In the Arena - Show 54

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's so joke.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
When you choke cigat life back and without breath, they'll
be death cigad life back, and God life back and
life light back, Life back and boom.

Speaker 3 (00:22):
Welcome to the Man in the Arena where real stories
of courage sacrifice come to life. I'm a thatcher, joined
by Arthur Lee, Patrick O'Rourke, and today we have an
extraordinary guest. Doctor Gerald Wallace is the author of Surrounded
by Heroes, Twelve Essential Virtues for every Man, a powerful
account of the men and women who put everything on
the line in service to others. His work captures the

(00:43):
human side of heroism, the bravery, the struggles, and the
triumphs that are too often go on told. How am
I doing so far?

Speaker 4 (00:51):
Right?

Speaker 3 (00:51):
Yeah? In our conversation, we'll dive into stories behind the book,
what it means to stand shoulders and shoulder with heroes,
and why remembering their sacrifices matters more today than ever before.
Get ready for an episode that will inspire you, challenge you.
It's gonna be challenges and remind you of what true
courage looks like. This is the Man in the Arena
with doctor Gerald Wallace. That's it.

Speaker 1 (01:16):
That's it. That's all.

Speaker 4 (01:16):
I pack it up.

Speaker 3 (01:17):
That's it. Good night, everybody, take care, Welcome, thank you,
so good to have you, good to be here. It's
so good to have you. I wish we knew more
about your family.

Speaker 4 (01:25):
Why is that?

Speaker 1 (01:26):
Because I think you have them all here.

Speaker 3 (01:29):
They're all here. It was setting records tonight for the
man in the arena.

Speaker 5 (01:32):
It's a it's audience well attended.

Speaker 1 (01:35):
Live.

Speaker 3 (01:37):
So bring us back, bring us back to the beginning,
when like obviously you were listed.

Speaker 6 (01:43):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, Well let me tell you that the
genesis of the story, I really it goes back to
when I was twenty years old.

Speaker 1 (01:51):
I had the great honor.

Speaker 6 (01:52):
Of being a sentinel at the tomb the Soldier, and
at that time in my life, I had no idea
what the future held. All I know is I spill
spent hundreds and hundreds of hours out on that plaza
at the tomb, you know, soldier, by myself, many many
evenings by myself contemplating what was like going to happen

(02:12):
in life and what was really important. And I was
truly surrounded by heroes that nightly. I was reminded of
virtues that they represented, whether it be the courage, of
an Auti Murphy, or the vision of John F. Kennedy,
or the faith of John Glenn. These are heroes that
I was surrounded by and it just taught me life
lessons because as a sentinel, one of the things I

(02:33):
prerequisite becoming a badge holder, which is a permanent sentinel,
is learning the history of the cemetery, which is the book, right,
and this is the book I talk a lot about
the history of the cemetery, but also those twelve different
virtues I bring into play individuals that exemplified those virtues.

Speaker 3 (02:51):
Was that part of the sentinel core was these virtues
are these your own?

Speaker 6 (02:56):
These are my own? But again part of the history
that we had to learn. And one of the prerequisites
become a badge holder of a sentinel is to take
a test one hundred question tests you got to make
a ninety seven percent or greater on and it's various
history lessons of heroes of Arlington as well as the
history of Arlington, the United States Army in our country.

Speaker 4 (03:16):
Do you think do you think Jackie wrote a little
chapter in my new book on the power board. Do
you think having all that time and solitude, with that
historic background to reflect help.

Speaker 1 (03:29):
To hands down it did.

Speaker 6 (03:31):
I don't think any of us have enough time of reflection, right,
I mean reflection really helps you to learn what's core
values in your life, what really matters.

Speaker 4 (03:42):
I think that's so important now with this phone, right.
And she noticed that when we went on our trip
and she was away from it, you know, because they're
so programmed to look at it. We all are now.
But I was curious with you had learned this history,
and now you had this solitude to just reflect to

(04:02):
process it now. So I assume now is your next step.
But you've had all this history and all this time.
Did that empower you? Well, without a doubt those principles
will call them. I was able to apply in life thereafter.

Speaker 1 (04:18):
I mean I got out of the.

Speaker 6 (04:20):
Army, I went to college and becoming a serrial entrepreneur.
So I had various business.

Speaker 3 (04:25):
When you say, yeah, that's what I thought when you
first told me that on the phone, I thought, you
know Captain Crunch, you know count Chocola.

Speaker 1 (04:34):
But it's not.

Speaker 6 (04:36):
Yeah, many different business, many different I started. I started
six or seven different businesses which I.

Speaker 3 (04:41):
All sold amazing in the construction.

Speaker 1 (04:44):
In Southwest Florida.

Speaker 6 (04:45):
Anything from residential, commercial, to development and the like. That's
what I did for thirty five years. But it was
the principles I learned as a young man in our
own cemetery that guided me. Whether it was the perseverance
of going through a recession. Like Jonathan Wright, who I
don't know about Jonathan Wainwright. He was the man who
was left behind when General MacArthur went off to Australia

(05:10):
shot he took off well, they were trying to protect him,
and Wainwright was left there in the Philippines and led
the Death March of Batan. Well, yeah, and was at
the highest rank in pow Ever was Wish was totally
The Japanese just beat him and everything else for three
plus years, but became a Medal of Honor winner.

Speaker 3 (05:31):
Was that an unbroken timeframe?

Speaker 1 (05:33):
Same time frame?

Speaker 6 (05:35):
And again, perseverance was one of the first verse virtues
I really locked in on because as sentinel, there's so
much training and so much endurance required that the perseverance
was something I grabbed behold of because I know I
needed it at the time.

Speaker 4 (05:50):
Do you think I don't think people know? Can you
tell us a little more about that what the job entails?

Speaker 1 (05:57):
Well, job.

Speaker 6 (05:57):
Entail's obviously twenty four to seven guard of the tomb.
In the soldier, there's three reliefs and each relief is
responsible for twenty four hours on. So I was third relief,
which was the shortest relief, you know, my first relief
for the tall guys, the guys that are six three,
six four. Then you have second relief, which your guys
are about six to one up to six.

Speaker 1 (06:18):
Three or so.

Speaker 3 (06:19):
Is that hight requirement.

Speaker 1 (06:20):
There's a height requirement.

Speaker 6 (06:21):
It used to be used to be a solid six
foot barrier that you couldn't couldn't, couldn't go below.

Speaker 1 (06:28):
And I was the guy who broke the six foot grader.
That was always my claim, Yeah, baby, break them barriers.

Speaker 6 (06:33):
I used the little cloud and I was able to
go ahead, and my CEO allowed you to go ahead
and become a tomb guard. And since that time, I'm
happy to report their many other sub six nice.

Speaker 1 (06:43):
There also is how long is the shift?

