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Episode-2719- 20 Skills and Actions you Really Need for the Coming Future

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I was thinking a lot this morning as I took care of my garden about how much we have done here to make our lives wonderful.  And not just wonderful but non brittle, resilient and largely unaffected by societies nonsense.  Write before starting this write up I watched my grandson finish one of his home school lessons and take a nap on the floor with the dog because he wanted to.  15 minutes later I went to fill my coffee cup and he was back at his lessons, no one told him what to do, he just did it, he’s … Continue reading →

Episode-2581- Getting Started with Welding on a Budget

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Nathan Walters is a Professional Metal Fabricator and Welder. Won multiple competitions, showcased creations on the news, multifaceted back ground, creating my own mobile fabrication business for the common family.   He joins us today to discuss the skill sets of welding and metal fabrication and how they can improve the modern survival lifestyle. Join Us Today to Discuss… The three primary means of welding The best bang for the buck in a welder for getting started How to put together a good set of safety gear and stay safe when welding How to get metal for your projects for 80-90% … Continue reading →

Episode-2540- 10 Life Skills We Should Teach Every Child

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Well the truth is these are 10 life skills we should be teaching every child and many adults who never learned. them.  I have done shows like this before but I want to come at it from a slightly different angle today.  More along the lines of the process behind the skills.  In other words you can teach someone to cook but showing them how a stove and a knife works and giving them recipes.  That is basic technique teaching.  Of you can teach the process and theory behind cooking and a person can then create meals on the fly … Continue reading →

Episode-1052- The Need for Skill Set Development in a Changing World

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Today we announced a new feature to 13skills.com that will improve interaction among members.  This got me thinking that while I often talk about our need to improve skills (specifically hard skills) I have not ever really done a dedicated show specifically going into the actual reasons that such skills are so important. Our modern age has lulled us to sleep but most people that listen to TSP are aware that major changes are not just coming, in many ways they are happening right now, in front of our eyes.  We live in a society where people “call a guy” … Continue reading →

Episode-797- Avoiding Prepper Burn Out

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I have received a ton of comments and emails lately with the term “prepper burn out”, used in them.   The reality is much of this is seasonal, I am now going into my fourth Christmas season producing this show and I can tell you, “burn out” for many is part of the good old fashioned “winter blues”.  Hell the shorter days, cold nights and dampness make you down enough, thinking about the threats out there sure as hell doesn’t make things any brighter. Yet the issue is real, it is also why I spend a ton of time on subjects … Continue reading →

Episode-676- Home Brewing – Tips, Tricks and Recipes

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Today we go into some tips, tricks and recipes to complete our mini series on home brewing.  Yesterday we focused on the equipment, the basics of how to, the role of ingreedents and developing a basic understanding of brewing equipment and technology. Today we get much deeper into various ingredients and adjuncts.  We discuss specialty malts, hone, fruit, beer styles and more. Beer is at the same time remarkably simple and extremely complex, on one level it is simply a form or sugar (usually malted barley), water, hops and yeast.  On the other hand there are millions of ways that … Continue reading →

Episode-675- Building the Home Brewers Kit and Understanding Beer

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I haven’t gone into home brewing for a long time and thought I might do a couple shows on it this week.  Today we start out not so much with how to brew (though we will cover it a bit) but the “hard items” you need to brew great beer at home. Then tomorrow in part two we will go into tips and tricks for better brewing, some recipes I have developed and discovered over the years and more. My hope is that more of the audience will take the time and effort to develop brewing and vinting as self … Continue reading →