March 13, 2025 • 21 mins
The Man in the Arena - Show 31. Brought to you by LifeVac. Hosted by Rick Fatscher. With special guests. Be sure to catch Mr. 3000, Ray Priebe, with news on the latest lives saved. The Man in the Arena airs live @ 6:30pm EST every Thursday night from Paradise Studios NY via the STRONGISLAND.COM Entertainment Network.
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
Now on iHeartRadio The Man in the Arena, the Life
Back Radio show where we explore incredible stories of courage,
resilience and life saving moments. Here's your host, founder and
venor and CEO of Lifeback, Arthur Lee, and Life Back
Advocate and President of Sales, Rick Thatcher.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Hey, everybody, welcome to The Man in the Arena. I'm
Rick Thatcher along with Toddle Rourk.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Pat. Great to see you.
Speaker 4 (00:37):
M I a Man in the Arena.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Absolutely, and we should mention there's a code mit A
for if you go to lifefact dot net. If you're
not protected yourself already or someone you love fifteen percent
off use the code mit A. Go to lifefac dot net. Pat,
you're one to always shun or be aware of.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
The knockoffs encounterfifth. We talked about it before. It's very important.
I am yes, yeah, no doubt so.
Speaker 4 (01:04):
Always have been a little bit of a different.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Show this week where we've invited people in the multiple
promos that I do on various platforms, be honest. I
usually say this, it's like a It's like a preemptive
announcement that I have no idea what I'm doing.
Speaker 4 (01:21):
Do either of us. That's why we podcast. We'll figure
it out eventually.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
That's why wasn't it so easy when we were kids.
We had so few choices to get our entertainment dollars.
We could go to the movies, We could watch broadcast
television UHF was probably the wild card before a cable.
Speaker 4 (01:39):
Yes, but even entertainment was going to the with your friends,
going to the movie right, walking there, or riding your
bike's there. Yeah, sneaky entertainment was going to the party.
Your parents didn't drive you there, you went with your friends,
and then that was the good part.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
Right, everything's changed.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
It has not. I don't know if for the better.
I'm I'm a cranky old man now, but I don't
know if much for the better.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
Yeah, and you have, and you have some things going
on tonight night.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
For the first time we've talked about the the old
talk shows where guests were so critical to the show,
were so critical to their own persona that they wouldn't
be able.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
To do the normal room.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
Well, Rick, I'm gonna pull the big time on you tonight.
I'm so busy, so I can't stay for the whole
show here. I'll stay here for a segment, but I
will not move down the couch.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
So literally, people watching us now Facebook Live, Pat's not
going to be here. So if you have any questions
or comments for Pat, that's it. Fifteen minutes and he's
out of here, like Vladimir, where are you headed?
Speaker 4 (02:30):
America's first warehouse out in run Konkoma show with Paul Bond.
He called me last night and said, we're doing these
seven minute segments of comics and I don't know what
platform they're going to put it out on, but I'll
let you know.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Yeah, but that America first warehouse, great venue, kind of hidden.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
I knew nothing about it.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
So it's the story is the guy's dad had one
warehouse and when his dad was alive, it was two
sons and that Joe the Box and Joe the Broken
and the John the Box or whatever. The brothers and
even always say Dad, she's to buy more warehouses. And
Dad was like, you know, the American dream. We have
a warehouse, don't get don't get greedy. Dad passes away.
He takes the money and buys like ten different ten
(03:09):
other warehouses. Now he has like twenty seven across the country. Wow,
it's these big industrial warehouses and this one he's just
made into like a high school kids bedroom with if
you we're in love with Trump, it's all Trump pictures
and Trump posters and crazy stuff.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
It actually came when I learned I met the two brothers,
and there's another tie to Massapequa a next wife, Stephanie Geralimy.
But their connection wasn't very political other than the fact
that they loved Donald Trump's stance on attacking the opiate crisis.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
They lost to a daughter, a son as a son, yeah,
lacrosse player, and I think he actually was going to
join the military, but yeah, I lost him as a
young man, early twenties. So that was their big thing.
Was this this ventanyl coming across the border is crazy. Yeah,
so that's and any politician who you know a lot
of politicians, Republicans at LEAs go there and do book
(04:01):
signings and have town halls, and you've been there. It's
it's there's different couches every time. It's not like it's
sort of set up like a theater, but it's seven couches,
then a wood chair, then.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
A rocker and then yeah, it's very eclectic.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
Yes, like I said, like a high school boy with
a lot of money decorating his room. And you know,
but and you also work with Mike Loftis. Ye out there, yep,
Mike does a show. We used to do it every
month out there. Now he's doing it like every other month.
It's called that show Tonight. A bunch of different skits, uh,
you know about topics that are current in the news.
(04:40):
You could check him out too on that show tonight
Michael Loftis. Just google Michael Loftus, get him on Instagram.
