Speaker 1: Hi, this is Peter Vandermulen with firefast vible gear and
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Speaker 2: ways to always be refused to be a victim, because
Speaker 2: a victim, in our opinion, is simply someone with no options.
Speaker 2: Always refuse to be a victim, fight back legally and responsibly,
Speaker 2: and in these somewhat troubling times, you yes, that's the right.
Speaker 2: Ladies and gentlemen need to be prepared for even the
Speaker 2: most amazing contingencies that can happen out there so you
Speaker 2: can survive. And today just a few minutes, will be
Speaker 2: introducing a very special guest, Peter Vandamuelen, a company called
Speaker 2: fire Fast Survival Gear. What say them, Well, we'll tell
Speaker 2: you a little bit about this, but I'll put it
Speaker 2: in perspective about why people need to be prepared in
Speaker 2: one way or another. We're all seeking to survive our
Speaker 2: society collapses and survival reverts to the most basic level, food,
Speaker 2: shelter and protection. Making a fire is essential to all
Speaker 2: three categories, cooking food, warming a shell. There in any
Speaker 2: number of ways fire can be used to protect, such
Speaker 2: as signal fires, wild animal attacks, et ce. So life
Speaker 2: without fire becomes difficult to sustain. Thus the need for
Speaker 2: a reliable method of starting a fire. And we're not
Speaker 2: trying to scare anybody on this program into thinking our
Speaker 2: civil society will end tomorrow. Our purpose here is to
Speaker 2: provide each and every one of you, ladies and gentlemen
Speaker 2: with options. And talking about that, let's talk about small
Speaker 2: business in America. Well, how did this company begin. We'll
Speaker 2: find out in just a moment, but here, as we
Speaker 2: talk about it, they began as a classic mom and
Speaker 2: pop shop. They started from nothing, developed on a shoe
Speaker 2: string budget, began to add employees, and evolved into what
Speaker 2: we are today. And that is what they are today,
Speaker 2: a true made in America's story. And here to tell
Speaker 2: us the rest and some fine details about why you
Speaker 2: need this particular product in your go gear when you're
Speaker 2: out there, out in the outback or just everyday life.
Speaker 2: We welcome Peter Vandermulen, a firefas survival gear. Good afternoonser,
Speaker 2: and welcome to the show.
Speaker 1: Thanks very much for having me. I appreciate the opportunity
Speaker 1: to explain what we do well.
Speaker 2: I appreciate your time. And you know, for the longest time,
Speaker 2: I mentioned to you and your wife when we were
Speaker 2: talking a long time ago, as we've been many times
Speaker 2: visiting the crossroads of the West gun shows out there
Speaker 2: in Arizona. As you traveled there, you know, I always
Speaker 2: tell people on our radio shows that you know, they
Speaker 2: always need to be prepared, and that's the old boy
Speaker 2: scout at it. So I was always be prepared. But
Speaker 2: when I came across your booth there, I was quite
Speaker 2: impressed because I've been looking at and finding out no
Speaker 2: success by finding out these very inexpensive and very seriously
Speaker 2: lack of quality products when it comes to being able to,
Speaker 2: you know, start a fire when you need one out
Speaker 2: in the outback. So tell us about the company. Tell
Speaker 2: us about the products, because I'm going to I understand
Speaker 2: we're going to get into a little discussion here about magnesium,
Speaker 2: and the chronic magnesium that you procure is something that
Speaker 2: makes this product very special. So how did you get started?
Speaker 2: This is interesting?
Speaker 1: Well, it was about seven years ago and my wife
Speaker 1: and I had ended off another business and we were
Speaker 1: looking for other things to do. And I don't know,
Speaker 1: as a young child, some of us are interested in
Speaker 1: fire and I was as well, not that I ever
Speaker 1: committed at arsenal or anything, but I just like.
Speaker 2: To employed it and.
