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March 26, 2024 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams
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Tina from the Satellite Phone Store answers Mike's questions about emergency comms...
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Alright, welcome to BrightShown.com.
Today I'm Mike Adams and I have joining me today in studio.
Thank you for being here, Tina.
This is Tina from the Satellite Phone Store.
Back in action in Texas.
Back in Austin, yeah.
Last time I was here it was all brown and now it's all green.
I was just driving and it was just amazing how beautiful.
One month.
Yeah.
And it turned from brown to beautiful, beautiful.
Spring happens quickly around here.
Yeah, it did.
But I'm so grateful that you're in town.
And of course, just for disclosure to our audience, the Satellite Phone Store is a longtime sponsor of our platform and our podcast.
And your product solutions, which people have heard about, but we're going to describe some new things today.
They have helped so many people over the last few years, especially during the Lahaina fires in Maui.
Let's start there.
Can you tell us about what actually happened with one of your customers during the fires?
Yeah.
So we did have many customers that were in Hawaii that had a satellite phone or a bivy stick that were able to communicate.
And one of them that works with security, he was able to lead up to 14,000 people from going right, driving right directly into where the fires were.
Because he had a satellite phone, he was able to communicate with first responders to give information so that he could give the right information to the people that were there because the cell phones didn't work.
911 emergencies didn't work because they didn't have satellite backup.
As we know now, if things do go down, you can't count on emergency and first responders that are local because their service also goes down when the cell towers went down.
The grid was down for a very wide area.
It was most of the island at one point, wasn't it?
Right.
95% of the island, the service for the cell phones didn't work, even though less than 5% of the island was on fire.
So as you can see, things don't have to happen near you.
Cell towers are fragile, and they can go down very quickly.
Yeah, exactly.
I think what people are really learning more and more these days is how...
Non-reliable the infrastructure is, whether it's the power grid or the cell towers themselves.
We saw a big AT&T outage not long ago.
Did you get a lot of comments about that or a rush of customers?
Yeah.
Yeah, so AT&T, still no one really knows what happened there.
And they say, you know, whatever, something happened, it was like a man-made mistake or something.
But, you know, we also noticed that some other companies didn't work in some areas, like Verizon and others.
So we're like, okay, something happened there.
And I think Marco Rubio tweeted that the next time it could be 100 times worse.
Yeah.
When these cell towers do go down.
But the people that had satellite phones were able to communicate with their friends and family and with the baby stick as well.
This is what I use because I had AT&T and I'm like, why can't I call?
And I needed to call the office.
I was in Missouri at the time so I just took out the baby stick, put it by the window and started texting and that's how I found out that the AT&T grid was down.
Let me have that.
I want to show people what this is.
So we've also got them on the desk here.
So this is the bivvy stick.
It's very small.
It's about the size of an ice cream sandwich, we say.
Yeah.
And this allows you to do two-way satellite text messaging.
And so it doesn't have its own screen or keyboard.
You use your phone, and your phone doesn't have to have cell service at all.
It doesn't even have to have a SIM card.
Right.
You use your phone to Bluetooth to this, And you can compose.
You can send text.
You can send text to other people's phones if their phones are working, wherever they are.
You can receive text.
You'll get a U.S. phone number to send and receive text.
But a lot of people don't use the other features of the bivy stick that I think maybe you could share with people.
This has a lot of other things, like the emergency button and the weather and things like that.
Can you tell us about some of that?
Right.
So you don't have to have your smartphone with you.
If you're going like hiking and wait is an issue and you just want to get off the grid, what you do is you can pre-record a message to five people that you trust.
And if there is an emergency, you just push a button and then that message will go to the five people that you have free recorded and that you trust.
And then they'll get your message by text to their cell phones.
And then with a geolocation, if you choose.
Yes.
Yeah.
With a geolocation so that in case something did happen and you do want to be located, then those five people that you trust will get that location and they will get that message and they will, you know, do a search and rescue.
That's why it's used by skiers or snowboarders, right?
In case of an avalanche or just outdoor hikers.
Maybe hunters, outdoorsmen type of people.
And military.
Border patrol.
You've generously donated to some units here in Texas that are using your tech every single day.
We do work with a lot of first responders.
We work with Steve Slastovic and his team and Michael Jan and a few others that you know about.
But yeah, these are, you know, lifesavers.
They can be.
