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Jack Spirko "The Survival Podcast"
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http://www.thesurvivalpodcast.com/
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I have selected the best episodes for new preppers
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Do a Internet search of the episode title to bring up a link.
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Episode-1886- Samuel Culper on SHTF Intelligence
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Episode-1889- Listener Feedback
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How to set priorities and organize your time when it comes to projects
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Episode-1895- Developing the Skill of Self Leadership
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Episode-1908- Listener Calls
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An important survival lesson about hospitals and emergencies
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Episode-1910- Listener Feedback
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An update on our prior segment on emergencies, hospitals and ambulance service
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How over reliance on your preps can bite you in the ass
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Episode-1911- You Have a Duty to Be Prepared
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Episode-1913- Listener Feedback
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When do you take a “side hustle” to full business status
A new, simple, cool, easy way to meet the new neighbors
Thoughts on a concept like “prep failure of the week”
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Episode-1914- The Challenge of Getting Others on Board with Prepping
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Episode-1916- Listener Calls
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Balancing the reality of dangers with logic and reason
The advantages of bug out locations (second homes)
Thoughts on lightly used refrigerators and freezers
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Episode-1920- Camping for Becoming More Prepared in Life
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Episode-1923- Making Homemade Liqueurs and More
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Episode-1927- Listener Feedback
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Prepping pays off in a “everyday” disaster for a TSP listener
Balancing prepping with minimalism
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Episode-1931- Listener Feedback
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Dealing with school bullies, what is a parent to do
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Episode-1934- Listener Calls
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When to get law enforcement involved with child bullying
Another TSP listener launches a business
Storing produce in larger quantities
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Episode-1939- Listener Calls
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Could technology be the solution to bullying
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Episode-1941- Listener Feedback
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Why we enjoy discussions when we disagree with a person
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​The danger of going way over board with prepping and projects
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Episode-1942- Edible Ornamentals – Growing Food in Plain Site Even in an HOA
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Episode-1947- Spirko’s 12 Rules of Business
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Episode-1952- Before You Can Follow Your Passion – You Have to Find It
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Episode-1957- The Beginners Guide to Growing Food
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Episode-1959- Listener Feedback
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My rules for dealing with contractors
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Episode-1964- Listener Calls
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Canning meat and following procedure to the letter
Food storage in warm and humid climates
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How to choose a car for your needs
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Episode-1966- Listener Feedback
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Why prepping the wrong way leads to falling out and being unprepared
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Preparedness for “snow birds” or anyone who lives seasonally
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Being prepared pays off for a listener and his family
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Episode-1968- Listener Calls
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The answer to “I don’t need to prep, guns are all I need, I will take what I want”
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Episode-1970- Listener Feedback
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Selecting ammo for newbies
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Episode-1972- 20 Things Every Child Should Know How To Do By Age 14
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Episode-1976- Why I Switched to Aquaponics
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Episode-1981- Stranded Vehicle Successful MacGyver Stories
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Episode-1985- Listener Feedback
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Would you pay $1,000 a month to live in a bus, here is why someone might
How do you set pricing for any product or service
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Episode-1986- Perennial Vegetables for your Homestead
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Episode-1987- Urban Survival with “Pat Watson”
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Episode-1988- Listener Calls
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What is the urban rural fringe and what makes it so awesome
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The dangers of bad doctors
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Episode-1993- Listener Calls
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Storing diapers for SHTF in more ways than one
The difficult decision of putting parents into a care facility
The consequences of changing words and their definitions
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Episode-2000- How Liberty Creates Inequality and Why that is Good
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Episode-2002- Listener Calls
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Getting rid of and treating poison ivy
