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You can't predict the future, but you can prepare for it. The Practical Prepper provides interviews around the topics of preparedness, survival, and self-reliance. Your show hosts Nick and Joe, will guide the conversation, take complex issues, and break them down in a consumable way.

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What is Happening? | Crypto...

10.13.2022

News moves quickly these days. It seems like we are constantly jumping from one shock to the next. In this episode, Nick and Andy uncover some of the current issues including: crypto, nuclear weapons, missing submarines, speeches from Putin, and ...

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10.13.2022 What is Happening? \| Crypto, Nuclear Weapons, and Speeches from Putin News moves quickly these days. It seems like we are constantly jumping from one shock to the next. In this episode, Nick and Andy uncover some of the current issues including: crypto, nuclear weapons, missing submarines, speeches from Putin, and ...
08.25.2022 Outdoor Survival \| How To Prepare For Beach Backpacking In this episode we welcome back Fred for another conversation surrounding outdoor survival. This time, he brings along his son, Daniel, as they recall their most recent backpacking excursion down the east coast. They covered about 47 miles in 3 ...
08.18.2022 Government Overreach \| Cold War 2.0 Recently, New York City released a Nuclear Preparedness PSA video. This is not the first time the government has used fear as a means to control the public. In this episode, Nick and Andy take us through a historical look ...
07.21.2022 Prepping With Your Family \| Speaking With Rachel On today’s episode, we are speaking with Rachel again to talk more about how she raises her children in the current digital age that we are all a part of. “They have to learn how to fail. That is when ...
07.15.2022 Homesteading and Sustainable Family Living \| Speaking With Rachel On Today's episode we have a special guest, Rachel, who will be telling us about her and her family's experience homesteading and how she teaches her children to prep and live sustainably. "So I want their first option to not ...
05.20.2022 Outdoor Survival \| The basics of being prepared for an outdoor adventure Part 2 In this second part of Outdoor Survival with Fred, topics covered include the best hiking footwear, water filtration, and some of Fred's hikes he has planned for the Summer. When it comes to water filtration Fred states..."My absolute favorite is ...
05.12.2022 Outdoor Survival \| The basics of being prepared for an outdoor adventure Part 1 In today's episode Nick unpacks some great adventures with our guest, Fred. Listen and learn from an outdoor enthusiast's trials and tribulations. "So I'm expecting to come down and maybe we're going to see a bear finally. And he stops ...
04.29.2022 Daily Preparedness \| Adam of Everyday Survival In this episode, Joe speaks with Adam, the host of the podcast: Survive Everyday. No matter what you're preparing for, tornadoes, fires, inflation, whatever, you still need to survive today, right? We approach the conversation of preparation in a very ...
03.25.2022 Cancel Culture and Freedom of Speech \| Speaking With Daisy Luther On this episode, we are joined again by Daisy Luther of The Organic Prepper. Cancel culture, censorship, and accountability are present in the media and it's all controlled by one narrative. How is this happening in the USA? Is critical ...
03.07.2022 Financial Preparedness \| Why Is Inflation Out of Control? Inflation has reached new heights. This information-packed episode sheds light on the ever-increasing prices with which we must confront each day. Have you ever wondered why the cost of products and services keeps rising? You're not alone; a lot of ...
02.21.2022 Prepping For The Year Ahead \| Speaking With Daisy Luther As we have settled into 2022 a little bit, now is a good time to step back and take a look at what's left to do. In today's episode we speak with Daisy Luther, the founder and publisher of 3 ...
02.07.2022 What is EMP? \| How You Can Prepare For An Electromagnetic Pulse Attack In this episode of the Practical Prepper Podcast, we break down all things electromagnetic pulse, or EMP. The Host of today’s episode, Nick, speaks with Andy about how you can prepare for an EMP attack. Andy spent a decade in ...
11.12.2021 A Veterans Day Salute To Mothers In today’s episode of The Practical Prepper Podcast, Joe speaks about Veterans Day with a little bit of a new perspective by interviewing 2 women who are mothers of men who are in the army and marines. We also hear ...
08.09.2021 Camping Survival - Everything You Need In Your Camping Kit In today's episode, Smitty discusses the barest of survival camping instructions, what you need to pack in your camping backpack. It's time to prepare and have a plan and supplies in case an accident happens. Today's episode is brought to ...
