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Hello, Hello, Rob Procaccini providing
me and Ruffi with some pictures on

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our thirteen hour ride to Indianapolis.
Thank you, Rob Procaccini. You're not

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gonna say what they want. We're
gonna thank him anyway. You know,

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when thet I took up all of
about after that, we looked at the

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pictures. We only had two while
twelve hours and forty nine Yeah, yeah,

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so thanks, we appreciate it.
Welcome back Getting Told the Experience podcast

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Tonight. We bring two, not
one, but two fire house kitchen tables

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to you. But you know,
maybe I have a little opposing you gotta

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get the banjos. But she isn't
done the banjos, you know what I

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mean? Only you we got the
Chicago guys. I can't say, we

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can't say Chicago, Illinois. You
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Oh, by the way, we
got the Illinois guys on and uh

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who is it? Cory and Vince, Miekya, Vince and Mike again showing

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the pipes. He did that,
no sparing, just scratching. It's like

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this, I gotta crook in my
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I see Coopy, how was that
boy out there? Oh? We did

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meet the people. We met so
many freaking people. I can't even tell

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you. I gotta give this young
man a shout out, Jeremy Yankst from

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Covington Fire and Rescue, Covington,
Ohio. Just in the nick of time,

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we were running out of vodka.
We were almost in pen on it,

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and he dropped off a couple of
bottles of teet up to the booth.

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Otherwise we want to continue that that
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just ran upstairs because a couple of
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giving us so much stuff. But
these these were pretty funny. So this

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one here, I showed you this
one right, coops. This is Dalton's

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mom Salsa. This is Firefighter owns. Twenty five percent of profits helped to

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support first respondmental health and scan.
Here it says for sexy picks of Dalton's

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Mom. What. Yeah, I
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to check that out so well,
Dalton's Mom Salsa dot com. And then

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this was another one. This was
another guy that we were helping with the

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shirts and he it's veteran owned.
This was Oh, that's right, the

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cookie guys, Confetti confetti cookie mix. Coops was going to get this one,

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but it had sugar, so I
got it. And uh, of

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course the name of the thing is
thick, crispy and gooey, which I

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don't know if that's a great name
for a fight apartment fire baked Cookies.

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His the name of the company Gooey. I don't know how good they are

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anyway. Next stops is going to
be Harrisburg dinner with Gabe Fox. He's

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buying. You don't know yet,
but you know that's how it goes.

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We did good, so pizza Cutter
is like a motherfucker out there, the

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good pizza Cutters flying all over the
place. There's a lot of stuff flying.

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Thank god, Thank god cools,
thank god. We got rid of

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the underwear, the slides and stuff
that Rookie want. I thought it was

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gonna have a car and areo.
I think that got get rid of the

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underwear shit. I was happy to
get rid of that stuff. Was good.

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We got another podcast. They got
a podcasts, these guys from Chicago.

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So I told him the oles bought. No hurt feelings, you you

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know, So get it out in
the open. You want to make fun

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of my crooked nose? Did you
did you actually watch the podcast? Coops?

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I did? Did you? Uh? How did it go for you?

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Well? I got to tell you
you found it by mistake. I

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tell you the truth by happenstance,
Mike, Yes, happen. Actually,

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I was so happy, you know. Pull up that video, man yourself.

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We should wait for them to come
in because I want to get their

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reaction. Okay, let's play the
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quote at nine oh eight nine one
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go. You know what. You
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ocd's kicking and Lou was usually on
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Guys are losing this shit. Thanks
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Lou, I don't think there was
one day except for the day that we

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left, that we were sober in
the booth. Fat Daddy Ray was there.

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Vince from Armatuff was there, right, awesome guy. We love Vince.

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Quick story about Vince Vince's uh I
invited you guys at the dinner.

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You're like you did when he was
well. I sent Louis a text to

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get his email to ask him out
to dinner. Why the did you just

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question ask him out to dinner?
It was like this, It was like

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you know, it was like,
he was like this. You have to

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fucking text the guy to get his
email, so you know, why don't

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you just text him to get his
email, to email him for his mailing

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address so you can mail an invitation
to dinner? Why did you just do

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that? Then you're cheap? Fuck
you? Yeah? Why you curse him

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so much? I don't know.
Let's uh listen. Uh. We also

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got a lot of guys to go
over to the new Salty Wire. We're

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gonna play you a little sneak peek
of the Alligan interview. You get over

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there, bro, You get this, You get the FireWire app, you

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get all new content from us.
We gotta figure out about the fifteen percent

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off the website too, and a
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there at salty Wire w W dot
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got here's a trailer, all fifty
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be really least Halligan in a documentary. I think it's on there. Ready,

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there we go, Okay, now
we'll play. So did he come

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from a big family as well?
That? Yeah, he was the youngest

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of eight youngest at eight, any
other one of them fireman? Or what

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made him want to be a Fieans
Catholic. The Halligan tool was dropped force

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rather than welded, and weighed in
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because it was developed by a member, the Ft and Wide did not

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purchase the first Halligan tools that were
commercially produced, and that distinction instead went

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to the Boston Fire Department. You're
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that is it. You want to
see the whole documentary and in the interview

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with Hugh Halligan Jr. Get over
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dot com. We also hung out
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had a good time at him and
we picked up a ship ton of guests

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coming up right rough. We did
lot shooting the guy with the biggest balls

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around possibly we got I got his
date. I got a date from he

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said, the guy Kansas City.
Where is that Louisville. The guy,

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the the guy who was on the
rope came by a booth. He's coming

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on the show. Yeah, we
got him before we get too far into

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the week. Let's get up,
buddies. In here, got old Vincent

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Corey from uh, what's that again? Chicago? What Chicago's bravest stories?

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Right right right up? Sorry,
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say Chicago. I'm listen looking forward
to them to break my balls. Bring

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him in here, let's do it
right, you're right coming to the stage.

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We got Vince and Corey from Chicago
bravest story stories. You know what

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you noticed that Chicago in there by
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prop. Welcome to the store,
so right, Corey, Big Corey on

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the right backwards sounds like how it's
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left, you know. Welcome to
the show, fellas. Hey, glad

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to be here. I'm glad to
actually finally talk to you guys. I've

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been hearing nothing. But you guys
should do like the getting salty guys,

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or you should do this like the
getting salty guys. Bunch of assholes is

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getting salty guys. Don't worry about
it, man. So, uh,

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before before we get any further,
we got to get patriotic. We have

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to do the pledge. Mikey,
I'm sorry, and you know that's Fine's

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that's part of the show. Here. It is, I pledge allegiance to

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the flag of the United States of
America and to the Republic, for which

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it stands, one nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all.

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And there they go, good job. Do you guys have a third

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guy? He couldn't make it out. Yeah, our buddy Steve is normally

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on the podcast with us too,
but he couldn't make it out tonight.

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All right. So there's a lot
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you, guys, right, you
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day that you come on right only, like you said, you kind of

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track down the interested. You're right. Yeah, I was just thinking,

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like, these guys have a podcast. They sound like they're from our space.

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I'm thinking to myself, and that's
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found not not good through you guys. Uh, sounds like you're okay,

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sounds like you're in the submarine swinging. I wish I was mentioned earlier submarine

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right now, Yeah, it's not
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five controller. What happened? Yeah, no, not that one. We

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uh so you don't. Yeah,
we're sorry. We're a little bit out

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of sorts. There's generally on our
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show on our podcast. So we're
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little bit out of sorts here on
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read that? Can you see that? I'm listening to the baseball game in

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nineteen ninety four on AM radio.
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it is high, it is far, it is gone. So U now,

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Corey, you work for what the
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outside of a figure right? Yeah? We uh we're on man, I

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I bordered the West side Chicago.
I'm I'm in a suburb called Elmwood Park.

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Is how long you on a job? Right? I think I got?

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I got twelve complete? Twelve complete. You're on an engine, you

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want a ladder, you want to
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a truck? Yeah, I'm litten
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officer too. He left that out. I mean, listen, I'm not

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looking for a salute, but obviously
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know, that's one small pizza cutter
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Right, baby, that's pretty funny. So how how big is that

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department? Man? That's smaller?
We uh, we got thirty two guys.

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We got medics every day, we
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and then we run a truck an
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command car with the captain. Okay, and how did you meet each other?

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Well, it's your classic story,
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love. Yummy. No, we
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When we first met each other,
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were both working in the ambulance kind
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West suburbs of Chicago. And uh, yeah, we just catch each other

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at the hospital. We've been buddies
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finally got this party together. Right
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up at a con ed when they
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working as a fireman, like some
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podcast about out the stories that you
heard at the firehouse, but heard it

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from the guy himself, would you
listen to it? And him and the

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other guy who is our partner here
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we should do that like tomorrow,
and off we went. How long ago

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is that? It was going on
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think for about four years now the
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it's usually take thank you. You
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this one. Usually it's us that's
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hand up. I thought they'd be
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you've got the muscle shirt there,
kubs. I thought, uh, you

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got the muscle shirt today? What
the muscle's coming tomorrow? I hope it's

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not that David Crockett. I hope
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load the musket polls, you know
what I mean? Another that's a good

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one. Hold on one of these. Where is its comment? First there

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was space Balls, the space nozzle
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one change. I'll come on you. So you did watch the podcast,

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right, I told you? Oh
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if I didn't say that. Mike, Yes, I the podcast out,

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Uh just play the tape. Yeah, here we go, as Warner Wolf

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would say, since it sounds like
they're on the radio night, let's go

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to the videotape. I'm exhausted,
man, I need a nap. I

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think I'll do what he used to
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on good old Bob Ross. See
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make taking that night winter type scene
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all the colors across the screen,
the truly to pay this. Damn.

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I can't fall asleep, not even
Bob's working ship. I gotta taking that.

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Man. What else did I find? And then what's those bravest stories?

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I was, Yeah, the towers
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I remember Chief. Do you remember
Chief Martin? It's his face.

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I love my own jokes. By
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I was pretty fun. Cope said
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I was crying. Man, I
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be interested. I couldn't help but
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bit, and we couldn't see the
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I don't know. I'll tell you
it puts me right to sleep. You're

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right, what do you? What
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do you got? You got me
a little little John Jameson here. We

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like to call this to talk to
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the guys right, Oh look at
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right bourbon mm hmm. Yeah.
We normally we normally drink bourbon here,

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yeah, on the show. But
you guys are so sulky. We decided

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to go vodka. Yeah, you
got to thin out the salt, I

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know you. Yeah, thank you
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last like five days in a row. So so coops when you you when

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you to me that these guys were
coming on, I didn't know too much

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about them, so I did a
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looked it up. I said,
you know, let me see the about

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us page on the Chicago's Bravest dot
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if you know this, but the
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firefighters and paramedics, almost like the
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cheese. It has real cheese,
you know, like you And then our

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mission at Chicago's Braver Stories is to
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the other one, a positive light
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and memorial liesuralsingalising. The audience will
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check in uh on the other guy, but they do. They do bring

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these stories of historical facts to you
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long form discussion, memorialsing, that's
what it is. Memorial zing, memorials

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in memorial memorial zing, in long
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is long what is cool? What
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Lou your hends forcing fourth? All
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long I haven't. I don't think
I've have a long form discussed discussed anything

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you long dicked anything. That's a
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I got nothing. I got.
I got That's all I got your

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Daivy Crockett. So let's get serious. Who are some of the guys that

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you had on? Like, who
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of we had on hobjack Off,
Mitch Kruker and Timothy and Bob Hoff.

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was fortunate enough to uh be in
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Chief Off was still the commissioner,
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him for a short time. He
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the department is so much different now, and it just was a cool thing

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that to actually meet him, because
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really cool thing that you know,
I hold dear to my heart. Yeah,

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any time you go anywhere and that
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just accolades and accolades and what a
great guy and what he did for the

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department, and and you can't they
can't say enough about that guy. So

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you got a chance to work with
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half Timothy, uh Crooker Croker,
right, I mean, every one of

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those guys is one better than the
next. Charges We've been so lucky to

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have those guys on our show as
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brothers right. They constantly texting us
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you know, Chief Timothy. You
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the chat tonight. All of them
are great guys, and the crooker was

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in the chat. Just retired,
right, yeah, retired recently. Yeah,

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yeah, yep. We got a
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down the pike. Oh, we
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He was a captain of rescue services. Maloney is that his name?

