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Kevin Estela first fell in love with the outdoors as a child. Entertained by the WWII survival stories his father endured in the jungles of the Philippines, Kevin wanted to learn more. Kevin grew up hiking, kayaking/canoeing, fishing and hunting in New England and spent his free time outside or reading about survival and wilderness skills. Over the years, his childhood interests became stronger and developed into his lifelong passion. Kevin’s passion now includes sharing what he knows with his students, family and friends. Kevin is the Owner and Head Instructor of Estela Wilderness Education. He brings extensive educational experience … Continue reading →

Okay I called today’s show “Half Acre Homesteading” because marketing. The use of two words in a 2-3 word phrase is good at grabbing attention, think “Taco Tuesdays” or anything in that vein. You don’t need a half acre to make today’s show work for you, you can do most of this on even a postage stamp lot, many do. Likewise even if you have a lot more land, then this is what we call zone one design. Creation of a 1/20th – 1/2 acre system that you spend the majority of your activity on and hence it is ultra … Continue reading →

Today on The Survival Podcast I answer your questions on college, dogs, hedgerows, side hustles, fruit trees, online marketing, social security, sales, deer 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 is an episode of TSP Rewind, commercial free versions of past podcast episodes. Today’s episode was originally Episode-1646- Let’s Talk About Liberty and was first published on September 17th, 2015. The following are the original show notes from that episode… I am getting an extremely late start today due to the new ducks arriving and a family emergency, so it is going to be a simple chat with Jack episode today. Last night I listened to the republican debates, not really sure why, guess I felt I deserved some sort of punishment. What I heard was mostly a bunch of … Continue reading →

Rob Greenfield is an adventurer, activist, humanitarian, and just a plain old good dude making a difference. He embarks on extreme adventures and activism campaigns to bring attention to important global issues and inspire change. He created The Food Waste Fiasco, cycled across the USA three times on a bamboo bicycle, and in 2015-2016 lived off the grid in a 50 square-foot tiny home in San Diego before auctioning it and raising funds to build 10 tiny houses for people with no homes. He then simplified his life down to just 111 possessions, all of which fit onto his back … Continue reading →

Today we are going to cover six of my 30 laws of life, these are listed in no particular order. These are part of a coming book yet to be titled but it will be something along the lines of “30 Laws of Life”. These laws are things I often say and things I really believe to the point where I live my life based upon them Join me Today As we Discuss… The origin of Spirko’s Laws of Life The coming book and progress so far The way cognitive dissonance relates to many of these laws Today’s Six Laws … Continue reading →

Today on The Survival Podcast I answer your questions on insurance, business, side hustles, airsoft guns, tactical training, aquaculture, books, sales, building wealth, the space program 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 … Continue reading →

Today its Friday so 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 knives, electric vehicles, teaching, exercise, pasture establishment, investing, cryptocurrency 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 … Continue reading →

The typical story about disease and vegetables is something like this from the all natural crowd…. Just use compost and good organic fertility, build good soil and it won’t be a problem. Yea, um, about that, look good soil, good fertility and abundant soil life and minerals go a long way to healthy plants, but they don’t eliminate all diseases. Some of my beans are developing a fungus referred to as rust this year. Why? It is so much wetter then normal. The same beds are growing jalapenos the size of cigars, there is nothign wrong with the soil. In … Continue reading →

Dillon grew up in Mississippi before going to DC to serve in the Navy. In DC he designed and built nuclear reactors, which he has talked about on the show before, back on episode 2253. He grew up sailing and recently made a passage from Houston to New Orleans, which is what he’s here to talk about today. He’s been listening to the show since 2010 somewhere in the neighborhood of episode 500 and has been engaging as a member of the community as Angusbangus via the blog, TSP and Facebook forums, Permaethos, 5min with Jack, Walking to Freedom, & … Continue reading →

Have you ever heard the phrase, “the lowest common denominator”. While this is an actual mathematical principle it has also become a colloquialism meaning to cater to the lowest preforming member of a given group. Today that group is the people of the United States and the performance metrics are basic intelligence, critical thinking and the ability to use logic and reason. In essence a better title for this show may be “lowering the common denominator” with the sub title of “the dumbing down of America”, but I simply feel dropping the denominator sounds better and requires more thought, and … Continue reading →

