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May 26, 2022 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams
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Supply chain collapse hits SAT PHONES - latest intel and solutions from Tina at the Satellite Phone
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Welcome, everyone, to the special report here on Brighteon.com.
I'm Mike Adams, and we're joined by Steve Quayle, a very special guest today, as well as Tina and Eric from the Satellite Phone Store, and they have an Intel update for us on the supply chain situation with satellite phones, as well as BivvyStix, which are two-way satellite messaging devices that don't need cell towers whatsoever.
all over the world, especially in Ukraine.
Right now, they're being used for people to send and receive emergency messages.
And the Satellite Phone Store is a sponsor of Brighteon.
So we thank them for their sponsorship.
But they also bring a tremendous amount of intel and know-how to the stage right now.
So for the next hour or so, we're going to get a lot of information from Tina and Eric.
They're going to demonstrate how these devices work and answer some questions about what's the situation with the supply chain.
And also want to just welcome Steve.
I know, Steve, you've got a lot of questions.
Steve, can you say hello?
It's great to see you today.
Well, Mike, I think this is critical because we're watching such a strange series of events worldwide, whether it's the war in the Ukraine, Russia, it's the positioning of NATO troops, and communications now, ladies and gentlemen, is becoming more and more apparent because we're now experiencing in various places across the United States,
as well as the world, we're experiencing cyber attacks, We're experiencing communication attacks, and the press in the United States won't tell anybody what's really wrong.
And this is what's so critical about the satellite phones slash the bivy stick, because we need to stay in contact with people on the ground.
One of the most amazing parts of this whole presentation is citizen journalists, eyes all over the place, People can always tell you what's going on.
And from our perspective, meaning the average, just normal human being, we need to know because everything else through the mainstream media is filtered.
So this is probably one of the most critical, important, time-sensitive products, two of them.
And we're going to address today with Tina because we warned, Mike, you and I, and all the times we've talked about this, Tina warned Hey, we only have so many phones.
So it's really critical that we hear what's available and what isn't available because it's...
How should I say this?
It's becoming more problematic every day because now all of the integrated circuit manufacturers, especially the ones in the West that are giving Russia a hard time, they're being cut off from neon and not neon lights, but it's used in the manufacturing process of a lot of high technology products, including integrated circuits.
So we warned about this and now it's here.
So we need to bring Tina on and Eric's with her.
And so, Tina, just give a round down of how critical the situation is in the world and how many phones people are wanting to get from you that simply don't exist.
Nice to see you, by the way.
Yeah, thank you so much, Steve.
It's also nice to see you.
And Mike, thank you so much for having us on to try what we want to call is just to educate people and let people know what's going on and educate them on the products that are available.
And once we get the satellite phones, we'll come back and let them know that we have some available.
But currently, we do not have any satellite phones available.
That we could sell unless you're willing to wait three to four months for them.
So there is a big shortage.
And we, I'll give you an example.
We ordered 50,000 satellite phones and that was our plan.
Mike, as you know, we were giving those away for free with a plan for a 12-month agreement.
Well, we don't have that anymore.
From 50,000, we're only going to receive 2,000.
So those 2,000 are most likely going to be purchased by the time we give them And that is going to be in June.
Sorry to interrupt, Tina, but just to be clear, so your company had planned to offer, well, to give away 50,000 satellite phones this year as part of a plan.
People would buy the minutes and so on.
And then you were told that you're only going to be able to get 2,000 phones.
And in the meantime, every phone that you had available was completely wiped out of inventory because of the situation in Ukraine, primarily.
Is that the number one driver right now of people trying to get backup communications?
Well, Mike, it's not just in Ukraine.
It's also a lot of companies, a lot of people, a lot of security companies, a lot of enterprise customers that normally buy these satellite phones and are unable to Now, we do have few satellite phones left, and we are saving those for first responders.
For me, I'm concerned if there is a big storm, like a hurricane this season, that there aren't going to be many satellite phones for us to provide for first responders to go and save lives.
So it is one of my biggest concerns this year if something does happen in the United States.
I've had a lot of people contacting me and asking about satellite phones recently.
And also, let's note, and I'll ask for Steve's comments on this, but the nation of Sri Lanka is now experiencing riots right now, food riots and fuel riots because of the price increases and also a lack of medicine.
And this scarcity is going to continue to spread around the world.
Germany is experiencing today food hyperinflation with price increases up to 50% on food.
But in Sri Lanka, the government shut down all social media communications.
They shut down everything, and they can shut down the cell towers.
So this has happened in Cuba, it's happened in Venezuela, and so on.
So people think about how are you going to communicate with your loved ones or get an emergency message out if you are in a country where riots are going to happen, i.e.
coming to America, and they shut down the cell towers.
How are you going to communicate?
Steve, your thoughts on that?
Well, my slogan that I think is so telling and compelling is no phone, no power, no problem, especially with, obviously, the bivy stick.
We'll talk about that, the satellite phones.
And this is a good time, I think, Tina, to segue into the bivy stick because the problem with so many places around the world is the content needs to be delivered with more information and The who, what, when, where, and how.
And again, for someone who's trying to communicate with either a family member or, let's say, a group, a group all over the world, groups all over the world, I think it's critical that we talk about the bivy stick because we have, you have...
And Mike and I have an alternative.
We all have alternatives to being able to communicate for those who weren't able to get the satellite phones because I'm of the opinion you either get what you get now because putting your hopes in the future when it's this perilous and it's this nebulous is absolutely the wrong way to approach it.
So if I were going to say to people, should you wait three or four months to get a satellite phone?
Absolutely not.
You should be considering the bivy stick because in essence, it's a two-way communication and we can get more text in our messages because the only criticism I've gotten is, again, I'll reiterate, people want more information than the 137 characters.
So please, Tina, explain information.
The bivy stick, because again, we've got those.
You, the satellite phone store, has those.
And again, I've got to make this stress.
And we watched this happen, Mike and Tina.
You were on with us, and we said, the day's going to come you won't be able to get them.
People thought that was a sales pitch.
The same thing's going to happen with the bivy stick, because it doesn't matter quantity.
