting caps.
A couple of female pack goats, milking, of a breed that can live off the bush, with horns in tact.
Maybe a dog if I can find one on short notice that works quiet, stays out of trouble, keeps its head and follows orders when things are going to hell.
A harmonica and Shakespeare if I can fit it.
But I’m not going on this one without the cobra venom.
Speaking of post apocalypse : If you thought George W. Bush was an idiot. . . .well…..
If George W.. Bush had been the first President to need a teleprompter installed to be able to get through a press conference, would you have laughed and said this is more proof of how inept he is on his own and is really controlled by smarter men behind the scenes?
If George W. Bush had spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to take Laura Bush to a play in NYC, would you have approved?
If George W. Bush had reduced your retirement plan’s holdings of GM stock by 90% and given the unions a majority stake in GM, would you have approved?
If George W. Bush had made a joke at the expense of the Special Olympics, would you have approved?
If George W. Bush had given Gordon Brown a set of inexpensive and incorrectly formatted DVDs, when Gordon Brown had given him a thoughtful and historically significant gift, would you have approved?
If George W. Bush had given the Queen of England an iPod containing videos of his speeches, would you have thought this embarrassingly narcissistic and tacky?
If George W. Bush had bowed to the King of Saudi Arabia, would you have approved?
If George W. Bush had visited Austria and made reference to the non-existent “Austrian language,” would you have brushed it off as a minor slip?
If George W. Bush had filled his cabinet and circle of advisers with people who cannot seem to keep current in their income taxes, would you have approved?
If George W. Bush had been so Spanish illiterate as to refer to “Cinco de Cuatro” in front of the Mexican ambassador when it was the 5th of May (Cinco de Mayo), and continued to flub it when he tried again, would you have winced in embarrassment?
If George W. Bush had mis-spelled the word “advice” would you have hammered him for it for years like Dan Quayle and potatoe as proof of what a dunce he is?
If George W. Bush had burned 9,000 gallons of jet fuel to go plant a single tree on Earth Day, would you have concluded he’s a hypocrite?
If George W. Bush’s administration had okayed Air Force One flying low over millions of people followed by a jet fighter in downtown Manhattan, causing widespread panic, would you have wondered whether they actually get what happened on 9-11?
If George W. Bush had failed to send relief aid to flood victims throughout the Midwest with more people killed or made homeless than in New Orleans, would you want it made into a major ongoing political issue with claims of racism and incompetence?
If George W. Bush had created the position of 32 czars who report directly to him, bypassing the House and Senate on much of what is happening in America, would you have approved?
If George W. Bush had ordered the firing of the CEO of a major corporation, even though he had no constitutional authority to do so, would you have approved?
If George W Bush had proposed to double the national debt (which had taken more than two centuries to accumulate) in one year, would you have approved?
If George W. Bush had then proposed to double the debt again within 10 years, would you have approved?
So, tell me again, what is it about Obama that makes him so brilliant and impressive?
Can’t think of anything?
Don’t worry.
Even though he’s done all the above in 5 months — you’ll still have another three years and seven months to come up with an answer.
Unless the apocalypse comes sooner.
I would have a book called How to make magic:Food, Survival, and TimeTravel edition. Also, I’ve played through Fallout 3 and seen Shaun of the Dead. Therefore I would last approx. forever.
Dune buggy, metal hockey mask, and some weird, leather fetish garb…that’s all I’d need.
I havn’t seen one preview of this movie…. but now I wanna see it!!!
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I´ll have an axe and a pair of matches :|
my back pack will have a hard paper note book, knife, several lighters, blanket, rope and tequila.
… however I do not think, our world will end up like this, nor robots will take over us … I’m preaty sure Social Medias are the ones that will take over the human race.
:D
This guy simply flipped out when he heard about Ella’s apoca-lips
nice vid, b.
hey rb_humanwire: sounds like a cool movie that i definitely want to see.
also, my backpack would have this: a full liter glass bottle container (with fantastically bold red lettering on the label) of extra pressed olive oil from tuscany because, it has recently been proven to prevent the spread of colan cancer by leading sources*, and provides long-lasting affects against heart failure. #MostExcellentInterviewer
*ibid and ditto; over and out.
Cool. That made me tired just in time for bed.
No matter how hard you try, you can’t escape.
Better hope she’s not your neighbor.
OK, she can come.
