Serenity

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Speaker 3 (01:44):
Arthur, Yeah, well, I mean, coming up on four thousand
lives saved, yeah, I would say it's certainly something you
want to consider. And you know, as we hit a milestone,
you know, I kind of reflect, like That's why I
thought this chapter was appropriate because the last minute the
story is kind of turning grief into gratitude, right, which

(02:05):
is very tough to do, and it was odd the
way it came about, but you know, we we we
just did numbers four thousand people. That's eight thousand parents,
sixteen thousand. You know, they have ten friends. We're in
one hundred thousand ripple effects. Yeah, but along this route
we have met many people who have lost the child,

(02:26):
you know, and I guess hitting that milestone of the
gratitude to be saved. Some of the real heroes have
been ones who have lost and don't want other people
to lose. So the goofiness of the way the last
MIT came about.

Speaker 2 (02:40):
Well that's why pats here, Yes, you get feel free
to be goofy on this part.

Speaker 3 (02:46):
So basically did this formulation of ability to come up
with a strategy to recover or to deal with grief.
So towards the end of playing softball at my mit
was shot and I was like, I should really buy
him in, you.

Speaker 4 (03:00):
Know, And I'm like, I don't know, I spend money
on a mite.

Speaker 2 (03:03):
You know.

Speaker 4 (03:03):
My cousin gave me one and I stole Carolyn. So
I was how old?

Speaker 2 (03:08):
Because I have these inner monologues. Now this debate because
of finance has been you're worried about getting a new mit,
and how old are you? Twelve?

Speaker 4 (03:16):
That's nine, I don't know, thirty something.

Speaker 2 (03:19):
Oh my goodness. All right, we're so we're an adult
because I don't see kids just say give it to me,
you know, I need it. I gotta have it.

Speaker 3 (03:26):
Oh no, I was a big purchase. I was thinking nice.
But so I said, you know, I'm gonna spurge and
get a mint. And wait, I got one and I
still use this one and I love it. It's great mint.
But I was like, day, I'm not going to play
it long. And my first minute was my dad, which
is from like the forties. My second minute my cousin
gave me, you know. And I played with that as

(03:48):
long as I could, and then I had another one,
and it came to me that this would be the
last minute. I'm never going to get another minute. I'm
not going to play more.

Speaker 4 (03:56):
You know.

Speaker 3 (03:56):
There's going to be a time where I put the
mid down forever, you know. And that was part of it,
like do I really need another one? But when I
was playing with that, my head, I said, all those
myths had great games and great fun. Right, So the
connection was that we're going to have to deal with change,
We're going to have to deal with loss, We're going
to have to deal with grief. But how do we

(04:17):
do that, and the knit part said, remember the good parts,
remember the good games, Remember all the fun I had
my first minute. I can remember playing at Anchor Park
and making them play with all the big kids at
third base, you know, and they all said, oh little.

Speaker 4 (04:31):
Kid, hey, way to go kid. I remember that play.

Speaker 3 (04:35):
I remember making a catch with my second to last mitt,
you know that no one thought I could make. And
then I just tried to put that into how do
we deal with grief?

Speaker 2 (04:45):
Did you lose any of these myths?

Speaker 4 (04:47):
No? I got them all, so you just had to
retire it.

Speaker 2 (04:50):
But the grief still in retiring the mint. And we're
talking about baseball gloves for those that aren't familiar with
a vernacular, a baseball glove.

Speaker 4 (04:58):
Is anyone sure do you have like old stick? Are
you soccables?

Speaker 2 (05:02):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (05:02):
Well, I had a lacrosse stick that I set some
records like intent and eleventh grade with, and I always
left in my mom's basement. You know, she was I
was moving from house to house and one time I
went downstairs and she didn't have a paint store. So
my stick was my stick was rent like seven inches up.
I'm like, she goes, I couldn't find a paint store.
Don't leave it in my basement, I told you, but

(05:25):
I still have it. It's funny the last seven inches.

Speaker 3 (05:28):
To me, that's like a cool story because he kind
of puts it in perspective.

Speaker 4 (05:31):
Right, But you know, we we have the duke. When
you knows the duke.

Speaker 3 (05:35):
We had a football that I got my sixteen birthday,
and everywhere we went, you had to take the duke.

Speaker 4 (05:41):
We went to the amp and you burned the duke.

Speaker 2 (05:43):
You know.

Speaker 4 (05:43):
We went camp, and we went to the league. We
brought the duke, and we thought the duke was gone forever.

Speaker 3 (05:48):
And Al found the duke in his garage and then
we all signed it and I have it up, and well.

Speaker 6 (05:55):
You I have a mid story, kind of funny one.

Speaker 7 (05:58):
So my dad.

Speaker 2 (05:59):
Actually every seems to be funny.

Speaker 8 (06:02):
But my dad.

Speaker 6 (06:02):
Actually was recruited by the Brooklyn Dodgers.

Speaker 4 (06:06):
Back at the day.

Speaker 6 (06:08):
He was a superstar baseball player. But he ended up
having to go to war right with the Korea, and
he was recruited, so he decided he was going to
enlist in the Navy. So my dad played for baseball
for the Navy, and he played with Willie Mays who
played for the army. So my dad had this old
met that he gave me, which I at the time
I had no idea that Willy had signed. So I

(06:31):
used to play with this met and it was so
beat up but everything and my Dad's like, never let
anything happen to that met, and I lost it.

Speaker 9 (06:38):
I lost it.

Speaker 10 (06:39):
I don't know where I put it.

Speaker 6 (06:41):
It was like one of those things where I was like,
oh my god, I lost my dad's meant and he
could have been really upset. He probably could have beaten me,
but he was like, that is a lesson that you
need to learn. That was very valuable to me, right,
But it was what was for me was that my
dad trusted me with this thing, right, and he taught

(07:03):
me how to play softball. My dad was you know,
my dad played for the San Diego Padres. Like my
dad was a great baseball player, and we used to
always hear all these stories. But like this, myt was
like his pride and joy, like you always say, we
were his pride and joy, right, And he was like,
I trusted you with that, and I remember that for
the rest of my life.

Speaker 8 (07:20):
That anything that.

