Episode-169- Calls From The Audience 3-31-09 [41:07m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

I am in the home office today so no background noise from the highway as I take a variety of listener calls from the audience.  Remember you can call in your questions and comments to 866-65-THINK and be heard on the air.

Join me today as I answer the following questions…

• If you are using a pool for reserve water how do you keep the water useful with the grid down?
• What is going on with gas, will the price go back up soon, any shortages coming?
• Are we going to loose military surplus brass, will a new law require it to be destroyed rather than recycled?
• Are we about to have reloading shut down with bar coded ammunition, what is the real driving force behind ammunition tracking technologies?
• What is going on in Mexico and what does it mean to us?  Is our government a bigger problem in how they are spinning things that what is really going on south of the border?

Resources for Today’s Show

• Region 5 Get Together
• Members Support Brigade
• Dirt Time 2009
• Lights Out Audio Preview
• Two Democratic Senators shut down the law requiring the destruction
• Texas Plans for Mexican Refugees
• Gas to hit 2.50 by mid spring even with no impact from oil prices
• Forum thread on ammo tracking - all about the money - isn’t always?

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.

You also now can call in questions or comments for the host at 866-65-THINK, (866-658-4465) please read the suggestions for calling in before you do for the best chance of getting your comments on the air.

 

 Episode-168- Class Warfare and its' Impact on Survival Thinking [43:01m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Today’s show covers a topic that is often see as political and unrelated to survivalism.  Today we discuss the topic of class warfare and how it is used by those in power to continue abuse while we fight among ourselves rather than holding them accountable.

Join me today as I discuss…

• How hyphens before the word American are destroying the core values of our nations
• The Tea Parties are great!  Take a Democrat to one with you.
• Understanding the difference between man made and natural disasters
• Why we must act now with logic, education and integrity rather then anger
• Following the constitution is not a liberal or conservative ideology
• What does it really cost to employ a 10 dollar an hour employee
• The danger of acting in anger and what past results have been - anger is good for motivation only

Resources for Today’s Show

• Region 5 Get Together
• Members Support Brigade
• Dirt Time 2009
• Lights Out Audio Preview
• Your Rate of Return on Social Security (the older, the poorer and the less you work the better it is, most of us get 1.5% and that ignores the matching payments by our employers the real return is NEGATIVE)
• Join a Tax Day Tea Party

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.

You also now can call in questions or comments for the host at 866-65-THINK, please read the suggestions for calling in before you do for the best chance of getting your comments on the air.

 

 Episode-167- The Debt Trap vs. The Survivalist: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Today’s show cover’s how debt is created at the national level and why in our modern economy money can’t even exist with out debt.

More importantly it discusses what you individually can learn from this mess and apply to your own life.  Today we discuss how to get out of and stay out of debt and why it is as important to survivalism as growing food, learning to use a weapon or storing supplies.

Resources for Today’s Show…

• Region 5 Get Together
• Members Support Brigade
• Dirt Time 2009
• Lights Out Audio Preview

Legislation Discussed in Today’s Show

• The GIVE Act - Not about a “drafted army” but it still sucks!
• The Food Safety Act - They are NOT after your tomato patch but they are after the small farmer, shut it down.
• Ron Paul’s Bill to Abolish the Federal Reserve - Won’t even come to a vote but nice to see it being attempted.
• Ron Paul’s Bill to Require Transparency of the Federal Reserve - Call your congress critter and call the committee members to support this one.  Unless you are opposed to it of course.

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.

You also now can call in questions or comments for the host at 866-65-THINK, please read the suggestions for calling in before you do for the best chance of getting your comments on the air.

 

 Episode-166- The Common Need For Food Storage [43:26m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

The discussion of different disaster scenarios is definitely interesting, enlightening and useful however, there is what I call a “commonality of disaster” and no where is it more evident then when we examine the need for food storage as a modern survivalist.

