Monthly Archives: July 2017

Episode-2054- Listener Feedback for 7-31-17

Posted on July 31, 2017 by Modern Survival| 18 Comments
Episode-2054- Listener Feedback for 7-31-17 [ 1:35:58 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

jackspirkoToday on The Survival Podcast I take your questions on spot changes, a tipping economy, gardening, cars, drug addiction, homelessness, investing and more.

Remember to be on a show like this one just pick up your phone and call 866-65-THINK.

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 keep em coming.

Join Me Today As I Respond to Your Calls and Discuss…

  • What is a spot change in regard to gold and other metals
  • The tipping economy and muh roads
  • Increasing fertility in a raised bed
  • Dealing with a car that is a lemon
  • When drug addicts are treated like criminals we all loose
  • The plight of the homeless and what are real solutions to the problem
  • The SEC gets involved with ICOs what will that mean

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Bitcoin Holders Please Read This

Posted on July 31, 2017 by Modern Survival| 31 Comments

As many of you know I went into mostly cash from my Bitcoin position leading up to tomorrow’s fork.  There were and in many ways are still to many unknowns.  However I took advantage of one of the many dips between my exit and today and bought about half of it back.

My ordinal intention was to once again exit before the fork, but now there are a lot more knowns.

I think we are going to get a better bitcoin and we are also going to get something called bitcoin cash.  However Coinbase has made a decision to not support bitcoin cash, and personally I have my doubts about their motives.  It could be they plan to claim all bitcoin cash for themselves.

Well what I am doing now is holding the bitcoin I bought back in a way where I can end up with equal amounts of bitcoin AND bitcoin cash after this mess is over and done with!

How can you do this, well one way is to right now move your bitcoin into an off chain wallet.  Others include….

  • Kraken is going to support both options, while I don’t think you should keep a lot of bitcoin on an exchange this is one option.
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  • I have been told bittrex is also supporting both options, same concerns as Kraken but again if you are holding it there it looks to me like you will get to have both when this is all over.
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  • Jaxx has announced coming support for Bitcoin Cash.  Jaxx users can do nothing and just wait for full integration and then you will apparently just have both once it is done.  Software wallets are not the most secure way to hold bitcoin but I personally think Jaxx is safer than an exchange.
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    Further with Jaxx you always hold your own private key so you can always choose to follow any chain you want with your Bitcoin.  So Jaxx may be the safest and easiest way to end up with both Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash for newbies who are not sure how to take their Bitcoin off chain yet.   Jaxx recently announced full support for Bitcoin Cash.  You can read all about that here.

As always this is not investment advice but I feel obligated to let this audience know what I am doing personally with bitcoin and all cryptocurrencies since I have discussed it so much on the air and many of you are holding crypto due to that.

Also there is a likely reality that bitcoin cash may be a total flop and not worth a damn, so don’t put money at risk to capture it, however, to me it just seems if you are holding any bitcoin now, before the fork move it so you can at least have the option to claim it.  Not to seems foolish to me.

For more info here is a list of exchanges that will support the fork.  Here is one opinion that basically bitcoin cash won’t be a big deal.

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Episode-2053- Expert Council Q&A for 7-28-17

Posted on July 28, 2017 by Modern Survival| 3 Comments
Episode-2053- Expert Council Q&A for 7-28-17 [ 2:13:36 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Today its Friday so it’s time for expert council show. To ask a question for a show like this, just send an email to me at jack at thesurvivalpodcast.com with “TSPC Expert” in the subject line.

Today the expert council answers questions on vehicles, detoxing, cryptocurrency, websites, cooking, politics and more.

In the body of your email first tell me the council member your question is for. Second ask your question concisely in one to two sentences maximum. Third any and all details after that. This is the formula to give you the best chance of getting on the air.

I do what I can to get as many of your questions as possible on the air but can’t always get to all of them. Our council is made of a wide variety of experts in everything from the tactical to the practical and everything in between.

To get more information on our Expert Council visit our “Meet the Expert Council Page” to learn more about them and their specific areas of expertise.

Join Me Today As Our Experts Discuss

  • Restoring a vehicle passed down in the family – Charles Sanville
  • Detoxing after a vaccine or really at any time – Gary Collins
  • Thoughts on the Shift Debit Card – Brandon Todd
  • Building sites with wordpress and learning code – Nicole Sauce
  • Reusing pickling brine – Erica Strauss
  • Dealing with a surplus from the garden – Keith Snow
  • The coming bitcoin fork – Brandon Todd
  • How we get from here to full government take over of health care – Jack

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Episode-2052- Listener Calls for 7-27-17

Posted on July 27, 2017 by Modern Survival| 8 Comments
Episode-2052- Listener Calls for 7-27-17 [ 1:35:48 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

jackspirkoToday on The Survival Podcast I take your calls on technology, knives, cats, gardening, back up power, teaching kids to invest 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.

