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So we were out of town over the weekend and just got in last night.  The dogs and one of the cats were boarded as always when we leave.  Fortunately our vet/boarding service is across the street from the office.  Anyway we woke up to about an inch of snow this AM it was just pretty and I didn’t expect it would effect the morning commute much.

My plan was to go into the office, record today’s show, take care of customer service and then pick the boys up from across the street.  Well, by the time I got to the office the flakes had turned to ice pellets.  Driving in snow isn’t a big deal to me but ice is another story.  So I simply picked up the mail and went and got “the boys” and came on home.

I could record a show from  home (likely I will) but I can’t do all the editing and specifically the publishing of the big audio file from home.   So no Monday show today.  Sorry guys/gals but I have a wife and family to look after, I don’t screw with the weather.

Dangerous Conditions for Birds Too

We Named this Guy "Crash" and After a Few Moments of Recovery Sent Him on His Way.

No I haven’t cracked the code for talking to animals the poor guy just had his bell rung so hard he didn’t know he was being picked up until I had him in hand.  I guess the flying snow in combination with the snow on the ground and the way the light was hitting the front glass door confused him.  When I got back to the house this little guy was lying in the snow in front of the door.

I scooped him up for a few pictures.  He came around quickly enough and snapped a gasket when Dorothy tried to pet him.  That told us he was going to be okay.  He flew off and sat in a tree for a bit and seemed to recover just fine.  Good deed for the day done!

Let’s Make Today Suggest a Show Day

Since I will be holed up at the homestead, with the dogs, a roaring fire etc. it is a great day for me to do some research and outlines for future shows.  So if there has been a topic you want to hear about suggest it in the comments below and I will try to get a show on your subject in the queue.

I really want to do some more firearms related shows.  So if you have any ideas on that let me know.  I planned to do one soon on “small bore shotguns” like the 28 gauge and 410 bore.  Don’t limit yourself if you always think to yourself “Jack really needs to do a show about _____” today is the day to let me know about it.

Why Not Listen to a “Blast from the Past” Today?

While I don’t like missing even one day of TSP there are over 1,000 hours of on demand programming available to you 24-7-365 so why not just pick one and random today.  Or to help in this matter I have selected three all time favorites below you may have missed the first time around.

• Episode-342- Alternative Ways to Evaluate Property from Dec. 2009
• Episode-387- Eight Flowers With Medicinal Value from Feb. 2010
• Episode-591- Planning and Building the Suburban Homestead from Jan. 2011

So I had a great guest lined up for today’s show and was planning on doing the show a bit later in the afternoon.  I have not been able to reach our guest by any of his means of contact and it is now about 30 minutes past our planned start time.

I am sure something unavoidable has come up and we will be able to get our guest on in the near future.  However, due to having a guest in town for some business this week I have everything tightly sscheduled and that means there will not be an episode of TSP today.  My apologies we will be returning with a great show tomorrow.

My good friends, Patrick and Emily Roehrman of www.simplycleansing.com, would like to thank TSP listeners for their support and great feedback after their appearance in Episode 792 of The Survival Podcast

They are having a Buy one, Get one free Valentine’s sale for the first 3 bars of soap you order. AND that can be combined with their Buy 7 get one free pack! (potential of 4 free bars per order!) The sale runs from NOW til 5 PM tomorrow (Feb 8th)

If you wanted to try their soaps before now is the time! This is available to all TSP listeners. If you ordered before and enjoyed your soap, now is the time to order more!  Tell them in the comment section of your order what free scents you are wanting and that you are a listener here at The survival Podcast!

Patrick tells me the reason they are limiting this to a one day sale is they don’t have a huge amount of inventory right now and don’t want to run out during this special sale.

PS – On a quick side note today’s episode of TSP will Air at approximately 2PM Central time.   Please excuse the delay.

To order just visit – www.simplycleansing.com

We had a great time at SHOT Show in Vegas. The dinner with about 30 members of the audience was certainly one of the highlights. I think everyone that attended is in at least one picture. Dorothy did an awesome job of making sure of that.

TSP Meet Up in Vegas during SHOT Show

As I stated on the air today next week there will likely be about 3 vs. 5 episodes of The Survival Podcast as I will be in Las Vegas for the entire week for the 2012 SHOT Show.  I want to be sure all members of the audience are aware that we are having a meet up dinner on Thursday the 19th at Tommy Bahamas.