Speaker 4 (07:21):
Really bring him down.

Speaker 3 (07:22):
The mid story, I like Dad.

Speaker 2 (07:28):
I mean, well, you tried the serenity prayer.

Speaker 11 (07:31):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (07:32):
His last words were, do you have the mid?

Speaker 2 (07:36):
How about the ritual of the mit and the little
crosstick breaking it in? I remember Tash in elementary school
like getting a new dodge ball, and you'd put him
on in the house, breaking in the mid.

Speaker 5 (07:47):
Through high school, literally through high school, like sleep. I
take him to bed with me, across snakes, spikes, anything new.
He just wore around for five or six out.

Speaker 3 (07:58):
Like saying, to wear your gloves all the time, well,
to get used to like eating with it, just so
you had the dexterity with the gloves.

Speaker 4 (08:07):
I played hockey and I definitely.

Speaker 9 (08:11):
Want you start sweating.

Speaker 3 (08:12):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, especially with the paint on it. Man,
I freaking love that. That would make it more valuable
to make you know it.

Speaker 2 (08:19):
But she'll have it.

Speaker 9 (08:21):
So I took it home.

Speaker 5 (08:22):
Of course, that's the funny part of the story, right,
because for years she was saying, get your crap out
of the base, you know, I think, I think you
know it was renting houses with friends and always moving places.

Speaker 9 (08:32):
I'll get it someday. And went down there one day and.

Speaker 3 (08:36):
Given see that that's the thing, right, other than your
depressing story. The joy of the memory of the good memories,
right and even with yours and yours something and make
sure remember your dad.

Speaker 4 (08:48):
Right.

Speaker 3 (08:49):
So it's the evolution of yeah, I'm not going to
play lacrosse again, I'm not going to play softball again.
You know, that's okay, let it go, It's all right.
And I've used it with the loss of my parents.
I think of the good times. The accident was very
hard to talk about any of my friends. It just
was so freaking painful. But when I adapted more of

(09:09):
a it is what it is, remember the good times,
it got so much easier. Like, you know, I love
talking about my father. I like talking about my mom.

Speaker 4 (09:18):
Not at the.

Speaker 3 (09:19):
Time, And like I said, you know, we're gonna have
daryn on and we've had to deal with you know,
all In and the Brugman's and they've become very close friends.
And I always post heroes, ye, well.

Speaker 4 (09:31):
Because they took the ultimate hit and rose up.

Speaker 3 (09:35):
Daryn No, but he saved somewhere like six seven with
his efforts, you know, hope, having a travesty and maintaining
that movement forward. But it just hit me with all
the four thousand lives saved, all the pain we avoided,
that there is an ability to deal with the pain.
And you know Pat's story is great, right, yours too.

(09:56):
I mean, it's life, It happens, right.

Speaker 2 (09:58):
And now you get us still that we learn, right.

Speaker 12 (10:01):
I mean, you've got to.

Speaker 4 (10:01):
Tell a story about your dead, right, so you remember.

Speaker 2 (10:04):
That keeps them alive, keeps them a life. Now to
tie in to grief and loss and the serenity prayer,
I can't quote it, but I know that you have
an attachment to it certainly, and I know that you
have to me.

Speaker 3 (10:17):
It's a pocket prayer, right, It's something you could say
quick you can put yourself back into right, to knock
yourself back in God, cramp me, serenity, accept things I
cannot change, the courage to change the things I can,
and the wisdom to know the difference. It really is
a real quick way to sum up God's direction, our direction. Right,
I don't know what's right. Help me, grant me a serenity,

(10:39):
give me peace, and help me make a good choice.

Speaker 6 (10:42):
I think going back to the fact that this is
something that I look at every single day.

Speaker 3 (10:47):
Yeah, but do you feel that that is kind of
the pocket prayer, the kind of the fundamental cheat sheet
of prayers.

Speaker 6 (10:53):
Absolutely, I say it every day, every day.

Speaker 8 (10:58):
It's perfect.

Speaker 2 (10:59):
That's the hard part, figuring out what's uncontrolled, out of
your control and let it go. I'm just remembering now,
as you quote it so eloquently, that was on my
refrigerator growing up. Yeah, last week we talked about great moms,
and my mom had this, just like we have the
Man in the Arena. Yeah, just like that on our refrigerator.

Speaker 9 (11:19):
Really.

Speaker 4 (11:19):
Yeah, Pat's mom had paint used mind.

Speaker 2 (11:22):
Yeah, but in his defense, she did say get your
crap out, and the stick clearly wasn't crap, of course,
not to me. No, this has been riveting. We've been
talking to U Padder Orc and Heidi Felix and Arthur Lee.
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Speaker 3 (15:11):
Well, going down to Washington to have some big meetings
to battle that, and I do think we should have
another show. I think one of the keys to this
show should be accountability. Like we talk about something, we
should follow it up. Not a spiritual thing. And I
do enjoy that. I do think that's an important thing
because people don't talk about it that when.

Speaker 2 (15:30):
We found out on the first episode when you just asked,
do you praank? But that was fun and that was
we send thoughts and prayers a lot, right, Yeah, send
thoughts and prayers.

Speaker 4 (15:40):
We actually know it was high five. It's actually a
high five that I said that.

Speaker 3 (15:44):
Sometimes when I read that now, I'm like, you know,
my dad's sick, hi five and it's like, oh, that's prayer.

Speaker 4 (15:50):
I don't know, maybe we need to redo that emoji.

Speaker 2 (15:52):
Yeah, what do you think? Well, where do you stand
on the emojis? Number one use in general, but also
the high five slash prayer.

Speaker 9 (15:59):
Emoji seemed to me for everything.

Speaker 5 (16:00):
Yeah, like the brand one could be eight different things,
could be clapping, could be this, could be that. So
my wife I don't do them much, but she does.
She said when she started doing them, someone same thing
as like, you know, my husband's in the hospital, pray
for him, and she sent clapping God, I guess the
hands together or whatever.

Speaker 9 (16:15):
And like, oh, okay, I'm like to stay away from
the emoji's completely.

