WEBVTT 1 00:00:16.000 --> 00:00:31.559 You're listening to the Getting Salty Experience podcast. Hello, Hello, will you 2 00:00:31.800 --> 00:00:38.560 Coony the Looney Welcome back to the Getting Salty Experience Podcast. We got another 3 00:00:38.560 --> 00:00:43.399 go what it before? Roofie embarks on a hiatus before he leaves us, 4 00:00:43.439 --> 00:00:46.479 like a long hiatus too. Yeah, he's got to kill things. He's 5 00:00:46.479 --> 00:00:52.240 got a need, you know, he's rough hunting wabbits. Boy, is 6 00:00:52.280 --> 00:00:54.479 it cold up there? You don't put the heat on again. What's going 7 00:00:54.520 --> 00:00:58.439 on? You got the fire on? You do? All right? Well, 8 00:00:58.560 --> 00:01:00.359 you know what you're at. We're at the get in sold the experience, 9 00:01:00.479 --> 00:01:03.040 the only one in the world. I said, I say it was 10 00:01:03.040 --> 00:01:06.760 the best in the world. Right, ruff, I'm gonna double down on 11 00:01:06.799 --> 00:01:11.280 the best fire podcast in the world. He and I. Nope, I'm 12 00:01:11.319 --> 00:01:14.120 not. I'm going there right. How are you doing that? Gowns? 13 00:01:14.120 --> 00:01:17.760 So you get your condition around down there? Yeah? I actually it turned 14 00:01:17.760 --> 00:01:19.959 it up. It was a little chilli. It was you down there. 15 00:01:21.000 --> 00:01:23.319 Bro. Let me take a look for you. You got a little nipple. 16 00:01:23.680 --> 00:01:27.640 It's eighty degrees holy right now at eight o'clock at night, it's eighty 17 00:01:27.640 --> 00:01:32.680 degrees degrees. Man, it's got a little bit of a coolness in the 18 00:01:32.680 --> 00:01:36.159 air. But it's not like what's going on up there. The hair is 19 00:01:36.159 --> 00:01:40.359 looking a little bit. It's a little more exceptional tonight. He's got a 20 00:01:40.359 --> 00:01:42.680 little goop in it. Baby, I got something. There's always gooping. 21 00:01:42.680 --> 00:01:46.159 It makes a darker I told you Gray, let him put the goop in 22 00:01:46.159 --> 00:01:49.480 it. It's as white as the walls behind me. Really, yeah, 23 00:01:49.640 --> 00:01:53.319 interesting, just a little comb over. Why are you leaving rough next week? 24 00:01:53.519 --> 00:01:57.319 Are you here on Friday? I forget I'm leaving Friday morning, Friday 25 00:01:57.359 --> 00:02:06.480 morning for the low journey. It's Ohio, Iowa, Iowa. So you're 26 00:02:06.480 --> 00:02:08.919 not honed. Oh it's Iowa. Right, you own the property in Iowa. 27 00:02:09.000 --> 00:02:16.080 You hunted Ohio and somebody else's property. Corrects all the He's got all 28 00:02:16.080 --> 00:02:21.879 of that too, I think, so ship. I like to say I 29 00:02:21.919 --> 00:02:23.520 wish I was going, but I don't really wish I was doing whatsoever. 30 00:02:23.639 --> 00:02:27.479 But you know, you got the ranging game out there to watch for two 31 00:02:27.479 --> 00:02:29.520 weeks. What do you can do it? Of course? Come on, 32 00:02:29.680 --> 00:02:31.759 what do I look like? Who's going? You and who? Well? 33 00:02:31.840 --> 00:02:38.439 Sweet boys? Me and me myself? When I first go up, yeah, 34 00:02:38.439 --> 00:02:43.319 I have to close on the house. Oh his other property, you 35 00:02:43.360 --> 00:02:46.120 know, God's whi's the gun. He's gotta close on the house. That's 36 00:02:46.159 --> 00:02:51.199 gonna be the double that's gonna throw here's a stack. Yeah, and then 37 00:02:51.199 --> 00:02:58.800 you got the gun. That's like, well, where should we fly today, 38 00:02:58.960 --> 00:03:01.080 Rosie? I don't know who? We should go to the house in 39 00:03:01.120 --> 00:03:07.039 Iowa. Let's go down yeah yeah, hell, let's go the property down 40 00:03:07.039 --> 00:03:10.000 in Florida. Yeah, a couple of anchors down in Florida. Yeah. 41 00:03:10.080 --> 00:03:15.159 Yeah, he got a very funny guy on tonight. Man, they got 42 00:03:15.439 --> 00:03:17.599 what is it to send the other squad? Second second, busiest squad of 43 00:03:17.680 --> 00:03:23.479 Queen's Yeah, man, yeah, trying to move my money around. I 44 00:03:23.479 --> 00:03:27.039 got money everywhere I lose money. I think he got to be the senior 45 00:03:27.080 --> 00:03:30.639 guy over there, big shot, big cheese. You know. Yeah, 46 00:03:30.680 --> 00:03:32.680 he's he's felt the same way I did. Like you had to take a 47 00:03:32.719 --> 00:03:37.080 stick of dynamite to blast his out of that seat. Bro, I just 48 00:03:37.120 --> 00:03:40.439 paid five and on the job. Yeah. I had a couple of jobs 49 00:03:40.439 --> 00:03:43.719 with him. We're we're gonna have to discuss. I had a couple of 50 00:03:43.759 --> 00:03:46.840 good ones with him. Actually was he yelling like a little school girl. 51 00:03:46.879 --> 00:03:49.599 I had to calm him down. You know, when you're in the second 52 00:03:49.599 --> 00:03:51.639 busiest squad. You got to calm them down a little bit, you know 53 00:03:51.680 --> 00:03:55.639 what I mean? You do right? Just take it? Is he sleeping 54 00:03:55.680 --> 00:03:59.360 back? Then? What is he doing? He's out there. You just 55 00:03:59.360 --> 00:04:00.680 got a nice hair, I can tell you. He's got the grays in 56 00:04:00.719 --> 00:04:04.719 and I looked distinguished. Well, it was just in Italy for a couple 57 00:04:04.719 --> 00:04:10.560 of weeks. There. It was drinking a lot of red wine and that's 58 00:04:10.560 --> 00:04:14.759 a lot Lensky, give me an espresso. Should be doing a fucking poker, 59 00:04:14.840 --> 00:04:20.800 eating cabasa. What's he doing drinking wine and going nice poker? Polka 60 00:04:20.800 --> 00:04:24.199 poke? Maybe you heard one of my hits, Poka, Poka, Poka 61 00:04:24.519 --> 00:04:29.560 in the front, greatest hits, Poker in the front on I'm giving I 62 00:04:29.600 --> 00:04:32.480 was waiting, no poker. It's John Candy. Maybe you've heard some of 63 00:04:32.519 --> 00:04:36.879 the greatest hits. All right? What was that from? That was? 64 00:04:38.439 --> 00:04:41.360 That was from home alone? And she that was alone? She hates the 65 00:04:41.439 --> 00:04:44.279 ride with in the back and the time. Yeah, yeah, we're poka. 66 00:04:44.319 --> 00:04:46.959 Maybe you heard some great hit? Was John Candy? Yeah that's right, 67 00:04:47.720 --> 00:04:51.399 dad, he's not available for over time. Yeah, all right, 68 00:04:51.480 --> 00:04:55.199 let's let's get our commercials done, so we can bring the mazin. Al 69 00:04:55.319 --> 00:05:00.759 right, he's a Jets fan too. 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They do have it all, including getting salty apparel products. They 110 00:08:18.160 --> 00:08:20.759 do have some scrag over that they sell it all, everything but the truck. 111 00:08:20.959 --> 00:08:24.600 That's what I'm saying. I happened to look up for a second and 112 00:08:24.600 --> 00:08:28.160 the number was two seventy the amount of people watching live right now. Off 113 00:08:30.360 --> 00:08:37.320 off, I see what you do there. Four time indictment Champion yeah, 114 00:08:37.480 --> 00:08:41.440 all right, rough, bring them in, bring them as the Mazaroni, 115 00:08:41.480 --> 00:08:54.080 the Mazarinsky coming to the stage p D. Pete Muslinsky. Yeah, he's 116 00:08:54.240 --> 00:09:00.840 fresh off the Italian Guinea gag plank. He was Guinea tour. Will you 117 00:09:00.960 --> 00:09:03.240 talking about your hands? Ab out of that, bro, Like, forget 118 00:09:03.279 --> 00:09:07.360 about doing over there. So when I go on the job, I was 119 00:09:07.399 --> 00:09:13.200 dead doing it with me around forshing doors. I was told feel I was 120 00:09:13.240 --> 00:09:20.840 doing it all in Italy, but you ain't doing what I'm doing brow that 121 00:09:20.919 --> 00:09:28.440 much. Thanks fellas. Good still look good, bro, you still look 122 00:09:28.480 --> 00:09:31.039 good. There were times treating you well. But it is tough, right, 123 00:09:31.080 --> 00:09:35.159 paycheck to paycheck, trying to make it by I think we get paid 124 00:09:35.200 --> 00:09:37.840 tomorrow. Oh we do, Thank god. Man. My kids were really 125 00:09:37.879 --> 00:09:41.759 hungry. I was tightening their belts. I don't think they were going to 126 00:09:41.799 --> 00:09:45.320 make it another week. They can get candy tomorrow, Oh they can. 127 00:09:45.639 --> 00:09:48.360 Tomorrow is Halloween. Let's get patriarchic before we get too far away from this, 128 00:09:48.399 --> 00:09:54.480 bro. All right, hold on, here we go. I plague 129 00:09:54.480 --> 00:10:01.320 allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for 130 00:10:01.399 --> 00:10:09.080 which it stands, One nation under God. Indivisible with liberty and justice for 131 00:10:09.240 --> 00:10:22.480 all. All right, so let me just do one response to you. 132 00:10:22.759 --> 00:10:26.360 Twenty one truck little man, I mean tiller man. He was from Squad 133 00:10:26.399 --> 00:10:28.000 two seventy not to eighty eight. So if you get a break, balls, 134 00:10:28.000 --> 00:10:31.399 get it right. My little man, my little my little opal lump 135 00:10:31.399 --> 00:10:35.840 a friend. All right. So what's the word of today? Bro? 136 00:10:37.080 --> 00:10:39.279 I'm gonna show you this before we got into the hockey. So he has 137 00:10:39.639 --> 00:10:45.360 a twenty dollars wager for for lou here. So right, I did? 138 00:10:45.519 --> 00:10:48.519 He texted me, asked me what I thought the scarter game was going to 139 00:10:48.559 --> 00:10:52.720 be. I so I wrote Rangers in win in ot. I think he 140 00:10:52.720 --> 00:10:58.000 said Canucks winning three to one. And he has a man who's true to 141 00:10:58.039 --> 00:11:03.519 his word. You brother? Excellent? All right, get guys, now 142 00:11:03.559 --> 00:11:05.919 play the word of the day. Oh, here we go. Mister k. 143 00:11:07.200 --> 00:11:13.240 Why we'll let you in on what the ky. I don't see him 144 00:11:13.240 --> 00:11:16.360 in the chat yet, so I don't know. Maybe he is he's just 145 00:11:16.360 --> 00:11:22.039 being quiet. Yeah, all right, Kevin yos that's Kevin yos K. 146 00:11:22.240 --> 00:11:26.879 Why Kevin Jose Jelly? Okay, why Jelly? Let me pull up mister 147 00:11:26.000 --> 00:11:33.559 Ma's timeline here all right, fella, so let's go back to Proby School. 148 00:11:33.720 --> 00:11:35.679 You know, let's go before Proby School. What did you do when 149 00:11:35.679 --> 00:11:37.440 you get out of high school? Where'd you grow up? I think you're 150 00:11:37.440 --> 00:11:41.879 an island guy, right from the islands, Long Island. And what made 151 00:11:41.919 --> 00:11:43.240 you want to be in the fire service? You're all man. Your brother's 152 00:11:43.279 --> 00:11:50.799 what I could say it like five or six. My uncle's were Valey's right. 153 00:11:50.840 --> 00:11:54.000 We'd be over their house and I just remember siren going off whatever and 154 00:11:54.000 --> 00:11:58.480 then running out the door. And then I'd say about nine or ten, 155 00:11:58.639 --> 00:12:01.519 got a bike, so you can he the sirens and all the volleys, 156 00:12:01.600 --> 00:12:03.639 you know, all the companies around, and uh, we're just like the 157 00:12:03.679 --> 00:12:07.360 sirens are golf and you just like get on your bike and start riding and 158 00:12:07.360 --> 00:12:11.159 see what's going on. And uh at about I was passing the fire volley 159 00:12:11.159 --> 00:12:15.600 house I'm in now, and one of the guys are sitting out front and 160 00:12:15.679 --> 00:12:16.639 we just stopped to talk and he say, hey, you want to join 161 00:12:16.679 --> 00:12:20.559 the junior fire Department. I'm like, what's that? And he's so he 162 00:12:20.600 --> 00:12:24.440 gives me any applications and I joined him in seventy six at eleven years old. 163 00:12:24.720 --> 00:12:26.840 Wow, dude, why do you set it up for us a little 164 00:12:26.840 --> 00:12:30.840 war, be a little more descriptive, Like did you have the bike with 165 00:12:30.960 --> 00:12:37.720 the baseball cards on the big had the big banana seat right down the handleballs? 166 00:12:37.720 --> 00:12:43.320 Well that was a swim That was a swim with it was a big 167 00:12:43.360 --> 00:12:46.759 banata seat, right. I was a I was, I had what I 168 00:12:46.799 --> 00:12:50.399 had that he was Pope? What time was that, Mat linden Hurst. 169 00:12:52.960 --> 00:12:56.159 I grew up in Northern Hurst. Oh not that south of the No, 170 00:12:56.279 --> 00:13:01.399 that's trash down there. Bro, you don't want to go with the So 171 00:13:01.519 --> 00:13:03.279 you have any brothers and sisters your own child? Tell us a little about 172 00:13:03.279 --> 00:13:09.639 the early days. There was Lutsky household, five sisters, five I've sent 173 00:13:09.720 --> 00:13:11.759 the estrogen running around in it. Where were you? Mom was divorced. 174 00:13:11.799 --> 00:13:18.080 It was those six of me. Oh my god, Holy Christ. So 175 00:13:18.120 --> 00:13:24.759 you were doing a lot of fighting whatever and one bathroom everybody where were you 176 00:13:24.799 --> 00:13:30.080 in the pecking order? Right in the middle smacked it. You had to 177 00:13:30.080 --> 00:13:31.679 smack a few guys around, I'm sure at some point, right or no 178 00:13:33.480 --> 00:13:39.399 boyfriends? Yeah? Yeah, everybody everybody was like the two older ones, 179 00:13:39.440 --> 00:13:43.559 three older ones were you know? By the time I was eleven or twelve. 180 00:13:43.639 --> 00:13:48.120 They were already eighteen and oh all right, yeah, yeah, right 181 00:13:48.799 --> 00:13:52.039 to household. A lot of polker going on in the house. But what 182 00:13:52.159 --> 00:13:56.080 was going on in the house? Bro okay, pop boss, poking hole 183 00:13:56.120 --> 00:13:58.879 in this wall, poking hole in that wall. What's going on? What's 184 00:13:58.879 --> 00:14:01.480 your mom? Battalion or something? Was your mother? No, my mother 185 00:14:01.559 --> 00:14:05.159 was Irish, So you're an Irish Irish and Polish Irish Polish hip. So 186 00:14:05.240 --> 00:14:09.879 you had either you had just like boiled meat or you're eating cabasi one or 187 00:14:09.879 --> 00:14:16.159 the other. Yeah, probably most likely Chucks Coutts Chicken college. College can't 188 00:14:16.200 --> 00:14:24.000 go wrong. Brot gold golding the juniors at eleven. What are you doing 189 00:14:24.039 --> 00:14:28.120 in the juniors at eleven besides sweeping the floors? Uh, they're bringing you 190 00:14:28.200 --> 00:14:31.600 down for drills. You're doing uh, you know as what we're still doing 191 00:14:31.679 --> 00:14:35.120 now today with the kids. Uh, come down. Actually back then, 192 00:14:35.240 --> 00:14:37.840 we actually we didn't go on the fire trucks, but we'd come down to 193 00:14:37.879 --> 00:14:41.039 help them pack hoose if they had something right, you know, you got 194 00:14:41.080 --> 00:14:43.200 a little part of it and uh, just doing a little bit of training 195 00:14:43.240 --> 00:14:46.360 here, and I mean it was a little you know, just like the 196 00:14:46.440 --> 00:14:50.679 job was. It was like, you know, you set your kids off 197 00:14:50.720 --> 00:14:54.120 with these guys and uh, you know they're they're lighting up a car fire 198 00:14:54.200 --> 00:14:56.399 in a parking lot and we're putting it out. You know, So ain't 199 00:14:56.440 --> 00:14:58.840 doing that now? You do with any of your friends, and you did 200 00:14:58.879 --> 00:15:03.080 it by yourself. Oh, I just joined and then I met all the 201 00:15:03.159 --> 00:15:09.120 guys in the fireous. Yeah, they were all guys I had known any 202 00:15:09.159 --> 00:15:13.240 guys from the job that we know today or no, nobody, nobody was 203 00:15:13.279 --> 00:15:16.879 on a job from over there. Really, I was just going to ask 204 00:15:16.960 --> 00:15:20.600 that question to him. You must have, like, because it seems like 205 00:15:20.600 --> 00:15:24.080 a lot of the guys out in Long Island they when they joined, especially 206 00:15:24.159 --> 00:15:26.360 our ages group, they always had a lot of like the senior guys that 207 00:15:26.440 --> 00:15:30.399 were on our job in the in the volleys already. Yeah. No, 208 00:15:30.519 --> 00:15:33.600 there was some guys that are on in the valleys now that are on but 209 00:15:33.000 --> 00:15:37.200 not back then. No, No, at least nobody's find the really. 210 00:15:37.960 --> 00:15:41.919 Yeah, and then what did you become? Like, what'd you graduate to? 211 00:15:41.080 --> 00:15:46.159 What's what's there? The junior firefighter at seventeen you become a fine regular 212 00:15:46.200 --> 00:15:52.000 firefighter. You have like a probation still too at seventeen eight years, oprobation 213 00:15:52.200 --> 00:15:54.799 for six months or a year or something like that. But you get it 214 00:15:54.960 --> 00:15:56.639 earlier than if you come up the streets, you joined at eighteen. If 215 00:15:56.679 --> 00:16:02.120 you're in the juniors, you joined at seventeen. So you were pretty accustomed 216 00:16:02.159 --> 00:16:04.039 to fire. When did you get your first job, like, you know, 217 00:16:04.720 --> 00:16:10.679 yeah, in the volleys? Yeah, I don't actually remember my first 218 00:16:10.720 --> 00:16:15.120 one. I do remember the first fatal We actually it was came in as 219 00:16:15.159 --> 00:16:22.639 a brush fire and we get there and it's actually a fort going along the 220 00:16:22.720 --> 00:16:26.559 railroad tracks. But we're still like, all right, so we've start to 221 00:16:26.559 --> 00:16:30.559 put it out and I don't know, I guess the parents my kids were 222 00:16:30.600 --> 00:16:33.360 over here before they were in the fort oh ship and two of them are 223 00:16:33.360 --> 00:16:38.080 inside that. Oh that's we didn't know. We're going to put it out 224 00:16:38.120 --> 00:16:41.639 and get ready to go home. And it wasn't for the parents telling us, 225 00:16:41.679 --> 00:16:45.000 like I think my kids were in there. We're like, okay, 226 00:16:45.080 --> 00:16:47.080 we'll check, but we're like, we don't think so. And then all 227 00:16:47.120 --> 00:16:49.200 of a sudden we've seen them. So was there like a little clubhouse or 228 00:16:49.240 --> 00:16:53.279 something that they built at least a long island everybody lived, you know, 229 00:16:53.480 --> 00:16:56.919 in the woods because he built forts and your hu yeah, yeah, yeah, 230 00:16:56.960 --> 00:17:00.840 yeah, you know, drinking, smoking weed or whatever they were doing. 231 00:17:00.840 --> 00:17:03.559 You know, it was not on the beach, you know. And 232 00:17:04.119 --> 00:17:07.160 yeah, people would build ford so you know, get some plywood and throw 233 00:17:07.240 --> 00:17:11.799 something together to protect themselves from the elements, I guess, and wow, 234 00:17:11.839 --> 00:17:17.400 I don't know, they fell asleep with a candle or something. Probably like 235 00:17:18.119 --> 00:17:21.279 I got in in late eighty two, eighty three, so that was probably 236 00:17:21.359 --> 00:17:25.240 like eighty three eighty four. You know. So what did you do at 237 00:17:25.279 --> 00:17:26.400 the high school? What kind of jobs did you have before you got on 238 00:17:26.480 --> 00:17:32.039 the job. So two days after high school I joined the I got in 239 00:17:32.079 --> 00:17:33.480 the town of Babylon, which is the highway to Pontment, you know, 240 00:17:33.799 --> 00:17:38.640 patching holes and cutting grass and did that. Took the test in eighty seven 241 00:17:40.720 --> 00:17:44.440 and three thousand on a list and everybody's telling me, oh, you gotta 242 00:17:44.440 --> 00:17:47.720 get hired. Three thousand, you're good, You're good. And it took 243 00:17:47.799 --> 00:17:49.519 me to the end of ninety four to get on. Yeah, I was 244 00:17:49.599 --> 00:17:53.880 on that list. I was seventeen forty two and I got on in May 245 00:17:53.920 --> 00:17:57.279 of ninety three. Because they weren't hiring on that list, they would do 246 00:17:57.319 --> 00:18:02.240 one hundred at every three months or something crazy. Yeah, it would do 247 00:18:02.759 --> 00:18:06.440 BS numbers and and for some reason, I don't even remember why I do 248 00:18:06.519 --> 00:18:08.240 it about it today. I didn't I didn't take the ninety one or ninety 249 00:18:08.279 --> 00:18:11.680 two tests. I didn't take it, so I thought I was going to 250 00:18:11.720 --> 00:18:17.160 get high right, and uh. Then the last class was supposed to be 251 00:18:17.240 --> 00:18:22.200 July ninety four, and Juliani actually extended it to classes. Thank god for 252 00:18:22.240 --> 00:18:26.240 Giuliani. Bro. Yeah, still you would have still been he was what 253 00:18:27.279 --> 00:18:32.119 what was your number? Mass eighty? Did my cousin? Was my cousin 254 00:18:32.200 --> 00:18:36.160 in your class? Louis Rofrano? I think he was the last class roof 255 00:18:36.839 --> 00:18:40.200 was he? Well? Maybe I remember he was. He was three thousand. 