Get ready, on Thursday July 1st and Friday July 2nd High Mowing Organic Seeds is sponsoring a listener appreciation contest. For a full description of the seeds we are giving away see the video at the bottom of this post.
They recently stepped up to support our listener appreciation contest with two great seed packs. Total value to each winner is about 47 dollars. Please note you will play this contest by sending me a code word in an email ONLY if you are regestered in the Listener Apprecation Contest. I will NOT tell you the code word either, I will tell you a page on the High Mowing website to get a code word from. So there are two things you should do today.
2. If you are not registered in the listener contest do so now by going to this page.
Additional details about how to play will be given out tomorrow. We will give out two seed packs on Thursday and Three on Friday, I will also do something with the MSB and a limited discount code on Thursday and Friday. So tune in early both days for the best chance to win. Next week we are giving away soil cubes and more prizes will come over the summer.
More information is available about things mentioned in this video below
What? What the hell is wrong with Jack? Here we are it is just about to be the 4th of July, the “dog days” of August are still over a month away and I want to talk about fall? Yes indeed officially “fall” or autumn begins on the 21st of September with the autumnal equinox but when I think about fall gardening I use September 1st as my starting point. Sure it is still hot in many places but the turn of the seasons can be felt already, the days are noticeably shorter, the sun’s angle has begun decline and most fall/winter crops can manage for a few weeks until cooler weather arrives.
But why now, what should you be thinking about for fall in July? Glad you asked, join me today as we discuss…
Starting plants indoors or in shade, yes really
Finding your first frost date, isn’t this like spring in reverse
Time to grow those plants that can’t handle your heat
Some beans don’t produce well in heat but they can grow in it
A few frost tolerant crops to plant in the early fall
Cress
Spinach
Lettuces
Radishes
Garlic/onion
Peas
Carrots
Broccoli
Cabbabge
Calendula
Swiss chard
Beets
The evil squash vine borers are almost done laying eggs, quick plant now
If you have multiple beds start planning come cover crops for winter
Is it time to build that green house perhaps one with shade
Tomatoes? Now? Perhaps
Peppers in pots
Surviving the first and second frost really extends a season
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.
Many preppers seem to shun technology in exchange for more “primitive” skills such as bush-crafting and stellar/solar navigation. Personally I feel neither should be relied on to the exclusion of the other. For instance I carry a lighter in every kit I own but I also know how to make friction fire and I can fire steel as well. Each tool has its place and acts as redundancy for the others.
A fellow prepper once mocked my use of a GPS, I simply asked if he rode a horse to work on a daily basis. The point was received with that one question. Technology can be both a blessing and a curse, it is up to us to fully utilize it while still understanding its limitations.
Join me today as we discuss the following technologies
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.
Today we have another round of your questions, comments, suggestions and feedback. Today we discuss topics such as getting reluctant spouses to the gun range, a scientist that says humans are going extinct, GMO Salmon coming to the dinner table and more.
Join me today as we discuss…
Humans to be extinct in 100 years of less, so says on scientist
Getting a worried spouse on board with gun ownership
Considering buying a home and the interaction of location and gas prices
Collapsible rain barrels from Sportsman’s Guide, these look damn cool!
Building a back up power system
Where to get food grade paint cans
Buying a first piece of land, what approach to take
GMO Salmon, it may soon be for dinner, NOT on my table
Can cowboy action shooting make you a better prepper
Are all guns “weapons”
If I don’t like a round does that mean you shouldn’t either
How to easily remove cosmoline with a common house hold item
Is sick and vacation time sort of like “money in the bank” in the event of a layoff
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.
I am here with another call in Friday on The Survival Podcast today we have questions on corn worms, sewer system failures, Israli made firearms, buying bug out land and more.
Join in today to hear your questions and comments about…
How can you set up remote monitoring of your BOL
Should you fill out the warranty card on that new gun
The transom knot for tying up a trellis follow up from last Friday
Is your sewer system “electric” if so what does that mean
Are fly in communities good for a BOL, the pros and cons
What is the deal with the IMI Jericho 941
How do you deal with corn worms
Should you buy remote land if you might get transferred with a job
How can we best preserve spiritual heritage in a SHTF
The reverse mortgage, the good, the bad and the ugly
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.