Speaker 5 (16:20):
But now my daughter every night, she she always texts
me when she's going to bed, me and my wife
and I just under like nineteen million emojis just.

Speaker 9 (16:27):
Like nothing random in a wheelchair another guy that I
do that, she just ignores it.

Speaker 2 (16:36):
Now just I do like seventy of them every now
no broccoli here, Yeah, So what it looks like Darren
Chambers average legacy is joining us now.

Speaker 11 (16:44):
Sorry for the side of the road interview. I'm actually
on my way back from doing a donation to a
police department and six schools up in Mahwah, New Jersey,
New Jersey.

Speaker 4 (16:57):
That's where we did the infamous.

Speaker 3 (17:00):
The jail Free cart Nice ma Wa Jimmy Reids you
know Jimmy Reid's and Mahwa.

Speaker 4 (17:04):
Is it still there?

Speaker 11 (17:05):
I have no idea. This is about an hour away
from our house, so.

Speaker 2 (17:09):
So there's gonna be a jography.

Speaker 4 (17:11):
How many schools you did? How many schools?

Speaker 11 (17:13):
Six schools and one police department in total, We've actually
donated over fifteen hundred life acts across New Jersey.

Speaker 4 (17:21):
Now were you able? Were you listening to the first
part of the show able to.

Speaker 11 (17:25):
I was listening before. We actually have eight lives saved police, yes,
five by police departments alone, So we're making some progress
and we're trying to get those numbers up.

Speaker 1 (17:36):
You know.

Speaker 3 (17:38):
The you know, the the theme of today in the
last minute and the surrendering prayer was the challenge of
dealing with loss, dealing with change that isn't always what
we want. And you know, I always comment Hero when
you post or you say, you know this amazing work
you've done, and uh, you know it's taking a two

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different level the ultimate loss and now eight lives are
alive because of your ability to turn the grief into
concern for others, your empathy for others to say, I
don't want you guys to know what we know.

Speaker 4 (18:12):
And has this mission helped you, Oh, without a doubt.

Speaker 11 (18:15):
Kim and I have been out and about all over
New a Jersey and we're kind of using this.

Speaker 4 (18:22):
You know, we went through the worst as well.

Speaker 9 (18:24):
You are well aware.

Speaker 11 (18:26):
Nobody should have to go through that, but we are
taking that loss, taking that travesty and actually turning it
into power, turning it into energy, turning it into the
effort to go out across the state and beyond in
order to help people. And you know, we've only been
doing this for about two and a half years and
to have eight lives already, that's unbelievable.

Speaker 4 (18:46):
Really, wouldn't those lives come across?

Speaker 3 (18:48):
And I always I texted the other day and you
asked me where and I didn't get back to you quick.

Speaker 4 (18:53):
But do you get hope from Maverick? Like do you
do you.

Speaker 3 (18:56):
Feel the sunshine? Do you feel that he's happy? Like
there's a connection.

Speaker 11 (19:02):
Yes, it's it's kind of along the lines of, you know,
he's not here, as I would give anything to have
him here, but you know, anything that we can do
to help others not be in that same position, we
will do without a doubt.

Speaker 3 (19:18):
That's total empathy. Now, this weekend coming up is your
big event, right?

Speaker 2 (19:23):
Oh yeah? Are uh?

Speaker 11 (19:24):
So in order to donate all these devices, you got
to raise raise money, you know. So we actually have
an event that not only raises money, but we also
use it to celebrate Maverick. So we actually have our
third annual Spring Festival that's going to be bigger than ever.
Last year we had over two thousand people. We're shooting

(19:45):
for at least three thousand or so. This year, there's
gonna be over one hundred crafters and vendors. The Tricky
Tray is gonna have over three hundred prizes, live music,
food trucks. We'll actually have beer and wine this year.
A car show, an aerial list, bounce fest, a kid's barn,
face painting, a car show, like everything, literally something for everybody.

(20:10):
Every member of the family will have something, so there's
really no case for somebody not to come and have
a good time. It's free to get in, free parking,
so you can show up and spend nothing. You can
show up and have a good time. You can support
the vendors, you can go to a car show, anything
you wish.

Speaker 3 (20:27):
Is this at the fairground that we were at each time?

Speaker 11 (20:31):
Yes, sir, it's up at the Sussex County Fairgrounds in Augusta,
New Jersey. If anybody wanted to punch in an address,
it's thirty seven Planes Road, Augusta, New Jersey.

Speaker 3 (20:41):
It's amazing. I can't even like each day you'd be
posting a new thing of what you've seen them. It's unbelievable.
It's accomplished. A did you he shows me put his
side on his truck.

Speaker 22 (20:55):
Here since we're at the side of the road. What
he did, we're getting a rooftop or no, that's actually
on the truck that I'm driving around.

Speaker 11 (21:07):
I've been driving that. It's been on the back of
my truck for about a month at this point. It'll
be parked outside the fairgrounds the day of the event.

Speaker 2 (21:15):
How's the response been to the advertisement on the truck.

Speaker 11 (21:18):
Oh, it's been It's been great because people will come
up to you, Oh, are you involved in that? And
I'm handing out flyers. I got little four by six
flyers with you know, information about us in life back
on one side and advertisement for the event on the other.
And it's a way to like directly interacting with people.
I mean, you can do the advertisements on Facebook, on
the radio, on everywhere else, but this is a you know,

(21:40):
literally live interaction with people. It's been fantastic.

Speaker 3 (21:44):
Actually, was it was it last year where you surprised
me and the man and his daughter came up.

Speaker 4 (21:49):
Was that last year? Yes?

Speaker 11 (21:50):
It was last year. So, uh, I kind of rail
eroded you a little bit there. Our first save was
actually there, and so the cooks and Zach it's actually
one of your commercials was recorded at the event, so
I didn't tell you. I didn't say a thing. They
were there and I'm like, hey, hey, hey, come here,
come here, come here. And then I went over to you, Hey,

(22:12):
come here, and then I introduced you and we got
down the business and everybody, you know, a huge emotional
moment for everybody out.

Speaker 4 (22:21):
It was talk about a gift.

