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not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles.
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in
the arena. What inspired Arthur Lee protecting his daughter and
then the world's success leaves Clues will explore each chapter
of author's book Sorry Can't as a Lie and hear
from other men and women in their arenas. Get ready
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to be inspired. Welcome to the Man in the Arena.
I'm Rick Thatcher with the CEO inventor of Life Back,
Arthur Lae.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
And also Pat O'Rourke.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
We always talk about as a subtext Arthur's great book,
Sorry Can't Is a Lie?
Speaker 3 (01:06):
We talk about different chapters.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
We talk about silly one chapter, and your dear friend
is joining us tonight, and we are blessed. We are
blessed to be joined by mister Joe Piscopo.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
Oh, thank you to you.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
Look at this new book we have average Joe.
Speaker 5 (01:22):
Thanks so much for the plug last week, Arthur. That
was the nicest stake, So I really appreciate it. I
thank you so so much because I think, Arthur, you
and I have so much in common my brother, right, well, half.
Speaker 6 (01:33):
Of it makes me laugh, like you know, what's cool
when you when you get to know. We've known each
other a couple of years now, right, and he's Jo,
you know, and over time he's become such a friend,
like you know your friends with I could see something
and I'll text it to him. And in his book
he talks about Few Money, which is the show that's correct?
Speaker 7 (01:55):
Crazy, well, who gave you the speech?
Speaker 5 (02:00):
Stiller and Mirror were a comedy team. You guys are
probably too young, but they were at Sullivan show. Still
Ben's still Ben's parents, and they would be at the improvisation, right,
they'd be at the improvisation comedy clubs, right, And like
a hundred years ago, and they'd be at the bar,
and I was like an up and up in the
coming comic and we would talk to these great comedians.
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Richard Pryor would walk in and said, in the book,
you know, Rodney Dangerfield would walk in. Rodney was like
he was in person, by the way, like he.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
Was not stick.
Speaker 5 (02:30):
Yeah you're doing yeah, right, yeah, you're doing you're doing alright,
I'm okay. It was Rodney. It was right Rodney. You know,
all the all these grades were there. So then at
the bar were two really bright comedians. And if your
younger audience, Stiller and Mirror Ben's parents were geniuses.
Speaker 7 (02:45):
They were.
Speaker 5 (02:46):
They were smart. It would the way they would button
up bits. We would watch you by Dad Sullivan do bits,
not just stand up comic. And there they were at
the bar. So so I'm starting now, and I talked
to Anne and she goes, I go, somebody wants me
to do commercial.
Speaker 4 (03:01):
And they go commercials they're great.
Speaker 5 (03:03):
I go, really, she goes yeah, because that's and then
she doesn't say but she says the word.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
She goes, that's blank.
Speaker 5 (03:09):
You money, And I'm sorry, miss Mirror, what was that?
Speaker 8 (03:12):
She was?
Speaker 7 (03:13):
God?
Speaker 5 (03:13):
Like?
Speaker 4 (03:13):
You?
Speaker 5 (03:14):
You could you could you know, do what you want,
but if you get the money from the commercials, your
choices will be better because you could say no easier
then Arthur in his books and the exact same thing.
Speaker 6 (03:24):
That was reading his book. And then this is like
I said, where I'm so blessed and now we're friends.
I took a picture of my few chapters.
Speaker 9 (03:32):
Yeah yeah, how about the fact too, his dog was
otis scared the picture of my wedding party with my Yeah, yeah,
that was cool.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
And you know, you know, it's really wild.
Speaker 5 (03:45):
Guys, we have the same ex wife's unegal how that happened.
Speaker 10 (03:51):
But the dog thing.
Speaker 6 (03:54):
But here's the here's the thing, and I thought of
you and I don't even know if you told you know,
you told me this story. But they's chapter is silly, right,
And in the book we kind of expand on the
fact that silly is a good thing for bigger purpose,
you know.
Speaker 7 (04:11):
And I saw I read a story about.
Speaker 6 (04:13):
A guy who's going to go jump off the San
Francisco Golden Bray Bridge. He's going to kill himself, and
someone went by him on a bike and waved and smiled,
and he said, well, somehow that just changed me. And
I decided not to, and he went on to live
a good life and a small moment And to me,
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that is kind of the usefulness of silly. Like just
this past week, my daughter and I skied in our
tigger outfits, you know, and yeah, outside of your picture,
it's silly, but you make people smile and the little
kids laugh, and then a lot of them want to
take a picture with you, and it helps with our humanity, right,
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and that sometimes we need to laugh, we need to
lighten the up, we need to enjoy, and it's okay
to be laugh at me in those situations.
Speaker 7 (05:09):
I don't care as long as you laugh. But here's
the story. Now, I'll get it started, and then you see,
you can tell it.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
You're a garbage man, early early, early job.
Speaker 6 (05:21):
I don't even think it's in the book. So you're
a garbage man. What did you do to mess.
Speaker 7 (05:26):
With people's heads? What would you get and put it
in the garbage?
Speaker 4 (05:29):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (05:29):
We you know, we were We did the slop root
fellas the slop root was the restaurant root. So that's
what I do as a garbage man down the shore,
and the slop root went to.
Speaker 4 (05:39):
All restaurant restaurant restaurant and you.
Speaker 5 (05:41):
Man, you know, you ain't picked up garbage until you
picked up like lobster.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
Bacon in withdred three degree heat down the shore, you know.
Speaker 5 (05:48):
So now, but we would then we would go to
some bakeries and they would leave us the bread for
the garbage man. They would leave us the bread from
the night before, the leftover bread, and we were able
to eat something, you know, they eat us. It was
a wild time. It was crazy. It sounds disgusting, but
it was crazy. So then we had the truck and
I would be on the back of the truck, but
buddy Jim would drive the truck and you're on the
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back of the truck drive, you know.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
And it was so coois. I love it, you know.
Speaker 5 (06:12):
And then traffic would go by. You could maybe pick
up some pretty gals. Hey, how you doing, you know,
you know. And then but then so what we did.
We took the bread that we got and I put
it in my hand like this, and then.
Speaker 4 (06:24):
I've done this couple of times. Forgive me, it's really
bad thing.
Speaker 5 (06:27):
No listen, So now you have a family behind the
garbage truck with the dad and the mom and all
the kids in the station.
Speaker 4 (06:33):
Wagon and they're pulling up at the stop play and
you're waving. Look it's the garbage man, and we're waving.
We're waving the disk.
Speaker 5 (06:38):
Then I would put my arm into the hopper where
all the garbage is, and I would act like I
grab something.
Speaker 4 (06:43):
Of course, I had the bread in my hand.
Speaker 5 (06:44):
I pull out and I toast the family behind me
and take a bite out of the bread like I'm
eating out of the back of the garbage truck.
Speaker 4 (06:50):
You know, it would the express the expressions was wild.
It was wild man, you know. But I was the kid.
What am I going to tell you? So, I'm sorry
if I traumatize those kid.
Speaker 7 (07:00):
It's like they too.
Speaker 6 (07:03):
I think that you know, for me and you know,
it's another example of kind of getting each other right.
Speaker 7 (07:09):
So you gave him a spile. You made them think
it was silly.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
It was.
Speaker 6 (07:15):
The reason I think that people need to read your
book is there's you maintain integrity throughout your life. But
so many different avenues of a human's life, right from
from comedian Too said it live to bodybuilding to Sinatra, Like,
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I think for people's well being, it's that continuation and
and going down paths and not necessarily.
Speaker 7 (07:43):
Knowing where you were.
Speaker 6 (07:46):
Tell the story about And this is kind of another
perseverance when you you went to the comedy show the
first time and then said, oh my god, so you
got there early and who is it?
Speaker 5 (07:58):
Yeah, well we went in and the first time I
went into the comedy clubs there was such a long
line ago. I wrote about this in the book Down
forty fourth to night. It was Hell's Kitchen, guys, you know,
and I said, I'll go do some comedy. And then
I remember pulled up to the club as auditioned night.
Comedy was like rock and roll back then, Arthur, you
and I have talked about this. People don't understand that era,
the late seventies in New York and the comedy clubs
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forget about it. It was wild, comedy wise, and I wanted
to be a part of it, to maybe move on
and become an actor.
Speaker 4 (08:25):
So I drove.
Speaker 5 (08:26):
I remember I drove from Jersey to the Lincoln Tunnel
and I drove by the club. There must have been
I swear to god, there's two hundred, mabe four hundred
people lined up waiting to get in an audition.
Speaker 4 (08:35):
Man, it was that hot.
Speaker 5 (08:36):
And I just looked at that line, and I just
kept going, went right back into Lincoln Tunnel, went back
home and totally chickened out, you know.
Speaker 4 (08:42):
But then we went back.
Speaker 5 (08:44):
We would have Gilbert Goffrey would be there, Larry David
was there, Jerry Steinfeld was there, and then and then
all these guys that were I remember Elane Boozer, Bet
Midler would come in.
Speaker 7 (08:55):
Yeah, you went.
Speaker 6 (08:56):
You went at like four in the morning because they
realized that in you had to be at the front
and the line. And I think that there's a reason
that those successful comics were there at that time.
Speaker 5 (09:08):
Be a good point to your point. You we had
to get there at noon. So I got there like
think about the doors opened at eight to give us
a number. Shows were at nine, so we'd be waiting.
I was the only guy with the car. I had
this really really nondescript Fort Fairmont, remember the Fort Fairmont,
you know what I mean.
Speaker 4 (09:24):
It looked like Jerry Seinfeld, Look, it looks like a
government vehicle.
Speaker 10 (09:27):
He said.
Speaker 4 (09:28):
It was a great life, great life.
Speaker 5 (09:30):
So now it was it was noon and we'd have
to wait and spending you know, six seven, eight hours
with Gilbert Goffrey did in the car it was hysterical.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
Oh you drove with Gilbert.
Speaker 5 (09:41):
Yeah, Gilbert, Gilbert. Gilbert walked everywhere. Gilbert never had a car.
We would drive him every I was the only guy
with the car. Matter of fact, when we finally started
to make it a little bit and they got us
out to Los Angeles, I promise you this, and Gilbert
and I room together, you know, because he was too
cheap to get a hotel room. So he moved there
with Mede Gilbert Goffrey, right, And we had a blast.
He would walk Hollywood Boulevard. No one walked in LA
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in those days. Nobody walked. He's walking down and I'd
be driving to see Gilbert all by himself, New York
style walking down. But I gotta tell you, a sweetheart
of a guy. And we had a blast, and we
had it, and I learned so much from those guys.
The genius of Larry David on stage, and Larry would
get into fights with the audience. And every time Larry
would go on, we'd all run to the little opening
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that led to the showroom and we'd watch Larry bed and.
Speaker 4 (10:27):
It was it was crazy. It was crazy, but it
was so Larry.
Speaker 6 (10:31):
And it was brilliant, but you know, in the sense
of the bigger picture to the silly and its potential
good for humanity, right, and who would think silly equates
to humanity?
Speaker 7 (10:43):
The one of the things that first.
Speaker 6 (10:45):
About Joe and what made me say, I gotta stay
with this guy. He came out and he did our
five and he was gracious, and he came out and
he's always professional, you know. He cracked us up and
he did his show and we all said thank you.
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And I was watching him leave and he shook the
hand of every guy in manufacturing, and we just want
I was honored and blessed to be at his book signing.
He sanked every table.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
Right.
Speaker 6 (11:20):
Now, what your book maintains is a lot in the
sense like my book, even though we have the same story,
which is ridiculous. Yeah, there's a lot to the book,
his book that relates to the bigger picture of a
moment and your character. He succeeded because he got up
early and went to that line, right, And the reason
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that the successful guys are the ones he mentions, because
that's what it takes.
Speaker 7 (11:46):
Did you ever go? Did you ever play? What? What club?
Was that?
Speaker 4 (11:49):
Because pat improvisation forty.
Speaker 10 (11:53):
Started doing it.
Speaker 4 (11:54):
Yet it's hundred years before you started doing a bit.
Speaker 10 (11:58):
That light is gone now.
Speaker 7 (12:01):
So what was your first one?
Speaker 10 (12:02):
The comic STRIPECD.
Speaker 4 (12:04):
There it is there, it is Arthur. Back in the day.
Speaker 5 (12:07):
We had the improvent Hill's Kitchen that was us, and
then you'd go cross up town to First Avenue and
Caturizing Star was the other one, you know, and then
the comic strip that was new virtually, you know, because
I started just about when I got out of there,
the comic strip opened, and that's.
Speaker 4 (12:23):
Where Eddie would hang out.
Speaker 5 (12:24):
Jerry would hang out there and Richie take remember, huh.
Speaker 4 (12:31):
The charturizing Star. I didn't know yet. You know. It's
so funny what not? And no man, Sunday night, No listen, listen.
I gotta tell you.
Speaker 5 (12:40):
I gotta say they go to me Joe Richard Belzer
and you guys may not know what. Bells was the
guy and you guys are youngergat Bell's.
Speaker 4 (12:48):
He's the guy.
Speaker 5 (12:49):
He would Bells was the guy that invented out to
be the Master's ceremony.
Speaker 4 (12:53):
Now he was.
Speaker 5 (12:53):
He would be very blue, you know, and I'm not
but he would be like quick on stage.
Speaker 4 (12:58):
Man. We'd watch him. He would make the show rock Man.
Speaker 5 (13:01):
And he never really did the Tonight sho or anything
or got stand up gigs because he didn't have material.
Speaker 4 (13:07):
It was just there, bang bang bang bang bank. So
Bells was the guy catcher.
Speaker 5 (13:10):
As he start, I get a call Sunday afternoon, Joe
Richard can't make it with MC. And now I'm just
starting out. I mean, you want you want to meet
m C for Richard Belzer the bells Man. Absolutely. I
went in comfortable, crowd was great, all the comics were there,
George Wallace was there, everybody was there.
Speaker 4 (13:26):
It was great.
