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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 happens when you start doing the work instead of just reading about it.

We will get into the overlap between homesteading here on Earth and frontier settlement anywhere else, including Mars. What systems have to work first? What breaks when you depend on distant authorities? What kind of people and institutions are required when survival depends on local skill, maintenance and production?

Travis is also an award winning science fiction author, and his newest novel, Red State Mars, takes these same questions off world. It looks at Mars not as some sterile exploration project, but as a real place where families, communities and free people have to grow food, fix machines, build trade and defend themselves.

This should be a great conversation on resilience, liberty, engineering, repair culture and why independence is not a slogan. It is a set of systems, habits and skills that either work when tested, or fail when you need them most.

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• TSPC on Discord
• TSPC Group on Telegram (group chat)
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• All My Recommend Bitcoin Tools and Resources
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Travis’ Links

• Red State Mars
• Escape the City – Volume One
• Escape the City – Volume Two
• Travis’ Author Page on Amazon
• Travis on X for Book Things
• Travis on X for NH and Liberty Things
• Ark Press on X

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