Reflections on 3000 Episodes of The Survival Podcast – Epi-3000
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Today I invite you to reflect on 3,000 episodes of The Survival Podcast with me. When I started this show almost 14 years ago now, I knew it would become something amazing. But I had no idea how amazing the journey would be or that some day I would be doing my 3,000th episode.
My original plan was for this to be just another show, but this morning I thought it really was time to look back and reflect on what TSPC has become, what it has meant to so many and how grateful I am to still be here, doing what I really feel is my true life’s work.
Join Me Today to Discuss…
- How it all started, Glenn Beck on Talk radio and a client that wanted a podcast
- Who I was – 36 vs. who I am – 49
- The early years, the first 1,000 listeners, the crazy commute and 18 months to full time
- The truth is I was in bad physical condition and I battled weight up and down until a few years ago
- The Revolution is You, meeting Greg Yows and what we accomplished in just 2 years of work
- Some failures or at least not total successes and lessons from them
- PermaEthos
- Mulligan Mint
- Crypto Gulch
- Some huge successes, some which were more about others than us…
- Smoking the Salem Phone Lines for Jan Cline
- Being called a jerk
- Episodes 1000 and 2500
- The MT Knives Program
- CAC Teams
- Being Featured on Permaculture News, working with Geoff Lawton, Permaculture Voices, etc.
- Being on Glenn Beck and Judge Napolitano’s show
- Duck Chronicles
- Winning Podcast of the Year – Beating out Adam Curry btw
- The 10 Year Celebration
- Embracing and Talking about Crypto
- Unloose the Goose
- The sub communities over the years, ReGen Ag, Zello, MeetUps, Discord, Telegram, etc
- The move to Arkansas and return to Texas
- TSP Workshops
- Some shows I am really proud of
- Getting Your Spouse on Board – link
- The Documentation Show – link
- Raising Resilient Children in a World Full of Wusses – link
- Dealing With Violent Confrontations – link
- The two Holiday Shows – link to Thanksgiving and Christmas – The Christmas Show was the first one not in my car
- The Zombie Halloween Show – link
- From Pawn to Personal Sovereignty – link
- Join the Quiet Insurrection – link
- Episode-348- Listener Feedback 1-04-10 – link – first one ever after I went full time!
- 50 second segment where I almost got t-boned from behind during a car podcast – link
- What is your favorite show?
- People I want to thank, I can’t do everyone please forgive me if I don’t mention you
- My Wife Dorothy
- Everyone that is a member or ever was a member of MSB
- All Sponsors but especially The Berkey Guy, Safecastle and Ready Made Resources
- Josiah Wallingford
- Greg Yows
- Ron Hood
- John Willis
- James Yeager
- Dene Brock – If I Wanted to Save America Video
- Howell Dodd
- Diego Footer
- James Talmage Stevens
- Steve and Bill and now Tom
- Sis Wolf and TW
- Glen Tate
- Steve Larkin
- Jake Robinson
- David Seigler
- John Dowie
- Hogeye Harry
- Bryan Black
- Alex Shrugged
- Michael Adam – And everyone at Appleseed
- John Adam – (no relation to Micheal)
- The Entire Council – (Past and Present)
- I certainly did not do all this alone!
- What’s Next
- You ain’t seen nothing yet
- The 15 year celebration
- Anarchopolco
- Building up the Live Streams
- A crypto education program, a hydro education program
- Working with Ken Berry on Something Amazing
- I am going to try to be less comfortable and find that hunger again
- The single best two choices I’ve made even if doing otherwise would have made me “bigger”
- It is always going to be about you guys, that I promise – you guys are what this really is all about
Resources for today’s show
- Follow Life With Jack on Instagram
- Join the Members Brigade
- Join Our Forum
- Walking To Freedom
- TspAz.com
- TSPC on Discord
- TSPC Group on Telegram (group chat)
- TSPC Telegram Channel (just messages from me)
- Jack on Flote
- Jack on MeWe
- Join Me on Odysee
- Buy Crypto Safe and Easy on CoinBase
- My Favorite NoKYC Cryto Exchange CoinEx
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Big congratulations, especially on making your listeners part of it all. Thanks for what you do and involving so many others.
Been here 11 of the 14 years and still love the show. I don’t know how you keep the passion for what you do this strong but you do and I appreciate it. Thank you Jack!
Well done Jack.
Been a while, but the once “King of Negative Karma” sez ‘Congrats’! and a future with another 10000 plus shows.
Again, congrats
Hey Jack, Suzanne from Michigan. My TSP days started back in the Jetta TDI days. Listened to you on my desktop computer in my office. I remember you had a dog that had passed away at that time. How I happened upon your show in the first place escapes me. I did check in with a guy named James Rawles once in awhile so maybe he supplied the link. I enjoy a lot of your content especially lately. Congrats on 3000, a very noble milestone, well worth downing a shot of something.
Huge congrats on 3000 Jack! Because of you I moved my family from HOA hell suburbs to 6 acres in the urban-rural fringe. 8 minutes from a major grocery store, and 30 minutes from a semi major city. But zero HOA and the land is specifically zoned “rural agriculture” where the township charter states the goal is to ‘stop urban sprawl and allow a quiet rural life.”
Because of you I’ve raised chickens for 6+ years, jumbo pekin ducks in my front yard one year, have a fruit orchard of 50+ trees planted, and a huge garden.
I tell this story often, but I realized I had to move when I was carrying a ten foot board from my car to the back yard to build a garden bed, and my board hit my house, and my neighbors house at the same time! I remember being utterly shocked that my house was less than ten feet away from my neighbors!
My quality of life is infinitely better than in the suburbs, and my kids get to run around and play in the “woods” and not have to worry about an HOA blue haired Karen calling CPS because my kids are throwing rocks at a tree.
Unfortunately, I very recently had a critical health issue that had a 50% chance of dying. And in the 60 minutes while I was waiting for the surgery team to arrive and the ER team was talking to me about what level of advanced life support I’d want to be on I thought about, “if this is it, how do I feel?” And I had an extreme calm. Through your help I have plenty of life insurance for my family, I’ve raised them well, I provided a great living environment for them. If this is my time to go, I will greatly miss my children growing up, but I’ve done everything right, and they will be ok.
I can’t say that would have been the case before you.
Thank you Jack. I hope you know how many tens of thousands of lives you have positively impacted.
Eric from Michigan
Congratulations!
A huge accomplishment & a great example of how much can be accomplished by getting up and plugging away day-after-day.
Looking forward to the next 1000 episodes =)
3000 podcasts is a monumental achievement. Congratulations Jack & Dorothy! TSP is unique in that I’ve not found any podcast with 200,000 regular listeners where the host regularly invites the listeners into their home. Your efforts are amazing and we’ve all grown better together because of it. Best wishes for a spectacular 2022!
I started listening way before the 1000th episode. I remember listening to all the stories in the 1000th episode, thinking that even back then my life was significantly impacted by your work.
Thanks for all the time and effort you are putting into this show.
I made some additional progress in my preparedness since, and I must say that a lot of it is thanks to you.
I started listening at the “Raising Resilient Children in a World Full of Wusses” episode. It was mentioned in Geoff Lawton’s newsletter and the title immediately grabbed me. What I have enjoyed more than anything from you is that you have given me an ideology to follow. I was sick of politics but had never put any thought into what the solutions are. I now consider myself an anarchist, and due to a preparedness mindsight, am now a better husband and father thanks to you.