Episode-2705- Emergency Management Planning with Chris Gilmour

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Chris Gilmour is the CEO and lead trainer at Changing World. Their mission is to help individuals, organizations and prepare, adapt, and thrive in in our quickly changing world.

He is an Emergency & Disaster Preparedness Consultant, Wilderness & Urban Survival Instructor, Back-Country Wilderness Guide, Martial Artist, Wildlife Tracker, Hunter, Permaculture Practitioner and Modern Day Homesteader who grows food and medicinal herbs.

Chris joins us today to discuss what Everyone Can Learn & Use from Professional Emergency Management Planning.

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Wild Planet Mackerel Fillets in Organic Extra Virgin Olive Oil – Item of the Day

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Every 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 Wild Planet Wild Mackerel Fillets in Organic Extra Virgin Olive Oil.  I am going to say these things are the find of the year for me!  So much to love here.  I expected something like a sardine, you guys know I love Matiz Gallego Sardines, still they are sardines.  On a whim I gave Wild Planet’s Mackerel a shot.  Holly crap, I can’t believe the bang for the buck these things are.

The issue with canned fish is always texture.  I mean the canning process for meats is long and high temperature.  Fish is usually falling apart when canned.  This isn’t, it stands up, I mean I would not but you could bread and fry these little fillets if you chose to.  They are skinless and boneless to boot.  They do not smell fishy.  I love sardines but eat less then I want to because Dorothy always complains about the smell, these smell no more then opening a can of say tuna.

On that, now that I found these I will likely NEVER EVER buy a can of tuna again.  Anything tuna can do, this can do better, by a long shot.  If you have ever had really high end jarred tuna, it is a lot like that, but I would say to me it is better, a lot better and a lot cheaper then that type of tuna.

Health wise mackerel (especially small Atlantic Mackerel which this is) is a safe fish to eat multiple times a week, as it is low in mercury because is low on the food chain, way better on this than even smaller species of canned tuna.  It is aalso an fricken Omega 3 power house with a ton more Omega 3 than you can get in even the very best grass fed beef.

Here is a salad I made with them recently, God this was good and the oil made a perfect dressing.

For the above lunch I put it on a bed of organic greens with a cubed avocado, peppers, apple wood smoked olives, feta cheese along with a bit of pecans and pine nuts and a small crumble of cheese crisps.  This made a salad I had may be 4-5 bucks into that I am sure would cost barely south of 20 at an upscale restaurant. 

On the nutrition profile, the ingredients are Atlantic Mackerel, Extra Virgin Olive Oil, Sea Salt. FULL STOP nothing else. Macros are 180 Calories, 11g fat, 21g protein and 0g carbs. The fat here again is some of the best Omega 3s in the world along with extra virgin organic olive oil.  Have you bought organic EVO lately, it isn’t cheap. 

Price?  Get this.  A 12 pack case of these is 36.65, that is 3 bucks a can.  Next this audience is made up of preppers right.  Good protein and fats that store well are the hardest thing to add to your cupboard.  This is one reason we buy expensive #10 cans of freeze dried meats to extend that.  Of course we prefer eat what you store and store what you eat.  Well here you go, the expiration date on the batch that just came in on 10-10-19 is 3-18-23!  Trust me they will not last that long.  I eat these now about 1-2 times a week.

Tune in to today’s show (episode 2538) and I will give you some ideas for using them in the TSPAZ.com segment.

Is there any down side?  Only one I can see if you get them on Amazon is, they seem to be in 12 packs only.  So trying a can or two to see if you like them is out unless your local market has them.  Let me say though if you enjoy tuna at all, even a bit, you will be happy with these.  They taste better, have better texture and smell better.  They don’t taste just like tuna, but they taste like tuna the way say rabbit tastes like chicken.  Give them a shot and I don’t think you will be disappointed.  Pick up a 12 pack of Wild Planet Wild Mackerel Fillets today and add them to your prepper pantry, I just bet you will be ordering more in a month or two tops.

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

P.S. When I was checking out Wild Planet I also got some of their canned anchovies.  These were awesome as well!  I am featuring them here though for another cooking idea.  The soup below was GOOD, it would have been great with the mackerel instead of the anchovies and a better suited sausage.   Here is the soup and what I made it with along with the somewhat comical story of how it came together.