While I can’t put all calls on the air but I do my best to get as many of them on as I can.

Join Me Today As I Respond to Your Calls and Discuss…

  • A perfect question to end the net neutrality discussion on
  • Thoughts on the Cutco brand of knives
  • Protection from predators for “outside cats”
  • Phone accessories for video and picture taking
  • Keeping deer out of your garden
  • Thought on using burned mulch, ashes, etc
  • Thoughts on back up cell phone power
  • How to know when and how often to water trees
  • Helping your children with saving and investing
  • Drip Irrigation with a Rain Barrel

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Red Star Cuvee & Pasteur Blanc Yeasts Item of the Day

Posted on July 27, 2017 by Modern Survival| 5 Comments

cuveeEvery 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 a two fer, because that is how I use them.  This is my go to yeast blend for small batch mead making.

I use one packet of each in both one and five gallon batches.

Yes, you can use part of a packet for a one gallon batch but when you realize how inexpensive it really is you will likely just opt for VERY fast fully attenuated fermentation.

The Two Items are…

  1.  Red Star Cuvee Yeast (pronounced cu vey)
  2.  Red Star Pasteur Blanc

Again I use one of each in my mead batches, it is the fastest finishing yeast blend I have come up with, it finishes nice and dry at 2.5 pounds to the gallon and leaves just a hint of sweetness at 3 pounds to the gallon which has become my go to during my “year of mead” experiments.

There are a few things to know about these guys to get the right deal on Amazon.

  1. Do not buy anything less than a 10 pack
  2. They are add on items so combine them or add them to other orders
  3. Don’t get screwed, there is NO SUCH THING as “Pasteur Blanc Champagne Yeast”

Item one is very self explanatory, let me explain the other two.  Okay as you might imagine shipping you 6 bucks worth of yeast would kill Amazon and its vendors on shipping, especially for prime members.  So they either have to jack up the price or charge more for shipping than the item itself  So what they have done with a lot of small items is require a minimum order of 25-50 dollars depending on the item.

So make note if you are a mead maker and just remember to add these guys the next time you order other stuff or add some cool mead making supplies like say Fermax Yeast Nutrient, Oak Infusion Spirals or say some awesome Vanilla Beans to your order.

blancOn point three, there are one or two vendors on Amazon selling an item listed as “Pasteur Blanc Champagne Yeast”, again such a thing does NOT exist, there is Pasteur Blanc an there is Pasteur Champagne, the packs are very similar yellow colors but again they are NOT the same yeast.

So make sure you are getting the ones I have linked to in this post if you want to use or try my recommended yeast blend.

For what it is worth, Pasteur Champagne is a fine yeast, it makes a decent mead,  it just doesn’t finish as fast and as clean as actual Pasteur Blanc does when teamed up with Cuvee.

I also do not have a clue as to what exact magic goes on when you use this blend, it was a happy accident, I just know it works.

Remember you can always find the TSP Amazon Item of the day by just going to TspAz.com and by shopping at TspAz.com anytime you shop on Amazon you help support TSP and the work we do here no matter what you buy.

 

 

 

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Episode-2051- The Future of Housing and Intentional Communities

Posted on July 26, 2017 by Modern Survival| 3 Comments
Episode-2051- The Future of Housing and Intentional Communities [ 1:36:06 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Since TSP announced the original Permaethos Model, Rob Kish has been working to make it a reality- with a few twists. He is a Manufacturing Engineer Technician for a medical equipment manufacturer and uses Permaculture troubleshooting methodology in an industry dominated by lean manufacturing to reduce costs and labor.

He joins us today to discuss my original vision for PermaEthos, a vision that never was achieved and frankly never attempted.

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Easy Weight – Fermentation Weights – Item of the Day

Posted on July 26, 2017 by Modern Survival| 4 Comments

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 are Easy Weight – Fermentation Weights.  I really like these things, though I have yet to order them.  They started turning up in my sales reports and I have done enough research to recommend them.

Frankly the idea is so simple that it really doesn’t seem much could go wrong with it.  In the past I have reviewed many products for fermenting in jars including the FermentEm 8-Piece Fermenting Kit and the Masontops Complete Mason Jar Fermentation Kit.  Both are great products that let you ferment with standard mason jars.  The MasonTops product also offers what they call pebbles, small round glass weights to hold your ferment under the brine, I have them, I really like them, but I don’t love them.

Why do I like them but not love them?  Well, they are smooth and a bit hard to put in nice and level and a bit of a pain to remove as well, as they do fit so perfectly.

Frankly I think I am going to love the Easy Weight – Fermentation Weights because they offer the function of the pebbles with the added feature of something as rudimentary as a handle.  This idea is so simple you wonder why someone didn’t do it sooner.

