The Survival Podcast

Episode-1393- Some of the Greatest Lies Ever Sold [ 1:41:31 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

1984 Should Have Been Called 2014.

I have been on a theme as of late and I think I will leave you with one more show in this vein before I move on to something else.  Do you realize that most people are living their modern lives based on a series of well sold lies?

Everything you hear is largely a lie today.  The TV lies to you.  Your parents though well meaning likely repeat those lies, largely because they believe them.

The radio lies to you while you drive to work, well, unless you listen to TSP or something similar.  Most companies lie very professionally and well thought out to their employees.  The school system is built almost entirely on lies.

This is why so many are miserable today.  One can’t be human, fully human when they are living a life based on lies that lead to largely non human behavior.

Worse yet most of these lies have bits of truth in them.  Understand the most deceptive lies are 90% or more true.  The best way to sell lies is by using the truth.  This is why you will have a hard time likely when you read the list of lies below, accepting that as they are sold to you, they are lies.

PLEASE don’t comment below about these lies until you listen to the episode, I promise you that you will end up defending them out of context.

Join Me Today As We Examine the Following Lies…

• Responsible adults get good jobs and work hard at them
• An education is priceless
• Money can’t buy happiness
• It will all be worth it when you retire
• While our political system has problems it is the best we can do
• It is okay for government to do something that would be a crime if you did it
• Those people over there are bad, it is okay for us to kill them
• Your value is based on the opinions of others
• Government is necessary

Resources for today’s show…

• Join the Members Brigade
• The Year 1393
• Join Our Forum
• 13Skills.com
• Join Our Forum
• Walking To Freedom
• TSP Gear
• PermaEthos.com
• AgriTrue
• Sawtooth Tactical – (sponsor of the day)
• Back Woods Home Magazine – (sponsor of the day)
• Video I Played about the Black Death

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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Episode-1391- Designing Your Life for Personal Liberty [ 1:27:14 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Do You Really Want Liberty?

I have talked a lot about personal liberty lately from the stand point of first you must think for yourself or you have no liberty.  This has prompted some requests such as “fine but once you start doing so what do you do next, what actions does a person no awakening take to be more independently liberated?

One some levels this is what we discuss every single day on TSP.  On another level it is a difficult request to answer.  In someways what a person is saying is YOU tell ME what I should do with MY liberty.  As you can see that in and of itself is a problem.

That said one can be taught how to design a building and then use total freedom in said design as long as they follow certain rules.  In other words the building must have a foundation capable of holding it up, there are engineering laws (natural not man made) that you must follow or the building will fail, etc.

Lifestyle design is much the same.  Your final design is yours, you are free to design it as you see fit.  But there are laws to this.  Debt will erode your wealth.  A soul sucking job will suck your soul.  Belief in a lie will drain your energy from your own needs to the will of others.  We will discuss this and more today.

Join Me Today to Learn…

• Why you must design your life if you want freedom
• A brief recap on why independent thought is necessary for personal freedom
• How I define personal liberty and why you must write your own definition
• Why the elimination of consumer debt is a non optional step
• The need for two partners being all in eventually in a two partner relationship
• Why preparedness (at least basic) must be part of this
• Why you have to shut off the TV and stop being mad about the wrong things
• Why some should “write it down” and others should not
• How this is different from “life coaching” and “motivational speaker” BS

Resources for today’s show…

• Join the Members Brigade
• The Year 1391
• Join Our Forum
• 13Skills.com
• Join Our Forum
• Walking To Freedom
• TSP Gear
• PermaEthos.com
• AgriTrue
• JM Bullion – (sponsor of the day)
• Western Botanicals – (sponsor 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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Episode-1388- Building Soil, Cover Crops and More [ 1:33:08 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

One of the best ways a teacher can understand that he or she isn’t getting a specific component across properly is when he gets the same “wrong question” often.  My most common wrong question must most often be, “what do I plant for a cover crop”?  Why is the a “wrong question”, sometimes it isn’t but often it is, as is so often the case, “it depends”.

One of the biggest reasons it ends up being wrong is people are asking about a true cover crop.  Annual aggressive plants that fix nitrogen, build biomass and choke out weeds and grass, yet trying to establish pasture.  Used this way what you often get is bare dirt at the end of a season.

Today on the show we discuss the appropriate use of “cover crops” and what any people are actually looking to do, “over seed” and many other techniques and ways to build soil and improve soil health.

Join Me Today to Learn…

• Why I try to not get deeply academic on soil
• The simple difference between soil and dirt
• What is a cover crop vs over seeding
• Why is soil health so important to our society
• The food web you don’t learn about in school and why it matters
• The only one thing that builds structure in soil, it is a one word answer
• The roles of life in soil
  • Bacteria provide glues
  • PH of aerobic bacteria is alkaline
  • Fungi grow in strands and form highways and bind structures
  • Soil with fungi will move to the acidic because soils produce acid
  • We can’t grow any plant we care about without fungi (Dr. Elaine Ingram)
  • Exudates – mostly sugar, a bit of protein and a bit of carbohydrate
• The simple solutions
  • Keep soil covered
  • Do not compact soil
  • Add organic matter
    • compost
    • compost teas
    • mulches
  • Keep something growing
• Remember healthy soil = healthy people

Resources for today’s show…

• Join the Members Brigade
• The Year 1388
• Join Our Forum
• 13Skills.com
• Join Our Forum
• Walking To Freedom
• TSP Gear
• PermaEthos.com
• AgriTrue
• Sawtooth Tactical – (sponsor of the day)
• Survival Gear Bags – (sponsor 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.