I mean, we also saw what happened with the hurricane, Mike, just this past six months in Acapulco, where, you know, it went from a category nothing to category five in less than 12 hours.
And we heard a lot of customers, a lot of our customers that were vacationing there had their satellite phone with them or their baby sticks, and they were able to call and get help and get out of the So let me give the website here.
SAT123.com will take you to the satellite phone store.
And there you can pick up satellite phones or the bivvy sticks.
And there's the bivvy stick there.
And they have different packages available with the phone or a bag or what have you.
And the nice thing about your phones, by the way, is that the minutes roll over.
for the phone and the minutes after a certain number of months, they own the phone free and clear.
Right.
And whatever minutes they did not use are accumulated up.
Right.
Right, right.
So when there is an emergency, you don't have to worry about overage.
You just take your phone out and use it, and you've got quite a few minutes accumulated.
You can log into your account and check your minutes whenever you want to to see how many minutes you have accumulated.
And one of the things about the baby ticket is unlimited texting.
So you don't have to worry about ever not being able to text, and it's $65.99 for unlimited texting.
You also, for the $99 plan, you also get a A smartphone with it and a smartphone is active.
It comes with a fair day bag and what we recommend is that that's your emergency backup.
It is protected from an EMP attack.
It is protected from solar flare.
I heard that we're getting some pretty bad solar flares doing the eclipse in April.
So if it does affect electronics, any electronics that you have in a Faraday bag will not be affected.
So this would be like your emergency cell phone or smartphone and your emergency satellite communicator.
So when you take it out, you can make calls on your regular smartphone.
And you do get a USA number for that, or you can do texting with your satellite two-way communicator.
So this basically turns your smartphone into a two-way satellite text messaging communicator.
That's right.
That's exactly what it does.
Look, ever since I met you years ago and I started using your tech, now I don't travel without it.
In fact, I just pulled these out of my car right now because they're always with me.
And, you know, thank God I haven't been in the middle of an emergency, but we do have this solar eclipse coming April 8th here in Texas.
And did you know that I think four counties in Texas have already declared an emergency?
And they told residents, for some reason, to stock up on food and water and emergency supplies, and they said the hospitals might be full and that emergency responders can't get to you?
And I'm like, I've never heard that before from a solar eclipse.
What do they think the eclipse is going to do that's going to fill up the hospitals?
Yeah, I'm not sure either.
I've been hearing a lot of things.
I've been hearing that you're supposed to be able to see the Devil's Comet when it gets dark.
So that's kind of scary for me.
The Devil's Comet?
Yeah, something is supposed to be happening.
So I don't follow it too closely.
I just know that there's also a lot of cell phone companies.
I'm not going to mention them, but there's a lot of cell phone companies that are calling us and getting satellite phones.
Yeah.
A lot of CEOs and a lot of people because I think they think something is going to happen.
I don't know.
It's always best to be prepared.
It's very cost and effective.
The Bivy Stick is free, $65.99.
You have unlimited.
And make sure that you do put it in a fair day bag in case of any kind of solar flare that will take out some of the electronics.
Right.
Yeah.
The price you mentioned, that's monthly, just to be clear.
Yeah.
So that's per month, and unlimited texting, and they get the hardware.
Yes, they get the smartphone at no cost for $99 a month, and the baby stick included, and then they get a Faraday bag included, and it is a 12-month agreement.
And then also, for the $65.99, they get the baby stick at no cost.
And, of course, on everything, it is unlimited, whether it's a smartphone or on the...
Bivy Stick, the service is unlimited.
I also want to mention that if you're out and about, you also can get the local weather with this, which is kind of nice because a lot of times people get lost because they don't have, or the weather changes, you have the weather, and then also a map, people get lost.
There's also off-the-grid maps, so it does a lot.
Yeah, there's an app on the phone then that talks to that, and it's a geomap.
Yeah.
And so you can, you know, it's impossible to lose your way with that in case things go wrong.
But, you know, I find that, you know, we were just talking about April 8th, but I find that the emergencies that really seem to happen are not the ones that are predicted on a calendar date.
It's the completely out of the blue Lahaina fires or an earthquake or a hurricane.
You might only have five days warning or something like that.
Or in the most recent one, no warning.
It suddenly became a Category 5.
It's the unexpected.
Or you might be driving down the highway and suddenly there's an EMP weapon and everybody's vehicles stop and you're 50 miles from home.
What do you do?
You know?
Unless you have an old vehicle.