Speaker 5 (13:27):
And I go on stage and you know the story
Arthur of the book where I saw some guys in
the back of the room and it looked like it.
Speaker 4 (13:32):
Was the cast of Goodfellas.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
You know.
Speaker 4 (13:34):
Of course, I'm like, I'm too dumb like to leave
it alone. I go, hey, how you doing?
Speaker 5 (13:39):
What are you in the mob back there? Both so
it was and so it was a long story short man.
They took me in. They worked me over. Man, I
had three four guys on top of me, and I looked,
I thought George Wallace was just on my show last week.
You know, George Wallace how told is he seven feet tall?
I told him, I said, George, you couldn't even step up.
Speaker 4 (13:57):
You couldn't help me.
Speaker 5 (13:58):
Fight the mob in New York. Back he goes, No, man,
I wanted your spot on stage.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
He goes, we were talking about Joe.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
You mentioned earlier that you looked at stand up comedy
to get into like, I want to know how you
got into it, but as a means to maybe acting afterwards.
So first, what gave you the you know, what point
did you in that direction?
Speaker 4 (14:20):
You know what it was?
Speaker 5 (14:21):
I went, it's a great question, because I went to
the auditions and I went to like if there was
an audition for a film or something like that, you know,
and then I would go in and there would be
four hundred actors man lined up and this is about
this is just an audition for like a roll, And
I'm going like, whoa man, I got to wait around
like this?
Speaker 8 (14:39):
You know that.
Speaker 4 (14:40):
What's the quickest way to do it? Well?
Speaker 5 (14:41):
What if I go to the a prop I do
five seven minutes, people can see me on stage and
then you go, yeah, they like me or not.
Speaker 4 (14:47):
That's exactly, by the grace of God, that's exactly what happened.
I go on stage. I was there for six weeks.
Speaker 5 (14:53):
I got I got asked to be a regular after
about a month by Chris Aubrik. Is that why Chris
put on Larry Show. He gave me all my age
BO specials. He did the Sopranos, you know, Sex and
the City, went out to become a legendary HBO executive,
and he said, you know, when do you go in there?
So I'm up there and I remember I'm up and
one guy named Marvin Starkman. You never forget the names,
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you know, and he goes, no, I could be your
agent and I'll get your commercials. And that's exactly what happened.
I went out to do Buick, I went out to
do Dr Pepper. I went out to do corporate shows,
you know, industrial films. We used to call him back
in the days, you know, so a company would say, hey.
Speaker 4 (15:28):
Will you be the young guy in the film.
Speaker 5 (15:29):
Yeah, And the money was great, by the grace of guy,
That's all I ever wanted to do. But that's all
I got there and it worked. It's a great platform.
The comedy clubs are a great platform to this day.
Speaker 6 (15:39):
You know what's so great about your book and you
as a person is I think we tend to have
a perception maybe of.
Speaker 7 (15:47):
Ease of the star, the ease, oh he's a star, and.
Speaker 6 (15:52):
The integrity behind the In our earlier show, we talked
about integrity and you can make it integrity, and I
think that's an underlying theme in your book too, that
you don't have to sell your soul. You can be
a guy guy, you can be a good person. You
can you don't have to be in the crowd of
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selling out. And then I think is so cool, and
it goes back to the silly thing. It's okay to
be silly. That's a good thing, and making people laugh
is a good thing. And it's definitely got to read
the book.
Speaker 7 (16:28):
Did you read it?
Speaker 3 (16:28):
Yes?
Speaker 6 (16:28):
Yes, character, which I think is not necessarily known as
much as it should be. And I love to talk
about that aspect of you because you've always been there
for us to try and help save lives, and you
have saved lives, and the book shows you that you
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can be a good, average Joe and still make it.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
I have to.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
Take exception to the title unless there's more to explain this.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
This is no average jump.
Speaker 7 (16:57):
But the way I want to give this, Pat, how
did you do your first time? You were catch a
rising starng.
Speaker 11 (17:03):
No, the comic strip comics. I took a class and
then actually Brian told me class. He knows Brian, and
you got through five minutes. Yeah, so you know it
went pretty well. But he, like he says in his book,
you like you the fear of God in you. You're like,
what am I doing?
Speaker 7 (17:17):
Yeah?
Speaker 11 (17:18):
No, And like he says, too, you get the first
laugh and it's it's better than any drug. It's better
than booze. It's better than it just waves over you.
And you're like, oh, well, but you know that's that's
not every night. There's plenty of there's plenty of fearful nights.
Speaker 7 (17:30):
Joe, do you have a mom really bad?
Speaker 4 (17:33):
You know, it's a good question.
Speaker 5 (17:34):
You always I always worked the crowd, and I told
the story in the book, and you guys are identified
with it. I think when I went up and I
got my first full house, to perform in front of
a full house, what do we have a one hundred
and fifty two hundred people? Two hundred people at the
improv and then they go like this it was it
would they go, Joe, you're up. It's like two thirty
in the morning, second show, you know, like a Saturday night,
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And it was check spot.
Speaker 7 (17:59):
It was the check b I.
Speaker 4 (18:01):
Know, the worst.
Speaker 5 (18:06):
You don't want to be on stage when the bill
goes out, man, because nobody's that funny. I mean, you
don't want to be on stage where they go five
hundred dollards you and you get to blame.
Speaker 4 (18:18):
Yeah yeah, yeah. So so so now it's check spot.
Speaker 5 (18:22):
I go up and I start to do material to
the full house, dead silence, dead silence man. And it
was it was a very integral part of of my
my you know, journey in going to the comedies and
everybody's watching the back of the room and I go
and I could go, oh, I don't want to do checks, Bobby,
I can complain.
Speaker 4 (18:40):
You know. I did.
Speaker 5 (18:41):
I went somebody's snicker to said something and I went
right at the guy and I and I said, you
when something as silly as you.
Speaker 4 (18:48):
Go out dressed like that in public, you're gonna make
fun of me like that, you know, you know?
Speaker 5 (18:52):
And and it went one went from one somebody over here,
Bank Bank BA Bank, Bank Bank, It was.
Speaker 4 (18:56):
Belzer, it was Don Rickles, it was me wasn't nasty.
Speaker 5 (19:00):
And but I and I, by the grace of God,
because you don't like to have to take it for granted.
It really went well for fifteen minutes, really really went well,
and that that really cemented me. At the improv they
made me the steady master's ceremonies after that, that was
that he did.
Speaker 6 (19:16):
Now do you ever do you ever play with the
audience like I love guys?
Speaker 11 (19:21):
You know, so I interact sometimes, but you know a
lot of guys that's their whole act.
Speaker 10 (19:24):
And you know, I yea sometimes too.
Speaker 11 (19:27):
You heckling too is like you you give them a
chance or two, you be polite about it, and then
then you would tire.
Speaker 10 (19:35):
Better than anyone.
Speaker 5 (19:36):
Right, don't forget that's you know, I'm hackling the guys
from the stage.
Speaker 4 (19:40):
The mob guys I didn't know. I never well, not
a good idea.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
Now, listen, Joe, I hope you can stay with us
because we need to take a break. You're listening to
Joe Piscopal, Arthur League, Pad of Work and Rick Thatcher
on the Man in the Arena, and we'll be right
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Speaker 12 (20:36):
Here again are Arthur Lee and Rick Thatcher.
Speaker 8 (20:40):
He's got good stage presents, great set of pipes.
Speaker 10 (20:43):
He's Italian.
Speaker 7 (20:46):
And he has a unique way with a phrase.
Speaker 11 (20:48):
But more than that, there's just something I like about
the guy.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
And we love him.
Speaker 4 (20:52):
Joe Piscopo, I still can't believe that I did that.
Speaker 5 (20:56):
That I a call from Benmussinacha's office and they said, Joe,
we want you to perform on Solid Gold, which was
Dion Warwick Show.
Speaker 4 (21:06):
Right, she had a big show, big syndicated show.
Speaker 5 (21:08):
Then I'm thinking, okay, they go Frank Sinatra wants you
there in makeup, dressed like him, and and we'll pick
you up next Tuesday, seven thirty. And that Arthur, you
and I are friends, and you have friends like we
friendship we have if you when you say.
Speaker 4 (21:23):
I need you here, I don't ask where, I don't
ask when I go done done. That's it.
Speaker 5 (21:29):
That's the that's the true friendship loyalty way. So I said,
got it, bom hang up. The phone car comes up.
I get my makeup guy out there in l a
and and I go into the studio and I'm scared.
Speaker 4 (21:40):
I go, are you sure mister Sinatra wants me to do.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
Mom got.
Speaker 10 (21:49):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 5 (21:53):
Hey we haven't forgotten about catch rizing Star, right yeah
no no.
Speaker 4 (21:58):
So so I go in there and I kind of
tell you it was like.
Speaker 5 (22:02):
There was the I go in and I'm with my
girlfriend at the time, and I says, mister Sinatra on set.
Speaker 4 (22:07):
They go, well, he's in makeup, and I go great.
Speaker 5 (22:09):
So I go in and I walk up and there's
the makeup door and I knock on the door and
then the door opens. You know, with misster Sinatra, there
was no door, man, It's just miraculously opened.
Speaker 4 (22:20):
You know, and there he was sitting like this, you know,
the chair like this. You're going like, he's like, he's
got his arm.
Speaker 5 (22:26):
Out, he's got his members only jacket on, Arthur from
the nineteen eighties, you know, yeah.
Speaker 4 (22:31):
But open collar.
Speaker 5 (22:32):
And he's got the boots. I remember the boots. They
have boots he had on. I'm looking at this guy.
How cool can this guy possibly be?
Speaker 4 (22:39):
I'm thinking, you know, and I you know what he does.
Speaker 5 (22:43):
He stood up, jumped out of the chair. Hey, Joe, baby,
how are you like that? I'm telling you, I'm a
kid and I learned so when I do it, Arthur Lee,
you do the same thing when someone walks in the room.
Speaker 4 (22:56):
You come up.
Speaker 5 (22:56):
One guy walked through me at the airport the other day.
The airport the other day. Hey, Joe Fan and I
stand up like instinctively.
Speaker 4 (23:02):
Just have to respect, you know. And that's what mister
Sinatra told me. And he goes like this.
Speaker 5 (23:06):
Then I'm with I'm with my girlfriend and he says
to her, he goes, see, I never forget. He goes, hey,
is he wacky around the house? He is the word
way you know?
Speaker 7 (23:17):
Right.
Speaker 4 (23:19):
It was great, And then I did it. I was petrified,
No doubt he loved it. He loved Buddy Grayson gott.
I go like this, thank you.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
God, you know, in front of Frank.
Speaker 5 (23:28):
Doing Frank in front of him. I did it at
the Friars Club. The original story goes at the Friars Club.
Speaker 4 (23:34):
I did it for mister S. With de Martin to
my right.
Speaker 5 (23:37):
I did the Strength Sinatra, Milton Burrough, Red Buttons, Dick Sean,
Angie Dickinson, SHIRLEYE.
Speaker 4 (23:43):
McClain, Sammy, everybody.
Speaker 5 (23:46):
And there was mister S right to my left, the
two thousand people Friar's Roast, and and that's where I said,
you know, I love and he called me up there
and I go, uh, you know, mister Sinatra, I love
the way you say the word you. And everybody looks
and what's where's he going with this? And I start
to sing, I don't stand a ghost of a chance
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with you.
Speaker 7 (24:11):
I do just like that.
Speaker 5 (24:12):
So gets a big, big laugh, and I'll never forget
he's there. Jack Daniels is left hand, and he's got it.
He's got his filterles cigarette his right hand.
Speaker 4 (24:21):
He's looking up like this.
Speaker 5 (24:22):
He's going like this, and and everybody's laughing and I
feel comfortable.
Speaker 4 (24:26):
I said, hey, can I call you Frank And he
goes no, like the biggest laugh at the night.
Speaker 5 (24:33):
You know, don't push your kid. You're here, You're lucky,
don't push it. And it was a love affair ever
since it was It was great fact. I mean, you'll
understand work in the clubs though. It's like after that,
I could. I was a little rock because I met
mister s at d Martins.
Speaker 4 (24:47):
I was a little nervous.
Speaker 5 (24:48):
Because, uh, thank god, I got that one piece. In
the rest of the set went mediocre, but I got
it with mister Sinatra and he dug it man, and
that was the important thing.
Speaker 7 (24:57):
You know, No, I have a cool story.
Speaker 6 (25:00):
Guess along hour connection, right, So I was just with
Ben Carson.
Speaker 7 (25:03):
You know, that.
Speaker 4 (25:06):
Was great.
Speaker 6 (25:08):
But I guess in my world he's a bit of
a snaptra, you know, right. So it's so similar in
this sense. I'm able to try and understand a little
bit about what you felt when he said okay, or
you know he's bossing and you were in the inner
sanctum of his okay. I was with Doc Carson and
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I said, you know, I was just I don't remember exactly,
but we were going through to the set and I
said something like, doctor Carson.
Speaker 7 (25:35):
We got to I think we got to go over here.
Speaker 6 (25:37):
He looked me in the eye and he says, and
this was after hours of being together. He looked me
in the eye and he goes, Ben, I can call
him Ben.
Speaker 4 (25:46):
Oh oh, yeah, that's great.
Speaker 7 (25:49):
It's great the way he did it. He's a humble man.
He's a beautiful human.
Speaker 6 (25:56):
I can imagine that moment of kind of the blessing
of Frank Sinatra.
Speaker 3 (26:01):
Especially you.
Speaker 7 (26:01):
You're so respectful. You're a Jersey guy.
Speaker 5 (26:04):
Yeah, Italians and my father, My father and mister s
were the same exact day, same exact area, Jersey, Italian Americans.
Both their parents came from Italy. They were exactly. I
would see my father, that's what's all about. I see
mister S and I watch him and I watch his
movements and I watch his vocal intonations. And there's so
much of my father, that generation, that that greatest generation.
