April 17, 2025 • 49 mins
In the Arena - Show 36. Brought to you by LifeVac. Hosted by Rick Fatscher. With special guests. Be sure to catch Mr. 3000, Ray Priebe, with news on the latest lives saved. The Man in the Arena airs live @ 6:30pm EST every Thursday night from Paradise Studios NY via the STRONGISLAND.COM Entertainment Network.
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
It's no joke. When you choke life.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Back and without breath, they'll be death, life bad, life
back and.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
Back life back.
Speaker 4 (00:20):
And wow, so talented, such a great American. And yet
he takes time out of his busy day micro to
sing that beautiful the life Bac song. It's wonderful. Hey everyone,
Rick Thatcher, Welcome to in the arena. I'm joined by Pat,
(00:40):
a regular here. That's right, no Micro but yeah, but
self described choking hazard? Is that true?
Speaker 1 (00:47):
You think I'm an expert choking your prone fast?
Speaker 4 (00:50):
Anyway, We are live tonight from Paradise Studios in Massapeakua,
New York. We are you probably could tell by the
two of us being here. Arthur is not with us tonight,
but as always in spirit, the CEO, inventor of life Fact.
And we're coming up on a big milestone. It's rapidly approaching,
and we're having bets and all kinds of contests to
(01:13):
guess when what day will the four thousand.
Speaker 5 (01:18):
The experts are now saying before the end of this month.
I thought it'd be like July. But yeah, this product
is working so well. We're way ahead of schedule.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
Way ahead of schedule, and we got a great show
for you tonight. Uh, we're gonna be talking to the
Valor meet snack guy Chris Prascas. We're gonna be talking
to Jose Tovar out is it Idaho? I believe it's Idaho.
But he's gonna tell us all about my family First Aid,
a brand new distributor for Life AAC. But before we
(01:47):
talk to those two great veteran gentlemen, we're gonna be
checking in with roadshow Ryan, who we haven't heard from
in a while. Yads O, Ryan, we alsa come to
pass me near you, Roadho. How's it going out there?
Speaker 3 (02:00):
What's up Life Backers?
Speaker 4 (02:01):
It's going well. I'm in Brooklyn, New York right now, Brooklyn, Brooklyn.
So you've been doing these road shows for a while now.
It started on Long Island and then you went away
for a while. Tell us about some of the places
you've been. Yeah.
Speaker 6 (02:16):
So I've been traveling up and down the East Coast
with my friend Charlie here. Yes, I'm going Costco to Costco,
from Virginia to Massachusetts, ally US to New Hampshire, just
you know, spreading the good word about Life back, educating
the members, and most importantly, getting lighte backs in the
(02:36):
hands of families across the country. One thing does stay
the same no matter what city or what state I'm in,
is I'm meeting people who have used the LFE back
to save someone that they know or know someone who.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
Used the light back to say to someone they know.
So that's a contests, right. From twenty sixteen the first
year a life was reported, and there were only four
of the entire year. So I was with you on
a couple of the road shows, so I can attest
not only people name recognition and product recognition, but also
(03:10):
coming up and reporting and a certain percentage unreported saves, right.
Speaker 6 (03:16):
Yes, So it's been a little over thirty total and
the majority of them have been unreported, So I know
we have I think we crossed over the thirty nine
hundredth life stave that's reported, but that number, you know,
I think it's way higher with all the.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
Yeah that's concurring right now if you could see.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
It, I mean the SATs.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
Yes, yeah, So road show, where what's up next? You're
in Brooklyn today for the rest of the week.
Speaker 6 (03:45):
What's the Brooklyn until Saturday night? And then next week
I'm in Staten Island from Wednesday to Sunday. Then I
head up to Connecticut for two weeks. I'm going to
East Lime and South Windsor, Connecticut and Edison, New Jersey,
followed by a three month show in Texas. So I'll
(04:08):
be in the Dallas area three months. I'm hitting nine
different locations there.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
Road show. Your parents are here? You want to have
you been able to converse with your parents? Your parents
are here?
Speaker 5 (04:20):
Texas is beautiful this summer pot hundred and ten every day.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
Yeah, I love it? Ye should? Yeah, And we appreciate
you so much out there spreading the word because, as
most people know, Life Act is a very small, intimate,
very passionate company, and we appreciate you so much. We
should mention that costco in terms of corporate responsibility, absolutely
(04:45):
doing the right thing. Not only do they have Ryan
there with the Life Act set up available for the public,
but they have in each of their food courts worldwide
a Life fact right next to the ad near the
food court, because, by god, Pat, have you seen the
size of the hot dog I have? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (05:01):
I've used Life back four times. Are you single?
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Right?
Speaker 4 (05:05):
Uh? Oh?
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Are you single? You date anyone right now?
Speaker 4 (05:07):
I'm single?
Speaker 1 (05:10):
In Dallas or it's gonna happen in Texas.
Speaker 7 (05:12):
Three months, stay in Texas. That's right, girls. Wow, always smile,
says Marry a Long Island girl.
Speaker 6 (05:16):
It's two back here for one nineteen so you get
the home.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
Yeah, let's let's let me this guy gets back to
what he's doing. Ryan, we love you the two masks.
You get it.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
As well as an adult mass.
Speaker 4 (05:30):
Good luck in action.
Speaker 5 (05:31):
We'll talk to you before you go to Dallas.
Speaker 4 (05:34):
All right, your learn one or everybody, uh, you know,
keep it going in the comments. And he's out on
the road really alerting me to where he's gonna be
in few weeks.
Speaker 5 (05:45):
Amazing, he's sending the mare for three months summer in
Dallas's entry.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
Nice. So Pat, next guest, Christopher practice. We're in the airport.
I think it's going to Lewis.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
I think, yeah, yep, yeah.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
And of course I thought initially that he recognized the
two of us from work that we did with Brian,
but apparently again.
Speaker 5 (06:08):
First now, our favorite hobby both of us is walking
behind Brian in the airport because we love seeing people's reactions.
And then a lot of times they'll walk by and
they tell me their spouse or friendly and we always
say yeah, yeah, picture, and he's always so gracious and
takes pictures with everyone.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
But so this is me and Rick.
Speaker 5 (06:22):
We're about ten feet back walking by and him and
Alison were in front of us.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Is his assistant assistant.
Speaker 4 (06:28):
She's a do everything. She's the woman behind the man.
She's the woman in the arena, Allison Mansfield, big shout out.
She's if you watch Brian kill Me do his Facebook lives,
his radio show, she's the producer for that. But she's
always holding one of the cameras for all his Facebook lives,
and boy, if he doesn't sleep, she can't sleep either.
Speaker 5 (06:48):
But we're going we're going to catch a plane, and
we're walking by him, his wife, one a kid, one.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
Beautiful family, two kids, I think there were two.
Speaker 5 (06:55):
Great guy, and he gives us beef jerky, gives us
all bags of beef jerky.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
And I had mine that night, right, I was good.
Speaker 4 (07:01):
I had mine too, and I had the spicy version.
I like the spicy and old boy, it was spicy.
Let's with no further delay, let's bring Chris Prascas into
the building, into the arena.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
Hey guys, how are.
Speaker 4 (07:15):
You to see you again? And thank you so much
for the valor beef jerkey.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
No, absolutely, thank you so much. And I know it
sounded it was just like coming up to someone on
the in the airport's kind of it's always like, oh,
here to take this. Y're like, okay, I don't want to.
So I appreciate you guys being gracious enough of taking
it from me and hearing how I what what it
was all about. So I appreciate that.
Speaker 5 (07:43):
Yeah, it was genuinely actually really what you said to
each other on the plane. We're like, this is really good.
This is you know, I finished my bag immediately.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
Yeah. So I'm reading up on up on the company
and the inspiration and this isn't like, you know, oh
what could I bring it? This is a family tradition
with is it Pops Grandpa? Yes, yes, tell us about however.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
Yeah, I've been in the business of the beef jerky
business since twenty sixteen, but it started way way prior
to that. So back to So, I joined the military
September eleventh, two thousand and pretty much the rest of
my time was spent overseas in that time.
Speaker 5 (08:29):
Yeah, back day, back to the day. A year before September.
Speaker 4 (08:33):
September eleventh, two thousand to the day.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
To the year before the bombings.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
Yep, correct, So I you know, needless to say, I
thought that. I mean, I was just like, I remember
my mother walking to the terminal with me to go
to basic training. I'm like, Mom, it's going to be
all right, just going to get some college and this
is going to be great for me. She's like, Okay,
(08:57):
to the year of the day. I'm on the flight
right and I was working on f sixteen, so I
was walking on the flight line. I'm like, oh, it's
actually been a day and a year, excuse me. And
then you know, the whole world changed and kind of
stayed stopped in that time. But in that time when
I was being deployed, I remember, if we were lucky
(09:20):
enough to receive a care package from home, it meant
the most to actually everyone everyone around us. And if
you were even more so if you had jerky in
the care package, it was like a currency. You could
use it for trading a CD or a DVD.
Speaker 4 (09:41):
Rather absolutely yeah, Now did you have if you got
packages from home? Was the family? I know, the family.
It's an old family recipe and it came down was
it your own?
Speaker 3 (09:55):
So yeah, I started it with my getting to Pops.
He loved, you know, we smoking ribs. That's how it
really started. He had a nice recipe specifically for his
rubs and marinades, and I always loved doing it with
(10:17):
him when we were together, and if it was like
a family like cookout or something like that, I you know,
we'd get the cuts of meat and I'd always get
in the kitchen with him and we'd you know, start
with that. Now, when he passed, I did it with
Uncle Paul. Shout out to Uncle Paul. But we converted
(10:41):
it to jerky. So when I got now the military,
I was kind of you know, starting to doing the
ribs and the smoking again, and like we kind of
tweaked the recipe to jerky, which you know, smoking it
is very different when you're messing with like a marinade.
(11:02):
When smoking jerky is completely different to smoking ribs when
you're gonna have it that day. So we got it
down to pat and then I was, you know, I
was like, you know, I'm going to actually start making
this jerky. And it started, you know, I was making
it and then putting into bags and selling it at
(11:22):
a bars and restaurants and then my wife was like, hey,
you better stop this someone you know or go legit.
So I started the company. And you know, before I
had started the company, I did I kind of I
didn't want the jerky to just be another Joe Blow
(11:43):
beef jerky company out there. I wanted to actually make
it mean something. I wanted it to create a brand
that I remember also well when I was being deployed
and what was the best time, well not the best time,
but the most memorable time of me having beef jerky
and I just couldn't remember, like the one thing that
(12:05):
stopped like stood out in my mind was being deployed
and having that jerky. It reminded me the most of
home and you know you miss those times when you're
away from fa factor. That reminded me of like those
times with family and the barbecues and such that I missed.
