The Survival Podcast

The Survival Podcast is a daily online audio show about self sufficiency and self reliance in the modern world. It is a modern preparedness podcast created in 2008 by libertarian survivalist Jack Spirko of Texas. It is listened to daily by more than 500,000 listeners. As of January 6, 2015, there are 1493 1 to 1.5-hour long episodes. According to Mr. Spirko in November 2014, his audience is mostly conservatives with some libertarians.

Mr. Spirko conceived and created the podcast because he realized how fragile the human condition and the United States economy really are. The shows are contain interviews, listener questions, listener call in, and Mr. Spirko discussing a prepareness topic by himself. Since 2013 he includes a "This Year in History Segment" focused on interpreting and discussing past famous historical events from a modern libertarian preparedness point of view.

According to his website, topics include:

• The current and future state of the economy
• Using Solar energy sources
• Permaculture, small scale farming and Survival gardening
• Political philosophies and Libertarian ideals
• Wilderness survival and Emergency situation survival
• Food storage options
• Preparing for Natural disasters
• Homesteading (Suburban and Rural)
• Small Livestock
• Small scale Aquaculture and Aquaponics
• Safe Investing in Modern Times
• Solar Cooking
• Biofuel
• Our Looming National debt and what it means to the individual
• Seed saving and Heirloom seeds for fruits and vegetables

See Also

• Jack Spirko
• PermaEthos
• Citizens Assisting Citizens

• Modern preparedness: "If times get tough, or even if then don't", Threats, Threat probability, Impact scale, You are in control of your life

• • Economic preparedness - Fiscal conservatism: Debt is financial cancer, Tax is theft, Renewable energy, Financial security, Barter for Preparedness, Creating a home-based business, Ludwig von Mises' conservative libertarian Austrian economics and Capitalist Conservative economic policies of Ron Paul

• • Invest in tangibles: Rural farm land, Tools, Food storage, Water storage, Precious Metals, Copper-jacketed lead and Firearms

• • Permaculture-Agriculture-Gardening: Growing your own food, Food storage and Water storage

• • Family values and Parental rights: Sanctity of life, Family-Marriage, Homeschooling teaching Virtue, Patriotism, Duty, and Self-reliance

• • Vote with your feet - Strategic relocation: Owning land is true wealth and Personal-Localized-Regional-State-National-Global - Move to a Free state with Firearms freedom, Free markets and low population density

Related People

• Paul Wheaton - Permies.com Permaculture podcast, Montana
• Stewart Rhodes founder of Oath Keepers, Montana
• Kenneth Royce (Boston T. Party) of Free State Wyoming and author of Boston's Gun Bible
• James Wesley Rawles of The Survival Blog, New York Times best-selling author of How to Survive the End of the World as We Know It, American Redoubt Idaho
• Mel Tappan, "Grand-daddy" of the Preparedness movement, Oregon
• Jack Spirko of The Survival Podcast, Texas
• M.D. Creekmore of TheSurvivalistBlog.net, Kentucky
• John Jacob Schmidt - Radio Free Redoubt podcast, Idaho
• Alex Barron of Charles Carroll Society podcast
• Ragnar Benson - Prolific Preparedness author
• Joel Skousen - author Strategic Relocation - North American Guide to Safe Places and World Affairs Brief, Utah
• Alex Jones - InfoWars Nightly News and Prison Planet, Texas
• Chuck Baldwin - Liberty Fellowship, Montana
• Dave Duffy and Claire Wolfe of Backwoods Home Magazine, Oregon
• Paul Wheaton - Permies.com Permaculture, Montana
• Nutnfancy - Nutnfancy YouTube Firearms Channel, Utah
• List of celebrities who support the Second Amendment - usually Conservatives or Libertarians

External Links

• TheSurvivalPodcast.com Official Website
• iTunes
• TSP Forum
• JackSpirko.com
• Jack Spirko' Permaculture Global Profile
• Zello
• Social Media:
  • YouTube Channel
  • Facebook
  • LinkedIn
  • Twitter