In The Rabbit Hole

We quickly discuss bugging out, bugging in, hunkering down, and making sure you didn't forget your wooby.

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In this episode, we discuss survival skills people should be focusing on most. This is a back-to-basics episode good for new preppers and prodding old timers.

There’s a topic that keeps coming up more and more in the conversations I have with friends that are survival industry professionals. People don't get enough instruction and training. Instead, they go straight for gear and ignore what will actually keep them alive in a disaster: Skills.

So we’ll cover six basic survival skills areas every prepper should have locked down. You see, most of us tend to focus our prepper time and money on gear. And the hard truth is this: Skills will almost always be more valuable in a survival situation than gear. So most of us should be spending more our time and money on acquiring survival skills rather than increasing the size of our pile-o-prepper-shit.

• Outdoor Skills
  • Why these skills are less important than most might think
  • Where to find them on the cheap
  • How to find instructors
  • Firemaking
  • Backpacking
  • Camping
• Medical
  • First Aid, CPR, and AED
  • EMT Basic
  • Wilderness EMT Basic
• Search & Rescue
• Community
• Communications, there is only one
• Guns
  • Traditional
  • Tactical
  • Training on care and maintenance
• Organizations and groups that are great for getting skills from
  • CERT (Community Emergency Response Team)
  • CAP (Civil Air Patrol)
  • Project Appleseed
  • NRA

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A very important message: We’re coming up on summer. That means ITRH will go on summer break start May 1st. ITRH Will return for the next season August 7th, 2017. If you are new around here, ITRH Goes on summer break every year in May and Returns in August. During the summer we will drop a short episode every three or four weeks to wet your appetite and keep your feed live. We call these the ITRH Summer shorts. The show is not going away; we’re just taking a little summer break to recharge the batteries and work on our prepper projects.

In this episode, we welcome back Justin Carrol. He’s going to share with us the reality of Vault 7 WikiLeak domestic spying info dump. And we answer the question: Is your smart home sending the CIA and NSA pictures of your pepper junk.

First of all, some argue we're living in the age of George Orwell's 1984. Others would claim we are fast approaching Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. We posit the present and future seems like it will be more like This Perfect Day by Ira Levin.

The reality is domestic spying is here, regardless of what it looks like exactly. And it is being conducted by corporations and government agencies alike, as it turns out.

But, most noteworthy, there are measures you can take to protect yourself. And we discuss all of this in this episode:

• First, what is the Vault 7 WikiLeaks dump
• The difference between how Chelsea Manning leaked information and how Edward Snowden leaked information
• What will other spy agencies do with the WikiLeaks release
• Is the Vault 7 WikiLeaks release a severe security risk for our country
• Why does Vault 7 and other leaks matter
• The real-world limitations of intelligence gather, processing, and domestic spying
• The real hacking capabilities of the CIA and the implications on your privacy
• Using out of band communication techniques to protect your confidentiality and tinfoil hat
• The Utah Data Center status
• How vulnerable the average person is
• Basic steps preppers can take to secure their computers and communications
• Are our smart homes sending the CIA and NSA pictures of our prepper junk
• Is Google spying on you
• The DDOS threat from smart home devices
• The future of domestic spying
• Why your metadata matters more than you think

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In this episode, Aaron shares his thoughts on the state of the survival and preparedness community. You see, there's been much to do in recent months about a large downturn in the number of people engaged in being prepared. But there's also been a lot of press about liberals flocking to preparedness out of fear of President Trump.

So what's really going on? Are we in a downturn from a false sense of security or are we in an upturn from a likely false sense of doom?

The answer is... sort of both. But not really either.

We'll explain the State of Survival and Preparedness in 2017:

• How learning to ride a motorcycle is a lot like becoming a prepper
• News of conservatives giving up on being survivalists
• News or liberals becoming survivalists
• Prepping the smart way and keeping your shirt on
• Nav Jim shares the history since the 1960s and questions the future of preparedness (phase plasma rifles and all)

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In this episode, we sit down with Alana Barfield. We're going to discuss storage options for apartment dwellers and share a cool James Bond-like DYI project with you.

Prepper Storage Topics Discussed:

Unconventional storage spaces * Hiding things in plain site * Storage ideas that won't forfeit your renter's deposit * Building a fake wall * Storage options for RVs and Campers * Getting widows to prep

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