Trust me use the mackerel here instead of anchovies (which were not bad) and use a good andouille sausage or something like a habanero sausage and this thing will blow your mind.  Prep time and cook time combined was about 15 minutes and that was making up the recipe on the fly.  This is enough for a side dish for two or a meal for one.  Easy to double, etc.

Anchovy and Sausage Soup

  • 1 grass fed sausage link
  • 1 can wild planet anchovies (again this was good, the mackerel would be better)
  • 1 cup chicken bone broth
  • 1 cup of water
  • 4 oz peppers (jalapeno, green chili and bell mixed)
  • 2 oz tomatoes
  • 2 cups spinach
  • .3 oz pine nuts (note that is POINT THREE as in 3/10s of an ounce)
  • 1 tablespoon oil from fish
  • 1 clove garlic
  • 1 nob ginger root
  • Splash of liquid aminos and fish sauce
  • Salt, Pepper and Old Bay Seasoning to taste

 

  • Macros – Calories 640
  • Carbs 6.5 grams
  • Protein 47 protein
  • Fat 45 grams

 

So here is how the thing started. This am when I watered the garden I grabbed a jalapeño, a hatch green chili and a green bell pepper and decided when lunch time came, they would be what I would use to make something. No idea what, just it would start there.

Okay need a protein, wife said there are some left overs. Okay shredded pork, naw just had that. Chicken, ohhhhffff, that is not a good left over, not even worthy of the dogs, into the trash. Open my Keto cabinet. Wild Planet Anchovies, have not had these, I wonder, open, hmmmm, almost exactly like really good sardines. Welp, now committed, open canned fish must be used right away.  Hmm more protein needed, okay we have some grass fed polish sausages from Costco weird but shrugs, grabs one and moves on.

Cut up peppers drop in 1 tbs of the oil from the fish into the pan, chop up peppers and fry them down with one clove of chopped garlic. Now slice sausage and add it to the pan. Fry it a bit. One cup of bone broth and one cup of water go in, bring to simmer. Open produce door in fridge, hmm, ginger, well shit we have polish sausage and anchovies, and south western peppers, screw it lets make this thing ethnically confused. In goes some sliced fresh ginger, fish sauce, liquid aminos now we got Asian going on too. Taste, salt and pepper, needs something, fuck it lets go to Maryland, grabs old bay and hits it with about a half a tsp of that.

Taste, nice, let’s get nutty and add some Italy to the mix. Small hit of pine nuts, 2 oz of half cherry tomatoes and simmer more. Drop in anchovies broken into pieces, man there are a lot of em in that can. Simmer to heat them though, kill heat and wilt in spinach. Planned some crumbled FETA but forgot it and ate it all.

Thoughts…..

1. The anchovies were better then expected, I think the mackerel from Wild Planet would be better though
2. The Feta would have rocked
3. The Sausage I used was also good but something like andouille or Chef Adel’s Green Chili Habanero would be better

Guys don’t let anything keep you from throwing shit together and seeing what happens. This was to be blunt fricken good, I can and will make it better but forcing myself to use what I have and be creative led to something really cool.

 

Episode-2704- Resist Domestication and Become a Feral Human

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I personally feel my father only gave me a few pieces of real wisdom.  My childhood was not exactly the best be he did what he could and the wisdom he did give to me has stood the test of time.  Much of it sounded crazy when he said it, today I see how wise it was.

When I was young, way to young to really understand he told me something as follows…

The people that run this country have one primary thing they want to do, fully domesticate the man.  They want us to be like dogs or worse cattle.  They want us to respond to a bell for dinner.  They want you to shut up, sit down and put your paper on the left and your pencil on the right.  They want you to obey.  People don’t naturally do this.  People resist this.  We are animals and they act like that is bad.
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Is a dog “bad”, is a lion “bad” when it kills to feed its cubs.  If a bass “bad” when it eats a minnow or a frog or is it just being a bass.  And if you go try to put a rope on a a buffalo’s neck and lead him where you want him what will he do?  He will stomp your guts out.  Does that make him “bad”.  I mean he leaves you alone, he eats grass, he takes a crap and makes more buffalo.  He only stomps you if you try to take him away or hurt him or his herd, right.
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So what do we do when we want a buffalo we can move around, control, milk, kill for meat when we want to or breed when we want to for more meat and milk.  We turn the buffalo into a stupid domesticated cow.  A cow that lets us do anything we want to to it.  One so stupid it eats, drinks and breeds when we tell it to, how we tell it to, the way we tell it to.  We call this domestication.  And that is their goal for us, fully domesticated humans.

