The Survival Podcast

The Most Lethal Tricycle of All Time, a Great Example of a Forgotten Weapon. Ian McCollum grew up around his father’s extensive collection of WWII Japanese rifles, and early on developed an appreciation for historically interesting old guns. His gun collecting began in earnest after leaving college, and expanded into an interest in building guns and studying rare and unusual designs in museums and private collections worldwide. Today he shares his passion for old military guns specifically many of them that have been lost to the annals of history on his blog called, ForgottenWeapons.com Ian blogs 6 times a week reviewing guns, historical reference books and posts some incredible old photography as well. He joins us today to discuss surplus firearms and NFA weapons.  We also discuss a bit about current proposed gun legislation and the damage it could do to both historical weapons and the modern gun industry. Join Ian and I Today as we Discuss… The process for legally buying a machine gun “Cleaning a gun after using corrosive surplus ammo Do NFA weapons have a practical use for the modern survivalist When are surplus military guns preferable to new-production civilian guns Should I get an AR or AK? (answer: it doesn’t matter) Some of the great current values in military surplus rifles right now The good and bad of getting a C&R license Why you should never look at cheap surplus weapons and think they will stay that way Why preserving firearms history is so important Why many guns considered to be of “poor quality” are actually of great quality Resources for today’s show Members Support Brigade Join Our Forum 13Skills.com TSP Copper TSP Gear Shop Harvest Eating – (sponsor of the day) Free State Project – (sponsor of the day) ForgottenWeapons.com Remember to comment, chime in and tell us your thoughts, this podcast is one man’s opinion, not a lecture or sermon. Also please enter our listener appreciation contest and help spread the word about our show. Also remember you can call in your questions and comments to 866-65-THINK and you might hear yourself on the air.  

Today we announced a new feature to 13skills.com that will improve interaction among members.  This got me thinking that while I often talk about our need to improve skills (specifically hard skills) I have not ever really done a dedicated show specifically going into the actual reasons that such skills are so important. Our modern age has lulled us to sleep but most people that listen to TSP are aware that major changes are not just coming, in many ways they are happening right now, in front of our eyes.  We live in a society where people “call a guy” far more often then fixing things themselves.  We teach our children to avoid phyical work at all costs and are devolving into tablet and phone based society. I personally love technology but consider that we teach a student basic addition, subtraction, multiplication and division prior to empowering them with a calculator.  Should we not also teach young drivers to use street signs and read a map before giving them a GPS application? I also have some follow up from yesterday, one issue I seem to have been very wrong about in regard to college and I wish to make it right and something very dangerous in the so called “NRA Members Gun Safety Act” I left out yesterday. Join Me Today as We Discuss… Follow Up From Episode 1051 Listener’s weigh in on the value of community college even with advanced degree pursuit Why the no fly list and terror watch lists do NOT belong in the gun control debate On Today’s Main Topic What a faltering economy or economic collapse means in regard to skills Hard skills vs. soft skills and why we need to emphasize hard skills on some levels How we lost our skills as modern Americans Why we actually feel fulfilled and good about ourselves by building up our skills Why you should focus on the skills that interest you but also challenge you How the loss of skills is directly related to our loss of liberty Why responsibilities must be part of our rights if we are to retain said rights Why real teachers don’t create students but new teachers What have you done with your dash, what will you leave behind  Resources for Today’s Show: Members Support Brigade Join Our Forum TSP Copper The Berkey Guy  – (sponsor of the day) Fortress Defense Consultants  – (sponsor of the day) HR 21 – The Reissued Version of Bill HR 6725 Win Free Tickets to The Free State Project’s Liberty Forum Why Issues Like the “Terror Watch List” and “No Fly List” Should Not be Part of Gun Control – YouTube Video Segment from Today’s TSP Remember to comment, chime in and tell us your thoughts, this podcast is one man’s opinion, not a lecture or sermon. Also please enter our listener appreciation contest and help spread the word about our show. Also remember you can call in your questions and comments to 866-65-THINK and you might hear yourself on the air.

