Monthly Archives: January 2010

Episode-357- Call in Friday 1-15-10

Posted on January 15, 2010 by Modern Survival| 11 Comments
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Today we do our second edition of call in Friday where I take listener calls and comments on the air.  To call in an leave your own question for me just dial 866-65-THINK and leave a message and you might hear yourself on the air.

Join me today as we discuss

  • Where to find chickens for your homestead
  • How many eggs does an average hen lay
  • What protection do chickens need in winter
  • What about filtering water during a city water contamination
  • What is a good book for your BOB
  • If you are buying your first two guns, should both be handguns
  • What is the purpose of a handgun
  • What can people in very cold climates do to be able to grow food
  • Is liberty given as a gift not understood and valued the way liberty fought for is
  • What can we learn from the earthquake in Haiti
  • What would Jefferson say if he was around today
  • Why are three Navy Seals in trouble because a terrorist got a bloody lip
  • Is a solar rebate “taking the governments money”
  • How do you store food long term with Mylar, buckets and O2 Absorbers

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-356- Getting Started From Zero the How and Why

Posted on January 14, 2010 by Modern Survival| 12 Comments
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So you are brand new to prepping or self sufficiency planning, where do you start?  Why should you in the first place?  Can you actually get reasonably prepared on your budget?  Today we answer those questions and more.

Tune in Today to Hear

  • Start out with what you have
  • The burden of debt and why it must be eliminated
  • Where do you find survival supplies, Walmart, The Grocery, etc.  at least before you need them
  • Starting out with 3 days of self sufficiency and turning it into 10 days effortlessly
  • Pile it on a table, know what you have and organize it
  • Documentation and simple encryption of sensitive numbers
  • Why you must own your plan not follow mine
  • The big regret you never have to face
  • The cancer of fear and how to destroy it
  • The difficult choices you can avoid ever having to make
  • Why now is the time to start and the journey is not a hard as you may believe it to be

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-355- Monsanto and Global Threats to the Food Supply

Posted on January 13, 2010 by Modern Survival| 15 Comments
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I have been inundated by mostly outraged listeners about the fact that Monsanto was just named “company of the year” by Forbes Magazine.  A few of our listeners who are not really aware of Monsanto are also asking if Forbes says they are so great why do you say they are “pure evil”.  I will be answering that today but the show is not going to be dedicated to just bashing Monsanto today.  Join me today as we talk about GMOs and many other threats to our long term global food supply.

Join me today as we answer questions such as…

  • Why did Forbes really choose Monsanto and where are they right about it?
  • What is a GMO, why should you care?
  • What practices make me call Monsanto evil?
  • What has Monsanto done to Iraqi farmers?
  • How much of our global food supply does Monsanto control now?
  • How exactly do you get a gene from a fish to splice into a gene from a corn plant?
  • Why and how are we turning once fertile land into salt flats?
  • Why we don’t really have a shortage of water but a system that uses abundant water poorly?

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-354- Four Rules of Storing Food

Posted on January 12, 2010 by Modern Survival| 7 Comments
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Today we are going to discuss storing food for both acute and long term survival needs.  I find with people new to preparedness it is one of the things they are interested in but often fail to take action on.  There is one fundamental though, food is necessary for life, without it you are in real trouble.

Join me today as we discuss…

  • The lack of vision many “disaster documentaries” have about food shortages
  • What the real threat of pandemic teaches us about the need to store food
  • Why you should start with the rule, store what you eat
  • Utilizing the “opportunity buy”
  • The role long term commercial storables play in your storage plan
  • The value of cheap storables like wheat, barley, rice and their limitation
  • The importance of protection from rodents
  • The myth that a “garden makes you a target” any more then existing makes you a target
  • Why you must become a producer
  • The three levels of production and how they work together
  • The holistic nature of a true long term food program

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-353- Listener Feedback 1-11-01

Posted on January 11, 2010 by Modern Survival| 15 Comments
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Today I am back from the BOL with a listener feedback show.  Today we discuss wasp spray for self defense, rifle calibers for deer hunting, the global population, testing your preps and more.

Join me today as we discuss…

  • Is wasp spray “recommended” as a self defense tool
  • Lessons from an earthquake
  • 7 Degrees at the BOL and no electricity (our recent “vacation”)
  • How to “test your preps” before nature does it for you
  • Is an AR15 with the 223 a good deer rifle (no and no)
  • Why did I choose to have one child, does that really effect anyone else
  • Creative ways to find pre 64 coins for less money then a shop
  • Gardening in Las Vegas and other desert environments
  • Saving money for college, don’t save money for your child’s life, let them choose
  • The limitations of economic knowledge
  • Good books and resources to learn about permaculture and gardening
  • Taking our planet back, starts with taking our nation back

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-352 Call in Friday 1-08-10

Posted on January 8, 2010 by Modern Survival| 11 Comments
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Today will be the first official “Call In Friday” where I answer you questions and comments called in to 866-65-THINK.  You can call this number anytime and leave a BRIEF (2 minutes or less) question and you might hear yourself on the air.