Yea it sounds crazy and may be telling a 9 year old this is crazy but I was not the average 9 year old.  Even then I sort of understood this.  Today I fully understand this, I am also telling you that resistance to it is our only choice.  Our people are so domesticated now that we don’t even need to “lock them up”, they move like a free range herd to the whims of the powers that be.

So what is the solution.  Full rewilding is not really doable any more.  Not everything in society is bad and most of us don’t want to live like Tarzan.  Not to mention almost no where is left where you can do that anyway.  So the solution is learn from our brother the pig.  Thousands of years of domestication and the pig still goes feral as soon as it gets a chance.  Today we discuss being a feral human, what that means, what it looks like, how it helps you and why you should inoculate your kids against domestication before the tax farmers even get a chance to do otherwise.

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The Rice Knife or Serrated Sickle – Item of the Day

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Every 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 a tool called a “rice knife” also called a “serrated hand sickle”.  This one is a bit different then what I typically post for an IOTD.  I don’t have a brand to recommend here.  The truth is none of these are super high quality.  They are almost all made in China and Japan.  The ones from Japan are honestly a little better made but none of them are robustly built as there is not reason to do so.

These tools are “light duty” they are for cutting soft stem plants.  They are specifically designed to not be used to chop, hence no impact.  It’s a product that centuries of use have taught us to not over build.

You can just search Amazon for rice knife and pick any you like but let me give you a few examples and my thoughts on each.

  • JapanBargain – this is the cheapest deal you are gonna find at 10 bucks.  At under 10 bucks it will just do what it is supposed to do and it won’t easily rust.  Though let me tell you this is called Japan Bargin but best I can tell it is made in China.
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  • GrowTech KNK-HTS1200 Grass Sickle – This one is actually made in Japan.  At 16 bucks it is at the “expensive” end of a product category that is simply not expensive.  This one is the best one I have ever bought so far that is “traditionally made”.  What I mean by that is one made a 100 years ago isn’t much different.
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  • KEYI Sawtooth Sickle – This one is kind of a sweet spot, better than the one by JapanBargin but not quite as good as the GrowTech.

 

If I needed one today based on what you an find on Amazon right now, I would buy the KEYI which is the one in the featured image.  Thing is this is a weird category on Amazon.  They come and go, what you can find today is gone tomorrow.  Tons of companies make and market them.  I am just trying to help you know what to look for in a good one here.

All of them are more than adequate, but you must understand how to use these tools and what they do well.  This is one time to ignore all reviews, specifically the negative ones saying the tools are dull and you have to hold the top of the stalks and saw to even get them to cut.  No shit?  Well that is because it is exactly how they work.

These tools have been used for centuries in the east to harvest rice and other grain heads by hand.  First farmers harvest the tops of the grains with a rice knife and then go back though with a scythe to harvest the longer straw.  Why?

Because when you chop mature rice with a scythe you loose a lot of grain to the field.  This tool came to be when an average peasant farmer had a big family and grew from 1/2 – 2 acres of rice a season.  Getting as much as you could in yield was imperative and there was no labor shortage.

So what do I use them for?  Trimming anything and everything in my gardens and water gardens except hard woody stems which they are not made for.  Trimming tomato, taking the tops off basil before they go to seed and making them grow bushy along with trimming weeds flush to the ground for chop and drop just to name a few things.

Yes you must use a sawing motion, because it is a little saw.  You wonder if people using this would try to chop a 2×4 with a cross cut saw, you know they just might.  There are some real advantages here though. The first is you are a lot less likely to cut yourself then with a chopping sickle.  You hold the material, lay your blade on it and saw though.  I do hope if you feel it on your skin you won’t pull it across it.  Also if you do get yourself as soon as you start moving it you should feel pain and unless you are a moron stop doing that.  When you chop something you are holding and miss you either cut yourself or cut yourself bad, like say hitting a joint or a tendon and fucking your hand up for good.

