Tag Archives: listener calls

Episode-733- Listener Calls for 8-26-11 [ 1:11:16 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

So it is Friday and we have some calls today on some great stuff.  Today we hear about more controls for squash vine borers, the seldom discussed Eisenhower warning, building raised beds with old lumber, big brother at work and more.

Join me today as we discuss…

• More on control of squash vine borers
• Old treated lumber for raised beds
• Thoughts on DE use
• A listener comments on the Norway shootings
• Silver quarters on the cheap by keeping your ears open
• The seldom discussed Eisenhower warning about education
• Do you need swales for hugelkultur
• Thoughts on monothlic dome homes
• Uses for old rail road ties
• Why you need to start a garden in good times
• A tale of police abuse, perhaps
• Community gardening brings many rewards
• Crop rotation for pumpkins
• Thoughts on cameras in the work place (two sides of the story)

Additional Resources for Today’s Show

• TSP Gear Shop
• Join Our Forum
• Ready Made Resources – (sponsor of the day)
• Bulk Ammo – (sponsor of the day)
• Members Support Brigade
• New Paracord Stuff in the Gear Shop
• AOCS Survival Copper in the Gear Shop
• Jack to Keynote Speak with Dave Canterbury at the Self Reliance Expo
• Using Pressure Treated Wood in the Garden
• Ike’s Farewell Address
• Dome Home Survives a Tornado

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

Episode-723- Listener Calls for 8-12-11 [ 1:07:59 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Well it is Friday once again and time for your calls to 866-65-THINK.  Today I take your calls on dealing with raw land, military employment, roving hordes and more.

Join me today as we discuss…

• Dealing with squash bugs
• Uses for timberland that floods at times
• The front yard garden war is not over
• The fringe benefits of prepping
• The future for military employment
• Thoughts on clearing rugged land
• Shot shell hand guns for home defense
• How deep for the to layer on a hugelkultur
• Thoughts on CERT training
• How to find a good community to live in vs a BOL

Additional Resources for Today’s Show

• Members Support Brigade
• TSP Gear Shop
• Back Yard Food Production – (sponsor of the day)
• Fortress Self Defense Consultants – (sponsor of the day)
• Members Support Brigade
• Ron Hood’s Survival.com Magazine

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-718- Listener Calls for 8-5-11 [ 1:13:43 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

So it is Friday and we have some calls today on some great stuff.  Today we hear about an unexpected tornado, supporting your community, horses, political nonsense, herbs, foil hatters and more.

Join me today as I take your calls on…

• Tornadoes can strike anywhere
• Why supporting your community is important to YOUR survival
• Horses as a survival tool
• Thoughts on the recent debt ceiling political theater
• Basil omelets its whats for breakfast
• A foil hatter makes a dumb ass claim, I respond
• Thoughts on mulch, raised beds and termites
• Was the debt ceiling a conspiracy to split the republican party
• Wood heating options
• Catnip it isn’t just for making cats go batty
• The truth about the myths around “rabbit starvation”

Additional Resources for Today’s Show

• Members Support Brigade
• TSP Gear Shop
• Join Our Forum
• Silver and Gold Shop – (sponsor of the day)
• HarvestEating.com – (sponsor of the day)
• Organic Texas – YouTube Channel
• The Real Story about Albuquerque Officer Involved Shootings – In response to Mr. Foil Hat
• The Uses of Catnip Tea - I have to start growing this herb!

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-712- Listener Calls for 7-28-11 [ 1:02:06 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Well its Thursday not Friday but we are still doing a listener calls show.  Why?  Well I have a special guest for you tomorrow, Steward Rhodes from Oathkeepers.  His show was going to air today but they are finalizing some parts of a new website that we will announce during his interview.  So to give him time for that I have flipped his show to Friday and Friday’s show to today.

Today we have some great questions on prepping for people that constantly move, flying with your gun, EDC, gardening and more.

