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As a nod to winter, Mic, Jeff, and Brian, all watched the 2018 movie, Arctic, starring Mads Mikkelsen. He is the pilot of an airplane that crash-landed somewhere in the arctic. His survival skills have kept him alive for several weeks. When a rescue helicopter arrives, it too crashes due to storm gusts. Only the copilot — a young woman — survived, though gravely injured. He then tries to get her to medical care. The boys key off of this movie to discuss winter preparedness in general.
Links:
Movie, Arctic — (YouTube free version. What little is said, is dubbed in Portuguese)
IMDb Page for Arctic -- Writer, Director, star list. Reviews.
WinterReady tips from Ready.gov
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The story opens with Susan and Paul carrying food and water to some livestock hidden in a high woods. They are circumventing a new law that limits how much livestock people can own. Susan tells of discovering that the mysterious regular white van is carrying gasoline. She deduces that the gas is for an equally mysterious airplane the Feds are operating nearby. Back at home, they are visited by a Food Equity Inspector, eager to ensure that no one has more (or better) food than everyone else. Later, Paul mentions that the Coalition is sending someone to deal with the airplane.
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Mic, Brian, and Jeff discuss the 2014 movie Aftermath: an independent production about a group of average folks who gather in a north Texas farmhouse cellar to try to survive the radioactive fallout from a nuclear war. This is another of those Everybody Dies movies. The boys comment on what the writer did well for conveying prepper knowledge, and where he missed the boat. The biggest boat he missed was assuming that fallout stayed at toxic levels for over a month.
Links:
The Movie: Aftermath (2014) Free on YouTube
The FEMA PrepTalk about the reality of fallout and how to protect yourself.
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The final installment in the backstory of Harold Perkins -- the man who had the steel casting expertise to fix that broken locomotive. In this chapter, Red has dropped them off at the woods along the border. They have to travel by night, without lights that passing drones might see. Then, hope that they've stayed on course to meet the people who think they're trading engine parts for a sack of corn.
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So much Doom! With inauguration just a short while away, the boys review some of the doom we've been told will befall us all. In a more realistic vein, the threat of terrorists remains, regardless of who sits in the White House. We're told that hacker-terrorists have infiltrated many infrastructure systems. If they strike and take down infrastructure, what is a prepper to do about that? And then, there are winter storms that can take down the grid too, albeit less catastrophically than terrorists, but with greater certainty.
Links:
Mr. Heater "Buddy" portable propane heater — emergency indoor* heat source.* With sufficient fresh air available. Best used with carbon monoxide detector.
News story: Chinese Hackers in Infrastructure -- Jake Sullivan of Biden White House warns Americans of depth and breadth of CCP hacker infiltration.
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The moment has come. Harold and his family must sneak out of their guarded townhouse and into the secret compartment in James Reddimer's truck. Red manages to involve a guard in restarting the truck as a way of proving his truck was empty. Harold worries about many things as they seem to be traveling no place in particular. The travel authorization provided by Dorn gets them through a checkpoint. Beyond that lie a mile of woods an the New Hampshire border.
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Mic, Jeff, and Brian all watched the movie Homestead over Christmas week. This is independent Angel Studios' screenplay based on the book series Black Autumn. Originally planned as a series, the first two episodes became a movie. More episodes to follow, says Angel Studios.
The boys look at prepper lessons to be learned from the film and touch upon some of the thorny issues a well-equipped prepper is likely to face. While the boys can't help but do a few spoilers, the story goes on in later episodes, so there's not ending (yet) to give away.
Links:
Black Autumn Book Series on Amazon.
Angel Studios' website.
Homestead movie trailer
Ready Your Future exclusive email group. (membership is closed at the moment, but you can add your name to the waiting list.
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Casting Dorn's part cannot be put off any longer. Red has a one-shot plan to rescue Harold and his family. While it means escaping to "lawless" New Hampshire, it is better than certain death. Their conversation over the details is masked by the roar of the furnace. Red plans to sneak them out that evening. Dorn, however, orders them to be ready to leave in a half an hour.
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With renewed concerns of possible nuclear exchanges (Ukraine/Russia, Iran/Israel) Mic, Brian, and Jeff explore some of the reality behind nuclear blasts and more importantly, fallout. These were fairly topical among Americans during the Cold War, but with the fall of the Soviet Union, nuclear realities have slipped out of the mainstream American consciousness.
The catalyst for this episode was a book by journalist Annie Jacobsen, that highlighted how precarious things still are. Below are links to items mentioned in this episode.
Links:
Annie Jacobsen's book: Nuclear War, A Scenario -- (amazon link) Not promoting her book so much as providing a link if you're interested.
A Long-Form Interview with Joe Rogen
A print article in the publication Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
The 1983 Made for TV move The Day After (free on YouTube), cited by Jacobsen as influential in amrs talks in the 80s.
FEMA PrepTalks about nuclear preparedness and after effects (You Tube)
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While assessing their dismal prospects, (their work is doomed to fail) Harold discovers that a secret resistance organization has a couple of operatives working around the foundry. He recalls a neighbor of his down in Canton Boston telling him about the secret society. Harold confronts one of the operatives to request help. The operative makes no promises but says they will need time. Dorn, however, wants the project to commence the next day.