So that was my contribution. I wanted it to mean something,
(12:29):
So I wanted to create the brand that it gave
back and it means so to me. So what we
do in our mission, being a mission driven company, we
give back by donating jerky to deployed troops as a
thank you, just as I remember also well when I
(12:49):
was over there, So thank you for that right as
well as donating to nonprofits that help veterans and first
responders that are in and you know, it's it's been
a great I wanted it to stand for something long
after I'm gone, that this is a brand that you know,
(13:10):
people can get behind, not only that it's an actual
family tradition, but it's also a great taste. It's a
great tasting product, but it also means something that people
are actually helping.
Speaker 4 (13:21):
So absolutely, great mission. Great website would be a great time, Bobby,
if we could get up a covering patent myself. Maybe
the picture of the website, Oh yeah, and it's Valor.
Uh it's the exact website.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
Sure, it's uh, the Valor USA dot com.
Speaker 4 (13:41):
The Valor USA dot com. And there's a picture of
some of the jerky and I think there's some other
pictures on there that.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
And with Easter on Sunday even.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
Oh yeah, I didn't even get to that.
Speaker 4 (13:56):
Do Yeah, we're in this season. That's uh. Is that
a picture of you paint?
Speaker 3 (14:01):
That's oh my gosh, Oh oh, that's a long time
a kid there. I feel like a kid. That's us,
that's our so I was part of the four to
twenty first Black Widow Squadron. We were F sixteen Fighter
Squadron out of Hill Air Force Base, Utah. Shout out
(14:21):
to those guys. We were kind of as many understand,
it's first to go, last to know. And you know,
so that was my grandfather. Yeah, there's po.
Speaker 4 (14:33):
Order and see disappearing gumby sneaking out from the bottom,
almost looking like your grandfather's legs. Right, little trick we
do with the camera. It's so it's so awesome to
see the website and too, you know when we travel,
when Pat and I travel with Brian, not only at
the shows, but as you can attest in the airports,
(14:56):
we meet so many great people. And we met your
family and and you were quick to you know, to
share your product and we wanted to do that.
Speaker 5 (15:03):
Actually his wife said get some out of the bag,
give themselves.
Speaker 4 (15:09):
She brains behind the operation.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
Oh, she's always absolutely yes. She's telling me like do
this or don't just stand fast well you know, you.
Speaker 4 (15:20):
Know, to uh to not ignore those commands when they
come from from the missus. H. It's really it's really awesome.
So when did you establish the Valor brand?
Speaker 3 (15:35):
I want to say it's actually this this past year
and I recently, you know, and you showed a picture
of the dog treats that I didn't even mention. So
I'm a big dog lover, and I can honestly say
it was a natural progression where I also, you know,
(15:55):
we give back to nonprofits that actually take dogs out
of kill shelter and train them to be a certified
service dog for a veteran or first responder in need.
So honestly, it was a it was just and I
love dogs, and I was just like, wow, this is
how about we just make a dog treat as well.
(16:16):
Now I didn't call it valor dog treats because I
think they would be very confusing, so I wanted to
also with the patriotism of that, call it Patriot Paul's
Dog Treats. So it's a really it's a not a
single ingredient because we use sea salt and a little
bit of vegetable glisten, which is all natural. But it's
(16:37):
the best, most healthiest product for a dog treat.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
But again the mission.
Speaker 4 (16:44):
Interestingly, I don't know if you knew this about Brian.
No chewing gum doesn't like to dance. But it also
doesn't need a lot of beef. Is there a chicken
or turkey jerky for the folks like Brian?
Speaker 3 (16:56):
That is, it's coming soon. It's coming soon. Yes, cat
the rabbits, the cats out of the bag. But yes,
we are going to be making a actual chicken jerky product.
That's I'm narrowing down the flavors, but there's it's like
a barbecue. I'm originally from Maryland, so I love Chesapeake
(17:17):
like based ice. So we're working on some flavors that
it's a healthier again chicken jerky.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
So yeah, well you said, what's.
Speaker 7 (17:28):
The difference between smoking meat and jerky? You know, jerky?
Speaker 1 (17:32):
Like what do you have?
Speaker 7 (17:33):
Just cook it longer and dehydrated or sure.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
Yeah, the big smokers that we use, there's like a
turn's a smoke cycle that we use and it has
to be at a certain grade and we use a
certain chip of wood for those big smokers. At home,
you can smoke ribs or a brisket or steaks even
at like on a trigger. So to do that on
(17:58):
a massive sk ale, but it's all about timing and
temperature for sure.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
For sure, my buddy had a shed in his backyard.
He used to smoke meat back there. That's the best,
the little babecue cooker thing. Yeah, you had a whole ship.
Oh yeah on it.
Speaker 4 (18:14):
It's uh, it's a great endeavor. Anything that we can
do besides eat the samples, which we enjoyed doing.
Speaker 5 (18:21):
I think we need a seminar on it. We should
sit in his back yard and drink some beers. Yeah,
I agree, every different way to smoke meat.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
Yeah, then we'll.
Speaker 4 (18:28):
Try smoking meat. Uh So, Chris from Maryland? Where are
you based now?
Speaker 3 (18:33):
Pennsylvania? As of now Pennsylvania and I shoot back out
and forth to California to uh southern California every once
in a while, but mainly western Pennsylvania, right outside of
Pittsburgh area.
Speaker 4 (18:47):
Great, well, we appreciated. We're gonna we're gonna be part
of your, part of your journey. I don't know if
you did any research. I knew you were familiar with
and you had I think live acts. But I with
Donnie Yeisley, our historian, and just uh, she just can't
say enough great things about it. But she did tell
(19:08):
me that uh life Act was used to dislodge as
an obstruction nine different people, including a four year old
m Missouri. A four year old child in Missouri was
choking on. Not that it happens with with the Valor brand,
but it's just jerky in general, like anything.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
Sure, and I do have actually a life back. We
bought one for my actually my wife's father. He had
dementia unfortunately, but he was a real choking or. He
was a prist. So absolutely, when we saw the first commercials,
(19:53):
we were like, we got one immediately. So absolutely, I
think the standby good products just like that. So it's
just like it's an easy, a no brainer to have
a life Fact for sure.
Speaker 4 (20:08):
Well, the Life Fact family is proud to know you
and will continue to work together as you bring this
thing national.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
Absolutely, thank you, thank you so much for having me.
Speaker 4 (20:21):
You can Yeah, we'll see you soon.
Speaker 7 (20:24):
We'll thank you too much.
Speaker 4 (20:28):
Past us one of the nicer interupt I don't think
we've had a you know, we've had a little over
the years during the show. We've had some strange interactions,
but by and large, very positive, great people coming up
to Brian. Yes, yeah, no doubt, listen, let's just move
right along. You know, yesterday I became aware of this
(20:51):
gentleman Jose Tovar is a new member of the life
Fact family. He has his own, uh my family First
Aid Organization website. He's also a veteran of the Marine Corps.
And let's not waste any more time you spent in
this bugle there is to coobar.
Speaker 8 (21:12):
That was a funny guys, thanks for having me on
it is. It's an honor to privilege, So thank you
first of all, it's our honor.
Speaker 4 (21:20):
Yeah, So thank you for your service number one and
your continued service. Tell me about how this started in
twenty nineteen, how you got into training.
Speaker 8 (21:31):
Yeah, twenty nineteen, I was still working as a full
time firefighter paramedic in Los Angeles County, and then in
twenty twenty one or twenty twenty, I had a back
injury and was medically retired from that after about a
two year retirement medical retirement process of trying to get
me better, and that didn't really work out. So in
(21:51):
twenty nineteen I had started my original company called MF
one A, which stands for My Family's First Aid. And
I just always had the idea of creating a first
aid company, one to continue to show my boys how
to lead and serve and just to add value back
to the community and take my lessons learned from you know,
people's blood, sweat, tears, and lives that had been shed
(22:11):
and sometimes lost, and then pay that forward so that
individuals can really you know, mom's, dads and everybody can
hold the line until first aid gets to them. And
it was mostly an idea in twenty nineteen because I
was still working full time, very very busy and we're
really busy areas in La County, saw a lot of
trauma and encountered them as once I became a paramedic.
(22:37):
You say, as a firefighter, you're an EMT, but as
a paramedic you're more in charge of running the call
and you're more responsible for severe calls. And so I
started to just open my eyes up to a lot
more and I started to see that. So that's when
my wife and I started to move that forward a
little bit to creating my Family's First Aid, the actual
first aid portion of mfle A. The MF one A
(22:59):
portion kind of encompasses things with helping men to become
better men, teaching leadership, things like that, and then my
Family's First Aid is the first aid branch of that,
and where that really stemmed from was, yeah, how to
build the first aid, get all this stuff we would
run into, go into cardiac arrests. And as a paramedic,
(23:20):
like I said, you you run the call. You're in
charge of the call for the most part, And I
would see families standing by and not performing CPR on
their loved ones, and while they're even being coached on
the phone by dispatch. And so once I've got my
feet under me and I was a little more confident
with my skill set and everything and could could attend
(23:41):
to the bedside manner a little more on these really
really severe calls, I would ask families in a very
empathetic way, you know, why weren't you doing any CPR
or doing anything for maybe a life threatening bleed when
we showed up. And you know, that's a hard question
to ask, but they were very forthright with it. And
across board, regardless of you know, of anything across the board,
(24:03):
the number one response was always fear. And I said, well,
what were you afraid of? And they were afraid of
possibly hurting their loved one or that stranger. More so
when it came to a stranger, it was maybe not
understanding the good Samaritan protected them, but with their family
it was causing any further harm. And so for me,
I was thinking in my head, well, they're they're in
cardiac arrest or not breathing. There's not much more harm
(24:24):
we can do. But that's how paralyzed they were from
that fear. So as time rolls on, I just started
to think to myself, how do we how do we
vanquish that fear or empower and educate and equip people
to step into those situations with a stranger or loved one,
you know, provided it provided it safe for them. And
that's where the foundation of my company or my family's
(24:46):
First Aid came up, was providing education, equipment and training,
experienced education equipment and training so that people feel safe
stepping in than they can and at the end of
the day, they can respect the person they see in
the mirror and hopefully have provided a better outcome for
that person. And in some of the cases that some
of the calls that stuck out specifically were one was
(25:08):
the number of cardiac arrests where nobody was doing anything
and and and then just seeing that. Then after that,
there was a five year old girl who we received
a call for who was choking, And on our NDC,
which is a little computer terminal on on our rigs,
it said Sheriff's on scene and five year old is unresponsive,
(25:30):
so we knew it was a legit.
Speaker 9 (25:31):
It wasn't a minor to severe cough. It was legit.
Speaker 8 (25:35):
So we're doing way over the speed limit, even with
code read code three and lights and sirens. And as
we went to pull into the parking lot, I had
been driving, so I was what they call radio guy
or radio radio man, so I was documenting it on
the radio, and the guy to my right was going
to be patient man, so he's going to be the
hands on portion for the most part.
