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Episode-175- Planning vs Paranoia

Posted on April 8, 2009 by Modern Survival| 8 Comments
Episode-175- Planning vs Paranoia [ 37:30 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

The more I talk to the media the more I am realizing how deep the belief that survivalists are paranoids is in the average person.  This is simply as gently as I can put it moronic.  Is it paranoid to have life insurance?  Is it paranoid to wear a seat belt?  Is it paranoid to keep an eye on your kids while they play?  If not why is it paranoid to take personal responsiblity for yourself and understand that at times things go wrong?

Tune in today to hear…

  • My continuing struggle with the media
  • A bit more on the twits that think I am making a huge mistake by admitting to being a prepper
  • What your own power is and why it should make you act in confidence vs in fear
  • The ability to plan and survive is a universal human constant
  • If property is over price in your area don’t buy it, move, yep I said it
  • What happens to you if you try to take a child away from his mother and what that teaches us
  • Why making basic human responses into something “amazing” by the media is robbing people of their own power
  • Your inner voice, it will never shut up, so you better listen to it
  • What humans can do about disaster that no other known entity can
  • Why disaster commonality is so important

Resources for Today’s Show

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Episode-172- Developing the Survival Skills Kit – Part 1

Posted on April 3, 2009 by Modern Survival| 7 Comments
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Today we discuss some true “survival skills” that are often over looked or taken  for granted.  Unlike a “survival kit” which can be lost, stolen, forgotten, used up, etc, your skills are always with you.  Today we won’t be discussing wilderness skills, truly primitive skills or the classic survial skills that are popular in forums.  Instead we discuss the skills that can save lives, improve survival and increase quality of life in tough times that are often left out of such discussions.

Tune in Today as we Discuss…

  • The skill of building, carpentry, etc.
  • Learning to negotiate, no one looses in a good negotiation
  • The skill of problem solving – how to encourage it
  • Walking – I am not kidding tune in to the podcast to hear what I mean
  • The guy with the skills kit is the Special Forces in the PAW
  • How to communicate with the panicked and make them part of the solution rather then part of the problem
  • Navigational skills – I am talking basic map reading and drawing here
  • My son’s solution to bad drivers – I am so proud!

Resources for Today’s Show

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Episode-166- The Common Need For Food Storage

Posted on March 26, 2009 by Modern Survival| 2 Comments
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The discussion of different disaster scenarios is definitely interesting, enlightening and useful however, there is what I call a “commonality of disaster” and no where is it more evident then when we examine the need for food storage as a modern survivalist.

Tune in today to hear…

  • More on the disaster probability matrix
  • More on the disaster impact scale
  • How the commonality of disaster relates to probability and impact
  • From small scale to global how food storage can aid you in most possible disasters
  • How to get started storing food with out a lot of money or special equipment
  • The one shelf to storage tub method of building up reserve food
  • Why storing food is the right thing to do to prepare for anything for a lost job to a major climate shift
  • The fundamental that when you can put food on the table, you think clearly and don’t act irrationally
  • What cancer survivors teach us about the concept of “what you do matters”

Resources for Today’s Show…

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Episode-152- Dealing With Anti Survivalist Stigma

Posted on March 3, 2009 by Modern Survival| 11 Comments
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Today’s show covers the anti survivalist stigma that modern survivalists must face in main stream society.  Are you tired of being depicted as a “right wing militia gun nut locked up in a religious compound praying for the end or modern society so you can live off your cases of peanut butter while everyone else starves”?

Honestly I don’t care about how people think about me as an individual, I am who I am with my pholosophy out there for anyone to examine and embrace, ignore or criticize.  I do however, care a great deal about many people that know something isn’t right about how we are living today as a society and want to know more but are put off by how the media and society potrays us.

Today’s show covers how to discuss modern survival philosphies with the uninitiated and get easily past the stigma and hopefully help more people live a better life, “if times get tough or even if they don’t”.

