Adventures in the apocalyptic style

Preppers and the end of everything

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‘THE MACHINES ARE gonna fail. Then the system’s gonna fail. Then: survival. Who has the ability to survive. That’s the game.’

It’s the early 1970s. Lewis Medlock (played by a young Burt Reynolds, strapping and hirsute under a black leather vest) adjusts his hunting bow. Ed Gentry (a young Jon Voight) finishes his can of beer, cracks open another and sits back in their canoe.

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