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Recent Disasters Prove It—Americans Aren't Ready for What’s Coming · Man in America Podcast

• 0:13
  Seth Holehouse: Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Man in America. I'm your host, Seth Holehouse. So today's show represents a continuing discussion on preparedness. So I'm still writing the book as I've been telling you folks, which is coming up. And, actually, just so you know, you can I'm giving it away for free.
• 0:29
  So the book, which is called prep like Noah, is gonna be a a pretty comprehensive guide. It's I think it was like a prepping one zero one type guide to covering all the basics of, you know, the basis of prepping, whether it's food, ammunition, water, energy, community, communication, etcetera. So the book, which is almost done, couple of weeks away, I'm giving out for free. So if you wanna get a free copy of that book when it comes out, go to, preplikenoah.com. And when you enter to get the book, you we're gonna be giving away a six months food supply, three month, and a one month food supply as well.
• 1:02
  So that's all free. You go to preplikeNoah.com, enter to win, and you can get the you'll get the the chance at winning the food, but you also will just get the book, the PDF, ebook, etcetera, that you can read and study. And so I'll be doing some videos about that as well. So because as we've seen with Helene and Milton and the Maui Fires, the disasters and the the difficulty seems to be increasing, and we haven't talked about election, post election. You know, there's just all kinds of insanity that affects a lot of us, we feel like, is right around the corner.
• 1:33
  And so there's a lot of folks that are have this gut feeling of, hey. I need to be better better prepared. And so I'm looking at it as part of my responsibility as someone that, really strives to be prepared, and I I've put a lot of time into learning about preparedness, you know, whether it's through reading my books or through actually just working and building chicken coops or doing anything that we're doing. It's so important. And so that's why I'm focusing on it because I really believe that, you know, the the Americans that care about God and country and freedom, we have to get through whatever's coming at us.
• 2:04
  We have to be the ones that are standing strong to carry this country, you know, forward for our future generations. And so one of the key components of preparedness, though, is communication, being able to communicate, and then what's central to communication is satellite phones. And so I'm actually gonna be interviewing today Tina Blanco, who is the founder of, the satellite phone store, so s e t one two three, and she is a a super prepper. She's been doing this for about twenty years. And the insights that she has, not just in the the technical knowledge of, okay, how does satellite phones work and how are they important, but also the knowledge she has of, you know, over twenty years worth of disasters that she's experienced, whether it was a hurricane in Puerto Rico or the more recent disasters or the Maui fires.
• 2:48
  You know, she has seen on the ground what happens to people, and, unfortunately, what she's seen is how woefully unprepared a lot of Americans are. Even the ones that are kind of the preppers are still unprepared. So what are we talking about, in today's discussion, primarily communication, understanding the difference between a satellite phone and a cell phone, but also then how to generate power, solar, etcetera, and also a lot of other helpful, piece of advice. So, folks, please enjoy this interview with Tina from the Satellite Phone Store. Grand Canyon University, a private Christian university in beautiful Phoenix, Arizona, believes that we're endowed by our creator with certain unalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
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• 4:19
  So folks, visit gcu.edu. Again, that's gcu.edu. Tina, it is such a pleasure to have you on the show. Thank you so much for joining us today.
• 4:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Thank you so much for having me. And, it was nice meeting you in, in North Carolina. I think we were both there for that re reawaken America tour where we met. So, yeah, thanks.
• 4:43
  Seth Holehouse: Yeah. It it was very nice to meet you. So just to kinda give my quick introduction, then I wanna hear your introduction, but, I met you because you run the satellite phone store, and you also have a couple of other businesses, you know, all tied into preparedness, which is something that's very, you know, dear to me. You know, we're building our chicken coop as we speak right now, and, you know, so these are things that are, like, I think critically important. And for even you know, for us, I've been doing this for some time, and maybe people just said, oh, you're conspiracy theorist or whatever.
• 5:13
  Think by now, everyone's on the know, in the same boat and thinking that, yeah, we better get prepared because our government is not, you know, helping us, and there's more natural disasters and, you know, who knows what kind of lockdowns or cyber attacks or EMPs. And so it's becoming a much more of a a central topic of discussion, especially for people that are, you know, more concerned about the freedom and the future of the country. Preparedness is is central to that. So give us your kinda your background of, you know, how did you even get into, emergency disaster communication and and response? And, like, what what's what's your story in getting into this?
• 5:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah. So my, I started in this industry in, it was 12/24/2004. If you recall, we had that huge tsunami in Indonesia. And I was watching the news, there's, like, no pictures. And they're like, there's no communication.
• 6:08
  No one had communication. Even base communication was gone, radios. Everything was taken out. And then later on, just a week later we found out that a lot of lives would have been saved had they had a way to communicate because they were just out of water or they were just out of strength because they fought to survive. And then because they couldn't communicate, they passed away.
• 6:37
  So that's when I started looking into communication. And then in February is when I started the company.
• 6:46
  Seth Holehouse: Incredible. And and so I know that that you're, very involved in a lot of the disasters that happen, and and there's a handful of folks that you work with pretty closely. You know, sleet Steve Sleptovich is a is a common friend of both of us who runs I think it's SSRP, if I remember his disaster response company. And so when let let's just take the the two most recent hurricanes, right, between Milton and Helene. You see a different perspective than most people when you're looking at a situation like this.