You are welcome to attend if you want to even if you are not going to SHOT.  I realize of you may live in or near Vegas and either not wish to or may not be qualified to attend SHOT.  So I want to be clear that this is a TSP event going on during SHOT Show not a “SHOT Show Event”.  All are welcome.

If you do wish to attend though we do need you to RSVP on the FaceBook event page SisWolf set up.

You can do that and get details, time, menu, etc here. 

Please understand we need a head count on this event so RSVP if you plan to attend.  We are capping the event at 60 people max.  PLEASE go read the event details on facebook before asking questions here because Sis kicked ass on the set up and almost anything you would want ot know is on the event announcement.

The Ramblings of an Insane Entreprenur

Have you ever wondered exactly how I built TSP into a full time business?  Exactly how to set up a blog, a website, a forum, etc?  How to attract sponsors, how to go from part time podcaster or blogger to building a real business that can sustain you and your family?  If so then my business podcast is for you!

Back when I started The Survival Podcast, I did it in my car on a 50 mile commute between Arlington and Frisco Texas.  Now I am doing the same thing during my much swifter 11 mile commute from my homestead to my office on the subject of business creation.  The Show is called Five Minutes with Jack, although it is usually about 15 minutes long.  I have now done 65 episodes on many subjects and have been having a lot of fun with it.

I set up the secondary podcast mainly because I get a dozen or more business/podcast/blogging related questions a week from the TSP audience and while building a business is indeed a self reliance type of subject, I don’t want to turn TSP into “The Business Hour”.

So if you have ever thought about building your own site or blog or podcast or if you already have one you want to take to the next level, cruise on over to…

Five Minutes with Jack

Would you or someone you know make a great guest for an episode of TSP?  Right now we have November booked solid but have just started to book December show dates for our interview schedule.  If you would like to be on the show just fill out our simple guest survey form and we will see about getting you own the air.

Our interviews are always pre recorded so that makes them pretty low stress for folks that aren’t used to the spot light, there are no time constraints of commercial breaks which gives you plenty of time to answer questions and expand on ideas unlike conventional media and oh yea, you will be talking about more than 25,000 of our closest friends about living a better life.

One note here, often I get emails from the audience that go something like this, I want to recommend that you interview _________.   ________, is the greatest thing since sliced bread and would make a great guest………….

This is usually followed by a literal book as to why I should get this person on the air.  The reality is we seldom go out in search of guests, we reach enough people that we prefer to simply have an open invitation for anyone who wants to be on the air and has something interesting to say.

Don’t take this wrong, sometimes the prospective guest is the greatest thing since sliced bread and I go out and try to book them.  However, what usually works best is for you to email or contact them about TSP and tell them you would love to hear them on the show.  Some of our all time favorite guests like Steven Harris came to us this way.  So if you know someone who would be a great guest the best thing to try is send them an email and provide them the link to our guest submission survey, trust me, the percentage of people who respond to listener requests is very high.

Our guest survey form is located at http://www.thesurvivalpodcast.com/guest-submission

At out booth at the Salt Lake City Self Reliance Expo we are handing out certificates that will let folks get the first year of MSB for only 35 dollars (30% off).

When we did this in Denver I opened up this sale to all listeners.  This time I am doing even one better for you guys.  While the booth certificates are for 15 dollars off the discount for listeners here is actually 20 dollars.

The discount code for this sale is “SALTLAKE”

You can use this discount code to pay online (new members only) or to pay by mail with a check, money order, cash or silver.  (existing members can use this option as well).  Those paying by silver get 30% more time (16 instead of 12 months per ounce of silver).

To use the code online just write in the code on checkout again it is “SALTLAKE”.  If you pay with the printable form by mail just write the code on the form and make sure you mail it on or before the 10th.

Lastly and this is VERY important.  If you are a current member paying by PayPal and choose to use the code to pay and extend your existing subscription by mailing in the form you need to make sure you write a note on the back of the form.

In that note tell us your paypal email address and ask us to cancel your auto renewal so you do not get double billed.  This is the only way I can make the offer available to existing members at this time.  Trust me I would be happy to let you extend with PayPal but that isn’t how PayPal itself works.

You Can Sign Up for the MSB Here

Again for those coming to the Salt Lake City, Self Reliance Expo we could use a little help in the booth, (our Booth is 411) if you are interested in that either day just stop by, we plan on giving free T-Shirts to booth volunteers.   Even if you don’t want to help in the booth please do stop by, the primary reason I am doing these two expos is simply to make myself available to meet some of your guys in person.