Speaker 1: Like to start fires. And I observed somebody else manufacturing
Speaker 1: a product there was a fire starter for camping in
Speaker 1: survival purposes, and I discussed this with my wife for
Speaker 1: quite some time, and we decided that we could manufacture
Speaker 1: a better product along that line, and so we set
Speaker 1: out on a process of research. And the magnesium is
Speaker 1: an important element, but I guess the most important element
Speaker 1: of our fire starter is the peristerium, which is earth
Speaker 1: metal and iron. And we actually located the original manufacturer
Speaker 1: of peristerium, and they're they're in Austria, not Australia, but
Speaker 1: Austria near Jersey. Yes, yeah, and we we buy our
Speaker 1: product from them. I mean in terms of the peristerium
Speaker 1: itself and in comparison to everything else on the market.
Speaker 1: The flint that I that I buy is ninety six
Speaker 1: percent feristerium, and basically the rest of the market uses
Speaker 1: product manufactured in China, and it's not really peristerium at all.
Speaker 1: They use such a tiny fraction of rare earth metal
Speaker 1: I think about sixteen percent of there. Pharaoh rod Is
Speaker 1: is fair is earth, and mine is seventy six percent
Speaker 1: rare earth, and pariserium, of course is made up of
Speaker 1: rare earth and iron. And so when you combine those
Speaker 1: two it makes ninety six percent in my product, and
Speaker 1: in the Chinese product is less than thirty percent.
Speaker 2: Wow. Wow, that's amazing. And you know, if you look
Speaker 2: at the periodic table, I know you know this better
Speaker 2: than anybody. Magnesium checks in is number twelve on the
Speaker 2: periodic table. But it's interesting. I've been around a lot
Speaker 2: of machine shops in my life, and you know, maybe
Speaker 2: you have two. And we've seen people always have a
Speaker 2: cautionary tail about drilling into Let's say an aerospace company
Speaker 2: is doing a block of magnesium and when they spin
Speaker 2: that drill right Peter too fast, what happens. They can
Speaker 2: excite that piece of magnesium and you simply can't put
Speaker 2: it out. So this is a very magical piece of material.
Speaker 2: I wonder where its origin is. I mean, we can
Speaker 2: go back to time and space. They say in stars
Speaker 2: magnesium is produced from the after of that of supernova.
Speaker 2: But the point is, tell us about magnesium because it's
Speaker 2: so amazing. Because if you use this product to start
Speaker 2: a fire, and your high quality one, this is going
Speaker 2: to work every time. And let's say you're out in
Speaker 2: the middle of a blizzard or a you know, big
Speaker 2: windstorm or a big downpour in a hurricane, Yours is
Speaker 2: going to rely. You know, yours is going to work
Speaker 2: all the time and every time. And the good news,
Speaker 2: I love it. It's made in the USA. That's a
Speaker 2: big plus.
Speaker 1: Yes, we do all the we do all the manufacturing
Speaker 1: in house here and the the magnesum we use is
Speaker 1: ninety seven percent pure. There's three percent other impurities in
Speaker 1: there actually just to make it stronger and so forth.
Speaker 1: And when it gets when it gets produced, it has
Speaker 1: to have a couple of those impurities in it or
Speaker 1: else that it won't come out like a smooth rod.
Speaker 1: It ripples without the other impurities in it, and so
Speaker 1: and so that's why we get it slightly alloyed. But
Speaker 1: it's only three percent and magnesium is interesting. It burns
Speaker 1: at four five hundred degrees wow. So with our fire starter,
Speaker 1: we include a three quarter inch long, three quarter inch
Speaker 1: in diameter magnesium rod. It's a three and three quarter inches.
Speaker 1: Three inches are exposed above the wooden handle which it's
Speaker 1: mounted in, and three quarters of an inch is mounted
Speaker 1: into the handle itself. But the great thing about it
Speaker 1: is when you use our farro rod our ferrosium, if
Speaker 1: you've got dry tinder, there's no need to use the
Speaker 1: magnesium whatsoever, because you can light the fire directly from
Speaker 1: sparks generated from the ferossarium rod. Now, if you're having
Speaker 1: trouble getting your fire lit, and what you were talking
Speaker 1: about is adverse weather conditions, you shave magnesium directly from
Speaker 1: the magnesium rod that's on the back side of the
Speaker 1: farrow rod. And you can use that to generate a
Speaker 1: four five hundred degree burst of heat which will help
Speaker 1: you get your fire lit in extreme weather conditions.
