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Today it’s time for the expert council show. To ask a question for a show like this, just send an email to me at jack at thesurvivalpodcast.com with “TSPC Expert” in the subject line. Today on The Survival Podcast, the expert council answers questions on N95 masks, medical exams, wind breaks, plant propagation, hiking, diesel trucks, the covid denominator and more. In the body of your email first tell me the council member your question is for. Second ask your question concisely in one to two sentences maximum. Third any and all details after that. This is the formula to … Continue reading →

I consider it quite fortunate that back in late November of 2019 a listener asked me about something called, “Kratky Hydroponics” named for Dr. Kratky who is a professor at the University of Hawaii. Up until that point I had never really seriously considered hydroponics as I vastly preferred aquaponics because it is a more natural system. When I grasped the true simplicity of Kratky though it would not let go of me. I first used it to create a very inexpensive and productive seed starting system and even that system grew some things so fast it was producing food … Continue reading →

Growing up on a small Hawaiian island, Eddy Garcia has over 30 years of experience living off-grid. His deep connection to Nature has taught him fundamental truths that are woven into Living Earth Systems. Observation, Consistency, Stewardship. Eddy has been self-reliant from a very young age. He lived off-grid on Maui & Molokai as a kid with a traditional Hawaiian native family and had to teach himself how to hunt, produce energy, build shelters… In the meantime, he developed a deep understanding for nature that has enabled him to grow food for himself and his community, become entirely self-sufficient, and … Continue reading →

I am going to say a bit more on the concept of treating CoVid with hydroxychloroquine today and play a patient testimonial as well. Doing this because I feel we 100% need to educate people about this. Doctors are still resistant and supplies are still limited but for many this is the answer to treatment. Very quickly though we will turn to growing your own food. Today I just going to give you some options to get planting fast, like container gardens, grow bags, etc.. What the main focus is going to be though is long duration, fast production foods. … Continue reading →

I want to take a three pronged approach to this today. First as I predicted treatment of CoVid with hydroxyhloroquine is already beginning in earnest. I am no doctor but I am going to talk about this form a set of known facts today, then expand into my opinion based on those facts. I am in fact going to tell you why I think some over the counter supplements MIGHT be very useful for fighting CoVid especially if taken very early on. I am going to talk about buying time in the window right now as well until the government … Continue reading →

For New Listeners – We are on iTunes, Stitcher Radio Etc and if you have any issues listening on the website directly just click this link https://bit.ly/covid-what2do Today’s show has no typical intro segments, I am designing it to allow you to help those who are mostly or totally unprepared for this. As I have said a lot lately, if you follow our basic guidelines is 30-60 days of minimum preparedness for food, essentials and finances you should be in really good shape right now. Yet not everyone is prepared, in fact clearly they are not and in some areas … Continue reading →

The word of the week in fact the word or the month is solutions and so that is what we are discussing today with Expert Council member Nicole Sauce. While many right now are out of work and hoping this ends before that becomes permanent, some are thriving in the side hustle and gig economy. We have taught lifestyle design from almost day one on TSP. While basic prepping is pretty strait forward, I mean we can sum it up this simplistically… At a minimum build up sufficient supplies and finances to be able to go 30-60 days without systems … Continue reading →

We start out with some very important information about CoVid-19 today and then discuss small scale hydroponics with our guest James White. James White is an Electrical Engineer but has worked primarily in Technical Sales, a.k.a. Sales Engineering most of his adult life; primarily for Silicon Valley tech startups. James caught or possibly inherited the gardening bug early from his Mother and Grandmother the first few years of his life in Okinawa. As a Navy Brat he moved around a lot, but always found a way to grow something, one way or another. Now living in suburban So Cal on … Continue reading →

I asked expert council member John Pugliano to join me today to discuss the effects of the CoVid-19 outbreak on our economy. The reality is nothing in modern history really compares to what we are now experiencing. The market is down massively and businesses are closed others are open only part time, many that are open are doing very little business. All of this has both good and bad aspects to it. The bad is pretty obvious, fear is driving hording of consumables while durable goods sit idle and services go unused. The good is harder to see right now. … Continue reading →

I decided to bring on Doc Bones from the expert panel to discuss the CoVid-19 situation from a pragmatic real world stand point. Doc is taking this seriously and has good advice but his central message can be broken down into two parts. Part One – Flatten the curve, follow the general advice, wash hands, social distance, etc. Part Two – Don’t panic, this too shall pass. It won’t last forever, don’t act like it will. We cover a lot more than that and I finish with my 12 points of advice on the current situation. In the end if … Continue reading →

