Monthly Archives: June 2019

Episode-2461- Expert Council Q&A for 6-28-19

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Today its Friday so it’s time for the 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 on The Survival Podcast, the expert council answers questions on knives, electric vehicles, teaching, exercise, pasture establishment, investing, cryptocurrency 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 … Continue reading →

Episode-2460- Understanding Disease Resistant Vegetable Varieties

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The typical story about disease and vegetables is something like this from the all natural crowd…. Just use compost and good organic fertility, build good soil and it won’t be a problem. Yea, um, about that, look good soil, good fertility and abundant soil life and minerals go a long way to healthy plants, but they don’t eliminate all diseases.  Some of my beans are developing a fungus referred to as rust this year.  Why?  It is so much wetter then normal.  The same beds are growing jalapenos the size of cigars, there is nothign wrong with the soil. In … Continue reading →

Episode-2459- Dillon Allen and when TSHTF for an Old Man & The Sea

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Dillon grew up in Mississippi before going to DC to serve in the Navy. In DC he designed and built nuclear reactors, which he has talked about on the show before, back on episode 2253. He grew up sailing and recently made a passage from Houston to New Orleans, which is what he’s here to talk about today. He’s been listening to the show since 2010 somewhere in the neighborhood of episode 500 and has been engaging as a member of the community as Angusbangus via the blog, TSP and Facebook forums, Permaethos, 5min with Jack, Walking to Freedom, & … Continue reading →

Episode-2458- Dropping the Denominator

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Have you ever heard the phrase, “the lowest common denominator”.  While this is an actual mathematical principle it has also become a colloquialism meaning to cater to the lowest preforming member of a given group. Today that group is the people of the United States and the performance metrics are basic intelligence, critical thinking and the ability to use logic and reason. In essence a better title for this show may be “lowering the common denominator” with the sub title of “the dumbing down of America”, but I simply feel dropping the denominator sounds better and requires more thought, and … Continue reading →

Episode-2457- Listener Feedback for 6-24-19

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Today on The Survival Podcast I answer your questions on community, economics, aquaculture, guns, trucks, cryptocurrency, social media, cooking, education, gardening, rats, business 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 … Continue reading →

Episode-111- TSP Rewind – How Liberty Creates Inequality and Why that’s Good

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Today is an episode of TSP Rewind, commercial free versions of past podcast episodes. Today’s episode was originally Episode-2000- How Liberty Creates Inequality and Why that’s Good and was originally published on May 9th, 2017. The following are the original show notes from that episode… There is a fallacy out there masquerading as a universal truth, and that is that our goal in society should be equality for all. That inequality should be eliminated, period. Politically many people have many different views on how that should be done, however the average person would agree that inequality is a bad thing, … Continue reading →

Episode-110- TSP Rewind – Getting Ready for Fall Gardening

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Today is an episode of TSP Rewind, commercial free versions of past podcast episodes. Today’s episode was originally Episode-1835- Getting Ready for Fall Gardening and was originally published on July 26, 2016. The following are the original show notes from that episode… Today it will be over 100 in much of the nation. This is our toughest time of year in central Texas. Grass is turning brown and the other thing that really thrives are snake, lizards, grasshoppers and things that eat grasshoppers. Shade is the number one commodity if you are out side. Even as a boy in Pennsylvania … Continue reading →

MSB on Sale – One of my Best Deals Ever

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Starting tomorrow, June  the 11th and running until June the 23rd I will be on vacation.  While we are not flying out until the 13th I am taking two days of staycation to batten all the homestead hatches down before we leave.  I will be running rewinds for the 9 show days during that time. I figured it has been a long time since we did a MSB sale so this would be a great time to do one.  Oh and folks this is gonna be a good one.  30 bucks a year, which is a discount of 20 dollars … Continue reading →

Episode-109- TSP Rewind – The Bright Future of Homesteading in America

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Today is an episode of TSP Rewind, commercial free versions of past podcast episodes. Today’s episode was originally Episode-1171- The Bright Future of Homesteading in America and was originally published on June 2nd, 2015. The following are the original show notes from that episode… In the 70’s there was a very large back to the land movement that just didn’t last. Many are calling the current boom in gardening and small livestock keeping something similar, but that is quite short sighted. To begin with the current boom in such things really began about 2006 and was in full swing by … Continue reading →

Episode-108- TSP Rewind – There is no Sovereignty without Mental Sovereignty

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Today is an episode of TSP Rewind, commercial free versions of past podcast episodes. Today’s episode was originally Episode-1586- There is no Sovereignty without Mental Sovereignty and was originally published on June 2nd, 2015. The following are the original show notes from that episode… Today we get back into The Insurgency Series with more on mental sovereignty. I define mental sovereignty as follows Mental Sovereignty – the ability to fully and wholly think for oneself by using logic, reason and all available fact to form truly independent opinions and then take useful personal action based on them. Such actions may … Continue reading →