08.02.2021 Why Floods Are The Deadliest Type of Emergency You Need to Be Ready For Today, we break down the rationality as to why Floods are the deadliest of natural emergencies. Schmitt discusses exactly how underprepared we have been when facing the danger of floods. What is the real cost of experiencing a flood? And ...
07.27.2021 Doge and Other Things That Don't Matter in an Emergency In this episode of the Practical Prepper Podcast, Schmitt looks at his long-lost friends’ modern-day lifestyles and remembers how easy it is to place value in frivolous things that really bear no gain to the self in the long run. ...
07.19.2021 What I Wish I Knew About Prepping Before I Started We weren’t born into this life of prepping. We were molded by it. We learned to adapt and overcome to prepare ourselves for any emergency that may come our way. But, not everyone became the flawless prepper they are today ...
07.12.2021 Does History Repeat Itself? \| How You Can Be Ready for Post-COVID Inflation History may repeat itself but no one can truly know what events the future may bring. Nor can they know how the economy will fare as we return back to full operation. Financial security should be a top priority for ...
07.05.2021 Economic Fallout - Why Closing The Country Will Lead to Years of Problems On this episode of the Practical Prepper Podcast our newest host, Schmitty joins the family. He’ll be here with you today to discuss critical aspects of the economic fallout we may see as a result of closing the country last ...
06.30.2021 How to Defensively Layout Your Home \| Home Security Overview Part 5 In the final part of this series, Ken discusses how you can set up the layout of your home to be tactfully sound and puts you and your loved ones in the best possible spot to ward off an intruder. ...
06.28.2021 HOME SECURITY OVERVIEW PART 4 IN HOME DEFENSE FIREARMS - audio only In part 4 of 5, Ken breaks down the essentials to safety and security when having firearms in the household and how you can defend your property and loved ones correctly. Today's episode is brought to you by Valley Food ...
06.21.2021 In Home Defense Without Firearms \| Home Security Overview Part 3 In today's episode, Ken returns again to continue talking about home security and specifically how to defend you and your loved ones without a firearm. Even if you have a firearm, Ken gives great tips and ideas for when you ...
06.14.2021 Home Security Overview Part 2 Assessing Your Inside Perimeter - audio only In part 2 of this 5 part series, Ken looks at the inner perimeter of a young couple's home for possible security risks that they don't even know about. Ken discusses how to reinforce your doors and windows from a ...
06.11.2021 Assessing The Wide Perimeter of Your Home \| Home Security Overview Part 1 In today's episode, Ken walks through the outside perimeter of a young couple's home to address any security risks he sees. Today's episode is brought to you by Valley Food Storage. If you're ready to start preparing for the unknown, ...
06.09.2021 Bug Out Vehicle - The Best Bug Out Vehicle for When SHTF Joe is joined by Jordan again to go through the best bug out vehicles from the affordable to the absurd. This episode's sponsor is Valley Food Storage. It's always the time to prepare for an emergency, and VFS is here ...
06.02.2021 Survival Prepping is The New Normal In today's episode, Joe is joined by Jordan from Valley Food Storage to talk about 2020 and what we just went through, and how survival prepping has become the new normal. Click here to unlock a special offer from Valley ...
05.14.2021 Cyber Terrorism - How To Combat An Unseen Enemy In today's episode, Joe is joined by "Andy," a cyber-terrorist expert and active CIA asset that fights every day to protect our cybersecurity. This was recorded before 2020, and it's incredible how Andy predicts the issues we see with the ...
02.24.2020 27 Preparing for Winter Storms - Part 5: Winterizing My Home As self-reliant individuals, we think through the idea of sheltering in place, of surviving in the cold, and of preparing for blackouts. Preparing for a winter storm is preparing for all three at the same time. Here is the list ...
02.06.2020 027 Preparing for Winter Storms - Part 4: Stranded In My Car. What's Next? Well, that stinks! Hopefully, a friend is on the way or your insurance company has free towing. Not Self-Reliant enough for you? Fine! Let's take this from a more extreme position (because it's what we do) and let's assume you ...
01.24.2020 026 - Preparing for Winter Storms - Part 3: Preparing Your Car For Winter As I mentioned before, getting your car ready for winter is pretty important to me. Here is the checklist I go through to 'winterize' my truck.
01.17.2020 025 - Winter Weather Series - Part 2: 9 Things That Scare Me About Winter Weather Winter weather can turn dangerous quickly. Let me tell you about the 9 things that scare me about Extreme Winter Weather.
01.09.2020 024 - Winter Weather Series - Part 1 So I am writing this the first week of January and I am in the Great Lakes Region of the United States... that can only mean one of these days we are going to have some pretty bad snow - ...
