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.
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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.
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.
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.
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
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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”.
Forecasting worldwide since 1980. Gerald Celente is publisher of the Trends Journal (www.trendsresearch.com) . Celente developed the Globalnomic® methodology to identify, track, forecast and manage trends. Unencumbered by political dogma, rigid ideology or conventional wisdom.
Celente’s motto is “think for yourself,” observes and analyzes the current events forming future trends for what they are — not for the way he wants them to be. Gerald has been featured on Oprah, all the of the major network/cable morning shows, the nightly news and newspapers worldwide.
Today he joins us to discuss the top 10 “Trends Journal Forecasts for 2021”
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This was a two part question from our MeWe thread. Basically the person asked the following…
Automation for efficiency? Background… how to find better ways to do “what was always done”, think outside the box. Also, how does one that is suddenly surprised with a manager that questions everything you do and all you have as an answer is “That’s what they trained me to do”. Third, how do you determine if you’re spending too much time on something not really productive or important. Thanks.
Well I am not an automation specialist but I will tell you three things that have made my life better is so many ways…
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 TSP Amazon Item of the day is the Outdoor Edge 3.5″ RazorLite EDC. A few years back I found the Outdoor Edge Razor Blaze Knife and picked up it primarily for skinning as the swapable replacement blades just made so much sense. You can read my original review here. I really loved this knife and have gotten a lot of use out of it over about 3 years now.
Then very recently I picked up the Razor Bone using longer blades and reviewed all the options for it here. This was a new item from Outdoor Edge for me anyway and it turned out that they had been doing a lot of cool stuff since I had gotten my first knife from them. As I was looking over options I also noticed the Outdoor Edge 3.5″ RazorLite EDC. I put it on my future review list at that time.
Well after getting my hands on the Razor Bone/Fin frame I just decided to get the EDC version as well. If there can be a perfect “EDC Utility Knife” this may be it. You guys know I have recommended the Gerber EAB as an EDC tool for years. Always sharp as a razor and it avoids using your really good knife for harsher tasks, getting it gummed up with tape, etc. Yet it has limits due to its size and form.
The Outdoor Edge 3.5″ RazorLite EDC honestly is a game changer. It holds the blade absolutely locked so you are not going to get hurt by it. The EAB does so as well but you have neither a full sized handle or blade to work with. I have cut things with the EAB and done work with it where I was more than a bit concerned about slipping.
While I feel knives from Outdoor Edge like the Razor Fin & Razor Blaze are knives specifically for say a fishermen or a hunter, the RazorLite EDC to me, is a knife for everyone. So much so that I am officially retiring my long standing recommendation for the Gerber EAB to fill this type of roll in an EDC Utility Blade. Long term listeners to my podcast will realize that is a big deal, I have been recommending the Gerber since at least 2012. Long before TspAz reviews even existed.
The premise of all these knives is simple your blade is always razor sharp because when it gets dull, you toss it out and replace it with a new one. New blades cost about $1.60 – $2.00 each depending on the type. The blades are made with an inexpensive steel called 420 J2, which has poor long term edge retention but sharpens very easily and is extremely resistant to corrosion and rust. This steel, until these knives came out, had two primary uses.
It is used by many high end knife makers as liners, springs, etc in their folding knives, due to high corrosion resistance. –
It is used by many makers of surgical scalpels. Generally scalpels must be incredibly sharp and are used one time in surgery and deposed of. Inexpensive steel that stands up to harsh chemicals for sterilizing and gets incredibly sharp easily is perfect for this application.
Given the above I think 420 J2 is perfect for what Outdoor Edge is doing with these knives. Personally I don’t toss them as soon as they start to dull, I use a sharpening steel and given how soft J2 steel is 3-5 strokes brings it right back. So I do sharpen these types of knives, generally about 10-12 times just using my steel, then I feel the blades have about had it. Again this is the same steel they make scalpels from, it is not great for long term use, rather to be easily made scary sharp. It serves the role here perfectly.
I have now after carrying this little knife for a week, retired my EABs forever. Yes the blades cost more but they also do a hell of a lot more. You also should know by now I look at total cost of a thing, not the unit cost. If you use a steel to keep the edge true you should be able to again do that about 10-12 times, this reduces cost over time by 10-12x without much work. Again if you know how to use a sharpening steel (and you should) the J2 steel is soft enough that it is like spreading butter to get it back to an absolute razor.
I also heard from a few listeners after my last review of the Fin/Bone frame that carry the Outdoor Edge 3.5″ RazorLite EDC and have done so for a while. All four who reached out said they loved it. I think if you give it a try you will as well. This frame comes in 3 color options, Orange, Gray and Blue. The Gray and Blue are sold by third party sellers on Amazon, but there is not much premium on the cost. The orange is sold directly by Amazon and ships faster and costs a buck or two less. Check the video below to see just how awesome this little knife is.
Remember you can always find the TSP Amazon Item of the day by just going to TspAz.com
P.S. – They also make a 3 inch version which uses slightly smaller blades. If you watch the video above you will see just how compact the 3.5 is, so I don’t know that anyone really needs a smaller frame but it does exist. For me owning two other products in the line I didn’t want to add a third required blade length though. So I did not even consider it. Finally those 5 inch blades for the Fin/Bone will lock right into this knife as well, so you can keep them with your fishing gear, carry the 3.5 as an EDC tool, and convert it to a fillet knife on your fishing trips.
Glen Tate is the developer of the PAM Radio flashcards that teach preppers the practical – not the technical – use of ham radio. He is also the co-host of the Prepping 2.0 podcast and syndicated radio show. He is also the author of the ten-book prepper novel series 299 Days.
During the CoVid shut down critical high risk cancer screening was put on hold. Due to this Glen had cancer without knowing it that became far more advanced then it should of. This resulted in emergency surgery and a long painful treatment and recovery period.
Even before this though he had already decided to leave Washington State behind. Today we discuss the unnecessary misery and death that has come from stupid CoVid policies and why the time to get out of failed states has come for many.
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This is a list of resources mentioned in my talk for the 