Speaker 6 (06:45):
The shift is that that sit the reliefs on for
twenty four hours, and what you would have is typically
three or four walking sentinels who qualify to walk as
a sentinel in front of the public, and you rotate
all day long. So in summertime their half hour walks.
In the winter time hour walks while those cemeteries open
to the public, and you rotate all dayly.

Speaker 4 (07:04):
Two hours on, four hours.

Speaker 6 (07:06):
Half hour in the summer, an hour in the wintertime,
and then in evenings are two hour walks, and it's
twenty four to seven that relief is on and then
the other relief comes on. You're forty eight hours off.
But during those forty eight hours you're training all your
new guys. You know the wash out rates like ninety
five percent last time I heard it, Well.

Speaker 4 (07:24):
Make it like three in the morning, starry night, cold,
just you and the hero.

Speaker 6 (07:30):
Well, those are the nights that you contemplated deep and long.
I thought so about the sacrifices that were made for
you and the freedoms that you have. You're standing there
and you're thinking, you know, what am I going to
do with this gift?

Speaker 1 (07:43):
Because it really is a gift?

Speaker 3 (07:44):
Is part of the training? Is that part of the training?
What hey, you're going to be thinking?

Speaker 6 (07:48):
I think it's hard not to reflect about about virtues
like that when you're surrounded by so many heroes, you're
all alone reflecting things that really matter what.

Speaker 4 (07:58):
An awesome you know what, It's almost like if you
could create that course right, you get this history right,
and you you're told the value and the sacrifice for
our country. But then you sent off to go and
think about right, you don't run out of class, get
on your cell phone, check your tiktoks, and just let
it bleed right out of you ahead. This was almost

(08:21):
a forced contemplation.

Speaker 1 (08:23):
Well, there was a.

Speaker 6 (08:23):
Time, I believe it or not, before social media everything else,
we didn't have those distractions, right, such things as certainly
out there. Yeah, I mean, we've got forefathers like George Washington,
Measurement Frank Hunt that actually wrote how important character qualities
are and how these different virtues met so much. And
that's where the things they studied and poured their life into,

(08:46):
because it was that's how you became man.

Speaker 4 (08:49):
When I wrote my book, I was trying to figure
something out, and I started pulling stories from my past,
right that made me, you know whatever, courageous or or
or compassionate or grateful. And that's when I started pend them.
But I wasn't particularly looking to use them. I was
looking for a solution and found myself relying on them.

(09:11):
So when you went into business, you had a very
firm understanding, a deep understanding of things like gratitude, responsibility, duty, honor,
self sacrifice. Right right, So your your core was good,
it was solid. Yeah, Not to mention discipline that.

Speaker 1 (09:31):
Is also corporate. You can't drink with no conditions. You
can't drink alcohol, right, Well, that's a fallacy that I've got.
That's discipline. You can't drink. Come on, that is a fallacy.

Speaker 6 (09:46):
But again, I've read a lot of things that have
surrounded social media, and of those things are accurate or
a few things like that are inaccurate.

Speaker 4 (09:56):
Now I can drink.

Speaker 1 (09:59):
That's slowly out there.

Speaker 4 (10:05):
So now you go off and you have this in
you did you as you had trials and tribulations draw.

Speaker 6 (10:12):
Oh, without a doubt, a matter of fact. In each chapter,
as I talk about the different virtues, and I incorporate
thereafter a character to buried in Arlington that exemplified that
character quality, I also talk about thereafter how that virtue
was applied to my life, whether it would be the
courage to survive a recession and keep my people employed

(10:34):
and get through the five or six years we had
during two thousand and eight, through twenty fourteen of a recession,
and of course in Southwest Florida where I was living,
that recession was severe. Yeah, yeah, sure, and so you know,
and there's some places it was worse than others, but
I know in Southwest Flora's worse in most places.

Speaker 4 (10:50):
Yeah, it certainly was.

Speaker 6 (10:52):
So all those virtues I kind of incorporate how I
because I learned them as a young man. They helped
me in business as a business.

Speaker 4 (11:00):
But you know, what I think is really important is
the success that we tend to. Maybe you know, don't
think of these your go get or you're going to
do your You are a businessman. If you have these,
you'll do fine. You will do better than everyone. Do
you feel that way?

Speaker 1 (11:16):
I strongly believe it right without a doubt.

Speaker 4 (11:20):
I made life back to last forever, cover your whole family,
be relatively and made in America. When I went to
the first big meeting with the investitutes, they said, you
got to make it expire, you got to make it China.
You got to make one for adults and one for children,
and then we'll back it because then we'll make more money.
And I said, well, I'm not doing that. You can

(11:42):
go pound sand and we're successful and we're saving lives.
And I think that if you combine these qualities in
your message to the world, these are what make you successful, right,
don't kid you so well?

Speaker 6 (12:00):
That one quality of responsibility, which you know, kind of
out of ogue these days, but uh, you know, I used, yeah,
I used Philip Kearney as an example, and most people
haven't never heard of Philip Kearney.

Speaker 1 (12:13):
Philip Kearney is the that's that's all right, go ahead,
I think I read about it.

Speaker 3 (12:21):
He was a voracious reader.

Speaker 1 (12:22):
Yeah, okay, is he's got to be some kind of
He's a war hero, wasn't he.

Speaker 6 (12:28):
Oh, definitely war he matter of fact, that Courney Cross,
I know, but the Kearney Cross was the forerunner the
Medal of Honor. And Philip Kearney his grandfather started the
stock market down in New York City, and so he
had a choice because he didn't have to. I mean,
his war net worth was so my grandfather like, yeah,
he had so much wealth, he didn't have to do anything,

(12:50):
but he wanted to serve and became one of the
great generals of all time. And like I said that,
his men came up with Kearney Cross was the forerunner
medal of honor. He had a sense of responsibility. He's
just one of many examples that exemplify these different helled
was killed an ection, he was what he was in
Civil War. He lost he lost his arm during the

(13:11):
Mexican American War, and then he later No, Philip Kearney, No, I.

Speaker 4 (13:18):
Was thinking of the Mexican War.

Speaker 1 (13:22):
Later. I would keep digress.

Speaker 6 (13:26):
That was Spanish.

Speaker 4 (13:28):
But that's an interesting one. Responsibility what I've learned too.
I think responsibility and sacrifice. Yeah, I think sacrifice has
become a really pass a thing. It's too hard. I
don't want to do it. And uh, you know if
you look, and I'm sure you know. I'm looking forward
to the story from this topic of learning that sacrifice

(13:50):
is necessary prerequisite that we have to make sacrifice. I
didn't even know it. That's how cool I am. Tell
me about sacrifice.

Speaker 6 (14:00):
Well, you know, like I said, the name of the
book is surrounded by heroes. And that's because every night,
every day I was out on the plaza the tone
I was surrounded by sacrifice, whether it be the under
my soldiers before me, and to where all the other
soldiers around me, and sacrifice is a big thing. And
in life, we all know that we have to sacrifice

(14:21):
if we want to really make our life matter.