• 7:16
  I know that you work with a lot of first responders and everything. And so, what's been with either either of those hurricanes, what's been your your response and what you see happening with communication? Because I think it's it's when when people think about being prepared, it's easy to think about food and water, maybe a gun, you know, some of those core things that you need to absolutely survive, but I find that communication is oftentimes overlooked. So what have you seen in these in these disaster areas and with helping these teams going into these areas?
• 7:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah. So what I've seen is Americans aren't prepared, not even with food, water. They're not prepared with medicine, even baby formula. People were out of baby food, baby formula for their babies. And this is where our first responders working with Steve Slovczovic came in, where we were bringing, helicopter rides.
• 8:10
  And, you know, Steve called me and he's like, you know, I've maxed out my credit cards, Tina. And I'm like, you know, here, max out my credit cards. And then, you know, it not only lasted just a little bit. And we're like, okay, we got to raise money because it's $1,500, per ride over there to bring food and water, to people. And, so, yeah, so that's what we did.
• 8:33
  So then raised a lot of money. I think we were taking about 15 helicopters a day. It was just nonstop bringing food, water. And I'll tell you the people that did have communications were the people that got the first responders to bring stuff to them because they were able to communicate and let us know what they needed. Where if you didn't have communication, it was very difficult to find them.
• 8:59
  But all you need is one person in like in a whole neighborhood to have a satellite phone And you can pretty much help the whole neighborhood because then you can give the phone out to your neighbors, the whole community to make a call, to call their friends and family, to let them know that they're okay, they're safe. Because that also is a huge way off of people's shoulder because the stress of family members not knowing if you're okay is pretty stressful. And it could cause a lot of, you know, permanent damage in people's health, the kind of stress that you can stress. Seth, we also experienced that in Hawaii last year during the fires. Same thing.
• 9:48
  People that had burns on their bodies, they were just sitting there on a beach, couldn't call 911, couldn't get help. The people that had satellite phones and then also Steve's team were able to call the neighboring islands to bring help to get these, people to the hospital. So communication is extremely important and it played a pretty important role in this case. And yeah, so that's my experience. I was really surprised at how poorly we are prepared.
• 10:22
  Also, here in Sarasota, Seth, people didn't have a gas, cars that weren't full of gas. So when the hurricane come, came and you couldn't get to the gas station because of the hot wires or the gas stations were out of service, so they couldn't even maneuver because they didn't fill up their tanks with gas. So it's there's there's so many things that Americans don't know how to prepare. Even the preppers weren't prepared as well as we thought they would be prepared.
• 10:52
  Seth Holehouse: And it's such a an interesting thing to look at because I feel like if you go back a hundred years, like, I remember hearing stories of, you know, my great grandmother who thankfully, you know, knew her growing up, and I could hear stories of her childhood, and she lived through the Great Depression, but they survived. They they garden. They can. They had a root cellar. She lived kinda close to a river, and so every day, every morning, her task was they'd run lines across the river with with hooks for catfish or other fish.
• 11:19
  And so every day, she'd go and she'd collect all the fish, and, you know, they had all these different, you know, things that they would do. She had one pair of underwear that she would just wash whenever she took a shower. She'd wash her underwear at the same time, and so we heard these stories of of life growing up, and I feel like that a hundred years ago, you would no Americans would say, I'm a prepper. It was just how people lived. The lifestyle that people lived was a lifestyle where it's a much more agrarian, you know, culture.
• 11:46
  We had way more family farms, and, you know, Americans were very resilient. But but I think that what you're saying now, it's what I'm seeing is as well, is that Americans aren't resilient anymore. I actually think that Americans, I think, by and large, are woefully unprepared. And, you know, you mentioned that even the preppers weren't prepared. So let's talk I I wanna hear more about that actually, what and what you saw.
• 12:08
  It's easy to imagine how a family has done no preparations that maybe has a week worth of food in the pantry and some cans and whatever. Maybe they'd be unprepared. That's pretty obvious. But the the preppers, the people that are focused on it, how were some what were some of the ways that you saw they were even they were they were unprepared?
• 12:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah. So so one of the things is the so the roads were damaged. Right? And, for example, in North Carolina, nobody can get in. So even the people that weren't underwater weren't prepared because what ends up happening when there's no food, no water coming in, you have to be the leader and also in your neighborhood because your neighbors are gonna come to you and that's the kind of preparedness that you need to be prepared.
• 12:53
  And not only for a week, for a month, for you can, you know, you could be prepared yourself for a year. And yeah, a hundred years ago, I think people knew more than we know now because we're so reliant on convenience. Everything is convenience. Everything is done for us. But then when we don't have this convenience, where everybody's like shocked and they just sit there and then they wait for the government, according to Steve Slopsovic, the government didn't come to help anybody, female or anybody, until day about seven or eight.
• 13:27
  So by then, things can go pretty south, very quickly. So yeah, I was really surprised how little people are prepared. Now a lot of people did lose everything. They lost their house. They lost, you know, everything because of the flood.
• 13:45
  And that's where a good prepper would come in in that area and not wait for the government or for someone and, you know, and help your neighbors, your friends, and family, and and everyone in the community. And, you know, and that I saw very little of that happening from what I could see because there weren't many people prepared in in those areas. But, you know, but that's what we saw. I'm sure there were a lot of preppers because these people, I think they're in the mountains and I think that a lot of them were preppers. You don't hear about those guys because, you know, they're prepared.
• 14:23
  They're like, no, thank you. We don't need help. We're we're good. And I'm sure that there are a lot of Americans that are prepared and we need to be we all need to be like them. We all need to have food.