When a panic is in play, People will absolutely go nuts to stay in communication.
I will.
And so fortunately, you know, I have satellite phones, but I've also gone to ViviStick because we have to be able, those of us who are influencers, to update more information.
Let me mention the website.
It's sat123.com, sat123.com.
That'll take you to the satellite phone store.
Tina, take it away.
Tell us about the ViviStick because I agree with Steve.
It's a game changer.
Right.
I'm going to have Eric explain more about the divvy stick because he is more tech.
But I do want to mention that when satellite phones do come back, we don't really know if it's going to be 2023 or beyond.
No one knows when the component issue is going to be fixed.
But the prices aren't going to be the same as they used to.
I just want to make sure everybody knows that the prices, we've seen them increase.
Some of the product, 20%, 30%, 40%, 50%.
And I'm just going to go under the assumption that the prices that we have, kind of like what you just mentioned, Mike, with the food shortage, And the price is doubling.
The same thing is happening with our products as well.
So having said that, I just want to make sure that they're clear.
It's not four months.
We do have a few phones.
We have to save those for the first responders.
So it may take until next year, probably two.
Maybe at the beginning of next year or maybe mid next year before we see supplies coming in, but no one knows.
We're not getting straight answers, but we'll definitely let your audience know once we find out for sure.
Well, and also, if China moves on Taiwan, you're probably not going to see phones for five years because of the microchip situation.
But that's just another thing.
We knew when we saw satellite phones disappearing in the market and starting to be able to only get limited supplies that we were going to need a different device.
And we also listen to our customers.
And a lot of people have trouble going outside to turn their satellite phone on or they haven't invested in a docking station yet.
So the BIVI really fills that gap quite nicely.
Number one, it's less expensive, battery operated, lightweight, but you connect this to your smartphone, mobile phone.
This can actually live outside.
You can be inside.
But I want to take a second to say, You can't be three concrete walls in between you and the bivy.
It needs to be like you in between a window and the bivy is just outside.
You need to be at least 30 to 50 feet within range.
It's working off of Bluetooth.
It's really easy to connect.
We haven't had too many issues at all with customers.
You need to make sure your devices are running the latest software.
And that'll make sure that you have a smooth connection with the bivy.
But then it has a GoPro mount right on the back or a regular tripod.
So you can literally put this outside within range, close to range, and you can be inside getting Galileo messages or communicating with your loved ones.
So I want to be...
I want to be clear, just to clarify, for people wondering why do you need to use your mobile phone, that's only to compose and read messages.
And that phone that you're using doesn't have to have a SIM card.
It doesn't have to talk to the cell towers.
In fact, I actually have a separate...
Unlocked phone that I bought just to use with Bivy.
Because remember, the Bivy stick's talking to the satellites, so your phone does not need to talk to the cell towers.
And can I also add something?
That when people first install the Bivy software on their phones, they think they have to fill out all their name and...
Email and everything.
No, you can scroll down to the bottom and just click skip.
The device doesn't even have to know who you are.
You don't even have to register.
You can use it without registration.
I just want to make sure people know that for anonymity and privacy.
It's almost like a burner satellite messenger.
Yeah, that's right.
It's agnostic to who owns it.
You just have to have the app working, and you're absolutely right.
You don't have to fill out all the contact information.
But the other side to that is, if you're going to be doing extreme adventures or outdoor activities, that information is used for the SOS. The SOS is done by Global Rescue.
It's an international rescue company, and that service is included in your busy register.
Well, I think with the food riots coming, we're all going through an extreme adventure at this point.
We may all be pressing SOS before this is over.
But no, you make a very valid point there, Eric.
But I've had people say, hey, I don't want to sign up.
You know, I don't want my name tied to this.
And it's not.
In fact, I've used that app and connected to different bivvy sticks with different phone numbers Just by turning off one device and turning on another one, and then you can text, send, and receive from different devices using the same mobile phone.
In addition to that, for some smaller groups, we have some guys who will take it and kind of pass the bivy around.
So one person takes and sends their messages from their account or whatever, and then they pass it around if they make accounts.
So there's some pros and cons of both ways, but I like how flexible it is.
And also, for your mobile phone, you do not have to have geolocation services turned on.
You can turn off all locations, and you can still use this anonymously.
I just want to be clear.
You could almost use it with an iPod or an iPad or an Android or whatever you want.
You don't have to have cellular, as you said.
You don't have to have Wi-Fi.
You don't have to have GPS. You do have to have Bluetooth.
Yeah, you have to have Bluetooth, right.
And it's pretty secure Bluetooth.
It only actually generates its ID when you press the button.
After that, you won't find that Bluetooth signal.
Okay, great.
Steve, you want to chime in?
Yeah.
Yeah.
I want to interrupt here.
One of the things that most people think that by having a burner phone and by having, you know, let's say this, more anonymity by having different burner phones in different places, it takes the NSA, National Security Agency, just under a second, okay?
I want people to hear this.
This is from a former NSA agent.
To identify your voice.
The bivy stick does away with that.
Because voice recognition is a big deal.
One of my guests, and this is important, Tina and Eric.
One of my guests, we tried to do a voice changer on.
He finally said, I'll just use my real voice.
Because Steve Inley takes him less than a second.
So ladies and gentlemen, the anonymity.
And I think this is a critical point.
Anonymity becomes more life-saving than at any time in history.
Because the minute the U.S. or the globalists go to a total digital ID and a digital, we have to have a communication system that, for as long as we can, stay with the anonymity.
Go ahead, Mike.
Well, I just want to turn it back over to Tina to ask you, tell us about the supply situation for the bivvy sticks.
How many do you have?
How many are you going to get?
Are those going to be available?
Right.
So we have secured a total of $20,000.
So pretty much that is all they can make.
They can't make more than $20,000.
They've got the components to make $20,000 of them this year.
So we have secured them all.
This should last us for the whole year.
But because we are getting some large orders from some organizations that are going to Ukraine and other parts of the world where there's no other choice, because you can't just call anybody and order 2,000 satellite phones, those days are completely gone.
So we have 20,000 coming in this year.