Speaker 4 (14:24):
And I think too that like your book is and
at least I felt this way, and we had guests
on the other day the same way that you know,
our first life is to feed our families. I will
make a living. And if we have these qualities, we
have a good chance of making a really good living,
which I did the first time. But you then start

(14:47):
to say, what else can I do? Right? Do you
feel that way?

Speaker 6 (14:50):
Oh, without a doubt, that's the legacy portion of all
our lives. Yefully we live for something greater than ourselves.

Speaker 4 (14:57):
But do you think if we put that out there
more often, that there is a legacy that yourself, your
sacrifice to feed your family can lead to other avenues
of helping others without a doubt, and that we do that.

Speaker 3 (15:10):
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in the Arena. We've been talking to doctor Gerald Wallace.
I'm joined as always by Patrick o'ork and of course
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Speaker 3 (16:53):
So before the break, we were talking, of course about
Philip Kearney and some of the twelve virtues. I'm curious
as to when you, you know, surrounded by heroes the
title of the book Twelve Virtues for every Man. Did
you learn more from family and from visitors, or did
you learn from the history lessons and then the studies

(17:15):
that you had to perform as a sentinel.

Speaker 6 (17:17):
Yeah, I think many different areas. In particular, I was
just sharing with Pat that I was raised military bred.
My father was a career Army soldier, so we lived
all over the world, and that experience, as far as
in stealing certain things like duty and sacrifice, etc.

Speaker 1 (17:33):
Was already there.

Speaker 6 (17:35):
Being sent on the tomb was so many other things
because I was surrounded by all these examples of great virtues.

Speaker 1 (17:42):
Like I said, you know, at the tomb.

Speaker 6 (17:44):
Audie Murphy is buried right across the way, and of
course Audi Murphy he exemplified courage. He was the most
decorated soldier of War two. But he did when he
tried to enlist. He didn't tried to enlist me sixteen,
they wouldn't take him in the Marine Corps. Then he
tried to enlist for the paraturee Roopers. They wouldn't take him. Finally,
at seventeen, the infantry took him in. He was, you know,

(18:04):
four foot eleven hundred and fifteen pounds, not exactly the
low type, but yeah, it was the most decorated the
soldier world War.

Speaker 1 (18:11):
Two that became a movie star, movie stars there after.
That's right? What what what the lifted heels because he
was short? Right?

Speaker 4 (18:17):
Always to think, yeah, but that's almost important to know
that a hero is does matter size.

Speaker 1 (18:23):
Yes, you're anything.

Speaker 4 (18:25):
Hero is someone as fortitude and courage and concerning well,
and that's what makes it.

Speaker 1 (18:30):
Really it's not the size of the fight and the dog.
I mean, it's not the size of the dog in
the fight. It's the size of the fight and the dog.
Too bad. I screwed it up that Let's go back.

Speaker 4 (18:40):
That looks you know what your heart was that of that?

Speaker 1 (18:43):
But get on this. Oh I'm sorry guy, you no
Patrick or excuse me.

Speaker 6 (18:48):
Rick was asking me about how the values guy stilled
over time. What I was saying was, obviously that was
raised in such a manner that a lot of that
stuff was already inherent in me. But as a sentinel,
especially the time that you were bringing up author many
many nights thinking about all those heroes, and as a
young twenty one year old wondering what the rest of

(19:08):
my life is going to be about. I think that
made a big difference.

Speaker 4 (19:11):
Yeah, you know what and Ben Carson was big on
this and my book has got it throughout is those
lessons that we learned growing up, you know, and his
one of his huge passions is the nuclear family, and
you know some of his techniques to inspires kids and
to make sure they're on the right path and can

(19:32):
his lie is my dad. We weren't allowed to say
the word, so immediately growing up you already had this
vision of don't use it BS, it's a lie, So
tell a drewth you can go, you choose not to,
or's a way I can't do this is BS, because
you could, right, So they that that early year your father,

(19:53):
my father are values learning is huge?

Speaker 1 (19:56):
Right?

Speaker 4 (19:57):
And then you add in the reflection right when you
were a sentinel, Jevin, what's your outstanding moment of power
and clarity? Was there one person or someone you saw
or a knight that you can remember that pivoty, Yeah,
that's awe or yeah, well I'd probably say.

Speaker 6 (20:18):
More than one.

Speaker 4 (20:19):
I would think more than once, but we'll give us one.

Speaker 6 (20:22):
Well, I mentioned John Johnathan Wayne Right perseverance because when
I first went down as a sentinel, all the odds
were against me. I was sub six foot, you know,
et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, And so perseverance I
held on to and I studied Jonathan Wayne Wright because
he was an inspiration to me. He was just the
first of many heroes that I got inspiration from.

Speaker 4 (20:42):
I think perseverance is another quality that gets lost in
the TikTok world that you know that would sacrifice both
of those terms. You know, it's difficult. I don't want
to be you know, when I was a kid, I
walked up hill in the snow. But it's not un conscious.
It's unconscious losing those connectivity to Yes, it's hard. Great

(21:05):
things are hard, right, sarty hat business is hard. Being
a good person can be hard. When I could have said,
well great, I was on the phone with a guy
at ran a union and he said, I can get
it everywhere. I'm handyated. But you got to make it expire, right,
You got to make it expire, and you got to
triple the price easy way. That Yeah, fantastic. I get

(21:30):
three times of money and I get it every year,
but it's not right.

Speaker 6 (21:33):
But that's when it's only about the money, and that's
the problem, the wrong thing. Yeah, and it's about more
than just the money for you, So you got to
make that decision.

Speaker 4 (21:42):
That my money is never should be involved in what's
right or wrong.

Speaker 6 (21:47):
Yeah, but in business world sometimes it gets over emphasized.

Speaker 4 (21:50):
I think, and I think though that your success life
act success is a testament to doing the right thing
can make you successful too. You don't have to take
that deal. You don't have to cut corner or do
something that's not moral. My chapter on f Few Money,
you know, that was you know, to be prepared to

(22:12):
stand up right right, And I think that's that's an
amazing thing. You know, I'm not.

Speaker 5 (22:18):
Sure you're just discussing another trade. Is honor is doing
the honorable thing right?

Speaker 6 (22:22):
Right?

Speaker 4 (22:25):
Have stories where you're internally like, particularly when it's tough.
That was what few Money was about, because he was
saying that you want to protect yourself from integrity. You know,
I can't eat. I had to beg right.

Speaker 6 (22:38):
Did you have moments in your life and the business
world met most definitely? Yeah, Yeah, I mean I spent
thirty five years in it. And I dealt with a
lot of the big blue chip companies like Walmart, CVS
and Chase Manhattan and all the rest of them, building
for them, did a lot of commercial work, and there
was times that they weren't treating me the way I
would think I should be treated, you know, not naming names.