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But as of the side guys, if I can Arthur
Ben Carson's one of the great humans on the planet. Man,
this this guy is indent great. It's the nicest guy
in the world, smartest guy in the world gentleman, and
I was so impressed.
Speaker 4 (26:38):
May I ask is he is?
Speaker 3 (26:39):
He?
Speaker 4 (26:39):
Is he talking about Life Back?
Speaker 7 (26:41):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (26:41):
We Uh, he came on and he see he saw
life Back. He liked that back. And I can't tell
if he contacted us to say he likes it or
we did. And he we had a talk with him,
and he's kind of funny, and he said, you know,
I kind of want to be involved with something.
Speaker 7 (26:58):
That's not AI me and actual me takes.
Speaker 6 (27:02):
Something I care about, and I think, so, what are
comfortable words of uh encouragement for the fact that he
wants to help us, you know, commercials.
Speaker 7 (27:13):
But he was, he was there. He believes in it.
Speaker 6 (27:16):
As a nerve surgeon, he you know, he's seen what
happens with some deterioration or neurological system and how you
need a choking device.
Speaker 10 (27:26):
But dude, you're right.
Speaker 7 (27:28):
What a just a great human.
Speaker 5 (27:31):
Yeah yeah, yeah, Speaking of which, yesterday was Saint Joseph' day.
Speaker 4 (27:35):
I gotta do this. Look at this is it? I
found this T shirt? This is what shirt?
Speaker 5 (27:40):
I don't I'm doing my John Fetterman impression here today
on the show. You know, no, no, and I no,
I'm a casual here. I mean, look at it, Saint Joseph.
Saint Joseph, look at it.
Speaker 4 (27:53):
Look at it.
Speaker 5 (27:54):
You look at it, and work hard at prey hard it,
says Saint Joseph, the Worker. This is the foster file
father of Jesus. And you know what, and I know
you think about it. He's the guy where Mary came
to him and said, you know, I'm gonna have a baby.
And Joseph goes, you know, I mean really he goes.
He goes, yeah, sorry, you're gona have a baby. Yeah,
(28:15):
but yeah, I got I got visited by this angel,
you know. And Joseph's like, who's this angel?
Speaker 1 (28:20):
Guy?
Speaker 4 (28:20):
I mean you know what I mean.
Speaker 7 (28:21):
You know you read from the South Bronx tell you.
Speaker 4 (28:26):
So.
Speaker 5 (28:26):
Now this guy Joseph, he gets a dream and he
sticks right by Mary's side.
Speaker 4 (28:33):
Put all the religion aside.
Speaker 5 (28:34):
Let's go to a Jewish couple from Nazareth walking taking
a donkey to Jerusalem for crying out loud to have
a baby, because they didn't want the baby to be killed,
you know, and it was.
Speaker 4 (28:46):
And as a as a guy who walked.
Speaker 5 (28:49):
The planet, you know, of course, the Catholics made him
a safe that's my patron safe Saint Joseph.
Speaker 4 (28:53):
I can't believe I found it online.
Speaker 5 (28:54):
And I think, now, guys, if I may, in the
political atmosphere, were allowed to, you know, be proud about
our certainly religions.
Speaker 4 (29:00):
Now you know they don't want to filify us. Am
I right?
Speaker 2 (29:02):
I would be remiss and I would hate to miss
the opportunity of tying in family because I know it's
a huge part of like your background, what gave you
the uh inspiration, your work ethic, all that talk about
the importance of you know, you talk a lot about
your mom and your dad.
Speaker 6 (29:19):
Yeah, I got more on his mom, and boy, she
was something else and we lose Joe, I.
Speaker 4 (29:28):
Got you, I got you. We're there.
Speaker 3 (29:30):
Our screen just went off for a second.
Speaker 4 (29:32):
Yeah, that's it's the message. That's message from my mother.
I get these messages all the time. I get him
all the time.
Speaker 7 (29:39):
He got mad. We were talking about it.
Speaker 5 (29:43):
I get I tell you, they we could talk now
because it's just us, but got your money. I get
these messages, man, you know, I go down the shore
or something and and and then my phone will go
off and it'll say mom and like and the phone
starts calling Mom. I'm telling you what I get these things,
and it's like, and I know it's her because her
faith was so strong.
Speaker 7 (30:03):
I lost her.
Speaker 5 (30:03):
Yeah, I lost her about a year ago. She was
a big influence. And when she was, you know, sick
and started to pass away. I saw her go to
the other side, Arthur, I told you that, right. I
saw her go to the other side. She was talking
to the other side. Gave her her last rites. Guys,
my mother got but ninety nine ninety nine and last right,
And I'm looking and she's talking like she's talking to somebody,
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like in a conversation. And I'm going and I say
to the priest, to father Georgia and your father to her,
is she on the other side?
Speaker 4 (30:31):
And he's like, yeah, what do you expect, you know.
Speaker 10 (30:33):
He's a priest.
Speaker 4 (30:35):
Yeah, this is what we do.
Speaker 5 (30:36):
That's what I do is by me here, all right.
I'm going like, well, and then she came out of it.
And then she opened her eyes and she goes, I
want to sit up, and I stood, you know, shat
her up, and she goes, I want Chinese food.
Speaker 4 (30:49):
And then she was good.
Speaker 5 (30:50):
For like a week after that, you know, I mean,
but she was a great influence.
Speaker 4 (30:54):
She was.
Speaker 5 (30:55):
She is the reason for my faith and the reason
for my strength. And I know she's what you over.
Speaker 8 (31:00):
Man.
Speaker 5 (31:00):
My dad too got got you know, by the grace
of God Almighty, I'm very, very blessed with my parents.
Speaker 7 (31:05):
I think.
Speaker 6 (31:05):
I think that's why I pray. I hope more people
read your book. Younger people read your book all they
read mine for the same odd way that there are
lessons to be learned. Faith pays off, do the right thing,
work hard.
Speaker 7 (31:20):
You know these are not.
Speaker 6 (31:21):
Astronomically insane ideas. Have faith, and you know your book
brings a lot to light. And I loved it, and
I loved you. I appreciate you so much and for
being there for us.
Speaker 3 (31:35):
So you know, you just man. And they were in
a group hugged r.
Speaker 11 (31:39):
Joe Piscopos story. So I met you four or five times.
We used to go to the Yogi Barret tournament every year,
the golf tournament.
Speaker 10 (31:46):
A good friend of mine.
Speaker 11 (31:47):
Good friend of mine was neighbors with Yogi and great guy.
He now flies around sick people for free. He has
a plane, but he used to fly Yogi back and
forth to the Hall of Fame every year.
Speaker 10 (31:56):
And they raffle off something at his tournament.
Speaker 11 (31:58):
If you want to take a fight with Yogi and
like you're just like in your book, you would work
the room.
Speaker 10 (32:03):
You'd be saying hi to everyone.
Speaker 11 (32:05):
I actually met you in the bathroom once with like
your son, shake your head, it's something.
Speaker 10 (32:12):
Yeah, you were great. You were just like see John.
Speaker 5 (32:16):
Thanks man Yo Yoga, thank you, thanks for supporting yoga.
Remember those days directly man Yogi yog Yogi very special guy, funny, funny, nice, decent.
Speaker 4 (32:27):
He and Carmen. It was great. Those were great days. Man.
But again it's it's all about my parents.
Speaker 5 (32:31):
But Arthur, I gotta tell you, like I talked to
you and then less time I was with you guys
out there, and then you said, you know, and there's
some things were happening always.
Speaker 4 (32:40):
In the news.
Speaker 5 (32:40):
Something horrible was happening in Orleans, and you said, yeah,
that's the bad stuff. Let me talk about the thirty
three hundred, now four thousand lives that we have saved.
That that is exactly what we've tried to do. Matter
of fact, for Lent, I've given up negative news.
Speaker 4 (32:54):
That's what I did.
Speaker 5 (32:55):
Yeah, I said, you know, good for everybody.
Speaker 7 (33:00):
Take a break, you know.
Speaker 5 (33:01):
I said, I said, if if I see one more time,
can I let me just ran for a second.
Speaker 4 (33:05):
I go.
Speaker 5 (33:06):
You know, I don't watch the other networks. And I
don't just dislike them. I don't hate anybody.
Speaker 4 (33:11):
I don't.
Speaker 5 (33:11):
I just don't want to hear the constant negativity. I
don't want to hear it because there's no basis for it.
You should be lucky that you're hearing America the greatest
country in the world. You should be easy to embrace it,
you know, like my grandparents. Just be behind me, if
you can see that's my that's my grandfather Rose Audio
there with his brother, you know, and and these guys.
And you go in and and when I go, and
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when I go out there and I'm out and I
and I'm always you know, preaching what's good and what's
nice and everything. I mean, that's that's exactly what it's
all about. And then and I go and if I
see a negative story and someone goes, did you see.
Speaker 4 (33:45):
What they said?
Speaker 5 (33:46):
I'll see an end or really, you know, I don't
no disrespect. I don't want to watch see it then,
you know, but they always show it, don't they show it?
Look what they said on MSNBC, and you go, WHOA.
You know, I just I'm watching you because you got
no everybody wants to watch you, not the birth.
Speaker 4 (34:01):
So I'm giving all that up on the radio. So
we're taking a high road, taking a high road. You
gotta do it.
Speaker 2 (34:07):
You're listening to the legendary Joe Episcopal on the Man
in the Arena, Arthur Lee, Patrick O'Rourke, Rick Thatcher, Joe.
Speaker 3 (34:15):
We love you.
Speaker 4 (34:16):
I love you back. They keep up the great work, guys,
four thousand. I love it. I bless you, guys, God
bless everybody.
Speaker 7 (34:23):
I appreciate it, thank you, thank you, by thank you.
Speaker 8 (34:26):
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Speaker 12 (35:30):
Here again are Arthur Lee and Rick Thatcher.
Speaker 6 (35:34):
Gosh, how great well we were actually chat really it
was a good pat that you've met him.
Speaker 10 (35:40):
And how share that story what he tells about his book.
He's that's what he's like. He's a blue collar guy.
Couldn't be nice to everyone. Yep. Works the room and
you and you'll watch him. He's going to table.
Speaker 11 (35:50):
He doesn't have to go to a table, a table,
a table taking pictures with everyone, just in a class
act Yep.
Speaker 6 (35:56):
And it's so cool when someone that you kind of
look up to or you know, I know Mike I
loved him and Johnny dangerously. Yeah, I was episcopal guy.
Speaker 3 (36:06):
It didn't we didn't.
Speaker 4 (36:07):
Have to show it.
Speaker 2 (36:07):
There's this book average Joe, make sure you're picking up.
But we had the clip. I had the TikTok ready
for all the Johnny Dangerously lines and the trailer. You know,
he did the trailer for Johnny Dangerously, not Michael Keaton.
Johnny Danny Verman is in the theater production booth talking
talking about the we have it, but we'll see them.
Speaker 6 (36:27):
But you know what, but it goes into that, like
when he first came out for a five hundred saves
and he did his thing, and I watched him thank everyone.
It made me reassure that it does make sense that
at that place he was nice and talked everyone. But
he told his story about Johnny Dangerously when he get
hung on the hook and he said, you know, he
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was a bigger guy. Michael Keaton was having kind of trouble,
so they put a box and he kind of lifted
himself up on the hook. But as a fan and
someone watch behind the scene is to hear him tell
the story about how they would crack it up. And
when you get to spend time with him that's not
rushed and he shares these stories. You know, it's so
(37:13):
fun and he's so humble, So it's it's cool, like
he tells the story. He's not bragging, he's just kind
of chatting about it.
Speaker 3 (37:20):
No joke.
Speaker 2 (37:21):
That movie poster Johnny Dangerously, which adorns the walls of
your office, was there since the beginning, right.
Speaker 10 (37:29):
I love He kept saying, you guys are so much
younger than me. We're not really here. Yeah I know,
I know. I don't know if you guys remember yeah.
Speaker 6 (37:37):
Yeah, well yeah, hear the word where Rickles talks about
Sinatra and he says, you know, can you come over?
And yes, He's like, not, Frank, I'm trying to.
Speaker 7 (37:49):
Typical Rickles.
Speaker 2 (37:51):
Well, so, I don't think this transition has ever happened
before in the history radio. We're gonna go from Joe
Piscopo to Colonel Christopher Douglas.
Speaker 3 (38:00):
Oh yeah, so if Chris is still with us, c J.
How are you tonight?
Speaker 4 (38:04):
Good?
Speaker 13 (38:05):
Good to see all of you. I got the power
team sitting there.
Speaker 7 (38:08):
Oh man, did you hear that? Did you hear us
talking with Joe?
Speaker 13 (38:11):
I did? It was It was exciting and informative. Joe's
Joe's awesome.
Speaker 3 (38:17):
Yeah he is.
Speaker 7 (38:17):
He's such a good man. Sweet man.
Speaker 3 (38:20):
Thanks man, Yeah, it is really is.
Speaker 2 (38:23):
But I thought it would be great to check in
with you because we got a big mission coming up
next week I wanted to talk about. I don't know
how much of it is classified or we can share,
but again, Colonel Chris and I are going to be
going down.
Speaker 10 (38:39):
Yeah. Nice. That's your neck of the woods, isn't it.
Speaker 7 (38:41):
What do you that in Florida?
Speaker 3 (38:43):
He was in Tampa.
Speaker 13 (38:44):
I was in Tampa. But I'm back up and I'm
back up state. I'm up in Boston.
Speaker 7 (38:48):
Spot.
Speaker 10 (38:48):
That's a short ride for him, twenty eight hours, nothing,
drive right through.
Speaker 6 (38:52):
I got a call, I jumped to the car, I left. Okay,
So what are you guys doing there?
Speaker 7 (38:58):
What's up?