Today is an episode of TSP Rewind, commercial free versions of past podcast episodes. Today’s episode was originally Episode-1088- Patrick Barron from DefiningTheMachine.com and was originally published on March 13th, 2013. The following are the original show notes from that episode.. Pat Barron is a former Independent candidate for congress in 2010,with over 25 years of experience working within both public and private mental health settings. Currently, Pat works for the Massachusetts Department of Mental Health. Pat’s experience as a trained clinician, has helped to not only treat the symptoms of a problem, but to identify/understand the complex causes of … Continue reading →

Today is an episode of TSP Rewind, commercial free versions of past podcast episodes. Today’s episode was originally Episode-1423- Developing the Skill of Teaching and was originally published on Sept.10th, 2014. While today is a rewind episode the first 20 minutes is all brand new content and is about you guessed it CoVid-19 specifically the next 30-60 days. Additionally there are two songs of the day as I am keeping my promise to make this CCR week and the song from the old episode is so tied into the subject it was not practical to remove it. The following are … Continue reading →

Joshua Sloan is a longtime listener and friend of TSP and is known by many in the community. He has been involved with Zello since 2012 and Citizens Assisting Citizens since their formation in 2013. He runs his own consultancy and has a long background marketing and technology. Joshua is the lead moderator of TSPN Zello channel, where he is known as PA Prepper, and was recently picked as the Tech and Communications Team Lead for Citizens Assisting Citizens. He is here today as an authorized spokesperson to tell us about the 7th anniversary of CAC, lessons, learned, new initiatives … Continue reading →

Today we are not really going to talk about CoVid-2019 directly but more what it has exposed as weaknesses in the United States, what we should learn from it, why we likely will not and what that means you should do. Hint on the last one, what you should do is mostly what I have said you should be doing for about 12 years now. The truth about CoVid-2019 is that it is not nothing but it is nothing like what it is being made out to be. It is a respiratory virus and every year we have many such … Continue reading →

Bit of a two fer today, going to spend about 10 minutes on Corona Virus an the financial hysteria going on right now and the amazing economic opportunity it is about to open up. Yes I said opportunity! It will get worse before it gets better and I think I may do a “what America should learn from CoVid-2019” show tomorrow so I will keep this all pretty brief. Today the bulk of our discussion will be about hydroponics. We will discuss several different forms of hydroponics, why pumps often do make sense, nutrient choices, best crops to grow and … Continue reading →

Today it’s time for the expert council show. To ask a question for a show like this, just send an email to me at jack at thesurvivalpodcast.com with “TSPC Expert” in the subject line. Today on The Survival Podcast, the expert council answers questions on passion, maple syrup, medical prep, home schooling, sharpening drill bits, investing, real estate, suicide prevention and more. In the body of your email first tell me the council member your question is for. Second ask your question concisely in one to two sentences maximum. Third any and all details after that. This is the formula … Continue reading →

We have talked a lot about homesteading over the years, in fact one of my biggest early hit shows was called “From Home to Homestead” first published all the way back in July of 2008. To make the point of how long I have been teaching this concept, that was episode 20 of this podcast and today we are doing episode 2613. I have taught this approach from two primary angles. The first being the economic ROI by converting homes which for most Americans are consumers into producers. The other angle has been the health and well being aspect. I … Continue reading →

Today we are joined by Ariana Marshall to hear about how she started a business with Amazon’s print on demand services. In November 2017, Ariana sold her first apparel design using the Merch by Amazon platform, and a few months later published her first “low content” book on Amazon’s Kindle Direct Publishing. She had NO graphic design background when she started. She’s learned much from this endeavor, including basic graphic design, Adobe Illustrator, InDesign, video editing, Pinterest marketing, and Amazon sales research. She is a stay at home mom with an MBA, PMP and a handful of other pieces of … Continue reading →

I have attempted to be a voice of calm and reason with this current situation, as I always do. As I stated last week the main reason is this audience should be at minimum prepared at a basic level. What I have seen in general in response to “the corona virus” is a mixture ranging from some common sense to outright hysteria. The hysteria is coming from two camps, first is the main stream media and the political left. This idiots see it as a chance to defeat the orangeman. Additionally the main stream media always hypes everything they can … Continue reading →

  Today on The Survival Podcast I answer your questions on corona virus, airbows, hydroponics, depression, cannabis, trees, septic systems, mores law, tiny houses, veterans and more. Make sure if you submit content for a feedback show that you put something like “comment for jack”, “question for jack” or “article for jack” in the subject line to assure proper identification for my screening process. Please understand I receive several hundred emails a day and can’t get them all on the air. I also do put out a lot of information on Facebook from emails that I can’t fit on the … Continue reading →