• 14:34
  We need water, a LifeStraw for for water filters. I mean, there's a lot of things that could think of. Communication is important. Generators, solar panels, all of these things that you can get today so that when something happens in your area, because you never know. I mean, I don't think people in Maui realized what was gonna happen.
• 14:56
  The fires were gonna take out 99% of the communication and electricity in the island or in a in a split second. Nobody knows. So, it's good to be prepared with everything.
• 15:09
  Seth Holehouse: Yeah. And that's that's the key, I think, is that it's one thing. It's like, okay. If you live say you live in, you know, in Miami or you live in Fort Lauderdale, a a place that, you know, you you will get hurricanes. It's it's expect it.
• 15:23
  You know, if someone living on the coast of Florida doesn't have any preparations, in my opinion, they're they're just they're woefully ignorant, you know, to to be kind with those words. But, really, that, you know, they should be prepared. But, you know, you'd think that, yeah, someone living in in, like, the mountains of North Carolina, they're not thinking what happens if, you know, a thousand year flood comes through and washes away my home. But I think it's also you know, this is one of the reasons why when I'm looking at preparations, you know, I've studied a lot into the EMP scenarios of, you know, what happens if an EMP goes off because in my opinion, that's one of the worst things that could possibly happen is is an EMP wiping out the grid in in America. And so if if you can be prepared for that, you're prepared for most things, but one thing that I've I've learned from seeing whether it's the Maui fires or the situation in North Carolina that a lot of people, I feel like they have this idea that their home is their castle.
• 16:18
  And as long as their home is is prepared, they've got a big you know, they have their food supply and everything, they're okay. But I think it's it's got me thinking. It's like, well, what if I had to flee my home? Like, what if, you know, I like I live in the woods, and so what if there's some sort of insane fire, and I've got twenty minutes to get my family out? Do I have, you know, an extra couple cans of gas to throw in the back of my pickup truck in case I have to drive a long distance?
• 16:43
  Do I have, you know, a a go bag? Do I have a bag that's already packed just in case that maybe has a week worth of food, a small solar, you know, generator, you know, sat phone, you know, all the different supplies? It's got me thinking because, you know, it's it's a good point to consider that, you know, even our homes, as we've seen, especially in North Carolina, that, you know, people coulda had a bunker with ten years of food. But if if that gets washed away with the with the the the water, then it's it's all becomes useless, unfortunately.
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah. A go bag is a good idea to have. We actually do put those together for our clients, and it's got, you know, just the basics. No food, because we really believe that food weighs too much and it takes too much space for a go bag. And you can survive without food for about a week or longer, but you can't survive without water.
• 17:38
  So a LifeStraw, you know, and then FairDay products to protect your electronics, a backup backup cell phone, a backup satellite phone, all placed in a Faraday bag. So yeah, we've got all of that and those are the things that we do need to be, prepared for is anything is possible. Know, yeah, a survival knife, gun, all of those, items that, we don't think about that we're going to need that, that you may need, and you're absolutely right.
• 18:17
  Seth Holehouse: Can you can you explain Faraday? You know, for because I you know, and and I've had you know, I've done a bunch of different shows on EMPs and discussed EMPs. So but can you just give a a basic understanding for folks that are maybe new to some of these terms of, you know, what is an EMP? How does it affect communication, and what is the role of a a Faraday bag or a Faraday cage?
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah. So a Faraday bag could be something like this. I don't know if you can see it. This is made by Escape Zone. This is the company that we really like.
• 18:51
  So basically, the minute that your phone, let's say your cell phone or your satellite phone, the minute that's in here, the phone is protected now from quite a few things. It's protected from EMP attack, which is electromagnetic. As you know, if we get attacked by the bad guys, China or whoever, they're not going to attack us with bombs. They're going to kill our communication. They're going to have some kind of an EMP attack.
• 19:25
  Or the electromagnetic pulse also can come from the sun. So it could be any given moment. So this will protect any electronics that you have in here, whether it's a satellite phone, computer. I know this doesn't fit a computer, but we have the ones that do fit a computer. Anything that's in here, it will not get affected by an EMP.
• 19:46
  Also, Seth, what about EMF, which is the radiation that we're getting? I don't know if you know this, but when you're driving, if you put your phone in here and drive, it's so much healthier for you. Because especially when you're driving, the people that are using their phone while they're driving and you're going from a cell tower to cell tower, you're frying your body. You are literally frying your body with radiation. That is the most radiation that you get from a phone call is when you're driving.
• 20:17
  So we highly recommend that you put your phone inside of a Fair Day bag when you're driving. So even when you're not using it, even if it's on airplane mode, it is still generating because it's still going from tower to tower. So we highly recommend that you put your phone inside of a Fair Day bag while you are driving. And then also when you're sleeping at night, when you have it next to you, give your body an eight hour break while you're resting from an EMF from radiation. Because even though you're not using it, it is still connecting to the cell towers and they're still tracking you.
• 20:55
  Big tech is still like, know, they're like, they kind of keep an eye on you. How long do you sleep? They know what room you're sleeping in. They know everything. So putting it in here, it really hides you.
• 21:08
  It protects you from EMF. It protects you from EMP. And it protects you from tracking. Nobody can track you. And one of the reasons why I like, FairDay is because I kind of destroy my, digital footprint because I'm seeing the digital footprint is being used against you.