Speaker 2 (38:59):
We're going to be meeting with Major General Heartzell. Yeah,
and Patriot of CJS and uh CJ. I mean you
came on another member of Team I FACT on a
special mission to help protect our veterans, right, and I
think there's a lot of things moving in our favor,
including this meeting coming up.
Speaker 3 (39:18):
I would agree.
Speaker 13 (39:18):
I mean, you know, Major General Hertzel is of course
a part of the v A system. He has as
well a background in the medical field. And you know,
just a general good guy, no pun intended.
Speaker 3 (39:35):
General. He's major he's major league.
Speaker 13 (39:37):
Yeah, but you know he's interested in learning, learn more
about it and seeing how how I can assist with
the veteran community.
Speaker 3 (39:44):
So yeah, and we're just again.
Speaker 6 (39:47):
We met with a bunch of people from the Stony
Brook and they also have a large VA community. So
maybe when you get back we kind of go out
there together. But you know, it's an honor. CJ is
another guy that you get stories in your kind of
heads business, like Joe telling me about hanging out with
Frank Sinatra and him telling us about what he's been
through in the service to our country. But you know,
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the mission to make sure that our veterans are covered,
particularly those that have been injured that without a light
back and following the Red Cross guidelines, had no option.
And you know I always tell you I don't I
don't have to, but it just sticks. It almost hurts me.
You know that these men and women have given so
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much and all we want to do is make sure
they have a chance too, that they are they have
a chance in a choke emergency, if they've been injured
in a wheelchair or other medical conditions. So I appreciate
you and I appreciate going down there and you guys
doing that.
Speaker 7 (40:49):
It's something we have to address. You know, it's just
not negotiable. You cannot just.
Speaker 10 (40:54):
Die, you know, so that way especially.
Speaker 6 (40:56):
Yeah, especially, it gave so much for us and you
just sit there and then watch it and.
Speaker 2 (41:01):
You know what so much as so much is on
our side Number one Life Act.
Speaker 7 (41:06):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (41:07):
But Doug Collins, new Secretary Veterans Affairs.
Speaker 6 (41:10):
We have God that we met and became. Absolutely we
have you and uh, you know that's how change happens,
you know, courage and perseverance.
Speaker 7 (41:21):
So we use our cards to persevere.
Speaker 13 (41:24):
And Arthur, as you point out, I mean, it's not
that it's preventable, but it's possible to eliminate the number
of deaths, regardless of whether it's service members, service members, families,
extended families, kids in schools, whatever it is. It's it's
a you know, it's an effective tool. And uh, and
it's great that the protocol.
Speaker 6 (41:44):
Now addresses the medical need for people in wheelchairs and
numerous you know, scoliosis brace There's a lot of reasons
you cannot behind effectively.
Speaker 7 (41:56):
But to me, we we got to go with our
of the big guy.
Speaker 6 (42:01):
Directing us us, becoming front us, getting to know you,
having some time in your life that you can help us,
Having Rick on board to work with you, like you know,
bigger picture stuff that is going to help us succeed,
save our veterans and change the make sure people are
aware that there is an option now and let's change this.
Speaker 3 (42:22):
Stop it absolutely well.
Speaker 2 (42:24):
Looking forward to working with you next week as always,
Colonel Christopher CJ.
Speaker 3 (42:28):
Douglass.
Speaker 2 (42:29):
So we'll be right back after this brief message with
Ray preview, mister three thousand, don't go away, We'll be
right back.
Speaker 13 (42:35):
I was in the living room when I heard my
son Carter, who was two at the time.
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the Life Back Radio Show.
Speaker 12 (44:37):
Here again are Arthur Lee and Rick Thatcher.
Speaker 2 (44:40):
You know what we come to this part of the show.
We've been so honored to have Joe Piscopal with us.
We talk about his book Average. Joe shared so many
great stories and we could have spent another hour, no
question CJ two. Yes, oh good, great stuff, great stuff.
But you know what, I was happy because when we
get to the end, we know that you have our
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cleanup hitter. I know, mister Ray preby mister three thousands.
Speaker 8 (45:04):
It's been a great week, great week.
Speaker 6 (45:06):
Hey wait, I want to thank you for that call
we made together the Children's hospital.
Speaker 7 (45:10):
I I enjoyed it very much.
Speaker 6 (45:13):
I enjoyed the people, but I enjoy that I get
to spend some time with you and watch your passion
and appreciate it.
Speaker 8 (45:21):
So I want to absolutely I you know, I sobbed.
I'm not gonna lie, you know, telling my story, I
get very emotional but again it's for a good purpose,
you know, spreading the word, getting people to understand what
life back is, what it does, how easy it is
to use. That's my life goal. Get the word out there,
get it in everyone's hands. That's why I'm here.
Speaker 6 (45:43):
But it was just I enjoy your company as a friend,
but also get to feel that gratitude of your your
sharing of gratitude and the pain and forward.
Speaker 7 (45:54):
And it's for me.
Speaker 6 (45:56):
It's nice to watch that, to see someone else take
us on. And we have numerous my factors, but I
just I just want to say I was grateful. And
I don't know how many saves we've had today, So
you're going to fill us in and I'm going to
be very happy.
Speaker 8 (46:10):
We have a total two saves three thousand, seven hundred
and thirty five saves today, two thousand, three hundred and
thirty two children.
Speaker 3 (46:21):
Just those that are reported. Three two we learned every day.
Speaker 6 (46:25):
Do you know how many today, Tim, I give you
the how many we had today.
Speaker 8 (46:30):
We had let me look it up real quick, but
I can tell you we do have thirty eight saves
this week that don't go from the thirteenth to the twentieth.
We've had thirty eight saves and we've had today six
six saves today my sixth saves. Wait a minute, how
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many have we had since number three thousand, seven hundred
and thirty five saves? And how many days? One hundred
and fifty one day we've had seven hundred and thirty
five tapes.
Speaker 3 (47:03):
That is I mean Pat is scribbling feverishly.
Speaker 7 (47:07):
You know, we were a three and a half a day.
Speaker 10 (47:09):
That's unbelievable.
Speaker 6 (47:10):
We were in the whole of Saves today with the
people from Stonybrook and we were pointing out and we
we were going through something that we know and seen
and that a.
Speaker 7 (47:21):
Lot of them on the first wall of the earlier days.
Speaker 6 (47:23):
And then we spun around and and Rick pointed out
yours and I thought, you up on the lift putting
it up there, and your daughter come flying across and
sliding your freaking heroes And.
Speaker 8 (47:38):
It didn't even slow her down back up and kept
on going.
Speaker 6 (47:42):
Yeah, she could have took third base after slide into
the second with her jump up and go. But it
was just a cool memory of a life moment.
Speaker 2 (47:51):
Yeah, And they do stand you know, certain members like
stand out. And I remember as I was trying to
tell the story to the nice young lady from Stonybrook Development.
Speaker 3 (48:01):
Why do you call it, mister three thousand.
Speaker 2 (48:03):
Yeah, So it's just a great story to tell and
just show the evolution of that room and Jacksonville.
Speaker 8 (48:12):
I had people from the UH from the audience coming up,
you're mister three thousand, You're mister three thousand. So yeah,
it's it's a humbling experience and I love it. It's
it's getting a word out there that you want to.
Speaker 7 (48:25):
Talk about that. Ben Carson recites your line when he says,
you know, I hope you what is your line? I
hope you never use it. But if you do, way.
Speaker 8 (48:34):
Back have it and not need it. Don't need it
and not have it. The life you saved could be
your own.
Speaker 6 (48:40):
He said that on our first conference call, and I
was like, I've heard that someone.
Speaker 7 (48:46):
It was.
Speaker 10 (48:48):
Three thousand save in the last one hundred and fifty
one days.
Speaker 11 (48:51):
You're aving like four point eight saves a day, and
that's what they report, right, Yeah.
Speaker 6 (48:57):
You know, but that's that's kind of where the whole
saves the people that are watching and people on the radio.
Whole saves is we have pictures of everyone we saved.
So coming up four thousand pictures on the wall, and
it's like it's our cathedral.
Speaker 7 (49:11):
And if you go to Life back that you can
see it.
Speaker 6 (49:14):
But it takes the number out and it puts it
back to humanity. And then what was it? How many
days did you say?
Speaker 10 (49:21):
Four point eight a day since three?
Speaker 7 (49:23):
That right?
Speaker 11 (49:24):
So that means people a day. Yeah, that wouldn't have
been here, right, I mean that's.
Speaker 7 (49:29):
The crushing of the souls of everyone around.
Speaker 10 (49:32):
Over two thousand kids the biggest.
Speaker 6 (49:35):
And then if you were there at the children's hospital
when Ra spoke, you would really get what.
Speaker 7 (49:42):
One life is. I know, I have kids.
Speaker 10 (49:44):
Yeah, I can't even.
Speaker 8 (49:45):
Imagine speaking one life. Let's let's roll into the highlight
of the week, showing highlight the week. The highlight of
the week, here we go. A thirty nine year old
female with a neurological disorder choked whilst taking her medication,
causing a total obstruction. Protocol was not followed as she
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was found completely unresponsible. The mother stated she was she
almost died in the bathroom. We did four CPR sets
of compressions and in between four Life back polls, she
came to on the fourth pole with the Life back.
The Life Back completely cleared the blockage. There's absolutely no
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doubt in my mind that life Act saved her life.
God bless the man who invented this device.
Speaker 6 (50:38):
Wow, all right, I mean you read that and that's
what they wrote, so you know what that moment.
Speaker 11 (50:46):
Every week the same line absolutely without a doubt, saved
the life.
Speaker 8 (50:51):
And for somebody in that position such as myself, you
feel it. You can feel the emotion behind those words.
Speaker 7 (50:58):
That's what it's all about. Brother stuff.
Speaker 2 (51:01):
Each week I'm brought brought back to that moment that
you've told us about. We've seen on the news about
you saving your daughter and uh, it's such an impact
on me that you know, your realization number one, that
you're saving your daughter's life, but also the humanity and
the uh, the awareness level of Life Back has grown
where two passing by motorists also come by.
Speaker 8 (51:25):
Actually saw what was going on, stopped and actually was
running towards us with their life back.
Speaker 6 (51:30):
Well, we got to keep that going, keep going. You know,
I take a testament to the power of what he
experienced and reading that, you could feel him.
Speaker 7 (51:39):
That's why he's here helping him. He's he's guy.
Speaker 6 (51:42):
Takes time out of us every week to make sure
he comes on with some widow shirt.
Speaker 3 (51:46):
And whoa, whoa does.
Speaker 15 (51:52):
Man see that one coming loud to pick on each
other his dedication just to help of it, that's what
it's about. And they share his painful story or to
read off these stories and come every week and help
us spread the word. Honored to know you, and I
am grateful that we're friends too, because that's awesome.
Speaker 2 (52:14):
Absolutely, absolutely we're surrounded by great individuals. In fact, you know,
for those that don't see the our green room, Colonel
Chris is still in connected to us. God bless you,
Colonel Chris. Ah cool j mister three thousand ray prev.
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Problems with knockoffs and counterfeits and we just got to
get the real McCoy. But listen, we want to thank
you so much for joining us on the Man in
the Arena, Arthur Lee, thank you so much for everything.
Speaker 10 (52:58):
I have an update too. I say fourth of July
of four thousand, it's probably gonna be early June.
Speaker 7 (53:03):
Let's start that. Every show a guess, are you going
to next show?
Speaker 10 (53:06):
My birthday is June seventh.
Speaker 11 (53:08):
I will go with my birthday will be four thousand,
not save myself, just to get.
Speaker 8 (53:14):
My prediction next week on when it's gonna happen.
Speaker 2 (53:17):
Okay, you know what, Ray, I think as part of
your assignment, we're going to have an official contest and
we'll log everybody's employ Yeah, let's make Raad do more work.
Speaker 11 (53:26):
Absolutely now, as on as you're at it, I say,
June seventh my birthday.
Speaker 3 (53:30):
All right, thank you so much for joining us. I'm Rick.
Speaker 2 (53:33):
I'm with Arthur Lee CEO, in ventor of life. Back
on the Man in the Arena.
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Speaker 2 (00:09):
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Teddy Roosevelt said it best. It is not the critical accounts,
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not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles.
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in
the arena. What inspired Arthur Lee protecting his daughter and
then the world's success leaves Clues will explore each chapter
of author's book Sorry Can't as a Lie and hear
from other men and women in their arenas. Get ready
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to be inspired. Welcome to the Man in the Arena.
I'm Rick Thatcher with the CEO inventor of Life Back,
Arthur Lae.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
And also Pat O'Rourke.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
We always talk about as a subtext Arthur's great book,
Sorry Can't Is a Lie?
Speaker 3 (01:06):
We talk about different chapters.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
We talk about silly one chapter, and your dear friend
is joining us tonight, and we are blessed. We are
blessed to be joined by mister Joe Piscopo.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
Oh, thank you to you.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
Look at this new book we have average Joe.
Speaker 5 (01:22):
Thanks so much for the plug last week, Arthur. That
was the nicest stake, So I really appreciate it. I
thank you so so much because I think, Arthur, you
and I have so much in common my brother, right, well, half.
Speaker 6 (01:33):
Of it makes me laugh, like you know, what's cool
when you when you get to know. We've known each
other a couple of years now, right, and he's Jo,
you know, and over time he's become such a friend,
like you know your friends with I could see something
and I'll text it to him. And in his book
he talks about Few Money, which is the show that's correct?
Speaker 7 (01:55):
Crazy, well, who gave you the speech?
Speaker 5 (02:00):
Stiller and Mirror were a comedy team. You guys are
probably too young, but they were at Sullivan show. Still
Ben's still Ben's parents, and they would be at the improvisation, right,
they'd be at the improvisation comedy clubs, right, And like
a hundred years ago, and they'd be at the bar,
and I was like an up and up in the
coming comic and we would talk to these great comedians.
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Richard Pryor would walk in and said, in the book,
you know, Rodney Dangerfield would walk in. Rodney was like
he was in person, by the way, like he.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
Was not stick.