This is great for precision like trimming grasses out from in between vegetables.  A missed chop and there goes that eggplant or swiss chard when all you wanted was to get rid of some stubborn grass that can’t be pulled up because it will bring your veggies with it.  Oh and it is the best tool for cutting comfrey you will ever and I mean ever find.  Harvesting mint and other herbs in mass for drying, amazing for that too.

Next just like ancient rice farmers sometimes I harvest seed heads and don’t want to loose a ton of it.  Just today I gathered a ton of celery seed this way.  I have collected amaranth, lambs quarters, huauzontle and many other such plants by cutting the heads off and then simply banging them inside a large bucket or holding them just inside the bucket and runnign my hands across the heads.

They are also the best tool I have found for my water gardens.  Specifically when it comes to trimming rushes and reeds like cat tails.  They are cheap, last a long time, work great and if you loose one or break one you are out about 10 bucks so you don’t get upset like say when you lose a pair of 70 dollar pruners.  Those have a place too but day to day a good cheap serrated sickle is one of the most used tools in my garden.

Tune in today and I will even give you some fun projects you can do with them to make them look cool and turn them into pretty cool gifts.  I mean they won’t work any better but it is fun and cool is cool right?  Just remember the key here is you want a serrated blade and you should use it like a steak knife, not like a machete.

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Episode-2703- Topic Round Table for 8-3-20

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A bit of this is feedback by one means or another but a lot of it is just what is on my mind based on current events and what I am observing on social media.

I am getting a lot of health questions as well and I want to make sure no one is making decisions only based on what I say.  Make sure you have good reasons for what you do when it comes to your health and supplements, specifically when considering a lot of what I have said about D3 recently.

I also have some updates on some of the projects we have going on, some news from the back 2 (I have three acres and a back 2, not a back 40).  Some more thoughts on home school, just a whole bunch of stuff.  I plant to move fast and say a little about a lot today.  We shall see how that works out.

  • How a new study from Princeton matches Geoff Lawton’s claim about solving the worlds problems (link to story)
  • Some clarification about D3, you got to read the book yourself, talk to your own doctor/advisor and get blood testing done
  • A vitamin D3 overdose theory with lessons and a BOOM at the end (link)
  • As of yet no takers on my offer to debate about the safety and effectiveness of HCQ, what that tells you (link to my challenge)
  • What no one says when they talk about HCQ side effects that is kind of important
  • Why the 2005 HCQ study is great but not the smoking gun some make it out to be, you think you are helping but you are not (link to study, please understand it before you use it as evidence)
  • A flashback to 2014, 5 minutes from July of that year that predicted the rise of Trump (sharable video of this segment)
  • Why I really believe the democrats will take a dive in 2020 and how the coming crash plays into it
  • What you should realize when the truth is feared and suppressed by those in power
  • The reason I agree that many cops are “sheep dogs” but you are not going to like it (meme of this concept)
  • A f&%Kin cardinal (yes the bird kind) bit me, the short funny story about it
  • A cool modification I made to one of my Miyagi ponds (video)
  • Bantam chickens are on Nine Mile Farm, the story of our lonely hen
  • A new idea I have for composting, growing and not working hard
  • Huauzontle (Chenopodium nuttalliae) a plant you really should be growing (seed source from MSB vendor)
  • The three mints you should grow for tea (lemon balm, bee balm, peppermint)
  • Thoughts on TSP20, yep is it gonna happen, yep we need y’alls imput
  • I’d like to get on Joe Rogan’s show what ideas do you have to help make that happen
  • An MSB sale created by a one of a kind ass clown discount code is deltaforce for 25 bucks a year (sign up here)

 

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Garrett Juice Plus – Item of the Day

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Every 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 Garrett Juice Plus.  Along with Dr. Earth Organic fertilizer it makes up the core of my 7 part fertility program for maximum garden production.

First right up front I will tell you that you don’t have to buy Garrett Juice, Howard Garrett (aka The Dirt Doctor) publishes the recipe to make it yourself right on his site.  In fact for many years he didn’t even have a commercial product available.  Eventually he realized that not everyone has all day to garden and some of us would be happy to pay 30-40 bucks for a gallon of his stuff.

It may seem expensive but one gallon of concentrate makes 64 gallons of spray.  Consider if you wanted to spray an acre you would use 35 gallons.  This means that a one gallon jug makes enough spray for almost 2 acres.  Once you consider this the home gardener buying it pre made starts to make a ton of sense.