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Yeah, might know him his past, I know hims. Chief. I

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don't know. Well if you if
you're trying to narrow down Maloney in the

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fire service you yeah, yeah,
yeah, good point. Yeah, it's

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about eight thousand. Yeah, we
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one. We Uh. One of
my favorite jokes around here is that,

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you know, uh, Chief Off
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guy, and I'm always firing off
that he likes to do New York podcast

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before he does he does the Chicago
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York guy. Mister christ you're going
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some love by thanks William. Yeah. We honestly, guys, we've had

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some We've had some pretty great guys
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Tiber firemens. Some of the we've
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that maybe you guys would be familiar
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in the movie Backdraft, which you
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in the fire Service, so you've
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was a longtime guy in Chicago.
He did over thirty I think, didn't

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he Uh yeah, yeah, I
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He was one of the guys when
you were joking about like getting uh

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getting guys on the zoom. It
was one of the guys like on the

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way into the podcast, I gotta
like scrape them off the floor of a

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pub to bring them in and you
did, yeah, and and got the

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But again, like these guys,
these guys been around for so long that

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like I mean, even if I
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be a good fireman from this guy, I feel like I feel a little

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bit better about going into work the
next day. You know, you know,

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we said to them, like they
got to get these stories on tape,

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because once they've gone, those stories
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That's why hand stories. You want
these stories told and preserved. The general

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Well, that's why it was so
important for us to have our chaplain on

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Father tom'crone, because there are
people on our department right now who don't

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even know who he is, and
he's gone through what eight mayors, wow,

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and just the things that he's The
stories that he told on our podcast

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just blew me away. And I
think Father Tom was our second second or

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third podcast, And once we had
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an idea of the importance of capturing
those stories, like you're saying, like

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archive them for people who are in
the fire service now to listen to how

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things used to be back in the
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years and those fires that ain't even
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I mean, who did so much
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no masks, blue jeans, pull
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at the fire have to fall.
So you're not you're not going to have

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that. You gotta preserve that,
are you guys just doing Chicago only?

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I was no, no, no, no, no, we had a

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guy I think, right, Oh
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oak Oldma City guy. That's what
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yeah, oh you yeah. We
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rescue, Brian Quinn. Uh.
Years ago. We had him on uh

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for a quick podcast. Uh.
He was such a great guy. He

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was really great to hear U a
younger guy still have that old school mentality.

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It was. It was really cool
having Brian on. Chicka Roots was

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the other one too, Oh chick
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Yeah. Yeah, mister Chicago Fire
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are you are you guys similar to
the way we do theodcast, like you're

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just going through the guys timeline type
of thing. What do you guys do?

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beginning of their career and work our
way the current time. But as we

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started doing more podcasts, we're kind
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will look at how long a podcast
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it would be a two and a
half hour or three hour podcasts, so

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it took so long to get to
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we kind of sprinkle in a lot
of the good stuff and then like revisit

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the history so that it keeps everything
fresh, like a Tarantino film. Yeah

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there, Tarantino. Yeah. You
know, as long as you're still getting

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the story, it seems like the
order isn't as important if you're if you're

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getting because maybe this guy did something
this way because of what he experienced or

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what he went through earlier on in
his career. So if it's relevant,

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we'll flash back to the beginning.
But we just feel like it's more entertaining

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that way, and we capture the
audience for longer that way, kind of

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just brushing over sophomore shop class and
then you know, zip back to what

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he's on. Yeah, yeah,
it seems to be I mean I like

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it too. So that's really the
most support thing. If we're entertained,

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then somebody else is going to be
entertained. Do you you guys do training

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videos too or anything like that or
just mostly interviews. We've done training videos

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for our sponsors. We don't we
don't really dabble into that. Uh.

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We've always said when we started the
podcast that nobody's tuning in to listen to

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us. We're just the storytellers and
we're just facilitate. People want to hear

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who our guests have to say,
so kind of Evince fourteen with the yeah,

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it's I've been fortunate enough to be
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so hopefully i'll when I get twenty, I can start slowing down.

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But I've been at the Academy the
past two years as an instructor, and

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we just moved to a new training
facility, which reminds me that when I

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got down to the Academy, I
was looking to see things about the Rock

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and that's how I stumbled upon you
guys when you guys did your video with

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you going to your training center in
New York and that facility is amazing.

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Yeah, and that's why I was
like, oh man, that's how that's

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who these guys are. Huh.
When you guys went there and that such

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a cool facility took us out of
the from from jack Boss, so hey,

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these guys ain't bad something like that. I thought you were Jagos.

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She just had a really cool video. We can still be Jackos will always

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don't change for us. The audio
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On the jap. Okay, it
must be the internet connection, because you

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guys sound good to us and that's
coming through our headphones. Good. Yeah,

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So where do they find your podcast? I would imagine on YouTube and

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speaker Spotify, yeah, I mean
Spotify, Apple, anywhere you listen to

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the podcast. We're still like updating
everything on our YouTube. We didn't even

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really start uploading too much to YouTube
until recently, so we're still getting caught

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up on our YouTube. The episode
yeah, total, I think we're going

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on seventy. I think we just
we just did an episode with our Children's

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burn Camp guys who were amazing camp
I am me, which they like,

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I said, it's just a children's
burnt camp and they have pediatric burn victims

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go and they just have a great
day of like just in a camp like

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atmosphere with other burn victims, and
it was just amazing to hear their stories

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and stuff like that that we do
the podcast, which which obviously was was

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like a bummer, but like it
was cool getting to talk to like guys

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that were on the job and kind
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they went through and then and then
we were able to kind of circle into

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like their experiences at the burn camp, and all of a sudden, we're

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you know, all of a sudden, you have you got two idiots like

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us kind of fucking tearing up a
little bit, and I go, okay,

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this it's a it's a pretty nice
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hm. You guys planning on I
mean, obviously you've evolved since the beginning.

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What your plans looking at for the
future, going to do more shows

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or you Well, I can tell
you what. One of our first plans

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is to fix the spell checking on
that website. I think that's job.

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That's why he's not in the spouse. Was able to make it out tonight

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unfortunately. Yeah, I mean I
personally want to just there. When we

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started this, we told, you
know, I told these guys, I'm

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like, we're never going to run
out of stories because stories are being,

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you know, made every single day. We just got to find them.

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And we get a lot of help
from our listeners saying, hey, you

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should have this guy on, you
should have that guy on, and so

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we'll kind of vet him and you
guys know what it's like, if you

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hear something about somebody, you're only
a couple of people away from finding out

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who this guy is. Yeah,
well, we don't like doesn't like to

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take emails from people. Say no, this is what I you should get

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this guy on a lot of that, right, And then I write back

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to the guy after he says,
hey should get this guy on, I

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write back, Hey, do you
know the guy? Can you get me

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his contact information? He's like,
I don't know. I'm like, dude,

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what are you doing? What are
you doing? Probably guys everybody.

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Yeah, I was just gonna say
on top of on top of the guys

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the email and say, hey,
I knew a fireman from Chicago once.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, oh yeah, dude, you cannot

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even imagine the emails that I you
know, and listen, I have gotten

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a lot of guys from emails too, right. I'm not saying that the

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guy will say, hey, listen, I got a guy for you.

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He did forty years, you know, burning his face off in Detroit,

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and this is his number, this
is my number. Reach out to me.

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I already told him about it.
He's interested. Done. Yeah,

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that's how you say. That's how
you send an email. You don't say,

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hey, get this guy on.
And I you know, I took

407
00:32:59.640 --> 00:33:01.200
a train class with him, you
know, twenty five years ago. He

408
00:33:01.359 --> 00:33:05.640
was great, Hey, do's you
get Captain Morris? Really, no shit,

409
00:33:05.720 --> 00:33:07.880
I would have never thought of that. Actually, get Captain Morris for

410
00:33:07.920 --> 00:33:09.119
the show. Thank you. I
got an email like that the other day.

411
00:33:09.119 --> 00:33:13.359
Actually I thought of you lived.
Yeah, he did, got of

412
00:33:13.400 --> 00:33:15.759
guys, put your number his number. Let me know that you already spoke

413
00:33:15.799 --> 00:33:19.519
to him. He'll probably be on
the show, you know what I mean.

414
00:33:20.000 --> 00:33:22.720
But right, and you know again, like you guys know, like

415
00:33:22.759 --> 00:33:27.519
these guys, there's so many guys
out there, there's so many stories,

416
00:33:27.559 --> 00:33:30.240
and like you know, just just
a matter of nailing it down and figuring

417
00:33:30.240 --> 00:33:34.400
out who's in the neighborhood and who
we can get out. And I mean,

418
00:33:34.440 --> 00:33:38.039
you guys said, it's nice.
You guys got the video calling thing

419
00:33:38.079 --> 00:33:42.279
where you guys can kind of reach
out. But we've always tried to kind

420
00:33:42.279 --> 00:33:45.319
of get people in this studio,
which is always a little bit of an

421
00:33:45.400 --> 00:33:51.160
undertaking. Guys. Some guys moved
to Florida. This guy's here, this

422
00:33:51.240 --> 00:33:54.640
guy's there, it's talking. I
know, you're definitely limiting yourself. Plus

423
00:33:54.680 --> 00:33:58.920
lou lives only upstate. I live
on the island. So we did a

424
00:33:58.920 --> 00:34:01.480
couple like that, the first in
the living room when when COVID hit,

425
00:34:01.640 --> 00:34:06.319
it actually worked out for us.
And I think that's why the show kind

426
00:34:06.319 --> 00:34:09.920
of morphed into a little bit of
something because people were stuck home. And

427
00:34:09.960 --> 00:34:15.079
then we you know, working remote
and being remote kind of you know,

428
00:34:15.159 --> 00:34:16.320
now we're just a Brady bunch,
you know. You go, Corey,

429
00:34:16.360 --> 00:34:22.079
I knew somebody who's gonna catch hold
on, hold on a minute, this

430
00:34:22.159 --> 00:34:24.559
guy, you know, the guy
I knew they were going to get onto

431
00:34:24.599 --> 00:34:42.760
you the beginning, you know,
boo a little baby Seth, little Sethrogan

432
00:34:42.840 --> 00:34:46.480
for you. Hey, you guys
get who's your favorite guest? A lot

433
00:34:47.440 --> 00:34:51.280
when you guys have when people talk
to you, you get who's your favorite

434
00:34:51.280 --> 00:34:54.360
guests? I get emails, you
know, guys saying, uh, you

435
00:34:54.360 --> 00:34:57.599
know who they like the best?
You know, could you get a part

436
00:34:57.599 --> 00:35:00.480
two on or something like that.
Yeah, And then to times I'll throw

437
00:35:00.480 --> 00:35:02.519
it to the Koubes and you know, sometimes we do have a guy.

438
00:35:02.760 --> 00:35:07.320
You know, listen, you can't
stick thirty forty years into into two hours,

439
00:35:07.320 --> 00:35:08.039
you know what I mean. We
kind of stick to a two hour

440
00:35:08.119 --> 00:35:14.199
thing, so you you know,
you can't fit especially anything he has eight

441
00:35:14.239 --> 00:35:22.840
million stories and yeah, calamari love
the guy. So who is who is

442
00:35:22.880 --> 00:35:25.159
your who's your big fish? Like, who are you trying to get?

443
00:35:25.159 --> 00:35:29.000
Who is the guy that you've been
trying to get that he just keeps alluding

444
00:35:29.000 --> 00:35:31.599
it. I mean, it shouldn't
be obvious who that is. Who we

445
00:35:31.679 --> 00:35:37.519
haven't had on in a podcast called
Chicago's Favorite Story. You guys had them

446
00:35:37.519 --> 00:35:42.920
it's about it's about half oh,
Bob Hoff, I'll call Bobby for you.