Yeah, that's a good point.
But there are a lot of circumstances where there's no warning whatsoever, and you just suddenly find yourself in an emergency, or like World War III or something.
Who knows?
Yeah.
And that's the reason why you do need to put electronics in a Faraday bag.
Good point.
And we do offer those.
I believe the website is faraday123.com, F-A-R-A-D-A-Y, 123.com, if you want to just purchase some Faraday bags for the sat phones that you currently have or for the cell phones that you currently have.
That's great.
Now, tell us about where...
When does the bivvy stick not work?
Like, how bad does the weather have to get to where you can't reach the satellite?
You know what?
I don't think it doesn't just not work, even with the weather, because it goes through the clouds.
I know.
And during the hurricane...
In rain, I know it's been used in storms, but is there a point where it can't talk to the satellites?
Yeah, I haven't experienced any of that.
I know during the hurricane a couple years ago in Fort Myers, or last year maybe it was, during the hurricane we had some of our employees that lived there.
Their grandparents lived there, so they went to stay with their grandparents.
And we were communicating with them when the hurricane was...
I was in Orlando and They were in Fort Miles, and I was communicating with them via text, saying, okay, I'm watching the TV, it is going over you, because they had nothing.
They had no electricity, no service, nothing.
So I was able to communicate while they were inside, because they just put this by the window, and they were able to get it service.
And I was able to communicate to give them information on what's happening in their area at the time, when the hurricane was right over the area.
Wow.
Speaking of the hurricane, and one other thing that your company offers is beready123.com, which is the solar generators.
Yes.
The energy storage devices, and the reason I think it's a great solution to pair those together with the satellite phones or the bivvy stick is because if the power grid's totally down, you can recharge your phones or recharge the bivvy stick, even though it's got really good battery life.
But you can recharge with a small solar generator and just a reasonable solar panel.
You can easily recharge small electronics.
Yeah, you can charge your small electronics all the way up to your refrigerator on some of the products.
The larger ones.
Yeah, the larger ones.
So you can get a small one just to get your computer, your phone, toaster, just small items, and then it goes up from small to very large backup batteries.
So you could be really...
Really prepare.
You can start slowly, get the smaller one, and then add to it as needed.
And then same thing with the solar panel.
They go from 10 to up to 400 watts.
Did you see the video I posted this last winter when a big freeze came to Texas?
I had one of your units, the battery unit, connected to a diesel-powered heater blower.
Did you see that video?
Yeah, I did.
Because we were being told the power grid might fail in Texas, and it was very cold for this region, and I have some exposed plumbing in my water distribution area inside a barn, and so I set up a diesel forced air heater, tied it to your product, and actually tested it, and it turned out it would power the diesel heater for eight hours.
But then we never lost power, so we were okay.
But if we had lost power, I would have still had enough heat to stop the pipes from freezing.
Yeah, I mean, our power grids are so old, and anything can happen, so you really do need to be prepared.
I'm pretty prepared with the grid down because I already know we've had situations in San Diego where They just do rollout.
So I'm like, okay, I'm not going to be part of this rollout.
I'll just have my backup.
You mean a rolling blackout?
Yeah.
So they're like, okay, you're not going to have every day from 5 to 8, you're not going to have any electricity because we kind of have to.
And so it's like, yeah, I got to have electricity all the time.
Well, Tina, wait until they connect.
500,000 electric vehicles to the California power grid because they've mandated no more combustion engines after a certain year.
I mean, do they have any idea how rapidly their whole power grid is gonna crater?
You can't just plug in unlimited number of vehicles to it.
I don't think anyone has thought this through very well, and I'll tell you something, too.
It is generating so much bad, what is it, if you notice, a lot of cancer, a lot of things, because these electric vehicles, I personally don't think they're safe, and a lot of studies are coming out that, you know, especially like if you have a Tesla and you're sitting inside your Tesla when you're charging it, it is not good.
Oh, the EMFs?
Yeah.
Electropollution.
Yeah, it's a lot.
I don't think anybody's really thought this through yet.
Well, Canada also, they just announced they're going to have this mandate of no more combustion vehicles will be allowed to be sold after, I think, 2035.
But if you analyze their power grid, it can't handle the EVs.
Yeah.
So they're like, they're forcing you.
Everybody's going to have to buy an EV. And how do we charge it?
Well, we don't know.
Good luck, you know?
Yeah.
Yeah.