Today Dave Canterbury from the Discovery series Dual Survival joins us to talk about the show, working with Cody Lundin, the value of survival skills, primitive archery, teaching kids and more.
Join us today as we discuss.
Dave ran a reptile farm? Yep! And what it has to do with survivalism.
How YouTube, facebook, etc have changed everything entrepreneurs in the survivalist niche
What the “Path Finder” system is and why Dave created it
Why the contrast between Dave and Cody Lundin is part of the show
What Dave really meant when he said, “sometimes I have to fight Mother Nature”
Why we will continue to see more skills and how to as the Dual Survivor evolves
A sneak preview of Episode Three
What it is like to spend time with indigenous people learning the way their cultures live
The environment that was the toughest one for Dave Canterbury
The one place Dave wasn’t just comfortable he could have stayed a few extra days on vacation
Where you can meet and train with Dave Canterbury in person
The new upcoming book, “The Pathfinder System, a Common man’s Survival Guide”
Why Dave feels being a survivalist keeps you humble
The importance of teaching our children values and traditional skills
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.
That is honestly a fair question and one I get from a lot of people. Here I am this guy who has a lot of computer and internet knowledge, I know how to make Google do my bidding with the art of SEO (search engine optimization), I have been in sales for global corporations and I have about a million interests.
Why in the hell would a person like me…
1. Be a survivalist?
2. Make teaching it and spreading it my life’s work?
Join me today as we discuss…
What survivalism is to me
Why my roots make survivalism part of my make up
Why I don’t shun modern technology like say a GPS or a computer
Why I still value ancient skills like fire making, tracking and trapping
Why I believe that survivalism is a “human concept”
Why I tend to stay away from a lot of typical survivalism stuff like the New World Order
Why I see gardening and permaculture as survival topics
Why I really love guns but only discuss them may be 10% of the time
Why I believe that survivalism can actually save America
What the covert mission of The Survival Podcast really is
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.
Today we have your feedback and some additional things that you just won’t believe since we prempted the listener feedback show yesterday for the 2 year anniversary show. Today we discuss a real world example of a country turning to gold, 50 facts about the US economy you just won’t believe, zip ties, parachute cord and more.
Join me today as we discuss…
50 things about the U.S. economy that defy all reason
Uses for zip ties and parachute cord in your prepping, bush-crafting, etc.
Why did I choose Arkansas for my BOL
Thoughts on how to store a 8 month cash emergency fund
The pros and cons of grid tied solar with battery back up
Why is China again buying US Treasuries
Can seeds survive outside in a freezing winter
What is the new proposed FCC regulation of the internet really all about
Greece turns to gold for safety, what we can learn from it
Assclown of the week returns, a school principle thinks a 2 inch toy solider is a weapon
Hero of the week returns, a retired general tells a young man what he did was right
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.
Hard to believe isn’t it? Two years ago I climbed into my VW Jetta Diesel TDI and began this journey with our very first episode, An Introduction to The Survival Podcast, on that day one person listened, me. Over the next few weeks we got into iTunes, I put a few episodes of the show into “Stumble Upon” and a few other social media sites and just began working my ass off.
I had a full time job back than, actually more than one, I was the owner of one company and in that capacity worked as effectively the Director of Marketing for three others. My days were long, often the nights were as well, business dinners, recruiting events, etc. Some nights I got home at 10-12 at night and would begin the outline for the next show at that point, climb into bed, get up and do it all again. Hell even my wife didn’t know I was doing TSP until about two months into it.
I worked like a mad man and it wasn’t really so I could build TSP into the business it has become it was because at last I was living my true passion, teaching people. During that first month we grew from one listener to about twelve, really just twelve! But in the next month it grew to a few hundred, we set a goal (the early listeners did it with me) grow to 1,000 regular listeners by the end of the year, we hit 1,000 in November of 2008, I gave a free iPod to one of the listeners that was inscribed, “Be an Ant, Not a Grasshopper”. Today more than 14,000 people a day download or stream TSP and about 11-12 thousand are direct consumers via our feed. In fact the show has been downloaded in total now over 2.2 Million Times, and that is only counting via our feed!