Speaker 9 (25:55):
We pulled up. It was a stick shift.
Speaker 8 (25:57):
I set the emergency brake and gear turned it off,
and the sheriff just, don't you know, put this little
fight gir old girl who was his navy blue, she
was dark blue.
Speaker 4 (26:06):
Girl started starry to interrupt, but we you know, we
are made aware of rational averages and we're under the understanding.
Doesn't always happen, but police officers sheriff's departments are usually
there first, and in this case the sheriff was there,
but handed you the child correct yeah, no fault, just
(26:29):
not they weren't prepared to act.
Speaker 8 (26:34):
Part of that is how some localities how their how
their dispatch system works, so they'll receive the call before us,
and so yeah, so just however that works out.
Speaker 9 (26:44):
And then also just their numbers.
Speaker 8 (26:47):
There's there are more of them typically from what I understand,
and uh yeah, and so they had tried traditional It
was a little girl.
Speaker 9 (26:53):
She was just sitting in a chair eating a grape.
Speaker 8 (26:56):
She wasn't bouncing off the walls. My wife and four boys,
so we get you know, being there and rowdy. She
was just doing her thing in an office. It was
a little script center mall. And we pulled up and
there were about thirty people in the parking lot and
he hands her.
Speaker 9 (27:08):
To me, and they had tried everything.
Speaker 8 (27:09):
They had tried back blows of domin, all him licks,
they tried everything, mom, co workers, the sheriffs, and so
he hands her to me and I kind of froze
for a second, right, because those those are one of
the most critical calls that no matter how much you
trained for, until you've really gotten your hands on and
really run a lot of those calls, it kind of
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got to get in gear for a second, so I did.
I tried back blows and a little bit of Heimlich
and she was just completely limped. She was in cardiac
arrest last point, so I laid her on the ground.
My buddy comes around and he hands me. I said, hey,
give me the lrynge of scope and then were gilt
four SEPs. And I still feel bad to this day
because she ultimately she arrives and makes a full recovery.
But it was actually his responsibility to do what I did,
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and so I kind of took that from him in
a sense. But we just we improvised, adapt and overcome.
So we laid her down and I used them to
go four steps. I was on the ground in my stomach.
Mom was screaming and they're hooking her up to the
four lead, starting an IV and doing compressions. And as
I look down into her throat with them and go
for the lryne scat, I saw a big green rate there,
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pulled it out and for I think about another two minutes,
she was in cardiac arrest. So we eventually got a
pulse back with CPR and got her into the ambulance,
and two days later she made a full recovery. And
so I looked at that and I just thought to myself, like,
what do we do.
Speaker 9 (28:30):
How can we.
Speaker 8 (28:30):
Empower or help moms and dads who don't have, you know,
a secondary backup when traditional choking really fails, whether it
be for infants or adults. And so that kind of
put me on the road to thinking, you know, bigger
scale and really pushing a first aid company forward. And
then the same guy at paramedic I was working with
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he and so to finish that is that's where you know,
Life Act really came into play for me. So only
paramedics and er doctors are allowed, to my knowledge to
use Miguel forceps and the orange scope because you can
actually tear the person's throat apart, and so that's not
feasible for a mom or a dad or anybody who's
not trying to use them. So we found life Back
and I tested it out and we immediately bought some
(29:13):
for our car, a kitchen, my wife's car, my car.
And so I've been a big fan of Life Back
for a long time. And then the next thing that
came up was that same paramedic was on a call.
Speaker 9 (29:25):
I wasn't on the call that.
Speaker 8 (29:26):
Day, but he had received a call for an infant
in severe respiratory distress at a doctor's office, and when
he got there, they were basically the people in the office.
To my understand, we're trying to pull the doctor and
the dad apart. The dad was yelling, this guy paralyzed
my baby. And so from my understanding in the haste
of all of this is that the severe respiratory distress,
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the baby was being cared for on the on the
exam table and it somehow had dropped the baby.
Speaker 9 (29:54):
And it paralyzed the baby.
Speaker 8 (29:56):
And I'm not for sure if that's temporary paralysis or
full but that kind of once again, it's just like
we need so much more education for the folks at
home that's not just box checking and a lot of
the first aid we teach right now in the United States,
I think is it's good intent, but I think it
ultimately could have a little more experienced, a little more quality.
Speaker 9 (30:18):
And so.
Speaker 8 (30:20):
Another step we move forward is how can I help
people when they're helping infants or in a very stressful situation.
And that's kind of like if you watch my videos,
I talk about the leg trap on an infant to
get low to the ground.
Speaker 9 (30:34):
So that's really what kind of spurred me into this.
Speaker 8 (30:36):
And then of course all the Trump gunshots and you know,
just all the other stuff I've seen happen to kids
and when you show up, mom and dad or family
are standing there and they handy their family member and
just trying to fill that gap, so provide that education.
I know you guys talk about Teddy Roosevelt and I've
kind of taken one of his quotes is do what
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you can where you are, with what you have, And
I've said, do what you can where you can, with
what you have and whom you're with, right, And so yeah,
that's the basis, just trying to empower people and take
that knowledge and pay it forward so.
Speaker 4 (31:10):
They and as you as you put my family first
Aid out there, I know that you're you have the
website's beautiful website. And is that spelled out my family
first aid or is it m y F one A?
Speaker 8 (31:24):
Uh, it's the first aid site. Is my family's fam
I L y s so possessive. My Family's first aid
spelled out right?
Speaker 4 (31:32):
And you're also very successful in blowing up overnight on TikTok?
Do you find more exposure on one than the other.
Speaker 8 (31:43):
I don't Facebook, I really don't touch much. I've tried
to just it's I just know my thing. And then
and then with Instagram and YouTube, just for some reason,
I just didn't catch it doesn't really move. And I've
tried all the classes and paid people to help me,
and it just doesn't work. And then TikTok was going
to be banned, and my wife and I've never used
(32:04):
TikTok and just kind of the things that were happening,
we just not part of that stuff. And I tried
it and I thought, you know, let's just see what happens.
And my first video I put out within three days
had three hundred thousand views, and I was being contacted
by people in the Philippines, the UK and other countries.
Speaker 9 (32:22):
About hey, do you have other videos? Do you teach?
Speaker 8 (32:24):
And so I realized, Wow, here is a much more
global reach that my family's first aid can have, and
so I just started pushing forward. And with all the
experience I have, I was trying to kind of bring
that all to TikTok. And social media will tell you
what they want, and it's good just to stay in
that lane. So I've kind of become like the infant
(32:45):
toddler choking guy. But yeah, huge success on TikTok and
it's been great and it is eye opening how many
people are are starving for real quality equipment and education
when it comes to choking first data.
Speaker 4 (33:02):
Yeah, you talk about it on your website that it
struck you and you just mentioned it before working showing
up seeing the family in distress and seeing that not
that they don't certainly care, but not prepared, don't have
the knowledge, you know, don't have an awareness with some
year Yeah, yeah, just frozen. And you know we're both
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remembering Tim Weiss, who, for another former marine firefighter, used
Life Act to save his daughter. But you know, until
the training kicked in and you know that pause you
talked about taking. You know, he's looking down and he
still gets tears talking about it because this is my daughter,
this isn't you know.
Speaker 5 (33:44):
Well he was on firefighting. They tried everything to backslaps
and nothing was working. He goes, I was starting to
panic and I had twenty years experience, you know, and
you know it's a scary situation.
Speaker 4 (33:55):
Yeah. So recently you were, I guess onboarded and you're
part of Garrett talk about GARA and then just in
the last few days becoming part of the Life Act
Distributed Team.
Speaker 9 (34:08):
Yes, sir, so, Yeah.
Speaker 8 (34:10):
GARA is the Life Acts outreach program to experience from
my understanding experience first responders and people who are experienced
in administering first aid. And it's an organization that Life
Act is trying is starting up and putting together to
help give Life Acts or put Life Acts in those
people's hands and then facilitate good quality, experienced training. So
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it's the Global Airway Rescue I believe association. And through
that you also are an author, become an authorized dealer
or you can after having an interview with Life Act,
and that just helps you to facilitate buying Life Acts
in bulk and then sometimes bringing the cost down a
little bit for customers and family and friends.
Speaker 9 (34:54):
And that happened.
Speaker 1 (34:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (34:57):
So I was teaching in.
Speaker 8 (35:00):
I don't know if I can say yeah, and a
certainly close by state, and I've been spending about eight
months of the last year there teaching wilderness first aid
and CPR first Aid to almost eight hundred state employees.
And that's where I saw that spam and that email
and my spam because I had reached out to life
BAC to try to become an affiliate and work with
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life back and for some reason, those were going into
my spam folder, and so I was after a class,
I was looking through there and I just decided to
check spam for some reason, and I saw it from
Mike Plunkett, the Garrett application, and we talked for maybe
an hour and just really kind of he we just
connected on everything we're talking about right now.
Speaker 9 (35:41):
He's a veteran also, and.
Speaker 8 (35:44):
He's obviously he's I think the sales exec or something
executive with life BAC.
Speaker 9 (35:49):
So he got me set up with that, and.
Speaker 8 (35:52):
I have a lot of big ideas I'd like to
work with life back on and I teach the life AC.
Speaker 9 (35:57):
I demonstrate it and every one of.
Speaker 8 (35:58):
My classes, all my CPR first Aid courses, whether it's
here at homeschool classes. I've got a class tomorrow and
on Saturday, and I also teach it when I'm teaching
the larger organization. So I contract with a company similar
to Red Cross and American Heart, and I'll go anywhere
from the border of Canada and Washington all the way
down to Arizona teaching three person excavation companies literally in
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the dirt, you know, international grain facilities where we're out
by the silos all the way to million square foot
facilities in Utah where they have twelve to twenty four
person response teams for medical emergencies. Biggest companies in Las
Vegas for sound. And every time I teach this and
one of the most of the time people are buying
(36:43):
these and so I've been trying to figure out how
can I maybe get a little bit back from that,
but also just to keep pushing a quality product when
it comes down to the equipment side of things. The
organization I've been teaching for a lot, they unfortunately had
two deaths in the field and they realized they didn't
want any They couldn't facilitate box checking first aid anymore.
(37:03):
So I taught some CPR classes for them, and they
realized I actually used chess seals and tourniquets and I've
dealt with life threatening bleeds and airway issues in the field.
Speaker 9 (37:14):
So they brought me back and some of those folks.
Speaker 8 (37:17):
One of the guys was actually at his home when
we were teaching a class that week. He was at
home and he was eating an apple and we were
doing the choking portion of first aid CPR. And I'm
not for sure if you're aware, but most companies that certify,
it's about a four minute video and there's no hands
on required, right, so they're not taking the baby and
doing you know, backloads and chess thrusts on the baby.
(37:38):
It's a video and so on all my courses, people
are putting the baby in their hands and I'm.
