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

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!

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Episode-170- Let’s Take a Trip Back in Time

Today folks we are dusting off Michael J. Fox’s old Delorian, dropping in some Plutonium and traveling back in time to when everyone in a small town was a survivalist and didn’t know it.

When are we going back to?

  • 1829 and life on the frontier?
  • 1880 during the Indian wars and the rebuilding after The War Between The States?
  • 1918 dealing with the Influenza Pandemic?
  • 1935 in the middle of The Great Depression?
  • May be the 50s as the nation began to prosper after WWII?

Nope none of those, we only need a little Plutonium 235 because we are just taking a short trip back to 1986-1990 to my teenage years living in the three towns of Jonestown, Minersville and Pottsville in the coal region of Pennsylvania.

Listen today as I take you through a typical year back then, count how many survival skills you hear that we consider part of the survivalist lifestyle today.  In 1986 in the Appalation Mountains of Pennsylvania this wasn’t survivalism, it was just what we did.

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Episode-34- Seven Highly Underated Survival Skills You Should Develop

In today’s podcast we cover seven skill sets that are often either overlooked or under appreciated by many survival minded individuals. Tune in today as we discuss..

  • How and why you should gain the skill of carpentry as part of your survival planning
  • The challenges we may face in a “barter economy” created either by disaster or design
  • The actual “skill of gardening” and why you need to start developing it today
  • Why learning how to sell and barter is a necessary survival skill
  • Why many people really need to brush up on basic map reading and even a “sense of direction”
  • Developing the skills for proper long term food storage
  • Learning and developing the skills behind many primitive cooking methods
  • Developing logic and organizational skills

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