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Episode-435- The Revolution is You

We only occasionally dip into politics around here, time to time we focus on economics and that always by the very nature of out current state must include some political components as well.  Some members of the audience want more and some want less and wish we would stick 100% to practical pepping action.

The reality is the two are one in the same!  Make no mistake about it this is a revolution you and I are conducting together.  Today we discuss the multi-planked revolution where “taking this country back” isn’t  just about the next election or political topic “du jour”.  No this revolution is about how we live, how we prepare, how we self educate and above all how we impact those around us simply by living as who and what we are, human with sovereign rights bestowed upon us by our creator.

Today I also introduce our new long awaited custom bumper music, as you might have guessed the title of the song is “The Revolution is You”.  The song was written and performed by Gregg Yows of RevolutionRockAndRoll.com (I am actually a minor co writer as well) .  The final track was mastered by Matthew McCabe at Finley Sound.  Gregg and Matthew are both long time listeners to TSP which means this song is truly a creation of our community, I hope it inspires you to know the power you truly have, indeed YOU are the revolution.

I am also running a special on the Members Brigade that will run until Monday the 17th, you can get your first year of the MSB for only 35 dollars with the discount code “revolution”.

Additional Resources for Today’s Show

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Episode-434- The Basic Financial Education We Never Get in School

By the time our children are in high school today they should be getting what I consider to be a basic financial education.  In fact our citizens in college today don’t get this education unless they specialize in economics or finance and even then it is slanted to the “Statist” or “Keynesian” model.

Join me today as we discuss the following…

  • What is money?
  • What is a backed currency?
  • What is a “fiat currency”?
  • Why does money exist?
  • What is M0, M1, M2 and M3?
  • What is inflation?
  • What is debt?
  • Can a currency also be a debt?
  • How are U.S. Dollars created?
  • What is fractional reserve?
  • How do banks create additional money?

Additional 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.

Episode-419- Feedback, Articles and Commentary for 4-19-10

I am going to try to start making the feedback shows more engaging with a lot of different sources.  So today we have your questions by email, your feedback by phone, some interesting news stories and even some audio off of Youtube on money creation to help answer one of your questions.

Join me today as we discuss…

  • What about making your own solar panels
  • Should a young grad buy land even if they are not ready to build
  • How do you set priorities and “pull it all together”
  • Exactly how is money created by “lending it into existence”
  • CITI Pays back the loans to the government, what does it mean
  • Are you contributing to “the systems” with credit cards if you pay your balance in full
  • A simple additive to improve the life of your vehicle
  • A Icelandic volcano disrupts Europe’s food chain
  • Who feeds the world, industrial agriculture of peasant farmers
  • How do you transport silver & gold long distances
  • Window Farms – and idea who’s time has come
  • Can you grow guavas in New Mexico

Additional 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.

Episode-417- Reducing Your Tax Footprint

I have grown weary of the term “carbon footprint”, it drives me nuts that ever TV show, article, online video or blog post about energy independence has to use the dreaded term.  So I figured today we could talk about the useful reduction of a real footprint that is to large for most of us, the dreaded tax footprint.

Join me today as we discuss…

  • What is a tax footprint – how do you calculate one
  • What taxes do we pay other than income, social security and medicare
  • What are some of the hidden taxes we pay with out even realizing it
  • Following a tax payer for a day, how much taxation does he create
  • Ways to reduce your tax foot print
    • Take ever legal deduction, create deductions
    • Run a small business (two edges to the sword)
    • Install alternative energy
    • Barter when ever you can
    • Grow your own food
    • Buy from local growers (pay cash or barter)
    • Brew beer, make wine, grow tobacco
    • Drive a primary vehicle that is highly fuel efficient
    • Camp when you travel
    • Make sure to file homestead exemptions
    • Buy rural land as an investment with low property tax
    • Fight your properties assessed value
    • Reload ammunition
    • Cast bullets
    • Invest in metal with small quantity cash buys
    • Convert cash into long term assets
    • Understand the concept of  “cash flows = tax grows”
    • Ask two questions before you spend each dollar

Additional 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.

Episode-415- Listener Feedback for 4-13-10

Okay I am back!  Today I am going to try to work on the huge backlog of listener questions and feedback I now have.  We have great questions today on things like dealing with heavy recoiling rifles, taxation, castor oil for storing rice and beans and more.

Join me today as we discuss…

  • If there was no income tax how could government provide basic services like roads and schools
  • How do you deal with heavy recoil from large caliber rifles especially from the bench
  • Protecting rice and beans from insects with castor oil
  • The government does something right with “sustainable agriculture”
  • Avoiding contempt for your fellow American sheeple
  • Obama gets a private army, the problem is a lot bigger than Obama!
  • Are unpaid internships about to die off, what might be the next big brother step in that world

Additional 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.

Episode-398- Listener Feedback for 3-15-10

Well we are back from Arkansas where we had a great mini vacation.  We spent 4 days hiking about 5-6 miles a day and even wore out Max, the survival podcast dog, which isn’t easy to do.  So today we are back with your questions and commentary on articles and other things sent in by the audience.

Tune in today as we discuss…

  • New MSB supporting vendor Honeyville Grains will be given 10% off to all MSB vendors
  • Social Security now has to cash in Federal IOUs, what will that mean for us
  • Lessons learned from fruit trees lost during a hurricane
  • What is the right rifle action to start learning with and why
  • Are 0% financing programs on cars legitimate
  • Do travel trailers and and RVs make a good prep item
  • Are GMO producers finally being held accountable for damaging the crops of other farmers

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

Episode-395- An Interview with Rob Gray of the AOCS

Today we welcome Rob Gray of the American Open Currency Standard and the AG Trading Center in Farmers Branch Texas.  Tune in today to learn about putting real value back into an honest currency standard and about Rob’s other projects.

By participating in the AOCS, you have immediate access to the thousands of participating merchants across the country, as well as the approved Mints that will craft your private currency. AOCS Merchants are enrolled to accept any AOCS-approved currency.

Additional 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.

Episode-379- How Taxation Enslaves Society

Today we discuss taxation from the view of the modern survivalist.  We examine the non partisan truth of taxation, the reality that the only constant in taxes for over 100 years is more taxation which have created more spending.  We now have an unsustainable government and that government has created sustainable poverty.

The long term consequences of this system are easy to see, understand and if we are not careful feel overwhelmed by.  I am here today to tell you that you are not controlled by the system, it is you and your fellow American’s that power the system.  Unlike a battery though you control your power, where is focused,  home much is used etc.

The reality is we are our own solutions and it is only by first changing ourselves that we can ever hope to change our system.  Tune in today for the horrible truth about taxation and the empowering reality of your ability to control it.

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Episode-361- 7 Events to Keep an Eye On

We are going to shift gears a bit today and discuss 7 economic and political events.  These events are being discussed in varying degrees by the main stream at this time.  What I want to do today is discuss how they effect us from a self sufficiency, prepper and liberty oriented community both short and long term.

Additional 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.

Episode-353- Listener Feedback 1-11-01

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.