TweetToday on The Survival Podcast I take your questions on guns, cooking, aquaponics, online security, life insurance, cryptocurrency, investing, irrigation and more.

Remember to be on a show like this one just pick up your phone and call 866-65-THINK.

Make sure if you submit content for a feedback show that you put something like “comment for jack”, “question for jack” or “article for jack” in the subject line to assure proper identification for my screening process.

Please understand I receive several hundred emails a day and can’t get them all on the air.

I also do put out a lot of information on Facebook from emails that I can’t fit on the program though so keep em coming.

Join Me Today As I Respond to Your Calls and Discuss…

GunAdapters – added to the MSB and why you should care

A new use for acorn squash – amazing soup!

How to size your bell siphons relative to a grow bed

Getting good bacteria into a new aquaponics system

A casting call for those living off grid via Gary Collins

Managing all your passwords securely

One more time, why I hate, more accurately loathe whole life insurance

How does Ethereum benefit from alt coins spun off of it

What to do with stock dividends in an IRA

Of drip irrigation, soaker hoses and hard water

Why the TSP method of prepping works for someone almost every day

Resources for today’s show…

Join the Members Brigade

Join Our Forum

The Year 87

Walking To Freedom

TspAz.com

The Granddaddy’s Gun Club

Bullhead Fishing Forum – A new little site I started

Get Your Liberty Forum Tickets – Use Code tsp10 for 10% off all tickets.

API Quickstart Aquarium Bacteria

Nobody Told Me – John Lennon

Sponsors of the Day

TSP Business Directory

Harvest Eating

Remember to comment, chime in and tell us your thoughts, this podcast is one man’s opinion, not a lecture or sermon. Also please enter our listener appreciation contest and help spread the word about our show. Also remember you can call in your questions and comments to 866-65-THINK (866-658-4465) and you might hear yourself on the air.

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Today its Friday so it’s time for expert council show. To ask a question for a show like this, just send an email to me at jack at thesurvivalpodcast.com with “TSPC Expert” in the subject line.

Today the expert council answers questions on coffee, wetlands, blockchain, prepping for new parents, knives, firearms, the constitution and more.

In the body of your email first tell me the council member your question is for. Second ask your question concisely in one to two sentences maximum. Third any and all details after that. This is the formula to give you the best chance of getting on the air.

I do what I can to get as many of your questions as possible on the air but can’t always get to all of them. Our council is made of a wide variety of experts in everything from the tactical to the practical and everything in between.

To get more information on our Expert Council visit our “Meet the Expert Council Page” to learn more about them and their specific areas of expertise.

Join Me Today As Our Experts Discuss

Forget decaf, how do we make hi caf coffee – Nicole Sauce

Of roads and wetlands – Ben Falk

What is the deal with Dragon Chain – Ben Fitts

What to do when a new baby is coming as a prepper – Mike and Sue

What to look for in a survival/back packing knife – Patrick Roehrman

Firearms storage when kids are involved – Dan Ohmann

Thought on the Jeff Sessions decision about cannabis – Jack

Resources for today’s show…

Join the Members Brigade

Join Our Forum

The Year 86

Walking To Freedom

TSP Gear

PermaEthos.com

TspAz.com – support TSP when you shop on Online

Grandaddy’s Gun Club

Bullhead Fishing Information

Dragon Chain

BoomDock – Security for Long Guns

SentrySafe for Hanguns

Borrowed Time – John Lennon

Sponsor of the Day

ButcherBox

Websites of the Expert Council Members

MT Knives

GrassFedHomestead.com

CryptoSkim.com

Humble Mechanic

Living Free in Tennessee

Harvest Eating

Old Grouch Military Surplus

Steven1234.com

Permaculture Classroom

A Bee Friendly Company

Investable Wealth

NW Edible

Permies.com

Primal Power

GeoffLawton.com

DarbySimpson.com

Whole Systems Design

Doom and Bloom

HaloBySue.com

Remember to comment, chime in and tell us your thoughts, this podcast is one man’s opinion, not a lecture or sermon. Also please enter our listener appreciation contest and help spread the word about our show. Also remember you can call in your questions and comments to 866-65-THINK (866-658-4465) and you might hear yourself on the air.