Speaker 2: Wow. So that's a amazing And let's go back to
Speaker 2: the survival aspect of this, you know, as the Doctor
Speaker 2: Sky business and what we do not only in broadcast,
Speaker 2: but I did mention this to you and your wife
Speaker 2: we go out there. I'm just letting the listeners know
Speaker 2: about this. You know, we do so many outdoor night
Speaker 2: events with telescopes out in the outback, and a lot
Speaker 2: of people come out there. They don't have those two
Speaker 2: three hundred five hundred million dollars you know RVs, so
Speaker 2: they're actually boondogging out there and they're camping. Maybe just
Speaker 2: some people have a small tent or a sleeping bag
Speaker 2: or a hammock, and they do want to start a fire,
Speaker 2: you know, legitimately and do it safely, you know, in
Speaker 2: the proper procedure, and we could go through that. I mean,
Speaker 2: you want to have a rock base around it so
Speaker 2: that the fire can't escape. But the more important thing
Speaker 2: is when you're out there and you can't rely on
Speaker 2: just a little book of matches or something like that,
Speaker 2: that would be ridiculous. So take us down this path.
Speaker 2: I mean, this is something to describe the process. So
Speaker 2: you have, let's say, the trucker in your hand, one
Speaker 2: of the models that you sell, and we're looking at
Speaker 2: that on your website, which of course is fire dashfast
Speaker 2: dot com. Wellw dot fire dash fast dot com. Describe
Speaker 2: the procedure. I mean it may sound so simple to people,
Speaker 2: but starting a legitimate fire, if you're out there for
Speaker 2: survival needs, or even if you want to do what
Speaker 2: marshmallows and s'mores, this is something that everybody needs to
Speaker 2: have in there.
Speaker 1: Go go bag, right exactly. Well, camping in survival, those
Speaker 1: are two separate endeavors. Right, A lot of times, you know,
Speaker 1: people will take cotton balls, basoline, dryer, lint, tissue, paper,
Speaker 1: and all sorts of things that actually help people ignite
Speaker 1: a fire more easily. Now, that's camping because you can
Speaker 1: go home and you can pull more dryer lint out
Speaker 1: of your dryer and save it up and take it
Speaker 1: with you. But the survival is a different a different
Speaker 1: creature altogether.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, you don't have the support of the.
Speaker 1: Civil society to provide you with things in a constant basis.
Speaker 1: What I've done with my Trekker firestarter is and as
Speaker 1: I explain to people when we do demonstrations at gun
Speaker 1: shows and trade shows, we if you like one fire
Speaker 1: day with my fire starter, five years later, you're still
Speaker 1: using the same tool. What it means is you have
Speaker 1: not had to rely on replenishing the other things that
Speaker 1: you would need to light a fire if you're camping,
Speaker 1: right exactly, And so I mean you know, if you're
Speaker 1: if you've got a lighter, you've got various different tools
Speaker 1: that make it very very easy to light a fire.
Speaker 1: It's all well and good, you should use them. But
Speaker 1: what I like to have people do when they buy
Speaker 1: my product is when they do go camping, is practice
Speaker 1: with this fire starter. It's easy to use. In terms
Speaker 1: of tools of a similar kind. It does take a
Speaker 1: little skill, and but once you get the skill, so
Speaker 1: use it quickly and easily. The whole point is is
Speaker 1: if there is a disruption in the civil society, then
Speaker 1: you already have the skill with you under your.
Speaker 2: Bill, right, you'll be probably the most popular person in
Speaker 2: your neighborhood. If God forbid, the lights go out and
Speaker 2: there's no electricity, And not to sound alarmist here, I
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Speaker 2: A very special guest today is Peter mander Muhln. He
Speaker 2: of course knows so much about this, about not only
Speaker 2: the survival mode, the camping mode. His product line and
Speaker 2: his company, Firefast Survival Gear. Learn so much more about them,
Speaker 2: and I encourage you to go there, folks, because you know,
Speaker 2: for years we were doing this radio show called a
Speaker 2: Call to Rights, and the mean mantra of the show
Speaker 2: Peter has and always will continue to be in my
Speaker 2: mind what always refused to be a victim. Victim is
Speaker 2: simply someone with no options, you know, fight back legally
Speaker 2: and responsibly. And how does that translate in today's interview?
