The Man in the Arena - Show 32

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:03):
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 hosts, founder, inventor
and CEO of Lifeback, Arthur Lee and Life Back Advocate
and President of Sales, Rick Thatcher.

Speaker 2 (00:25):
Well Life tach Nation.

Speaker 3 (00:26):
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Speaker 4 (00:43):
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Speaker 5 (00:43):
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Speaker 3 (00:46):
We'll take it, so protect those you love. Get the
original Life Fact. Welcome to the Man in the Arena.
We always talk with Arthur Lee, powderwork myself. We always
talk about, as a subtext, Arthur's great book, Sorry Can't
Is a Lie. We talk about different chapters. We talk
about silly one chapter. And your dear friend is joining

(01:09):
us tonight and we are blessed. We are blessed to
be joined by mister Joe.

Speaker 4 (01:17):
Guys, how are you okay?

Speaker 3 (01:19):
So you look at this new book we have average Joe.

Speaker 6 (01:23):
Oh, thank you, you know, I said, I said, thanks
so much for the plug last week, Arthur. That was
the nicest stake. Matter of fact, I played part of it.
I played part of it on the radio show you
know that I saw it said oh, it said talk
about life back and I went, okay, I talked about
Arthur and that's good the show that we did. So
I really appreciate it. I thank you so so much
because I think Arthur, you and I have so much

(01:44):
in common.

Speaker 4 (01:44):
My brother right, well he did half of it makes
me laugh, like you know, what's cool when you when
you get to them and we've known each other a
couple of years now, right and yeah, yeah, he's you know,
and all the time he's become such a friend, like
you know your friends would I could see something and
I'll text it to him. And in his book he
talks about Few Money, which is the show that was

(02:08):
corct crazy. So we gave you the speech.

Speaker 6 (02:13):
Yeah, so Stiller and Mirror we're a comedy team. You
guys are probably too young, but they were at Solivan
show still Ben still Ben Ben's uh parents and they
and they would be. They would be at the improvisation, right,
they'd be at the improvisation comedy clubs, right and like
a hundred years ago, and they'd be at the bar.

(02:33):
And I was like an up and up in the
coming comic and we would talk to these great comedians.
Richard Pryor would walk in and said in the book,
you know, Rodney Dangerfield would walk in. Rodney was like
he was in person, by the way, like he was
not stick. Yeah you're doing yeah, right, yeah, you're doing
you're doing alright, I'm okay. It was that Rodney. It
was right Rodney. You know, all the all these grades
were there. So then at the bar were two really

(02:56):
bright comedians. And if your younger audience, Stiller and mirror
Ben's parents were geniuses. They were. They were smart. It
would the way they would button up bits. You would
watch you my dad Sullivan do bits, not just stand
up comic. And there they were at the bar. So
so I'm starting out and I talked to Anne and
she goes, I go, well, somebody wants me to do

(03:17):
commercial and they go commercials they're great. I go really,
She goes, yeah, because that's and then she doesn't say
but she says the word. She goes, that's blank. You money,
And I'm sorry, miss Mirraa. What was that?

Speaker 4 (03:28):
She was?

Speaker 6 (03:29):
God like you? You could you could, you know, do
what you want. But if you get the money from
the commercials, your choices will be better because you could
say no easier then Arthur and his books and the
exact same thing.

Speaker 4 (03:40):
That was enough reading his book and then this is
like I said, where I'm so blessed and I'll be friends.
I took a picture of my few chapters. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
How about the fact too, his dog was otis scared
the picture of my wedding party with my yeah dogs, Yeah,
that was cool.

Speaker 6 (04:01):
You know, you know, it's really wild. Guys, we have
the same ex wife is I'm leegal how that happened.

Speaker 4 (04:11):
But here's the here's the thing. And I thought to you,
and I don't even know if you told you know,
you told me this story. But the chapter is silly, right,
and in the book we kind of expand on the
fact that silly is a good thing for bigger purpose,
you know. And I saw I read a story about
a guy who's going to go jump off the uh

(04:32):
the San Francisco Golden bray Bridge. He's going to kill himself,
and someone went by him on a bike and waved
and smiled, and he said, well, somehow that just changed me,
and I decided not to and he went on to
live a good life and a small moment. And to me,
that is kind of the usefulness of silly. Like just

(04:54):
this past week, my daughter and I skied in our
tigger outfits, you know, and yeah, outside your picture, it's silly,
but you make people smile and the little kids laugh,
and then a lot of them want to take a
picture with you. And it helps with our humanity, right,

(05:14):
and that sometimes we need to laugh, we need to
lighten up, we need to enjoy, and it's okay to
be laugh at me in those situations. I don't care
as long as you laugh. But here's the story. Now,
I'll get it started, and then you see, you can
tell it.

Speaker 3 (05:33):
You're a garbage man, early early job.

Speaker 4 (05:38):
I don't even think it's in the book. So you're
a garbage man. What did you do to mess with
people's heads? What would you get and put in the garbage?

Speaker 6 (05:46):
Yeah? We you know, we we did. The slop root
fellas the slop root was the restaurant root. So that's
what I do as a garbage man. Dan the shore
and the slop root went to all restaurant restaurant restaurant
and you man, you you ain't picked up garbage. You
picked up like lobster, bacon and one hundred and three
degree heat down the shore, you know. So now, but

(06:06):
we would then we would go to some bakeries and
they would leave us the bread for the garbage man.
They would leave us the bread from the night before,
the leftover bread, and we were able to eat something,
you know, they'd feed us. It was a wild time.
It was crazy. It sounds disgusting, but it was crazy.
So then we had the truck and I would be
on the back of the truck, but buddy Jim would
drive the truck and you're on the back of the

(06:26):
truck drive, you know. And it was so coois.

Speaker 7 (06:28):
I love it, you know.

Speaker 6 (06:29):
And then traffic would go by. You could maybe pick
up some pretty gals. Hey, how you doing, you know,
you know. And then but then so what we did.
We took the bread that we got and I put
it in my hand like this, and then I've done
this couple of times. Forgive me it's really bad thing.

Speaker 1 (06:44):
No listen.

Speaker 6 (06:45):
So now you have a family behind the garbage truck
with the dad and the mom and all the kids
in the station wagon and they're pulling up at the
stop play and you're waving. Look it's the garbage man,
and we're waving. We're waving like this. Then I would
put my arm into the hopper where all the garbage is,
and I would act like I grab some. Of course,
they had the bread in my hand. I pull that
and I toast the family behind you and take a
bite out of the bread like I'm eating out of

(07:06):
the back of the garbage truck. You know, yes, was wild.
It was wild man. You know about the kid? What
am I going to tell you? So, I'm sorry if
I traumatize those kids like that.

Speaker 4 (07:18):
I'm too. I think that you know for me, And
you know, it's another example of kind of getting each
other right. So you gave him a smile. You made
them think it was silly, it was fun.

Speaker 6 (07:30):
Yeah, you gotta do it.

Speaker 7 (07:32):
Man.

Speaker 4 (07:32):
The reason I think that people need to read your
book is there's you maintain integrity throughout your life, but
so many different avenues of a human's life, right from
from comedian to sign It Live to Bodybuilding, to Radio
Guide to Sinatra like and I think for people's well being,

(07:58):
it's that continuation and going down paths and not necessarily
knowing where you were.

