Monthly Archives: October 2011

Last Day to Enter the Bulk Ammo Contest

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BulkAmmo one of our awesome sponsors has stepped up for the next big give away on The Survival Podcast. In fact they are giving away over 450 dollars in top quality ammo to our audience. Today is the last chance you have the chance to enter by asking a question on BulkAmmo.com and be entered for the chance to win FREE ammo! Each participant can choose up to 2 products to submit a question for – each unique question per unique product enters your name once for a chance to win (max of 2 entries per person). Questions must be … Continue reading →

Episode-768-Craig Cole from The Outdoor Podcast

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Craig Cole is an avid outdoorsman and hunter who decided to start The Outdoor Podcast as a method of sharing his passion for the outdoors with other people. Craig’s passions range from hunting to canoeing to wilderness self-reliance skills and just about anything and everything outdoors. He is currently a student of Dave Canterbury’s Phase 1 Course and was published in Issue #3 of Self-Reliance Magazine.  He joins us today to discuss ways we can all find more adventure in our lives and add a sense of realism to our self reliance skills training. Talking to Craig was great, sort … Continue reading →

Episode-767- Winter is Coming Are You Ready

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So today for the first time when I took the dog for a walk in the early morning there was frost on the car and trucks.  I actually put on my Carhart vs my windbreaker and even put my free (non coffee holding) hand in my pocket for a bit of warmth. Of course that means winter is on its way.  Sure we have a few months of “fall” to go, at least in the south but this is the time of the year where things seem to accelerate.  So in the tradition of the ant and the grasshopper today … Continue reading →

Episode-766- Jacob Lund Fisker from Early Retirement Extreme

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Jacob Lund Fisker is the author of Early Retirement Extreme, he retired at 33 with enough investments to never need to work again.  He is from Denmark but has lived in the US since 2004 In his prior life he was a theoretical astrophysicist, but got tired of the careerism and wasn’t inspired by the prospects of doing the same thing day after day for the rest of his life. He now self-identifies himself as “a writer”.  When he was in grad school, he discovered peak oil (in 2001, before it was cool) together with anticonsumerism and finance. So he … Continue reading →

Episode-765- Useful Small Animals for the Homestead

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Okay there is a lot of gloom and doom out there and to be honest some of the crap is really hitting the fan right now.  It will be necessary for me to delve into that world more and more in the coming months/years but I still want to keep some positive and fun stuff coming as well. Hence today we are going to focus on homesteading and animals that can feed us, protect our property or provide us with other benefits.  The list we will cover today includes some “traditional small livestock”, some wild game and some other stuff … Continue reading →

Episode-764- Listener Calls for 10-17-11

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Time for another round of your calls to 866-65-THINK.  Yep it is Monday not Friday but I decided to change things up a bit, we will stick to one feedback and one call in show a week (most weeks) but they just won’t always be on Fridays and Mondays. Join me today as I answer your calls on… My thoughts and the whole story on Hank Williams Jr. Creative ways to hide valuables in your home Using re-sublimated iodine crystals for water purification and first aid Critters that may damage ponds or swales Turning a lawn into a garden Who … Continue reading →

Episode-763- The Paleo Prepper Mindset

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Yesterday I did a post about my 18 month experience of eating mostly paleo and my final 90 days of doing it almost totally hard core.  The responses are mixed, mostly anyone that has tried it is very much in agreement with me, those opposed are mostly rehashing dogma. So today we are going to discuss this subject, I will clarify myself on a few things (such as exercise) and explain some of the science.  Mostly though I want to share my experience, my results and how as a prepper you address food storage when focusing on a “paleo” lifestyle. … Continue reading →

My Thoughts on The Paleo Solution by Rob Wolf

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Recently I had a guest on that talked about fermented foods and a diet high in protein and fat and low in carbohydrates.  I know many of your are skeptical about this (of course you are because it defies dogma) but I can tell you personally it works.  Over the last year and a half I have focused on a diet of meat and veggies, I weighed myself for the first time in a long time this week and the results are 71lbs of lost weight. I have not counted calories, I have not even paid attention to fat, I … Continue reading →

Episode-762- Tom Haile on Serving in the Peace Corps

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Tom is a Texas native growing up in Katy Texas. He doesn’t remember leaving Texas until being at least old enough to buy a beer.   He started a career in software development in 2000 but tired of it and joined the Peace Corps in 2007. After returning in 2009 he continued a career of software development in Austin Texas. His experience as an environment volunteer in the third world has given him a new perspective on humanity. I think many people feel the Peace Corps is made up of nothing but peacenick hippies who want to escape reality for … Continue reading →

Episode-761- Downward Class Migration

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I have been predicting downward class migration in the coming years but the more research I do the more I realize that it is actively occurring and has been for the last 50 years. In reality it is only the illusions created by easy consumer level debt that has hidden the drop in class level over the past few decades. The coming downward class migration is more accurately a revealing of what has already occurred than something new. Join me today as I discuss… The inflation rate over the last 50 years How a surplus of “educated” people has eroded … Continue reading →