Speaker 3 (22:24):
It's those moments and the way you know you were
there and your family, and it was such a nice
surprise in a way, right, because you know, usually we're prepared,
we know who we're meeting, and that was just such
an amazing thing because your energy and your you know,
empathy is such an odd emotion to see, right, we

(22:46):
don't see it, we feel it, and because of your circumstances,
you exude empathy. And it's such a beautiful quality, right,
the caring of others not to feel what we feel,
you know, then to meet as save and it was
it was amazing and I am so grateful for that moment, and.

Speaker 2 (23:04):
That was great.

Speaker 11 (23:04):
I remember the first time we met them after the
Save was actually at the fairgrounds as well, but it
was actually during the summertime fair We had a table
there set up doing demonstrations and you know, they came
up and that was the first time we met them
after the fact and you know, emotional event across the board.

Speaker 4 (23:24):
Oh my god, I couldn't imagine. Have you met any
of the other eight not after the fact.

Speaker 11 (23:29):
No, we get our one of the last saves that
was at a school in New Jersey. We actually just
received pictures and essentially a thank you from them because
they actually just had a school event. They had basically
like a I don't want to say, a fashion show
where they were walking up and down a runway doing
a school event, you know, showing off doing the you know,

(23:50):
regular school activities, and we were basically giving a thank you, saying, hey,
thank you. You know, without you guys, in your effort
and life fact, he wouldn't be here with us today.
That was the save that actually had three registered nurses
on staff and they were unable to clear his airway
with the you know, standard protocol there and they used
the life BacT we donated to them about a year

(24:12):
or so before, and because of that, he was able
to do what he's been doing amazing.

Speaker 2 (24:18):
Talk a little bit about the success You mentioned a
school save, which is you know guts, everyone gets everyone's
attention because, you know, unfortunately run into a lot of
roadblocks with certain schools. I think maybe twenty percent of
schools nationwide on average, and it's you know, far too few.
Sometimes schools open arms, but often there is misinformation or

(24:43):
skepticism or questions what type of roadblocks have you encountered
and what kind of advice would you give? Along with
Donna and Heidi for those that are trying to get
in their schools and are meeting resistance.

Speaker 11 (24:55):
Well one thing is meet with them, talk with them
and see what they're concern In New Jersey particularly, there
was a letter released by the state a while ago
which has since been retracted essentially partially due to our
efforts and others, because a lot of that misleading or
just flat out wrong information was being released by the state.

(25:17):
So after going back and forth and showing them the
actual facts, the actual truth in the matter, they eventually
retracted that letter and issued something different. So unfortunately, a
lot of schools read that and started sharing that that
was wrong. So what I try to do, what we
try to do is we show them, hey, here are
the facts. You are more than welcome to verify it.

(25:39):
Here's all the sources, here's all the information. What do
we need to give you in order to make you
feel comfortable with this? You know, here's our history of
our saves that we were personally involved in. Here's you know,
highlights from your saves. So we do what we can
to kind of put them at ease and show them that, hey,
this is a.

Speaker 4 (25:59):
You know, an option.

Speaker 11 (26:00):
You know, suction has been a part of airway clearance
for longer than I've been alive. You know, it's all
down to how do you develop that suction? And you know,
right now, life acts the best option out there for
you know, these emergency situations.

Speaker 4 (26:15):
It brought it to the lay person.

Speaker 3 (26:17):
It took out the tube, so we had non invasive
so it's certainly safer for a non professional and the
god wing burst of a suction it's more effective because
the little tube's a clog, or they won't generate enough,
or you've got to attach it in the case of
like Quaid with a lemonhead candy. So it's a combination

(26:39):
of God and the just luck that that mechanism, that
little plunger produces a pop. It's Ahim like, there's no
variation anyone could do it, and it'll always generate what
it needs to do to do the job. And you know,
Darren has been out there, amazing guy. And I always

(27:03):
love our talks because we go off on any kind
of wolf of medi tangent because you know, what was
the I.

Speaker 2 (27:10):
Can't believe still, I know he's sitting still for.

Speaker 4 (27:13):
This what happened.

Speaker 2 (27:14):
He did get out of the car. He did get out.

Speaker 11 (27:16):
I got out of the car. And if you actually
looked around me, I'm not gonna look around, but I
literally have cases of the box we see behind me
or it's all cases of life acts. When I left
this morning, I had two cases of each that were
actually just delivered yesterday and already gave away half of them. So, uh,
you gotta keep moving, you gotta you know, we're all

(27:38):
doing it for the right reason.

Speaker 2 (27:39):
You know his heart is in the right place. I
think I asked you last time. You burst into the
Life BAC headquarters out in Wisconsin, and goodness, he enters
the room, enters up the premises, and Darren's here. But
you have a full time another full time job.

Speaker 11 (27:54):
Correct, Yes, I work for our friends at the federal government.
For the last seventeen years, so that's my full time gig.
My job title is a product quality manager. If that
sounds really official, it sounds really fancy. It's really not.
The government, as you can imagine, does not do anything.
Simply falls underneath the Quality Engineering and System Assurance directory.

(28:19):
So basically I make sure things are done right, so
it's all quality. And then you know that on top
of the family, you know, with three kids and all
the school activities and everything, Kim and I have our
hands full to say the least. You know, I left
work early today, like I took a couple hours vacation time,
left work early to drive the hour from work up

(28:41):
to Mahwa, went and did the demo to police and schools,
and now I'm driving back. It ran a little later
than planned, so hence why I'm on the side of
the road with a Wi Fi hotspot in order to
talk to you. So that I'm about twenty minutes or
so from home, I'll go there and if they didn't
eat dinner without me yet, I'll eat dinner with them.

(29:02):
But uh, you know, then we're gonna be getting ready
for our event we have. You know, we're putting all
the tricky tray baskets and all that stuff together. I've
been writting all the signage, all the fun stuff. It's
we do everything. If anybody wants to find out, if
they wanted to find out more than any questions that
I didn't answer or mention here, they're welcome to check
out our website. It's mavericks Legacy dot org. Or you

(29:24):
can look up Maverick's Legacy Official on Facebook and you
can follow along with our event. There you'll see pictures
of various prizes, vendors and everything else going on.