And we anticipate that they're going to last for the whole year, but we're seeing a lot of large orders, so they may only last about five months.
So we'll let you know, and I'm sure that we'll update you every month, Mike, and we'll update the audience every month on what's still available and what's left.
Currently, we are backed up.
I just want to point out, we are backed up in shipping because we are getting large orders.
So when you do place your order, please expect about two weeks to receive them.
Okay.
And if you need it sooner to call us, we can make special arrangements.
So if you have an immediate project, operation, mission, thing you need to do, give us a call, speak to somebody on our team, and we can try to get you something sooner.
But yeah, the two weeks is the default right now.
Now I know that many of your customers are buying these in the United States and then they are shipping them to friends or associates in other countries because these work globally.
So are you hearing any trouble with that?
Are these being stopped by customs in other countries or are they getting through successfully?
What's happening in that realm?
Yeah, I think these get through custom much easier than a sat phone because I don't think many people know what it is.
This does, by the way, uses all of Iridium 66 low orbit satellite.
So you are getting a reception from anywhere on the planet.
So yes, we are finding a lot of people.
We have one organization, for example, That is going to Ukraine to save animals, dogs, pets that are being misplaced.
So what they did is they got about 50 of these sent to Ukraine and then they've got a few here in the U.S.
and they're communicating with each other and trying to, you know, they're raising money for to to help rescue pets.
That's exactly right.
And one of the great things about the BIVI is that it's just what we call short burst data.
So on Iridium's network, they have a technology called SBD, short burst data.
And that's what the BIVI is using.
It's just a little bitty burst of data and then it goes back to sleep.
It's RF signature or it's RF radio frequency footprint for, let's say, Russians or anybody else trying to do RF interrogation in the area through very expensive equipment.
Much harder, almost impossible, like a needle in a huge haystack.
Whereas a voice call is an open circuit, open RF link that's being modulated and exchanged.
So there's also some added privacy in conflict zones with the business.
That's a really good point.
I'm glad you mentioned that, Eric.
And also, when you're composing your message on your mobile device, the bivy stick is not talking to the satellite during the composition.
It's only when you hit send, as you said.
And then there's a little microburst of that transmission.
But the advantage for both parties is you can send asynchronous messages where somebody else can then connect to the satellite an hour later and then they can receive that message.
You don't have to coordinate times to call each other where both of you are on the phone at the same time.
No, and when your biddy makes its registration, It is asynchronous.
It is sending out your messages and it's checking the server for any new ones.
So that is a dual, duplex application.
So it's right away.
The other thing I want to point out too is that, at least for the Bivy sticks that I have, that we're using in our company, they all have a U.S. phone number attached to them.
And so you can text other people's phones and it looks like it just came from another phone.
And then that person can just hit reply on their phone and text back and it shows up in your Bivy app.
So it looks like a regular mobile phone to everybody else.
And also, Tina, I think you mentioned there's like a default email address that's associated with each number.
Is that correct?
Right.
So what you could do is you could send, by the way, messages to up to five people, whether it's an email or phone numbers.
If you send it to someone's email, they can just reply and you will get the message, the email message that they're replying from as a text.
And yes, every Bivy does have an email address.
It is your one plus your phone number at sms.bivygate.com.
So your email address, if people want to send you An email to your Bivy.
It's plus your phone number.
Plus one phone number at sms.bivygate.com.
So wait, do they include the one up front or they just start with the area code?
So it's plus one.
Plus one.
But they don't actually use a plus sign, right?
So the email address just starts with one?
Is that correct?
Yeah.
Okay.
Okay.
I may make a suggestion, too.
I would put, and, you know, guys, get stickers on these that send them out and put that email address for Bivy, okay?
Yeah.
Deal.
And I'm looking at my box right now, and, you know, I would guess, too, is it automatically on each Bivy box or on each local phone number, or do you have to call and get it?
If you connect to the Bivy just over Bluetooth and open the app, it'll display your phone number right there in the app.
Good question.
Yeah, I've seen that.
On your online account and on the Bivy app.
Okay.
I'm looking at expeditious because, you know, when you're in a war zone, let's just take Ukraine, soon to be all Western Europe, in my opinion, and the United States.
The bottom line is that everything that is easily accessed, you know, when people panic, and you guys know this, you've been in the panic.
I think it's really important to do that, just put on the text message.
Will you just take your phone, Eric, and take the BIVI and show how easy it is to connect this, I can't find my phone, to this?
Yeah, I mean, when you get your BIVI device, that's what it looks like.
Very easy on the button, on the side of the device.
You hold down the power button, you'll see a little green light.
Come on.
Once you see that, you're able to go to your mobile phone, any mobile device, not just a phone, and you'll go to your Bluetooth settings.
And from Bluetooth, you're not going to see it right away.
You actually have to press the power button once.
Then it'll come up in your Bluetooth settings, and then you can open the Bivy app.
So this is all in the Bivy app, too.
If you open the Bivy app, there's a little help sign.
The whole help guide is built right in.
Settings.
Yeah, so if you open the Bivy app and you go to Settings, Support, there's a whole Bivy app Bivy guide built into the application.
I don't think it is.
We have a video.
It's on stevequail.com.
So if you go to stevequail.com, there is a video on how to use the Bivy Stick.
It is very, very detailed.
So it shows you how to download the app, how to use it.
It's so simple.
It's really, really easy to use.
I think, Mike, when you got yours...
You just open that video and you were able to get that figured out pretty easily.
You can always call us if you can't figure it out.
But one of the ways that I learned what my email address was, is I send myself an email and then when I went to hit reply, I saw my email address.
And that app, it is really easy.
It pops up with a map, which in my case was the map of the whole country because I have location services turned off.
But then in the bottom, one of the icons on the bottom is the messaging icon.
You just press that and then it brings up your messaging capabilities and then you can send and receive messages.
So yeah, I found it very easy to use.
I think for people who want to share locations, because this was originally designed for extreme wilderness adventurers, they can share, they can drop pins on the map to share their locations with other people, which could be very useful for search and rescue and tactical situations and things like that.
I just haven't used that feature myself.
There's also the ability to get offline maps.