And frying our bodies.
I mean, it's crazy.
I just don't think anybody really has thought this through.
And not to mention, I think the batteries don't work very well in the freezing temperature.
Oh, no, they don't.
You can lose up to half your capacity in freezing weather.
Yeah, and Canada is always freezing.
Plus, you need to run the heater.
And the heater uses even more battery power.
I mean, EVs are not made for Canada.
Yeah, yeah, true.
But then again, Justin Trudeau is not made for Canada either.
But the point is, what we're trying to explain to the audience is that the infrastructure is more and more fragile.
That's why we're seeing more outages like AT&T and other companies.
We're seeing bank outages.
We're seeing communications failures, logistics failures.
The power grid is not as reliable as it used to be.
Coms are not as reliable as they used to be.
You also offer, by the way, a satellite bandwidth solution.
Is that something that is still available, or are those gone, like sold out?
No, no, we do.
So we work with Starlink, so you can get Starlink I'm not a big fan of Starlink, but you can also get OneWeb.
So you can contact our company and find out a solution if it's something that you're looking to do for your company or for yourself as a backup.
But there's a lot of solutions, a lot of different solutions.
But communication is important.
It's one of the things that I think we're most addicted to now.
We can live, I think, without food for a few days, but I don't think we can live without communication for a few days.
So everybody loses their minds when AT&T goes down.
Yeah.
But the other thing that happens during those outages is, of course, emergency services are cut off.
So if you think about it, folks, if you're in a situation and AT&T has a major outage, you could lose your contact, but also you'd be losing the ability to even dial 911 and get somebody to respond if you were, God forbid, in a car accident or something like that.
That's another reason why you need either the mobile phone, the satellite phone, or the bivy stick, because you can alert your friends with the bivy stick.
Hopefully you have a friend that's got a pickup truck on an AR-15.
Come on out, help resolve this situation, whatever it is.
Maybe a shovel.
I don't know.
It depends on what emergency it is.
Maybe the cow's got loose.
Who knows?
Totally.
Something.
But you know, one of the things that I've noticed in the past 20 years of doing this business, Mike, is that there's never like an emergency that takes the whole world grid down.
There's emergencies in certain areas like the Lahaina, the hurricane, and fires, and every time...
The 911 emergency services also go down at the same time.
But if you had a satellite communication, you can communicate to other areas.
You can communicate to your friends and family in other states.
But if the whole world's grid went down, the other person does have to have a satellite phone.
Right.
Good point.
If the whole grid goes down, we're in a whole lot of trouble anyway as a civilization.
Yep.
Yeah, I interviewed the producer, David Tice is his name, of the documentary called Grid Down, Power Up.
And that also has, Dennis Quaid is the narrator of that.
And he was citing the government report, the EMP Commission report, that said that if the power grid stays down for, I think it was nine months, either nine or 18 months, I forgot which one, that up to 90% of the U.S. population would die.
Wow.
Wow.
For all the obvious reasons.
I mean, nothing works.
No food, no water, no electricity, no fuel, no rule of law, no 911, nothing.
Yeah.
I mean, Mad Max, basically.
No, you do.
You have to protect your own home from fires.
You have to, you know, nobody's going to come out and save you.
You have to save yourself.
And that's why you have to be prepared.
I just also want to mention the other feature that we do offer with these prices already included is Galileo.
And Galileo is spelled...
G-A-L-I-L-E-Y-O. So it's Galileo.com.
And that is receiving messages from influencers such as yourself, should there be an emergency.
They also have an app now, Mike.
Go to your app store, Galileo account.com.
App.
Galileo account app.
And you can download the app so that when there is cell service, cell coverage, the messages will come in through that app.
But when the grid goes down, the messages will come in via satellite to your phone on the Bivi app.
And I've got one of the broadcast accounts there, and so does Steve Quayle and Doug Hagman and others.
And so, right, we're all set to be able to get out emergency intel that way.
Yes.
And, you know, ham radio is one good way that people can get out messages, but of course that's geo-limited.
Right.
So this is going to use satellites, you'll be able to get emergency messages based on what's happening.
So a lot of hand radio operators use it to send messages daily, currently.
And I believe Steve Quayle is adding quite a few more.
So this way we get emergency messages as they happen from anywhere on Earth.
Wow.
I think that's going to be really handy in the right circumstances.
Like right now, day-to-day, not so important, but when you need it, you really need it.
Yeah.