256 00:18:41.640 --> 00:18:42.440 I don't know if you can make that out, but this was the 257 00:18:44.480 --> 00:18:47.359 the group. Yeah, I don't know if he Yeah, he was. 258 00:18:47.440 --> 00:18:48.839 He was. Yeah, you would remember him, you know, angry guy, 259 00:18:49.599 --> 00:18:52.160 Yeah, not very smiley. Yeah, you would have known him. 260 00:18:53.559 --> 00:18:57.920 Yeah. Well I think that was like thirty right after the thirty something hundred. 261 00:18:57.960 --> 00:19:00.359 I didn't make that one with rough. I had to take it again 262 00:19:00.440 --> 00:19:03.240 in ninety ninety one, and then I was in the first class and the 263 00:19:03.279 --> 00:19:07.759 next one, so I was right behind you. Yeah, two classes behind 264 00:19:07.839 --> 00:19:11.880 you, and then you guys did rotation. Right. Yeah, that was 265 00:19:11.880 --> 00:19:15.200 a bad day though, bro. I actually liked it. Man, I 266 00:19:15.279 --> 00:19:18.240 got to see different parts of the city. I worked in Manhattan, I 267 00:19:18.319 --> 00:19:23.079 worked and assigned to Brooklyn with to Manhattan and a truck in Queen's. I 268 00:19:23.119 --> 00:19:27.920 didn't think it was that bid get to see on the job. The only 269 00:19:27.960 --> 00:19:32.279 thing that was bad was, you know, you were on probation for three 270 00:19:32.359 --> 00:19:34.559 years basically, you know what I mean. I just felt like every every 271 00:19:34.599 --> 00:19:37.960 guy that came in, I always felt like, this guy's getting screwed, 272 00:19:37.000 --> 00:19:41.039 you know, so we're try and make him feel better because he had already 273 00:19:41.039 --> 00:19:45.200 done is you know, yeah you empty third year, you guys are still 274 00:19:45.240 --> 00:19:47.039 looking at it. You like, shid the funk, I'm just getting there. 275 00:19:47.160 --> 00:19:48.880 Yeah, And especially if that wasn't your company, they didn't want to 276 00:19:48.920 --> 00:19:52.839 really invest that much time because you will leave it anyway, right, you 277 00:19:52.880 --> 00:19:53.759 know, unless you were good. I mean, there were guys that we 278 00:19:55.119 --> 00:19:57.240 try to keep you, try to keep you and the next class of coming 279 00:19:57.279 --> 00:20:00.039 there and be another five guys you wanted to keep all yeah, right, 280 00:20:00.200 --> 00:20:03.000 yeah, and then everybody thought they were going back to the busy shop. 281 00:20:03.440 --> 00:20:10.880 Yeah yeah, I'm like, okay, maybe unless you had a guy like 282 00:20:10.920 --> 00:20:12.519 who was a lightning rod. And you know who my lightning rod was, 283 00:20:12.640 --> 00:20:18.319 right, Roofy, Remember little Frankie Deseason. Yeah, yeah, he walked 284 00:20:18.359 --> 00:20:19.799 into the fire house with me. He's like, listen, I'm not gonna 285 00:20:19.799 --> 00:20:22.640 be hit off from the Bronx. I'm a seventy three engine. This is 286 00:20:22.680 --> 00:20:25.680 really how we do it up in the Bronx. I was like, thank 287 00:20:25.799 --> 00:20:30.440 god he walked in bro that was it took the pressure right off here. 288 00:20:33.559 --> 00:20:36.839 Yeah, he didn't get the memo keep your mouth shut and keep your mouth 289 00:20:36.880 --> 00:20:42.720 shut. Oh shit. You always need a guy like that. You need 290 00:20:42.720 --> 00:20:45.559 a lightning rod, you know, even in Proby School, you need a 291 00:20:45.599 --> 00:20:48.720 lightning getting somebody to fuck up that you're just gonna pay attention to all the 292 00:20:48.799 --> 00:20:52.599 time. Right, Who are you in Troby School with guys? Anybody? 293 00:20:52.759 --> 00:20:57.160 Uh? Guys that Well? I went want to one A four with this 294 00:20:57.240 --> 00:21:02.480 guy Kevin Hogan, who ended up being like just such a great guy. 295 00:21:02.519 --> 00:21:08.160 We have twenty four part in Forever over there, but uh Joe swinging like, 296 00:21:08.240 --> 00:21:11.200 guys, I know, I don't, I don't. I'd have to 297 00:21:11.279 --> 00:21:17.519 look at the picture and see exactly you know it was it Jerry O'Shea was 298 00:21:17.559 --> 00:21:19.400 in our class, all right, yeah, yeah, I don't know if 299 00:21:19.440 --> 00:21:23.160 he's in the picture. Did you guys know Wally Moreca Yeah, Wally was 300 00:21:23.200 --> 00:21:26.960 one O three. Yeah, while he's over there, what's up? Bro? 301 00:21:26.079 --> 00:21:30.200 Where's Wally's while he's on the right, all the way on the right. 302 00:21:30.920 --> 00:21:33.000 Oh, I see him? Yeah, yo, bro, you know 303 00:21:33.440 --> 00:21:38.000 if you if your eyeballs have seen as much fire and because he went to 304 00:21:38.319 --> 00:21:41.160 the doctor how to get glasses, And I says, yo, Wally, 305 00:21:41.240 --> 00:21:44.640 what's going on with the glasses? He goes, listen here, bruff. 306 00:21:44.960 --> 00:21:48.400 If your eyeballs are seen as much fire and smoke as these eyeballs, you 307 00:21:48.599 --> 00:21:56.119 need glasses too. Did he wind up the rescue too? Yeah? Yeah, 308 00:21:56.440 --> 00:22:00.759 So one O four was a tilla right, yeah, tell you and 309 00:22:02.119 --> 00:22:03.759 uh what do they what do they call that? The something south side? 310 00:22:04.319 --> 00:22:07.200 South side? But during the hey day, they would do a lot of 311 00:22:07.240 --> 00:22:10.599 work, right, They had a lot of unit citations that worked there a 312 00:22:10.640 --> 00:22:15.599 couple of times on details they they they did a lot more before I got 313 00:22:15.680 --> 00:22:18.440 there, but we were still like figures we got I think Eddie anzelone told 314 00:22:18.440 --> 00:22:22.319 you you were like trapped between the East River one nineteen want to wait and 315 00:22:22.400 --> 00:22:26.680 one forty six. It was like he was surrounded by them. So the 316 00:22:26.720 --> 00:22:30.920 hare he was pretty small, right, if you caught something, it was 317 00:22:30.960 --> 00:22:33.279 occupied because everything over there was occupied at the time. A lot of people 318 00:22:33.319 --> 00:22:36.960 came out in one oh four. We keep talking about that. I bring 319 00:22:37.079 --> 00:22:38.319 up every time somebody says one o four. I talk about the guy who 320 00:22:38.359 --> 00:22:41.279 bought up the Brownstones across the street, you know, when they were all 321 00:22:41.400 --> 00:22:45.799 vacant. Yeah, that's in the eighties. I'm sure about what seventies o 322 00:22:45.920 --> 00:22:51.519 that. When I was there, I can't not remember saying somebody, Uh 323 00:22:52.079 --> 00:22:55.359 it was uh, it was like the senior guy in the engine and he 324 00:22:55.680 --> 00:22:56.880 he was still there when I got there. No ship. I didn't know 325 00:22:57.000 --> 00:23:03.279 that you'd go cross check everything out. No ship. That's awesome. On 326 00:23:03.440 --> 00:23:08.720 the on the on the City's time, thank you. Allegedly alleg happened. 327 00:23:08.720 --> 00:23:11.119 I heard it happen to somebody, right right right, Yeah, he was 328 00:23:11.160 --> 00:23:18.119 actually doing b I Roofy wouldn't know. He was expecting inspected. See what 329 00:23:18.200 --> 00:23:21.839 you could have you could have invested it if you had Doug building in specially. 330 00:23:22.240 --> 00:23:25.559 Yeah, who knows what money you would have found, not any more 331 00:23:25.599 --> 00:23:32.359 money, but yeah, is that what they do is that? I remember 332 00:23:32.440 --> 00:23:34.039 I think I worked there at the time that they do the burning of the 333 00:23:34.079 --> 00:23:38.559 bread in the corner. Well they did nineteen. They do it throughout Williams. 334 00:23:38.759 --> 00:23:41.400 No, it wasn't in one nineteen. It was in It was in 335 00:23:41.480 --> 00:23:45.680 the engine where one O four is I think twenty one. Yeah, and 336 00:23:45.799 --> 00:23:48.440 I walked down. The guy was laughing, and I'm like, what's up. 337 00:23:48.640 --> 00:23:52.720 What's the funny? Guess you'll see, don't worry. Like fifty runs 338 00:23:53.119 --> 00:23:56.799 and the leave it like six am and they wouldn't be back to like no 339 00:23:57.039 --> 00:24:00.799 ship. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, because it's they're supposed 340 00:24:00.799 --> 00:24:03.039 to burn bread, but they're throwing chairs in there and furniture and there and 341 00:24:03.119 --> 00:24:06.920 everything in the pile. You know. So all you do is go from 342 00:24:06.920 --> 00:24:08.519 one rubbish fire to the next. Yeah, that was a night toll. 343 00:24:08.519 --> 00:24:11.599 You didn't want to work. You remember your first job there peting. Yeah. 344 00:24:11.720 --> 00:24:17.359 So we get there and my captain was Wick of Cobs. He was 345 00:24:17.799 --> 00:24:21.359 he was a character, but that's a name. Yeah, he was a 346 00:24:21.480 --> 00:24:23.400 one thirty two guy, one o two guy, like you got a great 347 00:24:23.559 --> 00:24:29.599 uh pedigree and I get there and he's a bull breaker and he's and he's 348 00:24:29.720 --> 00:24:33.119 just he's he's in your face a little bit. He's busting chops. Uh, 349 00:24:33.000 --> 00:24:38.039 and it's like I got there. Well. To start off, my 350 00:24:38.200 --> 00:24:41.960 wife's intro to the fire department, which is the same thing, was I'm 351 00:24:42.000 --> 00:24:48.119 there like a month and Ray Scheibel gets killed. All right, right, 352 00:24:48.319 --> 00:24:51.720 I remember that. So the first time we got to do anything with the 353 00:24:51.839 --> 00:24:56.599 house is his funeral, and she's like, what did I just get myself 354 00:24:56.640 --> 00:25:00.400 into? You know? Uh? He was in the engine right engine his 355 00:25:00.839 --> 00:25:04.119 that story. I'm again, I'm just kid from Long Island. I don't 356 00:25:04.160 --> 00:25:07.480 know anything looking at these buildings, going that hel Am I doing it right? 357 00:25:07.759 --> 00:25:11.200 And uh the door knocks, So I opened the door, hit the 358 00:25:11.240 --> 00:25:15.039 door comes up, I said, can I I don't know he's right. 359 00:25:15.160 --> 00:25:18.160 I didn't really know him yet because I hadn't worked with everybody. And in 360 00:25:18.279 --> 00:25:19.319 that time, he goes, can I help you? He goes, you 361 00:25:19.359 --> 00:25:25.920 can't help me? Kid walks right past me. I had similar similar experience. 362 00:25:26.680 --> 00:25:29.319 It was up and that was the night he was going to two sixteen. 363 00:25:29.319 --> 00:25:30.960 He grabbed his stuff and he was going he was working to sixteen at 364 00:25:32.039 --> 00:25:38.759 night and the job comes in and for some reason they're relocating us to want 365 00:25:38.759 --> 00:25:42.119 to wait like really like five blocks away. With that, then made a 366 00:25:42.279 --> 00:25:45.319 somehow we get a may day on the radios and we just take it in 367 00:25:47.119 --> 00:25:49.559 and when we got there, he was out on the sidewalk and uh, 368 00:25:51.200 --> 00:25:52.640 like, I want to see you, guys, Jimmy Burt jumps in the 369 00:25:52.680 --> 00:25:56.160 ambulance with him and a couple of the guys. We take the rig to 370 00:25:56.240 --> 00:26:00.279 the you know, to the hospital and he ended up not making in it. 371 00:26:00.400 --> 00:26:03.160 But uh, yeah, that was my wife's intro. That's great man. 372 00:26:03.799 --> 00:26:07.359 Yeah. A month and a half in, she's like, just like 373 00:26:07.480 --> 00:26:11.839 it was all the time. No, no, I hope not. Couldn't 374 00:26:11.839 --> 00:26:15.559 believe it what happened with him. Hot Sola was working on him, right, 375 00:26:15.960 --> 00:26:18.440 yeah, and they had debated him down the room too, right yeah, 376 00:26:18.599 --> 00:26:22.720 and uh they used didn't get air into his lungs. Do they have 377 00:26:22.759 --> 00:26:25.519 a heart attack? I don't remember. He went down. I don't know 378 00:26:25.599 --> 00:26:27.200 if it was considered a heart attack, but he went down in the job 379 00:26:27.599 --> 00:26:30.759 and they had him out pretty quick. He was a big boy, but 380 00:26:30.799 --> 00:26:33.960 they got him out and they had him out on the sidewalk. I happened 381 00:26:33.960 --> 00:26:38.480 to be there because it was their neighborhood, so they were there and uh 382 00:26:38.599 --> 00:26:44.279 whatever, you know, just went south. So uh. But the first 383 00:26:44.359 --> 00:26:47.319 job where it's like march, these guys are like, you're never gonna catch 384 00:26:47.359 --> 00:26:49.680 a job. They break my jobs, and uh, it just comes in. 385 00:26:51.240 --> 00:26:55.400 I think it was South athon Bury and it's like the sixth floor and 386 00:26:55.640 --> 00:26:59.720 uh it's me captain and this guy Mike Smith, big towel guy. He's 387 00:26:59.759 --> 00:27:03.119 got the irons. I got the can and uh, he's like, come 388 00:27:03.160 --> 00:27:06.400 on, you know, six flog climb all the way up. I'm like 389 00:27:06.440 --> 00:27:08.920 huffing and puffing, and he's like, let's go start hitting the you know, 390 00:27:08.920 --> 00:27:17.000 I gott to force the door. I'm I'm hitting and catch my hangs 391 00:27:17.039 --> 00:27:21.079 down and smoke comes out and I don't even do this with my face piece. 392 00:27:21.160 --> 00:27:23.839 And the captains get the fucking it with the can, get in and 393 00:27:23.960 --> 00:27:29.240 I'm going I'm like, a I get in there. He's like, when 394 00:27:29.240 --> 00:27:30.400 I open his door, you hit the bedroom? Was going. That was 395 00:27:30.480 --> 00:27:33.920 it? With that, the windows start crashing in from the ov coming in 396 00:27:34.000 --> 00:27:37.119 the rear rode the fire escape, I'm like, what is going on? 397 00:27:38.400 --> 00:27:42.680 It was attacking, right, attacking. It was out in two seconds. 398 00:27:42.720 --> 00:27:45.759 The engine came up, knocked it down. Was only one room, but 399 00:27:45.000 --> 00:27:48.880 it was what just the hell just happened? He and yeah, And you 400 00:27:48.920 --> 00:27:52.680 know it's crazy, is you had a little bit of an inkling of like 401 00:27:52.519 --> 00:27:56.400 going to fires, you know, somewhat not like that, probably, but 402 00:27:56.960 --> 00:28:00.079 you know you have that a little bit of experience. Like Matt, you 403 00:28:00.079 --> 00:28:03.920 get a guy from the city. We had no idea and I did the 404 00:28:03.039 --> 00:28:07.039 same exact thing. The guys yelling at me, you know, get in 405 00:28:07.160 --> 00:28:08.640 here. I'm like, what, Like, I didn't even get my mask 406 00:28:08.680 --> 00:28:11.519 on you. I'm trying fumbling around. The guy's grabbing you, pulling you 407 00:28:11.640 --> 00:28:14.920 in. It was the first time, you see. I mean, I 408 00:28:14.960 --> 00:28:17.039 don't know what he had, but he didn't He didn't have a mask on, 409 00:28:17.160 --> 00:28:18.440 but he knew he didn't need it. You know. He was one 410 00:28:18.440 --> 00:28:22.400 of those old, smalthy guys that didn't need it at that point, you 411 00:28:22.480 --> 00:28:25.480 know. And uh, he just yelled at me. I mean I could 412 00:28:25.480 --> 00:28:29.319 tell you yelling me with no mask because he's like, get the fuck and 413 00:28:29.519 --> 00:28:32.000 uh. But you know, it all worked out and you came up, 414 00:28:32.039 --> 00:28:33.079 put the rest of it out, and uh, but that's the kind of 415 00:28:33.119 --> 00:28:37.920 fire you walk for you first five ye not something that's gonna you know, 416 00:28:38.079 --> 00:28:42.440 and then you're done right, like you shell shot you hope for a one 417 00:28:42.519 --> 00:28:47.839 bedroom job. I mean, those guys, they were the ones that told 418 00:28:47.839 --> 00:28:51.519 me. Those senior guys here, Johnny Rizzo, Mickey Moran, Rizzo, 419 00:28:51.640 --> 00:28:55.119 Frank Rizzo. Yeah, so I went to so John Rizzo was the senior 420 00:28:55.160 --> 00:28:57.039 guy in one four. I went to Provy School with his son, John 421 00:28:57.119 --> 00:29:02.000 Jr. And when I got a sign, He's like, my dad's there 422 00:29:02.039 --> 00:29:03.880 you go, you know, and I'm like, all right, thank you, 423 00:29:03.000 --> 00:29:08.279 like you know, and uh. And John was just a gentleman besides 424 00:29:08.319 --> 00:29:11.480 being a senior guy, was just a gentleman. And he was like, 425 00:29:11.839 --> 00:29:14.960 you know, how you do things. You know, you don't want to 426 00:29:15.000 --> 00:29:18.480 wear your mask all the time because eventually in your career something's gonna be wrong 427 00:29:18.519 --> 00:29:22.440 with it. So you gotta know how to take a feed. You know, 428 00:29:22.559 --> 00:29:23.799 whether it's only for two seconds, but you need to learn because if 429 00:29:23.799 --> 00:29:29.400 you just if you panic. Yeah no, yeah, So we didn't you 430 00:29:29.480 --> 00:29:32.759 know, we didn't really put on mask on too early that we tried to 431 00:29:32.759 --> 00:29:33.720 save your aad you had thirty minute bottles at that time, you know, 432 00:29:34.559 --> 00:29:38.279 so that was great. We had the little bottles then, right, yeah, 433 00:29:38.960 --> 00:29:47.079 baby bottles. Yeah, that was great. You know. Was Danny 434 00:29:47.160 --> 00:29:48.480 Kruger that at that time? Was he the boss there at any time? 435 00:29:48.640 --> 00:29:52.799 Or no? Not that I remember now, all right, So he must 436 00:29:52.839 --> 00:29:56.279 have got there before or right after you left there, because he got promoted 437 00:29:56.279 --> 00:30:00.640 out of one seventeen and then I know he worked in one off. He 438 00:30:00.759 --> 00:30:03.200 was there for a number of years, but you might have been out of 439 00:30:03.240 --> 00:30:06.759 there ready. He uh, I'll tell you what they did. So you 440 00:30:06.839 --> 00:30:08.359 know, here's the kid from Long Island doesn't really know anything. I'm reading 441 00:30:08.359 --> 00:30:12.000 the books in Provy school. I'm getting them down, passing all the tests, 442 00:30:12.039 --> 00:30:15.480 it's no problem, but I'm still like not understanding what the hell is 443 00:30:15.759 --> 00:30:18.680 a row frame. I'm like, I don't know if this is here. 444 00:30:19.960 --> 00:30:22.720 I can see an MD, but I don't really like I'm looking at it. 445 00:30:22.759 --> 00:30:26.920 I understood the three windows with the fire escape, but the four windows 446 00:30:26.960 --> 00:30:29.599 and everything else they understood that is passing them. So when I get there, 447 00:30:29.640 --> 00:30:30.480 I'm like, can you guys just take me and show me what the 448 00:30:30.559 --> 00:30:33.440 hell of oa framements? Because I really had no clue and over there. 449 00:30:33.519 --> 00:30:38.480 We drove over to Green Point and you know, five stories and yeahs long, 450 00:30:38.559 --> 00:30:41.319 you know, this is what they do. It was great, you 451 00:30:41.359 --> 00:30:45.920 know those guys. And at that point too, we had what they called 452 00:30:45.960 --> 00:30:48.799 over there Wally World, which is it was off of Kent Avenue. It 453 00:30:48.920 --> 00:30:55.720 was just all vacants and uh, we go to we go to cut a 454 00:30:55.799 --> 00:30:57.680 car up one day and it's a vacant. It looks like he was there 455 00:30:57.680 --> 00:31:03.240 about five years, you know, play with the Hurst tool and we're gonna 456 00:31:03.240 --> 00:31:06.279 cut it up. And we start cutting it up and some guy comes up 457 00:31:06.319 --> 00:31:08.440 to me. He looked like almost right, and he's like, what are 458 00:31:08.440 --> 00:31:18.480 you guys doing? And we're like, it's just I'm like, I was 459 00:31:18.519 --> 00:31:25.640 like, let's go. Everybody back up. Allegedly, you know, he 460 00:31:25.759 --> 00:31:27.759 used to that much. We were just starting and he's like, what are 461 00:31:27.759 --> 00:31:30.319 you guys doing in my car? And they're like, in your car, 462 00:31:32.480 --> 00:31:36.400 holds it out. Remember Hoppy Hopkins used to like to do that, you 463 00:31:36.400 --> 00:31:40.079 remember Johnny Hopkins. Yeah, So we get to we get a run to 464 00:31:40.160 --> 00:31:44.079 in front of O'Neill's one time called smoking, right, So we go up 465 00:31:44.119 --> 00:31:47.039 there and sure, off, it's just it's smoking. It could be radiating. 