So with that, you can define an area of the map and click download.
It'll show you the size of how much it'll be on your device, like 100 megabytes or 1 gigabyte.
And I used it recently, and it works great.
It's great topographical maps with trailheads and elevation changes on it.
And so that's free and included.
It's free offline topographical maps.
So the ability not to get lost and to stay connected is pretty valuable.
That's a really good point too.
Yeah, exactly.
Especially if 9-1-1 isn't functioning and cell towers aren't functioning, power grid's down.
As long as you have maybe a solar panel, a little power generator, you can charge these small electronic devices.
Satellites should still be functioning because they're getting their power from staying in orbit from sunlight typically.
They're not affected by the local power outages.
So yeah, good points all around.
And keep in mind also, Mike, is that when you text to the people that you have selected, like friends and family that you know, like spouse, friends, it will send them your location so they can help you out if you do get lost and you didn't have a map.
So they can help you how to get out of the area if you need to.
If you're hiking and you got lost, a lot of people...
You don't have to have the tracking on all the time.
People want that privacy.
But if you get in a bind and you want to send your location to somebody, you can do it one time quickly as a one-off GPS. Here it is.
Come help me.
Right, right.
Makes perfect sense.
Okay, talk to us about the cost of this, and I understand you've also announced a new bundle that bundles the Galileo Messaging Service with the BivyStick Service.
That's new.
I just learned about that today.
So go ahead and tell us about the pricing of this.
Right.
So we bundled insurance, damage insurance.
So it's $55 a month for unlimited, and that includes damage insurance.
It does not cover lost or stolen.
And that would be...
On the unlimited plan.
And then we also bundled another one, which is $69.95 that includes Galileo, which, as you know, you can receive messages, private messages from yourself and Steve and other influencers that you trust.
And also includes the damage insurance and lost or stolen insurance.
So it's $69.95.
You get unlimited.
You get unlimited.
Data, you'll get unlimited Galileo, or maybe there might be a limit on Galileo.
I'm not sure.
I think it's about, you could choose 10 influencers, but you can go ahead and go to www.sat123.com, and you can choose the $55 plan with the insurance or the $69.95 that covers lost, stolen, Galileo.
Everything that we can provide with it.
So they're not paying anything for the device, the device they get at no charge as long as they're on the plan?
Yeah, the device is free for the customer.
It's a minimum 12-month plan.
A lot of the customers we're seeing are staying on these plans once they're even past that term because they see the value in it.
Another thing to note, you get the unlimited text messaging back and forth on the BIVI. You get unlimited weather updates.
You do have access to the SOS Global Rescue Service if you choose to use it.
You get the offline maps and now we've included the Galileo.
So quite a bit packed into a small device.
Yeah, that's true.
And I was just shopping.
I saw there's a competitor's device.
I'm not going to say who, but it's kind of like a mapping thing.
It's like $800, and then it's $69 a month.
I'm like, whoa, that's a lot of money out of pocket, whereas yours is very affordable.
It's $0 up front.
You just pay the monthly fee.
And then, like you said, if it's damaged or lost, they get a replacement.
And one of the cool things about the Bivy is it is the smallest satellite communicator on the planet in terms of weight, 3.4 ounces.
I've carried satellite phones around for years and a lot of other equipment.
You never know when something's going to happen that puts you in that position where you really have to communicate using alternate sources.
So having it be lightweight It's almost a wearable.
You can just strap it to your backpack or your purse or whatever.
It's like a daily driver.
And we find a lot of customers are liking that form factor, the ability to bring it along anywhere.
I think that's great.
And Steve, chime in.
Do you have something to add?
Well, yeah, I always have something to add.
I just got to put a time limit on it.
I think it's critical, too, because if you're watching what's going on in the Ukraine, and Mike and I are both on record, you guys, as saying that that's going to spread to Western Europe and also to the United States, I think it's critical to be able to burst transmit.
That's a really big deal, Eric.
The intelligence agencies don't sit there and type out, dear spy in the Ukraine, how are you doing today?
They burst transmit this like packets.
And that's one of the things that's the hardest thing to break.
But it's going to be critical because a lot of people are losing track of their family.
And just the ability to say, I'm alive, okay?
That's probably the most important thing to say.
So I'm also saying and suggesting, you guys, that people form groups.
And if they have, like, for instance, an underground church because of the persecution...
The idea is to be able to keep in contact with those that need to supply.
And we know from the Revolutionary War, we know from all these things that resupply is critical.
So if there's a supply drop, you can go...
And it's gone, burst transmitting.
And I think the facilitation of the immediate amount of information available through the bivy stick, and as you explained, Eric, you don't have to be outside waiting to acquire a signal and all that.
I think it's a marvelous thing.
Now, I want to share this.
We're going to see those sell out too, ladies and gentlemen.
It was fascinating that, and these guys are cautious.
I mean, Eric and Tina are, you know, they're very cautious.
I abandon caution when I'm watching what's happening in the world.
So I would encourage you while the American dollar is still valid, okay?
That's another story.
To get these ASAP. Because it's...
And let's come up with a new...
Not only as soon as possible, but as soon as your cash is available or as soon as it's still allowed.
Because we're watching things where one minute your country can be...
I think this is critical, Mike, that people, and Tina and Eric, that people can basically not only stay in touch, but for resupply.
I mean, if you know somebody that's, you know, basically running for their life, it's nice to be able to burst transmit if you've got people pre-selected.
I consider this the ultimate, how should I say, the ultimate communication device that your voice can't be tracked through voice printing and it's going to be critical to everybody because they're running out of food.
They're running out of food.
And the average person who's seeing a 50, Germany, seeing a 50% rise in the price of food is Doesn't get their salary doubled.
So it's going to be necessary for any community to financially support, not financially, let's throw that word out, but with provision.
And this is how special operations works.
They go in, they put caches.
I've got to say this.
I believe we have to prepare for the ultimate worst case scenario.
And Mike, that's what you've been warning your listeners and viewers about.
That's what I've been warning.
And this is the tool, the absolute best way I know to communicate.
And plus, it's less expensive than a satellite phone and all of the features because of Of what it can do, what it does, and what you'll need to have it do.