Speaker 2 (29:34):
We thank you so much for joining us, Darren Chamber. Yeah,
get home and get some dinner. Oh, I'm gonna try
Maverick's Legacy and we are the Man in the Arena
and we're up against the break. So I want to
thank Darren for joining us, and we'll be right back
with more of the Man in the Arena.

Speaker 7 (29:49):
After this break, she started to choke on a piece
of candy.

Speaker 8 (29:52):
She wasn't breathing.

Speaker 14 (29:53):
Then Ray reached for the life back in it save her.

Speaker 15 (29:57):
She could have easily died that day. A life back
saved her life. What I would say is, don't need
a life back and not have it have a life
back and hopefully never need it.

Speaker 16 (30:08):
Recently, the American Red Cross has added anti choking devices
as an option when standard protocol fails is not feasible.

Speaker 17 (30:15):
Go to lifeback dot net or called eight seven seven
five four three three eight two to two.

Speaker 3 (30:20):
I'm sorry to bother you, but I have thirty seconds
to give you a very important message.

Speaker 4 (30:25):
My name is Arthur Lee.

Speaker 3 (30:26):
I'm the CEO inventor of life Back, a simple choking
rescue device that could save a life.

Speaker 4 (30:31):
In a choking emergency. We've saved over three.

Speaker 3 (30:34):
Thousand lives now, but we're not there five thousand people
you'd choked to death, one child every five days. Please
consider protecting your family in a choking emergency with lifeback.

Speaker 18 (30:45):
Go to lifefac dot net today. Thank you for your time.

Speaker 19 (30:48):
Life Back 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 choking emergency. This life saving update recognizes the importance
of tools like life Act designed to help in traditional
methods may not be feasible or fail. LIFEAC is there

(31:09):
when seconds matter most join the thousands of families who
trust Life Act. LIFEAC can make the difference between life
and loss. Go to lifeac dot com to get yours today.

Speaker 3 (31:19):
Hi, I'm Arthur Lee, inventor, founder and CEO of Lifeact
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

(31:40):
can happen to anyone. That's why I created Life back.
Life BAC 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. Don't wait until it's too late. Visit
lifeac dot mat today and use promo code life to

(32:00):
save twenty percent on your life back home kit. That's
life BAC dot net promo code life. Join thousands of
families who own life back life THATAC can make the
difference between life and loss. Go to lifeback dot net
and get yours today.

Speaker 20 (32:16):
I was in the living room when I heard my
son Carter, who was two at the time. I looked
over and I saw him grabbing for his face in
his room. I grab a life back. I put the
mask on his face and place push Paul the life back,
dislodge the ice cube from his airway.

Speaker 21 (32:33):
When he started crying, the most amazing sound I've.

Speaker 8 (32:36):
Ever heard in my entire life.

Speaker 10 (32:39):
Please protect your family. Get a Life Back.

Speaker 1 (32:44):
Now on iHeartRadio more of the Man in the Arena
the Life Back Radio Show.

Speaker 12 (32:49):
Here again are Arthur Lee and Rick Thatcher.

Speaker 2 (32:53):
Heidie Felix, Patrick O'Rourke, and we were talking to Darren Chambers.
How inspiring you'd say it all the time? How would inspiring?
Is Darren Chambers and the kim the family and the Mavericks.

Speaker 3 (33:05):
It's a tough man in the Arena question to say,
you know, how does it make him feel to save
those lives? And you know, I think it was the
strength and he says, you know, it helps. I think
that's that connects to the silliness of the myth.

Speaker 4 (33:20):
But it's the same thing.

Speaker 3 (33:21):
You know, he found a way, he found a way
to honor son and to heal and help others.

Speaker 4 (33:28):
And you know, I think for people with empathy.

Speaker 3 (33:31):
These things can even be worse, you know, because they
take it so deeply. But it's also a very powerful thing.
You know, if I have empathy for you, I want
to help you. So he turned it into a positive. Yeah,
I think kids are alive because he persevered through the
pain and to do something great. And now, forget he's
doing this ridiculous.

Speaker 9 (33:52):
In only two and a half years. Eight kids.

Speaker 5 (33:53):
Yeah, it's like a kid every three months. I guess
you'd do your taxes every time he saves a kid.

Speaker 9 (33:58):
He was quarterly.

Speaker 2 (34:00):
Maverick was only four months four months old. And how
long before you know, everyone grieves differently, and it's amazing
what they've done in the wake of uh, Maverick's passing.
How long before they started this incredible effort to say,
I trying to remember it was months?

Speaker 4 (34:18):
Years. Sometimes it's good, you know, they have kids, have
to Maverick or.

Speaker 2 (34:26):
Yeah, and how about the other families that like the Chambers.

Speaker 6 (34:32):
Like Courtney and Travis and others that have just really
taken a tragedy.

Speaker 2 (34:36):
And yeah, the Huckingberrys. Yeah, you want to you wanted
to talk about and I was remembering I heard you
mentioned the testifying Yeah.

Speaker 6 (34:48):
So Darren, Kim and I had gone down to Tony
and labate from Equal First Aid to the New York,
New Jersey Capital there and it was interesting because you know,
I really didn't know the impact that we were going
to have there. So the first people that were up

(35:08):
there were the family that lost their son on the
bus that was disabled and unfortunately choked to death on
the bus. And it was horrible and the testimony was
heart wrenching. And then Darren got up there and Kim
and told their stories and you know, I was just
there to really just talk about the facts about life

(35:31):
back and you know how important it is to have
it in every vehicle and have it in every school.
And the head of the Education Committee at one point,
so he goes, I absolutely he was.

Speaker 4 (35:41):
I was an e.

Speaker 6 (35:41):
MT and he said, and I have no questions that
this Life BacT will be game changing. And you know,
so one of the things that popped up was this
letter that had circulated throughout New Jersey and Darren had
a rebuttal for it. And you know what I love
about Darren is his passion, Yeah, and its operation. So
he had literally outlined all of these statistics and facts

(36:05):
and so forth, and it was just remarkable.

Speaker 4 (36:07):
And ridiculous that we have to do that.

