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Episode-2835- From Zero to Prepped Fast, Cheap and Easy

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This is the show I have been promising since the great Texas Black Out a few weeks ago.  A show designed to help you get prepared for the most likely failures you can expect to occur in our country.  These preps will revolve around 6 survival needs and one more item, they are Need – Food Need – Water Need – Energy Need – Security Need – Shelter Need – Health and Sanitation Nice to Have – Comfort Items   These seven Items can be thought of like walls around a room, as soon as you define the purpose of … Continue reading →

Episode-2303- The Basics of Being Prepared for Most Things – Part Two

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Note – A commercial free version of this episode and part one will both be released later this week for sharing.  I may also put them on Youtube for the same purpose. We just had one hell of a hurricane in the Carolinas and the problems there are far from over. Storm season is still upon us and there will likely be at least one more major storm impact this year. Next up, well winter is on the way, blizzards and ice storms are soon to follow. Next thing you know it will be spring, time for mudslides, tornadoes and … Continue reading →

Episode-2299- The Basics of Being Prepared for Most Things – Part One

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Note – A commercial free version of this episode for sharing will be releases next week when part two is also available so that they may be shared together. We just had one hell of a hurricane in the Carolinas and the problems there are far from over.  Storm season is still upon us and there will likely be at least one more major storm impact this year. Next up, well winter is on the way, blizzards and ice storms are soon to follow.  Next thing you know it will be spring, time for mudslides, tornadoes and other “fun stuff”.  … Continue reading →

Episode-1437- Assessing Readiness to Real World Scenarios

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Note – If you send this show to a new listener and they want to skip the intro, have them jump to 11 minutes in. This show is sort of a beginners show and also at the same time a whack the “experienced prepper” with the 2×4 of reality show.  Recently we started doing the “Monday Prepper Scenario” and the entire point of it is a trickling in of the subject we will cover in depth today. The truth is many people who fancy themselves preppers are not actually preparing for the most likely disasters and emergencies they will face.   … Continue reading →

Episode-916- Anthony Veltri Author of Katrina A Journey of Hope

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Anthony Veltri served as a lead physical scientist in charge of the Department of Homeland Security’s iCAV geospatial system and 24×7 geospatial mapping production center which is charged with map production for a variety of natural and man made incidents. In short, if it made the front page of CNN.com and it had the potential to impact the nation’s critical infrastructure and key resources, chances are, his team made geospatial products for it. He is a long time listener to TSP podcasts and an avid lurker on the forum. He is also the author of Katrina – A Journey of … Continue reading →

Episode-899- Security During a Break Down – (TSP Classic Orginally Episode 489)

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When I first ran this episode in August of 2010 my good friend Bryan Black from ITS Tactical stated, “This is likely the most important thing on security you have ever done.” We are going to look at a bit of a darker subject today. We are going to discuss security and not security on a day to day basis against say robbers, thugs and general low life. We are going to discuss security and security planning for large scale and long term break downs. Today’s show was prompted by Episodes 1 and 2 of season two of Discovery Channel’s … Continue reading →

Episode-893- Why Being a Lone Wolf Won’t Work for 99% or More of Disasters

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Many preppers seem to think telling anyone, anything about your views on preparedness is a huge mistake.  They point out it might make you a target of everyone who isn’t prepared when doomsday comes. Others seem to embody the very reasons others are so tight lipped about their preps.  These are the self absorbed jackasses that state nonsense like, “My AR15 and 2,000 round are all the survival kit I will ever need”.  Such people live in a world of Hollywood B movies and fan fiction novels.  In the real world such tactics are seldom effective for a variety of … Continue reading →

Episode-837- Matthew Stein on Prepping, Herbals, Self Reliance and More

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Matthew Stein is the author of When Disaster Strikes: A Comprehensive Guide to Emergency Planning and Crisis Survival (Chelsea Green 11/16/2011). This book has received excellent advance praise from experts on survival and disaster preparedness. Stein is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) where he majored in Mechanical Engineering. As the owner of Stein Design & Construction, he has built hurricane resistant, energy efficient and environmentally friendly homes.  The mechanical engineering side of his firm specializes in product design and development. Among other things, Mat has designed consumer water filtration devices, solar PV roofing panels, medical bacterial … Continue reading →

Episode-836- Understanding Multi System Dependence

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One concept that many modern survivalists aspire to is to be less dependent on “the system“ or independent of “the system”.   I know this seems like a great goal but the problem with it is that it is not “a system” or “the system” the reality is that we are dependent today on multiple interconnected systems. Each of these systems is becoming more globalized and centralized and the dependence upon them in growing at an alarming rate.  While there are more systems of dependency then the following today we will focus on what I consider the 8 largest systems of … Continue reading →

Episode-626- Prepping from Starting Out to Advanced Tactics

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With the disaster in Japan I am getting a lot of emails from brand new people and long time listeners, the basic question is “what should we do”?  Well this may be hard for you to believe given the non stop media coverage of the burning reactor but the answer is, unless you are in Japan you should probably not do anything.  That said getting out of Japan unless you are part of the relief efforts probably isn’t a bad idea. You certainly shouldn’t go spend 100 dollars for a bottle of potassium iodine on eBay because you will be … Continue reading →