Speaker 5 (02:30):
Yeah you're doing yeah, right, yeah, you're doing you're doing alright,
I'm okay. It was Rodney. It was right Rodney. You know,
all the all these grades were there. So then at
the bar were two really bright comedians. And if your
younger audience, Stiller and Mirror Ben's parents were geniuses.
Speaker 7 (02:45):
They were.
Speaker 5 (02:46):
They were smart. It would the way they would button
up bits. We would watch you by Dad Sullivan do bits,
not just stand up comic. And there they were at
the bar. So so I'm starting now, and I talked
to Anne and she goes, I go, somebody wants me
to do commercial.
Speaker 4 (03:01):
And they go commercials they're great.
Speaker 5 (03:03):
I go, really, she goes yeah, because that's and then
she doesn't say but she says the word.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
She goes, that's blank.
Speaker 5 (03:09):
You money, And I'm sorry, miss Mirror, what was that?
Speaker 8 (03:12):
She was?
Speaker 7 (03:13):
God?
Speaker 5 (03:13):
Like?
Speaker 4 (03:13):
You?
Speaker 5 (03:14):
You could you could you know, do what you want,
but if you get the money from the commercials, your
choices will be better because you could say no easier
then Arthur in his books and the exact same thing.
Speaker 6 (03:24):
That was reading his book. And then this is like
I said, where I'm so blessed and now we're friends.
I took a picture of my few chapters.
Speaker 9 (03:32):
Yeah yeah, how about the fact too, his dog was
otis scared the picture of my wedding party with my Yeah, yeah,
that was cool.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
And you know, you know, it's really wild.
Speaker 5 (03:45):
Guys, we have the same ex wife's unegal how that happened.
Speaker 10 (03:51):
But the dog thing.
Speaker 6 (03:54):
But here's the here's the thing, and I thought of
you and I don't even know if you told you know,
you told me this story. But they's chapter is silly, right,
And in the book we kind of expand on the
fact that silly is a good thing for bigger purpose,
you know.
Speaker 7 (04:11):
And I saw I read a story about.
Speaker 6 (04:13):
A guy who's going to go jump off the San
Francisco Golden Bray Bridge. He's going to kill himself, and
someone went by him on a bike and waved and smiled,
and he said, well, somehow that just changed me. And
I decided not to, and he went on to live
a good life and a small moment And to me,
(04:33):
that is kind of the usefulness of silly. Like just
this past week, my daughter and I skied in our
tigger outfits, you know, and yeah, outside of your picture,
it's silly, but you make people smile and the little
kids laugh, and then a lot of them want to
take a picture with you, and it helps with our humanity, right,
(04:57):
and that sometimes we need to laugh, we need to
lighten the up, we need to enjoy, and it's okay
to be laugh at me in those situations.
Speaker 7 (05:09):
I don't care as long as you laugh. But here's
the story. Now, I'll get it started, and then you see,
you can tell it.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
You're a garbage man, early early, early job.
Speaker 6 (05:21):
I don't even think it's in the book. So you're
a garbage man. What did you do to mess.
Speaker 7 (05:26):
With people's heads? What would you get and put it
in the garbage?
Speaker 4 (05:29):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (05:29):
We you know, we were We did the slop root
fellas the slop root was the restaurant root. So that's
what I do as a garbage man down the shore,
and the slop root went to.
Speaker 4 (05:39):
All restaurant restaurant restaurant and you.
Speaker 5 (05:41):
Man, you know, you ain't picked up garbage until you
picked up like lobster.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
Bacon in withdred three degree heat down the shore, you know.
Speaker 5 (05:48):
So now, but we would then we would go to
some bakeries and they would leave us the bread for
the garbage man. They would leave us the bread from
the night before, the leftover bread, and we were able
to eat something, you know, they eat us. It was
a wild time. It was crazy. It sounds disgusting, but
it was crazy. So then we had the truck and
I would be on the back of the truck, but
buddy Jim would drive the truck and you're on the
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back of the truck drive, you know.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
And it was so coois. I love it, you know.
Speaker 5 (06:12):
And then traffic would go by. You could maybe pick
up some pretty gals. Hey, how you doing, you know,
you know. And then but then so what we did.
We took the bread that we got and I put
it in my hand like this, and then.
Speaker 4 (06:24):
I've done this couple of times. Forgive me, it's really
bad thing.
Speaker 5 (06:27):
No listen, So now you have a family behind the
garbage truck with the dad and the mom and all
the kids in the station.
Speaker 4 (06:33):
Wagon and they're pulling up at the stop play and
you're waving. Look it's the garbage man, and we're waving.
We're waving the disk.
Speaker 5 (06:38):
Then I would put my arm into the hopper where
all the garbage is, and I would act like I
grab something.
Speaker 4 (06:43):
Of course, I had the bread in my hand.
Speaker 5 (06:44):
I pull out and I toast the family behind me
and take a bite out of the bread like I'm
eating out of the back of the garbage truck.
Speaker 4 (06:50):
You know, it would the express the expressions was wild.
It was wild man, you know. But I was the kid.
What am I going to tell you? So, I'm sorry
if I traumatize those kid.
Speaker 7 (07:00):
It's like they too.
Speaker 6 (07:03):
I think that you know, for me and you know,
it's another example of kind of getting each other right.
Speaker 7 (07:09):
So you gave him a spile. You made them think
it was silly.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
It was.
Speaker 6 (07:15):
The reason I think that people need to read your
book is there's you maintain integrity throughout your life. But
so many different avenues of a human's life, right from
from comedian Too said it live to bodybuilding to Sinatra, Like,
(07:35):
I think for people's well being, it's that continuation and
and going down paths and not necessarily.
Speaker 7 (07:43):
Knowing where you were.
Speaker 6 (07:46):
Tell the story about And this is kind of another
perseverance when you you went to the comedy show the
first time and then said, oh my god, so you
got there early and who is it?
Speaker 5 (07:58):
Yeah, well we went in and the first time I
went into the comedy clubs there was such a long
line ago. I wrote about this in the book Down
forty fourth to night. It was Hell's Kitchen, guys, you know,
and I said, I'll go do some comedy. And then
I remember pulled up to the club as auditioned night.
Comedy was like rock and roll back then, Arthur, you
and I have talked about this. People don't understand that era,
the late seventies in New York and the comedy clubs
(08:20):
forget about it. It was wild, comedy wise, and I wanted
to be a part of it, to maybe move on
and become an actor.
Speaker 4 (08:25):
So I drove.
Speaker 5 (08:26):
I remember I drove from Jersey to the Lincoln Tunnel
and I drove by the club. There must have been
I swear to god, there's two hundred, mabe four hundred
people lined up waiting to get in an audition.
Speaker 4 (08:35):
Man, it was that hot.
Speaker 5 (08:36):
And I just looked at that line, and I just
kept going, went right back into Lincoln Tunnel, went back
home and totally chickened out, you know.
Speaker 4 (08:42):
But then we went back.
Speaker 5 (08:44):
We would have Gilbert Goffrey would be there, Larry David
was there, Jerry Steinfeld was there, and then and then
all these guys that were I remember Elane Boozer, Bet
Midler would come in.
Speaker 7 (08:55):
Yeah, you went.
Speaker 6 (08:56):
You went at like four in the morning because they
realized that in you had to be at the front
and the line. And I think that there's a reason
that those successful comics were there at that time.
Speaker 5 (09:08):
Be a good point to your point. You we had
to get there at noon. So I got there like
think about the doors opened at eight to give us
a number. Shows were at nine, so we'd be waiting.
I was the only guy with the car. I had
this really really nondescript Fort Fairmont, remember the Fort Fairmont,
you know what I mean.
Speaker 4 (09:24):
It looked like Jerry Seinfeld, Look, it looks like a
government vehicle.
Speaker 10 (09:27):
He said.
Speaker 4 (09:28):
It was a great life, great life.
Speaker 5 (09:30):
So now it was it was noon and we'd have
to wait and spending you know, six seven, eight hours
with Gilbert Goffrey did in the car it was hysterical.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
Oh you drove with Gilbert.
Speaker 5 (09:41):
Yeah, Gilbert, Gilbert. Gilbert walked everywhere. Gilbert never had a car.
We would drive him every I was the only guy
with the car. Matter of fact, when we finally started
to make it a little bit and they got us
out to Los Angeles, I promise you this, and Gilbert
and I room together, you know, because he was too
cheap to get a hotel room. So he moved there
with Mede Gilbert Goffrey, right, And we had a blast.
He would walk Hollywood Boulevard. No one walked in LA
(10:04):
in those days. Nobody walked. He's walking down and I'd
be driving to see Gilbert all by himself, New York
style walking down. But I gotta tell you, a sweetheart
of a guy. And we had a blast, and we
had it, and I learned so much from those guys.
The genius of Larry David on stage, and Larry would
get into fights with the audience. And every time Larry
would go on, we'd all run to the little opening
(10:25):
that led to the showroom and we'd watch Larry bed and.
Speaker 4 (10:27):
It was it was crazy. It was crazy, but it
was so Larry.
Speaker 6 (10:31):
And it was brilliant, but you know, in the sense
of the bigger picture to the silly and its potential
good for humanity, right, and who would think silly equates
to humanity?
Speaker 7 (10:43):
The one of the things that first.
Speaker 6 (10:45):
About Joe and what made me say, I gotta stay
with this guy. He came out and he did our
five and he was gracious, and he came out and
he's always professional, you know. He cracked us up and
he did his show and we all said thank you.
(11:06):
And I was watching him leave and he shook the
hand of every guy in manufacturing, and we just want
I was honored and blessed to be at his book signing.
He sanked every table.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
Right.
Speaker 6 (11:20):
Now, what your book maintains is a lot in the
sense like my book, even though we have the same story,
which is ridiculous. Yeah, there's a lot to the book,
his book that relates to the bigger picture of a
moment and your character. He succeeded because he got up
early and went to that line, right, And the reason
(11:42):
that the successful guys are the ones he mentions, because
that's what it takes.
Speaker 7 (11:46):
Did you ever go? Did you ever play? What? What club?
Was that?
Speaker 4 (11:49):
Because pat improvisation forty.
Speaker 10 (11:53):
Started doing it.
Speaker 4 (11:54):
Yet it's hundred years before you started doing a bit.
Speaker 10 (11:58):
That light is gone now.
Speaker 7 (12:01):
So what was your first one?
Speaker 10 (12:02):
The comic STRIPECD.
Speaker 4 (12:04):
There it is there, it is Arthur. Back in the day.
Speaker 5 (12:07):
We had the improvent Hill's Kitchen that was us, and
then you'd go cross up town to First Avenue and
Caturizing Star was the other one, you know, and then
the comic strip that was new virtually, you know, because
I started just about when I got out of there,
the comic strip opened, and that's.
Speaker 4 (12:23):
Where Eddie would hang out.
Speaker 5 (12:24):
Jerry would hang out there and Richie take remember, huh.
Speaker 4 (12:31):
The charturizing Star. I didn't know yet. You know. It's
so funny what not? And no man, Sunday night, No listen, listen.
I gotta tell you.
Speaker 5 (12:40):
I gotta say they go to me Joe Richard Belzer
and you guys may not know what. Bells was the
guy and you guys are youngergat Bell's.
Speaker 4 (12:48):
He's the guy.
Speaker 5 (12:49):
He would Bells was the guy that invented out to
be the Master's ceremony.
Speaker 4 (12:53):
Now he was.
Speaker 5 (12:53):
He would be very blue, you know, and I'm not
but he would be like quick on stage.
Speaker 4 (12:58):
Man. We'd watch him. He would make the show rock Man.
Speaker 5 (13:01):
And he never really did the Tonight sho or anything
or got stand up gigs because he didn't have material.
Speaker 4 (13:07):
It was just there, bang bang bang bang bank. So
Bells was the guy catcher.
Speaker 5 (13:10):
As he start, I get a call Sunday afternoon, Joe
Richard can't make it with MC. And now I'm just
starting out. I mean, you want you want to meet
m C for Richard Belzer the bells Man. Absolutely. I
went in comfortable, crowd was great, all the comics were there,
George Wallace was there, everybody was there.
Speaker 4 (13:26):
It was great.
Speaker 5 (13:27):
And I go on stage and you know the story
Arthur of the book where I saw some guys in
the back of the room and it looked like it.
Speaker 4 (13:32):
Was the cast of Goodfellas.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
You know.
Speaker 4 (13:34):
Of course, I'm like, I'm too dumb like to leave
it alone. I go, hey, how you doing?
Speaker 5 (13:39):
What are you in the mob back there? Both so
it was and so it was a long story short man.
They took me in. They worked me over. Man, I
had three four guys on top of me, and I looked,
I thought George Wallace was just on my show last week.
You know, George Wallace how told is he seven feet tall?
I told him, I said, George, you couldn't even step up.
Speaker 4 (13:57):
You couldn't help me.
Speaker 5 (13:58):
Fight the mob in New York. Back he goes, No, man,
I wanted your spot on stage.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
He goes, we were talking about Joe.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
You mentioned earlier that you looked at stand up comedy
to get into like, I want to know how you
got into it, but as a means to maybe acting afterwards.
So first, what gave you the you know, what point
did you in that direction?
Speaker 4 (14:20):
You know what it was?
Speaker 5 (14:21):
I went, it's a great question, because I went to
the auditions and I went to like if there was
an audition for a film or something like that, you know,
and then I would go in and there would be
four hundred actors man lined up and this is about
this is just an audition for like a roll, And
I'm going like, whoa man, I got to wait around
like this?
Speaker 8 (14:39):
You know that.
Speaker 4 (14:40):
What's the quickest way to do it? Well?
Speaker 5 (14:41):
What if I go to the a prop I do
five seven minutes, people can see me on stage and
then you go, yeah, they like me or not.
Speaker 4 (14:47):
That's exactly, by the grace of God, that's exactly what happened.