Speaker 6 (08:04):
H Yeah, so true.

Speaker 4 (08:06):
Tell the story about and this is kind of another perseverance.
When you went to the comedy show the first time,
then said, oh my god, so you got there early
and who was it?

Speaker 3 (08:17):
Yeah?

Speaker 6 (08:18):
We well we went in the first time I went
into the comedy club. There was such a long line ago.
I wrote about this in the book Down forty fourth
to night. It was Hell's Kitchen, guys, you know, and
I said, I'll go do some comedy and then I
remember pulled up to the club was audition night. Comedy
was like rock and roll back then, Arthur, you and
I have talked about this. People don't understand that era,
the late seventies in New York and the comedy clubs

(08:39):
forget about it. It was wild comedy wise, and I
wanted to be a part of it, to maybe move
on and become an actor. So I drove. I remember
I drove from Jersey to the Lincoln Tunnel and I
drove by the club. There must have been I swear
to god, there's two hundreds, many four hundred people lined
up waiting to get in an audition. Man, it was
that hot. And I just looked at that line and
I just kept going, went right back into Lincoln Tunnel,

(08:59):
went back home, totally chickened out, you know. But then
we went back. We would have Gilbert Goffrey would be there,
Larry David was there, Jerry Seinfeld was there, and then
and then all these guys that were I remember Elaine Boozer,
Bett Midler would come in.

Speaker 7 (09:15):
You went.

Speaker 4 (09:15):
You went at like four in the morning because they
realized that to get in you had to be at
the front and the line. And I think that there's
a reason that those successful comics were there at that time.

Speaker 6 (09:27):
A good point to your point. We had to get
there at noon. So I got there like think about
the doors opened at eight to give us a number.
Shows were at nine, so we'd be waiting. I was
the only guy with the car. I had this really
really non descriptive of Fort Fort Fairmont. Remember the Ford Fairmont,
you know what I mean? It looked like Jerry Seinfeld, look,
it looks like a government vehicle, he said, you know,

(09:48):
it was a great life, great life. So now it
was it was noon, and we'd have to wait and
and spending, you know, six seven, eight hours with Gilbert
Goffrey did in the car.

Speaker 3 (09:58):
It was hysterical, was this, Oh you drove with Gilbert?

Speaker 7 (10:02):
Uh?

Speaker 6 (10:02):
Yeah, but Gilbert, Gilbert, Gilbert walked everywhere. Gilbert never had
a car. We would drive him every I was the
only guy with a car. Matter of fact. When we
finally started to make it a little bit and they
got us out to Los Angeles, I promise you this,
and Gilbert and I room together, you know, because he
was too cheap to get a hotel room. So he
moved in with me. Gilbert Goffrey, right, And we had
a plan. He would walk Hollywood Boulevard. No one walked

(10:24):
in LA in those days. Nobody walked. He's walking down
And I'd be driving and see Gilbert all by himself,
New York style walking down. But I gotta tell you,
a sweetheart of a guy. And we had a blast,
and we had it and I learned so much from
those guys. The genius of Larry David on stage, and
Larry would get into fights with the audience, and every
time Larry would go on. We'd all run to the

(10:44):
little opening that led to the showroom and we'd watch
Larry bed and it was it was crazy. It was crazy,
but it was so Larry and it was brilliant.

Speaker 4 (10:53):
But you know, in the sense of the bigger picture
to the silly and its potential good for humanity, right,
and who would think silly equates to humanity? The one
of the things that first about Joe and what made
me say, I gotta stay with this guy. He came
out and he did five hundreds, and he was gracious,

(11:17):
and he came out and he's always professional, and you know,
he cracked us up and he did his show and
we all said thank you. And I was watching him leave,
and he shook the hand of every guy in manufacturing
and we just want I was honored and blessed to
be at his book signing. He thanked every table. Right Now,

(11:41):
what your book maintains is a lot in the sense
like my book, even though we have the same story,
which is ridiculous. Yeah, but there's a lot to the book,
his book that relates to the bigger picture of a
moment and your character. He succeeded because he got up
early and went to that line, right, and the reason

(12:02):
that the successful guys are the ones he mentioned, because
that's what it takes. Did you ever go did you
ever play?

Speaker 8 (12:08):
What?

Speaker 3 (12:08):
What club?

Speaker 6 (12:09):
Was that? Because improvisation forty four that chen I started
doing it. Yeah, it's no one hundred years before you
started doing a bit.

Speaker 9 (12:18):
That was.

Speaker 4 (12:20):
Gone.

Speaker 5 (12:21):
So what was your first one I did? I did
the comic strip up on eighty second strip.

Speaker 6 (12:26):
There it is there, it is. Yeah, I mentioned he
you know what, Arthur. Back in the day, we had
the improv in Hill's kitchen. That was us and we
were and we all and then you'd go cross uptown
to First Avenue and Catchurizing Star was the other one,
you know, and then the comic strip that was new virtually,

(12:46):
you know, because I started just about when I got
out of there, the comic strip opened, and that's where
Eddie would hang out. Jerry would hang out there and
Richie take in Remember, huh which the charaturizing Star. I
didn't know? Yeah, you know, it's so funny. I went
it not and no man, Sunday night, No listen, listen.

(13:07):
I gotta tell you. I gotta say they go to me, Joe,
Richard Belzer and you guys may not know what Bells
was the guy and you guys are young again. Bell's
he's the guy he with Bells was the guy that
invented had to be the master's ceremony. Now he was.
He would be very blue, you know, and I'm not.
But he would be like quick on stage man. We'd
watch him. He would just make the show rock man.

(13:29):
And he never really did the Tonight Show or anything
or got stand up gigs because he didn't have material.
It was just there, bang bang bang bang bank. So
Bells was the guy catcher as the start. I get
a call Sunday afternoon, Joe Richard can't make it with MC.
And now I'm just starting Now you mean you want
you want to meet MC for Richard Belzer the Bells Man. Absolutely,
I went in comfortable. Crowd was great, all the comics

(13:51):
were there, George Wallace was there, everybody was there. It
was great. And I go on stage and you know
the story Arthur of the book where I saw some
guys in the back of the room and it looked
like it was the cast of Goodfellas.

Speaker 1 (14:01):
You know.

Speaker 6 (14:01):
Of course, I'm like, I'm too dumb, like to leave
it alone. I go Hey, how you doing? What are
you in the mob? Back there?

Speaker 10 (14:08):
Both?

Speaker 6 (14:08):
So it was and so it was a long story
short man. They took me in, they worked me over. Man,
I had three four guys on top of me, and
I looked. I George Wallace was just on my show
last week. You know George Wallace? How told is he's
seven feet though? I told him, I said, George, you
couldn't even step up. You couldn't help me fight the
mob in New York back in the day, He goes, No, Man,
I wanted your spot on stage, he goes.

Speaker 3 (14:32):
We were talking about Joe. You mentioned earlier that you
looked at stand up comedy to get into like, I
want to know how you got into it, but as
a means to maybe acting afterwards. So first, what gave
you the you know what point did you in that direction?

Speaker 7 (14:47):
You know what it was?

Speaker 6 (14:48):
I went, it's a great question, because I went to
the auditions, and I went to like if there was
an audition for a film or something like that, you know,
and then I would go in and there would be
four hundred actors man lined up and this is about
this is just an audition for like a roll and
I'm going like, whoa man, I gotta wait around like this,
you know that. What's the quickest way to do it? Well?