Over the years I developed my own approach to this, you can see I have zero brand loyalty here, each of the seven products is from a different company, why, I found the best of each category.  The seven products are…

 

I also want to be totally upfront about something.  Garrett Juice being shipped by the liquid gallon makes it cost more online then it does in a local store.  So if they sell it where you live, in local stores (Lowes and some garden stores carry it in my area) you may be better off getting this item locally.

So how do I use Garrett Juice?  I spray everything with it, my trees, my plants, etc.  I also add garlic pepper tea when I spray it often to help with pets.  I do a soil drench in my garden beds with it twice a year as well.  If you saw some of the videos of this last season you know my plants blow and go like crazy on this regime.

There is another great use for this stuff and I have confirmed it to be as simple as this.  Get some orange oil, add an ounces to a gallon of water with two ounces of Garrett Juice and you have fire ant killer.  There used to be a product called Antifuego that you could buy for this, but due to the cost of shipping they no longer ship.  So now Garrett Juice plus some orange oil does the same thing.

The way you use it is put 2 oz of Garrett Juice (I use the plain version for this to save money and buy it locally) and 2 TBS of orange oil into a two gallon watering can, fill with water and slowly soak mounds.  This will melt all the ants and queens and you should have a dead mound in a day.  We have tons of fire ants here, this has been a God send in controlling them.

Okay so there are three levels of Garrett Juice, so what is the difference…

  • Garrett Juice – Is made with compost tea, apple cider vinegar, molasses and liquid seaweed.
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  • Garrett Juice Plus – Is made with all of the above plus liquid fish emulsion.
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  • Garrett Juice Pro – Is made with everything above plus beneficial soil organisms that are alive.  Hence it has a maximum shelf life of 18 months, but I try to use it up in a year or less for maximum effectiveness.  I do personally have some doubts about the long term viability of the living microorganisms in a sealed liquid product.  However, Howard recently said on his radio show that they are viable for about 18 months from date of manufacture if kept at reasonable temps.  I have listened to the guy on and off for about 15 years and take him at his word.

 

So give Garrett Juice Plus or Garrett Juice Pro a try today, gardening season is upon us.  For maximum success this year I recommend my full seven part fertility regime, and remember out of those four it is quite possible that even though I am linking to Amazon here, you can save money on Garrett Juice by buying it locally, specifically if you want the base formula or the plus, again I can’t seem to find the pro version anywhere around here and Howard lives in Dallas!

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

P.S. – I brought this around today because we are hitting what I call “the turn”.  Summer is still here, it will be hot for 4-8 more weeks depending on where you live but the turn is turning.  Even on days when it is 100 out here the mornings are starting to get cooler, the days are growing shorter.  During this time you need to be using this or another good liquid feed along with a good organic solid fertilizer (like Dr. Earth 4-4-4) is the quick and easy way to get plants ready for your second flush, help them through the “dog days” and get the soil ready for fall planting.  Also while I do have 7 items in my ideal fertility system, if you made me pick only two, I’d pick Garrett Juice and Dr. Earth 4-4-4.

Episode-2702- The Expert Council Show for 7-31-20

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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 troubleshooting, fuel storage, diet, heat injuries, weed eaters, pressure washers, home school, scientific debate 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 – “We are all born ignorant but one must work hard to remain stupid.” ~ Unknown
  • Windshield wiper gremlins and long stored fuel – Derek Bonpietro
  • Thoughts on diet for people who have had a gall bladder removed – Dr. Ken Berry
  • The dangers, prevention and treatment of heat injuries – Dr. Bones
  • Battery powered weed eaters and pressure washers –
  • Diving into homeschooling when you are a full time employee – Mike and Sue Laprise
  • My open challenge of debate to debate any professional on the safety and effectiveness of HCQ – Jack

 

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Tool Sets from Tim’s Segment and My Follow Up

 

Websites of the Expert Council Members

 

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An Open Challenge to Debate Any Scientist or Doctor on the Merits of HCQ for the Treatment and Prevention of CoVid

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The Open Challenge

I have been trying to do this since March and have ramped it up hard in the last week, I have had no takers on this issue.  I am open to other points of debate but specifically here are 9 points of debate I want to have with any professional about hydroxychloroquine, (hereafter referred to as HCQ in this article) as it relates to CoVid and the prevention and treatment of it.