Weird. Most people seem to think that during the Apocalypse Wal Mart is still open and functioning so that you can stuff the backpack with the most fanciful merchandise thinkable. Possibly people who don’t even own a backpack now that all is okay.
As I still didn’t have my say on the packpack, can I opt for a huge stack of food coupons?
ya just go in and steal the stuff and that includes your backpack, tent, sleeping bag & cobra venom. here’s someone that’ll blow you away.
Cool.
And please, don’t poke me too hard with the elbow if I begin to snore. I think I could manage to keep the eyes open and avoid embarrassing situations if you give your seat on my right to Ella during the show.
My stuff is going to be from REI and L.L.Bean. (I’ll leave the tags on.)
I’m actually preparing for a 1 year expedition on an uninhabited arctic island. This is is pretty close to what I’ll face. Spam and peaches sounds pretty good.
That definitely calls for a syringe of cobra venom!
for the impromptu post-apocalytpic porn shoot?
Great Santana tune to listen to after you buy that rope and chair.
LOTS of condoms. the army will take care of the rest for me.
Ella Morton. All of a sudden, there you are. After all these appearances. Very good to see you.
WOO! australian director
I’ve been homeless before, so in a post-apocalyptic scenario, I would strive to last for months at least.
ok lord humungus
in the case og QuimbyMouses comment id need a leather jacket pants and boots a double barrel sawn-off a dog a police car and a case of dog food
as long as i can find food and not get sick i would last a bit ..
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/882018/braveheart_freedom_speech/
gimme 10 min in an an post-apocalistic world XD , a day without internet is like hell to me
I have to see this movie.
EXACTLY WHAT I WAS THINKING. well the condom part. no internet, so sex only is the only enjoyable thing left in the world… sad the internet has priority over sex.
The 14” Rambo knife from “First blood”. I believe it has a survival kit inside the shaft :D
READ THE BOOK FIRST!
i´am the legend madmax european shit… but quit good, surprisingly! no?
her voice is soooooo annoying
I’ll last many months.. I know what to do and how to survive.
In my backpack? I’d stuff a dildo and a bottle of Jack. All I need to get by, baby.
Haha, fuck post apocalyptic shit, I wouldn’t even notice. I have solar panels for electricity. A system that takes humidity from the air and turns it into water, a greenhouse garden, many generators just in case, and enough systems and shit to purify water that would last me forever. Now I just need a nuclear reactor haha.
In my backpack I’d just take a rifle.
fuck im hungry :(
This movie is going to be great
I’d probably last a couple of days before I would freak out and be ready to die
What would i have in my backpack??? You Ella, that’s all I’d need :)
I think that in the movie there us no sunlight so how would u get electricity?
btw your house sounds awesome. congrats!
@florcita72
Nuclear power plants ofc
Even if there’s no sun you can still get electricity.
Wind turbines, manual generators, etc. Anything that provides a constant or near constant rotating motion can generate electricity. You just put a really strong magnet and coil wire around it, then when you spin the magnet (with wind, water, manually, etc.) it creates a flow of electricity in the copper coil, which you can store in a battery or as a charge.
There’s many more complicated ways, but that’s the simplest.
Oh yeah, and anything that generates heat, can be made to produce electricity. Heat is energy after all. Using gas and compression, or thermoelectric plates.
Thermal generators, Stirling engines, Hydrogen oxygen fuel cells (these actually need electricity to be made though, good for storing energy, hydrogen is a good source of energy), flux compression generators, fusors (most complicated).
All of these can be made at home with materials that you can right now buy at radioshack or make.
ha, you’d be the first to get ransacked
I’d have porn in my backpack, and I’d last about 15 minutes until I run out of porn.
Hasn’t anyone seen Man vs. Wild? Probably the two most important things you need in your pack: a flint and a good knife. If you can’t make fire, you’re toast! Errm…
Anyway, excellent Rocketboom. I still miss Joanne, but Ella does much to make up for it.
I would last about 30 seconds… No electricity?!?!?!?!? suicide.
man i see those crappy interviews in tv
where the interview asks dumb questions, makes the interviewed unconfortable or bored. or sometimes interviewer talks so much the other dont get to talk at all.
Love this interviews :D keep going the nice work¡
im my backpack i would have whatever they had with them in the 2th world war
maybe a week all have a bunch of twinkies a USP .45, lighter, lamp, canned stuff,coat and id wear a ghillie suit
This is easy:
By myself? 20 minutes.
With Ella? However long is necessary.
-Qes
In my back pack I have exactly what I need and I last forever.