466 00:31:47.519 --> 00:31:51.400 John's like taking a part. Take the hood off, you know, 467 00:31:51.480 --> 00:31:55.839 cut the doors off, cut it, cut it all off. Next day, 468 00:31:55.920 --> 00:31:59.480 next morning, the doorbell rings, the door. The guys like, 469 00:32:00.039 --> 00:32:02.720 yeah, you cut my car up last night. It was another job, 470 00:32:02.839 --> 00:32:05.680 so you know, it was a piece of ship. I don't really care, 471 00:32:05.759 --> 00:32:07.400 but yeah, you could have came in the ball with THERESD fucking card 472 00:32:07.519 --> 00:32:14.359 is before you took the whole fucking car. I hope they took took up 473 00:32:14.400 --> 00:32:17.119 some money for the guy, for God's sake. Yeah, oh man. 474 00:32:17.240 --> 00:32:21.039 But Wiley World was also good because of the vacance. We were up there 475 00:32:21.079 --> 00:32:22.960 cutting roofs all the time, bracks and that. You know, it was 476 00:32:23.480 --> 00:32:27.279 a couple of rolldowns where it would cut, you know, it was. 477 00:32:27.480 --> 00:32:30.720 It was a good place to learn. Those guys were phenomenal. Then It's 478 00:32:30.759 --> 00:32:35.359 not like that now over there. Bro probably the really right state's insane over 479 00:32:35.400 --> 00:32:37.319 there. Now, Yeah, you could have You could have left some dead 480 00:32:37.359 --> 00:32:39.400 bodies over there at that time, you know what I mean, in the 481 00:32:39.480 --> 00:32:43.119 eighties nineties, you could have left dead people laying in the street. Nobody 482 00:32:43.119 --> 00:32:45.720 wouldn't even know for a week. Louis, you would you brought up something 483 00:32:45.720 --> 00:32:49.759 a little bit before. And it was true. You learned real quick, 484 00:32:49.880 --> 00:32:52.680 like not just the proby, but you're the low guy even when you're not 485 00:32:52.759 --> 00:32:54.839 the proby anymore. And uh, the captain or the boss would be like, 486 00:32:54.920 --> 00:32:57.759 all right, somebody go get the elevator, bring it back up, 487 00:32:58.599 --> 00:33:00.640 and we're just standing around and then you know, you guys, everybody go 488 00:33:00.759 --> 00:33:12.160 like this, no, but you go, he's looking at you about that. 489 00:33:12.319 --> 00:33:15.200 Yeah, I was talking to you. That was a big Dominican area 490 00:33:15.279 --> 00:33:20.799 there, right, it's is it still it was? Yeah, it was 491 00:33:21.359 --> 00:33:25.000 a firehouse. And then when you got like on the other side of was 492 00:33:25.039 --> 00:33:31.039 it broad when the bridge came off the Waivesburg Yeah, yeah, then it 493 00:33:31.119 --> 00:33:35.079 became it was all the Civics over that pretty much. But I think the 494 00:33:35.160 --> 00:33:38.079 Acidics owned all the buildings by us, I said Dominican. I thought it 495 00:33:38.119 --> 00:33:40.920 was a heavy. No, it was kind of shovel by us, right 496 00:33:42.240 --> 00:33:45.359 right right right. I don't know, yeah, yeah, I don't know, 497 00:33:45.240 --> 00:33:47.480 but it was they had big buildings there. They had a lot of 498 00:33:47.519 --> 00:33:53.440 six story jobs like lining like for block after block, like one fifty four 499 00:33:53.960 --> 00:33:57.799 area, you know, like they were yeah, yeah, yeah, a 500 00:33:57.880 --> 00:34:00.920 lot of head and popularly too over there. When you start to get the 501 00:34:01.000 --> 00:34:07.119 roof there, it was, you know, the show was doesn't matter if 502 00:34:07.119 --> 00:34:10.480 they were to foreseen you guys or or anybody. The ladders going up, 503 00:34:10.559 --> 00:34:15.320 we could be gasleak. The lad's going up, climbing like you were climbing 504 00:34:15.320 --> 00:34:16.679 out ladder all the time. The only thing they're like, all right, 505 00:34:16.719 --> 00:34:20.320 what do you want to do here? Uh? All right, try to 506 00:34:20.400 --> 00:34:22.679 enjoin the building and bring some says it just in case the fences, you 507 00:34:22.719 --> 00:34:25.119 know, like you went through the motions on every run, every run. 508 00:34:25.920 --> 00:34:30.960 That's good teachers here, right? You did? You know? I couldn't 509 00:34:30.960 --> 00:34:32.679 believe it like gas leaks, ladders were up, you know, you know 510 00:34:32.760 --> 00:34:38.119 the did they still do that now? You know? I mean again, 511 00:34:38.159 --> 00:34:43.159 I'm sure that it depends on who's you know, who's working. You know, 512 00:34:43.239 --> 00:34:45.159 which guys are working each If you could have the best company in the 513 00:34:45.199 --> 00:34:47.039 world, it depends on who's working, you know what I mean? It 514 00:34:47.079 --> 00:34:52.119 doesn't eighteen B team. If the shows were taught by the guys before them, 515 00:34:52.400 --> 00:34:54.960 I would believe they still are. You know, you didn't get the 516 00:34:55.039 --> 00:34:59.119 roofs over there? I think I got it, like I almost a probation 517 00:34:59.239 --> 00:35:01.000 first time. I got the room, you know, like you were saying 518 00:35:01.039 --> 00:35:04.480 though p D that they're kind of like hemmed in there, you know, 519 00:35:04.639 --> 00:35:07.800 like they they got that. It's like once seventeen was the same thing. 520 00:35:07.880 --> 00:35:08.920 You know, you had one sixty three, you had one sixteen, one 521 00:35:09.039 --> 00:35:13.880 fifty four. They although they had a big area, it was just you 522 00:35:14.119 --> 00:35:17.079 know, you didn't get much like going different areas like you were. You 523 00:35:17.159 --> 00:35:20.800 were kind of stuck in that corner there, right, Yeah, yeah, 524 00:35:21.039 --> 00:35:22.480 yeah, you got the you know, you think you go into that box 525 00:35:22.559 --> 00:35:25.400 and your you know, second truck on the second along. You know, 526 00:35:30.079 --> 00:35:32.800 you're like sun up. Who was telling us that they used to drive by 527 00:35:32.960 --> 00:35:37.239 boxes that weren't their boxes to go to another box. Who the hell was 528 00:35:37.280 --> 00:35:42.239 just telling us that? Be stan ryback when he was in two seventeen. 529 00:35:42.360 --> 00:35:45.360 He said they would go like three blocks down it wasn't their box, you 530 00:35:45.440 --> 00:35:47.840 know, but they would go two blocks further and it was their box. 531 00:35:47.920 --> 00:35:52.760 It made no sense. One forty sticks had a bigger area. I think, 532 00:35:52.239 --> 00:35:57.320 yeah, in that area. Yeah, it was good. It's good 533 00:35:57.400 --> 00:35:59.639 working over a working in tow Laddy got a little bit used to that, 534 00:35:59.719 --> 00:36:04.639 you know, but uh, nothing beat the ov man in the Tailler driving 535 00:36:04.679 --> 00:36:07.039 to Tailler. It was the best you were doing your Kramer, What do 536 00:36:07.079 --> 00:36:12.960 you doing? Thumb thumb stand at packing up of the thumbs, backing up 537 00:36:13.519 --> 00:36:15.320 the thumbing. I don't I never did it. Why did they? Uh 538 00:36:16.039 --> 00:36:19.800 you know hollow? Are you there before they allowed you to beat it? 539 00:36:22.239 --> 00:36:24.599 I don't think. I like, so they would bring the you would have 540 00:36:24.639 --> 00:36:28.840 the OV and maybe you'd have the roof so the OV would lock in. 541 00:36:28.960 --> 00:36:32.199 When is Pompier sit back there with you? And then just like we drive 542 00:36:32.280 --> 00:36:35.639 to the store to get the meal and they let you drive, you know, 543 00:36:36.920 --> 00:36:38.880 but uh, I couldn't even couldn't even tell you the first time I 544 00:36:38.920 --> 00:36:42.400 had the ov OV, you know, but and then it was on you. 545 00:36:42.960 --> 00:36:45.440 It wasn't bad going straight, it was fine. It was back into 546 00:36:45.480 --> 00:36:49.679 that flyouse you you might make sure you didn't hit the wall or anything. 547 00:36:50.119 --> 00:36:54.039 We'll be driving again anytime soon. So you have any other job before we 548 00:36:54.119 --> 00:37:00.880 talk about the job, brother? Uh? The only answer, Uh, 549 00:37:00.639 --> 00:37:06.480 we had a picture of Bronco before we were talking about although he called now 550 00:37:06.599 --> 00:37:10.199 Bronco was in one forty six, Yeah, yeah, he was. This 551 00:37:10.400 --> 00:37:15.159 was actually this might have been Ray Scheibel's black dedication. This picture. So 552 00:37:15.320 --> 00:37:20.119 you know him prior to the to the yeah job. Yeah, and so 553 00:37:20.239 --> 00:37:23.079 he calls me up first day, Yeah I fucking had a hair holy ship 554 00:37:23.159 --> 00:37:29.840 there, pet Yeah, waff So he goes, uh so they go Maslenski 555 00:37:29.960 --> 00:37:31.840 department phone. So I picked up. I go literally the first day like 556 00:37:31.880 --> 00:37:36.480 probably there like a half hour. Hello. Is that the way you answer 557 00:37:36.559 --> 00:37:44.760 the fucking department phone? Hello? I forgot I forgot school. Nobody told 558 00:37:44.760 --> 00:37:49.679 you how to answer the department phone. Like, it's a department what's called? 559 00:37:49.800 --> 00:37:52.320 He's like, it's Bronco, just breaking your jobs? So how did 560 00:37:52.360 --> 00:37:55.119 you know him from outside the job? Yeah? Outside the job, Yeah, 561 00:37:55.960 --> 00:37:59.440 we we knew each other. He was a Hempstead guy, but we 562 00:37:59.559 --> 00:38:01.599 had we have mutual friends and stuff like that. Right. He was on 563 00:38:01.679 --> 00:38:05.920 the football team, right, Yeah, at that time he was a big 564 00:38:06.039 --> 00:38:08.679 dude. He was big, but he was just he was just a gentle 565 00:38:08.760 --> 00:38:13.119 guy. And where was he working at that time? When he went out 566 00:38:13.119 --> 00:38:16.199 of Provate school he went to one forty six. I think he was on 567 00:38:16.320 --> 00:38:20.119 before you, Pete. Yeah, I think he was like a two years 568 00:38:20.119 --> 00:38:21.760 before me, a year and a half before me, something like that, 569 00:38:22.239 --> 00:38:23.960 right, yeah, because he was off probation by the time I got there. 570 00:38:24.039 --> 00:38:29.119 So I used to love h he was in fourth and rescue fourth and 571 00:38:29.199 --> 00:38:31.920 we'd get off of something like a Roco the other red helmets. It looked 572 00:38:31.960 --> 00:38:36.920 like a fucking peanut Chell on top of the yama on the top of his 573 00:38:37.039 --> 00:38:45.000 head because he was so big, a little red yama. Yeah. I 574 00:38:45.079 --> 00:38:52.639 mean, the the clientele over there was insane. The It was amazing how 575 00:38:52.679 --> 00:38:55.559 they came out for fires and they just were everywhere. And we had we 576 00:38:55.679 --> 00:39:02.000 had one job I had. I had richiemcdata at the OV. I think 577 00:39:02.000 --> 00:39:06.519 I had a roof and they toil us on a farm and get reports to 578 00:39:06.519 --> 00:39:08.199 people trap blah blah bah. So it ends up being a like a ten 579 00:39:08.239 --> 00:39:13.239 story high rise over there towards one nineteen, and I think they were out, 580 00:39:13.320 --> 00:39:15.760 so we got in first and uh, they're just pouring out of the 581 00:39:15.800 --> 00:39:22.679 building, rolling out of the building. So there's people to win though, 582 00:39:23.039 --> 00:39:28.440 like eight stories up, and I well, I'm not using the you know, 583 00:39:28.559 --> 00:39:30.239 it's it's an isolated building. But I guess I gotta take the stairs. 584 00:39:30.760 --> 00:39:34.960 So I get lucky and I go I see like, uh, super 585 00:39:35.039 --> 00:39:36.480 tennis. I'm like, go, how do you get to the how do 586 00:39:36.519 --> 00:39:37.480 you get the roof? He's like, right there, it was like a 587 00:39:37.880 --> 00:39:42.320 sideway stairs the door that went in. So I go in that door and 588 00:39:42.440 --> 00:39:45.039 it's like two couches in the basement, roaring by the elevator. So it's 589 00:39:45.079 --> 00:39:49.559 nothing. I'm like, it's two couches, two couches in the basement coming 590 00:39:49.840 --> 00:39:52.440 on the fore side. So I may start making my way upstairs to the 591 00:39:52.840 --> 00:39:54.360 roof to open it up. I get down, my look and it's just 592 00:39:55.320 --> 00:40:00.199 a c you know, It's just its like a feast, right, like 593 00:40:00.239 --> 00:40:05.679 like San Gennaro feast, that's what. And Richie mcdaide, we're talking about 594 00:40:05.719 --> 00:40:07.760 the job a little bit, and Richie's like, do you see what happened? 595 00:40:07.800 --> 00:40:12.400 I go now he goes. They he was trying to put the air 596 00:40:12.559 --> 00:40:14.639 the job, was trying to put the area up. Richie was gonna start 597 00:40:14.639 --> 00:40:17.599 climbing it, and they took like a chair and threw it through the window 598 00:40:19.559 --> 00:40:23.119 right just fires nowhere new and they were getting ready to drop their kids, 599 00:40:23.239 --> 00:40:27.519 like eight stories to people below. And he got to the end of the 600 00:40:27.599 --> 00:40:29.639 line. He's like, stop, we got it. We's not stayed there, 601 00:40:29.679 --> 00:40:32.480 stay there, And they stayed there, thank God, it's almost like 602 00:40:32.559 --> 00:40:37.679 they're like they don't I don't even know what the hell. It's like they're 603 00:40:37.719 --> 00:40:40.000 like they're grown ups, but they're like got a mentality of like a five 604 00:40:40.079 --> 00:40:45.159 year old, no idea. There was so many, so many seeds right 605 00:40:45.239 --> 00:40:49.639 over there. Yeah, I don't get talking about Yeah, Matt Petie, 606 00:40:49.679 --> 00:40:52.559 I had. I had one of my first jobs as lieutenant. I was 607 00:40:52.599 --> 00:40:55.800 in one nineteen covering and we get a report, same thing, multiple calls. 608 00:40:55.880 --> 00:40:58.960 I think I said this on the on the podcast at some point, 609 00:40:59.519 --> 00:41:01.639 and the towel out, it couldn't turn into block. We got stuck on 610 00:41:01.719 --> 00:41:05.239 the corner. It was too you know, like with there was double park 611 00:41:05.320 --> 00:41:07.199 calls or something. We couldn't get in. So I get out and the 612 00:41:07.280 --> 00:41:10.079 smoke was down in the street. Was like a foggy, rainy day. 613 00:41:12.039 --> 00:41:15.679 I couldn't there were so many people. I couldn't even find the fire building 614 00:41:15.760 --> 00:41:17.480 I had, Like I could barely make out where the engine was. And 615 00:41:17.559 --> 00:41:22.079 when I got there, I had to follow the line to the fire building 616 00:41:22.079 --> 00:41:27.079 because there were people, I mean like shoulder to shoulder, like shoulder when 617 00:41:27.079 --> 00:41:30.760 you said they were pouring out of the building. It's unless you've seen it. 618 00:41:30.039 --> 00:41:34.400 You wouldn't believe that that's it's even possible. And they're all like, 619 00:41:34.880 --> 00:41:42.039 there's like three thousands of them out there, there's not. When I worked 620 00:41:42.119 --> 00:41:45.480 in in uh, who's one nineteen to eleven? You go on like building, 621 00:41:45.519 --> 00:41:50.599 it's aunt you come out. One kid, one a city kid. 622 00:41:50.599 --> 00:41:52.800 We'd running down the street with my helmet on. The other kid would have 623 00:41:52.840 --> 00:41:54.679 my buck gear running this way, or they would take whatever they get taken. 624 00:41:54.719 --> 00:41:59.440 They're just running all around the rig with what the fuck is going on? 625 00:42:00.599 --> 00:42:05.000 What I saw kill somebody that's grabbing They're all they're all in the ring 626 00:42:05.119 --> 00:42:07.679 like you get out of the ring. They're all in the ring. It 627 00:42:07.880 --> 00:42:10.920 is. I would never believe here's this kid from long now ago? What 628 00:42:12.159 --> 00:42:15.360 the hell is going on here? Before? What is going on here? 629 00:42:15.440 --> 00:42:17.239 It was? It was insane. They're like zombies. They're like they're like 630 00:42:17.320 --> 00:42:20.760 they don't answer you when you talk to them, they don't say anything. 631 00:42:20.800 --> 00:42:22.599 It's like they're yet. They're like walking, they're like five year olds. 632 00:42:23.039 --> 00:42:27.840 Yeah, they just want yeah, there's the fire, where's the fire? 633 00:42:28.760 --> 00:42:35.079 How many going on? Miss Lensky, aren't you one of us? And 634 00:42:35.199 --> 00:42:42.199 Miss lensk oh, he's one of the Polish shoes. Nobody can he's one 635 00:42:42.239 --> 00:42:47.760 of the Polish shoes. Oh you're looking for the Millers? Which what are 636 00:42:47.760 --> 00:43:00.559 you looking for? This? Hold on? I had it there Loo got 637 00:43:00.559 --> 00:43:07.920 miss Lynsky. He's like nit with I'm clodding up the ladder with Lynsky. 638 00:43:09.119 --> 00:43:13.360 So when when did you start to uh, let's let's get to the h 639 00:43:13.400 --> 00:43:15.800 When did you start to feel it? When did you feel We got to 640 00:43:15.840 --> 00:43:19.000 talk about his grab and what O four? Oh I didn't even know he 641 00:43:19.039 --> 00:43:24.760 had a grab? No, what's going on? Pitch, let's Charlie Hendry. 642 00:43:25.079 --> 00:43:28.960 Hey, bro, we got to us about his grab. Bro. 643 00:43:30.800 --> 00:43:35.039 Season one, you have two thousands for a grab bug January first, bro, 644 00:43:38.239 --> 00:43:42.960 he Uh, when we're gonna work in the NEAs? Even his day, 645 00:43:43.239 --> 00:43:46.679 you know, Uh, kid was young, My son was young, 646 00:43:46.760 --> 00:43:52.119 so we weren't doing anything. So word his day and the guys are great, 647 00:43:52.199 --> 00:43:55.559 right, So going and I got the roofs to night tour Patty Williams. 648 00:43:55.880 --> 00:43:59.719 I think he's a battalion chief now he wasn't the rock for a while 649 00:44:00.039 --> 00:44:05.320 he is now but super super sweetheart guy. And uh we do to night 650 00:44:05.360 --> 00:44:08.320 too. I think we went to one bs job nothing crazy. Uh, 651 00:44:09.960 --> 00:44:14.440 getting get in the morning, and Tommy Montgomery came down from fourteen truck. 652 00:44:14.480 --> 00:44:20.199 He was assigned out place another superstar, another Greek guy. You think he 653 00:44:20.239 --> 00:44:22.000 worked a night too with us. So he goes, all right, mass 654 00:44:22.360 --> 00:44:25.320 you got the roof again, and I go, I look at Williams, 655 00:44:25.360 --> 00:44:28.239 are like, fuck kidding me. You can leave me on a roof of 656 00:44:28.320 --> 00:44:34.920 twenty four And he goes, all right, take the ions right. Literally 657 00:44:35.119 --> 00:44:39.119 five seconds later, boboo, you go out the door way. Yes. 658 00:44:39.360 --> 00:44:44.599 Literally, it's like like nine oh five in the morning, is it right 659 00:44:44.679 --> 00:44:47.880 after it was the first tour of you know, ninety nine, and uh, 660 00:44:49.920 --> 00:44:53.800 we go out and we get out Paddy Demic and Patty demics. They 661 00:44:53.880 --> 00:44:58.199 I had the audience because pat went with the boss to the fireroom and uh, 662 00:44:58.840 --> 00:45:00.480 I said, I'm going left. He's like okay, and he went 663 00:45:00.599 --> 00:45:04.119 right. And again I think it was only one or two rooms. It 664 00:45:04.239 --> 00:45:08.519 wasn't crazy. And I go left and I'm feeling and I feel a bed 665 00:45:09.440 --> 00:45:12.119 and I'm like, god, I got I got nothing. And then all 666 00:45:12.119 --> 00:45:14.519 of a sudden, I go, I think I feel something, and then 667 00:45:14.559 --> 00:45:15.800 I go for the foot like I grab it, and I got a foot 668 00:45:16.400 --> 00:45:19.639 and I go, I got something with that. The boss come back. 669 00:45:19.679 --> 00:45:22.719 He goes, you got something. I'm like, yeah, I got somebody. 