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Welcome to the Survival and Basic Badass Podcast, where we dive into the world of off-grid living, guns, prepping, survival, and a touch of intriguing conspiracy theories. Join us as we explore the skills, knowledge, and mindset necessary to navigate an unpredictable world. Each week we delve into a wide range of topics designed to empower you with practical tips and insights. From mastering self-sufficiency in off-grid living to honing your firearm skills, we leave no stone unturned when it comes to preparing for any situation life throws your way. Our discussions on off-grid living encompass everything from building sustainable shelters, harvesting natural resources, and harnessing alternative energy sources. Whether you're a seasoned homesteader or a curious beginner, we'll equip you with the know-how to thrive independently in harmony with nature. Guns are a crucial aspect of self-defense and personal security, and we explore various firearm types, their uses,
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- 5 days ago43 min
Operation Fortress
FORTRESS America: 90 Days Without the Grid Why is the Pentagon preparing military bases to operate for 90 days without civilian power, water, fuel, or communications? What exactly are they preparing for — and should the rest of us be paying attention? In this episode of The Survival and Basic Badass Podcast, Chuck and Kevin dig into FORTRESS America, military preparedness, nuclear microreactors, cyberattacks, and a growing list of international security concerns. From China's Volt Typhoon cyber operations and threats involving Iran to the Army's Operation Dragon Covenant training exercise, there's plenty to unpack. Are these routine precautions, signs of growing national security threats, or has the internet simply connected a few too many dots? This week we're talking about: FORTRESS America and the Pentagon's 90-day military resilience objective Nuclear microreactors and independent military power systems Operation Dragon Covenant and military mass-casualty preparedness China's Volt Typhoon and cybersecurity threats to America's critical infrastructure Iran, drones, and potential attacks on the U.S. power grid AI, industrial control systems, and infrastructure vulnerabilities Emergency preparedness campaigns in Europe False flags, conspiracy theories, and separating facts from speculation Why building a life that's Hard to Disrupt matters more than predicting the next disaster Chuck brings the research. Kevin brings the conspiracy theories, political opinions, and an impressive ability to take a conversation somewhere nobody expected. Together, they ask the question: If the Pentagon thinks 90 days of self-sufficiency is worth planning for, shouldn't the rest of us have a backup plan? We're not saying the grid is going down tomorrow. We're just saying that discovering your entire survival strategy depends on an electrical outlet might be a problem. Prepare for disruption. Build resilience. Become Hard to Disrupt. Visit https://survivalandbasicbadasspodcast.com for more episodes, preparedness resources, and information about our sponsors. Disclaimer: This podcast is intended for news commentary, education, discussion, and entertainment. The hosts express personal opinions and explore hypothetical scenarios, publicly reported information, and unverified theories. Discussion of possible threats does not mean those threats are confirmed or imminent. Opinions expressed by individual hosts do not necessarily represent the views of the other host or the podcast. We encourage listeners to verify important claims through reliable sources. Nothing in this episode advocates violence, unlawful conduct, or attacks on critical infrastructure. Sponsor & Affiliate Disclosure: This episode mentions companies with which the podcast may have sponsorship or affiliate relationships. We may receive compensation or commissions from qualifying purchases. #FortressAmerica #GridDown #Preparedness #SurvivalPodcast #Cybersecurity #HardToDisrupt LINKS Army Janus: https://www.army.mil/article-amp/294891/army_reaches_agreement_with_private_industry_for_nuclear_micro_reactors Dragon Covenant: https://www.army.mil/article/296311 UK: https://beready.campaign.gov.uk/be-ready-for-emergencies/ DHS: https://www.dhs.gov/national-terrorism-advisory-system FBI PLC alert: https://www.fbi.gov/investigate/cyber/alerts/2026/malicious-cyber-actors-targeting-water-and-wastewater-sector-internet--facing-programmable-logic-controllers-causing-operational-disruptions DOE IG: https://www.energy.gov/ig/articles/management-letter-doe-oig-26-22 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- 1 weeks ago41 min
The Hard to Disrupt Community