Join Me Today as I Answer Your eMails It’s the first show of the new year 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 jack” or “article for jack” in the subject line to assure proper identification for my screening process. Today mostly discuss gun rights and pending gun legislation including the exact type of law I warned you about.  We also discuss making decisions as a young adult about education and career, success stories about armed citizens defending themselves and others and more. Please understand I receive several hundred emails a day and can’t get them all on the air. I do put out a lot of information on Facebook from emails that I can’t fit on the program though so keep em coming. Join Me Today As I Respond to Your Emails On Why you should oppose an “assault weapons ban” even if you don’t own any I told you so called “common sense” gun laws were on the way, here comes one What exactly does “arms” mean in the second amendment The three primary purposes of the second amendment as it relates to individual citizens Two success stories of citizens defending themselves the media won’t talk about Thoughts for young people considering college or any next step The results when you take a non shooter to the gun range a real world report A modern lesson on keeping your powder dry 401Ks just got easier to convert to a ROTH account, why it matters The economy is on life support and the life support is running on back up power Resources for Today’s Show… Members Support Brigade 13Sill.com Join Our Forum TSP Copper TSP Gear Back Yard Food Production – (sponsor of the day) JM Bullion – (sponsor of the day) Win Free Tickets to the 2013 Liberty Forum HR 6725 – So Called Common Sense Gun Legislation The So Called NRA Members Gun Safety Act – can anyone confirm or deny official NRA sanctioning of this bill? San Antonio Off Duty Officer Stops A Theater Shooting Snopes Confirms the San Antino Shooting Details and Media Ignoring It Loganville Mother Shoots Intruder 5 Times, He Drives Away After That More savers can convert to Roth 401(k)s under fiscal cliff deal Government Dependents Outnumber Those With Private Sector Jobs In 11 U.S. States Remember to comment, chime in and tell us your thoughts, this podcast is one man’s opinion, not a lecture or sermon. Also please enter our listener appreciation contest and help spread the word about our show. Also remember you can call in your questions and comments to 866-65-THINK and you might hear yourself on the air.

Join Me Today as I Answer Your Calls Today on The Survival Podcast I take your calls on investing, cooking, gardening, gun rights, alternative housing, financial mindset and more. Remember to be on a show like this one just pick up your phone and call 866-65-THINK. The best way to improve your chances of being on the air is ask your question or make your point up front, then provide details. Also please do your best to call from a quite area with a good connection and speak up so you can be well heard. I can’t put all calls on the air but I do my best to get most of them on. Join Me Today As I Respond to Your Calls and Discuss… Where to list real estate that will appeal to preppers The monetary and health advantage of natural cleaning products How to cook venison and not ruin it Cooking with a pressure canner What chance do we have of strict gun laws passing Is the “panicked buying” of guns justified right now The Sukup Safe T House – Really cool for BOLs Dealing with a garden that weeds and crap grass have over run What is an IUL Fund and why should you never invest in one Why investing in silver and gold can be a bad choice at times Bringing the warrior mindset into your financial life Resources for today’s show… Members Support Brigade 13Skills.com Join Our Forum TSP Copper – Closed Pending a Major Announcement TSP Gear Shop Survival Gear Bags – (sponsor of the day) Safe Castle Royal – (sponsor of the day) LandsOfAmerica.com (change America to an individual state for a state dedicated version) LandWatch.com SurvivalRealty.com – (James Rawles’ Site) Permaculture Soils DVD by Geoff Lawton The Sukup Safe T Home Panicked Buying of Guns and What to Do About It Remember to comment, chime in and tell us your thoughts, this podcast is one man’s opinion, not a lecture or sermon. Also please enter our listener appreciation contest and help spread the word about our show. Also remember you can call in your questions and comments to 866-65-THINK and you might hear yourself on the air.  

