Pictures from the TSP Dinner at Tommy Bahama’s during SHOT Show

Posted on January 26, 2012 by Modern Survival| 11 Comments

We had a great time at SHOT Show in Vegas. The dinner with about 30 members of the audience was certainly one of the highlights. I think everyone that attended is in at least one picture. Dorothy did an awesome job of making sure of that.

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Episode-828- Steve Solomon on Organic Mythology and Soil Health

Posted on January 26, 2012 by Modern Survival| 18 Comments
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Steve Solomon author and founder of SoilAndHealth.org

Steve Solomon founder of SoilAndHealth.org

Steve Solomon writes books on food gardening.  He officially “retired” at the age of 44 after selling the mail order seed business he built up with great success in the 1980s.  Today he makes his home in Australia where he grows the majority of the food they consume.

Steve considers himself a political libertarian and sees his role in life to be “encouraging others food self sufficiency and better health.  He describes his methods and books as “beyond organic” or even as “outside organic”.

Today he joins us to discuss why the quality of our food has been in decline for centuries.  The importance of mineral amendments in not just growing a lot of food or good looking food but growing highly nutritious food.  Why you should definitely do a soil test on the land you are growing on even if you are getting good or even great production and more.

Steve will even explain why although organic food may be free of many toxins it is often no more nutritionally valuable then conventionaly grown produce.  He will even challenge the definition of “heirloom seeds” in a quite convincing manner.

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The Real Meaning of Downward Class Migration

Posted on January 26, 2012 by Modern Survival| 24 Comments

The main stream media has been talking about slipping from the middle class a lot lately. They don’t really understand the bigger issue though. Here is the real story about what’s going on and why the problem is worse than most people realize.

It isn’t just that people themselves are slipping from one class to another, the entire meaning of the class structures themselves are falling when we look at lifestyle quality or all the components of quality of like that I like to call lifestyle quotient or LQ.

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Episode-827- Dave Whitinger of AllThingsPlants.com

Posted on January 25, 2012 by Modern Survival| 14 Comments
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Dave Whitinger of AllThingsPlants.com

Dave Whitinger of AllThingsPlants.com

Dave Whitinger is the founder of many websites, most notably DavesGarden.com and AllThingsPlants.com.  Thousands of gardeners around the world use his websites for researching gardening information.

Dave is widely recognized as a leading figure in the online world of gardening. He’s the current president of his local master gardener association and lives a mostly self-reliant existence with his family on 90 acres in East Texas.

He joins us today to discuss the history of Dave’s Garden and his new and dramatically improved website, All Things Plants. We will also be discussing gardening, farming, self sufficiency, sources of online gardening information, advanced gardening topics, permaculture, hugelkultur, raising livestock, gardening in Texas along with the drought of 2011.

Resources for Today’s Show

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Episode-826- Listener Feedback for 1-24-12

Posted on January 24, 2012 by Modern Survival| 19 Comments
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It is time for another show based 100% on emails the audicence has sent in to jack at thesurvivalpodcast.com  Remember to submit content for a show like this.

Please realize I get hundreds of submissions a week and can only get about a dozen on the weekly feedback show.  That said I do read them all and often put out many of them on facebook and twitter even if I don’t put them on the show.

The best way to make sure I read your question or comment is to put “question for jack” or something similar in the subject line of your email.  This will also help to prevent accidental spam sorting.

Tune in Today as I Respond to Your Emails on…

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Episode-825- Listener Calls for 1-23-12

Posted on January 23, 2012 by Modern Survival| 34 Comments
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So we missed Friday because I was flying back from the SHOT Show in Las Vegas, so are doing our call in show for last week on a Monday to catch up.  Today we have some calls today on some great stuff.  Today we hear about dealing with neighbors dogs, buying land, keeping cash assets liquid, prepper groups, theft of a bug out bag 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 call from a quite area with a good connection and speak up so you can be well heard.  I can’t put all calls on the air but I do my best to get most of them on.

Tune in today as we discuss…

  • Yep I said something totally wrong and dumb last week
  • Thoughts on keeping topics interesting for prepper group meetings
  • What do you do with surplus cash you want to keep “liquid”
  • How can you store food long term if you are doing the paleo diet
  • What can we learn from Israel about a nation facing internal and external attacks
  • What options are there in very rural areas for business class internet service
  • Concerns and gotchas when purchasing an “industrial property”
  • Preventing and recovering from BOB theft
  • Prepping for the highly mobile due to career or military service obligations
  • Dealing with dogs owned by neighbors specifically aggressive dogs
  • Dealing with health insurance costs if you are self employed

Additional Resources for Today’s Show

Remember to comment, chime in and tell us your thoughts, this podcast is one man’s opinion, not a lecture or sermon. Also please enter our listener appreciation contest and help spread the word about our show. Also remember you can call in your questions and comments to 866-65-THINK and you might hear yourself on the air.

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Episode-824- Dan Vamos from Homestead Dividends

Posted on January 18, 2012 by Modern Survival| 24 Comments
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Dan Vamos is many things.  A father, an English teacher, a homesteader, a DIY enthusiast, a prepper and a patriotic American.  He has also been listening to The Survival Podcast for a very long time, all the way back to the podcasting from the car days.

