Right about the beginning of the fall of 2012 TSP is going to reach an increadible achievement, Episode 1,000. Episode 1,000 will be just like… Episode 224 – The One Year Anniversary Show Episode-550- 94 Listeners Tell Us What Prepping … Continue reading →

Today I take your calls on screwed credit ratings, taxes, CCA lumber in the garden, vitamins, snakes, patio gardens, snakes, gun clubs, alternative currencies and more. Remember to be on a show like this one just pick up your phone … Continue reading →

Water is so critical to our lives, it is one of the five primary survival needs along with food, shelter, energy and security.  It provides for irrigation, hydration, fire suppression, cooking, sanitation and more.  Yet have you noticed 99% of … Continue reading →

Franz is the founder of two websites on sailing, TravelTradeExchange.com and MedSailor.com and is in his words, 58 years young.  He lives in Salt Lake City UT and has been listening to The Survival Podcast since the first couple months … Continue reading →

So I traveled about 2,000 miles to meet one of my absolute heroes in permaculture and sustainable agriculture.  The experience was not really what I expected.  The knowledge I gained was worth all the effort, planning and time away but … Continue reading →

Yesterday was planned to be a long 11 hour travel day back from Kalispell, MT, instead it became a long 18 hour travel day.  I am not yet “put back together” and haven’t really internalized the seminar fully yet either … Continue reading →

Today I have the pleasure of  doing a face to face podcast with my good friend Paul Wheaton of Permies.com and Richsoil.com.  We will cover some of the many highlights of the Sepp Holzer seminar so far. Excuse the brevity … Continue reading →

So after 5 days of the Sepp Holzer seminar I felt it was time for a quick update. I will be discussing a lot of what I have learned and how I will be using it to teach and design … Continue reading →

When I first ran this episode in August of 2010 my good friend Bryan Black from ITS Tactical stated, “This is likely the most important thing on security you have ever done.” We are going to look at a bit … Continue reading →

Today’s Episode was originally broadcast a episode 606 in February of 2011. In this episode we look at 11 design considerations when designing a permaculture food system. Honestly though permaculture or not these considerations really should be considered with all … Continue reading →

Steven Harris returns to TSP for his 8th visit. Today he joins us to discuss various alternative energy technologies today focusing on hydrogen and fuel cells. Steven Harris is a consultant and expert in the field of energy. He is … Continue reading →

Today I take your calls on AR15 mags, 401Ks as monetary hostage accounts, gardening, cooking with fennel, America’s economic venerability, silver for water purification, food shelf life, insect control, storing gold, big Ag’s latest class of toxins and more. Remember … Continue reading →

  1.  Off To Montana – Okay so operation board the dogs and cats is complete and we are soon on our way to the airport.  We will be in Montana until the 13th.  During this time I will be … Continue reading →

Sam Bagot and Will Bratton are woking togehter on an open source agriculture project called horto domi. Horto domi is an open hardware raised-bed garden unit with environmental control and monitoring via web-interface thanks to Arduino Ethernet. DIY sensors, such … Continue reading →

Today on The Survival Podcast we are joined by Doctor Bones and Nurse Amy to discuss collapse medicine, everything from emergency dental needs, to creative ways to get antibiotics and natural healing along with their new book, The Doom and … Continue reading →

Many preppers seem to think telling anyone, anything about your views on preparedness is a huge mistake.  They point out it might make you a target of everyone who isn’t prepared when doomsday comes. Others seem to embody the very … Continue reading →

Richard Morgan grew up in the arctic and later joined the Marine Corps completing two tours in Iraq. After leaving the Marines he contracted with a well known defense contracting agency for about three years in Afghanistan and Iraq. During … Continue reading →

This is a quick video from my iPhone on some of our progress with hugulkultur and swales thus far. It was really cool to get so much great wood so easily and for free from the City Compost Facility.

Friday I did a listener call in show and my final portion was a response to the now famous video “If I Wanted America to Fail”, I called it, “If I wanted to Save America”.  It went over VERY well … Continue reading →

It is Monday and time for another round of you your feedback, questions and commentary sent to jack at thesurvivalpodcast.com. Make sure if you submit content for a feedback show that you put something like “comment for jack”, “question for … Continue reading →

Today I take your calls on snakes, the AR15, solar panels, pepper spray, fruit storage, off site storage, mulching, overseas travel preps, real estate, electronic currency and destroying vs. saving America. Remember to be on a show like this one … Continue reading →

It was brought to my attention that two little girls got in trouble in  Converse Texas for wearing an American flag shirt with the slogan “Homes for Our Troops” on it you can read the story here. http://www.khou.com/news/texas-news/148685055.html Earlier I … Continue reading →

Xavier Hawk is a homesteading volunteer firefighter/EMT who is semi retired  from the not so glamorous world of business consulting. He is also a prepper who has gone from living in suburbia to the rural mountains of Western North Carolina. … Continue reading →

Carla Gericke is also known as “Queen Quill” was born in the in the police state of South Africa and immigrated to California after winning a green card in a lottery.  She practiced law as in-house counsel at Fortune 500 … Continue reading →

Today’s show is going to be very cool.  I actually got feedback for it on Zello this morning during my drive in and I am going to play part of that feedback for you in the lead off portion of … Continue reading →