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Mic, Brian, and Jeff discuss how the holidays can be significant for preppers. Part of it is having to maintain one's situational awareness when out in crowded public places. Ne'erdowells seek out crowded places to cause trouble.A more positive holiday feature are the deep discounts. A good time for the shrewd prepper to save on preps.
Links:
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Harold and Mario share a lunch of Canton rations (cold mush). They want to discuss their predicament, but are aware that the foundry's office is bugged. Fry, one of the laborers assigned to the project, shares the news that they are to cast a second aluminum blade base. The first crew's casting failed. The rumor is that the first crew were taken out to sea and shot for their failure.
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Mic, Brian and Jeff have a roundtable discussion keying off of Todd Sepulveda's November 10th podcast. Todd talked about some people who were prepping for post-election chaos seem to have just stopped prepping since chaos didn't happen. Was that a reasonable response? Because Trump won, will things be safe, secure, and problem free -- at least for the next four years? The guys weigh in with their two cents (sometimes more).
Links to items discussed in this podcast:
>> Blog post by Paul T. Martin. (Nov.6) "Many Preppers Are About To Make A Huge Mistake. Don't Be Them"
>> Todd Sepulveda's Nov. 10 Podcast discussing Martin's article
Available Now! Book 6: The Summer of Wood & Iron is now available on Amazon in both Kindle and paperback form.
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Harold Perkins arrives at a small abandoned foundry well outside of the protective bounds of Canton Boston. He, and another man, have been ordered to cast a new aluminum base for a wind turbine blade. The overseer of this project, a Mr. Dorn, is sternly adamant that failure is not an option. Dorn gets angry when Harold says the small foundry does not have everything they need for Dorn's project.
Thank you to all of you who supported me and encouraged me in the creation and completion of Book 6. Work is underway to get the material processed through Amazon for the Kindle, paperback, and Audible versions.As the story continues through four novelettes, do show your support by buying me a cup of virtual coffee on Buy Me A Coffee. Even better, would be joining the other monthly supporters on Patreon and BMAC. Those members are getting the chapters of the second novelette -- Susan's Raid.
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Mic, Brian, and Jeff look at the Federal Emergency Management Agency in light of the recent hurricanes and aftermath. Did FEMA deserve the bad press it got? Is FEMA actually supposed to rescue people? Mic looks at the old Civil Defense model (pre-FEMA). Brian looks at the current Swedish version of Civil Defense -- which is strong on DIY.
Below are links to things discussed in this episode.
FEMA website:
Ready.gov website
James O’Keefe interview with FEMA whistleblower---
Bert the Turtle, Duck and Cover, video:
Target You, Civil Defense preparedness film (1950)---
Sweden’s Civil Defense program:
19-page Swedish Preparedness PDF (in English):
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Martin and his crew assemble the Ferals for the hike into Manchester. They are blocked by the stocky man and his men who insist on taking some of the Ferals as their own personal slave labor. Stocky's plan is derailed by the Overseer of the Grange.
After all of that, the long march into the city begins. Once in the city, the Ferals find opportunities for work and housing. Martin is finally free to return home without the distractions he had endured all summer.
This is the final chapter of Book 6: The Summer of Wood and Iron
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What's Next?
In his outro, Mic discusses his plans for the podcast going forward. Check it out!
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This week, Jeff, Brian and Mic will be discussing a 15-minute intro video by a scientist named Lewis Dartnell, who tries to sort out what humanity would have to know to rebuild civilization after an apocalypse. Of course, you can't describe everything you'd need to do to rebuild our current civilization in just a short video. Some things he touches on are sound. Some things superfluous. The boys put in their two-cents as to what someone would need to know for post-apocalyptic knowledge.
The Link to the Video: If you want to view the video before the guys discuss it, here is the YouTube link. Humanity After An Apocalypse.
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Martin and Margaret try to manage the sudden horde of Ferals that have settled around the Simmons house. While a solution is found, they put many of the Ferals to work in exchange for a meal of pine fries. A big project to keep most of them busy is digging out an area for a pond along the little stream on the Simmons' property. The work is interrupted by two men who wish to arrest one of the Feral women whom they accuse of stealing a chicken.
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Link for Next Friday
Next week, Jeff, Brian and Mic will be discussing a 15-minute intro video by a scientist who tries to sort out what humanity would have to know to rebuild civilization after an apocalypse. If you want to view the video before the guys discuss it, here is the YouTube link. Humanity After An Apocalypse.
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In this episode, Mic, Brian, and Jeff discuss the post-apocalyptic film of 1970, No Blade Of Grass. It is called by some as the British version of the American film Panic In Year Zero. But the story is not about living in the woods, post-SHTF, but looks only at the journey from the big city to their Bug Out Location in the country. The boys try to look past the awkward artsy-ness of the director to discuss the story's events from a prepper's perspective.
Links for this Episode:
The book that the film is based upon: The Death of Grass (1956) Read online (free) at archive.org
The movie No Blade of Grass at Amazon Prime (rental)
Description of the movie No Blade of Grass on ClassicScifi.blogspot.com
Description of No Blade of Grass on Wikipedia
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Harold and his family arrive in Manchester. The casting process process begins for making a new cylinder head for the ailing locomotive. While they work, Harold shares some of what life was like in the detention camp and some of the mysterious goings on. Once the work was completed, Martin returns home to find a difficult surprise.
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