(23:01):
There's time that you felt like, you know, there's they
should be paying me on time, you know, and and
they'd be playing games and other things, because that's the
way the business world works sometimes. But you stick with
it and you do the honorable thing and everything works out.

Speaker 4 (23:15):
It does, and that's what's important. My dad, you tell
me stories about you know, because they were a contractor
for the government when he worked on the F fourteen
and when he was on the space program, and they
would impressure him you got to get this done for
this price. You got to get it done. And he
would say, no, right, these are men's lives at stake,
you know, you can't you do it cheaper, no, you know.

(23:39):
And he had some runnings where you know, manager was like,
come on, all right, and he'd be like, no, it's
not that's not the way it is, right.

Speaker 6 (23:48):
And I had similar runnings. It was only one running
was required for me not to go back to that
client and work for him again.

Speaker 4 (23:57):
Yeah, oh yeah, absolutely obviously stay in touch with the
freaking corrupt politician, dude. But that's one second. In the
long term, integrity pays, no doubt about it, right. Gratitude
I saw that on here. I want to hear about that.
Love gravity.

Speaker 6 (24:15):
Yeah, that's a good one. It's the first virtue, you know,
I put him in order for a certain reason. Gratitude
is you just want to write about because you know,
it's just something that I've always.

Speaker 1 (24:24):
Had a lot love.

Speaker 6 (24:25):
And I use Pierre Lafont, who is a French.

Speaker 3 (24:29):
French.

Speaker 6 (24:30):
Yeah, he came to America to fight in the Revolutionary War.
Volunteer to fight in a revolution.

Speaker 3 (24:39):
Is he depicted in the Patriot or someone like him?

Speaker 1 (24:43):
Uh, not that I'm aware of.

Speaker 3 (24:44):
Well, there was a French came who came over in
front side by side with.

Speaker 1 (24:51):
That was loved the idea them all.

Speaker 6 (24:54):
Matter of fact, if you ever look at the layout
of Washington C d C all the streets and how
they're all led, well, Pierre Lafont was the engineer who
laid all that out after the Revolutionary War. But here
He actually was an officer with George Washington, and he
volunteered came from France because he loved the whole idea
of the Revolution and.

Speaker 1 (25:13):
He hated the British and everyone hates the British. Yeah,
I mean, but he made more over.

Speaker 6 (25:19):
His gratitude in particular was what really exemplified him.

Speaker 4 (25:22):
But he was grateful to.

Speaker 1 (25:23):
Be an American.

Speaker 6 (25:24):
Yeah, he was grateful to be an American and the
freedom that was represented by this country.

Speaker 1 (25:29):
And so he.

Speaker 6 (25:32):
Came and served in the Revolutionary War and then stayed
and eventually became the engineered designing layout of Washington, d C.
As matter of fact, if you ever go to Arlington
Arlington House, which looks out over Washington, d C. His
grave is right in front of Arlton House has a
history too, and.

Speaker 1 (25:49):
It's I go into it in the book.

Speaker 6 (25:51):
Okay, it goes back to George Washington actually, but Robert E.
Lee lived there for thirty years also right with Civil War.

Speaker 4 (25:58):
And you know what just hit me about. You're just
qussion on gratitude. It also could be a driving factor
for success, oh, without a doubt. Right, his gratitude for
our country and serving with us drove him to want
to do that right, you know, and I think you know,
for me, when I see life saved, I'm grateful that

(26:18):
they don't have to know what I know. And if
I really be honest, that's what really drove this, right,
that I am so grateful they don't know what I know.
And I never really thought of gratitude as a driver.
It was more of an observation, a feeling. But if
you think of it that way, it really is a
driving force.

Speaker 6 (26:39):
Well, in the Bible and Luke forty eight twelve, it
says who much is given, much is required. If you
think about that, there's nothing that can come out of
your heart otheran gratitude.

Speaker 4 (26:50):
Yeah, but I really never connected it to a driving
force to do something. Yeah, And it's totally like that. Yeah,
and that's really cool. You don't. You gotta hang out.
We gotta Ben and him on how cool would that be?

Speaker 3 (27:03):
Have you met doctor Ben Carson?

Speaker 1 (27:05):
I haven't. I would look forward to the opportunity.

Speaker 4 (27:08):
Oh, you'll get.

Speaker 1 (27:09):
There'd be no room for me.

Speaker 5 (27:12):
You need you, we need you for all that powerful
insight on that he's talking about how the guy designed Washington,
d C. Philadelphia, A lot of the cities back then
they designed them in circles because they thought if people
have a revolt, will be able to fight them off.
Going out seriously, and New York City is built like
a grid, and they were like, that'd be a terrible
city if any whatever. And it was riots all the
time back in New York City and they didn't they

(27:33):
would burn.

Speaker 1 (27:34):
Down half the place.

Speaker 5 (27:35):
Oh yeah, the Irish when they tried to draft the Irish,
Irish Irish.

Speaker 1 (27:39):
Just like Mexicans, everyone gets offenders.

Speaker 3 (27:44):
So the president when you were the Sentinel.

Speaker 6 (27:46):
It was Jimmy Carter and you look fantastic.

Speaker 1 (27:52):
Well, thank you appreciate that. That's a real.

Speaker 4 (27:57):
Yeah, Jimmy.

Speaker 6 (27:57):
Jimmy Carter was president for most of my tour. And
Ron Reagan got inaugurated in January of eighty one and
I got out in June of eighty one. So as
a matter of fact, you remember when Roma Regan got
attempted assassination when that went down, I was actually out
on the mat guarding the tomb the old soldier. I
remember coming down that rainy March day. Yeah, yeah, I

(28:19):
came down that got shot that when he actually got
shot at the balloon.

Speaker 1 (28:23):
No, right, the other guy got shot crippled, and that's right. Yeah,
so I was there that day.

Speaker 4 (28:28):
Wow, did you meet Jimmy Carter?

Speaker 1 (28:30):
Oh?

Speaker 6 (28:30):
I saw him many times, but I can't say I
met him. I always had a weapon in front of me,
or a salute or something in front of me. But
I saw him plenty, along with a lot of other dignitaries.

Speaker 4 (28:40):
Yea.

Speaker 3 (28:40):
You just see the attitude change when administration.

Speaker 1 (28:43):
Would change majorly. A matter of fact, I write about
that in the book.

Speaker 6 (28:46):
Also as far as the vision that was recast by
Ron Reagan, because you know, during the Carter years, it
was post Vietnam, post Watergate, you know, post civil rights,
all just all this net activity hangings over the country.
It was almost like we had this dark cloud hanging
over So Reagan came in, he made us believe in
America again.

Speaker 1 (29:06):
So many things around.

Speaker 4 (29:08):
Yeah, yeah, that doesn't it, did You Do you have
moments of seeing a loved one or or a parent
or someone come there and really kind of observe, right,
because you have to be very stoic. Yeah right, you know,
I talk smile right right.

