Welcome to Friday Flashbacks, after 15 years and hundreds of interview shows we decided to run them as flash backs ever Friday, beginning with the oldest of them going forward.There is a tremendous library of wisdom in all the great interviews we have done over the years.So sit back and enjoy, whether this is your first or second time around with today’s episode I am sure you will enjoy today’s episode and learn a lot from it.
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Today on The Survival Podcast the expert council answers your questions on globalism, finding property, solar power, UTVs, wood ash, knot weed, sequestering CO2 and more.
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In the Ron Paul Liberty Highlights
Globalists Create Division & Disaster On A Global Scale – Dr. Paul and Chris Rossini
Finding and choosing a property for a major move – Tim “Tool Man” Cook
Understanding, treating and preventing frost bite – Doc Bones
Expanding an existing solar power system – Shawn Mills
Choosing a good used UTV for work on the homestead – Eric Hammond
Using wood ash and dealing with knotweed – Ben Falk
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Nicole Sauce is at it again with the Self Reliance Festival. She and John Willis have put together a great collection of inspiring speakers and cool demonstrations around the topics of permaculture, homesteading, self reliance and building prosperity.
This festival isn’t just about sitting and listening; it’s about doing and learning. For two whole days, you can see demonstrations where you actually get to practice new skills, hear from some of the smartest people in self-reliance, and meet others who are on the same journey as you. Or as they like to say “Find Your Tribe.” It’s about taking steps to live more independently, with confidence.
Meet Angery American, Mike Shelby and Sonny Puzikas
SRF has some big names coming to share their knowledge. Chris Weatherman, also known as Angery American,will be there. His Going Home Series has inspired many folks to get real about Modern Survival. Mike Shelby from Forward Observer will talk about developing your local intelligence network, and Alan Booker will share his secrets on living in harmony with nature through permaculture.
THE Place to Be
Special Operations Equipment in Camden is hosting SRF and getting to meet John Willis in person and see how he has turned a rocky, barren piece of land into a beautiful homestead is worth the trip alone. It’s a cool spot, and John Willis and Nicole Sauce are making sure this event is something special. They’re all about creating quality and bringing people together to learn.
Workshops That Pack a Punch
There’s more than just two days of talks, vendors and demonstrations. You can sign up for extra workshops like “Fight Like a Girl” with Sonny Puzikas, learn how to handle medical emergencies with “Homestead Responder 1 Medical Training” by Chuck Peoples, and even find out which wild plants you can eat with Kerry Brown. These workshops are about learning skills that you don’t get to practice every day but could really help you out when you need them.
If you’re into learning how to be more resilient, want to build a better life, and like being around people who feel the same way, this festival is where you want to be. It’s about taking real steps towards living a life where you’re in control, prepared, and connected with others who are doing the same.
And if you want a special experience, grab your VIP Pass to have access to the VIP Room, have dinner with the speakers, get digital recordings and support the work that Nicole Sauce and John Willis are doing.
Today we will begin a multi part series on redefining education that I hinted at on the show yesterday. I thought about calling this “redefining childhood education” and while we will come at it a lot from what we should teach our kids, I am betting most adults may have to learn over half of the things we will talk about in this series as well.
The truth is education is failing out children in so many ways. Kids are subjected to learning thousands of functionally useless facts, regurgitating them on tests and then 90% or more is fully forgotten in time. And I am not talking about stupid people here. Honestly many professionals that are highly successful in careers would fail to pass a 10th grade exam on many subjects. Why? Most of the things we force upon our kid are again, functionally useless.
Education should indeed focus on primary academic skills, the core being
Communication (reading, writing, speaking)
Mathematics (basic athremitic, basic algebra and basic geometry)
Science (primary how the scientific method works and general awareness of scientific principles)
History (to understand context of our current world)
Basic Geography (where nations, people, things, are and how it has changed over time)
Logic and Reason (how to determine what is likely about what you don’t know from what you do know)
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Let’s be honest if you have that down in 2024 you can learn anything else you need to learn on the fly or chose to specialize in what interests you and take a path of intensive learning on that. But what is most missing here? A general knowledge of the world around you (local) and what we used to simply call life skills. You know cooking your own food, paying bills, doing laundry, etc.
Think about the fact that a child today will set in a desk 180 plus days a year, for 13 years, be told that what they are learning is “important” and the following things will be true after they graduate from K-12 education….
They will not know how to cook a meal
They will not know how to grow a plant
They will not know how to use hand and power tools
They will not know how to mend a sock with needle and thread
They will not know how to form a well reasoned and logical argument
They will not know how to identify a logical fallacy
They will not understand that there are thousands and thousands of career options
They will not know how to do taxes
They will not know how to actually fact check a claim by government, media, etc.
