All Episodes
The Common Sense Practical Prepper — 229 episodes
Blackout At The Fairgrounds
Prepping Is The American Default
The Lone Man On The Ridge - Episode Ten: Change Of Plans
Why Practical Prepping Stays Above Politics
The Emotional Truth About Prepping
Build Your Ark - One Week of Food
The Lone Man On The Ridge - Episode Nine: A Costly Trade
A Prepper’s Rant On Crime And Consequences
Build Your Ark - Layered Home Security
The Lone Man On The Ridge - Episode Eight: Leaving It All Behind
Build Your Ark - Water Basics
The Lone Man On The Ridge - Episode Seven: Bugging Out
Five-Minute Bug Out Essentials
Critical Thinking Beats Panic Every Time
The Lone Man On The Ridge - Episode Six: First Contact
Prepper Updates And Memorial Day Meaning
The Lone Man On The Ridge - Episode Five: The Price Of Coming Back
Prepping Vs Self-Reliance
The Lone Man On The Ridge - Episode Four: Strengthening The Perimeter
Constant Fear Does Not Make You Prepared
The Lone Man On The Ridge - Episode Three: The Road Down
If Everything Went Sideways Tomorrow, Would You Be Ready?
The Lone Man On The Ridge - Episode Two: Five Weeks Of Silence
Civil Unrest Prep Basics
The Lone Man On The Ridge - Episode One: The Line
Why Paper Money Beats Cards In Emergencies
You Cannot Assume You Are Safe Anywhere
A Simple Hygiene Plan Keeps You Alive In A Crisis
Water Basics For Real Emergencies
Build A Budget Pantry With Real Grocery Food
TSA Funding Chaos And How To Travel Prepared
Hormuz Shockwaves
Hormuz Shock And Your Grocery Bill
What Virginia’s 2026 Assault Firearms Ban Changes For AR Owners
Homemade Bombs In New York And What Comes Next
A Movie, A Misleading Headline, And Why We Still Prepare
Global Turmoil, Local Mindset
Tiny Steps, Big Resilience: A Mailbag Of Real-World Prep
Pajamas Won’t Save You When The Grid Fails
Silver Sense For Real-World Preppers
I Survived Lawn Darts; I Can Survive A Grid Down
Cold Truths Of A Fragile Grid
Prepare For Weather; Prepare For People
Winter Storm Fern Postmortem
Fern Sounds Cute Until Your Pipes Explode
Richmond Braces For 2 Feet Of Snow
Building A Post‑Apocalyptic Tool Bag From Your Junk Drawer
Practical Off-Grid Cooking For Blackouts And Storms
Practical Prep To Navigate Protests And Shutdowns
Your Grandma Was Sweet, Not Sterile
New Year, Real-World Readiness
Define The Disaster Before You Stock The Shelf
Why Your Prius Might Outrun The Apocalypse And Other Practical Prepper Lessons
How To Survive Crowd Chaos With Common Sense
Campus Safety Failures Laid Bare
From Brown To Bondi, Misinformation Is Worse Than No Information
Cold Snap Prep: Barter Smarts And Basics
How To Pick, Power, And Safely Run A Home Generator
You’re Not Jason Bourne, And That’s The Point
Preparedness Is Comfort You Pack Before You Need It
Toxic Masculinity Isn’t The Problem, Waiting Is
Mailbag Masterclass On Low-Budget Prepping Basics
Prepper Mindset vs Normalcy Bias
From Political Threats To Everyday Readiness
A Practical Guide To Winter Power Outages
Ten Prepping Essentials Under Ten Dollars
SNAP Shock And The Ripple Effect
What Happens When SNAP Stops Paying And How We Step Up
Twelve Stores Looters Will Hit First And How Prepared People Stay Home
From Alameda To The White House: Patterns You Can’t Ignore
December Threat Window: Practical Steps To Stay Safe
When Half The Internet Fails, Your Plan Shouldn’t
How A $53 Ounce Changes Barter, Budgets, And Bug-Out Plans
You don’t need a $300 kit to prep smart—here’s how to assemble a safe, legal stockpile for a fraction of the price
Building a smart, affordable SHTF medical cache that actually lasts
I tested gear at Prepper Camp and learned how to sleep warmer, eat safer, and talk off-grid without cell towers
From Benghazi Lessons to Everyday Readiness: Sarah Adams’ Alarms and What You Can Do Today
From Bug-Out Trucks to Off-Grid Homes: Lessons from EJ Snyder, Rick Austin, and Survivor Jane
Inside Prepper Camp: Saluda’s charm, real-world gear, and why community matters
From Prepper Camp to Real-World Tragedies: Staying Ready When Disaster Strikes
Prepper Camp 2025: The Ultimate Off-Grid Weekend Guide
Run, Hide, Fight: Your Active Shooter Survival Guide
From NOAA to Ham: Building Your Off-Grid Communication Strategy
Emergency Bags: What You Need When SHTF
Smoothing Life's Turbulence Through Practical Preparation
The Garmin inReach Mini 2: Your SHTF Communication Lifeline
Berlin Reflections: A Wall, A Memory, A Legacy
Sunshine in a Box: Making Sense of Portable Solar Power
Mason Jars vs. Emergency Buckets: Prepping Storage Solutions Examined
Beyond Silver: Practical Items for Post-Disaster Trading
Surviving World War III: A Prepper's Reality Check
Urban Survival: Securing Your Space When Options Are Limited
Tropical Storm Erin Is Coming: Here's How to Prepare Your Home
One Minute Survival Tip 8/11/2025 Fire Starter Material
From Panic to Preparedness: Strengthening Your Prepper Mindset
Battling Stigma: The Global Rise of Practical Prepping
Beyond the Forecast: The Critical Path to Weather Preparedness
One Minute Survival Tip 7/29/25 PSA Check
7/25/2025 Bartering With Silver?