Check Out The Backyard Pioneer We have two interviews for you today, first up Mike Prunty “The Backyard Pioneer” who has a small urban homestead in Long Island New York on his experience with Hurricane Sandy. Mike is a 39 year old suburban husband and father, he works as a Lineman for Verizon and is an avid hunter and do it yourselfer.  He heats with wood and grows a big garden each year. This year he started to get into using a smoker and has his first batch of home brew going right now.  Unfortunately like many in the North East his progress was more then slightly impeded by Super Storm Sandy. Today Mike joins us to discuss Hurricane Sandy and it’s immediate after math for his family and how our basic preps made life easier.  Today we discuss the last minute preps he made and how that made a big difference along with what it was like living on generator power for an extended period. We also talk to mike about how his friends and neighbors reacted to his skills and knowledge during the event.  Then  we discuss what Mike calls the  “indispensable prep” and how it made the biggest difference of all. Finally we finsh up with after now experiencing a big disaster what Mike will do differently and what holes in his preps were exposed. Check out the Southern Maryland Bee Keeper Next we move on to Craig Yardon, “The Southern Maryland Bee Keeper” for a discussion that is the end of our series on keeping bees. Craig discusses the on going threat of CCD, natural bee keeping and the concept of “small cell” bee keeping and how it can drastically improve the bees ability to withstand the virola mights that are currently a huge problem for many keepers. We also discuss the advantages of the warre hive and how it is sort of a cross roads between top bar and conventional bee keeping including the huge advantage of being able to take honey off the top of the hive. We also discuss how to improve the virility of your hive, how to raise bees with no chemicals and how owning bees can drastically improve your results on the homestead beyond honey production. Resources for Today’s Show… Members Support Brigade Join Our Forum 13Skills.com TSP Copper – Temporarily Closed, Big announcement coming soon. Ready Made Resources – (sponsor of the day) Bulk Ammo – (sponsor of the day) The Backyard Pioneer The Southern Maryland Bee Keeper Remember to comment, chime in and tell us your thoughts, this podcast is one man’s opinion, not a lecture or sermon. Also please enter our listener appreciation contest and help spread the word about our show. Also remember you can call in your questions and comments to 866-65-THINK and you might hear yourself on the air.

Join Me Today as I Answer Your eMails It’s the first show of the new year 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 jack” or “article for jack” in the subject line to assure proper identification for my screening process. Today we discuss the fiscal cliff that wasn’t, the real danger of the Feinstein Firearms Bill, food shortages, the 2012 Arkansas blizzard, libertarianism and more. Please understand I receive several hundred emails a day and can’t get them all on the air. I do put out a lot of information on Facebook from emails that I can’t fit on the program though so keep em coming. Join Me Today As I Respond to Your Emails On Why the fiscal cliff never mattered and the nonsense coming next The real danger of the Feinstein Firearms Bill, it ain’t what you think What the hysteria in the gun industry can teach us about a food shortage Lessons from the Arkansas black out and blizzard of 2012 An update on the acquisition of our new homestead Pizza hut demotes a delivery guy for defending himself during an attack Tom Woods on Libertarianism in NH The best way to protect the 2nd amendment, will you answer the call? Resources for Today’s Show… Members Support Brigade 13Sill.com Join Our Forum TSP Copper TSP Gear Sawtooth Tactical – (sponsor of the day) Knife Kits – (sponsor of the day) Pizza Hut Demotes Delivery Man, for Defending Himself Against Attackers Libertarians Not Welcome in NH says one Bean Headed State Rep TomWoods.com The Real Danger of the Feinstein Firearms Bill Win Free Tickets to the 2013 Liberty Forum Remember to comment, chime in and tell us your thoughts, this podcast is one man’s opinion, not a lecture or sermon. Also please enter our listener appreciation contest and help spread the word about our show. Also remember you can call in your questions and comments to 866-65-THINK and you might hear yourself on the air.