And because it can do what it's doing, not a play on words, it's the quintessential device you have to have.
And ladies and gentlemen, again, I would encourage you.
A lot of people say, well, I'll see how things work out or play out in the world.
Trust me, it's not play when you're talking about what's going on in Ukraine.
It's not play.
And Tina, you know this.
You know, your company was set up pretty much initially with natural disasters and people that needed to keep in contact all over the world, megacorporations.
We can't say any names.
But they want to have contact.
This is the way, and it's much more cost-effective.
And again, we'll be able to have longer messages.
And these are things that will be seriously important in the days that are now upon us.
So thank you guys for making these available.
And ladies and gentlemen, seriously, it's not a sales pitch.
You have got to get them while they're available because we told you six months ago, maybe longer than that, that the day would come when there'd be no satellite phones.
And now we have the owner of the company, owners of the company, here telling you that day's here.
So while you can, get your bivvy stick and get it fast.
And Mike, again, give out the website, Yeah, it's sat123.com.
And I would also advise people, once you get it, learn how to use it, right?
Install the software.
Make sure that you can send a text to other people's cell phones and that you can receive texts.
And then also, if you know somebody else with a bivvy stick, send and receive messages to each other on the bivvy sticks.
And by the way, I won't travel in my car now without a bivvy stick because if the cell towers go down...
I can't make a call.
But the bivy stick, I can send texts immediately and other people with cell phones or other bivy sticks outside my area can get those messages, you see.
So the world's becoming a very dangerous place.
This is how we're going to communicate.
Go ahead, Tina.
So I just want to point out that the price of the bivy is free, but it's a lot of money to make these bivys, but we are subsidizing the cost.
We're splitting the cost between Bivi, the company is subsidizing half the cost, and we're subsidizing the other half the cost so that we can get these out to our customers.
So a lot of people think that they're free, they're not free to make.
Just wanted to clarify that.
Well, that's always been our model was to take expensive satellite equipment, communications equipment, and make it more accessible for people.
And we did that with satellite phones, and then now there's no more satellite phones.
And now we're doing that with bivvies.
And Steve, I think you're absolutely right.
I've seen it happen with other equipment.
We've seen it come in, and then the demand's just gone through the roof.
So if you are on the fence or someone who's been listening to us for over the years talking about a lack of products and communications available, this might be one of your last chances to get a device at an affordable rate So I highly encourage you to do it.
Another neat tech tip I'll leave you with is a simple 20-watt solar panel will recharge the bivy in less than four hours.
And you can do a continuous charge and use it, meaning that bivy lasts five days usually without a charge.
You have pretty much a long-lasting communications device that you don't have to worry about running out the battery or staying connected or did the bivy die outside?
I was very impressed to see it last five, six days in my backyard.
That's a really good point, Eric.
Also, I want to ask Tina, some people are concerned about what happens if the banking system collapses after they're on your plan.
They're concerned that their service is going to be cut off if they're not able to make that next monthly automatic charge on their credit card.
But I think you have a policy that addresses that in favor of the customers.
Can you share that with us?
Yeah, we won't turn anyone off.
So we get a lot of calls, customers saying, well, what happens if the grid goes down and Bibi is going to be my only way to communicate with my friends and family?
We're not going to turn anybody off.
We hardly ever turn anyone off.
We wait a couple months because these are usually, if somebody is in the middle of the ocean, And they can't make a payment for a couple months before, you know, if they're sailing, we're not going to turn you off.
So we will keep it on.
And we let them future pay, too.
So if you're really concerned, like a lot of customers have been, for very good reason, I think, we can let you future pay three, six months with the expectation that that would see throughout any major catastrophe.
Will you accept rubles?
There's the question of the day.
I'm joking.
It's not a joke.
I mean, here's the thing.
At this point, you know, and I mean, just FYI, just ponder this, you know, maybe a lot of people that are my audience, Mike's audience, and a lot of the preppers, you guys, do have gold and silver, okay?
And And obviously, you could come up with a daily...
And I'm trying to get more people into a barter mentality because people say, well, when will the stores be restocked, the shelves?
There's nothing available.
I'm on record, and this isn't to scare anybody, but the bottom light is I don't believe it will ever be available because I believe this, that look at the systematic destruction of not only the U.S. dollar, but the supply chain and all the parts.
You guys are experiencing it in a satellite phone.
So I think it's really critical, and I believe this is why, Mike, of all the times you and I have been on, and Tina the second time with you, and Eric, Probably third or fourth time, but there's never been a more time-sensitive, I guess you'd say, not only promotion, but more of a relevant necessity at this point.
Because if food doubles, you know this, that even if they were to be able to make another $20,000, I would say everybody should operate as if it's now, not later.
Because you always find out any crisis situation, It happened when you didn't think it was going to happen.
It happened, excuse me, under circumstances you didn't anticipate.
And things that you have no control over, a cyber attack on the power grid, a cyber attack on the communications, everything now is in the world of cyber warfare.
And so this is one way I think that, Mike, we can...
Best facilitate our mutual listeners, viewers, to basically have that form of staying in touch.
There used to be a statement, what?
Stay in touch and we'll be in touch.
Well, that's more applicable today than ever has been in history.
I've got to point out, too, and you're absolutely right, Steve, but if you have one of these devices, think about it.
The satellite phone store only has about 20,000 of these for this year.
If you have one of these 20,000 devices, you are one in 10,000 Americans.
Because, I mean, do the math.
You have almost godlike ability to communicate through satellites where 9,999 other people have no such thing.
So you're going to position yourself in a very key position to send and receive information that could be lifesaving for your community, for protecting your community against, you know, invasions or war or bioweapons attacks or whatever.
I mean, this this is an amazing tool, not just for yourself personally, but for protection of your family, your community, your church, your sheriffs will probably beg you to be able to use it.
Things like that.
Your thoughts on that, Tina? - Yeah, you know, you're absolutely right.
Not to mention, if there's a hurricane this year in your area, so if you have one of these, and you're right, you must, you should allow friends and family or neighbors in that area, if cell towers do go down in that area, to use them.