Speaker 9 (37:43):
Introducing them to the life back also.
Speaker 8 (37:45):
And the guy said, hey, you know, I was at
home the other day and I was just wondering if
you could teach us what do we do for choking
by ourselves? And I said, so I ran in through
what I teach and I said, but you know, one
child dies every five days. Five thousand people die a year.
Choking relief traditionally fails around twenty to thirty percent of
the time, and so what do you have to build
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that gap? And that's where I said, you should have
a life act. So I showed him traditional and he
basically said he started to choke. He didn't call nine
one one, There was nobody else home. He saw the
corner of the island in his kitchen, and he just
ran his stomach into and it popped the apple out,
and then I demonstrated this for him, and I do
I put it on. I tell everybody you know, you
grab your ring, you twist, and I always tell people
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never put it over your actual face if you're not
actually choking, so you may not possibly injure yourself. So
I always demonstrate it to the side. I always did
a lot of laughs from people.
Speaker 4 (38:37):
I just let it hang there for a little bit and.
Speaker 8 (38:39):
People typically laugh and I'm like, hey, but at least
now you've got to slide up in your carousel that
if you are choking and you're starting to see things turn.
Speaker 9 (38:46):
Gray, you just go here, press place, press and pull.
And he bought two on the spot.
Speaker 8 (38:51):
And I've taught some miners in Vernal, Utah and there
was a dad there. He's a miner. They're underground twelve
hours a day. He gets home, he's totally tired eating
and she started to choke, and so he had to
save her life with back blows and chester everything. Highly
he's trying every day, didn't really know what to do,
and he saw life back and he he's used life
(39:13):
at four times to save his daughter's life because what
they found out was she had an issue of swallowing,
so he's got him in his cars and yeah, kind
of a long winded answer, but that's yeah.
Speaker 4 (39:22):
I love it. I love the fact that you are
on the team, certified, are in the arena, and you're
in the family in the arena. I know that we
had a picture of your family because I wanted to
part with maybe that is it.
Speaker 1 (39:38):
How old are your kids?
Speaker 9 (39:39):
We've got fourth boys.
Speaker 8 (39:41):
They are eighteen fifteen and just turned as the last one.
That's yeah, that's a family I was teaching. Eighteen fifteen thirteen,
just turned thirteen and nine.
Speaker 4 (39:49):
Yeh. By the ways, they I'll play rugby. Yeah, we'll knocket.
We'll knock it up later there, Bob.
Speaker 8 (39:56):
Yeah, it's in the very last one where it shows
me the Marine Corps fire department.
Speaker 9 (39:59):
There's one in this center. Family that's tough.
Speaker 4 (40:04):
Yeah, well, listen, we appreciate you so much joining us. Tonight,
we're gonna get the website on this feed and we're
gonna talk more, I'm sure in the next in the
coming days on on how we can explore because you're
looking at two lost individuals when it comes to social media.
Speaker 5 (40:20):
Actually, yeah, social media, but my my oldest son is
now a firefighter out at Charleston, so.
Speaker 1 (40:24):
I can relate.
Speaker 9 (40:25):
I can congratulations talking about yeah, graduation.
Speaker 4 (40:29):
Where are you based? Are you were in California? You're
in Iowa, Idaho? Idaho?
Speaker 9 (40:34):
Up in the northwest. Potatoes not born.
Speaker 4 (40:36):
In geography, potatoes.
Speaker 9 (40:41):
Yeah, northwest of America.
Speaker 7 (40:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (40:44):
Well, welcome to the team.
Speaker 1 (40:46):
Very much.
Speaker 9 (40:49):
Have a good eating. I look for the speaking ye
are k.
Speaker 4 (40:54):
You'll hear about Ray Preby in a little bit. All right,
Thanks again, We'll see you soon. Wow. Uh how exciting
How this happened? Where a conversation between the Stover and
not only with Mike Plunkett, but also donal Marie DiGregorio
on some of the content that he had questions on
and through. Julia said to me, Hey, how would you
(41:17):
like to meet the I said absolutely, And then when
I heard about his TikTok success forgot knows Chris.
Speaker 7 (41:25):
They these are two. Yes, they know each other.
Speaker 4 (41:27):
No they don't not before Now they do. Okay, Now
they're going to be exchanging first aid training and jerky. Okay,
all bets are off now, so you know what we're
coming up. We mentioned before coming up on four thousand
Lives save worldwide. I don't want to waste any more
time chatting about it. I want to go to the man,
the myth, the legend, mister three thousand, his beautiful doughter
(41:54):
Maya on a Florida highway to be the three thousand
life saved reported, Yes.
Speaker 7 (42:03):
Reparted a.
Speaker 10 (42:06):
Number three thousand, and guys, let's talk some numbers here,
because I am just absolutely blown away by the last
two weeks, the last two weeks. But Bobby, why don't
you go ahead and run that number for us?
Speaker 1 (42:20):
Bobby, Oh.
Speaker 9 (42:26):
Wow, thirty nine hundred, a little more of a little more.
Speaker 4 (42:32):
Than half children. But as we were talking about with
everybody at all ages, no one's and all.
Speaker 5 (42:39):
Political affiliations, there's been weeks with like forty, so we
could we could do it this month is absolutely.
Speaker 10 (42:45):
It's funny you say that, Pat, guess how money in
the last two weeks.
Speaker 4 (42:50):
In the last two weeks.
Speaker 10 (42:53):
Didn't have a show? Last week we're doing two. We're
doing two weeks.
Speaker 4 (42:56):
How many twenty one hundred and twenty one hundred twenty
he says, a little lower eighty eighty in the last
two weeks.
Speaker 7 (43:07):
Reported by the way, And it's amazing.
Speaker 4 (43:08):
And again, just for reference, it always sticks in my head.
Twenty sixteen four the entire year a chart is six
a day being reported.
Speaker 10 (43:18):
Yeah, I just.
Speaker 4 (43:22):
Learned County police officers saving a child very proud, but
not reported. So we're going to work on that tomorrow.
So I don't know if that's going to affect the
race of two four thousand, but it may.
Speaker 7 (43:35):
They all count well.
Speaker 10 (43:37):
I mean, let's think about this, since since number three thousand,
since my little girl Maya one hundred and seventy nine
days ago, nine hundred saves amazing in one hundred and
seventy nine days. That is just unbelievable numbers. Yep, really
is unbelievable. And let's let's dive into the highlight of
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the week because it is locally amazing. Highlight of the week.
April eleventh, a mail in his late sixties to early
seventies choked on a breakfast while dining at a Michigan restaurant,
causing a total obstruction. The Heimlich was performed by an
off duty officer who was at the next table. Here's
(44:20):
the good Samaritan story. I saw the off off duty
officer performing the Heimlich with no success. I ran to
my car. I was a little nervous about leaving my
daughter by yourself, but I knew I had to help
this man. I retrieved my life back and used the
device to successfully dislodge the food.
Speaker 1 (44:39):
Wow.
Speaker 10 (44:39):
I was at the restaurant with my four year old daughter,
who witnessed the entire incident. The restaurant manager was extremely thankful,
even paid for my meal. When we were leaving the restaurant,
my daughter said, Mommy, you saved that man.
Speaker 7 (44:56):
Oh wow, Wow, that's a great story.
Speaker 1 (45:00):
Amazing, great story.
Speaker 10 (45:01):
Amazing.
Speaker 4 (45:02):
I call it, you know, because we talk about these numbers,
and certainly there's a huge, tremendous, heartwarming story behind three thousand.
Uh were every week and uh, it's really amazing. So
absolutely is. I just let's go, what can you tell
(45:23):
us about the contest that we're all involved with with
and we're getting back going.
Speaker 1 (45:29):
To change mine? It's not it should be way before June.
Speaker 10 (45:32):
Right, Yeah. I mean I think my number, you know,
I gave. I think I gave the first date of
the twenty fourth, and I don't think it's gonna take
that long twenty fourth of next month. That's gonna be uh,
that's gonna be a little off.
Speaker 1 (45:45):
Oh we're gonna pass that by next month.
Speaker 10 (45:48):
Well yeah, I mean we're doing average in between thirty
and forty five a week at this point.
Speaker 5 (45:55):
May the fourth be with you, May Brian's birthday, May
say that's my that's my new pick.
Speaker 4 (46:02):
Well, you can get in there. I think it's officially taken,
but we'll have to take a look back at the
But if you're listening and you want to put a
guest in, I will I will pledge a life fact
jacket for the for the person that wins, swammer your choice,
you who are the Sweat fan. But again, Ray, we
(46:24):
always appreciate you popping in every week.
Speaker 5 (46:28):
Mister three thousand, mister three knots, and we love you all.
Speaker 10 (46:34):
Before I go, life back, life back, have it, have
it and don't need it, don't need it and not
have it. The life you saved could be your own.
Speaker 4 (46:44):
God bless God, bless you.
Speaker 1 (46:48):
See you next week.
Speaker 4 (46:52):
Wow, fantastic, we got a big week coming up. That
was a great show. I want to thank Chris Prascas
and jose tova Are and of course mister three K.
And I want to think this guy paddle.
Speaker 7 (47:03):
Or still doesn't know why I'm here, but okay, you got.
Speaker 4 (47:06):
It because you keep you keep the ball moving. You
point out when I've stopped talking dead air, dead air.
If I had a name that started with dat, yeah,
we need a producer in here saying to talk. I'm
going to throw something at me again. Disappearing gonna be
not only not really needed, but you keep me up
for morels. Today we have Jackie Bear and we have
(47:29):
a big week next week which is going to be
just for anyone that's checking out where you see in
the arena. That means we're going out on Facebook and
YouTube and we love it if you like and share
and share it with folks specifically who you think need
to hear this message about being protected. Because each life
fact that we send out we hope that they're never used.
Speaker 5 (47:51):
But in the I'm amazed to how many people's lives
are touched by these chokings. I mean, like a knock
on wood. It hasn't not really happened in my life. Well,
I mean at the beach once when I was a kid.
Speaker 1 (48:02):
Long shot.
Speaker 11 (48:03):
Anyways, Usually usually families that come up to road show
Ryan or to us at a public event, there's a
story and there's usually touch and you know, stay tuned
for the for the general that with Major General Hartzell
that we met in Florida.
Speaker 4 (48:17):
We're gonna be able to share his story soon. I
believe that made us cry and made him cry, and
it's just really touching. It wasn't involving life act is
evolving his son, but you know, such an emotional attachment
that most people have if they have one of these
near tragedies. And it was a great outcome and a
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great foundation. And we'll be talking more about that in
the coming weeks more. At the v A, we had
veterans all around us tonight, so we thank it each
of them to their service. We'll see you next week
or in the next time you tune in to the
Man in the Arena, and this has been in the arena,
in the arena us. We'll see you next time.
Speaker 1 (49:01):
Do do Do, Do, Do, Do Do. It's no joke.