Most of today’s show is a rebroadcast of 2008′s Christmas special. Today we pause and take a moment to reflect on Christmas and how it has become the Holiday we celebrate today. Many American’s have no idea just how Christmas became unique here in America, the role it played in bringing our nation together after two wars of independence and the civil war. Christmas is special and a time to pause and reflect. Christmas is indeed a special time of year, today I will cover many aspects of it that may make this Christmas just a bit more special. There is also a full text transcription on of the non commercial portion of today’s show in the show notes below. Tune in today to hear about… Christmas was banned in England at one time and even parts of America Early Americans didn’t really celebrate Christmas, (congress was in session on Dec 25th, 1789) In the early 1800s Christmas was a rowdy holiday spurred by class conflict, turmoil and unemployment In 1819, best-selling author Washington Irving wrote The Sketchbook of Geoffrey Crayon bringing us many “ancient customs”, he simply invented Leading up to the Civil War, Christmas was a “southern holiday” and Thanksgiving a “northern holiday” How Christmas and Thanksgiving together helped to heal a young America Today is a time to pause, reflect and just be, prepping, planning and stress will all wait patiently for you Different ending music for today’s show! The most beautiful version of Oh Holly Night I have ever heard, just pause, listen and realize what really matters while it plays. Resources for today’s show… Members Support Brigade TSP Gear Shop Join Our Forum Written Transcript of Today’s Show (right click and save as for best results) Martina McBride Singing Oh Holly Night (song from the end of today’s show on Youtube) TSP’s Youtube Channel Winners of the 13 in 13 Challenge 1st Place – Big Dan’s Ramblings – How and Why to use 13Skills.com 2nd Place – Nu Mu Pi Studios – 13Skills.com 3rd Place – Scary Dad – A Very Special Episode of Scary Dad 4th Place – Survival Punk – 13 in Thirteen: No Pain No Gain! Remember to comment, chime in and tell us your thoughts, this podcast is one man’s opinion, not a lecture or sermon. Also please enter our listener appreciation contest and help spread the word about our show. Also remember you can call in your questions and comments to 866-65-THINK and you might hear yourself on the air.

Join Me Today as I Answer Your Calls Today I take your calls on  real estate, planting hard woods, precious metal storage, rocket mass heaters, social media, water storage, emergency heating and more. Remember to be on a show like this one just pick up your phone and call 866-65-THINK. The best way to improve your chances of being on the air is ask your question or make your point up front, then provide details. Also please do your best to call from a quite area with a good connection and speak up so you can be well heard. I can’t put all calls on the air but I do my best to get most of them on. Join Me Today As I Respond to Your Calls and Discuss… What happens when property appraises well below the sale price When it comes to planting and permaculture remember we can grow more then food Safe storage of silver and gold at home Dealing with an active shooter in body armor – Frank Sharpe weighs in Building a garbarge burning rocket mass heater – Paul Wheaton weighs in Using social media to keep up to date with emergencies and first responders Thoughts on wood heating for everyday and for back up emergencies Why I would never spend one thin dime on a “water brick” A reality check on “golden hordes” and sensible BOL locations Making healthy meat and produce choices on a limited budget Getting the best money for sterling silver items Using waste water from pets for fertility Resources for today’s show… Members Support Brigade 13Skills.com Join Our Forum TSP Copper TSP Gear Shop Western Botanicals – (sponsor of the day) Back Woods Home Magazine – (sponsor of the day) The TSP Twitter Feed in RSS – Change the username to make it work with any twitter account Remember to comment, chime in and tell us your thoughts, this podcast is one man’s opinion, not a lecture or sermon. Also please enter our listener appreciation contest and help spread the word about our show. Also remember you can call in your questions and comments to 866-65-THINK and you might hear yourself on the air.  