They will not know how to do a basic design and cost estimate for a project
They will not know how to design a decent natural diet
They will not know how to do about 1000 other things people in general could do just a few decades ago
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So what is the solution? Changing the educational system to make it better? Well you may as well plan on going to Washington, DC and talking senators and representatives out of taking lobbyist money and fixing our problems, because your chances of success are about equal.
Home school has taught me that the common argument in response to talk like this which is of course….
“Teachers work really hard, they are underpaid and we don’t have the time and money to teach all these other things.”
I a complete pile of bullshit and frankly a few logical fallacies put together to avoid the discussion. My grandkids are excelling as homeschool students. They do 1-2.5 hours of school work a day, my grandson is at an age where he’d be bringing that much work home by now after spending 8-9 hours a day “going to school”.
When we started homeschool and I saw this, my first question was, “what the hell is school really doing with our kids when 2 hours a day is sufficient for all the learning and work? The answer was of course “training them to obey the rules of the state and society and to not question authority”. Turns out when you get rid of that and simply require basic good behaviour while learning you have a metric ton of time to do other things.
In return for good behaviour and work ethics we give our kids a ton of daily freedom. They can play outside, do games, watch videos, etc. But we add in a ton of real world learning and that is where most of these things in this series come from.
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How long does it really take to learn daily things that you will actually remember and be able to apply
Why doesn’t the state want children to learn the way we are talking about today
Why reforming the system is pointless and you need to do these things even if you don’t home school
10 life skills and projects to help kids and adults develop real world and useful knowledge
Identify 50 local plants, trees and shrubs and be able to explain and ID them
Be able to do a scale drawing with graph paper like say a floor plan
Be able to make a pot of soup, with no recipe only technique and intuition
Be able to explain basic business operations, profit, loss, wages, overhead, etc.
How to calculate the total expense of any purchase decision (price to value ratio)
Explain and understand the principle of basic trouble shooting
How to do basic automotive tasks, get gas, change a tire, do an oil change, explain how a motor works, etc.
Evaluate various careers as to work flow, earnings potential, required education, etc.
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Every day I bring you an item on Amazon that I personally use or has been purchased by many members of the audience and I have researched enough to recommend.
Today’s TSP Amazon Item of the day is the End Grain Wood Bamboo Cutting Board by Fast Easy Bread Store. I’ll say out of the gate that an end grain thick cutting board is not something that tends to get screwed up. Hence you don’t have to be married to this brand, but it is the one I specifically own. According to my Amazon History I bought this item in May of 2018 and I still love it and use it almost daily. So just know you can trust this brand.
Before I dig into this item let me confess something. I have a “board addiction”, and I mean both cutting and serving boards. I have more than I need, and I know I will keep buying them. I just think they are beautiful. My latest one is olive wood and I got in on our vacation. Every time my wife calls it a cutting board, I am like, “no, never put a knife to that, it is a serving board”. I also own a ton of awesome cutting boards and other serving boards in many designs. I say this only due to what I will say next.
This board isn’t bad looking but it isn’t “beautiful” either. It is utilitarian, setting it next to some of my other boards is like putting a old pick up next to a Corvette or a cherry condition 68 Firebird. So why? Why does a guy with more boards than he needs use this thing the most when it comes to slicing, chopping, meat cutting, etc. Well why do you use that old pick up over say a sports car? Simply because for the task at hand it works better and you don’t give a damn it it gets another scratch on the paint.
That is how I feel about end grain bamboo boards like this. They are perfect for daily use, they require less maintenance then many hardwood boards and if you go with end grain they are not hard on a knife’s edge. That is important by the way, the reason many don’t like bamboo is, it is hard and hence hard on that knife edge, but this is only really true with cheap long grain boards.
There is more I love about this board. First is that juice grove all around the edge. I always grab it when grilling or cooking on the flat top. I bring meat in on it and I don’t end up with a juice trail on the floor and the dogs licking at my feet. Next it is heavy, I like heavy boards for working, they are stable and stable equals safe. It also has rubber feet and that creates a no slip board for even an even more stable work environment.
Next is just the way things cut on on a board like this, the word is perfectly. By being end grain the grain can give just a tiny bit as a knife is drawn across it. This give you great feel especially when doing fine slicing work with veg or like a Chiffonade with basil and other leaf herbs. Finally size, not only is it nice and heavy but with a working area of 16″L x 12″W it is about the largest size that isn’t just too big and space consuming on a counter top or stored away.