I go on stage. I was there for six weeks.
Speaker 5 (14:53):
I got I got asked to be a regular after
about a month by Chris Aubrik. Is that why Chris
put on Larry Show. He gave me all my age
BO specials. He did the Sopranos, you know, Sex and
the City, went out to become a legendary HBO executive,
and he said, you know, when do you go in there?
So I'm up there and I remember I'm up and
one guy named Marvin Starkman. You never forget the names,
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you know, and he goes, no, I could be your
agent and I'll get your commercials. And that's exactly what happened.
I went out to do Buick, I went out to
do Dr Pepper. I went out to do corporate shows,
you know, industrial films. We used to call him back
in the days, you know, so a company would say, hey.
Speaker 4 (15:28):
Will you be the young guy in the film.
Speaker 5 (15:29):
Yeah, And the money was great, by the grace of guy,
That's all I ever wanted to do. But that's all
I got there and it worked. It's a great platform.
The comedy clubs are a great platform to this day.
Speaker 6 (15:39):
You know what's so great about your book and you
as a person is I think we tend to have
a perception maybe of.
Speaker 7 (15:47):
Ease of the star, the ease, oh he's a star, and.
Speaker 6 (15:52):
The integrity behind the In our earlier show, we talked
about integrity and you can make it integrity, and I
think that's an underlying theme in your book too, that
you don't have to sell your soul. You can be
a guy guy, you can be a good person. You
can you don't have to be in the crowd of
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selling out. And then I think is so cool, and
it goes back to the silly thing. It's okay to
be silly. That's a good thing, and making people laugh
is a good thing. And it's definitely got to read
the book.
Speaker 7 (16:28):
Did you read it?
Speaker 3 (16:28):
Yes?
Speaker 6 (16:28):
Yes, character, which I think is not necessarily known as
much as it should be. And I love to talk
about that aspect of you because you've always been there
for us to try and help save lives, and you
have saved lives, and the book shows you that you
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can be a good, average Joe and still make it.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
I have to.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
Take exception to the title unless there's more to explain this.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
This is no average jump.
Speaker 7 (16:57):
But the way I want to give this, Pat, how
did you do your first time? You were catch a
rising starng.
Speaker 11 (17:03):
No, the comic strip comics. I took a class and
then actually Brian told me class. He knows Brian, and
you got through five minutes. Yeah, so you know it
went pretty well. But he, like he says in his book,
you like you the fear of God in you. You're like,
what am I doing?
Speaker 7 (17:17):
Yeah?
Speaker 11 (17:18):
No, And like he says, too, you get the first
laugh and it's it's better than any drug. It's better
than booze. It's better than it just waves over you.
And you're like, oh, well, but you know that's that's
not every night. There's plenty of there's plenty of fearful nights.
Speaker 7 (17:30):
Joe, do you have a mom really bad?
Speaker 4 (17:33):
You know, it's a good question.
Speaker 5 (17:34):
You always I always worked the crowd, and I told
the story in the book, and you guys are identified
with it. I think when I went up and I
got my first full house, to perform in front of
a full house, what do we have a one hundred
and fifty two hundred people? Two hundred people at the
improv and then they go like this it was it
would they go, Joe, you're up. It's like two thirty
in the morning, second show, you know, like a Saturday night,
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And it was check spot.
Speaker 7 (17:59):
It was the check b I.
Speaker 4 (18:01):
Know, the worst.
Speaker 5 (18:06):
You don't want to be on stage when the bill
goes out, man, because nobody's that funny. I mean, you
don't want to be on stage where they go five
hundred dollards you and you get to blame.
Speaker 4 (18:18):
Yeah yeah, yeah. So so so now it's check spot.
Speaker 5 (18:22):
I go up and I start to do material to
the full house, dead silence, dead silence man. And it
was it was a very integral part of of my
my you know, journey in going to the comedies and
everybody's watching the back of the room and I go
and I could go, oh, I don't want to do checks, Bobby,
I can complain.
Speaker 4 (18:40):
You know. I did.
Speaker 5 (18:41):
I went somebody's snicker to said something and I went
right at the guy and I and I said, you
when something as silly as you.
Speaker 4 (18:48):
Go out dressed like that in public, you're gonna make
fun of me like that, you know, you know?
Speaker 5 (18:52):
And and it went one went from one somebody over here,
Bank Bank BA Bank, Bank Bank, It was.
Speaker 4 (18:56):
Belzer, it was Don Rickles, it was me wasn't nasty.
Speaker 5 (19:00):
And but I and I, by the grace of God,
because you don't like to have to take it for granted.
It really went well for fifteen minutes, really really went well,
and that that really cemented me. At the improv they
made me the steady master's ceremonies after that, that was
that he did.
Speaker 6 (19:16):
Now do you ever do you ever play with the
audience like I love guys?
Speaker 11 (19:21):
You know, so I interact sometimes, but you know a
lot of guys that's their whole act.
Speaker 10 (19:24):
And you know, I yea sometimes too.
Speaker 11 (19:27):
You heckling too is like you you give them a
chance or two, you be polite about it, and then
then you would tire.
Speaker 10 (19:35):
Better than anyone.
Speaker 5 (19:36):
Right, don't forget that's you know, I'm hackling the guys
from the stage.
Speaker 4 (19:40):
The mob guys I didn't know. I never well, not
a good idea.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
Now, listen, Joe, I hope you can stay with us
because we need to take a break. You're listening to
Joe Piscopal, Arthur League, Pad of Work and Rick Thatcher
on the Man in the Arena, and we'll be right
back with more with Joe Piscopo.
Speaker 3 (19:59):
She started to choke on a piece of candy.
Speaker 8 (20:01):
She wasn't breathing.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
Then Ray reached for the life back in it saved her.
She could have easily died that day. A life back
saved her life.
Speaker 8 (20:10):
What I would say is, don't need a life back
and not have it.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
Have a life back and hopefully never need it.
Speaker 6 (20:17):
Recently, the American Red Cross has added anti joking devices
as an option when standard protocol fails or is not feasible.
Speaker 10 (20:25):
Good to Life back dot Net or called eight seven
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Speaker 1 (20:30):
Now on iHeartRadio, more of the Man in the Arena
the Life Back Radio Show.
Speaker 12 (20:36):
Here again are Arthur Lee and Rick Thatcher.
Speaker 8 (20:40):
He's got good stage presents, great set of pipes.
Speaker 10 (20:43):
He's Italian.
Speaker 7 (20:46):
And he has a unique way with a phrase.
Speaker 11 (20:48):
But more than that, there's just something I like about
the guy.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
And we love him.
Speaker 4 (20:52):
Joe Piscopo, I still can't believe that I did that.
Speaker 5 (20:56):
That I a call from Benmussinacha's office and they said, Joe,
we want you to perform on Solid Gold, which was
Dion Warwick Show.
Speaker 4 (21:06):
Right, she had a big show, big syndicated show.
Speaker 5 (21:08):
Then I'm thinking, okay, they go Frank Sinatra wants you
there in makeup, dressed like him, and and we'll pick
you up next Tuesday, seven thirty. And that Arthur, you
and I are friends, and you have friends like we
friendship we have if you when you say.
Speaker 4 (21:23):
I need you here, I don't ask where, I don't
ask when I go done done. That's it.
Speaker 5 (21:29):
That's the that's the true friendship loyalty way. So I said,
got it, bom hang up. The phone car comes up.
I get my makeup guy out there in l a
and and I go into the studio and I'm scared.
Speaker 4 (21:40):
I go, are you sure mister Sinatra wants me to do.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
Mom got.
Speaker 10 (21:49):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 5 (21:53):
Hey we haven't forgotten about catch rizing Star, right yeah
no no.
Speaker 4 (21:58):
So so I go in there and I kind of
tell you it was like.
Speaker 5 (22:02):
There was the I go in and I'm with my
girlfriend at the time, and I says, mister Sinatra on set.
Speaker 4 (22:07):
They go, well, he's in makeup, and I go great.
Speaker 5 (22:09):
So I go in and I walk up and there's
the makeup door and I knock on the door and
then the door opens. You know, with misster Sinatra, there
was no door, man, It's just miraculously opened.
Speaker 4 (22:20):
You know, and there he was sitting like this, you know,
the chair like this. You're going like, he's like, he's
got his arm.
Speaker 5 (22:26):
Out, he's got his members only jacket on, Arthur from
the nineteen eighties, you know, yeah.
Speaker 4 (22:31):
But open collar.
Speaker 5 (22:32):
And he's got the boots. I remember the boots. They
have boots he had on. I'm looking at this guy.
How cool can this guy possibly be?
Speaker 4 (22:39):
I'm thinking, you know, and I you know what he does.
Speaker 5 (22:43):
He stood up, jumped out of the chair. Hey, Joe, baby,
how are you like that? I'm telling you, I'm a
kid and I learned so when I do it, Arthur Lee,
you do the same thing when someone walks in the room.
Speaker 4 (22:56):
You come up.
Speaker 5 (22:56):
One guy walked through me at the airport the other day.
The airport the other day. Hey, Joe Fan and I
stand up like instinctively.
Speaker 4 (23:02):
Just have to respect, you know. And that's what mister
Sinatra told me. And he goes like this.
Speaker 5 (23:06):
Then I'm with I'm with my girlfriend and he says
to her, he goes, see, I never forget. He goes, hey,
is he wacky around the house? He is the word
way you know?
Speaker 7 (23:17):
Right.
Speaker 4 (23:19):
It was great, And then I did it. I was petrified,
No doubt he loved it. He loved Buddy Grayson gott.
I go like this, thank you.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
God, you know, in front of Frank.
Speaker 5 (23:28):
Doing Frank in front of him. I did it at
the Friars Club. The original story goes at the Friars Club.
Speaker 4 (23:34):
I did it for mister S. With de Martin to
my right.
Speaker 5 (23:37):
I did the Strength Sinatra, Milton Burrough, Red Buttons, Dick Sean,
Angie Dickinson, SHIRLEYE.
Speaker 4 (23:43):
McClain, Sammy, everybody.
Speaker 5 (23:46):
And there was mister S right to my left, the
two thousand people Friar's Roast, and and that's where I said,
you know, I love and he called me up there
and I go, uh, you know, mister Sinatra, I love
the way you say the word you. And everybody looks
and what's where's he going with this? And I start
to sing, I don't stand a ghost of a chance
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with you.
Speaker 7 (24:11):
I do just like that.
Speaker 5 (24:12):
So gets a big, big laugh, and I'll never forget
he's there. Jack Daniels is left hand, and he's got it.
He's got his filterles cigarette his right hand.
Speaker 4 (24:21):
He's looking up like this.
Speaker 5 (24:22):
He's going like this, and and everybody's laughing and I
feel comfortable.
Speaker 4 (24:26):
I said, hey, can I call you Frank And he
goes no, like the biggest laugh at the night.
Speaker 5 (24:33):
You know, don't push your kid. You're here, You're lucky,
don't push it. And it was a love affair ever
since it was It was great fact. I mean, you'll
understand work in the clubs though. It's like after that,
I could. I was a little rock because I met
mister s at d Martins.
Speaker 4 (24:47):
I was a little nervous.
Speaker 5 (24:48):
Because, uh, thank god, I got that one piece. In
the rest of the set went mediocre, but I got
it with mister Sinatra and he dug it man, and
that was the important thing.
Speaker 7 (24:57):
You know, No, I have a cool story.
Speaker 6 (25:00):
Guess along hour connection, right, So I was just with
Ben Carson.
Speaker 7 (25:03):
You know, that.
Speaker 4 (25:06):
Was great.
Speaker 6 (25:08):
But I guess in my world he's a bit of
a snaptra, you know, right. So it's so similar in
this sense. I'm able to try and understand a little
bit about what you felt when he said okay, or
you know he's bossing and you were in the inner
sanctum of his okay. I was with Doc Carson and
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I said, you know, I was just I don't remember exactly,
but we were going through to the set and I
said something like, doctor Carson.
Speaker 7 (25:35):
We got to I think we got to go over here.
Speaker 6 (25:37):
He looked me in the eye and he says, and
this was after hours of being together. He looked me
in the eye and he goes, Ben, I can call
him Ben.
Speaker 4 (25:46):
Oh oh, yeah, that's great.
Speaker 7 (25:49):
It's great the way he did it. He's a humble man.
He's a beautiful human.
Speaker 6 (25:56):
I can imagine that moment of kind of the blessing
of Frank Sinatra.
Speaker 3 (26:01):
Especially you.
Speaker 7 (26:01):
You're so respectful. You're a Jersey guy.
Speaker 5 (26:04):
Yeah, Italians and my father, My father and mister s
were the same exact day, same exact area, Jersey, Italian Americans.
Both their parents came from Italy. They were exactly. I
would see my father, that's what's all about. I see
mister S and I watch him and I watch his
movements and I watch his vocal intonations. And there's so
much of my father, that generation, that that greatest generation.
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But as of the side guys, if I can Arthur
Ben Carson's one of the great humans on the planet. Man,
this this guy is indent great. It's the nicest guy
in the world, smartest guy in the world gentleman, and
I was so impressed.
Speaker 4 (26:38):
May I ask is he is?
Speaker 3 (26:39):
He?
Speaker 4 (26:39):
Is he talking about Life Back?
Speaker 7 (26:41):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (26:41):
We Uh, he came on and he see he saw
life Back. He liked that back. And I can't tell
if he contacted us to say he likes it or
we did. And he we had a talk with him,
and he's kind of funny, and he said, you know,
I kind of want to be involved with something.
Speaker 7 (26:58):
That's not AI me and actual me takes.
Speaker 6 (27:02):
Something I care about, and I think, so, what are
comfortable words of uh encouragement for the fact that he
wants to help us, you know, commercials.
Speaker 7 (27:13):
But he was, he was there. He believes in it.
Speaker 6 (27:16):
As a nerve surgeon, he you know, he's seen what
happens with some deterioration or neurological system and how you
need a choking device.
