September 25, 2025 • 56 mins
In the Arena - Show 59. Brought to you by LifeVac. Hosted by Rick Fatscher. With special guests. Be sure to catch Mr. 3000, Ray Priebe, with news on the latest lives saved. The Man in the Arena airs live @ 6:30pm EST every Thursday night from Paradise Studios NY via the STRONGISLAND.COM Entertainment Network.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
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Speaker 2 (00:47):
Thank you man. I love that guy.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Gotta love doctor Ben Carson and welcome back to in
the Arena. My name is Rich Bacher. Along with powder Work,
we've been talking with mister Eric Bannigan of the UK,
and of course Arthur Lee, CEO and inventor of life
back in this segment I look forward to each week.
It's when we check in with mister three thousand Ray
preby Cap Coral, Florida. Is he there fantastic Ray preby.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
Hey, hey, hey, coming to you from the great outdoors
here in sunny South Florida. Coming to you from Mariner
High School where you're I I had a Baker Bulldogs
where my son is currently playing football taking on Mariner High.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Do you have money?
Speaker 5 (01:35):
Go Bulldogs?
Speaker 2 (01:36):
I got bull dog.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
What's that right?
Speaker 6 (01:40):
That's right?
Speaker 4 (01:42):
Good, good evening. All your life fackers out there. You know,
it's a beautiful day to share these wonderful numbers with you. Bobby,
do we have a screen.
Speaker 7 (02:00):
Two?
Speaker 2 (02:03):
And then?
Speaker 4 (02:04):
Oh yeah, yes, those are some great numbers right there.
And just to throw some more numbers out there, it's
been three hundred and forty days since I said my
little girl using the life back, and that is one thousand,
six hundred and seventy one saves and three hundred and
forty days.
Speaker 5 (02:22):
I mean, folk, if.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
I'm gonna say it till I'm blue in the faith,
get a life back, get a life back, get a
life back.
Speaker 7 (02:28):
Yeah, Oh my god, we oft do you pinch yourself?
Speaker 2 (02:30):
I well, I just got a chill. I mean, I
think that the thrill is even greater because raised was
he saved his daughter right right, So we're not promoting it.
He's not some guy that we hired or ai. It
comes from his heart and eighties get paid. He just look,
he's in his on the football game and he's with
us today to try and spread the word to save
(02:53):
people like he saved his daughter.
Speaker 4 (02:55):
And I will be here every single week as long
as I can be, because again, like you said, Arthur,
I saved my daughter. If it was not for this device,
my daughter would not be here.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
And if anyone was wondering why we call you mister
three K, it was the three thousand save using a
life Act that's reported, and that.
Speaker 4 (03:15):
Reported three thousand reported save, which we know we have
confirmation that there has been countless unreported saves with this device.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Yeah, and that's the god wing part where we get
that gift. We walk in and I've been there, Hey,
I used it to save my daughter. I'm like, what
did you No? I mean you know what. I'm like, Okay,
I'll take that as my little gift for them.
Speaker 7 (03:37):
That's fine. Do we want them reported?
Speaker 2 (03:39):
But who cands? Those are the ones that are the
gift to the world and speaking up saves.
Speaker 4 (03:46):
I have an amazing highlight that I was just looking
over amazing. A one year old girl from Pennsylvania choked
on a dorrito, resulting in total obstruction. Parents preferm choking protocol,
which failed. Pro Life Act was used to time and
success successfully dislodged the food. She found her older brother
(04:10):
chips on the floor and unknownly was completely silent, turning
blue and purple. We use a Life Act to save
her life. We were thankful to have it on hand.
We have been lucky enough not to have to use
it on our first child, but always have it around
just in case. Using a Life Act. She's one hundred
percent sure it's saved her life. I mean that's straight
(04:33):
from the mother's mouth. Right there again, another child, another
one year old that has the ability to live the
rest of her life because of Life Act.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Oh perfectly, Ray, you know that she's almost the one
that listens to your closing speeches, saying.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
My closing, my closing speech. God, what is it that
I say? Life Act? Better to have it, not need it,
then need it and not have it. The life you
save could be your own, could be your child, could
be a stranger who knows the life you could save?
Speaker 3 (05:08):
Day whoa airhorn didn't play?
Speaker 8 (05:13):
I Love you guys.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
Hey, I love you, guys. God bless and get a
life back.
Speaker 5 (05:18):
Kick off, Go get him, go bull, go get him.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Right, it's so great. I love to hear you know,
all the details of these stories. It's heart wrenching when
you get beyond the just the number.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Yeah, well, those those stories bringing very much to life,
and the beauty of it is he picks one of them.
I mean we have a heart wrenching for him to
be able to say and this one one, Yeah, one
would be in a miracle, one would be a great thing.
And he has to pick. And Patrick will always working
his numbers trying to guess.
Speaker 5 (05:50):
That was way off, way higher. Forty six saves this week.
Speaker 7 (05:53):
What a freaking great life that we get.
Speaker 9 (05:56):
You get in the top ten every week. You're really good.
I mean that's how Oh yeah important.
Speaker 7 (06:00):
Yep, you could.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Gab the mouth.
Speaker 7 (06:03):
Eric Banning would never get to talk. Yeah yeah, yeah, all.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
Right, Eric, how how is it hearing from Ray Prieby
you never met? Obviously is connected in the Life Back family.
What's it like putting a name to the face or
a face to the name. I got to get that straight.
Speaker 6 (06:22):
No, it's it's great seeing it whenever we Even when
I see a phone coming back signed the arts, I
still gets you.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Yeah. Do you get any like a paragraph ever?
Speaker 7 (06:33):
Yeah, yeah you do, yeah, and reading the story on
it and things like that.
Speaker 6 (06:38):
It's great and they're all most of them, they're appreciative
of it, especially when it's families.
Speaker 7 (06:43):
Yeah, when it's homes and things like that, it's.
Speaker 5 (06:47):
More of a forum.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (06:49):
Yeah, we've had to do this. But the families, they
enough to do an essay for you.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
I think you know some of them. You know, I've
read four thousand and seven hundred of them that they
really hate you because they do put their emotion into it,
and a lot of times they're right. You know, I
couldn't do it for a month. I couldn't rethink about
it for a month. You know, scariest moment in my life.
You know, I'm traumatized. But I only reported it from
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six months ago because I could finally talk about it.
And that hates you about you know, when you say
four thousand, it's a number. When they say my kid
was blue and I was paying, you know, you start
to get that feeling of oh my god, yeah, and
then you can totally understand when they say it took
me a while, right or I you know, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
The simple fact is it does not get old, it
gets more emotional.
Speaker 6 (07:41):
Is a building it's never old for then it's yeah,
it's new for them, and that's what it is. We're
gone along saying yeah, yeah, we've done this, Yeah, and
we should celebrate it. Yeah, but they celebrates in all time. Yeah,
and that's the my thing for that.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
Yeah, we didn't see her tonight, but when you see
Maya preview, it raised daughter on with him and realize
the whole reason for him being there is right there.
She's still there. She's like a little ballfire.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
She'll like come flying across, you know, and uh, yeah,
she's she did a Pete Rose slide across the whole
of slaves when they were kids. A lunatic.
Speaker 9 (08:17):
Even the strongest guys we know, a marine and no
Wise chokes up every time he tells the story, and
you know he's been trained to do this. They needed
to save his daughter in their kitchen, and he gets
choked up every time he tells the story.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
And he that Watching that to me is another one
where it's a visualization of this big, strong person that's
been in hell and.
Speaker 7 (08:40):
Talking about his little daughter. Almost time makes him cry.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
You probably couldn't make that guy cry him been able
to two by four set him on fire.
Speaker 7 (08:47):
He wouldn't care less.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
But get him to talk about his daughter and life
fact saving her.
Speaker 7 (08:51):
Yeah, and he wells up the toughest guy in the world.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
And he in turn, I'm not embarrassed to say when
he told me the story for the first time, it's emotional.
Oh oh yeah, yeah, no doubt. Listen. Conversations like this
remind us that real change doesn't just happen in boardrooms.
It happens in kitchens, classrooms and care homes, where a
single device can make the difference between life and loss.
A huge thank you to Eric Bannigan of Life BacT
(09:15):
Uk and Darren Brett of Life BAC Canada for sharing
their mission and their passion. If today's episode moved, you
share it with someone you love because awareness saves lives.
And remember in the arena, it's not about watching from
the sidelines. It's about stepping in, taking action and making
a difference. Gentlemen, thank you so much for tonight and
(09:36):
Mike rowe Away, it's no joke.
Speaker 8 (09:45):
When you choked life back without breath, they'll be Death Cigad,
Life Back, Life Back.
Speaker 10 (09:58):
Back.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Hey everyone.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
Every year lives are lost in an instant, the choking emergency,
at the dinner table, in a school, or at a
care home. But thanks to Life Fact, those stories can
end differently, with breath restored, tears of relief and lives saved.
Today we're joined by two leaders carrying that mission across
the globe, Eric Bannigan of Life BAC UK and Darren
Brett of Life Back Canada. Their work is proof that
(10:25):
one device will hold the applause. Their work is proof
that one device in the right hands can turn tragedy
into triumph. And my name is Rick Thatcher along with
padder Orck CEO inventor of Life Back, Arthur Lee, and
we are joined by mister Eric Bannigan of Life Fact UK.
And it's so great to see you. Instudio. You refused
(10:46):
the stream yard link. You could have stayed home and
just dealt with yes and dealt with the time difference,
but you can. Fantastic, that's how big this dedication, folks.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
We're getting internationals.
Speaker 7 (10:57):
Did you come to the private jet or did you
go commercial?
Speaker 3 (11:01):
Yeah, of course, but fantastic to have you in person.
We've talked a few times via zoom or stream yard,
but it's so great to have you over here.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
Well, now we can understand what the show's about. No
one understands what it is International Night. But you know
we've always kind of built them off the book, and
it's not about the book.
Speaker 7 (11:26):
It's about the thoughts that generate from the book.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
Right. So I asked you to pull two quotes, and uh,
I thought that let's go with this one first.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
What's so Margaret Mead? Margaret Mead, the great sociologists said,
never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens
can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that
ever has.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
And you know that's so true, right because what any movement,
any big changes have started, which will get into the
other quote, but to is a combination of wingmen, and
you know in the arena, right him and Darren particularly
him got pretty clobbered when we started this. But here's
(12:11):
the thing. I've known, Eric, what twenty five years? You'd
think about Ye enough, and Darren's up there with CEV.
How long we know Darren about to say? Right?
Speaker 3 (12:21):
Yeah, sobody in the in the in the screen, he
should be up here in the world.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
Right, we we developed friendships and if we're lucky, we
get wingmen and not yes men and powerful people. But
both Eric and Darren a man of character, men of strength,
men that I work with in my old life.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
Eric was my customer, would we say logistics shipping.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Yeah, they're both from the transit state. He was a customer,
he was, Yeah, that's what we call it. But when
you when you find people of character and strength and integrity,
and but particularly if you work with him, right, because
those those cracks will show up. So here I am
going into this and who in my life can handle
(13:12):
our international We had what we have when I met
you with the one box with a sick point.
Speaker 7 (13:20):
Yeah, I think it's wooden bulks because you actually slid
it open. And what do you think of that?
Speaker 3 (13:26):
Like a little casket?
Speaker 7 (13:27):
Yeah, okay, what is it?
Speaker 3 (13:29):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Yeah exactly. But I still remember where we were. But
the thing was, from the beginning to today was saving lives, right,
And so I was. I knew that he had the
soul and the strength and the courage and certainly way
more expertise in developing things than I did.
Speaker 7 (13:48):
So I was.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
I approached him and I said, you know, let's let's
do this, and you know without the depth of character,
integrity and courage.
Speaker 7 (13:57):
They go, yeah, that's a great thing you got there.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
You know.
Speaker 7 (14:00):
Oh look at the time, you know you got to
sing plunder in a box with a mask on.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
Eric, Eric, what were your thoughts?
Speaker 2 (14:07):
Said?
Speaker 7 (14:10):
They want to unslit the box.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
It was kind of.
Speaker 7 (14:15):
What hes that? And you got yeah, but it's got this,
it does that.
Speaker 6 (14:19):
And they meant for the story about the choking in
the hospital and they said, this is going to save lives.
So I said, yeah, I want to join you.
Speaker 7 (14:26):
And that was it.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
You know, I think the British are too like that. Okay,
either no or okay, yeah.
Speaker 6 (14:32):
I mean as soon as he said about saving lives,
well why not make something you know yourself?
Speaker 3 (14:37):
So all great ideas usually face resistance. What were some
of the challenges that you encountered in the UK? How
much time do we have?
Speaker 7 (14:45):
Well it was not only time. It would take years. Wow,
it took years.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
Was it mostly regulation and government?
Speaker 7 (14:52):
Everything?
Speaker 3 (14:53):
It was It's just everything.
Speaker 7 (14:54):
It was medical professionals, it was the government, it was
the bureaucracy, the health authority.
Speaker 6 (15:02):
And then that's been out coming away from the people
that are actually first aiders, the people that are because
you're coming into into their arenas saying I've got something,
because your thing doesn't quite work, there's.
Speaker 7 (15:16):
A little difficult.
Speaker 6 (15:17):
They're not going to take that, especially when it's their
whole business. They're livelyds And did.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
You need to connect with you know, find the person you.
Speaker 8 (15:27):
I don't.
Speaker 6 (15:28):
He was out for like seven how many years I was.
I wasn't allowed to sell in the UK for seven years?
Speaker 7 (15:33):
Seven years. He hung in there for seven years. Now
you were allowed to sell, but yet.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
I was.
Speaker 6 (15:39):
Impossible tape I had to I could only sell to
medical professionals.
Speaker 7 (15:44):
And as we just said, the medical professionals, they're.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
Just trying to They're just trying to get by themselves.
Speaker 6 (15:51):
So then we found, okay, what about care homes because
you know the two areas under fives, over sixties and
things like that. So we all care homes and they
actually took us on, which was good, and that's how
we got a lot of the data.
Speaker 7 (16:04):
That's how we got our first first talk about that.
You know, well, that was amazing what I want to know.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
And I don't even know how did you find that?
Speaker 7 (16:13):
Did did Matt text shield. Are we standing there?
Speaker 6 (16:17):
I got the message that we would saved, saved the life,
and that was by I can't remember.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
It wasn't telegraph express, it was a car carrier.
Speaker 7 (16:31):
Some wasn't working.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
He was, he was.
Speaker 6 (16:34):
I mean, my son and my daughter was here. They were.
Marie was a teacher. Matthew was worked in the shop.
We worked at well, you got little here now, so
I can say little. He didn't have it before, but
he was a little shop manager. So they were both
doing it outside of the normal. So I got a
phone call saying it and it was like when my
daughter was When I found out my daughter was born,
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I run down the village high street of my small village,
Fisher Village, punchoneer, jumping up. I went up the local
pub and told everybody that we all had drinks and yeah,
we celebrated the lights.
Speaker 5 (17:08):
Okay, take it easy, Eric, did you have another baby?
Speaker 2 (17:14):
I sprained my ankle.
Speaker 7 (17:16):
Did you get a phone call? Did you get I
got a text from matt.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
Yeah, call me.
Speaker 6 (17:21):
We saved our first. It's a funk call from that
was he freaking out. He was he was up at
the moment he was Did you cry? I cried yeah, yeah, yeah,
I said, it's just like having my first job. And
it's not quite like having the first job, but.
Speaker 5 (17:37):
I do still she's staring at you.
Speaker 6 (17:40):
Every single life saved, every single life is safe. It
still affects me.
Speaker 7 (17:45):
Yeah, I too.
Speaker 6 (17:46):
And if we weren't still saving lives in the care
homes in England, then I don't know if I would
have carried on. But I might be carried on because
I still believed in what we was. That was it was,
it was, it was fine, and that kept me going
and thinking, well, it works and we're proving it well.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
Kept us all going because in the beginning you had
the majority of the seats because we we ours were
more of the public, right, and then we started getting
them in and now we get them with two today
or five today all. But you know, the interesting thing
was the main thing for you too. You've been through
a lot of paint. You lost your house, right you
took I mean I chose to give it up to
(18:27):
start That's a good way to look at that. I
chose to give up my pensions to start the business.
So you don't make good life choices that were putting.
Speaker 6 (18:40):
I've had a great life choice and luckily, now it's
becoming Yeah, we're saving life. And guess what, I can
actually not worry too much about the mortgage or anything
like that.
Speaker 7 (18:51):
Everybody, but.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
He did it without it, which is real cord. He
took everything in. But I just think of that moment,
how even higher it was because of the faith. Right,
you're going on faith like you believed in the product.
You know, you they didn't test up the wazoo, so
you certainly were comfortable and confident it would work. But
(19:16):
it's so faith. Faith is an interesting thing. You have
to have it long enough for it to be, you know,
to kind of show up right, and the courage to
not give up. I remember your faith, right, and and
that's why I think for you it was almost the end.
It was in your place, and Jackie made the same.
Oh my god, Jackie Rickets.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
I remember this. How long will we wait? As long
as it takes what if it takes forever, then that's
how long we'll wait. Yeah that So, at what point
did the rest of the UK become a part of
your market? Because initially was just care homes.
Speaker 7 (19:54):
Initially it was allowed to sell just a professionals, not
allowed to sell anywhere. Was allowed to sell anywhere.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
That's fair.
Speaker 7 (20:01):
Then we saved the life, and then we wasn't allowed
to sell anyway.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
So did I come over? And when I came over?
Speaker 3 (20:11):
So you have a nonsensical at times government regulation.
Speaker 7 (20:14):
Which yeah, we've just proved it worked.
Speaker 6 (20:17):
And now you're saying, oh, yeah, you've been able to
sell it for the last three years, but now you
can't because it works.
Speaker 5 (20:25):
You can't knocks up No true, Well, I think you
made up the name Jackie Ricketts. Sounds like all of
a twist. The first guy who made a favor was
Jackie Ricketts.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
And my daughter's name is Jackie. I just want to
think you're talking about Jackie Jackie, but she was from
on my side of the first say.
Speaker 5 (20:42):
You know her middle name is not Rickets, is it?
Speaker 2 (20:46):
What does she want? She weren't Sarah, so she'd be
Sarah Lee because she's got that kind of humor. That's
that's what she was laughing for.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
Wait a minute, you're not China, jack.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
It was. That was quite a moment. It's fun to
sit here and share that moment with you because we
never really you know, where it was going on hundred
million miles an hour trying to figure.
Speaker 3 (21:10):
Out so hard. How did it turn around from them
taking away your ability to promote life?
Speaker 2 (21:17):
You prove it.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
Works, but then they said at that point you shut it,
shut it down. When did it come around?
Speaker 7 (21:22):
Shut me down?
Speaker 6 (21:23):
Shut me down for six months altogether? Can't sell anything anyway, right, That's.
Speaker 5 (21:28):
What What was the reason behind that?
Speaker 7 (21:30):
Because because it was.
Speaker 5 (21:33):
Because I know.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
You that are watching, that are just listening. You should
have seen Pat's face. It looks like one of those emojis,
because yeah, there the recordy buddy, like your FDI and
that makes sense.
Speaker 3 (21:46):
Then by away you're listening to Eric Banagan, Paddle Ork
Arthur League CEO and Venture Life Act and I'm Rick
Thatcher in the arena talking about some really remarkable stumbling
of the government. But you're in the arena. But seriously,
when did it turn around and you were able to
promote and save more lives.
Speaker 6 (22:06):
We had We were celebrating the thousand lives saved worldwide, yeap,
and that's what we were celebrating. And once again we
got a message to come through just after just while
we were celebrating that, we've got a message through. We've
decided to allow you to tried fully in the UK,
(22:27):
perfect brilliant. So I went back and that's when I
was crazy. So I started my company really in twenty
twenty three after all the loss when when I kind
of started the company in twenty twelve.
Speaker 7 (22:41):
But he had to keep he had a supply.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
How he did give him nine hundred before they find
we when we're doing the postmarket clinical files, and then
we kept giving it to him and.
Speaker 6 (22:56):
They had they had loads of things and where I'm
talking about the you know, the other regulatory when they're
not regretary, their advisors which is your American Heart Associations.
In my situation as the UK Resuscitation Council, European Resuscitation Council,
they were just basically I want to know, and they
(23:20):
were basically saying.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
They're pro respiratory though right, they're pro respiration, pro compro protocol.
Speaker 5 (23:26):
So they were going they were breathing, so they were yeah.
Speaker 6 (23:29):
They were going to the authorities and saying no, no, no,
that doesn't work, No no, no, that won't happen, no
no no, that was it, and you can't make this.
And I used to go to the Government Building Office
which after come to me once and luckily one time
I was about to stood up because I've got so
fed up and was walking out and he got hold
of me. I'm like that, yeah, okay, I better calm down.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
So how many we wanted the well one yeah, and
it was almost like is it worth it because of that?
Speaker 5 (23:59):
But it was usually frown upon that if you start whaling,
is that what happens?
Speaker 2 (24:02):
Wh whaling on a guy? That's our world.
Speaker 9 (24:05):
That's but also you're testing out the wazoo. That is
the post morpho clinical trials.
Speaker 7 (24:10):
It was, it was the official notification is out of the.
Speaker 5 (24:15):
It's amazing these stories, really is as an outsider.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
So from where from where you came and all those
trials and stumbled roadblocks basically regulation, Where where do you
see Life Act going in the next five years in
the UK?
Speaker 7 (24:30):
In the next fog, in the next year.
Speaker 6 (24:33):
I'm looking let's go the year I'm looking at saying
that we're gonna we've already come a multiple business by
five and we've also whereas we were selling saving lives
maybe months and months, two months, three months, it's down
weekly for a couple.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
Of day, Yeah, a couple You got to remember this
as far as where is he going? How many countries
that you know of under your geographic area.
Speaker 6 (24:59):
Well, I don't know him countries and are in Africa
because they can't count that many.
Speaker 3 (25:03):
And they're changing all the time exactly.
Speaker 5 (25:04):
It's weekly.
Speaker 6 (25:05):
In Europe, I have to do the product in twenty
eight different languages, and so there's more than twenty eight
countries today.
Speaker 7 (25:13):
Didn't you do the saves per country? Like yeen and
do you have that?
Speaker 3 (25:18):
So it's not just UK.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
This is an education for one.
Speaker 6 (25:21):
In Albiona, one in Romania sw yeah, oh yeah ahead,
So no, it's it's been good. How many in Ireland?
Speaker 7 (25:33):
I think there's about four or five in it, maybe more?
Second after you do you know Spain Spine?
Speaker 2 (25:39):
How many roughly.
Speaker 5 (25:42):
Twelve?
Speaker 2 (25:42):
Yeah, But see that's cool on our side because we
get them all right. So we've had days and Darren's
coming on later. We'll be like we had a saving Canada,
we have a saving Spain, we had a save in
the UK, we had a save in New Zealand. And
then sometimes we do that post the International Save Day,
sometimes just me and you the UK and USA.
Speaker 5 (26:00):
I'm sure it's more in Ireland. They just don't like
to report it, you know.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
Quite about it, they forget exactly It's okay, the obstruction
is mostly guinness.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
Is that true?
Speaker 5 (26:10):
But your name is actually are you? Is your family
originally from Ireland?
Speaker 2 (26:14):
Yeah? Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
Yeah, good boy.
Speaker 7 (26:15):
Okay, we've been talking again.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
Yeah, we always have that Eric.
Speaker 5 (26:20):
It's a rock and roll name.
Speaker 3 (26:21):
Yeah, so Eric, even tonight. We often talk about the
numbers Live Save coming up on five thousand worldwide. But
as we talk about the statistics and then the family behind,
are there any that besides Jackie Ricketts is saving that
person in the assisted living facility? Are there any that
stand out?
Speaker 2 (26:42):
Is just question we have No, we haven't saved this.
Speaker 6 (26:46):
We didn't save the child's life, but I can't report
that we have saved his other child's life twice.
Speaker 7 (26:53):
And his name is Alliver the Steeper.
Speaker 6 (26:55):
So he is going out promoting then donating life facts
to nursery school because he's the first son died in
the nursery school while eating food. They weren't chopping up
the food properly for the children, weren't overseeing them properly,
and the child died. So he didn't want that to
happen again, so he started up that whole charity to
(27:17):
do it. But he has saved his next child twice
the la back. I don't even know that, and we
haven't reported it because he's because he's doing that, I
just trouble. I just don't want to do that because
I don't want to think. I don't want to put
his charity in a position where, you know, thinking, oh,
what's going on then, which we went through at the
(27:38):
very beginning.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
Oh you know those people, don't We don't know three
thousand people. But just to give the proper due to me,
I post on those institutions. Hero, we got lost this child,
and instead of carp b to do whatever you want,
he rolls up to try and make sure that that
doesn't happen to someone else. And he's developed the team,
(28:02):
you guys and him, but he's developed quite a following,
quite an impact, and we're actually starting.
Speaker 6 (28:08):
To get a network where you know, we hear from
some schools in that region there. Then we put them
in touch with the association. Now that school up there,
now the parent groups up there, and they are doing
events and things to raise money for that charity down there,
so I can spread it. We have a convenience store
called spar which is yeah, s p A R. They're
(28:32):
they're in Scotland and they've decided they're going to donate
the schools as well. So more and more kind of
events are going on where the actually the general public
or businesses are saying, yeah we need, yeah, that we need.
Speaker 7 (28:46):
If the authorities aren't going to do it, then we're
going to do it.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
Well that's the that's the point about in the arena
and why we're sitting there talking about you, you know,
working out your basement units upstairs and me with Singer
and his basement and I'm I'm as the lend.
Speaker 7 (29:02):
Yeah it was a closet, right, it was a closet.
Speaker 5 (29:05):
It's a garage.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
I gotta admit working at an ice cream shop. Ate
that vet.
Speaker 9 (29:14):
How much this mirror is our friend of New Jersey
lost his son and started his and does these fundraising
like I'm hearing the same story again, but over in Europe.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
I think, well, I think heroes have common hearts, you know,
the bravery to take such a painful thing, Oliver Maverick
Colton to rise up, and I think it's me. Uh
when I saw heard that child, I didn't want them
to know what I know from my accident, right, and
I think that the twenty year gap from my accident
(29:44):
to thinking about saving Jackie, that pain don't go away, right.
And for these families, they don't want you to feel
the way they did. That's me. I don't want you
to know what I know.
Speaker 7 (29:55):
And to me, that's why the heroes right, And that's
an amazing thing.
Speaker 3 (29:59):
Really great stuff. We're talking with Eric Banagan along with
Arthur Lee Padrourke, myself, Rick Thatcher. We're going to be
back with more. In fact, we're going to talk to
Darren Brett from Canada International Night. International Night are in
the arena. We'll be right back.
Speaker 7 (30:28):
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Speaker 2 (30:31):
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Speaker 3 (30:34):
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Speaker 2 (30:38):
It takes you to pick up the phone and call
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Speaker 7 (30:48):
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Speaker 2 (30:50):
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Speaker 3 (30:59):
Hey, well come back, yeah, well yeah, quite a studio,
honest tonight, welcome back in the arena. Five times we've
been talking to and Arthur leeke CEO inventor of Life Back,
the Gosh the North Star for us, got Eric Banagan
from the UK. We joined and we've been joined by
Steve OLIVERI director of operations, the great mister wing Man.
Speaker 2 (31:23):
Well, you know what's interesting, Steve, I was thinking about this.
He's in the book as wing Man. He's the beginning
of Life Back because he was who I was visiting
in the hospital. And then, you know, I don't usually
give you any form of compliments because very on the
air we will officially give you. Steve is the conduit
to every to Eric and to Darren, and that he's
(31:47):
the kind dude to me being here because throughout my
life I get us some messages and Steve figures it out.
So we had.
Speaker 3 (31:56):
That's a great job.
Speaker 2 (31:57):
And tell me you've done it for about thirty years.
Speaker 3 (32:02):
That like a fixer. Yeah, yeah, pretty much. Well Arthur fixer.
Speaker 2 (32:06):
He's got to kind of go home and tell you
your parents you kind of got into something and ask
her if they can help you. Like Steve, do you
think you set up an international network for live back
with Eric. I gotta go. I got a big, big but.
Speaker 3 (32:19):
And then there was a time rolled on top of mom.
Speaker 7 (32:22):
Yeah, well you know there there's precedent mom.
Speaker 3 (32:26):
What's your friend? What's your friend doing on mom?
Speaker 2 (32:28):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (32:30):
So I can't wait to get to It's an international
night here on in the arena and we're being joined
by Darren Brett from the Great North wa. There he is,
Darren Brett. How are you tonight, sir? You doing great?
Speaker 11 (32:45):
Guy, is a pleasure to be here and I really
appreciate the opportunity.
Speaker 3 (32:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (32:48):
Well, you know what you had the cool posts, you
had three saves the other day you sent over the
hat trick.
Speaker 7 (32:54):
The hat trick, I mean hockey with these guys.
Speaker 2 (32:57):
Well, we go for a ram with him about try
to hockey. We have to downplay their skills. But the Darren,
like Eric was early on, also ridiculous idiotic challenges and
Steve's con do it and we worked Darren shipping, you
(33:18):
know how long ago.
Speaker 8 (33:19):
Twenty twenty thirty years ago, tired the way.
Speaker 7 (33:23):
Back being in Miami with him with Peter Peter.
Speaker 3 (33:28):
Darren. I saw a video of you with Arthur Lee
and another colleague from Canada in the then Hal of Saves.
If you as you look behind us, you see the
new Hall Ofsaves with the raised roof and room to
house and we're coming up on five thousands. So Darren
talk about the I mean, how did you get in
(33:50):
touch with Steve and Arthur?
Speaker 11 (33:53):
Well, we go way back, as Arthur mentioned, obviously, a
lot of crazy times together, a lot of great times,
and back in the day. I think we were not
too far behind Erek with the UK. But but I
think it's around twenty fourteen the Steve first mentioned, you know,
Arthur's working on something. You got to take a look
at this. And right away I knew if Ourtha was
working on something, there's something big here coming out.
Speaker 7 (34:16):
I knew that.
Speaker 11 (34:16):
So I said, yeah, let me see it. Let's let's
take a look, and we did that. We talked about
it for a while. That was at the beginning, obviously,
and things were moving a bit slow, and yeah, I
took a look at it. I came down there, we
talked about it. Yeah, let's do this because this is
going to be something that is going to be world changing,
an opportunity to help people, help families, and who doesn't
(34:37):
want to take part in.
Speaker 4 (34:38):
Something like that.
Speaker 2 (34:39):
Well, see the thing about the earlier speech about Eric's character.
In Darren's character, you know, saint thing, he's family man,
is a father's arms. He shakes your hands a deal.
Eric's the same way. He would die before he would
violate the deal. So when the opportunity to say how
do we save lives all over thought, Eric thought to
Darren and you know Stephen and really good because I
(35:01):
get it the mess.
Speaker 7 (35:02):
He figures it out. So they actually had to work
together greater.
Speaker 8 (35:06):
I remember Darren when I sent it up the first
Yellow Plunger.
Speaker 3 (35:09):
Yeah, and you brought it into prototypus.
Speaker 10 (35:11):
No, he comes because you know, if everyone in every
country sends something to somebody, so like I know he
was part of the gamerund so I'm like he was
doing one right.
Speaker 8 (35:21):
And he said, Eric, remember I sent it up to you.
Speaker 3 (35:23):
Forgot the hell?
Speaker 10 (35:25):
He calls me back like five days, ladies, like that
thing that artiees gut. I got some people that want
to talk to you guys. And we did the Park
Avenue meeting.
Speaker 2 (35:34):
Yeah we were big.
Speaker 5 (35:35):
Yeah, there was no follow up.
Speaker 3 (35:37):
You just sent it just I saient to forgot about
I don't know know, like and he's like that thing
that you know life back. Yeah, it's like, yeah, I
got right.
Speaker 8 (35:46):
He had some people that wanted to talk to us,
and we had this big meetings, like one of the
first big meetings.
Speaker 7 (35:50):
Yeah, we're big. We're in the city and everything.
Speaker 3 (35:52):
We're on a New York post.
Speaker 8 (35:53):
No, no, it was the New York Times is putting
the article next.
Speaker 3 (35:57):
Hey, Darren. Eric talked earlier about of the pressure or roadblocks,
the early struggles was there. Do you find the same
in Canada?
Speaker 11 (36:07):
Well, we didn't have as many struggles with with compliance,
some struggles but not not quite on the level that
Eric had, but lots of challenges. Obviously, any new product
into the market very difficult to you know, for acceptance. Obviously,
it took a long time and until we started seeing
the saves coming in, people started to change their attitudes
(36:29):
and their their opinion and just a long struggle of
many years obviously with a lot of work and before
starting to see success. I always say that you know,
surround yourself with smart people, successful people. That's key to
any business venture. Obviously speaking for myself, my partner Richard Smith,
who's not here tonight, but but you know, instrumental in
(36:52):
getting this thing going as well in Canada, with lots
of expertise in the medical field. So with the two
of us working at it seven days a week, we've
some success.
Speaker 2 (37:05):
Lose it. Wait, wait, lots of time for your other quote.
Speaker 3 (37:08):
The other quote you like, Gandhi. Right, sure, so here's
the quote. First they ignore you, then they laugh at you,
then they fight you, then you win.
Speaker 2 (37:20):
Right, I mean that that was us first?
Speaker 7 (37:24):
Sure?
Speaker 2 (37:24):
Yeah, I mean I got it in the garage with
have glued together. Yeah, that's great. They ignored me, then
they laugh, I do that's hysterically. You really think you're
gonna do that? And we got all there early on
the Jim carry stuff and all the jokes and all
the ridiculous stuff. Now then we had the little bit
of battle and now we win.
Speaker 3 (37:45):
And then there along the way there has to be
some support that you get from people outside the life
BAC family. And can you can you remember anyone that
went out of their way to say and believe in
the mission, believe in the project.
Speaker 11 (38:00):
Well, our families, obviously, our families are really bleeding in
this and really helped us and they still do. And
friends as well, and again I surround yourself with good people,
they will they will commit to assisting you. And you know,
along the way, you meet a lot of great people
in this business, first responders, you know, people that work
(38:22):
in healthcare and organizations, charities. You meet some fantastic people.
And that's one of the great things, not to mention
all those amazing parents that you meet that have saved
their children and maybe say family members. To meet those people,
it's just incredible.
Speaker 2 (38:39):
Now, Darren, you've you've met a couple of saves right now?
Speaker 11 (38:43):
Yes, yes, I would have. I'd like to meet more
with Obviously, with Canada to quite a large geography and
a long distance, we don't meet as many as I
would like, of course, but I have met some. I
talked to many, at least on telephone calls at least,
and it's it's always so.
Speaker 7 (39:00):
It's just.
Speaker 2 (39:03):
I remember, I remember meeting everyone I've ever said that
I was at the blessing to me, who is the
do you remember? Give me your first one? What was
it like?
Speaker 7 (39:12):
You know, you don't have to say the name, but
what what was the circumstances?
Speaker 11 (39:15):
Uh, the first one we had a we had a
four year old. Save that that I believe was was
choking on a piece of plastic. Actually know, yeah, and
I believe that was back in twenty nineteen and very
slow start on the saves. But now it's just expotential. Obviously,
it's just you know, going up every single year, and
(39:36):
to be able to talk to these people is these
people are These people are the real heroes. We are
lucky enough to be able to support them.
Speaker 3 (39:44):
Yeah. And you didn't start in this, You didn't have
the same constraints on a particular market. Retired, but they hope.
Speaker 2 (39:52):
There we'll leave it struggles to pump you. Did you
work out of the house in.
Speaker 11 (40:00):
The beginning, Yes, yes, we did, certainly, like like yourself
and like all all the biggest companies Amazon, Google, they
all did the same thing.
Speaker 2 (40:09):
So so you know, did you fulfill orders out of
your garage? Is that because we had singer to use
his garage. I worked at Olenny's ice cream shop. You
did it out of your house.
Speaker 7 (40:20):
I did it at my house ship Yeah.
Speaker 11 (40:21):
Yeah, I had my garage completely full of life back right.
Speaker 3 (40:24):
To the ceiling.
Speaker 2 (40:26):
Great, we have a we have a universal connectation connection
of all operating out of our homes.
Speaker 7 (40:33):
That's how the big organization.
Speaker 3 (40:35):
Well, you hear about Steve Jobs the same thing.
Speaker 2 (40:39):
We were global garage guys. Man. Yea, we had garages,
We had garages in the UK, we had garages in
this content. But look at look at today. We were
talking and reviewing, you know, the global picture and the
whole of Saves and all these stories of all of
us in our garages taping, you know, and now we're
(41:03):
up to we're coming up on five thousand lives save. Crazy. Yeah,
but it's all hard, you know, Darren, I knew you
had the heart and you knew that. You went into
it saying, like Eric, I want to say lots, We'll
figure it out.
Speaker 11 (41:17):
Yeah, exactly. And it's it's always a challenge obviously. You know,
we're we're coming up on some big milestones. Now we're
we just hit we had a four year old Save
today already. Yeah, so we we just were at one
ninety five. So coming up on two hundred very exciting
for us.
Speaker 3 (41:34):
Yeah, yeah, correct me if I'm wrong. We incorporate numbers
that come from the UK and the rest of the world.
Speaker 2 (41:41):
That's why he had, you know, kind of rattle off
Saves in Spain and blah blah, blah, you.
Speaker 3 (41:45):
Know, wherever because thirty thirty one different countries.
Speaker 7 (41:48):
It's it's some of fun, but I haven't got my fun.
Speaker 3 (41:51):
Yeah, it's offset.
Speaker 2 (41:53):
So Darren, would you say one.
Speaker 11 (41:55):
Ninety Yeah, we're at one ninety five right now since
we started. Then the two under is coming up very quickly.
We we've been saving people every week for the last
last month and a half, which is so it's it's
it's certainly building and it's fantastic to see after all
the work of you know, getting trying to get the
life activice out there in the hands of more people.
Speaker 3 (42:17):
And I have sure memory issues, but did you talk
about the first save and how how did that change things?
Speaker 2 (42:24):
How did you get notified and what was your first save?
Speaker 11 (42:26):
Like, yeah, we got we got a call actually and
it was absolutely amazing because up until that point we
had gotten calls from people that had tragedies, which are
is you know, always very difficult call obviously and uh
uh then we get that call and that's everybody was
just jumping around, uh.
Speaker 2 (42:46):
And was running down to the pub.
Speaker 3 (42:50):
Prior.
Speaker 2 (42:50):
Did you get the call?
Speaker 11 (42:52):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (42:53):
Correct, you answered the.
Speaker 11 (42:54):
Vone, that's correct.
Speaker 7 (42:55):
Yeah, did you ball?
Speaker 5 (42:57):
I did I?
Speaker 3 (42:58):
I talked to.
Speaker 11 (42:59):
I'm because I got to talk to most of the
people that that contact us. I usually talk to most
of them. That's part of part of my job, and
that is the best part of anybody's job that they
can have.
Speaker 3 (43:11):
Do you have a similar life save report form where
it goes through the details and you hear the description
and where'd you hear about it all?
Speaker 2 (43:19):
Yeah?
Speaker 11 (43:19):
Yeah, we have the full descriptions on each save. I
usually try to contact people. I mean, you can't reach everybody, obviously,
people are busy, But I do contact most people and
try to get a feeling for what they went through
and how amazing it is. And when we get the photographs,
especially with the children that have been saved, that it
(43:39):
is just it's it's a real moral bullet booster because
you want to you just want to keep going and
get more of these photos for that all the same.
Speaker 2 (43:49):
Do you know when when you got the call? Like,
where were you? Do you remember? I know I was
standing in my kitchen, Jackie was in front of me.
Speaker 11 (43:57):
Yeah, no, I was in my basement working on my back.
Speaker 3 (44:03):
And what year was that? That was twenty nineteen, fantastic,
so three years.
Speaker 2 (44:09):
I don't even care. If we had a show, we
should do this and just find stuff out and if
people want to listen to why it's great because.
Speaker 3 (44:17):
This that's been our motto. Cool with the fastest growing
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Speaker 2 (44:24):
Do Cool Stuff? Is that meation in your in the basement?
Speaker 8 (44:31):
I was in Darren's operation.
Speaker 10 (44:33):
Actually it was a guest on the first we launched
Candida and it went up for the first trade show, remember,
and we didn't know what was going to happen, and
it was just like right, mean, he was sitting there
and also in the lines were like backed up. Really
remember that, we were like even handle it. So I'm saying, Wow,
this is going to be a good market, you know.
You know, life's like a box of chocolate.
Speaker 2 (44:54):
To his now.
Speaker 10 (44:56):
Man, I was a guest in his basement, you know,
and I slept in the operation down get a professional
pool table.
Speaker 3 (45:04):
That yeah, very nice.
Speaker 2 (45:06):
Oh so when they saved their two hundred wet up
the party at darren'space.
Speaker 11 (45:09):
We could.
Speaker 3 (45:11):
I used to send trucks to his garage. You know what,
Time for a quick break. We're going to be back
more with International Night in the Arena. After this message.
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Speaker 3 (46:08):
And we are back in the arena. It's International Night
On in the arena, we're talking with Eric Bannigan, Steve
OLIVERI Home Team, Arthur Lee CEO Inventor, and Darren Brett
from Life Act Canada. And we were talking before about gosh,
the early years right, and what I wanted to turn
(46:28):
and talk to Eric about is not Eric, I'm sorry, Darren,
get my story straight about the Yes, I got to
get the confidence. Yeah, so looking ahead, we talked about
the earliers and the monumental says. But you know what's
your vision now? You said twenty nineteen was the first
save and now coming out what does the future look
(46:51):
like for Life Act Canada.
Speaker 11 (46:52):
Well, I think it looks very positive. We've we've made
a lot of inroads into a lot of major industries
and associations in Canada. That's that's going to continue. It's
a long process. Hopefully we'll have success at a higher
government level eventually, very very long process, a lot of
red tape and time consuming.
Speaker 3 (47:11):
There seems to be a lot of red tape.
Speaker 2 (47:12):
Yes, it's a global phenomena.
Speaker 10 (47:15):
But Darren started from the basement, got his first building.
Now you got your second building, get your new facility.
Speaker 7 (47:22):
That's amazing.
Speaker 3 (47:24):
And how big is the team, Darren.
Speaker 11 (47:26):
We've got ten people now and the new facility is great.
So this is my office at the new facility right now.
Actually i'm talking to you from and we have a
lot more space that we can do bigger projects now
and get jumping through some different opportunities and we hope
that's going to do catapult us forward.
Speaker 3 (47:45):
I can't imagine the coincidence if it is one that
the quote behind past your left shoulder is the man
in the arena.
Speaker 11 (47:54):
Yeah, it's a great quote, and you know it's it's
the mantra. And I wanted to get it from my
office because it's it's something I like to read every day.
Speaker 2 (48:04):
I had that on my office and they're afraid that
had it on my office all my whole life. Did
you have it back in the freight days too, No.
Speaker 11 (48:10):
I did not tell you. I have to admit that
I was in sales mainly as you as you remember
so long traveling.
Speaker 3 (48:18):
I like to think I'd like to think that Darren
got that quote after watching our show.
Speaker 2 (48:22):
Yeah, well, the whole world's probabically changed from watching scoring podcast.
Speaker 3 (48:29):
The more I learned just about everyone has a podcast, really, yeah,
every we have more we do lawyers. Yes, you can't
always be the fastest growing podcast. Yeah, I feel me.
But Darren, anything exciting coming up in the near future.
Speaker 11 (48:46):
Well, we've we're working with trying to work with more
and more charities. We do have a very special charity.
I wanted to mention that I sent you a link
on this one, Rick. But there's a hospital in Toronto
in Canada called Sick Kids, which is well known global
hospital and one of the best. And and we have
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a family that went through a terrible tragedy. They lost
their their two year old daughter, to choking. And as
we've talked about tonight with with many of these families,
they they are complete heroes and they have they have
a charity starter for their daughter and they are raising
money for that hospital that did treat their daughter. Unfortunately
(49:27):
they couldn't save her, and they we work with them
to to raise money to help this hospital save more children.
It's it's a very special relationship and uh to talk
to these people and and gain strength from from their strength.
Speaker 3 (49:44):
Yeah, what's the name of that because we can't mostly
audio driven, right, So the.
Speaker 11 (49:50):
Name of the charity is Roors for Sophie, Rors for Sophie,
and you can you can google it, you can find it.
Then they raise funds for Sick Kids Hospital in Toronto.
Fantastic family, amazing people and extended family, and they're they're
taking a tragedy and doing so much to help other people.
Speaker 2 (50:13):
Well, you know, you think about the me, you, everyone involved.
It's been a soulful person, a good person, a caring person.
We all took it on to save lives. And now
we attract these other heroes, right, and we embrace them
because we get it right. We were beat up. We've
started with nothing. We persevered. And now the secondary gift
(50:35):
is seeing other heroes and being able to you know,
work with them and support them and and like you said,
we gain strength from them too.
Speaker 7 (50:43):
Amazing.
Speaker 2 (50:44):
It's a snowball effect of doing the right thing and
being a good person and trying to make a good difference.
Speaker 11 (50:50):
Yeah, it's amazing. And you know, we can only hope
that that will meet more of those people that want
to drive life back forward. Not through tragedy obviously, but
people awareness is what brings people into getting this, getting
life back into more schools obviously, and more public places.
Speaker 3 (51:09):
Sounds like what we strive for in the US. Similarly,
how do you wramp your hands around coming up on
five thousand from where Life Back came in Canada, where
it came in the UK and in the United States
and across the world. To approach five thousand, the same number,
oddly that we lose each year to acent we're going
to pass that? Fantastic? How do you How does that sink?
(51:33):
Does it sink in? Is it surreal?
Speaker 11 (51:36):
I knew what would happen, I had no doubt from
day one, But it's still to I haven't been to
the the whole of Saved since it's been since it's
been raised up, and I'm looking forward to getting down
there because it's always so emotional and uh, it's hard
to describe really when you walk in there.
Speaker 2 (51:53):
That do you feel today when you see that with
the roof raised amazing? Yeah?
Speaker 6 (51:57):
Right when it was just that single level, Yeah, and
then it is amazing enough of all the divided in it.
But when you woke to the first time in there,
and when you walked in.
Speaker 7 (52:07):
There, it's just doesn't it feel a little cathedralist?
Speaker 2 (52:10):
It is?
Speaker 6 (52:11):
You need to you just take a solid breath and
then just look around. Then, Mikes, you go and read
every single Yeah, you definitely do. I down I can't
wait for you see it again. It's always great to
see you anyway, and we laugh and we go to
the car shop. But we also know that that moment
of walking in there brings it all back really fast
(52:31):
to the impact that a bunch of freak guys and
a bunch of friends can change the world.
Speaker 2 (52:38):
And we are changing the world. And it's a small
group of determined people changing the world.
Speaker 11 (52:45):
Yeah, it's amazing and appreciate the opportunity to do so.
And I look forward to getting back there to see
you guys in person.
Speaker 3 (52:51):
Yeah, me too, brother, Yeah, Darren, give that a website again.
Speaker 11 (52:54):
Roar like r O A R s Yes rors for
Sophie roars.
Speaker 3 (53:01):
Okay, yeah, you say it all the time about these families,
Oliver Steeper and Colson's Crew and Mavericks Legacy. I'm leaving
somehow Oie, Hawk Andberry their heroes because they take the
most tragic part of their lives. Maybe hopefully that's the worst.
Speaker 7 (53:19):
Pain and persevere so others don't feel it.
Speaker 3 (53:22):
Yeah, easy word. Well, Darren, We're going to tell you
to keep going. I know you will. Thank you so
much for joining us tonight, and we'll see you along
the way.
Speaker 2 (53:34):
Hockey.
Speaker 3 (53:35):
Look, put the hockey down, all right, you want some points?
Speaker 11 (53:38):
Call us? Yeah, wey is our game, just so you know, Belle.
Speaker 2 (53:41):
Yeah, just.
Speaker 11 (53:43):
Thanks, guys, Thank you.
Speaker 3 (53:47):
So great. In the arena with Aaron Brett Canada, we
continue on I'm a Bacher along with Arthur Lee, Steve
Olivery and Eric Banigan from Life back U K and uh.
It's such a great honor for us to your own.
It's only a couple of days that you're going to
be over here in the States and we could connect.
As I said earlier, we could connect.
Speaker 2 (54:08):
You insisted, but yeah, he took the private jet and
shot over the pond.
Speaker 7 (54:14):
Yeah, yeah, because I was inviged someone.
Speaker 2 (54:18):
No, but we had great meetings and it was really
eye opening on the global presence of life. And you know,
for this show in the arena today we talked about
a bunch of frank guys working out in the garage
and Eric's here because we need to better grow our
global empire and saving lives in forty nine countries.
Speaker 7 (54:39):
Yeah, I up air freight whatever. Don is probably gonna
help me, but I guess.
Speaker 3 (54:45):
Yeah, Donny eyes that we have to mention each show
does an amazing job with the.
Speaker 2 (54:48):
Information, and will yells and.
Speaker 3 (54:50):
Will correct us in a in a stern yeah when
we love you, don we do. So you know what's
coming up after After the next break, miss, we hear
from them every weekend, We're going to hear from you.
I love that sec very soon after this break, stay
(55:10):
with us in the arena more after this.
Speaker 1 (55:13):
Ben Carson here with a potentially life saving message. I
may be a retired neurosurgeon, but trying to help save
lives is something I'll never stop doing. Every year, this
world loses around five thousand lives that could have been
saved from choking accidents. That's why I've partnered with Lifeveac,
a company base right here in the USA. It is
simple to use, can be used on adults and children.
(55:36):
Plus it's guaranteed for life. Most importantly, if you ever
have to use it in an emergency, they replace it
for free. Join me on my mission to ensure every home, business, restaurant,
and school in this country has a lifestack.
Speaker 2 (55:51):
Go to the lifeac dot.
Speaker 1 (55:53):
Net and order your very own life saving device today.
Thank you,
Ben Carson here with a potentially life saving message. I
may be a retired neurosurgeon, but trying to help save
lives is something I'll never stop doing. Every year, this
world loses around five thousand lives that could have been
saved from choking accidents. That's why I've partnered with LIFEAC,
a company base right here in the USA. Is simple
to use, can be used on adults and children. Plus
(00:26):
it's guaranteed for life. Most importantly, if you ever have
to use it in an emergency, they replace it for free.
Join me on my mission to ensure every home, business, restaurant,
and school in this country has a lifetack. Go to
thelifeac dot net and order your very own life saving
device today.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Thank you man. I love that guy.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Gotta love doctor Ben Carson and welcome back to in
the Arena. My name is Rich Bacher. Along with powder Work,
we've been talking with mister Eric Bannigan of the UK,
and of course Arthur Lee, CEO and inventor of life
back in this segment I look forward to each week.
It's when we check in with mister three thousand Ray
preby Cap Coral, Florida. Is he there fantastic Ray preby.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
Hey, hey, hey, coming to you from the great outdoors
here in sunny South Florida. Coming to you from Mariner
High School where you're I I had a Baker Bulldogs
where my son is currently playing football taking on Mariner High.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Do you have money?
Speaker 5 (01:35):
Go Bulldogs?
Speaker 2 (01:36):
I got bull dog.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
What's that right?
Speaker 6 (01:40):
That's right?
Speaker 4 (01:42):
Good, good evening. All your life fackers out there. You know,
it's a beautiful day to share these wonderful numbers with you. Bobby,
do we have a screen.
Speaker 7 (02:00):
Two?
Speaker 2 (02:03):
And then?
Speaker 4 (02:04):
Oh yeah, yes, those are some great numbers right there.
And just to throw some more numbers out there, it's
been three hundred and forty days since I said my
little girl using the life back, and that is one thousand,
six hundred and seventy one saves and three hundred and
forty days.
Speaker 5 (02:22):
I mean, folk, if.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
I'm gonna say it till I'm blue in the faith,
get a life back, get a life back, get a
life back.
Speaker 7 (02:28):
Yeah, Oh my god, we oft do you pinch yourself?
Speaker 2 (02:30):
I well, I just got a chill. I mean, I
think that the thrill is even greater because raised was
he saved his daughter right right, So we're not promoting it.
He's not some guy that we hired or ai. It
comes from his heart and eighties get paid. He just look,
he's in his on the football game and he's with
us today to try and spread the word to save
(02:53):
people like he saved his daughter.
Speaker 4 (02:55):
And I will be here every single week as long
as I can be, because again, like you said, Arthur,
I saved my daughter. If it was not for this device,
my daughter would not be here.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
And if anyone was wondering why we call you mister
three K, it was the three thousand save using a
life Act that's reported, and that.
Speaker 4 (03:15):
Reported three thousand reported save, which we know we have
confirmation that there has been countless unreported saves with this device.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Yeah, and that's the god wing part where we get
that gift. We walk in and I've been there, Hey,
I used it to save my daughter. I'm like, what
did you No? I mean you know what. I'm like, Okay,
I'll take that as my little gift for them.
Speaker 7 (03:37):
That's fine. Do we want them reported?
Speaker 2 (03:39):
But who cands? Those are the ones that are the
gift to the world and speaking up saves.
Speaker 4 (03:46):
I have an amazing highlight that I was just looking
over amazing. A one year old girl from Pennsylvania choked
on a dorrito, resulting in total obstruction. Parents preferm choking protocol,
which failed. Pro Life Act was used to time and
success successfully dislodged the food. She found her older brother
(04:10):
chips on the floor and unknownly was completely silent, turning
blue and purple. We use a Life Act to save
her life. We were thankful to have it on hand.
We have been lucky enough not to have to use
it on our first child, but always have it around
just in case. Using a Life Act. She's one hundred
percent sure it's saved her life. I mean that's straight
(04:33):
from the mother's mouth. Right there again, another child, another
one year old that has the ability to live the
rest of her life because of Life Act.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Oh perfectly, Ray, you know that she's almost the one
that listens to your closing speeches, saying.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
My closing, my closing speech. God, what is it that
I say? Life Act? Better to have it, not need it,
then need it and not have it. The life you
save could be your own, could be your child, could
be a stranger who knows the life you could save?
Speaker 3 (05:08):
Day whoa airhorn didn't play?
Speaker 8 (05:13):
I Love you guys.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
Hey, I love you, guys. God bless and get a
life back.
Speaker 5 (05:18):
Kick off, Go get him, go bull, go get him.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Right, it's so great. I love to hear you know,
all the details of these stories. It's heart wrenching when
you get beyond the just the number.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Yeah, well, those those stories bringing very much to life,
and the beauty of it is he picks one of them.
I mean we have a heart wrenching for him to
be able to say and this one one, Yeah, one
would be in a miracle, one would be a great thing.
And he has to pick. And Patrick will always working
his numbers trying to guess.
Speaker 5 (05:50):
That was way off, way higher. Forty six saves this week.
Speaker 7 (05:53):
What a freaking great life that we get.
Speaker 9 (05:56):
You get in the top ten every week. You're really good.
I mean that's how Oh yeah important.
Speaker 7 (06:00):
Yep, you could.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Gab the mouth.
Speaker 7 (06:03):
Eric Banning would never get to talk. Yeah yeah, yeah, all.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
Right, Eric, how how is it hearing from Ray Prieby
you never met? Obviously is connected in the Life Back family.
What's it like putting a name to the face or
a face to the name. I got to get that straight.
Speaker 6 (06:22):
No, it's it's great seeing it whenever we Even when
I see a phone coming back signed the arts, I
still gets you.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Yeah. Do you get any like a paragraph ever?
Speaker 7 (06:33):
Yeah, yeah you do, yeah, and reading the story on
it and things like that.
Speaker 6 (06:38):
It's great and they're all most of them, they're appreciative
of it, especially when it's families.
Speaker 7 (06:43):
Yeah, when it's homes and things like that, it's.
Speaker 5 (06:47):
More of a forum.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (06:49):
Yeah, we've had to do this. But the families, they
enough to do an essay for you.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
I think you know some of them. You know, I've
read four thousand and seven hundred of them that they
really hate you because they do put their emotion into it,
and a lot of times they're right. You know, I
couldn't do it for a month. I couldn't rethink about
it for a month. You know, scariest moment in my life.
You know, I'm traumatized. But I only reported it from
(07:15):
six months ago because I could finally talk about it.
And that hates you about you know, when you say
four thousand, it's a number. When they say my kid
was blue and I was paying, you know, you start
to get that feeling of oh my god, yeah, and
then you can totally understand when they say it took
me a while, right or I you know, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
The simple fact is it does not get old, it
gets more emotional.
Speaker 6 (07:41):
Is a building it's never old for then it's yeah,
it's new for them, and that's what it is. We're
gone along saying yeah, yeah, we've done this, Yeah, and
we should celebrate it. Yeah, but they celebrates in all time. Yeah,
and that's the my thing for that.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
Yeah, we didn't see her tonight, but when you see
Maya preview, it raised daughter on with him and realize
the whole reason for him being there is right there.
She's still there. She's like a little ballfire.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
She'll like come flying across, you know, and uh, yeah,
she's she did a Pete Rose slide across the whole
of slaves when they were kids. A lunatic.
Speaker 9 (08:17):
Even the strongest guys we know, a marine and no
Wise chokes up every time he tells the story, and
you know he's been trained to do this. They needed
to save his daughter in their kitchen, and he gets
choked up every time he tells the story.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
And he that Watching that to me is another one
where it's a visualization of this big, strong person that's
been in hell and.
Speaker 7 (08:40):
Talking about his little daughter. Almost time makes him cry.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
You probably couldn't make that guy cry him been able
to two by four set him on fire.
Speaker 7 (08:47):
He wouldn't care less.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
But get him to talk about his daughter and life
fact saving her.
Speaker 7 (08:51):
Yeah, and he wells up the toughest guy in the world.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
And he in turn, I'm not embarrassed to say when
he told me the story for the first time, it's emotional.
Oh oh yeah, yeah, no doubt. Listen. Conversations like this
remind us that real change doesn't just happen in boardrooms.
It happens in kitchens, classrooms and care homes, where a
single device can make the difference between life and loss.
A huge thank you to Eric Bannigan of Life BacT
(09:15):
Uk and Darren Brett of Life BAC Canada for sharing
their mission and their passion. If today's episode moved, you
share it with someone you love because awareness saves lives.
And remember in the arena, it's not about watching from
the sidelines. It's about stepping in, taking action and making
a difference. Gentlemen, thank you so much for tonight and
(09:36):
Mike rowe Away, it's no joke.
Speaker 8 (09:45):
When you choked life back without breath, they'll be Death Cigad,
Life Back, Life Back.
Speaker 10 (09:58):
Back.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Hey everyone.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
Every year lives are lost in an instant, the choking emergency,
at the dinner table, in a school, or at a
care home. But thanks to Life Fact, those stories can
end differently, with breath restored, tears of relief and lives saved.
Today we're joined by two leaders carrying that mission across
the globe, Eric Bannigan of Life BAC UK and Darren
Brett of Life Back Canada. Their work is proof that
(10:25):
one device will hold the applause. Their work is proof
that one device in the right hands can turn tragedy
into triumph. And my name is Rick Thatcher along with
padder Orck CEO inventor of Life Back, Arthur Lee, and
we are joined by mister Eric Bannigan of Life Fact UK.
And it's so great to see you. Instudio. You refused
(10:46):
the stream yard link. You could have stayed home and
just dealt with yes and dealt with the time difference,
but you can. Fantastic, that's how big this dedication, folks.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
We're getting internationals.
Speaker 7 (10:57):
Did you come to the private jet or did you
go commercial?
Speaker 3 (11:01):
Yeah, of course, but fantastic to have you in person.
We've talked a few times via zoom or stream yard,
but it's so great to have you over here.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
Well, now we can understand what the show's about. No
one understands what it is International Night. But you know
we've always kind of built them off the book, and
it's not about the book.
Speaker 7 (11:26):
It's about the thoughts that generate from the book.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
Right. So I asked you to pull two quotes, and uh,
I thought that let's go with this one first.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
What's so Margaret Mead? Margaret Mead, the great sociologists said,
never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens
can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that
ever has.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
And you know that's so true, right because what any movement,
any big changes have started, which will get into the
other quote, but to is a combination of wingmen, and
you know in the arena, right him and Darren particularly
him got pretty clobbered when we started this. But here's
(12:11):
the thing. I've known, Eric, what twenty five years? You'd
think about Ye enough, and Darren's up there with CEV.
How long we know Darren about to say? Right?
Speaker 3 (12:21):
Yeah, sobody in the in the in the screen, he
should be up here in the world.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
Right, we we developed friendships and if we're lucky, we
get wingmen and not yes men and powerful people. But
both Eric and Darren a man of character, men of strength,
men that I work with in my old life.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
Eric was my customer, would we say logistics shipping.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Yeah, they're both from the transit state. He was a customer,
he was, Yeah, that's what we call it. But when
you when you find people of character and strength and integrity,
and but particularly if you work with him, right, because
those those cracks will show up. So here I am
going into this and who in my life can handle
(13:12):
our international We had what we have when I met
you with the one box with a sick point.
Speaker 7 (13:20):
Yeah, I think it's wooden bulks because you actually slid
it open. And what do you think of that?
Speaker 3 (13:26):
Like a little casket?
Speaker 7 (13:27):
Yeah, okay, what is it?
Speaker 3 (13:29):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Yeah exactly. But I still remember where we were. But
the thing was, from the beginning to today was saving lives, right,
And so I was. I knew that he had the
soul and the strength and the courage and certainly way
more expertise in developing things than I did.
Speaker 7 (13:48):
So I was.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
I approached him and I said, you know, let's let's
do this, and you know without the depth of character,
integrity and courage.
Speaker 7 (13:57):
They go, yeah, that's a great thing you got there.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
You know.
Speaker 7 (14:00):
Oh look at the time, you know you got to
sing plunder in a box with a mask on.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
Eric, Eric, what were your thoughts?
Speaker 2 (14:07):
Said?
Speaker 7 (14:10):
They want to unslit the box.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
It was kind of.
Speaker 7 (14:15):
What hes that? And you got yeah, but it's got this,
it does that.
Speaker 6 (14:19):
And they meant for the story about the choking in
the hospital and they said, this is going to save lives.
So I said, yeah, I want to join you.
Speaker 7 (14:26):
And that was it.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
You know, I think the British are too like that. Okay,
either no or okay, yeah.
Speaker 6 (14:32):
I mean as soon as he said about saving lives,
well why not make something you know yourself?
Speaker 3 (14:37):
So all great ideas usually face resistance. What were some
of the challenges that you encountered in the UK? How
much time do we have?
Speaker 7 (14:45):
Well it was not only time. It would take years. Wow,
it took years.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
Was it mostly regulation and government?
Speaker 7 (14:52):
Everything?
Speaker 3 (14:53):
It was It's just everything.
Speaker 7 (14:54):
It was medical professionals, it was the government, it was
the bureaucracy, the health authority.
Speaker 6 (15:02):
And then that's been out coming away from the people
that are actually first aiders, the people that are because
you're coming into into their arenas saying I've got something,
because your thing doesn't quite work, there's.
Speaker 7 (15:16):
A little difficult.
Speaker 6 (15:17):
They're not going to take that, especially when it's their
whole business. They're livelyds And did.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
You need to connect with you know, find the person you.
Speaker 8 (15:27):
I don't.
Speaker 6 (15:28):
He was out for like seven how many years I was.
I wasn't allowed to sell in the UK for seven years?
Speaker 7 (15:33):
Seven years. He hung in there for seven years. Now
you were allowed to sell, but yet.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
I was.
Speaker 6 (15:39):
Impossible tape I had to I could only sell to
medical professionals.
Speaker 7 (15:44):
And as we just said, the medical professionals, they're.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
Just trying to They're just trying to get by themselves.
Speaker 6 (15:51):
So then we found, okay, what about care homes because
you know the two areas under fives, over sixties and
things like that. So we all care homes and they
actually took us on, which was good, and that's how
we got a lot of the data.
Speaker 7 (16:04):
That's how we got our first first talk about that.
You know, well, that was amazing what I want to know.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
And I don't even know how did you find that?
Speaker 7 (16:13):
Did did Matt text shield. Are we standing there?
Speaker 6 (16:17):
I got the message that we would saved, saved the life,
and that was by I can't remember.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
It wasn't telegraph express, it was a car carrier.
Speaker 7 (16:31):
Some wasn't working.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
He was, he was.
Speaker 6 (16:34):
I mean, my son and my daughter was here. They were.
Marie was a teacher. Matthew was worked in the shop.
We worked at well, you got little here now, so
I can say little. He didn't have it before, but
he was a little shop manager. So they were both
doing it outside of the normal. So I got a
phone call saying it and it was like when my
daughter was When I found out my daughter was born,
(16:56):
I run down the village high street of my small village,
Fisher Village, punchoneer, jumping up. I went up the local
pub and told everybody that we all had drinks and yeah,
we celebrated the lights.
Speaker 5 (17:08):
Okay, take it easy, Eric, did you have another baby?
Speaker 2 (17:14):
I sprained my ankle.
Speaker 7 (17:16):
Did you get a phone call? Did you get I
got a text from matt.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
Yeah, call me.
Speaker 6 (17:21):
We saved our first. It's a funk call from that
was he freaking out. He was he was up at
the moment he was Did you cry? I cried yeah, yeah, yeah,
I said, it's just like having my first job. And
it's not quite like having the first job, but.
Speaker 5 (17:37):
I do still she's staring at you.
Speaker 6 (17:40):
Every single life saved, every single life is safe. It
still affects me.
Speaker 7 (17:45):
Yeah, I too.
Speaker 6 (17:46):
And if we weren't still saving lives in the care
homes in England, then I don't know if I would
have carried on. But I might be carried on because
I still believed in what we was. That was it was,
it was, it was fine, and that kept me going
and thinking, well, it works and we're proving it well.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
Kept us all going because in the beginning you had
the majority of the seats because we we ours were
more of the public, right, and then we started getting
them in and now we get them with two today
or five today all. But you know, the interesting thing
was the main thing for you too. You've been through
a lot of paint. You lost your house, right you
took I mean I chose to give it up to
(18:27):
start That's a good way to look at that. I
chose to give up my pensions to start the business.
So you don't make good life choices that were putting.
Speaker 6 (18:40):
I've had a great life choice and luckily, now it's
becoming Yeah, we're saving life. And guess what, I can
actually not worry too much about the mortgage or anything
like that.
Speaker 7 (18:51):
Everybody, but.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
He did it without it, which is real cord. He
took everything in. But I just think of that moment,
how even higher it was because of the faith. Right,
you're going on faith like you believed in the product.
You know, you they didn't test up the wazoo, so
you certainly were comfortable and confident it would work. But
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it's so faith. Faith is an interesting thing. You have
to have it long enough for it to be, you know,
to kind of show up right, and the courage to
not give up. I remember your faith, right, and and
that's why I think for you it was almost the end.
It was in your place, and Jackie made the same.
Oh my god, Jackie Rickets.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
I remember this. How long will we wait? As long
as it takes what if it takes forever, then that's
how long we'll wait. Yeah that So, at what point
did the rest of the UK become a part of
your market? Because initially was just care homes.
Speaker 7 (19:54):
Initially it was allowed to sell just a professionals, not
allowed to sell anywhere. Was allowed to sell anywhere.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
That's fair.
Speaker 7 (20:01):
Then we saved the life, and then we wasn't allowed
to sell anyway.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
So did I come over? And when I came over?
Speaker 3 (20:11):
So you have a nonsensical at times government regulation.
Speaker 7 (20:14):
Which yeah, we've just proved it worked.
Speaker 6 (20:17):
And now you're saying, oh, yeah, you've been able to
sell it for the last three years, but now you
can't because it works.
Speaker 5 (20:25):
You can't knocks up No true, Well, I think you
made up the name Jackie Ricketts. Sounds like all of
a twist. The first guy who made a favor was
Jackie Ricketts.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
And my daughter's name is Jackie. I just want to
think you're talking about Jackie Jackie, but she was from
on my side of the first say.
Speaker 5 (20:42):
You know her middle name is not Rickets, is it?
Speaker 2 (20:46):
What does she want? She weren't Sarah, so she'd be
Sarah Lee because she's got that kind of humor. That's
that's what she was laughing for.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
Wait a minute, you're not China, jack.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
It was. That was quite a moment. It's fun to
sit here and share that moment with you because we
never really you know, where it was going on hundred
million miles an hour trying to figure.
Speaker 3 (21:10):
Out so hard. How did it turn around from them
taking away your ability to promote life?
Speaker 2 (21:17):
You prove it.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
Works, but then they said at that point you shut it,
shut it down. When did it come around?
Speaker 7 (21:22):
Shut me down?
Speaker 6 (21:23):
Shut me down for six months altogether? Can't sell anything anyway, right, That's.
Speaker 5 (21:28):
What What was the reason behind that?
Speaker 7 (21:30):
Because because it was.
Speaker 5 (21:33):
Because I know.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
You that are watching, that are just listening. You should
have seen Pat's face. It looks like one of those emojis,
because yeah, there the recordy buddy, like your FDI and
that makes sense.
Speaker 3 (21:46):
Then by away you're listening to Eric Banagan, Paddle Ork
Arthur League CEO and Venture Life Act and I'm Rick
Thatcher in the arena talking about some really remarkable stumbling
of the government. But you're in the arena. But seriously,
when did it turn around and you were able to
promote and save more lives.
Speaker 6 (22:06):
We had We were celebrating the thousand lives saved worldwide, yeap,
and that's what we were celebrating. And once again we
got a message to come through just after just while
we were celebrating that, we've got a message through. We've
decided to allow you to tried fully in the UK,
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perfect brilliant. So I went back and that's when I
was crazy. So I started my company really in twenty
twenty three after all the loss when when I kind
of started the company in twenty twelve.
Speaker 7 (22:41):
But he had to keep he had a supply.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
How he did give him nine hundred before they find
we when we're doing the postmarket clinical files, and then
we kept giving it to him and.
Speaker 6 (22:56):
They had they had loads of things and where I'm
talking about the you know, the other regulatory when they're
not regretary, their advisors which is your American Heart Associations.
In my situation as the UK Resuscitation Council, European Resuscitation Council,
they were just basically I want to know, and they
(23:20):
were basically saying.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
They're pro respiratory though right, they're pro respiration, pro compro protocol.
Speaker 5 (23:26):
So they were going they were breathing, so they were yeah.
Speaker 6 (23:29):
They were going to the authorities and saying no, no, no,
that doesn't work, No no, no, that won't happen, no
no no, that was it, and you can't make this.
And I used to go to the Government Building Office
which after come to me once and luckily one time
I was about to stood up because I've got so
fed up and was walking out and he got hold
of me. I'm like that, yeah, okay, I better calm down.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
So how many we wanted the well one yeah, and
it was almost like is it worth it because of that?
Speaker 5 (23:59):
But it was usually frown upon that if you start whaling,
is that what happens?
Speaker 2 (24:02):
Wh whaling on a guy? That's our world.
Speaker 9 (24:05):
That's but also you're testing out the wazoo. That is
the post morpho clinical trials.
Speaker 7 (24:10):
It was, it was the official notification is out of the.
Speaker 5 (24:15):
It's amazing these stories, really is as an outsider.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
So from where from where you came and all those
trials and stumbled roadblocks basically regulation, Where where do you
see Life Act going in the next five years in
the UK?
Speaker 7 (24:30):
In the next fog, in the next year.
Speaker 6 (24:33):
I'm looking let's go the year I'm looking at saying
that we're gonna we've already come a multiple business by
five and we've also whereas we were selling saving lives
maybe months and months, two months, three months, it's down
weekly for a couple.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
Of day, Yeah, a couple You got to remember this
as far as where is he going? How many countries
that you know of under your geographic area.
Speaker 6 (24:59):
Well, I don't know him countries and are in Africa
because they can't count that many.
Speaker 3 (25:03):
And they're changing all the time exactly.
Speaker 5 (25:04):
It's weekly.
Speaker 6 (25:05):
In Europe, I have to do the product in twenty
eight different languages, and so there's more than twenty eight
countries today.
Speaker 7 (25:13):
Didn't you do the saves per country? Like yeen and
do you have that?
Speaker 3 (25:18):
So it's not just UK.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
This is an education for one.
Speaker 6 (25:21):
In Albiona, one in Romania sw yeah, oh yeah ahead,
So no, it's it's been good. How many in Ireland?
Speaker 7 (25:33):
I think there's about four or five in it, maybe more?
Second after you do you know Spain Spine?
Speaker 2 (25:39):
How many roughly.
Speaker 5 (25:42):
Twelve?
Speaker 2 (25:42):
Yeah, But see that's cool on our side because we
get them all right. So we've had days and Darren's
coming on later. We'll be like we had a saving Canada,
we have a saving Spain, we had a save in
the UK, we had a save in New Zealand. And
then sometimes we do that post the International Save Day,
sometimes just me and you the UK and USA.
Speaker 5 (26:00):
I'm sure it's more in Ireland. They just don't like
to report it, you know.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
Quite about it, they forget exactly It's okay, the obstruction
is mostly guinness.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
Is that true?
Speaker 5 (26:10):
But your name is actually are you? Is your family
originally from Ireland?
Speaker 2 (26:14):
Yeah? Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
Yeah, good boy.
Speaker 7 (26:15):
Okay, we've been talking again.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
Yeah, we always have that Eric.
Speaker 5 (26:20):
It's a rock and roll name.
Speaker 3 (26:21):
Yeah, so Eric, even tonight. We often talk about the
numbers Live Save coming up on five thousand worldwide. But
as we talk about the statistics and then the family behind,
are there any that besides Jackie Ricketts is saving that
person in the assisted living facility? Are there any that
stand out?
Speaker 2 (26:42):
Is just question we have No, we haven't saved this.
Speaker 6 (26:46):
We didn't save the child's life, but I can't report
that we have saved his other child's life twice.
Speaker 7 (26:53):
And his name is Alliver the Steeper.
Speaker 6 (26:55):
So he is going out promoting then donating life facts
to nursery school because he's the first son died in
the nursery school while eating food. They weren't chopping up
the food properly for the children, weren't overseeing them properly,
and the child died. So he didn't want that to
happen again, so he started up that whole charity to
(27:17):
do it. But he has saved his next child twice
the la back. I don't even know that, and we
haven't reported it because he's because he's doing that, I
just trouble. I just don't want to do that because
I don't want to think. I don't want to put
his charity in a position where, you know, thinking, oh,
what's going on then, which we went through at the
(27:38):
very beginning.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
Oh you know those people, don't We don't know three
thousand people. But just to give the proper due to me,
I post on those institutions. Hero, we got lost this child,
and instead of carp b to do whatever you want,
he rolls up to try and make sure that that
doesn't happen to someone else. And he's developed the team,
(28:02):
you guys and him, but he's developed quite a following,
quite an impact, and we're actually starting.
Speaker 6 (28:08):
To get a network where you know, we hear from
some schools in that region there. Then we put them
in touch with the association. Now that school up there,
now the parent groups up there, and they are doing
events and things to raise money for that charity down there,
so I can spread it. We have a convenience store
called spar which is yeah, s p A R. They're
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they're in Scotland and they've decided they're going to donate
the schools as well. So more and more kind of
events are going on where the actually the general public
or businesses are saying, yeah we need, yeah, that we need.
Speaker 7 (28:46):
If the authorities aren't going to do it, then we're
going to do it.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
Well that's the that's the point about in the arena
and why we're sitting there talking about you, you know,
working out your basement units upstairs and me with Singer
and his basement and I'm I'm as the lend.
Speaker 7 (29:02):
Yeah it was a closet, right, it was a closet.
Speaker 5 (29:05):
It's a garage.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
I gotta admit working at an ice cream shop. Ate
that vet.
Speaker 9 (29:14):
How much this mirror is our friend of New Jersey
lost his son and started his and does these fundraising
like I'm hearing the same story again, but over in Europe.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
I think, well, I think heroes have common hearts, you know,
the bravery to take such a painful thing, Oliver Maverick
Colton to rise up, and I think it's me. Uh
when I saw heard that child, I didn't want them
to know what I know from my accident, right, and
I think that the twenty year gap from my accident
(29:44):
to thinking about saving Jackie, that pain don't go away, right.
And for these families, they don't want you to feel
the way they did. That's me. I don't want you
to know what I know.
Speaker 7 (29:55):
And to me, that's why the heroes right, And that's
an amazing thing.
Speaker 3 (29:59):
Really great stuff. We're talking with Eric Banagan along with
Arthur Lee Padrourke, myself, Rick Thatcher. We're going to be
back with more. In fact, we're going to talk to
Darren Brett from Canada International Night. International Night are in
the arena. We'll be right back.
Speaker 7 (30:28):
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Speaker 2 (30:31):
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Speaker 3 (30:34):
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Speaker 3 (30:59):
Hey, well come back, yeah, well yeah, quite a studio,
honest tonight, welcome back in the arena. Five times we've
been talking to and Arthur leeke CEO inventor of Life Back,
the Gosh the North Star for us, got Eric Banagan
from the UK. We joined and we've been joined by
Steve OLIVERI director of operations, the great mister wing Man.
Speaker 2 (31:23):
Well, you know what's interesting, Steve, I was thinking about this.
He's in the book as wing Man. He's the beginning
of Life Back because he was who I was visiting
in the hospital. And then, you know, I don't usually
give you any form of compliments because very on the
air we will officially give you. Steve is the conduit
to every to Eric and to Darren, and that he's
(31:47):
the kind dude to me being here because throughout my
life I get us some messages and Steve figures it out.
So we had.
Speaker 3 (31:56):
That's a great job.
Speaker 2 (31:57):
And tell me you've done it for about thirty years.
Speaker 3 (32:02):
That like a fixer. Yeah, yeah, pretty much. Well Arthur fixer.
Speaker 2 (32:06):
He's got to kind of go home and tell you
your parents you kind of got into something and ask
her if they can help you. Like Steve, do you
think you set up an international network for live back
with Eric. I gotta go. I got a big, big but.
Speaker 3 (32:19):
And then there was a time rolled on top of mom.
Speaker 7 (32:22):
Yeah, well you know there there's precedent mom.
Speaker 3 (32:26):
What's your friend? What's your friend doing on mom?
Speaker 2 (32:28):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (32:30):
So I can't wait to get to It's an international
night here on in the arena and we're being joined
by Darren Brett from the Great North wa. There he is,
Darren Brett. How are you tonight, sir? You doing great?
Speaker 11 (32:45):
Guy, is a pleasure to be here and I really
appreciate the opportunity.
Speaker 3 (32:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (32:48):
Well, you know what you had the cool posts, you
had three saves the other day you sent over the
hat trick.
Speaker 7 (32:54):
The hat trick, I mean hockey with these guys.
Speaker 2 (32:57):
Well, we go for a ram with him about try
to hockey. We have to downplay their skills. But the Darren,
like Eric was early on, also ridiculous idiotic challenges and
Steve's con do it and we worked Darren shipping, you
(33:18):
know how long ago.
Speaker 8 (33:19):
Twenty twenty thirty years ago, tired the way.
Speaker 7 (33:23):
Back being in Miami with him with Peter Peter.
Speaker 3 (33:28):
Darren. I saw a video of you with Arthur Lee
and another colleague from Canada in the then Hal of Saves.
If you as you look behind us, you see the
new Hall Ofsaves with the raised roof and room to
house and we're coming up on five thousands. So Darren
talk about the I mean, how did you get in
(33:50):
touch with Steve and Arthur?
Speaker 11 (33:53):
Well, we go way back, as Arthur mentioned, obviously, a
lot of crazy times together, a lot of great times,
and back in the day. I think we were not
too far behind Erek with the UK. But but I
think it's around twenty fourteen the Steve first mentioned, you know,
Arthur's working on something. You got to take a look
at this. And right away I knew if Ourtha was
working on something, there's something big here coming out.
Speaker 7 (34:16):
I knew that.
Speaker 11 (34:16):
So I said, yeah, let me see it. Let's let's
take a look, and we did that. We talked about
it for a while. That was at the beginning, obviously,
and things were moving a bit slow, and yeah, I
took a look at it. I came down there, we
talked about it. Yeah, let's do this because this is
going to be something that is going to be world changing,
an opportunity to help people, help families, and who doesn't
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want to take part in.
Speaker 4 (34:38):
Something like that.
Speaker 2 (34:39):
Well, see the thing about the earlier speech about Eric's character.
In Darren's character, you know, saint thing, he's family man,
is a father's arms. He shakes your hands a deal.
Eric's the same way. He would die before he would
violate the deal. So when the opportunity to say how
do we save lives all over thought, Eric thought to
Darren and you know Stephen and really good because I
(35:01):
get it the mess.
Speaker 7 (35:02):
He figures it out. So they actually had to work
together greater.
Speaker 8 (35:06):
I remember Darren when I sent it up the first
Yellow Plunger.
Speaker 3 (35:09):
Yeah, and you brought it into prototypus.
Speaker 10 (35:11):
No, he comes because you know, if everyone in every
country sends something to somebody, so like I know he
was part of the gamerund so I'm like he was
doing one right.
Speaker 8 (35:21):
And he said, Eric, remember I sent it up to you.
Speaker 3 (35:23):
Forgot the hell?
Speaker 10 (35:25):
He calls me back like five days, ladies, like that
thing that artiees gut. I got some people that want
to talk to you guys. And we did the Park
Avenue meeting.
Speaker 2 (35:34):
Yeah we were big.
Speaker 5 (35:35):
Yeah, there was no follow up.
Speaker 3 (35:37):
You just sent it just I saient to forgot about
I don't know know, like and he's like that thing
that you know life back. Yeah, it's like, yeah, I
got right.
Speaker 8 (35:46):
He had some people that wanted to talk to us,
and we had this big meetings, like one of the
first big meetings.
Speaker 7 (35:50):
Yeah, we're big. We're in the city and everything.
Speaker 3 (35:52):
We're on a New York post.
Speaker 8 (35:53):
No, no, it was the New York Times is putting
the article next.
Speaker 3 (35:57):
Hey, Darren. Eric talked earlier about of the pressure or roadblocks,
the early struggles was there. Do you find the same
in Canada?
Speaker 11 (36:07):
Well, we didn't have as many struggles with with compliance,
some struggles but not not quite on the level that
Eric had, but lots of challenges. Obviously, any new product
into the market very difficult to you know, for acceptance. Obviously,
it took a long time and until we started seeing
the saves coming in, people started to change their attitudes
(36:29):
and their their opinion and just a long struggle of
many years obviously with a lot of work and before
starting to see success. I always say that you know,
surround yourself with smart people, successful people. That's key to
any business venture. Obviously speaking for myself, my partner Richard Smith,
who's not here tonight, but but you know, instrumental in
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getting this thing going as well in Canada, with lots
of expertise in the medical field. So with the two
of us working at it seven days a week, we've
some success.
Speaker 2 (37:05):
Lose it. Wait, wait, lots of time for your other quote.
Speaker 3 (37:08):
The other quote you like, Gandhi. Right, sure, so here's
the quote. First they ignore you, then they laugh at you,
then they fight you, then you win.
Speaker 2 (37:20):
Right, I mean that that was us first?
Speaker 7 (37:24):
Sure?
Speaker 2 (37:24):
Yeah, I mean I got it in the garage with
have glued together. Yeah, that's great. They ignored me, then
they laugh, I do that's hysterically. You really think you're
gonna do that? And we got all there early on
the Jim carry stuff and all the jokes and all
the ridiculous stuff. Now then we had the little bit
of battle and now we win.
Speaker 3 (37:45):
And then there along the way there has to be
some support that you get from people outside the life
BAC family. And can you can you remember anyone that
went out of their way to say and believe in
the mission, believe in the project.
Speaker 11 (38:00):
Well, our families, obviously, our families are really bleeding in
this and really helped us and they still do. And
friends as well, and again I surround yourself with good people,
they will they will commit to assisting you. And you know,
along the way, you meet a lot of great people
in this business, first responders, you know, people that work
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in healthcare and organizations, charities. You meet some fantastic people.
And that's one of the great things, not to mention
all those amazing parents that you meet that have saved
their children and maybe say family members. To meet those people,
it's just incredible.
Speaker 2 (38:39):
Now, Darren, you've you've met a couple of saves right now?
Speaker 11 (38:43):
Yes, yes, I would have. I'd like to meet more
with Obviously, with Canada to quite a large geography and
a long distance, we don't meet as many as I
would like, of course, but I have met some. I
talked to many, at least on telephone calls at least,
and it's it's always so.
Speaker 7 (39:00):
It's just.
Speaker 2 (39:03):
I remember, I remember meeting everyone I've ever said that
I was at the blessing to me, who is the
do you remember? Give me your first one? What was
it like?
Speaker 7 (39:12):
You know, you don't have to say the name, but
what what was the circumstances?
Speaker 11 (39:15):
Uh, the first one we had a we had a
four year old. Save that that I believe was was
choking on a piece of plastic. Actually know, yeah, and
I believe that was back in twenty nineteen and very
slow start on the saves. But now it's just expotential. Obviously,
it's just you know, going up every single year, and
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to be able to talk to these people is these
people are These people are the real heroes. We are
lucky enough to be able to support them.
Speaker 3 (39:44):
Yeah. And you didn't start in this, You didn't have
the same constraints on a particular market. Retired, but they hope.
Speaker 2 (39:52):
There we'll leave it struggles to pump you. Did you
work out of the house in.
Speaker 11 (40:00):
The beginning, Yes, yes, we did, certainly, like like yourself
and like all all the biggest companies Amazon, Google, they
all did the same thing.
Speaker 2 (40:09):
So so you know, did you fulfill orders out of
your garage? Is that because we had singer to use
his garage. I worked at Olenny's ice cream shop. You
did it out of your house.
Speaker 7 (40:20):
I did it at my house ship Yeah.
Speaker 11 (40:21):
Yeah, I had my garage completely full of life back right.
Speaker 3 (40:24):
To the ceiling.
Speaker 2 (40:26):
Great, we have a we have a universal connectation connection
of all operating out of our homes.
Speaker 7 (40:33):
That's how the big organization.
Speaker 3 (40:35):
Well, you hear about Steve Jobs the same thing.
Speaker 2 (40:39):
We were global garage guys. Man. Yea, we had garages,
We had garages in the UK, we had garages in
this content. But look at look at today. We were
talking and reviewing, you know, the global picture and the
whole of Saves and all these stories of all of
us in our garages taping, you know, and now we're
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up to we're coming up on five thousand lives save. Crazy. Yeah,
but it's all hard, you know, Darren, I knew you
had the heart and you knew that. You went into
it saying, like Eric, I want to say lots, We'll
figure it out.
Speaker 11 (41:17):
Yeah, exactly. And it's it's always a challenge obviously. You know,
we're we're coming up on some big milestones. Now we're
we just hit we had a four year old Save
today already. Yeah, so we we just were at one
ninety five. So coming up on two hundred very exciting
for us.
Speaker 3 (41:34):
Yeah, yeah, correct me if I'm wrong. We incorporate numbers
that come from the UK and the rest of the world.
Speaker 2 (41:41):
That's why he had, you know, kind of rattle off
Saves in Spain and blah blah, blah, you.
Speaker 3 (41:45):
Know, wherever because thirty thirty one different countries.
Speaker 7 (41:48):
It's it's some of fun, but I haven't got my fun.
Speaker 3 (41:51):
Yeah, it's offset.
Speaker 2 (41:53):
So Darren, would you say one.
Speaker 11 (41:55):
Ninety Yeah, we're at one ninety five right now since
we started. Then the two under is coming up very quickly.
We we've been saving people every week for the last
last month and a half, which is so it's it's
it's certainly building and it's fantastic to see after all
the work of you know, getting trying to get the
life activice out there in the hands of more people.
Speaker 3 (42:17):
And I have sure memory issues, but did you talk
about the first save and how how did that change things?
Speaker 2 (42:24):
How did you get notified and what was your first save?
Speaker 11 (42:26):
Like, yeah, we got we got a call actually and
it was absolutely amazing because up until that point we
had gotten calls from people that had tragedies, which are
is you know, always very difficult call obviously and uh
uh then we get that call and that's everybody was
just jumping around, uh.
Speaker 2 (42:46):
And was running down to the pub.
Speaker 3 (42:50):
Prior.
Speaker 2 (42:50):
Did you get the call?
Speaker 11 (42:52):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (42:53):
Correct, you answered the.
Speaker 11 (42:54):
Vone, that's correct.
Speaker 7 (42:55):
Yeah, did you ball?
Speaker 5 (42:57):
I did I?
Speaker 3 (42:58):
I talked to.
Speaker 11 (42:59):
I'm because I got to talk to most of the
people that that contact us. I usually talk to most
of them. That's part of part of my job, and
that is the best part of anybody's job that they
can have.
Speaker 3 (43:11):
Do you have a similar life save report form where
it goes through the details and you hear the description
and where'd you hear about it all?
Speaker 2 (43:19):
Yeah?
Speaker 11 (43:19):
Yeah, we have the full descriptions on each save. I
usually try to contact people. I mean, you can't reach everybody, obviously,
people are busy, But I do contact most people and
try to get a feeling for what they went through
and how amazing it is. And when we get the photographs,
especially with the children that have been saved, that it
(43:39):
is just it's it's a real moral bullet booster because
you want to you just want to keep going and
get more of these photos for that all the same.
Speaker 2 (43:49):
Do you know when when you got the call? Like,
where were you? Do you remember? I know I was
standing in my kitchen, Jackie was in front of me.
Speaker 11 (43:57):
Yeah, no, I was in my basement working on my back.
Speaker 3 (44:03):
And what year was that? That was twenty nineteen, fantastic,
so three years.
Speaker 2 (44:09):
I don't even care. If we had a show, we
should do this and just find stuff out and if
people want to listen to why it's great because.
Speaker 3 (44:17):
This that's been our motto. Cool with the fastest growing
podcast slash radio show in the country as measured by.
Speaker 2 (44:24):
Do Cool Stuff? Is that meation in your in the basement?
Speaker 8 (44:31):
I was in Darren's operation.
Speaker 10 (44:33):
Actually it was a guest on the first we launched
Candida and it went up for the first trade show, remember,
and we didn't know what was going to happen, and
it was just like right, mean, he was sitting there
and also in the lines were like backed up. Really
remember that, we were like even handle it. So I'm saying, Wow,
this is going to be a good market, you know.
You know, life's like a box of chocolate.
Speaker 2 (44:54):
To his now.
Speaker 10 (44:56):
Man, I was a guest in his basement, you know,
and I slept in the operation down get a professional
pool table.
Speaker 3 (45:04):
That yeah, very nice.
Speaker 2 (45:06):
Oh so when they saved their two hundred wet up
the party at darren'space.
Speaker 11 (45:09):
We could.
Speaker 3 (45:11):
I used to send trucks to his garage. You know what,
Time for a quick break. We're going to be back
more with International Night in the Arena. After this message.
Speaker 5 (45:36):
She started to choke on a piece of candy.
Speaker 8 (45:39):
She wasn't breathing.
Speaker 5 (45:40):
Then Ray reached for the life back and it saved her.
She could have easily died that day. A life back
saved her life.
Speaker 4 (45:47):
What I would say is, don't need.
Speaker 8 (45:50):
A life back and not have it. Have a life
back and hopefully never need it.
Speaker 2 (45:55):
Recently, the American Red Cross has added anti joking devices
as an option when standard protocol fails is not feasible.
Speaker 9 (46:02):
Go to lifefact dot net or called eight seven seven
five four three three eight two two.
Speaker 3 (46:08):
And we are back in the arena. It's International Night
On in the arena, we're talking with Eric Bannigan, Steve
OLIVERI Home Team, Arthur Lee CEO Inventor, and Darren Brett
from Life Act Canada. And we were talking before about gosh,
the early years right, and what I wanted to turn
(46:28):
and talk to Eric about is not Eric, I'm sorry, Darren,
get my story straight about the Yes, I got to
get the confidence. Yeah, so looking ahead, we talked about
the earliers and the monumental says. But you know what's
your vision now? You said twenty nineteen was the first
save and now coming out what does the future look
(46:51):
like for Life Act Canada.
Speaker 11 (46:52):
Well, I think it looks very positive. We've we've made
a lot of inroads into a lot of major industries
and associations in Canada. That's that's going to continue. It's
a long process. Hopefully we'll have success at a higher
government level eventually, very very long process, a lot of
red tape and time consuming.
Speaker 3 (47:11):
There seems to be a lot of red tape.
Speaker 2 (47:12):
Yes, it's a global phenomena.
Speaker 10 (47:15):
But Darren started from the basement, got his first building.
Now you got your second building, get your new facility.
Speaker 7 (47:22):
That's amazing.
Speaker 3 (47:24):
And how big is the team, Darren.
Speaker 11 (47:26):
We've got ten people now and the new facility is great.
So this is my office at the new facility right now.
Actually i'm talking to you from and we have a
lot more space that we can do bigger projects now
and get jumping through some different opportunities and we hope
that's going to do catapult us forward.
Speaker 3 (47:45):
I can't imagine the coincidence if it is one that
the quote behind past your left shoulder is the man
in the arena.
Speaker 11 (47:54):
Yeah, it's a great quote, and you know it's it's
the mantra. And I wanted to get it from my
office because it's it's something I like to read every day.
Speaker 2 (48:04):
I had that on my office and they're afraid that
had it on my office all my whole life. Did
you have it back in the freight days too, No.
Speaker 11 (48:10):
I did not tell you. I have to admit that
I was in sales mainly as you as you remember
so long traveling.
Speaker 3 (48:18):
I like to think I'd like to think that Darren
got that quote after watching our show.
Speaker 2 (48:22):
Yeah, well, the whole world's probabically changed from watching scoring podcast.
Speaker 3 (48:29):
The more I learned just about everyone has a podcast, really, yeah,
every we have more we do lawyers. Yes, you can't
always be the fastest growing podcast. Yeah, I feel me.
But Darren, anything exciting coming up in the near future.
Speaker 11 (48:46):
Well, we've we're working with trying to work with more
and more charities. We do have a very special charity.
I wanted to mention that I sent you a link
on this one, Rick. But there's a hospital in Toronto
in Canada called Sick Kids, which is well known global
hospital and one of the best. And and we have
(49:06):
a family that went through a terrible tragedy. They lost
their their two year old daughter, to choking. And as
we've talked about tonight with with many of these families,
they they are complete heroes and they have they have
a charity starter for their daughter and they are raising
money for that hospital that did treat their daughter. Unfortunately
(49:27):
they couldn't save her, and they we work with them
to to raise money to help this hospital save more children.
It's it's a very special relationship and uh to talk
to these people and and gain strength from from their strength.
Speaker 3 (49:44):
Yeah, what's the name of that because we can't mostly
audio driven, right, So the.
Speaker 11 (49:50):
Name of the charity is Roors for Sophie, Rors for Sophie,
and you can you can google it, you can find it.
Then they raise funds for Sick Kids Hospital in Toronto.
Fantastic family, amazing people and extended family, and they're they're
taking a tragedy and doing so much to help other people.
Speaker 2 (50:13):
Well, you know, you think about the me, you, everyone involved.
It's been a soulful person, a good person, a caring person.
We all took it on to save lives. And now
we attract these other heroes, right, and we embrace them
because we get it right. We were beat up. We've
started with nothing. We persevered. And now the secondary gift
(50:35):
is seeing other heroes and being able to you know,
work with them and support them and and like you said,
we gain strength from them too.
Speaker 7 (50:43):
Amazing.
Speaker 2 (50:44):
It's a snowball effect of doing the right thing and
being a good person and trying to make a good difference.
Speaker 11 (50:50):
Yeah, it's amazing. And you know, we can only hope
that that will meet more of those people that want
to drive life back forward. Not through tragedy obviously, but
people awareness is what brings people into getting this, getting
life back into more schools obviously, and more public places.
Speaker 3 (51:09):
Sounds like what we strive for in the US. Similarly,
how do you wramp your hands around coming up on
five thousand from where Life Back came in Canada, where
it came in the UK and in the United States
and across the world. To approach five thousand, the same number,
oddly that we lose each year to acent we're going
to pass that? Fantastic? How do you How does that sink?
(51:33):
Does it sink in? Is it surreal?
Speaker 11 (51:36):
I knew what would happen, I had no doubt from
day one, But it's still to I haven't been to
the the whole of Saved since it's been since it's
been raised up, and I'm looking forward to getting down
there because it's always so emotional and uh, it's hard
to describe really when you walk in there.
Speaker 2 (51:53):
That do you feel today when you see that with
the roof raised amazing? Yeah?
Speaker 6 (51:57):
Right when it was just that single level, Yeah, and
then it is amazing enough of all the divided in it.
But when you woke to the first time in there,
and when you walked in.
Speaker 7 (52:07):
There, it's just doesn't it feel a little cathedralist?
Speaker 2 (52:10):
It is?
Speaker 6 (52:11):
You need to you just take a solid breath and
then just look around. Then, Mikes, you go and read
every single Yeah, you definitely do. I down I can't
wait for you see it again. It's always great to
see you anyway, and we laugh and we go to
the car shop. But we also know that that moment
of walking in there brings it all back really fast
(52:31):
to the impact that a bunch of freak guys and
a bunch of friends can change the world.
Speaker 2 (52:38):
And we are changing the world. And it's a small
group of determined people changing the world.
Speaker 11 (52:45):
Yeah, it's amazing and appreciate the opportunity to do so.
And I look forward to getting back there to see
you guys in person.
Speaker 3 (52:51):
Yeah, me too, brother, Yeah, Darren, give that a website again.
Speaker 11 (52:54):
Roar like r O A R s Yes rors for
Sophie roars.
Speaker 3 (53:01):
Okay, yeah, you say it all the time about these families,
Oliver Steeper and Colson's Crew and Mavericks Legacy. I'm leaving
somehow Oie, Hawk Andberry their heroes because they take the
most tragic part of their lives. Maybe hopefully that's the worst.
Speaker 7 (53:19):
Pain and persevere so others don't feel it.
Speaker 3 (53:22):
Yeah, easy word. Well, Darren, We're going to tell you
to keep going. I know you will. Thank you so
much for joining us tonight, and we'll see you along
the way.
Speaker 2 (53:34):
Hockey.
Speaker 3 (53:35):
Look, put the hockey down, all right, you want some points?
Speaker 11 (53:38):
Call us? Yeah, wey is our game, just so you know, Belle.
Speaker 2 (53:41):
Yeah, just.
Speaker 11 (53:43):
Thanks, guys, Thank you.
Speaker 3 (53:47):
So great. In the arena with Aaron Brett Canada, we
continue on I'm a Bacher along with Arthur Lee, Steve
Olivery and Eric Banigan from Life back U K and uh.
It's such a great honor for us to your own.
It's only a couple of days that you're going to
be over here in the States and we could connect.
As I said earlier, we could connect.
Speaker 2 (54:08):
You insisted, but yeah, he took the private jet and
shot over the pond.
Speaker 7 (54:14):
Yeah, yeah, because I was inviged someone.
Speaker 2 (54:18):
No, but we had great meetings and it was really
eye opening on the global presence of life. And you know,
for this show in the arena today we talked about
a bunch of frank guys working out in the garage
and Eric's here because we need to better grow our
global empire and saving lives in forty nine countries.
Speaker 7 (54:39):
Yeah, I up air freight whatever. Don is probably gonna
help me, but I guess.
Speaker 3 (54:45):
Yeah, Donny eyes that we have to mention each show
does an amazing job with the.
Speaker 2 (54:48):
Information, and will yells and.
Speaker 3 (54:50):
Will correct us in a in a stern yeah when
we love you, don we do. So you know what's
coming up after After the next break, miss, we hear
from them every weekend, We're going to hear from you.
I love that sec very soon after this break, stay
(55:10):
with us in the arena more after this.
Speaker 1 (55:13):
Ben Carson here with a potentially life saving message. I
may be a retired neurosurgeon, but trying to help save
lives is something I'll never stop doing. Every year, this
world loses around five thousand lives that could have been
saved from choking accidents. That's why I've partnered with Lifeveac,
a company base right here in the USA. It is
simple to use, can be used on adults and children.
(55:36):
Plus it's guaranteed for life. Most importantly, if you ever
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Speaker 2 (55:51):
Go to the lifeac dot.
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Net and order your very own life saving device today.
Thank you,
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