I just look at it this way you can spend hundreds on a cutting board, it can be a work of art and that is great if like me it is just one of your things. However if you want a great board that will last for decades with minimal maintenance this is the one for you.
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P.S. – I referred to maintenance a few times above so let me tell you what we do with ours which again is now over 5 years old with almost daily use and minimal maintenance.
Step One – Always wash soon after use. I know we all tend to some nights set dishes aside and do them the next day. Save for steal or cast iron pans, I am fine with that, but not your boards. I wash with a very tiny bit of detergent and a scrub daddy as soon as dinner is done and fully rinse well. It takes less then a minute to do and then I stand it up on end to let it dry. That is all for day to day use.
Step Two – All wood has oils in it, and this oil is part of what preserves it. To keep a board in top shape you should oil it say monthly. I absolutely do this with hard wood boards and tend to do so with my bamboo board as well, thing is, it isn’t as important.
Honestly if always washed after use and stood on end to dry, applying oil every 60 days is fine. And it is fast and easy to do. Just make sure it is fully dry from being washed, then coat it with some mineral oil, wipe it in good and let it sit, I use my fingers to apply it. If it sucks it all up in say an hour, give it a second coat. If it won’t take the first full coat, wipe the excess off with a cloth or paper towel and carry on. Keep adding coats until the final coat does not 100% absorb into the wood and a small amount is left to be wiped off. If you oil monthly one coat is usually enough.
Do this and these types of boards will likely belong to your kids some day. That is a heck of value at 70 bucks in this modern world where the quality of most things have gone to shit.
My discussion with John Willis yesterday got me thinking as any talk with John always does for me. I love what he is doing with Homestead Apprentice but I want to talk more about the reason why things are needed like this today. Today I will tell you a part of your history as a modern species. Yes modern, and this history is not good.
See humans have bred and domesticated animals for a very long time. In modern times humans have been domesticated though a very simple process of conditioning. If you think about it most “domesticated animals” are genetically not much different than their wild ancestors. A cow could kill you, so could a horse as could a pig, but they don’t. Nope they line up to be fed, pet, perhaps milked, even slaughtered. Why? A single word answers this, conditioning.
And this is what has been done to modern man. The restrictions we allow on our liberty today. We do so with smiles and remarks about a “civilized society” falling from our mouths like pablum from a toddler’s mouth. These restrictions would have instilled massive violent outrage from our great grandparents only a 100 years ago.
What happened? Some would say, hard times created strong men, who created good times and good times then created weak men, who now have brought us hard times, again. There is some truth to that, but it is far more insidious. We are the same DNA as our grandparents and great grandparents. We are made of the same stuff, the shift in only 2-4 generations is not genetic, rather mental.
That is scary as shit, it is also quite encouraging at the same time. For anything that is done with mental conditioning and mass scale programming can be undone with a simple formula, one I will reveal to you today.
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How you domesticate a species
Take it from it’s parents when young – the PreK -12 school system
Feed it and make it dependent on you – school lunches and crap junk food
Medicate it so it can be kept in unnatural conditions – 70% of Americans are on prescription drugs, 50% on 2 or more
Condition it to follow and be obedient to commands – Ring a bell change classes, ring a bell take a break, go to work
Provide it some level of amusement/enrichment so they enjoy captivity – recess, video games, NetFlix, etc.
Make all major decisions for the animal – Directed diets, retirement ages, permits, license, etc.
In the end, the animal could kill or escape at any time, but it doesn’t, it obeys and stays
The primary elements to breaking free of the system
Money is the first means of control, so financial independence is required
High earning employment – still has problems
Developing a side hustle
Running a business that is regulated in some real way
Running a business that is mostly unregulated
Designing a life that is as inexpensive as possible yet fulfilling
Things that we now think of as nice that may be required in the future
Getting out of the major cities, especially the flash point cities
Developing local economies and strategic import/export economies
Learning to eat natural foods, no seed oils, etc.
Growing your own food, both animal and vegetable
Homeschooling your kids or developing educational co-ops
Developing multiple income streams (some gray market)
Restoration of “home economics” as a virtuous form of education
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Every day I bring you an item on Amazon that I personally use or has been purchased by many members of the audience and I have researched enough to recommend.
Today’s TSP Amazon Item of the day is the Urban Worm Bag Composting Bin. Many of you know I have been looking for a way to do worm composting on my property that would not be invaded almost instantly and colonized by fire ants. I believe I have not only found that but that I have found a superior way to compost with worms over many designs with this “bag system”.
