Episode-161- TSP Rewind – The Basics of Being Prepared for Most Things – Part Two

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Today is an episode of TSP Rewind, commercial free versions of past podcast episodes. Today’s episode was originally Episode-2303- The Basics of Being Prepared for Most Things – Part Two and was originally published on October 2nd, 2018.

The following are the original show notes from that episode…

We just had one hell of a hurricane in the Carolinas and the problems there are far from over. Storm season is still upon us and there will likely be at least one more major storm impact this year.

Next up, well winter is on the way, blizzards and ice storms are soon to follow. Next thing you know it will be spring, time for mudslides, tornadoes and other “fun stuff”. Then back to summer, forest fires, more storms and it just goes on.

If you think about it we don’t have a disaster season, we have seasons with disasters that are more common during them, and even that rule gets broken. You don’t think of winter and tornadoes but in 2015 in the three days following Christmas we had the December 2015 North American storm complex. In three days we had a total of 32 tornadoes confirmed, 60 people died and hundreds of homes were destroyed.

To be blunt, shit happens! And depending on the size of the shit, you are going to be your own first responder for hours, days or at times even weeks. As I say in Spirko’s 7th Law of Life. “Preparedness for hard times, is nothing more than being a responsible adult.”

Today we continue with Part Two and focus on Logistics, Communications and Documentation. Part one can be found here.

Join Me Today to Discuss…

  • If you haven’t listed to part one, do so before listening to this episode
  • Today we focus more on planning than on stuff, though there is some stuff
  • Logistics – the detailed coordination of a complex operation
    • Who is in charge – chain of command
    • What goes, what stays
    • Plans for bugging in and out – (people often do one due to a lack of plans for the other)
    • When protocols are implemented and what they are
      • Examples
        • Increased security
        • All hands on deck
        • Time to bug out
        • Power outage (winter vs. summer)
        • Pet needs
        • Critical Sytems
      • The keys
        • Practiced protocols work
        • Reviewed protocols are not scary
    • How shit works – can you do it under stress, write it down
  • Documentation
    • Costs almost nothing, yet is priceless
    • Evacuation routes and meeting places (Rule X3)
    • Contact info
      • Friends and Family
      • Service Providers
      • Lodging
      • Banks
    • Data packs should be printed and uniform
    • Also in soft copy
    • List of items to take with you if you bug out
    • For more listen to episode 1224
  • The Bug Out Bag
    • If you can walk you can carry one, everyone gets one
    • 3 Days of relative comfort, not a 3 day vacation in Mexico
    • It must live where you are or it is useless
  • Communications
    • Cell phones are your best tool for everything
    • Use Zello – set up a family channel or possibly a group channel
    • If you are a HAM great, if not, what I say about it won’t matter
    • Back up cell phone power, vehicle charges, etc
    • FM/AM radio, with batteries and ear piece
    • TV – at home definitely, on the road may be, have an antenna
  • No these two episodes are not everything, but they will lead you to everything you need

 

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Episode-160- TSP Rewind – The Basics of Being Prepared for Most Things – Part One

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Today is an episode of TSP Rewind, commercial free versions of past podcast episodes. Today’s episode was originally Episode-2299- The Basics of Being Prepared for Most Things – Part One and was originally published on September 25, 2018.

The following are the original show notes from that episode.

We just had one hell of a hurricane in the Carolinas and the problems there are far from over. Storm season is still upon us and there will likely be at least one more major storm impact this year.

Next up, well winter is on the way, blizzards and ice storms are soon to follow. Next thing you know it will be spring, time for mudslides, tornadoes and other “fun stuff”. Then back to summer, forest fires, more storms and it just goes on.

If you think about it we don’t have a disaster season, we have seasons with disasters that are more common during them, and even that rule gets broken. You don’t think of winter and tornadoes but in 2015 in the three days following Christmas we had the December 2015 North American storm complex. In three days we had a total of 32 tornadoes confirmed, 60 people died and hundreds of homes were destroyed.

To be blunt, shit happens! And depending on the size of the shit, you are going to be your own first responder for hours, days or at times even weeks. As I say in Spirko’s 7th Law of Life. “Preparedness for hard times, is nothing more than being a responsible adult.” Today we talk about the most basic preps that every grown ass adult should put into place for themselves and their family.

