Episode-2514- Expert Council Q&A for 9-20-19

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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 health, nutrition, automotive prep, medical issues, bee keeping, livestock, homeschooling, investing, the economy, careers 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 best chance of getting on the air.

I do what I can to get as many of your questions as possible on the air but can’t always get to all of them. Our council is made of a wide variety of experts in everything from the tactical to the practical and everything in between.

To get more information on our Expert Council visit our “Meet the Expert Council Page” to learn more about them and their specific areas of expertise.

Join Me Today As Our Experts Discuss…

  • Quote of the day – “Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses.” – Alphonse Karr
  • Working the night shift and staying healthy and alert – Gary Collins
  • Finding a good jump pack and accepting their limitations – Shawn Mills
  • Dealing with cellulitis and preps for it long term – Doc Bones
  • Rehabbing and restarting an abandon bee hive – Michael Jordan
  • The best livestock for a first farming enterprise – Darby Simpson
  • Building a network of friends for homeschoolers – Mike & Sue Laprise
  • A four financial questions lightning round – John Pugliano
  • Finding a new job on the down low – Jack

 

Resources for today’s show…

 

Geoff Lawton’s Permaculture Videos

 

Websites of the Expert Council Members

 

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Episode-2513- Listener Calls for 9-19-19

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Today on The Survival Podcast, I take your calls on cooking, recipes, making butter, permaculture, life hacks, crypto trading, gardening 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 but I do my best to get as many of them on as I can.

Join Me Today As Our Experts Discuss…

  • Quote of the Week – “Do what you can, with what you’ve got, where you are.” ~ Squire Bill Widener
  • How to best season new cast iron cookware
  • Making Caesar Style Dressing the lazy way and the right way
  • How to make butter at home and when it makes sense to do so
  • The word “hugulkulture” makes it to the main stream world
  • A listener calls in about “Jack’s Hacks” and give three good ones of his own
  • What does trading volume tells us about a crypto currently
  • An idea to get crypto without a paper trail and how it shows what a war is on against crypto in general
  • More on the garden project for the 2019 fall TSP Workshop

 

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 (866-658-4465) and you might hear yourself on the air.

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King Kooker 12-Slot Leg and Wing Grill Rack – Item of the Day

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wingrackEvery day I bring you an item on Amazon that I personally use or has been purchased by many members of the audience and I have researched enough to recommend.

Today’s TSP Amazon Item of the day is the King Kooker 12-Slot Leg and Wing Grill Rack.  Oh you out door cooking types are going to love this, though it works quite well in the oven too!  Since I first reviewed this item the price has gone up to a bit over 11 bucks but the good news is it is no longer an “add on item” so you can buy one alone if you want to.

There is so much I love about these things, first they hold either 12 wings or 12 legs and they do it in about 1/4th of the space that you’d normally need.  Next is that they end up with perfectly crisped and seasoned skin.  Since they never touch the grill rack and you never have to turn them.

I generally cook my chicken on a low temperature on indirect or very low direct heat until almost done.  Then bring up the temp at the end to crisp up the skin.  It also makes sense to set these in a small pan or toss away aluminum pan to minimize flare ups when cooking over direct coals or flame.

Again they work great in the oven as well, cook until almost done at say 350 then pop up to 425 for a bit to crisp up the skin, want a recipe, tune into today’s show for one!  You cans see in the above photo how the wings are hung from the rack by the tips and in the photo below how the legs hang and are held by the knuckle.

Let me tell you try the King Kooker 12-Slot Leg and Wing Grill Rack and you will never loose that crispy skin off a drum stick ever again.  And most people think of wings on a rack like this but I have to tell you, drum sticks have become my go to.  They end up being lest expensive per pound, and cook more evenly due to having more meat on them.

I did these with Walkerswood Jamaican Seasoning for the 2018 fall workshop and they were a massive hit.

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Remember you can always find all of our reviews at TspAz.com

P.S. – Here is a cook I did with these was indoors and let me give you the skinny.  I coated the wings in my famous “chili garlic pepper oil” and then dusted them with a mix of chili powder, smoked salt, garlic, cumin, paprika, onion and black pepper, all about equal amounts ground in a Mr. Coffee Grinder. (FYI this is my everything seasoning mix)

I used the “convection roast” setting in my oven, ran them at 425 for 45 minutes, they were beyond fantastic.