Today we have a minor inconvenience when our power went out.  Out came the 6K Troy-Bilt Generator and soon daily emails were being handled and hot coffee was had by all.  I posted a picture of it on Facebook and was amazed how a few fellow preppers sort of crapped on the concept. It was a very few but still it shows a problem with mindset in my view.  To the guy who recommended solar I am not including you in this group of a few, don’t want you getting your panties in a wad or anything, LOL. One person said, “warm water, hot coffee and TV won’t help you when TSHTF”.  My question is if you are not prepared to be comfortable in a routine system failure how on earth can you claim that you are ready for the Zombie Apocalypse?  I will also tell you as a business owner not being able to run your business is a disaster. So in the first part of today’s show I talk a bit about this concept and how it relates to yesterday’s segment on getting started. Then I introduce David Nash of TNGun.com.  David is a full time emergency manger by trade, and an advocate of self-reliance and personal preparedness by avocation.  He is also instructor certified in a variety of topics such as firearms, terrorism response, WMD, and incident command.  He’s written two books, and runs a DIY focused prepper website, based around his training business “The Shepherd School”. Today he joins us first to talk about prepping from a DIY standpoint.  David feels prepping is full of $500 problems, but if you only have $50, you  have to use other ways of making up the difference, we also want to talk about my upcoming book “52 projects for self reliance”. From there we move into some of his experiences as a corrections officer and we take a real look into the criminal and violent mindsets that many people simply cannot seem to get their heads around.  During this period I tell the story of how my grandfather was shot, even though he complied with a robber and how fighting back and running away saved his life. Resources for today’s show… Members Support Brigade Join Our Forum 13Skills.com TSP Copper TSP Gear Shop Harvest Eating – (sponsor of the day) Free State Project – (sponsor of the day) TNGun.com – Dave’s Site My Video on Y2K Daves BOL Geoff Lawton on Surviving the Coming Crisis Remember to comment, chime in and tell us your thoughts, this podcast is one man’s opinion, not a lecture or sermon. Also please enter our listener appreciation contest and help spread the word about our show. Also remember you can call in your questions and comments to 866-65-THINK and you might hear yourself on the air.  

From #10 Cans to Meals Ready to Go! I have a great interview with Jennifer Ess of “Rainy Day Food Storage” for you today.  We only talked for about 25 minutes but the ideas and tips and simple formulas are great.  With this information you can turn all those huge cans of long term storage food into meal size ready to go recipes. Jennifer joins us today to discuss why creating meals in a jar makes sense for busy people.  The self life of these meals.  The easy way to make these meals shelf stable.  A simple formula for creating your own recipes and how you guys can free sauce mixes and jar meal recipes from Jennifer. I have also been getting a ton of “I am just starting out” or “I have just found your podcast” emails lately.  Such emails always go on to say “I am overwhelmed and don’t know where to start” in the next sentence.  It is totally understandable. I have been trying to figure out where to fit in a new “getting started” episode and this is a great opportunity.  First Jennifer’s method of breaking down long term storage foods will make that far less intimidating for many people.  Additionally the very basic of “eat what you store and store what you eat” is a great way to get the ball rolling. So I am leading off today with a short segment (about 25-30 minutes) on getting started and then we switch over to Jennifer and take this simple approach to a bit of a higher level with pre planned meals in a jar.  Oh and ladies, they really are pretty too.  I think I said pretty more times in this episode then all others episodes of TSP combine, um that would be two. Resources for Today’s Show… Members Support Brigade 13Sill.com Join Our Forum TSP Copper TSP Gear The Berkey Guy – (sponsor of the day) Fortress Defense Consultants – (sponsor of the day) Rainy Day Food Storage Remember to comment, chime in and tell us your thoughts, this podcast is one man’s opinion, not a lecture or sermon. Also please enter our listener appreciation contest and help spread the word about our show. Also remember you can call in your questions and comments to 866-65-THINK and you might hear yourself on the air.