Speaker 2: Always be prepared, and it's so important, But I wanted
Speaker 2: to kind of ask you something else. As we go
Speaker 2: on here, will we talk about this? You know, we
Speaker 2: see the ability to start this fire as you need it.
Speaker 2: And here's an interesting thing. Maybe this is a minor
Speaker 2: observation by myself, but I've seen people have books of
Speaker 2: matches and they didn't secure them properly. Let's say they
Speaker 2: have an RV. Where did they lay them. Let's say
Speaker 2: they're a smoker, Let's say they're not. They put them
Speaker 2: on the dashboard of the car. And that's ridiculous in
Speaker 2: my mind, because what happens the magnification of that sun
Speaker 2: come in through the mirror and through the windshield. I
Speaker 2: should say it can even start a fire, So yours
Speaker 2: is totally inert it doesn't have anything. You can't do
Speaker 2: anything unless you initiate the procedure. So there you go.
Speaker 2: I think that's a much better way to talk about
Speaker 2: safety and yours what last heck of a lot longer
Speaker 2: than a book of matches. Please continue.
Speaker 1: Yes, I mean, if you, like I said, lighters, matches
Speaker 1: and so forth, if people wish to use them, I
Speaker 1: have absolutely no objection to that, and sometimes it makes
Speaker 1: perfect sense, absolutely, But gaining the skill to use a
Speaker 1: fire started, which gives you a long term survival mechanism,
Speaker 1: it's it's an important thing. And it's not just from
Speaker 1: the viewpoint of, oh my goodness, if the whole civil
Speaker 1: society collapses, you have in But it's like it's like
Speaker 1: any camping experience. Uh, you learn new skills, You actually
Speaker 1: become more competent in life yourself, and so uh, I
Speaker 1: actually enjoy going out into different wilderness environments myself and
Speaker 1: actually testing myself on how well I can light a
Speaker 1: fire in just about any condition.
Speaker 2: Right, Well, this is interesting, Yeah, go ahead.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Well it's a it's a it's it's a matter
Speaker 1: of enjoying the outdoors as well, and so I, you know,
Speaker 1: you go out, you do it. And you know, my
Speaker 1: wife and I basically are the principles of our company.
Speaker 1: And so we spend a great majority of our time
Speaker 1: just manufacturing products, but when we do get out, because
Speaker 1: we travel to uh a number different locations quite regularly. Also,
Speaker 1: any one time I was in Las Vegas, and if
Speaker 1: you know Las Vegas at all, there's a lot of
Speaker 1: just desert lots right in the middle of the city.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, I go there just about every month, whether I
Speaker 2: want to or not. But that's a whole other.
Speaker 1: Story, right and so and so we were going to
Speaker 1: do a show in Las Vegas and at the convention center,
Speaker 1: they would not allow us to do live demonstrations of
Speaker 1: our fire starting ability with our trek or fire starter,
Speaker 1: And so my wife and I went onto the local desert.
Speaker 1: Like we didn't have to go very far because you
Speaker 1: didn't have to even go out of town. There plenty
Speaker 1: of lots that looked just exactly the same before Vegas
Speaker 1: was developed at all. So we went out there, stripped
Speaker 1: up some grass and brush and lit fires quickly, and
Speaker 1: we took video of that and showed the the the
Speaker 1: customers who came to the gun show, how simple it
Speaker 1: was to light a fire where that fire started with
Speaker 1: a demonstration on Las Vegas desert. So wow, wherever it
Speaker 1: is that we go, if we can't do the live demonstration,
Speaker 1: we'll do something in the outdoors close to where their
Speaker 1: show is to demonstrate how easily usable our product is
Speaker 1: in a variety of different circumstances.
