Survivalist Prepper Podcast Listener Questions

This weeks podcast was all listener questions. We had questions ranging from just getting started prepping, to being more efficient with preparing to surviving an economic collapse.

We get quite a few question, and I try to put aside the emails that I think would be helpful to a lot of people who listen to the show. Most of these questions deserve more than just a 1 paragraph answer so Lisa and I decided to answer them on the show.

Because of time constraints we didn’t get to all the questions we had, but I am keeping then set aside for a later show. If you have a question you would like us to answer on the show just send an email to dale@survivalistprepper.net and we’ll answer it in the next Q & A show.

SPP121 Listener Questions

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LYNN – How Prepared am I?

Your podcasts have kept me company on many a road trip. I decided to join the academy for some more direct skill knowledge and honestly for some of the give always.  I have been “prepping” for about 8 months. While I have the support of my family, other than weapons, it has all been left to me.

I feel like your “squirrel” episode. Being torn in so many directions.  I have two girls away at college.  Both have get home bags and a plan. And a younger daughter at home who is pretty secure with a 9mm.  My husband is extremely smart and has always been physically fit until a trip over a retaining wall in our yard playing soccer shattered his back resulting in 9 surgeries in the last 6 years.  Although the he is still physically fit he has quite a few mobility issues.

We have a good amount of food stored, ammo, water in the pool and purifiers and hopefully most of the other basic items needed to hang on in a SHTF scenario. We learned a lot during the 2011 tornadoes which devastated part of our area but left the whole city without power for a week with very very limited cell phone coverage.  I have no idea if I am truly prepared or not.

I would love for someone to come in and tell me where my holes are.  I guess my questions revolve around skill.  I am suburban girl with absolutely no skills whatsoever. I’m not even sure of the skills I need.  I just started a fall garden but have no idea how to can or hunt and although our family just took a pistol class from tactical response I am a horrible shot.

You talk a lot about practicing skills which is so hard when you have no idea where to start and not a lot of time.  I wanted to make a solar oven but there were so many directions on the Internet and I have no idea which one would work and really didn’t have time to sort through them all- so I just gave up.

So I’m not sure if I directly answered your questions and I probably gave you more information than a gray man should but I guess I’m just hoping to learn.  Squirrel!

Thanks!

TIFFINI – Preparedness Foundation

As new preppers just getting started, there’s so much information out there and so many things to do, what’s the first thing we should focus on? Getting off on the right foot helps to ensure we continue without getting frustrated and possibly giving up.

CHAD – Prepping Efficiently

Hey guys. I just found your podcast this week and have listened to the past 10 or so episodes. I feel like I’ve already learned a lot, but I’m one of those cats that doesn’t believe you can ever know too much though, so you’ll probably get questions from me periodically. Now, to answer your questions:

My top question isn’t so much about preparedness as it is about efficiency. We are a family of 4 with a modest size home inside our city limits (unfortunately. Thank God we live in a small town and not a metropolis). My goal is to be as prepared as humanly possible for any situation that may occur. That

being said, I could use help figuring out how to maximize the little space I do have so I can stockpile as much as possible. I hope I’m making sense here. I don’t know enough about preparedness to really know what my most important specific question should be, so I’m going with this.

MAX – The Next Level of Prepping

Hello. I have recently jumped into the prepping lifestyle and have been really enjoying it. It started out as something I could do as a hobby, but I can see over the course of the year or so I have been involved that it is going to be much more than that. I have been listening to your podcast for a while now and I am just about caught up. Really good stuff and very well done. You guys definitely deserve the 5 start review I left on iTunes.

it is hard for me to really nail it down to one specific question, but what I find myself dealing with these days is how I can push my preparedness to the next level and how to tie in preparedness with the recent addition to my family (my wife and I just had our first child. A real cutie who is a little over one month). I know these topics are not an easy answer and I have been continuing to do my research.

My biggest push right now is to extend my food storage from about a month to much longer. Just bought my first 20b bag of rice and plan on getting some mylar bags to store it long term. Beans is next on the list. Any recommendations on what kind to get?

SCOTT – Preparing for an Economic Collapse

Hello Dale

I have been listening to your podcast for a while and I’m always eager to learn about different ways to reach a better state of preparation for the impending social/economic collapse. Keep up the good news.

CYNDI – Suburban Prepping

I would like to learn more about staying put in suburbia.  Most people are not able to have a BOL to go to so we need this information.  I read all the time about BOL’s (bug out locations) and urban areas but very little on the Suburbs.  We have about 167 homes in our neighborhood and there are all kinds from stay at home moms, cops, medical professionals to the occasional street kid.

I am a 50 something nana whose kids and grandkids just moved out after having to live with us for 5 years, so please post information for middle class suburbia.

Academy Contest

During the show we talked about the next giveaway at the Survivalist Prepper Academy. In the next couple of weeks we will be giving away a Voyager Crank Radio from CampingSurvival.com, a couple of Bug Out Bag First Aid Kits and maybe even a few more smaller prizes.

Underground Tunnels

During Tin Foil Hat Time we talked about underground tunnels and government facility’s. Any time you talk about underground facility’s Denver International Airport inevitably come up. Lisa and I talked about how viable this is because of satellite imagery and governments needing to hide what they are doing.