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Chemistry and Biology are both wonderful sciences that have done many great things for mankind. Though like anything that is essentially a tool, some tools are right for somethings but not for others. When it come to taking care of soils, growing food, grazing animals, cycling nutrients and restoring ecosystems, biology is the right active tool. I say active tool because it isn’t that chemistry isn’t useful at all in these scenarios, rather it is how it can be useful. Biology is full of chemical prodcesses. Hence chemistry can be extremely useful in understanding organic systems. However when we use … Continue reading →

Join me today along with John Willis of SOE Tactical Gear & Nicole Sauce from Living Free in Tennessee for our monthly first Tuesday Coffee chat. Today we hit on a ton of topics including the upcoming Self Reliance Festival, Bitcoin, starting a business, chickens, ducks and geese, the Facebook outage and a lot more. Resources for today’s show… Find Me on Nostr Article Explaining the GrowNostr Initiative Join the Members Brigade TspAz.com TSPC on Discord TSPC Group on Telegram (group chat) TSPC Telegram Channel (just messages from me) Jack on MeWe Join Me on Odysee All My Recommend Bitcoin … Continue reading →

Today’s episode was originally Episode-377- The Why Behind Concealed Carry & was originally first published on February 12th, 2010. In this episode we covered responsibilities vs. legal requirements, the real story of the 2nd amendment, protecting others, avoiding conflicts, threat probability and more. The notes below are the original notes from that episode. Join me today as we discuss… The origins of the 2nd Amendment The real story of the how and why of the Bill of Rights they don’t teach in schools If you need to exercise one right then you need to exercise them all About 100,000 women … Continue reading →

Today’s episode of Friday Flashbacks was originally Episode-562- Dave Canterbury on Survivability for the Common Man and was originally recorded on 11-30-10. In this episode we talked to Dave about what you need to know before spending time off the black top, why some survival training falls short, the 5 C’s of survivability and more. The show notes for the original episode with all relevant resources can be found here. Welcome to Friday Flashbacks, after 15 years and hundreds of interview shows we decided to run them as flash backs ever Friday, beginning with the oldest of them going forward. … Continue reading →

Today on The Survival Podcast the expert council answers your questions on immigration, soft start assist, Dakin’s solution, charging battery banks, private education, knives, tires, gardening and more. Make sure if you submit content for an expert council show you do the following…. Email it to me at jack @ thesurvivalpodcast.com Put TSPC Expert in the subject line Ask you question and state the expert you have the question for in one coherent sentence Hit the return key a few times and then give all the details you think are necessary ` Following that procedure makes it about 100X more … Continue reading →

Andy McCann of Cross Fit Garage returns to TSP to talk about getting healthy even if you have lived an unhealthy and over weight life into middle age and think it is just too hard to fix. We will talk about how you can change your life for the better and why you should. Tune in to be inspired in more than one way today. After a less than stellar try at college sports, Andy found himself a traveling sales engineer trouble shooting telecom issues with an EE degree. When his first kid came along, he realized he needed to … Continue reading →

A common statement in the Bitcoin community is, “Bitcoin has no top, because fiat has no bottom. Today we will examine that and take a look at Bitcoin’s future and how that future can be broken into three primary categories. Conventional investing, self custody and technology built on and for bitcoin. Join Me Today to Discuss… Net inflows for February to ETFs were 84,650 BTC with a present value of 4.8 Billion USD – link Total BTC mined in if Feb to date were about 24,300 so the ETF took 3.48X all new mined BTC This is only the beginning, … Continue reading →

Today we start off with one of the most well known “conspiracy theories” of all time, who really killed JFK. Like most Americans I have always doubted the official story but I just found a plausible explanation unlike any other I have ever heard. Oh and it is old too! So old you may wonder why you never heard it before. We then transition to a more typical Q&A show on a variety of topics you guys asked me about over the last week by email, etc. Join Me Today to Discuss Who really killed JFK, it may be even … Continue reading →