1. HCQ is safe and the claim it should only be used in a hospital is a blatant lie
2. HCQ is a zinc ionophore which means it gets zinc inside of human cells and this is known science
3. Zinc in the human cell disrupts viral replication of mRNA replicating viruses and this is known science
4. No RCT has included zinc as of 7-31-20
5. All negative RCTs overdosed patients and did not include zinc, most were in late stages of the illness when the lungs were already severely damaged
6. There are multiple positive studies that counter the negative studies
7. The existing studies are so flawed that it at least appears intentional (over dosing, late stage use and the omission of a critical component of care)
8. There is ample evidence to support the use of HCQ for covid treatment and prevention
9. Doctors should not be banned from prescribing HCQ for any use they feel would be of benefit to a patient

The Options

On full disclosure I am not a degree holding professional.  I admit this freely and my position is that as such if I am wrong I should lose this debate and do so badly.  However, so far every medical and scientific professional who has said I am wrong has also refused to debate me.  All say “since I have no credentials there is no point”.

Given I speak to and am trusted by about 250,000 people daily I find this to amount to ad hominem and a denial of reality.  However, this is not about me, this is about the truth and I feel public and open honest debate is important to science and medicine.  Hence any professional who is unwilling to debate my 9 points only due to my lack of credentials is offered two options…

  1. Use your superior knowledge to debate me anyway, this should make your job easy
  2. I will find you a PhD or MD to take my place in the debate

 

The Format

I am not talking about a shouting match, I am not talking about a comment argument, I am talking about a well ordered professional debate.  A organized debate with a mutually agreed upon independent moderator conducted in an online live video format.  The terms will be agreed upon in advance, the subjects, time limits, response time, etc.  The debate will be 100% professional and with courtesy extended to both sides at all times.  Again if my lack of credentials is an obstacle for you I agree to simply facilitate this debate by finding you a professional with credentials or do this myself, either choice.

A Proposed Advantage

If you should chose to debate me I agree to do the following.  If you wish I will limit myself to only one page of pre planned notes, one side of one sheet of paper.  I will take notes during the debate as is customary but will rely on only one side of one sheet of paper for prepared notes.  My opponent is permitted to have as many notes as he or she wishes to use.  They may even look up data online during the debate and may have up to two assistants while engaged in the debate.  I however, will stand alone.

Additionally beyond the allotted time, I agree to give my opponent 30 additional minutes of time to be invoked at anytime other than to interrupt my time.  This time may be used in increments of as little as one minute though out the debate.

Additionally the primary positions I am taking can be heard in two videos, one here and the other here, giving you a chance to know the majority of my positions before engaging in the debate.

Should you wish to debate a professional of my choosing instead of myself, I do not offer these contingencies.  I will not put another person at such a disadvantage.  I can only speak for myself on these contingencies.  I don’t know of any professional debate on a subject at this level where one party has offered so much of an advantage to the other side.

Also if you feel these contingencies are not necessary, you have the option to debate me with out them.  Basically I will engage in this fight with one hand tied behind my back if that is what it takes to get someone, anyone to step up and professionally defend these positions while being challenged on the facts.  It is that important to me that this happen.

Why I am Doing This

This is not a publicity stunt, this is not about me.  I feel claims are being made that are blatantly false, such as the claim that a drug used in millions of doses annually suddenly now needs to be “only used in a hospital”.  This does not track logically.  I find the shouting down of people challenging this to be a dangerous precedent to set in modern science and medicine.  It invokes images of the dark ages.

I feel no scientist or doctor confident in their position should be afraid to debate it publicly, professionally and rigorously.  I have witnessed “experts” on both sides of this debate on television but I have yet to see any two such experts in anything approaching a professional debate on the facts.  I have searched far and wide, I can’t find a single debate on this issue that was done in anything approaching a professional manner.

I find this odd and frightening!  Healthy rigorous debate is the foundation of science and medicine.  You can’t resolve an issue of this magnitude that is this politically charged with TV talking heads.  Professionals on either side should not be permitted to make unchallenged claims on something this important.  Since the media refuses to have professionals conduct this debate I offer to either do it or facilitate it.  What the reader should ask at this point are two questions…

  1.  Why does a podcaster have to do this in the first place?
  2.  Why won’t a single professional making these claims publicly defend their position with the ability for it to be challenged by someone with a command of facts counter to their position?

