Perennial Vegetables for your Homestead- TSP Rewind – Epi-321

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In this episode from 2017 we turned our focus on food production in our own back yards.  The plants I will describe here are wonderful for growing in just about any environment.  And even though they are perennials most will do find in containers and wicking beds, etc.  Indeed a few are custom made for such applications though normally not grown that way. Perennials are wonderful because they either come back on their own every year or they require very minimal effort to assure their return each year.  Many are even considered weeds or a nuisance by the unknowing.  Yep … Continue reading →

Laws of Life Updates, Hard Covers, Work Books & More

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Jack here checking in from vacation in Estes Park, Colorado.  I know, I know… “But Jack, you should relax on your vacation”. It really is okay, guys. This work I am doing was the plan. This vacation is really, for me, a writer’s retreat. I get up at 5 AM daily just like always, my family doesn’t think about getting out of bed till at least 7:30.  Most mornings I see Dorothy about 8, my son about 9 and the kids and daughter-in-law about 9:30.  And since I am not doing podcast work, that means I get more time to … Continue reading →

Gun and Hunting Wisdom of our Fathers – TSP Rewind – Epi-320

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In this episode from 2015 we talked about guns today, but a bit differently then you might expect from a “survival podcast” to do.  No ARs, no concealed carry and no ninja like accessories. No today I want to tell you about the gun wisdom I learned at the hands of my grandfather and father as a young man.  The stories, lessons and realities that made me love guns as the tools they truly are. You may be shocked to learn I didn’t grow up hearing much about the 2nd amendment or gun rights.  Where I grew up boys hunted … Continue reading →

The Laws of Life Channel Is Live

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I have a new YouTube channel up for the **Laws of Life** books.  You can find it here. Right now we are putting up one to two videos a day as we get closer to the launch of both books. Laws of Life, Book One, Ditch the System, Design Your Life, Second Edition launches on June 15th Laws of Life, Book Two, Now Build the System for Your Life, launches on June 30th ` This channel is not just some boring book promo thing where I sit around saying, “hey buy my book,” over and over again. That would suck. … Continue reading →

Understanding Caliber, Millimeter, Gauges & Ballistics – TSP Rewind – Epi-319

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I did this episode back in 2012 when I stated I wanted to do some more shows on firearms topics I was flooded with emails by new shooters that all basically said some version of this… “Jack can you do a very basics style show that explains what all these calibers and rounds mean.  Sometimes when you are talking about a firearms subject I am fine then you start saying something like the 38 special is 35 caliber and I just don’t get it.  Or that a 40 S&W is equivalent to a 10mm in a carbine.  None of this … Continue reading →

Ben Franklin on Modern Survivalism – TSP Rewind – Epi-318

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When I did this episode back in 22012 ut was because I got a ton of emails on an article called. 8 Personal Finance Lessons from Benjamin Franklin that was published on the very cool blog, The Art of Manliness. Several dozen of you told me that this article sounded like 8 things I say often on TSP. So rather than read the article at all I decided to do the show based just on the 8 tenets of Franklin and see how much in sync we really are or are not. One thing for sure old Ben’s advice seems … Continue reading →

Brad Thor on his New Book Choke Point – Epi-3854

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Brad Thor joins us today to discuss his new Scot Harvath thriller, Choke Point. Brad is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of twenty six thrillers, with a career built on taking real world threats, intelligence failures, terrorism, geopolitics and national security blind spots, then turning them into fiction that feels a little too close to tomorrow’s headlines. This is not just a conversation about a new book. Brad has served as a member of the Department of Homeland Security’s Analytic Red Cell Unit, lectured law enforcement on future threats, and even shadowed a Black Ops team in Afghanistan … Continue reading →

Expert Panel Q&A – Epi-3853

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Today on The Survival Podcast expert council, we cover a wild mix of geopolitics, medicine, homesteading, dogs, disease, Bitcoin storage and the collapse of faith in college degrees. Ron Paul and Dan McAdams join us to talk about how the United States should have voluntarily left the Middle East years ago, and now it is being kicked out the hard way. Andy McCann gives us the bad and the ugly on GLP1s for weight loss, beyond the hype and magic shot nonsense. Kerry Brown answers a practical herbal question on making comfrey salve from roots versus leaves, and Joel Ryals … Continue reading →

Law of Life Book Two is Dropping on June 30th

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On Tuesday June 30th Laws of Life – Book Two – Now Build the System for Your Life will drop for sale on Amazon.  We will also be releasing the 2nd Edition of Laws of Life – Book One – Ditch the System, Design Your Life about the same time. Book Two is far more than an extension of Book One.  During the time I wrote the second book I developed an entire new system within it.  Each chapter now has a functional structured formula to reinforce the law and make them more practical in your day to day life.  … Continue reading →

Homesteading, Mars and the Future of Freedom – 3852

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Today we are joined by Travis J. I. Corcoran to talk about what it really takes to build a life, a homestead, or even a full settlement when there is no big system coming to save you. This is about food, repair, local production, trade, family, community and the real limits that show up when theory runs face first into reality. Travis and his wife walked away from lucrative tech careers in Massachusetts and built a more self reliant life in New Hampshire. That experience led him to write Escape the City, a practical homesteading guide based on what actually … Continue reading →