447
00:35:43.079 --> 00:35:45.800
I'll spare it away, don't worry
about it. And we've talked to

448
00:35:45.880 --> 00:35:52.760
him and it's not like he hasn't
agreed to come on. He's so busy

449
00:35:52.760 --> 00:35:57.039
man, trying to put our schedules
together with his schedules. It's nearly impossible,

450
00:35:57.599 --> 00:36:00.920
right right, that's why you got
to do the remote thing. Yeah.

451
00:36:01.000 --> 00:36:06.039
Yeah, but you know, like
it's just not the same feel when

452
00:36:06.119 --> 00:36:12.440
we're sitting here in the studio we're
having a glass of whiskey. I don't

453
00:36:12.440 --> 00:36:17.239
know if you guys have the same
thing. But once we finish a podcast,

454
00:36:17.400 --> 00:36:22.760
we like become really good friends with
these guys who walk out of here

455
00:36:22.880 --> 00:36:25.920
never meeting them until we've done the
podcast. So some of our really good

456
00:36:25.920 --> 00:36:30.639
friends to this day where people because
they came into this studio. We've had

457
00:36:30.679 --> 00:36:34.559
that too, Captain just with Captain
Rotans now we talked about every day every

458
00:36:34.599 --> 00:36:38.519
other day. Or there are guys
that you talk to a lot now,

459
00:36:38.599 --> 00:36:45.159
right, Nicol asks me all the
time, and so you definitely become close

460
00:36:45.239 --> 00:36:49.159
with the guys. There's no doubt
about that. I'll tell you I was

461
00:36:49.199 --> 00:36:53.239
actually gonna ask you guys. Another
another guy i'd like to have on I'm

462
00:36:53.280 --> 00:36:57.639
just now telling Vince about this now, but another guy i'd love to have

463
00:36:57.719 --> 00:37:00.800
on New York guy Ray mccorman.
Have you guys had him? We have

464
00:37:00.840 --> 00:37:07.480
not had him yet. No,
the Great White Whale. Yeah, yeah,

465
00:37:07.519 --> 00:37:09.800
he's. I mean he's He's definitely
one that's up there. You know.

466
00:37:09.920 --> 00:37:14.119
I took a couple of classes with
him and he's, uh, you

467
00:37:14.159 --> 00:37:16.440
know everything that I'm getting from him. He's a he's a hard charger and

468
00:37:16.440 --> 00:37:19.840
a good dude that I'd like to
talk to get a little bit more info

469
00:37:19.960 --> 00:37:27.400
on see a bro of h two. Oh you the Sultan was the other

470
00:37:27.440 --> 00:37:31.679
one. Oh fuck, uh,
I don't remember that, dude, I

471
00:37:32.000 --> 00:37:36.519
remember. Do you ever get the
emails? I get these emails sometimes give

472
00:37:36.559 --> 00:37:39.679
me guy gives me his whole fucking
career and why he should be on the

473
00:37:39.679 --> 00:37:45.400
shelf. I love those. I'm
always a little Larry. I always kind

474
00:37:45.400 --> 00:37:47.880
of throw the flag when somebody's saying, oh, by the way, you

475
00:37:47.920 --> 00:37:51.079
know, I got a good guess
and it's me, you know what I

476
00:37:51.159 --> 00:37:54.400
mean? I'm like, I don't
know the Wizard of Water, thanks Gabe,

477
00:38:00.400 --> 00:38:01.800
which I'm not. I'm not opposed
to it, but you know what,

478
00:38:02.079 --> 00:38:06.159
I could be a good show words. By the way, the water

479
00:38:06.320 --> 00:38:10.280
is coming on the Salty Wire.
He's doing three two or three training episodes

480
00:38:10.519 --> 00:38:15.079
on Engine Ops, the Wizard of
Water catch It, and Mike Millner was

481
00:38:15.119 --> 00:38:19.199
coming on to do a may Day
training episode. Oh hey, Michael,

482
00:38:22.199 --> 00:38:25.719
what are you talking about with these
majors talking about Michael? The standpipe?

483
00:38:27.559 --> 00:38:30.880
On the stand pipe? Ye?
What? Let me ask you guys,

484
00:38:31.320 --> 00:38:37.360
what's uh you're of the guests that
you guys have from Chicago, What's what's

485
00:38:37.360 --> 00:38:43.119
on the best Chicago stories you guys
got? You're the fucking have you gotta

486
00:38:43.159 --> 00:38:50.360
tell you? Man, fucking Mitch
told some of the funniest fucking stories.

487
00:38:50.400 --> 00:38:53.679
Man, Like he could have been
on there for five hours telling stories and

488
00:38:53.800 --> 00:38:58.280
some stories because because they were beating
on him because he was so short,

489
00:38:58.320 --> 00:39:01.320
right, because he was so short. Funny, funny. I mean they

490
00:39:01.320 --> 00:39:07.599
were all good though. Chicka Rows
had stories, but just entertaining. Timothy

491
00:39:07.639 --> 00:39:10.079
had real hot charging and he don't
take ship. We still see him as

492
00:39:10.079 --> 00:39:14.079
another guy. Yeah, we see
him a lot, like all the time.

493
00:39:14.199 --> 00:39:15.840
You know what that that was the
common denominated with those all four of

494
00:39:15.920 --> 00:39:21.519
those guys, was that you could
have just plug and played right. They

495
00:39:21.519 --> 00:39:24.199
were all the same guy. They
all were in busy places like their whole

496
00:39:24.280 --> 00:39:30.119
Korea. They they really were like
a chief that I would want to have.

497
00:39:30.360 --> 00:39:32.599
Like, they didn't take no ship. They expected everything from you,

498
00:39:32.679 --> 00:39:36.920
but you know, they let you
slide a little bit maybe on the bullshit,

499
00:39:37.039 --> 00:39:39.360
you know, and uh, it
just seemed like they were like old

500
00:39:39.400 --> 00:39:43.800
school chiefs. You know, there's
no doubt about that. So that was

501
00:39:43.920 --> 00:39:51.599
that was bad. Yeah, exactly
exactly. Yeah. They had high expectations

502
00:39:51.599 --> 00:39:53.840
of what you were supposed to do
when it got time to go to work.

503
00:39:54.599 --> 00:40:00.719
And I think we're out don't know
if you guys noticed that by you,

504
00:40:00.800 --> 00:40:06.840
but just the fire Service alone,
I think we're we're losing some of

505
00:40:06.840 --> 00:40:10.159
that that grit. Oh. Yeah, those old guys brought to the table.

506
00:40:10.199 --> 00:40:15.599
And you know, I'm all for
advancing the fire service and you know,

507
00:40:15.199 --> 00:40:21.599
advancing it forward, and you know, change isn't necessarily bad, but

508
00:40:22.079 --> 00:40:25.880
there's certain things that we should keep. One guy told us on the podcast

509
00:40:25.920 --> 00:40:30.239
that all he needs are good guys
and some balls and he can put out

510
00:40:30.280 --> 00:40:36.480
any fire. And you know that's
all they really cared about back then.

511
00:40:36.559 --> 00:40:42.079
You know, there was no policy. Right now, there you go,

512
00:40:42.320 --> 00:40:50.159
there, there you go, general. Right, we learned about having guys

513
00:40:50.159 --> 00:40:55.000
from all over the country too.
The different terminologies was still buggies. You

514
00:40:55.039 --> 00:41:00.320
guys call them buggies, right,
the chiefs have buggies. Yeah, that's

515
00:41:00.360 --> 00:41:04.960
what you know, even the differences
at the at the core the role,

516
00:41:05.000 --> 00:41:15.440
the fucking same tone drop tone drop
what Mike? Yeah, good events?

517
00:41:15.480 --> 00:41:21.199
What you say? Yeah, you
guys don't use terminologies like still in box

518
00:41:21.440 --> 00:41:23.280
and stuff like that. Right,
Uh, we use box we go.

519
00:41:23.480 --> 00:41:28.880
Uh, we'll say your old lady
box. Oh maybe your old lady's box

520
00:41:28.960 --> 00:41:34.760
too, a little different. Yeah, no, I got h I'll tell

521
00:41:34.760 --> 00:41:37.920
you what. Speaking speaking of the
plug and play ship on our end,

522
00:41:37.840 --> 00:41:44.159
speaking of my old lady's box,
I thought we said it's a gentleman show,

523
00:41:45.000 --> 00:41:47.280
so you're right, right, right
right. I you know what,

524
00:41:47.440 --> 00:41:52.320
one of my favorite things I ask
every single guy that comes on, uh,

525
00:41:52.480 --> 00:41:54.760
towards the end of the show,
I ask every guy what their best

526
00:41:54.880 --> 00:41:59.960
ball bust is, what their best
firehouse prank is? How about you guys

527
00:42:00.079 --> 00:42:02.000
have a couple of good ones.
You guys, ever remember any of the

528
00:42:02.079 --> 00:42:06.960
old field pranks you guys were thrown
out the firehouse? Your favorite one was

529
00:42:07.519 --> 00:42:10.480
if you could talk about Oh,
you know Coobs was doing some ship mine

530
00:42:10.639 --> 00:42:17.639
was at the time that movie was
it Waiting? We did the goat like

531
00:42:19.000 --> 00:42:23.440
if you came around that guys,
guys would have like I would come up

532
00:42:23.480 --> 00:42:28.559
the stairs for a tour and on
the stairs and turn the corner and blaze.

533
00:42:28.599 --> 00:42:31.719
The guy's name his Blaze. He
would be on a chair backwards with

534
00:42:31.880 --> 00:42:36.360
his balls hanging out, so you'd
walk right into his fucking ball and then

535
00:42:36.360 --> 00:42:38.159
if you look at his balls they
get the kicks in again. Yeah,

536
00:42:38.400 --> 00:42:44.760
that went off for about a month, the new guys with these things hanging

537
00:42:44.800 --> 00:42:49.159
down. Oh would we send the
new guy to the fucking gold room to

538
00:42:49.199 --> 00:42:51.679
get a tool or something, and
all the life would be out the door

539
00:42:51.679 --> 00:42:53.280
would be locked, and when you
open the door, there's a guy's fucking

540
00:42:53.360 --> 00:42:59.280
ball bag hanging right in his face. Bro To. That always always made

541
00:42:59.320 --> 00:43:02.000
me laugh all time was when you
had the gallon of milk, you always

542
00:43:02.000 --> 00:43:06.039
would put like a little hole right
before the spout, so that when you

543
00:43:06.360 --> 00:43:08.679
started to pour it, the milk
would spit out the hole before they got

544
00:43:08.719 --> 00:43:13.119
to the spout to pour into your
coffee. I mean, it never gets

545
00:43:13.159 --> 00:43:15.480
all especially you know, to see
the chief or somebody comes down to do

546
00:43:15.559 --> 00:43:17.760
it. And then the other one
was they would take like a raccoon tail

547
00:43:19.480 --> 00:43:22.760
and put it in the freezer and
tie it to the to the inside of

548
00:43:22.840 --> 00:43:24.880
the door so that when you open
the freezer door, out yet like an

549
00:43:24.920 --> 00:43:30.000
ice cream it would you know,
a short short the fishing line, it

550
00:43:30.039 --> 00:43:34.320
would come shooting right out at you. And I tell you, I mean

551
00:43:34.360 --> 00:43:37.519
obviously if people knew about it,
right, but it was always the detail

552
00:43:37.679 --> 00:43:38.800
or somebody they would say, hey, dude, there's ice cream in there.

553
00:43:38.800 --> 00:43:44.800
If you want you always go over
there. The other guys told who

554
00:43:45.199 --> 00:43:46.639
the one guy hit a dog.
You killed the dog, and the next

555
00:43:46.719 --> 00:43:51.000
day they took the dog and they
fucking duct taped the dead dog to the

556
00:43:51.039 --> 00:43:52.840
guy's steering wheel in the car.
The shelf is steering. Well, yeah,

557
00:43:54.960 --> 00:44:02.280
yeah, yeah, Well one of
our favorite podcasts that we've done.