When you are fermenting the biggest rule to follow is “keep it under the brine and everything will be fine”.  These guys let you do that and make it convenient too.  At 21.99 per four they are quite affordable at about 5.50 a piece.  Do note they only come in one size, wide mouth mason jars.  Frankly I don’t use anything but wide mouth jars for fermentation anyway, so check out Easy Weight – Fermentation Weights today and make your fermentations even better than they already are.

Remember you can always find the TSP Amazon Item of the day by just going to TspAz.com and by shopping at TspAz.com anytime you shop online you help support TSP and the work we do here no matter what you buy.

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Episode-2050- A Current Look at the Great Lie of Dichotomy

Posted on July 25, 2017 by Modern Survival| 11 Comments
Episode-2050- A Current Look at the Great Lie of Dichotomy [ 1:26:04 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Occasionally I mention the “false dichotomy” but I have not done a full episode dedicated to it since Episode-874 back in April of 2012.  That is more than 5 years ago!  Since that time many of my positions have evolved but the basic concept of the false dichotomy remains.

I have been thinking about this a lot lately and nothing more clearly illustrates it than this common scenario.  I will post something on say facebook along with my opinion.  In that ONE SAME post upset people will attack me for my view in the comments.  That alone means nothing but here is where it gets interesting.

In that same set of comments I will be called both a

  1.  Liberal democrat snowflake that needs a safe space
  2.  And a hateful conservative republican that is to stupid and greedy to care about people

Or some such version there of!  Isn’t this ironic?  That two people that literally hate each other, will both hate me and accuse me of being the other side that also hates me?  I ask you does this make any logical sense?  No it doesn’t, until you approach the question from the right angle, when we ask why this happens, vs. simply if it makes sense, it actually makes perfect sense.

Join Me Today To Discuss…

  • The facebook conversation that brought us today’s show
  • How you have been programmed to think this way since birth
  • Why this method of programming is done and why it works so well
  • How we now have the monkeys policing the monkeys but no one even knows why
  • Why most people will never break free of this programming
  • Why breaking free is good but may not seem so at first
  • What good does it do one to break free from the false dichotomy
  • How to spread this type of thinking without making yourself miserable
  • The true freedom that comes from acceptance of this reality
  • Final thoughts on dichotomy and system based control

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Episode-2049- Listener Feedback for 7-24-17

Posted on July 24, 2017 by Modern Survival| 30 Comments
Episode-2049- Listener Feedback for 7-24-17 [ 2:06:56 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

jackspirkoToday on The Survival Podcast I take your questions on internet technology, automation, ethereum, plant propagation, government stupidity and more.

Remember to be on a show like this one just pick up your phone and call 866-65-THINK.

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 keep em coming.

Join Me Today As I Respond to Your Calls and Discuss…

  • Follow up on Net Neutrality objections
  • A new look at universal basic income and work in general
  • Why the latest Ethereum hack is actually a great case for cryptocurrency
  • Propagation of strawberry plants
  • The importance of procedure and protocols
  • When an infestation of a pest isn’t your fault or anything wrong with your property
  • When private citizens fixes something, government destroys it
  • Why civil asset forfeiture is completely unconstitutional

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Episode-2048- Expert Council Q&A for 7-21-17

Posted on July 21, 2017 by Modern Survival| 10 Comments
Episode-2048- Expert Council Q&A for 7-21-17 [ 1:41:28 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Today its Friday so it’s time for expert council show. To ask a question for a show like this, just send an email to me at jack at thesurvivalpodcast.com with “TSPC Expert” in the subject line.

Today the expert council answers questions on anemia, paleo eating, engineering, invasive species, mining ethereum, bees, home schools and more.

In the body of your email first tell me the council member your question is for. Second ask your question concisely in one to two sentences maximum. Third any and all details after that. This is the formula to give you the best chance of getting on the air.

I do what I can to get as many of your questions as possible on the air but can’t always get to all of them. Our council is made of a wide variety of experts in everything from the tactical to the practical and everything in between.

To get more information on our Expert Council visit our “Meet the Expert Council Page” to learn more about them and their specific areas of expertise.

Join Me Today As Our Experts Discuss

  • Preventing and treating anemia – Doc Bones
  • The myths of kidney damage from paleo – Gary Collins
  • What the heck does an engineer actually do day to day – Steven Harris
  • Dealing with a Chinese Tallow Tree invasion – Nick Ferguson
  • All about mining Ether and the ROI behind it – Brandon Todd
  • Dealing with a hive full of drone brood – Michael Jordan
  • The mythology of “socially awkward” adults due to home schooling – Jack

Resources for today’s show…

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Websites of the Expert Council Members

Remember to comment, chime in and tell us your thoughts, this podcast is one man’s opinion, not a lecture or sermon. Also please enter our listener appreciation contest and help spread the word about our show. Also remember you can call in your questions and comments to 866-65-THINK (866-658-4465) and you might hear yourself on the air.

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