John Mccann

1.  So John exactly how did you get into survival as a professional?

2.  Tell us a bit about your school, what type of skills do you teach, where is it at, etc.

3.  I really enjoyed your book, “Build the Perfect Survival Kit”, you put a lot of emphasis on compact and micro kits, why is that?

4.  Between your hat and your belt and your key ring you stay pretty prepared at all times, tell us a bit about that?

5.  Many of my listeners are really focused heavily on homesteading, self sufficiency and disaster prepping but I think a lot of primitive skills are very beneficial in urban or suburban disasters or support failures, what do you think about that?

6.  What are your thoughts on fishing as a survival technique be it in the wilderness or even in suburban environments?

7.  Why is the ability to start a fire so critical for survival regardless if you are dealing with a system failure in the city or a ridge top in the wilderness?

8.  Can you talk a little bit about prepping for travel, specifically by aircraft where you are limited to what you can bring along for both emergencies and protection?

9.  In your experience what are some commonly overlooked day to day items?

10. I have practiced a lot with various trapping techniques, primitive and modern and have found there is a surprising amount of game in suburban area? So I really think this is a valuable skill, what are your thoughts on that?

11. If someone was interested in attending your school where can they find out more about it and what should they expect when attending it?

12. Any final thoughts on why it is important to simple thing about preparedness in general?

Dave Canterbury

  1. So Dave you just got some really good news from the Discovery Channel, tell us about that?
  2. Tell us a bit about how you got into the whole survival world, you spent some time in the military right?
  3. Like me you are clearly an addict when it comes to bow hunting, for you what makes bow hunting so special?
  4. I loved it at DirtTime when you stated “I hate the term survival situation”, tell folks what you mean by that, I think it may really be something a lot of folks need to hear.
  5. You run the Path Finder School and have developed a 10 part system that is the core of the schools teaching. Can you briefly say a few things about the 10 parts of the system?
  6. I will probably key in on a few of the points from the and ask you to expand on them?
  7. You really focus a lot on bush craft and primitive skills. A lot of my audience is heavily focused on self sufficiency and disaster preps for their homes or perhaps a bug out location. Can you talk a bit about how some of these skills are useful even in a suburban environment or even in a rural are where you still have the luxury of a house and everything that comes with that?
  8. How can having basic equipment help people avoid disasters or “survival situations” in the first place?
  9. I find things like homesteading, gardening tend to reconnect people with what I call their natural state, being authentic vs plastic. I think spending time in the bush does the same thing. I am guessing that you really enjoy your bush time?
  10. I have always said “what you do and how you think are more important then what you carry with you”, does that apply in the wilderness as much as it does in say an urban environment during an emergency?
  11. I know your day to day activities are centered on bush craft and primitive skills but are there any day to day things out there right now that concern you about say a societal breakdown or national lever disaster or anything like that? If so what do you think people should do to be prepared for such an event?
  12. If I want to attend your school or learn more about your efforts how can I do that?
  13. You have a new online training option as well, would you like to tell folks about that as well?

Ron Hood

  1. Ron you have been teaching survival, preparedness and outdoor skills for a long time, tell us a bit about how you got started and why you choose this industry.
  2. You are also an Army vet and were part of the ASA, tell us a bit about the ASA and how your experience there effects your view of survival and preparedness today?
  3. During my service I was deployed for about six months with a group of combat engineers to a remote part of Honduras. We built roads and schools in a place known as the Aguan River valley. There was no plumbing, no electricity and most of the people lived in shacks and huts but they were generally happy and got along fairly well. In your travels I sure you have found similar experiences can you tell us a bit about how meeting and living with such people changes how you look at the world and what is “necessary”?
  4. Now you actually taught preparedness and planning at a university, which is kind of unique, can you tell us a bit about that?
  5. You teach at events and seminars but you have really taught thousands of people via your videos, you have a tremendous amount of information available with your video series such as the Woods Master and Urban Master series. Can you tell us a bit about your DVDs, why you use video and some of your most rent projects?
  6. Let’s expand on your “Urban Master” series because my audience is highly interested in self sufficiency and disaster prep and similar topics. What types of skills can people expect to learn from the Urban Master series?
  7. This week I have also had on John McCann and Dave Canterbury, like you both of those gentlemen focus a lot on primitive skills and bush craft. For the folks in my audience that are more concerned about surviving during emergencies or during say a time when systems of support fail, what can you tell them about how many of these primitive skills apply even in suburban environments or say at their country homestead?
  8. You also teach basic skills for “family camping”, what types of things do you teach for that environment, why is it necessary in the first place?
  9. A lot of my listeners are really getting their lives in order, they have plans in place, they are paying off debt, they have food stored, disaster plans, evacuation routes and they are learning a lot of the skills you teach. Many of them also have skeptical friends and family, any advice for gentle ways to open up the mind of a skeptic, may be a simple question or statement that will just make people think?
  10. If you were going to make a top ten list of primitive skills everyone should learn, even those that don’t spend time in the bush what would be a few of the skills on that list?
  11. You have a very active forum on your site called the Hoodlums. As a forum owner myself I know how special a good forum is, yours is really one of the best out there. What do you think made the Hoodlums so successful? How important do you think the internet has become for sharing knowledge about survivalism today?
  12. You wanted to offer our listeners a discount on your DVDs today right? Tell them how they can get a discount on your videos?