And we are live folks welcome to a Wednesday edition of the Survival podcast as it is Wednesday.

It is interview day I'm going to bring Andy McCann on in just a moment we're going to talk about giving freedom and self-sufficiency a shot and he's like a normal guy been listening to the show for a long time he's tried a lot of the stuff that we talk about some of its work for him some of it hasn't that's what you would expect and I think that there's kind of a hang up in the audience where people are afraid to give things a shot because it might not work that's the whole point that's what we talk about such diverse different steps and you figure out what parts of lifestyle

design work for you in your life you'll hear today for I love ducks and he's going to get rid of his ducks why we'll tell you when we get to it it's nothing against ducks in particular it's just the way that it worked out so we're going to talk about things that worked things that didn't but above all just giving these things a shot being fearless and not getting what I call parsley syndrome for those that are going to show you a parsley syndrome is that's when you get a recipe and it says how to make chicken soup and then you get and you look you got I got all the ingredients got

celery I got the carrots I got the chicken I got the extra broth I got some salt and pepper and it says parsley and then you don't make the soup because you don't have parsley don't do that give things a shot pick a thing try it see if it works modify it make it work give up on it moves in the next thing design your life that's what we're talking about today before we do though let's go ahead and hear from our sponsors of the day sponsor today number one today is J M bullion it's the place I stack silver today you guys know I'm huge on Bitcoin I'm stack

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special guest on Andy McCann Andy bro welcome to the survival podcast hello great to be here glad to have you with us Andy hey man let's start off with who the heck and what is an Andy McCann right before we get into kind of how you walked your way through a lot of other things in life and a lot of the things that we talk about doing here you know what is your what is your background pre TSP pre playing with home steady pre Bitcoin like what leads you

here yeah so um started off uh kind of broken family had to do some things on my own so kind of used to just you know last key kid getting stuff done um thought through a little bit of dyslexia went to a Georgia tech where you know creating those systems as well as finding solutions was a kind of a big part of what you do there um

met my wife we both graduated and we end up in this thing called why 2k which was supposed to erase the world and so they were actually paying her to solve problems with why 2k so we took it pretty serious and started doing preparing and whatnot we did it all wrong I mean everything that you say to not do we totally did so at 50 I could laugh at it but I mean back then um well the world's ending and then 10 years later I'm like I'm such an idiot and now it's just you know just a learning experience

whatever but like we we ended up um going in with some other folks to buy a wood furnace to put in somebody else's fireplace that obviously why 2k never really happened much so we didn't actually use it but anyway so prepare the wrong way and then thought hey this idea of preparing is actually smart but there's

got to be a better way to do it and that's her I don't know how I ended up on your podcast it might have been that stubble upon that you talked about in the last

episode you know my god that's interesting let me give it a shot so yeah we're both old so we remember things like that that's the that's

dawn of modern internet is what that is yeah I I joke about around about my my my space um

that's what fully or whatever but yeah so yeah so we just ended up um wanting to try things that

were smarter and actually I know uh the uh you were just going over the embassy server so one thing

that I have found is just trust somebody so I trusted your advice and the people on here and said hey

mostly it works let me give it a shot so I have an embassy server sitting over on the side and um

man that was super easy so like you said any idiot can do this that's kind of what I put my life

into is man I feel like an idiot but if they could do it I can do it let's let's give these things a dry

you know I'm gonna say one thing about embassy right unless you really switched on with Bitcoin or

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