Speaker 3 (36:10):
And you know, I was thinking back to when I
was in Wisconsin and the Brugnan has testified, Malone testisfied.
I mean Maddox and U Prisaiah and Sam was mentioned
who took them in school? And the first question was
about budget and I almost lost my mind. And that's

(36:32):
when I said, everyone free as that, and they all cricket.

Speaker 2 (36:36):
I don't want to, don't want to, you know, gloss
over that in any way you offered first to the
state of Wisconsin, but then to the nation. Any school
requesting you just have to request a life actor gets
a free life.

Speaker 4 (36:50):
Almost ten thousand given away.

Speaker 3 (36:52):
But and them I godwin because the Sam Magna, his
dad and Mark, I ride with him on my bike.
I have a little I took a coin and put
his picture and I take them and I take pictures
and I don't know, I created a little bond with
him in my own mind. And I often I'll text
his dad Mark and say, Sam made me take a ride.

Speaker 4 (37:15):
You know, it's like his fault. Take a ride. Yeah,
the kid said play hooky, let's go for a ride.

Speaker 3 (37:25):
But to have him testify prior to someone saying budget
was you know, and I think it was perfect because
it made me do it, and you know, like anything,
I don't know if we could, we could afford it whatever,
who kids, We'll figure it out.

Speaker 2 (37:42):
That's the spirit you started with him. And it's wasn't
a surprise to most when you said that, because you
didn't want to see I don't want to see.

Speaker 3 (37:50):
Another some discussions on the financial side after that statement
put it out to everyone, but after the recovery, we
all agreed that would be all right.

Speaker 4 (38:00):
We'll make it, and we have and.

Speaker 2 (38:03):
We had just what was that what was that seven million?

Speaker 4 (38:08):
Something like that.

Speaker 3 (38:10):
Yeah, it's more than that, but the we just last.

Speaker 4 (38:14):
Was it last week? We had one of the units
we gave way.

Speaker 2 (38:17):
Free save the kids, So there you go. I was like,
who could If it saves one, it was worth it,
and I'm.

Speaker 4 (38:23):
Sure it's saved more.

Speaker 3 (38:24):
But of course it was kind of neat, and you know,
especially because obviously, you know, I was a little scared too.

Speaker 4 (38:30):
But you got to what's right there with it?

Speaker 2 (38:33):
You know, I gotta ask Pat, because you were product
of the mass peak of schools. We got a little
local here what's wrong with our board? Where the one
place one of them, one of the schools.

Speaker 10 (38:45):
It's funny because I ran into Tim.

Speaker 4 (38:48):
Forever.

Speaker 8 (38:49):
Yeah, he's we.

Speaker 2 (38:50):
Got to get this done. We got to get it done.

Speaker 9 (38:52):
You know what school board saying no to this?

Speaker 4 (38:54):
Yes? Yeah, whatever, some do some don't.

Speaker 2 (38:57):
You a whole nother show we talked about to fix it.

Speaker 3 (39:03):
I wanted to circle back to the fact. I was curious,
what memorabilia do we have? Do you have some other
stick like I know on my desk, I have a
howl that was my mom's. I have something from my
grandparents because you know, like you said that tons of stuff.
So I remember in my garage, you know, I have
a couple of things for my dad and my mom,

(39:23):
And do you have other things?

Speaker 5 (39:26):
I have a basement bar, so I have tons of
stuff down there. But I have a funny My grandfather
owned a liquor store on North Avenue in Rochelle. And
this is back in the thirties and forties. And Babe
Ruth and Lou Garrick used to commit oh way, so
they have a picture of them and.

Speaker 9 (39:42):
They made season. No, they both autographed.

Speaker 5 (39:45):
Supposed they both photographed and he gave it to me
and said, you know, never lose this to both these
guys phutographs and you and we were living.

Speaker 9 (39:50):
Now we're still behind my bar.

Speaker 5 (39:52):
But then as the years went on, my grandfather passed
away and I'm looking like his handwriting looks just like.

Speaker 9 (39:56):
Dave Bruce autographs. But I still save it down.

Speaker 4 (40:01):
Then it's almost better. It is, it was almost better.
That is funny grandma.

Speaker 5 (40:07):
Because I actually I went to my mother at one
put in high school, like what do think I can
sell this for like a million dollars.

Speaker 9 (40:12):
She's like, he signed it. Look at that.

Speaker 4 (40:13):
You didn't he tell you?

Speaker 5 (40:15):
He was also famous for like writing Irish poems. Then
you look up James Joyce and like, I think he
played drug. Did you get to know Joe Biden?

Speaker 4 (40:23):
Yeah, I was.

Speaker 9 (40:26):
Like nineteen twenty No, not really. He was a serious guy,
but you know, good guy though.

Speaker 4 (40:33):
Yeah, that is My.

Speaker 9 (40:34):
Grandmother was a funny one.

Speaker 4 (40:36):
But see, I like that's kind of cool. My I
have I have no idea why.

Speaker 3 (40:41):
When I was very little, I gave my remember when
they were like metal guys. I got a bolt and
stuff like there was metal wire. I have two guys
boxes and I gave my grandmother. I have no idea why,
but I guess because I gave it to her, she
kept them forever, of course.

Speaker 4 (40:57):
That's yeah, that stuff.

Speaker 9 (40:58):
And I had more of my kids stuff than my stuff.

Speaker 2 (41:00):
Actually, yeah, yeah, the cards, the early cards.

Speaker 3 (41:03):
I framed everyone in Jackie's cards, I am all frames.

Speaker 4 (41:08):
That's the beast.

Speaker 5 (41:09):
Well, we found my report cards when when my mother
passed away, went through her and I guess I wasn't
that good school teacher used to write long.

Speaker 2 (41:17):
Notes, So was it those report cards that you had
to have signed in return?

Speaker 9 (41:20):
Didn't frame any of them?

Speaker 4 (41:21):
Do you have any little things top of your head?

Speaker 2 (41:24):
A ton of stuff, Yeah, a ton of stuff in
the house between autograph books. I remember spending time with
my grandfather outside of Shea Stadium. You know, he was
patient as the day is, basically my dad because I
lost my father when I was three and Willie Maysy.
I remember I remember yelling say hey, say hey kids

(41:45):
seventy three.

