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Now displaying: May, 2016
May 25, 2016

In this ITRH book club episode we sit down with author Bobby Akart. We discuss his books, how he came to being a prepper, and how he wraps preparedness lessons into his books for you.

Topics Discussed with author Bobby Akart:

  • How did Bobby come to writing?
  • What authors inspire him?
  • How does the Brahmin series start?
  • What is the "Prepping for Tomorrow" series about?
  • How does he overcome the challange of story telling and teaching at the same time?
  • Why does he think his books resonated with so many people?
  • What is he personally prepping for?
  • What is his prepper pet peeve?
  • What is his go to rifle?
  • What can readers expect from him in the futre?

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E175: Author Bobby Akart Interview

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May 23, 2016

In this episode we’re going to deconstruct the infamous emergency information packet. And our guest, Justin Carol, is going to translate geek to simple for us to make this easy for even the most technologically inept among us. After this episode even my mom who still can’t figure out email attachments would be a wizard at preparing and backing up her most sensitive documents.

Information Packet Topics Discussed:

* Why is it important to make backups of important documents?
* What information should preppers, and everyone, backup?
* What options are available for local backups, and how do you manage those?
* What are best practices for protecting/encrypting the information you have backed up?
* Are cloud backup solutions, like Dropbox, a safe way to store important files?
* Are there ways to make cloud backups more secure?
* How do you keep up with refreshing the information in your backups?

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E174: Emergency Information Packets

May 16, 2016

In this episode, we learn how to roll our own. Armada member, and longtime friend of the show, Mark sits us down at his workbench and gives us some schoolin' on ammo reloading.

Today's show notes are thanks to the hard work of our guest/member / and friend, Mark. Enjoy! And be sure to thank him for the hard work.

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May 11, 2016

In this episode, we wrestle with wanting the collapse to come and what a slow collapse might look like. Devon Porter, author of After The Crumble, joins us to illustrate what a societal crumble might look like in this ITRH Book Club Episode.

After the Crumble Interview Topics:

  • What inspired Devon to write After the Crumble?
  • How should readers expect to connect with the main character?
  • What causes the slow collapse (aka crumble)?
  • Is this a story with survival lessons or a lesson on survival?
  • What authors inspire Devon?
  • How did he get into preparedness?
  • What's his go-to rifle?
  • When is volume 2 coming out?
  • What's the best $100 he ever spent on survival?

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Episode 172

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May 9, 2016

In this episode our guest lays out the importance of intelligence gather. With some techniques you can know what's going on before the news. Form intelligence contractor Sam Culper of Forward Observer Magazine lays it all out for us.

Threat Intelligence Gathering Episode Topics:

  • How did Sam come to preparedness?
  • What is threat intelligence for generating personal early warning systems?
  • What is Operation Urban Charger?
  • How preppers can develop early warning for SHTF?
  • Can you use these systems to be on top of riots and other disasters?
  • How much of an early warning can preppers get by using these methods?
  • What are the two big intelligence problems people experience that slows them down?
  • How do we solve analysis paralysis?
  • How to do social media and other open source intelligence sources.
  • What is Sam's go to rifle?
  • Special SHTF Intelligence discount code for listener.

Quick episode takeaway:

If you had to give an elevator pitch for your book, SHTF Intelligence: An Intelligence Analyst's Guide to Community Security, what would it be?

In an SHTF senario, we're all going to run into two problems. Number one, we're going to not have enough information to make well informed time sensitive decisions. Or, number two, we going to have way too much information--we're going to be drowning information. And that's going to slow down our decision making process.

So threw intelligence [...] we essentially solve both of those problems before we encounter them.

To solve the first problem, of not having enough inforation, I talk about intelligence collection and how to get it automated. I talk about human intelligence, and imagery, and open source signals intelligence; all the things we need to set up now so that we can beging getting these threat intelligence streams coming into what we call the A.C.E. (Analysis and Control Element). [...] So setting up those information gathering mechanisms now to solve the first problem.

Now to solve the second problem [...] I talk about analysis and how we separate the wheat from the chaff. How we coordinate potentially massive amounts of information and make it relevant [and] ensure that it's timely. [...]

The last part of the book is about how to set up an intelligence element: The roles, the tasks and the responsibilities--what everyone does so that at zero hour we know [...] this is what everyone does and this is how we fill this giant blind spot when it comes to threat intelligence.

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E171: How to Secrets of Threat Intelligence for Survival

May 4, 2016

In this ITRH book club episode we sit down with Kermit Jones. He's going to tell us about his book that teaches kids, and many adults, all about firearms safety. Maybe you don't have kids, but you'll still enjoy this episode. Because.... well... guns. And Kermit is a lot of fun.

Firearms Safety Topics Discussed:

  • How is Kermit Jones and what makes him an authority about teaching firearms safety to kids.
  • What inspired him to write Prepper Pete’s Gun of a Son?
  • What’s the biggest challenge when writing a children’s book that also appeals to adults?
  • What was your biggest fear when trying to teach his own kids about gun safety?
  • Is it different teaching daughters to shoot as apposed to sons?
  • What’s the biggest mistake parents make when it comes to discussing gun safety with their kids?
  • What’s the biggest mistake people in general make when it comes to gun safety?
  • What’s an appropriate age to teach kids to shoot?
  • How young is too young to teach a child about gun safety?
  • What are the 3 biggest takeaways are from his book when talking to kids about guns?

