How to pronounce “preppers” in English

And then the last story is a story called "The Mask of the Red Death," named after the Edgar Allan Poe story.And it's about preppers who build a luxury bunker just outside of Phoenix and repair to it as soon as the catastrophe hits, and fancy themselvesliving out a kind of boy's own adventure of the elites surviving while all the useless takers die in Phoenix because they didn't have the wisdom to prepare