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A published author, full time blogger, and entrepreneur; Ryan Mitchell has been building exciting things all his life. His entrepreneurial ventures have been featured in the New York Times, Fast Company, Forbes, Associated Press, and many other outlets.

In 2009 he started TheTinyLife.com where he documented his journey to tiny house living and a debt free life. He published the number one selling tiny house book to date and has been living in his tiny house full time for over 4 years.

In 2015 he continued his entrepreneurial endeavors and founded Advent Coworking, where he built a community of like-minded entrepreneurs in a coworking setting. After being named the number one coworking space in Charlotte, NC three times in a row, he sold the venture to pursue new endeavors.

Ryan joins us today to discuss Tiny Houses as a step in an integrated plan to attain a debt free lifestyle along with self-employment as an entrepreneur.

Resources for today’s show…

Join the Members Brigade

The Year 86

Join Our Forum

Walking To Freedom

TSP Gear

PermaEthos.com

TspAz.com – support TSP when you shop on Amazon

Grandaddy’s Gun Club

Bullhead Fishing Information

TheTinyLife.com

Tiny House Living – Ryan’s Book

Working Class Hero – John Lennon

Sponsors of the Day

Safecastle Royal

Bob Well Nursery

Remember to comment, chime in and tell us your thoughts, this podcast is one man’s opinion, not a lecture or sermon. Also please enter our listener appreciation contest and help spread the word about our show. Also remember you can call in your questions and comments to 866-65-THINK (866-658-4465) and you might hear yourself on the air.

Join the MSB Today

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Remember in addition to discounts to over 40 vendors who supply stuff you are likely buying anyway, tons of free ebooks and video content, MSB Members also get every edition of The Survival Podcast ever produced in convenient zip files in blocks of 24. More info on the MSB can be found here.

TweetToday on The Survival Podcast I take your questions on permaculture, community service, lethal force, education, working the systems, parenting, guns and more.

Remember to be on a show like this one just pick up your phone and call 866-65-THINK.

Make sure if you submit content for a feedback show that you put something like “comment for jack”, “question for jack” or “article for jack” in the subject line to assure proper identification for my screening process.

Please understand I receive several hundred emails a day and can’t get them all on the air.

I also do put out a lot of information on Facebook from emails that I can’t fit on the program though so keep em coming.

Join Me Today As I Respond to Your Calls and Discuss…

Of public food forests, community service and being a “heathen”

Thoughts on lethal force and duty of retreat

Pulling kids out of school, limitations on parents as teachers & more

The economics of Uber by an Urber Eats driver – #workthesystem

The parenting of young children in the modern age

Water storage beyond soda bottles in cold climates

Building an indoor quail aviary

Thoughts on Hatfield Shotguns

Resources for today’s show…

Join the Members Brigade

Join Our Forum

The Year 85

Walking To Freedom

TspAz.com

The Granddaddy’s Gun Club

Bullhead Fishing Forum – A new little site I started

Get Your Liberty Forum Tickets – Use Code tsp10 for 10% off all tickets.

The Hatfield Shotgun

One Example of a Survival Shotgun Built on the Hatfield

Instant Karma – John Lennon

Sponsors of the Day

Western Botanicals

Self Reliance Magazine

Remember to comment, chime in and tell us your thoughts, this podcast is one man’s opinion, not a lecture or sermon. Also please enter our listener appreciation contest and help spread the word about our show. Also remember you can call in your questions and comments to 866-65-THINK (866-658-4465) and you might hear yourself on the air.

Join the MSB Today

Want Every Episode of TSP Ever Produced?

Remember in addition to discounts to over 40 vendors who supply stuff you are likely buying anyway, tons of free ebooks and video content, MSB Members also get every edition of The Survival Podcast ever produced in convenient zip files in blocks of 24. More info on the MSB can be found here.

TweetToday is an episode of TSP Rewind, commercial free versions of past podcast episodes.

Today’s episode was originally, Episode-62- Episode-342- Alternative Ways to Evaluate Property and was first published on Dec. 22nd, 2009.

The following are the original show notes from that episode.

If you talk to most good real estate agents you will get great advice on buying property, IF, you want buy a typical house in the city or suburbs with the intent of moving every 5 years.  Yet if you want something to sculpt, to create something unique with, a place to really LIVE, here are some alternative things to consider.

