Holistic Survival Show - Economic Crisis

Grady Powell is the former Senior Detachment Weapons Sergeant in the U.S. Army Special Forces and formerly with the United States Army Special Forces (Green Beret). He's now a firearms and survival instructor. 

He joins the show to tell us about the National Geographic Channel’s "Ultimate Survival Alaska" show. He shares tips for cold weather survival and explains the survival training he provides.

Find out more about National Geographics "Ultimate Survival Alaska" at channel.nationalgeographic.com/channel/ultimate-survival-alaska/. 

Jason talks with guest E.J. Snyder, who is an expert survivalist. Nickenamed "Skullcrusher", E.J. has appeared on several reality television shows such as Naked and Afraid. He covers some basic but very important survival tips on this episode.

H. Art Taylor is President and CEO of Better Business Bureau Wise Giving Alliance. He joins the show to tell us how people can avoid fraud after a natural disaster or crisis occurs. He also gives us some examples of fraud that occurred as a result of the Philippines typhoon relief efforts. He explains how people can check with the BBB to help avoid questionable fundraising efforts.

Taylor shares some easy to spot trends and tactics that scammers use to prey on consumers. He believes there is more fraudulent activity around/during the holidays?

Visit the Better Business Bureau at www.bbb.org.

James Wesley Rawles, creator of SurvivalBlog.com has written a new book, Expatriates: A Novel of the Coming Global Collapse and was in the news recently for his discussion about the recent failures of the EBT (food stamp) system and what it would mean if there was a long term outage.

Rawles touts himself a survivalist author and lecturer. He's also a former U.S. Army intelligence officer, and now works as a full-time blogger and freelance writer. Rawles grew up in the Bomb Shelter era, and says that mind set just never wore off.

In addition to his well known blog, he has authored several best selling nonfiction and fiction survivalists books with an expertise in retreat security, food storage, firearms, communications, first aid, and off-grid power systems. He has a B.A. degree from San Jose State University with minor degrees in military science, history, and military history. He served as a U.S. Army Intelligence Corps officer and has held a Top Secret security clearance with SCI access. In addition, James also attended the Army NBC defense officer's course, as well as Northern Warfare School at Fort Greeley, Alaska. Before resigning his commission as a Captain, he worked numerous live intelligence gathering and analysis missions overseas the tactical and strategic levels. 

SurvivalBlog has more than 300,000 readers per week, and it is considered the Internet's premier source of information on family preparedness and survival topics.

Rawles credits his study of Austrian Economics and his Conservative/Constitutionalist-Libertarian political views with shaping his perspective on preparedness. 

For the past 20 years, Rawles has primarily worked as a journalist and technical writer. During that time, he wrote a full length survivalist novel, titled "Patriots: Surviving the Coming Collapse." He later authored several sequels to that novel, one of which reached #3 on the New York Times bestsellers list and also wrote the very popular non-fiction book "How to Survive the End of the World as We Know It: Tactics, Techniques, and Technologies for Uncertain Times". 

You can learn more about James at SurvivalBlog.com 

Dr. Robert Bristow is the Medical Director of Emergency Management at New York Presbyterian Hospital, Director of Disaster Medicine at Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons, faculty member of the National Center for Disaster Preparedness in the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, and consultant to National Geographic’s new film "American Blackout."

He explains what would happen if there was a national power failure in the United States caused by a cyber attack. He shares some things to keep in mind for emergency preparedness.

Find out more about National Geographic's film at www.survivetheblackout.com.

Scott Hunt is the owner of Practical Preppers and consultant to the National Geographic’s new show "Doomsday Preppers." He joins the show to discuss what people can do to start prepping for extraordinary events. He specifically addresses what average “Joes” can do to prepare without going to extremes and what kind of emergencies we can expect. 

Hunt shares what he thinks is the most creative prep he's encountered during the filming of Doomsday Preppers. He also discusses the the “Practical Preppers” Mobile App.

Find out more about Practical Preppers at www.practicalpreppers.com. Watch "Doomsday Preppers" at www.natgeotv.com/doomsdaypreppers.

In this episode, Jason talks with producer Sean Stone about his television program, Buzzsaw. Sean, the son of Oilver Stone, partnered with Tyrel Ventura to create a better way to convey conspiracies compared to that of the mainstream media.