The Survival Podcast

Today the expert council answers your questions on failed foreign policy,  thyroid health, battery back up systems, choosing a fitness program, cooking, advanced AI prompting and more. Make sure if you submit content for an expert council show you do the following…. Email it to me at jack @ thesurvivalpodcast.com Put TSPC Expert in the subject line Ask you question and state the expert you have th...

Today we are joined by Andrew Impson to discuss home security for the everyday person. This is a practical discussion about how normal people can think about defending their homes in layers, identifying vulnerabilities before someone else does, and building a realistic security plan without turning life into paranoia. We will talk about how criminals assess homes and choose targets, why mindset an...

Today we have our first Tuesday Coffee Chat with John Willis of SOE Tactical Gear and Nicole Sauce of Living Free in Tennessee. These discussions are always a wildcard and can go anywhere. We usually hit on some current events of course. We also tend to talk about things like entrepreneurship, homesteading and a ton more. In general we try to inspire you a bit, make you laugh a few times, entertai...

Today the expert council answers your questions on both parties being nothing but a bunch of socialists with Ron Paul and Chris Rossini. Nick Ferguson covers the best way to root mulberry cuttings. Mike Milito gets into the ins and outs of dry fire exercises. Matt Sercely gives us his thoughts on selling property to a family member from a tax perspective. Nicole Sauce answers why you would ever ta...

Today we are joined by Chris Daigle to discuss what he has learned from 50 real world AI implementations. These are not lab tests, theory sessions, or corporate guessing games. These are actual deployments inside real companies, with real people, real workflows, real mistakes, and real lessons learned the hard way. A lot of companies know they should be using AI. Many of them already are, whether...

Today we discuss the launch of Laws of Life, Book Two, Now Build the System for Your Life. That matters because the world is not going to get less stupid any time soon. The fear machine is already spinning up another “new” virus that is not really new, with the same tired pattern. Find something rare, make it sound like the black death, then hope most people never check the math. We will talk abou...

Today on The Survival Podcast expert council weekly show we cover the Fed as a cartel of the biggest banks and why Ron Paul and G. Edward Griffin are right that its actions serve that cartel first. Patrick Roehrman joins us to talk about the Tumbler knife sharpener system and whether it is actually worth your money and time. Joel Ryals helps with a dog that is showing dog on dog aggression, what i...

Today Jesse Markowitz returns to TSPC to discuss the latest updates from Start9 and the continuing evolution of sovereign computing. We’ll dig into StartOS 0.4.0, StartTunnel, new networking capability, easier service packaging, privacy when hosting services over the internet, and what all this means for people who want real control over their digital lives. We’ll also look at what Start9 has comi...

Today we will have a discussion on a wide variety of topics.   First we will lead off with a bit of celebration as TSPC just turned 18 years old over the weekend.  We will also check out a song that a listener used AI to make about me and TSPC to celebrate the occasion.  It is pretty damn good given how quickly he made it. We will also talk about the fact that Laws of Life – Book Two – Now Build t...

Today on The Survival Podcast expert council, we cover a wild mix of foreign policy, digital privacy, strange food taboos, hard core water pumping, wearable health tech, hunting and the next chapter for me and TSP. Ron Paul and Dan McAdams join us to talk about what it will take for the United States to finally walk away from a failed foreign policy that keeps producing the same bad results. Jesse...

Today, Joel Ryals returns to TSPC to discuss why self defense is a system, not just a tool. Too many people buy a gun, carry a knife, take a class, get a dog, or bolt some security hardware to the house and think they are “covered.” They are not. Tools matter, training matters, dogs can absolutely matter, but none of them replace awareness, judgment, mindset, and the ability to make decisions when...

I am finally back from vacation and we had a great time.  I am sure I will tell you at least a bit about it today but we are going to focus first on my new book dropping and some news and current events.  This will include what no one will say but needs saying about the Karmelo Anthony case.  We will talk about 2nd order consequences in supply chains specifically in the timber/pulp niche involving...