Because of...
Yeah, and it's uncensored, Mike.
Ah, good point.
You could say whatever you want.
I mean, you know, before, you couldn't even say, you couldn't say the word vaccine for a long time.
Every time I put the word vaccine, even, and I'm a nobody on Facebook, they took me off, they penalized me.
So, yeah, so it's uncensored, so it's kind of nice to be able to tell people the truth without worrying that you're being censored.
Alright, so that's called Galileo.
That's included with the monthly fee that people pay to get the hardware.
And being on the road today, again, I always travel with these because I never know what's going to happen.
If I were traveling by air, I would also have one because, you know, what if there's an emergency landing somewhere?
You know, you're on a commercial flight, you have to make an emergency landing.
And, you know, sometimes those don't go very well.
Assuming you survive the emergency landing, it would be great to alert people to where you are, be able to make a call, be able to tell a family member, I'm not dead.
Like, yes, I was on the flight, but I made it, you know.
I mean, there are so many uses for this.
Yeah.
Not to mention, if we actually end up in World War III, and one of the things that I'm very concerned about right now is how the U.S. is seemingly provoking war with Russia right now, like begging Putin to nuke us or something.
It seems crazy to me, but there's no effort for diplomacy, and we're in a dangerous situation, all of us.
Yeah.
Yeah, I hope that we don't experience too many plane crashes.
Well, there's Boeing.
Boeing's maintenance plan is non-existent, apparently.
But most of the major airlines, I think all of them, but I do know most of them do use the Iridium network to communicate because this doesn't work from anywhere on Earth, including up in the air.
So you'll be able to...
They lost a whole plane over the Indian Ocean a few years back.
What was that?
Was that a KL? You recall what was that?
Yeah.
The lost flight?
They still haven't found the plane?
Yeah.
No, I've seen this.
I travel in the U.S. only, and it's the reason why.
Oh, really?
I never travel outside of the U.S. anymore.
Really?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah, well, there's a lot of crazy stuff going on.
But these phones work all over the world, though.
Yeah, they work from anywhere on Earth.
A lot of boaters love these, people that own boats, people that go fishing, hiking, camping, just a regular.
Every person should have a backup, at least one backup communication.
If not, if one person in the neighborhood should have one, so should something happen, at least one person should have a backup communication so that they're able to call out.
Yeah.
That's a good point.
Even in your neighborhood, if a group of neighbors, at least if they had one satellite phone among them or one bivy stick that could be shared in an emergency, that makes a lot of sense.
Yeah, we saw this come to life during Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico where a bunch of mothers and dads that didn't know if their children or their parents were okay because once the hurricane went through, nothing obviously worked.
And so we were able to connect people, like, what street did they live on?
And we found a customer that had a sat phone on that street, and we connected them, and they're like, yes, your son is fine, but our neighborhood is okay, nobody's hurt.
So that put a lot of relief in parents' lives.
grandparents or the mom and dad were okay and we connected a lot of people that way during Hurricane Maria.
So we did see that in play.
Oh yeah.
Well, now we're not going to get into the politics of the Middle East right now, but let me just mention that one of the things that Israel has done to Gaza is they have shut off all Gaza communications.
This has been done multiple times.
The They block all their bandwidth, all their cell service, and the only people that are able to get a message out in Gaza are people with satellite access.
And that's just one real-world example of what's going on.
I can imagine many different types of circumstances like that all over the world where Systems could be deliberately shut down by governments in order to block a region.
Like, what if, I mean, right now the Biden administration has blocked LNG exports out of Texas as a kind of weapon against Texas.
What if someday they decided they're going to block, maybe we're in the middle of a secession or something, like a disputed election, and they say we're going to shut off all infrastructure in Texas.
That's not outside the realm of possibility these days.
The world's going crazy.
Yeah.
They could attack our communication during the election.
Last time, they attacked our health with the virus.
And they've got to come up with something better.
And the best way, I think, to do it is to attack the communication.
One of the things that I love about the baby stick also is that when you take it international in certain countries where you're not allowed to have a satellite phone or a phone, no one knows what this is.
Where are you not allowed to have a phone?
There's some countries, like China, you're not allowed to bring a satellite phone.
Is that right?
Yeah, and Cuba.
There's quite a few countries, North Korea, that were going anywhere near those countries.
Yeah, that's not my travel itinerary right there, those three countries.
Yeah, but there are some places where it is illegal, some countries where it is illegal.
