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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Susan, Paul and Charon embark on a road trip up to Bellows Falls to meet a Coalition operative. They have one of Paul's cows in the wagon as cover story for their trip. They face the expected challenge of government checkpoints. In the remote backwoods, they face a different danger -- highway bandits who want to steal their cow.

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Many preppers confess that they feel like they are the only ones in their family, or social group who prep. Making matters worse, some preppers are afraid to let anyone know that they prep, for fear of either being ostracized or worse, becoming a target of the (theorized) starving hordes. Mic, Brian, and Jeff discuss the problem and some options.

Link discussed in this episode:

Meetup.com -- is not specifically a prepper site, but there may be prepper meetups, or prepper-adjacent events in your area.

Ready Your Future Exclusive Email Group -- is an email group of preppers around the US and some overseas. $20/year (to discourage trolls) and access to the bi-weekly Zoom meetups. Membership is open only periodically. Get on the wait-list if membership is closed when you get there.

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In an effort to stop the men who plan to hike into New Hampshire and blow up a railroad bridge, Susan, Paul, and Charon visit Doug. This, so Charon can send a coded message back to his handlers in the Coalition. They reply told of an operative at a farm near Bellows Falls. Now, the three have to concoct a plausible reason for them to be traveling all the way up there (10 hours by horse and wagon). There will be several checkpoints. Charon is less than pleased with Susan's solution.

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Brian, Mic, and Jeff take another look at AI. This time, not in the fictional (and tyrannical) form of Skynet or Colossus, but as a here-and-now influence in our lives. Will AI replace humans for many jobs? Will AI tend to isolate people from each other? For preppers, is AI a good thing, or a bad thing?

Links:

CNBC: Bill Gates says humans won't be needed for most things (after AI)

CNN Business: Tech experts worry we'll rely on AI too much

Psychology Today: How AI could shape our relationships and social interaction

The Stepford Wives: Movie Review

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Susan sneaks out of Boyd's Farm in the dark of night. She meets Charon in the woods outside of the little Deerfield airport. They make their way to the plane without being detected. Charon plants his explosive under the wing, but people start coming from the house. He has to cut the fuse very short and run for cover. The plane explodes just as the people arrive. They put out the subsequent fires quickly. There was no detonation of the Feds' explosive cargo. It was not aboard the plane yet. The airport boss tells the pilot and two helpers that they will have to carry the explosive package in on foot and blow up a bridge themselves.

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Mic, Brian, and Jeff discuss the challenges of staying prepared when traveling long distances. They share a few of their travel "horror" stories too. With TSA's restrictions on what can be brought as carry-on, a prepper is more limited in their travel EDC. The guys discuss what they have done to stay as prepped as they can while traveling.

Links:

Official TSA page: What's allowed and not allowed in baggage.

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Susan, Paul, and Charon set out to a farm near West Dover, VT with a load of manure. That, as cover for them checking out the small plane that the Coalition sent Charon to deal with. En route, they encounter checkpoint guards and a skeptical farmer who had no idea why they were there.

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