12.17.2019 023 - Carrying Systems for Gunfighters with Green Beret Ken Roberts I asked my friend and Gren Beret Ken Roberts for some advice on how to pick the right carrying system for me a 3 gun competition. Practical shooting has become one way for me to get more time on the ...
12.12.2019 022 - Listener Questions: What Duration To Prepare For? How long should you prepare to be without resources? There is not a person listening to this that has not asked that question. For as many people who have asked the question, there are that many different answers. This week ...
12.05.2019 021 - Solar vs Wind We haven't covered much on the side of power, but power is one of the essentials that you need these days. I know there are minimalists that would disagree with me here, but people just don't live that way anymore. ...
11.27.2019 020 - Millennial v. Master Sargent: Gun Terms You Might Hear On The Range Odds are if you are on this page you heard a phrase or military term at the gun range you just weren't sure you knew. This article is designed to fill you in on military terms you may not know. ...
11.21.2019 019 - PACE: Planning to Fail Many of you have heard the old adage "One is none, two is one" and as self-reliant individuals, we truly live by that mantra. But what if your second idea falls through, what next? The Army teaches Primary, Alternate, Contingency, ...
11.11.2019 018 - Veterans Day From the Eyes of a Green Beret WWI -Armistice Day On a very typical cool and damp autumn day nearly 37 miles north of Paris, France, I field of generals and diplomats meet aboard the rail carriage of French General Ferdinand Foch. It is nearly dawn on ...
11.06.2019 017 - Hotshots, Goats, and Ronald Reagan Ronald Reagan Presidential Library President Ronald Reagan is one of those few presidents that has successfully crossed political lines in his career, leaving a legacy in the hearts of Americans. The physical structure that holds his legacy and remains was ...
10.30.2019 016 - Idols of a Nation Any culture in history that has survived the test of time has developed symbols, rituals and even idols that bind the culture together. Only very few symbols are raised to the level of an idol and I would say the ...
10.24.2019 015 - 5 Mistakes I See People Make When Buying Food Storage So I am hearing a lot of questions from people who are new to buying Food Planning and so I thought I would share with you today the top 5 mistakes people make when buying long-term food storage, so let’s ...
10.17.2019 014 - The Value of Higher Education The Numbers: $5,504 - The annual cost of enrolling in a 4-year university in the United States in 1985 $12, 274 - What it would cost in today's dollars to attend a year of education in 1985 $26,593 - What ...
10.10.2019 013 - Urban Apiaries: The 5 things you need to know before considering bee keeping Sponsor Valley Food Storage NSRI30 30% off orders of $100 or more Show Topic Top 5 reasons why should you start an urban apiary? Topics (you list the reasons and we will talk through them. If 5 doesn’t fit, just ...
10.03.2019 012 - 5 Best reasons that you should be prepared Unemployment 30% Percent of Americans that are self-employed or employed by a company with less than 20 people 35% The percent of the workforce that is comprised of millennials 1:2 The chances that a dual-income household will experience a loss ...
09.26.2019 011 - Cyber-Hacking: Is your Identity Safe? Sponsor: National Self-Reliance Initiative Special Offer: Join NSRI and get Privacy Patrol included... Plus get a member t-shirt, Field & Stream Magazine, Outdoor Magazine, $250 in Travel credits each year and unlimited content. Plus you get to support the podcast ...
09.20.2019 010 - When you should pack your weight in bacon Show Notes: Podcast 10 - When you should pack your weight in bacon Today's Sponsor: Valley Food Storage Coupon Code: NSRI30 Discount: 30% off your order of $100 or more By the Numbers: 2,170 - Miles long the Oregon Trail ...
09.11.2019 009 - 18 years later - Remembering our Heros Facts (care of CNN): Nineteen men hijacked four fuel-loaded US commercial airplanes bound for west coast destinations. A total of 2,977 people were killed in New York City, Washington, DC and outside of Shanksville, Pennsylvania. The Victims: At the World ...
09.05.2019 008 - Prepare & Respond: The gun debate - Government v Business Sponsor: Steel River Co. https://steelrivercompany.com/ Discount Code: NSRI30 for 30% off your purchase of $100 or more (one per customer through the end of the month) In the last few days, Big business and government have been making some announcements ...
08.29.2019 007 Prepare & Respond: Hurricane Season Hurricanes are the most impactful and costliest natural disaster that we face in the United States. They are also the most likely natural disaster to impact a person in a coastal region - that's a quarter of the US population. ...
08.22.2019 006 - 3 things you need to know about pending Social Security Legislation Ronald Regan once said, "The nine most terrifying words in the English Language are - I'm from the Government and I'm here to help". The Gipper obviously was well aware of the Social Security Program and as humanitarian as FDR's ...

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