Innovative Design and Ant Resistant by Proxy
The design is the type of thing where simple meets innovative. This model is the second the inventor has put out. It has an improved bottom that I think makes a ton of sense. The metal frame (despite claims to the contrary by some in reviews) is very sold and sturdy as are the nylon corner brackets that you use to assemble it.
Assembly is a 5 minute and zero beer operation. Seriously if you want a beer drink one and admire your 3 minutes of handy work after you put it together, if you really think that rates a beer. The beauty of this system is for my situation is it is suspended and all zipped up, there is one vector of entry for ants and it is where the zippers on the top come together. They do leave a small gap, as of yet I have had no issues but if it becomes a problem I will plug the hole with same some petroleum jelly after closing. Lubed zippers and stuck ants, done.
The over all design though is not really anti ant, it is more pro air flow. The bag is very well built and durable, think rip stop nylon on the best tactical bag brands. Solid double stitching everywhere but it breathes. This allows good airflow at all times, good airflow is happy worms.
I quickly figured out that there are two real keys to this worm farm, the first is you don’t need as much moisture as you think you do. Damp is all you need and remember almost everything we feed to worms is wet and lets go a lot of water. I cover problems next but most stem as you will see from people using too much water and not enough bedding. I watched a ton of youtube videos on this and everyone that is really happy says the same thing, not too wet and good bedding.
For bedding you can used shredded paper, coco coir, prepared bedding, etc. but you should be adding bedding in addition to food, not every time but say weekly may be every other week. Let me say I really like the Frabill Product for a prepared bedding for initial set up. I use paper and coir after initial set up though. You really just need to keep an eye on stuff, if it seems really wet, add some bedding and stop feeding for a bit.
You should not have worm juice dripping from your bag, ever. With this system that is way to wet and I think the desire some have for it, is a source of trouble for many people. If you want worm tea, put some castings in a big “tea bag”, set that in a 5 gallon bucket and pump air into it for 24 hours. That will do more then leached fluid ever could hope to anyway.
When ready to harvest you remove the bottom pouch, open the bottom draw string and take out as much of the castings as you want, then close it back up and keep going. I am sure some worms will come along for the ride, you can just sort them (most anyway) and return them to the top.
The Negative Reviews and Why the Problems Exist
I am not going to say that the negative people in this one are “God’s special children” likely some are but mostly I think it is one small assembly error and again adding too much water. Let’s start with the assembly error.
I should of video’d this before putting it together but when assembling I noticed that the brackets do have a right and a wrong way to go together. You will notice two of the three holes have a stop in them, one goes deeper. The deeper hole is for the vertical arms, the more shallow for the horizontal. I noticed this instantly but get how the less mechanically inclined may not, the instructions on this one could use a bit of an upgrade.
Simply put though if someone does this wrong; assembly will become very difficult near the end and the angle will never be square. You might even break a bracket or bend a frame piece if you never workout what is wrong and try to force stuff. So don’t do that. My video below will make it pretty clear what I am talking about if you don’t quite follow what I am saying here.
Next is the wetness factor, one reviewer actually said, “Staining When Too Wet” and included a picture with a large puddle at the bottom. Okay how about, IDK, not making it too wet? They also complained it “doesn’t keep mites in”, um okay not even sure how to respond to that. Again this is not a bath tub bin you are going to harvest worm tea from it isn’t designed that way.
Next there is an excellent video available in the product listing by the inventor and he states that it is “important that it be installed on level ground” because the bin and stand are designed to support vertical force not side shear. That bit about side shear are my words, he didn’t say it that way but it is the logical conclusion.
Something bigger is at work here though, yes I am sure some “special people” set it on a 30 degree hill but you know where you don’t have 30 degree hills? Inside a building. Unless you are on some hell scape version of Hoarders anyway. And while I am sure a hill is bad, I think outside especially without over head cover is worse.
Let’s start with the obvious, sun on a worm farm is bad, m’kay. Sun on material like ripstop nylon and resin brackets in time is also bad. Going to say right out of the gate this belongs in a garage, out building, shed, etc. If not at minimum somewhere sun never hits directly and a roof of some kind blocks all rain. I am back to wet but this time wet equalling weight.
It is a bag, if it sits in rain even though nylon like this is great at shedding water to a degree it will accumulate on the lid, form a pond and then really seep into the interior. Simple question would you rather carry a 5 gallon bucket filled with lightly moist soil or one with very wet soil in it. The dry one right? Because at 8.3 lbs a gallon water is heavy.
What I noticed if that almost every picture of a structural failure was outside on a lawn and such. The stand is designed to support the weight of a full bin with damp material, not even a 75% full one with waterlogged material. I think that is easy enough to understand. In other words one way or another I think more that 90% of people who have had issues with this product simply got it too wet. So don’t do that and I expect you will love it.