558
00:44:02.880 --> 00:44:07.920
The guy who actually caught a little
girl off a banger ladder, caught her

559
00:44:07.960 --> 00:44:12.119
in mid air as she she was
eight years old. She they were jumping

560
00:44:12.159 --> 00:44:15.840
from a fire floor and he caught
her mid air. And yeah, you

561
00:44:15.960 --> 00:44:20.719
guys, if you guys are ever
looking for another SETI guy, let us

562
00:44:20.800 --> 00:44:23.239
know, we'll fire him over to
you. He was a Squad two.

563
00:44:23.440 --> 00:44:30.360
Well he's a Squad five guy,
but he like early in his career,

564
00:44:30.480 --> 00:44:34.599
he was a hunter. And there's
a firehouse over on like the north side

565
00:44:34.719 --> 00:44:39.400
of Chicago, and he they it
butts up to a forest preserve. So

566
00:44:39.599 --> 00:44:44.440
he goes there with his bowl and
winds up shooting one of the raccoons,

567
00:44:44.960 --> 00:44:50.519
not knowing that that particular raccoon that
he shot was the house mascot. And

568
00:44:51.400 --> 00:44:54.800
so one of my favorite stories.
Yeah, so is he still on the

569
00:44:54.880 --> 00:45:00.760
job. He just retired. Two
will go. Yeah, if you want

570
00:45:00.800 --> 00:45:04.960
to know, we'll get He's you'll
love guy, you love one of my

571
00:45:05.039 --> 00:45:07.800
favorite guys. Now another coming in
now the coming in the fucking chat hot

572
00:45:07.840 --> 00:45:16.960
and plastic wrapping on the toilet bowl
is another good one. Uh, you

573
00:45:17.119 --> 00:45:24.119
put your over some when you sit
down and dump in as catch your packets

574
00:45:24.159 --> 00:45:30.599
underneath the standos and the toilet seat. Yeah yeah, Matt. Matt used

575
00:45:30.599 --> 00:45:34.800
to leave one right in there,
just for you. Oh my god.

576
00:45:35.280 --> 00:45:38.519
I used to when I had when
I drove, but I was onlight duty.

577
00:45:38.559 --> 00:45:42.199
I drove my brother last year on
the job. He was a deputy

578
00:45:42.320 --> 00:45:45.280
chief. I used to go in
his bathroom, turn the water off,

579
00:45:45.320 --> 00:45:47.159
flush it to be in the water, and take a giant fucking turd,

580
00:45:47.480 --> 00:45:51.199
so just the turd, no water, and he couldn't and he couldn't flush

581
00:45:51.239 --> 00:45:54.199
it. We put, we put, we put shrimps. He used to

582
00:45:54.320 --> 00:45:57.840
put shrimp in the engine apartment,
like if it was a company that you

583
00:45:57.880 --> 00:46:00.679
didn't. He ran in with and
they were always you put it, just

584
00:46:00.880 --> 00:46:02.400
throwing it, you know, open
the lid, throw into the shrimp on

585
00:46:02.440 --> 00:46:07.280
the engine compartment. You know,
it's pretty pretty good. What the hell

586
00:46:07.440 --> 00:46:15.639
was happening the shrimp? That's a
that's a long joke because it takes a

587
00:46:15.679 --> 00:46:20.840
while. Takes a while. Oh
yeah, they don't know what's going on,

588
00:46:21.920 --> 00:46:24.400
they do, They smell it the
carriers, you know, the postal

589
00:46:24.400 --> 00:46:29.440
carriers. They had to have smelled
it the ship. Yeah, we put

590
00:46:29.480 --> 00:46:38.400
them in a beaker. Oh I
think the fire man. Oh my god.

591
00:46:42.679 --> 00:46:52.480
Oh, hey Jack Bigs, Hey
Mauricio. We had we had an

592
00:46:52.480 --> 00:46:57.360
old timer over by us that was
he was cutting peppers, who was considered

593
00:46:57.440 --> 00:47:04.679
was cutting peppers, and he did
something, uh, he did something where

594
00:47:04.719 --> 00:47:09.679
after he got done, cuddie and
he went to the bathroom and he comes

595
00:47:09.719 --> 00:47:13.960
out and he's like, ah,
oh my god, I didn't wash my

596
00:47:14.000 --> 00:47:17.400
hands after I was cutting the peppers. My dick's burning right now, it's

597
00:47:17.440 --> 00:47:22.719
burning real bad. And we're like, oh, listen, lou. The

598
00:47:22.800 --> 00:47:25.920
only way to get that feeling is
you have to take white bread and you

599
00:47:27.000 --> 00:47:30.840
have to rub it on your balls
and dick and it takes away the feeling.

600
00:47:31.440 --> 00:47:37.760
And so you just hear this guy
in the bathroom just just it's not

601
00:47:37.920 --> 00:47:39.559
working yet, it's not working at
it. He just kept on rubbing him,

602
00:47:39.639 --> 00:47:43.400
kept on rubbing with the white Brad's
I think I need another piece of

603
00:47:43.440 --> 00:47:49.840
bread working. He had this guy
going for a while. Here's a good

604
00:47:49.880 --> 00:48:00.119
one. Yeah. And one of
his first jobs, the lieutenant was testing

605
00:48:00.119 --> 00:48:02.960
and asking for the give me the
can while you go do something, and

606
00:48:04.039 --> 00:48:06.719
Louis gave him the can and Lieutenant
threw it down the hole and said,

607
00:48:06.719 --> 00:48:15.880
don't give you a tool. That's
my that's my old lieutenant, right.

608
00:48:15.039 --> 00:48:19.920
I never gave up my tool after
that. Kid. Hey, Chicago,

609
00:48:20.159 --> 00:48:25.639
Chicago has Tiller Riggs. No,
no, not anymore. No Tiller Riggs.

610
00:48:25.760 --> 00:48:29.679
There's uh, there's a couple outside
outside of the city. We had

611
00:48:29.679 --> 00:48:32.679
a couple of guests on Cicerre,
Illinois. I think they got one still,

612
00:48:35.800 --> 00:48:38.079
and then uh where else? I
thought Niles used to have one.

613
00:48:38.079 --> 00:48:42.320
I don't know that one. I
can't remember last time I saw Tiller Rigg.

614
00:48:42.480 --> 00:48:44.960
Yeah it's been a while, do
you guys, You guys still got

615
00:48:45.039 --> 00:48:50.360
him, right? Yeah? Yeah? Well hey, listen, I want

616
00:48:50.360 --> 00:48:53.079
to ask you guys. So,
so normally when we're going into our podcast,

617
00:48:53.159 --> 00:48:57.320
we kind of do a little bit
of introduction, I mean, just

618
00:48:57.599 --> 00:49:00.199
just because we haven't gotten anything formal. Dude, lou coops, can we

619
00:49:00.280 --> 00:49:04.480
get like, where are you guys
from? Where'd you guys get set up?

620
00:49:04.519 --> 00:49:08.440
At? Set up? How we
mean? Well, when you guys

621
00:49:08.480 --> 00:49:12.559
started, you guys both started obviously, you guys both at K and why

622
00:49:14.639 --> 00:49:17.199
who's one did you get on?
Oh? When there? Oh you mean

623
00:49:17.320 --> 00:49:21.639
on the job, that's what you're
talking about. Yeah, So Louis and

624
00:49:21.679 --> 00:49:23.440
I have been friends for like forty
three years. We grew up together.

625
00:49:23.480 --> 00:49:27.599
We went to the same grammar school, high school, college, then we

626
00:49:27.639 --> 00:49:30.000
wound up in the same finals.
Yeah. Well yeah, no shit,

627
00:49:30.719 --> 00:49:37.119
Louis got onto college. Yeah,
believe it or not, bro, I

628
00:49:37.320 --> 00:49:43.360
dropped out. Louis got on two
and a half or three years before me.

629
00:49:43.719 --> 00:49:47.760
He got in ninety two three,
Right, he got on like two

630
00:49:47.840 --> 00:49:52.159
years before me. I got in
ninety five. Uh. Now we wound

631
00:49:52.280 --> 00:49:54.719
up when they started a new company, special operations, the squad. We

632
00:49:54.800 --> 00:49:59.559
both went there and uh I stayed
there for the rest of my career and

633
00:49:59.760 --> 00:50:04.280
Louie we got promoted, went to
one O three two ninety and then came

634
00:50:04.320 --> 00:50:08.320
back to the squad and I drove
him as my lieutenant. And that's the

635
00:50:08.360 --> 00:50:12.320
story in a nutshell. Well,
see, that's the other thing like here,

636
00:50:12.400 --> 00:50:16.039
And we never used the term chauffeur. And that's that's your engineer,

637
00:50:16.119 --> 00:50:20.760
your driver, right, yep,
right, No matter no matter what,

638
00:50:21.000 --> 00:50:27.519
anybody behind the wheel is considered a
chauffeur, correct. That's interesting. I

639
00:50:27.719 --> 00:50:30.239
like to use it when I'm jagging
guys, I mesha, I'm like,

640
00:50:30.280 --> 00:50:32.280
you're the fucking chauffeur. Sit in
the fucking right there you go. Bro.

641
00:50:34.039 --> 00:50:40.000
Do you guys have snorkels? Yeah, every day. They don't really

642
00:50:40.320 --> 00:50:46.480
call it a snorkel. Uh.
That would be our squad, the squad

643
00:50:46.559 --> 00:50:52.000
has in the city. We only
have a handful of snorkels for the squads,

644
00:50:52.039 --> 00:50:59.400
but your your I don't want to
say regular ladder truck. We don't

645
00:50:59.440 --> 00:51:02.480
have anything like that. It's just
for the squads. Yeah. The city

646
00:51:04.360 --> 00:51:12.719
Chicago has what they have five or
six squads. That would be five five

647
00:51:12.800 --> 00:51:15.679
squads and yeah, and so like
the squads kind of like they operate city

648
00:51:15.760 --> 00:51:20.079
wide, and so like if there's
a big thing going on the West side

649
00:51:20.079 --> 00:51:22.519
of Chicago, or if there's a
big thing going on the South side or

650
00:51:22.559 --> 00:51:24.679
north side, wherever, wherever it
is in the city, these five different

651
00:51:24.679 --> 00:51:30.280
squads will respond from where they're at. And and the squads are two piece,

652
00:51:30.400 --> 00:51:34.159
I think, right, yeah,
yeah, they'll all together. One

653
00:51:34.199 --> 00:51:38.000
of them has one of one of
the two ones, one's a snorkel with

654
00:51:38.159 --> 00:51:42.119
a with a pretty big cab.
And then what you guys. I think

655
00:51:42.159 --> 00:51:45.840
it would be something similar to what
you guys would call like a rescue or

656
00:51:45.880 --> 00:51:52.480
something like that. Okay, but
we have squads, so oh okay,

657
00:51:52.920 --> 00:51:57.159
Yeah, I was trying to sort
that all out when we had your when

658
00:51:57.199 --> 00:52:00.079
we had Brian quinn on trying to
run me through the whole set up there.

659
00:52:00.639 --> 00:52:05.960
But uh, you know, we
just had a guy, uh who

660
00:52:06.119 --> 00:52:09.280
was He came out of the academy, he went right to the squad and

661
00:52:09.360 --> 00:52:14.360
spent his whole career there. He
just retired a couple of months ago actually,

662
00:52:14.719 --> 00:52:17.639
and he wound up being one of
the guys on the TV show Chicago

663
00:52:17.760 --> 00:52:23.280
Fire, Tony Ferrars. He came
in and he had a couple of really

664
00:52:24.199 --> 00:52:28.679
interesting fires where I mean he got
he got sucked up on a few.

665
00:52:29.920 --> 00:52:32.840
He's coming. I think he's coming
on our show. You're you're gonna get

666
00:52:32.840 --> 00:52:37.480
Tony. Yeah, he he he
Yeah. He was a great guy for

667
00:52:37.639 --> 00:52:42.920
us, just you know, a
guy who only went to fires his whole

668
00:52:42.960 --> 00:52:57.840
career, you know that, Jack
He talked, Uh, he'll get back

669
00:52:57.840 --> 00:53:04.360
to me. Oh, mister fucking
busy guy. Huh, he's busy.

