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The Survival Podcast

Homesteading, Mars and the Future of Freedom – 3852

The Survival Podcast

The Survival Podcast

Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.61.8K Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2026

⏱️ 119 minutes

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Summary

Today we are joined by Travis J. I. Corcoran to talk about what it really takes to build a life, a homestead, or even a full settlement when there is no big system coming to save you. This is about food, repair, local production, trade, family, community and the real limits that show up when theory runs face first into reality. Travis and his wife walked away from lucrative tech careers in Massachusetts and built a more self reliant life in New Hampshire. That experience led him to write Escape the City, a practical homesteading guide based on what actually Continue reading →

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0:00.0

There's a better way to do this.

0:09.0

Let me show you a better way.

0:16.0

And we are live.

0:20.0

I was just a little bit worried there.

0:21.8

We didn't get started.

0:22.8

I've got some construction going on.

0:25.2

I'm a long promised remodel of my office straight across the hall.

0:30.1

And those guys have been pretty good about staying away from the modem.

0:34.6

But hopefully we won't have any disruptions due to that today.

0:38.6

And they're making some noise over there too, which is just unavoidable right now.

0:42.5

I'm going to up against vacation time and all.

0:45.9

So this needs to get done.

0:47.9

But you may see me mute my end when we bring Travis on at times to deal with that.

0:53.9

But I think we'll be fine today.

0:55.1

It's going to be a cool-ass interview.

0:57.7

We're going to be talking to Travis Corcoran in just a minute, who's the author, among other

1:03.4

books of Red State Mars.

1:05.4

This is a really cool book.

1:07.4

They sent me a copy of it when we booked him.

1:09.9

This is very interesting. And I know what

1:12.0

you're thinking. Jack, you just said yesterday that no living person is going to be living on a

1:17.6

calling. Well, not really no living person, but like terraformed, colony, like that's all not

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