Join Me Today to Discuss…

  • I think it is non preppers that are crazy, not us
  • Preparedness is the only responsible thing for adults to do
  • Disaster Probability, Impact Scale and Commonality (DPICs)
  • Your Five Survival Needs and Basic Steps
    • Food
      • Food Journal
      • Copy Canning
      • Basic Deep Pantry
      • Everyone in the House is a Cook
      • Learn to Create Storables
    • Water
      • Don’t buy bottled water, make your own
      • A filter of some sort is a good idea
      • Fill tubs in advance
      • If you have a pool don’t forget about it
      • Rain catch can be cheap to set up
    • Shelter
      • Have a bug out and bug in plan
      • Have the basic things to fix problems
      • Have a designated shelter area
      • Do fun disaster drills, not scary ones
    • Energy
      • Black Out Kit
      • Rechargeable batteries AA and AAA
      • Power Inverter 800 Watts Minimum
      • Stored Gas
      • Extension Cords and Three Way Plugs
      • Generator
      • Battery Bank
    • Health and Sanitation
      • Basic First Aid Kit
      • Prescription Meds
      • Sanitation Items
      • Waste Disposal
    • Security
      • Procedures and protocols
      • Don’t do stupid things, in stupid places with stupid people (17th Law of Life Video)
      • Yes have a means of defense and know how to use it
      • Back to Procedures and protocols
  • Why this really is the only responsible choice
  • Coming in Part Two – Logistics, Communications, Documentation, Etc.

 

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Episode-159- TSP Rewind – Libertas a Virtual Nation

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Today is an episode of TSP Rewind, commercial free versions of past podcast episodes. Today’s episode was originally Episode-1428- Libertas a Virtual Nation and was originally published on September 17, 2014.

The following are the original show notes from that episode.

In Episode 1421 I discussed both the Estonian E-Citizen Program and Ecuador’s new Digital Currency and asked a simple question, could digital currencies and the concept of E-Citizenry be used to create a virtual nation.

I think this is a valuable thought experiment and I have some ideas I want to share today. The goal is to get a discussion going about what can be done, vs. what can’t be done. What might work vs. why nothing can work.

As part of this I created a forum thread to discuss a Virtual Nation’s Constitution would be like. There has been some interesting discussion and in particular some clear examples of limited thinking demonstrated in it. Part of this is my fault, for calling it a constitution. That framed it in the world of Statism vs. Nationalism. A better term would have been a Technical Specification.

What Would a Virtual Nation be Like

What Would a Virtual Nation be Like

Join Me Today As I Discuss…

  • First I don’t want to be in charge, this isn’t my thing it is a thing
  • Why we really should consider this
  • Why we would not need, presidents, senators, etc.
  • What makes a nation accepted by other nations and where VNs have an advantage
    • Land
    • Hard Force
    • Money
    • Population
    • Soft Force
    • Defensive Force
    • Defined Borders
  • What is a nation vs. what is a state
    • Nation – a large group of people who share a common language, culture, ethnicity, descent or history.
    • State – an organized community living under one government
  • How the economy might work
    • A set amount of contribution to the national reserve is established
    • A new citizen buys something like bitcoin
    • The bitcoin is exchanged for the nations currency
    • The bitcoin or other currency is held as a reserve
    • The two currencies are pegged to a fixed exchange rate
    • Citizens do business in the virtual nation with the nations currency
    • The reserve is a vault that citizens can buy currency from or convert it to an outside currency
    • The action of buying currency is what creates it
    • Yes Bitcoin already does a lot of this, sort of
  • Why do it?
    • As an example
    • As peaceful revolution and protest
    • To assert individual liberty however we can
  • Replacing roles of the state
    • Conflict resolution (courts)
    • Education
    • Security
    • Privacy
    • Leadership
    • Commerce
    • Product Quality Assurance
    • What Can You Add
  • Final Thoughts

 

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Episode-158- TSP Rewind – Turn Off The Fricken News

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Today is an episode of TSP Rewind, commercial free versions of past podcast episodes. Today’s episode was originally Episode-1422- Turn Off The Fricken News and was originally published on September 9, 2014.

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I have to tell you guys I have made the mistake recently of looking at main stream news for more than 10 seconds a day, it has my brain ready to ooze out of my eye sockets! The level of ignorance the typical American is capable of is now at an all time high in my view.

There is but one goal of all this, divide the people and put them in a state of fear. The lies are numerous. Such as the upcoming election is critical, Isis is in Houston and poor little children will be deported if we don’t do something soon.

Can it really be this simple? Yep!

Can it really be this simple? Yep!

Of course now the congress is weighing in on the domestic violence committed by an NFL player. If you think this is a good thing, let me ask you this. How many scum bag men punch women in the face every day and these clowns don’t care about it at all? Why do you think they care now?

Women do you think any of them would speak up for you if you were this victim but they could not grand stand it? Further how many of the thieves in our government likely commit such abuses in their own homes?