Resources for Today’s Show

  • The Appleseed Project – We are giving a way a free spot at a upcomming shoot in the listener appreciation contest this Friday.  Make sure you will be able to attend one before you try to win please.
  • Forum thread about Anti Survivalist Mentality – God you have to read this article, how much peanut butter are you sitting on?

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Episode-151- Finding The Time To Prep

Posted on March 2, 2009 by Modern Survival| 5 Comments
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Honestly I get a question similar to this at least once a day, “Jack, how in the world do you find the time and resources to do all of these things?”.  So today I decided to discuss that subject because indeed prepping can seem over whelming at times.

Tune in today to hear…

  • You always get the things done that you see as being the most important
  • The false sense of security from “perceived abundance”
  • Food stored is better then money in the bank
  • The incremental approach to food storage
  • 1 meal a month from your preps will teach you where your holes are
  • The lesson of the ant, he didn’t store everything for winter in one day
  • Why your construction projects are important beyond their immediate results
  • Finding time to garden is easy if you just do a very little each day
  • Making time to exercise, just take a walk
  • Why preppers are building up their assets while most of America is building up debt
  • Finish one project before you start the next
  • Three items that should be in your car today, right now, get on it
  • Slowing building up your bug out bag and bug out vehicles
  • Understand how long you worked at being unprepared, you can’t correct it overnight
  • The importance of planning
  • A cool way to automate watering, very low tech but very effective
  • Including education and awareness in your prepping

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Episode-110- The Second Economic Minefield

Posted on December 16, 2008 by Modern Survival| 6 Comments
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Today I decided to do another economy based show before going back to some more practical preparations type of content.  Why?  I am afraid the average person is being lulled into a false sense of security that is telling them, we have reached the bottom of the down turn.  Note that today’s show is a very large file compared to most shows because it was recorded on Audacity.

Tune in today to hear…

  • The Auto Makers will be bailed out, whether the people want it or not
  • The stock market may or may not have bottomed but that doesn’t mean the economy has
  • If you think the sub prime loans were bad wait until you see what is waiting with Alt-A and Option ARMs
  • Putting ARM loans in perspective 5.5% isn’t good a “good rate” if you can’t afford it
  • Obama’s new stimulus package to be over 1 Trillion, he isn’t even in office yet!
  • The dangerous precedent of “we will bail you out” and how far it is going
  • Every city in the US is now lining up to be “bailed out”, will they take private jets
  • But our city is, “to big to fail”, where have we heard that before?
  • Bloomberg asks the Fed, where is our 2 trillion dollars at?
  • Don’t get to attached to low oil prices OPEC and Russian to cut production by 1.5-2 million barrels a day!
  • Russian just devalued the ruble twice in one week, two more devaluations are coming, what can we learn
  • 45 Dollar oil + Russia’s Economy = bad voodoo +1
  • All bail outs lead back to your wallet
  • More thoughts on a Mad Max type survival scenario, don’t bet on it, plan for the worst but start close to home, very close

Resources for Today’s Show

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Episode-105- Get Ready a Cold Winter is Comming

Posted on December 5, 2008 by Modern Survival| 5 Comments
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Building a bit on yesterdays show I figured I would continue to evaluate some to the comming threats and tie it to some of the actions every American family should be taking right now.

Tune in today to hear…

  • Please vote for our Slogan for the Next Stickers and Our Coming T-Shirts (vote here)
  • How to win a Tactical Christmas Stocking or Single Point Sling from SOE Tactical Gear
  • How to win a in car/truck gun safe from Center of Mass
  • Updates about the new look to the site, we are working on bugs (Use FireFox IE sucks)
  • Why it matters that 1.5 million people lost jobs this year even if you didn’t
  • What you should NEVER tell you children as you scale back and make adjustments
  • Why now is the time to increase your preps and plan for hard times
  • Why you should budget for layoffs, unemployment wages, etc, now not tomorrow
  • When you grow up poor and don’t know you are poor, you really a never poor
  • Why the bigger the company you work for the bigger your risk is
  • The complete break down isn’t necessary for the shit to hit the fan for you personally
  • Using your preps in hard times is OK, that is why you have them
  • Don’t stop paying down debt
  • No you don’t have to move to Tinbucktu to have a real homestead or Bug Out Location
  • If you fear the roving hordes, please discuss it in the Tin Foil Hat Brigade
  • Remember above all, what you do matters, nothing is more important.

