TSP Rewind – Is it Even Possible to “Wake People Up” at this Point? – Epi-238

The Survival Podcast Posted on May 5, 2023 by  

Today is an episode of TSP Rewind, commercial free versions of past podcast episodes.  Today’s episode was originally Episode-2860- Is it Even Possible to “Wake People Up” at this Point? & was originally first published on April, 19th, 2021.

The notes below are the original notes from that episode.

Talking to some of my fellow podcasters, content creators and influencers lately I have heard many of them say things like, “I don’t even bother red pilling people any more”.  I often wonder if any of us have actually ever successfully “red pilled? anyone, ever?

For people not familiar with the term it comes from the movie the Matrix and simply means to reach someone who has believed the lies of media and government in a way where they wake up, like Neo in the movie and see “the matrix” for what it is, a lie.

I think if you’d of asked me if TSPC red pilled people back in say 2014, I would have proudly said yes.  Today I don’t think so, I don’t think we do it now, I don’t think we ever did and I don’t think anyone “red pills” anyone else.

Why?  And what does it matter to our lives?  Tune in today to find out.

Join Me Today to Discuss…

  • Think about it, Neo had already awoken in the movie before he got the red pill
  • Even then the pill was still a choice
  • Minds were only awoken in the movie when young and when they were already waking up
  • What this tells us a a metaphore about life
    • The most accurate, articulate and fact filled argument will fail to reach the person who does not want to be reached
    • Most people would chose to be a lion in a zoo, well fed and protected vs. living free in the wilderness
    • People are not woken up by others, rather by their life experiences and a mental predisposition
    • Once they wake up we can and should help them as we can, but the sleeping should be left to enjoy the illusion
  • What happens when someone wakes up to the current reality
    • Messiah complex
    • Everything seems worse than it is
    • They want an easy answer, a solution, a hope someone can fix it
    • Then tend to panic and follow extreme voices at first
    • Then they either wash out and go back to sleep or mature into reality
  • The truth you must come to accept or you may as well just plug back in
    • Most people want to be led, controlled and “protected”
    • There is no way to fix this, you can only improve your life and work with the willing
    • You will need to work with people who are still plugged in and let them be so
    • There are solutions but they are individual and community, there is not political party, no ideology, etc. to change it all for the better
    • Government is always trying to get more power, you will never change that, ever
    • There is no winning here, there is simply not losing
    • What you think won’t effect what happens, thinking, however, can show you what is likely to happen
  • Final Thoughts

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TSP Rewind – A Painful Economic & Social Evolution – Epi-237

The Survival Podcast Posted on May 4, 2023 by 2

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Today is an episode of TSP Rewind, commercial free versions of past podcast episodes.  Today’s episode was originally Episode-1644- A Painful Economic and Social Evolution and What to do During It & was originally first published on September, 15th, 2015.

The notes below are the original notes from that episode.

Like many in the prepper movement one of my biggest concerns when I first started prepping heavily about 2001 was the economy.  Indeed it was one of my largest macro concerns.  As I began to understand not the debt but the unfunded liabilities, I realized the current system at some point, mathematically would fail.

This wasn’t a belief it was and is mathematical fact.  There is no way the current economic system can continue indefinitely, it might continue for 20 years, it might even make it 30-40 but it must at some point implode or evolve.  Personally I find 10-20 years a stretch, but I have watched this system stretch to where you think it must break and yet it still survives.

At least that is how I used to feel, now I know the truth, the system isn’t surviving it is dying.  It is a terminally ill beast in long slow death throws.  What does that mean, tune in today to find out.

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This episode continues the insurgency series because trust me insurgency is the only solution to the problems we have facing us.