Speaker 2 (49:05):
When you choke to get life back and leave without breath,
they'll be death. To get life back and leave, get
life back and get life, live back life and live
life back and live
It's no joke. When you choke life.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Back and without breath, they'll be death, life bad, life
back and.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
Back life back.
Speaker 4 (00:20):
And wow, so talented, such a great American. And yet
he takes time out of his busy day micro to
sing that beautiful the life Bac song. It's wonderful. Hey everyone,
Rick Thatcher, Welcome to in the arena. I'm joined by Pat,
(00:40):
a regular here. That's right, no Micro but yeah, but
self described choking hazard? Is that true?
Speaker 1 (00:47):
You think I'm an expert choking your prone fast?
Speaker 4 (00:50):
Anyway, We are live tonight from Paradise Studios in Massapeakua,
New York. We are you probably could tell by the
two of us being here. Arthur is not with us tonight,
but as always in spirit, the CEO, inventor of life Fact.
And we're coming up on a big milestone. It's rapidly approaching,
and we're having bets and all kinds of contests to
(01:13):
guess when what day will the four thousand.
Speaker 5 (01:18):
The experts are now saying before the end of this month.
I thought it'd be like July. But yeah, this product
is working so well. We're way ahead of schedule.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
Way ahead of schedule, and we got a great show
for you tonight. Uh, we're gonna be talking to the
Valor meet snack guy Chris Prascas. We're gonna be talking
to Jose Tovar out is it Idaho? I believe it's Idaho.
But he's gonna tell us all about my family First Aid,
a brand new distributor for Life AAC. But before we
(01:47):
talk to those two great veteran gentlemen, we're gonna be
checking in with roadshow Ryan, who we haven't heard from
in a while. Yads O, Ryan, we alsa come to
pass me near you, Roadho. How's it going out there?
Speaker 3 (02:00):
What's up Life Backers?
Speaker 4 (02:01):
It's going well. I'm in Brooklyn, New York right now, Brooklyn, Brooklyn.
So you've been doing these road shows for a while now.
It started on Long Island and then you went away
for a while. Tell us about some of the places
you've been. Yeah.
Speaker 6 (02:16):
So I've been traveling up and down the East Coast
with my friend Charlie here. Yes, I'm going Costco to Costco,
from Virginia to Massachusetts, ally US to New Hampshire, just
you know, spreading the good word about Life back, educating
the members, and most importantly, getting lighte backs in the
(02:36):
hands of families across the country. One thing does stay
the same no matter what city or what state I'm in,
is I'm meeting people who have used the LFE back
to save someone that they know or know someone who.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
Used the light back to say to someone they know.
So that's a contests, right. From twenty sixteen the first
year a life was reported, and there were only four
of the entire year. So I was with you on
a couple of the road shows, so I can attest
not only people name recognition and product recognition, but also
(03:10):
coming up and reporting and a certain percentage unreported saves, right.
Speaker 6 (03:16):
Yes, So it's been a little over thirty total and
the majority of them have been unreported, So I know
we have I think we crossed over the thirty nine
hundredth life stave that's reported, but that number, you know,
I think it's way higher with all the.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
Yeah that's concurring right now if you could see.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
It, I mean the SATs.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
Yes, yeah, So road show, where what's up next? You're
in Brooklyn today for the rest of the week.
Speaker 6 (03:45):
What's the Brooklyn until Saturday night? And then next week
I'm in Staten Island from Wednesday to Sunday. Then I
head up to Connecticut for two weeks. I'm going to
East Lime and South Windsor, Connecticut and Edison, New Jersey,
followed by a three month show in Texas. So I'll
(04:08):
be in the Dallas area three months. I'm hitting nine
different locations there.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
Road show. Your parents are here? You want to have
you been able to converse with your parents? Your parents
are here?
Speaker 5 (04:20):
Texas is beautiful this summer pot hundred and ten every day.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
Yeah, I love it? Ye should? Yeah, And we appreciate
you so much out there spreading the word because, as
most people know, Life Act is a very small, intimate,
very passionate company, and we appreciate you so much. We
should mention that costco in terms of corporate responsibility, absolutely
(04:45):
doing the right thing. Not only do they have Ryan
there with the Life Act set up available for the public,
but they have in each of their food courts worldwide
a Life fact right next to the ad near the
food court, because, by god, Pat, have you seen the
size of the hot dog I have? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (05:01):
I've used Life back four times. Are you single?
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Right?
Speaker 4 (05:05):
Uh? Oh?
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Are you single? You date anyone right now?
Speaker 4 (05:07):
I'm single?
Speaker 1 (05:10):
In Dallas or it's gonna happen in Texas.
Speaker 7 (05:12):
Three months, stay in Texas. That's right, girls. Wow, always smile,
says Marry a Long Island girl.
Speaker 6 (05:16):
It's two back here for one nineteen so you get
the home.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
Yeah, let's let's let me this guy gets back to
what he's doing. Ryan, we love you the two masks.
You get it.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
As well as an adult mass.
Speaker 4 (05:30):
Good luck in action.
Speaker 5 (05:31):
We'll talk to you before you go to Dallas.
Speaker 4 (05:34):
All right, your learn one or everybody, uh, you know,
keep it going in the comments. And he's out on
the road really alerting me to where he's gonna be
in few weeks.
Speaker 5 (05:45):
Amazing, he's sending the mare for three months summer in
Dallas's entry.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
Nice. So Pat, next guest, Christopher practice. We're in the airport.
I think it's going to Lewis.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
I think, yeah, yep, yeah.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
And of course I thought initially that he recognized the
two of us from work that we did with Brian,
but apparently again.
Speaker 5 (06:08):
First now, our favorite hobby both of us is walking
behind Brian in the airport because we love seeing people's reactions.
And then a lot of times they'll walk by and
they tell me their spouse or friendly and we always
say yeah, yeah, picture, and he's always so gracious and
takes pictures with everyone.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
But so this is me and Rick.
Speaker 5 (06:22):
We're about ten feet back walking by and him and
Alison were in front of us.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Is his assistant assistant.
Speaker 4 (06:28):
She's a do everything. She's the woman behind the man.
She's the woman in the arena, Allison Mansfield, big shout out.
She's if you watch Brian kill Me do his Facebook lives,
his radio show, she's the producer for that. But she's
always holding one of the cameras for all his Facebook lives,
and boy, if he doesn't sleep, she can't sleep either.
Speaker 5 (06:48):
But we're going we're going to catch a plane, and
we're walking by him, his wife, one a kid, one.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
Beautiful family, two kids, I think there were two.
Speaker 5 (06:55):
Great guy, and he gives us beef jerky, gives us
all bags of beef jerky.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
And I had mine that night, right, I was good.
Speaker 4 (07:01):
I had mine too, and I had the spicy version.
I like the spicy and old boy, it was spicy.
Let's with no further delay, let's bring Chris Prascas into
the building, into the arena.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
Hey guys, how are.
Speaker 4 (07:15):
You to see you again? And thank you so much
for the valor beef jerkey.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
No, absolutely, thank you so much. And I know it
sounded it was just like coming up to someone on
the in the airport's kind of it's always like, oh,
here to take this. Y're like, okay, I don't want to.
So I appreciate you guys being gracious enough of taking
it from me and hearing how I what what it
was all about. So I appreciate that.
Speaker 5 (07:43):
Yeah, it was genuinely actually really what you said to
each other on the plane. We're like, this is really good.
This is you know, I finished my bag immediately.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
Yeah. So I'm reading up on up on the company
and the inspiration and this isn't like, you know, oh
what could I bring it? This is a family tradition
with is it Pops Grandpa? Yes, yes, tell us about however.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
Yeah, I've been in the business of the beef jerky
business since twenty sixteen, but it started way way prior
to that. So back to So, I joined the military
September eleventh, two thousand and pretty much the rest of
my time was spent overseas in that time.
Speaker 5 (08:29):
Yeah, back day, back to the day. A year before September.
Speaker 4 (08:33):
September eleventh, two thousand to the day.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
To the year before the bombings.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
Yep, correct, So I you know, needless to say, I
thought that. I mean, I was just like, I remember
my mother walking to the terminal with me to go
to basic training. I'm like, Mom, it's going to be
all right, just going to get some college and this
is going to be great for me. She's like, Okay,
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to the year of the day. I'm on the flight
right and I was working on f sixteen, so I
was walking on the flight line. I'm like, oh, it's
actually been a day and a year, excuse me. And
then you know, the whole world changed and kind of
stayed stopped in that time. But in that time when
I was being deployed, I remember, if we were lucky
(09:20):
enough to receive a care package from home, it meant
the most to actually everyone everyone around us. And if
you were even more so if you had jerky in
the care package, it was like a currency. You could
use it for trading a CD or a DVD.
Speaker 4 (09:41):
Rather absolutely yeah, Now did you have if you got
packages from home? Was the family? I know, the family.
It's an old family recipe and it came down was
it your own?
Speaker 3 (09:55):
So yeah, I started it with my getting to Pops.
He loved, you know, we smoking ribs. That's how it
really started. He had a nice recipe specifically for his
rubs and marinades, and I always loved doing it with
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him when we were together, and if it was like
a family like cookout or something like that, I you know,
we'd get the cuts of meat and I'd always get
in the kitchen with him and we'd you know, start
with that. Now, when he passed, I did it with
Uncle Paul. Shout out to Uncle Paul. But we converted
(10:41):
it to jerky. So when I got now the military,
I was kind of you know, starting to doing the
ribs and the smoking again, and like we kind of
tweaked the recipe to jerky, which you know, smoking it
is very different when you're messing with like a marinade.
(11:02):
When smoking jerky is completely different to smoking ribs when
you're gonna have it that day. So we got it
down to pat and then I was, you know, I
was like, you know, I'm going to actually start making
this jerky. And it started, you know, I was making
it and then putting into bags and selling it at
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a bars and restaurants and then my wife was like, hey,
you better stop this someone you know or go legit.
So I started the company. And you know, before I
had started the company, I did I kind of I
didn't want the jerky to just be another Joe Blow
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beef jerky company out there. I wanted to actually make
it mean something. I wanted it to create a brand
that I remember also well when I was being deployed
and what was the best time, well not the best time,
but the most memorable time of me having beef jerky
and I just couldn't remember, like the one thing that
(12:05):
stopped like stood out in my mind was being deployed
and having that jerky. It reminded me the most of
home and you know you miss those times when you're
away from fa factor. That reminded me of like those
times with family and the barbecues and such that I missed.
So that was my contribution. I wanted it to mean something,
(12:29):
So I wanted to create the brand that it gave
back and it means so to me. So what we
do in our mission, being a mission driven company, we
give back by donating jerky to deployed troops as a
thank you, just as I remember also well when I
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was over there, So thank you for that right as
well as donating to nonprofits that help veterans and first
responders that are in and you know, it's it's been
a great I wanted it to stand for something long
after I'm gone, that this is a brand that you know,
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people can get behind, not only that it's an actual
family tradition, but it's also a great taste. It's a
great tasting product, but it also means something that people
are actually helping.