 

Support for My Position

I have been saddened to see any doctor or scientist who speaks up on the pro side of this issue attacked, mocked and become the subject of character assassination.  However, I want to point to a professional that agrees with my positions, a man who is immune to such attacks.  His name is Harvey Risch, MD, PhD.  He is a professor at Yale and one of the most cited researchers on the planet. In fact his research has been cited 39,980 times in the research of other professionals.

As a researcher he has what is known as an h-index of 88.  That makes him one of the most respected people on the subject of infectious disease research in the world.   More on h-index here if you care to learn more about.

Dr. Risch has been in his profession for decades. He is not a political individual, he speaks 100% as a scientist on this issue.  He is on record multiple times such as here, here and here stating HCQ is both effective and safe for use.  I am not pointing to the opinion of Dr. Risch a proof that I am correct. I am simply stating that if a man of his level says this medication is safe and effective it certainly warrants rigorous open debate before we permit the media to say it is not.

How to Contact Me

Any party interested in my challenge can simply email me at jack@thesurvivalpodcast.com and please put TSPC in the subject line so you can be assured your email will not be filtered.  Let me know your professional background and if you would prefer to debate me directly or prefer to debate another professional.

Again this is not about me, I very much feel that this type of debate is important right now.

If anyone is upset by this challenge, I have to ask why?  When did it become okay in America to just shout down dissenting opinions, specifically in the world of science and medicine?  I find this again to be disturbing and dangerous.  If I am wrong in my positions I welcome well reasoned, logical arguments about them, so that I may correct them.  A quarter million listeners a day are given my opinions.  I strive to be accurate as that is a significant responsibility.

If something can be destroyed the truth, it should be destroyed by the truth, not silenced by force.

~ Jack Spirko

P.S. – Please forward this article to any professional who is speaking against the use of HCQ and or claims such use is unsafe.  Please forward this to any contacts you have in the media as well.  I feel this is a public debate we need to have and honestly I am shocked that there is even any opposition to such a debate occurring.  If no one ever agrees to answer this challenge which I have bent over backwards to be as accommodating as possible with, the reader should ask themselves why.  This is an instance where silence speaks volumes.

 

 

Sacred 7 Mushroom Extract Powder – Item of the Day

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Every 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 Sacred 7 Mushroom Extract Powder.  This one came to me as a recommendation by Nurse Amy as in Doc Bones and Nurse Amy of the expert council.  One thing I want to say about Amy is she is not RN or LVN, but rather an NP.  What is an NP? A nurse practitioner NP is an advanced practice registered nurse and a type of mid-level practitioner. NPs are trained to assess patient needs, order and interpret diagnostic and laboratory tests, diagnose disease, formulate and prescribe treatment plans.

In other words they are about half way between an RN and an MD.  They can prescribe medications, make diagnosis, etc.  I am pointing that out due to what I am about to say next.

As many of you know Joe (Doc Bones) jokes a lot about his age.  People don’t seem to realize he is really getting up there in years because honestly he looks 15 years younger than he is.  He also has some underlying health conditions which I will leave at that, as I don’t want to give away any personal information beyond what he has said publicly himself.

In any event this has all led Amy to look for anything that may be helpful to Joe in the middle of this Pandemic.  One big risk is called cytokine storm.  A cytokine storm is where far too many immune cells are caught in an endless loop of calling more and more immune cells to fight the infection.  This is one of the very bad things happening to some people with advanced CoVid-19.

Now I want to be clear neither Amy nor I are saying that this will do anything at all to prevent a cytokine storm in a CoVid patient and absolutely no research has been done about that in regard to any mushroom that either of us are aware of.  Amy though found this AMAZING study done on 5 mushrooms as to their ability to impair cytokine storm during cancer treatment.  Read it and draw your own conclusions.  Amy’s reasoning is it might, it is cheap and it won’t hurt you.  Additionally these mushrooms all are also proven to have anti cancer properties with a large amount of research supporting them.

Amy did a ton of research and found this product which contains all five of the mushrooms in the study which are; Agaricus, Reishi, Cordyceps, Turkey Tail and Maitake.  It also has two others that have been heavily researched and also determined in studies to have anti cancer properties, those two are; Lion’s Mane and Chaga.