Tune in today to hear…

• More on the disaster probability matrix
• More on the disaster impact scale
• How the commonality of disaster relates to probability and impact
• From small scale to global how food storage can aid you in most possible disasters
• How to get started storing food with out a lot of money or special equipment
• The one shelf to storage tub method of building up reserve food
• Why storing food is the right thing to do to prepare for anything for a lost job to a major climate shift
• The fundamental that when you can put food on the table, you think clearly and don’t act irrationally
• What cancer survivors teach us about the concept of “what you do matters”

Resources for Today’s Show…

• Region 5 Get Together
• Members Support Brigade
• Dirt Time 2009
• Lights Out Audio Preview

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.

You also now can call in questions or comments for the host at 866-65-THINK, please read the suggestions for calling in before you do for the best chance of getting your comments on the air.

 

 Episode-165- Threat Probability and Theat Impacts [42:52m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Due to ongoing site level issues today’s show notes are brief and will have to be upgraded later. Today’s show covers two main concepts,

The Threat Probability Matrix and The Threat Impact Scale

As one decreases the other increases yet by focusing on the order of probability you can be must more effective in your planning and prepping.

Resources for Today’s Show

• Region 5 Get Together
• Members Support Brigade
• Dirt Time 2009
• Lights Out Audio Preview

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.

You also now can call in questions or comments for the host at 866-65-THINK, please read the suggestions for calling in before you do for the best chance of getting your comments on the air.

No show today folks as I spent the morning figuring out why our site and fourm were down.  Fricken Hackers!  Well the site is back up and we will have a new show for you tomorrow.

Sorry for the inconvience to all listeners and forum members but we are back and ready to keep on helping our community to “live a better life, if times get tough or even if they don’t”

~ Jack

 

 Episode-164- Assembling and Using a Survival Fishing Kit [43:27m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Today I decided to so something more in the realm of “traditional survival skills” or the more typical “wilderness survival skills” that many popular survival shows are based on.  Today we discuss assembling both a very basic bare bones fishing kit and a more advanced better equipped version with complete survival fishing gear included.

Tune in today to hear…

• Why caring a fishing kit makes so much sense
• Can you find fish anywhere, well as long as you can find reasonable water supplies, yes
• Why you need an air/water tight container for your tackle
• Advice on hook sizes
• How to make a “frog gig” using large hooks
• How the spin fishermen can effectively use even the tiniest of dry flys
• How to find bait in survival situations
• Bait or food, the choice is yours, a new version of “a bird in the hand”
• How to make a “hobo reel”
• Advice on a collapsible fishing rod, get one, carry it, it beats a hobo reel or improvised can pool
• Why you should carry netting
• Minnow soup?  It might be “what’s for dinner”
• Advice on carrying more fishing line then you think you will need

Resources for Today’s Show

• Region 5 Get Together
• Members Support Brigade
• Dirt Time 2009
• Lights Out Audio Preview
• A pretty decent telescopic rod and reel combo - You may want to upgrade the reel but the rod is quite good.  Check in a few sporting goods stores first though, you may find something better with out the reel.
• Good Article on Fishing a “fly and bubble rig”
• Source of Fly Bubbles - Cabelas
• The Beetle Spin - Every kit should have some of these

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.

You also now can call in questions or comments for the host at 866-65-THINK, please read the suggestions for calling in before you do for the best chance of getting your comments on the air.

 

 Episode-163- Listener Calls for March 20, 2009 [38:44m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Today’s show gives the answers to six questions asked by our listeners on our toll free call in number of 866-65-THINK, and has a much enhanced audio quality because I am in my home office this morning.

Tune in to get the answer to the following questions,

• How can you leave coded signals for your family at rally points if you have to leave and move on
• What do you do if you have trouble signing up for our survival forum
• Which seeds and plants should you choose for your new gardener as a beginner
• Will we do a video on reloading for the Members Support Brigade
• Where and how do we get all our info on news, politics and current events and where can you do the same

Resources for Today’s Show

• Region 5 Get Together
• Members Support Brigade
• Dirt Time 2009
• Lights Out Audio Preview

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.

You also now can call in questions or comments for the host at 866-65-THINK, please read the suggestions for calling in before you do for the best chance of getting your comments on the air.