In this episode from 2018 I talked about how few things on my property give me more enjoyment than my various garden ponds.  There is something peaceful about moving water and fish.  The bonus is if we want fish tacos tonight and didn’t take any out of the freezer, with 4 bread balls and 5 minutes I can have us 4 nice pan fish for cooking. Aquaculture is function stacking in the best way.  You get...

This was a fantastic question that came in by email back in 2021 for my podcast but I thought it would be exceptional for a Miyagi Mornings. Here it is exactly as it came in from a long time listener named Dan. “How would a deflationary economy work? ` If our entire economy was based on a currency with a fixed supply like bitcoin, ` 1. What’s the velocity of money look like? 2. How is money lent p...

In this episode from 2017 we turned our focus on food production in our own back yards.  The plants I will describe here are wonderful for growing in just about any environment.  And even though they are perennials most will do find in containers and wicking beds, etc.  Indeed a few are custom made for such applications though normally not grown that way. Perennials are wonderful because they eith...

In this episode from 2015 we talked about guns today, but a bit differently then you might expect from a “survival podcast” to do.  No ARs, no concealed carry and no ninja like accessories. No today I want to tell you about the gun wisdom I learned at the hands of my grandfather and father as a young man.  The stories, lessons and realities that made me love guns as the tools they truly are. You m...

I did this episode back in 2012 when I stated I wanted to do some more shows on firearms topics I was flooded with emails by new shooters that all basically said some version of this… “Jack can you do a very basics style show that explains what all these calibers and rounds mean.  Sometimes when you are talking about a firearms subject I am fine then you start saying something like the 38 special...

When I did this episode back in 22012 ut was because I got a ton of emails on an article called. 8 Personal Finance Lessons from Benjamin Franklin that was published on the very cool blog, The Art of Manliness. Several dozen of you told me that this article sounded like 8 things I say often on TSP. So rather than read the article at all I decided to do the show based just on the 8 tenets of Frankl...

Brad Thor joins us today to discuss his new Scot Harvath thriller, Choke Point. Brad is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of twenty six thrillers, with a career built on taking real world threats, intelligence failures, terrorism, geopolitics and national security blind spots, then turning them into fiction that feels a little too close to tomorrow’s headlines. This is not just a conversati...

Today on The Survival Podcast expert council, we cover a wild mix of geopolitics, medicine, homesteading, dogs, disease, Bitcoin storage and the collapse of faith in college degrees. Ron Paul and Dan McAdams join us to talk about how the United States should have voluntarily left the Middle East years ago, and now it is being kicked out the hard way. Andy McCann gives us the bad and the ugly on GL...

Today we are joined by Travis J. I. Corcoran to talk about what it really takes to build a life, a homestead, or even a full settlement when there is no big system coming to save you. This is about food, repair, local production, trade, family, community and the real limits that show up when theory runs face first into reality. Travis and his wife walked away from lucrative tech careers in Massach...

There are two types of people who create content especially in the freedom, liberty and preparedness space.  There are those that tell you what you want to be told for the purpose of getting you to listen to them.  Some of these people even end up believing their own bullshit.  The second type is those who tell you the truth even if it upsets you and makes you want to not listen to them. I try to...

TSPC will return tomorrow, I take this day off with my family like most of America and I leave you with these thoughts on this day. Today is Memorial Day and I wanted to take a moment to remind everyone today of what Memorial Day is really all about. Many well meaning people even get it wrong in a way. My inbox tends to fill up with “thanks for your service” emails around Memorial Day. I appreciat...

Today on The Survival Podcast expert council, we cover a wild mix of politics, health, homesteading, investing, cooking and the mental traps people fall into. Dan McAdams and Ron Paul join me to discuss whether Thomas Massie just got “2020’d”, Andy McCann weighs in on squatting ability as a marker of overall health, Ryan Steva talks solar for deep wells and Nicole Sauce breaks down how to successf...

Today we are joined by Daniel Halsey to discuss what real collapse preparation looks like when you move past the fantasy version. This is not about knives, guns, bug out bags, or trapping rabbits. It is about the social side of long term disruption, the bad assumptions people carry into community living, and what actually has to be designed before people can thrive through hard times instead of ju...