Please listen today with an open mind, the entire media message right now is a simple coordinated effort to confuse, anger, divide and place our citizens into a state of fear and capitulation. The worst part is it is likely to work, there is nothing to be done at this point to stop it. So you much see it for what it is, understand it and design your future around it, vs. as part of it.

Join Me Today to Discuss…

  • No, ISIS isn’t coming to get you, here are a ton of reasons why
  • How important is the Ray Rice story, it isn’t, period, I don’t care
  • Why the 2014 elections are of zero importance
  • Why the border is being left open for now, and why it won’t close anytime soon
  • The Ukraine conflict absolutely will not start WWIII
  • The formula for control of a society
    • First make yourself look weak
    • Allow your citizens to feel helpless
    • Find an enemy or three, build them up
    • Look weak in front of this found enemy
    • Hope they attack you, create an attack if they do not
    • Divide your people on all possible issues
    • Call anyone who speaks out against government a terrorist, conspiracy nut, etc.
    • Wait until your people beg for “protection” and demand tyranny
    • Give them what they ask for
    • Repeat as necessary
  • The number one way this is currently accomplished is the news, turn it the hell off!

 

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Episode-2871 – Aaron Forringer on Writing as a Side Hustle

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A.A Forringer is writer who has just released a collection of short stories about a Private Investigator who works cases in and around Walt Disney World. He also has a science fiction series called The Outfitters Universe and will be releasing the fourth book in that series soon.

Aaron is a retired State Parole Agent and spent a majority of his time in West Philadelphia, PA. He has been a Corrections Officer at a Maximum Security Prison, a Private Investigator, a Retail Security Specialist and has designed security systems for a Fortune 500 company. He currently works for a very large multinational company that isthe largest single site employer in the US, which happens to be located in Orlando, Florida where Aaron works in the Security Dept.. He is a former soldier, who has been an Infantryman, Intelligence Analyst and a CID Agent who has spent time in Hawaii, Panama, Korea, and Somalia.

A.A. has had two stories read on The Survival Podcast, Americas Big Game (epi-1426) and We Need a Monster (epi-1822).  He joins us today to discuss building side hustle income as a writer.

Resources for today’s show…

 

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Episode-2870- My Digital Privacy Presentation from the D3 Summit

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Today as I get ready to leave for a couple weeks I am running my presentation from John Bush’s D3 Summit a couple weeks ago.  There is a new intro in it to explain why I am doing this and more about the structural changes coming to TSPC when I return later this month.  We will have a new show tomorrow as I already had an interview scheduled for this week.  Then a great line up of rewinds are coming for the next 7 shows.

This is a list of resources mentioned in my talk for the Decentralized, Distributed, and Disruptive Tech Summit (D3) Summit given on April 24th.

Bullet Points….

  • The crime of 1873 teaches us what we need to know about crypto today
  • If BTC is digital gold, what will be digital silver, LTC? FedCoin? Privacy Coin?
  • The Three Best Things Satoshi Ever did For Us in Order
    • Create Bitcoin
    • Stay Anomoyous
    • Went the F Away and Never Came Back
  • What is an actual privacy coin – if it is optional, it ain’t really private IMO
  • Please understand in any war if you don’t build counter technology you lose, and this is a fing war!
  • The best work being done right now is though the BPSAA
    • Blockchain Privacy,Security & Adoption Alliance Members and What they Do
      • Pirate Chain – The Ultimate Privacy Coin – Pirate.black
      • Sentinel – dVPN (decentralized virtual private networks) – Sentinel.co
      • Turtle Networks – Dex Exchanges, Decentralized Governance – TurtleNetwork.eu
      • Ether-1 – Decentralized Hosting – EthoProtocol.com
      • Ergo – Decentralized Finance – ErgoPlatform.com
      • Komodo – Smart Chains, Security, Interoperability, B2B, Atomic Swaps – KomodoPlatform.com
      • Burst – Proof of Capacity, Social Media, Market Place – Burst-Coin.org
      • DragonChain – Decentralized Identity, Fraud Compliance, Intra-chain Operability – DragonChain.com
      • BitTube – Censorship Resistant Content Platform – BitTube.app
  • Moving Forward – The Virtual Nation
    • A second identity that can be trusted
    • A parallel internet that can’t be censored
    • The ability to leave and enter the matrix at will
    • The ability to privately do commerce in a trusted/trustless environment
    • The keys to making this work will be
      • Simplifying the user interface
      • Education of how, what and why
      • IRL relationships extending trust to virtual relationships
      • Real world products, across the fence yet in the virtual world
      • I don’t think we need a coin for everything, let’s use what works, resist the temptation to print money
  • The good news, bad news and worse news – It can be done, it won’t be easy, we have not other option