It is Monday and time for another round of you your feedback, questions and commentary sent to jack at thesurvivalpodcast.com. Make sure if you submit content for a feedback show that you put something like “comment for jack”, “question for … Continue reading →

Today a called called in about a cool new technology called Zello, well I installed it and it is really cool.  If you remember Nextel it is a lot like the old Nextel radio and you can install it on … Continue reading →

Today I take your calls on chlorine’s effect on irrigation water, storing fuel, feral hogs, water filters, less than lethal ammo, zello, assclowns and more. Remember to be on a show like this one just pick up your phone and … Continue reading →

Brandon Shelton founded BELLA Medical Ministries after his first medical relief trip to Haiti immediately following the earthquake in Jan. 2010 that killed over 250,000+ men, women and children as well as left over 1 million homeless. BELLA’s core team … Continue reading →

Just a quick announcement, I will be appearing on Gold Is Money Radio at 7PM central tonight. You can listen and call in if you want. The details are at, Gold Is Money on Blog Talk Radio.

Victor Alfieri lives just 17 miles from New York City on a 1/4 acre lot but he hasn’t let that stop him from being a modern homesteader.  For Victor It all started after hurricane Katrina hit the gulf coast when … Continue reading →

Tuesday is an odd day for a feedback show but I owe you one this week so here we go. So anyway it’s time for another round of you your feedback, questions and commentary sent to jack at thesurvivalpodcast.com. Make … Continue reading →

Joe Nobody is the author of several best selling books including “Holding Your Ground” ,”The TEOTWAWKI Tuxedo”, “Holding Their Own” and “Without Rule of Law”. Joe has over 30 years as a government and private contractor experience and is a … Continue reading →

Yesterday Julie Behling did a great show with us on Essential Oils and offered a special discount.  You can see the episode here Julie Behling on Essential Oils Anyway there have been problems with the discount code, Julie just sent … Continue reading →

Watch out for black cats, ladders and spilled salt today folks, it is Friday the 13th, of course the real story is far more sinister. Yet 13th or not Friday means it is time for a listener call in show … Continue reading →

Julie Behling founded Essential Survival in 2010 with the goal of helping as many people as possible be equipped to take care of their health in the event of a natural disaster or economic collapse where medicines are expected to … Continue reading →

Wednesday is an odd day for a feedback show but I owe you one this week so here we go. So anyway it’s time for another round of you your feedback, questions and commentary sent to jack at thesurvivalpodcast.com. Make … Continue reading →

Clay Vitis is a long haul truck driver who uses CB both in his daily work and as a fellow prepper.  Clay is also a licensed HAM however he spends most of his time on the CB bands.  He joins … Continue reading →

So we preempted the Friday call in show last week so we will make up for it today and move the email feedback show to Tuesday.  Today I take your calls on investing, martial law, pastured poultry, the Keystone pipeline, … Continue reading →

Rick Worden has promoting rabbits for homestead use and personally raising rabbits for 30 + years and feels every homestead should be raising rabbits due to their tremendous impact toward greater self sufficiency. Rick’s company is Rise and Shine Rabbitry … Continue reading →

Once in a while I just need to take the time to chat with you guys about what is going on and perhaps clean up some things from past episodes as well. Today is such a day.  Likely as in … Continue reading →

Steven Harris returns to TSP for his 7th visit. Today he joins us to discuss various alternative energy technologies including, ethanol, bio diesel, methanol, propane  and more. Steven Harris is a consultant and expert in the field of energy. He … Continue reading →

Mark Matthews is an attorney focused on estate planning, elder law, veterans law, and firearms law.  Twelve years of practicing law; former Major in U.S. Army JAG Corps.  NRA rifle marksmanship instructor and one of the original 10 guys that … Continue reading →

So it is time for another round of you your feedback, questions and commentary sent to jack at thesurvivalpodcast.com.  Make sure if you submit content for a Monday feedback show that you put something like “comment for jack”, “question for … Continue reading →

Monday we had what can be termed as a “soft launch” of the TSPCopper.com Store.  There are now 21 different copper rounds available in the store and we are shipping them with in two business days of them being ordered. … Continue reading →

It is time for another show based 100% on emails the audience has sent in to jack at thesurvivalpodcast.com  Remember to submit content for a show like this. Please realize I get hundreds of submissions a week and can only … Continue reading →

Today the Dow is once again nearing all time highs, the spin machine tells us that unemployment is dropping and the economy is really picking up steam, Mike Gasior would call it a “wonderful fiction”.  So what do I think, … Continue reading →

Wade Bowlin is a self described computer nerd, network engineer, business guy, gear head, gun nut, survival junkie and prepping maniac. He joins us today to discuss bug out vehicles (BOVs). Wade will talk to us about different ideas like: … Continue reading →

We use Wild Blue Satellite Internet at the homestead.  It has worked fine since December and made our lives a lot better.  It has worked much better than the old solution I used which was an AT&T wireless card. However … Continue reading →

So yesterday’s listener feedback show was preempted by my wife having oral surgery.  So instead we did a show for you on AOCS copper, silver and gold.  Today we will discuss a bit more about that based on some questions … Continue reading →