Because there ain't phones for, there's no more phones for us to rent or to sell to first responders Pretty much as far as communication, this is going to be it.
And if there is a hurricane, a major hurricane this year, if it happens July, August, usually they happen in August, I think whatever's left will definitely be gone.
And one of my jobs is to hunt down new technology for the company, to keep bringing it to our customers with Tina in affordable ways.
And what I can say is we haven't found the next Bivy yet.
We haven't found the next device to step in to give us a lot of confidence that we can continue to meet the demands that are out there.
So that is something that we haven't been in that position before where we've really kind of gotten through all equipment.
So yeah, the bivvy right now stands your best chance.
What are you going to do when you run out of both satellite phones and bivvy sticks?
You have no more hardware.
Yeah.
That's a great question.
Yeah.
Well, we do have a rental fleet that we're holding on to.
Everybody wants to buy a rental fleet.
And we're saying, no, we got to save those.
So that's going to be what's going to carry us once we do run out of those.
And we are getting about 2,000 ISAT phones out of the 50,000.
So we'll get those in June.
We do have a backlog that we're going to ship.
So it's probably going to leave us with a thousand.
And we are getting 500 iridiums a month.
We normally get 5,000, but they can only give us 500.
So it's going to be pretty tight.
We're still going to be in business.
These data units also, Mike, I wanted to mention, have some of these.
These have doubled in price.
We do have some left.
If anybody wants to get one, they're $4,500 now, and it's $79 a month to maintain it, and that's just for 10 megabytes.
But if should the grid go down or should there be a fire in your area or tornado or anything that takes down the cell towers or communication, you will have high speed Internet with this from anywhere, pretty much anywhere on Earth.
It's 100 megabytes for the plan that you mentioned.
So it's a decent amount of little bit of data to check in, get what information you need offline.
But there are also gigabyte plans.
2.5 gigabytes a month cost 229 bucks.
That's not affordable to everybody.
But if you've been without Internet when you need it or run a company, you'll know the value of that.
So we do have some gigabyte plans that are available for these devices still.
And I've used that device, by the way.
That device absolutely works.
It's easy to aim.
You just aim it at the sky.
I mean, you just open it up and tilt it a little bit, and it gives you beeps that it's all tracked in, and then it creates a Wi-Fi hotspot, and then you can attach with your phone or your laptop.
I've used that.
That thing works.
It works great.
I'll tell you a quick story.
At my house down the street over the weekend, I went home Friday and somebody cut a fiber line somewhere in the neighborhood, but I didn't find that out until today.
I spent the whole weekend without home internet, and then somehow that also affected my wireless providers.
And I'm sitting here with no connectivity.
I went to the office and picked one of these up just in case Tina calls me and says, Eric, I need you to read this email or something.
I was literally cut off.
I had a bivy and a b-gam.
So when it gets down to that and you've been there, you know the importance and the reality of the situation.
Mike, I want to bring something up that you kind of touched on.
I think it's critical.
I was doing the math on how 20,000 bivvy sticks will play out.
Our combined audiences alone can use them all.
Here's the numbers.
18,000 people, you know what I'm saying, can have one of these.
I'm using 360 million as the United States population.
So that means, you know, again, 20,000 people out of 360 million.
That's really putting the decimal points there.
That's how few.
And again, ladies and gentlemen, this...
I really like this, Tina and Eric.
Thank you.
Because when you guys made the decision to come to us, the Alt News people, and because Tina's passion is a prepper, I've known her for a decade, actually more than that now, but the bottom line is...
Even the Wall Street Journal, I say that tongue-in-cheek now, the lights are starting to turn on.
The minute the mainstream lights turn on, your bivvy sticks, Tina and Eric, are gone.
So what's happening, ladies and gentlemen...
Forewarned is absolutely critical.
But what's really more important is this, that most preppers, number one concern is having somebody else to communicate with, having a good source of information.
That's where we come in on Galileo as influencers.
And because of the satellite phones, you know, let's just say this, doing different things, the bivy stick now enables us to give longer messages.
You know, a hundred and 37 characters, that's like an opening statement.
But the deal is, Mike, that only means there's only the population that can acquire these with 20,000 currently available talking bivvy sticks.
That's really an astonishing number.
That means 17,999 people can't get them.
Well, yeah, and it seems kind of like the supply of silver.
And you know you're in the metals business.
Can anybody get silver right now, to date?
No.
It's a couple months out.
Yeah.
They only want what they can't get.
And if they do acquire gold and silver, ladies and gentlemen, the The cost of getting it from a free market differs from a controlled market.
This is why the bivy stick has to be acquired ASAP. And again, ladies and gentlemen, it's that critical.
Again, for people that are going to be in the barter mode, different areas will have different, for instance, farmers, different people with chickens, raising chickens, eggs, and protein will become...
It will be priced...
In dollars.
Calories will be priced in dollars.
We're watching the United Nations.
This is important to the bivy stick.
We're watching the United Nations propose that everybody be given 1,500 calories.
That's it.
Okay?
1,500.
Good luck with that, right?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
That's a starvation diet.
So what I'm saying is that for critical information, and I believe the critical information is where you can acquire what you're going to be locked out of.
It's like the early Christians in Rome.
They were in the catacombs, but they still had people that could go out and barter, and that's what's really critical.
We are going to a barter economy.
And Tina and Eric, you're watching this on a global scale.
Mike said, seriously, will you take rubles?
Right now, the rubles are the only currency that's backed by gold.
And what President Putin did was assassinate the dollar value.
That's why I'm saying, well, you can get this now with dollars.
And ladies and gentlemen, if the most powerful nations in the world won't take a call from the President of the United States, we have lost gold.
Everything that we gained as a nation.
So this is a big picture deal.
And a big picture deal, I like this because I'm always setting stuff down, but when I can put it in my pocket, it's easier.
So again, sap123.com, correct you guys?
That is correct.
And can I jump in here with something, Steve?
And I'm sorry, Tina and Eric, I'll turn it back to you in a second, but I just want to mention for those of you watching, you know, you are watching, all of us here are very successful business owners, and we're all experiencing severe supply chain collapse.