Speaker 6 (29:24):
There was many a time that I would walk the
mat and there'd be someone on the end, and you
don't know who that person is. It could be a mother,
it could be a widowed wife, it could be a
daughter of someone who lost someone, et cetera. And you
could just tell that they're there, standing there reflecting on
that loved one. And of course you you do your

(29:46):
job stronger and harder than ever because it's all about
honor and respect.

Speaker 4 (29:50):
Yeah. I remember standing on the Arizona and and we
talked about all and gratitude. Really felt it from me,
and it was it's such a powerful right. And that's
what I would think being there with that solitude and
then seeing a family, you know, like you said, any

(30:11):
of the numerous potential people to have to stoically and
objectively look at that. Yeah, it has the.

Speaker 6 (30:22):
Fact that, Yeah, there were so many different individuals, I
mean from I mean, there were some times and I
knew you know that that old man sitting in a
wheelchair was probably a World War Two veteran thinking about
his friends that didn't come back home with him and
just sitting there watching me, And the whole time I'm
thinking about the life that he had, the sacrifices he

(30:42):
had made, and his friends with the sacrifice they had
to make.

Speaker 1 (30:46):
That kind of stuff just kind of wells up within you.

Speaker 4 (30:48):
Now, well you I'm sorry, No, I was just.

Speaker 3 (30:50):
Going to ask, is there any what are the rules
of engagement? Are there any interactions that you can have
while you're Yeah.

Speaker 6 (30:57):
Well, if you've ever been there, everything that the Centinel
does does in a cadence twenty one twenty one steps
north south, twenty one seconds in each movement, et cetera,
et cetera, because twenty one gun sloop's the highest honor
given to a dignitary. Okay, so everything's done twenty one
and everything's done with precision. And so if you go there,

(31:18):
you know count the second.

Speaker 4 (31:20):
Have you been there?

Speaker 1 (31:21):
I haven't. I've been.

Speaker 5 (31:22):
I've been to the Lincoln Monument in Washington Monument. I
went to the University of Maryland. Used to go down
there for the cherry blossoms for a couple of weeks.
But I never wished too many soldier I wish I did.

Speaker 6 (31:33):
It's a yeah, it's it's soft ground. Then I was yeah,
getting drunk. Ah, yes, good thing. But it's powerful in
the precision, yeah, very much.

Speaker 1 (31:43):
So Now have you been there?

Speaker 4 (31:45):
Yeah? It was years and years and years ago, but
I was a kid and during back it during the
it was around not on our school trip. I want
to go now my parents when we went there and
we took bikes for our Washington.

Speaker 1 (31:58):
Yeah, I love the Smithsonian. Roachow, what are you doing
this stuff?

Speaker 4 (32:01):
Ro Joe? Could you'll drive us to DC? That's right?

Speaker 1 (32:03):
But the precision stood out, m right, perfection. I never
knew that all the twenty one I didn't know that either.

Speaker 6 (32:11):
Well, I talked about it in the Honor chapter. The
Honor chapter, I really spent how the Sentinels try to
give the highest honor to those unknown soldiers, what they represent.
So I talk a lot about how that's perfected in
the precision of the Sentinels, or walks, the changing of
the guards, whole bit, just a lot of that history.
It's all about honoring those who deserve the highest honor.

Speaker 4 (32:33):
Yeah, but I think that's not a publicly understood thing,
and that I took it in because to me it
was like the ultimate honor, like this was important, and
this was precision and precise purpose. It wasn't haphazard, this
wasn't taken lightly. The precision of which it was done

(32:56):
increased it in my mind to its importance. In my
opinion was a kid.

Speaker 6 (33:01):
I think that was always been the intention of the
sentinels at the town.

Speaker 4 (33:05):
I know, but that's another thing that people need to
actually experience it. I agree, right, And they ought to
take their phones off for a week after that sit
and reflect on what was done, because to me, I
can still remember it and that was stood out about
how the precision and and what's where where the the

(33:28):
precision and then yeah, and the respect reverence, right, but
it wasn't just reverence like going to church and oh,
it was.

Speaker 1 (33:41):
Active and that was church the church and we go
then you go, hey, in the.

Speaker 3 (33:49):
Thirty seconds we have left, I'd like to hear what's
going on with the book thirty seconds.

Speaker 4 (33:53):
But we're it's like a real show.

Speaker 6 (33:55):
Yeah, we are presently with our publishers trying to get
it pitched to a publisher. We are probably within a
week or two of starting to pitch the publishers. So
it's been written and we're obviously doing a lot of
marketing and promotion and blogs and other things out there.

Speaker 3 (34:13):
By the way, bring up that QR code please everything
or watch look at this letter surrounded by heroes and
we're going to be You've got that QR code. We'll
have that throughout so you can probably get it on
our website and you certainly get on your website.

Speaker 6 (34:32):
We're trying to enlist everyone possible to become part of
the launch team. Help us out.

Speaker 4 (34:37):
We're in.

Speaker 1 (34:37):
We're in with both, Thank you and both well how
head first floating?

Speaker 3 (34:44):
And you know what? You know who's coming up next?
After the break, we're going to have roadshow. We'll be
here live in studio after this break. Thanks so much
for being here.

Speaker 1 (34:54):
Thank you. Thanks. She started to choke on a piece
of candy.

Speaker 7 (35:11):
She wasn't breathing.

Speaker 3 (35:12):
Then Ray reached for the life back and it saved her.

Speaker 1 (35:16):
She could have easily died that day. A life back
saved her life.

Speaker 7 (35:19):
What I would say is, don't need a life back
and not have it. Have a life back and hopefully
never need it.

Speaker 4 (35:27):
Recently, the American Red Cross has added anti joking devices
as an option when standard protocol fails or is not feasible, go.

Speaker 5 (35:34):
To lifeback dot net called eight seven seven five four
three three eight two two.

Speaker 3 (35:42):
Hey everyone, we're back in this ruckus. Look at it,
Deadlock said in the studio as the man in the arena,
joined by Youth Youth as it entered the arena roads
show Ryan Warner Joe, why do.

Speaker 1 (35:55):
We think you show?

Speaker 8 (35:57):
Because I'm on the road a lot.

Speaker 3 (36:00):
Doing Sure, but you are the Costco man. So Costco
has a great relationship with Life Fact and you've taken
it by storm.

Speaker 4 (36:10):
I mean, just a little premise that Ryan almost said,
poor Ryan, because I can't believe he does what he
does is all over the country goes in does he
and Cap sets it up and demonstrate.

Speaker 1 (36:23):
It makes sense.

Speaker 4 (36:23):
A lot of people choke. Yeah, a lot of food food.

Speaker 8 (36:30):
It's almost fourteen fourteen one in Costco.

Speaker 1 (36:34):
See I tell you, Okay, dying to hear this.

Speaker 4 (36:37):
You're so now you're everywhere.

Speaker 8 (36:39):
Every I have some stats.