Tune in today as we discuss…

If you have paid for real estate that you live in it doesn’t matter if property values drop

Growing areas are NOT good places to buy a home

Why you want natural water on property and some alternative ways to get it

What are micro climates and how can they be utilized

Thoughts about wildlife on your property the good and the bad

Evaluating things on property that would take 10 or more years to create

Flat land is not always good land, some slopes are desirable

Evaluating the micro and macro community before becoming a part of them

The advantages of near by public lands like national forests, state game lands, etc

Is the area live stock friendly, do you want it to be

No HOAs, HOAs are evil creations that avocate your liberty

What is a community covenant, the anti thesis of an HOA

What can a property become is more important that what it is right now

Resources for today’s show…

Members Support Brigade

TSP Gear Shop

Join Our Forum

TSP’s Youtube Channel

Remember to comment, chime in and tell us your thoughts, this podcast is one man’s opinion, not a lecture or sermon. Also please enter our listener appreciation contest and help spread the word about our show.  Also remember you can call in your questions and comments to 866-65-THINK and you might hear yourself on the air.

TweetToday is an episode of TSP Rewind, commercial free versions of past podcast episodes.

Today’s episode was originally, Episode-802- Permaculture Misconception vs. Reality and was first published on Dec. 13th 2011.

 

The following are the original show notes from that episode.

The Forest is the Teacher, Not the End Goal – Photo Credit to Axel-D via Flickr

I keep quite a few things set up on Google New Alerts.  That is where you run a search for a term on Google News and ask them to send you an email when ever a given word or phrase pops up in the news.  So as you might imagine I do this for terms like “pandemic”, “economic collapse”, “natural disaster” and many others related to the preparedness industry.

I also have terms set up that are more on subjects connected to basic self sufficiency and homesteading.   As you might imagine I include the term “permacuture”.  The other day that alert sent me a link to an article called, “Traditional Farming in the Rain Forest”, it led to an article that was a scathing retort on permaculture calling it basically useless.

The author gets almost every single part wrong.  It wasn’t that we disagree mind you it was that his claims and assertions were simply 100% inaccurate.  Despite this it  has helped me to better understand many of the objections I hear about permaculture.  Today I plan to discuss them and try to answer some of these objections, hopefully with a now better understanding of what the objection is really all about.

Join me today as I discuss…

1 Prime Directive + 3 Ethics = Permaculture

Common Objections to Permaculture (none of which are based on reality)

The Rain Forest can’t feed as many people per acre as a farm

If we don’t do anything and let nature take its course we will starve

We need annual crops too not just perennials

Permaculture only produces weird things no one eats

Permaculture is limited to forest gardening

All permaculture amounts to is good organic gardening

Permaculture is all about growing food and plants

We can’t have productivity with out fertilizer and irrigation

We have to till soil to plant modern crop

Resources for Today’s Show…

Members Support Brigade

TSP Gear Shop

Join Our Forum

Traditional Farming in the Rain Forest – (Misguided article I read today on air)

Podcast I did with Paul Wheaton – Lessons From the Forest (Warning Paul’s standards for language are lower then mine on TSP, the f word does get used.)

TweetMost of today’s show is a recreation of 2008’s Christmas special. Today we pause and take a moment to reflect on Christmas and how it has become the Holiday we celebrate today. Many American’s have no idea just how Christmas became unique here in America, the role it played in bringing our nation together after two wars of independence and the civil war.

Christmas is special and a time to pause and reflect. Christmas is indeed a special time of year, today I will cover many aspects of it that may make this Christmas just a bit more special. There is also a full text transcription on of the non commercial portion of today’s show in the show notes below.

Tune in today to hear about…

Christmas was banned in England at one time and even parts of America

Early Americans didn’t really celebrate Christmas, (congress was in session on Dec 25th, 1789)

In the early 1800s Christmas was a rowdy holiday spurred by class conflict, turmoil and unemployment

In 1819, best-selling author Washington Irving wrote The Sketchbook of Geoffrey Crayon bringing us many “ancient customs”, he simply invented

Leading up to the Civil War, Christmas was a “southern holiday” and Thanksgiving a “northern holiday”

How Christmas and Thanksgiving together helped to heal a young America

Today is a time to pause, reflect and just be, prepping, planning and stress will all wait patiently for you

Different ending music for today’s show! The most beautiful version of Oh Holly Night I have ever heard, just pause, listen and realize what really matters while it plays.