Today’s episode of Friday Flashbacks was originally Episode-560- Shipping Container Construction and was originally recorded on 11-30-10. The show notes for the original episode with all relevant resources can be found here. Welcome to Friday Flashbacks, after 15 years and hundreds of interview shows we decided to run them as flash backs ever Friday, beginning with the oldest of them going forward. There is a tremendous library of wisdom in all the great interviews we have done over the years. So sit back and enjoy, whether this is your first or second time around with today’s episode I am sure … Continue reading →

Today on The Survival Podcast the expert council answers your questions on globalism, finding property, solar power, UTVs, wood ash, knot weed, sequestering CO2 and more. Make sure if you submit content for an expert council show you do the following…. Email it to me at jack @ thesurvivalpodcast.com Put TSPC Expert in the subject line Ask you question and state the expert you have the question for in one coherent sentence Hit the return key a few times and then give all the details you think are necessary ` Following that procedure makes it about 100X more likely your … Continue reading →

Today we will begin a multi part series on redefining education that I hinted at on the show yesterday. I thought about calling this “redefining childhood education” and while we will come at it a lot from what we should teach our kids, I am betting most adults may have to learn over half of the things we will talk about in this series as well. The truth is education is failing out children in so many ways. Kids are subjected to learning thousands of functionally useless facts, regurgitating them on tests and then 90% or more is fully forgotten … Continue reading →

My discussion with John Willis yesterday got me thinking as any talk with John always does for me. I love what he is doing with Homestead Apprentice but I want to talk more about the reason why things are needed like this today. Today I will tell you a part of your history as a modern species. Yes modern, and this history is not good. See humans have bred and domesticated animals for a very long time. In modern times humans have been domesticated though a very simple process of conditioning. If you think about it most “domesticated animals” are … Continue reading →

Today John Willis from SOE Tactical Gear joins me to discuss their new project called, “The Homestead Apprentice”. This will be an amazing and competitive opportunity to wing prizes while receiving training and mentorship in both homestead skills and entrepreneurship as part of a filmed YouTube series. Resources for today’s show… Find Me on Nostr Follow Me on Tik-Tok Article Explaining the GrowNostr Initiative Join the Members Brigade TspAz.com TSPC on Discord TSPC Group on Telegram (group chat) TSPC Telegram Channel (just messages from me) Jack on MeWe Join Me on Odysee All My Recommend Bitcoin Tools and Resources ` … Continue reading →

Today’s episode of Friday Flashbacks was originally Episode-520- Chef Keith Snow Joins Us To Discuss Harvest Eating and was originally recorded on 9-29-10. The show notes for the original episode with all relevant resources can be found here. Welcome to Friday Flashbacks, after 15 years and hundreds of interview shows we decided to run them as flash backs ever Friday, beginning with the oldest of them going forward. There is a tremendous library of wisdom in all the great interviews we have done over the years. So sit back and enjoy, whether this is your first or second time around with … Continue reading →

Today on The Survival Podcast the expert council answers your questions on government, monetary policy, elderberries, fitness, vitamin needs, foraging, why I don’t recommend Mittleider Gardening and more. Make sure if you submit content for an expert council show you do the following…. Email it to me at jack @ thesurvivalpodcast.com Put TSPC Expert in the subject line Ask you question and state the expert you have the question for in one coherent sentence Hit the return key a few times and then give all the details you think are necessary ` Following that procedure makes it about 100X more … Continue reading →

Today we poke our heads up and take a look at some of the absolute insanity going on in the world. Let’s chat a bit about a couple recent Tucker Carlson interviews. One on big pharma and of course the one with Putin. Or how about the fact that 2/3rds of Americans and Canadians are living in housing that they can’t actually afford? What could possibly go wrong? Join Me Today to Discuss… A pharmaceutical insider tells us three things that should outrage every American – entire video Pharma buys 50% of all TV ads not to sell drugs but … Continue reading →