Final Thoughts
Honestly while as I said my great battle over 10 years on this property with the fire ant plague is what made me try this, I just think it is a better way to vermicompost. If I have enough success I will likely buy a second one to up production further. With the addition of biochar on our homestead adding it to our new worm bins is a natural fit. And, while I have no designs on selling worms, I do have another reason for creating a worm surplus.
As many of you know I have developed a method I call “Johnson-Su Lite” composting with a simplified version of the Johnson-Su bioreactor. The people behind the original deign add 2 pounds of worms to a batch to finish it. Their batches are much larger than mine so half a pound to a pound will likely be enough for mine. I am unwilling to pay for worms for this purpose due to the fact that again the dang ants sooner or later invade and kill them, but I don’t mind if the worms are essentially free.
Anyway for me the Urban Worm Bag Composting Bin closes a loop I have had open since I moved to our little farmstead in 2013, but for everyone again I think this is a better way to compost so check it out today. I also wanted to point out if you want to build your own stand you can buy just the bag. I don’t really think you can save money this way but you could over build your stand or may be put it on castors if you plan to keep it in a building with a hard floor.
There other way I can see this working is if you wanted to do a “rack stand” that may be holds multiple bags, but I think most will do bet just buying the full kit and putting it together correctly as described here. Again see my video below for clarity on that.
Lastly while I encourage you to watch my video and by all means check out some of the YouTube videos by happy users, really watch the video on the product page. You will find it at the top where you can view the various images, there are two videos. The second longer one is by the owner and it shows me a guy that helps his customers and cares about the quality of his product. The kind of guy I want to do business with.
Today John Willis from SOE Tactical Gear joins me to discuss their new project called, “The Homestead Apprentice”. This will be an amazing and competitive opportunity to wing prizes while receiving training and mentorship in both homestead skills and entrepreneurship as part of a filmed YouTube series.
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Note – Bringing this around today because it is one of the most simple and fool proof forms of automation you can get for under 10 bucks and spring is the time for building out those gardens, aquaponics systems, etc.
Every day I bring you an item on Amazon that I personally use or has been purchased by many members of the audience and I have researched enough to recommend.
Today’s TSP Amazon Item of the day Century 24 Hour Mechanical Timer. I use them on pumps in some of my systems that don’t need to run 24/7, they pay for themselves quickly in reduced electricity that way. I use them on my fish tanks, especially my planted tanks. I use them for my plant lights for seed starting and hydroponics. There are dozens and dozens of uses for these things.
Let me tell you something though, I HATE timers. It amazes me how something that should be so simple is often so damn confusing and unreliable. So I went on Amazon and found the Century 24 Hour Mechanical Timer. Wow, where has this thing been all my life?
Look when I say I hate timers let me be clear, my hatred of timers is only over shadowed by my hatred of network printers. (NOTE THAT LINK IS NOT WORKPLACE SAFE) Well, that has changed I love this timer, so simple there are two steps to using it and it is pretty fool proof and very easy to see how you have it set.
Step one each hour has 4 small pins you can push down, simply push down the pins for each 15 minutes you want the power to be on. So say you wanted your timer to run from 8AM to 10AM every morning and 7PM to 9PM every night. Okay just push all the pins down for 8, 9 and 10AM and 7, 8 and 9PM. Step two turn the dial so the arrow points to the current time. That is it!
You then simply plug it in and plug in the device you want to control with it, done. There are no other steps, no holding a button and waiting for a light to blink three times or say moving stupid little pins around.
I love this timer and its simplicity so much I am constantly trying to figure out what to automate with it. About the only complaint I read in reviews (from thinking humans anyway) was that it is a large device and it takes up so much space as to block the second outlet.
There is a simple solution to such things, I have covered it before and it applies to any large plugs, just get some of these one foot extension cords and it keeps all outlets open.
Anyway I absolutely love the Century 24 Hour Mechanical Timer and think you will too. So check it out for any of your power automation needs.
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P.S. – Check out this quick video of how I have used this product on my homestead for a very unique need. I have set things up so that I can run ebb and flow with no bell siphon and it is flawless.
Welcome to Friday Flashbacks, after 15 years and hundreds of interview shows we decided to run them as flash backs ever Friday, beginning with the oldest of them going forward.There is a tremendous library of wisdom in all the great interviews we have done over the years.So sit back and enjoy, whether this is your first or second time around with today’s episode I am sure you will enjoy today’s episode and learn a lot from it.
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