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Episode-1127- Risk Assessments and Readiness Audits

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Time to take a real hard look at where you are, where you are going and whether or not progress is being made in your quest to be more self reliant and more self sufficient.  Today we begin with a review of my concepts of the inverse relationship between impact scale and disaster probability.  We then go into a look at assessing your most likely personal risk factors and your individual risk tolerance. From there we examine quite a few potential disasters and how they might effect you, how you would respond to them, where your are really shored up … Continue reading →

Episode-548- Help – I am Overwhelmed and/or Stuck

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I get a lot of emails that are in one form or another a version of today’s show title.  They go one of two main ways 1.  Jack, We are new to this and are having trouble getting started.  This is all so overwhelming we want to store food, learn to use firearms, plant a garden………………………..but just can’t seem to prioritize where to start. or 2.  Jack, We have at this a long time, we have food stored, a garden going, evac plans, taken some training, etc.  But we know we are still not really prepared for anything more than … Continue reading →

Episode-474- Disaster Probability, Impact and Commonality

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Today we take a new look at this primary concept of modern survival philosophy.  We examine how the concepts fo probability, impact and commonality of disaster interlock and how to use them in our planning process.  More importantly at the end we examine how they impact the human condition and what we can learn about ourselves if we are willing to face our collective fear and examine disaster with these three factors. Join me today as we discuss… What exactly is disaster probability and why should you care Why is impact second in the equasion What does commonality teach us … Continue reading →

Episode-328 Deception – Disasters – Commonality and Probability

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Today we do a bit of a mixed bag and then bring them together in the end.  Today as I broadcast from my home office with better audio I am watching a Texas snow fall so it is logical to talk about global warming for a bit.  The reason I am doing so is as usual when I mention it even in passing I get a lot of “hate mail” calling me things like “holocaust denier”, etc.   I wanted to go on record as the real environmentalist that I actually am, even though I believe man made global warming due … Continue reading →

Episode-264- The Core Concepts of The Survival Podcast Community

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Once again I am off at DirtTime09 in California so I knocked out this show on a Friday afternoon a week ago and set it aside to fill in another day during my absence. So what are we going to discuss today?  I thought it might be a good time to just back up a bit and talk about the unique concepts that we have developed together at The Survival Podcast.  Notice I said we not I because from day one the audience has been a huge part of not just the show but its’ development, direction and evolution. Tune … Continue reading →

Episode-246- Episode 2 of The Colony and Getting Started Prepping

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Today on The Survival Podcast in the intro segment we do a review of episode two of “The Colony” a new disaster based reality show from The Discovery channel.  After that we do our housekeeping and I tell you about a great sale from Safe Castle LLC on Mountain house and we then move into the topic of getting stated with your prepping or taking it to a new level. On getting started we start out with the three pillars to forming a modern survival plan, threat probability, threat impact and disaster commonality. Resources for today’s show… Members Support Brigade … Continue reading →