Monthly Archives: January 2014

Episode-1292- Listener Calls for 1-31-14

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Today on The Survival Podcast I take your calls on swales, chickens, livestock, gardening, the expert council, privacy issues, the news and more. Remember to be on a show like this one just pick up your phone and call 866-65-THINK. The best way to improve your chances of being on the air is ask your question or make your point up front, then provide details. Also please do your best to call from a quiet area with a good connection and speak up so you can be well heard. I can’t put all calls on the air but I do … Continue reading →

Applying Gun Control Logic to Stairs

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Recently I authored an article at Brink of Freedom.  I also did a pretty cool 19 minute video based on it.  Here is the beginning of the article… You hear it all the time from those who want gun control laws added to the more than 25,000 plus existing regulations, “if it only saves one life, it is worth it.”  Many of us who actually value simple small things like the right of self determination, the constitution of the nation, and individual liberty will often point to automotive deaths as a counter argument, but I have a better one – … Continue reading →

Episode-1291- Kermit Jones author of “Prepper Pete Prepares”

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Join me for a conversation with Kermit Jones about Prepping with Kids: Don’t Scare – Prepare!  Kermit is the author of a new children’s book series based on the character “Prepper Pete” who is the star character of Kermit’s first book, “Prepper Pete Prepares“. Prepping makes complete sense – to those who prepare. But we all know the blank stares, looks of confusion, and even snickers that sometimes come when we try to explain our reasons to others. I mean, how do explain the obvious, right? But even if your in-laws, out-laws, friends or family, just don’t “get it” – … Continue reading →

Episode-1290- Insurance a Hole in Many Preppers Lives with Jason Adkins

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Insurance isn’t a sexy topic, it isn’t like growing a food forest, building a solar system or tweaking accuracy out of your AR or AK, but it is important.  The most common disasters people experience each day are… Serious injury or death of a loved one Loss of a job Loss of a home due to storms or fires Loss of your ability to work due to injury Automotive accidents Legal attacks All of these areas are far more likely to hit you based on disaster probability then a major pandemic or say a global economic collapse.  So it makes … Continue reading →

Episode-1289- Learning to Hunt Without a Gun Part 2

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I could have called this series learning to hunt without a gun or a bow or a trap or anything but that title would be too long.  Today’s show is part two of a series so you may really wish to listen to part one first if you have not done so already. This series began as an extension of a listener question I answered two weeks ago about learning to hunt when you had no one to teach you.  No family, no friends, no mentors, no one.  In part one we focused on the following, The primary hurtles to … Continue reading →

UCG: Untrained Civilian Goofball

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Note from Glen Tate, author of 299 Days: When the real Team from 299 Days was on the range and people would see us shoot, they would ask, “What unit you guys with?” or “Which agency?” At first when I said, “We’re just civilians,” people wouldn’t believe us. Then one day when someone asked “What department you guys with?” I answered, “We’re UCG: untrained civilian goofballs.” An acronym was born. The reason UCG is so fitting to so many civilians who train is two-fold. First, we’re humble. We’re not trying to be military or law enforcement. We’re just learning some … Continue reading →

Episode-1288- Listener Feedback for 1-27-14

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Today on the Survival Podcast I take your comments, questions and thoughts on politics, teaching, education, permaculture, mushrooms, bitcoin, net neutrality, PermaEthos  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 Facebook from emails that I can’t fit on the program though so … Continue reading →

Episode-1287- Listener Calls for 1-24-14

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Today on The Survival Podcast I take your calls on permaculture, guns, real estate, nuisance animals, MRSA, community, chickens, cover crops, libertarianism, bitcoins and peaceful conflict resolution. Remember to be on a show like this one just pick up your phone and call 866-65-THINK. The best way to improve your chances of being on the air is ask your question or make your point up front, then provide details. Also please do your best to call from a quiet area with a good connection and speak up so you can be well heard. I can’t put all calls on the … Continue reading →

Episode-1286- Raising Rabbits with Rebecca Colvin

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Rebecca Colvin has been raising show rabbits for the past 17 years. During this time she has seen and done pretty much everything you can think of with regards to raising rabbits, breeding, showing, heat problems, ventilation, pests, diseases, and so on. Throughout the 17 years Rebecca has won at many shows and placed well at the national level. She raises Mini Rex for most of that time; they are a small cousin of the Rex rabbit, which is commonly used for fur and meat. The Mini Rex is more commonly used for the pet trade but they taste just … Continue reading →

A Look At The Flexability of a Steven Harris Mobile Battery Bank

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As most of you know we are running a workshop February 20, 21 and 22.  At that workshop among other things we will be building three mobile battery banks in three different pick up trucks like the one in this video. The video below is the end of the third video in Steven Harris back up batter power video series.  You can purchase all three of them and all the components to build systems like this at Battery1234.com. The thing is I wanted everyone to get a taste for how flexible this system is.  So I asked Steve to share … Continue reading →