Today on The Survival Podcast I answer your questions on community, economics, aquaculture, guns, trucks, cryptocurrency, social media, cooking, education, gardening, rats, business 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 is an episode of TSP Rewind, commercial free versions of past podcast episodes. Today’s episode was originally Episode-2000- How Liberty Creates Inequality and Why that’s Good and was originally published on May 9th, 2017. The following are the original show notes from that episode… There is a fallacy out there masquerading as a universal truth, and that is that our goal in society should be equality for all. That inequality should be eliminated, period. Politically many people have many different views on how that should be done, however the average person would agree that inequality is a bad thing, … Continue reading →

Today is an episode of TSP Rewind, commercial free versions of past podcast episodes. Today’s episode was originally Episode-1835- Getting Ready for Fall Gardening and was originally published on July 26, 2016. The following are the original show notes from that episode… Today it will be over 100 in much of the nation. This is our toughest time of year in central Texas. Grass is turning brown and the other thing that really thrives are snake, lizards, grasshoppers and things that eat grasshoppers. Shade is the number one commodity if you are out side. Even as a boy in Pennsylvania … Continue reading →

Today is an episode of TSP Rewind, commercial free versions of past podcast episodes. Today’s episode was originally Episode-1171- The Bright Future of Homesteading in America and was originally published on June 2nd, 2015. The following are the original show notes from that episode… In the 70’s there was a very large back to the land movement that just didn’t last. Many are calling the current boom in gardening and small livestock keeping something similar, but that is quite short sighted. To begin with the current boom in such things really began about 2006 and was in full swing by … Continue reading →

Today is an episode of TSP Rewind, commercial free versions of past podcast episodes. Today’s episode was originally Episode-1586- There is no Sovereignty without Mental Sovereignty and was originally published on June 2nd, 2015. The following are the original show notes from that episode… Today we get back into The Insurgency Series with more on mental sovereignty. I define mental sovereignty as follows Mental Sovereignty – the ability to fully and wholly think for oneself by using logic, reason and all available fact to form truly independent opinions and then take useful personal action based on them. Such actions may … Continue reading →

Today is an episode of TSP Rewind, commercial free versions of past podcast episodes. Today’s episode was originally Episode-1797- Training Dogs to Fit in on the Homestead and was originally published on May 31st, 2016. The following are the original show notes from that episode… While I will be covering a lot on dog training today specific to homestead environments, such as interaction with livestock, this show should benefit anyone wanting a better relationship with their canine friends. I do want to make clear, I am not talking about LGDs, today, that would be livestock guardian dogs. While my dogs … Continue reading →

Today is an episode of TSP Rewind, commercial free versions of past podcast episodes. Today’s episode was originally Episode-1817- Eating like a king on an Below Average Income and was originally published on June 28th, 2016. The following are the original show notes from that episode… Today we talk about cooking, there will be some recipes today but I am going to focus more on techniques and how to think. The keys to cooking amazing food for low cost are good fundamental techniques, stretching more expensive items, buy in bulk, do all your own processing/butchering and cook with left overs in … Continue reading →

Today is an episode of TSP Rewind, commercial free versions of past podcast episodes. Today’s episode was originally, Episode-1094- Massad Ayoob on Lethal Force Aftermath and it originally aired on March 21, 2013. The notes below are the original notes from that episode. Remember while Rewind Shows are commercial free you can always support our show by Joining the MSB or simply by doing your Amazon.com shopping though TspAz.com Massad Ayoob has been handgun editor of GUNS magazine and law enforcement editor of AMERICAN HANDGUNNER since the 1970s, and has published thousands of articles in gun magazines, martial arts publications, … Continue reading →

Today is an episode of TSP Rewind, commercial free versions of past podcast episodes. Today’s episode was originally Episode-1191- Holy Crap I Just Found Out Everything Isn’t Super – Part 2 and was originally published on August 21st, 2019. The following are the original show notes from that episode… Today we continue our focus on things you can do to move from totally unprepared to basically prepared as a first stage of insuring your future. While these steps are dramatically simple and won’t make you bullet proof they will get you through 90% of the disasters that might come you … Continue reading →

Today is an episode of TSP Rewind, commercial free versions of past podcast episodes. Today’s episode was originally Episode-1190- Holy Crap I Just Found Out Everything Isn’t Super – Part 1 and was originally published on August 20th, 2019. The following are the original show notes from that episode… My intern Josiah that I should re do an older show that I haven’t done in a while. Perhaps modern survival philosophy or similar. He pointed out that many folks will show up in the Zello Channel and you can tell they have no knowledge of TSP Core Philosophy. However, I … Continue reading →

Today on The Survival Podcast I answer your questions on community, garden ponds, permaculture design, business, websites, Operation Suckerberg, food forests, armed citizens, quail 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 its Friday so 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 surveillance, citizen’s arrest, cooking, guns, investing, wound treatment, dogs, aquaponics 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 →