Speaker 2: Well, not only do people need the product, but I
Speaker 2: think they need a good demonstration about Well, we already
Speaker 2: covered the survival concept of the actual camping side, and
Speaker 2: there's so many other uses for this product. But it's
Speaker 2: something interesting that I want to talk about here. And
Speaker 2: as you go into your blog, you have one of
Speaker 2: these particular blogs that's in there, you know, emblazoned in
Speaker 2: your website, at the website of course, firedeshfast dot com,
Speaker 2: and you know it, well, it's yours. It's unknown American worker.
Speaker 2: And let me say this before we tell people about
Speaker 2: this and you describe it in detail. What I find
Speaker 2: fascinating here is American small businesses. What's built this country.
Speaker 2: And we talk about American exceptionalism here, Peter, and I
Speaker 2: mean every word I'm going to say here. It's not
Speaker 2: these giant corporations. That are the ones that I'm appealing
Speaker 2: to here. It's every mom and pop company out there
Speaker 2: that came up. You know, many of the folks that
Speaker 2: graduated from high school, maybe some of them didn't even
Speaker 2: graduate high school. Maybe some came from foreign countries and
Speaker 2: emigrated here the right way, the long term procedure, and
Speaker 2: they came with five maybe dollars or five cents in
Speaker 2: their pocket. But the important thing about your blog here,
Speaker 2: and it's entitled is you know, unknown American worker. Talk
Speaker 2: about this because it's interesting. It's about some contractor named G.
Speaker 2: W Ellis where cement was late in nineteen twenty seven.
Speaker 2: And the bottom line is what that after ninety five years,
Speaker 2: the quality in workmanship is still there. You know. That's
Speaker 2: what we need, quality products made here in America by
Speaker 2: people that obviously believe in their specialties that they have.
Speaker 2: And that's what I think America is all about. What
Speaker 2: say you, it's important to hear this.
Speaker 1: Oh, I agree entirely. I've many many years. I used
Speaker 1: to do trade shows and gun shows around the country,
Speaker 1: and we're more regional now than we were. But I
Speaker 1: would every morning I would go jogging, and I would
Speaker 1: look at the sidewalks as I went by, and they
Speaker 1: would have they would have stamps the contractors in the cement.
Speaker 1: And what I noticed is in the past, you go
Speaker 1: back to a subdivision made in the sixties or fifties
Speaker 1: or forties, that the sidewalks were still in great shape.
Speaker 1: And you get into the seventies, eighties, and nineties and
Speaker 1: the cement is far more disrupted and broken up than
Speaker 1: it is in the sixties, fifties and forties. And what
Speaker 1: it means is the quality of workmanship has been declining.
Speaker 1: And outside my house is the stamp that you just
Speaker 1: referred to. Gw Ellis nineteen twenty seven. And you know,
Speaker 1: Los Angeles, there's earthquakes all the time. And these sidewalks
Speaker 1: have stood almost one hundred years. And we are indebted
Speaker 1: to the people that made quality, quality products. And all
Speaker 1: around us are examples of well made things and poorly
Speaker 1: made things. And my own company we spent the last
Speaker 1: year in improving even as our costs were rising on magnesium,
Speaker 1: peristerium and wood, and the wood that we use in
Speaker 1: our handle, and even the para cord that we use
Speaker 1: to attach our striker which creates the spark. All our
Speaker 1: product costs have gone up, and even during this time,
Speaker 1: we have been increasing the quality of our products. And
Speaker 1: even though we have less financial resources than we did
Speaker 1: a couple of years ago, it never blunted my commitment
Speaker 1: into making the highest quality product on the market.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, very well said, and I just want to remind
Speaker 2: everybody you're listening to the Doctor Sky Experience and proud
Speaker 2: to be here with you, ladies and gentlemen on talk
Speaker 2: radio seventy seven WABC out of New York City, around
Speaker 2: the world and maybe even out into the universe. We
Speaker 2: call it the crown Jewel of radio, the iconic talk
Speaker 2: radio station seventy seven WABC. I'm Steve Kates with great
Speaker 2: guest here on the Doctor Sky Experience as you're hearing today,
Speaker 2: Peter Vandermuelen. He of course owns a company, very interesting company,
Speaker 2: small business ladies and gentlemen, and proud to say it
Speaker 2: Firefast survival gear. Check them out, fire dashpast dot Com.