Also remember we have an expert council you can address your calls to. If you do this you should email me right after your call at jack at thesurvivalpodcast.com with expert council call in the subject line. In the body of your email tell me that you just called in a question for the council and what number you called in from. I will then give the call priority when I screen calls.

Our Expert Council is Made Up of…

• Kerry Davis – Dark Angel Medical – Emergency Medicine and Life Saving Care
• Bryan Black – ITS Tactical – All Things Tactical, E&E, Lock Picking, etc.
• Frank Sharp Jr. – Fortress Defense Consultants – Weapons, Tactics and Security
• Darby Simpson – DarbySimpson.com – Livestock and Farm Management/ Homestead Consulting
• Ben Falk – Whole Systems Design – Permaculture
• Tim Glance – Old Grouch’s Military Surplus – Bug Out Vehicles, Military Surplus and Communications
• Steven Harris – Solar1234 – All things Energy
• Chef Keith Snow – Harvest Eating – Cooking
• John Pugliano – Investable Wealth – Investing and Finance
• Gary Collins – PrimalPowerMethod.com – Health and Nutrition (primal/paleo/etc)
• Michael Jordan – The Bee Whisper – All Things Bees

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Episode-1387- Survivalist Fantasies vs. Stark Reality [ 1:23:10 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Daily I get at least a few emails from what I call the Hysterics Crowd.  The basics of which are “THE WORLD IS ENDING, THE SKY IS FALLING”.  There are some common memes these folks tend to latch onto as to our impending doom.  No matter the meme de jour though there are some common components to most of them.

The first commonality is they are generally based on facts that have been bent, skewed and twisted to sell an idea.  The second it that it is hard to believe that such people can really believe them as they stray so far from the logical to be ridiculous.  The third being that they feel a substantial need to do something when in reality if what they say is true is true, there is little they can personally do.  Hence they are freaked out and looking for something to do now!  HELP ME!

Okay time for a big blue mental valume and a side does of reality on a ton of this stuff.  The sad part being that the truth is someways is more terrifying then fiction.

Join Me Today to Discuss the Following Survivalist Fantasies…

• My money isn’t safe, the dollar will be worthless SOON!
• Soon the government is going to put us all in FEMA camps
• A solar flare or EMP is going to shut off all the power forever!
• Peak Oil is real there will be no more oil, um, soon!
• And the realities of what the real problems are and what can be done about them

Resources for today’s show…

• Join the Members Brigade
• The Year 1387
• Join Our Forum
• 13Skills.com
• Join Our Forum
• Walking To Freedom
• TSP Gear
• PermaEthos.com
• AgriTrue
• Bulk Ammo – (sponsor of the day)
• Safecastle Royal – (sponsor 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.

Also remember we have an expert council you can address your calls to. If you do this you should email me right after your call at jack at thesurvivalpodcast.com with expert council call in the subject line. In the body of your email tell me that you just called in a question for the council and what number you called in from. I will then give the call priority when I screen calls.

Our Expert Council is Made Up of…

• Kerry Davis – Dark Angel Medical – Emergency Medicine and Life Saving Care
• Bryan Black – ITS Tactical – All Things Tactical, E&E, Lock Picking, etc.
• Frank Sharp Jr. – Fortress Defense Consultants – Weapons, Tactics and Security
• Darby Simpson – DarbySimpson.com – Livestock and Farm Management/ Homestead Consulting
• Ben Falk – Whole Systems Design – Permaculture
• Tim Glance – Old Grouch’s Military Surplus – Bug Out Vehicles, Military Surplus and Communications
• Steven Harris – Solar1234 – All things Energy
• Chef Keith Snow – Harvest Eating – Cooking
• John Pugliano – Investable Wealth – Investing and Finance
• Gary Collins – PrimalPowerMethod.com – Health and Nutrition (primal/paleo/etc)
• Michael Jordan – The Bee Whisper – All Things Bees

Want Every Episode of TSP Ever Produced?

Remember in addition to discounts to over 40 vendors who supply stuff you are likely buying anyway, tons of free ebooks and video content, MSB Members also get every edition of The Survival Podcast ever produced in convenient zip files in blocks of 24. More info on the MSB can be found here.

I am sorry guys but I am calling on today’s show I simply need more time to mend from this illness.  I am feeling a lot better but I still can focus well at all.  Simply put if I do a show today I will not do a very good job for you.  I should be fine based on current progress by tomorrow.  Well, at least good enough to do a decent episode for you guys.