Resources for today’s show…

Written Transcript of the Original Christmas Show (right click and save as for best results)

Video I Made Using the Song By Martina McBride “O Holy Night” (song from the end of today’s show on Youtube)

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Today its Friday so it’s time for expert council show. To ask a question for a show like this, just send an email to me at jack at thesurvivalpodcast.com with “TSPC Expert” in the subject line.

Today the expert council answers questions on back up heating, cooking grass fed beef, cookware, the carnivore diet and more.

In the body of your email first tell me the council member your question is for. Second ask your question concisely in one to two sentences maximum. Third any and all details after that. This is the formula to give you the best chance of getting on the air.

I do what I can to get as many of your questions as possible on the air but can’t always get to all of them. Our council is made of a wide variety of experts in everything from the tactical to the practical and everything in between.

To get more information on our Expert Council visit our “Meet the Expert Council Page” to learn more about them and their specific areas of expertise.

Join Me Today As Our Experts Discuss

Back up heating – Steven Harris

Cooking grass fed beef – Keith Snow

Working with copper cookware – Keith Snow

The carnivore diet – Gary Collins

What the hell is up with the drop in bitcoin – Jack

The advantages of flow though wicking beds – Jack

Thank you for another great year – Jack

Resources for today’s show…

Join the Members Brigade

Join Our Forum

The Year 82

Walking To Freedom

TSP Gear

PermaEthos.com

TspAz.com – support TSP when you shop on Online

Grandaddy’s Gun Club

Bullhead Fishing Information

Silent Night – Lindsey Stirling

Websites of the Expert Council Members

MT Knives

GrassFedHomestead.com

CryptoSkim.com

Humble Mechanic

Living Free in Tennessee

Harvest Eating

Old Grouch Military Surplus

Steven1234.com

Permaculture Classroom

A Bee Friendly Company

Investable Wealth

NW Edible

Permies.com

Primal Power

GeoffLawton.com

DarbySimpson.com

Whole Systems Design

Doom and Bloom

HaloBySue.com

Remember to comment, chime in and tell us your thoughts, this podcast is one man’s opinion, not a lecture or sermon. Also please enter our listener appreciation contest and help spread the word about our show. Also remember you can call in your questions and comments to 866-65-THINK (866-658-4465) and you might hear yourself on the air.

Join the MSB Today

Want Every Episode of TSP Ever Produced?

Remember in addition to discounts to over 40 vendors who supply stuff you are likely buying anyway, tons of free ebooks and video content, MSB Members also get every edition of The Survival Podcast ever produced in convenient zip files in blocks of 24. More info on the MSB can be found here.

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TweetAaron Dorr is a Michigan born native. Growing up in rural northern Michigan has its advantages for a young boy and he spent most of his youth in the woods hunting and otherwise learning about the great outdoors.

At 17 he enlisted in the USMC reserve and after his initial year of training returned home to serve out his contract with 6th ESB, start a family, and earn his degree from Northwood University.

In recent years his gravitation toward the outdoors has only increased as he has discovered his new addiction to trapping.

In June of 2017 he launched Bandit’s Outdoor Supply LLC,  a small start up with a mission to get you into the woods, swamps, and marshes of this great country.  He joins us today to discuss trapping as a skill set, a hobby, a source of income and a source of meat.

Join Us Today as We Discuss…

Legal forms of trapping legal

Is trapping humane

Why trap and how does it fit into a lifestyle of preparedness

Once you harvest an animal what do you do with it

Is it safe to eat trapped game

What is your preferred target species for meat and why

Where should someone start looking for recipes

Who buys fur and where can it be sold

What advice would you have for someone who wants to get started

Resources for today’s show…

Join the Members Brigade

Join Our Forum

The Year 83

Walking To Freedom

TspAz.com

The Granddaddy’s Gun Club

Bullhead Fishing Forum – A new little site I started

Get Your Liberty Forum Tickets – Use Code tsp10 for 10% off all tickets.