(15:09):
What if I go to the your prov I do
five seven minutes. People can see me on stage and
they're go, yeah, they like me or not. That's exactly,
by the grace of God, that's exactly what happened. I
go on stage. I was there for six weeks. I
got asked to be a regular after about a month
by Chris Albrick. Is that why Chris put on Larry Show?
He gave me all my HBO specials. He did the Sopranos,

(15:29):
you know, Sex and the City, went out to become
a legendary HBO executive, and he said, you know, when
do you go in? And so I'm going up there
and I remember I'm up and one guy named Marvin
Starkman you never forget the names, you know, and he goes, no,
I could be your agent and I'll get your commercials.
And that's exactly what happened. I went out to do Buick,
I went out to do Dr Pepper. I went out
to do corporate shows, you know, industrial films. We used

(15:52):
to call him back in the days. You know, so
a company would say, hey, will you be the young
guy in the film, But yeah, and the money was great.
By the grace of God, that's all I ever wanted
to do. But that's how he got there and it worked.
It's a great platform. The comedy clubs are a great
black worm to this day.

Speaker 4 (16:06):
You know what's so great about your book and you
as a person is I think we we tend to
have a perception maybe of ease of the star, the ease,
oh he's a star, and the integrity behind the In
our earlier show, we talked about integrity and you can

(16:27):
make it with integrity, and I think that's an underlying
theme India book too, that you don't have to sell
your soul. You can be a god guy, you can
be a good person. You can you don't have to
be in the crowd of selling out. And that I
think is so cool. And it goes back to the
silly thing. It's okay to be silly. That's a good thing,

(16:49):
and making people laugh is a good thing. And it's
definitely got to read the book. Did you read it?

Speaker 3 (16:56):
Yes?

Speaker 4 (16:56):
Yes, character, which I think is not necessarily known as
much as it should be. And I love to talk
about that aspect of you, because you've always been there
for us to try and help save lives, and you
have saved lives. And the book shows you that you

(17:17):
can be a good, average Joe and still make it.

Speaker 3 (17:20):
I have to take that take exception to the title
unless there's more to explain this. This is no average jump.

Speaker 4 (17:28):
But the way I want to give this pack, how
did you do your first time you were catch arizing
start the comic strip? Comics?

Speaker 9 (17:35):
I took a class and then actually Bran told me
class he knows Brian, and you got through five minutes.

Speaker 5 (17:41):
Yeah, so you know it went pretty well. But he's,
like he says in his book, like you the fear
of God in you?

Speaker 6 (17:47):
Like what am I doing?

Speaker 5 (17:50):
And like he says, do you get the first laugh?
And it's it's better than any drug.

Speaker 4 (17:54):
It's more than booze.

Speaker 6 (17:54):
It's better that it just waves over you.

Speaker 5 (17:56):
And you're like, oh, but you know that's that's not
every night. There's plenty of a there's plenty of fearful nights.

Speaker 4 (18:01):
Joe. You have a mom really bad.

Speaker 6 (18:04):
You know, it's a good question. You know, I always
worked the crowd, so it's and I told the story
in the book, and you guys are identified with it.
I think when I went up and I got my
first full house to perform in front of a full house,
what do we have? One hundred and fifty two hundred people?
Two hundred people at the improv and then they go
like this, it was it would they go, Joe, you're up.

(18:26):
It's like two thirty in the morning, second show, you know,
like a Saturday night, and it was check Spot.

Speaker 4 (18:32):
It was the check spot. I know, teach me good term.

Speaker 6 (18:37):
To the worst. You don't want to be on stage
when the bill goes out, man, because nobody's that funny.
I mean, you don't want to be on stage when
they go four hunds five hundred dollars and you.

Speaker 3 (18:51):
Get to blame.

Speaker 6 (18:52):
Yeah yeah, yeah, so yeah. So now it's check Spot.
I go up and I start to do material to
their full house. Dead silence, dead silence, man. And it
was it was a very integral part of my my
you know journey in going to the comedies and everybody's
watching the back of the room and I go and
I could go, oh, I don't want to check Bobby,

(19:14):
and I can complain, you know, I did. I went
somebody snicker to said something, and I went right at
the guy and I said, you something, as silly as
you go out dressed like that in public, you're gonna
make fun of me.

Speaker 3 (19:25):
Like that, you know, you know?

Speaker 6 (19:26):
And and it went one went from one somebody over here,
bank Bank ba Bank, Bank Bank. It was Belzer, it
was Don Rickles, it was me. Wasn't nasty and but
I got and I by the grace of God, because
you don't like to have to take it for granted.
It really went well for fifteen minutes, really really went well.
And that that really cemented me. At the improv, they
made me the steady Master's ceremonies. After that, that was

(19:48):
that I did.

Speaker 4 (19:50):
Now do you ever do you ever play with the audience.

Speaker 9 (19:53):
Like I love guys, you know, so I interact sometimes,
but you know a lot of guys that's their whole act.

Speaker 5 (19:59):
And you know, yeah sometimes too.

Speaker 9 (20:01):
You heckling too is like you you give him a
chance or two, you be polite about it, and then
then you would tire.

Speaker 4 (20:10):
Better than anyone.

Speaker 6 (20:10):
Right, yeah, yeah, don't forget that's you know, I'm hackling
the guys from the stage, the mob guys I didn't know,
not a good idea.

Speaker 3 (20:24):
Now, listen, Joe, I hope you can stay with us
because we need to take a break. You're listening to
Joe Piscopal, Arthur League, Padderwork, and Rick Thatcher on the
Man in the Arena, and we'll be right back with
more with Joe Piscopo.

Speaker 5 (20:49):
She started to choke on a piece of candy.

Speaker 7 (20:52):
She wasn't breathing.

Speaker 3 (20:53):
Then Ray reached for the life back and it saved her.

Speaker 6 (20:57):
She could have easily died that day. A life back
saved her life.

Speaker 7 (21:00):
What I would say is, don't need a life back
and not have it.

Speaker 6 (21:05):
Have a life back and hopefully never need it.

Speaker 4 (21:08):
Recently, the American Red Cross has added anti joking devices
as an option when standard protocol fails or is not feasible.

Speaker 9 (21:15):
God to Life Back, got net or called eight seven seven,
five four three three eight two two.

Speaker 6 (21:25):
Back.

Speaker 3 (21:25):
Look look who that is? We're back on the arena.
Frank Sin after the Colony Room in Rock.

Speaker 4 (21:30):
And Roll Superstar.

Speaker 11 (21:32):
He's got good stage presence, great set of pipes. He's
Italian and he has a unique way with a phrase.
But more than that, there's just something I like about
the guy. You see what I think, and we love him.
You will know what I think. Here he is singing
the rock and roll classics. Here's my new discovery, Joe Piscopole.

Speaker 3 (21:57):
We hope you don't mind it.

Speaker 10 (21:58):
Pol Yeah, How old are here?

Speaker 4 (22:07):
Good question?

Speaker 6 (22:08):
Thirty? I guess it's thirty years old, like they're thirty,
maybe thirty thirty three, something like that.

Speaker 4 (22:14):
What was what is?

Speaker 6 (22:16):
You're so kind? You're marvelous? It was?

