October 2, 2025 • 55 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's no joke.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
When you choke, Cigad Life Back and without breath, They'll
be death.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
Cigad Life Back and.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
Gad Life Back.
Speaker 4 (00:14):
And Life Live Back, Life Back and Lie Back and Live.
Welcome to in the Arena podcast, where we bring you
the voices of those who step forward, take risks, and
fight for what matters most. Today's guest Rosario Casada, entrepreneur, philanthropist,
and the driving force behind the Casada Foundation, bat Guy
(00:38):
and Batman.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
We'll get to that more in a moment.
Speaker 4 (00:40):
Rosario story is one of resilience and purpose, transforming personal
trials into a mission of hope. From his work in
healthcare advocacy to the lives touched through his foundation, Rosario
reminds us that leadership is not about titles, It's about impact.
Get ready for an inspiring conversation about courage, service, and
what it truly means to be in the Arena. My
(01:01):
name is Rick Thatcher, along with Paddle Rock, Arthur Lee CEO,
inventor of Life that and we welcome Rosario Casada, Welcome, Sarah.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
Thank you, Hi guys. Now, let's let's just get right.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
That was awesome, man, It really sounded like get better excited,
Connecticut Broadcast is growing podcast and for good doubled last week,
did it?
Speaker 4 (01:26):
I think I don't want to get Well, we're heard
all across the country, heard all across the country, and
these uh, these remote lessons from the Connecticut School of
Broadcasting really paying off.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Yeah, it's coming through.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
But let's get right to something that I knew. Why Batman.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Well, Batman is one of the only superheroes that I
used to watch when I was a young kid, like
in nineteen six that does not have any super powers,
so he's able to give back, fight crime, get back
to the community. About any superpowers, he just doesn't on
his own interest. So my philosophy is, consider myself Batman,
(02:05):
because I give back to the community. I don't have
any superpowers, but I'm able to give back.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
I would argue that your superpowers are giving back to.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
That in the arena type situation. Is that's an important note, right,
because we we say, oh, Superman, right, but he can
fly into all this stuff, so we mortals can't. But
Batman is a great example of a guy that says,
all right, maybe I don't have super powers, but I
can get out and do it.
Speaker 5 (02:31):
But Batman had a super computer in his cave, and
that's what he had. He's a super computer because he
has all this information.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Yes, he can just slide down a poll in the house.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Okay, yeah, well he might.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
I mean the guy is pretty cool.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
He's good batman like have it. I do have a
bat cave some secrets. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Can we do the show from his batmobiles next week?
Speaker 1 (02:59):
From from the house.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
It would be our first on you know, on location.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Shoot if.
Speaker 5 (03:05):
I'll be the commissioner because I was my brother, I
was the youngest and full boys, so I was always
the commissioner. I was always the guy over the vat
of whale about to get He tied me up, then
he'd leave.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
Me the same bad time, same bat channel.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Alway, always commission Yes, did you guys.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
Do the flashlights out of the backyard into the sky
and that.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
I'll tell you how crazy we were when I got
married to my wife Carolyn. We got married at the
Boorn Mansion, at the Boorn Mansion, and I was batman
and catwoman in full dress. We had a whole wedding
with all the batmobile.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
The picture.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Oh, I have plenty of pictures. We got to do
a whole This is too cool. Yeah, who was the
best man? Robin? Who was Robin and didn't Robin? He
was the worst looking character. He had the droopy little pants,
but everybody else looked at Robin didn't look Commissioner Gordon
was Steve Blong.
Speaker 5 (03:51):
We got to see the actual commission Yeah, commission So.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
Who played Robin and didn't look good? It was a
person that a person that you paid actor. I wanted
to get my money back up.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
But let's let's go back to the start of this
of your foundation.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
You were in twenty seventeen. Twenty seventeen. Yep, that's when
we started. But prior to that, I used to work
with the Family Foundation with my dad, So we did
that for many years. My dad continued to I branched
off und up doing it on my own. So it's
a five oh one C corporation. You know. We get
to national charities, local charities. I saw the list of
(04:32):
charities that you work with.
Speaker 4 (04:33):
Now these are both in New York and Florida and
nationally and nationally correct. Amazing lists of all the people
that you'd expect to see on there. I mean, how
do you just do we just lose complete audio? We're back, Sorry,
about that testing.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Yeah, now he's panicking. Once you know, you must get
it just went out. I know.
Speaker 4 (04:56):
So when you are approached and I imagine you get
approached lot, and I think Arthur's in the same position,
how do you decide? How do you you know what
to navigate those waters? It's difficult.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
I mean I get approached every day for people wanting donations,
but my compassion is for children. So if I could
help a child who needs something financially, physically or academically,
that's why I generally try to help people.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Right, what's been the Any particular things stand out of reward,
you know in the heart, not obviously.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
Any well you know what you know, everybody says, oh,
you know you're a philanthropist or you have money, that's
why you can do it. And I tell this story
all the time. It isn't all about that. And the
one story that I tell is a young boy named Vincent,
and he was suffering from sackholma. His wish was to
go to Aruba with his family paid for that, let
him go on a strip, brought him to the Rangers game.
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He wanted to see the Rangers. But his last wish
to me was he wanted to drive in a Camaro.
Wasn't able to do that right away, but I said,
my daughter has a Camaro. We're going to do it.
Turns out he ends up succumbing to sakarma passes. I
don't see the family for three years. After three years,
I see him in another fundraiser that I'm at and
I said, listen, it's been weighing really hard on my
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heart that I didn't give him this one wish. And
they said, he got that wish. They brought him to
a car dealer somewhere out of the Chevy dealer put
him in the Camaro, and the manager drove him around
and he got his wish. So the point of that
story is you don't need money to make somebody happy.
It's from the heart. And that man took the time,
put him in a car and drove him around the
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parking lot and made that kid happy. That's all it took.
So it's not money.
Speaker 4 (06:41):
So you branched out in twenty seventeen. But you've been
involved in philanthropic works with your dad, He said, yes,
So when.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Did it start for him? That is back in the nineties. Yeah, Yeah,
he's been very fortunate. My dad he passed two three
years ago, but he was able to give back well
for himself.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
An immigrant legacy to pass on. Man, you got to
spend time be with your father at starting to accomplish
and learn and see the beauty of helping others and
then carry it on.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
So he's smiling. Yeah, that's cool. That's all we can
do in life. You know.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
I was thinking, you know, in the arena, it's really
more about not the giant world, it's people. Batman's you know.
And I got to bring it up because I'm dying.
But we have a friend. Her name is Danielle, and
she is a charity called She's Nursing a Warrior, and
she have a section called Silver Threads. And it goes
(07:39):
along with kind of with you Camaro story. So this
past weekend she collects clothes and she gives it to
the elder care right now, the key is one of
those we don't know, a lot of them are alone.
They don't ever get new clothes, right, so she's now
providing that. But this past weekend she didn't home shopping, right,
(08:02):
So these people that used to go out and shop.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
And have the home.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Yeah, but I'm dying here about it. And I had
to just say it because of the connection to every
little bit matters. The ride in the camaras what you
all those great things you've done, and that sticks in
your head and caution, and I think in the arena
is about Batman, meaning we're all Batman. You can pick up,
(08:28):
you can take a car, drive to an elder care home,
drive to a place and help out and find that situation.
I mean that.
Speaker 4 (08:37):
Yeah, pro Zaria, you faced challenges that could have broken others.
Apparently are You're not comfortable you know, talking about it
because I know Arthur in his book Sorry Cantas a Lie,
you know, reveals a lot of the same type.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Of challenge stories. Well, I mean when I grew up,
I didn't have a relationship with my dad. My mom
and dad never married. I was raised by my mom
and it was difficult. We didn't have money. We lived
in Bellport, we lived in a in a motel. My
mom worked in the in the hospital, and I grew
up not much. As time went on, I had a
(09:15):
relationship with my father. He used to pick me up
at school and eventually we started to have a nice
relationship and got involved with him with the business and
ever since that point. The relationship was a strong one. Yeah,
a solid relationship with my dad. Sounds like a lot
of family.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
When he passed, you guys cool like you were. Yeah,
he was like your buddy, and you.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
Know he wasn't. He was a workaholic. Yeah, you know,
total workaholica the generation. I mean, I could tell you
some funny, funny stories like I would get fired every
other week working on job sites. One day I got
fired because I left him on the roof. So I
got I go home with your dad on the roof. Yeah,
I left my dad might get you fine, And I
took the ladder and throw it on the ground, So
(09:56):
I really left him. How would he fire you? You're fired?
Don't come back? Yes, So I go home smarty pants
now scanning my father because I'm afraid he's got to
start yelling at me. I buy an answering machine, get
the answer machine. Put that on so when he calls,
I'm prepared. So phone rings, I hear him. Can you
curse on this? Let's find let's find out. I'm not
(10:21):
going to curse.
Speaker 6 (10:21):
But well it's now apparent it was cursing. Oh that
was cursing. So he says to me, Zario, you can
come back to it. What you got it answering machine,
don't come back.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
Appreciate.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
He's got the fastest re hire and fire history.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
Three words he got to hire back the fire, George.
That's pretty cool. Batman never pulled that off. You got
And how often would this happen? At least once a
week and usually happened during a Friday, so he wouldn't
have to pay me. You never had the file for
unemployment though.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
Trouble Fiery. That's pretty cool.
Speaker 4 (11:02):
So I got a question, what have you learned about
leadership for philanthropy and the community that you wish more
people understood?
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Well, Like I said with the Camaro story, I mean,
it's not all about money. It's just the little simple
things that you can do in life to help somebody.
I mean, help somebody across the street, you're in a supermarket,
help a lady with a groceries or whatever. Maybe, So
it's from the like author said, it's from your horse.
It's all from your heart step and not money. Whatever
you can do. Anybody can do anything. It doesn't matter
(11:33):
about money. So you know that's how I see it.
Speaker 4 (11:37):
You know, I noticed some of the charities that you
were aligned with, and some of them we're aligned with. Yeah,
shop with.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
It was a shop shop out a cop is a
wonderful thing. Officer Delgado, which is out of the second precinct.
I generally take about forty to fifty families and children
to Target in Huntington and let them shop. They each
get one hundred dollars and they spend their money and
whatever they want for themselves for Christmas. Most of them
buy something for themselves. But I've had people come up
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to me and I'm looking in their carts and they
have pillows, they have diapers, they have blankets, and I'm like,
didn't want to get something for yourself? And it's like, no,
I bought that for my aunt because she doesn't have
a pillow, or my sister in laws, you know whatever,
doesn't have diapers. So they thought outside of themselves. They
weren't concerned about themselves. So I was sweet to hear
(12:26):
that they get an extra HUNDI. Yeah, the batmobile.
Speaker 4 (12:31):
What are the local charities here here in New York
or in Florida that stand out?
Speaker 1 (12:36):
Some of the ones that well, my allegiance with, our
alliance with author has become.
Speaker 4 (12:42):
Quite successful and we're gonna talk more about that.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
That one of my favorite I.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Got a chill because you know, listening and uh, this
one really can't say the life I make the difference of,
you know, presidence, I said, little Lily, but this is
kind of black and white. You're going to save lives
and we're going to get that report that it was
a unit that you put into the public, you put
into the school, you put into the.
Speaker 4 (13:08):
It's gonna happen five hundred and chaking care of the kid,
the community of Marko Wiland.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
We're going to hear more about that.
Speaker 4 (13:16):
I was thinking the same thing and I read it
in the press announcement was you will save lives or responsible.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
It hit me when we were in Naples and you
know what an awesome department, awesome people, awesome cheese, and
here you are doing it. And I remember being in
my garage. I remember banging my head against the wall
and to stand next to you and the cheap and
then you stood up to help it and to save others,
like to me thirteen years to kill myself to see
(13:45):
someone else help and step up in such a significant way,
like it didn't jump in and like you jumped in, yeah,
and I was so grateful. Right, it felt like weight
coming off that I have an ally do and we
have plenty now, but it was just that moment because
it was so visual and it was there, and the
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officer was showing people how to use it and the
embracing of it, you know, and it is cool that
you will say, but I want to tell you two stories.
Used to go to like Walmart and pay off some
on loan. Yeah, and you go and you'd have to
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pull a receipts and look for toys, you know. And
then just before Jaggie went to college, we took her
in the car and I give her ten bills and
we walked around the toy stores and stuff and I
made her give them out to random people. She does
not like when they make her do this stuff. So
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it was fun as heck. But there was great, you know,
a lot of gratitude.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
You know.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
We would watch and we'd see someone trying to decide
which warrant and then have her go up and say
you got it.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
The best part of it is not so much giving
it to the k or to the families. It's the
hugs that those hugs and they're crying, Yeah, you can't
put a price.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
Well, especially in that moment, because they weren't sure if
they could get it. They're looking at the price and
into that one and as this beautiful little girl walks
up and give them winder bucks.
Speaker 4 (15:16):
We're going to be back with more with Rossario Casata
in the arena after this break.
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Speaker 1 (16:07):
Welcome back in the arena.
Speaker 4 (16:09):
My name is Rick Thatcher here along with Arthur Lee's CEO,
inventor of Life Back. I'm joined by Heidi Feelix, vice
president of sales, and of course we've been talking with
Rosario Casado of the Casada pronounced that wrong, Cassado Foundation.
I'm bound to, you know, nineteen out of twenty, I'll
get right, but that's pretty good.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Welcome back.
Speaker 4 (16:28):
We were about to start talking about all the great
work that you're doing, in particular Collier County. Heidi, how
did you, Heidi? How did you meet Rosario?
Speaker 8 (16:41):
Well, he actually contacted us, which I thought was amazing Batman,
and so we just started talking about different ideas and his.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
First did we put the thing up?
Speaker 1 (16:50):
Or he actually came to did we put the bat
signal up?
Speaker 9 (16:53):
Or commishoner we need to that. But it was interesting
because I had one.
Speaker 8 (17:00):
Conversation with him and I invited him to come in
to see our Hall of Saves, so he had a
chance to meet you and the whole team. And I
think that's when drank the kool aid, right, the life
actual aid.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
Yeah, right, that was a cool moment.
Speaker 9 (17:15):
It was a cool moment.
Speaker 8 (17:16):
Yeah, And Nicole was Carolyn and it was just so
nice because the whole family kind of came together and
you saw the big picture and literally saw the big picture.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
That's what did me. When I saw all those lives
saved up on that wall, I was like, I'm with
the right guy.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
Yeah. That was cool because I'm like, what are you doing.
I'm in what do we do?
Speaker 1 (17:38):
You know what?
Speaker 2 (17:38):
The thing about that too is you can walk up
and see a child and see his face and then
see that there's two thousand more and you know the
growing impact of their parents, their grandparents, their friends all
are okay, And you know that was a cool moment.
And I will always remember that. I remember twoful because
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your passion. And I'm like, really.
Speaker 4 (18:04):
So so Florida is the second home for you and
my main home. Your main home is in Florida. Now
making the trip.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
Well, I've been here for you do another thing.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
He's the back game in Florida or in New York,
New York.
Speaker 8 (18:19):
Literally, I've seen his bat give his office and absolutely
cool and he's even not the bat.
Speaker 9 (18:26):
I was trying to find the picture.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
There we go for those radio We now have those listening.
Speaker 4 (18:33):
We have a full Batman backdropping on our guest. Looks
just like yes, same same pack.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
I love the.
Speaker 9 (18:43):
Picture of you and your wife and there where you're
both stopping.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
All right, so we can tell.
Speaker 8 (18:48):
You, well, I didn't get to go because I was
too busy running sales back here.
Speaker 9 (18:54):
But you did, right, and.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
Arthur, you were there this whole story. Yeah, a premise.
The premise is I reached out to Kaye County Sheriff's Department.
I said, listen, I have an idea. I see this
life back unit. I know they're roll over the country.
Would you guys be interested in putting them in your
patrol cars? Yes? I said, well what if I donate
them and give them to you free of charge? Absolutely?
(19:21):
And so there was no question immediately they want it.
In My phone call to Heidi to see if we
could put it together, and that's right, thank god. Yeah,
yeah we got a Heidi, you said, Heidi, we.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
Got to go climb over evers come down the other
side of one life back to be like all.
Speaker 8 (19:40):
Well, the best part was you donated five hundred and
then the sheriff called me to buy another four fifty,
which I think you were happy about.
Speaker 9 (19:47):
Sure, so you know, and that was just amazing.
Speaker 8 (19:50):
So and again I am sorry that I wasn't there,
but you had some great press.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
Oh we had awesome press.
Speaker 9 (19:56):
Wonderful.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
All the news agents all over the papers down Florida.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
We were at it, like the presidential press conference.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
Yeah, it was the fake news there. I don't think
the banner of press. There's nothing fake about this and
it works.
Speaker 4 (20:16):
There are fakes out there, as you know, fake product, yes,
not fake accomplishments.
Speaker 8 (20:21):
And not fake people nothing but real here, absolutely real people.
Speaker 9 (20:27):
But but it was great was you know, you didn't
stop there.
Speaker 8 (20:30):
Knowing we're still going, which is great going.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
What do you think's next? Well, are we going to
talk about that?
Speaker 9 (20:38):
Talk about what we're doing all this time?
Speaker 2 (20:39):
Because obviously I was insistent that Heidi be there and
actually take a breath and stay and enjoy yourself for
one day.
Speaker 9 (20:49):
I actually get it. Two days. That never happens.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
Them and uh so tell us what's going on there.
Speaker 8 (20:54):
So we're really excited because you know, with all the
wonderful connections that Rosario has down there, one is an
elementary school in the Collier County School District, so tiny
Danfield is that will be our.
Speaker 9 (21:07):
First donation to all the families there.
Speaker 8 (21:09):
And then we're going to be at Marco Island, PD
and we're going to be donating to them as well,
which I think is really and that's where we're going
to have some nice press.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
We should have some nice press there and then or
from there, we're going to the Presbyterian preschool which is
in Naples, going to donate to another freak.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
You know, we have to I don't even know give
them right to the family.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
I'm giving the families the schools are on radio because
you can't see that. I'm going to cry, so I'll
be right.
Speaker 8 (21:37):
Well, the best part is your grandchildren go to the preschool.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
Yes they do.
Speaker 9 (21:42):
That's the best parting your family and the families.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
That another little secret, maybe that maybe happened.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
This may be the area for secrets, because the whole
goal is not to be secrets.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
Want of people to see this. But you're probably safe.
He's probably saying. I am in works with a school
in King's Park. Also in the works with Sarasota Police
Department in Venice Police Department, and I'm trying to get
them on board. So we're very close to trying to
get them in their patrol car.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
I was saying, are you saying I could get rid
of hiding?
Speaker 1 (22:17):
No, don't get rid of I get you. I don't
know where you auld never get rid of ID I
text you, what responded? I got back to you, and
it's still like three weeks later.
Speaker 9 (22:28):
I didn't right away Batman.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
Yeah, well that's that's that's the cole Heiding lesson.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
See I have you have the bad single and.
Speaker 7 (22:40):
Yeah, what's some of the pushback that you get besides
the fact that you're giving into for free it's life
fact document to save lives.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
Do you get resistance? Well, the mean resistance. What we
just went to yesterday was the Suffoc County Police Foundation.
There was resistance there, but not through the police department.
I met with some of the big wigs there, spoke
to MC if they were on board. I said, tell
me from your heart, are you were on board with this? Absolutely?
It's you know, legislation and that's what I need.
Speaker 4 (23:13):
Author's help, manuals and guidelines.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
Well you know, and you know it's sorry to get
back to you that you need to talk. Like in
two seconds I was talking. I said, yeah, we have
bills drafted. I know what you're talking about. We can't
say that. And we have to include the clause for
the ADA, which is really key to pushing it through legislatively,
(23:37):
because every school has a nice jogging post and the
persons standing up and getting saved, but nothing for the
kid in the wheelchair. And that's a federal violation of equality.
So when we encompass that in the bill. It tends
to get a little more support because the answer is
nothing except us violating federal law. But since I didn't
(24:00):
get back to you, it was good. We're sitting next
to each other talking.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
So we're friends again. Tuesday night.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
Yeah, hey, if I get a robin that, but I
swear I won't get the droopy pants.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
I'm going to get you to drop.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
All right, I owe you want to not get that way.
Speaker 4 (24:17):
So talk about Tuesday night because it was a huge night.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
It was a soire going on.
Speaker 4 (24:25):
This is great Suffoc County Police.
Speaker 9 (24:27):
Founder, Watermill office, which is great.
Speaker 8 (24:30):
I was just to reserve a table, and of course
people hijacked the table before Rosaria when his family came.
Speaker 9 (24:36):
I'm so sorry. I was trying to But what was
nice in the interiom.
Speaker 8 (24:39):
I was walking around talking to people and there was
a couple of legislators.
Speaker 9 (24:43):
No, I know, I'm so shy. It's one of my dogs.
Speaker 8 (24:47):
And one of the people that was there was Dominic Thorne,
who was there at our legislative presentation that we did
to the Health Committee. And he's a big believer, wonderful guy.
Comes up to me, he goes hy do you know
I believe in life back because they have.
Speaker 9 (24:59):
It hanging in my kitchen, am and ams and you know.
Speaker 8 (25:05):
And it was wonderful because I was at an ad
a celebration for Silo, and I'm at my booth and
he comes over and he starts demonstrating to other people like.
Speaker 9 (25:14):
This is Dominic Thorne.
Speaker 8 (25:15):
He's in charge of all emos for Suffolk County and
just a wonderful guy. So again, you know, we do
have a lot of people who believe in us. I
actually just sent a Senator Materara the bill that we
did in Texas that was actually signed by the governor.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
You did it. That's that's why I told her to
get back.
Speaker 9 (25:32):
I took care of it.
Speaker 4 (25:33):
I wassus with the details, meticulous, a little crazy, little OCD.
Speaker 9 (25:40):
But it's all good. It's all good. So I think
we're moving in the right direction.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
At the event, did you give me Well, here's.
Speaker 9 (25:50):
The best part. Guess who. I went up and introduced
myself to doctor Boss Winkle. Oh nice, very nice man,
very nice to eat. Saved all those wonderful.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
People that were.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
Anyone any of those moments.
Speaker 8 (26:05):
Okay, so here's the one that you're gonna love is
that we're sitting at a table with all these other people,
and of course me being so shy, I'm talking to everybody.
Speaker 9 (26:12):
And turns out one of the guys who's.
Speaker 8 (26:14):
There, and you know, he goes, oh my god, my
wife has like two of those things.
Speaker 9 (26:18):
I got one in my car, I got one in
the hospital.
Speaker 8 (26:20):
And then they start talking and all of a sudden
there's this guy sitting there and he's the CEO of
a large organization that has over three thousand pharmacies, and
he goes, we need to talk. And I said to Rosario,
that was a good one. You know, a wonderful guy
who again says it's a life saving device.
Speaker 9 (26:38):
I mean, I would love to have it in my pharmacy.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
I only asked because last time he was at the
police at the academy.
Speaker 9 (26:44):
I was at the police academy and NASA, honey.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
Someone stood and said, by the way I used it us.
Speaker 8 (26:50):
Well, that was the best because it was the NASA
County patrol parole officer, actually an older patrol parole, not
a patrol but he had.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
In his home.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
That's been exponged.
Speaker 4 (27:05):
Yeah that's good, Yes, I think, yeah, I think you
can talk about.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
But the shots don't exist in somewhere. I don't.
Speaker 8 (27:14):
But that was great because here I'm a number of
four hundred people right and I've was invited by Justin McCaffrey,
who's our commissioner of China. Oyster bag was that all
the public safety vehicles and obviously it's in all of
the NASA County control cars. So I got up there
and I did my thing. You know, I get fifteen
seconds to speak of and all of a sudden this.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
Was pretty cool.
Speaker 9 (27:35):
So sure enough.
Speaker 8 (27:37):
This guy stands up and he goes, I just want
to say thank you, Heidi, you and life. I saved
my son's life. I was in shock, like I just
you can see the look that a.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
Couple of you're going to get. I'm waiting.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
I wait for you to get County.
Speaker 4 (27:50):
That could be the next contract. Let's predict the first
time that is responsible.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
But you know what, I got things Either they're going
to contact you or someone's going to tell you, and
I've had both and I've had people walk up at event.
So it was that Joe Piscolo's book signing guy comes up.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
To me and he goes, can I take a picture
with you? It's so weird. But what do I get? Good?
Speaker 2 (28:14):
And then he tells me hes to save his door,
save his door, and I can't wait for that. Yeah,
you know what to here's the other thing, and I
know you get it. There'll be a lot you won't
know right until you meet the big guy.
Speaker 4 (28:27):
And or whatever. Think about the lives that you're protecting
or you have.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
It's so exciting. I'm excited for him.
Speaker 9 (28:35):
Yeah, it's all good.
Speaker 8 (28:36):
I mean, even when I was at the Police Academy
for the last event, I always had a table. They said,
set up a table. Kevin Smith is one of the
greatest guys. He's one of the commissioners. And you know,
I had three people at that event come up to
me and tell me that they used it to save
a life. Ryan Warner and I were at Costco. We
had two other trooples came up. I rode to Ryan.
It was at Costco. We're out in Holdspelle. Two guys
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come up to me, both of which were pair them
out X. Both had used it to save a life. Right,
So I was just taken aback because there's so many
that are unreported to us.
Speaker 9 (29:07):
We don't know up coming when they tell their story.
Speaker 4 (29:10):
When we when we hear of road Show Ryan Warner
training someone, and less than two weeks later, we saved
a life. It is going to happen as a as
a future episode of in the Arena. We're going to
have Bryan road Show and the gentleman that he kind
of demonstrated life back to, got him comfortable with it,
and less than two weeks later, he saves a life.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
I'm telling you to ty your county. The sheriff, I think,
is going to be really excited, because that's all he
kept saying. I can't wait to see your first life.
Speaker 4 (29:38):
Now you're coming, you're coming, or you guys are both
or three of you going down?
Speaker 1 (29:43):
And when is this happening? October tenth? Well next week,
next week?
Speaker 10 (29:48):
Excited And it's the police department, Marclan Police Department, the
Tommy Barfield Elementary School that's going to hold the parents,
three hundred fifty units, all the patrol cars Marco Island,
plus the municipality and you.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
Know, our audience cool this one. We're going to give
it right to the parents.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
Yeah, this is going right to their parents.
Speaker 4 (30:10):
Our audience in Orlando is gonna be jealous, you know,
that our audience in Orlando, Florida gonna be jealous.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
Listen, they know how to get it.
Speaker 4 (30:18):
Yeah, we have nothing against the Disney folks judgment.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
How do people spend by product? I love it? A
good thing. You do a demonstration on the characters, that
would be kind.
Speaker 6 (30:32):
Of Oh yeah, that would be cool yeahese, Oh yeah,
we go, that's a commercial.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
I like it.
Speaker 4 (30:42):
Now back to your roots. You started, grew up in
Long Islands, grew up a Long Island patchrog, patrog. And
how long have you been you say your primary residence
is Florida? No, yeah, how much time do you spend?
Speaker 1 (30:55):
Six and six? So six months here? Six months in Florida,
snowburn snowbird Okay.
Speaker 4 (31:01):
And what was the business that allowed for all this philanthropy?
Speaker 1 (31:07):
What was that? What was what was the family business? Oh?
The family businesses were real estate business. So we uh
we have senior citizen complexes, industrial buildings, uh, storage facilities,
all self contained. We build them, we maintain them. So
that's how our empires started through my dad.
Speaker 4 (31:24):
And Dad was the one who instilled in you.
Speaker 1 (31:27):
Dad started came back, he came over from Sicily, started
in the paper bag business and Bay Shore Flea Market
or whatever that was called.
Speaker 4 (31:34):
It was a place, right The arena is still, yeah,
it's still it's just deserted.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
It's a building. Is nothing going on. And then went
into the Delhi business and the rest of the hard work.
And yeah, and my businesses seven days a week. And
siblings have two brothers and a sister. Are they in
the My brother's in it. But the person that I
didn't think would be in my business is my daughter.
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My daughter is the one who's running everything now. We're
starting to pass the marines off to her. Wow, and
us doing a phenomenal job. And her name is Nicole. Okay,
id business.
Speaker 4 (32:16):
Well, we've been talking with Rosario Casada.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
Is that how I pronounced?
Speaker 4 (32:22):
Should have studied this earlier today, but anyway, we've been
talking with Rosario about the foundation. Arthur Lee, Heidi Felix,
I'm rick Thatcher will be back with mister Ray. Prieby's
coming up after this message.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
She started to choke on a piece of candy.
Speaker 3 (32:52):
She wasn't breathing.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
Then Ray reached She started to choke on a piece
of candy.
Speaker 3 (33:01):
She wasn't breathing.
Speaker 4 (33:02):
Then Ray reached for the life back in it saved her.
Speaker 11 (33:05):
She could have easily died that day. A life back
saved her life. What I would say is, don't need
a life back and not have it. Have a life
back and hopefully never need it.
Speaker 2 (33:17):
Recently, the American Red Cross has added anti joking devices
as an option when standard protocol fails or is not feasible.
Speaker 5 (33:24):
Go to life back dot Net or called eight seven
seven five four three three eight two to.
Speaker 4 (33:28):
Two, and we're back in the arena. Rick Thatcher along
with Heidi Felix, Arthur Lee Rosario, Casada Batmanneah, we know
this Batman Rosario. Have you ever heard of a gentleman
from Cape Coral, Florida. We call him mister three k Yeah, yeah,
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mister three thousand.
Speaker 2 (33:52):
Unless he whims out because sometimes, you know.
Speaker 1 (33:54):
I don't want to delve you. We're so excited to
speak to him. Every week. Here he is three thousand.
Speaker 3 (34:07):
Life was out there? What's going on?
Speaker 12 (34:10):
You?
Speaker 9 (34:10):
Literally?
Speaker 13 (34:12):
Here I am at the beautiful football field watching my
son play football. They're currently up eight to zero. So
we're gonna we're gonna keep that paint going.
Speaker 2 (34:22):
Your new office is too late to get action.
Speaker 13 (34:26):
Never too late to get action. We're only in the
first quarter. We got three more to go.
Speaker 1 (34:30):
Wo I'm then betting, oh did I Well?
Speaker 3 (34:36):
Guys, we' great numbers here.
Speaker 13 (34:38):
But let's listen to this. You know, back a little
while ago, I made a prediction for uh for the
three hundred and sixty fifth day of my lot of
Girl getting saved, and I was way off.
Speaker 3 (34:51):
And I am so proud to say the lives were saving.
It's so amazing. I'm sixty two lives off.
Speaker 13 (35:01):
We have saved two more people than what I predicted
on October twentieth. Uh So, here we are three hundred
and forty seven days into it, and we have saved
one thousand, eight hundred and eighty eight lives. It's unbelievable, unbelievable. Bobby,
do we got a screen, Bobby, throw throw a screen up?
Speaker 1 (35:22):
Oh, here comes the screen. I'll read it for those
books in the home.
Speaker 4 (35:27):
Total lives save two thousand two children.
Speaker 3 (35:32):
Total.
Speaker 1 (35:34):
Eighty seven lives.
Speaker 3 (35:37):
I mean, absolutely unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (35:40):
You know, one ticke of break. What's the anniversary of
the three thousand good daughter?
Speaker 3 (35:45):
October twentieth?
Speaker 2 (35:46):
All right, we got to remember that. October twenty. We
gotta celebrate that.
Speaker 3 (35:49):
You gotta celebrate absolutely.
Speaker 13 (35:51):
I will be the one year mark if it will
be one year one year on October twentieth. I mean,
just today alone, we saved four lives. Four lives just today.
I'm absolutely unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (36:07):
You got your save of a day, big guy.
Speaker 13 (36:10):
I do have a great save of the day today.
So I was reading it and it gave me some goosebumps.
So on September twelfth, I'm sorry. September tenth, a five
year old girl choked on a piece of orange. It
took place after school when she wanted a snack, so
I gave her a small orange. The slice got stuck
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in her throat. She was making quite a weird noise,
and her dad and I looked at her and saw
saw the scared look on her face, and we knew
right away. Dad tried back blows along with the Heimlich
as I ran upstairs to retrieve the life back. We
used the life back one time and it pulled it
(36:54):
right out. She coaked before one other time, and the
Heimlich maneuver worked. This time, it was not working. Life
back saved our daughter. I mean, it's right there.
Speaker 2 (37:10):
You know what I was watching. You read that, man,
this is not someone reading something. Every time you read it,
you're seeing your little girl, and every time he gets emotional.
But that's the importance of the men in the arena.
Ray stepped up. No paid, We take advantage of him.
But the point is he is as real as humanity gets.
(37:31):
He's reading about a child save and his child was saved,
and that's why he's here from a football field in
the Sun's game.
Speaker 1 (37:37):
I love you.
Speaker 13 (37:38):
You're the bottom line, rain or shine, football field at
home wherever I need to be. If you know one
person hears this and buys life back. Amen, Yeah, yeah,
that's what you mean.
Speaker 2 (37:50):
So what you're saying, Ray, so life back.
Speaker 13 (37:53):
Better to have it and not need it than need
it and not have it. The life you saved could
be your own, could be your child, could be a
stranger who knows save a life, get a life back,
God blessed.
Speaker 1 (38:04):
Listen yet the beating.
Speaker 3 (38:07):
See you and Marco Island.
Speaker 1 (38:09):
Go get him. You're gonna push five thousand.
Speaker 2 (38:14):
Maybe yeah he was, but he'll he was in the background.
Speaker 1 (38:19):
We were batman.
Speaker 2 (38:20):
What do you care about?
Speaker 1 (38:24):
Got three thousand? He was the daughter.
Speaker 2 (38:28):
But it's cool because he picked up the torch right
like he was saying the one he can do something
something he became missed the three thousands. And it's not
questioning anything, not because of me anything. That's the key.
Speaker 1 (38:42):
No, I'm not sure that's correct.
Speaker 4 (38:44):
The very best of networks, you know, how networking was
designed to work was you know, sharing, caring and sharing
using products or passing it on.
Speaker 2 (38:55):
Such passion because thought. And you watch when he reads
that about a child, you know, we looking and feeling
what he felt. He knows what those people felt.
Speaker 4 (39:04):
In some weeks, he gets to apologize from my interrupting
and we encourage. When did we have a couple of
weeks ago that was apologizing, you know, for the kids
that might interrupt, and one of them was saying, We're
like we actually that's you know, we're couraging interrupt all.
Speaker 1 (39:21):
This is a family. You know. I never really thanked Heidi,
but I was totally shocked that Heidie called me back
when I said I want to get involved with life back,
got the opportunity to meet author and with our donations.
Now we've reached a point where he is matching everything
that I'm doing. So we're moving even bigger than I anticipated.
So what I can't afford to do is behind me?
Speaker 2 (39:44):
Well, I mean I don't know about that. It's that
we're a team.
Speaker 1 (39:47):
Man, Well we are. I wouldn't want you, I.
Speaker 2 (39:48):
Want them in and then and that's what makes team.
I'm in, let's go, and you give me energy, so
I need that.
Speaker 1 (39:59):
And that's cool.
Speaker 4 (40:00):
Yeah, how can folks help? They want they hear the passion,
they hear what you're doing. They're hearing the good works.
How do people get involved with the Casada Foundation?
Speaker 1 (40:10):
That's a good question. The Cassada Foundation is a self
funded foundation. I don't seek any money from anybody. I
do not look for charity from anybody. It's from our heart.
It's from the money that I made personally. So I
don't look for that. So if somebody wants to do something,
do something nice for somebody out there. There's some charity work,
do something.
Speaker 2 (40:34):
We kind of needed by some authors. Yes, support the
foundation by buying.
Speaker 4 (40:41):
But but I'm looking at the list of of organizations
that you have either sponsored or supported, and it is
it is lengthy, and I don't know that it doesn't
who's not on this list.
Speaker 1 (40:53):
But you know, I don't know.
Speaker 4 (40:56):
Amazing You say you concentrate on children.
Speaker 1 (40:58):
That's that's my compassion. If I could help children, that's
what I want to do.
Speaker 2 (41:03):
Oh, you've got to come to the toy drive.
Speaker 1 (41:04):
Do you have a batmobiat in New York similar to
the one that you have there, but it's a two
seater because we do.
Speaker 2 (41:10):
We do a toy drive every year for the John
Deson Foundation and we collect packed classic cars line up
at my house. I tend to ride a Mostcycle in
a Santa outfit, but so be it and droopy pants.
Speaker 1 (41:23):
H you got it?
Speaker 2 (41:24):
Because I want we should have, we should have.
Speaker 1 (41:30):
We got to start from oting.
Speaker 3 (41:31):
We do so.
Speaker 8 (41:32):
John Deson helped me when I was at the lowest
of lows and actually helped me deliver a Christmas for
my children.
Speaker 9 (41:39):
And he's such a good man.
Speaker 8 (41:40):
I've been literally donating my time there for over twenty years.
Speaker 2 (41:44):
Come in like Ted, Now you are Chris.
Speaker 1 (41:47):
Recently I worked with the Marty Lyons Foundation have a
skeet shooting event with the Italian Heritage Club, so we
get to shoot Italian Yeah, that's by the mob trains.
So what happened there was speak for a three year
old girl who had she was born premature twenty four weeks.
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She suffered from all sorts of cerebral hemorrhaging. I can't
walk and all that. She wants to get therapy. So
they're sending into North Carolina. Insurance will not pay, so
they needed to raise fourteen thousand dollars to do that.
That was raised through to both charities. My goal there
was they got there and they needed something to enjoy themselves.
(42:28):
So my donation was to give them money so they
can enjoy themselves while they're there for that week, not
just go for the for the training and go there
and enjoy themselves. Yeah, take the ride in the Camara.
Speaker 2 (42:40):
Wow, well you'll you'll enjoy the car run because we
had classes. Oh, I love the toys and we have
a good time.
Speaker 1 (42:46):
You sort of a batmobile. Yeah, well that's what I mean.
Speaker 2 (42:49):
We get to meet in front of my ass and
we talked cars for a while in front of each other.
Speaker 1 (42:53):
They did about cars pretty neat.
Speaker 4 (42:55):
Well, you've been listening to Rosario Casata along with Arthur Lee.
You feel like Summer Thatcher. You'll stick with us and
we'll see more in the arena. On the other side
of this message.
Speaker 12 (43:21):
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Speaker 4 (44:09):
As we chatter away, Welcome back in the arena. That's okay,
don't no need to apologize hiding.
Speaker 1 (44:15):
We like the chatter.
Speaker 4 (44:16):
Uh oh, Welcome back in the arena. I'm Rick Thatcher
and everybody's here.
Speaker 1 (44:21):
Everyone's back.
Speaker 4 (44:22):
We're talking with Rosario Casado about the wonderful work that
he's doing in conjunction, wonderful work on his own and
then combining more great work with Life Fact.
Speaker 1 (44:32):
That's exciting. I'm glad that I had the opportunity to
partner with Heidi and author to save lives. And I
can't wait for Kyllier County, Florida to come forward and
say yeah, they saved the life, because that will be
an exciting day for me.
Speaker 2 (44:47):
Well, you know, it's great when you persevere so long
and then someone like you comes in and has such
a big heart and it's helped in so many ways,
and you pick us to help and then you know,
the whole team gets energized.
Speaker 1 (44:59):
Again. That's the way I You're always energized.
Speaker 2 (45:01):
But it is challenging and drudgery, and it's nice to
have someone in energy and say no, I'm in man,
you know, and you write.
Speaker 1 (45:12):
You proved it to me when I walked into that
all of saved lives. That's what did it. That was
the main thing.
Speaker 2 (45:18):
That's well, that's our cathedral for those listening, we have
we have pictures of three thousand people that we have
saved on in our facility and it's now two stories,
the walls are covered and it's our cathedral. Don't you
say that? I mean you've seen it since it was tiny.
Speaker 1 (45:35):
What was it with sixty two sixty two pictures?
Speaker 8 (45:38):
I just actually I shared your story that you had
from the New York Post just because I had memorized
all those stories. I can't even remember half of them now,
you know. But at the same time, we had a
chance to meet all these families.
Speaker 9 (45:51):
We help these babies in our arms, you know.
Speaker 8 (45:54):
And one of my guys who is one of our
resellers that happens to own a huge training facility you
just don't put up one in Manhattan CPR New York.
And he happens to be a paramedic and he's just
a great guy. So he comes to pick up his
order and I go, do you want to come and
see the Hall of Saves? He goes, yeah, can I
He walks it goes, oh my god. I mean this
is like a really stoic guy who he got tears
(46:17):
in his eyes.
Speaker 9 (46:18):
I go, are you crying, Chris? He's like, oh my god.
Speaker 8 (46:21):
You talked about it and you've explained this to me
and I had no idea, And I said, we readse
the roof. I said, this is crazy, and I started
telling him the stories. I go, wait, I guess I
still remember those things stories.
Speaker 2 (46:32):
Well, I said, you.
Speaker 1 (46:33):
Can't make that whole of shaves, like make it like
a travel event.
Speaker 2 (46:37):
Over We do the power of it is worth sharing
more than ever and they never really I used it.
We use it for our own motivation and for our
own awareness. You know, numbers and number You look at
three thousand kids and four thousand people, you kind of
really feel five thousands.
Speaker 1 (46:55):
But it's amazing.
Speaker 2 (46:58):
The tough guy Tim Weiss, marine firefighter, he hit him
and add with his shovel. He laughs, talks about saying
as thority cries, you know, and we've seen that in
numerous you know men, who's just who's the guy in
the big farmer dude in Texas police officer, huge feelings, bullets,
(47:21):
don't care kid dying, you.
Speaker 1 (47:24):
Know, Maudi Lions. Right as soon as that man speaks,
I think he begins to cry before he's been talking,
because he's so emotional and so from the heart. And
is it sad for a grown man to cry? Not
for that humanity? You're a person, you have a.
Speaker 2 (47:40):
Heart, and you know that there's a guy right trenches
and feels break down them.
Speaker 4 (47:47):
In Yeah, I want to take a moment and talk
about a daughter of someone that I grew up, you know,
idolizing the band Leonard Skinner. So I got a phone
call last week through friends from uh Johnny van Zant
lead singer Leonard Skinners, and I was looking over my
you know, each shoulders, like this really happening. And he
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was telling sharing with me the story of his daughter,
Taylor van Zant, who suffers from a rare cerebral condition
called cavernous malformation. And there's going to be an event
upcoming in Jacksonville, Florida, at the Portion in Jacksonville November fifth.
I just want to let everyone know. For those folks
(48:29):
I guess most closely to Orlando saved the date Rocking
for a Cure November fifth. I know Leonard Skinner is
going to be there.
Speaker 2 (48:36):
Do we want to go? Well, I know we're donating.
I cleared that up this morning, and uh, maybe we
should go.
Speaker 4 (48:43):
I'd love to be there, I think, and we have
to check with This is the same weekend as.
Speaker 1 (48:49):
The Patriot Awards, which we like to we like to
go to. But all the best.
Speaker 4 (48:54):
We're sending all thoughts in prayers to the van Zant fans.
Speaker 2 (48:58):
We have some time. We should keep bringing it up.
Is there a a website or something? Because we're on radio.
Speaker 1 (49:04):
Yeah, that's going to be a tough one. For me
at the link. We nobody knows.
Speaker 4 (49:10):
How to get in touch with No, we will please.
You know, if you're listening to this broadcast podcast, we're
kind of a radio show, we're kind of a podcast.
We're a little bit of both. But it's all hard
and if you want to get in touch, please reach
out to the station that you're hearing this on, or
and just email us at life act dot net. My
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name is are Thatcher spelled easily f A T S
C H E R R. Yeah, he doesn't, doesn't My
email account can handle it. He would explode, But reach
out and and you know, talking with you about the network,
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the people that you connect with, you can continue to
connect with more people and it's just great.
Speaker 1 (49:55):
You know, great people doing great things.
Speaker 4 (49:57):
And uh, and that's how I feel about When this
phone call came in, we shared I mean, I'm talking
to someone that I grew up idolizing this band. And
we shared some stories about Charlie Daniels and how what
it was like growing up losing his older brother in
a plane crash, lost my dad in a plane crash
show when I was in seventh grade, and I learned
Leonard skinnerd my favorite band just had a plane crash
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and the lead singer, Ronnie Vanzette, was called I felt
like I was connect yeah, not only connecting, but grieving
my father something.
Speaker 2 (50:30):
But then you if it's not the Patriot Ward, you're going,
oh yeah, because there's God wing to that and we
got to support him. And I think we just keep
every show, will actually get where they they exist, and
make sure we Yeah.
Speaker 4 (50:45):
But I really am impressed by the amount of both
of you, the amount of generosity and humanity and love
that you guys have. It's almost limitless because I know
that I know you never say I know you never
saw it.
Speaker 1 (51:01):
Hard says, hard to say.
Speaker 2 (51:03):
But here's the thing, everybody, what's the starfish story?
Speaker 9 (51:08):
I love this story?
Speaker 8 (51:11):
So I actually I was the Cub Scout leader for
many years and I had sixteen Cub Scouts, and fifteen
of them became Eagle Scouts, and they all invited me
to their Eagle Scouts ceremonies and I used to tell them.
Speaker 9 (51:20):
The story of the starfish and the starfish.
Speaker 8 (51:23):
Is all about the fact that when a starfish comes
up from the ocean and it's stuck on.
Speaker 2 (51:27):
The beach, it's going thousands.
Speaker 9 (51:29):
Of thousands of them.
Speaker 8 (51:30):
So there's this man watching this little boy walking along
the beach and tossing these starfish and he goes, young man,
he goes, you can't save them all.
Speaker 9 (51:38):
He goes, I save that one. I saved that one.
One by one. You can make a difference. And that's
what I usually have.
Speaker 2 (51:46):
Different throwing the starfish back. And he throws one back
and he says, well, I made a difference to that one.
So in the arena. This is not the biggest charity
in the history. It's small. It's a devastating, unique thing. Well,
we can save some starfish, man, and every time we can,
we throw some back. And someday to be to be clear.
Speaker 1 (52:10):
To do it, you know, I mean as opposed to
not being able to try to. Everyone could pick up
and start try.
Speaker 4 (52:16):
And sometimes people get in the way, institutions get in
the way.
Speaker 2 (52:20):
You hit them with shovels.
Speaker 1 (52:21):
Yes, oh no, you.
Speaker 8 (52:22):
Can't do But the key is one person at a time.
Speaker 2 (52:27):
Right, throw a starfish back, and it's important that people
know that. You know, you don't have to do the great,
biggest thing. Well, one starfish back, we'll throw one back.
We'll get we're throwing them back. Yeah, you are, man,
we're doing it.
Speaker 4 (52:43):
Before we go any any closing thoughts.
Speaker 1 (52:48):
Well, I have one. Uh. It was a Ronald Reagan
when he was doing it some sort of speech. He
was interviewing this little girl. Yes, this little girl goes,
what do you want to do when you a while?
And she says, I'd like to be the president. He goes, wow,
that's very impressive. What do you want to do when
you become the president? Because I want to help save
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homeless people. He goes, well, how are you going to
do that? And he goes she goes, well, what I'll
do is I'll get a lawnmower, mow grass in my
neighborhood for all the people that live in my neighborhood,
make my money, my fifty dollars whatever I make, and
I'll give that back to help the homeless people. Wow.
So that was a young kid, you know. So if
children can get instilled with that mentality now to help
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as opposed to what's happening in the world right now,
I think you would go a better direction.
Speaker 2 (53:36):
And you can mow one law and you could throw
one star fish smile and so let's go yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4 (53:47):
Well listen, thank you, for joining us on in the arena.
Roseric casado'sjourney reminds us that are out of challenge can
come compassion and out of struggle strength. The Casada Foundation
is proof that one person's mission can ripple outward and
change countless lives. If you were inspired by this conversation,
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us has the power to step into the arena and
make a difference. We thank you so much, Rick Thatcher,
how do you feelis good night? Heidi Arthur Lee CEO
inventor life hero and Rosario, thanks so much. And I
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Welcome to in the Arena podcast, where we bring you
the voices of those who step forward, take risks, and
fight for what matters most. Today's guest Rosario Casada, entrepreneur, philanthropist,
and the driving force behind the Casada Foundation, bat Guy
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and Batman.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
We'll get to that more in a moment.
Speaker 4 (00:40):
Rosario story is one of resilience and purpose, transforming personal
trials into a mission of hope. From his work in
healthcare advocacy to the lives touched through his foundation, Rosario
reminds us that leadership is not about titles, It's about impact.
Get ready for an inspiring conversation about courage, service, and
what it truly means to be in the Arena. My
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name is Rick Thatcher, along with Paddle Rock, Arthur Lee CEO,
inventor of Life that and we welcome Rosario Casada, Welcome, Sarah.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
Thank you, Hi guys. Now, let's let's just get right.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
That was awesome, man, It really sounded like get better excited,
Connecticut Broadcast is growing podcast and for good doubled last week,
did it?
Speaker 4 (01:26):
I think I don't want to get Well, we're heard
all across the country, heard all across the country, and
these uh, these remote lessons from the Connecticut School of
Broadcasting really paying off.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Yeah, it's coming through.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
But let's get right to something that I knew. Why Batman.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Well, Batman is one of the only superheroes that I
used to watch when I was a young kid, like
in nineteen six that does not have any super powers,
so he's able to give back, fight crime, get back
to the community. About any superpowers, he just doesn't on
his own interest. So my philosophy is, consider myself Batman,
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because I give back to the community. I don't have
any superpowers, but I'm able to give back.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
I would argue that your superpowers are giving back to.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
That in the arena type situation. Is that's an important note, right,
because we we say, oh, Superman, right, but he can
fly into all this stuff, so we mortals can't. But
Batman is a great example of a guy that says,
all right, maybe I don't have super powers, but I
can get out and do it.
Speaker 5 (02:31):
But Batman had a super computer in his cave, and
that's what he had. He's a super computer because he
has all this information.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Yes, he can just slide down a poll in the house.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Okay, yeah, well he might.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
I mean the guy is pretty cool.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
He's good batman like have it. I do have a
bat cave some secrets. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Can we do the show from his batmobiles next week?
Speaker 1 (02:59):
From from the house.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
It would be our first on you know, on location.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Shoot if.
Speaker 5 (03:05):
I'll be the commissioner because I was my brother, I
was the youngest and full boys, so I was always
the commissioner. I was always the guy over the vat
of whale about to get He tied me up, then
he'd leave.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
Me the same bad time, same bat channel.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Alway, always commission Yes, did you guys.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
Do the flashlights out of the backyard into the sky
and that.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
I'll tell you how crazy we were when I got
married to my wife Carolyn. We got married at the
Boorn Mansion, at the Boorn Mansion, and I was batman
and catwoman in full dress. We had a whole wedding
with all the batmobile.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
The picture.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Oh, I have plenty of pictures. We got to do
a whole This is too cool. Yeah, who was the
best man? Robin? Who was Robin and didn't Robin? He
was the worst looking character. He had the droopy little pants,
but everybody else looked at Robin didn't look Commissioner Gordon
was Steve Blong.
Speaker 5 (03:51):
We got to see the actual commission Yeah, commission So.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
Who played Robin and didn't look good? It was a
person that a person that you paid actor. I wanted
to get my money back up.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
But let's let's go back to the start of this
of your foundation.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
You were in twenty seventeen. Twenty seventeen. Yep, that's when
we started. But prior to that, I used to work
with the Family Foundation with my dad, So we did
that for many years. My dad continued to I branched
off und up doing it on my own. So it's
a five oh one C corporation. You know. We get
to national charities, local charities. I saw the list of
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charities that you work with.
Speaker 4 (04:33):
Now these are both in New York and Florida and
nationally and nationally correct. Amazing lists of all the people
that you'd expect to see on there. I mean, how
do you just do we just lose complete audio? We're back, Sorry,
about that testing.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Yeah, now he's panicking. Once you know, you must get
it just went out. I know.
Speaker 4 (04:56):
So when you are approached and I imagine you get
approached lot, and I think Arthur's in the same position,
how do you decide? How do you you know what
to navigate those waters? It's difficult.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
I mean I get approached every day for people wanting donations,
but my compassion is for children. So if I could
help a child who needs something financially, physically or academically,
that's why I generally try to help people.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Right, what's been the Any particular things stand out of reward,
you know in the heart, not obviously.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
Any well you know what you know, everybody says, oh,
you know you're a philanthropist or you have money, that's
why you can do it. And I tell this story
all the time. It isn't all about that. And the
one story that I tell is a young boy named Vincent,
and he was suffering from sackholma. His wish was to
go to Aruba with his family paid for that, let
him go on a strip, brought him to the Rangers game.
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He wanted to see the Rangers. But his last wish
to me was he wanted to drive in a Camaro.
Wasn't able to do that right away, but I said,
my daughter has a Camaro. We're going to do it.
Turns out he ends up succumbing to sakarma passes. I
don't see the family for three years. After three years,
I see him in another fundraiser that I'm at and
I said, listen, it's been weighing really hard on my
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heart that I didn't give him this one wish. And
they said, he got that wish. They brought him to
a car dealer somewhere out of the Chevy dealer put
him in the Camaro, and the manager drove him around
and he got his wish. So the point of that
story is you don't need money to make somebody happy.
It's from the heart. And that man took the time,
put him in a car and drove him around the
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parking lot and made that kid happy. That's all it took.
So it's not money.
Speaker 4 (06:41):
So you branched out in twenty seventeen. But you've been
involved in philanthropic works with your dad, He said, yes,
So when.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Did it start for him? That is back in the nineties. Yeah, Yeah,
he's been very fortunate. My dad he passed two three
years ago, but he was able to give back well
for himself.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
An immigrant legacy to pass on. Man, you got to
spend time be with your father at starting to accomplish
and learn and see the beauty of helping others and
then carry it on.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
So he's smiling. Yeah, that's cool. That's all we can
do in life. You know.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
I was thinking, you know, in the arena, it's really
more about not the giant world, it's people. Batman's you know.
And I got to bring it up because I'm dying.
But we have a friend. Her name is Danielle, and
she is a charity called She's Nursing a Warrior, and
she have a section called Silver Threads. And it goes
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along with kind of with you Camaro story. So this
past weekend she collects clothes and she gives it to
the elder care right now, the key is one of
those we don't know, a lot of them are alone.
They don't ever get new clothes, right, so she's now
providing that. But this past weekend she didn't home shopping, right,
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So these people that used to go out and shop.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
And have the home.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Yeah, but I'm dying here about it. And I had
to just say it because of the connection to every
little bit matters. The ride in the camaras what you
all those great things you've done, and that sticks in
your head and caution, and I think in the arena
is about Batman, meaning we're all Batman. You can pick up,
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you can take a car, drive to an elder care home,
drive to a place and help out and find that situation.
I mean that.
Speaker 4 (08:37):
Yeah, pro Zaria, you faced challenges that could have broken others.
Apparently are You're not comfortable you know, talking about it
because I know Arthur in his book Sorry Cantas a Lie,
you know, reveals a lot of the same type.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Of challenge stories. Well, I mean when I grew up,
I didn't have a relationship with my dad. My mom
and dad never married. I was raised by my mom
and it was difficult. We didn't have money. We lived
in Bellport, we lived in a in a motel. My
mom worked in the in the hospital, and I grew
up not much. As time went on, I had a
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relationship with my father. He used to pick me up
at school and eventually we started to have a nice
relationship and got involved with him with the business and
ever since that point. The relationship was a strong one. Yeah,
a solid relationship with my dad. Sounds like a lot
of family.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
When he passed, you guys cool like you were. Yeah,
he was like your buddy, and you.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
Know he wasn't. He was a workaholic. Yeah, you know,
total workaholica the generation. I mean, I could tell you
some funny, funny stories like I would get fired every
other week working on job sites. One day I got
fired because I left him on the roof. So I
got I go home with your dad on the roof. Yeah,
I left my dad might get you fine, And I
took the ladder and throw it on the ground, So
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I really left him. How would he fire you? You're fired?
Don't come back? Yes, So I go home smarty pants
now scanning my father because I'm afraid he's got to
start yelling at me. I buy an answering machine, get
the answer machine. Put that on so when he calls,
I'm prepared. So phone rings, I hear him. Can you
curse on this? Let's find let's find out. I'm not
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going to curse.
Speaker 6 (10:21):
But well it's now apparent it was cursing. Oh that
was cursing. So he says to me, Zario, you can
come back to it. What you got it answering machine,
don't come back.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
Appreciate.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
He's got the fastest re hire and fire history.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
Three words he got to hire back the fire, George.
That's pretty cool. Batman never pulled that off. You got
And how often would this happen? At least once a
week and usually happened during a Friday, so he wouldn't
have to pay me. You never had the file for
unemployment though.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
Trouble Fiery. That's pretty cool.
Speaker 4 (11:02):
So I got a question, what have you learned about
leadership for philanthropy and the community that you wish more
people understood?
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Well, Like I said with the Camaro story, I mean,
it's not all about money. It's just the little simple
things that you can do in life to help somebody.
I mean, help somebody across the street, you're in a supermarket,
help a lady with a groceries or whatever. Maybe, So
it's from the like author said, it's from your horse.
It's all from your heart step and not money. Whatever
you can do. Anybody can do anything. It doesn't matter
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about money. So you know that's how I see it.
Speaker 4 (11:37):
You know, I noticed some of the charities that you
were aligned with, and some of them we're aligned with. Yeah,
shop with.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
It was a shop shop out a cop is a
wonderful thing. Officer Delgado, which is out of the second precinct.
I generally take about forty to fifty families and children
to Target in Huntington and let them shop. They each
get one hundred dollars and they spend their money and
whatever they want for themselves for Christmas. Most of them
buy something for themselves. But I've had people come up
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to me and I'm looking in their carts and they
have pillows, they have diapers, they have blankets, and I'm like,
didn't want to get something for yourself? And it's like, no,
I bought that for my aunt because she doesn't have
a pillow, or my sister in laws, you know whatever,
doesn't have diapers. So they thought outside of themselves. They
weren't concerned about themselves. So I was sweet to hear
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that they get an extra HUNDI. Yeah, the batmobile.
Speaker 4 (12:31):
What are the local charities here here in New York
or in Florida that stand out?
Speaker 1 (12:36):
Some of the ones that well, my allegiance with, our
alliance with author has become.
Speaker 4 (12:42):
Quite successful and we're gonna talk more about that.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
That one of my favorite I.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Got a chill because you know, listening and uh, this
one really can't say the life I make the difference of,
you know, presidence, I said, little Lily, but this is
kind of black and white. You're going to save lives
and we're going to get that report that it was
a unit that you put into the public, you put
into the school, you put into the.
Speaker 4 (13:08):
It's gonna happen five hundred and chaking care of the kid,
the community of Marko Wiland.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
We're going to hear more about that.
Speaker 4 (13:16):
I was thinking the same thing and I read it
in the press announcement was you will save lives or responsible.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
It hit me when we were in Naples and you
know what an awesome department, awesome people, awesome cheese, and
here you are doing it. And I remember being in
my garage. I remember banging my head against the wall
and to stand next to you and the cheap and
then you stood up to help it and to save others,
like to me thirteen years to kill myself to see
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someone else help and step up in such a significant way,
like it didn't jump in and like you jumped in, yeah,
and I was so grateful. Right, it felt like weight
coming off that I have an ally do and we
have plenty now, but it was just that moment because
it was so visual and it was there, and the
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officer was showing people how to use it and the
embracing of it, you know, and it is cool that
you will say, but I want to tell you two stories.
Used to go to like Walmart and pay off some
on loan. Yeah, and you go and you'd have to
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pull a receipts and look for toys, you know. And
then just before Jaggie went to college, we took her
in the car and I give her ten bills and
we walked around the toy stores and stuff and I
made her give them out to random people. She does
not like when they make her do this stuff. So
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it was fun as heck. But there was great, you know,
a lot of gratitude.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
You know.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
We would watch and we'd see someone trying to decide
which warrant and then have her go up and say
you got it.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
The best part of it is not so much giving
it to the k or to the families. It's the
hugs that those hugs and they're crying, Yeah, you can't
put a price.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
Well, especially in that moment, because they weren't sure if
they could get it. They're looking at the price and
into that one and as this beautiful little girl walks
up and give them winder bucks.
Speaker 4 (15:16):
We're going to be back with more with Rossario Casata
in the arena after this break.
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Speaker 1 (16:07):
Welcome back in the arena.
Speaker 4 (16:09):
My name is Rick Thatcher here along with Arthur Lee's CEO,
inventor of Life Back. I'm joined by Heidi Feelix, vice
president of sales, and of course we've been talking with
Rosario Casado of the Casada pronounced that wrong, Cassado Foundation.
I'm bound to, you know, nineteen out of twenty, I'll
get right, but that's pretty good.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Welcome back.
Speaker 4 (16:28):
We were about to start talking about all the great
work that you're doing, in particular Collier County. Heidi, how
did you, Heidi? How did you meet Rosario?
Speaker 8 (16:41):
Well, he actually contacted us, which I thought was amazing Batman,
and so we just started talking about different ideas and his.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
First did we put the thing up?
Speaker 1 (16:50):
Or he actually came to did we put the bat
signal up?
Speaker 9 (16:53):
Or commishoner we need to that. But it was interesting
because I had one.
Speaker 8 (17:00):
Conversation with him and I invited him to come in
to see our Hall of Saves, so he had a
chance to meet you and the whole team. And I
think that's when drank the kool aid, right, the life
actual aid.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
Yeah, right, that was a cool moment.
Speaker 9 (17:15):
It was a cool moment.
Speaker 8 (17:16):
Yeah, And Nicole was Carolyn and it was just so
nice because the whole family kind of came together and
you saw the big picture and literally saw the big picture.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
That's what did me. When I saw all those lives
saved up on that wall, I was like, I'm with
the right guy.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
Yeah. That was cool because I'm like, what are you doing.
I'm in what do we do?
Speaker 1 (17:38):
You know what?
Speaker 2 (17:38):
The thing about that too is you can walk up
and see a child and see his face and then
see that there's two thousand more and you know the
growing impact of their parents, their grandparents, their friends all
are okay, And you know that was a cool moment.
And I will always remember that. I remember twoful because
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your passion. And I'm like, really.
Speaker 4 (18:04):
So so Florida is the second home for you and
my main home. Your main home is in Florida. Now
making the trip.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
Well, I've been here for you do another thing.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
He's the back game in Florida or in New York,
New York.
Speaker 8 (18:19):
Literally, I've seen his bat give his office and absolutely
cool and he's even not the bat.
Speaker 9 (18:26):
I was trying to find the picture.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
There we go for those radio We now have those listening.
Speaker 4 (18:33):
We have a full Batman backdropping on our guest. Looks
just like yes, same same pack.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
I love the.
Speaker 9 (18:43):
Picture of you and your wife and there where you're
both stopping.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
All right, so we can tell.
Speaker 8 (18:48):
You, well, I didn't get to go because I was
too busy running sales back here.
Speaker 9 (18:54):
But you did, right, and.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
Arthur, you were there this whole story. Yeah, a premise.
The premise is I reached out to Kaye County Sheriff's Department.
I said, listen, I have an idea. I see this
life back unit. I know they're roll over the country.
Would you guys be interested in putting them in your
patrol cars? Yes? I said, well what if I donate
them and give them to you free of charge? Absolutely?
(19:21):
And so there was no question immediately they want it.
In My phone call to Heidi to see if we
could put it together, and that's right, thank god. Yeah,
yeah we got a Heidi, you said, Heidi, we.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
Got to go climb over evers come down the other
side of one life back to be like all.
Speaker 8 (19:40):
Well, the best part was you donated five hundred and
then the sheriff called me to buy another four fifty,
which I think you were happy about.
Speaker 9 (19:47):
Sure, so you know, and that was just amazing.
Speaker 8 (19:50):
So and again I am sorry that I wasn't there,
but you had some great press.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
Oh we had awesome press.
Speaker 9 (19:56):
Wonderful.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
All the news agents all over the papers down Florida.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
We were at it, like the presidential press conference.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
Yeah, it was the fake news there. I don't think
the banner of press. There's nothing fake about this and
it works.
Speaker 4 (20:16):
There are fakes out there, as you know, fake product, yes,
not fake accomplishments.
Speaker 8 (20:21):
And not fake people nothing but real here, absolutely real people.
Speaker 9 (20:27):
But but it was great was you know, you didn't
stop there.
Speaker 8 (20:30):
Knowing we're still going, which is great going.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
What do you think's next? Well, are we going to
talk about that?
Speaker 9 (20:38):
Talk about what we're doing all this time?
Speaker 2 (20:39):
Because obviously I was insistent that Heidi be there and
actually take a breath and stay and enjoy yourself for
one day.
Speaker 9 (20:49):
I actually get it. Two days. That never happens.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
Them and uh so tell us what's going on there.
Speaker 8 (20:54):
So we're really excited because you know, with all the
wonderful connections that Rosario has down there, one is an
elementary school in the Collier County School District, so tiny
Danfield is that will be our.
Speaker 9 (21:07):
First donation to all the families there.
Speaker 8 (21:09):
And then we're going to be at Marco Island, PD
and we're going to be donating to them as well,
which I think is really and that's where we're going
to have some nice press.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
We should have some nice press there and then or
from there, we're going to the Presbyterian preschool which is
in Naples, going to donate to another freak.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
You know, we have to I don't even know give
them right to the family.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
I'm giving the families the schools are on radio because
you can't see that. I'm going to cry, so I'll
be right.
Speaker 8 (21:37):
Well, the best part is your grandchildren go to the preschool.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
Yes they do.
Speaker 9 (21:42):
That's the best parting your family and the families.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
That another little secret, maybe that maybe happened.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
This may be the area for secrets, because the whole
goal is not to be secrets.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
Want of people to see this. But you're probably safe.
He's probably saying. I am in works with a school
in King's Park. Also in the works with Sarasota Police
Department in Venice Police Department, and I'm trying to get
them on board. So we're very close to trying to
get them in their patrol car.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
I was saying, are you saying I could get rid
of hiding?
Speaker 1 (22:17):
No, don't get rid of I get you. I don't
know where you auld never get rid of ID I
text you, what responded? I got back to you, and
it's still like three weeks later.
Speaker 9 (22:28):
I didn't right away Batman.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
Yeah, well that's that's that's the cole Heiding lesson.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
See I have you have the bad single and.
Speaker 7 (22:40):
Yeah, what's some of the pushback that you get besides
the fact that you're giving into for free it's life
fact document to save lives.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
Do you get resistance? Well, the mean resistance. What we
just went to yesterday was the Suffoc County Police Foundation.
There was resistance there, but not through the police department.
I met with some of the big wigs there, spoke
to MC if they were on board. I said, tell
me from your heart, are you were on board with this? Absolutely?
It's you know, legislation and that's what I need.
Speaker 4 (23:13):
Author's help, manuals and guidelines.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
Well you know, and you know it's sorry to get
back to you that you need to talk. Like in
two seconds I was talking. I said, yeah, we have
bills drafted. I know what you're talking about. We can't
say that. And we have to include the clause for
the ADA, which is really key to pushing it through legislatively,
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because every school has a nice jogging post and the
persons standing up and getting saved, but nothing for the
kid in the wheelchair. And that's a federal violation of equality.
So when we encompass that in the bill. It tends
to get a little more support because the answer is
nothing except us violating federal law. But since I didn't
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get back to you, it was good. We're sitting next
to each other talking.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
So we're friends again. Tuesday night.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
Yeah, hey, if I get a robin that, but I
swear I won't get the droopy pants.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
I'm going to get you to drop.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
All right, I owe you want to not get that way.
Speaker 4 (24:17):
So talk about Tuesday night because it was a huge night.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
It was a soire going on.
Speaker 4 (24:25):
This is great Suffoc County Police.
Speaker 9 (24:27):
Founder, Watermill office, which is great.
Speaker 8 (24:30):
I was just to reserve a table, and of course
people hijacked the table before Rosaria when his family came.
Speaker 9 (24:36):
I'm so sorry. I was trying to But what was
nice in the interiom.
Speaker 8 (24:39):
I was walking around talking to people and there was
a couple of legislators.
Speaker 9 (24:43):
No, I know, I'm so shy. It's one of my dogs.
Speaker 8 (24:47):
And one of the people that was there was Dominic Thorne,
who was there at our legislative presentation that we did
to the Health Committee. And he's a big believer, wonderful guy.
Comes up to me, he goes hy do you know
I believe in life back because they have.
Speaker 9 (24:59):
It hanging in my kitchen, am and ams and you know.
Speaker 8 (25:05):
And it was wonderful because I was at an ad
a celebration for Silo, and I'm at my booth and
he comes over and he starts demonstrating to other people like.
Speaker 9 (25:14):
This is Dominic Thorne.
Speaker 8 (25:15):
He's in charge of all emos for Suffolk County and
just a wonderful guy. So again, you know, we do
have a lot of people who believe in us. I
actually just sent a Senator Materara the bill that we
did in Texas that was actually signed by the governor.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
You did it. That's that's why I told her to
get back.
Speaker 9 (25:32):
I took care of it.
Speaker 4 (25:33):
I wassus with the details, meticulous, a little crazy, little OCD.
Speaker 9 (25:40):
But it's all good. It's all good. So I think
we're moving in the right direction.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
At the event, did you give me Well, here's.
Speaker 9 (25:50):
The best part. Guess who. I went up and introduced
myself to doctor Boss Winkle. Oh nice, very nice man,
very nice to eat. Saved all those wonderful.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
People that were.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
Anyone any of those moments.
Speaker 8 (26:05):
Okay, so here's the one that you're gonna love is
that we're sitting at a table with all these other people,
and of course me being so shy, I'm talking to everybody.
Speaker 9 (26:12):
And turns out one of the guys who's.
Speaker 8 (26:14):
There, and you know, he goes, oh my god, my
wife has like two of those things.
Speaker 9 (26:18):
I got one in my car, I got one in
the hospital.
Speaker 8 (26:20):
And then they start talking and all of a sudden
there's this guy sitting there and he's the CEO of
a large organization that has over three thousand pharmacies, and
he goes, we need to talk. And I said to Rosario,
that was a good one. You know, a wonderful guy
who again says it's a life saving device.
Speaker 9 (26:38):
I mean, I would love to have it in my pharmacy.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
I only asked because last time he was at the
police at the academy.
Speaker 9 (26:44):
I was at the police academy and NASA, honey.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
Someone stood and said, by the way I used it us.
Speaker 8 (26:50):
Well, that was the best because it was the NASA
County patrol parole officer, actually an older patrol parole, not
a patrol but he had.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
In his home.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
That's been exponged.
Speaker 4 (27:05):
Yeah that's good, Yes, I think, yeah, I think you
can talk about.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
But the shots don't exist in somewhere. I don't.
Speaker 8 (27:14):
But that was great because here I'm a number of
four hundred people right and I've was invited by Justin McCaffrey,
who's our commissioner of China. Oyster bag was that all
the public safety vehicles and obviously it's in all of
the NASA County control cars. So I got up there
and I did my thing. You know, I get fifteen
seconds to speak of and all of a sudden this.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
Was pretty cool.
Speaker 9 (27:35):
So sure enough.
Speaker 8 (27:37):
This guy stands up and he goes, I just want
to say thank you, Heidi, you and life. I saved
my son's life. I was in shock, like I just
you can see the look that a.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
Couple of you're going to get. I'm waiting.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
I wait for you to get County.
Speaker 4 (27:50):
That could be the next contract. Let's predict the first
time that is responsible.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
But you know what, I got things Either they're going
to contact you or someone's going to tell you, and
I've had both and I've had people walk up at event.
So it was that Joe Piscolo's book signing guy comes up.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
To me and he goes, can I take a picture
with you? It's so weird. But what do I get? Good?
Speaker 2 (28:14):
And then he tells me hes to save his door,
save his door, and I can't wait for that. Yeah,
you know what to here's the other thing, and I
know you get it. There'll be a lot you won't
know right until you meet the big guy.
Speaker 4 (28:27):
And or whatever. Think about the lives that you're protecting
or you have.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
It's so exciting. I'm excited for him.
Speaker 9 (28:35):
Yeah, it's all good.
Speaker 8 (28:36):
I mean, even when I was at the Police Academy
for the last event, I always had a table. They said,
set up a table. Kevin Smith is one of the
greatest guys. He's one of the commissioners. And you know,
I had three people at that event come up to
me and tell me that they used it to save
a life. Ryan Warner and I were at Costco. We
had two other trooples came up. I rode to Ryan.
It was at Costco. We're out in Holdspelle. Two guys
(28:58):
come up to me, both of which were pair them
out X. Both had used it to save a life. Right,
So I was just taken aback because there's so many
that are unreported to us.
Speaker 9 (29:07):
We don't know up coming when they tell their story.
Speaker 4 (29:10):
When we when we hear of road Show Ryan Warner
training someone, and less than two weeks later, we saved
a life. It is going to happen as a as
a future episode of in the Arena. We're going to
have Bryan road Show and the gentleman that he kind
of demonstrated life back to, got him comfortable with it,
and less than two weeks later, he saves a life.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
I'm telling you to ty your county. The sheriff, I think,
is going to be really excited, because that's all he
kept saying. I can't wait to see your first life.
Speaker 4 (29:38):
Now you're coming, you're coming, or you guys are both
or three of you going down?
Speaker 1 (29:43):
And when is this happening? October tenth? Well next week,
next week?
Speaker 10 (29:48):
Excited And it's the police department, Marclan Police Department, the
Tommy Barfield Elementary School that's going to hold the parents,
three hundred fifty units, all the patrol cars Marco Island,
plus the municipality and you.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
Know, our audience cool this one. We're going to give
it right to the parents.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
Yeah, this is going right to their parents.
Speaker 4 (30:10):
Our audience in Orlando is gonna be jealous, you know,
that our audience in Orlando, Florida gonna be jealous.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
Listen, they know how to get it.
Speaker 4 (30:18):
Yeah, we have nothing against the Disney folks judgment.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
How do people spend by product? I love it? A
good thing. You do a demonstration on the characters, that
would be kind.
Speaker 6 (30:32):
Of Oh yeah, that would be cool yeahese, Oh yeah,
we go, that's a commercial.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
I like it.
Speaker 4 (30:42):
Now back to your roots. You started, grew up in
Long Islands, grew up a Long Island patchrog, patrog. And
how long have you been you say your primary residence
is Florida? No, yeah, how much time do you spend?
Speaker 1 (30:55):
Six and six? So six months here? Six months in Florida,
snowburn snowbird Okay.
Speaker 4 (31:01):
And what was the business that allowed for all this philanthropy?
Speaker 1 (31:07):
What was that? What was what was the family business? Oh?
The family businesses were real estate business. So we uh
we have senior citizen complexes, industrial buildings, uh, storage facilities,
all self contained. We build them, we maintain them. So
that's how our empires started through my dad.
Speaker 4 (31:24):
And Dad was the one who instilled in you.
Speaker 1 (31:27):
Dad started came back, he came over from Sicily, started
in the paper bag business and Bay Shore Flea Market
or whatever that was called.
Speaker 4 (31:34):
It was a place, right The arena is still, yeah,
it's still it's just deserted.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
It's a building. Is nothing going on. And then went
into the Delhi business and the rest of the hard work.
And yeah, and my businesses seven days a week. And
siblings have two brothers and a sister. Are they in
the My brother's in it. But the person that I
didn't think would be in my business is my daughter.
(32:03):
My daughter is the one who's running everything now. We're
starting to pass the marines off to her. Wow, and
us doing a phenomenal job. And her name is Nicole. Okay,
id business.
Speaker 4 (32:16):
Well, we've been talking with Rosario Casada.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
Is that how I pronounced?
Speaker 4 (32:22):
Should have studied this earlier today, but anyway, we've been
talking with Rosario about the foundation. Arthur Lee, Heidi Felix,
I'm rick Thatcher will be back with mister Ray. Prieby's
coming up after this message.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
She started to choke on a piece of candy.
Speaker 3 (32:52):
She wasn't breathing.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
Then Ray reached She started to choke on a piece
of candy.
Speaker 3 (33:01):
She wasn't breathing.
Speaker 4 (33:02):
Then Ray reached for the life back in it saved her.
Speaker 11 (33:05):
She could have easily died that day. A life back
saved her life. What I would say is, don't need
a life back and not have it. Have a life
back and hopefully never need it.
Speaker 2 (33:17):
Recently, the American Red Cross has added anti joking devices
as an option when standard protocol fails or is not feasible.
Speaker 5 (33:24):
Go to life back dot Net or called eight seven
seven five four three three eight two to.
Speaker 4 (33:28):
Two, and we're back in the arena. Rick Thatcher along
with Heidi Felix, Arthur Lee Rosario, Casada Batmanneah, we know
this Batman Rosario. Have you ever heard of a gentleman
from Cape Coral, Florida. We call him mister three k Yeah, yeah,
(33:51):
mister three thousand.
Speaker 2 (33:52):
Unless he whims out because sometimes, you know.
Speaker 1 (33:54):
I don't want to delve you. We're so excited to
speak to him. Every week. Here he is three thousand.
Speaker 3 (34:07):
Life was out there? What's going on?
Speaker 12 (34:10):
You?
Speaker 9 (34:10):
Literally?
Speaker 13 (34:12):
Here I am at the beautiful football field watching my
son play football. They're currently up eight to zero. So
we're gonna we're gonna keep that paint going.
Speaker 2 (34:22):
Your new office is too late to get action.
Speaker 13 (34:26):
Never too late to get action. We're only in the
first quarter. We got three more to go.
Speaker 1 (34:30):
Wo I'm then betting, oh did I Well?
Speaker 3 (34:36):
Guys, we' great numbers here.
Speaker 13 (34:38):
But let's listen to this. You know, back a little
while ago, I made a prediction for uh for the
three hundred and sixty fifth day of my lot of
Girl getting saved, and I was way off.
Speaker 3 (34:51):
And I am so proud to say the lives were saving.
It's so amazing. I'm sixty two lives off.
Speaker 13 (35:01):
We have saved two more people than what I predicted
on October twentieth. Uh So, here we are three hundred
and forty seven days into it, and we have saved
one thousand, eight hundred and eighty eight lives. It's unbelievable, unbelievable. Bobby,
do we got a screen, Bobby, throw throw a screen up?
Speaker 1 (35:22):
Oh, here comes the screen. I'll read it for those
books in the home.
Speaker 4 (35:27):
Total lives save two thousand two children.
Speaker 3 (35:32):
Total.
Speaker 1 (35:34):
Eighty seven lives.
Speaker 3 (35:37):
I mean, absolutely unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (35:40):
You know, one ticke of break. What's the anniversary of
the three thousand good daughter?
Speaker 3 (35:45):
October twentieth?
Speaker 2 (35:46):
All right, we got to remember that. October twenty. We
gotta celebrate that.
Speaker 3 (35:49):
You gotta celebrate absolutely.
Speaker 13 (35:51):
I will be the one year mark if it will
be one year one year on October twentieth. I mean,
just today alone, we saved four lives. Four lives just today.
I'm absolutely unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (36:07):
You got your save of a day, big guy.
Speaker 13 (36:10):
I do have a great save of the day today.
So I was reading it and it gave me some goosebumps.
So on September twelfth, I'm sorry. September tenth, a five
year old girl choked on a piece of orange. It
took place after school when she wanted a snack, so
I gave her a small orange. The slice got stuck
(36:33):
in her throat. She was making quite a weird noise,
and her dad and I looked at her and saw
saw the scared look on her face, and we knew
right away. Dad tried back blows along with the Heimlich
as I ran upstairs to retrieve the life back. We
used the life back one time and it pulled it
(36:54):
right out. She coaked before one other time, and the
Heimlich maneuver worked. This time, it was not working. Life
back saved our daughter. I mean, it's right there.
Speaker 2 (37:10):
You know what I was watching. You read that, man,
this is not someone reading something. Every time you read it,
you're seeing your little girl, and every time he gets emotional.
But that's the importance of the men in the arena.
Ray stepped up. No paid, We take advantage of him.
But the point is he is as real as humanity gets.
(37:31):
He's reading about a child save and his child was saved,
and that's why he's here from a football field in
the Sun's game.
Speaker 1 (37:37):
I love you.
Speaker 13 (37:38):
You're the bottom line, rain or shine, football field at
home wherever I need to be. If you know one
person hears this and buys life back. Amen, Yeah, yeah,
that's what you mean.
Speaker 2 (37:50):
So what you're saying, Ray, so life back.
Speaker 13 (37:53):
Better to have it and not need it than need
it and not have it. The life you saved could
be your own, could be your child, could be a
stranger who knows save a life, get a life back,
God blessed.
Speaker 1 (38:04):
Listen yet the beating.
Speaker 3 (38:07):
See you and Marco Island.
Speaker 1 (38:09):
Go get him. You're gonna push five thousand.
Speaker 2 (38:14):
Maybe yeah he was, but he'll he was in the background.
Speaker 1 (38:19):
We were batman.
Speaker 2 (38:20):
What do you care about?
Speaker 1 (38:24):
Got three thousand? He was the daughter.
Speaker 2 (38:28):
But it's cool because he picked up the torch right
like he was saying the one he can do something
something he became missed the three thousands. And it's not
questioning anything, not because of me anything. That's the key.
Speaker 1 (38:42):
No, I'm not sure that's correct.
Speaker 4 (38:44):
The very best of networks, you know, how networking was
designed to work was you know, sharing, caring and sharing
using products or passing it on.
Speaker 2 (38:55):
Such passion because thought. And you watch when he reads
that about a child, you know, we looking and feeling
what he felt. He knows what those people felt.
Speaker 4 (39:04):
In some weeks, he gets to apologize from my interrupting
and we encourage. When did we have a couple of
weeks ago that was apologizing, you know, for the kids
that might interrupt, and one of them was saying, We're
like we actually that's you know, we're couraging interrupt all.
Speaker 1 (39:21):
This is a family. You know. I never really thanked Heidi,
but I was totally shocked that Heidie called me back
when I said I want to get involved with life back,
got the opportunity to meet author and with our donations.
Now we've reached a point where he is matching everything
that I'm doing. So we're moving even bigger than I anticipated.
So what I can't afford to do is behind me?
Speaker 2 (39:44):
Well, I mean I don't know about that. It's that
we're a team.
Speaker 1 (39:47):
Man, Well we are. I wouldn't want you, I.
Speaker 2 (39:48):
Want them in and then and that's what makes team.
I'm in, let's go, and you give me energy, so
I need that.
Speaker 1 (39:59):
And that's cool.
Speaker 4 (40:00):
Yeah, how can folks help? They want they hear the passion,
they hear what you're doing. They're hearing the good works.
How do people get involved with the Casada Foundation?
Speaker 1 (40:10):
That's a good question. The Cassada Foundation is a self
funded foundation. I don't seek any money from anybody. I
do not look for charity from anybody. It's from our heart.
It's from the money that I made personally. So I
don't look for that. So if somebody wants to do something,
do something nice for somebody out there. There's some charity work,
do something.
Speaker 2 (40:34):
We kind of needed by some authors. Yes, support the
foundation by buying.
Speaker 4 (40:41):
But but I'm looking at the list of of organizations
that you have either sponsored or supported, and it is
it is lengthy, and I don't know that it doesn't
who's not on this list.
Speaker 1 (40:53):
But you know, I don't know.
Speaker 4 (40:56):
Amazing You say you concentrate on children.
Speaker 1 (40:58):
That's that's my compassion. If I could help children, that's
what I want to do.
Speaker 2 (41:03):
Oh, you've got to come to the toy drive.
Speaker 1 (41:04):
Do you have a batmobiat in New York similar to
the one that you have there, but it's a two
seater because we do.
Speaker 2 (41:10):
We do a toy drive every year for the John
Deson Foundation and we collect packed classic cars line up
at my house. I tend to ride a Mostcycle in
a Santa outfit, but so be it and droopy pants.
Speaker 1 (41:23):
H you got it?
Speaker 2 (41:24):
Because I want we should have, we should have.
Speaker 1 (41:30):
We got to start from oting.
Speaker 3 (41:31):
We do so.
Speaker 8 (41:32):
John Deson helped me when I was at the lowest
of lows and actually helped me deliver a Christmas for
my children.
Speaker 9 (41:39):
And he's such a good man.
Speaker 8 (41:40):
I've been literally donating my time there for over twenty years.
Speaker 2 (41:44):
Come in like Ted, Now you are Chris.
Speaker 1 (41:47):
Recently I worked with the Marty Lyons Foundation have a
skeet shooting event with the Italian Heritage Club, so we
get to shoot Italian Yeah, that's by the mob trains.
So what happened there was speak for a three year
old girl who had she was born premature twenty four weeks.
(42:08):
She suffered from all sorts of cerebral hemorrhaging. I can't
walk and all that. She wants to get therapy. So
they're sending into North Carolina. Insurance will not pay, so
they needed to raise fourteen thousand dollars to do that.
That was raised through to both charities. My goal there
was they got there and they needed something to enjoy themselves.
(42:28):
So my donation was to give them money so they
can enjoy themselves while they're there for that week, not
just go for the for the training and go there
and enjoy themselves. Yeah, take the ride in the Camara.
Speaker 2 (42:40):
Wow, well you'll you'll enjoy the car run because we
had classes. Oh, I love the toys and we have
a good time.
Speaker 1 (42:46):
You sort of a batmobile. Yeah, well that's what I mean.
Speaker 2 (42:49):
We get to meet in front of my ass and
we talked cars for a while in front of each other.
Speaker 1 (42:53):
They did about cars pretty neat.
Speaker 4 (42:55):
Well, you've been listening to Rosario Casata along with Arthur Lee.
You feel like Summer Thatcher. You'll stick with us and
we'll see more in the arena. On the other side
of this message.
Speaker 12 (43:21):
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Speaker 4 (44:09):
As we chatter away, Welcome back in the arena. That's okay,
don't no need to apologize hiding.
Speaker 1 (44:15):
We like the chatter.
Speaker 4 (44:16):
Uh oh, Welcome back in the arena. I'm Rick Thatcher
and everybody's here.
Speaker 1 (44:21):
Everyone's back.
Speaker 4 (44:22):
We're talking with Rosario Casado about the wonderful work that
he's doing in conjunction, wonderful work on his own and
then combining more great work with Life Fact.
Speaker 1 (44:32):
That's exciting. I'm glad that I had the opportunity to
partner with Heidi and author to save lives. And I
can't wait for Kyllier County, Florida to come forward and
say yeah, they saved the life, because that will be
an exciting day for me.
Speaker 2 (44:47):
Well, you know, it's great when you persevere so long
and then someone like you comes in and has such
a big heart and it's helped in so many ways,
and you pick us to help and then you know,
the whole team gets energized.
Speaker 1 (44:59):
Again. That's the way I You're always energized.
Speaker 2 (45:01):
But it is challenging and drudgery, and it's nice to
have someone in energy and say no, I'm in man,
you know, and you write.
Speaker 1 (45:12):
You proved it to me when I walked into that
all of saved lives. That's what did it. That was
the main thing.
Speaker 2 (45:18):
That's well, that's our cathedral for those listening, we have
we have pictures of three thousand people that we have
saved on in our facility and it's now two stories,
the walls are covered and it's our cathedral. Don't you
say that? I mean you've seen it since it was tiny.
Speaker 1 (45:35):
What was it with sixty two sixty two pictures?
Speaker 8 (45:38):
I just actually I shared your story that you had
from the New York Post just because I had memorized
all those stories. I can't even remember half of them now,
you know. But at the same time, we had a
chance to meet all these families.
Speaker 9 (45:51):
We help these babies in our arms, you know.
Speaker 8 (45:54):
And one of my guys who is one of our
resellers that happens to own a huge training facility you
just don't put up one in Manhattan CPR New York.
And he happens to be a paramedic and he's just
a great guy. So he comes to pick up his
order and I go, do you want to come and
see the Hall of Saves? He goes, yeah, can I
He walks it goes, oh my god. I mean this
is like a really stoic guy who he got tears
(46:17):
in his eyes.
Speaker 9 (46:18):
I go, are you crying, Chris? He's like, oh my god.
Speaker 8 (46:21):
You talked about it and you've explained this to me
and I had no idea, And I said, we readse
the roof. I said, this is crazy, and I started
telling him the stories. I go, wait, I guess I
still remember those things stories.
Speaker 2 (46:32):
Well, I said, you.
Speaker 1 (46:33):
Can't make that whole of shaves, like make it like
a travel event.
Speaker 2 (46:37):
Over We do the power of it is worth sharing
more than ever and they never really I used it.
We use it for our own motivation and for our
own awareness. You know, numbers and number You look at
three thousand kids and four thousand people, you kind of
really feel five thousands.
Speaker 1 (46:55):
But it's amazing.
Speaker 2 (46:58):
The tough guy Tim Weiss, marine firefighter, he hit him
and add with his shovel. He laughs, talks about saying
as thority cries, you know, and we've seen that in
numerous you know men, who's just who's the guy in
the big farmer dude in Texas police officer, huge feelings, bullets,
(47:21):
don't care kid dying, you.
Speaker 1 (47:24):
Know, Maudi Lions. Right as soon as that man speaks,
I think he begins to cry before he's been talking,
because he's so emotional and so from the heart. And
is it sad for a grown man to cry? Not
for that humanity? You're a person, you have a.
Speaker 2 (47:40):
Heart, and you know that there's a guy right trenches
and feels break down them.
Speaker 4 (47:47):
In Yeah, I want to take a moment and talk
about a daughter of someone that I grew up, you know,
idolizing the band Leonard Skinner. So I got a phone
call last week through friends from uh Johnny van Zant
lead singer Leonard Skinners, and I was looking over my
you know, each shoulders, like this really happening. And he
(48:07):
was telling sharing with me the story of his daughter,
Taylor van Zant, who suffers from a rare cerebral condition
called cavernous malformation. And there's going to be an event
upcoming in Jacksonville, Florida, at the Portion in Jacksonville November fifth.
I just want to let everyone know. For those folks
(48:29):
I guess most closely to Orlando saved the date Rocking
for a Cure November fifth. I know Leonard Skinner is
going to be there.
Speaker 2 (48:36):
Do we want to go? Well, I know we're donating.
I cleared that up this morning, and uh, maybe we
should go.
Speaker 4 (48:43):
I'd love to be there, I think, and we have
to check with This is the same weekend as.
Speaker 1 (48:49):
The Patriot Awards, which we like to we like to
go to. But all the best.
Speaker 4 (48:54):
We're sending all thoughts in prayers to the van Zant fans.
Speaker 2 (48:58):
We have some time. We should keep bringing it up.
Is there a a website or something? Because we're on radio.
Speaker 1 (49:04):
Yeah, that's going to be a tough one. For me
at the link. We nobody knows.
Speaker 4 (49:10):
How to get in touch with No, we will please.
You know, if you're listening to this broadcast podcast, we're
kind of a radio show, we're kind of a podcast.
We're a little bit of both. But it's all hard
and if you want to get in touch, please reach
out to the station that you're hearing this on, or
and just email us at life act dot net. My
(49:30):
name is are Thatcher spelled easily f A T S
C H E R R. Yeah, he doesn't, doesn't My
email account can handle it. He would explode, But reach
out and and you know, talking with you about the network,
(49:51):
the people that you connect with, you can continue to
connect with more people and it's just great.
Speaker 1 (49:55):
You know, great people doing great things.
Speaker 4 (49:57):
And uh, and that's how I feel about When this
phone call came in, we shared I mean, I'm talking
to someone that I grew up idolizing this band. And
we shared some stories about Charlie Daniels and how what
it was like growing up losing his older brother in
a plane crash, lost my dad in a plane crash
show when I was in seventh grade, and I learned
Leonard skinnerd my favorite band just had a plane crash
(50:20):
and the lead singer, Ronnie Vanzette, was called I felt
like I was connect yeah, not only connecting, but grieving
my father something.
Speaker 2 (50:30):
But then you if it's not the Patriot Ward, you're going,
oh yeah, because there's God wing to that and we
got to support him. And I think we just keep
every show, will actually get where they they exist, and
make sure we Yeah.
Speaker 4 (50:45):
But I really am impressed by the amount of both
of you, the amount of generosity and humanity and love
that you guys have. It's almost limitless because I know
that I know you never say I know you never
saw it.
Speaker 1 (51:01):
Hard says, hard to say.
Speaker 2 (51:03):
But here's the thing, everybody, what's the starfish story?
Speaker 9 (51:08):
I love this story?
Speaker 8 (51:11):
So I actually I was the Cub Scout leader for
many years and I had sixteen Cub Scouts, and fifteen
of them became Eagle Scouts, and they all invited me
to their Eagle Scouts ceremonies and I used to tell them.
Speaker 9 (51:20):
The story of the starfish and the starfish.
Speaker 8 (51:23):
Is all about the fact that when a starfish comes
up from the ocean and it's stuck on.
Speaker 2 (51:27):
The beach, it's going thousands.
Speaker 9 (51:29):
Of thousands of them.
Speaker 8 (51:30):
So there's this man watching this little boy walking along
the beach and tossing these starfish and he goes, young man,
he goes, you can't save them all.
Speaker 9 (51:38):
He goes, I save that one. I saved that one.
One by one. You can make a difference. And that's
what I usually have.
Speaker 2 (51:46):
Different throwing the starfish back. And he throws one back
and he says, well, I made a difference to that one.
So in the arena. This is not the biggest charity
in the history. It's small. It's a devastating, unique thing. Well,
we can save some starfish, man, and every time we can,
we throw some back. And someday to be to be clear.
Speaker 1 (52:10):
To do it, you know, I mean as opposed to
not being able to try to. Everyone could pick up
and start try.
Speaker 4 (52:16):
And sometimes people get in the way, institutions get in
the way.
Speaker 2 (52:20):
You hit them with shovels.
Speaker 1 (52:21):
Yes, oh no, you.
Speaker 8 (52:22):
Can't do But the key is one person at a time.
Speaker 2 (52:27):
Right, throw a starfish back, and it's important that people
know that. You know, you don't have to do the great,
biggest thing. Well, one starfish back, we'll throw one back.
We'll get we're throwing them back. Yeah, you are, man,
we're doing it.
Speaker 4 (52:43):
Before we go any any closing thoughts.
Speaker 1 (52:48):
Well, I have one. Uh. It was a Ronald Reagan
when he was doing it some sort of speech. He
was interviewing this little girl. Yes, this little girl goes,
what do you want to do when you a while?
And she says, I'd like to be the president. He goes, wow,
that's very impressive. What do you want to do when
you become the president? Because I want to help save
(53:08):
homeless people. He goes, well, how are you going to
do that? And he goes she goes, well, what I'll
do is I'll get a lawnmower, mow grass in my
neighborhood for all the people that live in my neighborhood,
make my money, my fifty dollars whatever I make, and
I'll give that back to help the homeless people. Wow.
So that was a young kid, you know. So if
children can get instilled with that mentality now to help
(53:32):
as opposed to what's happening in the world right now,
I think you would go a better direction.
Speaker 2 (53:36):
And you can mow one law and you could throw
one star fish smile and so let's go yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4 (53:47):
Well listen, thank you, for joining us on in the arena.
Roseric casado'sjourney reminds us that are out of challenge can
come compassion and out of struggle strength. The Casada Foundation
is proof that one person's mission can ripple outward and
change countless lives. If you were inspired by this conversation,
share it, carry the message forward, and remember each of
(54:07):
us has the power to step into the arena and
make a difference. We thank you so much, Rick Thatcher,
how do you feelis good night? Heidi Arthur Lee CEO
inventor life hero and Rosario, thanks so much. And I
think it's it's time to hear it from Mike Brow.
Speaker 1 (54:28):
It's so joke.
Speaker 8 (54:29):
When you choke to get life back and.
Speaker 1 (54:33):
Without breath, they'll be death. To get life back.
Speaker 2 (54:36):
And life back and.
Speaker 4 (54:41):
Life life life back and live
Speaker 12 (55:00):
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