Speaker 10 (27:26):
But dude, you're right.
Speaker 7 (27:28):
What a just a great human.
Speaker 5 (27:31):
Yeah yeah, yeah, Speaking of which, yesterday was Saint Joseph' day.
Speaker 4 (27:35):
I gotta do this. Look at this is it? I
found this T shirt? This is what shirt?
Speaker 5 (27:40):
I don't I'm doing my John Fetterman impression here today
on the show. You know, no, no, and I no,
I'm a casual here. I mean, look at it, Saint Joseph.
Saint Joseph, look at it.
Speaker 4 (27:53):
Look at it.
Speaker 5 (27:54):
You look at it, and work hard at prey hard it,
says Saint Joseph, the Worker. This is the foster file
father of Jesus. And you know what, and I know
you think about it. He's the guy where Mary came
to him and said, you know, I'm gonna have a baby.
And Joseph goes, you know, I mean really he goes.
He goes, yeah, sorry, you're gona have a baby. Yeah,
(28:15):
but yeah, I got I got visited by this angel,
you know. And Joseph's like, who's this angel?
Speaker 1 (28:20):
Guy?
Speaker 4 (28:20):
I mean you know what I mean.
Speaker 7 (28:21):
You know you read from the South Bronx tell you.
Speaker 4 (28:26):
So.
Speaker 5 (28:26):
Now this guy Joseph, he gets a dream and he
sticks right by Mary's side.
Speaker 4 (28:33):
Put all the religion aside.
Speaker 5 (28:34):
Let's go to a Jewish couple from Nazareth walking taking
a donkey to Jerusalem for crying out loud to have
a baby, because they didn't want the baby to be killed,
you know, and it was.
Speaker 4 (28:46):
And as a as a guy who walked.
Speaker 5 (28:49):
The planet, you know, of course, the Catholics made him
a safe that's my patron safe Saint Joseph.
Speaker 4 (28:53):
I can't believe I found it online.
Speaker 5 (28:54):
And I think, now, guys, if I may, in the
political atmosphere, were allowed to, you know, be proud about
our certainly religions.
Speaker 4 (29:00):
Now you know they don't want to filify us. Am
I right?
Speaker 2 (29:02):
I would be remiss and I would hate to miss
the opportunity of tying in family because I know it's
a huge part of like your background, what gave you
the uh inspiration, your work ethic, all that talk about
the importance of you know, you talk a lot about
your mom and your dad.
Speaker 6 (29:19):
Yeah, I got more on his mom, and boy, she
was something else and we lose Joe, I.
Speaker 4 (29:28):
Got you, I got you. We're there.
Speaker 3 (29:30):
Our screen just went off for a second.
Speaker 4 (29:32):
Yeah, that's it's the message. That's message from my mother.
I get these messages all the time. I get him
all the time.
Speaker 7 (29:39):
He got mad. We were talking about it.
Speaker 5 (29:43):
I get I tell you, they we could talk now
because it's just us, but got your money. I get
these messages, man, you know, I go down the shore
or something and and and then my phone will go
off and it'll say mom and like and the phone
starts calling Mom. I'm telling you what I get these things,
and it's like, and I know it's her because her
faith was so strong.
Speaker 7 (30:03):
I lost her.
Speaker 5 (30:03):
Yeah, I lost her about a year ago. She was
a big influence. And when she was, you know, sick
and started to pass away. I saw her go to
the other side, Arthur, I told you that, right. I
saw her go to the other side. She was talking
to the other side. Gave her her last rites. Guys,
my mother got but ninety nine ninety nine and last right,
And I'm looking and she's talking like she's talking to somebody,
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like in a conversation. And I'm going and I say
to the priest, to father Georgia and your father to her,
is she on the other side?
Speaker 4 (30:31):
And he's like, yeah, what do you expect, you know.
Speaker 10 (30:33):
He's a priest.
Speaker 4 (30:35):
Yeah, this is what we do.
Speaker 5 (30:36):
That's what I do is by me here, all right.
I'm going like, well, and then she came out of it.
And then she opened her eyes and she goes, I
want to sit up, and I stood, you know, shat
her up, and she goes, I want Chinese food.
Speaker 4 (30:49):
And then she was good.
Speaker 5 (30:50):
For like a week after that, you know, I mean,
but she was a great influence.
Speaker 4 (30:54):
She was.
Speaker 5 (30:55):
She is the reason for my faith and the reason
for my strength. And I know she's what you over.
Speaker 8 (31:00):
Man.
Speaker 5 (31:00):
My dad too got got you know, by the grace
of God Almighty, I'm very, very blessed with my parents.
Speaker 7 (31:05):
I think.
Speaker 6 (31:05):
I think that's why I pray. I hope more people
read your book. Younger people read your book all they
read mine for the same odd way that there are
lessons to be learned. Faith pays off, do the right thing,
work hard.
Speaker 7 (31:20):
You know these are not.
Speaker 6 (31:21):
Astronomically insane ideas. Have faith, and you know your book
brings a lot to light. And I loved it, and
I loved you. I appreciate you so much and for
being there for us.
Speaker 3 (31:35):
So you know, you just man. And they were in
a group hugged r.
Speaker 11 (31:39):
Joe Piscopos story. So I met you four or five times.
We used to go to the Yogi Barret tournament every year,
the golf tournament.
Speaker 10 (31:46):
A good friend of mine.
Speaker 11 (31:47):
Good friend of mine was neighbors with Yogi and great guy.
He now flies around sick people for free. He has
a plane, but he used to fly Yogi back and
forth to the Hall of Fame every year.
Speaker 10 (31:56):
And they raffle off something at his tournament.
Speaker 11 (31:58):
If you want to take a fight with Yogi and
like you're just like in your book, you would work
the room.
Speaker 10 (32:03):
You'd be saying hi to everyone.
Speaker 11 (32:05):
I actually met you in the bathroom once with like
your son, shake your head, it's something.
Speaker 10 (32:12):
Yeah, you were great. You were just like see John.
Speaker 5 (32:16):
Thanks man Yo Yoga, thank you, thanks for supporting yoga.
Remember those days directly man Yogi yog Yogi very special guy, funny, funny, nice, decent.
Speaker 4 (32:27):
He and Carmen. It was great. Those were great days. Man.
But again it's it's all about my parents.
Speaker 5 (32:31):
But Arthur, I gotta tell you, like I talked to
you and then less time I was with you guys
out there, and then you said, you know, and there's
some things were happening always.
Speaker 4 (32:40):
In the news.
Speaker 5 (32:40):
Something horrible was happening in Orleans, and you said, yeah,
that's the bad stuff. Let me talk about the thirty
three hundred, now four thousand lives that we have saved.
That that is exactly what we've tried to do. Matter
of fact, for Lent, I've given up negative news.
Speaker 4 (32:54):
That's what I did.
Speaker 5 (32:55):
Yeah, I said, you know, good for everybody.
Speaker 7 (33:00):
Take a break, you know.
Speaker 5 (33:01):
I said, I said, if if I see one more time,
can I let me just ran for a second.
Speaker 4 (33:05):
I go.
Speaker 5 (33:06):
You know, I don't watch the other networks. And I
don't just dislike them. I don't hate anybody.
Speaker 4 (33:11):
I don't.
Speaker 5 (33:11):
I just don't want to hear the constant negativity. I
don't want to hear it because there's no basis for it.
You should be lucky that you're hearing America the greatest
country in the world. You should be easy to embrace it,
you know, like my grandparents. Just be behind me, if
you can see that's my that's my grandfather Rose Audio
there with his brother, you know, and and these guys.
And you go in and and when I go, and
(33:31):
when I go out there and I'm out and I
and I'm always you know, preaching what's good and what's
nice and everything. I mean, that's that's exactly what it's
all about. And then and I go and if I
see a negative story and someone goes, did you see.
Speaker 4 (33:45):
What they said?
Speaker 5 (33:46):
I'll see an end or really, you know, I don't
no disrespect. I don't want to watch see it then,
you know, but they always show it, don't they show it?
Look what they said on MSNBC, and you go, WHOA.
You know, I just I'm watching you because you got
no everybody wants to watch you, not the birth.
Speaker 4 (34:01):
So I'm giving all that up on the radio. So
we're taking a high road, taking a high road. You
gotta do it.
Speaker 2 (34:07):
You're listening to the legendary Joe Episcopal on the Man
in the Arena, Arthur Lee, Patrick O'Rourke, Rick Thatcher, Joe.
Speaker 3 (34:15):
We love you.
Speaker 4 (34:16):
I love you back. They keep up the great work, guys,
four thousand. I love it. I bless you, guys, God
bless everybody.
Speaker 7 (34:23):
I appreciate it, thank you, thank you, by thank you.
Speaker 8 (34:26):
Hi.
Speaker 6 (34:26):
I'm Arthur Lee, inventor, founder and CEO of Life Act
and a proud father. Did you know choking is the
fourth leading cause of accidental death Tragically, one child dies
every five days. Now, imagine your child, your spouse, or
someone you love choking. You have only seconds to act.
It's a situation no one wants to face, but it
(34:46):
can happen to anyone. That's why I created life Back.
Life Back is a life saving airway clearance device that's
already saved over three thousand lives. It's easy to use
non invasive and gives you the power to act when
every second counts.
Speaker 7 (35:01):
Don't wait until it's too late.
Speaker 6 (35:03):
Visit lifeact dot net today and use promo code life
to save twenty percent on your life back home kit.
That's life fact dot Net promo code Life. Join thousands
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Speaker 1 (35:24):
Now on iHeartRadio, more of the Man in the Arena
the Life Back Radio Show.
Speaker 12 (35:30):
Here again are Arthur Lee and Rick Thatcher.
Speaker 6 (35:34):
Gosh, how great well we were actually chat really it
was a good pat that you've met him.
Speaker 10 (35:40):
And how share that story what he tells about his book.
He's that's what he's like. He's a blue collar guy.
Couldn't be nice to everyone. Yep. Works the room and
you and you'll watch him. He's going to table.
Speaker 11 (35:50):
He doesn't have to go to a table, a table,
a table taking pictures with everyone, just in a class
act Yep.
Speaker 6 (35:56):
And it's so cool when someone that you kind of
look up to or you know, I know Mike I
loved him and Johnny dangerously. Yeah, I was episcopal guy.
Speaker 3 (36:06):
It didn't we didn't.
Speaker 4 (36:07):
Have to show it.
Speaker 2 (36:07):
There's this book average Joe, make sure you're picking up.
But we had the clip. I had the TikTok ready
for all the Johnny Dangerously lines and the trailer. You know,
he did the trailer for Johnny Dangerously, not Michael Keaton.
Johnny Danny Verman is in the theater production booth talking
talking about the we have it, but we'll see them.
Speaker 6 (36:27):
But you know what, but it goes into that, like
when he first came out for a five hundred saves
and he did his thing, and I watched him thank everyone.
It made me reassure that it does make sense that
at that place he was nice and talked everyone. But
he told his story about Johnny Dangerously when he get
hung on the hook and he said, you know, he
(36:49):
was a bigger guy. Michael Keaton was having kind of trouble,
so they put a box and he kind of lifted
himself up on the hook. But as a fan and
someone watch behind the scene is to hear him tell
the story about how they would crack it up. And
when you get to spend time with him that's not
rushed and he shares these stories. You know, it's so
(37:13):
fun and he's so humble, So it's it's cool, like
he tells the story. He's not bragging, he's just kind
of chatting about it.
Speaker 3 (37:20):
No joke.
Speaker 2 (37:21):
That movie poster Johnny Dangerously, which adorns the walls of
your office, was there since the beginning, right.
Speaker 10 (37:29):
I love He kept saying, you guys are so much
younger than me. We're not really here. Yeah I know,
I know. I don't know if you guys remember yeah.
Speaker 6 (37:37):
Yeah, well yeah, hear the word where Rickles talks about
Sinatra and he says, you know, can you come over?
And yes, He's like, not, Frank, I'm trying to.
Speaker 7 (37:49):
Typical Rickles.
Speaker 2 (37:51):
Well, so, I don't think this transition has ever happened
before in the history radio. We're gonna go from Joe
Piscopo to Colonel Christopher Douglas.
Speaker 3 (38:00):
Oh yeah, so if Chris is still with us, c J.
How are you tonight?
Speaker 4 (38:04):
Good?
Speaker 13 (38:05):
Good to see all of you. I got the power
team sitting there.
Speaker 7 (38:08):
Oh man, did you hear that? Did you hear us
talking with Joe?
Speaker 13 (38:11):
I did? It was It was exciting and informative. Joe's
Joe's awesome.
Speaker 3 (38:17):
Yeah he is.
Speaker 7 (38:17):
He's such a good man. Sweet man.
Speaker 3 (38:20):
Thanks man, Yeah, it is really is.
Speaker 2 (38:23):
But I thought it would be great to check in
with you because we got a big mission coming up
next week I wanted to talk about. I don't know
how much of it is classified or we can share,
but again, Colonel Chris and I are going to be
going down.
Speaker 10 (38:39):
Yeah. Nice. That's your neck of the woods, isn't it.
Speaker 7 (38:41):
What do you that in Florida?
Speaker 3 (38:43):
He was in Tampa.
Speaker 13 (38:44):
I was in Tampa. But I'm back up and I'm
back up state. I'm up in Boston.
Speaker 7 (38:48):
Spot.
Speaker 10 (38:48):
That's a short ride for him, twenty eight hours, nothing,
drive right through.
Speaker 6 (38:52):
I got a call, I jumped to the car, I left. Okay,
So what are you guys doing there?
Speaker 7 (38:58):
What's up?
Speaker 2 (38:59):
We're going to be meeting with Major General Heartzell. Yeah,
and Patriot of CJS and uh CJ. I mean you
came on another member of Team I FACT on a
special mission to help protect our veterans, right, and I
think there's a lot of things moving in our favor,
including this meeting coming up.