Join me today as I answer your calls on…

• Why is American selling our roads to foreign nations
• How does a corporation protect personal assets
• Thoughts on new vs. old media
• Rail road ties are they ever “safe” for garden use
• Procedure for checking a handgun on an airplane
• Thoughts on prepayment of monthly bills for PSHTF
• Sunflowers, okay, where is the flower
• How do you prep if you move very frequently
• Dealing with weeds
• Keeping EDC minimalist

Additional Resources for Today’s Show

• Members Support Brigade
• TSP Gear Shop
• Join Our Forum
• Emergency Essentials – (sponsor of the day)
• Western Botanicals – (sponsor of the day)
• My Review of the Shelf Reliance Pantry
• TSA Guidelines for Checking Firearms

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-708- Listener Calls for 7-22-11 [ 1:30:41 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

So it is Friday and time for another round of your calls to 866-65-THINK.  Today we have some great calls on compost vs. fertilizer, storing water, saving money, controlling misquotes, terrorist attacks and more.

Join me today as we discuss…

• What is the difference between compost and organic fertilizer
• What is the future of metals like copper
• Can you loose nutrient during the composting cycle
• How to control mosquitoes in a self watering garden
• Thoughts on heart worm prevention for dogs
• Dealing with a boil water order the easy way, have water
• Prepping for nuclear, bio, chemical and terrorist attacks
• A machine gun as an financial investment?
• Advice for the young person concerned about our economic future
• Thoughts on competing currencies and the bitcoin
• A second water line to save money? In some places yes!
• The dreaded squash vine borer, what to do about it

Additional Resources for Today’s Show

• Members Support Brigade
• TSP Gear Shop
• Join Our Forum
• Safecastle Royal – (sponsor of the day)
• MURS Radio – (sponsor of the day)
• Page I mentioned on Natural Heartworm Prevention
• Info on the Bitcoin
• BT Mosquito Dunks
• Gardens Alive 
• Larry Hall’s YouTube Channel

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-687- Listener Calls for 6-17-11 [ 1:13:40 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

It’s Friday and time for another round of your calls to 866-65-THINK, today we have calls on gardening, mercury contamination, starting a survival school, China’s rise in the world and more .

Join us today as we discuss

• If China is rising why don’t people move there
• Did the gulf stream stop moving, um, no
• Saving a garden that may have herbicide from contaminated compost
• Thoughts on some new hybrid apples
• Thoughts on setting up a “survival school”
• Dealing with jackrabbits
• What can be done to get more women into survival living
• Making 2012 a day of personal vs. global change
• Mercury levels in farmed fish
• Thoughts on the IDPA
• Brandon Shelton shares news from Haiti and his relief efforts

Additional Resources for Today’s Show

• Members Support Brigade
• TSP Gear Shop
• Join Our Forum
• MURS Radio – (sponsor of the day)
• Bulk Ammo – (sponsor of the day)
• CIA Ranks Countries based on Wealth
• China to Build Free Trade Zones in the US
• Bella Medical Ministries

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-677- Listener Calls for 6-31-11 [ 1:08:49 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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It is finally Friday, the launch to another summer weekend and time for my favorite type of show, the weekly listener calls show.  I love them because the audience is so involved and we get to hear from real listeners.  Remember to participate on a show like this just call 866-65-THINK and leave your message in 1-3 minutes or less, pick a quite time with no background noise to call and be direct and to the point and odds are with in a few weeks you will hear yourself on the air.

Join me today as we take your calls on…

• Resources to learn more about America’s founding fathers
• How a car alarm can disrupt a home invasion
• Understanding disaster probability, impact scale & commonality
• Thoughts on the Permaculture DVDs of the PDC with Lawton and Mollison
• Thoughts on taking Permaculture certification training vs. self learning
• Using a composting toilet to save money and avoid SHTF issues
• Converting lawns into gardens
• Using high profile disasters to evangelize preparedness
• Burning pine in a rocket stove
• Building an “organic swale” combined with huglekulture
• Dealing with critters or mold in purchased mulch
• Making Dec. 21, 2012 your own day of POSITIVE transformation

Additional Resources for Today’s Show

• Members Support Brigade
• TSP Gear Shop
• Join Our Forum
• MURS Radio – (sponsor of the day)
• Bulk Ammo – (sponsor of the day)
• Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson
• Autobiography of Ben Franklin
• John Adams by David McCullough
• Common Sense by Thomas Pain
• The Anti-federalist Papers and Federalist Papers
• Midwest Permaculture
• PDC on DVD with Bill Mollison and Geoff Lawton – Please listen to my opinion in today’s show before spending your money on this.  It is a good product but there are some things to know before you make such a large investment.

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.