Speaker 3 (36:41):
We'll go over some stats, yestas have stats later with
Ray's not the.

Speaker 4 (36:45):
Guy got stacks?

Speaker 3 (36:47):
All right, Oh that's a Good Fellows reference.

Speaker 9 (36:50):
Yes, So these road shows they started in December of
twenty twenty four.

Speaker 8 (36:57):
It's now August.

Speaker 9 (36:58):
So we've done twenty nine different shows, different costcos, seven
different states, and over the total of those twenty nine
different stores, I've came to find out that we've actually
saved thirty nine lives that were unreported.

Speaker 8 (37:16):
So we have our report.

Speaker 4 (37:17):
Okay, number not said. I told you, I say my kid.

Speaker 1 (37:21):
Yes.

Speaker 9 (37:22):
So someone comes up me, oh, I saved myself with it.
I saved my son, my daughter thirty nine unreported saves
from being in twenty nine different costcos given out fifty
four hundred and twenty demos.

Speaker 4 (37:35):
No wonder you so buffed.

Speaker 9 (37:37):
That's not just me giving the demo. That's someone actually
coming off and show them using it themselves.

Speaker 3 (37:43):
Using the place pushball. So simple, wasn't it.

Speaker 9 (37:46):
It's it's simple, but some you know, some people like
having that talk about I don't.

Speaker 4 (37:51):
Know if you've got to talk about it, but I
want to hear more good finish stats.

Speaker 8 (37:55):
One more stat and then we'll get into ANXI assist.

Speaker 9 (37:58):
So total sales twenty eight hundred and sixty boxes and
then there's two life backs in each box. So pat's
our math guy. Five thousands, Yeah, it's time fifty four Yeah,
good job. And then also uh in Brooklyn in the

(38:24):
Brooklyn Costco.

Speaker 4 (38:25):
Wait wait stop, I don't want to go there yet
because that's huge and I want to hear that in detail.
But what I want to know is what's it like
when someone walks up and says, I use this to say,
have you had someone say I say, my kid, it's yes,
it's incredible, and what what is your brain and heart?

Speaker 8 (38:40):
Like?

Speaker 4 (38:40):
I think when you're standing there and they're like, that's
what this thing that you're showing everyone do?

Speaker 9 (38:46):
I mean, honestly, my heart drops a little bit. I'm like,
I get taken back. I'm like, WHOA, Like the what
we're doing? You know it really matters, like we're actually
saving people's lives. Yes, it's kind of a crazy feeling
because like I've sold a couple of different things in
my life, but never anything that actually.

Speaker 4 (39:02):
Connect like that. Well, you have the entrepreneurial heart and
you have a great heart and great family that I
think it's pretty cool that. I think it maintained your
enthusiasm because you're always so enthusiasts. People love you and
they should. But I think those little godwinks of getting
those you know, thirty nine saves or fuel it that.

(39:23):
Do you feel that way?

Speaker 9 (39:24):
Definitely? You know, it just picks me right back up.
It's like, Wow, this is incredible.

Speaker 4 (39:28):
Did any of the ones where they like, did you
have that? Because I had this happened to me. I
was at a fair in New Jersey and the family
came up and the kid that would say was there
and they said, we saved him, that you.

Speaker 8 (39:40):
Had that that's happened a couple of times.

Speaker 4 (39:42):
And they point in the kids right there. Yes, do
you get to hang out and play with the kidd
because I do, because it's sick.

Speaker 9 (39:48):
Sometimes some physics are in a rush and you know
they're just passing and they just want to get to
where they're But.

Speaker 4 (39:54):
I know when that happened, to sit there and actually
spend a little time with the kid was so huge. Yeah,
because in my head, he don't know he wants to
pull on my nose or you know, get hung upside down.
But I'm saying he's here.

Speaker 8 (40:11):
He's here because of life back really.

Speaker 3 (40:14):
The reason, the reason for the unreported save you said
thirty nine. Do you think it's more lack of knowledge
that I should do it or just people are you
know I want to keep it private.

Speaker 8 (40:26):
I think it's a it's a solid mixture.

Speaker 9 (40:28):
Some people do want to keep it private because I
always highly recommend that they do report it after they
tell me about it. Some people don't want to do that,
then some people do, So that's there right, it's really uh,
it's fifty to fifty on whether they just don't know
that they can report it or if they just don't
want to.

Speaker 4 (40:46):
You know, you see the gravity of it. Sometimes that
Gray always breaks down when he talks about it. I
could see him saying, I'm you know, I don't really
need to relive this, right, I'm grateful, I got it,
I'm cool, Thank god, I'm still shaking. We don a
close them all the time and they'll say, you know,
I'm not ready to even talk. Right, Have you had

(41:07):
any of that are close? And they said yesterday or something.

Speaker 8 (41:11):
I had two.

Speaker 9 (41:13):
Not in the last costcos at, but in uh Chantilly,
Virginia there was two and they said we used it recently,
like oh recently. Now they're they're usually like six months
traveling in country. What's your observation, any observations? Nice people,
bad people? Difference is connectivity of the human spirit. So

(41:38):
I mean, I'm I'm in Costco is a lot when traveling,
so it's a lot of the same but different.

Speaker 4 (41:43):
That's what I was curious about, because you kind of
have an environment that would attract similar Costco folks Costco people,
But what is is there? What is those qualities it nice?
In general? Do you find people to be nice?

Speaker 9 (41:58):
Yeah, I think people are definitely nice. Maybe in Texas
they were a little bit nicer than some of the place.

Speaker 4 (42:07):
Yeah, I could see that.

Speaker 1 (42:08):
New York.

Speaker 4 (42:08):
I mean Texas. Think about it. Texas is the first
state to actually become eighty eight combined requiring schools every school,
which they should, so every kid has a chance. But
I guess there is a connectivity to what you're saying
to what they do. Yeah, amazing, Okay, you want to
tell us a story? Yeah, you better have time. How

(42:28):
much time? We got? Two minutes? All right? Two minute warning?

Speaker 8 (42:31):
Road Life Back Save foury twenty nine.

Speaker 4 (42:36):
The story of the guy you taught.

Speaker 3 (42:38):
Yeah, yeah, Life.

Speaker 8 (42:39):
Back Save four thousand nine.

Speaker 3 (42:42):
He's getting to it as gold the headline the Brooklyn,
New York Costco.

Speaker 9 (42:48):
And I was doing my thing, doing being road show Ryan,
giving out demos to everybody in the store, and a
man named Angel who worked at that Costcome came up
to me. He already had a life bacum it, but
he said, you know, let me learn how to use
this thing. Because he's got Charlie here and he's teaching
people how to use it, so he came out.

Speaker 8 (43:07):
He gave it a couple of attempts.

Speaker 9 (43:09):
Couldn't he wasn't doing it right. He couldn't remove the
little obstruction that we had in there. So I told
him how to use it. I mean, it's very simple,
but place, push, pull, and then he finally got it.
And a week later he was on his way home
to Staten Island and.