All those skits and little things we put together. Yeah, yeah,
we could do a lot with the green screen now,
as you know, no question, these pictures aren't really here.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
So yeah, quick comparison the friendly confines of Strong Island
TV here in Massapequa, or America. First, different, but yet
a lot of similarities.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
Yeah yeah, I mean, I even I think Suffolk reminds
me of nasaua thirty years ago.
Speaker 5 (05:11):
Right.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
I think it's you know, just we're getting pushed creeping. Yeah,
you know, but urban urban sprawl. They have a blue collar,
nice people, you know, common sense. They aren't like a
lot of people in the Nassau. Yeah, no doubt.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
So you're going to be checking out and we're wasting
valuable time talking about it. But in a matter of
like twelve to fifteen minutes, you're going to be out
of here. So I want to make plenty enough time
for you to get out to America. First warehouse in
raw Konkoma, a little comedy show going on time.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
I'm going to join you as soon as we're finishing up.
We want to mention.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
Ordinarily it's powder Work and Rick Fcher from a strong
on TV Life BacT Studio, a Life Back sponsored studio
and show. But of course the man in the arena.
But we're missing Arthur Lee and the very important assignment
or a job he's doing down with doctor Ben Carter.
Speaker 4 (06:05):
He's meeting more important people than us.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Yeah, I think, yeh, so more chill, more accomplished, more notoriety.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
I don't blame him.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
I always thought even when he ran for president, I
was like, I like him. I hope Trump gives him
a job. In twenty sixteen, I said, this guy's a
smart guy, right, and they just ridiculed him because you know,
right the left in't you know he was a black
guy who agreed with Donald Trump. And then you just
can't have that. We got still can't have it.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
It's a little less work, a little less severe than
it was in twenty sixteen, for certain.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
But when you get lied to for ten years, you
just don't listen to him anymore. He's got a brain surgeon,
and you know they saying he's not smart.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Operative word is gas lighting, Yes, gas lighting. So we're
also going to promote the fact that next week mister
Joe Piscopal will be joining the Man in the Arena
his new book Average Joe, The Memoirs of a Blue
Collar Entertainer. And you know it might hurt Joe for
someone that's sixty to say I grew up with him,
(07:02):
but we kind of did.
Speaker 4 (07:03):
Oh yeah, and a good book. I read the very
good book. Very interesting, a lot of a lot of
good anecdotes and stories. Italian upbringing in the Bloomfield, New Jersey,
Bloomfield Avenue. Yeah. So next week you can relate to it.
I can relate to it a lot at least.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
So I think he did a lot to dispel the
kind of divide between New Jersey and Long Island.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
Yeah, and New York.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
I mean that was his stint on Saren Live, probably
arguably one of the greatest casts or greatest timing. He
was there with Eddie Murphy and Early Crystal. So we
look forward to welcoming Arthur's really good friend and a
great friend to life fact Joe Piscopode joining us next week.
You know something that you and I are doing together,
(07:47):
and we should bring up the I see Ray Prevy
wedding and we're going to get to Ray Prevy in
just a moment, probably if you could bring up the
the graphic of Brian kill Meads History, Liberty and Laughs tour.
So this is going out live tonight, but next weekend
there's only a few tickets left. So if you're watching
(08:09):
and you're in the Saint Louis area, I know Larry
Romano is.
Speaker 4 (08:11):
Literally like fifty tickets left.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
It's really well, it's really amazing, and we come into
play so you know, you've been involved almost from the
beginning of Brian's road show and we still are amazed.
There's a whole medical team examining Brian Kilmead's work, ethic,
his sleep patterns.
Speaker 4 (08:30):
He's just how he does it, How does he do it?
He wears us out every time we go away for
a weekend with and we do eight different things right,
we have to go home and sleep for two days.
He's on the air the next morning at five in
the morning. It's unbelievable.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
It really is amazing.
Speaker 4 (08:42):
But I said to him, I did you see that
Kennedy and Jimmy Fallo doing a show called Liberty and Laughs?
I go, Brian, WHOA, So they're doing it together? Yeah,
but they and they call it Liberty and Laughs, And
I'm like, pride, they just steal your show. I mean,
we just put history in there. It's the same title.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
What we were supposed to do. We're supposed to copyright with,
supposed to mail that to ourselves.
Speaker 4 (09:01):
I was supposed to make a hat at one point,
So I don't know, I'll try to do that.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
There's a lot of thievery going on, but of the
so we help in a way.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
You do stand up, which you're yep, that's your what
we'd say, your forte And then he went of your fortes.
Speaker 4 (09:15):
And he walks us through history all the books he's written,
and we act out skits and we are we probably
wouldn't have made the high school.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
Play, probably not looking back, or our skills have not
really we haven't honed them.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
Yeah, but we have a lot of fun, too late
to take a class, and we keep it brief yep,
and we bring history.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
We help Brian bring history to your life.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
And we used to enjoy the show when we were
only involved in the beginning and sit out in the
audience and wait for questions at the end. But listen
to Brian recan't George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, Sam Houston, Lincoln.
