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Episode-373- News Events from Listeners

Posted on February 8, 2010 by Modern Survival| 19 Comments
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Rather than a typical listener question show today I decided to bring together 5 news events that were sent in by various listeners.  The first one is not that obvious as to why it applies to the other four but I bring them all together at the end.  We also bring in a recent 5 minute speech from Congressmen Ron Paul today.

Join me today as we discuss…

  • Azle Texas is out of water due to a single line breaking and needs help from 15 cities to fix it. – (Link to the source story)
  • Social Security and Medicare are both currently bankrupt according to Gary North – (Link to the source story)
  • Paying off the National Debt is now “mathematically impossible” – (Link to the source story)
  • In 2009 the Federal Reserve bought 80% of its own securities – (Link to the source story)
  • Video warning from Dr. Ron Paul – (Link to the video) – note the audio is very soft in the video, I boosted it and played the audio in today’s show

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Episode-363- Listener Feedback 1-25-10

Posted on January 25, 2010 by Modern Survival| 12 Comments
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We have another round of your comments and questions today on subjects such as permaculture, a government grab of 401K money, sharing the prepper mindset with friends and more.

Tune in today as we discuss…

  • Prepping a garden with out digging and not using Round Up
  • Prepping for truckers and others who travel with work
  • Ideas for Zone One planting for a permacultured yard
  • How to share prepping with out the typecast hurting you
  • Truck or car if you can only have one vehicle?
  • The legalities and mechanics of squirrel trapping
  • Spreading prepping by gardening
  • A Texas mom plans all family meals for 1 full year (stealth prepping)
  • A report from a listener who ordered from a few sponsors of TSP
  • A trick from Korea with gas cans and water (you got to hear this one)
  • Is the government coming after our 401ks, it sure looks like they plan to

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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Episode-338- Global Economics and Food Shortages

Posted on December 16, 2009 by Modern Survival| 4 Comments
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Today it is time for a change up.  We are going to look at 8 news stories some here in the US and others around the world and see what they tell us about what we can expect to see in coming years.

Tune in today as we discuss…

  • Excessive Inflation in China – Story Link
  • Unemployment benefits extension buried in a “defense spending bill” – Story Link
  • Federal Government backdoors billions in tax breaks to CITI Bank in return for TARP repayment- Story Link
  • The Federal Government can now break up a bank for being to big to fail- Story Link
  • Ben Bernanke is Times “Man of the Year”  WTF – Story Link
  • Schiff says the economic recovery is a farce – Story Link
  • Britain will have a bleak future with many food shortages – Story Link
  • Food prices in India up 19% due to a grain shortage – Story Link

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-335- The Illusion of Freedom

Posted on December 11, 2009 by Modern Survival| 18 Comments
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We often talk about what to do if the shit hits the fan.  We also tend to acknowledge that at personal and regional levels the shit does in fact hit the fan on a daily basis for many people.  However, I submit to you that the shit hit the fan for the American way of life long ago and has been flying off the blades for more then a century now.

Join me today as we discuss…

  • The old concepts of slavery and indentured servitude
  • What was a company store, do we still have them today
  • Is the feudal system really gone
  • How has the concept of royalty and the merchant class changed in today’s world
  • What is a communist democracy, how does it parallel a “two party system”
  • How can we define slavery in 2009
  • What is the difference between dependence and choice
  • Who does the Constitution and Declaration apply to
  • What is individual sovereignty
  • Why everyone is “born into captivity”
  • Natural captivity vs. imposed captivity
  • How you can get rid of the illusion of freedom and claim true freedom

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-331- Listener Questions for 12-07-09

Posted on December 7, 2009 by Modern Survival| 5 Comments
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Today we do another round of listener questions.  We have great questions today bout currency devaluation, consumer credit, edible container plantings, the 280 Remington, lead in drinking water and more.

Tune in today as we discuss…

  • Why does Cap and Trade Suck even if you believe in CO2 based climate change
  • If you don’t need credit cards what about insurance companies that factor FICO scores into rates
  • Can you filter and reuse old motor oil, does it ever “break down” or just get dirty
  • Where can you get parts for an old gun
  • How do you get rid of surface rust on a rifle
  • What is the deal with the 280 Remington, is it a 7MM, what is a 7MM Remington Express
  • How do you shift from employed and renting to self employed and owning land
  • What are good trees to plant in containers and only bring inside in winter
  • Could shooting near a well infect the ground water with lead
  • If a currency is revalued is the debt revalued at the same time
  • How important is good dental upkeep to prepping
  • What solution is there to health care costs outside of the system

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-329- My Predictions from Oct 2008

Posted on December 3, 2009 by Modern Survival| 12 Comments
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On Oct. 30th, 2008 I did a show called 9 Predictions for 2008-2011, today we take a look at those predictions and where I got it right, were I got it wrong and even honestly where it looks like I was right but wasn’t totally right.