Hunter, Angler, Gardner, Cook

TSP Episode on Cooking Fish and Game

Wolfer Nation on Youtube – Clay Locklear’s Channel

BanditsOutdoor.com

A Mad Russian’s Christmas – Trans Siberian Orchestra

Remember to comment, chime in and tell us your thoughts, this podcast is one man’s opinion, not a lecture or sermon. Also please enter our listener appreciation contest and help spread the word about our show. Also remember you can call in your questions and comments to 866-65-THINK (866-658-4465) and you might hear yourself on the air.

Join the MSB Today

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Remember in addition to discounts to over 40 vendors who supply stuff you are likely buying anyway, tons of free ebooks and video content, MSB Members also get every edition of The Survival Podcast ever produced in convenient zip files in blocks of 24. More info on the MSB can be found here.

TweetToday is an episode of TSP Rewind, commercial free versions of past podcast episodes.

Today’s episode was originally, Episode-1976- Why I Switched to Aquaponics and was first published on April 4th, 2017.

Here are some resources mentioned in today’s new introduction.  The video playlist of the new aquaponics project is here and the Gerber EAB Lite Item of the Day his here.

You can also find the video for I Won’t Be Home for Christmas by Blink182 here and the LED Lights I am trialing here.

The following are the original show notes from that episode.

A Simple Flood and Drain Bed Made With a 14 Gallon Mixing Tray

Right out of the gate “switched” may not be the best word here, but it certainly applies to my growing of annual vegetables. It may have been a better title to have said, “Why I Changed My Mind About Aquaponics. Today I want to take a new look at aquaponics and try to demystify it a bit so that it is a bit more approachable at the small end of the scale to anyone.

The reality though is until recently I always looked at aquaponics this way, “what a great thing, for other people to do”. I wasn’t opposed to it, I just had my own ways and well they worked. Well until I moved to this limestone ledge we call a farm.

I met a good friend named David and he told me how much food they were producing on their small property and together we designed the systems I now run on my property. Today I will talk about them and give you some simple ways to get started for a few hundred dollars with 100% off the shelf prices.

Join Me Today to Discuss….

What is aquaponics in a nut shell

The three main grow beds and what they are best for

Ebb and Flow (aka flood and drain)

Deep Water Raft

Wicking Beds

Additional components

Choosing a Pump

What makes a bulkhead a good bulkhead

The basics of a bell siphon

A simple flood and drain system and a few options on building it

100 Gallon Stock Tank with 4 Ebb and Flow Beds $310.00

150 Gallon Stock Tank with 6 or more Ebb and Flow Beds $460.00

3 x 100 Gallon Stock Tanks with 6 or more Ebb and Flow Beds $560.00

300 Gallon Stock Tank with 6 or more Ebb and Flow Beds $570.00

Add $90.00 to the above prices for the larger pump

Incorporating deep water or wicking into these designs

The value of shade cloth or eastern sun and western shade

Some additional ideas and thoughts

Adding a duck weed biofilter bed

How to make an “aquarium siphon”

Protecting your pump with a bucket or a bag

When IBCs make a lot of sense

Lava Rock, Expanded Shale and Expanded Clay Pebbles

Plant propagation with ebb and flow

Replanting produce with ebb and flow

Final thoughts

Resources for today’s show…

Join the Members Brigade

The Year 1976

Join Our Forum

Walking To Freedom

TSP Gear

PermaEthos.com

TspAz.com – Support TSP When You Shop Amazon

My Playlist on Aquatic and Aquaponic Systems

Rob Bob’s Backyard Farming Channel – Lots of Aquaponics

Rubbermaid Stock Tanks at Tractor Supply

The 3/4 inch bulkheads for the concrete food and drain beds

Pump I recommend for larger systems (I use this in my aquatic system of garden ponds)

Pump I recommend for small systems (huge bang for the buck)

Danner Pond Pump Protection Bag

Python Aquarium Vacuum

Remember to comment, chime in and tell us your thoughts, this podcast is one man’s opinion, not a lecture or sermon. Also please enter our listener appreciation contest and help spread the word about our show. Also remember you can call in your questions and comments to 866-65-THINK (866-658-4465) and you might hear yourself on the air.

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Remember in addition to discounts to over 40 vendors who supply stuff you are likely buying anyway, tons of free ebooks and video content, MSB Members also get every edition of The Survival Podcast ever produced in convenient zip files in blocks of 24. More info on the MSB can be found here.

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