• 21:27
  Like if you were at the rally, some rally on January 6 and you had your phone in here, nobody would have knocked at your door because nobody would have been able to track you. I highly recommend when you go to vote, put your phone in here. So this way no one knows and tracks who's going to vote or who's voting because we are being tracked. So this completely stops the tracking. If you power your phone off, you're still being tracked up to seventy two hours because they got a low mode battery.
• 21:56
  But once you put it in here, the tracking stops. So that's what, that's what a FairDay basically does is it protects your electronics, it protects you from EMF, and it protects you from being tracked.
• 22:09
  Seth Holehouse: And so can you still receive phone calls if your phone's in that bag?
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: The phone will not ring. The alarm will still ring, but the phone will not. You shouldn't be using the phone when you're driving anyways. Exactly. Put your phone inside your day bag while you're driving.
• 22:25
  When you come when you get to your destination, pull it out. The text messages will still be there, and you can still read them because they'll come through once the phone is out. Take yourself out of harm's way. Yeah, driving is driving. We've done a lot of research and I've been talking to a lot of doctors that have been doing a lot of research because they're seeing so many cancer patients.
• 22:49
  It is literally the cancer is off the road, especially thyroid cancer because of the EMF that we're generating toward our body. And a lot of that comes by keeping the phone next to our heads while we sleep, not giving ourselves a break, and then also, using the phone in the vehicle is extremely dangerous.
• 23:10
  Seth Holehouse: This is the first time I've heard that actually in terms of how it's going from tower to tower, which that makes sense. It makes me think that, yeah, I should probably be a little more responsible with with my my phone, from that perspective. So Yeah. When I wanna I wanna kinda dive into a little more understanding better satellite technology. So right now, you know, my my phone, which I've got I keep it in the case.
• 23:34
  Right? So that this cell phone is using a a land based, you know, system. Right? So these are either the maybe there there's satellites that help up up up top. It's really it's it's all the the land based infrastructure that allows my cell phone to make calls.
• 23:53
  And so if a if there's an EMP or let's just say EMP as a as a perfect example, or say some sort of larger scale natural disaster that, you know, similar to most people who used to it. So if your power goes out, it's not uncommon for your phones to go out also or your Internet. Right? It's very common. The power goes out, and say you've got a backup battery and you can still turn your router on, you're like, oh, the Internet's also down because the Internet is is still a land based.
• 24:17
  So satellite, obviously, if there's a a localized disaster like a hurricane that takes out all the cell towers, your satellite phone is is not affected by that. Right? Because it's it's using the satellites to communicate, but I also imagine that a lot of EMPs now maybe if there's a geomagnetic storm from the sun, maybe that would affect satellites because it's obviously coming from the sun, but a lot of the EMPs are more weaponized, you know, electromagnetic pulses that those are probably not gonna affect what's happening. So even with the in terms of what's happening in the the sky or the outer space with the satellites, and so can you explain a little bit more about how how these phones actually communicate with the satellites and how even if you're in the middle of Africa, you can still make phone calls. Is that right?
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah. So your phone, your cell phone that you have, your smartphone connects to a local tower. That's why it jumps from tower to tower, and then it connects to the satellite, and that's how you get the call. And then there are ground stations everywhere. So with the satellite, there are ground stations also all over the world, but there's no cell towers that could go down.
• 25:32
  Fires, anything, even 1,000 simultaneous calls to one cell tower at the same time. That's why when there's disasters and it doesn't affect the cell towers, the cell service still goes down because it takes it down. So one of the things that the satellite phone provides is it gives you your own cell tower with you wherever you go on Earth. So cell phones work on 7% of the Earth. This works on 100% of the Earth because you carry your cell tower with you wherever you go.
• 26:00
  It's ironic that the new five gs towers look exactly like this, that you see them on street corners. And those are very dangerous to live around one, by the way. I would not want to be around one within quarter of a mile. But this is what they look like, and you could see them. They used to kind of look like fake trees, but now this is what it looks like.
• 26:21
  But on a much bigger and you see them at when you're driving, you see them at stoplights and and other places or on top of buildings. But with this, you carry your cell tower with you wherever you go. So the phone doesn't care where you're at, whether you're in the middle of the ocean, if you're in Antarctica or, you know, in a desert somewhere, the phone will still give you the same exact signal. So you are able to make a call from anywhere to anywhere. And the other person does not have to have a satellite phone.
• 26:52
  That's the biggest question I get. Who am I gonna call? Well, you can call anybody that's got a phone number. If they're able to receive a call, you'll be able to dial and call them with this phone from anywhere on Earth. And so far in my twenty years of working in this business, I've never seen the satellite phones go down.
• 27:09
  So and they say I mean, my first year in business, we had in 02/2005, we had hurricane Katrina, and I was just like, okay. Wow. Yeah. So and all it all communication was dead except for these satellite phones. And this is how first responders were able to go and find people and save people.
• 27:29
  And we saw that again. I've seen this many times again, many, many times in 2010, saw it with the earthquake in Haiti, you know, Hurricane Maria, Hurricane Michael, all these hurricanes that I've experienced, these satellite phones became very valuable to first responders, military, the folks that were there. So this is what they got to go down to find people, or the people that did have satellite phones were able to call and get help in almost every disaster. Every year there's been something. I mean, you know, I think a couple of years ago our folks were down in Mexico and they were told, you know, some of the visitors were told, and I think it was in Puerto Rico, and they were told, oh, go to sleep.