The Hard to Disrupt Community | Building Resilience Before Disaster Strikes What happens when the power goes out, the water stops flowing, or a major disaster overwhelms emergency services? Is your community prepared to survive together, or is everyone on their own? In this episode of The Survival and Basic Badass Podcast, Chuck and Kevin explore how building stronger communities can make everyone more resilient when disaster strikes. Preparedness isn't just about stockpiling food, buying survival gear, or building an off-grid homestead. It's about creating relationships, sharing resources, developing practical skills, and building systems that keep working when the infrastructure we depend on fails. From community gardens and emergency water supplies to working with local government and first responders, we discuss practical ways ordinary people can strengthen their neighborhoods before the next emergency. In this episode, we discuss: Building community resilience through cooperation and preparedness Starting community gardens, orchards, and seed-sharing networks Creating emergency water access using wells, hand pumps, and solar power Working with local fire departments, police, and emergency response teams Community Emergency Response Teams (CERT) and volunteer preparedness Establishing emergency charging stations, heating centers, and cooling shelters Supporting local food banks and sharing agricultural resources Building trust with neighbors and local leadership before disaster strikes Why community self-reliance matters during power outages, hurricanes, cyberattacks, and other emergencies The goal isn't to predict the next disaster. It's to build a life—and a community—that's hard to disrupt. Whether you're an experienced prepper, a homesteader, or someone just getting started with emergency preparedness, this conversation offers practical ideas for making your neighborhood safer, stronger, and more independent. Because when disaster strikes, your greatest survival resource might not be what you've stockpiled. It might be the people around you. Build a Life That's Hard to Disrupt. Visit: https://survivalandbasicbadasspodcast.com #Preparedness #CommunityResilience #Survival #Prepping #SelfReliance Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- 3 weeks ago45 min
How to Secure Your Homestead When Help Isn’t Coming
How secure is your homestead when help isn’t coming? In this episode of The Survival and Basic Badass Podcast, we break down homestead security, preparedness, and protecting your property during a grid-down emergency or major disruption. Security isn’t just about weapons or defending the front door. A resilient homestead uses layers: controlling access, detecting problems early, protecting critical resources, maintaining communications, and having a plan when things don’t go the way you expected. We discuss practical ways to make your property harder to disrupt, including fences and natural barriers, driveway alarms, cameras, motion lighting, doors and windows, livestock and animals, fire protection, communications, operational security, and working with neighbors. We also get into something that is often overlooked in preparedness: having a fallback plan. If all of your food, equipment, supplies, and resources are concentrated in one place, that location becomes a single point of failure. Sometimes the smartest security strategy isn't standing your ground—it's making sure you still have options. In this episode:• Layered homestead security• Property access and perimeter awareness• Driveway alarms and early-warning systems• Security cameras and local recording• Solar and motion-activated lighting• Doors, windows, and physical security• Protecting gardens, livestock, and supplies• Fire and carbon-monoxide safety• Radios and backup communications• Family emergency procedures and rally points• Operational security (OPSEC)• Neighbors and community security• Fallback locations and distributed supplies• Why redundancy matters in security too The goal isn't to turn your property into a fortress. It's to build a homestead that gives you warning, time, information, redundancy, and options when normal systems aren't available. Disclaimer: This episode is for general educational and entertainment purposes only. It is not legal, law-enforcement, firearms, tactical, or professional security advice. Laws regarding weapons, self-defense, property protection, surveillance, barriers, alarms, and other security measures vary by jurisdiction. Always follow applicable laws, manufacturer safety instructions, and accepted safety practices. Nothing in this episode should be interpreted as encouraging illegal activity or intentionally harming another person. 🎙️ Listen to the Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4YdMrZ4oWTPKv4YrcZgExg 📲 Follow Us: 🔹 https://survivalandbasicbadasspodcast.com/ 🔹 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/share/g/15wU8rw6hS/Don't let uncertainty overwhelm you. We deliver practical tips to help you and your family navigate what is coming. Join the email list and check out the shop @ survivalandbasicbadasspodcast.comThe Survival and Basic Badass Podcast is available on Apple, Spotify, Podurama, and wherever you find great content. As always, this show is for entertainment. We are not to be considered doctors, financial advisors, or lawyers, and it's not legal, financial, or health advice. #Preparedness #HomesteadSecurity #Prepping #GridDown #Homesteading #SelfReliance #EmergencyPreparedness #Survival #OffGrid #HardToDisrupt Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- Oct 4, 202640 min
