James Burnette, Author at Survivalpunk

Tips On Finding Your Tribe | episode 249

September 30, 2024September 26, 2024 James Burnette

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Tips On Finding Your Tribe | episode 249

In today’s episode, I will talk about finding your tribe. I blatantly stole this topic from Nicole Sauce from the Living Free In Tennessee Podcast. However, it resonated with me. I see a lot of people complaining about not being able to find like-minded people in their areas. And I have to call Bull shit on that. Unless you live in the dead middle of a desert there are people around you that are like-minded.

I talk a lot about the self reliance festival in Camden in this episode and If you are going say hi to my family and me. This year is going to be our first time going. It kept working out the last few years that we weren’t able to make it. And I’m definitely going to sign up to be speaking at the next one.

In a later episode, I talk all about survival festivals that I have gone to. But there are a lot of ways of finding your tribe. Tune in today to learn about them.

Keeping Entertained During A SHTF | episode 248

September 27, 2024September 25, 2024 James Burnette

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Keeping Entertained During A SHTF | episode 248

Join me today as I discuss ways of Keeping Entertained During A SHTF. And you will definitely need some entertainment during a SHTF. I saw a Facebook post yesterday about this very topic. I had already recorded this episode so I chimed in. Many of the comments weren’t giving board game suggestions as the poster asked. They were saying there wouldn’t be any time for anything but work during the SHTF, which is stupid.

The ideas I share today work just as well for being snowed in as they do for TEOTWAWKI.

I talk a lot about owning physical media today if there is power. I have been trying to make a move away from streaming services to owning my own media again. Modern movies and TV shows are becoming woke garbage more often than not. So own physical media for a disaster.

I then talk about board games. With kids around games are a fun way to keep them and yourself entertained.

Top 5 Survival Fiction Books | episode 247

September 26, 2024September 25, 2024 James Burnette

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Top 5 Survival Fiction Books | episode 247

Join me today as I discuss the Top 5 Survival fiction books. This list could get updated soon as I haven’t read one in years. Moreover, now that I’m back podcasting I need to see what’s new. I’m sure there have been some great novels since my departure.

There are lessons to learn from all the books listed today. Some are more overt than others. Patriots is a survival manual vaguely disguised as a novel. With that said I do have it as a guilty pleasure.

299 Days is a fantastic book series with only a few flaws. I personally feel like the first book could be drastically shortened. Or eliminated. The story really takes off in book 2 on.

World War Z is an absolutely fantastic book, unlike the horrible movie. They have little to do with each other. This one is better to read the audiobook. The narrator is not great.

One Second After is the quintessential survival fiction book. If you go online and ask for a recommendation for survival novels you will get one second after for good reason.

Prepping With Kids | episode 246

September 25, 2024September 23, 2024 James Burnette

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Prepping With Kids | episode 246

Join me today as I talk about prepping with kids. This episode is a long time coming. Before I never really felt like I could cover the topic properly. It’s hard to talk about something you don’t have any experience with. Now that I have children I can properly cover prepping with kids.

This might end up being a part of a series. With the shorter episodes, I cover less material, which is a huge topic.

I talk about including your children in your prepping activities. Kids want to emulate adults and love to be included. Recently I’ve been including my daughter in helping cook dinner every night. She loves to use her tiny kitchen knife to cut veggies.

There is also a lot of fun activities to do. One of my daughter’s favorite things to do is to go hiking. She’s been going since she was old enough to walk. Often when I’m off the next day I ask her what she wants to do and hiking is chosen as much as going to the park.

Power Options For Short Term Disasters | episode 245

September 24, 2024September 22, 2024 James Burnette

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Power Options For Short Term Disasters | episode 245

Join me today to talk about Power Options For Short Term Disasters. And I do mean short term. The scope of this podcast does not cover TEOTWAWKT.

Also, there is no intro on today’s episode. The audio stopped after 7 minutes and I had to resume on the drive home. The first 7 minutes had bad audio so I threw it out.

Today we talk about power options for short term disasters. Think brownouts and power outages for a day or two at max. For this, we are mainly focused on phones, devices, the Internet, and refrigeration.

Power banks form the main bulk of the work for this with whole house battery backups being the big hitter. In the past I did an article on how to build a battery backup The only difference now would be I might recommend using a lithium battery over the marine one.

Lastly, as I said in the podcast your car is a generator. All you need is an inverter.