Monthly Archives: June 2009

Episode-222- Food Storage, Famland and New Currencies

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Today is sort of a free wheeling show.  I discuss three main topics including money moving to buy farmland, the alliance of BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India, China) nations for a new currency and basic food storage for new survivalists Getting Started with Emergency Food Storage – Starting with the philosophy of “store what you eat and eat what you store”.  Then we expand on building a basis with low cost long term storables from the supermarket.  From there into adding in true long term storage foods such as Mountain House, etc. Next up is this BRIC Nations – Join me … Continue reading →

Episode-221- Audience Questions for 6-16-09

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Today on the Survival Podcast we discuss listener questions about subjects like, gardening, severe weather, survival tools, storing seeds and more. I would like to continue doing this type of show often so if you want to have a question answered send me an email to jack@thesurvivalpodcast.com with the subject line “question for Jack” Tune in to hear me answer these questions today… Where did I learn so much about growing food?  What books or resources do I recommend about it? How can you share The Survival Podcast with friends with out the “survivalist stigma”? What are my thoughts on … Continue reading →

Episode-220- 9 Underrated Global Threats

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Today we take a look at 9 underrated threats, I refer to them as underrated because they don’t really get discussed in main stream media or when they are discussed no deep understanding of them, their historical significance or their interconnected nature. Today we discuss the following threats and what they might mean to use in the future. China’s move to create a “big ten” and own the global automotive industry Europe’s massive immigration problems The effect of Monsanto and other agricultural giants imposing seed patents in third world nations The fact that China and Russia have been buying up … Continue reading →

Episode-219- Audience Questions for 6-12-09

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Today on the Survival Podcast we discuss listener questions about subjects like, economy, federal reserve, guns, bob, economics, business, solar transportation methods and more. I would like to continue doing this type of show often so if you want to have a question answered send me an email to jack@thesurvivalpodcast.com with the subject line “question for Jack” Tune in to hear me answer these questions today… If the Federal Reserve sucks so bad how was the concept sold to the public? Should you store “extra guns” in places other then your safe/cabinet? What are some methods of combating mosquitoes? Advice … Continue reading →

Episode-218- The Federal Reserves Shell Game

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Today’s we take a look at what we can learn from primitative societies that used shells as a form of currency.  Today’s show notes are brief due to massive delays in my morning commute cause by flooding, survival podcasting indeed.

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Episode-217- Alternative Investments for the Survivalist

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Today we take a look at “alternative investing” from a survivalist view point.  Nope not gold and silver (well ok a bit of gold and silver) and not the stuff most people consider part of an investment portfolio. Tune in today to learn, The four goals of conventional investing Why do we invest in the first place in some ways is this a trap How do typical investments fulfill those goals What are the “common alternatives” What needs are we looking to fill with work and investing Why my approach only works with debt elimination The value of low taxed … Continue reading →

Episode-216- Survival Podcast Audience Questions 6-09-09

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We are continuing a series of listener questions today.   Since it was done from the “mobile studio” there are no call ins or anything.  These are all questions sent in by email, asked in comments, asked on the survival forum, etc. I would like to continue doing this type of show often so if you want to have a question answered send me an email to jack@thesurvivalpodcast.com with the subject line “question for Jack” Tune in to hear me answer these questions today… What is an Earthship and what advantages do they offer? Is is safe to use a … Continue reading →

Episode-215- Advantages for the Suburban Survivalist

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Typical survival mentality is to be as remote and self sufficient as possible to avoid mob mentality in a SHTF scenario.  There are also however, considering disaster probability, some real advantages for the surburbanite who is both prepared and “plugged in” to his neighborhood. We also videoed the action inside the car today, that will be published tomorrow. Tune into today as we discuss some advantages like… Suburbanites have more people to work with if you can organize them They have more “buying power” and will continue to get materials longer in a shortage You can take advantage of “efficiency … Continue reading →

Episode-214- Survival Podcast Audience Questions 6-05-09

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We are continuing a series of listener questions today.   Since it was done from the “mobile studio” there are no call ins or anything.  These are all questions sent in by email, asked in comments, asked on the survival forum, etc. I would like to continue doing this type of show often so if you want to have a question answered send me an email to jack@thesurvivalpodcast.com with the subject line “question for Jack” Tune in to hear me answer these questions today… Are there advantages to bugging in for surburbanites? What is a cheap way to get into … Continue reading →

Episode-213- Survival Podcast Audience Questions 6-04-09

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We are continuing a series of listener questions today.   Since it was done from the “mobile studio” there are no call ins or anything.  These are all questions sent in by email, asked in comments, asked on the survival forum, etc. Also I wanted to let you know I gave an interview last night on American Freedom Radio on Karen Kwiatkoski’s show “American Forum“, you can find the recording of the interview here. (Note – My interview is hour two of the two hour show) I would like to continue doing this type of show often so if you … Continue reading →