290: Give Me a Sink Plunger and I'll Save the World
The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe
The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe
4.9 • 40.8K Ratings
🗓️ 13 December 2022
⏱️ 73 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Well, hello there. It's episode number 290 of the way I heard it. This one is called Give Me a Sink Plunger. |
| 0:11.0 | And I'll save the world. Maybe not the world, Chuck, but more than a few people for sure. |
| 0:18.0 | Absolutely. Our guest today is a guy named Arthur Lee and he's the inventor of a very unique product |
| 0:26.0 | that is saving a lot of people's lives. We don't normally do this, but there's just so much about the story that I love. |
| 0:35.0 | First of all, the way it came to me, it was just a recommendation from Brian Kilmead, |
| 0:40.0 | whose show I was on a not long ago and he told me about this guy who he's known as Whole Life, |
| 0:46.0 | who was a trucker, built a trucking company, retired early, and then decided he wanted to make a very, very, very simple |
| 0:55.0 | but effective alternative to the Heimlich maneuver, really, something to help people who were choking. |
| 1:01.0 | The rest is just like McGyver meets Forest Gump. The guy goes into his garage, he goes to a home depot |
| 1:07.0 | and just with these very, very simple rudimentary ingredients, a plunger, a valve, |
| 1:14.0 | he puts this thing together and my god, the Odyssey, like he didn't go on Shark Tank or anything, |
| 1:21.0 | but he did everything he could to get a medical product out there and that is not easy. |
| 1:28.0 | But he did it and now when you see this guy, I mean Chuck, he's sitting there in front of hundreds of photos of children |
| 1:37.0 | and older people and some in between whose lives were saved by this device. It's pretty amazing. |
| 1:44.0 | Yeah, they have a wall of saves basically and it's pictures of all the people whose lives continued |
| 1:52.0 | because someone around them had this device when they started choking. |
| 1:58.0 | And you've seen the footage on Inside Edition, it's on YouTube, these nanny cams that show |
| 2:05.0 | these harrowing experiences where people are freaking out, but woman in a restaurant with a baby |
| 2:11.0 | and some guy goes out to his car and comes back with this device and saves this baby's life. |
| 2:17.0 | It's amazing to watch and hard to, it always has a happy ending, but it's really, really harrowing and nerve-wracking to see. |
| 2:26.0 | Part of my objective full disclosure is to encourage you to get one of these things |
| 2:31.0 | because I think I know it could save a life, there's just no doubt about it. |
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