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Episode-102- Modern Survivalism Pulling it all Together – Part 1

Posted on December 2, 2008 by Modern Survival| 13 Comments
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Today I though I would take a look back at many of the subjects we covered and look at what a household that has its basic preps in line looks like.  The notes are short today, just tune in to hear today’s episode and we will cover things like…

  • Getting three to six months of food stored
  • Getting started producing some of your own food
  • Having a plan for each family member
  • Documenting your plans
  • Having basics like life insurance
  • The basic battery of survival firearms and basic firearms training
  • Protecting what you have is fine but have something to protect
  • First aid and medical response preps
  • Curing yourself from the financial cancer of debt

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Episode-97- Gerald Celente Predictions and My Thoughts

Posted on November 21, 2008 by Modern Survival| 6 Comments
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Recently a listener put together a promotional video for us here at The Survival Podcast about Gerald Celente with a plug for our show at the end.  After watching it I decided to dedicate today’s show to Mr. Clente’s predictions for the next 4 years and my thoughts about them.

Tune in today to hear

  • This weeks five winners of the Listener Appreciation Contest
  • We now have a place to send our “Stockings for Soldiers”
  • How Gerald Celente predicted things like the fall of the Soviet Union, the dot com crash and more
  • Gerald Celente’s prediction that the US will become an “undeveloped country“
  • The prediction that we will face a political rebellion, food riots, a tax revolution and marches in the next 4 years
  • By 2012 the Christmas and other Holidays will be about food on the table not “presents”
  • Why I think we may have a general strike in the near future
  • How government is pissing away our money and people are waking up
  • It isn’t just Washington DC, local governments are out of control too
  • Why the economy may be shut down by choice and circumstances rather then disaster
  • What real conservative values are (most of America has them)
  • How our people might rebel by “doing nothing” and how effective that might be
  • Why you must prepare now, not later, not soon, now
  • We control our earning and spending so we control out taxes
  • 50 Billion dollars in tax short fall just in GAS TAXES in 2008
  • Why the foreign oil producers drove the price of oil down
  • Why now is the time for Green Energy including nuclear
  • Why I hope that Gerald Celente’s prediction in 2012 is chosen by people in 2008
  • The real meaning of Christmas regardless of religion or lack there of
  • The danger of the message “we should all just share”
  • Sharing is between equals, parasitism is between producers and consumers
  • How you save the grasshoppers, you turn them into ants

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Episode-85 What if Nothing Goes Wrong

Posted on November 3, 2008 by Modern Survival| 2 Comments
Episode-85 What if Nothing Goes Wrong [ 37:36 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

This is a question I think many people in the survivalist community hear from those that tend to stereotype us all as separatist militia tin foil hat types. My view is that survivalists and survival philosophies take many forms.

Tune in today to hear…

  • How the lifestyle of a modern survivaist is not that much different then many typical people
  • Why survivalism makes sense even if society doesn’t fully break down ever
  • What living in the moment can teach us when we do it the right way
  • How planting seeds, shooting a pistol or fishing can teach us true focus
  • How survivalism is often about simply “being human”
  • Focusing on what you can control vs. what you have concern about
  • How you see more of a natural human state the further you get from large cities
  • Understanding our natural role on earth regardless of your religion or lack there of
  • How to decrease fear so you can make smarter and better decisions
  • How to develop your personal survival philosophy

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