Speaker 8 (43:26):
On a highway.

Speaker 9 (43:27):
He got out on a highway there was a man
holding a I think it was a one year old
girl right limp, one year old girl in his hands.

Speaker 4 (43:35):
He was driving his wife to a hospital.

Speaker 9 (43:37):
Driving his wife to the hospital, getting ready to have
a base and got out and saved this one year
old girl on the side.

Speaker 8 (43:44):
Of a highway with the life back.

Speaker 9 (43:45):
And we got interviewed, so he actually said he was like, Ryan,
I heard your voice in my head.

Speaker 4 (43:52):
As how freaking cool is that?

Speaker 8 (43:56):
It was incredible.

Speaker 4 (43:57):
That's it. You're You're good. You have a legacy. See
that kid's alive because of you. Like the story we
had in the coming up about giving one away. You
know that kid's alive because of you. And what a
remarkable story. Because then they got in the car and
they all drove and took every one I had their baby.

(44:17):
How'd that make you feel when you heard that story?

Speaker 8 (44:19):
Incredible?

Speaker 4 (44:20):
Do you remember him? Because when going back now and
your head, you're training thousands of people? Did Angels stand
out that when he.

Speaker 9 (44:27):
Popped up on the on the call? I was in
the Costco at the time, and I saw his face.
I was like, Okay, I remember.

Speaker 1 (44:33):
Freaking Oh that's right.

Speaker 3 (44:36):
We had him on.

Speaker 4 (44:37):
Yeah, we should have had him on tonight with Ran
what do you you where you are?

Speaker 3 (44:43):
Show?

Speaker 1 (44:44):
I'm actually talking about it.

Speaker 8 (44:47):
My next show is in Maryland when uh September.

Speaker 3 (44:51):
Third, coming soon to a Costco near you next Thursday.

Speaker 4 (44:55):
Let's have him on for a segment. See if we
can get angel. Absolutely they can, Matt, He'll do it
because he's talking.

Speaker 3 (45:02):
You know what, after the break we'll have race grab
mister three thousand. We think, right, you're Ryan us. You'll
be here in the next segment and coming up after
this break.

Speaker 4 (45:12):
Awesome.

Speaker 5 (45:12):
We'll give it away a kid, give him away, right,
give it away something Oh like that.

Speaker 10 (45:32):
Hi, I'm walking the CEO. Bet their life back, simple
choking rescue.

Speaker 11 (45:37):
Advice and save them four thousand people fifteen years ago,
When I came up with life Back, the design was
to be safe and simple, simple push and pull event
systems and you push it down, the arrow go out,
the side, ball out of the box and you pull
it up. With any success, there's going to be comics

(45:57):
and normally that's that's the way to my back is
at the registered manufacturer in New York. A lot of
these products, and this is one of the most popular ones.
It's made in China. But the real problem it's about
ten to fifteen dollars cheaper. If you put your finger
open this, you won't be able to put it down. Now,

(46:17):
I understand money's money, like this is someone's life at state.
So if you bought this and make sure you practice,
you don't put your claim. If you put it like
this or like this, it won't work. And you love
one's going to dot. I understand and buy a cheaper product,
but you have to also remember when you buy a
cheaper product, you get a cheaper product in someone's life

(46:38):
in the state. So if you think of buying it,
make sure you understand, not believes unto someone you love
owns this. Make sure that make music. You had the
wherewithal and plant situation not to.

Speaker 10 (46:51):
Cover this that they're gone kind of strictly a PSA.

Speaker 11 (46:57):
I obviously also buy a light back to good and
I know because I made it last forever.

Speaker 10 (47:03):
But if you do go with this, please be careful
and love my life.

Speaker 3 (47:09):
Say hey, and welcome back to the man in the arena.
I'm Rick Thatcher. I have been throughout the show. I'm
joined of course by Arthur Leady's CEO, inventor of life back,
and Pat O'Rourke. Pat, if we haven't mentioned it, Ray,
you're looking very thin, my friend.

Speaker 5 (47:27):
That's right back camp this summer. Nice twenty seven pounds down,
seven pounds down.

Speaker 4 (47:32):
Should put that on his recap? Yeah, well we.

Speaker 1 (47:36):
Can do that. We can do that countdown.

Speaker 3 (47:38):
It is capable right where he can put it in.
And but you corrected us. It's not losing right. You
can't call it.

Speaker 5 (47:43):
Say losing weight, you say dropping weight or you know,
because that's a negative connotation.

Speaker 1 (47:48):
You can't say lose weight.

Speaker 5 (47:49):
And you can't say cheat because you say you know,
I sighted them because that's also a negative connotation.

Speaker 1 (47:54):
So it's a bunch of hit, but it's good diet.

Speaker 3 (47:58):
And of course joining us again that his Roadshow Bryan.
He's not always here with us. He's out on the
road costcos across the country.

Speaker 1 (48:07):
And the first time he's here for right, Yeah, better looking.

Speaker 5 (48:10):
In real life he is usually an Anglico looking up cel,
very frustrated.

Speaker 3 (48:16):
I'm gonna go out on a limb. I don't know
if his parents would concur, but I like him without
the baseball hat.

Speaker 9 (48:20):
Yeah, still, of course it's a life fact. Yeah, the
baseball hat. It's got the life back l ed. It
stops the people coming down it.

Speaker 11 (48:36):
Led.

Speaker 1 (48:36):
Yeah, we can't even get you a real shirt. Yeah,
he bought the l ed hat himself.

Speaker 4 (48:42):
And I'm sure this is a ridiculous made this one.

Speaker 3 (48:45):
It's in the works. You know who got a shirt?

Speaker 1 (48:47):
Anthony?

Speaker 3 (48:47):
Anthony. Yeah, we'll get it.

Speaker 1 (48:50):
We'll get it for you.

Speaker 3 (48:51):
We will get it done. But you know, this is
the part of the show that we celebrate each week
because we get to speak to mister three K. Why
do we call him mister three K Arthur?

Speaker 4 (49:00):
We call him because he saved the three thousand life
and that's his daughter.

Speaker 3 (49:04):
Maya Gray previews.

Speaker 7 (49:11):
There is evening life backers. Look at all you guys
shoved in that studio.

Speaker 1 (49:19):
With me.

Speaker 7 (49:20):
Thank god, Pat lost that. I'm sorry I didn't lose
he h what was the word drop?

Speaker 1 (49:25):
Drop? Right?

Speaker 7 (49:25):
That's right, Rot, congratulations.

Speaker 1 (49:29):
Chair off the Queen Mary.

Speaker 7 (49:30):
Not much yet, road show, Ryan, Great seeing you in
the studio. Welcome to the show. Well, folks, we've got
some good numbers for you tonight before I Before I
dive into that, let's go.

Speaker 3 (49:44):
Uh.