Join Me To Discuss…

  • A dying system vs. a system collapse
  • Why I say evolution of society and economics is what is really going on
  • Why there is no solution in the current systems
    • The systems caused the problems
    • The systems largely are the problem
    • The systems are out dated
    • The systems are unjust and immoral
    • The systems are not “the best we can do”
    • The systems are killing themselves
    • You can’t stop evolution
  • Practical Anarchism
    • Based on morality – consider that deeply
    • Doesn’t require others to change
    • Chock full of solutions that can and will work
      • Education
      • Conflict Resolution
      • Individual Productivity
      • True Free Markets
      • Access to water and food and basic needs
      • Decentralization is the solution to most of our problems
  • What we all must start doing in order to adapt
    • Refuse to give energy to an archaic system that is dying
    • Develop our own individual decentralized groups
    • Not wait for others to see things our way, just do shit
    • Understand the required interactive edges
    • Profit from the systems until we have an alternative
    • Think, above all we need critical thinking
    • Work in open source models
    • Become an army of systems martial artists
  • Consider the alternative – and make the right choice for yourself

 

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TSP Rewind – The Great Recession That Will Never End – Epi-236

The Survival Podcast Posted on May 3, 2023 by 3

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Today is an episode of TSP Rewind, commercial free versions of past podcast episodes.  Today’s episode was originally The Epidode-1659- Great Recession That Will Never End & was originally first published on October, 13th, 2015.

The notes below are the original notes from that episode.

A 2% loss of jobs to automation every year for 10 years, equals 26 million lost jobs.

A 2% loss of jobs to automation every year for 10 years, equals 26 million lost jobs.

The green shoots have taken root, the recession of 2008 is gone forever, recovery is here.  I’d like to believe that, I would also like to believe that Santa and the Ester Bunny will bring me stuff but well, you know how that goes right?

What we are actually seeing right now is a larger divide between the haves and have nots.  Not the class warfare haves and have nots, that are really just a shield for the elites.

This is due to a shift, a shift in technology, collective psychology and an insistence on clinging to a past paradigm that is dying.  The following is from the movie Harrison Bereron.

  • Teacher – “What do we call the period after the end of the cold war”
  • Harrison –  “The Great Recession”
  • Teacher – “And what made this recession different from all recessions before it”
  • Jeanie – “It never really ended, it just kept going“.
  • Teacher – “Why?” ..Class doesn’t know..
  • Teacher – “Harrison?”
  • Harrison – “Well in all previous recessions once the economy bottomed out and production increased, unemployment decreased.  Um, but in the great recession because of new and improved technologies, fewer and fewer workers were required in all sectors.  With so many people forced from their jobs, the traditional economic recovery was impossible.
  • Teacher – Exactly by the year 2018 only 15% of the population had jobs.  America was divided into two camps.  A highly skilled and prosperous elite and an unemployed destitute majority.  What happened next, Garth?”
  • Garth – “Well the people who didn’t have jobs were very unhappy.  And they started making trouble.  Like they bombed buildings and had riots and killed people and stuff.
  • Teacher – “Right and that was the beginning of what we now know as?”
  • Class – “The Second American Revolution”
  • Teacher – “Right and we’ll stop there for today”.

Let me ask you honestly how prophetic this sounds if you just change the year 2018 to say 2028 and move it only 10 years forward?  Mind you this movie was made in 1996!

Join Me Today to Discuss

  • What is GDP and how does it show us a “recession”
  • What changes were made to how GDP is calculated, why does it matter
  • What does technology replacing 2% of jobs a year for 10 years mean
    • 23 million jobs eliminated
    • With a flat population unemployment would be about 23%
    • Current unemployment is claimed to be about 5%, why this is a lie
  • Why I think 2% is a very low number, lower then what we should expect
  • How this transition is like slow sinking quick sand
  • Why the younger you are the worse it could be or the better it could be
  • The type of thinking necessary to adapt to this, (the poem “If” by Rudyard Kipling)
  • Why true ecologically sound production is a great play right now
  • In spite of everything build, invest smartly, learn, grow, create, get shit done

 

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Price Alert – DeWalt 20V 5.0-Ah Max Batteries are on Sale

The Survival Podcast Posted on May 2, 2023 by 9

NOTE – Yes I am on vacation but a price alert came in on these and it is good enough I ordered a set for myself.  DeWalt doesn’t do a ton of deals like this, these are 48% off today.  Get em while you can if you are on the DeWalt platform.  I don’t know how long this deal will last but it is often on day, may be two at best.

