Susan comes face to face with evil in the three men who stumbled across them in the woods. After she faces down evil, they resume pursuing the bombers. They come across one of them later, injured in a fall and left behind by his fellow bombers. What should they do?

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Drones are becoming the weapon of choice on today's battlefield. As police departments become increasingly militarized, it seems like only a matter of time before local governments use drones and autonomous robot dogs to control the populace. What might a future with hostile drones be like? In this episode, the boys watched three short videos (links below) and discussed what, if anything, somebody can do about Robotic Doom.

Links:

SlaughterBots (2017): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fa9lVwHHqg

Metalhead (episode, 2017) https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6jbebk

How To Defeat A Robot Dog video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MUrF_G7KlM

Other links of interest:

Chinese “mosquito” drones: https://interestingengineering.com/military/chinese-military-unveils-mosquito-sized-drones

Black Hornet, micro drone: Black Hornet 4 Nano UAV

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Charon continues to track the three bombers as they travel north. He named them Boots, Stripes, and Dots based on their footprints. When the bombers veered off-trail to sleep through the day, Charon had his group set up farther along to set up another attempt at an ambush. But, when morning comes, Susan, Paul and Charon are discovered by locals and mistaken for raiders.

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How does an average Joe (or Josephine) prep on a limited budget? Mic, Jeff, and Brian look into ways to find the funds to prep if you're not a movie millionaire. They discuss some tips and explore some of the pitfalls to avoid. Brian and Jeff also confess to some things they had done wrong over the years.

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Susan, Paul, and Charon spend the night following the three bombers along a power line cut that runs north to the city of Claremont, NH. Charon has kept pace with them but does not want to overtake them. His plan is to let them bed down for the day and set up an ambush a bit farther ahead — catch them as they resume their travels in the evening. Susan still has misgivings about what they will do with the bombers when they catch them.

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Having some water stored is one of those prepper basics. What options do you have for getting more water when your stored supply runs low? Mic, Brian, and Jeff explore three options. You might power your electric well pump via batteries and an inverter. You could fetch "wild" water from a nearby body of water. You might put a hand pump on your well. Each plan has its pros and cons.

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Susan, Charon, and Paul arrive at Basin Farms, near Bellows Falls. The fill in the farmer who is a Coalition operative of their plans to ambush the bombers. Sneaking through Bellows Falls by night, they get ready to cross the river but are stopped by the arrival of the bombers and their boss. Susan sees them receive the explosives and their instructions. The younger bombers worry about venturing into "cannibal country."

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Even if you didn't die in any of the other "dooms", (comet impact, zombies, nukes, etc.) you will still not escape Gray Doom. Everyone gets older. Can on older person, who is not capable of running a mile with a fifty-pound backpack or hand-to-hand fighting, still be a prepper? Mic, Brian and Jeff discuss what prepping for being old or how prepping as an older person might be different.

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Charon figures to dispatch the three would-be thieves but Susan talks him out of it. She thinks they're not hardened criminals but desperately starving. The men tell of being shut out by the state for having offended some low-level officials. Susan hatches a plan to get the men's identity papers restored. Her plan involves some melodramatics, but it seems to work.

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If international tensions break out into a wider war, it is likely to fought differently than previous wars. What will be the same is that the home front will become a target. Instead of Zeppelins, enemy bombers, V2 missiles, or Cuban paratroopers invading, the assault on the home front will likely be cyber warfare -- software viruses and backdoors to take down civilian infrastructure. How would prepping for CyberDoom be different than an EMP or CME?

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