• 28:18
  It's only tropical storm. And within twelve hours, it became a Category five. And so there's so much chaos. So the people that had satellite phones were able to call and get help, Americans that were there. We got a lot of stories.
• 28:34
  They were able to call and get help to get somebody to pick them up or get a way to get out. There was a lot of chaos. There was a lot of looting. Police didn't know what to do because nobody can communicate. When there's no communication, there's a lot of chaos.
• 28:49
  And we we heard a lot of stories. So take it with you. If you have one, take it with you wherever you go. If you travel, especially outside of this country, make sure you have your satellite phone with you because you never know.
• 29:01
  Seth Holehouse: It's a good point. And so I love what about, Bivy Stix? Because I know that, you know, I've like, so I just, you know, I recently as we're talking about a guy, recently got a satellite phone and a Bivy Stix. Because I think I I'd heard it from Mike Adams. I'm a big fan of Mike Adams.
• 29:14
  I know that you've done his show a handful of times, and he's obviously what you consider a prepper. He's like a super prepper. I mean, he's, like, kind of like the guy that has a compound probably buried in some field somewhere. And so do you need to take a second?
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: No. He's gonna go get well, go get one.
• 29:29
  Seth Holehouse: Oh, great. Okay.
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: So so and I in the meantime, I can explain what a Bivy stick is.
• 29:34
  Seth Holehouse: Yeah. Actually, and I'll pull it up on the website as well. And just so so folks know let's see. The website is just satellitephonestore.com. That's why we pulled it
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: up three.
• 29:44
  Seth Holehouse: Yes. SAT123. So, obviously, everyone's glued to the election right now. How's Trump doing in the polls? How did Kamala's recent interview affect her chances?
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• 30:28
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• 31:39
  Speaker 2: K. So so and I in the meantime, I can explain what a Bivy Stick is.
• 31:44
  Seth Holehouse: Yeah. Actually, and I'll pull it up on the website as well. And just so so folks know let's see. The website is just satellitephonestore.com. That's what we're pulling
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: up here. 3.
• 31:54
  Seth Holehouse: Yes. Or +1 23.
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah. Because we've got the specials, that the folks can get, from this podcast, on Sat123.
• 32:04
  Seth Holehouse: Oh, there you go. Okay. So +1 23.
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah. Because we're offering them for free, and also they have an option, to to put, a code to get a discount too. So
• 32:16
  Seth Holehouse: Oh, okay.
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: And I
• 32:17
  Seth Holehouse: think our code is is Seth. Right? SETH? Yep. Yep.
• 32:21
  Okay. Great. Yeah. So that you so folks will get a discount on anything that they get through here. But so I'm gonna pull up
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: call yeah. If they call, Seth and and they say they heard you know, they mention your name, they get 10% off of the whole price of the whole order. So it's a pretty big deal
• 32:41
  Seth Holehouse: Oh, great.
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: On that. Okay. So So, go ahead.
• 32:46
  Seth Holehouse: Yeah. So you also pulled so this is this is the BivyStick. So, you know, what I what I did is I got I got a Bivy Stix, and I got a one of the sat phones. Right? So that way, my my wife and I, you know, we can communicate.
• 32:58
  But explain I I I think these Bivy Stix are fascinating. So explain how a Bivy Stix works.
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah. One of the benefits of the Bivy Sticks and a lot of people that go hiking, camping, love these because they're very light to carry, especially if, you know, if weight is an issue. Satellite phone weighs about a pound twelve, thirteen ounces, and this one only weighs about three ounces. And this will turn your smartphone into a two way communicator from anywhere on earth. So you just take this, you power on, you leave it by the window or outside if you're camping, and then you can walk around with your cell phone within 20 feet of the unit and text it to anyone from anywhere.
• 33:44
  You just put your phone on airplane mode and you can use this to text with it comes with a USA number. So when people text you back, they text back to a USA number. Just make sure that you give out your number to your friends and family so that they know that this is your satellite communication phone number. And it does give you the local weather, which is really nice to have because in case there's, like, flash flood or if you're camping, hiking, Most satellite doesn't give you local weather. And then it also gives you the map.
• 34:22
  So if you get lost, if you're out somewhere and you got lost, you can download the map before you go in so that you'll have a way to navigate outside to get back into, civilization. So that's why this is really big with that crowd, but it's also big with preppers because it is a little bit cheaper. The unit the unit, of course, is free. Whether you get the sat phone or this, you get them for free. But this one, the satellite phone is about $90 a month and this one is $65 a month.
• 34:53
  And it does the same. The only thing this doesn't do is it doesn't give you a voice. Where the satellite phone gives you voice and texting. Where this one just gives you the ability to be able to text. Then it does have an SOS so you can register it.
• 35:08
  So in case you did get lost, you know, you push a button and then, you know, you get help. And it also has another button right here. You prerecord a message to five people that you trust. And if something bad happened, all you have to do is you push this button. You don't even need your smartphone.
• 35:29
  You push this button, and then those five people will get that message that you prerecorded with your GPS location. So so so then, you know, if the message says, hey, you know, I you're getting this message, you know, because I'm stuck here. Please send help. And then and so they'll get your GPS location and and send help. Now, however, the satellite phone has no GPS.
• 35:55
  This is the reason why the military, the US military, uses the satellite phone. And our senate, our government, all of the, you know, the grads in the military academy, they all use this phone because it doesn't have any tracking because they don't want the bad guys to find them. So for complete security, this is the phone to get. But if you want something for emergencies, you know, the the Baby Stick will do it.