670 00:45:22.760 --> 00:45:27.000 So he gives the forty five take it down, and somebody says the 671 00:45:27.079 --> 00:45:30.400 dog's dying, So we take the dog down, right, can come back 672 00:45:30.480 --> 00:45:32.400 up? Fires out two sixteen worked on her. I think they were in 673 00:45:32.440 --> 00:45:36.159 the medal day book that that next year they worked on her and got it 674 00:45:36.239 --> 00:45:40.039 back. She was out, and uh so Williams is like, you fucking 675 00:45:40.119 --> 00:45:46.880 kidding. I think I would say the same exact thing literally, because I'm 676 00:45:46.880 --> 00:45:50.199 gonna have the roof for twenty four, really pat, And he's like, 677 00:45:50.400 --> 00:45:52.199 because I think he was gonna have the audience for twenty four And he's like, 678 00:45:52.400 --> 00:45:57.599 all right, take the allions and no shit doing this later. Yeah, 679 00:45:58.760 --> 00:46:00.800 and uh again it was it was an okay grab. I wasn't crawling 680 00:46:00.840 --> 00:46:07.239 through anything crazy, right, I just went to left and uh, you 681 00:46:07.280 --> 00:46:15.159 know, what'd you get? What'd you get? Nice? And Tommy Montgomery 682 00:46:15.280 --> 00:46:22.840 ended up passing away uh a year and a half later from pancreatic cancer brutal 683 00:46:22.159 --> 00:46:30.760 and uh he he knew a couple of the big cheese really well. And 684 00:46:30.480 --> 00:46:32.960 that's probably how I got it, like you talked to him like he wanted 685 00:46:34.000 --> 00:46:37.239 the house to get something. Yeah, that's the most important thing. That 686 00:46:37.400 --> 00:46:38.679 was the one thing. I don't know if when was the last time like 687 00:46:38.760 --> 00:46:42.840 the house had gotten something. So he was really pushing it. And I 688 00:46:42.920 --> 00:46:45.679 think once he got sick it like to me, it was I felt like 689 00:46:45.760 --> 00:46:47.199 it was one of his dying bushes, you know that it made sure it 690 00:46:47.239 --> 00:46:52.000 happened because he passed away before Metal Day. Oh he didn't get a chance 691 00:46:52.039 --> 00:46:53.960 to see it. Yeah, I mean that is one of the best one 692 00:46:53.960 --> 00:46:57.679 of the best things that can happen to a firehouse, right is if somebody 693 00:46:57.679 --> 00:47:00.679 gets him out, don't even matter. It's such a prideful thing that uh, 694 00:47:01.199 --> 00:47:09.079 you know for everybody turns out, you know, it's it was. 695 00:47:09.239 --> 00:47:12.920 It was great. It was great. You know. Uh the guys took 696 00:47:12.920 --> 00:47:16.639 care of me because I was already in uh to seventy when they announced it, 697 00:47:17.360 --> 00:47:22.639 like yeah, so uh and the guys called me up right away like 698 00:47:22.679 --> 00:47:24.880 we got you. Because I think Donna Schneider was in two seventy. He 699 00:47:25.000 --> 00:47:28.440 was like the commiser. He's like, you know, we'll get your limo 700 00:47:28.519 --> 00:47:30.840 if you want. I said not to one of four has already told me 701 00:47:30.880 --> 00:47:32.920 they got it and everything else. He's like, okay because to seventy already 702 00:47:32.920 --> 00:47:37.559 had a few guys going the medal day that year, and uh so both 703 00:47:37.679 --> 00:47:39.159 both houses were great, you know, and it was a great day, 704 00:47:39.239 --> 00:47:45.320 you know, wow great. Yeah, and uh he had ended up Uh 705 00:47:45.440 --> 00:47:47.119 it was a long day. Did the woman end up living or did she 706 00:47:47.159 --> 00:47:51.679 passed away? Yeah? Yeah, I think she lived. Wow. Wow, 707 00:47:52.360 --> 00:47:55.400 you never talked to her? No, No, that that was one 708 00:47:55.440 --> 00:47:58.639 thing, like my wife would say, like she didn't even come by the 709 00:47:58.679 --> 00:48:02.480 fire house and thank him, like tell you know, she who knows, 710 00:48:02.639 --> 00:48:06.000 you know, like screw this, I'm going to a Ruba or something. 711 00:48:07.760 --> 00:48:10.559 She's alive. So and uh so, what like Ruffie said to you before, 712 00:48:10.599 --> 00:48:14.360 when did you get the thought that maybe you wanted to go to SOCC. 713 00:48:17.159 --> 00:48:21.119 I knew he wanted to do more work, you know, and I 714 00:48:21.239 --> 00:48:23.960 loved one of four, but I just wanted I wanted to do more work, 715 00:48:24.039 --> 00:48:30.480 you know. And uh so I knew, uh Chief Richson uh out 716 00:48:30.519 --> 00:48:34.440 on the island. That's not a bad guy to know. No, No, 717 00:48:34.760 --> 00:48:38.360 it wasn't. And uh so you called Tommy uh huh yeah, probably 718 00:48:38.400 --> 00:48:45.320 not how No, so uh. You knew each other through the volleys, 719 00:48:45.440 --> 00:48:49.960 and he he seemed somewhere and he's like, hey, uh you about the 720 00:48:50.000 --> 00:48:52.400 new stars And I'm like, no, I didn't hear anything. He's like, 721 00:48:52.639 --> 00:48:55.519 they're opening up, and uh, I think I'm gonna be the captain 722 00:48:55.519 --> 00:48:59.320 of one of them. And I go, you're gonna leave two thirty four, 723 00:48:59.360 --> 00:49:00.760 but you got your mind, you know, like, and he's like, 724 00:49:00.920 --> 00:49:04.119 yeah, you know, it's gonna be a good thing. And I'm 725 00:49:04.159 --> 00:49:06.199 like, oh, he goes, you know, he just threw it out 726 00:49:06.239 --> 00:49:07.639 there, like, hey, little bit, what do you think I go 727 00:49:07.679 --> 00:49:09.800 a lot of training right He's like, yeah, I go, I just 728 00:49:09.880 --> 00:49:13.880 had my son. I don't I know, it's gonna be a lot. 729 00:49:13.920 --> 00:49:15.320 I don't think I can do it right now, you know, cap he 730 00:49:15.440 --> 00:49:19.519 was a captain and he's like, all right, you know, so you 731 00:49:19.599 --> 00:49:21.880 know, don't worry about it, but you know, if you if you 732 00:49:22.199 --> 00:49:23.039 you know, just think about it, you know, down the road. 733 00:49:23.679 --> 00:49:28.000 So, like a year later, my son was going to be two. 734 00:49:28.119 --> 00:49:31.280 We had like a bunch of babysitters set up. So I gave my buddy 735 00:49:31.320 --> 00:49:37.519 a call and I said, hey, remember me, I'm still interested that 736 00:49:37.599 --> 00:49:40.679 we had Yeah, yeah. So he was like, hey, I got 737 00:49:40.719 --> 00:49:44.320 a guy. I just got a guy from Rescue three, and I got 738 00:49:44.360 --> 00:49:45.519 some other guys, but you know, definitely, you know you're going to 739 00:49:45.559 --> 00:49:47.559 be on the list. For me, it took me a year to get 740 00:49:47.599 --> 00:49:50.800 there. You know, it still took me. Yeah, I got there 741 00:49:50.840 --> 00:49:55.119 and March at twenty twenty twenty. But uh, he just got over Dave 742 00:49:55.199 --> 00:49:58.559 Dangerfield. All right, I'm not even in that room. You know. 743 00:49:59.079 --> 00:50:00.920 That guy was came over from Rescue three. I guy was like, you 744 00:50:01.000 --> 00:50:05.360 know, it's a superstar. You know, I'm just happy I got there 745 00:50:05.400 --> 00:50:10.519 eventually, you know. So we just waited and waited and then like it 746 00:50:10.679 --> 00:50:14.760 was like March or twenties, early March, and he's like, you know, 747 00:50:15.519 --> 00:50:17.880 he calls me on the department phone. Hey bro, Yeah, that's 748 00:50:17.880 --> 00:50:22.280 how he hit That's exactly how we would do it. All right, Bro, 749 00:50:22.400 --> 00:50:24.960 you're coming over in two weeks. I'm like, get the fuck out 750 00:50:24.960 --> 00:50:28.480 of here. He's like yeah, I said, oh my god, that's 751 00:50:28.519 --> 00:50:30.719 awesome. Thank you. He goes, yeah, you're coming over with a 752 00:50:30.719 --> 00:50:32.960 guy from two twelve. I'm like, oh, He's like Richie Wiley. 753 00:50:34.000 --> 00:50:37.920 I'm like, get out of here, right. So I'm like, that's 754 00:50:37.960 --> 00:50:42.280 insane, hang up the phone. Yeah if I oul. Later we go 755 00:50:42.400 --> 00:50:45.639 to like a frame job, go over by one forty six, Good job, 756 00:50:45.800 --> 00:50:47.880 catch a good piece of it. I come back with hanging out and 757 00:50:49.000 --> 00:50:52.320 it's some phone Ma's department phone, Hey bro, how is that job? 758 00:50:57.639 --> 00:51:00.519 It was great? And he's like, all right, so you know we're 759 00:51:00.519 --> 00:51:01.280 gonna do a lot of work over here too. I said, oh, 760 00:51:01.360 --> 00:51:07.880 I know. I'm I'm psyched up, you know. And then I think 761 00:51:07.920 --> 00:51:09.119 I was working that day at night, and then we ran in with two 762 00:51:09.159 --> 00:51:13.360 twelve somewhere and maybe a call fier. So I'm like, hey, boys, 763 00:51:13.480 --> 00:51:15.760 just when I actually three five is real tight. You knew all those 764 00:51:15.800 --> 00:51:19.039 guys, they knew the race Seeis and Tommy Bones And want to wait, 765 00:51:19.320 --> 00:51:21.719 you were you worked everywhere? You guys probably did the same thing wherever you 766 00:51:21.840 --> 00:51:24.000 were. You know, the battalion was tight, like we knew a lot 767 00:51:24.039 --> 00:51:27.480 of guys in different places, especially if he there four five years, you 768 00:51:27.519 --> 00:51:30.079 know, yeah, right, no doubt. I'm saying, hey, I'm 769 00:51:30.119 --> 00:51:31.760 gonna be uh And I didn't know, No, he didn't tell me why 770 00:51:31.840 --> 00:51:37.639 he was coming over. Sorry, So I found out that night and I 771 00:51:37.760 --> 00:51:39.519 go yeah, I'm gonna be leaving a couple of senior guys at two twelve 772 00:51:39.519 --> 00:51:44.440 because I had worked there for like forty five days to equalize manpower, like 773 00:51:44.639 --> 00:51:47.719 two summers earlier. So he was like, uh, They're like, yeah, 774 00:51:47.800 --> 00:51:52.159 Richie Wiley's going And I'm like really, and that's what I found out 775 00:51:52.199 --> 00:51:54.480 And I'm like really, He's like, yeah, he's coming over two weeks 776 00:51:54.519 --> 00:51:58.559 ago and he did it, came over with me. We were twenty four 777 00:51:58.599 --> 00:52:01.760 partners together. We got who was there when you got there? Uh, 778 00:52:04.280 --> 00:52:07.960 it was tired of rich It was Christopher Goalie, Jimmy Earle and Dougie Sloan, 779 00:52:07.719 --> 00:52:17.639 the original bosses. Just seely Bell, Cecilia Davey, Tommy Bone, 780 00:52:17.880 --> 00:52:27.360 Tavella, you know Lee Polliatta, Widow Pickford, look at Pickford. Yeah, 781 00:52:27.920 --> 00:52:30.760 yeah, who was that on the back step standing up? That's a 782 00:52:30.840 --> 00:52:34.599 kid? My actually kid went to Provy School and he came over from one 783 00:52:34.679 --> 00:52:37.719 twenty five. Mike Rudlico. I'm so sure I don't remember him. Yes, 784 00:52:38.039 --> 00:52:40.800 I think he made it like six months and it just wasn't for him 785 00:52:40.840 --> 00:52:45.679 and he went back. Uh, but Bobby Lang made it. Bobby Langes 786 00:52:45.760 --> 00:52:49.719 right next to Pickford is right there. Yeah, Moyak's right there. That's 787 00:52:49.760 --> 00:52:52.719 where we got the hay Fellas from. Was huge for hey, hey fellas. 788 00:52:55.800 --> 00:53:00.599 Everybody was Fellas. It was great love, he was great. We 789 00:53:00.719 --> 00:53:02.920 did it all the time. And so says he coming with like, hey 790 00:53:04.000 --> 00:53:07.760 fella, you know he was Uh, this is a little later on. 791 00:53:07.960 --> 00:53:14.800 This is probably like four or five maybe, Yeah, Peer is that Peer 792 00:53:15.880 --> 00:53:20.199 there? Yeah? Wow, how young he looks. He came over right 793 00:53:20.280 --> 00:53:23.719 before. I want to ruin his day, but he probably I know he 794 00:53:23.840 --> 00:53:29.159 was there for nine to eleven, so he probably came over like that the 795 00:53:29.719 --> 00:53:34.760 spring of one maybe right. Who's on the outside there? I don't know 796 00:53:34.800 --> 00:53:37.559 who that is? Which one all the way though? Next to you? 797 00:53:37.760 --> 00:53:39.960 Yeah is Kurt Warner? Yeah, I don't know if I remember him either. 798 00:53:40.440 --> 00:53:45.079 And Richie's still there, right, she's still there. Yeah. If 799 00:53:46.039 --> 00:53:51.519 Andy retires, which there's rumors he might go, uh, and he's gonna 800 00:53:51.519 --> 00:53:52.880 be seen, you guy. He's been there that long. Huh. Yeah, 801 00:53:52.920 --> 00:53:57.559 he got there. He was like he was there like it was like 802 00:53:57.599 --> 00:54:00.079 two years on a job and he got over. Wow, came from the 803 00:54:00.159 --> 00:54:05.119 Bronx. I didn't realize he was there that long. Asi. Yeah, 804 00:54:05.639 --> 00:54:09.639 as rumors you might go, so wow, and then the other guy's with 805 00:54:09.760 --> 00:54:13.119 her. You know, he was a good guy, right, It was 806 00:54:13.159 --> 00:54:17.199 there one thirty two, another probably school guy with a yeah. Yeah, 807 00:54:17.199 --> 00:54:22.320 he was good with that's in the middle, right. Yeah. Goalie was 808 00:54:24.840 --> 00:54:28.719 first because he called us away because we didn't catch any work for like two 809 00:54:28.760 --> 00:54:30.679 months, and he was like, you two white clouds got to get out 810 00:54:30.719 --> 00:54:37.800 of here doing nothing. He was breaking out chops. Uh. But finally 811 00:54:37.840 --> 00:54:40.679 when we broke it. I don't know when Richie broke well, I can't 812 00:54:40.679 --> 00:54:44.840 remember my first one there, but uh, it was insane. Uh. 813 00:54:45.280 --> 00:54:46.239 And then all of a sudden he just kicked in, like you guys, 814 00:54:46.480 --> 00:54:51.039 all of a sudden you were just yeah, it was great. It was 815 00:54:51.320 --> 00:54:52.800 unbelievable to us. I mean I'm talking two to three, not a lot, 816 00:54:52.880 --> 00:54:55.719 but not what they were doing, you know, warriams, but two 817 00:54:55.800 --> 00:55:00.159 to three felt like it was good for you guys because you guys were get 818 00:55:00.599 --> 00:55:02.239 the rescue to all the jobs. Right, So yeah, we had we 819 00:55:02.400 --> 00:55:06.559 had to compete up right. You know, we're close, so we might 820 00:55:06.599 --> 00:55:07.679 get in before them at one job, but not on the other job. 821 00:55:07.719 --> 00:55:12.280 Whereas you guys, uh, you know, you could get into all of 822 00:55:12.320 --> 00:55:15.559 those dollhouses all the time. So it's good. Yeah, we have a 823 00:55:15.599 --> 00:55:19.480 little shot through the good guys, Petie. How how many jobs we catch 824 00:55:19.519 --> 00:55:21.639 together? We caught a couple of jobs together, right, Yeah, we 825 00:55:21.719 --> 00:55:24.360 did. We did a decent amount. Yeah. Uh you I think I 826 00:55:24.880 --> 00:55:29.440 caught I probably called two or three and eighty eight working in and was always 827 00:55:29.440 --> 00:55:31.719 like for your Christmas party. I'm talking. I worked at two seventy and 828 00:55:31.800 --> 00:55:35.440 you were driving and we caught a couple of good jobs. I know that. 829 00:55:35.880 --> 00:55:38.920 Yeah, it wasn't too bad too. You had the division in with 830 00:55:39.039 --> 00:55:42.599 you, right, so that that had to work out for you. Yeah. 831 00:55:42.639 --> 00:55:45.280 The guys made it. Uh you know, before I got there, 832 00:55:45.360 --> 00:55:52.039 they really uh founded a good relationship with the thirteenth and yeah, they took 833 00:55:52.079 --> 00:55:54.400 care of us. You know, they felt like putting us in the building 834 00:55:54.400 --> 00:55:59.440 and put us in that they knew it was nothing, you know. So 835 00:56:00.079 --> 00:56:02.840 it was you know, the officers and the senior guys that got there to 836 00:56:04.079 --> 00:56:07.039 to start the company, you know, the chiefs. I think they really 837 00:56:07.199 --> 00:56:09.400 liked them, you know, and it was all as good as they were 838 00:56:09.400 --> 00:56:14.400 able to see firsthand the capabilities because you were drilling on the operas floor right 839 00:56:14.480 --> 00:56:17.320 for us visually fourteen really wanted them the dust the beginning. It was tough, 840 00:56:20.679 --> 00:56:27.320 it was, it was crazy, and it was it was great to 841 00:56:27.400 --> 00:56:30.119 me. I don't know, you got sock to me. Was it was 842 00:56:30.159 --> 00:56:32.320 nothing better? Yeah? It wasn't anything better. I talked about first two 843 00:56:32.400 --> 00:56:35.679 truck work first. Who had you worked? That's fine, but you know 844 00:56:35.760 --> 00:56:38.199 I was. I was very fine getting in, you know, right after 845 00:56:38.239 --> 00:56:40.360 the first two companies and doing a little work. I didn't have to do 846 00:56:40.480 --> 00:56:45.199 much, you know, Yeah, made the move and uh, you know, 847 00:56:45.320 --> 00:56:47.960 I'm trying to think back now, I'm trying to remember. We had 848 00:56:49.000 --> 00:56:52.880 a job I was working in two seventy and we had the job where I 849 00:56:53.000 --> 00:56:57.199 think, what what is it where the where the clear view comes down to? 850 00:56:57.320 --> 00:57:00.119 What street is that over there? Where the clearview? Oh? Yeah, 851 00:57:02.159 --> 00:57:06.239 yeah, yeah. So there was a bus accident there you remember the 852 00:57:06.320 --> 00:57:08.800 bus like went into the fruit store over that. I wasn't working that. 853 00:57:09.440 --> 00:57:13.920 Oh you are all right, I thought you right now? Right then you 854 00:57:14.039 --> 00:57:16.079 went to a job. Yeah, yeah, So that we're standing there and 855 00:57:16.199 --> 00:57:20.280 to eighty eight and I think they came because of the has matter or something 856 00:57:20.280 --> 00:57:23.000 I forget, but we were there and we set up all the grip poists 857 00:57:23.039 --> 00:57:27.559 and all that stuff, but somebody else, not yours. Yeah, I 858 00:57:27.599 --> 00:57:30.039 don't remember exactly all the little things, but so this is the best. 859 00:57:30.079 --> 00:57:35.639 Is my company is there? I'm working in two seventy, right, And 860 00:57:36.360 --> 00:57:40.559 all of a sudden a box comes in for a baya like I don't know 861 00:57:40.599 --> 00:57:44.559 what it was, like six eight, ten blocks down the road, whatever 862 00:57:44.599 --> 00:57:46.239 it was, right, and they're getting, you know, a lot of 863 00:57:46.320 --> 00:57:50.480 calls. Right, So I go over to the chief again. Now this 864 00:57:50.599 --> 00:57:52.719 is the thirteenth division, Is that right? Because it's right, you know, 865 00:57:52.840 --> 00:57:54.679 that's not too far from you. I mean it's far, but it's 866 00:57:54.719 --> 00:57:59.320 not that far. It's further than to eighty eight. So here I am 867 00:57:59.400 --> 00:58:01.480 thinking, I remember Wren was working a couple of guys from two eighty eight. 868 00:58:01.880 --> 00:58:04.960 And I fucking go over to the chief and I'm like, Chief, 869 00:58:05.360 --> 00:58:07.599 you know, I mean, it's everything's hooked up right. You don't need 870 00:58:07.679 --> 00:58:08.840 us the rescue here, you know whatever. And he's like, yeah, 871 00:58:08.920 --> 00:58:10.920 Louis, you don't. You guys could take that job and go ahead. 