Despite my maniac like work ethics that is not really what grew the show though, you did it! The community around the show built it. The forum is a classic example, I wanted no forum. I was known in several forums and didn’t want to appear to be a “forum pirate” (one who sets up a new forum to siphon users from others that are already established, to me these people rank with spammers and phishers as scum of the internet). I wanted TSP to be built on its own merits.
In the fall of 2008 I was actually informed by several members of the audience that I had no choice about a TSP Forum. Seriously! It was basically a threat, you will give us a forum, we need one we will even run it for you but, you are going to do it. So I did it, I installed the forum, I set up the initial boards, recruited about 7 moderators to help the 4 “thugs” that extorted a forum from me and stepped back. The results?
Over 5100 Real Members (spammers, inactives, etc are terminated by the Mod Squad)
Over 16 Thousand topics of discussion on the forum so far
More than 1.9 MILLION posts, I think we will break 2 million today
My moderators became my “Ad Council” creating the only advertising program I know of where the audience approves sponsors
I have made friends that I wold trust my life with, yes I mean that
I met Tiffany and Rich Rockwell as moderators and out Gear Shop was born
Those folks are just highlights. Now every day I wake up and I thank all of you, I honestly say it to all of you verbally generally as I walk my garden and prepare for the day’s show. I try to do each show with an outflow of gratitude and a sincere desire that every day at least one person fundamentally takes at least one step to towards a better life based on something I say on that day.
Last year on the anniversary we had an amazing episode that if you have never heard you should listen to. (Episode 224) Listeners called in and told others what the show had meant to them, what they had changed, the debts they had paid off and the freedom they were feeling. That show changed me, I actually felt the change I was causing, more accurately the change WE WERE CAUSING together across the nation even across the world.
Prior to launching the show there were a few days I looked at my nation and as a former solider and true patriot shed a tear or two for America. These were tears of despair, the nation I loved, the people I loved were dying right in front of me. Their spirits were broken, they began to believe the lie that the answer was outside of themselves. My response was “damn it no!” in fact, “hell no, not while I can still shout to someone, to anyone that this is not our path!, We are still free men and woman, we still are in charge of how we live.” I wondered if anyone would even listen.
People listened, they did a hell of a lot more, they shouted back, they cried out, “I am here, lots of us are here, we are not gone, we will not go away, we are with you”. Something even bigger began to happen other voices cried out, “we are awake now, we were asleep, we believed the lies that told us we couldn’t do it on our own, now we know it is bullshit and we are with you too and WE ARE TELLING OTHERS”.
This year as the anniversary approached I considered doing another call in show with people just saying what they have done, (we will do one don’t worry), but something else happened. Enter Greg Yows of RevolutionRockAndRoll.com who worked with me to create a new song called “The Revolution is You” and this time I asked you guys to send me pictures of you living the new revolution. Gardening, fishing, hunting, building, bee keeping, shooting, teaching, camping, etc. anything that was linked to preserving lost skills and creating self sufficiency and independence.
A total of 650 plus pictures came in (keep sending them, there will be new versions of the video in the future with more pictures) 120 made the cut for the first edition of the video. I worked like a mad man on this one, when it was finished I again paused and shed a tear or two, this time both of hope for my nation and of gratitude for each of you that found the courage to act, to do something, anything that says, “I will control my own life, I will teach others and my children how powerful we all really are.”
Below is the video we created together, if you sent a picture and I did not include it I apologize, the time constraints of the video meant over 500 could not be included. Like I said more versions will come.
Today’s show will be sort of brief, no sponsors, no house keeping, no announcements. Just me telling all of you what this journey has meant to me and a request that you forward this video to as many people as you can. Thank you, all of you who have understood that the choices are our’s and the revolution is you!
