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No Podcast This Week

Apologies from all of us, but there will be no podcast for this week. 

This past Sunday, when we normally record the podcast, we were all camping in the desert. We do this a couple times a year to get together for some face to face time and to do some training. We attempted to record earlier this week, but we were all playing ‘catch up’ from the weekend with work and never got to record it.

If you remember the podcast about ‘networking,’ we stress that it’s important for you to find people that share your beliefs, and coalesce with the ones that you can trust.  That’s exactly what we did, and even though we don’t live all that close to each other, we make it a point to get together several times a year. This past weekend was one of our “pow wows.” 

And, boy, was it fun! Three days camping and shooting targets in the desert with some great friends can do a lot to boost morale.

We were going to record a podcast from on location, but it was so windy that about the only thing that you would have heard would have been wind noises in the microphone. 

Rob@prepcast.info

Podcast Rebroadcast on Liberty Radio

If you’re aren’t an Internet connection tonight and tomorrow night at 6 PM PST, you’ll be able to catch a broadcast of the Preparedness Podcast, Episode #5.  This is the first podcast that we did with Jeff Bennett about gold and silver.

Catch it on Perspectives on America at 6:00 PST on www.libertyradiolive.com both tonight and Friday night (Feb 26-27, 2009).

Fun financial stuff (yah, that’s gallows humor)

Even though it’s not mentioned much in the news any more, bank failures are still happening. As we mentioned in the podcast, the FDIC maintains a bank watch list, to help identify banks that are in danger of failing. Unfortunately, that’s not for public distribution – reason being of course, if you find out that your bank is on a failure watch list, you’ll immediately pull your funds out, and we can’t have that now, can we? (Do you ever get the feeling that the FDIC isn’t really into helping out the customers of the banks, but the banks themselves?)

So, the FDIC list isn’t going to be found here. I mis-spoke. Mea Culpa.

Greg is a Beeg Dummy.

However, there is hope in figuring out what bank, thrift and loan, and credit union is doing what.

The answer, of course, springs from the private sector. There are plenty of companies out there that will be more than happy to give you an assessment of a financial institution. For a fee, of course (hey, it’s private sector! Capitalism, baby!) But with enough digging, we’ve found a few sources that are free assessments, and the sites they’re on are worth bookmarking in whatever browser you’re using. (more…)

Preparedness Podcast Episode #8 – Networking

 

Here are the accompanying show notes for Episode 8 of The Preparedness Podcast.  You can go to PrepCast.info for links to the podcast, or you can find it at the bottom of this article.

Networking

What is networking?

  • networking is contacting like minded individuals in an effort to increase your survival chances and/or make life easier. 
  • networking and finding the right people can be a terrific force multiplier.
  • networking can be an essential morale booster. Many of us that are into preparedness have a fairly hard time finding anyone we can talk with, in a serious manner. Being able to have a contact that is capable, and is concerned about the same things that you are is a wonderful thing. One of the most common quotes you’ll find from people that do this is that their new contact seems just like an old friend – tells you something about the feeling and importance of developing contacts like this.

Who do you network with? (more…)

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