Speaker 2: And I want to mention something too. You know, you've
Speaker 2: been given some awards here and rightfully sofa the quality
Speaker 2: of this product. And we'll get into some of the
Speaker 2: items that you do sell Trekcker. This particular product that
Speaker 2: you make is rated number one by Outdoor Life magazine.
Speaker 2: Talk about that honor. That's pretty cool.
Speaker 1: Well, it was very interesting. Tim mcwelsh in twenty nineteen.
Speaker 1: He's a survival trainer in Virginia and he wrote for
Speaker 1: out to A Life magazine for many years, and he
Speaker 1: came across our firestarter in an or very organic way
Speaker 1: as he was conducting his survival classes and some of
Speaker 1: his students began to bring our firestarter to his training camp.
Speaker 1: And of course he'd never seen anything like.
Speaker 4: Us, with the quality and the ease and the ability
Speaker 4: of using alcroarics a light fires with. And so the
Speaker 4: online version in I believe July twenty nineteen about to
Speaker 4: a Life magazine, he writes an article there's about eight
Speaker 4: or ten different fire starters that he has and owns
Speaker 4: himself and rates us the number one firestarter. And what
Speaker 4: I find is oftentimes when I when I deal with
Speaker 4: survivalists and survival trainers, they all love our products. But
Speaker 4: sometimes when you get one to ten lists, when you
Speaker 4: you know we've all looked at those one to ten lists, unfortunately,
Speaker 4: some of those are dominated by uh basically companies that
Speaker 4: pay to have their position as the best fire starter
Speaker 4: out there, and you don't actually get a legitimate.
Speaker 1: Side by side comparison. And what was nice about sim
Speaker 1: mcwelsh is that he had no agenda because he does
Speaker 1: survival training, and survival training is where the rough the road.
Speaker 1: And so if your if your product doesn't work, no
Speaker 1: matter how much money you get paid to see how
Speaker 1: good it is, if it's not working, it's not working.
Speaker 1: And so he wrote an article which was just completely
Speaker 1: uh a complete comparison, and we came out number one.
Speaker 1: And I believe it's because we we use the world's
Speaker 1: best products and where the most conscientious manufacturer and make
Speaker 1: a product it's going to last many many years, and
Speaker 1: even if it sustains violent impacts, we'll still keep on working,
Speaker 1: won't fall apart, and gives you survival potential many many
Speaker 1: years into the future. And even if you never actually
Speaker 1: have to use it for that purpose yourself, you can
Speaker 1: give it to your kids and they'll still be able
Speaker 1: to use it because it will still be a usable school.
Speaker 2: And firefair survival gear will be on their minds and
Speaker 2: their children down the line. I'm a small business, ladies
Speaker 2: and gentlemen. The seed grows and that's exactly what we're
Speaker 2: talking about today. Very interesting guests here today, and I
Speaker 2: want to remind everybody there's something in the product line
Speaker 2: for everybody at every price point. So I know, if
Speaker 2: people are sitting there going, well, hey, this is a
Speaker 2: top bagnesium product in the world and all these other things,
Speaker 2: you know, maybe this is just something that I can't
Speaker 2: even think about financially, I think differently, right, I mean,
Speaker 2: you do have a variety of products and something pretty
Speaker 2: much for everybody out there. And I encourage you to
Speaker 2: go to the website again firedashpass dot com to learn
Speaker 2: so much. But what seems to be one of the
Speaker 2: better sellers right now, I mean as you go through
Speaker 2: this past year twenty twenty.
Speaker 1: Two, Yeah, the best seller is hands down, our Trekker.
Speaker 1: This is your survival your survival grade firestarter. The next
Speaker 1: one down and the Trekker is five ounces total weight.
Speaker 1: The one that a lot of campers use is called
Speaker 1: the Camper lanyard that has forty inches of pair of cord.