Today it’s time for the expert council show. To ask a question for a show like this, just send an email to me at jack at thesurvivalpodcast.com with “TSPC Expert” in the subject line. Today on The Survival Podcast, the expert council answers questions on gun laws, sharpening knives, diesel motors, healthy eating, investing, bee keeping and more. In the body of your email first tell me the council member your question is for. Second ask your question concisely in one to two sentences maximum. Third any and all details after that. This is the formula to give you the … Continue reading →

I need to talk about Corona Virus and I want to talk more about my idea for micro CSAs as well. So while they are not highly related, I am going to do both and honestly the things you should be doing for Corona Virus won’t take me that long to cover. I have said many times to not panic about Corona Virus and your basic preps you should have in place already will be for most people all you need. This has led to a misconception that I consider it to be nothing, it isn’t nothing but it also … Continue reading →

Curtis Stone and I discuss a variety of subjects today all involving achieving as much liberty in your life as you possibly can. This includes why Curtis has moved on from commercial farming, his new podcast called Liberty on the Land. Using law to avoid compliance with other laws, Setting up trusts and more. We also discuss the continued erosion of quality of life in the cities and the lunacy of the “social justice” crowd. We talk about strategic relocation, the scale of permanence and lifestyle design. We then dig into potential solutions to many of the current problems like … Continue reading →

Nick Ferguson is in Texas as part of a consultation tour and spending a few days at Nine Mile Farm. We were sampling some amazing rum last night along with some far too good martinis and started talking about a variety of subjects. With Nick and I of course that involved fish tanks and aquatic systems but we also started talking plants, plant propagation, the concept of micro CSAs, planning for an eventual economic shift and more. It all sounded pretty good after a second drink anyway so we figured it might still sound good today, we shall see about … Continue reading →

Today on The Survival Podcast I answer your questions on process, tree cultivation, dutch ovens, sales, higher education, guns, herbal teas, fungal networks, hydroponics and more. Make sure if you submit content for a feedback show that you put something like “comment for jack”, “question for jack” or “article for jack” in the subject line to assure proper identification for my screening process. Please understand I receive several hundred emails a day and can’t get them all on the air. I also do put out a lot of information on Facebook from emails that I can’t fit on the program … Continue reading →

Today it’s time for the expert council show. To ask a question for a show like this, just send an email to me at jack at thesurvivalpodcast.com with “TSPC Expert” in the subject line. Today on The Survival Podcast, the expert council answers questions on liberty, community, solar power, investing, CWD, permaculture, knife sharpening, gun rights and more. In the body of your email first tell me the council member your question is for. Second ask your question concisely in one to two sentences maximum. Third any and all details after that. This is the formula to give you the … Continue reading →

Today on The Survival Podcast, I take your calls on mindset, hydroponics, rock wool, corona virus, rats, walking to freedom, WWII, grass fed beef and more. Remember to be on a show like this one just pick up your phone and call 866-65-THINK. The best way to improve your chances of being on the air is ask your question or make your point up front, then provide details. Also please do your best to call from a quiet area with a good connection and speak up so you can be well heard. While I can’t put all calls on the … Continue reading →

Roger grew up on a small family farm in central Kentucky. His working class parents taught him the value of a strong work ethic from a young age. They grew/raised much of what they ate from a variety of livestock and a big garden. They also sold some of their excess produce on the side. Roger was accepted into the US Naval Academy after high school and graduated with an engineering degree in 1981. Upon graduation he took a commission in the United States Marine Corps. After completing flight training at NAS Pensacola he spent the next seven years flying … Continue reading →

I can hear some of you already, “hey Jack you big jerk, just read those bullet point below, three of em are pistol rounds”. Simmer down there partner you will find examples of rifles firing all of them below. And as we will discuss today, they are all in a way “different rounds” when fired from a rifle then when fired from your 4 inch wheel gun. Anyway I have been thinking that we have not done a lot of stuff on guns lately. If you are new to firearms or new to ballistics and components you may want to … Continue reading →

Today is an episode of TSP Rewind, commercial free versions of past podcast episodes. Today’s episode was originally Episode-855- Understanding Caliber, Millimeter, Gauges and Ballistics and was originally published on March 8th, 2012. The following are the original show notes from that episode.. When I stated I wanted to do some more shows on firearms topics I was flooded with emails by new shooters that all basically said some version of this… “Jack can you do a very basics style show that explains what all these calibers and rounds mean. Sometimes when you are talking about a firearms subject I … Continue reading →

