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Today on The Survival Podcast the expert council answers your questions on the deep state, the wash rule, solar with back up, trucks, mold, mushrooms, plant propagation, composting 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 →

I have often said that to stop conflict create abundance. I also point out that at one time, wars were fought over salt, but that no longer happens because salt is abundant. But one human need is truly scarce in many places today, and that is water. Zach Weiss of WaterStories.com joins me today to discuss how to restore peace to many parts of the world, by restoring water to the ecosystems. Zach is a protégé of revolutionary Austrian farmer Sepp Holzer, Zach is the first person to earn Holzer Practitioner certification directly from Sepp – through a rigorous two-year … 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, expanding regulations, walking to freedom, building a business, plants, permaculture 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 Tools … Continue reading →

Today we dig into what is known as “the college enrollment cliff” which officially begins in 2025 but has really already begun to be felt. We will then go beyond that to look at what the cliff says about our economy and society as a whole. The truth is our nation is in big trouble and in a real way, the pending collapse of many of the small colleges is just one sign of what is coming this way and quite quickly. There are two things driving the college enrollment cliff, they are easy to understand if you examine them … Continue reading →

Today’s episode of Friday Flashbacks was originally Episode-581- Building Community with Marjory Wildcraft and was originally recorded on 1-6-11. In this episode we were joined by Marjory to talk about creative ways to build community though a variety of means. 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 every Friday, beginning with the oldest of them going forward. There is a tremendous library of wisdom in all the great interviews we have done … Continue reading →

Today on The Survival Podcast the expert council answers your questions on domestic invasion, weight training, wild permaculture, smart meters, raised beds, leach fields, conspiracy theories 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 had a great discussion with Matthew Facas of Ares Tactical on concealed carry and how the carry space has changed over the last two decades in America. We talk about carry options, when to actually use a weapon vs. not. We also discuss training, gear and a ton more. Matthew is a custom holster maker with over a decade of experience. He draws on a vast range of work experiences to design holsters and help people choose the right solution. After getting out of the Marine Corps he spent a decade in the sporting retail market before transitioning … Continue reading →

The huge over night news is a container ship slammed into the Francis Scott Key bridge in Baltimore. It is likely the case that some of the special children are cheering this as Key was a “colonizer” and should have his bridge torn down. These special children will soon find that that bridge is an important thing if you live on the east coast and want your chocolate, coffee and avocado toast ever day. Of course the loons on the right are already telling you they “know” it was an “inside job” or a “false flag” or whatever. Look, I … Continue reading →

This weekend I put in over 200 transplants and at least half were not “productive” meaning they produce nothing edible. Yet every plant got a special mix including inoculation of the roots with mycorrhizal fungi. And the last 4 years of soil management were visible in a big way. Today I will tell you so many things I have realized in the past 4 years so you too can grow tons of your own food even in a small backyard garden. Join Me Today to Discuss… What several years of good soil management look like during spring planting The impact … Continue reading →

Today’s episode of Friday Flashbacks was originally Episode-570- Sam Coffman from TheHumanPath.com and was originally recorded on 12-14-10. In this episode we were joined by Sam Coffman, a former special forces solider and wilderness survival trainer to discuss survival training, permaculture, rebuilding after collapse 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 every Friday, beginning with the oldest of them going forward. There is a tremendous library of wisdom in all … Continue reading →

Today on The Survival Podcast the expert council answers your questions on the censorship, fitness, power tools, navigation, testosterone therapy, power systems, diet 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 question … Continue reading →

Ryan and Amelia Soucy went from living in a city, where Ryan consistently worked 80 to 100 hours a week, to a completely off grid homestead in upstate NY. He worked as a fireman for a federal contractor while she was getting a degree in homeland security and emergency management. They moved into a run down RV with 2 dogs and brought their chickens with them. They bought a shed and turned it into a one room cabin. Ryan works in town while Amelia tends to the homestead, raising dairy goats, meat rabbits, and chickens. Their plans include expanding to … Continue reading →

Today we cover a ton of great questions I have gotten recently about Bitcoin. In fact the majority of these questions came from one listener who practically did up a show outline for today. I worked in a few others as well both directly sent and that I have picked up on Nostr and X. Join Me Today to Discuss… Why was 21 million sats the number Satoshi chose, why not some other number? (penny parity) Can the ETFs play games with supply vs. paper Bitcoin the way some say they do with gold? Is Satoshi a modern version of … Continue reading →

In this episode we we discussed finding the right homestead, designing the life you want on it and supporting it with smart decisions, side hustles and more. Today’s episode was originally Episode-2186- Homesteading, Side Hustles and More & was originally first published on March 20th, 2018. The notes below are the original notes from that episode. So I jumped on Zello today to get some potential show topics, and the dominant vein was homesteading, finding a homestead and making it profitable in some way seemed to be the common denominator, so I am going to try to make a show … Continue reading →

Today’s episode of Friday Flashbacks was originally Episode-566- Cam Mather on Off Grid Living and was originally recorded on 12-8-10. In this episode we discussed how Cam and his family unplugged from the grid about 14 years ago, and began their journey by expanding agricultural production, expanding their solar arrays and more. We also discussed his two books. The first is “Thriving During Challenging Times, The Energy, Food and Financial Independence Handbook” provides a road map for readers to deal with the converging challenges of climate change, peak oil and resource depletion and the economic crisis. We then moved on … Continue reading →

Today on The Survival Podcast the expert council answers your questions on the military, running, fodder trees, hot water recirculation systems, vehicles, 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 likely your question … Continue reading →

Join me at 12:00 CST as for a discussion with TSPC community member Jason Adkins. Jason discovered TSPC in “the Jetta days”, became a prepper and then a series of “more mundane disasters” knocked him down. He will tell us about that and how he rebuilt after them and is currently on track to reestablish a homestead with his two daughters. 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 →

I am often asked for specific business advice and consulting. Things like “can we hire you to assess our business” which I don’t do because I simply don’t have the time to do that type of consulting. I am far more often though asked about business ideas. Like what do you think of this product or this service as a business. I almost always say, “sorry but I don’t do this type of thing”. The reason is simple, what I think about your idea is meaningless to your success with it. The truth is I really believe that the most … Continue reading →

Join me at 13:00 CST as we continue our multi part series on redefining education. I thought about calling this series “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 in time. And … Continue reading →

Today’s episode of Friday Flashbacks was originally Episode-565- Lessons from the Haitian Earthquake and was originally recorded on 12-7-10. In this episode Brandon Sheldon who had been on the ground as an independent relief worker several times since the Haitian earthquake joined us to talk about what true devastation is really all about. 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 … Continue reading →

Today on The Survival Podcast the expert council answers your questions on power outages, soil amendments, battery maintenance, diet, edible hedges, mapping tools for real estate, chicken systems 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 →

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 →