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Episode-2004- Listener Feedback
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Dealing with lack luster garden production
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Episode-2011- Listener Calls
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A listener describes a treatment for poison ivy
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Episode-2014- Bennett Tanton on Prepping and Working with Veterans
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Episode-2015- Listener Calls
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To self dehydrate or to buy dehydrated foods
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Episode-2029- Listener Calls
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Tips on securing your home
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Episode-2031- Listener Feedback
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Motorcycles as a back up vehicle
How to be a disciplined saver, vs. looking for a trick to save money
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Episode-2032- Planning Your Future When the Future is Uncertain
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Episode-2033- Benjamin Page on The Pillars of Wellness
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Episode-2042- Listener Calls
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Avoiding the self employment trap as an entrepreneur
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Episode-2047- Listener Calls
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Dealing with wasp stings
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Episode-2062- Listener Calls
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Buying a home with an existing farm/enterprise on it
Getting started prepping for 100 bucks
Bugging out with small children
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Episode-2078- Listener Feedback
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How to “bug out” to a hotel
A listener shares her story about how the TSP community has helped her
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Episode-2096- Decision Making with Logic and Reason
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Episode-2101- Dr. Ken Berry on Lies Your Doctor Told You
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Episode-2112- Listener Feedback
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What I do when it comes to deep frying
Choosing a grinder, adding fat and best grinding practices
What specifically makes “processed foods” so bad for you
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Episode-2117- Steven Harris and Jack Spirko on Bug Out Trailers
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Episode-2137- Bug Out Trailers with Spirko and Harris – Part 2
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Episode-2160- Bug Out Trailers with Spirko and Harris – Part 3
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Episode-2176- Bug Out Trailers with Spirko and Harris – Part 4
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Episode-2200- Bug Out Trailers with Spirko and Harris – Part 5
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Episode-2214- Bug Out Trailers with Spirko and Harris – Part 6
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Episode-2247- Bug Out Trailers with Spirko and Harris – Part 7
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Episode-2266- Bug Out Trailers with Spirko and Harris – Part 8
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Episode-2355- Bug Out Trailers with Spirko and Harris – Part 9
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Episode-2379- Bug Out Trailers with Spirko and Harris – Part 10
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Episode-2401- Bug Out Trailers with Spirko and Harris – Part 11
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Episode-2125- Getting Started with Herbalism
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Episode-2132- Listener Calls
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Getting started as a new prepper without being overwhelmed
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Episode-2134- Choosing Excitement and Abundance over Gloom and Doom
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Episode-2138- Listener Calls
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Thoughts on lethal force and duty of retreat
The economics of Uber by an Urber Eats driver – #workthesystem
The parenting of young children in the modern age
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Episode-2149- Listener Calls
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Pricing work for friends when you are a professional service provider
Why do I think there will be no EMP attack ever
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Episode-2152- Food Production on Small Properties
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Episode-2154- Listener Calls
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More on doing professional work for “friends and family”
Dealing with “survival fatigue” note not “prepper fatigue”
Thoughts on the potential of work place violence and the aftermath of it
Lessons from the fake missile alert in Hawaii
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Episode-2156- Listener Feedback
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How to get on the same page with your spouse about debt reduction
Making decisions about expanding a business
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Episode-2161- Listener Feedback
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Why investing in yourself is always a solid call
Thoughts on your “net wealth”
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Episode-2170- Listener Feedback
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What I learned by asking the question, what is the true age of adulthood
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The danger of dependency with the illusion of security
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Episode-2172- Ted Kehl on Heating with Wood
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Episode-2178- Listener Calls
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Changing technology and building a YouTube channel
Homesteading as a renter
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Episode-2180- Growing Children in the Garden
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Episode-2183- Listener Feedback
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A bug out bag success story
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Thoughts on small scale wind power
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Episode-2185- Listener Feedback
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A simple preparedness success story