 

More Resources for this Talk

 

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Keeping Up With Jack on Vacation & The TSPC Vacation Schedule

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What is Jack up to on vacation? Well honestly I am busting butt for a few days behind the scenes until the 6th when I actually fly out. I may post a video or two on Odysee/YouTube before I leave. But I you want to see cool fishing pictures, short check in videos, etc. Follow me on MeWe. It will be the only place I post to regularly while away. You will miss the sharks and barracuda if you don’t! https://mewe.com/i/jackspirko

As to our vacation schedule there will be a show every day.  Here is what I have scheduled while I am away.  Today as you noticed we have the Miyagi Morning’s recap for the Monday show. Going forward this is going to be the case and starting when I get back we will start making it have standard TSPC Show numbers.

Tomorrow you get my D3 Summit talk on privacy as a podcast in podcast form.  Wednesday will be a new show with a guest interview. From Thursday the 6th through Friday the 14th you will get a great line up of TSPC Rewind Episodes. I will return to regularly scheduled programming on Monday the 17th.

Tech support for MSB will be done while I am away but may take up to 24 hours to get a response.  I am going to batch emails once a day while I am gone.

Episode-020- Miyagi Mornings Weekly Recap

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Welcome to Miyagi mornings weekly recap, a podcast version of our daily video series Miyagi Mornings, links to the video version of each segment can be found in the show notes for this episode. These recap episodes are part of The Survival Podcast feed but are numbered independently as a special weekly edition of our show, in all podcast feeds.

This week the Miyagi Mornings weekly recap podcast covers excuse making, virtual nations, financial modeling, automation, homesteading, a reality check and more. A link to the video episodes for each segment is included below, any resources mentioned in any of the segments can be found in the video notes by following either the links below.

 

If you want to submit a question for Miyagi Mornings just hook up with me on MeWe and comment on the sticky post at the top of my profile.

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Episode-2869- Expert Council Q&A for 4-30-21

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Today on The Survival Podcast the expert panel answers your questions on cryptocurrency, permaculture, camping, storage, cooking, real estate, NRCS programs, rule of threes and more.

Make sure if you submit content for a feedback show that you put something like “comment for jack”, “question for jack” or “article for jack” in the subject line to assure proper identification for my screening process.

Please understand I receive several hundred emails a day and can’t get them all on the air.

I also do put out a lot of information on MeWe and other social media from emails that I can’t fit on the program though so keep em coming.

Join Me Today As I Respond to Your Calls and Discuss…

  • A new workshop is coming online to demystify crypto, and an announcement too – John Bush
  • Growing climate resilient plants – Ben Falk
  • Getting used to sleeping in a tent, in the wilderness, alone – Jessica Mills
  • What are rolly shelves and why should you care – Paul Wheaton
  • An awesome use for plobano peppers, just in time for pepper season – Chef Keith Snow
  • Are we in a housing bubble and what does the future hole in real estate – John Pugliano
  • Valuable programs you can access though NRCS – Darby Simpson
  • Quote of the Day -“There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see” ~ Leonardo da Vinci – Jack

 

Resources for today’s show…

 

Websites of the Expert Council Members

 

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What Exactly is the ‘Real World’ Anyway? – Miyagi Mornings Episode-100

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I hear people use the term the “real world” all the time and I wonder if they even know what they are invoking. The real world is not on your TV, never was, really isn’t now and I am not talking about how screwed up the MSM or “reality TV” are. Anyone thinking that is the real world at all is beyond help at this point. They may as well just shoot up with some good dope and enjoy not giving a fuck.

Politics is not the real world, government is not the real world, social media is not the real world, though at least it does at times give a window into it. Only for the brave though, most of what you see on social media even in the lives of those you know IRL (in real life) is controlled and presented to convey an image. One thing I love about the TSPC community is that seems to not be the case most of the time.

Why? Preppers, survivalists and homesteaders tend to live in the real world at least much of the time. Sure they put on a monkey suit and go to work if they have yet to get past that need. But the trees on their land are real, the animals they work with are real, the plants they grow are real and their view that you must be prepared for things to go wrong is based on stark, honest reality.

I think this is why people stay up talking and drinking at my workshops till 3AM or later, they are finally in “the real world”.  Finally with people who are not hiding who they are and what they are about.  Nor afraid to admit their place in the world is incredibly small, in dare I say it, reality.

Today I try to answer this for you in my final episode of Miyagi Mornings (fitting that it is episode 100) until I return from my vacation to the “real world” on May 17th.  No worries as when I get back we will continue the journey together with Miyagi Mornings, which I pledge to always make about “the real world”.