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Yes, and recently many famous billionaires from the tech industry have made the news for building luxury bunkers. So what these bunkers need to do is to keep you safe from danger, but they're also like something out of a spy film. They're huge, and they've got cool features like gyms or home cinemas. They allow someone to live a comfortable life while staying safe from danger.

Natalia has thought about building a bunker and getting prepared, because she sees adverts for freeze-dried food that would last a long time on TV in the US. When she talks about the adverts, she says, I'm not kidding, which means I'm not joking. Natalia says that these adverts are part of the prepper mentality. A mentality is a person's way of thinking about things, so the prepper mentality would mean thinking about things like a prepper.

So, while tech billionaires are worried about things like climate disaster or AI, Natalia says that luxury bunkers are also a mark of social status, or status as we would say in the UK. Someone's status is the amount of respect or importance given to them by other people. With their bunkers, tech billionaires would be able to survive without compromising their luxury lifestyle, that means without lowering their standard of living.

OK, it's time to recap the language we've learnt during the programme, starting with prepper, someone who thinks disaster is likely to happen soon and so prepares for it. Kidding means joking. Your mentality is the way you think about things. An apocalypse refers to a serious event which causes destruction and change. Your status or status in society is the amount of respect and importance other people give you.

And don't forget to test what you've learnt in this programme with the quiz on our website bbclearningenglish.com. Goodbye for now. Goodbye. And if you're a prepper, good luck.