Speaker 7 (49:44):
We are currently at three hundred and five days from
when I saved my daughter, number three thousand, so we
have sixty more days until the one year mark. So
I'm gonna go ahead and throw my number out there. Folks.
Keep this number written down old production four thou in
eight hundred and twenty saves at day three hundred and

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sixty five, which will be October twentieth, twenty twenty five.

Speaker 4 (50:09):
Exciting to think this is a whole side little side action.

Speaker 7 (50:14):
The average side action right here reported and that will
be one thousand, eight hundred and twenty saves in one year.
That's what I'm predicting. That's that's and I hope I'm wrong.
I hope it's over that I'm out, but that's what
I'm going with it.

Speaker 1 (50:32):
That's sixty a week.

Speaker 7 (50:34):
That's about thirty and change a week, give or take.

Speaker 4 (50:38):
Not such a good math.

Speaker 1 (50:41):
What year is aval?

Speaker 9 (50:42):
Now?

Speaker 7 (50:43):
The tree pat here for his jokes, folks, not his math.
All right, So Bobby, let's roll that number.

Speaker 3 (50:53):
It comes to number the graphics were listening. I will
tell you.

Speaker 4 (50:58):
Four thousand, seventy n dage road yet.

Speaker 3 (51:03):
Even undred seventy six joints.

Speaker 7 (51:06):
But I feel like I feel like wait, but wait,
there's more. We are one above that. Four thousand, five
hundred forty eight reported saves two thousand, seven hundred and
seventy six children to date.

Speaker 5 (51:24):
Just you know.

Speaker 4 (51:24):
Road show predicted four thousand and five forty nine. A
man has the pulse.

Speaker 7 (51:29):
We all by one. He was off by one.

Speaker 4 (51:35):
Yes.

Speaker 7 (51:37):
But let's dive into the highlight of the week, which
is a big.

Speaker 3 (51:40):
One highlight of the week, Big one one. I hear,
I hear Princess maya.

Speaker 7 (51:46):
Who that's Who's that? Well?

Speaker 1 (51:50):
Listen this three everyone, Hi, may use your voice?

Speaker 7 (51:57):
All right?

Speaker 3 (51:59):
Oh she's gone the.

Speaker 7 (51:59):
Way I love you everyone. You fell down your head, guys, well,
he saying, and don't choke, but if you do, I

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have a life back. All right, let's dive into the
highlight of the week.

Speaker 1 (52:27):
Let's do it my brother.

Speaker 7 (52:29):
My brother was eating rice and hiccup and it got stuck.
He tried to wash it down with some diet coke,
which made it worse. He ran to the sink and
was spitting up diet coke, trying to breathe but couldn't
even cough. I told him to lay on the ground
as I grabbed the life back from on top of
the refrigerator. UH and I used it twice and he

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started to breathe and cough. I rolled him on his
side as he can continued to spit up the food.
This truly saved my brother's life. I'm so grateful for
this product. I was so scared to think of what
could happen if I didn't have it. I met Arthur
and his daughter on a Life backed commercial that I

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was doing makeup for last year. I told him I
was to get I wanted to get one for my
two year old son, but hadn't yet. He gave me
an extra one he had with him that day. I
am forever grateful after hearing about how wonderful of a
product this was and how all he wanted to do

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is save lives and get this device everywhere I always
have it on standby in my kitchen, and today was
the day I needed it. I still can't believe it happened.
Thank you, Arthur. I hope this message reaches you personally.
Thank you, thank you, thank you. Words true don't explain

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how grateful I am for your kindness that day at
the bottom right there.

Speaker 4 (54:08):
Yeah, write letter, Yeah you got to which I'd love
to meet him then see him at Those are really
special moment.

Speaker 3 (54:15):
Was that a California, California?

Speaker 4 (54:17):
That was the one with Jackie and the me in
the kitchen and my whole family was there. Was amazing
and it was a cool day. But it's the simplicity
of you can change the life, and anyone can't. You know,
an active kindness, you know a gift, and you know
it'll come back to Look, I got that beautiful state.

Speaker 7 (54:38):
Thirty eight years old. He's thirty eight years old.

Speaker 4 (54:42):
He still got his whole life.

Speaker 3 (54:43):
I have his whole life, right, do you.

Speaker 1 (54:51):
At? He looks so young, he's going to be twenty eight.
Apparently you still get id I figured he that's so
many reasons I hate you.

Speaker 3 (55:02):
That's right.

Speaker 7 (55:03):
Well, speaking of life back, it's better to have it
and not need it than need it and not have it.
But like you said, it could be your own or
a stranger or a family member, a friend, could be
anybody really, so get a life back. I love you guys,
God bless you. Good evening.

Speaker 4 (55:19):
Yeah, he's really evolved.

Speaker 1 (55:21):
Next week he is out.

Speaker 4 (55:23):
See you next week.

Speaker 3 (55:24):
That bless Raypreeby mister three thousand. We call him that because,
as you pointed out, he saved his daughter on a
Florida highway for the three thousand save.

Speaker 4 (55:33):
She comes in and bump my head like she's a lot.
Yeah right, he gets the bumper and that's her big
moment in the radio Sunshine it's fellows. She bumped her
head and Ray is always like ready to cry. So
it really brings it together that, you know, Dodgs the
bullet and I think he was a.

Speaker 3 (55:50):
Man of faith before, but even more so now, uh
after that you know incident, and he talks about it
from time to time, about the bystanders coming like how
far life back has come? In notoriety in the as
the Saves mount that we pose in on five thousand Lives,
that two people came by the same scene and brought

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their life back.

Speaker 4 (56:12):
So I think it's cool too that maybe we've turned
a corner that you know, these are people that care
enough to care about themselves their loved ones and are
willing to care and help someone else. We get so
many one.

Speaker 1 (56:24):
The ambulance tech.

Speaker 5 (56:25):
Remember that one the ambulance tech has taken his wife
to the hospital. Oh yeah, baby, the guy's choking the
street and he pulls over with his nine month pregnant
wife who's in labor, pulls out the life back and
saves the guy's life.

Speaker 4 (56:35):
And that both babies were born very you know.

Speaker 3 (56:38):
Right after that amazing stuff, you've been listening to The
Man in the Arena with Rick Thatcher, Arthur Lee, Patrick O'Rourke,
and of course Roadshow Ryan Mourner. A special thanks to
our yes, doctor Gerald Wallace I'm gonna call him doctor
Gerald Walls for sharing the powerful stories behind his book
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in the Arena Until next time, Keep stepping into the arena,
keep daring greatly, and remember we're all surrounded by heroes.
Mike Rowe take us out.

Speaker 4 (57:17):
Take it out, Mike.

Speaker 1 (57:21):
It's no joke.

Speaker 2 (57:22):
When you choke cigat life back and without breath, they'll
be death Cigad life back and gad life back and

Speaker 3 (57:34):
Life Lie back, Life Life back and