7/16/2025 Who is the Real Enemy?
One Minute Survival Tip 7/16/25 Jump Box?
7/8/2025 Are We Truly Prepared?
7/2/25 Am I Anti Government?
6-29-2025 Being Prepared Is The Great Equalizer
One Minute Survival Tip 6/25/25 My AC Died
6/23/2025 Thanks To All My Listeners, Weather, Iran and Chickens
6/23/25 Hypothetical Question
6/17/2025 US Bombing Iran??
Friday the 13th Israel and Solar Projects
6/10/2025 Los Angeles Has Fallen
6/7/2025 I Should’ve Taken My Own Advice
Terror Attacks Will Continue to Increase
One Minute Survival Tip 5/23/25 Entitlement?
One Minute Survival Tip 5/11/2025 Cash
One Minute Survival Tip 5/7/2025 Meds?
One Minute Survival Tip 5/1/25 Tough Decisions
One Minute Survival Tip 4/25/25 Fuel Storage?
4/15/2025 Just Take The Win
4/7/2025 This Too Shall Pass
4/2/2025 Hope Is Not A Plan
3/30/2025 Teslas,Tariffs and Eggs Oh My!
One Minute Senilty Tip for 3/19/2025 Teslas??
Will you be prepared when..?
One Minute Survival Tip for 3/10/25 Recession?
One Minute Survival Tip For 3/6/25 Gas $2.49?
Egg Prices Too High?
One Minute Survival Tip for 2/16/25 Get Home Bag
One Minute Survival Tip For 2/12/2025 Power is Kaputt
2/8/2025 I’ve Been Played This Entire Time
1 Minute Survival Tip For 2/5/2024 Does Any of This Really Matter?
One Minute Survival Tip for 2/1/2025 Medical Directive…
One Minute Survival Tip for 1/27/2025 Proficiency
One Minute Survival Tip for 1/21/2025 The Bad Guys are Already Here
One Minute Survival Tip for 1/19/2025 Emergency Candles?
One Minute Survival Tip for 1/15/2025 Situational Awareness (again)
One Minute Survival Tip for 1/9/2025 Water Issues in Richmond
One Minute Survival Tip for 1/6/2025 Prepper, by Tom Abrahams
One Minute Survival Tip For 1/3/2025 Stay Focused
One Minute Survival Tip For 12/31/2024 Happy New Year
One Minute Survival Tip for 12/28/2024 Fire Blanket?
One Minute Survival Tip for 12/24/2024 Generator Safety
One Minute Survival Tip for 7/30/24 Mental Health
One Minute Survival Tip for 7/16/2024 This won’t end well.
One Minute Tip for 7/13/2024 Get Off the Plane!
One Minute Survival Tip for 7/8/2024
One Minute Survival Tip for 6/26/2024
One Minute Survival Tip for 6/23/2024
One Minute Survival Tip for 6/20/2024
One Minute Survival Tip for 6/13/2024 Information
One Minute Survival Tip for 6/4/2024
One Minute Survival Tip for 6/1/2024
One Minute Survival Tip for 5/30/2024 FIFO Food
One Minute Survival Tip 5/27/2024 Water Storage
One Minute Survival Tip for 5/24/2024
One Minute Survival Tip for 5/23/2024
One Minute Survival Tip for 5/22/2024
Your Survival Minute Tip 5/21/2024
Episode #66 Key Bridge, Social Media and Inflation
Episode #65 Generators 101
Episode #64 When the SHTF, your social status...