Speaker 3 (41:46):
Yeah, I got an autograph at check yep with did
your grandfather?

Speaker 4 (41:50):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (41:51):
See that's cool member, Yeah, that's cool memory. Now do
you have that like somewhere in your house and it's in.

Speaker 2 (41:57):
The autograph book that that I had, and you know
with you know a lot of coins and small stuff.
The wife will allowed the small stuff. They were all
in drawers and some in the garage. But it's and
some T shirts that go back to the Flying Squirrels
like that type of stuff.

Speaker 4 (42:14):
I mean I checked.

Speaker 2 (42:17):
Throw away shirt.

Speaker 4 (42:18):
Yeah, well that's stuff. Yeah, great stuff. That's kind of
but that's mine.

Speaker 5 (42:22):
That's like, you know, I actually I went to the
Catholics Ursus the Convicts game and Notre Dame No Way,
and I had like three T shirts and what we
put them away like in my attic, like twenty five
years ago. We went through everything. We can't find them.
But I actually went to that game and bought them,
gave a couple.

Speaker 9 (42:36):
Of my brothers. They lost them over the years.

Speaker 4 (42:38):
Yeah, well, now they.

Speaker 9 (42:39):
Come out with a documentary about it.

Speaker 2 (42:40):
You're listening to the memorabilia portion of the Man in
the Arena and we're up against the break. So we're
going to be back with mister three thousand ray Preby.
We can't wait to talk. We talked about every week,
so join us. On the other side.

Speaker 7 (42:53):
She started to choke on a piece of candy.

Speaker 8 (42:55):
She wasn't breathing.

Speaker 14 (42:56):
Then Ray reached for the life BacT in it.

Speaker 15 (42:59):
The same she could have easily died that day. A
life back saved her life. What I would say is,
don't need a life back and not have it. Have
a life back and hopefully never need it.

Speaker 16 (43:11):
Recently, the American Red Cross has added anti choking devices
as an option when standard protocol fails or is not feasible.

Speaker 17 (43:19):
Go to lifeback dot net or called eight seven seven
five four three three eight two to two.

Speaker 3 (43:24):
I'm sorry to bother you, but I have thirty seconds
to give you a very important message.

Speaker 4 (43:28):
My name is Arthur Lee. I'm the CEO.

Speaker 3 (43:30):
Inventor of life Back, a simple choking rescue device that
could save a life in a choking emergency.

Speaker 4 (43:36):
We've saved over.

Speaker 3 (43:37):
Three thousand lives now, but we're not there five thousand
people you'd choked to death.

Speaker 4 (43:42):
One child every five days.

Speaker 3 (43:44):
Please consider protecting your family in a choking emergency with lifeback.

Speaker 18 (43:49):
Go to lifefac dot net today. Thank you for your time.

Speaker 19 (43:52):
Life Back 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 choking emergencies. This life saving update recognizes the importance
of tools like life Act, designed to help when traditional
methods may not be feasible or fail. LIFEAC is there

(44:12):
when seconds matter most. Join the thousands of families who
trust Life Act. LIFEAC can make the difference between life
and loss. Go to life bac dot com to get
yours today.

Speaker 3 (44:22):
Hi, I'm Arthur Lee, inventor, founder and CEO of LIFEAC
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

(44:43):
can happen to anyone. That's why I created life back
life BAC 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 4 (44:58):
Don't wait until it's too late.

Speaker 3 (45:00):
Is it lifefac 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
of families who own life back Life thatac can make
the difference between life and loss. Go to lifeac dot
net and get yours today.

Speaker 20 (45:19):
I was in the living room when I heard my
son Carter, who was two at the time.

Speaker 10 (45:24):
I looked over and I saw him grabbing for his.

Speaker 8 (45:27):
Face in his room.

Speaker 10 (45:28):
I grab a life back.

Speaker 20 (45:30):
I put the mask on his face and place push
Paul the life back dislodge the ice cube from his airway.

Speaker 21 (45:37):
When he started crying, the most amazing sound I've ever.

Speaker 8 (45:40):
Heard in my entire life.

Speaker 10 (45:42):
Please protect your family. Get a Life Back.

Speaker 1 (45:47):
Now on iHeartRadio more of the Man in the Arena
the Life Back Radio Show.

Speaker 12 (45:53):
Here again are Arthur Lee and Rick Thatcher.

Speaker 2 (45:56):
Talking about memorabilia. Serenity Prayer, who enjoyed great does to find.

Speaker 4 (46:04):
Them like mysk. I have one of my mom's owls,
you know.

Speaker 3 (46:08):
And it's funny because typical dad, it broke its glued together.
You used sparkles to fix things, like you know, But
that's kind of both of them.

Speaker 4 (46:17):
On that one.

Speaker 6 (46:17):
You got to hang on to it and you had
so I have two things that carry with me everywhere.
Cardinals are my dad signed from heaven and my kids
got me. I'm always with you. It's a little cardinal
and my mother had given me an angel when things
were really.

Speaker 7 (46:30):
Tough in my life.

Speaker 4 (46:32):
They yeah, And I carry that.

Speaker 6 (46:35):
You know, especially when I'm on the planes these days,
holding on to that for deers.

Speaker 4 (46:40):
Nervous about flying a little bit southwest.

Speaker 9 (46:45):
South you better.

Speaker 2 (46:47):
I think we're getting all that way. Statistically, we're safe
for a while. Bring a good luck parachute.

Speaker 20 (46:57):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (46:57):
On the way back from FT, I see it was.
It was scary ride. There was a lot of us
praying that night.

Speaker 9 (47:04):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (47:04):
Back to the emojis. So this portion of the show
each week, we're blessed to be joined by mister three thousand.
We call him mister two thousand because he saves his
daughter Maya on a Florida highway to account for the
reported three thousand save. And gosh, when I say blessed,
I mean it. We were blessed to have mister Ray

(47:25):
preby men.

Speaker 13 (47:27):
And women in the arena tonight. How are we doing, guys?

Speaker 4 (47:30):
You are awesome. Took grief in that and some joy
in it, So that was a good cho I was.