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Episode 170

Special Announcement: Summer Break

Now ITRH also about to go on summer break. This season will end May 25th.

Since the ITRH summer shorts were so well received last summer we’re going to do those again. So you won’t be left without any ITRH episodeds during the summer. They’ll just be short 7 to 15 minute episodes probably on the order of every 3 weeks.

For those that are new hear and don’t know what the summer shorts are all about I’ll explain quickly. Hear goes:

ITRH goes on break for a few months every summer. But we don’t go totally off the air. You’ll get short episodes on a less frequent basis of one every two to three weeks. Then we’ll be back August 1st.

May 2, 2016

E169: Strength and Conditioning for Preppers

In this episode we sit down with Greg Gottfried. He's a strength and conditioning coach, and fitness podcast host, who's going to pump you up for the apocalypse. So put on your 80s sweatband. We're going to lift heavy.

Strength Training Topics Discussed:

  • Who is Greg Gottfried?
  • Why should preppers care about physical fitness?
  • Why do you prefer lifting heavy over cardio?
  • What do people normally get wrong with their exercise regiments?
  • How can people with disabilities become mobile or even physically fit again?
  • What do people most often get wrong with their nutrition?
  • How do you prep, store food, and ensure that your stores are of the best nutritional value?
  • Does sleep and rest play a big role in fitness?
  • Does physical fitness purely mean pushing and pulling weights?
  • How much can be done with simple body weight exercises?
  • How important is having a trainer or coach?
  • How can unable to afford a trainer or coach get good information about physical fitness and ensure they're not going to injure themselves?
  • If a friend or family member was asking for advice on a trainer. Let's say for whatever reason you couldn't work with them. What advice would you give?

Quick Takeaways from this episode:

How is Greg Gottfried? [...] I'm a strength and conditioning coach. I'm also a track and field throws coach. [...] I also teach CPR and First Aid. I'm a member of my local CERT. And just recently got my HAM license.

Do you consider yourself a prepper?

Absolutely! And I haven't been my whole life. Hurricane Katrina is what flipped the switch for me. Seeing how helpless people were and the lawlessness... just the devastation really forced me to be honest with what situation my family was in. [...] Since Katrina, I've really gone full bore to make sure my family is safe and prepared.

Did watching the aftermath of Katrina make you think, "my G-d, what if this happen to my family?"

Yeah! Like I said, it was like a light switch for me. [...] It was like a cartoon lightbulb going off. I was sitting in a town house and we two shared walls. And I was thinking we don't have any extra food. We don't have any water. And my shotguns are stored at my parents house. What the hell do we do?

Portland is not a bastion of firearms love and affection. How does that work for you in your area? And is preparedness looked at as being weird in your area?

Guns are a hot topic here. And we're not exactly the most welcoming of firearms. [...] It's not something I talked about a lot before I got into all of this, but believe it or not they were all closet preppers too.

It always surprises me how there are more people into guns and prepping than most people think. It just takes opening up a little bit, often.

Where does preparedness, physical fitness, and nutrition intersect for you?

[...] Like I mentioned before, I'm a member of my local CERT and First Aid. I'm a member at the local gun club also. And I can't help but notice how terrible shape people are in. [...] Or the things they're prepping are horrible foods. And it's the thing I like to do: help people fill in those gaps. So when I'm talking to someone about nutrition... I'll bring up, "Well now that you have all these healthy foods, what if we get snowed in? Do you have acces to more foods like this?" Or when I'm talking to people about compressions, it's like... do you think you can maintain chest compressions for 15 minutes before an ambulance shows up? Or can you get that 300 pound vicim out of harms way?

I just notice a lot of people are not physically fit. And they call themselves preppers. It kind of gets under my skin. If you're not ready for life right now, how are you going to be ready when a catastrophe hits.

Are we going to talk about becoming a gym rat today: making working out like a part time job? How deep are we going to go here?

It can be really simple. What's important is that we can move through a full range of motions... in compound movements, like a squat or hip hinge, or be able to push or pull and be pain free.

A lot of people are just sitting at their desks all day long. [...] And they just can't move around very well. They just don't have that mobility that they once had as kids.

What's important is being about to move through life more efficiently.

How do we get there... How many hours a week are we talking for the average person to get and stay functionally fit.

It doesn't need to take forever. A good well rounded workout done in an hour. And you don't need to do that every single day. But 3 to 5 times a week is fine. So we're looking at 3 to 5 hours a week. Max.

The key is to make sure you're doing the right things. And there it's really important to make sure, especially us guys, and we're finding a trainer or coach get us where we need to go.

What do you see people get wrong?

That's a great questions. The number one thing I see people get wrong is all they do is cardio. Not that there's anything wrong with cardio. [...] As far as being effective in life and getting the most bang for our buck I think the real value is in strength training.

And making sure it's a well rounded strength training routine. So what you're doing is some sort of squat, some sort of hip hinge, a push, a pull, and a waited carry or bridging.

[...] Plus, there's been a lot of studies that have shown heart rate and metallic effect of doing resistant training, or lifting weights, lasts for fare longer post workout than if you were to do cardio.

In the event of a zombie apocalypse, what is this strength training and firmer butt going to do for me?

One, you're going to be able to get over all your obstacles... Jumping walls and climbing trees won't be anything for you.

Let's step back a little bit, and let's take it from just a small weather thing. Let's say a tree falls down in the road way. Cardio isn't going to help you with that. Deadlifting is going to help you move that tree.

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