Jack here checking in from vacation in Estes Park, Colorado.  I know, I know… “But Jack, you should relax on your vacation”. It really is okay, guys. This work I am doing was the plan. This vacation is really, for me, a writer’s retreat. I get up at 5 AM daily just like always, my family doesn’t think about getting out of bed till at least 7:30.  Most mornings I see Dorothy about 8, my son about 9 and the kids and daughter-in-law about 9:30.  And since I am not doing podcast work, that means I get more time to … Continue reading →

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Today on The Survival Podcast expert council, we cover a wild mix of geopolitics, medicine, homesteading, dogs, disease, Bitcoin storage and the collapse of faith in college degrees. Ron Paul and Dan McAdams join us to talk about how the United States should have voluntarily left the Middle East years ago, and now it is being kicked out the hard way. Andy McCann gives us the bad and the ugly on GLP1s for weight loss, beyond the hype and magic shot nonsense. Kerry Brown answers a practical herbal question on making comfrey salve from roots versus leaves, and Joel Ryals … Continue reading →

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Today we are joined by Travis J. I. Corcoran to talk about what it really takes to build a life, a homestead, or even a full settlement when there is no big system coming to save you. This is about food, repair, local production, trade, family, community and the real limits that show up when theory runs face first into reality. Travis and his wife walked away from lucrative tech careers in Massachusetts and built a more self reliant life in New Hampshire. That experience led him to write Escape the City, a practical homesteading guide based on what actually … Continue reading →