Today it’s time for the expert council show. To ask a question for a show like this, just send an email to me at jack at thesurvivalpodcast.com with “TSPC Expert” in the subject line. Today on The Survival Podcast, the expert council answers questions on liberty, permaculture, cbd, guns, thermal scopes, lifestyle design, cars, investing, optimism and more. In the body of your email first tell me the council member your question is for. Second ask your question concisely in one to two sentences maximum. Third any and all details after that. This is the formula to give you the … Continue reading →

Today is an episode of TSP Rewind, commercial free versions of past podcast episodes. Today’s episode was originally Episode-819- Billy Joel’s Allentown – History Lesson, Prophecy or Both and was originally published on Jan 12, 2012. The following are the original show notes from that episode.. Today we are going to do something completely different and look at the old Billy Joel hit from 1982, “Allentown”. My hope is after you hear today’s show you will fully understand what I mean when I say, “history, prophecy or both” in regard to the song. Join me today as we discuss… What … Continue reading →

Kurt Dugger is a Former Infantry Marine turned paramotor pilot who decided to fly across the state of Tn to raise awareness and funds for The Darkhorse Lodge near Paris Tn. Gretchen and Kirk Catherwood decided to start a retreat for combat veterans after losing their son (also a Marine) in Afghanistan. To raise funds Kurt embarked on what he named, The Darkhorse450 an attempt by a low time pilot to cross TN using only a paramotor. His paramotor is a roughly a lawn chair with a propeller suspended under a fabric paraglider wing. He didn’t make it all the … Continue reading →

Today is an episode of TSP Rewind, commercial free versions of past podcast episodes. Today’s episode was originally Episode-1707- Using Logical Methods and Function Stacking for Decision Making and was originally published on Jan 12, 2016. The following are the original show notes from that episode.. Yesterday’s show ran a theme of a penny saved is a tax free penny earned and how that compounds when invested outside the systems of taxation. I love this sort of individual liberation thinking. Then today I answered a question about a stove I mentioned last week. You can read about that here on … Continue reading →

Today is an episode of TSP Rewind, commercial free versions of past podcast episodes. Today’s episode was originally Episode-2142- 21 Unique Things I will be Growing this Year and was originally published on Jan 9, 2018. The following are the original show notes from that episode.. Time for a fun show looking ahead to when all the ice and danger of heavy frost is gone. Last year I found some new gems and this year I am planning major grow bed expansion so I have found some new ideas and some old favorites to add to the 2018 planting list. … Continue reading →

Today it’s time for the expert council show. To ask a question for a show like this, just send an email to me at jack at thesurvivalpodcast.com with “TSPC Expert” in the subject line. Today on The Survival Podcast, the expert council answers questions on business, science, corona virus, root cellars, repetitive motion injury, stocks, guns, keto diet and more. In the body of your email first tell me the council member your question is for. Second ask your question concisely in one to two sentences maximum. Third any and all details after that. This is the formula to give … Continue reading →

We hear an awful lot about how entitled people have become, have you ever thought that just may be that is because people don’t know how great the alternative really is? I mean really, despite all the promises government makes in general if your life is to be anything other than a basic existence you really are on your own. I am almost 50 and I remember believing in “the system” but I also now have decades to reflect on. I have heard the promises for a very long time and I have looked at society and accepted that mostly, … Continue reading →

Brian Norton is the founder of CBD Specialty Coffee. A small custom roasting company that offers both CBD Infused Coffee and non infused coffee as well. He is also involved with a variety of secondary income hustles form trade shows, to Air BnB Experiences, to back yard construction services and more. He joins us today to talk about updates in the cannabis market and how his business is capitalizing on it with out suffering due to the current supply glut. We talk about where that market is going and evolving legal issues. We also discuss a variety of secondary income … Continue reading →

As you guys know, I am a massive fan of homeschooling, but it is not for everyone. What I do feel should be for all concerned parents and grand parents though is as much self directed learning as possible. I just started a project with my Grandson today. Here is how it is working. Every day when he comes over I will give him a word, he must learn to define the word and spell it. He must be able to explain the concept to the point where I know he understands it. Any words that come up in the … Continue reading →

Today on The Survival Podcast I answer your questions on freedom, war, community, legal issues, hydroponics, bamboo, cooking, jobs, emergency services, nutrient density, cannabis and more. Make sure if you submit content for a feedback show that you put something like “comment for jack”, “question for jack” or “article for jack” in the subject line to assure proper identification for my screening process. Please understand I receive several hundred emails a day and can’t get them all on the air. I also do put out a lot of information on Facebook from emails that I can’t fit on the program … Continue reading →