670
00:53:04.639 --> 00:53:10.000
He's out of town. Uh.
So I got to test him. Well,

671
00:53:14.400 --> 00:53:19.400
yeah, he's great guy, really
good podcast. And there's some videos

672
00:53:19.440 --> 00:53:22.119
where he actually sent us where he
got hurt. We have the video from

673
00:53:22.159 --> 00:53:29.199
the actual fire where he got hurt. Actually two videos of the fires where

674
00:53:29.239 --> 00:53:32.679
he actually got hurt. So it's
interesting. If you go back to uh,

675
00:53:32.960 --> 00:53:36.599
like our social media, you can
find those videos of Tony. I

676
00:53:36.639 --> 00:53:39.360
think those are on our YouTube as
well. You guys, uh, you

677
00:53:39.440 --> 00:53:44.159
guys have a drink on this thing
or what do you and you're in the

678
00:53:44.199 --> 00:53:49.079
Oval office over there is athing?
Uh has he ever happen over there?

679
00:53:50.280 --> 00:53:52.159
We just came back from a week
of drinking every day out there now,

680
00:53:52.280 --> 00:54:00.239
drinking water every day. Did did
you guys check out when you guys were

681
00:54:00.280 --> 00:54:04.440
at ft I C. Did you
check our buddies over at at the Art

682
00:54:04.480 --> 00:54:08.400
Foundation at or were you guys laying
low? What foundation is right here?

683
00:54:10.519 --> 00:54:15.599
So one of our buddies, he
I'm sure you heard of them. They

684
00:54:15.679 --> 00:54:19.599
operate, Uh, he operates a
Facebook that's hitting it hard from the yard

685
00:54:19.639 --> 00:54:22.559
group. You ever heard them?
Yep, guys, Yeah, so,

686
00:54:22.800 --> 00:54:27.480
uh yeah, that's one of our
buddies out here and out here in the

687
00:54:27.559 --> 00:54:31.719
Chicago area and uh yeah, yeah, he's he's actually Vince is wearing wearing

688
00:54:31.760 --> 00:54:42.599
a shirt they Yeah, it's the
basically the abbreviation of your Yard. Oh

689
00:54:42.960 --> 00:54:49.400
all right, yeah so yeah,
yeah, it's kind of like a parody

690
00:54:49.480 --> 00:54:52.119
page that they run on on Facebook
where there's kind of jagging guys off.

691
00:54:52.400 --> 00:54:58.679
And but their charitable organization is the
Yard Foundation, right, and they have

692
00:54:59.199 --> 00:55:04.840
done amazing things like somebody will get
hurt or sick on the job, they'll

693
00:55:04.920 --> 00:55:07.559
raise a ton of money for these
people, and every penny goes to those

694
00:55:07.639 --> 00:55:12.840
guys. So you know, can't
say enough about that organization. Yeah,

695
00:55:13.079 --> 00:55:15.280
well, Be and Louis are from
the Fraternal Order of Pizza Cutter Makers.

696
00:55:20.440 --> 00:55:23.159
Come in now, we didn't have
time, Broke was swamped at the booth.

697
00:55:23.920 --> 00:55:28.079
If we weren't fucking hanging out of
the booth selling stuff, we were

698
00:55:28.159 --> 00:55:34.400
drinking or doing nice So I'm not
Yeah, twelve o'clock till six, we

699
00:55:34.480 --> 00:55:46.559
were pounding and I've had enough from
from Wednesday till yesterday. So you know,

700
00:55:46.639 --> 00:55:50.960
it's funny. So like we were
talking a little bit before, I

701
00:55:52.039 --> 00:55:54.880
we just got done doing the our
Belt of the Madge. I'll tell you

702
00:55:54.960 --> 00:55:59.760
that would have been a great show
if if we could have gotten gotten you

703
00:55:59.840 --> 00:56:04.760
guys is out with us and doing
the uh uh Chicago versus New York guys

704
00:56:04.840 --> 00:56:06.800
doing the Bat of the Badge.
I think that would have been a cool

705
00:56:06.840 --> 00:56:15.639
show they're doing. Uh, they're
doing a New York and Chicago Battle of

706
00:56:15.719 --> 00:56:19.480
the Badges. They're currently in talks
with that. So when that happened,

707
00:56:20.000 --> 00:56:25.440
you guys should come out for that. What are they doing boxing exhibission?

708
00:56:25.760 --> 00:56:29.800
Oh? Ship? Really? Yeah? What does that come out? You

709
00:56:29.880 --> 00:56:32.960
mean, like you why out the
Chicago? Yeah? If you guys fly

710
00:56:34.119 --> 00:56:37.440
up, we'll put you up.
We'll put you up. Uh, you

711
00:56:37.480 --> 00:56:40.880
guys, can you send me a
picture of what you roll lady looks like?

712
00:56:40.960 --> 00:56:45.719
First? Is that possible? That
might that might tip the scales.

713
00:56:45.760 --> 00:56:47.719
I'm just saying, I don't know, it's Oh yeah, absolutely. I

714
00:56:47.760 --> 00:56:52.840
mean listen, you guys deal because
everything on the table, okay, everything

715
00:56:53.159 --> 00:57:00.199
every What does that happen? I'd
love Yeah, well, I as soon

716
00:57:00.239 --> 00:57:02.840
as we find out that they're still
working on the deal. As soon as

717
00:57:02.880 --> 00:57:12.119
it happens, we'll we'll make this
happen. Jeremy John Johnson too, was

718
00:57:12.159 --> 00:57:16.159
another awesome, awesome guy we met
out there for the first that sounds made

719
00:57:16.239 --> 00:57:22.440
up when uh, well, we
uh and listen it goes out there.

720
00:57:22.440 --> 00:57:27.079
I mean, obviously I'm not flying
out there. Then yeah, that's uh,

721
00:57:27.599 --> 00:57:30.360
I mean not from what I hear. It's relatively stinky out in your

722
00:57:30.360 --> 00:57:37.320
neighborhood. Nice, but I uh, I'm sure that there's a lot of

723
00:57:37.400 --> 00:57:40.000
things that New York brings to the
table when it comes to uh sites and

724
00:57:40.119 --> 00:57:45.679
sound like. Right, yeah,
there's nothing from that video that coops made.

725
00:57:45.679 --> 00:57:50.920
There's obviously nothing long in Long Island. No, oh, really coming

726
00:57:51.000 --> 00:57:58.599
out? Cook? Who these guys
up? Bro? Oh Jack Jack Daniels

727
00:57:58.679 --> 00:58:08.440
going man, Jack put away.
He took the time to revolve must clubs

728
00:58:08.440 --> 00:58:15.840
away. Now we got to get
the gloves back outright, all right,

729
00:58:16.039 --> 00:58:21.199
we'll come out, will come out. We'll do something together. You bring

730
00:58:21.280 --> 00:58:28.960
all one hundred of your listeners and
we'll bring our guys. Mike here,

731
00:58:29.440 --> 00:58:35.119
Mike's here, a hundred and one. Okay, A look at Mike.

732
00:58:35.199 --> 00:58:37.000
He's like, I don't care,
I love, I love. I'm a

733
00:58:37.119 --> 00:58:43.280
nude for partying this, Mike,
what's storing? Fifty five fifty one six

734
00:58:43.360 --> 00:58:46.760
ers started their quarter? Oh thank
you? Oh problem, Oh, no

735
00:58:46.840 --> 00:58:53.480
problem. Yeah, So we would
talk at um you guys from fire you

736
00:58:53.559 --> 00:58:55.920
were talking to the guys from fire
Y. That's why I got your number.

737
00:58:58.599 --> 00:59:00.119
So I think we're gonna be doing
some stuff. Yeah, this whole

738
00:59:00.159 --> 00:59:07.079
started. So this is how my
introduction to these guys are. I get

739
00:59:07.119 --> 00:59:15.320
a voicemail, Hey you jack off? I love it. I'm like,

740
00:59:15.400 --> 00:59:20.360
who the fuck this is? Guy, Vince? You fucking jack off?

741
00:59:20.440 --> 00:59:23.840
You want to come on the show? And I said, I didn't know

742
00:59:23.920 --> 00:59:30.119
you guys from New York knew how
to work off phone. Let's going back

743
00:59:30.159 --> 00:59:39.880
down, up, crashing and burning, burning hold on. Yeah, yeah,

744
00:59:40.400 --> 00:59:44.559
actually, I mean, I mean
again, I don't love to talk

745
00:59:44.559 --> 00:59:47.320
to you guys without without sound delay
on our end. Again A m from

746
00:59:47.480 --> 00:59:53.119
radio was very tough in this neighborhood. Nice studio, bro oh, thank

747
00:59:53.159 --> 00:59:57.280
you fellas? Are you are you? Are you syndicating nationally though you know

748
00:59:58.679 --> 01:00:06.000
you're on Morning Drive? Yeah for
more. Is there anybody that you guys

749
01:00:06.039 --> 01:00:08.320
are Is there anybody that you guys
are trying to get that is on your

750
01:00:08.360 --> 01:00:14.960
wish list for your podcast? Cleehouse, Chief Cleehouse, who was in Rescue

751
01:00:15.000 --> 01:00:22.960
to Squad forty one, All the
busy Places, Great guy Pritchard, Prichard,

752
01:00:22.199 --> 01:00:27.199
Chief Pritchard three. Once in a
while he answers michels and then he

753
01:00:27.280 --> 01:00:32.920
goes to me for like two years, chief fish sounds like bob ha fishlery.

754
01:00:35.360 --> 01:00:39.320
Yeah, you've been working on him. Yeah, me be great.

755
01:00:39.519 --> 01:00:47.639
Forget don't forget about that show me
on the job eleven four. I knew

756
01:00:47.639 --> 01:00:52.719
that just twur years. Huh.
Do do you guys know anybody that worked

757
01:00:52.719 --> 01:00:57.159
with him during the nine to eleven
thing? Or No, he wasn't working

758
01:00:57.199 --> 01:00:59.639
doing eleven He was just you mean, just going down there with him.

759
01:01:00.519 --> 01:01:04.679
Well, I'm I mean again,
this this might be conjecture, nonsense,

760
01:01:04.719 --> 01:01:09.400
but I had always heard that,
you know, he had left the fdmy

761
01:01:10.000 --> 01:01:15.119
and then when nine to eleven happened, the story goes from what I heard

762
01:01:15.519 --> 01:01:20.320
was that he showed up to the
firehouse and he started working and helping out

763
01:01:20.320 --> 01:01:23.440
whenever he could. I wasn't sure
if if he helped like with him or

764
01:01:23.480 --> 01:01:27.599
around. Well, he went back
to his old company, fifty five Engine,

765
01:01:27.599 --> 01:01:30.239
and he helped and he was helping
those guys. That was interesting.

