Phil Fischer was born in April 1974 in a cement room at Sheppard Air Force Base located off Highway 287, in Wichita Falls, Texas.

His mother did not have health insurance and back in the late 70’s, if you did not have means, air bases would provide medical care free of charge, even childbirth.

Immediately after he was born, his mom hitchhiked to the Arctic Circle and for the next 15 years they continually moved around living in small towns and villages of Alaska, and the Yukon territories learning to survive the best way that they knew how.

Growing up alone in the wilderness of Canada’s rugged Yukon Territories and Alaska was rough and living in the wilderness required you to work to live, so Phil dropped out of 8th grade to work on fishing boats and other jobs to support his mother.