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No bunkers, no doomsday sales pitch. Just the areas that make the biggest difference for a normal household — covered one honest step at a time.

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Build a pantry that fits your budget and your space — no bunker required.

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Notice the moment normal breaks — the free skill that keeps you safer everywhere.

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Solar, batteries, fuel, and low-tech backups that keep the lights on.

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Food & WaterEp. 294

Sealing Rice And Sugar In Lightweight Cans?

A single can of corn can tell you more about inflation than a dozen headlines. We kick things off with my “corn index” and a weird pricing puzzle: why the exact same pantry staple can cost less online than it does when you walk into the store. If you’re into practical prepping, emergency preparedness, and real-life budgeting, this is the kind of simple benchmark that helps you spot trends before they bite. Then we take a detour to a microbrewery, where I watched beer get fil...

Nov 11, 202615:39Listen
PreparednessEp. 293

A Hands-On Look At Skycom PTT Radios

Ninth in the How-To charts and still trying to earn it every week, I’m taking a close, hands-on look at Skycom PTT, a company that’s been popping up everywhere in the preparedness communications world. If you’ve been curious about push-to-talk over cellular (POC radios), this is the practical breakdown: what you’re really buying, what problem it solves, and what it will never be able to do when the grid is stressed. I walk through Skycom’s background, why their customer supp...

Nov 9, 202619:43Listen
Food & WaterEp. 292

Fertilizer Shockwave?

509 shiploads down to 18 is not just a headline, it’s a warning signal. When LNG traffic through the Straits of Hormuz drops, the impact doesn’t stop at power plants and heating. It reaches straight into fertilizer production, farm input costs, and eventually the price and availability of food. I walk through the real-world chain from a global shipping chokepoint to your grocery cart, using plain language and concrete numbers so it’s easy to track what matters. We start with...

Nov 7, 202617:25Listen
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Keith, host of The Common Sense Practical Prepper
“I'm not a Green Beret or a millionaire with a bunker in the mountains — I'm a regular guy who spent 26 years as a cop and decided to get his family ready one honest step at a time.”

I'm Keith. First off — thank you for being here. Whether you found the show last week or you've been riding along for a couple hundred episodes, it means a lot that you'd spend part of your day with me. A lot of these episodes start as an email from a listener. I read everything, and I answer.

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