Every day I bring you an item on Amazon that I personally use or has been purchased by many members of the audience and I have researched enough to recommend.

Today’s instead of an item of the day I just have a price watch alert for all you DeWalt owners out there like me. Everyone knows the tools are buy once cry once but the real expense is the batteries. And all of us seem to at times need just 1 or 2 more batteries to get though our projects without waiting on a recharge especially when they involve circular saws and angle grinders, man those things drain a battery don’t they.

I tend to buy big on Ah’s due to this preferring 5 – Ah batteries for most things. Today the two pack of DeWalts 20V 5.0-Ah Max Batteries is on sale for 138 vs. 239. It is a huge discount of 99 bucks or 42% off and if you need DeWalt batteries my advice is buy them when on sale. Because DeWalt doesn’t do sales often and when they do they don’t last long. So if like me you are a black and yellow fan, pick up some more power for your tools today at a discount of 42%.

Remember you can always find all of our reviews at TspAz.com

P.S. – As always when I mention DeWalt I include this video below and the following information. I have read tons of bad reviews for DeWalt exist all around “the batteries wont’ charge so I returned it”.

This is due to DeWalt not being clear about how to use their chargers, an installed base of users spent 30 years where they just dropped a battery into a charger. The newer batteries must be “clicked” into place and for some stupid reason (likely ego driven) DeWalt refuses to fix the problem.

I have been talking about this a long time and one of my most popular videos barely over 1 minute long, explains it perfectly and has resulted in hundreds of “THANK YOU” comments with almost 400,000 views. Here it is!

This video has been reviewed by several contacts at DeWalt and while they still have not fixed their documentation, I have confirmed customer service reps at DeWalt are now independently advising callers to view it.

I am trying to help you DeWalt!  Stop being bullheaded.

TSP Rewind – Let’s Talk About Liberty – Epi-235

The Survival Podcast Posted on May 2, 2023 by 2

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Today is an episode of TSP Rewind, commercial free versions of past podcast episodes.  Today’s episode was originally Episode-1646- Let’s Talk About Liberty & was originally first published on September, 17th, 2015.

The notes below are the original notes from that episode.

I am getting an extremely late start today due to the new ducks arriving and a family emergency, so it is going to be a simple chat with Jack episode today.

Last night I listened to the republican debates, not really sure why, guess I felt I deserved some sort of punishment.  What I heard was mostly a bunch of people not actually answer any of the questions, say how great they were, explain why the other people sucked, and so on.

When issues were discussed I sat with dismay at how clearly none of these people seem to comprehend liberty, which of course is supposed to be the foundation of our nation.  Frankly these people seem to have a disdain for actual liberty.

What got me even more was this morning while driving to get the ducks and later supplies for them hearing people like Glenn Beck talk about “how good they sounded”, not all of them mind you but many of them.  Glenn the self proclaimed independent libertarian commending what many of these people said.

This got me thinking, does my nation even comprehend liberty at this point?  Sadly I don’t think by and large we do.  So let’s talk about that today.

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Join Me Today to Discuss…

  • What exactly is liberty
  • What is the only valid purpose of law in a nation based on liberty
  • When two individuals have a difference of view, how is a resolution found in liberty
  • Why did we forget what freedom was all about
    • We started out with freedom for some
    • We became comfortable
    • We asked the State to preserve our comfort
    • The State was happy to do so
    • We now think freedom is forcing others to comply
  • How can we fight this, the ballot box is a fools errand and the rifle is a death sentence
    • 10,000 paper cuts
    • Teach others about liberty
    • Be a political atheist (at least in discussing issues)
    • Stick to principles, avoid people and polices
    • Find pain points, discuss them
    • Discuss how others feel about different issues
    • Walk away
  • The truth is, a person can only be free if they understand freedom, most don’t

 

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TSP Rewind – Gun and Hunting Wisdom of our Fathers – Epi-234

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Today is an episode of TSP Rewind, commercial free versions of past podcast episodes.  Today’s episode was originally Episode-1577- Gun and Hunting Wisdom of our Fathers and was originally fist published on May, 19th, 2015.