Speaker 4 (13:21):
So absolutely, great mission. Great website would be a great time, Bobby,
if we could get up a covering patent myself. Maybe
the picture of the website, Oh yeah, and it's Valor.
Uh it's the exact website.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
Sure, it's uh, the Valor USA dot com.
Speaker 4 (13:41):
The Valor USA dot com. And there's a picture of
some of the jerky and I think there's some other
pictures on there that.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
And with Easter on Sunday even.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
Oh yeah, I didn't even get to that.
Speaker 4 (13:56):
Do Yeah, we're in this season. That's uh. Is that
a picture of you paint?
Speaker 3 (14:01):
That's oh my gosh, Oh oh, that's a long time
a kid there. I feel like a kid. That's us,
that's our so I was part of the four to
twenty first Black Widow Squadron. We were F sixteen Fighter
Squadron out of Hill Air Force Base, Utah. Shout out
(14:21):
to those guys. We were kind of as many understand,
it's first to go, last to know. And you know,
so that was my grandfather. Yeah, there's po.
Speaker 4 (14:33):
Order and see disappearing gumby sneaking out from the bottom,
almost looking like your grandfather's legs. Right, little trick we
do with the camera. It's so it's so awesome to
see the website and too, you know when we travel,
when Pat and I travel with Brian, not only at
the shows, but as you can attest in the airports,
(14:56):
we meet so many great people. And we met your
family and and you were quick to you know, to
share your product and we wanted to do that.
Speaker 5 (15:03):
Actually his wife said get some out of the bag,
give themselves.
Speaker 4 (15:09):
She brains behind the operation.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
Oh, she's always absolutely yes. She's telling me like do
this or don't just stand fast well you know, you.
Speaker 4 (15:20):
Know, to uh to not ignore those commands when they
come from from the missus. H. It's really it's really awesome.
So when did you establish the Valor brand?
Speaker 3 (15:35):
I want to say it's actually this this past year
and I recently, you know, and you showed a picture
of the dog treats that I didn't even mention. So
I'm a big dog lover, and I can honestly say
it was a natural progression where I also, you know,
(15:55):
we give back to nonprofits that actually take dogs out
of kill shelter and train them to be a certified
service dog for a veteran or first responder in need.
So honestly, it was a it was just and I
love dogs, and I was just like, wow, this is
how about we just make a dog treat as well.
(16:16):
Now I didn't call it valor dog treats because I
think they would be very confusing, so I wanted to
also with the patriotism of that, call it Patriot Paul's
Dog Treats. So it's a really it's a not a
single ingredient because we use sea salt and a little
bit of vegetable glisten, which is all natural. But it's
(16:37):
the best, most healthiest product for a dog treat.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
But again the mission.
Speaker 4 (16:44):
Interestingly, I don't know if you knew this about Brian.
No chewing gum doesn't like to dance. But it also
doesn't need a lot of beef. Is there a chicken
or turkey jerky for the folks like Brian?
Speaker 3 (16:56):
That is, it's coming soon. It's coming soon. Yes, cat
the rabbits, the cats out of the bag. But yes,
we are going to be making a actual chicken jerky product.
That's I'm narrowing down the flavors, but there's it's like
a barbecue. I'm originally from Maryland, so I love Chesapeake
(17:17):
like based ice. So we're working on some flavors that
it's a healthier again chicken jerky.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
So yeah, well you said, what's.
Speaker 7 (17:28):
The difference between smoking meat and jerky? You know, jerky?
Speaker 1 (17:32):
Like what do you have?
Speaker 7 (17:33):
Just cook it longer and dehydrated or sure.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
Yeah, the big smokers that we use, there's like a
turn's a smoke cycle that we use and it has
to be at a certain grade and we use a
certain chip of wood for those big smokers. At home,
you can smoke ribs or a brisket or steaks even
at like on a trigger. So to do that on
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a massive sk ale, but it's all about timing and
temperature for sure.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
For sure, my buddy had a shed in his backyard.
He used to smoke meat back there. That's the best,
the little babecue cooker thing. Yeah, you had a whole ship.
Oh yeah on it.
Speaker 4 (18:14):
It's uh, it's a great endeavor. Anything that we can
do besides eat the samples, which we enjoyed doing.
Speaker 5 (18:21):
I think we need a seminar on it. We should
sit in his back yard and drink some beers. Yeah,
I agree, every different way to smoke meat.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
Yeah, then we'll.
Speaker 4 (18:28):
Try smoking meat. Uh So, Chris from Maryland? Where are
you based now?
Speaker 3 (18:33):
Pennsylvania? As of now Pennsylvania and I shoot back out
and forth to California to uh southern California every once
in a while, but mainly western Pennsylvania, right outside of
Pittsburgh area.
Speaker 4 (18:47):
Great, well, we appreciated. We're gonna we're gonna be part
of your, part of your journey. I don't know if
you did any research. I knew you were familiar with
and you had I think live acts. But I with
Donnie Yeisley, our historian, and just uh, she just can't
say enough great things about it. But she did tell
(19:08):
me that uh life Act was used to dislodge as
an obstruction nine different people, including a four year old
m Missouri. A four year old child in Missouri was
choking on. Not that it happens with with the Valor brand,
but it's just jerky in general, like anything.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
Sure, and I do have actually a life back. We
bought one for my actually my wife's father. He had
dementia unfortunately, but he was a real choking or. He
was a prist. So absolutely, when we saw the first commercials,
(19:53):
we were like, we got one immediately. So absolutely, I
think the standby good products just like that. So it's
just like it's an easy, a no brainer to have
a life Fact for sure.
Speaker 4 (20:08):
Well, the Life Fact family is proud to know you
and will continue to work together as you bring this
thing national.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
Absolutely, thank you, thank you so much for having me.
Speaker 4 (20:21):
You can Yeah, we'll see you soon.
Speaker 7 (20:24):
We'll thank you too much.
Speaker 4 (20:28):
Past us one of the nicer interupt I don't think
we've had a you know, we've had a little over
the years during the show. We've had some strange interactions,
but by and large, very positive, great people coming up
to Brian. Yes, yeah, no doubt, listen, let's just move
right along. You know, yesterday I became aware of this
(20:51):
gentleman Jose Tovar is a new member of the life
Fact family. He has his own, uh my family First
Aid Organization website. He's also a veteran of the Marine Corps.
And let's not waste any more time you spent in
this bugle there is to coobar.
Speaker 8 (21:12):
That was a funny guys, thanks for having me on
it is. It's an honor to privilege, So thank you
first of all, it's our honor.
Speaker 4 (21:20):
Yeah, So thank you for your service number one and
your continued service. Tell me about how this started in
twenty nineteen, how you got into training.
Speaker 8 (21:31):
Yeah, twenty nineteen, I was still working as a full
time firefighter paramedic in Los Angeles County, and then in
twenty twenty one or twenty twenty, I had a back
injury and was medically retired from that after about a
two year retirement medical retirement process of trying to get
me better, and that didn't really work out. So in
(21:51):
twenty nineteen I had started my original company called MF
one A, which stands for My Family's First Aid. And
I just always had the idea of creating a first
aid company, one to continue to show my boys how
to lead and serve and just to add value back
to the community and take my lessons learned from you know,
people's blood, sweat, tears, and lives that had been shed
(22:11):
and sometimes lost, and then pay that forward so that
individuals can really you know, mom's, dads and everybody can
hold the line until first aid gets to them. And
it was mostly an idea in twenty nineteen because I
was still working full time, very very busy and we're
really busy areas in La County, saw a lot of
trauma and encountered them as once I became a paramedic.
(22:37):
You say, as a firefighter, you're an EMT, but as
a paramedic you're more in charge of running the call
and you're more responsible for severe calls. And so I
started to just open my eyes up to a lot
more and I started to see that. So that's when
my wife and I started to move that forward a
little bit to creating my Family's First Aid, the actual
first aid portion of mfle A. The MF one A
(22:59):
portion kind of encompasses things with helping men to become
better men, teaching leadership, things like that, and then my
Family's First Aid is the first aid branch of that,
and where that really stemmed from was, yeah, how to
build the first aid, get all this stuff we would
run into, go into cardiac arrests. And as a paramedic,
(23:20):
like I said, you you run the call. You're in
charge of the call for the most part, And I
would see families standing by and not performing CPR on
their loved ones, and while they're even being coached on
the phone by dispatch. And so once I've got my
feet under me and I was a little more confident
with my skill set and everything and could could attend
(23:41):
to the bedside manner a little more on these really
really severe calls, I would ask families in a very
empathetic way, you know, why weren't you doing any CPR
or doing anything for maybe a life threatening bleed when
we showed up. And you know, that's a hard question
to ask, but they were very forthright with it. And
across board, regardless of you know, of anything across the board,
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the number one response was always fear. And I said, well,
what were you afraid of? And they were afraid of
possibly hurting their loved one or that stranger. More so
when it came to a stranger, it was maybe not
understanding the good Samaritan protected them, but with their family
it was causing any further harm. And so for me,
I was thinking in my head, well, they're they're in
cardiac arrest or not breathing. There's not much more harm
(24:24):
we can do. But that's how paralyzed they were from
that fear. So as time rolls on, I just started
to think to myself, how do we how do we
vanquish that fear or empower and educate and equip people
to step into those situations with a stranger or loved one,
you know, provided it provided it safe for them. And
that's where the foundation of my company or my family's
(24:46):
First Aid came up, was providing education, equipment and training,
experienced education equipment and training so that people feel safe
stepping in than they can and at the end of
the day, they can respect the person they see in
the mirror and hopefully have provided a better outcome for
that person. And in some of the cases that some
of the calls that stuck out specifically were one was
(25:08):
the number of cardiac arrests where nobody was doing anything
and and and then just seeing that. Then after that,
there was a five year old girl who we received
a call for who was choking, And on our NDC,
which is a little computer terminal on on our rigs,
it said Sheriff's on scene and five year old is unresponsive,
(25:30):
so we knew it was a legit.
Speaker 9 (25:31):
It wasn't a minor to severe cough. It was legit.
Speaker 8 (25:35):
So we're doing way over the speed limit, even with
code read code three and lights and sirens. And as
we went to pull into the parking lot, I had
been driving, so I was what they call radio guy
or radio radio man, so I was documenting it on
the radio, and the guy to my right was going
to be patient man, so he's going to be the
hands on portion for the most part.
Speaker 9 (25:55):
We pulled up. It was a stick shift.
Speaker 8 (25:57):
I set the emergency brake and gear turned it off,
and the sheriff just, don't you know, put this little
fight gir old girl who was his navy blue, she
was dark blue.