Today it’s time for the expert council show. To ask a question for a show like this, just send an email to me at jack at thesurvivalpodcast.com with “TSPC Expert” in the subject line. Today on The Survival Podcast, the expert council answers questions on land management, older pick up trucks, beef cattle, bee keeping, micro climates, permaculture, the reality of war and more. In the body of your email first tell me the council member your question is for. Second ask your question concisely in one to two sentences maximum. Third any and all details after that. This is … Continue reading →

There are a lot of terms for this type of thinking. A very popular one is rewilding. Yesterday in my interview with Reed Richard we discussed it as the concept of a biophilic approach to life. We are going to expand on that today because yesterday’s show really made me want to come at this from a different angle than we covered it from yesterday. Our guest yesterday was very big on the spiritual side of this and on what can only be called an “alternative lifestyle”. There is absolutely nothing wrong with that, but the average person is simply … Continue reading →

Reed Richard is the Conductor of Orchestra Farm, a regenerative experiment in social horticulture. Orchestra Farm is in its fourth year of cultivation. Nestled in the Salish Sea within the southern gulf islands of BC, Reed is enjoying being a father in a growing family. As a polymath Reed enjoys a wide range of overlapping interests from dancing, painting and mixed media crafts, musician, author, and cultural critic & co-creator. Reed has traveled through much of North America, with a bicycle and trailer. and lived in Hawai’i exploring a radical approach to life. Utilizing arts to explore notions of freedom … Continue reading →

One of the topics I have been strong on since 2008 when I started TSP that is honestly unique in the preparedness world is entrepreneurship. Many take the view that since it is “all going to collapse”, why would you bother. Frankly that is a beyond myopic view, at TSP we don’t only plan for things to go wrong, we plan for them to go right as well. Perhaps it is that I did a lot of my growing up in the 80s. Back then there was still a real feeling that some day the nuclear missiles were going to … Continue reading →

Today on The Survival Podcast I answer your questions on politics, the space program, seeds, guns, hydroponics, gardening, wildlife, CBD, back up power and more. Make sure if you submit content for a feedback show that you put something like “comment for jack”, “question for jack” or “article for jack” in the subject line to assure proper identification for my screening process. Please understand I receive several hundred emails a day and can’t get them all on the air. I also do put out a lot of information on Facebook from emails that I can’t fit on the program though … Continue reading →

Today it’s time for the expert council show. To ask a question for a show like this, just send an email to me at jack at thesurvivalpodcast.com with “TSPC Expert” in the subject line. Today on The Survival Podcast, the expert council answers questions on permaculture, homeschooling, backpack cooking, energy, plants, rabbits, guns, the corona virus and more. In the body of your email first tell me the council member your question is for. Second ask your question concisely in one to two sentences maximum. Third any and all details after that. This is the formula to give you the … Continue reading →

Today’s show was actually requested by none other than Geoff Lawton. I made only one modification changing it from Food Forestry to Food and Farm Forestry, simply to be more clear. When we think of food forests we think 90% about fruits and nuts, then about 10% about under story including the shrub and herbaceous layers. The reality though is forests can provide among many other things, food, fiber, fodder, construction materials, medicine and more. Additionally we need to reconsider what we consider a “forest”. Most would figure a forest must be in some way a square, rectangle, trapezoid, triangle, … Continue reading →

Beau and his wife Kelly are the kind of people who see what could be and don’t hesitate to make it happen. With their four kids, they sold their 2000 sqft suburban home to do this crazy thing of converting a 16×48 shed into a full time home. A year into this adventure, they are in the process of restoring the land and building a permaculture homestead. Beau is the creator of the Better Together Life Youtube channel and Podcast, Shed to House Facebook group, and is the author of the “Get Off Your Tail and Homestead” book. He joins … Continue reading →

The first time I used the phrase “from home to homestead” on the show was quite a while ago. How long ago you ask? That would have been Episode 20 recorded on July 22, 2008. This concept so resonated with people it became not just a common discussion topic, it actually inspired one couple (Johnny Max and his wife, AKA “The Queen”) to run an entire podcast for a number of years on the concept. I realized while we talk a ton about the concept of homesteading we have not looked at it from this angle in a long time, … Continue reading →

Today on The Survival Podcast I answer your questions on confirmation bias, hydroponics, ecommerce, manufacturing, seeds, fishing, politics and more. Make sure if you submit content for a feedback show that you put something like “comment for jack”, “question for jack” or “article for jack” in the subject line to assure proper identification for my screening process. Please understand I receive several hundred emails a day and can’t get them all on the air. I also do put out a lot of information on Facebook from emails that I can’t fit on the program though so keep em coming. Join … Continue reading →