Join Me Today as I Discuss…

  • How do you find a good job in the country
  • If you move to a rural area are kids more likely to get in more trouble than in the city
  • What makes a quality pressure canner
  • How do you recondition batteries
  • How do you create an herbal extract
  • Why do you need commercial extracts with certain herbs
  • How can you use and keep O2 absorbers effective when they come in large quantities
  • What gun cleaning supplies should be in your BOB and at your BOL or just part of your preps
  • Does buying a Class 3 weapon mean you give up your rights?  (No)
  • What are some creative ideas for teaching self reliance to Cub Scouts

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-351- An Interview with Bill Wilson about Permaculutre

Posted on January 7, 2010 by Modern Survival| 7 Comments
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Join me today as I interview Bill Wilson of Midwest Permaculture to discuss the concept of Permaculture and the commonalities between the Permaculture and Survivalist communities.  Bill is an amazing guy that followed his dream, walked away from a career and created something special.

Join us Today as we Discuss…

  • How Midwest Permaculture came to be
  • What exactly is Permaculture
  • The importance of planning in Permaculture vs. agriculture
  • The training available from Midwest Permaculture
  • What are some of the long term threats we face
  • How can Permaculture address and prevent potential threats to our survival
  • What is a rain garden and how can you build one
  • How much oil is really left (you have got to hear this one)
  • Why Permaculture as a solution vs. other options
  • Who created Permaculture and why it is a true revolution in the traditional sense of the word
  • How many people can be fed with as little as two acres of well managed land
  • Why we all should have green houses in temperate climates

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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Off to Arkansas – There Will be Shows but no Tech Support Until Monday

Posted on January 6, 2010 by Modern Survival| 1 Comment

In about an hour and a half the wife and I will be loading up the tuck for a few days up at the bug out location.  We are going to shoot some photography for the new ebook, Mastering the 22 Rifle and not a whole lot more then that other then just relaxing and recharging.  We are bugging out earlier than planned to beat tonight’s snow and ice expected up in the area.

There WILL BE SHOWS tomorrow and Friday.  They have been pre recorded and all set to go and automated technology will take care of the rest.

Tomorrow is an interview with Bill Wilson of Midwest Permaculture and Friday is our first official “Call In Friday”, Friday’s show will be responses to a bunch of calls in to our hotline at 866-65-THINK.

One thing to be aware of is I will have limited access to email while we are away.  I have my AT&T data stick but it doesn’t work that well up in the BOL.  Hence any tech support will be delayed until our return on Sunday.  This generally mostly effects MSB members with login issues.  Rest assured I will be back and answering all email and requests no later then Monday.

So you may be a little lacking in support for the next few days but you will have shows for the rest of the week.  Additionally I have a crack programmer redoing the MSB and those occasional log in issues will soon be a thing of the past.  Everything is ready to go with the upgrade but given how upgrades go from time to time I don’t want to pull the trigger until I get back.

Until I return, keep on living that better life,

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Episode-350- Mastering the Rifle

Posted on January 6, 2010 by Modern Survival| 8 Comments
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Today I talk about my view of traditional American rifle craft and what I feel has been lost in modern times.  The days when a young man could just take off with a box of shells may be mostly gone but the heart of those times is still here.  Mastering the rifle is the way to hold on to those traditions and preserve knowledge for future generations.

Join Me Today as We Discuss…

  • What is the difference between marksmanship and rifle craft
  • Why new shooters should never start with a scope
  • The purpose of and limitations of paper targets
  • Common game to pursue with the 22 rifle
  • The role of binoculars in small game hunting
  • What is an over scoped weapon and why you should never do it
  • How to find your master eye and why it is necessary
  • How to get into correct form and why so many shooters have terrible form
  • Why shooting deer from a box blind will never make you a true rifleman
  • What is a “master” and does he ever stop being a student
  • How the American rifleman came to be and what can be done to preserve it
  • Which action is best for training and drilling if your goal is rifle mastery
  • Why creating rifleman is necessary to preserve the constitution

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-349- Listener Feedback and Events for 1-5-09

Posted on January 5, 2010 by Modern Survival| 11 Comments
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Today we do another feedback show with a bit of a change up, I also include a blog post from a fellow preppers blog, a news article, a story from the great north and an amazing email about TSP’s impact in Iraq. In fact the letter from Iraq is so amazing I was only able to read part of it on the air so I posted it so you could read it in full (with a few edits) on our forum.

Tune in today to hear…

  • Soup is for the prepper – cool item from Safecastle
  • The TSP Iraqi audience
  • Money market funds are no longer the safe investment they once were
  • A tale of one family and a big winter storm
  • Thoughts on the top bar beehive design
  • Great blog post (6 Reasons You Won’t Survive)
  • Dave Canterbury’s Slingbow and update on his new show on Discovery
  • Is a good gun a hedge against inflation
  • Is sterling silver flatware and similar items a good silver “investment”
  • Can the government prevent you from growing food from a 1930s era law

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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