First today I take some time to do a follow up on yesterdays show/video where I discussed how the “lock down” plan most of our schools have does not “keep our children safe” as we have been led to believe.  Many people called it Monday morning quarterbacking (such people don’t know the real meaning of the term) and some brought up some very valid “what if” questions. So today I will cover more on the subject.  I also want to be clear I was not advocating “the plan” should be evacuate and only evacuate, just that evacuate needs to be part of the plan.  Right now what most schools have seems to be a two stage plan, “Plan A” hide and wait for help, with no real Plan B, hence Plan B becomes by default, if Plan A fails everyone gets killed. I also give some thought and ideas to improve the odds of survival in these situations, things that can start being done now, at little to no cost.  Lastly we do have some good news out of the CT shootings, one little boy at least who was in one of the rooms the shooter entered is alive and at least physically unharmed.  Why?  Simply put because he ran away. Rory On Location in Baghdad Next we have Rory Miller as a guest to discuss a unfortunately applicable topic today, the reality of violence.  Rory Miller has been a Corrections Officer, a Sergeant, a Tactical Team member and a Tactical Team Leader. Rory has taught corrections and enforcement personnel skills from first aid to physical defense to crisis communication and mental health. His philosophy can be summed up this way… “It is better to avoid than to run; better to run than to de-escalate; better to de-escalate than to fight; better to fight than to die.  The very essence of self-defense is a thin list of things that might get you out alive when you are already screwed.” Resources for today’s show… Members Support Brigade 13Skills.com Join Our Forum TSP Copper TSP Gear Shop Back Yard Food Production – (sponsor of the day) JM Bullion – (sponsor of the day) Story of the Little Boy Who Survived by Running Away Chiron Training – Rory’s Website Remember to comment, chime in and tell us your thoughts, this podcast is one man’s opinion, not a lecture or sermon. Also please enter our listener appreciation contest and help spread the word about our show. Also remember you can call in your questions and comments to 866-65-THINK and you might hear yourself on the air.

Join Me Today as I Answer Your eMails It’s 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 jack” or “article for jack” in the subject line to assure proper identification for my screening process. Today we discuss what no one will say about the shootings in CT, fitness, threats to your 401k, the mileage tax, using a meat processor for deer meat and prepping as a family. Please understand I receive several hundred emails a day and can’t get them all on the air. I do put out a lot of information on Facebook from emails that I can’t fit on the program though so keep em coming. Join Me Today As I Respond to Your Emails On The lessons about the shooting in CT, no one wants to learn Why fitness isn’t a bigger topic in the prepping world The truth about the so called 401K take over no one will tell you What you need to understand about “off grid energy systems” Just like I told you two years ago we are back to states going after a mileage tax Is there any meat theft or swapping risk when using a butcher to process deer meat Resources for Today’s Show… Members Support Brigade 13Sill.com Join Our Forum TSP Copper TSP Gear Survival Gear Bags – (sponsor of the day) Safe Castle Royal – (sponsor of the day) Washington State Considers a Mileage Tax The Government Seeks to Mandate 401Ks Video Segment of Today’s Show Segment on the CT. Shootings Remember to comment, chime in and tell us your thoughts, this podcast is one man’s opinion, not a lecture or sermon. Also please enter our listener appreciation contest and help spread the word about our show. Also remember you can call in your questions and comments to 866-65-THINK and you might hear yourself on the air.

Mark, His Wife Anna and Faithful Companion Lucy. Mark Hamilton was born in Ohio and did a 6 year stint in US Navy.  From there he moved on to copier repair doing that for over a decade.  He also went to for photography and video work and for a time wedding videography and miscellaneous  construction jobs and worked as a  substitute teacher  Today he feels he has found his true passion as a full time homesteader and micro business operator. Mark joins us today to discuss modern day homesteading along with how he and his wife are making supplemental income from a chicken waterer micro business.  We also discuss chicken pastures, deer deterrents, high density fruit orcharding, mini root cellars and a varitety of his projects.  Along with how people can get started with a modern homestead, a micro business or both and the role the web and blogging can play in doing that. Additional Resources for Today’s Show Members Support Brigade TSP Copper Join Our Forum TSP Gear.com The 13Skills Blogging Contest Details 13skills.com Sawtooth Tactical – (sponsor of the day) Ready Made Resources – (sponsor of the day) Mark’s Links The Walden Effect – Mark’s Blog Walden Effect’s About Page – The contest word is in the last one in the second paragraph where it says, “nd has a paperback due out in October ______.” The Avian Aqua Miser Remember to comment, chime in and tell us your thoughts, this podcast is one man’s opinion, not a lecture or sermon. Also please enter our listener appreciation contest and help spread the word about our show. Also remember you can call in your questions and comments to 866-65-THINK and you might hear yourself on the air.