Speaker 3 (39:18):
I would agree.
Speaker 13 (39:18):
I mean, you know, Major General Hertzel is of course
a part of the v A system. He has as
well a background in the medical field. And you know,
just a general good guy, no pun intended.
Speaker 3 (39:35):
General. He's major he's major league.
Speaker 13 (39:37):
Yeah, but you know he's interested in learning, learn more
about it and seeing how how I can assist with
the veteran community.
Speaker 3 (39:44):
So yeah, and we're just again.
Speaker 6 (39:47):
We met with a bunch of people from the Stony
Brook and they also have a large VA community. So
maybe when you get back we kind of go out
there together. But you know, it's an honor. CJ is
another guy that you get stories in your kind of
heads business, like Joe telling me about hanging out with
Frank Sinatra and him telling us about what he's been
through in the service to our country. But you know,
(40:10):
the mission to make sure that our veterans are covered,
particularly those that have been injured that without a light
back and following the Red Cross guidelines, had no option.
And you know I always tell you I don't I
don't have to, but it just sticks. It almost hurts me.
You know that these men and women have given so
(40:32):
much and all we want to do is make sure
they have a chance too, that they are they have
a chance in a choke emergency, if they've been injured
in a wheelchair or other medical conditions. So I appreciate
you and I appreciate going down there and you guys
doing that.
Speaker 7 (40:49):
It's something we have to address. You know, it's just
not negotiable. You cannot just.
Speaker 10 (40:54):
Die, you know, so that way especially.
Speaker 6 (40:56):
Yeah, especially, it gave so much for us and you
just sit there and then watch it and.
Speaker 2 (41:01):
You know what so much as so much is on
our side Number one Life Act.
Speaker 7 (41:06):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (41:07):
But Doug Collins, new Secretary Veterans Affairs.
Speaker 6 (41:10):
We have God that we met and became. Absolutely we
have you and uh, you know that's how change happens,
you know, courage and perseverance.
Speaker 7 (41:21):
So we use our cards to persevere.
Speaker 13 (41:24):
And Arthur, as you point out, I mean, it's not
that it's preventable, but it's possible to eliminate the number
of deaths, regardless of whether it's service members, service members, families,
extended families, kids in schools, whatever it is. It's it's
a you know, it's an effective tool. And uh, and
it's great that the protocol.
Speaker 6 (41:44):
Now addresses the medical need for people in wheelchairs and
numerous you know, scoliosis brace There's a lot of reasons
you cannot behind effectively.
Speaker 7 (41:56):
But to me, we we got to go with our
of the big guy.
Speaker 6 (42:01):
Directing us us, becoming front us, getting to know you,
having some time in your life that you can help us,
Having Rick on board to work with you, like you know,
bigger picture stuff that is going to help us succeed,
save our veterans and change the make sure people are
aware that there is an option now and let's change this.
Speaker 3 (42:22):
Stop it absolutely well.
Speaker 2 (42:24):
Looking forward to working with you next week as always,
Colonel Christopher CJ.
Speaker 3 (42:28):
Douglass.
Speaker 2 (42:29):
So we'll be right back after this brief message with
Ray preview, mister three thousand, don't go away, We'll be
right back.
Speaker 13 (42:35):
I was in the living room when I heard my
son Carter, who was two at the time.
Speaker 10 (42:40):
I looked over and I saw him grabbing for his face.
Speaker 4 (42:44):
I grab a life back.
Speaker 2 (42:46):
I put the mask on his face and place push,
pull the light back, dislodge the ice cube.
Speaker 4 (42:51):
From his airway.
Speaker 5 (42:53):
He started crying, the most amazing sound I've ever heard
in my entire life.
Speaker 11 (42:58):
Please protect your family, get a life that life.
Speaker 14 (43:02):
AAC is proud to be at the forefront of innovation
in choking rescue. Recently, the American Red Cross updated its
guidelines to include anti choking devices as an option for
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tools like LIFEAC designed to help when traditional methods may
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(43:23):
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Speaker 6 (43:33):
Hi, I'm Marfur, the inventor, founder and CEO of life
BAC and a proud father. Did you know choking is
the fourth leading cause of accidental death. Tragically, one child
dies every five days. Now imagine your child, your spouse,
or someone you love choking. You have only seconds act.
It's a situation no one wants to face, but it
(43:53):
can happen to anyone. That's why I created life back.
LIFEVAC is a life saving airway clearance device that's all
already saved over three thousand lines. It's easy to use,
non invasive, and gives you the power to act when
every second counts.
Speaker 7 (44:08):
Don't wait until it's too late.
Speaker 6 (44:09):
Visit lifefact dot net today and use promo code life
to save twenty percent on your life back home kit.
That's Lifeact dot net promo code Life. Join thousands of
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Speaker 1 (44:31):
Now on iHeartRadio, more of the Man in the Arena,
the Life Back Radio Show.
Speaker 12 (44:37):
Here again are Arthur Lee and Rick Thatcher.
Speaker 2 (44:40):
You know what we come to this part of the show.
We've been so honored to have Joe Piscopal with us.
We talk about his book Average. Joe shared so many
great stories and we could have spent another hour, no
question CJ two. Yes, oh good, great stuff, great stuff.
But you know what, I was happy because when we
get to the end, we know that you have our
(45:00):
cleanup hitter. I know, mister Ray preby mister three thousands.
Speaker 8 (45:04):
It's been a great week, great week.
Speaker 6 (45:06):
Hey wait, I want to thank you for that call
we made together the Children's hospital.
Speaker 7 (45:10):
I I enjoyed it very much.
Speaker 6 (45:13):
I enjoyed the people, but I enjoy that I get
to spend some time with you and watch your passion
and appreciate it.
Speaker 8 (45:21):
So I want to absolutely I you know, I sobbed.
I'm not gonna lie, you know, telling my story, I
get very emotional but again it's for a good purpose,
you know, spreading the word, getting people to understand what
life back is, what it does, how easy it is
to use. That's my life goal. Get the word out there,
get it in everyone's hands. That's why I'm here.
Speaker 6 (45:43):
But it was just I enjoy your company as a friend,
but also get to feel that gratitude of your your
sharing of gratitude and the pain and forward.
Speaker 7 (45:54):
And it's for me.
Speaker 6 (45:56):
It's nice to watch that, to see someone else take
us on. And we have numerous my factors, but I
just I just want to say I was grateful. And
I don't know how many saves we've had today, So
you're going to fill us in and I'm going to
be very happy.
Speaker 8 (46:10):
We have a total two saves three thousand, seven hundred
and thirty five saves today, two thousand, three hundred and
thirty two children.
Speaker 3 (46:21):
Just those that are reported. Three two we learned every day.
Speaker 6 (46:25):
Do you know how many today, Tim, I give you
the how many we had today.
Speaker 8 (46:30):
We had let me look it up real quick, but
I can tell you we do have thirty eight saves
this week that don't go from the thirteenth to the twentieth.
We've had thirty eight saves and we've had today six
six saves today my sixth saves. Wait a minute, how
(46:50):
many have we had since number three thousand, seven hundred
and thirty five saves? And how many days? One hundred
and fifty one day we've had seven hundred and thirty
five tapes.
Speaker 3 (47:03):
That is I mean Pat is scribbling feverishly.
Speaker 7 (47:07):
You know, we were a three and a half a day.
Speaker 10 (47:09):
That's unbelievable.
Speaker 6 (47:10):
We were in the whole of Saves today with the
people from Stonybrook and we were pointing out and we
we were going through something that we know and seen
and that a.
Speaker 7 (47:21):
Lot of them on the first wall of the earlier days.
Speaker 6 (47:23):
And then we spun around and and Rick pointed out
yours and I thought, you up on the lift putting
it up there, and your daughter come flying across and
sliding your freaking heroes And.
Speaker 8 (47:38):
It didn't even slow her down back up and kept
on going.
Speaker 6 (47:42):
Yeah, she could have took third base after slide into
the second with her jump up and go. But it
was just a cool memory of a life moment.
Speaker 2 (47:51):
Yeah, And they do stand you know, certain members like
stand out. And I remember as I was trying to
tell the story to the nice young lady from Stonybrook Development.
Speaker 3 (48:01):
Why do you call it, mister three thousand.
Speaker 2 (48:03):
Yeah, So it's just a great story to tell and
just show the evolution of that room and Jacksonville.
Speaker 8 (48:12):
I had people from the UH from the audience coming up,
you're mister three thousand, You're mister three thousand. So yeah,
it's it's a humbling experience and I love it. It's
it's getting a word out there that you want to.
Speaker 7 (48:25):
Talk about that. Ben Carson recites your line when he says,
you know, I hope you what is your line? I
hope you never use it. But if you do, way.
Speaker 8 (48:34):
Back have it and not need it. Don't need it
and not have it. The life you saved could be
your own.
Speaker 6 (48:40):
He said that on our first conference call, and I
was like, I've heard that someone.
Speaker 7 (48:46):
It was.
Speaker 10 (48:48):
Three thousand save in the last one hundred and fifty
one days.
Speaker 11 (48:51):
You're aving like four point eight saves a day, and
that's what they report, right, Yeah.
Speaker 6 (48:57):
You know, but that's that's kind of where the whole
saves the people that are watching and people on the radio.
Whole saves is we have pictures of everyone we saved.
So coming up four thousand pictures on the wall, and
it's like it's our cathedral.
Speaker 7 (49:11):
And if you go to Life back that you can
see it.
Speaker 6 (49:14):
But it takes the number out and it puts it
back to humanity. And then what was it? How many
days did you say?
Speaker 10 (49:21):
Four point eight a day since three?
Speaker 7 (49:23):
That right?
Speaker 11 (49:24):
So that means people a day. Yeah, that wouldn't have
been here, right, I mean that's.
Speaker 7 (49:29):
The crushing of the souls of everyone around.
Speaker 10 (49:32):
Over two thousand kids the biggest.
Speaker 6 (49:35):
And then if you were there at the children's hospital
when Ra spoke, you would really get what.
Speaker 7 (49:42):
One life is. I know, I have kids.
Speaker 10 (49:44):
Yeah, I can't even.
Speaker 8 (49:45):
Imagine speaking one life. Let's let's roll into the highlight
of the week, showing highlight the week. The highlight of
the week, here we go. A thirty nine year old
female with a neurological disorder choked whilst taking her medication,
causing a total obstruction. Protocol was not followed as she
(50:08):
was found completely unresponsible. The mother stated she was she
almost died in the bathroom. We did four CPR sets
of compressions and in between four Life back polls, she
came to on the fourth pole with the Life back.
The Life Back completely cleared the blockage. There's absolutely no
(50:31):
doubt in my mind that life Act saved her life.
God bless the man who invented this device.
Speaker 6 (50:38):
Wow, all right, I mean you read that and that's
what they wrote, so you know what that moment.
Speaker 11 (50:46):
Every week the same line absolutely without a doubt, saved
the life.
Speaker 8 (50:51):
And for somebody in that position such as myself, you
feel it. You can feel the emotion behind those words.
Speaker 7 (50:58):
That's what it's all about. Brother stuff.
Speaker 2 (51:01):
Each week I'm brought brought back to that moment that
you've told us about. We've seen on the news about
you saving your daughter and uh, it's such an impact
on me that you know, your realization number one, that
you're saving your daughter's life, but also the humanity and
the uh, the awareness level of Life Back has grown
where two passing by motorists also come by.
Speaker 8 (51:25):
Actually saw what was going on, stopped and actually was
running towards us with their life back.
Speaker 6 (51:30):
Well, we got to keep that going, keep going. You know,
I take a testament to the power of what he
experienced and reading that, you could feel him.
Speaker 7 (51:39):
That's why he's here helping him. He's he's guy.
Speaker 6 (51:42):
Takes time out of us every week to make sure
he comes on with some widow shirt.
Speaker 3 (51:46):
And whoa, whoa does.
Speaker 15 (51:52):
Man see that one coming loud to pick on each
other his dedication just to help of it, that's what
it's about. And they share his painful story or to
read off these stories and come every week and help
us spread the word. Honored to know you, and I
am grateful that we're friends too, because that's awesome.
Speaker 2 (52:14):
Absolutely, absolutely we're surrounded by great individuals. In fact, you know,
for those that don't see the our green room, Colonel
Chris is still in connected to us. God bless you,
Colonel Chris. Ah cool j mister three thousand ray prev.
Speaker 8 (52:31):
Love you guys. Don't forget Get a life back.
Speaker 3 (52:34):
Go to lifeback dot net.
Speaker 2 (52:37):
Use code MI I t A if you care and
we will get fifteen percent off. And you don't get
the real authentic life back. We don't mention it all
the time, but we should mention now.
Speaker 3 (52:48):
There's a lot of.
Speaker 2 (52:49):
Problems with knockoffs and counterfeits and we just got to
get the real McCoy. But listen, we want to thank
you so much for joining us on the Man in
the Arena, Arthur Lee, thank you so much for everything.
Speaker 10 (52:58):
I have an update too. I say fourth of July
of four thousand, it's probably gonna be early June.
Speaker 7 (53:03):
Let's start that. Every show a guess, are you going
to next show?
Speaker 10 (53:06):
My birthday is June seventh.
Speaker 11 (53:08):
I will go with my birthday will be four thousand,
not save myself, just to get.
Speaker 8 (53:14):
My prediction next week on when it's gonna happen.
Speaker 2 (53:17):
Okay, you know what, Ray, I think as part of
your assignment, we're going to have an official contest and
we'll log everybody's employ Yeah, let's make Raad do more work.
Speaker 11 (53:26):
Absolutely now, as on as you're at it, I say,
June seventh my birthday.
Speaker 3 (53:30):
All right, thank you so much for joining us. I'm Rick.
Speaker 2 (53:33):
I'm with Arthur Lee CEO, in ventor of life. Back
on the Man in the Arena.
Speaker 1 (53:38):
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