I am now taking this and here is my reasoning.  If the odds that it will do the square root of anything to reduce cytokine storm in CoVid are 100-1 against it, the cost is low enough, the risk is zero and the other potential benefits make it a no brainer.

For me honestly I have been looking for a mushroom product to add to my regime for a long time. This all goes back to several talks I have listened to by Paul Stamets who has likely done more with research on mushrooms than any other person on the planet.  You can find his website here.  If you tune into today’s show during the TspAz.com segment I will tell you about one of his stories.

In the end I have wanted something filling this role and this product seems like a perfect fit with all the research done by a good friend, with great credentials whom I trust.  A serving is 1/4 Tsp and that is what I have been using in my morning coffee, and no you can’t taste it at all, at least I can’t.  It dissolves easily in any hot liquid.

It provides 100mg of each of the seven mushrooms which again are Agaricus, Reishi, Cordyceps, Turkey Tail, Maitake, Lion’s Mane and Chaga.  An 8oz bag has 322 servings and costs 44.99, that comes out to 14 cents a day.  28 cents a day for both Dorothy and I, and that one bag will last us 161 days or a bit over 5 months.

So to me given the mountains of research on all of these mushrooms, the fact that this product is nothing but powdered mushrooms with no fillers adding it to my daily regiment seems like a no brainer.  You can also get a smaller bag of 2 ounces for 24.99 but that will increase the price per serving to 28 cents but it may be a better choice if you just want to try it.

In the end you guys know I don’t make any health claims or claims anything treats or cures anything, so simply put do your own research and make your own decisions.  That said personally I have decided adding Sacred 7 Mushroom Extract Powder to my daily regiment is a no brainer due to the potential benefits and very lost cost and what seems like zero risk.

Remember you can always find the TSP Amazon Item of the day by just going to TspAz.com and by shopping at TspAz.com anytime you shop on Amazon you help support TSP and the work we do here no matter what you buy.

Episode-2701- Instead of a Virtual Nation what about a Private Club

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We recently unloosed Episode #3 of Unloose the Goose titled The Futility of Politics and the Utility of Community.  It was a great episode and exactly what I hoped for when I assembled the gaggle happened, an idea popped out.  You might say we laid and idea egg.

Like most idea eggs it was tiny at first, just a topic of discussion, the concept of protecting some activities by creating a “private club” and thereby not being subject to many of the states systems.

For 48 hours now this egg has rolled around in my head and made me think more broadly, as to private clubs and how that would play with “virtual nations”.  Today we reexamine the concept and ask if a global private club might be the real answer to these issues.

Please understand this idea egg is still a tiny baby, it has flaws I am sure, but I also think it has potential to some day hatch into a mighty goose!  I have a lot of thoughts about how this might work, a lot of reasons it may not.  My hope is to put this egg out into the world today and let anyone exposed to it do what the gaggle has been doing, act like  goose.

We all know the goose will attack when it needs to, but those like me who have kept geese know there is more to them than aggression.  They are amazing parents, great flock members even with other birds, alarm systems and more.  Beyond all that they are also both curious and intelligent.  I have watched them study things, examine them, figure them out and take action on that.  I will tell two such stories to kick off today’s podcast and I hope it helps to unloose the goose in you!

Join Me Today to Discuss…

  • The genesis of this idea and the unicard in Texas
  • The tale of two geese to inspire you to think like a goose
  • Thoughts on how a global private club might work compared to a virtual nation
    • Hinges on a not for profit controlled crypto currency – this is simple and hard at the same time
    • The global club would in some way be like “the Masons”, don’t let that bother you, it is about structure
    • It would also not be like the Masons at all, zero hierarchy, no leader in the big club
    • How not to become the next Ross Ulbricht, I am sure not going to
    • The global club would be a club of clubs, may be, just a thought
    • Membership is open but requires some specific actions but those are mechanical
    • Individual clubs in the club set their own rules
    • This is a system designed to create a structure, nothing more
    • You have to let go, not control, not set rules, be an actual voluntarist
    • Perhaps a one commandant religion is attached to it, “Do not hurt people and don’t take their stuff”
    • No one enforces the commandant, it is to place another wall in front of the state, the individual decides
    • No this is not a complete idea but there is something to it, may be global is not the way, may be only tiny clubs are the way
    • May be this is all wrong but what can we take from it, or will it work, who knows
  • Final thoughts

 

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