872 00:58:12.119 --> 00:58:15.199 So I turn around and I'm like, let's go, we're up. I 873 00:58:15.280 --> 00:58:16.800 could have swore you were working Pete, you weren't working that for that. 874 00:58:19.079 --> 00:58:22.119 So we jump in the rig and I remember I remember looking out the window 875 00:58:22.960 --> 00:58:28.000 and I think about Mike Everett. He's like, when you're in your company, 876 00:58:28.079 --> 00:58:30.840 man, you know, that's the best company in the earth. When 877 00:58:30.880 --> 00:58:34.599 you're not working at that company, it doesn't matter where you are, that's 878 00:58:34.639 --> 00:58:37.400 the best company on the earth. And we turn out we go through this 879 00:58:37.639 --> 00:58:40.559 job and uh uh turned out to be a pretty good job, you know 880 00:58:40.599 --> 00:58:45.480 what I mean? It was just and then that's right, that's right three 881 00:58:45.519 --> 00:58:47.960 got it? How did you remember all the ship? That's right? Rescue 882 00:58:49.000 --> 00:58:52.440 three got into the box. And then I think Scotti had it, Maxwell 883 00:58:52.480 --> 00:58:54.840 had it. I think I think I told him about it. But I 884 00:58:55.159 --> 00:59:00.239 remember, like like one after the other with PD two, we were going 885 00:59:00.400 --> 00:59:04.679 we went to one job and we were going to the box. I think 886 00:59:04.719 --> 00:59:06.960 it turned out to be nothing, and all of a sudden, another call 887 00:59:07.079 --> 00:59:08.840 came in and I remember you saying, I don't think you remember this one. 888 00:59:09.400 --> 00:59:12.840 You said to me, well, that's going to be a job. 889 00:59:12.880 --> 00:59:15.000 I think it. What's what's the last outpost? What company is that? 890 00:59:15.400 --> 00:59:19.039 Fifty one? Yeah, so that's your company, right, two fifty one? 891 00:59:19.119 --> 00:59:21.800 Right? But we were all the way out there for a different box, 892 00:59:21.880 --> 00:59:23.159 so we were so close. So you're like, yeah, it's gonna 893 00:59:23.159 --> 00:59:27.320 be a job. Let's we'll start heading that way. So we start going 894 00:59:27.360 --> 00:59:30.800 that way, and sure as shit. You know, two one ten seventy 895 00:59:30.840 --> 00:59:35.400 five, now two fifty one is kind of like the country of Queen's you 896 00:59:35.400 --> 00:59:37.719 know what I mean. There's like big houses with big yards like Queen Ann 897 00:59:37.800 --> 00:59:44.239 style. We turned the corner and they're just stretching the line. They're the 898 00:59:44.320 --> 00:59:46.760 only company there, and we pull up. You don't remember that, PD, 899 00:59:47.400 --> 00:59:51.800 I'm surprised you remember that. And then I mean literally, we get 900 00:59:51.880 --> 00:59:53.960 up to the door, a couple of guys. We popped the door and 901 00:59:54.159 --> 00:59:57.679 I put my my face pieces on. I remember looking over at the guy 902 00:59:57.719 --> 01:00:00.440 from two fifty one. He's like, how the hell did you get here? 903 01:00:00.519 --> 01:00:02.960 Like I could see it in his face. And we went in and 904 01:00:04.199 --> 01:00:07.199 uh, it was a great job. I remember saying like, that's how, 905 01:00:07.400 --> 01:00:08.159 that's how you got to get those jobs, right, You got to 906 01:00:08.159 --> 01:00:12.599 sneak around and get in there. Now, yeah, we caught we caught 907 01:00:12.599 --> 01:00:14.519 a few of them that we're coming back from another job. You know, 908 01:00:15.000 --> 01:00:17.119 we just we just caught it right, you know, coming down the right 909 01:00:17.320 --> 01:00:20.880 straight right street and then you here come in and you just start heading that 910 01:00:20.960 --> 01:00:23.880 way. You know. The thing is you don't want to be if you're 911 01:00:23.880 --> 01:00:27.239 doing that. You know it's a squad job at least for the show. 912 01:00:27.840 --> 01:00:30.440 You're like, you're like all go, and I'm like, fuck that. 913 01:00:30.719 --> 01:00:31.960 I don't not fucking getting in first do and got to be the engine sho 914 01:00:32.280 --> 01:00:38.400 he hang out. We did that. We did that with the job with 915 01:00:38.480 --> 01:00:44.920 the may Day. We had the may Day there the guy from uh Praya 916 01:00:45.039 --> 01:00:50.039 one five right, that was the job where we pulled up when we heard 917 01:00:50.079 --> 01:00:52.519 that. We heard that box we were going to a pull box or something 918 01:00:52.639 --> 01:00:54.079 or a call fire or something. We were going to. It was like 919 01:00:54.119 --> 01:00:58.159 a it was like a barbecue, but it wasn't our area, and I'm 920 01:00:58.239 --> 01:01:00.599 like, why are we going to a single engine? Were going to the 921 01:01:00.599 --> 01:01:04.159 stupid box, Like what the hell's three o eight? Then their box came 922 01:01:04.199 --> 01:01:06.800 in and I go, oh that might be a job. Yeah, yeah, 923 01:01:06.840 --> 01:01:08.960 yeah, it was only like five blocks from the barbecue. Right, 924 01:01:09.360 --> 01:01:13.280 Yeah, we go we got a piece of that too. Yes, we 925 01:01:13.440 --> 01:01:16.639 pulled up to that and it was blown out everywhere and we heard like a 926 01:01:16.760 --> 01:01:20.760 may day, And as we were walking up, I think Pete said to 927 01:01:20.800 --> 01:01:22.199 me, did you hear that may day? I said, yeah, I 928 01:01:22.199 --> 01:01:23.760 heard the may day. And we walk up and the chief was like he 929 01:01:23.840 --> 01:01:27.280 didn't hear it. Yeah, So we just said, hey, chief, 930 01:01:27.280 --> 01:01:30.719 this somebody just gave him may day. And uh then the alpha got on 931 01:01:30.840 --> 01:01:32.480 and said whoever it was, like, he just gave him may day? 932 01:01:32.840 --> 01:01:37.960 And that kid ended up scrambling and he was hard behind the couch, ran 933 01:01:37.000 --> 01:01:39.920 into three O eights like backup or something, and they came out the back 934 01:01:40.000 --> 01:01:44.679 door. Yeah, we set up the stang on the first two engine. 935 01:01:44.679 --> 01:01:46.880 I remember telling the shuffle put the stang in the front window there because the 936 01:01:46.960 --> 01:01:50.800 guy was who was coming out everywhere, and then we ended up going through 937 01:01:50.800 --> 01:01:53.079 the front window, right, We went through the front hinder and and he 938 01:01:53.199 --> 01:01:58.719 wasn't going to charge that snag. Yeah, yeah, no doubt. I'm 939 01:01:58.800 --> 01:02:00.840 like, put it in the window, brother, there's a guy in there. 940 01:02:00.960 --> 01:02:01.960 Put it in the window, man, it don't matter. At this 941 01:02:02.039 --> 01:02:07.840 point. The guy that might have been also uh like a covering guy like, 942 01:02:07.880 --> 01:02:08.920 hey, we gotta we got to back out and regroup, and we're 943 01:02:09.000 --> 01:02:14.920 like what ud, that's right, pd, That's right. We talked. 944 01:02:15.000 --> 01:02:16.719 We talked about that. I'm like, that's what I want to hear when 945 01:02:16.719 --> 01:02:20.679 I'm hiding behind the couch. All right, everybody, let's back out and 946 01:02:20.760 --> 01:02:24.039 regroup. I'm like, where the hell is it said? I want to 947 01:02:24.079 --> 01:02:30.679 hear guys saying, lets get everybody moving this way. Not I remember him 948 01:02:30.719 --> 01:02:34.119 saying everybody's back out. And we talked about that with the division that night 949 01:02:34.239 --> 01:02:37.800 at the Yeah, that's right, I forgot about that. Bro hedn remember 950 01:02:37.880 --> 01:02:44.119 that ship man. He's like a fucking no, I don't remember a lot 951 01:02:44.159 --> 01:02:47.119 of stuff. What I don't remember a lot of stuff. You guys started 952 01:02:47.159 --> 01:02:50.559 at one point doing a lot of enjury work too. Man, you getting 953 01:02:50.559 --> 01:02:58.239 first to work? We still do. Yeah, call me BEDI the pumpercause 954 01:02:58.280 --> 01:03:00.559 every time you guys got down, he was a boss in eighty eight. 955 01:03:00.920 --> 01:03:04.400 You get down, He's like, yeah on a pump panel again. I'm 956 01:03:04.440 --> 01:03:07.400 like, yeah, yeah, stuck here? Yeah, yeah, you guys? 957 01:03:07.440 --> 01:03:10.599 What about uh? Like the work you guys had a little more I 958 01:03:10.679 --> 01:03:15.559 think problem that we did with what other first two trucks and companies around right, 959 01:03:15.840 --> 01:03:19.760 Yeah, it was I don't know what to tell you, like you 960 01:03:19.840 --> 01:03:21.960 know it is what. I'm not going to get into it, you know, 961 01:03:22.159 --> 01:03:27.639 like they just I don't know, they didn't like us for whatever reason. 962 01:03:27.760 --> 01:03:29.760 And that was way. But you know that was the two years before 963 01:03:29.800 --> 01:03:31.960 I got there, right, you win' were never going to straighten it out. 964 01:03:32.679 --> 01:03:36.159 So it is what it is. Oh, it's like what uh what's 965 01:03:36.199 --> 01:03:38.599 his name? Gallione said? Listen, he didn't want nobody nobody wants anybody 966 01:03:38.679 --> 01:03:40.679 taking any of the way. He did say that, right, that's what 967 01:03:40.760 --> 01:03:45.039 you thought about this clock common sense? Yeah, I wouldn't. Can you 968 01:03:45.079 --> 01:03:49.880 imagine being like one thirty six and you know two eighty eight opens up down 969 01:03:49.920 --> 01:03:53.119 the road, or you know one twenty six and two seventy opens up down 970 01:03:53.159 --> 01:03:55.719 the road. Come on, you don't what but you know it's hard enough 971 01:03:55.719 --> 01:03:59.960 to get into work, you know. Now you got five more guys trying 972 01:03:59.960 --> 01:04:03.199 to squeeze pasture at every fucking you know opportunity. So if you're smart, 973 01:04:03.320 --> 01:04:09.920 you you moved in the right way. Go in the front door, man, 974 01:04:10.239 --> 01:04:14.159 Come on, man, Yeah, we had a we had another one. 975 01:04:15.679 --> 01:04:20.800 Uh. Rolie was working again, Jimmy Rankman, and we get we 976 01:04:20.920 --> 01:04:29.000 get down it's south of Rockaway towards wood Haven and it's it's a good basement 977 01:04:29.119 --> 01:04:32.960 job. And uh it's Howie Carson's at five one, and he loved us 978 01:04:33.679 --> 01:04:36.480 and he was just like that guy went to like I do don't know if 979 01:04:36.480 --> 01:04:39.960 you had Billy on it. That guy went to He had every fire in 980 01:04:40.079 --> 01:04:43.039 Queens when he was working. It was insane. It wasn't like one room, 981 01:04:43.280 --> 01:04:45.199 he had every fire. It was like nine rooms and buildings. And 982 01:04:47.360 --> 01:04:53.880 that's that's who you want. Rights. We just wanted to look at the 983 01:04:53.920 --> 01:04:56.679 fight, look at the Ryan List, Carlson's work, and a good chance 984 01:04:56.719 --> 01:04:59.679 we're going to work tonight. This is a cold day. And we get 985 01:04:59.760 --> 01:05:03.679 it in and uh only goes to Chief calls and he's like, see if 986 01:05:03.679 --> 01:05:08.760 you know, squad's here, and he's like this go go like so we 987 01:05:09.000 --> 01:05:12.800 just go. He knew he's gonna put us to work. So me and 988 01:05:12.960 --> 01:05:16.119 Rank would make the first floor and we come in the back door. We 989 01:05:16.199 --> 01:05:19.360 make the first floor and we do a search and it's got louver doors, 990 01:05:19.440 --> 01:05:23.639 right, so they're really not protecting it. But it burns through the first 991 01:05:23.679 --> 01:05:29.679 woe in the living room and it now takes the front bay window and it's 992 01:05:29.719 --> 01:05:32.119 out the bay window because the engines make it a good move, but they 993 01:05:32.199 --> 01:05:34.800 gotta go from the rear entrance all the way to the front of the house. 994 01:05:35.079 --> 01:05:38.440 So they're doing it, but they just it's taking a little while. 995 01:05:39.159 --> 01:05:42.920 And then we were here, so we're in like the other side of the 996 01:05:43.000 --> 01:05:45.880 front door, and he comes the second line, the third line or whatever's 997 01:05:45.880 --> 01:05:48.039 coming in the front door. And they got good fire in the living room 998 01:05:48.039 --> 01:05:51.039 because it burnt through, and so we close the louver doors. I didn't 999 01:05:51.039 --> 01:05:55.199 really do anything for us, and so all of a sudden, we had 1000 01:05:55.239 --> 01:05:59.920 a line behind that front fourier door and we're like shut it down, shut 1001 01:06:00.320 --> 01:06:02.599 down, and they're like you can hear him, like is that somebody in 1002 01:06:02.679 --> 01:06:08.599 there? And we opened the door for them, and then we're like, 1003 01:06:08.719 --> 01:06:15.039 come on in, fellas, and and then the truck came like whatever truck 1004 01:06:15.079 --> 01:06:17.719 he came in. I'm like, boss, the front room's done searched. 1005 01:06:17.800 --> 01:06:20.400 Whatever you just got, you know, we started the other stuff. He's 1006 01:06:20.400 --> 01:06:23.719 like, all right, thanks, but yeah, they we opened the door 1007 01:06:23.760 --> 01:06:26.119 for them, like we just came in the back door. It was wide 1008 01:06:26.159 --> 01:06:29.440 open, so it was real easy. But they were couldn't comprehend that we 1009 01:06:29.519 --> 01:06:31.800 were behind that door, that they were trying to come in. It wasn't 1010 01:06:31.840 --> 01:06:33.760 that bad, you know, it was. It was great though. Another 1011 01:06:33.800 --> 01:06:38.800 great story that me and Jimmy laugh at. You know. It was who 1012 01:06:38.840 --> 01:06:43.559 are you guys over there? Reckman and Greco and yeah right Ollie, yeah, 1013 01:06:43.880 --> 01:06:45.559 uh well, me and Vinnie were real tight when he was you know, 1014 01:06:45.679 --> 01:06:48.159 before he got promoted. It was the one thing with the job, 1015 01:06:48.239 --> 01:06:51.360 right, he got tight with guys and then for whatever reason, left, 1016 01:06:51.519 --> 01:06:58.559 but they got promoted retired. It's like, you know, you get tight, 1017 01:06:58.719 --> 01:07:00.480 like me and Vinnie are still tight. We still break each other's chops, 1018 01:07:00.840 --> 01:07:03.800 but we were pretty super tight, you know, like he was. 1019 01:07:03.920 --> 01:07:08.280 He was kind of running that company full of the nine to eleven like he 1020 01:07:08.400 --> 01:07:10.880 was. He was. He was the guy who needed to, you know, 1021 01:07:11.159 --> 01:07:14.920 make statements and make sure guys were going to stay and stuff and break 1022 01:07:15.000 --> 01:07:17.960 balls if he had to. And uh, strong personality, so that's why. 1023 01:07:18.199 --> 01:07:23.440 Yeah, and he was good and he you know, he never backed 1024 01:07:23.480 --> 01:07:25.840 down from anybody, and he was just told it like it was. You 1025 01:07:25.920 --> 01:07:29.800 know. And I think somebody actually sent me a picture of you with Reco. 1026 01:07:30.000 --> 01:07:31.480 Can you pull that up? Oh? I do? I think I 1027 01:07:31.599 --> 01:07:34.760 have that one. Bully. Yeah. Oi was another guy. So I 1028 01:07:34.880 --> 01:07:38.400 was there, which one do you want first, the color one or the 1029 01:07:38.559 --> 01:07:48.840 other one? The real one? This one? Yeah? Where is that 1030 01:07:49.079 --> 01:07:56.360 from? That was totally shots. I think that was his retirement party. 1031 01:07:56.440 --> 01:07:59.320 Somebody put it up at and then it made it to my retirement party. 1032 01:08:00.079 --> 01:08:03.400 My god, that is awesome. Nice sweater. Yeah is it? I 1033 01:08:03.400 --> 01:08:06.880 don't know. I always got you have a Bronco thing. I was gonna 1034 01:08:06.880 --> 01:08:12.079 say Bronco look like American Airlines. But there was also the other picture. 1035 01:08:12.119 --> 01:08:16.520 Bro, then you have this one. Yeah. Well I didn't call you 1036 01:08:16.640 --> 01:08:20.119 Piggy the brain because Paully was the little guy with the brain. He was 1037 01:08:20.119 --> 01:08:30.079 like, I'd like the brain. I've never seen that before. I showed 1038 01:08:30.159 --> 01:08:34.720 us that. Yeah, oh my god, we had When we had Anthony 1039 01:08:34.800 --> 01:08:38.000 on he was talking about you know, we were saying that too, that 1040 01:08:39.000 --> 01:08:41.800 you know, his old man seemed to have. He was like, and 1041 01:08:41.880 --> 01:08:43.960 I got some of the some of the stories from you, you know, 1042 01:08:44.079 --> 01:08:46.439 like he ran all of the stuff for the hockey game and all that stuff. 1043 01:08:46.720 --> 01:08:49.119 He was squared away, right, he did it all. Yeah, 1044 01:08:49.479 --> 01:08:55.079 he he was. He was so audamant because he came from a single house 1045 01:08:55.319 --> 01:08:59.800 and like there was guys that like, all right, you know, we 1046 01:09:00.239 --> 01:09:01.600 we got to cover the company for whatever the Christmas party. I'm like, 1047 01:09:01.640 --> 01:09:06.159 no, we can't because that's six guys that won't be there. And then 1048 01:09:06.199 --> 01:09:09.960 if for some reason four guys don't show up, that's ten out of twenty 1049 01:09:10.039 --> 01:09:13.600 five. It's gonna what do you call it, like a circle jerk or 1050 01:09:13.600 --> 01:09:15.039 whatever you called it, Like, look good, it's move shot. It's 1051 01:09:15.079 --> 01:09:18.880 nothing, right, like what are we doing yet? He was absolutely adamant, 1052 01:09:19.000 --> 01:09:23.039 like everybody off, get tours off, you know, blah blah blah. 1053 01:09:23.439 --> 01:09:27.520 For one night, everything will be just flying in Queens South Walking place 1054 01:09:27.600 --> 01:09:30.079 is not gonna die, you know, and uh we And he was adamant 1055 01:09:30.119 --> 01:09:32.880 like everything we did, picnics and stuffing that had to be off. And 1056 01:09:34.039 --> 01:09:36.199 he because he came from guys, a lot of guys that came from double 1057 01:09:36.279 --> 01:09:39.199 houses. If you don't if you don't have ten guys show up, you 1058 01:09:39.199 --> 01:09:43.199 don't even miss them, you know, yeah right, yeah, yeah house, 1059 01:09:43.720 --> 01:09:45.199 Yeah, yeah, I agree with you are gonna be You're gonna look 1060 01:09:45.279 --> 01:09:48.319 like yeah, like yo, to a picnic with fifteen guys in their wives 1061 01:09:48.359 --> 01:09:51.680 You're like, what is this? You know? Yeah? Right right, 1062 01:09:53.079 --> 01:09:56.319 it makes sense. He ran it. He ran it good, and you 1063 01:09:56.359 --> 01:09:59.600 know, he had some you didn't have runnings with bosses. But they were 1064 01:09:59.640 --> 01:10:00.239 like, you know, like, hey, I think we need to cover 1065 01:10:00.319 --> 01:10:02.680 the company. No, we're not covering the company. We're gonna get guys 1066 01:10:02.720 --> 01:10:05.399 to work. And they were all sock guys and they all can handle it 1067 01:10:05.439 --> 01:10:10.039 and we'll be fine, you know. And and he was he was great 1068 01:10:10.119 --> 01:10:14.159 like that, you know, and uh like so yeah, so we became 1069 01:10:14.239 --> 01:10:18.600 super tight. So the good story is, uh so he's we're getting there, 1070 01:10:18.640 --> 01:10:21.680 like we're getting with we'll be coming closer and stuff and getting to know 1071 01:10:21.800 --> 01:10:25.880 his family and stuff. So he goes, uh, what are you doing 1072 01:10:26.439 --> 01:10:29.760 Saturday or whatever day it was. I'm like, nothing life, Yeah, 1073 01:10:30.520 --> 01:10:33.760 you want to come to Pj's graduation party? High school graduation party? I 1074 01:10:33.840 --> 01:10:36.720 said, mushrooms and mung beach, whatever it was. I go in the 1075 01:10:36.760 --> 01:10:45.439 problem. He's like, yeah, I need to cook. That was a 1076 01:10:45.479 --> 01:10:48.279 good way to wiggle around it. Maybe yeah. He uh they come down. 1077 01:10:48.319 --> 01:10:49.760 I'm like, yeah, no problem doing it. I'll help you, 1078 01:10:50.079 --> 01:10:51.960 like, no big deal, like he and I gotta do this. I 1079 01:10:53.000 --> 01:10:55.279 gotta talk to people. I gotta do this. I can't I go Yeah, 1080 01:10:55.319 --> 01:10:56.920 no problem, I got you. I'll cook you know. It was 1081 01:10:56.960 --> 01:11:00.880 easy fergus chicken, no big deal, get it all done. Big quill 1082 01:11:00.000 --> 01:11:03.279 was actually first. I was like six feet, will only put like nineteen 1083 01:11:03.319 --> 01:11:08.399 bags of charcoal, and that thing was roaring. It was hot feet. 1084 01:11:08.840 --> 01:11:13.840 It was over it like what the hell did you do to you? We 1085 01:11:13.920 --> 01:11:19.199 were throwing chicken on It was like a minute on each side. He pulled 1086 01:11:19.239 --> 01:11:21.960 the judge, smells on you. Daddy wanted to come over my house this 1087 01:11:23.039 --> 01:11:29.079 weekend and maybe you can uh mow my lawn. So he uh, so 1088 01:11:29.159 --> 01:11:31.479 we're leaving. We had a couple, you know, we're hanging out all 1089 01:11:31.600 --> 01:11:38.279 day and uh, he goes, uh, I can't fit the keg in 1090 01:11:38.880 --> 01:11:41.880 the thin Can you put it in your car? I go, I had 1091 01:11:41.960 --> 01:11:45.000 tudo jeep at the time with the back seat. He yeah, we'll just 1092 01:11:45.039 --> 01:11:46.800 throw it in the back seat. And I don't have the cover on summer. 1093 01:11:47.079 --> 01:11:48.920 I don't have a cover on. I got no top on a jeep. 1094 01:11:49.600 --> 01:11:57.079 I go, two, fucking you're standing like we'll throw a top on. 1095 01:11:57.479 --> 01:12:00.800 I got all right, it sounds got I have a We start driving. 1096 01:12:00.800 --> 01:12:09.000 It goes to top make it from Long Beach to his house in Massa 1097 01:12:09.079 --> 01:12:11.720 Peak. Well, I'm like, I'm gonna get what could happen? What 1098 01:12:12.039 --> 01:12:15.760 you know? We got to the house and we pretty much finished up the 1099 01:12:15.840 --> 01:12:19.479 cake. It was great. He was uh, he was one of the 1100 01:12:19.600 --> 01:12:23.640 kind and we, like I said, we really became tight. Guys. 1101 01:12:23.680 --> 01:12:29.119 Put that picture up of a polly when he got burnt? Which one is 1102 01:12:29.199 --> 01:12:31.800 that one? Refresh my memory because it was like three guys in the pop. 1103 01:12:32.199 --> 01:12:34.520 I got you to give you a second, I have it more just 1104 01:12:34.600 --> 01:12:38.880 burnt. Here we go. Yeah, so I'm checking. He goes, 1105 01:12:39.039 --> 01:12:42.720 I think I'm burnt. I go, yeah, you're burnt. Yeah, 1106 01:12:42.760 --> 01:12:45.720 you're pretty much burned. Yeah, on his ears and stuff around his neck 1107 01:12:45.199 --> 01:12:48.479 and he had his hood on and everything. So this job, this job, 1108 01:12:48.560 --> 01:12:55.560 it's like ten fifteen degrees out the middle of the day, nasty wind, 1109 01:12:55.680 --> 01:13:00.079 right and uh that's Jerry Kennelly from forty one. He always Irish progue. 1110 01:13:00.359 --> 01:13:05.439 Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, he's like fucking poorn, you're pulling 1111 01:13:05.479 --> 01:13:11.680 off, you're tripping party, you're dripping. Oh it's fucking crazy. I 1112 01:13:11.760 --> 01:13:15.880 was dying. So uh this is this is we're out and uh so we 1113 01:13:15.359 --> 01:13:19.359 go there get We're getting reports of people trapped and we got philled De Luca 1114 01:13:19.439 --> 01:13:24.560 as a captain. I think Widow was driving, and uh we turned the 1115 01:13:24.640 --> 01:13:29.520 corner and we got a De Luca goes ten seventy five. We got people 1116 01:13:29.600 --> 01:13:38.000 at the third floor window. I forget about that. He just jumped and 1117 01:13:38.199 --> 01:13:41.239 uh. We pull out. We stretched the lines on the second floor. 1118 01:13:41.359 --> 01:13:43.840 It's a staircase going up and then going to the side. It wasn't that 1119 01:13:43.920 --> 01:13:46.239 bad. Uh. We get to the door, we open it and uh 1120 01:13:46.359 --> 01:13:50.239 and the fucking sliders let loose in the rear and that wind was howling about 1121 01:13:50.279 --> 01:13:55.840 forty It was like a blow torch coming out around Paul. And he's like, 1122 01:13:55.880 --> 01:13:57.720 I'm burning up. I go, you're doing good, Bo, You're 1123 01:13:57.720 --> 01:14:00.600 doing good. You don't get him, He's like, And all he has 1124 01:14:00.680 --> 01:14:03.359 to do is make the doorway and put the nozzle to the right around the 1125 01:14:03.439 --> 01:14:06.760 door right. He's really not hitting the seat at the fire. He gets 1126 01:14:06.840 --> 01:14:10.399 it there, and he does it and he just puts it out. He 1127 01:14:10.520 --> 01:14:13.079 leaves it there for like thirty seconds, just to try to knock the room 1128 01:14:13.119 --> 01:14:15.800 down a little bit. He got it out. He did a great job. 1129 01:14:15.199 --> 01:14:17.479 And then he's like, I think I'm burnt. I'm like, God, 1130 01:14:17.479 --> 01:14:20.319 I go outside. Look, no, yeah, you're burnt a couple 1131 01:14:20.319 --> 01:14:25.159 of little bit so it wasn't bad. I think he only did that night. 1132 01:14:25.239 --> 01:14:27.439 I don't even know if they kept him. I can't remember, but 1133 01:14:28.119 --> 01:14:30.039 he's like, don't tell Mary, Jane tell me. I'm like, I'm 1134 01:14:30.039 --> 01:14:34.399 gonna say nothing. I gotcha, I'm going home that night. That night 1135 01:14:35.159 --> 01:14:41.960 is the he was working. They hired somebody the sixth alarm that burnt that 1136 01:14:42.079 --> 01:14:45.359 building in the Rockaways was fire on every floor. He was mad that he 1137 01:14:45.399 --> 01:14:50.039 missed that job. Of course, what do you mean you kidded me? 1138 01:14:50.239 --> 01:14:54.199 I missed this job because it a stupid day. He was like, yeah, 1139 01:14:54.359 --> 01:14:57.199 he did a great job on it. It was it was ron And 1140 01:14:57.319 --> 01:15:00.640 I believe that fool got down on there and made a grab on the third 1141 01:15:00.680 --> 01:15:08.520 floor. Uh Jimmy, not Jimmy Butler, Tommy Butler, maybe tom something 1142 01:15:08.560 --> 01:15:11.359 like that. For some reason, I remembering that he made a grab up 1143 01:15:11.399 --> 01:15:14.479 on the top floor. He was raw. Well, I don't know how 1144 01:15:14.479 --> 01:15:16.159 he got there because he wasn't going up the interior stairs, so I don't 1145 01:15:16.159 --> 01:15:18.399 know if he got in a affordable or something like that. It was a 1146 01:15:18.479 --> 01:15:20.560 three story guard in the palmis. They have over there, like we for 1147 01:15:20.640 --> 01:15:24.439 one O one one fourteen over there. There's a bunch of them, all 1148 01:15:24.760 --> 01:15:29.279 those different blocks. So they, uh, they did that. We got 1149 01:15:29.319 --> 01:15:31.600 that other picture too with all the boys there from the Chesney concert or something. 1150 01:15:31.680 --> 01:15:35.399 Right. Yeah, yeah, he would run this too, dude, 1151 01:15:35.520 --> 01:15:39.840 he'd run this. He'd get this whole thing going on. You know, 1152 01:15:40.079 --> 01:15:42.960 everybody had to bring certain things, you know. He was like, got 1153 01:15:43.000 --> 01:15:46.319 the chops. Yeah, and that gay band he has on his arm. 1154 01:15:47.920 --> 01:15:53.479 You'd love to say that. Uh. And then so I don't think it 1155 01:15:53.560 --> 01:15:55.840 was this year. So we go one year and I bring my wife. 1156 01:15:56.399 --> 01:15:59.279 Uh. He was not a big country brand, right, and uh, 1157 01:16:00.039 --> 01:16:03.720 he's going through it Billy's air and he's I think he's already living in Minnesota. 1158 01:16:03.760 --> 01:16:06.960 I think he moved. He was already retired. And we come back 1159 01:16:08.000 --> 01:16:11.920 and Mary Jane still busts my chops. So we get out and with the 1160 01:16:12.000 --> 01:16:15.319 year before we had lobster tails. Nice, So I go, I'll get 1161 01:16:15.359 --> 01:16:17.199 him again. He's like all right, great, So we get him doing 1162 01:16:17.239 --> 01:16:19.000 it. We're cooking them up. He's like, all right, where's the 1163 01:16:19.039 --> 01:16:32.079 butter ship Lobster tails without butter? Like, oh man, He's like, 1164 01:16:32.119 --> 01:16:36.319 who the fuck does that we got We got together one of those concerts, 1165 01:16:36.399 --> 01:16:40.319 right, me and you we met, we were we were in a country. 1166 01:16:40.640 --> 01:16:43.199 Yeah that's what we do. Yeah, you know we go to high 1167 01:16:43.199 --> 01:16:48.239 Falluton seats to do it. Yeah. Yeah himself. Well he always got 1168 01:16:48.279 --> 01:16:53.119 like six houses. Now like that. I pull up a couple of volley 1169 01:16:53.159 --> 01:16:56.319 pictures, the scary ones. I don't know if I was scary ones, 1170 01:16:56.399 --> 01:17:00.359 but I didn't see any of these. So a couple of them. That's 1171 01:17:00.439 --> 01:17:04.840 Eddie Fouldford for one seventy five as retired. Now he's a good friend. 1172 01:17:08.680 --> 01:17:12.079 That was a couple of years ago in the summer time. What is that 1173 01:17:12.279 --> 01:17:15.039 like they burned the houses or that's a job. No, that's a job. 1174 01:17:15.159 --> 01:17:18.399 Yeah, like a Sunday morning, like ten o'clock in the morning the 1175 01:17:18.479 --> 01:17:23.199 morning. Probably good that they burned it. Look at that place, Yeah, 1176 01:17:23.359 --> 01:17:29.560 it was that kind of a little dumpy get Yeah. You're still active 1177 01:17:29.600 --> 01:17:32.960 there. No, we do. We go to some work like to other 1178 01:17:33.039 --> 01:17:39.159 places, but we we do maybe maybe two jobs a year. No, 1179 01:17:39.319 --> 01:17:42.000 but you're still active with the volleys. Oh yeah, I'm still active. 1180 01:17:42.079 --> 01:17:47.640 Yeah, yeah, here we go here he is he shock, you've been 1181 01:17:47.680 --> 01:17:50.159 there a long time? Huh. Yeah, and he's been there a while. 1182 01:17:50.199 --> 01:17:51.840 Yeah, yeah, and he got there. I think, oh three, 1183 01:17:53.560 --> 01:17:58.319 he's there twenty years. Richie's there. Richie's there twenty Richie's like the 1184 01:17:58.399 --> 01:18:00.479 longest guy ever, I think right now, I believe is that right? 1185 01:18:01.399 --> 01:18:05.119 What is he? He got there in two ro three, so he's there 1186 01:18:05.119 --> 01:18:10.680 at least twenty twenty one. I just did twenty then I got out. 1187 01:18:10.800 --> 01:18:15.159 Yeah, any are there any art of members that are still there and any 1188 01:18:15.800 --> 01:18:18.720 No, I wasn't even a charter member, no I was. I wonder 1189 01:18:18.760 --> 01:18:25.039 if I even was still even all the job from that on the job, 1190 01:18:26.720 --> 01:18:32.279 I don't believe. Is Martin still there? Dave? Yeah, yeah, 1191 01:18:32.359 --> 01:18:34.720 Dave still there. He's got to be one of the senior guys. Yeah, 1192 01:18:35.760 --> 01:18:39.239 yeah, he's up there now. Yeah, but it's still like so 1193 01:18:39.399 --> 01:18:45.520 it's I think it's it's Andy, Ritchie probably John Hoffman and hof is still 1194 01:18:45.560 --> 01:18:53.600 there. Oh, I forgot about how and Trevor maybe is now? Kills 1195 01:18:53.600 --> 01:18:55.520 isn't there anymore? He's not there anyone? Well, let me ask you 1196 01:18:55.560 --> 01:18:59.319 a question. Is there a difference in a in a sea truck in Queen's 1197 01:18:59.359 --> 01:19:01.279 and a sea truck in Brooklyn? Yeah? Right, that's half. Yeah, 1198 01:19:01.359 --> 01:19:09.439 that's the half. You know what the difference is you would taught the 1199 01:19:09.520 --> 01:19:13.279 job the right way. Oh, there you go. That's all I wanted. 1200 01:19:13.520 --> 01:19:16.520 A little birdie stuck that in my head. Yeah, haf I know, 1201 01:19:16.640 --> 01:19:19.279 I get it. He would say that all the time. Sea truck 1202 01:19:19.399 --> 01:19:23.079 is a sea truck. I go, okay, except you don't go up 1203 01:19:23.199 --> 01:19:25.039 you know, you don't get off the rig with any mask on. Right 1204 01:19:25.079 --> 01:19:30.239 now, that's I got another question. Feeling two seventy was always perceived as 1205 01:19:30.279 --> 01:19:33.960 a company that was hard on the new guys and like we had a brutal 1206 01:19:34.119 --> 01:19:38.560 fucking kitchen table. So much truth to that, or you know, was 1207 01:19:38.600 --> 01:19:45.560 it? I wouldn't. I wouldn't say we were super hard. I would 1208 01:19:45.640 --> 01:19:49.439 just say that, you know, you you had I learned from Pickford, 1209 01:19:49.600 --> 01:19:54.319 so I kind of tried to continue what he did. And he he made 1210 01:19:54.319 --> 01:19:56.319 sure the guys know what they were doing, and if they didn't know what 1211 01:19:56.399 --> 01:19:59.560 they were doing, uh, you give him a chance, like pretty much 1212 01:19:59.640 --> 01:20:02.319 enough road to hang themselves, you know. And then and you know, 1213 01:20:02.600 --> 01:20:05.359 I know we have to. We had a lot of guys come and go 1214 01:20:05.560 --> 01:20:12.000 through and stuff like that. But you know, you know, I just 1215 01:20:12.079 --> 01:20:16.399 don't. I can't say I chased everyone away. Maybe a few, I 1216 01:20:16.720 --> 01:20:19.279 you know, if I if I chase your way and and then I don't 1217 01:20:19.319 --> 01:20:21.840 know what, you know, you didn't really want to stay because all you 1218 01:20:21.920 --> 01:20:28.039 had to do is to the guys that stayed and at least enjoyed my company. 1219 01:20:28.319 --> 01:20:30.640 I think I was fine, but you know, if you if you 1220 01:20:30.720 --> 01:20:32.560 weren't the right guy, and then that was on you that I don't know, 1221 01:20:32.960 --> 01:20:40.960 you know, so gotcha before I just wanted to go back to the 1222 01:20:41.079 --> 01:20:44.640 volley pictures for a minute, so I got them from a pool he loves, 1223 01:20:45.520 --> 01:20:47.520 and he said that I wouldn't. I wanted to tell the story about 1224 01:20:47.560 --> 01:20:51.399 every time he would try to take a picture from the front. You would 1225 01:20:51.399 --> 01:20:57.279 do this in a picture, right. So there's as one of the guys 1226 01:20:57.279 --> 01:21:00.199 in a neighboring departments. He's a photograph. It was a fire photographer. 1227 01:21:00.800 --> 01:21:03.279 So he takes pictures all the time, so he buffs a lot of work. 1228 01:21:03.840 --> 01:21:08.760 So he would be like, uh, yeah, he flipped me off 1229 01:21:08.760 --> 01:21:11.760 when you know when I take a shot. Yeah, so he would he 1230 01:21:11.880 --> 01:21:15.800 come in and seventy was known for like they'd get the volley like that Fire 1231 01:21:15.840 --> 01:21:18.359 News magazine and they just looked to it to see what was in it, 1232 01:21:18.479 --> 01:21:21.439 you know, and you didn't want to be in it because then by the 1233 01:21:21.520 --> 01:21:24.960 time you made it, it was hanging up in the kitchen, it was 1234 01:21:25.039 --> 01:21:27.640 somewhere. So I would go to a, mazing, don't you fucking put 1235 01:21:27.720 --> 01:21:32.600 me in that fucking I don't care, don't because then then they take pictures 1236 01:21:32.640 --> 01:21:35.399 and then they post it on the website. Guys can buy them. I'm 1237 01:21:35.439 --> 01:21:39.399 like, don't put any of my pictures in there, because there was they 1238 01:21:39.399 --> 01:21:42.319 wouldn't buy them, but they definitely would, you know, photoshop it and 1239 01:21:42.359 --> 01:21:45.880 take it off and do what they had to do. Photo shopping was big 1240 01:21:45.119 --> 01:21:48.600 then when that stuff first come out, like when you could first cut a 1241 01:21:48.640 --> 01:21:51.600 picture off, you know, they had all put your head on something else, 1242 01:21:51.760 --> 01:21:55.720 like yea, even like the pictures with the sweaters on, that was 1243 01:21:55.760 --> 01:21:59.359 a photo. Amazed at the end, yes, amazed at the end. 1244 01:22:00.039 --> 01:22:04.239 You know what the best is when when you look at some of those sometimes 1245 01:22:04.319 --> 01:22:09.239 that you can't really tell, like like Paulie's face there looks like he's got 1246 01:22:09.359 --> 01:22:16.000 this yeah, look perfect. Yeah. So when I retire May, I 1247 01:22:16.039 --> 01:22:19.079 think May's came up to me and he's like can I finally take a pictures? 1248 01:22:19.079 --> 01:22:26.359 I go, yeah, now it's fine breast. Oh wow, you 1249 01:22:26.439 --> 01:22:30.039 got the more stores, more pictures. Well, no, we have what 1250 01:22:30.199 --> 01:22:41.720 we got is ok? Why oh you get it? Hit one of the 1251 01:22:41.800 --> 01:22:45.079 pictures we got? We got more. The captain he said, he's gonna 1252 01:22:45.119 --> 01:22:49.520 watch so it is a is a decent story. Two seventy pictures. Blah 1253 01:22:49.520 --> 01:22:53.119 blah blah. Johnny Drew comes over. But you guys knew John right, 1254 01:22:53.439 --> 01:22:57.239 Love John, love him, love them, love him. I loved them 1255 01:22:57.479 --> 01:23:00.640 like I was so happy he came, so heppy. You got after for 1256 01:23:00.680 --> 01:23:02.960 a while, it was great. So he comes over and he goes, 1257 01:23:03.680 --> 01:23:09.319 we're driving back from somewhere. He just feeling out the company. He's like, 1258 01:23:09.920 --> 01:23:12.760 so what do you do you just seeing a guy? You're like, 1259 01:23:12.840 --> 01:23:15.680 wait, like third and I go, now I'm the senior guy. Now 1260 01:23:15.880 --> 01:23:17.960 the thing is were Paul might have been there, but I so I had 1261 01:23:18.039 --> 01:23:21.079 more time in Pollie, but I would give Polly because he had four more 1262 01:23:21.159 --> 01:23:24.840 years than me. So she said, poly got it. Whatever you want 1263 01:23:24.840 --> 01:23:27.159 to do, we'll work together. And he was fine, but we always 1264 01:23:27.319 --> 01:23:30.000 we always work together, just fine, you know, And so he goes, 1265 01:23:30.199 --> 01:23:31.920 so is it so I go, well, I got most time in 1266 01:23:31.920 --> 01:23:34.880 the company. But Paulie's right there, blah blah blah, and he goes, 1267 01:23:35.920 --> 01:23:40.039 what about that old guy? And I go, what old guy? 1268 01:23:40.840 --> 01:23:47.439 H G? Andi doesn't have to see And I go, no, he 1269 01:23:47.560 --> 01:23:55.680 looks he's It was great. It was a great John Drew thing. Man. 1270 01:23:55.720 --> 01:23:59.359 I was dying, what about that old guy, that old guy, 1271 01:23:59.479 --> 01:24:00.680 because and I'm like, no, no, he looks all the way. 1272 01:24:00.720 --> 01:24:02.880 I mean, he's got some time in company, but he's not the senior 1273 01:24:02.920 --> 01:24:05.560 guy. Because I thought that guy was a senior guy. It's just one 1274 01:24:05.600 --> 01:24:09.359 of my favorite guys too. Man. I thought he was like eighty years 1275 01:24:09.399 --> 01:24:14.399 old. Who's that in there in the chat? And he's in the chat? 1276 01:24:14.520 --> 01:24:17.600 Now? He was there. He was hid in the back there he 1277 01:24:17.840 --> 01:24:24.199 is. I'm going to see him Saturday night. That's book signing. Oh 1278 01:24:24.359 --> 01:24:28.960 nice, we're going only out the corn. Huh? Is that fun from 1279 01:24:29.039 --> 01:24:34.479 Low Beach? Uh? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? What other pictures we 1280 01:24:34.520 --> 01:24:36.520 got there? Guns? Which what do you want to start? Actually, 1281 01:24:36.600 --> 01:24:39.439 let me go back to this one I have. This one is kind of 1282 01:24:39.680 --> 01:24:43.800 probably a cool one. Yeah, here you go. So that's in on 1283 01:24:43.880 --> 01:24:48.239 the south side. It's Tony Travlary. Tony Cavs was in Rescue five right 1284 01:24:49.479 --> 01:24:56.159 one that yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, uh Tommy Patty Sean McPherson 1285 01:24:56.279 --> 01:24:58.039 was a guy who was in two ninety two for a little bit and if 1286 01:24:58.039 --> 01:25:00.079 you remember him, yes I do, Yes, Johnny was right next to 1287 01:25:00.159 --> 01:25:04.840 Tony, my buddy Jimmy Butler's behind a guy with the police and full on 1288 01:25:04.960 --> 01:25:12.359 can you tell her that is No, it's Harrison ford Is. Yeah. 1289 01:25:13.680 --> 01:25:15.399 What was he playing in the movie. Yeah? Yeah, they were filming 1290 01:25:15.479 --> 01:25:21.319 The Devil What the Devil's Own? Right right on our streets. Oh wow, 1291 01:25:21.840 --> 01:25:26.079 it was good. Ben Solo, Yeah, yeah, it was great. 1292 01:25:27.079 --> 01:25:30.039 So we can hold to see what they're doing. No, it don't 1293 01:25:30.079 --> 01:25:34.760 work hard. Yeah, more than got let's get that's some old but we 1294 01:25:34.840 --> 01:25:41.199 have let's do we have this guy right here a good one kind of keeping 1295 01:25:43.319 --> 01:25:48.279 And that was Greg. Is that Greg Haynes? Greg Haynes yep ta t 1296 01:25:48.439 --> 01:25:55.640 bone in the back? No, on the left, No, that's him. 1297 01:25:56.760 --> 01:26:02.800 Oh ship fucking crackhead. It looks like fripall t. That was a 1298 01:26:02.880 --> 01:26:05.840 five Foundation after Metal Day. They do it every year for the medal winners. 1299 01:26:06.119 --> 01:26:09.840 So actually because Kenny Barry next to me had gotten a medal. Jimmy 1300 01:26:09.840 --> 01:26:13.239 Earl got the medal in greg Ayines, So we went there. We had 1301 01:26:13.560 --> 01:26:16.640 a bunch of guys from the company. We went there. That's Ken Barry 1302 01:26:16.720 --> 01:26:21.600 Yet Oh my god, dude, that don't even look like him. Holy 1303 01:26:21.920 --> 01:26:27.520 mackerel. Nice, you talked about Middle Day. This is and this is 1304 01:26:27.560 --> 01:26:30.159 Metal Day. This is with the south Side. This is great. It 1305 01:26:30.279 --> 01:26:33.279 was such a great day. That's Nigro. He's probably the reason why I 1306 01:26:33.359 --> 01:26:40.239 got the medal because he was really good friends with Montgomery. Yeah, that 1307 01:26:40.439 --> 01:26:45.640 was his first stint. Uh, he was I don't forget what he was, 1308 01:26:45.760 --> 01:26:47.279 chief of VMS, the chief of not I don't know where he was 1309 01:26:47.439 --> 01:26:54.159 at that point. Oh yeah, great day. So you see that guy, 1310 01:26:54.399 --> 01:27:00.479 who's that guy? Ski? Another Polarka. We yeah, we grew 1311 01:27:00.520 --> 01:27:03.920 up together. Yeah, we knew each other and then we actually whatever's high 1312 01:27:03.920 --> 01:27:06.720 angle school that was we were in together because he was in he was coming 1313 01:27:06.760 --> 01:27:09.479 to you guys, or he was in you guys already. Yeah. He 1314 01:27:09.520 --> 01:27:12.079 lives in Florida now I think yep, Yeah, he lives in Florida now. 1315 01:27:12.159 --> 01:27:19.319 Yeah. Nice, yeah, pick for it again, Old man Gie 1316 01:27:19.479 --> 01:27:26.039 you rually, old man and Ei nice. Yeah, Wow, g Andie 1317 01:27:26.079 --> 01:27:30.760 looks young. Yeah, ship right, Oh my god, we're getting old. 1318 01:27:32.079 --> 01:27:36.960 Is that what he looked like? Damn damn sons. So I just 1319 01:27:38.079 --> 01:27:41.560 got it. I just got there. That was a good Yeah. Bodilli 1320 01:27:41.640 --> 01:27:44.960 was there already. Joe Vicarroll was still there. Oh the Carol. He 1321 01:27:45.079 --> 01:27:46.840 was another good guy. Man. I liked him. Hey, hey, 1322 01:27:46.920 --> 01:27:50.359 MoMA, probably just got there. Maybe maybe just got there. I think 1323 01:27:50.439 --> 01:27:55.560 that's uh Timmy. The guy ran in front of me. I believe that's 1324 01:27:55.600 --> 01:27:57.680 Timmy. You know he want to end up going up to forty one and 1325 01:27:57.800 --> 01:28:01.279 drive. Is that O tool? Oh tool Timmy Ool? Yeah, yeah, 1326 01:28:01.319 --> 01:28:04.479 yeah, I believe that's tim o'tool. It does look a little bit. 1327 01:28:04.840 --> 01:28:08.239 Yeah, I believe it is the guy with the glasses. What's his 1328 01:28:08.399 --> 01:28:12.479 name? Eighteen? I thought he was from eighteen, that guy, the 1329 01:28:12.520 --> 01:28:16.760 guy that looked like that Scotty McGregor, might peacock. Yeah, I don't 1330 01:28:16.760 --> 01:28:19.760 remember. I remember the guy with the glasses, but I don't know where 1331 01:28:19.760 --> 01:28:24.720 I remember it from. He came from one a wait, Scotty. He 1332 01:28:24.880 --> 01:28:29.520 was there for a while. Uh he it was probably there four years. 1333 01:28:29.600 --> 01:28:34.520 He retired out of our place, did he eighty five? Years. I 1334 01:28:34.600 --> 01:28:38.239 forget when he got out, I know, and he came after the nine 1335 01:28:38.279 --> 01:28:42.800 to eleven, so he was, Uh, I don't know when he got 1336 01:28:42.840 --> 01:28:45.319 out. I can't remember these guys. You talk to a guy now and 1337 01:28:45.359 --> 01:28:45.800 you're like, when'd you get out? When I got out? No? 1338 01:28:45.960 --> 01:28:47.800 Nine, I'm like, get out of here. Yeah, no, it's 1339 01:28:47.960 --> 01:28:50.880 crazy, right, that's pretty crazy, guy he got out. You don't 1340 01:28:50.880 --> 01:28:56.399 even realize. Not bored. Yeah, I'm about ten years ready, bro 1341 01:28:56.600 --> 01:29:02.760 decade crazy. I just left. I remember coming up to you guys all 1342 01:29:02.760 --> 01:29:11.039 the time, and those those Salvo drawings of you, well first of all, 1343 01:29:11.079 --> 01:29:15.520 of everybody, the whole company. Yeah, that was insane. Alaska. 1344 01:29:15.319 --> 01:29:20.680 This is Alaska. Looks like it looks like the deadliest catch. Deadliest 1345 01:29:20.760 --> 01:29:25.439 catch what I was trying to say. Yeah, so this is February of 1346 01:29:25.600 --> 01:29:30.760 sixteen. I got the can for the night because I'm on Rasta and we 1347 01:29:30.880 --> 01:29:33.159 go down to this We go down the rockaways like three times, and we 1348 01:29:33.239 --> 01:29:36.920 can't find a new ship that's ran around because it's it's so foggy you can't 1349 01:29:36.960 --> 01:29:42.479 see it right. And finally on the third time down they see it right. 1350 01:29:43.319 --> 01:29:47.079 A coast guard, smaller coast guard actually flip their boat trying to get 1351 01:29:47.079 --> 01:29:50.079 to it, so they had to pull them out. They swam to show 1352 01:29:50.159 --> 01:29:54.880 those Coast Guard guys, and then we're standing here and all of a sudden, 1353 01:29:55.239 --> 01:29:57.840 Tony's like, all right, we're gonna put the suits on, going, 1354 01:29:57.920 --> 01:30:01.600 I go, look got on? What I mean? What what fifteen 1355 01:30:01.920 --> 01:30:04.680 waves there? It was insane? Well, it was like ten degrees out. 1356 01:30:05.279 --> 01:30:08.479 I'm like, what, we gotta get the crew off. I go, 1357 01:30:08.600 --> 01:30:15.119 we gotta get the crew off? What Like, who's insane? So 1358 01:30:15.640 --> 01:30:20.600 we go out there and uh, the Coast Guard helicopter comes from Jersey, 1359 01:30:21.079 --> 01:30:26.439 right, and uh they're like all right, they're gonna uh, I'm gonna 1360 01:30:26.520 --> 01:30:28.880 drop a basket. And I think they had to get like four crew members 1361 01:30:28.920 --> 01:30:30.279 off. The captain was staying with the ship. What a nice guy. 1362 01:30:30.600 --> 01:30:34.159 Right. Meanwhile, there's diesel all and that thing's leaking diesel everywhere, right, 1363 01:30:34.680 --> 01:30:39.640 So I'm in this diesel infested water and uh, all of a sudden, 1364 01:30:39.640 --> 01:30:42.800 we start me and this guy Scotty Edwards who came from two thirty four. 1365 01:30:43.319 --> 01:30:45.640 We're in the water in suits and we here yelling from the short They're 1366 01:30:45.680 --> 01:30:49.359 like, oh, go, what are they talking about? And then we 1367 01:30:49.439 --> 01:30:55.039 turn around. We see a guy in the water, and so Scotty starts 1368 01:30:55.159 --> 01:30:57.960 like running through the water to get to them. What you running to bro 1369 01:30:58.359 --> 01:31:00.840 like like we're gonna dead. So we get he gets to him and he's 1370 01:31:00.880 --> 01:31:04.680 like, are you okay? And yeah, the guys guys like, get 1371 01:31:04.760 --> 01:31:14.920 the funk away from me. Swimmer for the fucking coast. You're gonna fucking 1372 01:31:15.000 --> 01:31:18.920 drown me. Kid a helicopter and then he was, he was hanging out, 1373 01:31:19.000 --> 01:31:24.359 he was. It was insane. And then they just took him. 1374 01:31:24.399 --> 01:31:28.319 They the basket, they took it over and we were there forever it was. 1375 01:31:28.800 --> 01:31:31.640 And then that's when I got sick and uh got an infection in my 1376 01:31:31.720 --> 01:31:35.680 ear, and uh, six months later I was almost off the job. 1377 01:31:36.760 --> 01:31:42.520 Really yeah, I got infection in my ear. I go, you got 1378 01:31:42.560 --> 01:31:47.720 real up right, like really like infection I got, Uh I got I 1379 01:31:47.800 --> 01:31:50.840 go to I'm like, I'm ignoring it. It hurt, it doesn't hurt, 1380 01:31:50.880 --> 01:31:55.199 but I can tell her I remember that. And uh, I finally 1381 01:31:55.239 --> 01:31:58.239 go, I got like two days of hazmat training coming up in August, 1382 01:31:58.640 --> 01:32:00.840 so I gotta get this done, because they were you gotta get it done. 1383 01:32:00.840 --> 01:32:03.279 You gotta get done. So the night before my neck locks up and 1384 01:32:03.359 --> 01:32:06.520 I can't. I can't move, and I'm like shit, like all right, 1385 01:32:06.520 --> 01:32:10.520 I'll just go and I'll go to things. So I see Johnny Drew's 1386 01:32:10.520 --> 01:32:12.319 in there and he's like, all right, now I can't move. I 1387 01:32:12.399 --> 01:32:15.840 just think I have a stiff neck. Right, So we go through the 1388 01:32:15.880 --> 01:32:18.239 whole training has Matt don't care. They're like, get a suit. I'm 1389 01:32:18.279 --> 01:32:21.520 like all right, so I'm hopefull they're gonna let it go, like take 1390 01:32:21.560 --> 01:32:26.199 it easy on me. No, So and John's like, listen, we'll 1391 01:32:26.199 --> 01:32:28.760 go to and then we're Monday, Tuesday, and Tuesday night we were going 1392 01:32:28.800 --> 01:32:31.600 in for twenty four. So John gets in, Hey, listen, anything 1393 01:32:31.640 --> 01:32:33.800 goes wrong, you know, just telling me and we'll go sick cause I'm 1394 01:32:33.800 --> 01:32:39.960 like, all right, no problem. Loop and UH went to some stupid 1395 01:32:40.199 --> 01:32:43.359 railroad tie run on the l nothing crazy find they knocked it down. We 1396 01:32:43.359 --> 01:32:45.920 didn't do anything, came home, came back, and then like five in 1397 01:32:45.960 --> 01:32:48.520 the morning, I wake up and now I got pain. I never had 1398 01:32:48.560 --> 01:32:53.640 it for my life. So I wake up and I'm like, all right, 1399 01:32:54.159 --> 01:32:57.680 I think the career is doble. I'm sitting in the couch just pondering 1400 01:32:57.720 --> 01:33:00.399 my career, and I'm like shit, and I go, oh shit, 1401 01:33:00.399 --> 01:33:02.880 I gotta go tell Drew before we get a run because I can't drive the 1402 01:33:02.960 --> 01:33:05.680 rick. I can't drive it. I can't even turn my head. So 1403 01:33:05.720 --> 01:33:08.960 you'll see as I'm gonna do it, I'm like, boss, what's it? 1404 01:33:09.239 --> 01:33:11.079 I said, I gotta get a MS. I can't. He's like, 1405 01:33:11.079 --> 01:33:14.039 all right, I'll be right down. So he does it. You 1406 01:33:14.119 --> 01:33:15.439 know, the great guys at two seventy. I woke him up. They 1407 01:33:15.520 --> 01:33:17.720 come down into the kitchen. They're like, you're got to fucking weak or 1408 01:33:17.720 --> 01:33:25.079 soup like like, they're like complaining that they had to get up. That 1409 01:33:25.239 --> 01:33:27.640 was just what they did. They broke my flores all the time. So 1410 01:33:29.000 --> 01:33:31.359 they take me to hospital and my wife gets there. You know, it's 1411 01:33:31.439 --> 01:33:34.760 nine to eleven. It's nine to eleven, and uh, this guy, 1412 01:33:35.079 --> 01:33:39.760 this one doctor's like, all I think it's a you know, a muscle. 1413 01:33:39.800 --> 01:33:41.920 We're gonna just give you some muscle, relaxes and send you home. 1414 01:33:42.399 --> 01:33:45.560 She's like, the fuck you're not. He was at nine to eleven. 1415 01:33:45.000 --> 01:33:47.000 I don't know what's wrong with him, but he ain't leaving him without an 1416 01:33:47.079 --> 01:33:50.079 MRI and blah blah blah, whatever you gotta do. And the guy was 1417 01:33:50.159 --> 01:33:54.760 like, okay, like relax and he's like you want to get mr I 1418 01:33:54.840 --> 01:33:56.880 go, yeah, what if you want to do? So we ended up 1419 01:33:56.880 --> 01:34:00.239 getting it and they've seen it and two days later I was in nine and 1420 01:34:00.239 --> 01:34:04.800 a half hours of brain surgery. Really yeah. The infection got out of 1421 01:34:04.840 --> 01:34:09.920 the ear and was around the juggler and uh they did a crany ottomy at 1422 01:34:09.960 --> 01:34:15.119 the bottom and uh they say, and I told my wife five hours and 1423 01:34:15.199 --> 01:34:18.119 ended up being nine and a half or something like that. I remember that 1424 01:34:18.319 --> 01:34:23.760 I didn't even know that. Bro wow. And they were great. Kelly 1425 01:34:23.880 --> 01:34:25.960 was great. Doctor Kelly was She was the best. I mean some people 1426 01:34:26.039 --> 01:34:29.079 might not like that. I thought she was great. Uh. She sent 1427 01:34:29.159 --> 01:34:31.600 her captain there right away whatever and he's like Pete, if this is cancer, 1428 01:34:31.840 --> 01:34:34.640 we're gonna have you, and Sloan like right tomorrow you all right? 1429 01:34:34.920 --> 01:34:38.319 But it ended up not being cancer, thank god. But they were great. 1430 01:34:38.880 --> 01:34:43.319 And then uh, what they actually do. They they had to cut 1431 01:34:43.960 --> 01:34:46.840 they cut all back and the infection he had to cut away. The infection 1432 01:34:47.039 --> 01:34:53.880 was around the juggler and my year. So they had two neurosurgeons working on 1433 01:34:53.960 --> 01:34:57.760 that and a near doctor who came in later to clean it all up anything 1434 01:34:57.800 --> 01:35:00.279 that was in the year. So they they had to cut it away from 1435 01:35:00.319 --> 01:35:05.800 around a juggler and clean it all out because they said, within two more 1436 01:35:05.880 --> 01:35:10.800 days the affection would have got into the juggler and went right to thee. 1437 01:35:11.840 --> 01:35:15.760 Yeah, so they did all of that, and he took a little piece 1438 01:35:15.800 --> 01:35:17.680 of my skull and then he was going to put it back. He cleaned 1439 01:35:17.680 --> 01:35:19.279 it up, and he's like, well, if it still has infection, 1440 01:35:19.439 --> 01:35:24.199 then I'm just putting it back in there. So he didn't do that, 1441 01:35:24.359 --> 01:35:27.319 and then it gave me a little tummy tuck, which my wife was laughing 1442 01:35:27.359 --> 01:35:30.479 at. She's like, so they took a little fat out of my belly, 1443 01:35:30.279 --> 01:35:35.159 honey, and uh they stuck that in there, and uh, you 1444 01:35:35.239 --> 01:35:40.520 know it was I was done nine and a half and in nick you whatever 1445 01:35:40.560 --> 01:35:43.359 it's called, and I nero, I see you whatever it is for two 1446 01:35:43.439 --> 01:35:45.960 days and then to the hospital for a week. So and that was it. 1447 01:35:46.199 --> 01:35:49.239 And but Kelly was great. She was you know, I got to 1448 01:35:49.279 --> 01:35:51.439 meet her finally. I had never met her, but you know, dealer, 1449 01:35:51.640 --> 01:35:55.840 I just dealt with her the whole time I was out and I walked 1450 01:35:55.840 --> 01:35:59.319 in the first time. I didn't see it till like December. This was 1451 01:35:59.359 --> 01:36:02.439 August. She just stay home, take another month, take another month, 1452 01:36:02.880 --> 01:36:04.760 take another month, and then she's like, all right, once you come 1453 01:36:04.760 --> 01:36:08.239 in. So I came in and I'm like, well, can I go 1454 01:36:09.000 --> 01:36:13.600 the infamous doctor Kelly? She goes which one because I didn't know there was 1455 01:36:13.640 --> 01:36:17.560 too? Yeah, there is ye Kelly. Right, she operated on me. 1456 01:36:19.560 --> 01:36:21.640 There's two of us. I go, well, whoever you want. 1457 01:36:23.039 --> 01:36:26.960 It's like that. She was great and she took care of me, and 1458 01:36:27.239 --> 01:36:30.680 uh I was able to get back. You know. I don't think I 1459 01:36:30.760 --> 01:36:32.359 was going to be able to, but I was able to get back. 1460 01:36:32.399 --> 01:36:34.880 And she's like, you, sock guy is a nuts man, Like you 1461 01:36:35.399 --> 01:36:41.079 have any residual problems with it? Like here? No, no, I 1462 01:36:41.239 --> 01:36:48.079 just with what here? Yeah? Yeah, I did a problems now, 1463 01:36:48.359 --> 01:36:51.680 but yeah, you know I didn't. Uh. I had to like kind 1464 01:36:51.720 --> 01:36:56.359 of like finagle around that, you know, because I didn't want to. 1465 01:36:56.600 --> 01:37:00.119 Uh. So they just keep pressing the button, Petie. It doesn't work, 1466 01:37:03.359 --> 01:37:12.560 doesn't bro. So here's the here's a great story with the I'm I 1467 01:37:12.680 --> 01:37:16.600 have I have what's the hearing in my ear? And I'm taking a medical 1468 01:37:16.680 --> 01:37:23.880 down above pointy truck right back that back in the old day for yeah. 1469 01:37:23.960 --> 01:37:27.399 Yeah. So I'm up there and my one of the guys I knew was 1470 01:37:27.720 --> 01:37:30.680 like duty in the medical office, and he was. He was a senior 1471 01:37:30.720 --> 01:37:32.239 guy on the job. But learning the time, he goes, all right, 1472 01:37:33.920 --> 01:37:38.359 you're all set. The guy inside is gonna take Katie hearing. He 1473 01:37:38.479 --> 01:37:40.760 was working that day. I'm like, okay, because that was That's all 1474 01:37:40.800 --> 01:37:44.560 I was nervous about was that. So I get in and he takes it. 1475 01:37:44.640 --> 01:37:45.600 He goes, you just can't back then, he couldn't let the chot 1476 01:37:45.680 --> 01:37:50.319 go above a certain number. Okay. The guy covers the shot with my 1477 01:37:50.439 --> 01:37:55.760 folder. Who covers the machine. So I'm like, so, I'm just 1478 01:37:55.840 --> 01:38:01.479 like this, like I'm not right and keep Yeah. He looks at machine, 1479 01:38:01.560 --> 01:38:02.880 he looks at the thing, he looks at me. He goes, 1480 01:38:02.920 --> 01:38:05.119 are you the guy? I go, yeah, I'm the guy. I'm 1481 01:38:05.159 --> 01:38:10.119 not. I'm a guy. I'm He goes, okay, don't let it 1482 01:38:10.199 --> 01:38:15.039 go past here. Oh my god, it's me. I'm the guy. 1483 01:38:17.920 --> 01:38:23.439 And then I was pretty much clear. Yeah, he got a little hard 1484 01:38:23.439 --> 01:38:26.119 of hearing, but that was about it. Yeah, all right, well 1485 01:38:26.199 --> 01:38:31.079 this is it's a good segue for this. There we go. That was 1486 01:38:31.319 --> 01:38:39.039 my last job in two seven. That was Freddy was working SAPO, my 1487 01:38:39.119 --> 01:38:44.439 last captain. We actually went to Provy School together. Uh, Frankie out 1488 01:38:44.479 --> 01:38:49.640 to Gary, Darren Harsh, mister Maden, Big Big Cheese now Brandon Frolic 1489 01:38:49.720 --> 01:38:56.039 and Bordilly's brother Dandy on the end and it looks just like him. Holy 1490 01:38:56.159 --> 01:38:59.760 ship. And we came in and uh, it's all the way on the 1491 01:38:59.800 --> 01:39:05.680 other side of h was it friend not for any loose Springfield. So it's 1492 01:39:05.760 --> 01:39:09.479 like it's like eight in the morning, like we're not doing anything here, 1493 01:39:10.239 --> 01:39:13.520 and I turned the corner one of the avenues and I can see it's it's 1494 01:39:13.520 --> 01:39:15.359 still out the second floor. I go, we're gonna get the pieces. 1495 01:39:15.840 --> 01:39:19.119 So it's just see the fire and I'm driving towards it. But that Freddy's 1496 01:39:19.159 --> 01:39:24.239 like, it's a fucking dead end stopp and I'm like, ship, so 1497 01:39:24.359 --> 01:39:26.359 I've had to back up a little bit, go around the block. We 1498 01:39:26.479 --> 01:39:30.079 got in. We got a piece of it, hop hop through the yard. 1499 01:39:30.119 --> 01:39:32.079 That's all I'm worried about it. Yeah, we were on a high 1500 01:39:32.119 --> 01:39:34.960 note, bro. Yeah, it was great. You know, we got 1501 01:39:35.000 --> 01:39:38.319 we got a chance to do that, so let's take a picture. So, 1502 01:39:38.600 --> 01:39:41.079 uh that was you know, it was a good job for us, 1503 01:39:41.279 --> 01:39:44.880 fatal somebody passed away in that the top floor room. Not good for them. 1504 01:39:45.800 --> 01:39:48.319 Yeah, I got Uh, I got in and Darren's in the back, 1505 01:39:48.640 --> 01:39:53.359 and uh, I don't know what was going on on the second floor. 1506 01:39:53.359 --> 01:39:55.520 I just I don't know who it was. I didn't really care. 1507 01:39:55.760 --> 01:39:58.479 And uh with the guy had the line and Mike, he's not making a 1508 01:39:58.560 --> 01:40:00.119 room and move into that last room. So I'm just like, bro, 1509 01:40:00.359 --> 01:40:03.279 make the fucking move. Let's go make Then Darren's in the bag, he 1510 01:40:03.319 --> 01:40:05.680 tells me after the job. He's like, I thought I was at like 1511 01:40:05.800 --> 01:40:12.199 the fire academy the way you were fucking like yelling at Then he turns around 1512 01:40:12.239 --> 01:40:14.800 to me, he goes, I'm the fucking boss. I go, where's 1513 01:40:14.840 --> 01:40:15.600 your guys? He's like, I don't know. So I go back to 1514 01:40:15.640 --> 01:40:19.239 the stairs and go who's in blah blah blah company, And two guys are 1515 01:40:19.279 --> 01:40:21.199 like right here. I'm like, you might want to join your boss, 1516 01:40:21.840 --> 01:40:25.279 help him out a little bit like wash down now you put the whole fire 1517 01:40:25.279 --> 01:40:27.760 off. You don't like, I don't know what that happened? They got 1518 01:40:28.000 --> 01:40:30.399 separated, they were at the top of the stairs. They just went with 1519 01:40:30.520 --> 01:40:34.680 the line and it's Sapo still there. Sapo's still there. No shit, 1520 01:40:35.399 --> 01:40:41.039 Yeah, I don't know how much longer he's gonna go. Oh I think 1521 01:40:41.079 --> 01:40:45.279 he's maybe I don't want to say that. Maybe sixty two so he can 1522 01:40:45.319 --> 01:40:48.560 go another three. I don't believe he's gonna go another three, Like, 1523 01:40:48.720 --> 01:40:51.680 but uh wow, a long time. How many years you out now, 1524 01:40:51.720 --> 01:40:58.359 Pete? I'll be out. Louis was four today right tomorrow tomorrow for I'll 1525 01:40:58.399 --> 01:41:00.840 be four in March? Oh shit, yeah, what is that? October? 1526 01:41:02.479 --> 01:41:04.960 Tomorrow's Halloween? I got out in Halloween? Oh, I got out 1527 01:41:05.000 --> 01:41:10.359 the week before Halloween? Was Halloween? Yeah? Were you on the order 1528 01:41:10.479 --> 01:41:14.000 with me to get on at two seventy on Halloween? Were you on a 1529 01:41:14.039 --> 01:41:17.199 Halloween order in two thousand? Do you want to that order? Who me? 1530 01:41:17.920 --> 01:41:19.880 Yeah, to go to eighty eight? Or were you an original eighty? 