Speaker 4 (26:06):
Girl started starry to interrupt, but we you know, we
are made aware of rational averages and we're under the understanding.
Doesn't always happen, but police officers sheriff's departments are usually
there first, and in this case the sheriff was there,
but handed you the child correct yeah, no fault, just
(26:29):
not they weren't prepared to act.
Speaker 8 (26:34):
Part of that is how some localities how their how
their dispatch system works, so they'll receive the call before us,
and so yeah, so just however that works out.
Speaker 9 (26:44):
And then also just their numbers.
Speaker 8 (26:47):
There's there are more of them typically from what I understand,
and uh yeah, and so they had tried traditional It
was a little girl.
Speaker 9 (26:53):
She was just sitting in a chair eating a grape.
Speaker 8 (26:56):
She wasn't bouncing off the walls. My wife and four boys,
so we get you know, being there and rowdy. She
was just doing her thing in an office. It was
a little script center mall. And we pulled up and
there were about thirty people in the parking lot and
he hands her.
Speaker 9 (27:08):
To me, and they had tried everything.
Speaker 8 (27:09):
They had tried back blows of domin, all him licks,
they tried everything, mom, co workers, the sheriffs, and so
he hands her to me and I kind of froze
for a second, right, because those those are one of
the most critical calls that no matter how much you
trained for, until you've really gotten your hands on and
really run a lot of those calls, it kind of
(27:29):
got to get in gear for a second, so I did.
I tried back blows and a little bit of Heimlich
and she was just completely limped. She was in cardiac
arrest last point, so I laid her on the ground.
My buddy comes around and he hands me. I said, hey,
give me the lrynge of scope and then were gilt
four SEPs. And I still feel bad to this day
because she ultimately she arrives and makes a full recovery.
But it was actually his responsibility to do what I did,
(27:51):
and so I kind of took that from him in
a sense. But we just we improvised, adapt and overcome.
So we laid her down and I used them to
go four steps. I was on the ground in my stomach.
Mom was screaming and they're hooking her up to the
four lead, starting an IV and doing compressions. And as
I look down into her throat with them and go
for the lryne scat, I saw a big green rate there,
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pulled it out and for I think about another two minutes,
she was in cardiac arrest. So we eventually got a
pulse back with CPR and got her into the ambulance,
and two days later she made a full recovery. And
so I looked at that and I just thought to myself, like,
what do we do.
Speaker 9 (28:30):
How can we.
Speaker 8 (28:30):
Empower or help moms and dads who don't have, you know,
a secondary backup when traditional choking really fails, whether it
be for infants or adults. And so that kind of
put me on the road to thinking, you know, bigger
scale and really pushing a first aid company forward. And
then the same guy at paramedic I was working with
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he and so to finish that is that's where you know,
Life Act really came into play for me. So only
paramedics and er doctors are allowed, to my knowledge to
use Miguel forceps and the orange scope because you can
actually tear the person's throat apart, and so that's not
feasible for a mom or a dad or anybody who's
not trying to use them. So we found life Back
and I tested it out and we immediately bought some
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for our car, a kitchen, my wife's car, my car.
And so I've been a big fan of Life Back
for a long time. And then the next thing that
came up was that same paramedic was on a call.
Speaker 9 (29:25):
I wasn't on the call that.
Speaker 8 (29:26):
Day, but he had received a call for an infant
in severe respiratory distress at a doctor's office, and when
he got there, they were basically the people in the office.
To my understand, we're trying to pull the doctor and
the dad apart. The dad was yelling, this guy paralyzed
my baby. And so from my understanding in the haste
of all of this is that the severe respiratory distress,
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the baby was being cared for on the on the
exam table and it somehow had dropped the baby.
Speaker 9 (29:54):
And it paralyzed the baby.
Speaker 8 (29:56):
And I'm not for sure if that's temporary paralysis or
full but that kind of once again, it's just like
we need so much more education for the folks at
home that's not just box checking and a lot of
the first aid we teach right now in the United States,
I think is it's good intent, but I think it
ultimately could have a little more experienced, a little more quality.
Speaker 9 (30:18):
And so.
Speaker 8 (30:20):
Another step we move forward is how can I help
people when they're helping infants or in a very stressful situation.
And that's kind of like if you watch my videos,
I talk about the leg trap on an infant to
get low to the ground.
Speaker 9 (30:34):
So that's really what kind of spurred me into this.
Speaker 8 (30:36):
And then of course all the Trump gunshots and you know,
just all the other stuff I've seen happen to kids
and when you show up, mom and dad or family
are standing there and they handy their family member and
just trying to fill that gap, so provide that education.
I know you guys talk about Teddy Roosevelt and I've
kind of taken one of his quotes is do what
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you can where you are, with what you have, And
I've said, do what you can where you can, with
what you have and whom you're with, right, And so yeah,
that's the basis, just trying to empower people and take
that knowledge and pay it forward so.
Speaker 4 (31:10):
They and as you as you put my family first
Aid out there, I know that you're you have the
website's beautiful website. And is that spelled out my family
first aid or is it m y F one A?
Speaker 8 (31:24):
Uh, it's the first aid site. Is my family's fam
I L y s so possessive. My Family's first aid
spelled out right?
Speaker 4 (31:32):
And you're also very successful in blowing up overnight on TikTok?
Do you find more exposure on one than the other.
Speaker 8 (31:43):
I don't Facebook, I really don't touch much. I've tried
to just it's I just know my thing. And then
and then with Instagram and YouTube, just for some reason,
I just didn't catch it doesn't really move. And I've
tried all the classes and paid people to help me,
and it just doesn't work. And then TikTok was going
to be banned, and my wife and I've never used
(32:04):
TikTok and just kind of the things that were happening,
we just not part of that stuff. And I tried
it and I thought, you know, let's just see what happens.
And my first video I put out within three days
had three hundred thousand views, and I was being contacted
by people in the Philippines, the UK and other countries.
Speaker 9 (32:22):
About hey, do you have other videos? Do you teach?
Speaker 8 (32:24):
And so I realized, Wow, here is a much more
global reach that my family's first aid can have, and
so I just started pushing forward. And with all the
experience I have, I was trying to kind of bring
that all to TikTok. And social media will tell you
what they want, and it's good just to stay in
that lane. So I've kind of become like the infant
(32:45):
toddler choking guy. But yeah, huge success on TikTok and
it's been great and it is eye opening how many
people are are starving for real quality equipment and education
when it comes to choking first data.
Speaker 4 (33:02):
Yeah, you talk about it on your website that it
struck you and you just mentioned it before working showing
up seeing the family in distress and seeing that not
that they don't certainly care, but not prepared, don't have
the knowledge, you know, don't have an awareness with some
year Yeah, yeah, just frozen. And you know we're both
(33:24):
remembering Tim Weiss, who, for another former marine firefighter, used
Life Act to save his daughter. But you know, until
the training kicked in and you know that pause you
talked about taking. You know, he's looking down and he
still gets tears talking about it because this is my daughter,
this isn't you know.
Speaker 5 (33:44):
Well he was on firefighting. They tried everything to backslaps
and nothing was working. He goes, I was starting to
panic and I had twenty years experience, you know, and
you know it's a scary situation.
Speaker 4 (33:55):
Yeah. So recently you were, I guess onboarded and you're
part of Garrett talk about GARA and then just in
the last few days becoming part of the Life Act
Distributed Team.
Speaker 9 (34:08):
Yes, sir, so, Yeah.
Speaker 8 (34:10):
GARA is the Life Acts outreach program to experience from
my understanding experience first responders and people who are experienced
in administering first aid. And it's an organization that Life
Act is trying is starting up and putting together to
help give Life Acts or put Life Acts in those
people's hands and then facilitate good quality, experienced training. So
(34:34):
it's the Global Airway Rescue I believe association. And through
that you also are an author, become an authorized dealer
or you can after having an interview with Life Act,
and that just helps you to facilitate buying Life Acts
in bulk and then sometimes bringing the cost down a
little bit for customers and family and friends.
Speaker 9 (34:54):
And that happened.
Speaker 1 (34:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (34:57):
So I was teaching in.
Speaker 8 (35:00):
I don't know if I can say yeah, and a
certainly close by state, and I've been spending about eight
months of the last year there teaching wilderness first aid
and CPR first Aid to almost eight hundred state employees.
And that's where I saw that spam and that email
and my spam because I had reached out to life
BAC to try to become an affiliate and work with
(35:21):
life back and for some reason, those were going into
my spam folder, and so I was after a class,
I was looking through there and I just decided to
check spam for some reason, and I saw it from
Mike Plunkett, the Garrett application, and we talked for maybe
an hour and just really kind of he we just
connected on everything we're talking about right now.
Speaker 9 (35:41):
He's a veteran also, and.
Speaker 8 (35:44):
He's obviously he's I think the sales exec or something
executive with life BAC.
Speaker 9 (35:49):
So he got me set up with that, and.
Speaker 8 (35:52):
I have a lot of big ideas I'd like to
work with life back on and I teach the life AC.
Speaker 9 (35:57):
I demonstrate it and every one of.
Speaker 8 (35:58):
My classes, all my CPR first Aid courses, whether it's
here at homeschool classes. I've got a class tomorrow and
on Saturday, and I also teach it when I'm teaching
the larger organization. So I contract with a company similar
to Red Cross and American Heart, and I'll go anywhere
from the border of Canada and Washington all the way
down to Arizona teaching three person excavation companies literally in
(36:21):
the dirt, you know, international grain facilities where we're out
by the silos all the way to million square foot
facilities in Utah where they have twelve to twenty four
person response teams for medical emergencies. Biggest companies in Las
Vegas for sound. And every time I teach this and
one of the most of the time people are buying
(36:43):
these and so I've been trying to figure out how
can I maybe get a little bit back from that,
but also just to keep pushing a quality product when
it comes down to the equipment side of things. The
organization I've been teaching for a lot, they unfortunately had
two deaths in the field and they realized they didn't
want any They couldn't facilitate box checking first aid anymore.
(37:03):
So I taught some CPR classes for them, and they
realized I actually used chess seals and tourniquets and I've
dealt with life threatening bleeds and airway issues in the field.
Speaker 9 (37:14):
So they brought me back and some of those folks.
Speaker 8 (37:17):
One of the guys was actually at his home when
we were teaching a class that week. He was at
home and he was eating an apple and we were
doing the choking portion of first aid CPR. And I'm
not for sure if you're aware, but most companies that certify,
it's about a four minute video and there's no hands
on required, right, so they're not taking the baby and
doing you know, backloads and chess thrusts on the baby.
(37:38):
It's a video and so on all my courses, people
are putting the baby in their hands and I'm.
Speaker 9 (37:43):
Introducing them to the life back also.
Speaker 8 (37:45):
And the guy said, hey, you know, I was at
home the other day and I was just wondering if
you could teach us what do we do for choking
by ourselves? And I said, so I ran in through
what I teach and I said, but you know, one
child dies every five days. Five thousand people die a year.