To do this without creating a grease fire or lots of smoke take a large aluminum foil ban like for baking a turkey, put this rack inside it and put about 1-2 inches of water in it.  This will catch dripping fat and the water won’t let it scorch on the pan when it gets caught.  The extra humidity will be good for keeping them juicy.

On this latest run I got 15 wings on the rack with a bit of fiddling, which is 30 pieces.  The only down side is you can only fit one rack in a standard oven.

 

Episode-2512- Fernando Aguirre on the Reality of Collapse

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Fernando “FerFAL” Aguirre is a modern survival author that has lived through the 2001 socio-economic collapse of  Argentina. He is the editor of The Modern Survivalist website and The Modern Survivalist YouTube channel.

Fernando is recognized in the survival and preparedness community for his first-hand experience and practical approach to survivalism. He published his first book “The Modern Survival Manual: Surviving the Economic Collapse” in 2009. Due to the continuing instability and growing social unrest, Fernando bugged out of Argentina with his family in 2011.

This experience is the topic of his second book, “Bugging Out and Relocating: When Staying Put is not an Option”.  Fernando has lived in Argentina, United States, Spain and Northern Ireland.

He now resides in a small town by the sea with his wife, their three children and Spike, their English Bull Terrier.  Fernando joins us today to discuss Argentina’s 2001 collapse and current state, the current situation in Europe, political trends, bugging out, an uncertain future and more.

Resources for today’s show…

 

Sponsors of the Day

 

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 (866-658-4465) and you might hear yourself on the air.

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UTG Ranger Field Bag – Item of the Day

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utg bagEvery day I bring you an item on Amazon that I personally use or has been purchased by many members of the audience and I have researched enough to recommend.

Today’s TSP Amazon Item of the day is the UTG Ranger Field Bag.  Long time followers of The Survival Podcast will know I have been recommending this bag for years.  And I will tell you this is the best value large bag I have found so far.

This is my go to as a luggage bag when I fly on airplanes.  It is so much more convenient than a roller as you make your way though what ever shuttle bus hell exists between you and your rental car.

It is huge as well, bigger than I think most people expect, in fact there are a few negative reviews about it being “too big”, sigh, really!  One even said, “the picture makes it look smaller”, um, it is a picture with no other object for scale, face palm moment I guess.

The dimensions of the bag are 35.00″ x 13.00″ x 12.00″ and it really carries a lot of gear.  I did manage to kill one, after many many airline trips where I used it to carry t-shirts.  I am talking tight packed, rolled shirts, over 150 pounds of them!  Even then it beat the shipping charges I would have paid to mail them ahead of time and send the unsold ones back home!

The failure is was at the one point this bag could use some improvement.  There are four rubber feet on the bottom.  When thrown (think airline employees) and heavily loaded sooner or later they tear off and eventually that wears the bag out.

Used as a vehicle kit bag, and set down vs. thrown (ie the way you handle gear when you actually own it), they are extremely long lasting.  I’ll be honest this is not a bag like John Willis at SOE Tactical Gear would build, however, old John doesn’t make a bag anything like this one.  In fact I can’t find anything quite like this bag when you factor in all the compartments and the comfort of carrying it along with the durability.

I use this bag for my vehicle based bug out kits and air travel mostly.  I have talked to the guy who fills my CO2 tank about this bag too.  For you home brewers the best place to get CO2 tanks filled is a airsoft store by the way.  The guy I use has a store and a huge play area for paint ball and airsoft both.  He said about half of all players tend to use this bag for their gear, due to capacity, longevity and comfort of carry.

So if you have need of a large capacity duffel give the UTG Ranger Field Bag a shot.  I think you will be quite happy with it.

Remember you can always find all of our reviews at TspAz.com

P.S. – This video reviews three UTG Bags, the third one is the UTG Ranger Field Bag.  It does a good job of showing you all the features and how big it really is.  You can jump to about 6:40 if you just want that review.