I recently got an email about getting new guns, not to pick on the guy but here it is to show the problem I want to fix today, some specifics redacted for privacy. I have a different take on a gun build question. I would like your help in building the ultimate prepper / hunter / red neck arsenal starting from near zero. Based on your expertise and the objectives I outline, I’d like you to tell me how many guns I should have, what calibers, what accessories, etc to most efficiently accomplish what I’m trying to do. Your budget … Continue reading →

Joshua Sheats, MSFS, CLU, ChFC, CASL, RHU, REBC, CAP is a leading authority on integrating lifestyle goals and money goals without conflict. He teaches normal people how to seamlessly connect the science of financial planning with the joy of goal achievement. Joshua is dedicated to helping normal people achieve financial freedom by merging the creative (and crazy) ideas from the world of personal finance with the academic integrity of formal financial planning. He simplifies the complex topics of money and makes the boring financial mumbo-jumbo less boring. Joshua is an expert financial planner with a lifelong focus on advanced education. … Continue reading →

I have gotten quite a few emails as of late about setting up remote properties, bug out locations etc. They have ranged from people who are property hunting, to those who just acquired raw land and some with partially developed properties. Today we discuss remote land/home ownership and the unique advantages and challenges it represents. Far to many see a BOL solely as a place for when the shit has really hit the fan, like TEOTWAWKI level stuff. The reality is a BOL serves a variety of functions. In our case we haven’t had a BOL since 2011 when we … Continue reading →

Today on The Survival Podcast I answer your questions on community, vehicle accidents, business, gardening, productivity, flooding, dealing with neighbors, generators 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 … Continue reading →

Today its Friday so 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 law enforcement, word press, thyroid health, mosquito control, the inverted yield curve, AirBnB Experiences, social media 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. … Continue reading →

Today on The Survival Podcast, I take your calls on gold, banks, water catchment, drip irrigation, investing, modern medicine, food shortages, bow hunting, ducks 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 →

Gary Collins has a very interesting and unique background that includes military intelligence, Special Agent for the U.S. State Department Diplomatic Security Service, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Collins’ background and expert knowledge brings a much-needed perspective to today’s areas of simple living, health, nutrition, entrepreneurship, self-help and being more self-reliant. He holds an AS degree in Exercise Science, BS in Criminal Justice, and MS in Forensic Science. Gary was raised in the High Desert at the basin of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in a rural part of California. He now … Continue reading →

Today on The Survival Podcast I answer your questions on community, cryptocurrency, parenting, gardening, higher education, seeds, aquaponics, distilling, silver, gold 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 … Continue reading →

Today its Friday so 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 choosing a doctor, home schooling, chemistry, investing, selling online, banking, trucks, social media 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 … Continue reading →

Time for a bit of a myth busting show today. There are so many things people are sure about, that just are not the way they are sure they are. Take the argument, “America is not a democracy”, we will shred that one today. How about “I am not an atheist, I am an agnostic”, the problem there is one of those words does not mean what most people think it means. Some may say why bother with a show like this? My view is one of the chief ways we are kept divided by the power elites is to … Continue reading →

Joel Karsten pioneered the Straw Bale Gardens method almost 30 years ago, and has written five best selling books on the topic. He was featured in a major newspapers, network news and magazines not only in the US but around the world. His books have been translated into more than twenty languages and the technique has been adopted by Gardner’s and populations around the world. Some of which have struggled to grow food due to climate or local soil conditions previously, until introduced to the SBG method. Helping to solve world hunger, and helping to simply allow people everywhere to … Continue reading →

Today we are going back to one of the fundamentals of modern survival living, that is financial management and debt elimination. Economics and the reality of unfunded liabilities, the national debt along with everyday financial worries is the number one reason people get into the preparedness lifestyle. Sometimes it is from a practical approach but just as often it is panic and fear based. Today we set aside panic and establish a base of common sense and pragmatic techniques to build, preserve and protect wealth. Join Me Today To Discuss… The number one wealth killer – poverty consciousness The number … Continue reading →

Today on The Survival Podcast I answer your questions on community, saving money, jobs, automation, future trends, airguns, diet, health, business, black solider flies, storing fuel, student loans 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 … Continue reading →

Today its Friday so 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 solar, mechanical work, hiking, N95 masks, diet, nutrition, mulch, parenting, liberty 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 →

Today on The Survival Podcast, I take your calls on law enforcement, house fires, underground structures, technology, government, CBD, Ruger rifles, making cider 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 air … Continue reading →