• 36:24
  Seth Holehouse: And is this the phone that you're because this is the phone, I think, that I got. Right? I got I got the Iridium nine five five five?
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah. That's the phone that you got. That phone normally is +1 395, and I think we have it for 299. And if they call in and mention a name, they get 10% off even off the the the service as well. So but we do have another phone, which is an MRSAT, the ISAP phone, and we have offered that phone for free.
• 36:53
  That one, the regular price on that one is, $800 So that phone, we give it away for free. It is on a fifteen month agreement. I think our breakeven point is about fourteen months. That's the reason why we made it fifteen months. And then after that, you're just month to month.
• 37:11
  Seth Holehouse: I see. And so and and with these, in terms of the minutes, if I'm not mistaken, that so those plans include a hundred and fifty monthly minutes. Is there an option? So is it I think it's, like, what, $10 a month if you wanna have a rollover, meaning that those every month, if you don't use those, which I imagine, you know, I might go eight months with with not even touching the satellite phone. Right?
• 37:31
  Which is a good thing, actually. We it should be used often. But then am correct that with the rollover that all those minutes keep accumulating?
• 37:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah. They do accumulate for as long as you keep the service on, or you could just pay the I believe it's $89 a month and just keep the service one hundred and fifty minutes a month. Majority of the customers don't go over the one hundred and fifty minutes a month. And when there's a disaster, like, you know, what happened in North Carolina, we had some customers that did have the phone and they let all the neighbors use it. We just simply just donated the minutes.
• 38:07
  We're not gonna bill them overage. So when when something happens, you know, it ain't gonna matter, how many minutes you use because it's basically saving lives at that point.
• 38:21
  Seth Holehouse: That makes sense. And and I've been hearing stories, coming out of whether it was someone that had Starlink or a Sat phone that literally, you know, that know, a whole neighborhood that is going and and, you know, able to use that. Because I can imagine that it is I didn't think about it until this conversation. You know, we think about, okay. Okay.
• 38:40
  You wanna have a phone if you had to call for help or, you know, communicate, hey. Where you know, say there's an EMP that goes off and my wife is at the store. Right? And I can call I can talk to her and say, hey. Where are you at?
• 38:51
  What's your plan to get home, etcetera? But I hadn't thought about the fact of even notifying other people. Like, let's imagine let's just say that I was living down in North Carolina where that storm hit. If I went ten days without communication, that my entire family and extended family that isn't there for those those whole ten days, they're asking themselves, is Seth dead? Right?
• 39:12
  Like, what happened to Seth? Is he still alive? Like, I can imagine the stress that would come that but being able to call them and say, hey. Look. We lost everything, but we're still alive.
• 39:23
  My family is still alive. We're we're, you know, we're we're we found shelter. Here's where we're at. Like, I can see that it's it's being an this almost a life and death difference, And you mentioned that there's certain certain people that they might have no communication or no interaction for seven, ten days if you don't have clean water, you know, or if you don't have access to water within a couple of days, that's it. Right?
• 39:46
  So that's e even that. That's how that's how short the time limit is that, you know, the the window to act.
• 39:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah. It it is true. My first big experience with that was with hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico where we had about ten, twenty people in our store all day long for many, many days. People just crying, moms, dads, wanting to know if their children or their parents were okay.
• 40:16
  And they were in our store because they knew that we probably knew someone in that area that had a sat phone. And we actually did. And we connected, you know, some people to, with, you know, we got their addresses and we found out a person that had a phone in that area. And we contacted them and then they were able to let the family know that they're okay. And you don't need to go through that.
• 40:41
  I mean, a mother should never go through that or a dad or any family member not knowing if their friends and families were okay. So with, with her, with this hurricane, with hurricane Helene and Melton, we pretty much did the same thing. We had a lot of families, that wanted to be in touch with their families. So what we ended up doing is we gave, we donated a whole bunch of phones to Steve and he dropped them off in those areas so that the whole community can call their friends and family because it we just felt it was just the same thing. Not being able to call, and let your family know that you're okay is pretty, pretty stressful on them.
• 41:22
  And Starlinks too. So we did a lot of Starlinks. We do sell Starlinks. So we donated, and we we sold a lot of Starlinks, and we also rent them. So majority of these were rentals for the for the government and for the first responders that didn't wanna have them.
• 41:40
  They just wanted to rent them, so we do both.
• 41:43
  Seth Holehouse: So let's talk about power because this is obviously something that, if there is no power, it doesn't matter if you have Starlink or a satellite phone. If you have no way of generating electricity to charge it, then you're you're it's kinda useless. It's just a nice paperweight. So, I know, because I know that, you know, you also are involved with solar and and and various types of power. So if someone is approaching this and, you know, that they're thinking, okay, you know, a sat phone is is a good idea.
• 42:11
  I'm sold on it, but I need obviously, I need some sort of power for it. What would you where would you start? If someone came to you and said, look, you know, for, like, the first, you know, the first kind of type of solar setup or whatever it is, help me understand what the what the options are and what someone should be looking for if they're looking for, some sort of solution for powering, a phone or a laptop or, you know, something like that.
• 42:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah. So this is the reason why people do need a sat phone, not just Starlink. Starlink needs to be plugged in all the time in order for it to work. It doesn't have a battery. Where a satellite phone has a battery, gives you about twenty hours of standby and about three or four hours of talk time for per charge, and you just need one of those small battery packs to charge it.
