The Survival Podcast

Making your own sausage is a skill that saves money, delivers better flavor, and gives you total control over your food. Today, I’ll show you how to get started or take your skills to the next level. Sausage making is about more than food; it’s about self-sufficiency, saving money, and creating something you’ll be proud to share with family and friends. Once you start, you’ll never go back to stor...

In this episode we covered 5 major shifts in society, 5 ways to build individual liberty, 5 pillars of lifestyle design and 5 reasons people fail to actually design the life they really want. The original show was titled Episode-2032- Planning Your Future When the Future is Uncertain and was first published on 6-27-17 and the original notes and resources for this episode can be found here. Resourc...

In this episode I covered 15 plants that a large majority of people either don’t know about at all at least don’t know very much about.  Some of them you likely have heard of but I bet you will find uses for them that you were unaware of. The original show was titled Episode-1568- 15 Underrated Plants for the Homestead and was first published on 4-30-15 and the original notes and resources for thi...

In this episode I went over the 6 guns that would cover 99% of any need most gun owners will ever have.  Don’t worry it doesn’t mean you can’t have more than 6, I sure do, just may be cover the bases first. The original show was titled Episode-2454- Choosing the 6 Basic Guns that Cover 99% of What Anyone Needs and was first published on 6-6-19 and the original notes and resources for this episode...

In this episode I was joined by Cory McElroy from Aquarium Co-op a tropical fish based business specializing in fish, plants and accessories.  I was so impressed by Cory that I literally went to a trade show just to get him on air with us.  Well last week John Willis of SOE told me he listens to this episode at least once a year, so I decided to make it our lead off rewind episode for this week wh...

In this episode from 2011 I was joined by Bryan Davis of AskBryan.com to discuss what he calls, “the secret of the ancients”.  The ancients knew something we have largely forgotten fermented food is good for the body, stores with out refrigeration and can even help to alleviate many illnesses. Today’s episode of Friday Flashbacks was originally published on 9-16-11 and was originally Episode-746-...

Today on The Survival Podcast the expert council answers your questions on foreign policy, Nostr Relays, guns, dogs, dental issues, cooking, education 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 the question for in one co...

I am running this rewind today as a tribute to Lyn and Ross Ulbricht.  Ever since meeting Lyn almost a decade ago and seeing how broken she was over this I’ve wanted nothing more than to see Ross fee from Federal Prison.  The trial was rank with corruption, investigators were literally sentenced to prison themselves for it but the judge never allowed the jury to know this.  Things like this happen...

Join us at 9:30am for our first Tuesday Coffee Chat. State of the world, preparedness and modern survival, small business start up, growing things and more are likely to come up. Some stuff we will cover today will be the tragedy of Peanut the Squirrel, some fan polls, will we have riots tonight and more. Resources for today’s show… Find Me on Nostr Follow Me on Tik-Tok Article Explaining the Grow...

I have said very little about the elections this year other than covering the attempt on Trumps life in PA because frankly it needed covering. Today we look at the election though because it will be effecting all of us one way or another. I will also ask you this, are libertarians incapable of winning? Not as in “can they win” rather can they “accept winning” in any small way or are they incurably...

In this episode from 2011 I was joined by Tim Glance is the owner of Old Grouch Military surplus and a veteran of the US Army where he served for 18 years as a Construction Equipment Mechanic.  In this episode we talked prepper vehicles, mil surplus vehicles, converting waste oil to fuel and more. Today’s episode of Friday Flashbacks was originally published on 9-1-11 and was originally Episode-74...

Today on The Survival Podcast the expert council answers your questions on government spending, fitness, foraging, permaculture, pricing a product, solar power, biochar 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 the ques...

Today CJ Kilmer returns to TSPC to talk about how and why the Soviet Union collapse along with the lessons the US and its Western Partners failed to learn from it. Born & raised a Florida Man, CJ Killmer holds a bachelor’s degree in history from Flagler College and a master’s degree in history from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He taught college history from 2006 to 2022. However, he was...

Today we reunite 4 members of the Unloose the Goose team.  I am joined by Nicole Sauce, John Bush and CJ Kilmer to discuss the coming election, fall out around it and in general how screwed the country is economically, culturally and globally heading into 2025. Resources for today’s show… Find Me on Nostr Article Explaining the GrowNostr Initiative Join the Members Brigade TspAz.com TSPC on Discor...

This week is going to be kind of dark in topics over all.  Tomorrow in an Unloose the Goose Reunion show, Nicole Sauce, CJ Kilmer, John Bush and I will discuss what is coming with the election and civil unrest and more no matter who wins.  The Wednesday CJ returns solo to talk about the USSR’s collapse in the 80s-90s and how it corrulates to the current situation in the US. So today I figured we s...

In this episode from 2011 I was joined by Paul Seyfried of Utah Shelter Systems to discuss civil defense in the US and in other nations, the continued threat of nuclear war, chemical attack and biological weapons.  He also explains the value of shelters for storm protection, storing supplies and more.  Shelters can seem like an “extreme prep” to many but in this episode we took a balanced view of...

Today on The Survival Podcast the expert council answers your questions on the election, dogs, guns, gardens, foraging, cooking, collapse scenarios 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 the question for in one coher...

We talk about collapse a lot, we do so from many angles. But what if I told you the same government that tells you it won’t happen has calculated the odds of it happening based on 49 possible triggers at 16% on any given year. Today our guest, Col. Drew Miller, USAF (Ret.), joins us to discuss this very serious reality. Retired Air Force Colonel and former Intelligence Officer, Drew, holds a PhD i...

I have been on some level a systems thinker for most of my life, some components of it are just natural to me.  I would honestly say on the base level it is simply how I think.  When I was 17 I joined the Army and chose the path of being a Heavy Wheeled Vehicle Mechanic and learned systemic trouble shooting, which gave me a formal concept of “systems thinking”, however, I didn’t yet even know the...

We talk about this a lot in the liberty community.  A parallel society a parallel economy, etc, but is it a legitimate goal or what I often refer to as “mental masterbation”.  What I mean by that trope is are we simply telling ourselves a lie so that we feel better about the situation we are in. My view is the answer as is always, is, it depends.  I think for many using the term, it absolutely is...

In this episode from 2011 I was joined by Jim Miller to discuss how to keep your information and identity safe in our modern age were information is more vulnerable than any time in our history. Today’s episode of Friday Flashbacks was originally published on 9-8-11 and was originally Episode-740- Technology & Identity Security with Jim Miller.  The show notes for the original episode with all rel...

Today on The Survival Podcast the expert council answers your questions on lethal force, knives, fitness, dog training, foraging, hurricane prep, education, economics 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 the questi...

Today we are joined by long time listener Kelsey Fernandez to discuss raising, harvesting and processing pork at homestead scale. We talk pig breeds, harvesting methods, butchering and even curing pork in this episode. Kelsey Beck Fernandez is a former suburbanite that was introduced to regenerative agriculture via his career in wine sales. His studies in wine, coupled with an interest in quality...

No matter how much they deny it, the main stream media, organizations like the WEF and the government have declared war on meat. They appear to want the peasants to live on gruel, soy and insects. Well we are not having it, rights must be asserted through action and today we talk about doing exactly that. Join Me Today to Discuss… First the war on meat is a real thing, here’s why I think they are...

Today we talk about FEMAs horrible response in North Carolina, continued main stream media lies, the death toll America has caused in two wars, potential war with China and more. Strap in this one will be a bumpy ride! Join Me Today to Discuss… Things I have 100% confirmation on in NC about the FEMA hurricane response They are trying to buy property for pennies on the dollar They are blocking priv...