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Today on The Survival Podcast I take your questions on hoses, lay offs, side hustle tax implications, multiple income streams, invasive plants, soil amendments, hydroponics, investing, heating with compost, confirmation bias, higher education and more. 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 th...

Today is an episode of TSP Rewind, commercial free versions of past podcast episodes. Today’s episode was originally Episode-711- Lessons from The Man Who Stopped the Desert and was originally and was first published on July, 27th, 2011. I have to point out that I had forgotten about doing this episode all the way back in 2011, it has after all been about 7 years.  Recently though someone posted i...

Today its Friday so it’s time for the 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 on The Survival Podcast, the expert council answers questions on dogs, sharpening knives, diatomaceous earth, investing, home schooling, parenting and more. In the body of your e...

Today on The Survival Podcast I take your phone calls on water filters, pattern recognition, entrepreneurship, chickens, quail, growing vegetables, gun cleaning, fish keeping and more. Remember to be on a show like this one just pick up your phone and call 866-65-THINK. The best way to improve your chances of being on the air is ask your question or make your point up front, then provide details....

Gary Collins has a very interesting and unique background that includes military intelligence, Special Agent for the U.S. State Department Diplomatic Security Service, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Collins’ background and expert knowledge brings a much-needed perspective to today’s areas of simple living, health, nutrition, entrepreneurship, s...

Today we are going to talk about one of the primary support planks that need to be in place for real modern survival living.  It won’t be about storing food, the right guns, getting defense training or securing your property.  All of those are incredibly important and there is a ton more that is important as well.  That said, what is the primary leverage we use to get these things and many o...

Today on The Survival Podcast I take your questions on side hustles, taxes, fruit trees, flood zones, investing, saving money, starting plants, life insurance, mead, dogs, companion planting and more. 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 m...

Today its Friday so it’s time for the 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 on The Survival Podcast, the expert council answers questions on beneficial bacteria, winter farm activities, permaculture, supporting native wildlife, rural internet, fuel, silv...

Today on The Survival Podcast I take your phone calls on tools, financial education for out kids, marketing, life events, biltong, business management and more. Remember to be on a show like this one just pick up your phone and call 866-65-THINK. The best way to improve your chances of being on the air is ask your question or make your point up front, then provide details. Also please do your best...

Michael Sodini is the founder of Walk the Talk America.  An organization who’s goal is to raise awareness and create a change in the misunderstandings regarding mental illness and firearms by bringing together industry leaders to reduce gun violence, negligence, suicide and the trauma created by these events. Develop programs for suicide prevention, firearms negligence, trauma mitigation, an...

Today Steven Harris and I answer your questions on Bug Out Trailers. This time we discuss security while bugging out with a trailer or in any situation really. This is the ninth in a multi part series that began with Episode-2117- Steven Harris and Jack Spirko on Bug Out Trailers. As this is clearly going to become a multi episode series I have created the tag BOT Shows so that all of them can be...

Today on The Survival Podcast I take your questions on cell phones, the government shut down, spreading preparedness, dogs, life skills, aquaponics, silver, eggs, cooking and more. 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....

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 on The Survival Podcast, the expert council answers questions on communications, allergies, entrepreneurship, cooking, investing, brewing, mead making and more. In the body of your e...

Today on The Survival Podcast I take your phone calls on heating with wood, guns, red flag laws, brewing beer and mead, venison, meat production and more. Remember to be on a show like this one just pick up your phone and call 866-65-THINK. The best way to improve your chances of being on the air is ask your question or make your point up front, then provide details. Also please do your best to ca...

Zach Weiss is a protégé of revolutionary Austrian farmer Sepp Holzer, Zach is the first person to earn Holzer Practitioner certification directly from Sepp – through a rigorous two-year apprenticeship working on projects in North America and Europe. Blending a unique combination of systems thinking, empathy and awareness, Zach created Elemental Ecosystems to provide an action-oriented proces...

Most 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 pa...

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 on The Survival Podcast, the expert council answers questions on decluttering, solar power, wicking beds, cats, online selling, cooking meat, investing, guns and more. In the body of...

Please Note – the following write up on Doc Bones was written by Doc Bones himself.  Not sure if he was daring me to run it with the show, but if so, don’t dare me to do shit, I likely will do it. Joe Alton is an old so-and-so who thinks he knows what he’s talking about, even while drooling on his shoes in his rickety rocking chair. He somehow has held on to his medical license f...

Today I was chatting with Nicole Sauce on facebook and discussing what to do for today’s show.  One thing she suggested was perhaps, “why libertarians often come off as assholes and what they can do to better serve their marketing push“.  It didn’t slip by me that Nicole said libertarians vs. Libertarians. In libertarian circles capital L means the LP, as in the official Li...

Today on The Survival Podcast I take your questions on budgets, guns, quail, dogs, social programming, employment, herbs, education, pepper groups and more. 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 rec...

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 on The Survival Podcast, the expert council answers questions on livestock, investing, wound treatment, mead, cryptocurrency, finding your purpose, making tea and more. In the body o...

Today on The Survival Podcast I take your phone calls on cooking, real estate, saving cash, canning, CBD products, social media, buying a vehicle and more. Remember to be on a show like this one just pick up your phone and call 866-65-THINK. The best way to improve your chances of being on the air is ask your question or make your point up front, then provide details. Also please do your best to c...

Ryan Lewellin, along with his wife Mary, runs Red Dragon Herbs, a loose leaf tea business in Des Moines, Iowa that primarily sells at farmers markets and craft shows in and around central Iowa. Red Dragon Herbs is in it’s third year of business and runs as a “side hustle” between a full time job, a couple of small children, a podcast and other distractions. Ryan joins us today to...

As we head into Christmas time I thought another sort of fun show would be in order.  First I was going to just do a show on mead today but then I realized that not everyone imbibes, so I decided to do a two fer, half on making meads and half on making sausage.  While good sausage and meads do pair well, I figured this show would also pair well with last weeks stand alone show on Making the Most o...

Today on The Survival Podcast I take your questions on food preservation, entrepreneurship, emergency preps, interacting with law enforcement, precious metals, indoor farming, teaching firearms safety to kids and more. 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 id...