Off-Grid Climate Control: Heating & Cooling Without Electricity
What happens to your home when the power goes out and the HVAC stops? In this episode of The Survival and Basic Badass Podcast, Chuck and Kevin take on off-grid climate control—how to keep your home cooler in the summer and warmer in the winter when electricity isn’t available. Long before central air and heat pumps, people designed homes around the climate. We look at some of those old-school solutions and how they can be combined with modern preparedness to build a home that’s much harder to disrupt. We get into passive cooling, high ceilings and transom windows, whole-house and solar-powered fans, night flushing, awnings and shutters, insulation, thermal mass, adobe and earth-sheltered construction, summer kitchens, earth tubes, wood stoves, firewood planning, and concentrating heat where you actually need it. We also talk about something that gets overlooked in preparedness: adaptation. Sometimes resilience isn’t about producing enough electricity to run everything exactly as you do today. It’s about designing your home, changing your habits, and reducing how much energy you need in the first place. Because when the grid goes down during a 100-degree summer day—or in the middle of a freezing winter night—your generator isn't the only thing standing between you and trouble. Build a Life That’s Hard to Disrupt. 🎙️ Listen to the Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4YdMrZ4oWTPKv4YrcZgExg 📲 Follow Us: 🔹 https://survivalandbasicbadasspodcast.com/ 🔹 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/share/g/15wU8rw6hS/Don't let uncertainty overwhelm you. We deliver practical tips to help you and your family navigate what is coming. Join the email list and check out the shop @ survivalandbasicbadasspodcast.comThe Survival and Basic Badass Podcast is available on Apple, Spotify, Podurama, and wherever you find great content.As always, this show is for entertainment. We are not to be considered doctors, financial advisors, or lawyers, and it's not legal, financial, or health advice.Preparedness | Self-Reliance | Homesteading | Off-Grid Living | Grid-Down Survival Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- Sep 28, 202613 min
Iran, $7 Diesel & a World That Makes No Sense
Iran, war, $7 diesel, government spending, AI, religion, school lunches—and a world that increasingly seems to make no sense. In this episode of The Survival and Basic Badass Podcast, Chuck and Kevin sit down for an unfiltered conversation about Iran, military strategy, rising fuel prices, oil and energy security, and the economic uncertainty that eventually works its way down to every American household. Because geopolitical problems don't stay overseas. When fuel gets more expensive, so does moving food, building materials, equipment, and just about everything else we depend on. From there, the conversation goes exactly where you'd expect: government spending, America's priorities, artificial intelligence, feeding kids at school, Christianity, politics, hypocrisy, and whether we've all just decided to hit the button and see what happens. It's opinion, satire, dark humor, and two Navy veterans trying to make sense of a world that doesn't always cooperate. And underneath all of it is the preparedness question: How do you build a life that can handle disruption when you have absolutely no idea what's coming next? War. Fuel prices. Inflation. Supply chains. Politics. Technology. You don't have to correctly predict the next crisis if you've built a life that's hard to disrupt. 🎙️ The Survival and Basic Badass Podcast 🎙️ Listen to the Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4YdMrZ4oWTPKv4YrcZgExg 📲 Follow Us: 🔹 https://survivalandbasicbadasspodcast.com/ 🔹 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/share/g/15wU8rw6hS/Don't let uncertainty overwhelm you. We deliver practical tips to help you and your family navigate what is coming. Join the email list and check out the shop @ survivalandbasicbadasspodcast.comThe Survival and Basic Badass Podcast is available on Apple, Spotify, Podurama, and wherever you find great content.As always, this show is for entertainment. We are not to be considered doctors, financial advisors, or lawyers, and it's not legal, financial, or health advice. Build a Life That's Hard to Disrupt. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- Sep 27, 20261h 12m
We’re Not Ready for What’s Coming — With Dr. Tom Brophy
