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• Episode 131, Personal Protection and Security

  

  Let's talk about what's important when it comes to personal protection and security.You're out and about, either alone or with family and friends, and you want... Read more

  Posted on 26 September 2013 DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Episode 130, Prepping Past, Present, and Future

  

  I was recently visited here on Liberty Ridge by long-time listener and confidant of the Shrugging Out Podcast, Don, who first joined me in a show way back in... Read more

  Posted on 07 September 2013 DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Episode 129. Speech to College Freshmen

  

  Something a little different for Shrugging Out Podcast listeners.A lot of famous people give commencement addresses. You know, graduation, when the students... Read more

  Posted on 16 August 2013 DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Episode 128, All Moved In to Liberty Ridge

  

  Wow, that was easy. All it took was three trucks, four days, and five guys to move from the DFW area to our shrug-out place in Arkansas. Read more

  Posted on 06 August 2013 DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Episode 127, The Logistics of a Cross-Country Move

  

  Our moving day to Liberty Ridge is rapidly approaching.Actually, it's more like a moving week, as we are moving hundreds of miles away. One day for loading up... Read more

  Posted on 09 July 2013 DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Episode 126, Buying a Used Pickup for When the SHTF

  

  While getting ready to move to Liberty Ridge over the course of the next month, I recently converted some BCM (Bernanke's Casino Money) into the tangible value... Read more

  Posted on 19 June 2013 DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Episode 125, Update on Liberty Ridge

  

  Liberty Ridge is my personal "shrugging out" location and strategy. We're about a month away from moving there, lock, stock and barrel. Read more

  Posted on 11 June 2013 DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Episode 124. Will the Scandals Wake the People?

  

  An avalanche of scandals has rocked the Obama administration, involving the State Department, Justice Department, and the IRS. Read more

  Posted on 23 May 2013 DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Episode 123. Don't Be Discouraged by Good News

  

  Yeah, that's right. Don't be discouraged by GOOD news!If you've been prepping for the big Collapse that many of us believe is coming, it can be surprising, and... Read more

  Posted on 05 May 2013 DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Episode 122. Blessed Are the Poor, So Become Poor

  

  Motivation to "shrug out" of the mess we're in can come from many sources, including Christ Himself, from the first Beatitude:And seeing the multitudes, he... Read more

  Posted on 23 April 2013 DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Episode 121, What Should You Do With Your Money?

  

  Is the failure of the Cyprus banks and the rumored 40% haircut taken by depositors with assets over 100,000 Euro a harbinger of things to come? Read more

  Posted on 31 March 2013 DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Episode 120, We're Not Out of the Woods, Keep Prepping

  

  Well here we all are, in the middle of the new normal for the US, with 8% unemployment, government debt ballooning past GDP, rising taxes, increasing... Read more

  Posted on 04 March 2013 DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Episode 119, Will Robots Save Us, Or Kill Us?

  

  A bit of a thinking podcast for this episode. Automation has been a huge factor in the world's economy over the years. As fast and disruptive as advancing... Read more

  Posted on 13 February 2013 DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Episode 118, White Rose

  

  What happens in a hard tyranny when a small group of people resist? White Rose was a tiny resistance movement in Nazi Germany that began in June 1942. Read more

  Posted on 01 February 2013 DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Episode 117, They're Not Coming for the Guns--Yet

  

  Will the fallout from the Sandy Hook massacre be enough to trigger gun confiscation? For now, no. In spite of Sandy Hook, the average citizen still supports... Read more

  Posted on 20 January 2013 DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Episode 116, 2013--Expect Chaos and Crisis

  

  What should we expect in 2013? Will 2013 be the year of the big collapse we're expecting? Maybe so, but that's impossible to predict, in terms of timing. Read more

  Posted on 06 January 2013 DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Episode 115, You Need a Victory Garden

  

  Shrugging Out is about making progress on two parallel tracks: liberty and self-reliance. Most of my podcasts of late have dealt with the "liberty" track of... Read more

  Posted on 28 December 2012 DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Episode 114, The Sandy Hook School Shootings

  

  A tragic event, the killing of 20 six-year old children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. And one that will have... Read more

  Posted on 18 December 2012 DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Episode 113, American Tyranny--Soft Now, Hard When?

  

  Many people would deny that there is tyranny today in America. And with good reason. Why you can watch any TV show you like. You can go to MacDonalds, Burger... Read more

  Posted on 07 December 2012 DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Episode 112, To Secede Or Not to Secede

  

  Within days of the Great Election, the White House website was deluged with online secession petitions from people in 30 different states.What is secession? Read more

  Posted on 30 November 2012 DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY