In the Arena - Show 56

In the Arena - Show 56. 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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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:04):
It's no joke.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
When you choke cigat life back and without breath, they'll
be death cigad life back and God life back.

Speaker 3 (00:15):
And live back, Life back.

Speaker 4 (00:20):
And we'll get life back and live. Welcome to in
the arena brought to you by Life Fact. Today, we're
honored to have Eileen Shanahan, founder of the Warrior Ranch Foundation.
Eileen and her team are doing extraordinary work helping veterans
and first responders hell through the powerful bond between humans
and horses. We'll talk about the mission, the impact, and
the stories behind Warrior Ranch Foundation and what it truly

(00:43):
means to step into the arena of service and healing.
Hello everyone, my name is Rick Thatcher, along with Patrick
Rourke Patrick.

Speaker 1 (00:52):
Welcome, Hello Richard, It's good to be here.

Speaker 5 (00:56):
He threw out the Richard there.

Speaker 6 (00:58):
I usually call you a slick Rick, but yeah Richard.
Well everyone you guess Richard until like high school.

Speaker 5 (01:02):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:03):
Now he changed his name to Ricky, names his kids Ricky.

Speaker 4 (01:05):
You know what, I didn't have the guts in elementary
school to say it's go by Rick. So Richard was
the was the name they went with.

Speaker 6 (01:12):
Now we by a lot of other names and Gramma
school my favorite was fat head.

Speaker 1 (01:17):
Hey, I'm fat Pat the water rats. You can't top that.

Speaker 5 (01:21):
Anyway.

Speaker 4 (01:22):
We are a little bit shorthanded today. That's Arthur Lee CEO,
inventor of Life Fact, unfortunately out on assignment.

Speaker 5 (01:30):
As they say.

Speaker 1 (01:31):
I liked that you didn't use the word can't be
here because can't.

Speaker 5 (01:35):
Yeah lie.

Speaker 4 (01:36):
And you know what, for the first time tonight, we
want to give the the homepage a plug and let
people know that they should go do Life Fact dot
net l A F v v A C dot net,
use the code m I T A to get a
great discount on getting yourself a Life Act Protected, and
also pick up a copy of Arthur's book. Sorry, can't

(01:59):
is a lie there It is going.

Speaker 1 (02:00):
To life is Man in the arena. Yeah, but now we.

Speaker 4 (02:05):
Just to make things easier, we say in the arena,
join us in the arena.

Speaker 5 (02:10):
Not bad okay, not bad leaves old greens.

Speaker 4 (02:13):
But anyway, Aileen Shanahan someone I've known for quite a
while now, but she's got a great foundation, the Warrior
Ranch Foundation, and she joins us tonight in the arena.

Speaker 7 (02:24):
Eileen, Hi, Rick, thank you so much for having me.

Speaker 5 (02:29):
I love it that applause.

Speaker 4 (02:32):
It's actual applause that we hear hop one.

Speaker 6 (02:35):
Actually, how did you how are you to h how
far do you go back? How do you know each other?

Speaker 4 (02:40):
So I don't know the exact year, but again, as
many people that have come into my uh, my life,
my world, my arena met through Brian kill Me. And
when Brian first went out post college, we were doing
we were doing Health Digest as you know, you were
a guest. We met Eileen when Brian went to California.

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He said, you got to meet this young lady, Eileen
Shanahan who's doing a great award winning local programming show
called Long Island Magazine.

Speaker 5 (03:12):
Long Island Magazine, Eileen.

Speaker 7 (03:15):
In the early nineties is when it was wow, early,
long time ago.

Speaker 1 (03:20):
Many moons.

Speaker 4 (03:21):
Yeah, and my first assignment, I mean you remember it well.

Speaker 7 (03:24):
I remember remember it well.

Speaker 4 (03:26):
We went out to Republic Airport and do a feature
on an organization called Air Combat USA.

Speaker 7 (03:34):
Yep.

Speaker 5 (03:35):
Didn't didn't go so well for me, did it not
at all?

Speaker 7 (03:39):
It was you were very excited to go up in
the plane. But air Combat they do you know, nose dives, tarls,
everything like that. And you came back pretty quick.

Speaker 4 (03:48):
Yeah, didn't lasted about I don't know, ten to fifteen
minutes up there and got air sick.

Speaker 1 (03:53):
And you do that seven g's whatever.

Speaker 7 (03:55):
They Yeah, we didn't.

Speaker 5 (03:57):
Even get to the G part.

Speaker 4 (03:59):
We got to the and I was I was going
down fast and I think it was the favorite part
for the cameraman was.

Speaker 7 (04:07):
I was gonna say Sean loved it because he went
back up. He was like, yeah, I'm going because we
had plenty of time. So he went up and he
had a great time. It was awesome, and.

Speaker 1 (04:15):
You had plenty of room because it failed. He wasn't but.

Speaker 7 (04:19):
Yeah, but you I have to say, you held it
together after getting often were able to do a couple
of stand ups. After that, he.

Speaker 4 (04:26):
Absolutely did the stand up. Arn was the concern was
that we were going to do like a hit piece
or something. I was just trying to maintain my footing
later lying on a couch for about a half hour.
And then when we got to do what's called a
stand up, the head pilot or had an air come

(04:47):
at USA just said, you know, could do us a
favor and not not slam us.

Speaker 5 (04:51):
Yeah, I don't know.

Speaker 7 (04:52):
Yeah, that wasn't what it was about at all.

Speaker 4 (04:55):
No, And we just had to do a little bit
of coloring and post to get my coloring back to a.

Speaker 6 (04:59):
Normal normal callers, a lot of makeup.

Speaker 5 (05:02):
Yeah, but it's been a while.

Speaker 4 (05:03):
And then we worked together Eileen Zone, Soccer Zone and
also with the Long Island rough Riders.

Speaker 7 (05:10):
Oh, that's right, the Long Island rough Riders. Yeah, so
we actually do have quite in hisstory. Like I told Brian,
we were putting the band back together. Here, look at us,
we're all.

Speaker 4 (05:18):
You're still You're still in the arena of production, right.
You do a lot of work with local networks.

Speaker 7 (05:25):
Yeah, I work with I work over Fox News. I'm
a video editor. Still. I worked at Cable Vision for
many moons and left there and then I after I
left there, I started Warrior Ranch Foundation. But that is
a labor of love, so I needed to eat and
uh so I'm working over Fox News and I love
it over there.

Speaker 5 (05:43):
Yeah, good, good people.

Speaker 4 (05:44):
Yeah, and I know that you do great work in fact,
maintaining the color of just that just and it was
award winning correct.

Speaker 7 (05:53):
Oh, the Long Island Magazine, Yes, yeah, yeah, The Long
Island Magazine was award winning.

Speaker 5 (05:57):
Yes, and award for Cable Excellent.

Speaker 7 (06:00):
Yes, it was an ace Award and we also received
Telly Awards. Yeah, we did. We got a few awards
for that. That was a lot of fun.

Speaker 4 (06:07):
Rough riders are still around, but not in the same league,
I don't believe. But now you know, we've got to
get you back with Jim and the fighting Tomcats.

Speaker 5 (06:16):
Right.

Speaker 7 (06:19):
I love the sideline. Right, I did the sideline reporting
for you guys.

Speaker 4 (06:22):
That's true, that's true. There was a lot of us
about this Warrior. When did it start? Warrior Ranch Foundation, Warrior.

Speaker 7 (06:28):
Ranch Foundation, Well, it was in my mind for many
decades and just it was just sort of like a
lottery dream. And trust me, I did not win the lottery,
but I my sister said to me, do what you
can with what you have. And the whole idea is
it was based out of love of country and love
of horses. It's really that simple. I come from a
military and first responder family and I've always given back

(06:51):
my entire life. I was always taught, you know, charity,
give back, you know you have some things, give back
to everybody. And Jim and I, my husband and I
rescued a us back in two thousand and three and
his name was Warrior. So the name of The foundation
is twofold. It's after the rescue horse Warrior, but it's
also after our warriors who defend our freedom every second

(07:11):
of every day and the men and women who serve
and protect us. There are warriors, but it's also named
after him too because he he was rescued and he
had a traumatic upbringing initially too, so he inspired me
to want to rescue horses. And I was like, how
do I combine my love of horses with the love
of the country and the military and helping the military out.

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And the more I learned about horses, the more I
learned that they can help people. And it really just
started out with me sharing my horses, and then it
has grown and officially in twenty sixteen we incorporated as
Warrior Ranch Foundation, and in twenty nineteen, So it started
in my backyard and then in twenty nineteen we ended
up with six acres in Calverton through Suffolk County and

(07:54):
that's where we are now. So that's all of it.
That's the timeline in a nutshell, and we went from
you've served, Yeah, we've served over four hundred and fifty participants.
We've helped over four hundred and fifty participants.

Speaker 5 (08:06):
Already, so all veterans or first.

Speaker 7 (08:09):
Veterans and first responders. It took a while to get
the first responders involved. It was mainly all veterans, and
we were always open to first responders because someone asked me,
is the veterans only, and because we all lived through
nine to eleven and I have firefighter brothers and police cousins,
I was like, yeah, we're going to get the first
responders there as well. And if you think about it,

(08:29):
they go stuff. I mean every single day they're in stress,
they're running into burning buildings or chasing bad guys, you know,
so they go through a lot too. So we opened
it to veterans and first responders and that's strictly who
we serve. So it's a safe community for them. They
come to the ranch and it's a safe haven of
health and well being for veterans and first responders. And

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the other thing that we do with the ranch is
we rescue horses. So there's a buy in for them
because they're coming to help that horse get a second chance.
So we get horses that we deem can be rehabilitated
and adopted out because we try and get them another home,
like that we're not we're not a sanctuary, but so

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we retrain that horse and then our participants help us
exercise them. So that's the buy in. And when I
was first doing the research and development on this and
speaking to veterans and Navy seals and Army rangers and
things like that, when I told them they'd be helping
to rescue the horses, they were like, I'm in. I
want your program if I'm there helping, because that's their

(09:33):
natural instinct is to help, serve, protected, help. So not
only they're coming to help the horses, and they're going
to help themselves whether they realize it or not, because
horses are that healing horses, they're just magnificent.

Speaker 4 (09:45):
Yeah, now there are other so some of the things
that are addressed PTSD.

Speaker 7 (09:52):
PTS and just daily stress. You know, PTS is a
major thing that people come with. You do not have
to have PTS to come to the ranch. The only
requirement is that you're a veteran or a first responder.
And what happens with the horses because by nature, horses
are prey animals and humans are predators. That is just nature,

(10:13):
and so the horse's senses are very heightened and there's
a parallel between our veterans and our first responders with
senses being heightened. I mean when they're on duty, of course,
their senses are like heightened. So there's a lot they
can associate and identify with the horses in that sense.
But being that the horses are prey animals and their
senses are heightened, whatever energy you're giving off, they're going

(10:36):
to give in return. You can't lie to a horse.
You can you can say, hey, how you doing today,
I'll say Rick, I'm doing great, and I could be
lying through my teeth. You can't lie to a horse.
I wouldn't lie to your rick, But you can't lie
to a horse. You know the horse is going to know.
And it's okay. The only thing that the horse wants
you to be is congruent. They want you to be
who you are, the way you are. It's okay to

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be nervous, it's okay to be anxious. But if you
sit there and say, oh no, no, I'm not afraid,
I'm not anxious, that horse is going to feel that,
and that horse is going to kind of back away
from you. So what happens is it's the very beginning
of self awareness, and you start to realize the energy
that you're giving off, you know, and then the other amazing.
And this is scientifically proven. We as humans have everyone

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has a magnetic field around them. It's about five six
feet maybe for humans. Horses are about forty feet. So
when horses are a herd, if you see a herd,
whether it's like two or one hundred like you see
on National geograph, there'll be one hundred horses sitting there grazing,
looking down the ground, grazing, and then all of a sudden,
all at once, they all bolt. That's because what happens
is there's one leader. This is all like there's one leader,

(11:42):
there's one sentinel. And when the horses are all together,
they sink up their heart rates so they're all synced.
So once that one leader notices that lion coming out
of the bush there, and his heart rate spikes and
he runs, they all feel that and run. And what
happens when you go in the arena and into the
roundpen if you're anxious and your heart rate is up,

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because the horse's heart rate is naturally lower than ours.
But if your heart rate is up, you know, and
you're a little anxious, that horse will raise its heart
rate to equal yours, and then yours will calm down
because that once you start to relax, because once the
horse knows you're not going to hurt him, or once
you start grooming, you start to relax and it starts
to come down. It's all They've put devices on everybody.

(12:26):
This has all been scientifically proven, so it's.

Speaker 1 (12:28):
It's absolutely That's my next question.

Speaker 7 (12:30):
I say, Yeah, they put blood pressure monitors on people
and end horses and they've they've proven it. Yeah, how often.

Speaker 6 (12:40):
Are like, I know, like dogs and humans have that
connection instantly? How often do horses? And I mean is
it every horse or is it?

Speaker 7 (12:48):
Is it instant? No, it actually depends. Like I said,
it's the whole energy that goes back and forth between you.
But horses for the most part are absolutely magnificent. And
you when you go in and and they're gonna look
and be like, who is that guy? You know, Rick
looks a little shady they have, but Patrick looks all
right now, I look like a.

Speaker 5 (13:13):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (13:13):
But they're gonna, you know, they're gonna look and if
they realize that you're not going to hurt them, like once,
if you have to breathe. Like, the one thing our
participants will hear us say all the time is breathe,
breathe because we hold our breath. We don't even realize
how much we're holding our breath. You know, you're sitting
there like, okay, I'm grooming, I'm grooming, and which means
you're brushing the horse and you're holding your breath and

(13:36):
you don't realize it. But once you start to relax,
the horse physically relaxes. And there are horses that might
have We have one horse that he's fantastic, but he's
emotional because he went because some of these horses went
through hell to and he has a lot of emotions.
So we are particular on who we pair him up

(13:56):
with because he can't take too much energy, you know.
So uh, we will have people who've been there more
often will go with that horse, you know. But uh,
but we have people who come in with some serious issues.
We have, you know, officers that have come in from
line of duty shootings. You know, that's it's not easy.
You know, they're you know, they're going on situations. We've
had combat veterans that have come in and have had

(14:17):
horrible situations and seen their best friends you know, killed,
and and it's it's so we have some very serious things,
uh situations, and and we try and deal with it.
But what we tell everybody too is the horse is
the therapist if you don't want to sit and talk
about it, because we're we're we're we're an out of
the box type of therapy. It's uh, it's you.

Speaker 5 (14:39):
Say, you say, alternative therapy.

Speaker 7 (14:41):
Alternative therapy. Yeah, we're alternative. We don't have to sit
there and talk about your problem if you don't want to.
I you know, I'm a I'm a cowgirl, you know,
I don't you know, I'll sit and listen, but I'm
not going to advise you. But that horse will let
you know if you are reacting, you know, they'll they'll
calm you, you know. And if someone's really up height,
I might have them brush the horse and then actually

(15:02):
just put their hands over the horse and hang on
the horse and breathe into the horse. And a lot
of times that's like a breakthrough for people. Then, so
they're comfortable, our participants are comfortable that they don't have
to come and open up their you know, hearts or
anything like, they don't have to open up and say everything.
They don't have to be emotional. You can be who
you are, but the beauty of the ranch. If you do,

(15:24):
that's fine. We're right there. We have a mental health
therapist there, Antoinette de Gruzio. We have mental health people
there as well, so if there's a situation we can't handle,
they're there. The biggest testimony that we get from everybody
is camaraderie because again we strictly serve veterans and first responders,
so it's like minded people. There are Marines, Army, they'll

(15:45):
find firefighters, cops, navy, Coastguard, they'll find their peers there
and they're you know, they're safe, they're safe with each
other amongst their own.

Speaker 4 (15:56):
Well, how many veterans are first responders. They're there at
any given time. I'm receiving treatment, right.

Speaker 7 (16:03):
So we have full day retreats we have they can
come during the week, and that's usually one or two
at a time during the week when we have Juliette's
there or Antoinette Regina is there. We'll call them mini
retreats so that will only have like a one to
three people. When we do full day retreats, which we

(16:23):
do twice a month. We have anywhere from nine to
twelve veterans and first responders there and what we do.
We start out in the morning, they check in between
it's a full day. They check in between nine and
nine thirty, so we give them a half an hour
so there's no pressure of getting there on time, and
we have a little bit of breakfast with bagels and coffee.
Being in bagel always hooks us up. And then we

(16:45):
tell them at the program and we get right out
and get out with the horses. Then we serve them
lunch and we go back out again. It's a full day.

Speaker 5 (16:53):
Awesome.

Speaker 4 (16:54):
Well, we're talking to Aileen Shanahan of the Warrior Rauns
Foundation and we're going to be back with more if
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Now come back and we're back in the arena. We've
been talking with Eileen Shanahan from the Warrior Ranch Foundation.
She's telling us all about the amazing work that's being
done out in Calverton, New York. But Eileen, and another
roundom of in and out of commercial, we will go.

Speaker 9 (18:03):
To love it.

Speaker 1 (18:05):
Yes, you call yourself you are You're a cowgirl. How
does a cowgirl come from Queens? What's your background?

Speaker 7 (18:10):
I know right, I grew up riding buses and subways
and now I ride horses. I actually got into horses
later in life. I always thought about it as a kid.
My dad always used to fancy himself a cowboy, and
again not sure why, but he loved the country, he
loved cowboys, he loved the movies, and we used to
talk about horses all the time. And then as an adult,
it was something I always wanted to do, and I

(18:32):
just started taking lessons and it just took off from
there and I just started riding and I love it.
It's it's become I can't imagine my life without horses
at this point.

Speaker 6 (18:44):
My mother worked in stables for like the first eighteen
years of her life and said, she goes, there's horse
people and there's not horse people, but every night any
makes sense.

Speaker 7 (18:51):
It's exactly it's either you are or you aren't, because
it's not you know, it's around him.

Speaker 1 (18:56):
They know how to you know, And we.

Speaker 7 (18:58):
Don't just ride him. I take care of I have
two horses of Jim and I have two horses, and
right now they're in our backyard. We live in a
town that you're allowed to have them on your property,
which is great because we used to lease property when
we lived in a different area. We used to lease
property and used to have to drive every day and
take care I like taking care of them. I don't
like boarding them because you just never know. I just

(19:21):
you know, there's great places to board. I just personally
like to have my hands on and take care of them.

Speaker 5 (19:27):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (19:28):
And how does it compare to other service animals? The horse,
where does it stand in the ranking, say, dogs or turtle?

Speaker 7 (19:36):
Turtle? Well, I personally say they're number one. I would
say they're number one, but I would say it's not
like they go home with the horse. You know, we've
actually had a veteran. One of our veterans did adopt
one of our many horses we rescued five and two
have been adopted out and one has been from a veteran.
We have another veteran looking at our horse.

Speaker 6 (19:54):
You know.

Speaker 7 (19:55):
It's so but it's not like a dog. Dogs are amazing.
I love dogs. I think dogs are probably the number
one therapeutic animal because one you could teach them skill
sets on like picking up credit cards, opening doors and
things like that. Like Canine Companions and Pause of War
a great organizations that have dogs that help veterans and

(20:16):
first responders. I was, you know, but of course I'm
biased to the horse.

Speaker 4 (20:21):
So yeah, and talk about the rescue aspect, I mean,
some of these are are up for being put down.

Speaker 7 (20:29):
Yeah, yeah, sure, so we have right, we have three
horses just because of the space that we have in Calvini,
and we do have six acres. We are allowed up
to fifteen horses, but we only have three because horses
are expensive and we are being fiscally responsible as an organization.
We are not going to take in more than we
can handle. And we have three horses. Now, they're pretty cool.

(20:49):
Sully is eighteen year old standard bread. He came from
a kill pen. He was a trotter, you know, the
trotter horses the races, and he has racing career and
after his racing career was over, he went and worked
for the Amish and then something happened. He got hurt.
He ended up in an auction, and because racehorses have

(21:09):
tattoos on them, the Standard Red Retirement Foundation grabbed him,
pulled him out of there and we have Robbie Siegelman
and Siegulman Stables is volunteers his time with us at
the ranch and we have a cart program and so
we got Sully over into Warrior Ranch. We now have
him the Standard Red Retirement Foundation. Something up to his

(21:29):
eye and he lost his eye. He's only got one eye.

Speaker 4 (21:32):
But when I saw that on the on the piece
that you did on the news, and it said you
say that first responders and veterans respond to that.

Speaker 5 (21:41):
Yes, they can visibly see an injury.

Speaker 7 (21:43):
They can visibly see that his wounds, so they're drawn
to him. A lot of times with horses might have
emotional militias and you can't tell, just like with humans,
you can't necessarily tell because they're invisible wounds. Sully has
visible wounds, so they were drawn to him and associate
with him. And Sully has been amazing since we got him.
When he first got to us, he was a little

(22:05):
skittish for sure, because I think he had just recently
lost his eye. There's a different way you have to
communicate to the horse when they only have one eye
they're blind. Because my horse, Warrior was blind in one
eye too, so I kind of had a experience. I'm
working with a one eyed horse and you have to
talk to him. You have to be verbally, verbally to
speak with them so they know you're there, you know.

(22:25):
And so we were able to work through a lot
of things, and then he did the cart program. Then
he graduated to our groundwork program, which is like we
have most of the participants work on the ground with
the horses. They move them around like you'd be amazed.
You can move a horse by just doing this, you
know a little bit of rhythmic pressure or just looking
at that horse. And that's very empowering.

Speaker 5 (22:44):
So what's the cart program.

Speaker 7 (22:46):
It's uh cart and Sully's hooked up to the cart.
Robbie sits in one seat, and the veteran sits in
the other and they drive around the six acres of
property that we have and it's they just love it.
I mean it's you know, we go to the metal
every year. We're actually going more on Saturday. Robbie and
Jason see the more they host us there and they

(23:07):
get to actually see the horses race and uh.

Speaker 5 (23:10):
So is the court similar to the trotter?

Speaker 7 (23:12):
Uh except he's got two seats? Yeah, yeah, except he's
got two seats yeah, Rick Showy Yeah Yeah, it's uh
it's got two seats in it. But it's fun. So
they all love that. That's one of our programs too.
And then he also Sully now is part of our
mounted program. When people learn about the horses, we let
them throw a leg over and get on on the horse.

(23:32):
We have had a few participants become coaches. They you
can do as little or as much as you want
in our program. And some of them like, if you
just want to come and watch the horses, that's great,
that's great. You want a groom, that's great. You want
to become a cowboy or a cowgirl, We'll give you
the skill sets to do that. And we've had a
few few of our participants now own horses, and a

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few of them have become coaches and are helping out
other fellow veterans and first responders. So it's it's been
a great journey.

Speaker 5 (24:01):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (24:02):
And how many participants people that you've serviced that have
come to the ranch.

Speaker 7 (24:09):
Over four hundred and fifty at this point to date,
it's over four hundred and fifty. It's grown since we
went out to Calverton. It's grown tremendously. It's absolutely tremendously.

Speaker 1 (24:18):
How long do horses live.

Speaker 7 (24:20):
They can live anywhere from twenty to forty years, I
mean today's health like it used to in the wild,
they might live thirteen, fourteen, fifteen. But domesticated horses, I've
I've had a horse live to thirty five years old.
I was a warrior, that was warrior thirty.

Speaker 1 (24:36):
Five, thirty five, thirty Yeah.

Speaker 5 (24:39):
Well and then folks come for tough too, yeah, time right, Yeah,
And it's.

Speaker 7 (24:43):
Also tough watching them get old because you know, I
have another horse, Cody, who's getting up there now, he's
twenty six, and it's it. Yeah, it's like watching your
parents right exactly right now, yeah, exactly. You know, they
started they start walking a little slower, and you know,
when they like to lay down and roll and when
they get if they want, when once they start having

(25:03):
trouble getting up, that's when you got to worry, you know.
But but you know, anyway, we still we still got
some time with some.

Speaker 5 (25:10):
Now, the folks that come to the ranch not just local.
You've no, We've had.

Speaker 7 (25:17):
We've had horses, horses, We've had people come from up
and down the East Coast. We've had Virginia, North Carolina, Florida,
New Hampshire, the whole New England area, Maine, Connecticut, Pennsylvania.
We actually are very very first official participant was here
for a few years, then moved down to Florida and
she actually flew up for a weekend just to She's like,

(25:39):
I need to get to the ranch. And she flew
up for a weekend just to come and hang out
at the ranch.

Speaker 1 (25:43):
Wow.

Speaker 7 (25:43):
So yeah, we've had them up and we'd love to
eventually go national. Right now, we're our main goal right
now is we're still part time open part time. You
still have to call and make an appointment with us.
We can't just show up to the ranch. We'd love
to get to the point where if somebody's having a
bad day, they can just drive out to the ranch
and we have a staff there. We're not quite there yet,

(26:04):
but that's our ultimate goal, or a media goal, but
long term goal. We'd love to have Warrior Ranches in
different states.

Speaker 1 (26:11):
Someone there twenty four to seven.

Speaker 7 (26:14):
No, no, there's not somebody there twenty four to seven,
but we have cameras. I trust me. I'm watching them
the horses all the time.

Speaker 1 (26:20):
Make sure thinking it's ranch, I gotta see what.

Speaker 5 (26:23):
Yeah, and how do folks get in touch?

Speaker 7 (26:24):
Well, Warrior Ranch Foundation dot org is the website. Oh,
you guys should definitely come out. Will definitely come out out,
both of you. I'd love to have you out there.

Speaker 1 (26:33):
Have a golf out there, golf, Yeah.

Speaker 7 (26:34):
This golf, go golfing and then come we'll come see
the horses and then go golfing and yeah, there's plenty.

Speaker 5 (26:40):
Of because we'll get actually, yeah, the horses were relaxing.

Speaker 7 (26:44):
Yeah, if you come back and you're like throwing golf
sticks or golf clubs.

Speaker 1 (26:48):
Around, won't stop at the horses again on the way home.

Speaker 5 (26:52):
And how do you get funded?

Speaker 7 (26:54):
Uh? Donations? Uh, it's we have an annual event this
year it's on Sun. October fifth. It's actually out at
the ranch. You can go to the website again Warrior
Ranch Foundation dot org. There's information about our annual benefit
and or you can just simply click that donate button
and donate to us. Yeah, you can definitely use We

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can definitely use the funding. We definitely need to help
because we have a wait list now for some of
the veterans to get to the ranch, which we don't
want to leave any veteran behind. We want to get
all the veterans in there as soon as possible. If
there is a crisis situation, we move heaven and earth
to get that person to the ranch. If it's someone
who's like, hey, I'm just interested in the ranch, they
might have to wait a few weeks, which would really

(27:35):
rather not have to do that, but right now we do.

Speaker 5 (27:38):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (27:38):
Now, you've also produced a documentary, Yes, you said, may
have been titled in the Arena, which.

Speaker 7 (27:44):
Is yes, it's not, but I can show you paperwork
and drafts of our notes. It says in the Arena.
But it is named Warrior A Battle against Trauma. It's
learning to love and trust Again, and it has been
selected into the Internet National Equiess Film Festival and the
Echoess Film Festival, and we are heading out to Montana

(28:05):
next week because it's playing, We're going to Missoula. It's
so it's playing at the Residents Inn in Missoula at
four o'clock on Saturday. I think that's the thirteenth.

Speaker 1 (28:14):
If you go to your web page, can you see
a trailer or yes.

Speaker 7 (28:17):
Yes, we have plenty of videos on our website. Yep, absolutely.

Speaker 5 (28:21):
Foundation dot org.

Speaker 7 (28:23):
Yes, yes, we're Ranch Foundation dot org. It's our whole
point is what's going on with our veterans and first
responders is not in the public's eye enough people need
to know because we should not. They should not be
dying by suicide the way they are. They should not.
It should not be happening day.

Speaker 1 (28:40):
Or something in New York alone. I think it is.

Speaker 7 (28:42):
Yeah, it's a disgrace. It's a shame on us for
letting that happen. I mean, it shouldn't. It's it's we
have to do better them. They serve and protect us
every second of every day. They defend our freedom every
second of every day, and we should do more for them,
which this shouldn't be happening, and this should be okay,
it's not. It's not a stigma. It's okay to not
be okay. And that's the whole thing. You come to

(29:04):
the ranch. What happens at the ranch stays at the ranch.
It's not you know, you come to the ranch. It's
not like you're sitting on a couch and having therapy.
You're coming to the ranch. You're hanging out with the
horses for a day, hanging out with your fellow veterans,
fellow police officers, fellow firefighters'. It's camaraderie. And if anyone's
if any veteran, if you know of anybody who needs assistance,

(29:26):
please absolutely reach out Warrior Ranch Foundation dot org.

Speaker 5 (29:31):
Wow. Yeah, amazing stuff.

Speaker 4 (29:34):
Now, I mean I would have to imagine that your background,
the documentary that you worked on five years in the
making labor of love, as you said, but you had
to have been helped by your experience.

Speaker 7 (29:47):
Yes, yes, Danielle Altibrando and myself we worked on it
together and we both are in the television video production business,
and we both it was the two of us who
actually put it all together between shooting, editing, making movie posters. Yeah,
we did it all. So, Yeah, I would love for

(30:09):
you to see it for sure. Yeah, we had a play.
It played out in the Suffolk in May. We had
a premiere out in Suffolk. We had a phenomenal turnout.
Three hundred people showed up to see it. It was great.
It was a great experience. So we're trying to get
into other theaters as well. We're figuring out where it's
going to be in a theater or where it's going
to stream. That's a process, you know, we're plugging.

Speaker 5 (30:28):
About in the arena.

Speaker 4 (30:29):
Definitely airs in New York this weekend or on a weekend.
So talk about that event you have coming up in
October again.

Speaker 7 (30:39):
Oh, Sunday, October fifth, it's our annual benefit. It's held
at the Ranch. The information is on the website. We've
got great it's music great for who are those guys
is the name of the band? They are fantastic. Brian
kill Me will be am seeing it and yeah.

Speaker 5 (30:57):
So you got to come out Rick, We'll be there.

Speaker 9 (31:00):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (31:00):
And then uh so it's very patriotic. You know, we
have the MTA does the ceremonial unit. Uh comes in
and you know it's just it's a very big bagpipes.
It's very patriotic and we have some horse demonstrations and uh,
and it's just great raffle prizes. It's just a great
all around event. Usually about two hundred people come. It's fantastic,

(31:22):
it's really great.

Speaker 4 (31:23):
Yeah, you know there are other foundations that work with
veterans first responders. Are you affiliated with other organizations?

Speaker 7 (31:31):
Well, we all, we're all very friendly. I mean, you know,
Pause of War, we talked to them. Operation Best Canine
Companions is another one, Dogs bet Dogs. Yes, we all
we all have the same goal, right, we want to
help our veterans and first responders. There's no uh. Your
team Eva does a lot of work bringing awareness to

(31:52):
for about pts. And she's an amazing marathon her she
runs marathons. She does seven marathons in seven days, you know,
here on the island. And but she and is that
I know, she's it's remarkable.

Speaker 5 (32:07):
Sounds like our friend jay A Sparrow who is always running.

Speaker 7 (32:11):
Yeah, but she's a she's a great, great individual. So
there there are definitely many organizations that we work with
or or that we you know, we come across and
we're just everyone's friendly. Nobody's you know, because again it's
the same we all have the same goal.

Speaker 4 (32:26):
I'm remembering another see another segment that we shot for
Long Island Magazine.

Speaker 5 (32:31):
Which was on Nole Farm.

Speaker 4 (32:33):
Oh yeah, or autistic, Yeah yeah, it's autism out with
horses are all around good guys.

Speaker 7 (32:43):
Yeah, No, there're definitely. There's a lot of programs for
children with autism physically challenged, you know, if they have
physical issues. Yeah, there's definitely. Their horses are absolutely amazing.
And when what have with us when we rescue the horses,
it's you know, there's a lot of unwanted horses out there.

(33:04):
I don't think people realize that there's you know, because
when they're done with their if someone's done with their,
people outgrow them. If their performance horses, you know, they
outgrow them sometimes and so that's why they get shoved
aside a lot, which is which is unfortunate. But uh
and there's about ten thousand horses right here on Long Island.
We have a lot of horses on Long Island where

(33:27):
I am and Ice Lip is uh well connect West
State Park. We have a lot of horses around here.

Speaker 6 (33:34):
Smith NASA County cops on them. Sometimes they're mounted unit
maybe horses Sands Point.

Speaker 7 (33:42):
They don't. I think they're based out of Sands Point.
But there's a lot of horses in Nassau. But in
Suffolk there's a lot too. Out on the East end.
There's a lot of horses on Long Island.

Speaker 5 (33:50):
Wow.

Speaker 4 (33:50):
Well, Eileen, we thank you so much for joining. We're
gonna be We kept you over time. So yeah, gotta
get going.

Speaker 7 (33:57):
This is more well, thank you, well, thank you for
having me. I really appreciate it.

Speaker 5 (34:01):
Oh, we appreciate you.

Speaker 4 (34:02):
October fifth, everyone Warrior Ranch Ranch Ranch Foundation dot org.
Go there, support the cause and Nileen, great work. We'll
see you soon.

Speaker 5 (34:12):
You got good up there, Go get them.

Speaker 4 (34:16):
And we'll be right back with more in the arena.
Rick Thatcher along with powder work. After this message man
in arena.

Speaker 10 (34:36):
She started to choke on a piece of candy. She
wasn't breathing. Then Ray reached for the life back and
it saved her.

Speaker 1 (34:43):
She could have easily died that day. A life back
saved her life.

Speaker 7 (34:46):
What I would say is, don't need a life back
and not have it.

Speaker 10 (34:51):
Have a life back and hopefully never need it.

Speaker 8 (34:54):
Recently, the American Red Cross has added anti joking devices
as an option when standard protocol fails was not feasible, go.

Speaker 6 (35:02):
To life back dot net are called eight seven seven,
five four three three eight two to two.

Speaker 1 (35:08):
Again and got a eleven ninety.

Speaker 4 (35:10):
We're back in the arenas. Pat's uh chatting on professional
chatting about something. No, go ahead, what were we I
was just.

Speaker 6 (35:17):
Talking to an audience somewhere about my SAT score which
was an eleven ninety and now you're just bragging. And
my coaches said, don't take it a yet. No, now
that's a bad score. Really, all my kids, jay leveryone
just like thirteen and fourteen hundreds. Now I thought I
was a genius. I got eleven ninety.

Speaker 5 (35:30):
That's really good.

Speaker 1 (35:31):
And they were like, don't take it again. As long
as you break a thousand.

Speaker 6 (35:33):
We had friends, A lot of my friends got like
eight eighty and went like Virginia to their athletes. Yes,
well that was it was always a little bit of
a many many moons ago.

Speaker 4 (35:42):
That was a curve, was competitive, correct, Yeah, But we
were talking with Eileen Shanahan from Warrior Ranch Foundation before
the UH break.

Speaker 5 (35:51):
What an amazing woman.

Speaker 4 (35:52):
Of known her for a long time, knew that she
was into horses and lived out where it's a little
bit more conducive to having that many horses. I don't
know how many Acrecy said in Calverton, York, but four
hundred and fifty different first responders and veterans that have
been treated or have gone for therapy they called alternative therapy.
But it's pretty pretty darn effective and they're doing amazing work.

(36:15):
So anything you can do to help the ranch, help out,
help the ranch. Warrior Ranch regoundation reminds me of didn't
don Imus had a lot of work on a ranch,
but I think there was a lot of cocaine involved
as well. Not so at the at the Warrior Ranch
found it.

Speaker 1 (36:34):
Oh, you never know, look into it.

Speaker 5 (36:36):
But again my name is Rick Fatcher. Along with powder Ork.

Speaker 4 (36:40):
We were talking with Aileen and Chanahan and when we
do still have to mention that we miss Arthur Lee
all the best. He's out there saving the world, changing
the world. The CEO and inventor of the Life Fact,
which is our sponsor. Of course, each week that we
go by we talk about other folks in their arena,

(37:01):
but of course we're going to mention to go to www.

Speaker 5 (37:03):
Dot life fact dot.

Speaker 4 (37:05):
Net use code m I T A to get yourself
a life saving device called life back for use in
a choking emergency, and use codem I t A get
a discount. Pick up a copy of Arthur's book, which
is tearing up the charts. I think it's the I
mean it's one of rave reviews. Sorry can't is a.

Speaker 6 (37:25):
Lie coming to you soon in hard copy? I believe
the other way he would self copy first, then hard copy.

Speaker 4 (37:31):
Yeah, self produced, But now it's going to be out
by a publisher and sorry can't is alle get it
at W get it a life aact dot net and
use codem I t.

Speaker 5 (37:41):
A, get yourself a little.

Speaker 6 (37:42):
And we'd have to have movie seat chairs for our
audience here, because I see a lot of people in
pain not be able to sit in their chair for
the whole show.

Speaker 1 (37:48):
So yeah, you see that there, don't you. Yeah, sorry, folks,
we'll take care of that. We're gonna get some movie seats.

Speaker 5 (37:53):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (37:54):
But Pat, let's let's touch on a topic that we've
been talking about quite a bit in the last several weeks,
and that is your journey.

Speaker 5 (38:01):
How's it going?

Speaker 6 (38:02):
Yes, my pH diet camp, I'm down twenty nine point
eight pounds, almost thirty pounds keven weeks.

Speaker 5 (38:09):
Yeah, yeah, so and still going.

Speaker 1 (38:12):
I have to have fifty more to go. According to them, yes.

Speaker 5 (38:15):
This is going to be with us for a while,
but we we're waiting.

Speaker 1 (38:17):
I'm going to turn sideways.

Speaker 6 (38:18):
You're not even to see me. And now they're asking
for pictures me all of a sudden. I didn't want
pictures when I was big. I guess now they want pictures.

Speaker 5 (38:24):
Did you look at any before pictures?

Speaker 1 (38:26):
Yes? I did.

Speaker 6 (38:27):
I Actually, do you remember the wedding I did last
year I married Mike Well? I was a official, yes,
officiate at a friend's son's wedding. Yeah, And I saw
some of the pictures of me coming down the aisle
and I was like, Holy Christ before yes, fat obese
and O God, it's moving towards me. And that was,
oh God, it's moving towards big suit coming at you.

Speaker 1 (38:46):
But that was the picture I said.

Speaker 4 (38:48):
Yes, yeah, do you want to give them? I was
encouraging you to get them, have them come on.

Speaker 5 (38:53):
Yeah, I'll have.

Speaker 6 (38:54):
I talked to Heather every Thursday, she's my counselor. I'll
ask her to come on. Sure, but I'm sure she would.
And so I've been on the radio the last couple
of days seventy seven WABC. They have a commercial for it,
but Brian mentions me, oh okay. They had me tape
a couple of things and they say.

Speaker 1 (39:08):
Oh yeah, it's great diet. You got to try it. Yep.

Speaker 5 (39:10):
Yeah, just like that.

Speaker 1 (39:11):
That's my voice.

Speaker 5 (39:12):
They're happy, you're happy, everyone's working.

Speaker 1 (39:16):
It's free for me. So I gotta ask Brian.

Speaker 6 (39:18):
Next you had a hair guy, hair and teeth, and
next we're just going to fix up the whole thing.

Speaker 1 (39:22):
It's going to be unbelievable, the whole makeover.

Speaker 5 (39:25):
It's going to be new.

Speaker 4 (39:25):
I'm looking for our guests that's going to talk about
the stats not with us yet, So let's talk about
the show that we're about to do up and bring
up the graphic if you can. Bomby for September twenty
seventh supporting mister Brian Killmead, History, Liberty and September twenty

(39:48):
seventh Dominion Energy Center. Boy, this is a it's going
to be a hard thing to top the last show
that we did in Dallas.

Speaker 6 (39:56):
And they also just told us today no T shirt
gun for liability reasons. Well, we're gonna get a sling
shot or something.

Speaker 1 (40:02):
We got it.

Speaker 6 (40:02):
We got to figure something out, well, put off the
lee on it.

Speaker 1 (40:05):
He's an inventor. He'll figure something out for us.

Speaker 5 (40:07):
And we've got we've got a little bit of time.

Speaker 6 (40:10):
I said, we take the T shirt gun without the canister,
and you just keep going and I'll throw them out
so people will think it's.

Speaker 1 (40:16):
A T shirt guy.

Speaker 4 (40:18):
That's what I love about you. You adapt, always thinking,
always thinking, and you just we just found out that
there's an insurance issue. And the T shirt cannon, which
people love. The T shirt gut.

Speaker 1 (40:27):
They go nuts. It gets the energy going.

Speaker 5 (40:29):
It is.

Speaker 1 (40:29):
It's shocking.

Speaker 6 (40:30):
You could be handing T shirts out on the way
and they don't want one, But if it's shot out
of a cannon, they're running over Inferance for it.

Speaker 1 (40:36):
They want it. Are you kidding? Place gets going, doesn't it?

Speaker 5 (40:39):
It does? It does. It doesn't take much little T
shirt canon yep.

Speaker 6 (40:43):
And sure you have to drive all over any city
we're in to find the because he can't fly with
those canisters. No, So we spend usually a boy an
hour a couple hours each day in a city looking
for those canisters.

Speaker 1 (40:52):
And it brings us to us some pretty interesting places.

Speaker 4 (40:54):
And this last was probably the most arduous or difficult
to get the canister?

Speaker 6 (41:00):
Yes, was uh they brought us in La play A Plaza,
which is not the beach.

Speaker 1 (41:04):
It's in Dallas, and it.

Speaker 5 (41:06):
Was off the beaten path. Yes, yes, to say the
least off the beaten path.

Speaker 4 (41:10):
So before we talked to Shane Foresman, who was filling
in for Ray Preby tonight, mister three thousand, we wish
Austin all the best of luck in his first football game,
first high school football match.

Speaker 1 (41:23):
He's in high school.

Speaker 6 (41:24):
This fun.

Speaker 1 (41:25):
Yeah, So how many kids do you have? Three?

Speaker 5 (41:28):
Mm? That's a test.

Speaker 1 (41:30):
I know he has a son about ten?

Speaker 5 (41:31):
Or has three?

Speaker 1 (41:32):
Okay?

Speaker 5 (41:32):
Itik is three and including young Maya. Who is to say?

Speaker 4 (41:36):
We call him mister three thousand because he saved his
daughter in a Florida.

Speaker 1 (41:39):
Highway Thursday night lights must be JB.

Speaker 5 (41:41):
But what do you think in terms of numbers? Because
we're approaching five thousand.

Speaker 1 (41:44):
I my prediction today is four thousand, six hundred and
thirty four.

Speaker 6 (41:47):
But I don't know. I'm just I'm basing it off.
Last week I went between six and seven a day
for a week. So my prediction is four thousand, six
hundred and thirty four. You know what we'll do, my
freshman weight.

Speaker 4 (41:59):
I think we're going to go to a break okay
and wait for our buddy Shane Foresman to join us.
So join us, stay with us, right still there, yep,
Aleen Shanahan, all the best, thank you, and we'll be
right back with more in the arena.

Speaker 1 (42:19):
I can helps.

Speaker 7 (42:33):
Hi.

Speaker 9 (42:33):
I'm Marka. We see you, ventor of life back simple
choking rescue advice and say what thousand people thirteen years ago?
When I came up with that back, the design was
to be safe and simple, simple push and cold the
event systems and you push it down the arrow, go
out the side to balled out the box and you

(42:54):
pull it up. With any success, there's going to be comics.
Normally that's the waited you know, like 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,

(43:14):
you want to be able to put it down. Now
I understand money's winning, Like this is someone's live mistate.
So if you bought this and make sure you practice.
Don't put your claim. If you put it like this
or like this, it won't work and your loved one's
going to die. I understand and buy a cheaper product,
but you have to also remember when you buy a

(43:36):
cheap product, you get a cheaper product in some live statement.
So if you think of buying it, make sure you
understand you can not believe this. Well too, some of
you love owns this. Make sure that they music. I
had the wherewithal and planet situations, not because of this event,
the kind of strictly a PSA. I obviously all do

(43:59):
BUYO effectively. Its good and I know our meager last forever.
But if you do go with miss, please be careful
and love to my life.

Speaker 4 (44:10):
Say, and we are back in the arena. My name
is Rick Thatcher, along with Patrick O'Rourke, and that it's
been a great show. But correct me if I'm wrong.
We do Miss Arthur, yes definitely, and the van the heart,
the soul of life fact and our bestest buddy is

(44:31):
not here tonight, and we four John. And we also
got a call earlier today that mister three thousand was
not going to be able to make the show. His
son is playing in a football game, and he wanted
to be there. And that's so we applaud that because
it's for Ray. It's all about family, mister three K. Yes,
family first, absolutely tight season kickoff. But you know, in

(44:54):
the pinch, I knew who to call. Shane Foresman is
Motorcycle Riding Events of America.

Speaker 1 (45:01):
I saw pictures of you, this.

Speaker 4 (45:03):
Amazing, amazing gentleman from down in Florida SR over the
year in my mind, in my book. So we welcome
filling in for mister three K. Shane Foresman, Shane and
you with us.

Speaker 11 (45:24):
He's quiet, Hey, there is there he is, look at
having some difficulties over here on my side.

Speaker 4 (45:33):
No, you look great, Shane. How are you, sir? You
heard yourself just fine?

Speaker 1 (45:38):
Did we meet him in Jacksonville? Yes, okay, I know
I know him. Okay, how you doing?

Speaker 5 (45:42):
See youself? Shane?

Speaker 4 (45:44):
Before we get to the numbers, I want to ask
you September nineteenth coming up, special special date, special night.
Tell us about what's going on in your department.

Speaker 11 (46:00):
Uh So, September nineteenth, we'll be doing a large donation
of approximately one hundred and twenty two, one hundred and
fifty lifebacks to Santa Rosa County Shriff's Office, my own
agency here on the Panhandle of Florida. So it's it's
it's kind of awesome because you know, I've tried for
over the past year to get these implemented in our

(46:23):
own patrol vehicles with pushback, right. I didn't never expect
that from my own agency, but you know, there.

Speaker 5 (46:30):
I was.

Speaker 11 (46:33):
Trying trying to get policy in place, which I was
able to write the policy myself with a little bit
of assistance, and I got that done and put through
our training with the Sheriff's department. So they pushed that
out to all proll deputies basically for a CYA. Of course,

(46:57):
what's that?

Speaker 1 (46:58):
Well?

Speaker 5 (47:00):
Is that?

Speaker 4 (47:00):
Is that what CYA was? Yes, they want to with
all the other trade working.

Speaker 1 (47:05):
How many is the training maybe at maybe an hour
at the most. I mean it's it's pretty bad.

Speaker 11 (47:09):
No, I mean training literally maybe ten minutes if that
tops is to make sure that you you know, US
US Marines and other veterans do not use the life
back in any other way, shape or form that we
can think of.

Speaker 12 (47:28):
Okay, you don't knowough, is that Tammy, Tam It's over
there she's uh, he's watching Uh, probably Facebook, I would
imagine right about now.

Speaker 1 (47:39):
Nice.

Speaker 4 (47:40):
Nice, We are on Facebook, we are on YouTube. But
of course this is going to go out. Man in
the Arena is going to go out San Diego, Los Angeles, Houston, Orlando, Dallas,
New York.

Speaker 5 (47:50):
And Allentown, PA this weekend.

Speaker 4 (47:52):
So Allentown's yeah, Allentown's joining the joining the party, all right,
And you can always go to life Act dot net
and listen to Man in the Arena or in the
Arena as we're now calling it, anytime you want. There's
now a new link where you can easily find the
podcast that we're currently taping. So, Shane, I mean, how

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much you know, for those just listening, don't appreciate all
the work that you've done prior to getting Santa Rosa.

Speaker 5 (48:21):
You've been tearing up Florida.

Speaker 4 (48:23):
You and your you and your bodies have really been
doing an amazing job getting life back into different police
and sheriff's departments down in Florida.

Speaker 5 (48:32):
Do you know have an approximate amount of.

Speaker 11 (48:39):
Department approximately, I'd say after we make this donation will
be close to seven hundred and fifty units far. We're
gonna keep on pushing forward. Like I said, that's with
sheriffs apartment's, fire departments and so on ems, you know,
lifeguard ambulances, stuff like that.

Speaker 5 (48:57):
Yeah, and your other your other.

Speaker 4 (49:00):
Position that you have SRL school resource officer. How encouraging
was it to have Houston pass I'm not Houston, Texas
at state law. Do you think Florida is far behind?

Speaker 5 (49:13):
I don't think.

Speaker 11 (49:14):
We're far hint. I think everything it's you know, you
got to knock on enough doors until somebody opens up
the door for you. So I think we're getting that
kickback again like we face with my agency. But I
think it's just a matter of the right person opening
up the door and you know, listening instead of just
giving you that generic we're not interested email right back

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at you. So I'm just just perseverance pushed through.

Speaker 6 (49:41):
You know.

Speaker 4 (49:42):
Yeah, Well, you're doing amazing work, and we continue and
I know that we're going to do some stuff in
the in the new year, and it's going to be
here before you know it.

Speaker 5 (49:49):
Down in Florida with what is that the state?

Speaker 11 (49:53):
I think the first one we're doing to think, correct
me if I'm wrong.

Speaker 5 (49:56):
First of here at Washington, I.

Speaker 4 (49:57):
Think true true, Washington, d C. And then down back
to Jacksonville. Yes, sir, that's gonna be great. It's gonna
be great. So you were in touch earlier today, and
thank you so much for filling in for mister three thousand.
Each week we talk about the stats, the counts that
how close we're getting a five thousand and so you

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were in touch with Donnie Easley. I imagine she gave
you the numbers. There'll be a surprise to us. So
you're ready.

Speaker 5 (50:26):
I am roll it all right, roll it, Bobby. I'll
just greet it out. Botal line four.

Speaker 6 (50:37):
Four thousand, fifty seven are children.

Speaker 1 (50:42):
I was nine over, No, I was seven over that
likes to make his own. But to day is there's
still a couple hours left.

Speaker 5 (50:51):
Yeah, you know what, Shane update.

Speaker 6 (50:53):
Thursday night's a big pizza night and somewhere can get saved.
We can get more saved today, baby.

Speaker 4 (50:59):
Pizza che nuggets, that's right, common one peanut butter. So
what do you have for us?

Speaker 11 (51:04):
So trying to get I'm having some technical difficulty still there.

Speaker 5 (51:07):
Rick trying to get to the.

Speaker 11 (51:11):
Story and is not wanting to let me read it
at the same time as I'm live with you.

Speaker 4 (51:16):
Evidently you know that with Ray where he opens up
a file and the audio goes.

Speaker 11 (51:21):
So, yeah, well have I have tried that?

Speaker 5 (51:25):
So give me one second.

Speaker 11 (51:26):
Hopefully I do not cut himself off, So bear with
me for one second.

Speaker 1 (51:31):
Rick, I do apolog I was very close.

Speaker 5 (51:33):
Again, We'll always bear. We're bearing.

Speaker 4 (51:37):
It was forty you're listening to him the arena Shane
Foresman's Special Guests filling.

Speaker 5 (51:42):
Maybe you got it.

Speaker 6 (51:45):
And that's like that's like sixteen and twenty seven in
like what was the three thousands.

Speaker 5 (51:50):
And he's he's and he's locked up.

Speaker 4 (51:56):
Yeah, So what we'll do, Bobby if you can call
Shane and then he can read it. And you know,
we like to hear the save of the week, which
is uh means the there you go, Shan Lasty.

Speaker 5 (52:11):
You hang on.

Speaker 11 (52:12):
Let's see if I'm getting it to pull up.

Speaker 4 (52:14):
You were just just locked up on us. All our
best is stream yard dot Com.

Speaker 1 (52:20):
What about Jacksonville did it? Did Leonard Skinner ever reach
out to you? Did you ever get in touch with that?

Speaker 4 (52:24):
Oh gosh, yeah, I gotta I gotta reach out to
Johnny van Zen a fundraiser. Yeah, Johnny van zend if
Leonard Skinnard was reaching out through Brian uh life fact
mate get involved with a with a fundraiser unfortunately Johnny's daughter.
I don't know the exact nature of the illness, but certainly.

Speaker 1 (52:42):
Uh raising money for a good cause. Yeah, have a
big show.

Speaker 5 (52:45):
Gonna have a big show. And I think it's.

Speaker 1 (52:46):
Right up Artie's Alley.

Speaker 5 (52:47):
You know what it is, September twenty seventh, is it really? Yeah?

Speaker 1 (52:52):
We can't be there.

Speaker 5 (52:53):
Yeah, yep, I can hear.

Speaker 7 (53:00):
Are you.

Speaker 1 (53:04):
Dead air? I guess they can't here.

Speaker 5 (53:07):
Yeah, Shane, we appreciate you so much.

Speaker 1 (53:12):
I'll tell the story.

Speaker 5 (53:13):
Yeah, you want to tell a story.

Speaker 1 (53:14):
Share It was a.

Speaker 6 (53:15):
Six year old having a blooney sandwich and uh turn blue.

Speaker 4 (53:20):
You know what we'll do, panicked dad got the thing,
go to a quick break and we'll be back with
more in the arena.

Speaker 5 (53:25):
And hopefully Shane Ford has been telling.

Speaker 1 (53:27):
Us hold on them a fire in the building. So interesting.

Speaker 4 (53:36):
All right, here we go here in honor of Shane
not being able to do it, I'm going to do it.
Here are the status that are red tonight for our lives,
Save today, four lives Save Today. There are now forty
six hundred and twenty nine lives save.

Speaker 1 (53:48):
Worldwide twenty nine. I'm close at five.

Speaker 5 (53:50):
Two and twenty five children. Unbelievable. Here's the save of
the week.

Speaker 4 (53:56):
On September one, a sixty four year old male choked
on food, causing it total blockage of his airway.

Speaker 5 (54:02):
Life Act was used three times. Here's the story.

Speaker 4 (54:06):
Two of us gave the Heimlich maneuver or of Donald
thrust two times each and nothing moved. The Life Fact
moved the food slightly so that he could get enough
of a breath to clear the food the rest of
the way on his own. We were eating dinner and
my husband laughed with food in his mouth. That seems
like something that would happen around your house, Pat, Yes, yeah,
a lot of laughter.

Speaker 1 (54:26):
And food in the mouth.

Speaker 5 (54:27):
Yep.

Speaker 4 (54:28):
He instantly stood up, unable to breathe. This was absolutely terrifying,
and I'm not sure my husband would be here without
the Life Fact. There's no way ems would get here
in time. I'll never not have one of these life
acts in my home. So as read on behalf of

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Shane and on behalf of Ray Priebew couldn't be here.

Speaker 6 (54:52):
I mean we hated a habit and not needed then needed, Yeah,
and not have it.

Speaker 1 (55:00):
You're supposed to finish that line.

Speaker 5 (55:01):
Yeah, oh you wanted me to do it.

Speaker 1 (55:03):
Well, we're supposed to do it. It's better the habit.

Speaker 4 (55:06):
And need it than need it and not have it. See,
that's the life you save, may be your own. So
we thank you so much, Shane. You can you can.
You can't do both at the same time. You can't
read it and be on with us.

Speaker 5 (55:19):
Well, sorry about everything, No, don't be. Don't be.

Speaker 4 (55:25):
Technical difficulties happen all the time and we we roll.
Show must go on, the lives must be saved.

Speaker 1 (55:32):
Thanks for everything you're doing down there. Good job.

Speaker 5 (55:34):
Yeah, keep up coming tonight.

Speaker 11 (55:36):
Sorry about the technology mess up there.

Speaker 5 (55:41):
No worries, No worries at all.

Speaker 7 (55:44):
Keep up.

Speaker 5 (55:46):
All right, Shane. So wow, amazing show.

Speaker 4 (55:51):
Even though with the technical difficulty, we get the numbers out,
we get the saves out, you know. Thank you for
joining us today in the arena. Special thanks to Eileen
Shanahan for sharing the incredible mission of the Warrior Ranch Foundation,
where courage and compassion meet to change lives. We're grateful
for the work being done to honor and support our
veterans and first responders. Until next time, Patrick, Yeah, stay strong,

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stay inspired, and keep stepping into the arena. Take it away, Micro,
It's no joke.

Speaker 2 (56:26):
When you choke to get life back and without breath,
they'll be death toget life back and life back and.

Speaker 3 (56:38):
Life back, Life life back and

Speaker 10 (57:03):
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