Today John Bush joins me to discuss Freedom Cells and how you can build strong community locally. One that is networked to other communities across your state, across the nation and even across the world. We also dig into the coming Freedom Cell Challenge designed to help you get your group going fast. John Bush is a radical activist, entrepreneur, and father of two based in Central Texas. He began his career in activism in 2002 questioning the official account of what happened on 9/11 and speaking out against the wars in the Middle East. He was introduced to libertarianism … Continue reading →

Hi, my name is Jack and I am a seed addict. I have tried to get this monkey off my back for decades now. Every year about Christmas time when the mood shifts to getting ready for spring I say something like this to myself, “This year I am just going to grow the 10 or so things that do really well with very little work for us that we use a lot of. Just like my grand paw used to do”. About that time the dealers “pull me back in” and one of the worst offenders of the bunch … Continue reading →

Today’s episode of Friday Flashbacks was originally Episode-515- An Interview with Chris Martenson author of the Crash Course and was originally recorded on 9-22-10. The show notes for the original episode with all relevant resources can be found here. Welcome to Friday Flashbacks, after 15 years and hundreds of interview shows we decided to run them as flash backs ever Friday, beginning with the oldest of them going forward. There is a tremendous library of wisdom in all the great interviews we have done over the years. So sit back and enjoy, whether this is your first or second time … Continue reading →

Today on The Survival Podcast the expert council answers your questions on the Putin interview, planting pecans, the civil war, solar power, permaculture, cooking hacks, gardening with kids and more. Make sure if you submit content for an expert council show you do the following…. Email it to me at jack @ thesurvivalpodcast.com Put TSPC Expert in the subject line Ask you question and state the expert you have the question for in one coherent sentence Hit the return key a few times and then give all the details you think are necessary ` Following that procedure makes it about … Continue reading →

Today Stephen Raisner returns to TSPC this time to discuss advanced aquaponics concepts. You don’t want to miss this one. There are not many people who I really learn much about aquaponics from after doing it myself for 10 years, but Stephen is one of them. He is literally one of the smartest people, I’ve ever met, in the world of aquaponics and natural farming. Stephen Raisner is a leading aquaponic consultant and founder of Potent Ponics. He has helped pioneer many of the methods now use for high value and hard to grow crops in aquaponics and has worked … Continue reading →

Join me today along with John Willis of SOE Tactical Gear & Nicole Sauce from Living Free in Tennessee for our monthly first Tuesday Coffee chat. Today we hit really hard a lot or gardening and homestead topics. We also got somewhat deep into some of the reasons why people are so soft in current times and what can be done to restore resiliency to society as a whole. We talk about HomesteadApprentice.com and the opportunity that presents and a ton more. Resources for today’s show… Find Me on Nostr Article Explaining the GrowNostr Initiative Join the Members Brigade TspAz.com … Continue reading →

It is that time again. Part of the nation is still in ice and snow but the giant rat in Pennsylvania says an early spring is coming. Early or not spring is coming and it is time to get those seeds for plants you want to set out going NOW. Join Me Today to Discuss… Understanding how seeds germinate in the wild (this answers so many questions) Setting up your seed starting systems How much do you want/need to start Indoors, garage, outdoors. green house Lights at this point just use good LEDs unless you already have something else Heating … Continue reading →

Today’s episode of Friday Flashbacks was originally Episode-462- Dave Canterbury from Dual Survival and was originally recorded on 6-10-10. The show notes for the original episode with all relevant resources can be found here. Welcome to Friday Flashbacks, after 15 years and hundreds of interview shows we decided to run them as flash backs ever Friday, beginning with the oldest of them going forward. There is a tremendous library of wisdom in all the great interviews we have done over the years. So sit back and enjoy, whether this is your first or second time around with today’s episode I … Continue reading →

Today on The Survival Podcast the expert council answers your questions on war, economics, dog training, storing flour, cover crops, grid down medicine, home gardens being attacked with propaganda and more. Make sure if you submit content for an expert council show you do the following…. Email it to me at jack @ thesurvivalpodcast.com Put TSPC Expert in the subject line Ask you question and state the expert you have the question for in one coherent sentence Hit the return key a few times and then give all the details you think are necessary ` Following that procedure makes it … Continue reading →