Speaker 4: You can wear it.
Speaker 1: Around your neck if you so choose, and it's three
Speaker 1: ounces total weight. And then we have an ultra backpackers
Speaker 1: firestarter called the Firefly, and that is one in three
Speaker 1: quarter ounces total weight.
Speaker 2: Amazing.
Speaker 1: A lot of a lot of the extreme backpackers won't
Speaker 1: ever take anything that's over two ounces, and so we
Speaker 1: made sure that that did not breach the two ounce level.
Speaker 1: And but one of the things we've done in the
Speaker 1: last year, as I said, we've increased the quality and
Speaker 1: performance of all that products. The firefly is the one
Speaker 1: where we made the biggest change. Our plant is longer,
Speaker 1: it is a slightly wider in diameter, and we doubled
Speaker 1: the size of the magnesium bar. And so I always
Speaker 1: liked the idea of having a backpacker friendly or an
Speaker 1: extreme backpacker friendly firestarter, and now it's far superior to
Speaker 1: the to the previous years. Now and it's uh, if
Speaker 1: you lit one fire day and you're out backpacking, you
Speaker 1: should get six months worth of use.
Speaker 2: Out of the out of the fire pretty and good folks,
Speaker 2: that's amazing, you know, compared to being out there imagine
Speaker 2: the foolishness. I mean, if you have nothing but simple matches. Well,
Speaker 2: now that's why you're listening to this particular interview on
Speaker 2: the Doctor's Sky experience, and now you know better. So
Speaker 2: simply this, whether you're glamping what, Peter, in the backyard
Speaker 2: or you're climbing Mount Everest or somewhere in between. This
Speaker 2: company has something to offer you, and especially in these
Speaker 2: troubling times. I don't want to be negative here, but
Speaker 2: it's always something, you know. I've been a firearm instructor,
Speaker 2: Peter for so many years here and I've had so
Speaker 2: many people come into my classes and obviously doing everything
Speaker 2: from concealed carry you know, blah blah blah. We always
Speaker 2: talk about what people need in a go bag, and
Speaker 2: obviously for those out there that don't know what a
Speaker 2: go bag is, let's say, okay, in the worst of situations, right, Peter,
Speaker 2: I'm not being alarmist at all. There should be and
Speaker 2: everybody's you know, home batteries, a source of you know, light,
Speaker 2: heat or whatever, and obviously now a way to start
Speaker 2: fire if you needed to be outside and you couldn't
Speaker 2: do anything, you know, some food rations and something to
Speaker 2: survive with for a period of fought. I mean, I've
Speaker 2: heard different estimates. I'm not a survivalist expert, but I've
Speaker 2: heard anywhere from you know, two or three days, if
Speaker 2: you had to this bookie out of your house immediately,
Speaker 2: wouldn't that be sad, But tell us about that. I mean,
Speaker 2: what do you think the average person needs if they're
Speaker 2: going to have a go bag? What do they need
Speaker 2: to have provisions for just a couple of days in
Speaker 2: the least? Right?
Speaker 1: Right? You have to have something that UH will we'll
Speaker 1: give you at least a minimum level of survivability and
Speaker 1: I and I would think at least a week. Oh
Speaker 1: and it's not that there would be necessary. But if
Speaker 1: you if if you've got more than a week's worth
Speaker 1: of supplies, it's going to be difficult to transport, especially
Speaker 1: if you have to, you know, get out and and
Speaker 1: so if you have a definitely a week's worth of
Speaker 1: sustainable supplies with you before you have to start living
Speaker 1: off the land, then you know you've got a chance
Speaker 1: to get yourself organized.
Speaker 2: Sure, and.
Speaker 1: UH without fire starters, because we're committed to the quality
Speaker 1: of them. We test them in many different ways. One
Speaker 1: of the ways I tested one of my fire starters,
Speaker 1: I placed it in the block of ice for three weeks.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 1: I then threw it off a thirty foot cliff, knocked
Speaker 1: off the rest of the ice, and lit a fire
Speaker 1: in thirty seconds.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 1: And with the trekker we placed it in a tubble
Speaker 1: water for four days. I pull it out, wipe it
Speaker 1: on my jeans, and light a fire in thirty seconds.