766
01:01:30.320 --> 01:01:34.760
Do you guys know anybody that was
working with them? Or I don't know

767
01:01:34.800 --> 01:01:38.320
anybody from fifty five Engine, although
we did. It was fifty five what

768
01:01:38.920 --> 01:01:42.000
your brother was at fifty five inchin
for quite a while. Oh, that

769
01:01:42.119 --> 01:01:45.000
was a long time ago. That
was I think that was right after he

770
01:01:45.119 --> 01:01:49.800
left. Now, my father was
still alive, so it was like eighty

771
01:01:49.920 --> 01:01:54.320
nine someone around. That's the other
difference between you guys and us is you

772
01:01:54.360 --> 01:01:59.239
guys always put the number in front
of I know, it's more prominent when

773
01:01:59.280 --> 01:02:02.280
I hear you guys talk that,
it's like twenty three truck. You know,

774
01:02:04.679 --> 01:02:07.519
twenty five truck, right. I
hear you guys mix it up with

775
01:02:08.159 --> 01:02:15.159
engine thirty two or thirty two engines. So is that like a just common

776
01:02:15.000 --> 01:02:19.280
like vocabulary for you guys. Yeah, I don't know why we do that,

777
01:02:19.440 --> 01:02:22.840
but it's both ways really. You
know, I think if you said

778
01:02:22.920 --> 01:02:25.000
ladder one seventeen or one seventeen truck, it's the same. You know,

779
01:02:25.679 --> 01:02:30.960
it's no preference really, but it
does, right. Would you say,

780
01:02:30.039 --> 01:02:32.519
would you say if you put the
number in front of it, that you

781
01:02:32.559 --> 01:02:37.559
would be saltier by seeing it that
way? You'd have to ask those guys

782
01:02:37.599 --> 01:02:40.000
from back in the day. I'm
sure they would have a little something to

783
01:02:40.079 --> 01:02:45.719
say about that. I'm sure you
said twenty eight truck or twenty six truck,

784
01:02:45.199 --> 01:02:50.360
you know, thirty three truck,
nineteen truck you go on, you

785
01:02:50.440 --> 01:02:53.440
know, you know it was.
Oh but man, who's your favorite guest

786
01:02:53.480 --> 01:02:58.360
that you've had on your podcast?
Hmmm, that's a tough question, man,

787
01:02:59.440 --> 01:03:06.920
Ooh, there's been some Yeah,
there's been some surprises, some guys

788
01:03:06.960 --> 01:03:09.960
that I thought wouldn't you know,
usually when you're talking to guests, I'm

789
01:03:10.000 --> 01:03:14.000
sure you know the same thing.
You talk to guests, you think,

790
01:03:14.119 --> 01:03:16.639
like, this guy would be a
really good guest, and then sometimes he's

791
01:03:16.719 --> 01:03:21.079
not as he was. Maybe he's
a little nervous or whatever, he's not

792
01:03:21.199 --> 01:03:24.400
as uh uh as he is on
the phone. And then some guys you

793
01:03:24.480 --> 01:03:28.239
think are just gonna you know,
you want to get him on the show,

794
01:03:28.480 --> 01:03:31.519
and then they surprise the heck at
you and they just knock it out

795
01:03:31.519 --> 01:03:35.960
of the park. But I don't
think I have Both are my favorite podcasts.

796
01:03:36.039 --> 01:03:40.960
The guys who surprised me come in
and are articulate, and the way

797
01:03:42.039 --> 01:03:46.599
that they tell the story is captivating. I love being surprised by those.

798
01:03:46.599 --> 01:03:53.519
I would say one of my favorites
was uh Higgins one to eleven. He

799
01:03:53.639 --> 01:03:55.960
had all his face you know.
I like the family part of it.

800
01:03:57.119 --> 01:03:59.199
Like when the guys talk about their
family hit. You know, he had

801
01:03:59.199 --> 01:04:00.639
to talk about how to beat the
ship out of each other. The brothers,

802
01:04:01.039 --> 01:04:05.360
she had all his brothers functions.
His father was on the job.

803
01:04:05.679 --> 01:04:10.239
You know, like there's was good
roof. Lois was a good part.

804
01:04:10.519 --> 01:04:13.440
She was great. Yes, we
had the first one of the first female

805
01:04:13.480 --> 01:04:15.639
fire fighters, but kick the living
ship out of three quarters of the guys

806
01:04:15.679 --> 01:04:23.599
in the fucking chat here, it
was awesome unless it's the whole time,

807
01:04:23.880 --> 01:04:28.280
don't you guys don't have a female
commissioner now right? All right? Moving

808
01:04:28.320 --> 01:04:34.719
on, moving along next, mm
hm, who's your who's your favorite guy?

809
01:04:36.039 --> 01:04:41.480
Who's my favorite guy? To have
another show? Well, Lois was

810
01:04:41.519 --> 01:04:49.320
one of them. I like Kevin, who's the guy who's hunter again?

811
01:04:49.400 --> 01:04:55.880
Roofi Kevin? She was a great
show. Listen in the end, very

812
01:04:55.960 --> 01:05:00.599
humble man. Really, it's that's
the truth. There's very few, you

813
01:05:00.719 --> 01:05:04.079
know, bad shows where I think
we only had maybe one or two where

814
01:05:04.760 --> 01:05:08.280
maybe the guys were drinking too much
or something like that. You know,

815
01:05:08.400 --> 01:05:12.159
and was great too from Detroit and
got so big. He was one of

816
01:05:12.239 --> 01:05:15.119
my favorites, one of my favorite
old chief. I think he was in

817
01:05:15.199 --> 01:05:19.239
his eighties. His wife was walking
out Martinez like every fifteen minutes. He

818
01:05:19.239 --> 01:05:21.800
said something like, bring him out
every fifteen minutes until I pass out,

819
01:05:21.840 --> 01:05:26.519
and then bring him out every seven
minutes. Then he was like fucking but

820
01:05:26.639 --> 01:05:30.880
he had the best old school tip
of the day, right, His old

821
01:05:30.920 --> 01:05:33.559
school tip of the day was,
you know, you're on the pipe,

822
01:05:34.039 --> 01:05:38.039
you're stretching into the building. You
open up, you know, and you're

823
01:05:38.039 --> 01:05:41.440
going down the hall, and all
the guys start filing I'm working the rock.

824
01:05:41.559 --> 01:05:45.360
Well, yeah, I'm working the
pipe. Baby, I'm rolling a

825
01:05:45.440 --> 01:05:47.639
baby, you know. And he
gets in there, and now guys start

826
01:05:47.679 --> 01:05:50.320
coming in on the pipe behind me, and they're backing, you know,

827
01:05:50.480 --> 01:05:54.000
four or five guys behind and the
guys I get it there, you don't

828
01:05:54.000 --> 01:05:55.920
put you know, put movie,
you know all this stuff. And he's

829
01:05:55.960 --> 01:05:58.440
like, you know, and you
know, and then you know you're doing

830
01:05:58.480 --> 01:06:00.000
the best your canton. He goes. He's like, I'm not gonna I'm

831
01:06:00.000 --> 01:06:01.679
not gonna say it. I don't
think I'm going to say it. He's

832
01:06:01.760 --> 01:06:04.559
like, you know what, screw
it. I'm gonna say. If you're

833
01:06:04.639 --> 01:06:09.679
like the third or fourth or fifth
guy back there, shut the f up,

834
01:06:09.960 --> 01:06:12.679
Like he just just shut the hell. I'm doing the best I can

835
01:06:12.800 --> 01:06:15.039
down here, man, you know, like it was just how he did.

836
01:06:15.119 --> 01:06:19.599
It was perfect. Nicole was great
too with the fucking rooftop easy.

837
01:06:21.880 --> 01:06:29.679
Oh. He was already said,
hey, let me ask you real quick.

838
01:06:29.800 --> 01:06:32.960
So what's again? It could be
a it could be a hero story,

839
01:06:33.079 --> 01:06:36.159
it could be a fucking uh,
it could be a funny story.

840
01:06:36.239 --> 01:06:41.960
What what what's the best fire you
had? What's the best fire I have

841
01:06:42.119 --> 01:06:47.119
had? Yeah? Oh, man, come on one of the ones that

842
01:06:47.199 --> 01:06:50.960
me and Louis went to one time
with the fucking the down of Massmis in

843
01:06:51.039 --> 01:06:56.079
Polock Alley, somebody fell off the
second floor on Louis's leg and we had

844
01:06:56.079 --> 01:06:59.639
a fucking fly blowing out. We
went in and then all of a sudden

845
01:06:59.679 --> 01:07:04.320
it lap up behind us and came
came from behind us on an engine or

846
01:07:04.360 --> 01:07:06.960
truck company. Where you guys at, we're on a squad. So first

847
01:07:08.000 --> 01:07:10.880
do your first, second or third
do you're an engine anything? After that

848
01:07:11.039 --> 01:07:15.559
your truck and you do rescue work
as well. So Louie Louis had to

849
01:07:15.639 --> 01:07:19.039
back up. I was behind him
and it was like a Friday night fucking

850
01:07:19.199 --> 01:07:25.079
fire ripping, and then they went
to hell in a hand bans. We

851
01:07:25.159 --> 01:07:30.760
put the fire up and somebody some
fact that I found Louis leg my ankle

852
01:07:31.440 --> 01:07:35.639
broke, your ankle came from the
second and the fire was going up the

853
01:07:35.679 --> 01:07:39.960
stairs and they were on the stairs. So they filed out stairs and we

854
01:07:40.079 --> 01:07:43.360
were on the bottom ship. Yeah, or the Father's Day fire. I

855
01:07:43.480 --> 01:07:45.480
was at the Father's Day fire too, So that was it didn't work out

856
01:07:45.519 --> 01:07:49.880
so great. It's never a great, you know fire when when we lose

857
01:07:49.960 --> 01:08:00.960
three guys. But still, yeah, you guys have people who aren't in

858
01:08:00.039 --> 01:08:04.760
the fire service on your podcast at
all. We had the guy who shot

859
01:08:05.960 --> 01:08:13.440
on the show, Rob O'Neil.
Yeah, we had a guy who else.

860
01:08:13.559 --> 01:08:16.239
We had guys in the bomb squad, right, Mike, you Kevin

861
01:08:16.279 --> 01:08:21.760
Barry, a good friend of mine. A handful. Yeah, we've we've

862
01:08:21.800 --> 01:08:25.479
had that. Uh. We just
had a guy. I don't know if

863
01:08:25.520 --> 01:08:29.439
you guys are familiar are with Chicago, but our Lady of Angels fire,

864
01:08:31.960 --> 01:08:36.279
well, we had one of the
survivors of that fire. He lost his

865
01:08:36.640 --> 01:08:42.920
brother and sister in that fire,
and he kind of walked us through and

866
01:08:42.960 --> 01:08:47.319
there was so much that that we
didn't know. He was featured in this

867
01:08:47.439 --> 01:08:53.920
documentary called h Angels Too Soon and
you can find it on or whatever.

868
01:08:54.600 --> 01:08:58.920
But we reached out to him and
he came out here and he was one

869
01:08:58.960 --> 01:09:01.920
of those guests that knocked it out
of the park. Uh. He just

870
01:09:02.399 --> 01:09:05.640
you know, I can't even imagine
he was eight years old at that time

871
01:09:06.520 --> 01:09:14.039
and uh, just what he went
through and the whole history. There's so

872
01:09:14.199 --> 01:09:17.000
much backstory to that fire that I
never knew about and I would never have

873
01:09:17.119 --> 01:09:20.920
known. But to be able to
sit in the same studio with I mean,

874
01:09:20.960 --> 01:09:26.479
he really is a Chicago icon and
apart in Chicago history. And for

875
01:09:26.600 --> 01:09:31.720
him to tell the story firsthand,
I thought that was well. I just

876
01:09:31.840 --> 01:09:39.000
got the number of a husband and
wife who's both their fathers died at the

877
01:09:39.039 --> 01:09:43.800
Wall Bounce fire and they both saw
their father on that day and they wound

878
01:09:43.880 --> 01:09:50.640
up getting married. And I think, no, kidd, Yeah, we

879
01:09:50.720 --> 01:09:57.760
had the New York Range run whose
father was he was okay, his father

880
01:09:57.880 --> 01:10:00.640
passed away, uh nine to eleven
cancer. Yeah, we knew, we

881
01:10:00.720 --> 01:10:03.640
knew him very well, his father. But he he made it to the

882
01:10:03.760 --> 01:10:06.520
NHL and he played for the Ranges. And that was pretty good show too.

883
01:10:08.439 --> 01:10:10.960
That was a good show. You
had the car Bones on Nancy and

884
01:10:11.039 --> 01:10:14.079
Kia who do Oh yeah, we
do a lot of health. Yeah,

885
01:10:14.199 --> 01:10:18.560
we had like four shows Travis on. Oh yeah, but there's name Travis

886
01:10:19.439 --> 01:10:26.800
Housy. Oh is that it?
It is? Yeah, yeah, our

887
01:10:26.880 --> 01:10:30.560
mental health podcast. The guy you
were actually making fun of when he was

888
01:10:30.680 --> 01:10:33.279
leaving, Uh, he was,
you know, uh, we do a

889
01:10:33.319 --> 01:10:38.880
lot of mental health stuff here too, And he's one of our our guys.

890
01:10:39.199 --> 01:10:42.279
He was, he's on the job. He's on the job. And

891
01:10:42.760 --> 01:10:47.279
yeah, right, and and yeah, he started up, he became a

892
01:10:47.760 --> 01:10:54.439
counselor counselor therapist, and and he
has our guys out whenever, whenever they're

893
01:10:54.520 --> 01:11:00.279
having any type of PTSD thing going
on. So, so was really funny

894
01:11:00.279 --> 01:11:03.439
when you were making fun of him. Hey, Lou, when you're uh,

895
01:11:04.199 --> 01:11:09.720
you seem like a ballbuster? What
side you, no, lou?

896
01:11:10.680 --> 01:11:15.640
So Lou, when have you come
out come a Kobshall any any good branks

897
01:11:15.680 --> 01:11:25.000
on him? Or no fights?
Oh? My god? Should we tell

898
01:11:25.039 --> 01:11:29.800
a story quick roof? No,
I don't want to talk. Oh okay,

899
01:11:30.039 --> 01:11:32.520
all right, No. It involved
figure poking and a whole lot of

900
01:11:32.560 --> 01:11:36.039
young Yeah. We every once in
a while, actually been a while though,

901
01:11:36.079 --> 01:11:39.399
every once in a while, you
gotta do like I wish I can

902
01:11:39.439 --> 01:11:41.760
remember what that guy said. That
was perfect, right, You got to

903
01:11:42.000 --> 01:11:45.760
clear the pipes or something. You
gotta while, you gotta have a knockdown,

904
01:11:45.920 --> 01:11:47.840
drag out screaming match, and then
it's all good, you know,

905
01:11:47.960 --> 01:11:50.720
for a while. So oh,
I have to say we could, we

906
01:11:50.800 --> 01:11:57.039
could go nose to nose its something
and then no exaggeration. Twenty minutes after

907
01:11:57.119 --> 01:12:00.560
it's done, we want Yeah,
I have to say we were very good

908
01:12:00.600 --> 01:12:03.640
at that. We talk talk it
out after that, and then I got

909
01:12:03.880 --> 01:12:09.239
yelling it out and get red and
all of a sudden like fifes and breaking

910
01:12:09.319 --> 01:12:12.960
each other's bulls or you've seen it. Can I you mind if I tell

911
01:12:13.000 --> 01:12:16.199
the story in between the knicks aggravating
me. So there was a particularly this

912
01:12:16.359 --> 01:12:20.199
is you know. I think last
year there was a particularly troublesome show.

913
01:12:20.359 --> 01:12:23.520
I wasn't on the ones and two
S four, but one of our producers

914
01:12:23.560 --> 01:12:26.039
who were filling in for I had
a rough night. And that's not his

915
01:12:26.119 --> 01:12:29.239
fault. As PC was older,
he had to update it. So after

916
01:12:29.319 --> 01:12:31.359
the show it was like, I'm
not doing it. I'm not doing it.

917
01:12:31.399 --> 01:12:34.840
I'm watching it and I'm we're me
and two other guys are watching Lou

918
01:12:34.880 --> 01:12:39.840
and Koob scream at each other for
six no kidding, twenty minutes straight.

919
01:12:40.359 --> 01:12:43.399
Twenty minutes straight. I literally changed
my name on the screen to can we

920
01:12:43.560 --> 01:12:46.399
just get along? And then at
the end of it, yep, he

921
01:12:46.439 --> 01:12:48.479
didn't notice it. I was trying
to add some levity of the situation.

922
01:12:48.560 --> 01:12:51.560
Clearly didn't work. But at the
at the end of it, Lo was

923
01:12:51.640 --> 01:12:56.000
like, in the same tone of
voice he's speaking in now, he says,

924
01:12:56.159 --> 01:13:04.560
I'm sorry I called you a nahole
call you so yeah, you know

925
01:13:04.640 --> 01:13:08.720
what, It's funny. That's that's
how it's like we're grown up brothers,

926
01:13:09.000 --> 01:13:12.720
you know, like we we were
Actually I was actually just had a conversation

927
01:13:12.840 --> 01:13:15.800
with the There was an airing of
the grievances. Yeah no, me and

928
01:13:15.319 --> 01:13:21.359
me and spell check I know a
fight earlier this week and and it was

929
01:13:21.399 --> 01:13:25.760
the same thing. We we were
yelling each other for about twenty five minutes.

930
01:13:26.079 --> 01:13:30.079
At the end, I was like, I love you. Never we

931
01:13:30.119 --> 01:13:33.399
have never went to music. I
don't think no, yeah, oh we

932
01:13:33.600 --> 01:13:39.760
have No, I'm not doing that. Plus ye yeah, I have to

933
01:13:39.840 --> 01:13:43.439
go now. I worry about him. You know that goes com bluely,

934
01:13:43.600 --> 01:13:49.960
I got the hook. You know, it could be it's funny, you

935
01:13:50.159 --> 01:13:55.039
funny fragile. I get it.
It's a fragile. It's a fragile.

936
01:13:58.720 --> 01:14:02.960
That's a frigill. Yeah, all
right, you guys do anything with h

937
01:14:03.399 --> 01:14:11.039
when you guys try to grab anything
from the TV show Rescue Me, where

938
01:14:12.560 --> 01:14:18.359
like grab an actor or a guy. We had Burke, Bob, Yeah,

939
01:14:21.159 --> 01:14:25.840
Bobby Burke with Bobby Burke who was
from Rescue Me. He also played

940
01:14:26.560 --> 01:14:30.920
Robot. He was played He didn't
play wide up, but he was in

941
01:14:30.680 --> 01:14:33.520
Yeah, he got shot, star
wied up or yeah. Uh. And

942
01:14:33.640 --> 01:14:36.600
he's a volley he's a voluncy of
fireman and we had him on. He's

943
01:14:36.640 --> 01:14:42.560
a great guy. Come on,
yeah, I can't remember. Yeah,

944
01:14:42.600 --> 01:14:47.119
we I gotta tell you of all
I mean me personally. I probably should

945
01:14:47.239 --> 01:14:53.239
say this before we interviewed chicker Otis, but you know, not not the

946
01:14:53.279 --> 01:14:59.359
biggest fan of like most firefighter things
on television or on movies, but one

947
01:14:59.399 --> 01:15:02.720
of my favorite IT shows to this
day. Honestly, I think of any

948
01:15:02.760 --> 01:15:05.920
of them, I won't watch anything
else but Rescue Me. First couple of

949
01:15:05.960 --> 01:15:13.560
episodes are Rescue Me. They're the
most uh, they're the most realistic depictions

950
01:15:13.560 --> 01:15:16.039
of the fire department that I've ever
seen. You know, you've got you've

951
01:15:16.079 --> 01:15:19.880
got these Chicago fires that are going
out there. They're you know, they're

952
01:15:19.920 --> 01:15:25.880
fighting everybody. Everybody's that's right out
of the bat. There's no fat guys,

953
01:15:25.960 --> 01:15:30.960
everybody's good looking at everybody's banging each
other. Everybody each other. Yeah

954
01:15:30.039 --> 01:15:36.720
yeah, obviously everyone's banging. Yeah
yeah, no OSTI Rescue Rescue Me is

955
01:15:36.760 --> 01:15:41.600
one of my favorite shows to this
day, the only like the most realistic

956
01:15:41.680 --> 01:15:45.640
depiction of the fire department that I've
ever seen. The other problem with Rescue

957
01:15:45.640 --> 01:15:49.640
Me is they had every degenerate that's
in the fire service all in the same

958
01:15:49.720 --> 01:15:58.039
firehouse. Again, the woman guys, every throw in one firehouse. I'm

959
01:15:58.039 --> 01:16:01.640
like, holy ship. Yeah,
but you know, but again, like

960
01:16:01.720 --> 01:16:05.279
that's the funny thing is that,
like I feel like we're hitting we're hitting

961
01:16:05.359 --> 01:16:09.840
more real issues in the fire department
than we are you know, talking to

962
01:16:10.520 --> 01:16:14.680
talking to our cousins or our buddies
at at home. You know, like

963
01:16:15.000 --> 01:16:17.000
I feel like the firehouse. I
mean, you guys talk about with the

964
01:16:17.079 --> 01:16:21.119
kitchen table, it's the last place
that you can talk and you know,

965
01:16:21.239 --> 01:16:26.319
be a gentleman about things and actually
be real about how you feel about something,

966
01:16:26.399 --> 01:16:29.039
like, you know, like this
is how I feel about this thing.

967
01:16:29.199 --> 01:16:31.800
Like you know, nobody's getting canceled
at the kitchen table. You know,

968
01:16:32.560 --> 01:16:40.760
nobody's uh, nobody not to say
we we've had some troubles in our

969
01:16:40.840 --> 01:16:45.279
department as of recent which is which
is a major city in Illinois. Just

970
01:16:45.319 --> 01:17:00.439
so you guys know, you're I'm
just going on here out with what nicks

971
01:17:00.239 --> 01:17:05.000
nick sixty eight sixty seven bruns and
just hit a go ahead shot firstly to

972
01:17:05.039 --> 01:17:14.800
the night six sixty sixty and you
dial. We have Vincent Corey and any

973
01:17:14.920 --> 01:17:18.239
questions from the chat before you wrap
this bad boy up. Any chat questions

974
01:17:18.319 --> 01:17:24.000
from the chat, you fire them
up. New York. What is that

975
01:17:24.439 --> 01:17:31.119
the state of Chicago? Schberger Schomberg
b put that in the chat. Nobody

976
01:17:31.159 --> 01:17:39.800
cares about basketball, Robini says,
somebody from Schomberg. Nobody cares about basketball.

977
01:17:39.920 --> 01:17:43.159
Come on, Procaccini, Well,
I mean, actually I had one

978
01:17:43.239 --> 01:17:45.720
question. You know, it's been
mostly of a pretty relaxed show tonight compared

979
01:17:45.760 --> 01:17:48.239
to our usual interviews. Not that
they're not relaxed, but just a different

980
01:17:48.279 --> 01:17:51.520
format. Yeah, I'm sorry,
guys drink a lot more. No,

981
01:17:51.680 --> 01:17:56.239
it's fine. One of the things
I have tried to do with my own

982
01:17:56.279 --> 01:17:58.960
show, and Getting Salty has certainly
done a good job of. Is you

983
01:17:59.119 --> 01:18:00.399
have your said audience. I get
a lot of the New York guys,

984
01:18:00.560 --> 01:18:04.560
They get a lot of the New
York guys, and you get guys from

985
01:18:04.600 --> 01:18:08.119
outside, like we were talking about
earlier on occasion, have you thought about

986
01:18:08.119 --> 01:18:10.359
try besides New York, which is
the obvious answer, have you tried to

987
01:18:10.439 --> 01:18:14.840
like other places maybe La Boston,
like guys from those departments, other big

988
01:18:14.880 --> 01:18:19.800
cities around the country or even the
world where if we come across a story,

989
01:18:20.199 --> 01:18:25.760
we'll try to track somebody down if
we hear something. And that's what

990
01:18:26.159 --> 01:18:30.560
our social media is so good about
giving us like leads if you will.

991
01:18:31.319 --> 01:18:38.720
But uh yeah, it doesn't matter
where where it is. We'll do like

992
01:18:38.800 --> 01:18:42.159
a phone interview a podcast where we'll
be in the studio and they'll be on

993
01:18:42.199 --> 01:18:46.680
the phone. But ultimately our best
podcasts are when we can sit here with

994
01:18:47.079 --> 01:18:49.840
with somebody in the studio, have
a drink with them. We like to

995
01:18:49.880 --> 01:18:56.319
get them nice and moved up there
they talk a little bit more. We

996
01:18:56.600 --> 01:19:00.319
uh you know, we got We've
got Murady Lucky with guys coming in from

997
01:19:00.000 --> 01:19:03.560
like you guys were talking about,
we had uh, we had a firefighter

998
01:19:03.640 --> 01:19:08.520
from We had Chris Field's coming.
We picked him up from the airport.