1531 01:41:19.920 --> 01:41:23.800 No? I was original? Yeah, okay, because I thought you 1532 01:41:23.960 --> 01:41:27.800 were you on the order? Yeah? Maybe come back? Were you back 1533 01:41:27.840 --> 01:41:31.359 by then? I came back two thousand and nine. I came back two 1534 01:41:31.399 --> 01:41:33.479 thousand and eight. In the two thousand and nine. I came back at 1535 01:41:33.520 --> 01:41:36.680 to eighty eight as I looked at the order not the other day, like 1536 01:41:36.760 --> 01:41:43.159 when I have it somewhere, and me and Winey got on the order and 1537 01:41:43.239 --> 01:41:45.000 then I didn't. And there's a couple other guys, but dwayn Wood was 1538 01:41:45.039 --> 01:41:47.840 the one that stuck out. He was from two ninety to two, same 1539 01:41:48.000 --> 01:41:50.279 order. I mean, I don't know how long he was there waiting, 1540 01:41:50.319 --> 01:41:53.600 but he wasn't there one. Maybe it was your cousin Louis were from. 1541 01:41:53.800 --> 01:41:56.680 I could have been my cousin went to one thirty two at that time. 1542 01:41:56.800 --> 01:41:59.079 It could have been him. Yeah, maybe, well yeah, something like 1543 01:41:59.119 --> 01:42:04.720 that. I have to look at the order again. And uh what else 1544 01:42:04.760 --> 01:42:09.800 she got before we get to that time? Pete? Uh oh what we 1545 01:42:09.880 --> 01:42:14.920 got here? We got his day two years ago. I got to finally 1546 01:42:15.000 --> 01:42:18.319 march with my daughter beautiful. You know, I was waiting for one of 1547 01:42:18.399 --> 01:42:20.880 the guys to be like, she's not allowed to walk, but nobody said 1548 01:42:20.880 --> 01:42:24.479 anything, so, uh it was great. It was a good time. 1549 01:42:24.560 --> 01:42:28.640 He looks like a mother. Yeah. And then uh, you know the 1550 01:42:28.760 --> 01:42:30.399 man dnkle on a right, he got out right, you guys know that 1551 01:42:30.720 --> 01:42:33.560 did he get out to think stuff got out to Think, got out the 1552 01:42:33.640 --> 01:42:40.000 end of September. Another one of my favorite guys. Yeah, he's another 1553 01:42:40.039 --> 01:42:43.439 great guy. I didn't know he got out. Yeah, he got out 1554 01:42:43.439 --> 01:42:45.840 the end of September. He his wife's got a really good job, and 1555 01:42:45.880 --> 01:42:49.319 he wants to hang with the kids and you know, and and around them. 1556 01:42:49.600 --> 01:42:54.000 The kid the kids. I know that kids. He's like five years 1557 01:42:54.039 --> 01:42:59.119 old. Really. His uncle's in the volleys with me, and he was 1558 01:42:59.159 --> 01:43:02.119 around the volleys and he's always been just like the greatest kid. He's not 1559 01:43:02.239 --> 01:43:06.199 a smart kid too, Like he handled all the with the Sock Task Force. 1560 01:43:06.239 --> 01:43:11.199 He did all the computer work for us, thank god, thank god 1561 01:43:11.279 --> 01:43:15.039 for all the time. Great and he just uh, he's just a home 1562 01:43:15.119 --> 01:43:17.159 run. And I'm just like, I said, you ready for this? 1563 01:43:17.399 --> 01:43:20.000 And I talked to his uncle the all day and he's like, he seems 1564 01:43:20.039 --> 01:43:23.960 fine, and you were ready. If you were ready, you know it. 1565 01:43:24.399 --> 01:43:29.079 I'll just tell you what. Yeah, So I think I told you 1566 01:43:29.079 --> 01:43:30.800 a little bit. I know, Johnny Wolf just posted my picture ship I 1567 01:43:30.840 --> 01:43:33.199 forgot you know. I had that written down too, bro, Thank god 1568 01:43:33.239 --> 01:43:36.199 you remembered it. What was that? What you doing about? I remember 1569 01:43:36.239 --> 01:43:42.920 you said you had down forget. It's not a good good story for John, 1570 01:43:43.319 --> 01:43:45.840 but because this guy never had any luck obviously, Right, So I 1571 01:43:45.920 --> 01:43:49.239 come up. I'm in the has mat for the night. Uh what was 1572 01:43:49.279 --> 01:43:58.399 the old saying to you? Hungry? Yeah, hanging out and all of 1573 01:43:58.399 --> 01:44:00.399 a sudden, ire like masked. Yeah, come down, like what's up? 1574 01:44:00.680 --> 01:44:02.840 All right? You're going to you're going over the squad. You know 1575 01:44:03.399 --> 01:44:09.039 what happened, Johnny? Leave it? I know John, but I think 1576 01:44:09.079 --> 01:44:13.399 he he fucking hit something with the hot water or the spaghetti and burn. 1577 01:44:13.720 --> 01:44:20.079 Yeah, he was pouring the pasta out of the from the Yeah. Remember, 1578 01:44:20.239 --> 01:44:24.319 so he goes to the hospital like you got the control. I'm like, 1579 01:44:24.399 --> 01:44:27.720 huh sounds good. Like a half hour late again, just like the 1580 01:44:27.960 --> 01:44:30.199 Metal Day one, we go out the door to Grand Avenue for a job, 1581 01:44:30.720 --> 01:44:33.399 right, and it was uh what was the day? It was? 1582 01:44:33.600 --> 01:44:38.920 H was it Vinnie? Was it hot? Garrol? Was it hoppy? 1583 01:44:39.000 --> 01:44:42.159 That night? I don't remember you remember the job? Where was the job? 1584 01:44:42.399 --> 01:44:45.199 The job was down towards you know, you was still first too, 1585 01:44:45.319 --> 01:44:47.479 but it was down, like I guess with Grand starts to split it with 1586 01:44:47.520 --> 01:44:50.359 South of the l A, you know. And it was a store going 1587 01:44:50.760 --> 01:44:55.880 and well, first do I hook up? I helped the show if I 1588 01:44:55.920 --> 01:44:59.520 don't know who was driving hook up across the street to come over, and 1589 01:44:59.640 --> 01:45:01.199 you guys are making a push into the store. So I'm just standing there 1590 01:45:01.239 --> 01:45:05.720 a little good right, And with that kid comes walking by and he's got 1591 01:45:05.800 --> 01:45:10.159 the saw running, and I go, bro, you gotta cut these rolldowns. 1592 01:45:11.760 --> 01:45:14.319 I got to find my boss here. And he gives me the roll 1593 01:45:19.439 --> 01:45:24.600 I don't cut it. And with that Ungaro or Happy whoever it was, 1594 01:45:24.680 --> 01:45:27.079 come out. They're like, what the fuck are you doing? I go, 1595 01:45:27.560 --> 01:45:29.680 not our sore? He thought, I grabbed it off the ring. 1596 01:45:29.800 --> 01:45:34.479 Oh I got you there? You not our saw, dude, not the 1597 01:45:34.560 --> 01:45:38.159 thing. He was like. I come out and you're like, you got 1598 01:45:38.239 --> 01:45:42.720 the saw. I'm like it was it was Hoppy was happy. It was 1599 01:45:42.840 --> 01:45:48.119 happy. That job was across the street from dunkin Donuts. I remember that 1600 01:45:48.239 --> 01:45:54.520 job. Now. He actually ran up now that you say that, he 1601 01:45:54.720 --> 01:45:58.560 ran up the stairs. It was the store and then it had the the 1602 01:45:58.800 --> 01:46:00.760 uh, the stairs that went up to the second floor. He forced the 1603 01:46:00.880 --> 01:46:04.880 door. Hoppy ran up the stairs, checked upstairs, quick came back down 1604 01:46:05.199 --> 01:46:08.359 and uh and then we put the store out. Yeah, I don't know 1605 01:46:08.399 --> 01:46:13.479 what was fromming and I don't care. I got that actually actually rolled downs 1606 01:46:13.520 --> 01:46:17.199 and he's like, I gotta find my boss here. Okay, what did 1607 01:46:17.239 --> 01:46:20.359 he want this do? Again? He did something with the calendar right like 1608 01:46:20.439 --> 01:46:24.760 he poured the He had the pot of spaghetti and he was gonna pour it 1609 01:46:24.800 --> 01:46:27.520 into the calendar and he missed the sink and it went down his pits. 1610 01:46:27.760 --> 01:46:30.319 Yeah, in front of his leg with boiling water. He didn't skin graft 1611 01:46:30.399 --> 01:46:33.359 for that. I forgot about that. I break his balls all the time 1612 01:46:33.359 --> 01:46:35.359 ago. Was that the one the leg that you lost? Was that the 1613 01:46:35.399 --> 01:46:43.640 one you had the skin grafts on because you wasted that fucking skin For Johnny 1614 01:46:44.359 --> 01:46:47.520 w we gotta have him back on for a revisit. What is the car 1615 01:46:47.600 --> 01:46:51.479 Crash's supposed to play that? When we're talking about Johnny w oh me, 1616 01:46:51.640 --> 01:47:01.000 I'm a little behind the game again. That's the Johnny water the pirate peg 1617 01:47:01.079 --> 01:47:06.600 leg. Can you can you imagine like like they're like, you know, 1618 01:47:08.119 --> 01:47:11.399 nine to eleven stuff with Ray and everything and Sealy. He was just like 1619 01:47:12.119 --> 01:47:15.479 he was so good, you know, he kept it, kept you, 1620 01:47:15.760 --> 01:47:17.479 kept you in the game, you know, with his with his little shots 1621 01:47:17.560 --> 01:47:21.600 like that. You know, it was insane. Somebody, somebody sent me 1622 01:47:21.720 --> 01:47:26.880 this. Where is the thing? I mean again, it's you say to 1623 01:47:26.880 --> 01:47:29.479 yourself, is it too soon? Right? Like? He like you're talking 1624 01:47:29.479 --> 01:47:34.680 about Ray right, He will come at you with yeah. So somebody sent 1625 01:47:34.720 --> 01:47:42.640 me this today and they're like, too soon, swimmer and not a swimmer. 1626 01:47:42.760 --> 01:47:45.279 I'm like and they're like too soon. I'm like, but you have 1627 01:47:45.439 --> 01:47:49.960 to when you're in this game, you have to be able to laugh at 1628 01:47:50.039 --> 01:47:54.119 the worst things, because otherwise they just keep building up on you. You 1629 01:47:54.199 --> 01:47:57.640 know what I mean. That's how we processed the ship. You can do 1630 01:47:57.760 --> 01:48:00.279 it, you know. So the other night my wife yelled at me. 1631 01:48:00.359 --> 01:48:02.920 The next day. The other night at the concert, we're meeting people for 1632 01:48:03.079 --> 01:48:08.600 drinks the concept and we're hanging out and this guy comes in and he's but 1633 01:48:09.119 --> 01:48:12.399 with a buddy of mine that I know, And so he comes in and 1634 01:48:12.479 --> 01:48:14.319 we're talking and I'm like, hey, Bobby, how old are you? 1635 01:48:14.439 --> 01:48:16.600 So Bobby's like like, They're like, you're the oldest guy. Go no, 1636 01:48:16.760 --> 01:48:18.680 I think so, I think Bobby is. So my buddy Bobby goes, 1637 01:48:18.880 --> 01:48:21.560 were you October fourteenth? I said, I'm the twenty seventh so you're 1638 01:48:21.560 --> 01:48:25.279 the senior guy tonight. Right. So with that, the guy goes, 1639 01:48:26.680 --> 01:48:29.239 how old are you? I go fifty eight. He goes, I'm forty 1640 01:48:29.319 --> 01:48:30.399 six. And whatever he says. I go, you had a tough paper 1641 01:48:30.640 --> 01:48:35.119 bro, not a fireman or nothing. And my wife's like, you see 1642 01:48:35.159 --> 01:48:38.960 his face. He got se offended by that. And I'm like that all 1643 01:48:39.039 --> 01:48:42.279 the time for my wife. Bro, We're not in the firehouse anymore. 1644 01:48:42.399 --> 01:48:46.960 This is not the firehouse. They don't get it. keV okay. I'm 1645 01:48:47.000 --> 01:48:49.119 like, I text my friend the next day. I'm like, hey, 1646 01:48:49.199 --> 01:48:51.479 dude, I'm sorry about your friend. Like, I hope I didn't offend 1647 01:48:51.560 --> 01:48:54.039 him. He's like, da, I don't worry about it. I was 1648 01:48:54.199 --> 01:49:01.760 very angry with him. Oh shit, that's funny, man. No, 1649 01:49:03.000 --> 01:49:05.560 I think it might be that time gone. I think it might be that 1650 01:49:05.680 --> 01:49:15.359 time all right ready or the I got the old school stiff of the day 1651 01:49:15.119 --> 01:49:20.560 day day, tell you a penny, all right? So all I got 1652 01:49:20.720 --> 01:49:24.000 is, uh, what I learned when I first got on a job. 1653 01:49:24.840 --> 01:49:27.399 I'm a senior guy in one of four. When I finally got the OV 1654 01:49:28.880 --> 01:49:30.800 he was like, dude, you got to know how to read smoke. 1655 01:49:30.039 --> 01:49:32.600 You're gonna go in that window, you gotta know what you're doing. And 1656 01:49:32.840 --> 01:49:35.039 uh, he told me how to force it, tell me how to take 1657 01:49:35.079 --> 01:49:39.479 the window top to bottom, told me to look at it like, if 1658 01:49:39.479 --> 01:49:42.760 it doesn't lift in a certain amount of time, uh, it's probably coming. 1659 01:49:43.239 --> 01:49:45.800 You know, it's not. It's not. It's not that far away. 1660 01:49:45.880 --> 01:49:48.119 You have to realize that, you know, look at the conditions of 1661 01:49:48.199 --> 01:49:53.760 the of the smoke too, he says. But if you take the window, 1662 01:49:54.199 --> 01:49:57.520 the whole window, and in thirty seconds to a minute later, if 1663 01:49:57.560 --> 01:50:00.560 it hasn't started lifting off that sill, it's coming. And you just gotta 1664 01:50:00.560 --> 01:50:02.720 remember that. Being the ov He also said, like, you know, 1665 01:50:02.800 --> 01:50:04.840 you have to make the decision if you're going to go in that window. 1666 01:50:05.239 --> 01:50:08.239 But you meanwhile, I was like, and you better be in that window. 1667 01:50:09.279 --> 01:50:11.960 So it wasn't you know, unless you had fire blown out as soon 1668 01:50:12.000 --> 01:50:14.199 as you took it. You were going in the window. You might not 1669 01:50:14.279 --> 01:50:15.079 make it very far in the room, but you're going in the window. 1670 01:50:15.520 --> 01:50:19.880 And that was just just so I think it's a lost thought. You gotta 1671 01:50:19.880 --> 01:50:23.840 read smoke, You red smoke from windows. You gotta resmoke from buildings, 1672 01:50:24.039 --> 01:50:26.640 and you can tell a lot just from smoke what's going on. A lot 1673 01:50:26.640 --> 01:50:29.800 of times you can tell where the fire is in the building, you know, 1674 01:50:29.880 --> 01:50:32.359 without even seeing flames, just by reading smoke. And the The only 1675 01:50:32.439 --> 01:50:36.680 other tip of the day is being a chauffeur. I knew my area. 1676 01:50:36.720 --> 01:50:42.600 I knew my first two engine area. I knew my hydrants in my first 1677 01:50:42.640 --> 01:50:45.159 new engine area like the back of my hand. And I think that's what 1678 01:50:45.279 --> 01:50:47.800 you need to do. I'm not you know, second do, third do? 1679 01:50:47.920 --> 01:50:50.079 You might not know them all that well, but if you're going to 1680 01:50:50.119 --> 01:50:54.319 be a chauffeur, you got to take it seriously. You got to know 1681 01:50:54.399 --> 01:50:59.439 your routes. How are you going to get there? And uh I still 1682 01:50:59.479 --> 01:51:00.600 have guys today they called me to be like, hey, this job was 1683 01:51:00.640 --> 01:51:03.960 out here, how would you have gone? And I tell them my way 1684 01:51:04.000 --> 01:51:05.760 and they're like, yeah, we went that way. Or you know, 1685 01:51:05.800 --> 01:51:09.319 there's some new stuff going on in the city with all these curbs and all 1686 01:51:09.319 --> 01:51:14.159 these flower plants and everything else. But you still need to know your at 1687 01:51:14.279 --> 01:51:16.640 least your first two area and your hydrants, you know, And uh I 1688 01:51:16.720 --> 01:51:19.279 did, guys can go out the door. I'm going home and it you 1689 01:51:19.359 --> 01:51:20.880 know, it might sound like work I'm like, all right, there's a 1690 01:51:20.960 --> 01:51:24.760 hydrant over there on one eighteen and one on one right on the corner most 1691 01:51:24.800 --> 01:51:28.000 side. And a lot of guys are like, how the hell you know 1692 01:51:28.079 --> 01:51:30.359 that is? Because that's that was my job to know that, you know, 1693 01:51:30.840 --> 01:51:33.600 And uh, that's my biggest tip of the day. That's it, 1694 01:51:33.760 --> 01:51:36.760 brother, we'll tip bro. I like that. Don't be afraid to be 1695 01:51:36.840 --> 01:51:42.199 a good engine shoulf in the squad. Yeah, you got we're doing You're 1696 01:51:42.199 --> 01:51:44.520 doing a decent amount of work either way. And you know, three o 1697 01:51:44.600 --> 01:51:47.159 eights out or two nine fours out, it might be first anyway. You 1698 01:51:47.239 --> 01:51:50.359 know. So what about hair products? You haven the old school tips to 1699 01:51:50.399 --> 01:51:54.600 the dad hair products because I gotta get me whatever you're taking. Bro. 1700 01:51:54.720 --> 01:51:56.680 You know, it was just in Italy. The guy you know what I 1701 01:51:56.760 --> 01:52:00.399 mean, he had a little olive oil. We know how to do it, 1702 01:52:00.520 --> 01:52:03.720 we don't. We know what's going on here. And the Louis just 1703 01:52:03.800 --> 01:52:06.840 wears a hat just cause oh and I just cut him. I got a 1704 01:52:06.880 --> 01:52:10.960 good hat, so I still got good half. You should have a hat. 1705 01:52:11.439 --> 01:52:14.319 Yeah, you should wear the hat. Listen, you're not in the 1706 01:52:14.359 --> 01:52:17.960 flyinghouse anymore, all right. Everywhere the girls we had on for the calendar 1707 01:52:18.479 --> 01:52:27.680 conso had a wig on. We got got yea three US for shout outs 1708 01:52:27.920 --> 01:52:32.359 even Okay, all right, so I got my boy Bug from San Antonio 1709 01:52:32.439 --> 01:52:36.399 Fly. I met him mack Aniston and the Cobra, the Cobra class right. 1710 01:52:36.880 --> 01:52:40.159 Oh man, Well you get to see everybody naked at the end. 1711 01:52:40.600 --> 01:52:43.920 Yeah right. I had to go to that twice because the hurricane came in 1712 01:52:44.399 --> 01:52:48.119 just as you cut short. You see everybody naked at the end. That's 1713 01:52:48.159 --> 01:52:51.039 why I have to go back down. All right. So my boy Bug, 1714 01:52:51.920 --> 01:52:57.039 my brother Jason from Jacksonville Fly, huge Hazmac guy. He's retired now, 1715 01:52:57.359 --> 01:53:00.479 but this guy is like you talk about your guys over there, like 1716 01:53:00.560 --> 01:53:02.680 the Johnny Cassidy's and the other guys. This guy is right there, man, 1717 01:53:02.760 --> 01:53:06.359 and he still does it works like CSX Railroad and all sort of stuff 1718 01:53:06.399 --> 01:53:11.800 as a retired guy. Jason Kirk, he's uh, he's truly one of 1719 01:53:11.840 --> 01:53:15.399 the brothers. And uh. Pete Gazelle from Long Beach Fire out in California 1720 01:53:15.840 --> 01:53:18.880 was a friend of mine. They're watching the show. At least tell him 1721 01:53:18.880 --> 01:53:21.359 to watch the show. Oh yeah, I told him about it today and 1722 01:53:21.399 --> 01:53:24.319 they said we'll tune in. So it's not like, hey, where do 1723 01:53:24.399 --> 01:53:26.920 you see that at? So they must know about it. I can subscribe, 1724 01:53:26.960 --> 01:53:28.800 that's all I said. You see who's in the chat, Roofie, 1725 01:53:28.840 --> 01:53:31.960 I mentioned them the light at all, My boy Frankie de Sis, who 1726 01:53:32.039 --> 01:53:36.279 was in there, bro the lightning one. I got some good uh guy 1727 01:53:36.359 --> 01:53:43.279 that me and Louiso from the neighborhood was on the job. The stories you 1728 01:53:43.359 --> 01:53:46.920 were at thirty eight firehouses, you might have, I swear my knees his 1729 01:53:47.000 --> 01:53:51.319 eyes. He used to say all the time. That's what we got. 1730 01:53:51.359 --> 01:53:54.319 I don't know, Roofie. He said, you'll be here for Thursday. 1731 01:53:54.920 --> 01:53:57.960 Yeah, I'll be here Thursday, and then it's a touch and go for 1732 01:53:58.039 --> 01:54:00.319 the following two weeks. Uh. We got the chief of the apartment, 1733 01:54:00.439 --> 01:54:04.439 Hodgen's active chief of the apartment on the ninth coming on, so make sure 1734 01:54:04.479 --> 01:54:10.840 to see that one. No, he's he's not acting, he's active, 1735 01:54:11.000 --> 01:54:14.760 I said active active. Oh I didn't even acting the other ear. You 1736 01:54:14.800 --> 01:54:29.760 gotta get in the other active space. Thank you. Some of the jokes, 1737 01:54:30.079 --> 01:54:31.720 right, yeah, no, no, what happened? You heard? 1738 01:54:31.800 --> 01:54:36.640 Right? This is like since the first grade, So it's not it's worse. 1739 01:54:38.079 --> 01:54:41.600 It is first grade, right, oh ship, that's all right. 1740 01:54:41.800 --> 01:54:45.760 Voice. You did two seventy proud one oh four pete, great show. 1741 01:54:45.800 --> 01:54:50.560 I laughed a lot, Thanks man, great Koreer. I'm glad heless like 1742 01:54:50.640 --> 01:54:54.119 you said, it was painless. I told you it goes quick, brother, 1743 01:54:54.239 --> 01:54:56.159 And yeah, I know you don't get the half your stuff. I 1744 01:54:56.239 --> 01:54:58.079 told you. I'm looking at the clock. I'm like, oh, I 1745 01:54:58.159 --> 01:55:00.720 can't believe it's uh. You can do. You can do two hours like 1746 01:55:00.800 --> 01:55:05.520 that. You're both big radio fans, right, yeah, yea guns is 1747 01:55:05.680 --> 01:55:09.560 here. You know. I was just gonna we get it there it is, 1748 01:55:11.119 --> 01:55:18.239 oh next to to cares about one. Yeah, I was trying. 1749 01:55:18.399 --> 01:55:27.199 I was trying to build it up. And then hockey hockey. But you 1750 01:55:27.319 --> 01:55:29.399 are a Jets fan, right. I remember going to a Jets game with 1751 01:55:29.439 --> 01:55:34.199 you one time. Yet sloppy yesterday, but we won, that's all I 1752 01:55:34.279 --> 01:55:40.079 know, sloppy we went. Alright, guys, we will see you on 1753 01:55:41.640 --> 01:55:45.680 Thursday. You get that buck call better popped up. I got it. 1754 01:55:46.239 --> 01:55:49.119 I don't like you, but you'll love it. All right, I'll see 1755 01:55:49.119 --> 01:55:55.079 you, guys. We'll see until until then, kay low ego, all 1756 01:55:55.159 --> 01:55:57.239 right, everybody will see it the big one. Thanks again, Peaty, 1757 01:55:57.279 --> 01:56:00.479 next job Kid, Thanks guys. All right, guys, we're gonna stay 1758 01:56:00.520 --> 01:56:00.640 safe. Next way,