But no one knows what this is, so this is really cool to put in your purse or backpack because it's a satellite communicator and you can pass through with anybody and they won't take it away.
Or you don't end up in a North Korean prison, which probably would not be fun.
Highly recommended not to go there.
Exactly.
Okay, here's a weird question.
There were comments before on one of the last videos that we did, and one person said, this can't work because they say the Earth is flat and there are no satellites.
So that's part of the theory of the flat Earth movement, is that there are no satellites.
So Tina, how do satellite phones work given that there are no satellites?
So the Iridium network has 66 satellites with quite a few backup.
I don't know if you remember a few years back, a Russian satellite collided with an Iridium satellite.
Is that right?
Yeah.
They collided?
They collided.
And so Iridium has backups up there, so they were able to replace that backup very quickly.
Yeah.
But you didn't answer the question about how does it work since there are no satellites.
Yeah.
Yeah, I guess magic.
Magic satellites.
Yeah, magic satellites.
Yeah, but this will work from anywhere on the planet without any exception, including up in the air.
These go direct to the satellite.
So if people say, well, if the cell towers went down and the satellites can go down, well, the only thing that I can say is, are satellite phones guaranteed?
No, they're not guaranteed.
But I think if the last thing on Earth that's still available for communication is going to be the satellite.
Okay, yeah, good point.
So, right, the whole surface of the Earth could be in trouble through whatever, war.
But the satellites, I mean, that's what's relied upon by the military.
How many members of the U.S. Senate have satellite phones?
Is there like 50 of them?
Yeah.
Yeah.
The government uses satellite comms for all the continuity of government operations.
There's a reason they choose satellite for that.
And a lot of the members of the US Senate and all those that are running for a seat, they all communicate with the satellite phone because they don't trust the cell phone.
So they get a satellite phone for their team, and they communicate by satellite phones.
Because there's better privacy.
There's no privacy on smartphones, but there's 100% privacy on satellite phones.
It's almost impossible for anyone to read the text messages other than the person you're sending them to.
Especially if you send a message from one satellite phone to another satellite phone, it is impossible for anybody to interfere or intercept those messages.
And then also the phone calls that are made between one satellite phone to another are the most secured calls that you can make.
I know you have an answer to this because there was a question, what if the banking system goes down and people can't pay the monthly fee?
They don't want to get cut off from their service from your bivvy sticks and satellite phones.
What happens if the banking system...
Fails for a period of time.
Yeah, so we will never turn anyone off based on that.
If the banking system went down for a few months, we will wait.
And then once everything comes back up, if things come back up, we will settle the bill at that point.
And for one reason, Mike, is we still want a company.
So if we turned everyone off, when the banking system came back up, we don't have a company.
So it doesn't make any sense.
So we will never turn anyone off.
We also don't turn people off if they're late on their bills because they could be stuck in the middle of the ocean.
We've experienced that.
Sometimes people were out sailing for six months and their credit card got, you know, got compromised.
So we will try to get a hold of you by email every way that we can for a few months because this could be an emergency for you.
So we are selling these based on emergency and we don't want you to have an emergency and not have satellite communication.
Yeah, that's that's a really important point.
I'm glad that's your corporate policy because nobody knows what's going to fail first or how long it's going to stay down, whether it's the power grid or the banking system or war or what have you.
And I agree with you.
There's no 100% guarantee that satellites are always going to work in every situation.
I mean, what if the sun goes supernova?
Well, we're all going to die anyway.
And yeah, your satellite phone won't work if a giant fireball from the sun envelops planet Earth, but that's going to be the least of your concerns.
Or if we get hit by a giant extinction-level asteroid or something, Probably it might take out a few satellites on the way to the impact crater, you know?
Yeah.
Right?
Well, we'll be facing Jesus, and we don't really care at that point.
Yeah, probably right.
Yeah, so...
I can bring a lot of doom scenarios to this conversation, by the way.
Yeah.
But...
At the end of the day, you're right.
I mean, it's about how do we live our lives?
Were we in alignment with the teachings of Christ?
Did we contribute to life and protection of life on this planet?
I agree with you.
Bigger picture.
But while we're still alive, we need a means of communication.
Yeah, God gave us wisdom, and we need to use our wisdom to prepare ourselves and our families.
The worst thing for me that can happen is the unknown.
Like if there was an emergency and I couldn't reach my family, that's way more stressful for me than to have one of these and have everyone in my family have one of these.