The notes below are the original notes from that episode.

I want to talk about guns today, but a bit differently then you might expect from a “survival podcast” to do.  No ARs, no concealed carry and no ninja like accessories.

No today I want to tell you about the gun wisdom I learned at the hands of my grandfather and father as a young man.  The stories, lessons and realities that made me love guns as the tools they truly are.

You may be shocked to learn I didn’t grow up hearing much about the 2nd amendment or gun rights.  Where I grew up boys hunted squirrels with pellet guns for the table until they hit 12, at that time they could get a hunting license and were handed a 22 or a old single shot Sears brand 20 gauge and told to bring back more now that they had a better gun.

The concept that anyone would ever seek to take a gun away from a man who had never harmed a person with it, was so foreign as to not even be discussed.  While there is a lesson in that alone, we shall save it for another day.  Today I want to take you back to the 1980s in a small town with only two main roads, called RD1 and you guessed it RD2.  The town is Jonestown, the boy is still called John, the squirrels are fat, the deer are plentiful and the year is 1986.

Thirty Years, Three Thousand Miles, Three Hundred Thousand Rounds, Still Knocks a Dime out at 30 Yards.

75 Bucks when it was Brand New – 30 Years, 3,000 Miles, 300,000 Rounds, Still Knocks a Dime out at 30 Yards, What Else Could You Ask For?

 

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TSP Rewind – 15 Perennial Herbs with Medicinal Uses – Epi-233

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Today is an episode of TSP Rewind, commercial free versions of past podcast episodes.  Today’s episode was originally Episode-1185- 15 Perennial Herbs with Medicinal Uses and was originally fist published on August 13th, 2013.

The notes below are the original notes from that episode.

NOTE – As per the intro to this episode since the original episode Sand Mountain Herbs is no longer selling product.  I left the links to the original pages there because the information is good and some of them redirect to Amazon as a source.  In any event the links are now for information only.

Today I thought we would do a bit of a different type of show.  For those new to herbal healing my 4 shows on “herbal actions” might be helpful.  I will use many words today like alterative and styptic.  When I do I will explain the basics of what they mean but if you really know the 40 primary herbal actions the world of herbal healing become a fascinating science and one we may really depend on some day.

Additionally I have provided a link to seed sources for all of these seeds.  All links go to a company called Sand Mountain Herbs.  They have many things no one else seems to have.  If you order please note when you do you hear about them at TSP from Jack Spirko, I would very much like to establish a relationship with these guys.  I have ordered many times from them and gotten great service.

They are however currently out of stock with comfrey seeds and comfrey is best done with root cuttings.  So I have a link there to Coe’s Comfrey.  I ordered a lot of plants, they were very back ordered and took over a month to ship.  However the owner called, left me a wonderful voice message to apologize, sent me extra plants and some free DVDs to apologize.  Stellar service and product.  If you order there know they may get really back ordered after today and be patient and again let them know who you learned about them from.

Join Me Today as we Discuss these 15 Herbs

 

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TSP Rewind – Geoff Lawton on Site Selection, Earthworks, GMOs & More – Epi-232

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Today is an episode of TSP Rewind, commercial free versions of past podcast episodes.  Today’s episode was originally Episode-923- Geoff Lawton on Site Selection, Main Frame Earthworks, GMOs and More and was originally fist published on June 15th, 2012.  The notes below are the original notes from that episode.

Since 1985, Geoff Lawton has undertaken 1,000’s of jobs consulting, designing, teaching and implementing in seventeen different countries around the world. Clients have included private individuals, groups, communities, governments, aid organizations, non government organizations and multinational companies.