Speaker 4 (09:52):
Remember how hesn'ant we were when he said I want
you to do one skit. We're like, okay. The next
show he's I want you to do two skits, and
like that's too much, Let's do them all. Next show
He's like, let's do them all. Yeah, we would just
run with it since so, I mean so, my cousins
and some family and friends were down in Florida and
they said the best part of the show is like
what he says. Now, I could just tell you what happened.
I could bring you back in history and you hear
(10:14):
the show. Let's see it. Yes, Yeah, A lot of
producing going on in the background.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
Yeah, and a lot of costume changes, which I feel
like I've gotten better at not rattling your cage or
wrestling with it in terms of.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
Missing at the last.
Speaker 4 (10:31):
Moment, Rick loves to Okay, we're going on in thirty seconds, Rick, Rick,
We'll go and talk to a stagehand about a Grateful
Dead tour in nineteen seventy eight. And I'm looking around like, Rick,
where are you? Yeah, I'm over here. Okay, right there.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
I don't need you push it in the back button.
I'm gonna I want to yes, you know, keep the grays,
keep it down to a minimum. So without any more hesitation,
you know, I want to talk about a couple of things.
I want to mention, you know, joining us. But what
usually every let's go back there.
Speaker 4 (10:58):
Why was he meeting with Ben Carson?
Speaker 3 (11:00):
So great question.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
So Ben Carson is I would think falling into the
category of expert brain surgeon.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
He knows me he is a brain surgeon.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
And I don't want to steal one of the lines
from one of the books his own, bake it into
the final cut of like a commercial or a endorsement
or a partnership with doctor Ben Carson. But Arthur at
some point says, you don't have to be a brain
surgeon to figure out how to use this place. Push
pull life Fact device and I immediately said, that's it's genius.
And of course Arthur came up with that on his own,
(11:31):
such a humble guy, doctor Ben Carson. And there have
been people in our different circles that have been trying
to connect Arthur Lee, inventor and CEO of Life Fact,
with doctor Ben Carson, amongst other people like for you know,
national spokesperson.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
But what greater person.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
As we go forward into twenty twenty five, I mean,
these are all critical years for the Life of Life
Fact getting it out there, but we look forward.
Speaker 4 (11:58):
To that floating. I mean, it's a heart woman. You
hear the stories twenty sixteen, twenty seventeen to four lives
over a year now, that's averaging four a day a day,
and that's the ones that are reported. That's crazy.
Speaker 5 (12:11):
You know.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Right now, Ray Preby is in the greenroom, our greenroom,
chomping at the bit because he wants to He wants
to get to a big week again. And you know what,
I don't even see why we don't just waste any
more time and get to mister three thousand.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
There he is.
Speaker 5 (12:35):
Men and women in the arena, how are you doing
this evening? Coming to you live from Capel mister three thousand.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
Mister three thousand, and we should remind anyone if you're
tuning in for the first time, we call him mister
three thousand because he saved his two year old daughter, Maya,
Princess Maya, on the side of a highway in Cape
Coral and it was number three thousand.
Speaker 5 (13:00):
There was number three thousand, Lucky number three thousand, and folks,
we are so close to the next milestone. It's amazing.
These numbers are blowing me away. Let's talk about Tuesday alone.
Tuesday eleven saves just on Tuesday. Amazing numbers for this week.
But let's get into it. Bobby roll that footage.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
Bobby, Oh, Bobby was just out here coaching us on
getting a little bit closer.
Speaker 5 (13:24):
I'm catching Bobby off back up.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
To like here.
Speaker 5 (13:27):
It comes totalized days Tiber ninety three.
Speaker 4 (13:34):
Job party November.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
When was that three K party?
Speaker 4 (13:41):
Early November?
Speaker 5 (13:41):
Right or October twenty? The party was November, early November.
Speaker 4 (13:48):
Yeah, I had to do a wedding November eighth, the
week after the Trump Yeah one yep.
Speaker 5 (13:53):
Because it's been one hundred and forty four days since
I've saved my little girl. Number three thousand, and we
have six hundred and ninety three saves in one hundred
and forty four states. Amazing.
Speaker 4 (14:06):
Let's up for seven hundred. That's a lot.
Speaker 5 (14:10):
Yeah, much more. I'm gonna save this week. Come on, guys,
can you guess it?
Speaker 4 (14:14):
Give me a number twenty nineteen.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
I'm horrible against going up twenty two.
Speaker 5 (14:20):
Keep going up.
Speaker 4 (14:21):
Oh my god, thirty, keep.
Speaker 5 (14:23):
Going up by a lot. Forty forty saves. Forty forty
saves this week alone, guys, forty saves.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
It's amazing.
Speaker 5 (14:34):
And that's been tuesdaves today, eleven saves on Tuesday. It's
been an amazing week.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
You know what, Ray, we appreciate these updates and what
you save.
Speaker 4 (14:43):
Of the week. You have one, I do.
Speaker 5 (14:46):
I got a highlight of the week, and it's a
good one. I was just reading over it and I'm
absolutely blown away by it. Here we go. On March seventh,
one hundred and one year old woman one hundred and
one choked on a glazed donut. Here's her daughter's story.
Mom was just starting to have her donut and coffee.
As I was in another room. I heard a commotion.
(15:08):
I ran over. I saw she was trying to breathe
and cough up something. She was sitting in a requiner.
I leaned her forward and tried tapping the blockage. Clear
it was unsuccessful. Then I remembered we were given the
life Back, which was hanging on the kitchen door. I
ran for the device, pulled it out, and with one
really strong push and pull, she began breathing clearly. It
(15:32):
wasn't until this episode was over then I realized that
the piece of donut was dislodged in the mouthpiece. What
a joy. The life Back absolutely saved my mom's life. Unbelievable.
It was unbelievable.
Speaker 4 (15:48):
Yet she's not gonna live till one hundred and eight.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
Yeah, better choices, Yeah, no doubt.
Speaker 5 (15:55):
She doesn't love a donut.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
It always reminds me of it, you know, as we
go to retirement homes, assisted living facilities. Certainly the VA's
was a big concentration for us this year. But I
always think back to when I first started with Life Fact.
There was a letter that Arthur received from the UK,
and it was from the family of By the time
the letter was received and by the time the letter
was being written, the.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
Loved one had cassed away.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
Of natural causes, but the thank you and the appreciation
in the letter for maybe maybe a week and a
half prior.
Speaker 4 (16:29):
He was ninety six, right, he was ninety six years old,
and they were happy that it didn't die horribly.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
That was right. That wasn't the final chapter.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
And so often in just general conversation, you know someone
was in the hospital, whether it was COVID or it
was you know, any number of diagnosis at that stage
of life, and then you go, oh, yeah, by the way,
it was choking doesn't need to be the final chapter.
We're all we're all going to go one hundred percent
mortality in this country still. I believe that that's the rate.
No one gets out alive.
Speaker 5 (16:58):
But no, there are no paths, there are no passes, right.
Speaker 4 (17:02):
Ope. But as you get older, you start losing friends
in you. Yeah, yeah, you really appreciate life a lot more.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
But before I was gonna just make mention of the team,
the Life Back team. We're small but a very passionate team.
And Ray do what he does every week Without the
input from Donnayisley, I couldn't, you know, even look as
remotely confused as I normally do. Without Kaylee, Tim and
Julia Bonelli making us all look good and give it.
Speaker 5 (17:28):
It's the life back family. It's the life back family.
Those who from from the individuals putting the devices together
in the warehouse, from the team in the office, from
I mean just and it's a family because I mean,
even as recently as I'm part of this, you guys
opened your arms to me and my family. I talked
(17:49):
to Donna regularly, I talked to Arthur regularly. Again, it's
it's a family. It's a family.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
We're blessed to have you.
Speaker 5 (18:00):
Where I go give my final words of wisdom here
life have it and don't need it. Don't need it
and not have it. The life you save may be
your own. God bless you. If you well.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
I think I hear Maya in the background, so.
Speaker 6 (18:19):
The previews there she is, Hi, Hi, everybodyful by everybody.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
Bye, Maya, God bless you. Ray, Thanks so much again.
Every week we enjoy it.
Speaker 4 (18:38):
Let's get this.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
We're up against a hard stop for us, so I'm
gonna without further ado. This is new for us, but
please like, comment, share, let us know.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
What we're doing wrong.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
The whole idea behind the man in the arenas to
share stories of inspiration, of.
Speaker 4 (18:55):
Passion, kindness, passion, but also.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
To raise awareness about Life Fact because a lot of
the folks that we have acchore, we have a family
acquire Life Act Nation. We sometimes refer to it as
but we know that we have work to do. Arthur
would say it be the first to say we had
thirteen lives or eleven lives saved on Tuesday. But there's
still more work to do. Because if five thousand people
a year, one is too many. But if five thousand
(19:20):
people a year are dying from accidental choking, our mission
is not complete to make that thing of the past
absolutely y And Arthur in his garage in Massapequa and
his mind, his incredible mind, just trying to protect his
family first and then going on to change the world.
Could be the first time that an accidental cause of
(19:42):
death is completely eliminated.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
Yes, and it could happen.
Speaker 4 (19:45):
I'd be fantastic.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
We need your help, so you know, like share, put
this in the hands of this message in the hands
of folks and reach out to us. I'm at r
Thatcher at life fact dot net. Go to life fact
dot net. Use code mit a rolling right across the
top of my head fifteen percent off. I don't know
why I wouldn't even wait for the discount, but go
to our website, avoid the knockoffs, and please join us
(20:10):
next week when we'll have Joe Piscopo and other great guests.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
Look forward to seeing you next week. And why doesn't
Micro play us out on Man.
Speaker 4 (20:19):
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Six
Now on iHeartRadio The Man in the Arena, the Life
Back Radio show where we explore incredible stories of courage,
resilience and life saving moments. Here's your host, founder and
venor and CEO of Lifeback, Arthur Lee, and Life Back
Advocate and President of Sales, Rick Thatcher.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Hey, everybody, welcome to The Man in the Arena. I'm
Rick Thatcher along with Toddle Rourk.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Pat. Great to see you.
Speaker 4 (00:37):
M I a Man in the Arena.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Absolutely, and we should mention there's a code mit A
for if you go to lifefact dot net. If you're
not protected yourself already or someone you love fifteen percent
off use the code mit A. Go to lifefac dot net. Pat,
you're one to always shun or be aware of.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
The knockoffs encounterfifth. We talked about it before. It's very important.
I am yes, yeah, no doubt so.
Speaker 4 (01:04):
Always have been a little bit of a different.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Show this week where we've invited people in the multiple
promos that I do on various platforms, be honest. I
usually say this, it's like a It's like a preemptive
announcement that I have no idea what I'm doing.
Speaker 4 (01:21):
Do either of us. That's why we podcast. We'll figure
it out eventually.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
That's why wasn't it so easy when we were kids.
We had so few choices to get our entertainment dollars.
We could go to the movies, We could watch broadcast
television UHF was probably the wild card before a cable.
Speaker 4 (01:39):
Yes, but even entertainment was going to the with your friends,
going to the movie right, walking there, or riding your
bike's there. Yeah, sneaky entertainment was going to the party.
Your parents didn't drive you there, you went with your friends,
and then that was the good part.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
Right, everything's changed.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
It has not. I don't know if for the better.
I'm I'm a cranky old man now, but I don't
know if much for the better.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
Yeah, and you have, and you have some things going
on tonight night.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
For the first time we've talked about the the old
talk shows where guests were so critical to the show,
were so critical to their own persona that they wouldn't
be able.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
To do the normal room.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
Well, Rick, I'm gonna pull the big time on you tonight.
I'm so busy, so I can't stay for the whole
show here. I'll stay here for a segment, but I
will not move down the couch.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
So literally, people watching us now Facebook Live, Pat's not
going to be here. So if you have any questions
or comments for Pat, that's it. Fifteen minutes and he's
out of here, like Vladimir, where are you headed?
Speaker 4 (02:30):
America's first warehouse out in run Konkoma show with Paul Bond.
He called me last night and said, we're doing these
seven minute segments of comics and I don't know what
platform they're going to put it out on, but I'll
let you know.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Yeah, but that America first warehouse, great venue, kind of hidden.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
I knew nothing about it.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
So it's the story is the guy's dad had one
warehouse and when his dad was alive, it was two
sons and that Joe the Box and Joe the Broken
and the John the Box or whatever. The brothers and
even always say Dad, she's to buy more warehouses. And
Dad was like, you know, the American dream. We have
a warehouse, don't get don't get greedy. Dad passes away.
He takes the money and buys like ten different ten
(03:09):
other warehouses. Now he has like twenty seven across the country. Wow,
it's these big industrial warehouses and this one he's just
made into like a high school kids bedroom with if
you we're in love with Trump, it's all Trump pictures
and Trump posters and crazy stuff.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
It actually came when I learned I met the two brothers,
and there's another tie to Massapequa a next wife, Stephanie Geralimy.
But their connection wasn't very political other than the fact
that they loved Donald Trump's stance on attacking the opiate crisis.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
They lost to a daughter, a son as a son, yeah,
lacrosse player, and I think he actually was going to
join the military, but yeah, I lost him as a
young man, early twenties. So that was their big thing.
Was this this ventanyl coming across the border is crazy. Yeah,
so that's and any politician who you know a lot
of politicians, Republicans at LEAs go there and do book
(04:01):
signings and have town halls, and you've been there. It's
it's there's different couches every time. It's not like it's
sort of set up like a theater, but it's seven couches,
then a wood chair, then.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
A rocker and then yeah, it's very eclectic.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
Yes, like I said, like a high school boy with
a lot of money decorating his room. And you know,
but and you also work with Mike Loftis. Ye out there, yep,
Mike does a show. We used to do it every
month out there. Now he's doing it like every other month.
It's called that show Tonight. A bunch of different skits, uh,
you know about topics that are current in the news.
(04:40):
You could check him out too on that show tonight
Michael Loftis. Just google Michael Loftus, get him on Instagram.
All those skits and little things we put together. Yeah, yeah,
we could do a lot with the green screen now,
as you know, no question, these pictures aren't really here.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
So yeah, quick comparison the friendly confines of Strong Island
TV here in Massapequa, or America. First, different, but yet
a lot of similarities.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
Yeah yeah, I mean, I even I think Suffolk reminds
me of nasaua thirty years ago.
Speaker 5 (05:11):
Right.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
I think it's you know, just we're getting pushed creeping. Yeah,
you know, but urban urban sprawl. They have a blue collar,
nice people, you know, common sense. They aren't like a
lot of people in the Nassau. Yeah, no doubt.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
So you're going to be checking out and we're wasting
valuable time talking about it. But in a matter of
like twelve to fifteen minutes, you're going to be out
of here. So I want to make plenty enough time
for you to get out to America. First warehouse in
raw Konkoma, a little comedy show going on time.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
I'm going to join you as soon as we're finishing up.
We want to mention.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
Ordinarily it's powder Work and Rick Fcher from a strong
on TV Life BacT Studio, a Life Back sponsored studio
and show. But of course the man in the arena.
But we're missing Arthur Lee and the very important assignment
or a job he's doing down with doctor Ben Carter.
Speaker 4 (06:05):
He's meeting more important people than us.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Yeah, I think, yeh, so more chill, more accomplished, more notoriety.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
I don't blame him.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
I always thought even when he ran for president, I
was like, I like him. I hope Trump gives him
a job. In twenty sixteen, I said, this guy's a
smart guy, right, and they just ridiculed him because you know,
right the left in't you know he was a black
guy who agreed with Donald Trump. And then you just
can't have that. We got still can't have it.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
It's a little less work, a little less severe than
it was in twenty sixteen, for certain.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
But when you get lied to for ten years, you
just don't listen to him anymore. He's got a brain surgeon,
and you know they saying he's not smart.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Operative word is gas lighting, Yes, gas lighting. So we're
also going to promote the fact that next week mister
Joe Piscopal will be joining the Man in the Arena
his new book Average Joe, The Memoirs of a Blue
Collar Entertainer. And you know it might hurt Joe for
someone that's sixty to say I grew up with him,
(07:02):
but we kind of did.
Speaker 4 (07:03):
Oh yeah, and a good book. I read the very
good book. Very interesting, a lot of a lot of
good anecdotes and stories. Italian upbringing in the Bloomfield, New Jersey,
Bloomfield Avenue. Yeah. So next week you can relate to it.
I can relate to it a lot at least.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
So I think he did a lot to dispel the
kind of divide between New Jersey and Long Island.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
Yeah, and New York.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
I mean that was his stint on Saren Live, probably
arguably one of the greatest casts or greatest timing. He
was there with Eddie Murphy and Early Crystal. So we
look forward to welcoming Arthur's really good friend and a
great friend to life fact Joe Piscopode joining us next week.
You know something that you and I are doing together,
(07:47):
and we should bring up the I see Ray Prevy
wedding and we're going to get to Ray Prevy in
just a moment, probably if you could bring up the
the graphic of Brian kill Meads History, Liberty and Laughs tour.
So this is going out live tonight, but next weekend
there's only a few tickets left. So if you're watching
(08:09):
and you're in the Saint Louis area, I know Larry
Romano is.
Speaker 4 (08:11):
Literally like fifty tickets left.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
It's really well, it's really amazing, and we come into
play so you know, you've been involved almost from the
beginning of Brian's road show and we still are amazed.
There's a whole medical team examining Brian Kilmead's work, ethic,
his sleep patterns.
Speaker 4 (08:30):
He's just how he does it, How does he do it?
He wears us out every time we go away for
a weekend with and we do eight different things right,
we have to go home and sleep for two days.
He's on the air the next morning at five in
the morning. It's unbelievable.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
It really is amazing.
Speaker 4 (08:42):
But I said to him, I did you see that
Kennedy and Jimmy Fallo doing a show called Liberty and Laughs?
I go, Brian, WHOA, So they're doing it together? Yeah,
but they and they call it Liberty and Laughs, And
I'm like, pride, they just steal your show. I mean,
we just put history in there. It's the same title.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
What we were supposed to do. We're supposed to copyright with,
supposed to mail that to ourselves.
Speaker 4 (09:01):
I was supposed to make a hat at one point,
So I don't know, I'll try to do that.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
There's a lot of thievery going on, but of the
so we help in a way.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
You do stand up, which you're yep, that's your what
we'd say, your forte And then he went of your fortes.
Speaker 4 (09:15):
And he walks us through history all the books he's written,
and we act out skits and we are we probably
wouldn't have made the high school.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
Play, probably not looking back, or our skills have not
really we haven't honed them.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
Yeah, but we have a lot of fun, too late
to take a class, and we keep it brief yep,
and we bring history.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
We help Brian bring history to your life.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
And we used to enjoy the show when we were
only involved in the beginning and sit out in the
audience and wait for questions at the end. But listen
to Brian recan't George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, Sam Houston, Lincoln.
Speaker 4 (09:52):
Remember how hesn'ant we were when he said I want
you to do one skit. We're like, okay. The next
show he's I want you to do two skits, and
like that's too much, Let's do them all. Next show
He's like, let's do them all. Yeah, we would just
run with it since so, I mean so, my cousins
and some family and friends were down in Florida and
they said the best part of the show is like
what he says. Now, I could just tell you what happened.
I could bring you back in history and you hear
(10:14):
the show. Let's see it. Yes, Yeah, A lot of
producing going on in the background.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
Yeah, and a lot of costume changes, which I feel
like I've gotten better at not rattling your cage or
wrestling with it in terms of.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
Missing at the last.
Speaker 4 (10:31):
Moment, Rick loves to Okay, we're going on in thirty seconds, Rick, Rick,
We'll go and talk to a stagehand about a Grateful
Dead tour in nineteen seventy eight. And I'm looking around like, Rick,
where are you? Yeah, I'm over here. Okay, right there.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
I don't need you push it in the back button.
I'm gonna I want to yes, you know, keep the grays,
keep it down to a minimum. So without any more hesitation,
you know, I want to talk about a couple of things.
I want to mention, you know, joining us. But what
usually every let's go back there.
Speaker 4 (10:58):
Why was he meeting with Ben Carson?
Speaker 3 (11:00):
So great question.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
So Ben Carson is I would think falling into the
category of expert brain surgeon.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
He knows me he is a brain surgeon.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
And I don't want to steal one of the lines
from one of the books his own, bake it into
the final cut of like a commercial or a endorsement
or a partnership with doctor Ben Carson. But Arthur at
some point says, you don't have to be a brain
surgeon to figure out how to use this place. Push
pull life Fact device and I immediately said, that's it's genius.
And of course Arthur came up with that on his own,
(11:31):
such a humble guy, doctor Ben Carson. And there have
been people in our different circles that have been trying
to connect Arthur Lee, inventor and CEO of Life Fact,
with doctor Ben Carson, amongst other people like for you know,
national spokesperson.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
But what greater person.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
As we go forward into twenty twenty five, I mean,
these are all critical years for the Life of Life
Fact getting it out there, but we look forward.
Speaker 4 (11:58):
To that floating. I mean, it's a heart woman. You
hear the stories twenty sixteen, twenty seventeen to four lives
over a year now, that's averaging four a day a day,
and that's the ones that are reported. That's crazy.
Speaker 5 (12:11):
You know.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Right now, Ray Preby is in the greenroom, our greenroom,
chomping at the bit because he wants to He wants
to get to a big week again. And you know what,
I don't even see why we don't just waste any
more time and get to mister three thousand.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
There he is.
Speaker 5 (12:35):
Men and women in the arena, how are you doing
this evening? Coming to you live from Capel mister three thousand.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
Mister three thousand, and we should remind anyone if you're
tuning in for the first time, we call him mister
three thousand because he saved his two year old daughter, Maya,
Princess Maya, on the side of a highway in Cape
Coral and it was number three thousand.
Speaker 5 (13:00):
There was number three thousand, Lucky number three thousand, and folks,
we are so close to the next milestone. It's amazing.
These numbers are blowing me away. Let's talk about Tuesday alone.
Tuesday eleven saves just on Tuesday. Amazing numbers for this week.
But let's get into it. Bobby roll that footage.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
Bobby, Oh, Bobby was just out here coaching us on
getting a little bit closer.
Speaker 5 (13:24):
I'm catching Bobby off back up.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
To like here.
Speaker 5 (13:27):
It comes totalized days Tiber ninety three.
Speaker 4 (13:34):
Job party November.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
When was that three K party?
Speaker 4 (13:41):
Early November?
Speaker 5 (13:41):
Right or October twenty? The party was November, early November.
Speaker 4 (13:48):
Yeah, I had to do a wedding November eighth, the
week after the Trump Yeah one yep.
Speaker 5 (13:53):
Because it's been one hundred and forty four days since
I've saved my little girl. Number three thousand, and we
have six hundred and ninety three saves in one hundred
and forty four states. Amazing.
Speaker 4 (14:06):
Let's up for seven hundred. That's a lot.
Speaker 5 (14:10):
Yeah, much more. I'm gonna save this week. Come on, guys,
can you guess it?
Speaker 4 (14:14):
Give me a number twenty nineteen.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
I'm horrible against going up twenty two.
Speaker 5 (14:20):
Keep going up.
Speaker 4 (14:21):
Oh my god, thirty, keep.
Speaker 5 (14:23):
Going up by a lot. Forty forty saves. Forty forty
saves this week alone, guys, forty saves.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
It's amazing.
Speaker 5 (14:34):
And that's been tuesdaves today, eleven saves on Tuesday. It's
been an amazing week.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
You know what, Ray, we appreciate these updates and what
you save.
Speaker 4 (14:43):
Of the week. You have one, I do.
Speaker 5 (14:46):
I got a highlight of the week, and it's a
good one. I was just reading over it and I'm
absolutely blown away by it. Here we go. On March seventh,
one hundred and one year old woman one hundred and
one choked on a glazed donut. Here's her daughter's story.
Mom was just starting to have her donut and coffee.
As I was in another room. I heard a commotion.
(15:08):
I ran over. I saw she was trying to breathe
and cough up something. She was sitting in a requiner.
I leaned her forward and tried tapping the blockage. Clear
it was unsuccessful. Then I remembered we were given the
life Back, which was hanging on the kitchen door. I
ran for the device, pulled it out, and with one
really strong push and pull, she began breathing clearly. It
(15:32):
wasn't until this episode was over then I realized that
the piece of donut was dislodged in the mouthpiece. What
a joy. The life Back absolutely saved my mom's life. Unbelievable.
It was unbelievable.
Speaker 4 (15:48):
Yet she's not gonna live till one hundred and eight.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
Yeah, better choices, Yeah, no doubt.
Speaker 5 (15:55):
She doesn't love a donut.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
It always reminds me of it, you know, as we
go to retirement homes, assisted living facilities. Certainly the VA's
was a big concentration for us this year. But I
always think back to when I first started with Life Fact.
There was a letter that Arthur received from the UK,
and it was from the family of By the time
the letter was received and by the time the letter
was being written, the.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
Loved one had cassed away.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
Of natural causes, but the thank you and the appreciation
in the letter for maybe maybe a week and a
half prior.
Speaker 4 (16:29):
He was ninety six, right, he was ninety six years old,
and they were happy that it didn't die horribly.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
That was right. That wasn't the final chapter.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
And so often in just general conversation, you know someone
was in the hospital, whether it was COVID or it
was you know, any number of diagnosis at that stage
of life, and then you go, oh, yeah, by the way,
it was choking doesn't need to be the final chapter.
We're all we're all going to go one hundred percent
mortality in this country still. I believe that that's the rate.
No one gets out alive.
Speaker 5 (16:58):
But no, there are no paths, there are no passes, right.
Speaker 4 (17:02):
Ope. But as you get older, you start losing friends
in you. Yeah, yeah, you really appreciate life a lot more.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
But before I was gonna just make mention of the team,
the Life Back team. We're small but a very passionate team.
And Ray do what he does every week Without the
input from Donnayisley, I couldn't, you know, even look as
remotely confused as I normally do. Without Kaylee, Tim and
Julia Bonelli making us all look good and give it.
Speaker 5 (17:28):
It's the life back family. It's the life back family.
Those who from from the individuals putting the devices together
in the warehouse, from the team in the office, from
I mean just and it's a family because I mean,
even as recently as I'm part of this, you guys
opened your arms to me and my family. I talked
(17:49):
to Donna regularly, I talked to Arthur regularly. Again, it's
it's a family. It's a family.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
We're blessed to have you.
Speaker 5 (18:00):
Where I go give my final words of wisdom here
life have it and don't need it. Don't need it
and not have it. The life you save may be
your own. God bless you. If you well.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
I think I hear Maya in the background, so.
Speaker 6 (18:19):
The previews there she is, Hi, Hi, everybodyful by everybody.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
Bye, Maya, God bless you. Ray, Thanks so much again.
Every week we enjoy it.
Speaker 4 (18:38):
Let's get this.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
We're up against a hard stop for us, so I'm
gonna without further ado. This is new for us, but
please like, comment, share, let us know.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
What we're doing wrong.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
The whole idea behind the man in the arenas to
share stories of inspiration, of.
Speaker 4 (18:55):
Passion, kindness, passion, but also.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
To raise awareness about Life Fact because a lot of
the folks that we have acchore, we have a family
acquire Life Act Nation. We sometimes refer to it as
but we know that we have work to do. Arthur
would say it be the first to say we had
thirteen lives or eleven lives saved on Tuesday. But there's
still more work to do. Because if five thousand people
a year, one is too many. But if five thousand
(19:20):
people a year are dying from accidental choking, our mission
is not complete to make that thing of the past
absolutely y And Arthur in his garage in Massapequa and
his mind, his incredible mind, just trying to protect his
family first and then going on to change the world.
Could be the first time that an accidental cause of
(19:42):
death is completely eliminated.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
Yes, and it could happen.
Speaker 4 (19:45):
I'd be fantastic.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
We need your help, so you know, like share, put
this in the hands of this message in the hands
of folks and reach out to us. I'm at r
Thatcher at life fact dot net. Go to life fact
dot net. Use code mit a rolling right across the
top of my head fifteen percent off. I don't know
why I wouldn't even wait for the discount, but go
to our website, avoid the knockoffs, and please join us
(20:10):
next week when we'll have Joe Piscopo and other great guests.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
Look forward to seeing you next week. And why doesn't
Micro play us out on Man.
Speaker 4 (20:19):
In the Arena? Yeah, and sing along if you know
the words. But do do Do Do Do Do Do?
Do's no joke. When you Chokegad Live Back and.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
Without breath, They'll be death Cigad Life Back and.
Speaker 4 (20:36):
Bad Life Back and Gad's Life back Line Back Life
Back and Live Life Back and Live
Speaker 1 (21:04):
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