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When to turn a side hustle into a business entity
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Episode-2186- Homesteading, Side Hustles and More
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Episode-2189- Listener Feedback
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Dealing with conflicts about property use with neighbors
Growing food indoors for an apartment dweller
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A preparedness success story
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Episode- 2196- The Mindset of the Warrior Poet
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Episode-2199- Listener Feedback
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Choosing a “better job” with lower pay
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Episode-2202- Libertarianism, Anarchism and Resource Conservation
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Episode-2215- Survival Secrets of the CIA with Jason Hanson
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Episode-2216- Listener Calls
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Getting into food production fast on new property
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An on the ground report on the volcanic activity in Hawaii
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Episode-2220- Doc Bones on Modern Threats, Active Shooters and More
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Episode-2221
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Talking about walking to freedom with a reluctant spouse
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Episode-2228- David Benard on his Journey to Self Sufficiency
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Episode-2235- Total Freedom Though Honest Personal Branding
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Episode-2237- Listener Feedback
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Getting a family on a budget, “one team one dream” is the way, the only way
Should we be teaching our children to be more like a spring then a tea cup
Training a dog when you have small children
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Episode-2253- Dillon Allen on Nuclear Power, Anarchism, Urban Prepping and More
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Episode-2254- Listener Calls
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Best practices with road flares and night time break downs
What is the “best” method of gardening
Picking a homestead tractor
Security for large acreage homestead properties
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Episode-2260- Listener Feedback
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What a new infectious disease report tells us about pandemic threats
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Episode-2261- Getting Kids Excited About Prepping and Learning
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Episode-2263- Listener Calls
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Negotiating the best salary you can get going in to a job
Spreading the seeds of responsible gun ownership in children
How to over winter peppers
How you actually calculate how many days of food you have stored
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Episode-2270- Listener Feedback
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How do you develop the eyes of entrepreneurship
Killing poison ivy with a vinegar IV
Thoughts on a “fishing class” for kids – aka herding cats
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Episode-2271- The Most Valuable Skill Most People Are Never Taught
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Episode-2272- Darby Simpson on Farm Business Essentials
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Episode-2275- Listener Feedback
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Is truck driving a good monetary on ramp for young people
Planting suburban fence lines with productive perennials
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Episode-2276- Back Yard Aquaculture for Beauty and Food Production
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Episode-2277- Forest Management on the Homestead with Nathan Kay
Episode-2278- Listener Calls
Thoughts on BOB food beyond granola and jerky
How to place a value on a small business
A word or two on safety with grills
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Episode-2281- James Burnette on Tiny Houses for Survival
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Episode-2282- Listener Calls
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Living life on a well, what precautions should you take
Choosing between RO water filtration and something like a Berkey
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Episode-2285- Patrick Roehrman on Escaping the Rat Race
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Episode-2286- Listener Calls
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Techno anarchy, truth in media and conspiracy trolls
More on tiny houses and lifestyle freedom in various ways
Running a gun business when you don’t want to sell guns to strangers
Building priorities passive solar and basements
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Episode-2289- Practical Homesteading in the Modern Age
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Episode-2294- What You Do Matters
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Episode-2295- EDC Wearable Survival Gear with Dustin Hogard and Nick Blackman
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Episode-2299- The Basics of Being Prepared for Most Things – Part One
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Episode-2303- The Basics of Being Prepared for Most Things – Part Two
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Episode-2300- Shawn Mills on Solar Power
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Episode-2311- John Moody on Frugal Homesteading
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Episode-2312- Listener Calls
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Choosing a domain name in regard to dot com, net, etc.
Testing your food for nutrient density, is it even worth it
When is the right time to start promoting a side hustle
More on dogs, friends and irrational behavior
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Episode 2314- Listener Feedback
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I should not have to say this but do not back feed a generator to the grid
Using facebook to promote your brand/business
Getting off to a good start at a new job
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Episode-2315- Why Lifestyle Design is For Everyone
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Episode-2319- Listener Feedback
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Are candles for a black out still relevant in the world of cheap LEDs?
