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Episode-1987- Urban Survival with “Pat Watson”

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~ Pat Watson, has served as an active duty military member in the Coast Guard for over 8 years completing several overseas deployments for missions including anti-piracy off the coast of Somalia, Counter-Narcotics patrols in the Caribbean and Pacific theaters, as well as domestic Coast Guard deployments. He is currently a local Law Enforcement Officer in Florida and is constantly training and learning new skill sets to bring to his profession and to use for on and off duty survival. Pat has decided to take the step towards income freedom and is in the beginning stages of building his website … Continue reading →

Episode-1228 – Sam Coffman on Scenario Based Training

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Sam Coffman is the founder and director at The Human Path – a survival school in the central Texas area that teaches a wide array of skills.  Such as urban and wilderness survival to wilderness first aid, tactics, tracking and naturalist studies, homesteading, intentional communities, tactics and self-defense, tracking, off-grid engineering, plant medicine and much more. Sam is also co-founder of Herbal Medics – a non-profit organization with the goal of teaching and using plant medicine and self-sustainability concepts (off-grid engineering, in remote, post-disaster and inner-city areas. Sam’s medical background started as a U.S. Special Forces (a.k.a. “Green Beret”) medic … Continue reading →

Episode-570- Sam Coffman from TheHumanPath.com

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Today we are joined by former special forces solider and wilderness survival trainer Sam Coffman of TheHumanPath.com to discuss survival training, permaculture, rebuilding after collapse and more. The Human Path is an ecology-based, wilderness-survival and wilderness-living school offering a huge variety of outdoor, bushcraft classes (outdoor fitness, wilderness and primitive living skills, wilderness medicine, herbology, self defense, teamwork and leadership, primitive engineering, permaculture certification, aquaponics, green building and much more) in both the San Antonio and Austin areas of Texas. Join Me Today as we Discuss… What is “The Human Path” what was the inspiration for the name How is … Continue reading →

Episode-495- The Unique Needs of the Urban and Suburban Prepper

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This is basically a continuation of a two part series on urban and suburban life.  Yesterday in Episode 494 we discussed Urban homesteading, today we discuss prepping in the city or suburbs.  While there are many unique components to prepping in a population center vs. a remote area many of the steps are identical.    As always it comes down to the fact that as humans we have five primary needs and the commonality of disaster leads us to prepare in any situation based on them. Join me today as we discuss… Always start out understanding the 5 needs Water Food … Continue reading →

Episode-215- Advantages for the Suburban Survivalist

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Typical survival mentality is to be as remote and self sufficient as possible to avoid mob mentality in a SHTF scenario.  There are also however, considering disaster probability, some real advantages for the surburbanite who is both prepared and “plugged in” to his neighborhood. We also videoed the action inside the car today, that will be published tomorrow. Tune into today as we discuss some advantages like… Suburbanites have more people to work with if you can organize them They have more “buying power” and will continue to get materials longer in a shortage You can take advantage of “efficiency … Continue reading →

Episode-214- Survival Podcast Audience Questions 6-05-09

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We are continuing a series of listener questions today.   Since it was done from the “mobile studio” there are no call ins or anything.  These are all questions sent in by email, asked in comments, asked on the survival forum, etc. I would like to continue doing this type of show often so if you want to have a question answered send me an email to jack@thesurvivalpodcast.com with the subject line “question for Jack” Tune in to hear me answer these questions today… Are there advantages to bugging in for surburbanites? What is a cheap way to get into … Continue reading →

Episode-99- Container Gardening for the Urban Survivalist

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Today’s show covers ideas and options for various forms of container gardening to allow production by urban survivalists that rent, have an apartment or need to garden in winter. Tune in today to hear… An announcement about the Listener Appreciation Contest Thoughts on some of president Bush’s pardons (a slap in the face) A unique concept for a cinder block based raised bed A growing container is anything that holds enough dirt Unusual options for containers in green houses Using indoor growth lights Using tires to grow potatoes Easy ways to grow onions, garlic and other crops with what you … Continue reading →