There's a better way to do this.

Let me show you a better way.

Hi, folks.

This is Jack Spirko with another edition of the survival podcast.

There's always one man's view of the changing world and the changing times and the things we can all do to live a better life.

If times, he a tough or even if they don't.

Today is Thursday, May the 15th, 2025, and since it is Thursday, it is time for the expert council show of the week, and I've got a great lineup of expert council new and old for you today.

Number one, government spending needs to be cut, so of course what are they going to do?

Spend more money. That's what we'll hear about from Dr.ul and Chris Rossini then how about using permaculture principles to design things other

than like gardens and food forests in your landscape like even companies now I've

talked about this before but I love the approach that Ryan steva took to it, and he'll be talking about that.

And then how about making what's called a sweet and sour salad made completely with forged herbs?

Of course, that must be from Kerry Brown.

Nick Ferguson will talk about converting 11 acres of just pine trees into civil pasture. Good budget guns that don't

completely compromise, or not not don't completely good but blah. It's been a long week, guys.

Good budget guns that don't compromise quality from Mike Molito. Doc Bones will give us then

thoughts on body armor. I had actually a surplus of content this week from the expert council

and just decided that going from good budget guns to body armor made sense,

so that's how I picked it, the final expert council member today,

and then it brings me to my subject.

I said about two weeks ago, I think maybe it was this, I don't know, recently. I said that we

really should do a show again on blackout kits. And then I got to thinking about it. And every time I've

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