Dealing with children with a “victim mentality”
Road side assistance coverage vs. AAA and rental coverage
Getting started canning
Kerosene Heater Maintenance
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Episode-2320- Ten Basic Preparedness Questions Answered
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Episode-2322- Listener Calls
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Emergency contingencies in a high rise office
Getting family buy in on self raised meat
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Episode-2325- Listener Feedback
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Thoughts on using phyical cash, the good, the bad, the impractical
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Episode-2327- Listener Calls
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Follow up on fire danger in a high rise office building
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Episode-2335- Listener Calls
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What should you do when a ambulance running code is behind you
More on active shooter issues in office buildings
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Episode-2337- Listener Feedback
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If you could only get one gun for hunting, training and plinking what would it be
Why adding a very small amount of saline improves cocktails
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Episode-2339- Nick Loper from SideHustleNation.com
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Episode-2347- Listener Feedback
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Of prepper groups, organization and tin hats
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Episode-2348- Self Ownership Over Political Activism
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Episode-2349- Doc Bones and Nurse Amy
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Episode-2352- Listener Calls
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Improving the efficiency of a fire place
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Episode-2354- Listener Feedback
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Why I now cook almost exclusively with carbon steel cookware
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Episode-2357- Listener Calls
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How to grow a tools collection and what not to buy used
Saving for you kids and building life establishment funds
Understanding facebook vs. Google for marketing a business
A listener gives an example of life offering no guarantees
How do you insure your family’s future as an entrepreneur
Episode-2360- The Power of the Side Hustle and Winning with Money
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Episode-2364- Listener Feedback
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The real lesson of the government shut down have a plan B
Of taxes, side hustles and 1099Ks
Thoughts on multiple income streams vs. multiple businesses
The struggle with fighting confirmation and perception bias
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Episode-2366- Listener Calls
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Getting your kids into a side hustle vs. a j-o-b
410 shot shell hand guns for home defense
More on staying informed about dangers during a flash flood
When does a side hustle need to either go full time or be scaled back
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Episode-2371- Listener Calls
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The importance of happiness in your life
What exactly is a modern renaissance man or polymath
Advice for a first time home owner
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Episode-2394- 20 Herbs to Grow
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Episode-2396- Listener Calls
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When, when not to and how to set up a LLC or Inc
Developing the skill set for a project management position
Finding others who are interested in prepping and self sufficiency
Food storage without large amounts of carbohydrates
How to find a good CPA for your needs
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Episode-2399- Individual Insurrection and Personal Freedom
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Episode-2404- Container Gardens for Food Production
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Episode-2405- Bryan and Laura Emerson on Life in a Fly In Only Location
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Episode-2407- Listener Feedback
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The potential of pandemic/epidemic and the commonality of disaster
Thoughts on monetizing a hobby with social media
Episode-2409- Fast, Affordable, DIY Off Grid Building with AirCrete
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Episode-2410- Listener Calls
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Light and heat when starting plants indoors
Balancing time with family against other demands on your time
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Episode-2412- Listener Feedback
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What do people most want relative to their careers, it appears to be time
Balancing helping neighbors, barter and resource limitations during a SHTF
Thoughts on gun security, safes, nervous spouses and more
Setting an improvement budget for a house you are going to sell
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Episode-2417- Listener Feedback
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Is your side hustle a business or a hobby
Thoughts on leaning self defense techniques like martial arts
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Episode-2420- Listener Calls
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Building economic strength into a new marriage
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Episode-2422- Listener Feedback
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Staying motivated on the long path to debt freedom
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Episode-2425- The Lost Art of Developing Life Skills
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Episode-2427- Listener Feedback
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Organizing local groups based on TSP ideals
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Episode-2430- The Death of Personal Responsibility
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Episode-2432- Listener Feedback
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Creating mutual aid groups or how about simply networks
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Episode-2433- Understanding Systemic vs. Natural Capitalism
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Episode-2434- Melissa Clark on CBDs and Assuring the Safety of CBD Products
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Episode-2437- Listener Feedback
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How one listener took a TSP episode’s advice and turned it into 2K in free money