In October 1997 Bill Mollison, upon his retirement, asked Geoff to establish and direct a new Permaculture Research Institute on the 147 acre Tagari Farm previously developed by Bill. Geoff Lawton developed the site over three years and established The Permaculture Research Institute as a registered charity and global Networking centre for Permaculture projects. Geoff Lawton is the managing director of The Permaculture Research Institute.

Geoff joins us on TSP today to discuss site selection in both the suburbs and rural areas.  We also discuss the threat of GMOs and two “almost disasters” related to GMOs most people have never heard of.  A huge problem and even bigger opportunity with the Mississippi river.  The challenges of desert permaculture and why we should focus on “marginal desert areas” first as we begin to repair man caused desertification.

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TSP Rewind – 11 Common Gardening & Homesteading Questions – Epi-231

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Today is an episode of TSP Rewind, commercial free versions of past podcast episodes.  Today’s episode was originally Episode-917- 11 Common Gardening, Permaculture and Homesteading Questions and was originally fist published on June 7th, 2012.  The notes below are the original notes from that episode.

When I speak or do videos or even do a podcast there are common questions that always seem to pop up.

Given that is the case I figure most people could learn from at least a few of them, so today’s show is dedicated to answering some of the more common ones and a few of the more complex ones.

My feeling is that in many instances people over think some of these issues and in other areas many people simply under think them.

In many ways we simply need to understand that nature knows what she is doing, on the other hand we need to understand nature so we can best channel the existing energies.

Join Me Today As I Answer….

  • Is it really best to grow from seed or start plants as seedlings
  • If you do hugelkultur does it mean you never have to water
  • How long does the wood “last” with hugelkultur
  • How can I do contour based design if my land it totally flat
  • How do I deal with clay soil, sandy soil, etc.
  • Do swales become “weed beds” once established
  • Do you need to inoculate soil to encourage fungal activity
  • How do you know when to practice “chop and drop” in your climate
  • In a 7 layer forest system how do herbs and ground covers obtain enough solar exposure
  • How do I develop a “seed mix” for my climate, region, need, etc.
  • The big ones, “but what if” and “can I”

 

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TSP Rewind – Reaching the Unreachable – Epi-230

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Today is an episode of TSP Rewind, commercial free versions of past podcast episodes.  Today’s episode was originally Episode-648- Reaching the Unreachable and was originally fist published on April, 21st 2011.  The notes below are the original notes from that episode.

Every day I get emails from people that say my ______ just doesn’t get it.  I have tried explaining _____ and ______ and ______ and they still don’t think there is any reason to have a preparedness plan.  What else can I say to reach them.   Now it is easy to write off people, call them sheeple (as most are), etc until they are someone we love and care about.  The problem though can be summed up in the quote, “a profit has no honor in his own country”.

Many of the people closest to you will be some of the last people to listen to you.  Today’s show will hopefully speak on your behalf, it may be something you can provide to the “unreachable” or at least the moderately resistant.  Unlike many in the “survival” niche I do not believe that you reach people with fear, gloom and doom but with empowerment.   So while today’s show may be like preaching to the choir for a lot of the audience I think you will enjoy it as well.  In the end I hope it also gives you a tool for reaching others.

A version with the housekeeping removed will be provided in the show notes as well. (Get it Here)

Join me today as we discuss…

  • Prepping is a normal activity
  • Not prepping is an abnormal activity (10,000 years proves it)
  • Food and water are our most fundamental needs
  • There are real threats to our on demand lifestyle
  • Prepping isn’t “running away” it is the exact opposite
  • Smart prepping has no downside
  • There is no real sacrifice required (long term)
  • The rewards are liberty and freedom
  • It will improve your physical health
  • It will improve your mental health
  • Getting started is very easy and cheap
  • It eventually becomes a lifestyle
  • It is NOT a political issue, prepping isn’t republican or democrat
  • Belief in conspiracy theories isn’t required or even useful
  • The primary rule is to do what YOU think is best

 

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