Also, I also want to mention, Mike, we do a lot of communication drills.
Oh, yes.
So this way our families and friends and our circle, employees, we always do a communication drill twice a year, and we call each other on January 1st and June 1st.
Everybody gets their satellite phone out, and we all call each other to make sure that everybody in our circle knows how to use it, that everybody knows each other's satellite number, and it works.
I want to show people this, since you mentioned drills.
It's very important that the antenna is pointing up.
So folks, I've seen people do this where they dial the number, they get connected, and then they go like this.
And so what's happening is now the antenna, this is very directional, and that's why it's not a radiation problem, because you're not going like this.
I mean, this is where the power is being emitted in order to reach the satellites, but it's got to be pointed at the sky.
So you need to hold it in this orientation, When you're talking.
Have you encountered this issue with users before?
All the movies.
They always go like this.
All the movies have their satellite phones inside the building, which, by the way, you have to be outside.
So I just see movies with their satellite phone inside.
It just cracks me up.
I've seen them underground in tunnels.
In the subway on the satellite phones in the movie.
And then you're right.
And then they do this, and they get a satellite, and they dial, and then they're like this, and they're talking.
And I'm like, okay, I know you're not talking, because this thing needs to be pointed.
It's got to point up.
Yes.
We get a lot of people.
We actually had one of our latest...
The phone company that got a phone recently that has a major phone company, I'm not going to mention any names, got a bunch of phones and they're like, they're not working.
And then I said, okay, why don't we do a test?
Why don't we go outside?
Oh, you have to be outside.
Oh, yeah.
You have to be able to see the sky.
You have to connect to the satellite.
That's what sets these apart from the smartphone, is that the smartphones work inside because they have a bunch of repeaters.
This is your repeater.
It's right here.
This goes direct to the satellite, so you carry your cell phone tower with you wherever you go on Earth.
Yeah, good point.
Yeah.
But the bivvy sticks, you can put them in like a windowsill and they are still able to reach the satellites because they don't need nearly as much connection strength.
Yeah, they're lower frequency, so they work on lower frequency, so they are able to work better.
Yeah.
But you do need to have a window that has clear line of sight.
So if you're like in a big tall building and you try to put it by the window, it's not going to work.
But if you're in a house and you put it by the window, then chances are you are going to get service and you can walk away within 10 feet of the unit and send and receive messages.
The Bluetooth works.
Yeah.
Within about 10, they say 20 feet, but I usually say try to stay within 10 feet of it.
Okay.
Yeah.
Alright, very good.
So that also answers the question of people concerned about, you know, how much electromagnetic energy is associated with this phone.
Well, you know, it's aiming out of the top of this repeater, as you said, whereas a typical cell phone is an omnidirectional signal that's beaming in all directions, typically, unless it's 5G. But for 4G and 3G and everything, it's omnidirectional, so you're getting that radiation no matter where you are.
Yeah.
So it's a big difference.
True.
Very true.
Okay.
All right.
Well, we've covered a lot.
Is there anything else you want to add before we wrap this up?
I think we have covered it.
We've covered a lot.
And if you have any questions, just call 941-955-1020 or go to sat123.com.
So you can get this for $65.99 for unlimited, including Galileo, or you can get...
Per month.
The unit is free.
It's included.
Or you can get, for $99 a month, you get both of these for free on a 12-month agreement.
And you've got cell service.
This is not just a smartphone.
It does have cell service.
So you can use it in case you lost your phone or if there is an emergency or if you just want to use it as your regular phone.
So you have both.
I see.
But we recommend that this is your emergency package.
You keep it in a Faraday bag.
If there is a solar flare or an EMP attack that takes down our electronics, those will be protected.
You take them out, and you are able to use them and communicate with your loved ones.
What about aliens?
Now, in Battlestar Galactica, the Cylons attacked Earth and they hacked the telecom infrastructure first.
So I think they took out the satellites and the Battlestar Galactica starships.
Is that a possibility of what could take out your satellite grid?
Well, Iridium has some backup satellites.
Are they alien-proof?
I think so.
And then keep in mind that if they came down, I mean, the Earth is shaped like a ball.
Allegedly.
And if they did take some of the satellites down...
Who knows?
They probably can't take all the whole globe satellites.
I don't know, but I'll have to think about that much.
Talk to your support team about the alien threat.
Yeah, yeah.