Steven Harris – CEO of Knowledge Publications Special Note – Steve put all of the info in these two shows and more into over 5 Hours of professionally produced HD Video that walks you though every single thing about batteries and back up systems you could even want to know. For all TSP Members these videos are available for only 24.95 at Battery1234.com. Steven Harris returns to TSP this time to discuss battery back up systems. As is typical with Steven he did so much research and prep that we had to break this into two episodes. Today we cover everything you will need to know to build a battery back up system from the most basic to a highly powerful vehicle mounted mobile system. Steven Harris is a consultant and expert in the field of energy. He is the founder and CEO of Knowledge Publications, the largest energy only publishing company in the USA. Mr. Harris came to his current position to do full time work on the development and implementation of hydrogen, biomass and solar related energy systems after spending 10 years in the Aero-Thermal Dynamics department of the Scientific Labs of Chrysler Corporation. Steve is always full of great ideas, knowledge and projects we can use to improve our personal energy independence and today is no exception. The work that went into these two shows took over a month of work and an investment of over 3,000 dollars. Every item mentioned was purchased, tested and personally used by Steve to insure all the systems he teaches you about will preform as expected. Additional Resources for Today’s Show Members Support Brigade TSP Copper TSP Gear.com Join Our Forum The 13Skills Blogging Contest Details 13skills.com My New YouTube Video on Swales Steven’s Websites Battery1234.com – All the resources for this show and the 5 hours of HD Video Solar1234.com – Get info on all Steven’s Sites IMakeMyGas.com – This is for the small still, currently sold out. Steve on Facebook Remember to comment, chime in and tell us your thoughts, this podcast is one man’s opinion, not a lecture or sermon. Also please enter our listener appreciation contest and help spread the word about our show. Also remember you can call in your questions and comments to 866-65-THINK and you might hear yourself on the air.

Steven Harris – CEO of Knowledge Publications Special Note – Steve put all of the info in these two shows and more into over 5 Hours of professionally produced HD Video that walks you though every single thing about batteries and back up systems you could even want to know.  For all TSP Members these videos are available for only 24.95 at Battery1234.com. Steven Harris returns to TSP this time to discuss battery back up systems. As is typical with Steven he did so much research and prep that we had to break this into two episodes. Today we cover everything you will ever need to know to choose the right battery for your needs. Steven Harris is a consultant and expert in the field of energy. He is the founder and CEO of Knowledge Publications, the largest energy only publishing company in the USA. Mr. Harris came to his current position to do full time work on the development and implementation of hydrogen, biomass and solar related energy systems after spending 10 years in the Aero-Thermal Dynamics department of the Scientific Labs of Chrysler Corporation. Steve is always full of great ideas, knowledge and projects we can use to improve our personal energy independence and today is no exception.  The work that went into these two shows took over a month of work and an investment of over 3,000 dollars.  Every item mentioned was purchased, tested and personally used by Steve to insure all the systems he teaches you about will preform as expected. Additional Resources for Today’s Show Members Support Brigade TSP Copper TSP Gear.com Join Our Forum The 13Skills Blogging Contest Details 13skills.com Steven’s Websites Battery1234.com – All the resources for this show and the 5 hours of HD Video Solar1234.com – Get info on all Steven’s Sites IMakeMyGas.com – This is for the small still, currently sold out. Steve on Facebook Remember to comment, chime in and tell us your thoughts, this podcast is one man’s opinion, not a lecture or sermon. Also please enter our listener appreciation contest and help spread the word about our show. Also remember you can call in your questions and comments to 866-65-THINK and you might hear yourself on the air.