By the way the second bag reviewed the UTG SWAT Responder Range Bag was an outstanding range bag, with huge capacity for such a small bag.  I still have one I bought before I even started TSP, I now use if for my blow back airsoft hand gun gear.  Sadly UTG stopped making it.  UTG if you are listening, two things.  1.  Bring Back the SWAT Responder Range Bag and 2.  Loose the feet on the Ranger Field bag, it would make a great product even better.

Episode-2511- Freestyle Day on TSP

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Today I am doing a freestyle day, sort of a hybrid between a feedback show and a stand alone show.  I did put out a post on the Facebook Group for some ideas and most of will come from it and other stuff is just stuff I want to talk about today.  In some ways shows like this are really kind of like throw back days to the first 18 months when I podcasted from my Jetta TDI.

Join Me Today as We Talk About…

  • Quote of the Day – “The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun”. Buckminster Fuller
  • The coming workshop and why you really want to be at it if you can
  • The MSB Sale and the value MSB really is
  • How intermittent fasting has made low carb/keto supercharged for me this time around
  • An inoculation in advance of the 2020 assclown circus
  • What it really takes for a micro greens side hustle
  • Fishing as a side hustle and how to stay legal with it
  • For fish fans a few new fish tank videos are coming
  • Why Nine Mile Farm is going to go heavy on pecan trees
  • New ducks are coming, short stint for Duck Chronicles Season 5
  • Bullet Proof Coffee – what is it, the good, bad and ugly and the power of MCTs
  • Basic prep for hunting season
  • The value of a tractor and trailer on a small homestead
  • The rising danger of drone warfare
  • The secret to a lasting marriage

 

Resources for today’s show…

 

Sponsors of the Day

 

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 (866-658-4465) and you might hear yourself on the air.

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MSB Sale – This Price is Stupid Cheap

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I have been promising you guys a sale on the air for over a week. I was going to do 15 bucks off your first year but I decided to do much better than that.

Much better? You bet! Instead of 15 dollars off, I am making it 25 dollars off. So you can sign up or renew today for just 25 bucks for a year. Not enough? Well, how about it ain’t off your first year, it is 25 bucks for as long as you remain an active member. Just use the discount code giveme25 when you sign up.

I set up MSB from the beginning with the hope that it would not cost my members a dime in the long term. So I set out and locked in about 70 discounts on tons of stuff you likely buy all the time. Simply by using these discounts a few times a year I can’t see how anyone living a modern survival lifestyle won’t get their money back at least two times over a year, especially at 25 bucks.

So consider signing up today. Again just use the discount code giveme25 when you sign up. To do that just go here and set up your account.

If you want to pay by check, silver, etc. you can get a form to fill out on the sign up page. Just print it out and make sure to write the discount code on the form. If you pay with silver we will just give you some extra time instead of cutting the price.

If you want to pay with cryptocurrency, just email me at jack at thesurvivalpodcast dot com with TSPC in the subject line and we can work it out.

* This sale expires on Monday the 23rd, no exceptions.

P.S. – A special note, the default online payment method is now credit/debit cards via Stripe. Some folks seem to think they need a Stripe account to use that method, you don’t. It is just my merchant account provider. All you need is any major credit or debit card and you are good to go.

I do still take PayPal but they have been really buggy with a ton of failed renewals and problems when people are trying to sign up and they have been NO HELP in fixing it. So while you can use PayPal I prefer that you sign up via Stripe. And if you have a PayPal debit card you can of course use it that way.

Zymox Pet Spray with Hydrocortisone – TSP Item of the Day

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zymoxEvery day I bring you an item on Amazon that I personally use or has been purchased by many members of the audience and I have researched enough to recommend.

Today’s TSP Amazon Item of the day is Zymox Pet Spray with Hydrocortisone.  As  you may remember my buddy Charlie the Pitbull-Pointer had some issues with his back paws.  We are pretty sure that evil fire ants started the issue and caused him to chew both his paws pretty raw.

Well as I reported in another review we used a combination of comfrey ointment and bitter apple spray to deal with it.  It healed very well over all, but one spot high up on his back paw seemed fine one day then was bloody red the next.

Time to up the game.  So I applied Zymox Pet Spray with Hydrocortisone and in a single day the improvement was marked.  It must taste like crap so over spraying with bitter apple has not been necessary.  After 3 days on it the sore was basically just a spot with hair missing, hair which rapidly grew back.