Speaker 12 (22:19):
It was La distinct Donna, and pleasure to be here
with you, sir, the rock and roll And right now
I'd like to do for you a rock tune, no
one nothing, famous by the Rolling Stones, but right now
I'd like to.

Speaker 6 (22:32):
Do it the right way, my way. I can't believe
you let me do this.

Speaker 4 (22:41):
You know, you b you're shot man my.

Speaker 9 (22:54):
Street.

Speaker 4 (22:56):
I think it's such a tribute. You know, he was
alleged friend friends around.

Speaker 8 (23:08):
I love.

Speaker 7 (23:11):
Me.

Speaker 3 (23:12):
That's that's great.

Speaker 6 (23:14):
Hey, guys, I get I still can't believe that I
did that. That I a call from from Missus Sinatra's
office and they said they said, hey, hey, they said, Joe,
we want you to we want you to perform on
Solid Gold, which was Dion Warwiz show. Right. She had
a big show, big syndicated show, and I go and

(23:35):
I'm thinking, okay. They go, Frank Sinatra want you there
in makeup, dressed like him, and and we'll pick you
up next Tuesday, seven thirty. And that Arthur, you and
I are friends, and you have friends like we friendship
we have if you when you say I need you here,
I don't ask where, I don't ask when I go
done done. That's it. That's the that's the true friendship

(23:56):
loyalty way. So I said, got it, bom, hang up.
The phone car comes up. I get my makeup guy
out there in la and and I go into the
studio and I'm scared. I go, are you sure mister
Sinatra wants me to do it?

Speaker 3 (24:09):
You know? Said the mob got.

Speaker 6 (24:16):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, Hey, we haven't forgotten about cashierizing star,
right yeah no no. So so I go in there
and I kind of tell you it was like there
was the I go in and I'm with my girlfriend
at the time, and I says, mister Sinatra on set.
They go, well, he's in makeup, and I go great.
So I go in and I walk up and there's

(24:38):
the makeup door and I knock on the door and
then the door opens, you know, with mister Sinatra, there
was no door man, It's just miraculously opened, you know.
And and there he was sitting like this, you know,
the chair like like this. You're going like, he's like
he's got his arm out. He's got his members only
jacket on Arthur from the nineteen eighties, you know, yeah,
the open collar. He's got the boots. I remember the boots.

(25:01):
They have boots he had on. I'm looking at this guy.
How cool can this guy possibly be? I'm thinking, you know,
and you know what he does. He stood up, jumped
out of the chair. Hey Joe, baby, how are you
like that? I'm telling you, I'm a kid, and I
learned so when I do it, when Arthur Leeve, you
do the same thing. When someone walks in the room,

(25:23):
you come up. One guy walked through me at the
airport the other day. The airport the other day. Hey Joe,
I'm a big fan, and I stand up like instinctively.
Just have to respect, you know. And that's what mister
Sinatra told me. And he goes like this. Then I'm
with I'm with my girlfriend and he says to her,
he goes, see, I never forget. He goes hey, is
he whacky around the house. He used the word wacky.
You know.

Speaker 7 (25:44):
Right?

Speaker 6 (25:46):
It was great And then I did it. I was petrified,
no doubt he loved it. He loved by the Grayson
Gott I go like this, thank you guy.

Speaker 3 (25:54):
You know he was great in front of Frank.

Speaker 6 (25:57):
Doing Frank in front of him. I did it at
the Friar's Club. The original story goes at the Friars Club.
I did it for mister S. With de Martin to
my right, I did the Strength Sinatra, Milton Burrough, Red Buttons,
Dick Sean, Angie Dickinson, Charlie McClain, Sammy, everybody, And there
is mister S right to my left, the two thousand

(26:18):
people Friar's Roast, and and that's where I said, you know,
I love And he called me up there and I go, uh,
you know, mister Sinatra, I love the way you say
the word you. And everybody looks and what's where's he
going with this? And I start to sing, I don't
stand a ghost of a chance with you.

Speaker 9 (26:40):
I do like that.

Speaker 6 (26:41):
So he gets a big, big laugh, and I'll never
forget he's there. Jack Daniels is left hand and he's
got it. He's got his filter, a cigarette his right hand.
He's looking up like this, he's going like this, and
everybody's laughing, and I feel comfortable. I said, hey, can
I call you Frank? And he goes, no, Liker, the
biggest laugh at the night. You know, don't push your kid.

(27:03):
You're here, you're lucky, don't push it. And it was
a love affair ever since it was. It was great.
In fact, I mean, you'll understand work in the clubs though.
It's like after that, I could. I was a little
rock because I met mister s at De Martins. I
was a little nervous because thank god I got that
one piece hid. The rest of the set went mediocre,
but I got it with mister Sinatra, and he dug

(27:25):
it man, and that was the important thing.

Speaker 4 (27:26):
You know, No, I have a cool story. I guess
along hour connection, right, So I was just with Ben Carson,
you know, yeah, I saw that man.

Speaker 6 (27:35):
That was great.

Speaker 4 (27:37):
But for I guess in my world he's a bit
of a Sinatra, you know, yeah, right, absolutely, So it's
so similar in this sense. I'm able to try and
understand a little bit about what you felt when he
said okay, or you know, he's there and you were
in the inner sanctum of his Okay, yeah, yeah, I

(27:58):
was with Doc Carson. I said, you know, I was
just I don't remember exactly, but if we were going
through to the set and I said something like doctor Carson,
we gotta I think we got to go over here.
He looked me in the eye and he says, and
this was after hours of being together. He looked me
in the eye and he goes, Ben, I can call
him Ben.

Speaker 6 (28:17):
Oh oh yeah, yeah, it's great.

Speaker 4 (28:20):
That's great the way he did it in the Yeah. Yeah,
he's so proud that. Yeah, he's not. He's a humble man.
He's a beautiful human. I can imagine that moment of
kind of the blessing of Frank Sinatra, especially you. You're
so respectful. You're a Jersey guy.

Speaker 6 (28:41):
Yeah. Italians and my father, my father and mister s.
We was the same exact day, same exactly area, New Jersey,
Italian Americans. Both their parents came from Italy. They were exactly.
I would see my father, that's what's all about. I
see mister s. I studied out now putting together the
show for Sundays with Sinatra, you know, and I for
this weekend and I watch him, and I watch his
movements and I watch his vocal intonations, and there's so

(29:05):
much of my father, that generation, that that greatest generation.
But as of the side guys, if I can Arthur
ben Carson's one of the great humans on the planet. Man,
this this guy's indeed are great. It's the nicest guy
in the world, smartest guy in the world, this gentleman.
And I was so impressed. May I ask, is he
is he? Is he talking about Life Back?

Speaker 7 (29:24):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (29:24):
We Uh, he came on and he see he saw
Life Back. He liked that back. And I can't tell
if he contacted us to say he likes it or
we did. And he we had a talk with him,
and he's kind of funny, and he said, you know,
I kind of want to be involved with something that's
not AI me and actro me say something I care about.

(29:46):
And I think, so, what are comfortable words of uh
encouragement for the fact that he wants to help us,
you know, commercials. But he was, he was there. He
believes in it. As an her surgeon, you know, he's
seen what happens with some deterioration or neurological system and
how you need a choking device. But dude, you're right.

(30:11):
What a just a great human?

Speaker 6 (30:14):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (30:14):
Him and his wife's there, they're god people, Yeah, and
they're they just she's you met her?