Today I am joined by Tomek K of the GetAlby project. We discuss how Alby is build lightning based bitcoin solutions for the web. We also talk about bitcoin philosophy, bitcoin culture and guerrilla activism. Tomek is a libertarian activist from Poland, multiorganizer, orangepilled since few years, now building Bitcoin Cinema world with Bitcoin FilmFest and spreading lightning adoption with Alby. Resources for today’s show… Find Me on Nostr Article Explaining the GrowNostr Initiative Join the Members Brigade TspAz.com TSPC on Discord TSPC Group on Telegram (group chat) TSPC Telegram Channel (just messages from me) Jack on MeWe Join Me … Continue reading →

Today we discuss simple techniques and tactics that will up your game with cooking various cuts and types of meat. When you know how to do this right you will find yourself eating out less and keeping more money in your bank account. I am doing this show today for a few reasons. One is that I simply love to cook and talk about it, and we just have not done a show on cooking for a while. Two is it really does save a lot of money to know how to cook well with real whole ingredients and nothing … Continue reading →

Today we examine the current state of bitcoin, we answer the questions of why do the ETFs have so much inflow and yet the price is down from launch day, what the future holds and I answer a ton of your questions about Bitcoin in general. Join Me Today as we Discuss… Things I said would happen and progress on them since Episode-3428 & Episode-3423 Price won’t really go anywhere right away, lets remind you of why ETF Funds could only compete on fees and transparency so they will publish addresses – link Grayscale would see big outflows due to … Continue reading →

Today’s episode of Friday Flashbacks was originally Episode-452- An Interview with Ron Hood of SurvivalQ and was originally recorded on 6-10-10. The show notes for the original episode with all relevant resources can be found here. Welcome to Friday Flashbacks, after 15 years and hundreds of interview shows we decided to run them as flash backs ever Friday, beginning with the oldest of them going forward. There is a tremendous library of wisdom in all the great interviews we have done over the years. So sit back and enjoy, whether this is your first or second time around with today’s … Continue reading →

Today on The Survival Podcast the expert council answers your questions on the Yemen airstrikes, Bidenomics, pest management, home design, dog training, fodder trees, REITs, starting garden plants and more. Make sure if you submit content for an expert council show you do the following…. Email it to me at jack @ thesurvivalpodcast.com Put TSPC Expert in the subject line Ask you question and state the expert you have the question for in one coherent sentence Hit the return key a few times and then give all the details you think are necessary ` Following that procedure makes it about … Continue reading →

Today CJ joins us to talk about how you can get started legally and safely making your own firearms at home with 3-D Printing. For all the ignorant talk of “ghost guns” by media and politicians and the insuation that they are illegal, there is no such thing as a “ghost gun”. There is only the manufacture of firearms which is completely legal in most of the US, 3D printing is just one method but one that opens the hobby to many. CJ is a United States Practical Shooting Association Grandmaster and newly minted GunCad developer/evangelist. He won First Printed … Continue reading →

The typical verbiage is flying all over the place right now, as it always does as we lead up to the once every 4 year assclown circus. Save our democracy Take our country back Hold them accountable The most important election of our lifetime Etc. None of this means anything at this point. Sure if you elect the Orangeman it may slow a few things down that are awful but it will simply accelerate others. Trump is not going to “drain the swamp”. Biden is only going to get worse if he stays in office. We are screwed. That doesn’t … Continue reading →

I have been getting some questions about Permaculture lately and it has been specific to PDCs (permaculture design courses) in a lot of instances. Mainly is a PDC worth taking and what do you really get out of it. This is where I may take some flack from some Permaculture teachers, I do not believe a PDC is right for many. Here is why, a PDC is a 72 hour course, it is either rammed into 2 weeks in person or done over time online. 60-70% of the material is philosophy over techniques and tactics or tactics and techniques that … Continue reading →