Comfrey was able to do the job here but a dog is not a person and sometimes a pup can’t resist the urge to chew, even though bitter apple spray.  Then it is time for something with Hydrocortisone in it.  This spray also has a three enzyme blend of lactoperoxidose, lysozyme and lactoferrin that effectively destroys bacterial, viral and fungal microorganisms. These enzymes are derived from natural milk protein peroxidases according to the manufacturer.

If you check the reviews on Amazon you will find many dog and cat owners consider this stuff a God send.  That is why it sits with 4.5 out of 5 stars with over 900 reviews.  So this is another item that belongs in your “Dogie First Aid Kit” (aka DFAK) because it works so well.

The key with hot spots and the like is get them treated before they become chronic and spread.  I like to rely on herbals but as soon as he made the sore bloody it was either this or the “cone of shame” and I just didn’t want my buddy in the cone.

Remember you can always find all of our reviews at TspAz.com

P.S. – This is not medical advice just personal experience.  Since starting using this we have several times used it for ourselves.  Last fall I got a small mark on my hand and assumed it was a scratch from some hardware cloth, it was to small poke marks, yea it ended up being a spider bite, what type I don’t know.

While it wasn’t something dangerous it started getting worse and worse, with some necrosis spreading, comfrey was no help, this stopped it cold.  Another time I got tore up moving some wood by fire ants, I sprayed the areas of my hands with this before the bites broke out, and they never did.  Again this IS NOT advice just a personal experience.

 

 

Dates Officially Announced for the 2019 Fall Workshop

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This years TSP Fall Workshop will be from Nov. 6th though the 10th. Tickets will go on sale on Sept. 28th at 9AM. This is a Saturday and I thought that would give folks the best chance to get a ticket.  Note this is 9AM Central, so 10AM Eastern, 8AM Mountain, 7AM Pacific.

Tickets always sell out every year. Sometimes in two days, some times in two hours, the record so far was 56 minutes. This year we may break that record. Because we are celebrating 11 years of TSP.   Friday is going to be a day of socializing and good food and drink. Lots of other fun stuff too.

Cost as always will be 500 dollars and I defy anyone to put together 3 days of better food, drink and fun at that cost.

Full itinerary will be published later this week but here are the basics…

  • Wednesday the 6th – Arrive after 2PM, Set Up Camp, Socializing, Brats and Sausage Served
  • Thursday the 7th – Full day of building garden beds at the new above ground pond site and more.
  • Friday the 8th – All day celebration and socializing, some of the best food you will ever have, barter blanket that night and so much more.
  • Saturday the 9th – More conventional presentations and classes on various subjects.

 

We are modeling this on last years event which everyone who had been to a few said was our best one ever.  I want to point out that every year about 75% of our attendees have been here before and about 50% have been to more than 4 events, there is a reason people come every year, so if you have never been come find out why.

A few things that always get asked….

  • Best Airport to Fly into is DFW second best is Dallas Love Field, everything else sucks unless you are a private pilot.
  • Most students camp on site, hotels are near by (10 minute drive) and we get a group rate for those that want to
  • If you want to ride share, etc. that is all on you guys but I have a secret email list you get to join once you sign up

 

More to follow, post questions below!

 

Episode-2510- Listener Feedback for 9-16-19

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Episode-2510- Listener Feedback for 9-16-19 [ 1:11:29 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Today on The Survival Podcast I answer your questions on homeopathy, health insurance, greenhouses, tax incentives, cryptocurrency, plant propagation, data networks, food storage, diet, nutrition 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 Me Today As I Respond to Your Calls and Discuss…

  • Quote of the day – “If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.” ~ John Irving
  • Why actual homeopathy is a total and complete scam based on nonsense and two reasons why it might still work
  • Health insurance for the self employed and entrepreneurs
  • Two options for the type of green house film I mentioned on Friday
  • Taking back tax dollars and getting something good done with it
  • Converting cash to crypto, it really isn’t hard
  • Propagation of echinacea via division
  • Is data hard wiring of a newly built house worth doing
  • A few options for zip top seals with vac seal bags
  • A study of 42 European Nations says Carbs are the primary cause of heart disease

Resources for today’s show…

 

Sponsors of the Day

 

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 (866-658-4465) and you might hear yourself on the air.

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