Okay.
I've got a few more.
We're just having fun.
We're having fun.
Thanks for playing along.
The bottom line is there's probably no more reliable system of comms than the satellite network.
And if that whole system goes down, then probably we're in a planetary, Disaster that might end human civilization, frankly.
Yeah.
If that whole system went down, as I said, I think we'd be right next to Jesus Christ, and that's not a bad thing.
Yeah, exactly.
You don't need satellite service to talk to God in that scenario.
You're just...
Here we are, you know?
Yeah.
You're right there.
Yeah.
That's right.
Okay.
All right.
Well, everybody get right with God.
And in the meantime, while we're still alive here on planet Earth, have some backup comms so that you can, of course, reach out to people, tell them that you're okay, or call in help when you need it.
Have communications during emergencies.
The website, again folks, is sat123.com, right here.
It takes you to the satellite phone store.
And you can also try beready123.com, and that will get you to the EcoFlow devices, the solar generators, and lots of different kits.
Here's the survival go bag.
Do you still have some of those available?
We do.
Oh, okay.
And those are really cool.
They're $3,000, so they're expensive.
But they do have the knife that you actually designed.
Oh, yeah.
And I love that.
I see that.
Yeah, yeah.
So that is really cool.
And it's got the bivy stick with the smartphone included in it, and it is covered for 36 months.
So you don't have to...
Pay monthly fee for that, so you could just buy that, put it aside.
It's got two Faraday bags in it, so it protects from EMP attack.
It's like a go bag.
Yeah, and so it's got everything.
And one of the things that it does have, and this is what I do carry with me, it has an emergency mask in there, and that buys you about 10 minutes if the phone crashes.
Where?
Oh, like a respirator?
It's seven layers, and it's really cool.
It's got a lot of activated charcoal so that you can breathe for up to 10 minutes in case there's a fire.
Really?
Because most people die from the smoke inhalation.
So I do carry that with me in my purse.
So if there is, you know, I'm going to feel really bad to the guy next to me because I'm going to put it on.
But yeah.
Yeah, so that's really cool.
And it's also got eight pieces of silver, so in case there is an emergency and cash was completely gone.
Really?
It has silver?
Oh, I see.
Yeah.
Yeah, it's got eight pieces of silver, and we recommend that you add more to it.
But most importantly, it does have the ViviStick with the smartphone paid for 36 months, so you don't have to worry about a monthly reoccurring billing.
That's pretty cool.
The ultimate survival go bag.
Yeah.
Okay.
Yeah.
Well, very cool.
You have a lot of great solutions, Tina.
Your company's been helping a lot of people get prepared, and we, of course, appreciate the fact that you're sponsoring my podcast and the interviews that I do with Steve Quayle.
And so, in fact, you were working with Steve Quayle long before we ever met.
I think that's how we met, actually, was through Steve Quayle.
Yeah, yeah.
So we want to thank you for supporting the alternative media community because, you know, we believe in protecting life.
We believe in being ready, being resilient, and surviving everything that they can throw at us.
That's why I'm not afraid to talk about crazy scenarios because we can make it through.
Yeah.
No, we need to be prepared with everything, with food.
We need to be prepared to grab and go.
We need to be prepared with communication.
And I think, you know, there's a lot of information for us now.
I think you have a lot of information on PrEP.
I've learned a lot of my PrEP stuff from you.
Oh, have you?
I'm preparing for anything, yeah.
Yeah, I have.
I've prepared myself, my family, all of my sisters.
I'm educating everybody that I come across.
It's not a bad thing to be prepared.
It's no longer a fringe theory to think about bad things are going to happen because we experience that, especially since COVID. People experience things every day and the AT&T outages and bank failures.
More banks are going to fail.
I'm seeing predictions of up to 500 banks will fail over the next 24 months because of the commercial real estate collapse situation.
There are a lot of scenarios to prepare for, but emergency comms is one of them.
Thank you, Tina, for coming in and sharing your time with us today.
It's always great to have you in town.
And, you know, come on back next time you're in town and bring us some stuff to show.
We always love show and tell.
Okay.
Yeah, we'll bring some of the new products that we're working on.
Okay.
And for more products that are going to be kind of health and And communication to protect you from EMF, EMP. Very cool.
So we'll have that in about two, three months.
Okay.
Yeah, so we'll be back.
Come on back, and we'll set up a little demo here, whatever it is.
Okay.
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