Today’s episode of Friday Flashbacks was originally Episode-396- An Interview with Michael Adam of the Appleseed Project and was originally recorded on 3-11-10. The show notes for the original episode with all relevant resources can be found here. Welcome to Friday Flashbacks, after 15 years and hundreds of interview shows we decided to run them as flash backs ever Friday, beginning with the oldest of them going forward. There is a tremendous library of wisdom in all the great interviews we have done over the years. So sit back and enjoy, whether this is your first or second time around … Continue reading →

Today on The Survival Podcast the expert council answers your questions on the mid east, permaculture, the stock market, fodder trees, training dogs, wood stoves, why the government fears independence and more. Make sure if you submit content for an expert council show you do the following…. Email it to me at jack @ thesurvivalpodcast.com Put TSPC Expert in the subject line Ask you question and state the expert you have the question for in one coherent sentence Hit the return key a few times and then give all the details you think are necessary ` Following that procedure makes … Continue reading →

Today Stephen Raisner of Potent Ponics returns to TSPC to discuss more on natural farming and advanced aquaponics. We also dig into a new AI tool he helped create that instantly creates recipes for natural fertilizers based on your location and the crops you want to grow. Truly world changing stuff folks! Stephen Raisner is a leading aquaponic consultant and founder of Potent Ponics. He has helped pioneer many of the methods now use for high value and hard to grow crops in aquaponics and has worked on projects around the world including Canada, Jamaica, Zimbabwe, South Africa, and across … Continue reading →

  Today I answer a variety of your questions about things like making biochar with coffee grinds, working out with a heavy bag, diet discipline, herb waste in composting, money as debt, flash point cities, and more. If you want to submit content or questions for a show like today’s the best thing to do is send an email about your topic or question to jack at thesurvivalpodcast.com with TSPC in the subject line. Ask your question up front in one sentence or do the same with your point. Then provide any additional details, references, links, etc. after that. This … Continue reading →

Today we look at the trifecta of soil fertility for the home gardener, homesteader and permaculturist. They are bioreactor compost, cover cropping and biochar. With these three components you can grow almost anything and drive your inputs to almost nothing over a short time. With these three simple to do but somewhat complex to understand tactics in your tool chest you can solve so many problems with both disease and pests and grow more then you ever thought you could. These three tactics work together to form a natural and biological solution to common issues in the garden and on … Continue reading →

Today’s episode of Friday Flashbacks was originally Episode-365- An Interview with Cam Mather and was originally recorded on 1-7-10. The show notes for the original episode with all relevant resources can be found here. Welcome to Friday Flashbacks, after 15 years and hundreds of interview shows we decided to run them as flash backs ever Friday, beginning with the oldest of them going forward. There is a tremendous library of wisdom in all the great interviews we have done over the years. So sit back and enjoy, whether this is your first or second time around with today’s episode I … Continue reading →

Today on The Survival Podcast the expert council answers your questions on the end of empire, pricing construction work, medicine, solar power, diet, supplements, a new reporting requirement for small business, the Bitcoin ETFs and more. Make sure if you submit content for an expert council show you do the following…. Email it to me at jack @ thesurvivalpodcast.com Put TSPC Expert in the subject line Ask you question and state the expert you have the question for in one coherent sentence Hit the return key a few times and then give all the details you think are necessary ` … Continue reading →

Expert council member and long time community member Ben Falk joins us today. We discuss the new version of his book, the “low hanging fruit or resiliency”, wood stoves, homesteading in cold climates and more. Resources for today’s show… Find Me on Nostr Article Explaining the GrowNostr Initiative Join the Members Brigade TspAz.com TSPC on Discord TSPC Group on Telegram (group chat) TSPC Telegram Channel (just messages from me) Jack on MeWe Join Me on Odysee All My Recommend Bitcoin Tools and Resources ` Ben’s Links Whole Systems Design – Ben’s Main Site The Resilient Farm and Homestead, Revised and Expanded – … Continue reading →