Speaker 2: Amazing. So there's right durability and quality and workmanship. But
Speaker 2: you know, I'm not a genius in marketing. Logos and
Speaker 2: mottos and stuff like that are slogans, but I think
Speaker 2: I came up with one for your company. And don't
Speaker 2: tell me that somebody else has beat me to the punchline.
Speaker 2: I would say it this way, firefare survival gear. Just
Speaker 2: simply keep up the fire. How about that one there?
Speaker 1: We got keep the home fires burning even away from home.
Speaker 2: Right there you go, Peter, I want to thank you
Speaker 2: for being part of this radio show and the doctor
Speaker 2: s Guy experience here. You know, my whole dream a
Speaker 2: long time ago was a New Yorker was always listening
Speaker 2: to this radio station, seventy seven WABC. They're well on
Speaker 2: the air for well over one hundred years. It's amazing.
Speaker 2: It's well in America's longest lived radio stations with great talent.
Speaker 2: So I'm privileging on it to be at least part
Speaker 2: of this team. And I have to thank so many
Speaker 2: of the people like John katzimatd is the owner of WABC,
Speaker 2: of course, and so many others. But even more so,
Speaker 2: it's people like yourself that help make up this experience
Speaker 2: from all walks of life, flighters and gentlemen. We normally
Speaker 2: talk the subjects of astronomy, space, aviation, and weather. We
Speaker 2: have many celebrity guests in the mix here. American exceptionalism.
Speaker 2: I'll never stop talking about that, you know, a salute
Speaker 2: to our veterans, first responders, and the people who work
Speaker 2: in the hospitals, obviously in these very difficult times. So Peter,
Speaker 2: I want to thank you and again, and you get
Speaker 2: the last word. Anything you did want to mention that
Speaker 2: I didn't even have a time there were a chance
Speaker 2: to ask, please go right for it.
Speaker 1: Well, the only thing I have to say about it
Speaker 1: is that I appreciate the opportunity to let people know
Speaker 1: about that product. Sure, we're committed to making the highest
Speaker 1: quality product that you can get on the market. There's
Speaker 1: nobody who makes anything even vaguely as easy to use
Speaker 1: or as durable as what we may. And so if
Speaker 1: you buy our product, you can test it yourself, and
Speaker 1: you can be safe and secure in the fact that
Speaker 1: you will be able to light a fire even if
Speaker 1: you're not Even if you're not a professional and you
Speaker 1: haven't had any instruction whatsoever, you can muddle your way
Speaker 1: through and get a fire lit without product. We've had,
Speaker 1: We've had complete and offices do that.
Speaker 2: Oh absolutely, And Peter, finally from me, I hope that
Speaker 2: if it's not already happened, that's some of these adventurers
Speaker 2: that climb these mountains like Mount Everest, that base camp,
Speaker 2: maybe they already have this in their kit. And I
Speaker 2: hope that if they don't, they're listening to this interview
Speaker 2: right now. So thank you for your time stay with
Speaker 2: us as we go to our break here, but I
Speaker 2: do appreciate your time. Again. That's Peter Vandermulen. He's the
Speaker 2: owner with his lovely wife fire Fast Survival Gear. Check
Speaker 2: them on the World Wide Web and also you can
Speaker 2: find them more on face book and YouTube for some
Speaker 2: interesting videos. But their website triblew dot firehpass dot com.
Speaker 2: This concludes this exciting addition as you folks tell us
Speaker 2: the Doctor Sky experience here on Talk Radio seventy seven WABC.
Speaker 2: As we say it, the crown jewel of radio c
Speaker 2: You next time with more interesting guests as we have
Speaker 2: as we continue to move into the new year, twenty
Speaker 2: twenty three. Thank you so much, Peter for spending time
Speaker 2: with us and educating us on something that we really
Speaker 2: need to use and have in our bag of tricks.
Speaker 2: Thank you so much.
Speaker 1: Thank you,