• 42:56
  With the with the Starlink, you you'll need a bigger battery pack, and you gotta keep that plugged in. So you do need both if you wanna have something for the Internet. One person in the community just needs to get one Starlink. That's it. That's all you need.
• 43:11
  And then everybody could use it. And then one generator. So if you go to our website, sat123.com, you'll see up in the top corner, there is a link that takes you to all of our generators. We've made it very simple. We've combined generators.
• 43:30
  If you go to the top where it shows the solar panel and the generator. So we've combined different packages together because you will need both. When there's no electricity, you need way to charge the generator, and that's what you do with the solar panel. So you you keep it charged. So you can plug it in and have it charged and then have your solar panel to to keep it charged so that you can keep your your refrigerator, your, you know, air condition, your heater, anything.
• 44:03
  Pretty much, this will these will power some of these large ones will power your whole house. And then those portable solar panels, they're not that heavy, And you can take them outside. You carry them. They come in like a case, and you open them up. And now you've got those charging up your generators during the day while you're using them.
• 44:27
  And then at night, it keeps them charged so that at night you can keep your refrigerator, your AC, your, you know, lights, whatever it is that you wanna power on. So these are really, really nice. You see that? That's a 400 watt. That opens up.
• 44:43
  That's that's about 40 pounds, but it comes in like a a little carry case. So it's not there you go. So we've made it very, very easy for for these to be portable. You can put this in your car and and go. So this way, in case you have to leave the house, you take it with you.
• 45:02
  You and, yeah, and you go and you use it. Yeah.
• 45:06
  Seth Holehouse: And so basically, when it comes to when it comes to, the solar panels or and and a solar setup that we've got, basically so let's just look at Ecoflow, right, as an example, which is the the company I've heard nothing but good things about, that you you have a the the the generator. Right? The actual battery, the inverter, what you know, this unit, like, here, for instance, like this, you know, power station, which and these comes in, you know, come in various sizes, obviously, depending on the size of the battery and everything like that. So, basically, if I understand correctly, you have these little units that are what collect the energy. Like, they're made to, siphon real energy off of the sun.
• 45:47
  So you have you have your your solar panels that connect up to one of these units, and then that will then keep charging your battery. Then you depending on the battery, some batteries are big enough, as you mentioned, that you could practically run a house off of your battery overnight, you know, or or or maybe just, you know, your your freeze you say you have a deep freezer and a fridge, and you wanna run those in an air conditioning unit, you could do that. Right?
• 46:09
  Speaker 2: That's right. And this way, in case the emergency that happens, whether, you know, whether we have, any anything, anything, whether we get attacked or or a hurricane or fire, and if there's no electricity for a month or two, you don't have anything to worry about because the sun always comes out. The sun always shines. Even through a cloud, these will generate energy to to keep your generators going.
• 46:40
  Seth Holehouse: And if if someone was looking for say they don't have anything and they want maybe, like, a thousand watt or 1,500 watt, you know, generator or even maybe something smaller that would just charge phones and a laptop. What what would you recommend? Are there any kind of packages, or do you do you buy the the panels always separately, or are there there certain other bundles, or how would you approach that?
• 47:03
  Speaker 2: Yeah. So on beready.com, I think we put bundles together. The smaller ones, they they go about $800, and that will charge all of your electronics, your maybe just small things like toaster, just the basics, and then all the way up to, I think, like 8,000 or 9,000 that can power much more than just the basics. So if you go back up to sat123.com, yeah, and click on on be ready, which is in the corner. Yeah.
• 47:40
  There you go. And you just scroll. Scroll, scroll, sideways. There you go. Yeah.
• 47:47
  So, and then you scroll down. There's many different plants that we put together. There's that go back that we put together. That also includes the satellite phones with service for three years, I believe.
• 47:59
  Seth Holehouse: Oh, okay.
• 48:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah. So that's the, that's, those are the things. It's got a survival knife. It even has some silver coins.
• 48:08
  Seth Holehouse: Oh, wow. Understand.
• 48:09
  Speaker 2: Cash, if cash is not, you know, being used, you've got some silver coins, to to use. It's got an electric lighter. The electric lighter is really cool because it never runs out of fire. This is what it looks like. So it's like a little stove.
• 48:26
  I don't know if you can see it.
• 48:27
  Seth Holehouse: Hold up a little bit higher.
• 48:30
  Speaker 2: Here we go.
• 48:30
  Seth Holehouse: Oh, there you go. Yeah.
• 48:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah. See? Yeah. So and it never runs out because you can charge it right here. You can plug in.
• 48:37
  It comes with the with a cable to to charge it. So so it's really cool at always having a fire. So all of that is on beready. Beready123.com. And, and those have been it's got a the it's got the LifeStraw, duct tape.
• 48:55
  I mean, pretty much everything you need, the Fair Day bags, to protect all of your electronics that are in there, the battery packs, the battery charger, fire solder. It's got, even it's got a map because when your electronic go down, you need a map. It's and they don't those are hard to find these days. So this has got every every state's map on there so that you can you can use your to find your way out or find your way around.
• 49:27
  Seth Holehouse: And see and you say that it Oh, it's a Dawson knife.
• 49:30
  Speaker 2: That that that's actually Mike Adams' design. So Mike Adams designed a knife for us. And he is like really high quality stuff. So that knife is really legit. It is so cool.