Tune in today as we discuss

  • The results of the 08 elections
  • Stimulus Two
  • The proposed assault weapons ban
  • The fairness doctrine
  • Depressions and False Recoveries
  • Violent Crime
  • The Afghan War
  • The Iraq War
  • The Unemployment Rate

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-327- Listener Questions for 12-01-09

Posted on December 1, 2009 by Modern Survival| 17 Comments
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I took a look at my questions folder in Outlook last night and relized I am building a really big backlog of questions so I decided to double up this week before I get to far behind. Today we discuss silver spot prices, predictions by assclowns, tax issues, buying land, food storage and more.

Tune in today as I answer these questions…

  • What is better a well and private septic or city water and sewer or both
  • What do I think of Bob Chapman’s latest predictions
  • Will the government ever try to go after 401K earnings by changing the rules
  • Is buying land today buying “stolen land”
  • Thoughts on using paint cans for food storage
  • What to plant on remote land
  • Are the prices at coinflation the “spot price”
  • Setting a gun argument between a husband and wife, is there a cut and dry answer

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-293- Economic Forecast 10-08-09

Posted on October 8, 2009 by Modern Survival| 6 Comments
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So today we are going to discuss my view of what we can expect from the economy in the next few years and what we can do to prepare for it.  I will tell you why I think 2010 is actually going to look pretty decent and on the other side why you shouldn’t take that much comfor in it.  Then next week we will take a day to compare my view to the view of many of the experts such as Jim Rodgers and Gerald Celente.

Tune in today to hear…

  • Why I think we are about to see a fake recovery followed by a bigger crash
  • The stimulus doesn’t kick in until 2010, how it will succeed and how it will fail
  • Unemployment is “bottoming” the truth and the lies about that statement
  • This coming bubble and collapse is planned, I will explain why there is no other option then this one
  • Credit cards can’t fix a debt problem and how that relates to our national deficit
  • How the impact of Health Care won’t be seen until late 2011 perhaps longer and the disaster it will create
  • The coming 1.5 Trillion Dollar tax increase from the  administration that promised not to do it
  • How high taxes reduce the amount of tax government collects and what it does to the economy
  • Why inflation looks like recovery at the beginning
  • Why you need to own at least some silver and or gold
  • Land is cheap, go make a low ball offer while you can
  • Store food, build your own grocery store at home
  • Spend smart don’t horde money, balance your assets
  • Place priority of spending on assets with long term value
  • Keep some cash, don’t believe the lies about putting all cash into gold right now
  • Debt is evil, always in good times and bad
  • Never be 100% invested in any item or investment type
  • Do not liquidate IRAs and 401ks modify their portfolios but leave the money in the vehicles
  • Above all never “freak out”, make smart and strategic spending and saving decision you do have time to act,  don’t panic and react to swiftly to concerns

Resources for today’s show…

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Episode-276- Listener Questions for 9-14-09

Posted on September 14, 2009 by Modern Survival| 11 Comments
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Today we do another round of listener questions on all kinds of stuff like alternative energy, gardening, real estate, bug out locations and more.

First let me take a moment to mention the sad passing of Linda Rawles (wife of James Wesley Rawles).  James have hugely contributed to the survivalist and prepper movement over the past few years.  Let me state as a husband myself that when a man gives this much his wife must give as well and his actions are driven as much by his passion to help others as to be a good husband and provider.  I can only imagine what it is like to loose the woman who is the love of your life.  Please think of James and send him your thoughts and prayers during this time.  (You can see James’ post about his loss on his blog here)

Second the audio today is not as good as usual (ironic as to my comments to aspiring podcasters today).  There is a setting on the recorder that got changed and I did not notice it until I got to my office.  I apologize but will be REMOVING COMMENTS asking me about the audio today since I have posted the reason for it already.  In addition to the accidentally changed setting part of today’s audio issue were the heavy rain pounding on the car.

Tune in today to hear me answer…

  • What will happen with the health care debate?  (please not NOT what I want to happen but what I think WILL HAPPEN and remember you guys asked, lots of you asked)
  • What does it mean if land is zoned “commercial” or more importantly when a commerical piece of land is selling WAY below market value, what can it teach us about buying land and real estate?
  • How the hell do you deal with squash groups?
  • Can social programs work at a very local government level?
  • What can you do for a garden if your yard is fully shaded?
  • Is it too late to start a garden in north for the fall, what crops are best for fall gardening?
  • What if someone owns the mineral rights to land you are considering buying?
  • What advice do I have for a person wanting to start up their own podcast?
  • How do you get your employer on board with disaster planning?
  • When it comes to green energy and food preps do the “ends justify the means”?

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.

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.

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