Now, Steve was in, he was one of the largest storable food providers in America, and today he's a very large supplier of gold and silver physical form.
I'm in the food business, one of the largest organic storable food providers in the world, and we're having supply chain problems.
And now Tina and Eric in the satellite phone and communications business, one of the largest providers in the world of what they provide, and they're having shortages.
Connect the dots, folks.
The supply chain is collapsing, and you're going to have a hard time getting food, getting gold, getting communications, getting energy, getting any of these things, and the dollar is going to be collapsing on top of that.
So I just want to set that stage because we are all veterans of successful businesses that have done well, and yet we're seeing the collapse happen.
Tina, your thoughts?
Yeah.
So I just want to...
I know you mentioned that the supply chain.
We do have...
Possible purchase orders for these.
We have one company, one organization that we might see a purchase order for 2,000 of these units.
We also have a telecommunication company that is also concerned and we might see a, I think we might get a 500 unit order.
So these are going to go.
So there really isn't as many as you think.
So I think you got to cut that in half.
After all of these companies that are going to purchase these, we're probably going to have about 10,000 of them.
That's why I say maybe they'll last about four or five months.
Maybe they will last for the year.
We don't know, Mike and Steve, but All we can is we can give the information.
I would highly recommend for everyone to go to stevequayle.com, watch the BIVI video, because it's right on there, and see if this is something for you.
I think you're exactly right.
This is one of the reasons I personally watch Natural News and listen to Steve, is because you get the real information that you won't find in the mainstream.
So here you have it.
You're not going to find out about satellite phone shortages on Any of those networks.
You can find out about it, listen to us, as Mike says.
I can't endorse this message enough.
If you are worried about communications, like I think most people are, this is a great time, the best time, maybe the last time, to get it at an affordable price.
Well said.
And Eric, I understand you have a very important meeting you've got to get to.
For inviting me, Mike.
Yeah.
If you need to scoot on out, go for it.
I just want to mention another little tip because I carry this bivvy stick in my vehicle anytime I'm traveling, and I also just carry a little battery backup, just a small, like 10,000 milliamp hours, a little battery bank.
That are pretty cheap online.
And that way I can recharge this several times and you can have many days of standby with this.
Like if you were caught in a snowstorm, which happened earlier this year in Virginia, wasn't it 24 hours that people were stuck on the highway in a snowstorm, could not move, and wouldn't that have been a great place to use emergency satellite messaging because the cell towers were probably being overrun at that time and the power grid could go down At any time, on and off.
So that's the perfect use case for something like this.
Right.
And on our website, when they go to sap123.com, Mike, they will find one of these that does have an emergency.
It's got a solar panel.
So you put your baby stick in this and you just put it in your vehicle.
That's what I do with mine.
It's got a solar panel, a battery pack.
So now you've got everything you need.
Make sure that your battery pack is...
Fully charged.
You just take it out once every six months and charge it.
And then if you use it up, let's say the emergency hurricane or whatever lasted for more than a month, then you've got your solar panel to charge the backup battery that will charge your bivvy stick and any other electronic.
If you're one of the lucky ones and you already have a satellite phone, same thing.
It will charge your satellite phone, your iPhone, your small product like your laptop and iPad and other products that you might have that you would want to charge.
So it's right on the website.
So when they purchase their baby stick, they can go ahead and purchase this one as well with it.
That's a really great idea.
Yeah.
Steve, your thoughts on prepping gear?
Well, I think that it's...
It's really critical.
And by the way, a lot of the new electronics, whether you're dealing with night vision or thermal scopes, you can also charge those.
And that may sound a little funny, but what's always interesting to me is to follow the advanced technology, and they're all putting ports on.
So the extra accessory package is really critical.
And again, ladies and gentlemen, I know this sounds like a broken record, But what you need to get, you need to get now.
And again, it's critical, Mike, because, you know, I think we don't even need to make the point anymore that when you go to the grocery store and there's empty shelves, I talk to people that are car, automobile dealers, they can't even get parts to fix some of their newer cars.
Yep, yep.
It's just critical.
When I say critical, I don't have, maybe you've got a better word than that, hypercritical, but I don't think people realize how critical it is at this time to get what you're going to need.
And again, communication is one of the top things.
I'd say it's the top three things.
Absolutely.
Being the first two.
I ordered a thermal riflescope last Thanksgiving that I'm still waiting for, and they're telling me it might ship in June.
It's like, okay, and it'll probably be updated then.
I've been waiting on steel shelving brackets for four months, and those aren't showing up.
And then, as you know, at the business level...
We had to wait nine months for steel for our new building, or at least a new expansion area of the building.
We're waiting for electronics for the rollers of our product box fulfillment, you know, like conveyor belt system.
The electronics were six months delayed, if not more.
It's just on and on and on.
So the fact that, Tina, the fact that you have these bivvy sticks right now, that's it.
That's the answer.
You have them.
You can ship them out.
They're in your possession.
That counts for everything.
Right.
So I just want to clarify, I don't have all 20,000 in stock, but Bibi has told me that they can deliver 2,000 a month.
Currently, I have about 600 left, but I get 2,000 of them this month.
So the delay could be longer, meaning like if you wait in order at the end of the month, Mike, I may have to wait to get my next shipment to ship it.
So instead of 10 days, it might be three weeks or four weeks behind.
But eventually, everyone that places an order will get it.
Yeah, but here's the deal.
Let me interrupt you.
Again, since I'm the oldest guy, okay?
When it's too late, it's too late.
When you wish you could have...
When you should have, you didn't, and why?
You end up kicking yourself.
I'm telling you people, take it from someone who's kicked themselves, don't wait until it's too late.
And Mike, I'm under the opinion, and I don't know anybody can be any more outspoken than I can, it is not based on fear, it is based on necessity.
It is based on the ability today.
And ladies and gentlemen, as we're recording this, Germany is in a mode where they've got 50% food inflation and that happened over a weekend.
Which is one of the biggest banks in the world is like this.
It's teetering.
It's what's critical to get now what you can get now.
Because again, there are no guarantees for tomorrow.
And most of us have watched.