Episode #63 Be an Advocate and Washington DC
Quick Update Reference my Absence
Episode #62 Bully Pulpit and Question Everything
Quick Update - Bugging In versus Out
Episode #61 Corn Index, White House Breach and Action v Reaction
Episode #60 Corn Index, Hamas and the Media, and Get Home Bag Update
Episode #59 We Are Heading Down a Dark Path
Episode #58 The Middle East is on Fire, How Does This Effect Us?
Episode #57 The World has gone Mad! Direction of my Preps
What I was doing on 9/11/2001
Sunday Short for 9/10/23
Episode #56 Food Prices, AI and the Recession Finally Hits home
Episode #55 Maui, Mortgage Rates, COVID?, and the Mailbag
Episode #54 Don't Ever Be A Victim, Garden and Chicken Update
Episode #53 Please search Oliver Anthony on YouTube
Episode #52 Chinese Bio Lab, Non Cash Fee? and a Garden Mishap
Episode #51 Bumblefoot has been cured, UPS strike? Societal decay
Episode #50 Bumblefoot?, FIFO, Silver Rounds, I don't care...
Episode #49 Sick Chicken and Cat, Pantry apps and, "One ping only Vasili."
Episode #48 Part 2, Prepping with Adult ADHD
Episode #47 Part 1, Prepping with Adult ADHD...Oh look, a squirrel
Update from Germany
5/19/2023 Five Minute Friday Podcast.
Episode #46 Uneasiness in the World is Another Reason Why I Prep.
Episode #45 Prepper Camp '23, Physical Silver and My Garden
Episode #44 You Are On Your Own, My Garden and Feral Farm Chickens
Episode #43 Stay Focused and Don't Get Distrac...Oh Look, a Butterfly
Episode #42 Mary Poopins passed away, Direction of my Preps, and Precious Metals?
Episode #41 Chicken Update, and Something Has To Give...
Episode #40 Sick Chicken, Pizza Eating Cat, and Freeze Dried Biscuits and Gravy
Episode #39 Delta Pro Problem? New vacuum sealer and more bank failures?
Episode #38 Freeze Dryer, Solar Update and Keith gets political :)
Episode #37 War with China? Solar and Freeze Dryer Update
Episode #36 Balloon update, Biden to Ukraine and my solar plans
Episode #35 More "UFOs", Nordstream 2, Disaster in Ohio and what's in my freeze dryer?
Episode #34 Spy Balloon, Off on a Tangent, Tik Tok and Earthquakes
Episode #33 Eggs, Tin Foil Hat Brigade, Memphis, and What's in my Freeze Dryer
Episode #32 My Freeze Dryer, Poop in My Coop, Fraud in Ukraine and a Salute to Blacklick, Ohio!
Episode #31 Eggflation, Debt Ceiling and Freeze Dryers.
Episode #30 Misinformation, Transitory Inflation?, Stay in Your Zone and Freezer Meals.
Episode #29 Winter Storm, Update on the Twitter Files and the WEF
Episode #28 Twitter Files and Censorship, $$$ to Ukraine, and Winter Storm!
Episode #27 Latest CPI, Crypto Collapse, Meds From China and the Flu is Back?
Episode #26 China Crackdowns, Chicken Poop, and The Prepper Mindset.
Episode #25 Protests in China, Price Gouging, and The Pending Food Shortage?
Episode #24 Snow in Buffalo, Spaceman Ice Cream and My Review of the EcoFlow River 2 Max
Episode #23 Out of Control Missile, Tornado Near My House, and I Made Butter!
Episode #22 Go Vote, Peaceful Satellites in Space, and Generator Types.
Episode #21 Who Forgot to hit the "Make The Diesel Button?"
Episode #20 Yet More Escalations in Ukraine and my MedicAlert Dogtag.
Episode #19 Suicide Drones hit Kyiv. EDC bag coming together and a big tease !
Episode #18 Mid Week Update - Escalations in the Russian/Ukraine War
Episode #17 OPEC production cuts, Ian Update and a cool FEMA app
Episode #16 New Intro, Proxy Wars and "One Ping Only".
Episode #15 Ian Update and GMRS Radios for Communications?
Episode #14 Ian, Putin and leaky pipes.
Episode #13 This week In Prepping
Episode #12 This Week in Prepping
Episode #11 Car Talk
Episode #10 Grab Bag
Episode #9 Covid finally got me :(
Episode #8 High Quality H2O
Episode #7 We are in a recession, let's move on.
Episode #6 Not Much to Celebrate
Episode #5 FIFO
Episode #4 Making A Plan
Episode #3 Fear Mongering!
Episode #2 Supply Chain, What is Prepping?
Episode #1 Introduction