Along the way he founded a website called, “Homestead Dividends”, designed to help the average person transform their home into a true homestead and get more out of their homes both while living in them and when it comes time to sell them.

Join Dan and I Today as we Discuss…

  • What are some ways to get the most out your house or residence
  • What should you do to make your house start working for you
  • What are some ways to waterproof a basement
  • What are some common mistakes people make when working on their house
  • Why should I start planting permafood right away
  • Why start with small trees and plants
  • How a three-ring binder can help in selling your house
  • How you can have a “pick-up truck? without owning one
  • Why Dan cashed in a retirement accounts to buy a home

Resources for Today’s Show…

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Episode-822- Mike Gasior on The Current Economic Reality for Jan. 2012

Posted on January 17, 2012 by Modern Survival| 21 Comments
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Mike  Gasior has held a host of securities licenses and industry designations. He has authored ten textbooks on investments and the investment markets, and over 700,000 people worldwide read his monthly newsletter.

His breakthrough radio program “Big Money with Mike Gasior”, which aired worldwide on the VoiceAmerica Radio Network, was one the first shows ever to focus on the needs, concerns and issues faced by the world’s largest investors and Mike is a regular guest on the “Naked Short Club” show in London.

Mike is also a prepper and a good friend of the TSP Community.  Today he joins us to discuss…

  • What MF Global was really all about and how it might matter to you
  • Why people should really be mad at Wall Street other then simple “corporate greed”
  • What is high velocity trading and why should you care
  • Why people are now paying a premium for a “shorter cable” LITERALLY
  • Three movies you should see to better understand the current situation
  • Mike’s view on municipal defaults and where we disagree
  • The real danger we have right no is that we don’t know what’s next
  • Why prepping is the best solution in Mikes view right now

Additional Resources for Today’s Show

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Episode-821- Listener Feedback for 1-16-12

Posted on January 16, 2012 by Modern Survival| 39 Comments
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It is Monday so time for another show based 100% on emails the audicence has sent in to jack at thesurvivalpodcast.com  Remember to submit content for a show like this.

Please realize I get hundreds of submissions a week and can only get about a dozen on the weekly feedback show.  That said I do read them all and often put out many of them on facebook and twitter even if I don’t put them on the show.

The best way to make sure I read your question or comment is to put “question for jack” or something similar in the subject line of your email.  This will also help to prevent accidental spam sorting.

Tune in Today as I Respond to Your Emails on…

  • When is it time to say good bye to the “land line”
  • Thoughts on impromptu back up power
  • Thoughts on “material size” with Hugulkultur
  • A listener reports on his first IDPA Shoot
  • A new drug resistant form of tuberculous
  • For a first AR should you go with 5.56 or 7.62 and why
  • How to determine fair pricing on Pre 64 Silver Coins
  • Is Ron Paul electable, if not whats the point of his campaign
  • Two is one and one is none applied to the good old wheel barrow
  • Green slime for your inner tubes, my report on how it worked for me
  • Children dumped in the streets by Greek parents as the country collapses
  • An amazing 100 acre Permaculture system in Wisconsin
  • The next pandemic could come from smuggled dried up monkey meat
  • What to do with a surplus of wild goose meat
  • The media is now talking about downward class migration but they don’t really get it

Resources for Today’s Show…

Remember to comment, chime in and tell us your thoughts, this podcast is one man’s opinion, not a lecture or sermon. Also please enter our listener appreciation contest and help spread the word about our show. Also remember you can call in your questions and comments to 866-65-THINK and you might hear yourself on the air

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Support and Email Response Time During SHOT Show

Posted on January 14, 2012 by Modern Survival| Leave a comment

As I have announced quite a bit over the last two weeks, this time for the first time ever the TSP Staff (Dorothy and I) will be attending SHOT Show in Las Vegas.  We are flying out tomorrow and won’t be returning until late at night on Friday the 20th.  There absolutely will be episodes of TSP on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday next week.  I have already recorded them, edited them and pre-set them to publish about 7 central each day.  My hope is to put together some short interviews that result in a show for Thursday but no promises.

The big thing I want to let you guys know though is email responses will be far more delayed then during normal operations.  All tech support emails relating to the MSB will be answered but expect response times in the 24 hour vs. 2 hour range which is my day to day goal for response time during business hours.    This is also not a great week for “chatty” emails along the lines of “how are things going, etc.”.  Priority this week will be given to handling customer support.

Trade shows like SHOT mean early mornings and late nights.  My goal this time is to find some great interview candidates, some awesome MSB discount deals and to better brand TSP.  The show will return to its regular scheduled broadcasts and quick response Technical Support next Monday the 23rd.  Just want to keep you guys informed.

Also one last time if you live near Vegas or will be there for shot on Thursday the 19th we are doing a limited attendance meet up for TSP members.  Once again you DO NOT have to be attending SHOT to come to the meet up.  Full details of the event which will be held at Tommy Bahamas are at this link.

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