• 49:47
  I do have one. Yeah. That's a that's a really solid knife made by by Dawson Knife here in The United States Of America designed by Mike Adams, and it's got his initials on there.
• 50:00
  Seth Holehouse: Yeah. I see that. It's funny because, actually, I've been, like, the the past couple of days, been looking and and picking out a Dawson knife. I've been thinking, okay. You know what?
• 50:08
  I'm I'm ready to get a Dawson knife. So it's it's I'll have look in look into, his his HR health ranger Yeah.
• 50:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Go ahead. Yeah. Wait, about two weeks because he's he also designed a really the coolest machete that you'll ever see, and that will be out in about two weeks. And that is a really good, solid, I've never seen a machete.
• 50:33
  I got a sample of it. I have never seen one this amazing. Very, very solid. So wait about two weeks. I think they come out November 14.
• 50:45
  Yeah. So about Okay. Yeah.
• 50:48
  Seth Holehouse: Okay. So base okay. So, basically, you know, and and kinda summarize what we've covered. So the the main website is, which I'll bring up again, is, sat12three. Right?
• 50:57
  So that's the, it's simple sat123Sat123.com.com. And
• 51:03
  Speaker 2: that will take you to if you click on that that, the backpack, the backpack, this is really cool, and I think I think you may have gotten one. I'm not 100% sure.
• 51:12
  Seth Holehouse: I got one at at the reawaken event. Yes.
• 51:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah. But it is bulletproof. So it's really cool to have something that's bulletproof on you in case you're somewhere in your line of fire. And then also so this one has got a the one that you're looking at has got a fair day in the back of it. So this way, this is more for school kids so that in case the phone rings, in the classroom, it will prevent it from ringing because when you put it in a FairDay back, it will protect it from ringing in the classroom.
• 51:42
  Plus, it'll keep the EMF away. And when the kids put their wallet, you know, their credit cards or their car key or anything in the back, then nobody can copy the car. That's another thing that Fair Day bags are good for cause nobody can copy your keys. There's been a lot of car thefts. And people people go in and copying your car, even when you leave it in the kitchen table, they get close to your house, they copy it.
• 52:10
  They go in your car, they go in your garage, and they rob you at night. So keep your car key inside of a FairDay bag is always good. And then also, phone, wallet, so your credit cards don't get stolen. But then the one that I think the one that you got is the the big one, the $650 1, and that one is all Fair Day. It's got Fair Day for your laptop, iPad, your phone, your keys.
• 52:35
  It's it's very, very, cool, and it's of course, it's, bulletproof. So it's really, really nice to have.
• 52:44
  Seth Holehouse: Oh, I mean, I was blown away when I when I when I saw this thing. In the fact that it's bulletproof, so, you know, you can take it, you can throw it on your chest. And if if you have to, you've now got a bulletproof, you know, you know, chest coverage. But you also even had, you know, I brought back a a Ferrivate bag for for my wife. Right?
• 53:01
  So that you've got little purses and laptop bags and little, you know, kind of, you know, dry bags, 10 liter, five liter dry bags. There's your little car key, your key vaults. So there's just there's so much on here.
• 53:14
  Speaker 2: Yeah. The first is really cool for the ladies because the ladies do get you know, they may have stalkers or just the you know, people get close to them and they steal their credit card because they they just have to touch you and they get all of your credit cards' identity. So when you put here here's one of them. When you there's a Fair Day pocket right here. I don't know if you can see it, Seth.
• 53:36
  Yes. There's a Fair Day pocket might disperse. And then once the lady puts her phone, her wallet, her keys, whatever she puts in here, it's all protected. Nobody can crack her. Nobody can, steal her identity.
• 53:50
  Nobody can copy her keys or her credit cards. So it is important. And I was really surprised when I wanted to buy a purse for myself and for my mom that had a fair day and I couldn't find one. So we made these. And I also want to let you know that this bag right here, a lot of these bags are made and designed by our Navy SEALs in San Diego.
• 54:13
  They're former Navy SEALs. And a lot of these are made here in The United States Of America. So it's really cool. It's helping it's helping our former seals, and and it's helping, folks here in The United State Of America.
• 54:29
  Seth Holehouse: Which is good because we we have to look out for each other. Like, we absolutely need to.
• 54:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Do.
• 54:33
  Seth Holehouse: Well, Tina, it's been such a pleasure speaking with you, and thank you for coming on. Thank you for doing what you're doing. I know that every time it's a disaster that you're you're donating tons of supplies and minutes and phones and everything, which is just it's it's it's the American thing to do. Right? Like, this is this is what makes us American is that we come together, especially in time of need.
• 54:54
  And so and also this reminder that the main website, I'll pull up one more time again, is just 123. So 1 2 3 is the Yep. Is the website here, and, there's got tons of stuff on there. And then, again, promo code Seth, s e t h, will save people money. So do you have any closing thoughts as we're wrapping up?
• 55:19
  Speaker 2: No. That's about it. Just make sure that if you do call in to make sure that they mention your name so that they can get 10% off of the whole order, especially if they're gonna get generators because those are a little bit higher, price tag items. So the 10% will, you know, help.
• 55:35
  Seth Holehouse: It does. It does. It certainly makes a big difference. Well, Tina, thank you again. It was a pleasure meeting you, and it's been wonderful speaking with you as well.
• 55:44
  I thank you for doing what you're doing.
• 55:47
  Speaker 2: Thank you so much, Seth. Take care, and God bless Thank
• 55:49
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• 56:10
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