What happens when the power goes out and doesn't come back on? What happens when hospitals, pharmacies, communications, and emergency services are no longer available? Tom explains why real medical preparedness requires more than a first-aid kit and why knowledge, training, medications, and the right emergency medical supplies can become critical during a long-term disaster or grid-down situation. We also discuss human behavior during major disruptions and why understanding people may be just as important as understanding the threat itself. If you're interested in prepping, survival, emergency preparedness, EMPs, grid-down survival, artificial intelligence, medical preparedness, homesteading, self-reliance, or becoming less dependent on fragile systems, this is a conversation you don't want to miss. 🚑 Learn more about Dr. Tom Brophy and Dr. Prepper Medical:https://drpreppermedical.com/ Build a Life That's Hard to Disrupt. 🎙️ Listen to the Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4YdMrZ4oWTPKv4YrcZgExg 📲 Follow Us: 🔹 https://survivalandbasicbadasspodcast.com/ 🔹 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/share/g/15wU8rw6hS/Don't let uncertainty overwhelm you. We deliver practical tips to help you and your family navigate what is coming. Join the email list and check out the shop @ survivalandbasicbadasspodcast.comThe Survival and Basic Badass Podcast is available on Apple, Spotify, Podurama, and wherever you find great content.As always, this show is for entertainment. We are not to be considered doctors, financial advisors, or lawyers, and it's not legal, financial, or health advice. This episode is for educational and informational purposes only and is not individualized medical advice. Seek qualified medical care whenever available. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- Sep 20, 202634 min
Water Without the Grid: Wells, Rainwater & Backup Systems
What happens when the water stops flowing? Whether it’s a power outage, contaminated municipal water, drought, equipment failure, or a long-term grid-down situation, water is one dependency you can’t afford to ignore. In this episode of The Survival and Basic Badass Podcast, Chuck and Kevin break down practical ways to build a water supply that’s harder to disrupt. We cover rainwater collection, how much water you can actually collect from a roof, storage tanks and barrels, gravity-fed systems, wells, 12-volt solar well pumps, hand pumps, shallow well points, ponds and surface water, and the importance of testing and treating the water you plan to use. More importantly, we look at water as a system. Having a well doesn't help much if you can't pump from it when the power goes out. Stored water eventually runs out. A backup that depends on the same thing as your primary system may not really be a backup at all. The goal isn't to predict the disaster. It's to identify what your life depends on and build alternatives before you need them. Build a life that's hard to disrupt. Topics include:• Rainwater collection and storage• Wells and off-grid pumping• 12-volt and solar-powered well pumps• Hand pumps and shallow well points• Gravity-fed water systems• Water testing and contamination• Backup water sources• Building redundancy into your homestead water supply Learn more about the Hard to Disrupt approach at hardtodisrupt.com. The Survival and Basic Badass Podcast — practical preparedness, self-reliance, homesteading, and building systems that keep working when everything else doesn't. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- Sep 13, 202643 min
Who Really Controls the Dollar? Inside the Federal Reserve (Classic)
Who controls America’s money, and how much influence does the Federal Reserve have over inflation, interest rates, debt, banking, and the everyday cost of living? In this episode of The Survival and Basic Badass Podcast, we share our opinions and personal perspectives on the Federal Reserve, the U.S. monetary system, government debt, central banking, inflation, and the declining purchasing power of the dollar. We discuss how decisions involving interest rates and the money supply can affect mortgages, credit cards, employment, savings, retirement accounts, housing prices, and the cost of basic necessities. We also examine the relationship between government, banks, large financial institutions, and the American taxpayer. This episode is intended as commentary, education, and entertainment. It represents the opinions of the hosts and should not be considered financial, investment, legal, or professional advice. Some subjects discussed are debated, and listeners are encouraged to research the Federal Reserve and monetary policy independently and reach their own conclusions. Topics include: • What the Federal Reserve does• How money and debt are created• Inflation and the value of the U.S. dollar• Interest rates and the banking system• Government spending and the national debt• Financial preparedness and self-reliance• Reducing personal debt and financial dependency• Why economic resilience belongs in every preparedness plan Preparing for disruption is not only about food, water, power, and security. Financial knowledge, manageable debt, savings, and multiple layers of resilience can also help you build a life that is harder to disrupt. The Survival and Basic Badass Podcast covers prepping, survival, self-reliance, homesteading, off-grid living, emergency preparedness, economic uncertainty, government policy, and the uncomfortable conversations other shows avoid. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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