Speaker 6 (30:22):
Have you met his wife?

Speaker 4 (30:23):
You know what I have not? You would love her?

Speaker 3 (30:27):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (30:28):
Speaking of which, yesterday was Saint Joseph' day. I gotta
do this. Look at this is it? I found this
T shirt? This is what shirt? I don't I'm doing
my John Fettermann impression here today on the show. You know, no, no,
and I know I'm a casual here, I mean, look
at it. Saint Joseph, Saint Joseph, look at that. Look

(30:48):
at it. You look at it and work hard at
prey hard, it says Saint Joseph, the worker. This is
the foster file father of Jesus. And you know what,
and I know you think about it. He's the guy
with Mary came to him and said, you know, I'm
gonna have a baby. And Joseph goes, you know, I
mean really he goes, He goes, we can sorry, you'renna

(31:09):
have a baby. Yeah, but yeah I got I got
visited by this angel, you know. And Joseph's like, who's
this angel guy, I mean.

Speaker 4 (31:16):
I mean, you know, you mean from the South Bronx.

Speaker 6 (31:21):
So now this guy Joseph, he gets a dream and
he sticks right by Mary's side. Put all the religion aside.
Let's go to a Jewish couple from Nazareth walking taking
a donkey to Jerusalem for crying out loud to have
a baby, because they don't want the baby to be killed,
you know, and it was. And as a as a

(31:43):
guy who walked the planet, you know, of course, the
Catholics made him a safe. That's my patron safe, Saint Joseph.
I con't believe I found it online. And I think, now, guys,
if I may, in the political atmosphere, we're allowed, we're
allowed to, you know, be proud about our certain religions.
Now you know they don't want to philify us. Am
I right?

Speaker 13 (32:00):
And you're trying to top Saint Patty Fea.

Speaker 6 (32:05):
Did you see wait? Wait, did you see God Maryland?

Speaker 5 (32:08):
They were never there?

Speaker 4 (32:09):
But that's no.

Speaker 6 (32:10):
Did you see don Novella's musical father greets Sarducci about
that he's a great piece where he goes, he goes
on Saturday one hundred years ago. He's he's a genius
and I've gone on the road with him. He's a
great guy. Don Novella. He plays with the Greedistarduccy. He goes,
you know this guy, he goes Saint Patrick. St. Patrick
gets all the attention. But Saint Patrick he was he

(32:31):
was he was an average. Say, he goes Saint Joseph
was a good saint. He goes and he got nothing,
and he got nothing. He goes it doesn't he gets
five attention.

Speaker 3 (32:44):
I would be remiss, and I would hate to miss
the opportunity of tying in family because I know it's
a huge part of like your background, what gave you
the uh inspiration, your work, ethic, all that talk about
the importance of you know, you talk a lot about
your mom and your dad.

Speaker 4 (33:00):
Yeah, I got more on his mom, and boy, she
was something else we lose.

Speaker 6 (33:10):
Joe, I got you, I got you. We're there.

Speaker 3 (33:13):
Our screen just went off for a second.

Speaker 6 (33:15):
Yeah, that said the message. That's message from my mother.
I got these messages all the time. I get him
all the time.

Speaker 4 (33:22):
She got mad. We were talking about it.

Speaker 6 (33:27):
I get I tell you, they think we could talk
now because it's just us, but gosh, you money, I
get these messages. Man, you know, I go down the
shore or something, and and and then my phone will
go off and it'll say Mom, and like and the
phone starts calling Mom. I'm telling you what I get
these things, and it's like and I know it's her
because her faith was so strong. Lost her, yeah, lost

(33:47):
her about a year ago. She was a big influence,
and I mean a big influence. And and when she
was when she was, you know, sick and started to
pass away. I saw her go to the other side
our or I told you that, right. I saw her
go to the other side. She was talking to the
other side. Gave her her last rights, guys, my mother God,
but ninety nine ninety nine and last right. And I'm

(34:10):
looking and she's talking like she's talking to somebody, like
in a conversation. And I'm going and I say to
the priest, the father, Georgia, and your father, is she
on the other side. And he's like, yeah, what do
you expect, you know, he's a priest.

Speaker 3 (34:22):
Yeah, this is what we do.

Speaker 6 (34:23):
That's what I do.

Speaker 4 (34:23):
It's by me here, all right.

Speaker 6 (34:25):
I'm going like, well, and then she came, she came
out of it. She came out of it. No she
came out of it, and then she opened her eyes
and she goes, I want to sit up, and I stood,
you know, shat her up, and she goes, I want
Chinese food. And then she was good for like a
week after that, you know, I mean, but she was
a great influence. She was. She is the reason for

(34:46):
my faith and the reason for my strength. And I
know she's watching over.

Speaker 10 (34:50):
Man.

Speaker 6 (34:50):
My dad too, got got you know, by the grace
of God Almighty, I very very blessed with my parents.

Speaker 4 (34:55):
I think that's why I pray. I hope more people
read your book. Younger people read your book all they
read mine for the same odd way that there are
lessons to be learned. Faith pays off, do the right thing,
work hard. You know these are not astronomically insane ideas.
Have faith. And you know your book brings a lot

(35:17):
to light. And I loved it, and I loved you.
I appreciate you so much and for all there for us.

Speaker 3 (35:24):
So you know, you just man. And they were in
a group, hugged.

Speaker 9 (35:29):
Joe Piscopos story. So I met you four or five times.
We used to go to the Yogi Barrett Tournament every year.
The golf tournament. A good friend of mine, good friend
of mine was neighbors with Yogi and great guy. He
now flies around sick people for free. He has a plane,
but he used to fly Yogi back and forth to
the Hall of Fame every year and they raffle off
something at his tournament. If you want to take a
fight with Yogi and like you're just like in your book,

(35:52):
you would work the room.

Speaker 5 (35:53):
You'd be saying hi to everyone.

Speaker 9 (35:55):
I actually met you in the bathroom once with like
your son oha.

Speaker 3 (36:00):
Ahead something water, yeah, and you were great.

Speaker 6 (36:03):
You were just like see John, Thanks man, Yo Yoga,
thank you, thanks for supporting yoga. Remember those days directly
man Yogi, Yoga, Yogi, very special guy, funny, funny, nice, decent.
He and Carmen. It was great. Those were great days man.
But again it's it's all about my parents. But Arthur,
I gotta tell you, like I talk to you and

(36:24):
then less time I was with you guys out there,
and then you said, you know, and there's some things
were happening always in the news. Something horrible was happening
in Orleans, and you said, yeah, that's the bad stuff.
Let me talk about the thirty three hundred now four
thousand lives that we have see that that is exactly
what we've tried to do. Matter of fact, for Lent,
I've given up negative news. That's what I did.

Speaker 3 (36:45):
Yeah, I said, you know, good for everybody.

Speaker 4 (36:49):
Take a break, you know, I said, I said.

Speaker 6 (36:52):
Every if I see one more time, can I let
me just ran for a second, Like I'm do on
my radio show every morning.

Speaker 7 (36:56):
I go.

Speaker 6 (36:57):
You know, I don't watch the other networks, and I'll
don't just dislike them. I don't hate anybody. I don't.
I just don't want to hear the constant negativity. I
don't want to hear it because there's no basis for it.
You should be lucky that you're here in America, the
greatest country in the world. You should be easy to
embrace it, you know, like my grandparents just be behind me,
if you could see that's my that's my grandfather Rose

(37:18):
Audio there with his brother, you know, and and these guys,
and you go in and and when I go and
when I go out there, and I'm out there and
I'm out and I and I'm always you know, preaching
what's good and what's nice and everything. I mean, if
that's that's exactly what it's all about. And then and
I go and if I see a negative story and
someone goes, did you see what they said, I'll CNN

(37:39):
or really, you know, I don't, no disrespect, I don't
want to watch see it then, you know, but they
always show it, don't they show it? Look what they
said on MSNBC And you go, wha, You know, I
just I'm watching you because you got no everybody wants
to watch you, not the birth. So I'm giving all
that up on the radio. So we're taking the high road.
Taking a high road. You gotta do it.

Speaker 3 (37:59):
You listen to the legendary Joe Episcopal on the Man
in the Arena, Arthur Lee, Patrick O'Rourke, Rick Thatcher, Joe.
We love you, I love you back.

Speaker 6 (38:11):
They keep up the great work, guys, four thousand. I
love it you guys. God bless everybody.

Speaker 4 (38:17):
I appreciate it.

Speaker 6 (38:18):
Thank you, thank you, by thank you.

Speaker 4 (38:21):
Is he awesome or great?

Speaker 5 (38:23):
Guys?

Speaker 4 (38:23):
No, it's cool that you had a story of being
with him. And it's an off the record, right.

Speaker 5 (38:29):
He could have been a jerk, and it was three
or four years in a row.

Speaker 9 (38:33):
We just one year he did sing and did like
a little Sinatra, but was always so nice to everyone
in the room.

Speaker 4 (38:39):
That's what I always I'll just start again.

Speaker 9 (38:41):
I'll count out you know old times, you know, all
pro athletes and even they were like having to meet
him and he was so nice.

Speaker 5 (38:48):
How long was that he's taking pictures with his kids?

Speaker 4 (38:50):
That was eighteen?

Speaker 3 (38:51):
We're way over that was eighteen and cut it all right.

Speaker 4 (38:57):
What are we coming? Can we come back to what's
We could chat a little like we just did.

Speaker 3 (39:01):
Sure, okay, three two one, and we're back on the
man in the arena.

Speaker 4 (39:09):
Gosh, how great we were actually chatting. Really, it was
a good pat that you met him and how shared what.

Speaker 6 (39:18):
He tells about his book.

Speaker 4 (39:18):
He's that's what he's like.

Speaker 9 (39:19):
He's a blue collar guy. Couldn't be nice to everyone. Yep,
works the room and you and you'll watch him. He's
going to table. He doesn't have to going a table
a table a table, taking pictures with everyone, just in
a class act.

Speaker 4 (39:31):
Ye. And it's so cool when someone that you kind
of look up to or you know we I know Mike,
I loved him in Johnny Dangerously. Yeah, that was episcopal guy.

Speaker 3 (39:41):
Didn't we didn't have to show there's this book average Joe,
make sure you pick it up. But we had the clip.
I had the TikTok ready for all the Johnny Dangerously
lines and the trailer. You know, he did the trailer
for Johnny Dangerously, not Michael Keaton. Johnny Danny Verman is
in the theater production booth talking about we have it,

(40:02):
but we'll see.

Speaker 4 (40:03):
But you know what, back it goes into that, like
when he first came out for a five hundred Saves
and he did his thing, and I watched him thank everyone.
It made me reassured that it does make sense that
at that place he was nice and talk to everyone.
But he told his story about Johnny Dangerously when he
get hung on the hook and he said, you know,

(40:25):
he was a bigger guy. Michael Keaton was having kind
of trouble, so they put a box and he kind
of lifted himself up on the hook. But as a
fan and someone watching the scenes to hear him tell
the story about how they would cracking up and and
when you get to spend time with him that's not

(40:45):
rushed and he shares these stories. You know, it's so
fun and he's so humble, so it's it's cool like
he tells the story. He's not bragging, he's just kind
of chatting about it.

Speaker 3 (40:56):
And that movie, no joke, that movie poster Johnny Dangerously,
which adorns the walls of your office, was there.

Speaker 9 (41:04):
Since the beginning, right, I love He kept saying, you
guys are so much younger than me. We're not really Yeah,
I know, I know, I don't know if you guys
remember yeah.

Speaker 4 (41:16):
Yeah, well yeah, hear the word where Rickles talks about
Sinatra and he says, you know, can you come all over?

Speaker 3 (41:23):
Yeah?

Speaker 7 (41:23):
A date?

Speaker 4 (41:23):
Yeah, He's like, Frank, I'm trying to work typical.

Speaker 3 (41:30):
Well, so, I don't think this transition has ever happened
before in the history Radio. We're gonna go from Joe
Piscopo to Colonel Christopher Douglas. So if Chris is still
with us, Chris, are you there?

Speaker 6 (41:46):
Hey? There?

Speaker 4 (41:46):
He is.

Speaker 3 (41:50):
Joining the man in the arena, another member of Team
Life Fact c J. How are you tonight? Good?

Speaker 10 (41:56):
Good to see all of you, got the Power team
sitting there?

Speaker 4 (42:00):
Oh man, did you hear that? Did you hear us
talking with Joe?

Speaker 6 (42:04):
I did?

Speaker 10 (42:04):
It was it was exciting and informative. Joe's Joe's awesome.
Yeah he is.

Speaker 4 (42:10):
He's such a good man, sweet man. Thanks man, Yeah,
it is really is.

Speaker 3 (42:16):
But I thought it would be great to check in
with you because we got a big mission coming up
next week. I wanted to talk about.

Speaker 4 (42:22):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (42:23):
I don't know how much of it is classified or
we can share, but again, Colonel Chris and I are
going to be going down to try to spread awareness
of something is viberty some somewhere I don't know.

Speaker 4 (42:36):
So much fun.

Speaker 5 (42:37):
You're just so happy to be going down to the Yah.

Speaker 3 (42:38):
Yeah, well we're going.

Speaker 5 (42:42):
Oh it's Tallahassee.

Speaker 8 (42:43):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (42:43):
Oh nice. That's your neck of the woods, isn't it.

Speaker 4 (42:46):
What do you that in Florida?

Speaker 10 (42:48):
He was in Tampa. I was in Tampa. But I'm
back up in I'm back up state. I'm up in Boston.

Speaker 4 (42:53):
Spot.

Speaker 5 (42:54):
That's a short ride for him. Was twenty eight hours nothing.
He tells us one stop, repeat, then right right through.

Speaker 4 (43:01):
I got a call. I jumped to the car. I left. Okay,
So what are you guys doing there? What's up?

Speaker 3 (43:07):
We're going to be meeting with Major General Heartzelle Patriot
of c JS and uh c J. I mean you
came on another member of team I fact on a
special mission to help protect our veterans, right, and I
think there's a lot of things moving in our favor,
including this meeting coming up.

Speaker 10 (43:28):
I would agree. I mean, you know, Major General Hertzel
is of course a now he's part of the v
A system. He has as well a background in the
medical field, and you know, just a general, good guy,
no pun intended.

Speaker 3 (43:49):
General. He's major, he's major league.

Speaker 10 (43:51):
Yeah, but you know he's interested in learning learn more
about it and seeing how how I can assist with
the veteran community.

Speaker 3 (43:58):
So yeah, and we're just guy.

Speaker 4 (44:01):
We met with a bunch of people from the Stony
Brook and they also have a large VA community. So
maybe when you get back we kind of go out
there together. But you know, it's an honor. CJ's another
guy that you get stories in your kind of heads business,
like Joe telling me about hanging out with Frank Sinatra
and him telling us about what he's been through in

(44:22):
the service to our country. But you know, the mission
to make sure that our veterans are covered, particularly those
that have been injured that without a light back and
following the Red Cross guidelines had no option. And you
know I always tell you. I don't. I don't have to,
but it just sticks. It almost hurts me. You know

(44:43):
that these men and women have given so much and
all we want to do is make sure they have
a chance too, that they are they have a chance
in a choke emergency, if they've been injured in a
wheelchair or other medical conditions. So I appreciate you, and
I appreciate Eat going down there and you guys doing that.
It's something we have to address. You know, it's just

(45:06):
not negotiable. You cannot just die, you know, so that
way especially, yeah, especially, it gave so much for us
and then you just sit there and then watch it.

Speaker 3 (45:16):
You know what, so much as so much is on
our side. Number one Life Act.

Speaker 6 (45:20):
Thank you.

Speaker 3 (45:21):
But Doug Collins, new Secretary Veterans Affairs.

Speaker 4 (45:26):
We have God that we met and we became. We
have you and uh, you know that's how change happens,
you know, courage and perseverance. So we use our courage
to persevere.

Speaker 10 (45:40):
You're going to do it together, right, Yeah, And Arthur
is your point out, I mean, it's you know, it's
not that it's preventable, but it's possible to eliminate the
number of deaths, regardless of whether it's service members, service members, families,
extended families, kids in schools, whatever it is, it's it's

(46:01):
a it's an effective tool and and it's great that
the protocol.

Speaker 4 (46:05):
Now addresses the medical need for people in wheelchairs and
numerous you know, scoliosisprace. There's a lot of reasons you
cannot behind effectively. But to me, we we got to
go with our path of the big guy directing us us,
becoming front us, getting to know you, having some time

(46:28):
in your life that you can help us, having Rick
on board to work with you, like, you know, bigger
pictures almost said, and that s word that I'm allowed
to say, but bigger picture stuff that is going to
help us succeed, save our veterans, and and change the
make sure people are aware that there is an option
now and let's change this.

Speaker 3 (46:48):
Stop it absolutely, get it done.

Speaker 4 (46:53):
With us.

Speaker 3 (46:56):
Travis coming, h, well.

Speaker 5 (47:06):
You're not dry now, No, no lunatic.

Speaker 3 (47:09):
Yeah, let's go yeah, leave it tonight.

Speaker 4 (47:14):
We got to go now. We'd be watching the car pool.

Speaker 5 (47:17):
He always tells the story. You're always looking like wait, wait,
you did what? I know?

Speaker 7 (47:21):
I love that.

Speaker 4 (47:22):
We got to just let him tell the story. Well
some are top.

Speaker 13 (47:26):
Secrets still some are still classified. Well he's got no,
he's got a lot, all right. I told the story
I met him. He never said a word right. Then
he retired and now he doesn't shut up, tell us
every story.

Speaker 4 (47:37):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (47:38):
Great looking.

Speaker 10 (47:42):
It's like god him shut up.

Speaker 4 (47:43):
No, No, I love it. We had a car ride
and we just clicked them on and we got the best.
That was fun.

Speaker 3 (47:50):
Yeah. Well, looking forward to working with you next week
as always, Colonel Christopher C. J. Douglass, love you, Thank
you so much.

Speaker 4 (48:02):
Exactly right.

Speaker 3 (48:04):
So we'll be right back after this brief message with
Raye preview. Mister three thousand, don't go away, We'll be
right back.

Speaker 8 (48:24):
I was in the living room when I heard my
son Carter, who was two at the time. I looked
over and I saw him grabbing for his face, and
I grab a life back. I put the mask on
his face and placed push Paul the lighte back, dislodged
the ice cube from his airway, and he started crying
the most amazing sound I've ever heard in my entire life.

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Please protect your.

Speaker 3 (48:48):
Family, get a life back, and we're back. On the
man in the arena, I am still Rick Thatcher along
with Arthur Lee and Ventor and CEO of the Life
Back and Patrick O'Rourke. Uh team funny man. He just

(49:12):
did a slip. Yeah, that's okay. We are you know
what we come to this part of the show. We've
been so honored to have uh Joe Piscopal with us.
We talked about his book Average Joe shared so many
great stories and we could have spent another hour, no
question to yes, good great stuff, great stuff. But you

(49:34):
know what, I was happy because when we get to
the end, we know that we have our clean up hitter.
I know ral.

Speaker 4 (49:42):
So many lives. I'd be ready to tell us how
many lives.

Speaker 11 (49:45):
I know.

Speaker 3 (49:46):
He keeps track for us. He has done it.

Speaker 5 (49:47):
You know, how does the week you can start doing
the day? That's how many?

Speaker 2 (49:53):
Anyway here he is, Yeah, men and the arena, come
and see you all from tape for how's everyone doing tonights?

Speaker 5 (50:09):
Every springy?

Speaker 3 (50:10):
I like it very springy.

Speaker 7 (50:13):
It's just it's been a great week. Great week.

Speaker 4 (50:15):
Hey hey, wait, I want to thank you for that
call we made together the children's hospital. I Uh, I
enjoyed it very much. I enjoyed the people, but I
enjoy that I get to spend some time with you
and and watch your passion and appreciate it.

Speaker 7 (50:31):
So I want to absolutely I uh, you know, I
I sobbed. I'm not gonna lie, you know, telling my story,
I get very emotional. But again it's for a good purpose,
you know, spreading the word, getting people to understand what
life back is, what it does, how easy it is
to use. That's my life goal. Uh, get the word

(50:54):
out there, get it in everyone's hands, you know. That's
that's that's why I'm here.

Speaker 4 (50:59):
But it was just I enjoy your company as a friend,
but also get to feel that gratitude of your your
sharing of gratitude and the pain and forward and it's
for me. It's nice to watch that, to see someone
else take us on. And we have numerous my facers,
but I just I just want to say I was grateful.

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And I don't know how many says we've had today.
So you're gonna fill us in and I'm going to
be very happy.

Speaker 7 (51:26):
Well, I love this is my favorite part. Hey Bobby
roll that number, Hey roll.

Speaker 4 (51:37):
When I was taking home.

Speaker 5 (51:43):
Thirty This is insane.

Speaker 7 (51:49):
Oh wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute,
Hold the phone, Hold the phone, take that numbers off
a little bit, gentlemen.

Speaker 4 (51:58):
Oh another that number.

Speaker 7 (52:00):
We have a total two saves three thousand, seven hundred
and thirty five saves today two thousand, three hundred and
thirty two children.

Speaker 3 (52:11):
Just those that are reported.

Speaker 4 (52:14):
We learn every you know, how many today? Dimon give
you the how many we had today we had?

Speaker 7 (52:20):
Let me look it up real quick, but I can
tell you we do have thirty eight saves this week.
That don't go from the thirteenth to the twentieth. We've
had thirty eight saves and we've had today six six
saves today six saves. Wait a minute, how many have

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we had since? Number three thousand, seven hundred and thirty
five saves? And how many days one hundred and fifty
one days we've had seven hundred and thirty five staves?

Speaker 3 (52:56):
That is I mean Pat is scribbling feverishly.

Speaker 5 (53:00):
You know, we were what a three and a half
a day, that's unbelievable.

Speaker 4 (53:03):
We were in the Hall of Saves today with the
people from Stonybrook and we were pointing out and we
were going through something that we know and teen and
that a lot of them on the first wall, the
earlier dates, and then we spun around and and Rick
pointed out yours and I thought, you up on the
lift putting it up there, and your daughter come flying

(53:26):
across and sliding your freaking heroes.

Speaker 7 (53:30):
And it didn't even slow her down, back up and
kept on going.

Speaker 4 (53:35):
Yeah, she could have took third base, have to slide
into the second with her jump up and go. But
it was just a cool memory of a life moment.

Speaker 3 (53:44):
Yeah, and they do stand you know, certain members like
stand out. And I remember as I was trying to
tell the story to the nice young lady from Stonybrook Development,
why do you call them mister three thousand. Yeah, So
it's just a great story to tell and to show
the evolution of that room.

Speaker 4 (54:03):
You do.

Speaker 7 (54:06):
And Jacksonville, I had people from the from the audience
coming up, you're mister three thousand, You're mister three thousand.
So yeah, it's it's a humbling experience and I love it.
It's it's getting the word out there that you.

Speaker 4 (54:19):
Want to talk about that. Ben Carson recites your line
when he says, you know, I hope you what is
your line? I hope you never use it, but if
you do, waight back, have.

Speaker 7 (54:30):
It and have it and not need it, don't need it,
and not have it. The life you saved would be
your own.

Speaker 4 (54:36):
He said that on our first conference call, and I
was like, I've heard that someone was.

Speaker 5 (54:44):
Three thousand save in the last one hundred and fifty
one days.

Speaker 9 (54:47):
You're avaging like four point eight saves a day, and
that's what they report.

Speaker 4 (54:51):
Right, Yeah, you know, but that's that's kind of where
the whole saves that the people that are watching and
people on the radio whole saves is we have picked
truth of everyone we saved. So coming up four pictures
on the wall and it's like it's our cathedral and
if you go to life back dot that you can
see it, but it takes the number out and it

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puts it back to humanity. And then what was it?
How many days did you say?

Speaker 9 (55:18):
Four point eight a day since three thousand, right, So
that means people a day that wouldn't have been here, right,
I mean, that's amazing.

Speaker 4 (55:26):
But the crushing of the souls of everyone around the two.

Speaker 5 (55:31):
Thousand kids the biggest.

Speaker 4 (55:33):
And then if you were there at the children's hospital
when I spoke, you would really get what one life is.

Speaker 5 (55:41):
And I have kids, Yeah, I can't even imagine.

Speaker 7 (55:46):
Speaking one life. Let's roll into the highlight of the week,
showy highlight the week, the highlight of the week. Here
we go. A thirty nine year old female with a
neurological disc order choked whilst taking her medication, causing a
total obstruction. Protocol was not followed followed as she was

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found completely unresponsible. The mother stated she was she almost
died in the bathroom.

Speaker 3 (56:16):
We did.

Speaker 7 (56:17):
We did four CPR sets of compressions and in between
four life back polls. She came to on the fourth
pole with the Life back. The Life Back completely cleared
the blockage. There's absolutely no doubt in my mind that
Life Act saved her life. God bless the man who

(56:41):
invented this device.

Speaker 5 (56:44):
There he is.

Speaker 4 (56:46):
Wow, that one hits Tom all right. I mean you
read that and that's what they wrote, so you know
what that moment like.

Speaker 9 (56:54):
Every week, the same line, absolutely without a doubt, it
was life saved the life.

Speaker 7 (57:00):
And for somebody in that position such as myself, you
feel it. You can feel the emotion behind those words.

Speaker 4 (57:09):
That's what it's all about. Brother, good stuff.

Speaker 3 (57:12):
Each week I'm brought brought back to that moment that
you've told us about. We've seen on the news about
you saving your daughter, and it's such an impact on
me that you know, your realization number one, that you're
saving your daughter's life, but also the humanity and the
the awareness level of life back has grown where two

(57:33):
passing by motorists also.

Speaker 7 (57:35):
Come by, actually saw what was going on, stopped and
actually was running towards us with their life back.

Speaker 4 (57:43):
Well, we got to keep that going, keep going. You know,
I take a testament to the power of what he
experienced and reading that you could feel him. That's why
he's here helping. Each guy takes time out of his
every week to make sure he comes on with some
widow shirt.

Speaker 3 (58:00):
And whoa, whoa alone man, I didn't see that one coming.

Speaker 4 (58:07):
Around to pick on each other. We're friends. His dedication
just to help on this that's what it's about. And
they share is painful story or to read off these
stories and come every week and and help us spread
the word. Honored to know you, and I am grateful
that we're friends too, because that's that's awesome.

Speaker 3 (58:28):
Absolutely absolutely like we're surrounded by great individuals. In fact,
you know, for those that don't see the our green room,
Colonel Chris is still in connected to us. God bless you,
Colonel Chris ah cool j so mister three thousand Ray
preb each and every week, we thank you so much

(58:50):
for your week to do you and we'll see you
next week.

Speaker 2 (58:55):
I love you.

Speaker 6 (58:55):
Guys.

Speaker 7 (58:56):
Don't forget get a life back God, go.

Speaker 3 (58:59):
To life fat Net. Use code m I T A
if you care, and we will get fifteen percent off.
And you don't get the real authentic life fact. We
don't mention it all the time, but we should mention now.
There's a lot of problems with knockoffs and counterfeits and
we just got to get the real, the real McCoy,
not even real McCoy. But listen, we want to thank

(59:20):
you so much for joining us on the Man in
the Arena, Arthur Lee, thank you so much for everything.

Speaker 5 (59:25):
I have an update too, I say fourth of July
of four thousand. It's probably gonna be early June.

Speaker 4 (59:30):
Let's start that. Every show we got a guess are
you gonna next show?

Speaker 3 (59:33):
My birthday is June seventh.

Speaker 9 (59:35):
I will go with my birthday will be four thousand,
not save myself, just to get that.

Speaker 7 (59:40):
I have my prediction next week on when it's going
to happen.

Speaker 3 (59:44):
Okay, you know what, Ray, I think as part of
your assignment, we're going to have an official contest and
we'll log everybody's input.

Speaker 4 (59:51):
Yeah, let's make raad more work.

Speaker 13 (59:53):
Absolutely now, as long as you're at it, I say,
June seventh, my birthday, all right night, yeah, two days away.

Speaker 3 (01:00:01):
We went through. We just strained it out the seventh,
which is the So those of you are still listening
in Los Angeles, Orlando and New York is completely confused.

Speaker 4 (01:00:14):
Made listening Detroit, Yeah, Detroit.

Speaker 3 (01:00:19):
Probably be there. Well, thank you so much for joining us.
See you next week on demanding the reader. And hey, Mike, bro,
why don't you sing us out?

Speaker 6 (01:00:26):
I guess Mike and sing along if you know the words,
but do do do do so? Joke When you chokead,
live back and without breath, there will be death to GAD,
life back and bad live back and God's Life lie back,

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life back and life back and live

Speaker 9 (01:01:10):
Six