Choking relief traditionally fails around twenty to thirty percent of
the time, and so what do you have to build
(38:05):
that gap? And that's where I said, you should have
a life act. So I showed him traditional and he
basically said he started to choke. He didn't call nine
one one, There was nobody else home. He saw the
corner of the island in his kitchen, and he just
ran his stomach into and it popped the apple out,
and then I demonstrated this for him, and I do
I put it on. I tell everybody you know, you
grab your ring, you twist, and I always tell people
(38:27):
never put it over your actual face if you're not
actually choking, so you may not possibly injure yourself. So
I always demonstrate it to the side. I always did
a lot of laughs from people.
Speaker 4 (38:37):
I just let it hang there for a little bit and.
Speaker 8 (38:39):
People typically laugh and I'm like, hey, but at least
now you've got to slide up in your carousel that
if you are choking and you're starting to see things turn.
Speaker 9 (38:46):
Gray, you just go here, press place, press and pull.
And he bought two on the spot.
Speaker 8 (38:51):
And I've taught some miners in Vernal, Utah and there
was a dad there. He's a miner. They're underground twelve
hours a day. He gets home, he's totally tired eating
and she started to choke, and so he had to
save her life with back blows and chester everything. Highly
he's trying every day, didn't really know what to do,
and he saw life back and he he's used life
(39:13):
at four times to save his daughter's life because what
they found out was she had an issue of swallowing,
so he's got him in his cars and yeah, kind
of a long winded answer, but that's yeah.
Speaker 4 (39:22):
I love it. I love the fact that you are
on the team, certified, are in the arena, and you're
in the family in the arena. I know that we
had a picture of your family because I wanted to
part with maybe that is it.
Speaker 1 (39:38):
How old are your kids?
Speaker 9 (39:39):
We've got fourth boys.
Speaker 8 (39:41):
They are eighteen fifteen and just turned as the last one.
That's yeah, that's a family I was teaching. Eighteen fifteen thirteen,
just turned thirteen and nine.
Speaker 4 (39:49):
Yeh. By the ways, they I'll play rugby. Yeah, we'll knocket.
We'll knock it up later there, Bob.
Speaker 8 (39:56):
Yeah, it's in the very last one where it shows
me the Marine Corps fire department.
Speaker 9 (39:59):
There's one in this center. Family that's tough.
Speaker 4 (40:04):
Yeah, well, listen, we appreciate you so much joining us. Tonight,
we're gonna get the website on this feed and we're
gonna talk more, I'm sure in the next in the
coming days on on how we can explore because you're
looking at two lost individuals when it comes to social media.
Speaker 5 (40:20):
Actually, yeah, social media, but my my oldest son is
now a firefighter out at Charleston, so.
Speaker 1 (40:24):
I can relate.
Speaker 9 (40:25):
I can congratulations talking about yeah, graduation.
Speaker 4 (40:29):
Where are you based? Are you were in California? You're
in Iowa, Idaho? Idaho?
Speaker 9 (40:34):
Up in the northwest. Potatoes not born.
Speaker 4 (40:36):
In geography, potatoes.
Speaker 9 (40:41):
Yeah, northwest of America.
Speaker 7 (40:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (40:44):
Well, welcome to the team.
Speaker 1 (40:46):
Very much.
Speaker 9 (40:49):
Have a good eating. I look for the speaking ye
are k.
Speaker 4 (40:54):
You'll hear about Ray Preby in a little bit. All right,
Thanks again, We'll see you soon. Wow. Uh how exciting
How this happened? Where a conversation between the Stover and
not only with Mike Plunkett, but also donal Marie DiGregorio
on some of the content that he had questions on
and through. Julia said to me, Hey, how would you
(41:17):
like to meet the I said absolutely, And then when
I heard about his TikTok success forgot knows Chris.
Speaker 7 (41:25):
They these are two. Yes, they know each other.
Speaker 4 (41:27):
No they don't not before Now they do. Okay, Now
they're going to be exchanging first aid training and jerky. Okay,
all bets are off now, so you know what we're
coming up. We mentioned before coming up on four thousand
Lives save worldwide. I don't want to waste any more
time chatting about it. I want to go to the man,
the myth, the legend, mister three thousand, his beautiful doughter
(41:54):
Maya on a Florida highway to be the three thousand
life saved reported, Yes.
Speaker 7 (42:03):
Reparted a.
Speaker 10 (42:06):
Number three thousand, and guys, let's talk some numbers here,
because I am just absolutely blown away by the last
two weeks, the last two weeks. But Bobby, why don't
you go ahead and run that number for us?
Speaker 1 (42:20):
Bobby, Oh.
Speaker 9 (42:26):
Wow, thirty nine hundred, a little more of a little more.
Speaker 4 (42:32):
Than half children. But as we were talking about with
everybody at all ages, no one's and all.
Speaker 5 (42:39):
Political affiliations, there's been weeks with like forty, so we
could we could do it this month is absolutely.
Speaker 10 (42:45):
It's funny you say that, Pat, guess how money in
the last two weeks.
Speaker 4 (42:50):
In the last two weeks.
Speaker 10 (42:53):
Didn't have a show? Last week we're doing two. We're
doing two weeks.
Speaker 4 (42:56):
How many twenty one hundred and twenty one hundred twenty
he says, a little lower eighty eighty in the last
two weeks.
Speaker 7 (43:07):
Reported by the way, And it's amazing.
Speaker 4 (43:08):
And again, just for reference, it always sticks in my head.
Twenty sixteen four the entire year a chart is six
a day being reported.
Speaker 10 (43:18):
Yeah, I just.
Speaker 4 (43:22):
Learned County police officers saving a child very proud, but
not reported. So we're going to work on that tomorrow.
So I don't know if that's going to affect the
race of two four thousand, but it may.
Speaker 7 (43:35):
They all count well.
Speaker 10 (43:37):
I mean, let's think about this, since since number three thousand,
since my little girl Maya one hundred and seventy nine
days ago, nine hundred saves amazing in one hundred and
seventy nine days. That is just unbelievable numbers. Yep, really
is unbelievable. And let's let's dive into the highlight of
(43:58):
the week because it is locally amazing. Highlight of the week.
April eleventh, a mail in his late sixties to early
seventies choked on a breakfast while dining at a Michigan restaurant,
causing a total obstruction. The Heimlich was performed by an
off duty officer who was at the next table. Here's
(44:20):
the good Samaritan story. I saw the off off duty
officer performing the Heimlich with no success. I ran to
my car. I was a little nervous about leaving my
daughter by yourself, but I knew I had to help
this man. I retrieved my life back and used the
device to successfully dislodge the food.
Speaker 1 (44:39):
Wow.
Speaker 10 (44:39):
I was at the restaurant with my four year old daughter,
who witnessed the entire incident. The restaurant manager was extremely thankful,
even paid for my meal. When we were leaving the restaurant,
my daughter said, Mommy, you saved that man.
Speaker 7 (44:56):
Oh wow, Wow, that's a great story.
Speaker 1 (45:00):
Amazing, great story.
Speaker 10 (45:01):
Amazing.
Speaker 4 (45:02):
I call it, you know, because we talk about these numbers,
and certainly there's a huge, tremendous, heartwarming story behind three thousand.
Uh were every week and uh, it's really amazing. So
absolutely is. I just let's go, what can you tell
(45:23):
us about the contest that we're all involved with with
and we're getting back going.
Speaker 1 (45:29):
To change mine? It's not it should be way before June.
Speaker 10 (45:32):
Right, Yeah. I mean I think my number, you know,
I gave. I think I gave the first date of
the twenty fourth, and I don't think it's gonna take
that long twenty fourth of next month. That's gonna be uh,
that's gonna be a little off.
Speaker 1 (45:45):
Oh we're gonna pass that by next month.
Speaker 10 (45:48):
Well yeah, I mean we're doing average in between thirty
and forty five a week at this point.
Speaker 5 (45:55):
May the fourth be with you, May Brian's birthday, May
say that's my that's my new pick.
Speaker 4 (46:02):
Well, you can get in there. I think it's officially taken,
but we'll have to take a look back at the
But if you're listening and you want to put a
guest in, I will I will pledge a life fact
jacket for the for the person that wins, swammer your choice,
you who are the Sweat fan. But again, Ray, we
(46:24):
always appreciate you popping in every week.
Speaker 5 (46:28):
Mister three thousand, mister three knots, and we love you all.
Speaker 10 (46:34):
Before I go, life back, life back, have it, have
it and don't need it, don't need it and not
have it. The life you saved could be your own.
Speaker 4 (46:44):
God bless God, bless you.
Speaker 1 (46:48):
See you next week.
Speaker 4 (46:52):
Wow, fantastic, we got a big week coming up. That
was a great show. I want to thank Chris Prascas
and jose tova Are and of course mister three K.
And I want to think this guy paddle.
Speaker 7 (47:03):
Or still doesn't know why I'm here, but okay, you got.
Speaker 4 (47:06):
It because you keep you keep the ball moving. You
point out when I've stopped talking dead air, dead air.
If I had a name that started with dat, yeah,
we need a producer in here saying to talk. I'm
going to throw something at me again. Disappearing gonna be
not only not really needed, but you keep me up
for morels. Today we have Jackie Bear and we have
(47:29):
a big week next week which is going to be
just for anyone that's checking out where you see in
the arena. That means we're going out on Facebook and
YouTube and we love it if you like and share
and share it with folks specifically who you think need
to hear this message about being protected. Because each life
fact that we send out we hope that they're never used.
Speaker 5 (47:51):
But in the I'm amazed to how many people's lives
are touched by these chokings. I mean, like a knock
on wood. It hasn't not really happened in my life. Well,
I mean at the beach once when I was a kid.
Speaker 1 (48:02):
Long shot.
Speaker 11 (48:03):
Anyways, Usually usually families that come up to road show
Ryan or to us at a public event, there's a
story and there's usually touch and you know, stay tuned
for the for the general that with Major General Hartzell
that we met in Florida.
Speaker 4 (48:17):
We're gonna be able to share his story soon. I
believe that made us cry and made him cry, and
it's just really touching. It wasn't involving life act is
evolving his son, but you know, such an emotional attachment
that most people have if they have one of these
near tragedies. And it was a great outcome and a
(48:39):
great foundation. And we'll be talking more about that in
the coming weeks more. At the v A, we had
veterans all around us tonight, so we thank it each
of them to their service. We'll see you next week
or in the next time you tune in to the
Man in the Arena, and this has been in the arena,
in the arena us. We'll see you next time.
Speaker 1 (49:01):
Do do Do, Do, Do, Do Do. It's no joke.
Speaker 2 (49:05):
When you choke to get life back and leave without breath,
they'll be death. To get life back and leave, get
life back and get life, live back life and live
life back and live
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