Disaster Matrix

Episode 65: Preparedness Mindsets

April 30, 2012
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Hosts Aaron and Jonathan discuss 6 preparedness mindsets for your mental spring cleaning… After reviewing our preppes it’s time to review our mindsets. Survival starts first in our minds–after all. Where can faulty mindsets fail us? What can we do to better them? Faulty mindsets can lead to waisted energy, time, and money. They could [...]

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Contagion, A Prepper’s Movie Review

September 28, 2011
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Contagion is a new movie with a high powered cast about the spread of a viral pandemic. It shows the expanding viral epidemic from a number of perspectives and will make any prepper think. A pandemic is something preppers should be thinking about. In the disaster matrix, it is probably the most devastating thing that [...]

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Episode 23: TEOTWAWKI Discussions

June 27, 2011
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In this weeks episode hosts Aaron and Jonathan discuss their opinions about  TEOTWAWKI. Special Notice: We now have an ITRH Urban Survival Forum. Join today and come be part of the community. Topics: Why Aaron and Jonathan joke about Zombies. The pitfalls of focusing on TEOTWAWKI. The Disaster Probability and Commonality Matrix. Fallacies of the Horde. [...]

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Episode 9: The Most Important Survival Skill

March 28, 2011
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Hosts Aaron Frankel and Jonathan Kanarek discuss the single most important survival skill, understanding the Disaster Matrix, and the decay of personal responsibility. Topics: Prepping based on the Disaster Matrix; most likely to least likely. Getting past your gear addiction. Get out of debt. Survival CHI – Community, Health, and Intelligence. Experiencing Project Appleseed. The mind set [...]

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