The speaker (Robert Nielsen) is pretty entertaining and gives a few good tips but due to lack of time (and of lack of focus) he didn't really go into a lot of detail on survival kits or explain the methods. Presumably he is a search and rescue tech. /w wilderness EMT training.
There were few parts that stuck out in my mind:
1) When using a signal device like a chem-stick make it more effective by making it larger - whirling it in a large circle. Yes it makes common sense but no it wasn't an immediate idea that came to my mind. We usually think about chem-sticks as just providing a little light but enlarging the focus by whirling it (or a small flashlight) makes your signal a much larger and more obvious target.
2) I am left eye dominant and right handed (really screwy looking when I try to shoot a bow and arrow!) so when mirror signalling I should hold my right hand out and use the mirror with my left eye to aim for the best accuracy.
3) Don't keep food/sweets in a survival kit in bear country because you may forget about having it but the bear may be able to pick of the scent.
4) Some good thoughts about "don't expect to sleep" in a survival situation and how people create their own "fears".
5) "What makes a good survival personality" discussion was interesting - I don't KNOW if that it is true. An in-depth analysis would really interesting.
6) His perspective on the usefulness of having matches in a PSK was surprising - his advice may be relevant for a non-survival expert who doesn't know much about making fires in the first place.
7) His ideas about epi-pens. "Carry min. 2 and 4 is realistic." I don't know about your area but locally they are about $96 ea. where I come from and since they have a 1-year expiration, keeping that many epi-pens is not cheap! (Perhaps buy 2 epi-pens every 6 months and rotate them out as the expire? Use the freshest ones first during an emergency.)
8) Mature snakes have better control over the amount of venom they want to inject. Small/immature snakes may give you more venom than a adult rattlesnake.
9) His defensive tactics against cougars MAY help but realistically IMHO if you actually SEE a cougar you are just a half second away from being attacked.
10) I was about ready to call him wrong on the urban legend of avoiding bears by running downhill but then I realized he was turning it into a joke and running from bears is a bad thing period.
11) Using a family secret phrase that kids will remember that might help in doing a search & rescue the little ones. I'm not a parent but I can see how that would assist in creating confidence in a scared kid and allow them to be found from their hiding places.
12) He had a number of good hints about not getting lost.
13) He turned the rule of 3s into a rule of 4s. How useful is that - not really.
HINT: You can download the video and Google's video player to watch it at a later date. The image/sound is much better as it runs in full speed and is not dependent on your ISP connection speed. I have 5 Mb download and even still the downloaded video is much better.