Speaker 13 (47:35):
Gonna say, what a great show talking about memorabilia and
amazing people that we meet along the path of life.

Speaker 2 (47:43):
You know, had you met Darren Chambers.

Speaker 13 (47:46):
I have not no, Wow, what a great movement he
is on and just affecting so many people in great ways.

Speaker 2 (47:52):
It's amazing as you are, sir, kind of.

Speaker 13 (47:54):
Like somebody else I know, Arthurly, Arthurly POSI so so
all men that have affected other people. I'm gonna give
a quick shout out if you don't mind, Marine Corporal
of the Ghost Battalion to eleven, Vietnam. My uncle Philip

(48:16):
Preby lost his battle with cancer this past Saturday.

Speaker 4 (48:21):
Sorry, so hoorah, God bless, thank you, God bless.

Speaker 13 (48:25):
All right, speaking of great things, let's get to that
number twenty reported saves away from four thousand saves four thousand,
that is, I mean, let's streak down the numbers a
little bit, folks. Here we go, one hundred and ninety
three days since missed three thousand, my little baby Maya,

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and we have saved nine hundred and eighty reported saves
in one hundred and ninety three days. That's two thousand,
four hundred and eighty three children saved to date, just
absolutely two weeks, you know, we didn't do. I wasn't
here last week, which you know, it was a tough

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it was. It was a tough miss. But here I
am back again. Since thirteen days, seventy eight save amazing numbers,
absolutely amazing.

Speaker 6 (49:15):
That's more than we had on the wall when I
first started five years ago, you know.

Speaker 8 (49:20):
And that's reporting.

Speaker 9 (49:21):
I always say, that's reporting, absolutely amazing.

Speaker 2 (49:24):
You know, Ray, last week we celebrated Mother's Day and
you were with us, and we want to repeat that
wish to your wife Kristen and to your special mom.
Happy Mother's Day again because I know it's coming up,
even though we're taping in advance.

Speaker 13 (49:36):
Absolutely Yeah. A big shout out to my wife who
currently has Miss maya number three thousand at cheerleading practice,
and God knows, because it is not easy. I've been there.
And of course, a huge shout out to my mama,
Mama Preview, who shot. Words can't express what an amazing

(49:58):
woman she is. So big shout out my mom.

Speaker 4 (50:00):
I love you.

Speaker 13 (50:01):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (50:01):
Do you have any highlights?

Speaker 13 (50:03):
I got a great highlight today, great highlight.

Speaker 2 (50:05):
Here we go.

Speaker 13 (50:06):
March twelfth, the seven month old boy choked on a
piece of food. Basic life support protocol was followed. Life
back was used twice. Here's the mother's testimonial. My seven
month old grabbed a piece of food and it was
gone in a flash. He started coughing, so I let
him cough. When it was clear that he could not
get it up on his own, we started back blows

(50:29):
in a doominal thrust. Thankfully, as I did that, my
husband was right there and grabbed the life back. He
set it up easily and quickly. We tempted twice because
the first time he was wiggling around a little too
much to get a good seal. The second attempt was
much easier and pulled up a giant piece of food
very equally. He never had a complete blockage before, but

(50:54):
he definitely needed the life back and he is one
hundred percent fine seven month old.

Speaker 2 (51:00):
Yeah, great stuff.

Speaker 6 (51:01):
We get questions all the time because you know, really
twenty two pounds and above, but when you look at
those twenty four eighty, I'd say seventy percent got to
be under.

Speaker 4 (51:10):
Oh, yes, for sure.

Speaker 8 (51:11):
I haven't looked at all.

Speaker 6 (51:12):
I mean, I'm not a statistical analysis, but I do
think it's that's done.

Speaker 2 (51:16):
And ray, I love I love the story that that
has been shared amongst the Life Back family of the
premature baby that was saved for there before the du date, Yeah,
before they were supposed to That was that was what.

Speaker 6 (51:30):
So I memorized all these right because I would start
calling people and they would go live, but I would
remember these stories and each story, you know, had this
amazing background.

Speaker 7 (51:43):
And this was one of my favorites.

Speaker 6 (51:44):
And that was the smallest baby that we had saved
at that point before for sure, she was over like
six pounds.

Speaker 4 (51:51):
I think when she was saved.

Speaker 13 (51:53):
Well, you got to love the backstories when you actually
get to read the stories and hear, you know, testimonial
from the parents and from the people that have used
the device and going through the crisis at that moment,
it's it's it's amazing. Like I was telling Arthur, you know,
you get choked up because you can feel the raw

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emotion that these people are going through and it's just
what a blessing to be part of that.

Speaker 3 (52:19):
We had one today and you know, I quickly go
to did Life Back save the life? That's the first
thing I go right to to make sure that that's
there's a yes. And today was one that said absolutely
and and they just in a minute. It just you know,
makes your day, your life, your week. But it's such

(52:41):
a powerful little statement when they absolutely one it was
a kid.

Speaker 2 (52:45):
Not just as simple.

Speaker 3 (52:46):
Yes, yeah, emoji was high five high five at a
basketball I don't know where we got to get a
life back emoji.

Speaker 9 (52:54):
That would be oh my god.

Speaker 2 (52:55):
Really sure we got someone at that company that can
do it. Somebody tucky what those stress things?

Speaker 6 (53:01):
That's a life act you know what I mean?

Speaker 9 (53:03):
Stressful? Yeah, yeah, yeah, Okay.

Speaker 2 (53:07):
We have disappearing gummy who's really not doing as used
to do. He just stays around now totally visible.

Speaker 20 (53:14):
Ray.

Speaker 2 (53:14):
Well, we appreciate you every week. We love you, mister three.

Speaker 13 (53:19):
Cast absolutely love being here. Love you guys and uh
as as usual, I'll give my partying statement life factors
have it and don't need it, don't need it and
not have it. The life you say could be your own.
Love you guys.

Speaker 2 (53:31):
God bless from the massive Peak of Studios to La Houston,
Orlando and New York. We'll be back next week. I'm Rick.
I'm with Arthur Lee Ceo, in ventor of life BacT,
on the Man in the Arena.

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