A lesson from the Ebola outbreak that really has nothing to do with Ebola
Developing responsibility in children using chores and allowances
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Episode-2438- Walking to Freedom and or Escaping the Rat Race
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Rural law enforcement vs. suburban/urban law enforcement
Fire considerations with a multi story home
Some considerations with underground structures such as buoyancy
Keeping up with technology when your position isn’t tech heavy
How can you apply “the problem is the solution” to government
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Episode-2443- Financial Strategies for the Modern Survivalist
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Episode-2444- Joel Karsten on Straw Bale Gardens
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Episode-2448- Gary Collins on Decluttering Your Life
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Episode-2449- Listener Calls
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More on finding a good primary care MD and why its difficult in the first place
Is there a coming food crisis, it depends on how you define crisis
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Episode-2452- Setting Up a Secondary Property (BOL)
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Episode-2453- Joshua Sheets on Surviving and Thriving in an Economic Collapse
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Episode-2454- Choosing the 6 Basic Guns that Cover 99% of What Anyone Needs
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Episode-2462- Listener Feedback
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When do you need to get insurance for a side hustle
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My favorite books on sales and business
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Selling the Invisible – Harry Beckwith
Swim with the Sharks – Harvey Mackay
Rich Dad, Poor Dad – Robert Kiyosaki
The Psychology of Selling – Brian Tracy
Good to Great – Jim Collins
7 Habits of Highly Effective People – Stephen Covey
Leaders Eat Last – Simon Sinek
Jonathan Livingston Seagull – Richard Bach
The Celestine Prophecy – James Redfield
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Episode-2463- Six Laws to Live Your Life By
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Episode-2465- Listener Feedback
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Follow up on side hustle insurance and a caution on leased vehicles
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Episode-2471- 25 Items that Should be in Your Vehicle at all Times
Episode-2478- Listener Calls Start at 1:02:30
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The trouble with out of site out of mind ( prepping food and equipment. )
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Episode-2488- Listener Feedback
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What do you do if you end up in an active shooter situation
A lesson for above, how gun owners saved a fellow shooter during an accident
Thoughts on “doggie doors” in regard to security, energy, etc
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Episode-2489- Dealing with Life’s Transitions
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Episode-2490- Growing Food in Small Spaces
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Episode-2493- Listener Feedback
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How could a libertarian make a difference on a town council
Rebuilding if you have lost everything
Dealing with suspicious activity on your property boundary
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Episode-2494- 10 Low Carb Meals and How to Make Them
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Episode-2496- Listener Calls
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Going back to work after a long period of unemployment or being a solo entrepreneur
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Episode-2503- The Keto – Low Carb – Paleo Gardener
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​Episode-2506- Modern Survivalism and Your Six Primary Survival Needs
Episode-2511- Freestyle Day TSP Start at 54:43
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The rising danger of drone warfare
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Episode-2515- Listener Feedback
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EDC ideas for a delivery driver who can’t carry a “weapon”
A Prager U video on how the government made us fat
A free market success that made a bad situation a little better
Why PPE (personal protective equipment) belongs in your life
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Episode-2516- Total Lifestyle Health for Modern Survival
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Episode-2521- Solutions to Some of Our Biggest Problems
Episode-2522- The Serenity Bus Project with Brian and Sherry Hamons
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Episode-2523- What if Everyone Did What they Most Want to Do
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Episode-2525- Listener Feedback
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The math alone says you should be a prepper
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Episode-2529- Listener Feedback
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Health risks of indoor grow lights
Dealing with insect pests in the house, including the
painful stinging kind
Episode-2532- More about the Toolbox Fallacy
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Episode-2537- Listener Calls
The real danger of “everybody knows” thinking
The concept of the perimeter defense rifle and solutions looking for problems
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Episode-2539- 12 Basic Prepping Questions Answered
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Episode-2540- 10 Life Skills We Should Teach Every Child
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Episode-2555- Planning and Skill Development in the Coming Down Time
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Episode-2560- Raised Bed Gardening for Dummies
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Episode-2580- 5 Laws of Life For Personal Freedom
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Episode-2592- Integrating Nature into Our Lives
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Episode-2594- Listener Feedback
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Can there be a downside to being a “tacticool” prepper if you are ever arrested by the police
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Episode-2595 – Projects for Home Learning for Wanna Be Home Schoolers
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Episode-2597 – No One Will Give you Anything in Life & That’s Great
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Episode-2604- The Expert Council 2-21-20 Start at 45:30
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What might we see from 2nd amendment show downs like Virginia – Officer Steve Wise.
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Jack Spirko comments on new proposed gun laws in Virginia.
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What the media and the left fail to understand about he
concept of “the boogaloo” – Jack
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Episode-2606- Topic Round Table Discussion with Nick Ferguson
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Episode-2607- Curtis Stone on Living Free on the Land
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Episode-2613- Why Homesteading is one of the best “Preps” you can Make
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​Episode-2616- The Lessons America Should be Learning from CoVid-2019
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Episode-2620- James White on Hydroponics for Small Space Growing
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Episode-2621- Nicole Sauce on Side Hustles during the Crisis
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Episode-2624- Now is the Time to Grow Your Own Food
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Episode-2625- Stories of Off Grid Living, Adventure and ReGen Ag with Eddy Garcia
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Episode-2626- Simple, Fast and Easy Kratky Hydroponics for Growing Food
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Episode-2629- On Cooking with Your Preps
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Episode-2630- Keeping a Family Cow and Still Having a Life
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Episode-2631- A New Look at Back Yard Livestock
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Episode-2636- John Bush on Boosting Immunity and CoVid-19 Impacts
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Episode-2638- Listener Feedback
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Freezing vs. canning as a vegetable storage solution for excess garden production
When you go into market gardening but realize how much work it really is and don’t know what to do next
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Episode-2641- A New Look at “Bug Out Locations” in the Context of Pandemic Threat
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Episode-2644- Establishing Your “Why” for Homeschooling
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Episode-2649- Tim Cook on Starting a Handy Man Business
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Episode-2652- Backyard Ponds for Fish, Fun, Food and Frogs
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Episode-2653- Developing Your Personal Recovery Plan
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Episode-2658- House Hunting in a Buyers Market
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Episode-2659- Insurance for your Home and Homestead
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Episode-2663- Developing Your Personal Counter Economics Game Plan
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Episode-2664- Derek Malenczak on Improving your Mental Health
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Episode-2668- Joseph Simcox on Edible Plants of the World
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Episode-2669- 12 Really Cool Plants Inspired by Joseph Simcox
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Episode-2671- 12 Easy Productive Summer Plants and the Best Ways to Store Them
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Episode-2678 – The Ultimate Conversation on Children and Technology
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Episode-2681- The Problem is the Solution if you Correctly Define the Problem
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Episode-2683- Jeff Yago on Prepping for EMPs and CMEs
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Episode-2684- The Time to Build Independent Income has Long Since Come
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Episode-2704- Resist Domestication and Become a Feral Human
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Episode-2705- Emergency Management Planning with Chris Gilmour
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Episode-2709- Eggs the Back Yard Protein that Fed Americans for Generations
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Episode-2710- Carla Gericke on Strategic Relocation to New Hampshire
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Episode-2711- 24 Bullet Proof Plants for the Back Yard Hunter Gatherer
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Episode-2713- Nicole Sauce on Lessons From the CoVid Pandemic
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Episode-2719- 20 Skills and Actions you Really Need for the Coming Future
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Episode-2722- Round Table Topics for 8-31-20
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More on my message to stay out of this conflict and get out of the cities
It isn’t just about not getting physically hurt, it is also about your investments
Episode-2723- An Introduction to Permaculture Design Principles and Zones of Design
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Episode-2724- There is a Better Way to do This
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Episode-2728- Finding your Why and your Passion
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Episode-2731- Liberty By Lifestyle Design
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Episode-2736- Back Yard Aquatics as a Permaculture Design Element
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Episode-2737- Dr. Ken Berry and Jack Spirko on the Proper Human Diet
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