999
01:19:08.600 --> 01:19:12.119
He was going to do a conference
here. We brought him into the studio

1000
01:19:12.439 --> 01:19:18.600
and that was an amazing podcast.
We had our boss agent right, Yeah,

1001
01:19:19.039 --> 01:19:24.199
I'm coming from Yeah he uh.
He wrote a couple of books about

1002
01:19:24.399 --> 01:19:31.399
Uh. It was like the Ring
the arsists in uh in Boston. Else

1003
01:19:31.560 --> 01:19:36.800
we have them out of town.
But yeah, he would love to go

1004
01:19:36.880 --> 01:19:45.000
pick guys up in the Kennedy.
I'll go right to Kennedy. There's a

1005
01:19:45.079 --> 01:19:53.640
drink even more due to the cold
the weather up there. Boy, yes,

1006
01:19:54.520 --> 01:19:59.079
Mark way more. There's I mean, there's there's always shrinkage. Okay.

1007
01:20:00.640 --> 01:20:06.560
I don't know who's going to argue
that there isn't it that's because okay,

1008
01:20:06.640 --> 01:20:12.720
all right, so so so Todd
Todd over here had a question about

1009
01:20:13.279 --> 01:20:16.760
about what how come so many guys
have have summer homes out of town because

1010
01:20:16.800 --> 01:20:23.199
nobody wants to live here? Right, man, come on, right,

1011
01:20:23.920 --> 01:20:27.279
who wants to be in the city. I don't I don't disagree with that.

1012
01:20:27.520 --> 01:20:31.039
Well, we have residency here in
Chicago. So if you get hired

1013
01:20:31.119 --> 01:20:35.520
on, you have to live here
in Chicago. You have to live in

1014
01:20:36.399 --> 01:20:42.960
Chicago. I got you right.
That's that's one of the things that will

1015
01:20:43.119 --> 01:20:48.279
legitimately get you fired. But yeah, yeah, so it is, it

1016
01:20:48.399 --> 01:20:50.880
is what it is, speaking living
here in Chicago. I should show you,

1017
01:20:50.920 --> 01:20:57.239
guys this casting couch that Vince has
right behind him where he lives.

1018
01:21:00.119 --> 01:21:04.079
So that's that's like an office you
guys rent somewhere or something. We're in

1019
01:21:04.199 --> 01:21:11.640
a we're in a building that houses
like artists and musicians. There's a like

1020
01:21:11.720 --> 01:21:20.319
a like a hipster like punk rock
store called The Alley Chicago. Uh yeah.

1021
01:21:20.520 --> 01:21:24.359
He the guy who owns this building
became a good friend of ours,

1022
01:21:25.000 --> 01:21:30.000
and he we were in a studio
like around the corner, which was actually

1023
01:21:30.079 --> 01:21:33.800
smaller, but then he brought his
store here to this building. And then

1024
01:21:33.880 --> 01:21:36.800
he's like, I'm gonna have to
move you guys, So we're like fuck.

1025
01:21:38.039 --> 01:21:41.880
He goes, but the place I'm
gonna the other studio that I'm moving

1026
01:21:41.920 --> 01:21:45.640
into, is bigger. And then
we got this baby, so we actually

1027
01:21:45.720 --> 01:21:47.960
looked out. Yeah, we actually
left out. I'm gonna place that houses

1028
01:21:47.960 --> 01:21:53.199
a bunch of Asian kids and Asian
wife and a couple of front three dogs.

1029
01:21:54.640 --> 01:22:00.479
That's where you say that because I
didn't really want to draw attention to

1030
01:22:00.560 --> 01:22:03.560
it. But honestly, like so, I'm I'm the chad Lu and Koob's

1031
01:22:03.600 --> 01:22:11.439
are above us on the on this
YouTube channel. Very difficult for Vince to

1032
01:22:12.199 --> 01:22:15.560
look like. Side to side is
not a problem, but but upwards a

1033
01:22:15.640 --> 01:22:19.319
little bit, a little bit more
difficult when it's Jesus Christ. You two,

1034
01:22:20.439 --> 01:22:24.840
I don't even know what you just
said. Hold on mine, but

1035
01:22:25.800 --> 01:22:30.960
but I'm an it's a bulletin.
All right, we're gonna do shout out.

1036
01:22:32.680 --> 01:22:35.960
Who's got shout out? Let's do
first and then we'll look. I

1037
01:22:36.039 --> 01:22:39.039
have one as well. You can
leave me for the end though, right

1038
01:22:39.119 --> 01:22:44.560
I want to do the Anthony the
Firefighter from I'm going to share the screen

1039
01:22:44.640 --> 01:22:51.760
right now, stand by all right, So this is uh Anthony Kelly.

1040
01:22:53.119 --> 01:22:56.000
I hope I say it right.
Kelly Endo served our country as a marine,

1041
01:22:56.039 --> 01:22:59.600
serving tours and duty in Afghanistan.
He was appointed to the fd N

1042
01:22:59.760 --> 01:23:04.039
y May of twenty nineteen and was
an active member and was assigned to Lat

1043
01:23:04.079 --> 01:23:10.560
of one fifty eight in South Queens
on April fifteenth. He never walked up

1044
01:23:10.640 --> 01:23:15.119
leaves behind his loving family, most
appartantly in eighteen month old daughter. If

1045
01:23:15.159 --> 01:23:19.479
you could share the link, spread
the word. This is his go fundme

1046
01:23:19.600 --> 01:23:24.760
page. Do we have that page? Hold on a second, I'm going

1047
01:23:24.880 --> 01:23:30.479
to check now. I don't believe
we do. His last name, Yeah,

1048
01:23:30.520 --> 01:23:33.279
have it in a text. If
you guys send us his go fund

1049
01:23:33.319 --> 01:23:36.399
the page, we'll put it up
on ours too. I'll pull it up.

1050
01:23:38.239 --> 01:23:44.960
I'm going to put it in the
description. In the description. So,

1051
01:23:45.119 --> 01:23:46.560
yeah, he only had five years, but he a couple other guys.

1052
01:23:46.840 --> 01:23:50.079
One guy emailed me on Facebook,
another guy emailed me through the web

1053
01:23:50.119 --> 01:23:54.680
page, and the guys there are
some of the guys that they watched the

1054
01:23:54.720 --> 01:23:59.039
show and he enjoyed watching the show. So I just put it in the

1055
01:23:59.159 --> 01:24:02.119
chat. Thank you to you,
Okay, the peace brother. All Right,

1056
01:24:04.239 --> 01:24:06.680
you guys have they shout outs?
Where where can they find you?

1057
01:24:06.800 --> 01:24:13.159
Guys? Uh? Anywhere that you
listen to podcasts, you can find us,

1058
01:24:13.640 --> 01:24:17.840
Uh Chicago's Bravest Stories. Uh yeahple
Spotify, Yeah, yeah, we're

1059
01:24:17.920 --> 01:24:21.640
We're on every platform. But yeah, we just want to say thank you

1060
01:24:21.720 --> 01:24:25.079
guys. We appreciate it. I
guess we're going to be doing some business

1061
01:24:25.159 --> 01:24:30.239
together. Like, yeah, I'm
going to talk to uh guys over at

1062
01:24:30.319 --> 01:24:34.560
the fire while we're talking about doing
something. We're going to be Yeah,

1063
01:24:34.720 --> 01:24:42.520
we'll we will being a little more. Yeah, so uh yeah, thank

1064
01:24:42.560 --> 01:24:45.840
you so much. I'd love to
do the color commentary with some of you

1065
01:24:45.960 --> 01:24:50.000
fellows, I think. Yeah,
all right, better bring your right game

1066
01:24:51.880 --> 01:25:03.359
you can. I A game is
my big game, all right, perfect

1067
01:25:03.439 --> 01:25:06.760
care. So I don't know how
it's coming over on your end, that's

1068
01:25:06.840 --> 01:25:11.960
fine, you know. And So
Thursday night, Thursday night, big show,

1069
01:25:15.199 --> 01:25:18.079
Thursday night, we're doing one of
our tribute shows. We're doing it

1070
01:25:18.159 --> 01:25:23.680
to Chief Gancy. His son Chris
Gancy is coming on the show, so

1071
01:25:23.880 --> 01:25:28.880
guys tune in. It's gonna be
a great show, along with pictures too.

1072
01:25:29.039 --> 01:25:35.640
Definitely, Yeah, I can't remember
his name, Chief Jonas, Thank

1073
01:25:35.680 --> 01:25:41.319
you, brave fun. Chief Jonas
is going to join us. Holy the

1074
01:25:41.399 --> 01:25:45.039
pictures. I'm not gonna drinking and
drinking great for water only here following the

1075
01:25:46.159 --> 01:25:50.560
Chief guanty and we'll have the personal
side with his son Chris Gancy. So

1076
01:25:50.760 --> 01:25:56.399
get on Thursday night. It should
be a good show. Mike, you

1077
01:25:56.479 --> 01:26:00.880
gotta shut up. It's very heart
breaking story out of Chicago, and I

1078
01:26:00.920 --> 01:26:06.640
think it's important that we mentioned this. So this is police officer Luis Westka

1079
01:26:08.439 --> 01:26:12.640
and Louis had about three years in
the job. He had just finished his

1080
01:26:12.720 --> 01:26:15.600
shift the other day. It was
in uniform heading home in his personal car

1081
01:26:15.039 --> 01:26:18.399
when he was stopped and carjacked.
He tried to fight his attackers off.

1082
01:26:19.000 --> 01:26:23.000
They shot and killed him. Numerous
rounds were fired. He was shot I

1083
01:26:23.079 --> 01:26:27.119
believe six times. They stole his
service weapon, stole his car, and

1084
01:26:28.079 --> 01:26:30.560
officers responded to reports of a shot
spotter and it went off in the area

1085
01:26:30.600 --> 01:26:35.039
and that's when they found him,
still in full uniform. Leaves behind parents

1086
01:26:35.079 --> 01:26:39.239
and I believe a girlfriend. They
still haven't found his killers yet, but

1087
01:26:39.279 --> 01:26:42.479
I just wanted to take a second
and honor his memory by shouting him out.

1088
01:26:43.079 --> 01:26:47.039
Thanks Mikey. I think his birthday
is tomorrow or thirty one years old.

1089
01:26:47.760 --> 01:26:50.399
Find those fuckers. He cut the
bulls off. That's what you needed

1090
01:26:50.399 --> 01:26:57.880
to just saying yeah, in three
days, I can't think this kid.

1091
01:26:58.000 --> 01:27:01.800
He sounds like he was a sweetheart
and uh and again from God above and

1092
01:27:01.880 --> 01:27:09.000
beyond the way of duty to to
do what he cooked for the City can't

1093
01:27:09.039 --> 01:27:12.640
say enough about him. He fought
till the end. He did. Brother,

1094
01:27:13.680 --> 01:27:16.640
I hope the Knicks fight to the
end. Yeah, the three r

1095
01:27:16.760 --> 01:27:20.560
fellas. Thanks for coming on,
Vince, Corey, Mike, thanks for

1096
01:27:20.600 --> 01:27:23.960
filling it for Gonzo. You'll be
filling it for a week, right,

1097
01:27:24.000 --> 01:27:26.199
He's going away. You get a
couple of weeks of MC, you know,

1098
01:27:26.239 --> 01:27:28.840
then you'll get sick of me inevitably, and then he'll be back right

1099
01:27:29.159 --> 01:27:32.520
right when you start to get sick
of all right, boys, guys,

1100
01:27:32.560 --> 01:27:36.039
we'll see you to meet you,
guys, move coops, Mike, thank

1101
01:27:36.079 --> 01:27:41.479
you so much. Pleasure. We'll
hanging up here all right, guys,

1102
01:27:41.520 --> 01:27:44.159
we'll see you Thursday night. Until
then, stay loan yo. All right,

1103
01:27:44.199 --> 01:27:45.960
everybody, we'll see it the big
one. Thanks again. Going on

1104
01:27:45.119 --> 01:27:49.000
behalf of the Chicago's Bravest podcast,
Luis Frano and Kevin Coober and Mike Cologne.

1105
01:27:49.079 --> 01:27:51.720
I'll see you next time. Stay
salty, my friends, and be

1106
01:27:51.800 --> 01:27:54.680
advised the tones are dropping. Good
night,