Akiva Silver has a background in wilderness survival and nature awareness. He holds a deep appreciation for wildlife and trees. Akiva runs Twisted Tree Farm, 20 acres of diverse orchards and a nursery. The nursery provides Akiva and his family of 5 with their full income. He believes in the trees that he raises so much that he sees them as a path forward for humanity and all of the ecosystems surrounding us. He is now growing around 20,000 trees a year using practices that go well beyond “organic”. His background is in foraging, wilderness survival and primitive skills. He … Continue reading →

Long ago I coined the term, “walking to freedom” to explain the concept of movement within a republic. Some of the sates that seem the most oppressive such as California, New York and Illinois are east to “escape from”. This isn’t like the days of the Soviet Block in Europe. There is no Berlin Wall keeping you inside a shit hole like New Jersey. (and hey I was born there, I get to call it what I want) All it takes is some planning, a U-Haul Truck and a new destination. Today we are going to discuss the concept of … Continue reading →

Today on The Survival Podcast I answer your questions on community, crypto currency, automation, business grants, pandemic, ebola, parenting, government, soil fertility 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 … Continue reading →

Today its Friday so 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 sheep, chickens, marketing, diet, chagas disease, investing, law enforcement, batteries, profitable hobbies 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 →

Six weeks ago I realized that we have not really dived deep into the topic of Permaculture I began this current series on Permaculture. So far we have completed part one, part two, part three and part four of this series. If you have not listened to them you may want to before proceeding in the series. You can find the entire series here. Today we are going deep into how to actually set up and design a small permaculture property, or a zone one for a larger property. While I am going to come at this process from the … Continue reading →

Melissa is the first legal female extractor of hemp in NC and founder of Hemp Magik. She created the company while trying to help her dog, Luna heal from very severe Grand Mal seizures. She used many CBD products and was unsatisfied with the quality. She passionately researched what would make CBDs from hemp the most effective and ended up extracting her own CBD products that met her expectations of what CBDs from Hemp can really do for the health of all beings.She sought out the highest manufacturing and product purification standards, hired biologists and biochemists, and researched effective methods … Continue reading →

I had to think a bit about the title of today’s show. It was spawned by this quite anti capitalist article at The Exiled. Let me say I feel the author Yasha Levine is coming at things from a leftist anarcho position, however the article is absolutely accurate in its telling of history. The upshot, capitalism is bad! And yet I am a self described “anarcho capitalist”. So is capitalism bad, or is it good? As always, it depends! This led me to the distinction between a system of capitalism (in general statism in the form of modern fascism) and … Continue reading →

Today on The Survival Podcast I answer your questions on community, water, economics, economic migration, guns, local groups, foraging, snake bites, anarchism 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 … Continue reading →

NOTE – Due to an error Paul Wheaton’s segment got double played on the show today. I have fixed it and the current file is good. If you downloaded the show in the first 20 minutes after it was published you may have the one with the double play on it. Today its Friday so 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, … Continue reading →

Before we get deep into today’s topic I am going to go a bit deeper with some planned changes in the show’s format. Don’t worry TSP isn’t changing per se just some changes in the schedule, format, etc. to keep stuff fresh. Then I want to discuss the subject of personal responsibility in the world today. I was recently asked by a guest if I really believed the quote buy Permaculturist Geoff Lawton… “All the worlds problems can be solved in a garden.” My response was, absolutely, but you need personal responsibility as well. The response came back, “Personal responsibility … Continue reading →

Dr. Jeffery K. Tomberlin is a Professor & AgriLife Research Fellow in the Department of Entomology at Texas A&M University. He is also the Director of the Forensic & Investigative Sciences Program at Texas A&M University, and the principle investigator of the Forensic Laboratory for Investigative Entomological Sciences (F.L.I.E.S.) Facility at Texas A&M University. Research in the F.L.I.E.S. Facility examines species interactions on ephemeral resources such as vertebrate carrion, decomposing plant material and animal wastes in order to better understand the mechanisms regulating arthropod behavior as related to arrival, colonization and succession patterns. The goals of his program are numerous; … Continue reading →

Cory McElroy is the founder of Aquarium Co-op a tropical fish based business specializing in fish, plants and accessories. Cory has been passionate about business and fish for a long time so he set upon a path to fulfill a dream of owning his own store. Cory’s brick and mortar store is located just a bit outside of Seattle Washington. He also markets and sells heavily online and just acquired a warehouse to handle is growing online business. Social media has been a cornerstone in his success, his Youtube Channel has over 300,000 subscribers and contributes heavily to his business … Continue reading →