AJ Harrison is a long time member of the TSPC community and has been casting lead bullets for his entire adult life. He joins us today to discuss casting bullets and how it fits into the prepping lifestyle. We discuss how to get started, where to source lead and how to scale for efficiency. We will also discuss the full casting process, reloading with cast rounds, using gas checks, troubleshooting bad casts, molds along with some general ballistics stuff. Resources for today’s show… Find Me on Nostr Article Explaining the GrowNostr Initiative Join the Members Brigade TspAz.com TSPC on Discord … Continue reading →

Americans in particular are very fond of the word freedom. It always has amazed me how people so attracted to the word freedom can get so upset when someone chooses to use said freedom differently then they do. Over half of the people don’t vote, we all know this but tell someone who does vote you are going to around an election and watch them lose their minds about it. America’s main population has no idea what freedom means any longer. They think it basically means, go to school and conform. Go to college and conform. Get a job and … Continue reading →

Today’s episode of Friday Flashbacks was originally Episode-351- An Interview with Bill Wilson about Permaculture and was originally recorded on 1-7-10. The show notes for the original episode with all relevant resources can be found here. Welcome to Friday Flashbacks, after 15 years and hundreds of interview shows we decided to run them as flash backs ever Friday, beginning with the oldest of them going forward. There is a tremendous library of wisdom in all the great interviews we have done over the years. So sit back and enjoy, whether this is your first or second time around with today’s … Continue reading →

Today on The Survival Podcast the expert council answers your questions on economics, war, off road prep, canning, permaculture, investing, contracting, diet, logical fallacy and more. Make sure if you submit content for an expert council show you do the following…. Email it to me at jack @ thesurvivalpodcast.com Put TSPC Expert in the subject line Ask you question and state the expert you have the question for in one coherent sentence Hit the return key a few times and then give all the details you think are necessary ` Following that procedure makes it about 100X more likely your … Continue reading →

The Bitcoin ETFs are coming, FUD is like blood in the water again, the halving is coming, but we are taking a different look at this. How different? Well, would you get on a multi generational star ship so your great great grand kids can step foot on a new planet? What does that have to do with Bitcoin? Tune in to find out. Join Me Today to Discuss… Today is a long long macro look at Bitcoin, we will cover some current things though What is a “generational starship” in science fiction historically What would we do on a … Continue reading →

Join me today along with John Willis of SOE Tactical Gear & Nicole Sauce from Living Free in Tennessee for our monthly first Tuesday Coffee chat. Today we ring in the new year right, take a look at current events, answer your questions and more. We honestly had a great ass kicking first show of the year with this chat today. Tune in to be motivated and get your back side bruised as we kick off 2024 with one hell of a bang. We talk money, business, health, marketing, cooking, meat cutting and a ton more today. Resources for today’s … Continue reading →

Today’s episode of Friday Flashbacks was originally Episode-345- An Interview with Christopher Nyerges and was originally recorded on 12-28-09. The show notes for the original episode with all relevant resources can be found here. Welcome to Friday Flashbacks, after 15 years and hundreds of interview shows we decided to run them as flash backs ever Friday, beginning with the oldest of them going forward. There is a tremendous library of wisdom in all the great interviews we have done over the years. So sit back and enjoy, whether this is your first or second time around with todays episode I … Continue reading →

Today is an episode of TSP Rewind, commercial free versions of past podcast episodes. Today’s episode was originally Episode-845- Ben Franklin on Modern Survivalism & was originally first published on February 22nd, 2012. The notes below are the original notes from that episode. Recently I get a ton of emails on an article called. 8 Personal Finance Lessons from Benjamin Franklin that was published on the very cool blog, The Art of Manliness. Several dozen of you told me that this article sounded like 8 things I say often on TSP. So rather than read the article at all I … Continue reading →

Today is an episode of TSP Rewind, commercial free versions of past podcast episodes. Today’s episode was originally Episode-2320- Ten Basic Preparedness Questions Answered & was originally first published on Oct 30th, 2018. The notes below are the original notes from that episode. I feel we need to do more fundamentals shows than we have been doing lately. I almost called them beginner shows but I don’t feel that is really what they are. While great for beginners fundamentals are for everyone. Back when I played various sports, even when I got to an advanced level we often worked on … Continue reading →