The speed, the rapidity, and the acceleration that whether it's shelf brackets, whether it's thermal scopes, whether it's this, that, or the other thing.
Now satellite phones unavailable, at least for the short time.
It is going to be critical.
Propane costs have gone through the roof.
And what's going to be even more problematic is you're going to watch.
You're going to watch the United States be choked.
And I'm sorry.
We're going to be choked off of the supply chains from global manufacturers.
And then unless we have a national Mark of the Beast ID, and I'm talking could happen within six months max or sooner, you're not going to be able to buy anything.
Neither am I. Steve, there's breaking news as we're recording this.
The Wall Street Journal is now reporting, to underscore what you just said, the government of Germany has now seized the Gazprom company that's the GmbH Gazprom subsidiary in Germany, has been seized by the German government.
To try to force Russia to deliver natural gas to Germany.
The problem is that subsidiary company has no gas.
It's just in Berlin and it's the one that buys and sells gas from Russia.
But if Russia is not shipping the gas, Germany still can't get any gas.
So I don't know why they're seizing this.
They can't force Russia to ship gas.
You see what I mean?
But the state of Germany is seizing private companies now.
Think about what that means for how desperate the West is going to become as these supply shortages get worse and worse.
And if you want something, you've got to get it in your hands now, whether it's gold, silver, communications, satellite gear, ammunition, whatever that you need for your safety and survival, you need to get it in your hands right now.
Right.
And I wanted to point out that with the bivy stick also, one of the benefits over A satellite phone is when someone sends a text message or if Mike, you, or Steve send a message through Galileo to the subscribers, and if they don't have their bivy stick on, the message stays safe in the satellite until you turn your bivy stick on.
For as far as I know, and I question that for about a month to a year.
So the messages don't get erased.
I know with a satellite phone, it's about five days and the messages go away.
So these messages will be there once you turn your app on and you turn your bivy stick.
So even if you didn't go out for a whole month, all the messages that Mike, that you're going to be sending, Steve, that you're going to be sending, the customer or the user will be able to read all those messages.
Even if the grid went down, they would still be able to receive the messages If they don't have cell service through the satellite and that's the benefit of Galileo and that's the benefit of signing up on that $69.95 plan because it will automatically generate an account for you from Galileo.
Galileo will send you an email with your password and then you can log in and register and select the influencers that you would like to receive messages from.
Alright, really good points there.
And Tina and Steve, I'd like to ask for your final thoughts.
We're about to wrap this up.
We've already covered a lot of ground here, and folks, it's sat123.com if you want to get your hands on one of these bivvy sticks while supplies are still available.
But Steve first, and then Tina, your final thoughts here on what we've covered today.
Well, first of all, I'm on the highest level of red alert I've ever been in 26 years as far as acquiring anything as fast as you can.
Some people might believe that it's going to turn around.
It's not going to turn around.
In my opinion, this is being, and this isn't political.
This is practical.
You can't go to the store and see shelves of any word that we could have called selection.
It's availability.
And everything is based upon availability.
And when it comes to acquiring something, I'm going to borrow a term from a movie.
What happens if your ability to buy tomorrow would you put off today if tomorrow never comes?
I'm not talking about you dying.
I'm not talking about anything.
But I'm just talking about, let's say right now, after people see this and people get on the phone and they say, I got to get mine now.
Well, there's only a limited amount.
We told you that.
This isn't one of those commercials for, you know, whatever, a new frying pan, a new this or that.
This is not a limited-time offer by the time.
It's a limited product availability.
So, ladies and gentlemen, again, I would urge you to move, call Sat123, not call, email, or Sat123.com.
Go on the website, but get them.
And, Mike, I'm more convinced than ever in this coming week, What we're going to see coming out of Western Europe is going to be both terrifying, but it will also underscore the fact that availability at this time in history will be no more.
Well, you've got the head of BASIF there in Germany saying that if Russian gas doesn't get turned back on, it's an economic collapse of the nation of Germany, which is the most industrious nation in Western Europe.
I mean, You know, it'll take a generation for them to recover from the collapse that's coming if they don't get the gas turned back on.
But yeah, Tina, go ahead.
Yeah.
Steve was mentioning email.
You can email me at tina at satphoneservice.com.
So if you have any questions, you can go ahead and email me on that.
But yeah, these are amazing, especially if you live in a Any kind of disasters, you know, if cell towers never went down or, you know, in certain areas, but if you do live in certain disasters, areas such a hurricane, fires, tornadoes, any weather related where it can take the cell tower down, you should get one.
And the reasons is because there aren't any satellite phones for first responders this season.
There just ain't any.
We have the final satellite phones.
Everyone that calls us wants to get them.
We're being a little bit selective because we want them to be used to save lives.
So we're kind of going with companies that are going out there to help people.
But a lot of our clients are getting these as well to go out there to Ukraine to save lives.
So 20,000 is what we're going to get this year.
2,000 a month is what we're expecting until our 20,000 commitment is fulfilled.
And then after that, we'll find out what they can make.
But that's the supplies that they have that they can make.
And I just want to add, and thank you, Tina, for that, and thank you for all that you do.
You are making a huge difference in the lives of tens of thousands of people, if not more.
And by the way, just this community, the alt-media community, we are preppers.
We are people who see what's about to happen.
We are the people who tend to help out in communities.
We have extra to share with churches and food banks, or even in my case, extra ammunition and law enforcement gear to share with local sheriff's deputies to secure a community, by the way.
Or even I might loan them some night vision if they don't have enough.
But the point is that these bivvy sticks will help good people in our community be able to communicate effectively and to share the resources that they have, including food and so on, which may keep people alive.
So it's not just that what you're doing with us is just getting bivvy sticks out there.
It's that they're getting into the hands of the people who are the most prepared, who can help keep society together and prevent the fall of local communities as the systems around us collapse.
So thank you, Tina, for what you're doing.
I really appreciate you, and I know our audience does as well.
Yeah, thank you so much, and I really do appreciate having me on.
Mike and Steve, thank you so much for joining and God bless you both.
God bless you too, Tina.
Thank you, Steve, as well.
Thank you for everything that you do.
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