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Hello, Hello, Rob Procaccini providing me and Ruffi with some pictures on
our thirteen hour ride to Indianapolis. Thank you, Rob Procaccini. You're not
gonna say what they want. We're gonna thank him anyway. You know,
when thet I took up all of about after that, we looked at the
pictures. We only had two while twelve hours and forty nine Yeah, yeah,
so thanks, we appreciate it. Welcome back Getting Told the Experience podcast
Tonight. We bring two, not one, but two fire house kitchen tables
to you. But you know, maybe I have a little opposing you gotta
get the banjos. But she isn't done the banjos, you know what I
mean? Only you we got the Chicago guys. I can't say, we
can't say Chicago, Illinois. You ill hit us at that one pretty good.
Oh, by the way, we got the Illinois guys on and uh
who is it? Cory and Vince, Miekya, Vince and Mike again showing
the pipes. He did that, no sparing, just scratching. It's like
this, I gotta crook in my hold on, hold on, so if
I see Coopy, how was that boy out there? Oh? We did
meet the people. We met so many freaking people. I can't even tell
you. I gotta give this young man a shout out, Jeremy Yankst from
Covington Fire and Rescue, Covington, Ohio. Just in the nick of time,
we were running out of vodka. We were almost in pen on it,
and he dropped off a couple of bottles of teet up to the booth.
Otherwise we want to continue that that we had gone. I actually I
just ran upstairs because a couple of guys, as you know, they were
giving us so much stuff. But these these were pretty funny. So this
one here, I showed you this one right, coops. This is Dalton's
mom Salsa. This is Firefighter owns. Twenty five percent of profits helped to
support first respondmental health and scan. Here it says for sexy picks of Dalton's
Mom. What. Yeah, I didn't do it yet, but I got
to check that out so well, Dalton's Mom Salsa dot com. And then
this was another one. This was another guy that we were helping with the
shirts and he it's veteran owned. This was Oh, that's right, the
cookie guys, Confetti confetti cookie mix. Coops was going to get this one,
but it had sugar, so I got it. And uh, of
course the name of the thing is thick, crispy and gooey, which I
don't know if that's a great name for a fight apartment fire baked Cookies.
His the name of the company Gooey. I don't know how good they are
anyway. Next stops is going to be Harrisburg dinner with Gabe Fox. He's
buying. You don't know yet, but you know that's how it goes.
We did good, so pizza Cutter is like a motherfucker out there, the
good pizza Cutters flying all over the place. There's a lot of stuff flying.
Thank god, Thank god cools, thank god. We got rid of
the underwear, the slides and stuff that Rookie want. I thought it was
gonna have a car and areo. I think that got get rid of the
underwear shit. I was happy to get rid of that stuff. Was good.
We got another podcast. They got a podcasts, these guys from Chicago.
So I told him the oles bought. No hurt feelings, you you
know, So get it out in the open. You want to make fun
of my crooked nose? Did you did you actually watch the podcast? Coops?
I did? Did you? Uh? How did it go for you?
Well? I got to tell you you found it by mistake. I
tell you the truth by happenstance, Mike, Yes, happen. Actually,
I was so happy, you know. Pull up that video, man yourself.
We should wait for them to come in because I want to get their
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go. You know what. You gotta switches around, Mike because guys their
ocd's kicking and Lou was usually on the left. I'm usually on the right.
Guys are losing this shit. Thanks so by the way, me,
Lou, I don't think there was one day except for the day that we
left, that we were sober in the booth. Fat Daddy Ray was there.
Vince from Armatuff was there, right, awesome guy. We love Vince.
Quick story about Vince Vince's uh I invited you guys at the dinner.
You're like you did when he was well. I sent Louis a text to
get his email to ask him out to dinner. Why the did you just
question ask him out to dinner? It was like this, It was like
you know, it was like, he was like this. You have to
fucking text the guy to get his email, so you know, why don't
you just text him to get his email, to email him for his mailing
address so you can mail an invitation to dinner? Why did you just do
that? Then you're cheap? Fuck you? Yeah? Why you curse him
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had a good time at him and we picked up a ship ton of guests
coming up right rough. We did lot shooting the guy with the biggest balls
around possibly we got I got his date. I got a date from he
said, the guy Kansas City. Where is that Louisville. The guy,
the the guy who was on the rope came by a booth. He's coming
on the show. Yeah, we got him before we get too far into
the week. Let's get up, buddies. In here, got old Vincent
Corey from uh, what's that again? Chicago? What Chicago's bravest stories?
Right right right up? Sorry, actually very funny, guys. You can't
say Chicago. I'm listen looking forward to them to break my balls. Bring
him in here, let's do it right, you're right coming to the stage.
We got Vince and Corey from Chicago bravest story stories. You know what
you noticed that Chicago in there by the way, it's uh brave the stories
prop. Welcome to the store, so right, Corey, Big Corey on
the right backwards sounds like how it's turn and we got big Vince on the
left, you know. Welcome to the show, fellas. Hey, glad
to be here. I'm glad to actually finally talk to you guys. I've
been hearing nothing. But you guys should do like the getting salty guys,
or you should do this like the getting salty guys. Bunch of assholes is
getting salty guys. Don't worry about it, man. So, uh,
before before we get any further, we got to get patriotic. We have
to do the pledge. Mikey, I'm sorry, and you know that's Fine's
that's part of the show. Here. It is, I pledge allegiance to
the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic, for which
it stands, one nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all.
And there they go, good job. Do you guys have a third
guy? He couldn't make it out. Yeah, our buddy Steve is normally
on the podcast with us too, but he couldn't make it out tonight.
All right. So there's a lot of heavy duty in perfect So they tell
you, guys, right, you don't have h you don't have a steady
day that you come on right only, like you said, you kind of
track down the interested. You're right. Yeah, I was just thinking,
like, these guys have a podcast. They sound like they're from our space.
I'm thinking to myself, and that's freaking awesome. Oh my god,
found not not good through you guys. Uh, sounds like you're okay,
sounds like you're in the submarine swinging. I wish I was mentioned earlier submarine
right now, Yeah, it's not that one that was operated with the PS
five controller. What happened? Yeah, no, not that one. We
uh so you don't. Yeah, we're sorry. We're a little bit out
of sorts. There's generally on our podcast a little bit less shoulders that we
show on our podcast. So we're just not sure, you know, a
little bit out of sorts here on the side we shoulders. Could you guys
read that? Can you see that? I'm listening to the baseball game in
nineteen ninety four on AM radio. It is high, it is far,
it is high, it is far, it is gone. So U now,
Corey, you work for what the pop? And you you're a suburb
outside of a figure right? Yeah? We uh we're on man, I
I bordered the West side Chicago. I'm I'm in a suburb called Elmwood Park.
Is how long you on a job? Right? I think I got?
I got twelve complete? Twelve complete. You're on an engine, you
want a ladder, you want to rescue? What are on? I'm on
a truck? Yeah, I'm litten on a truck there. Oh he's an
officer too. He left that out. I mean, listen, I'm not
looking for a salute, but obviously I wouldn't turn it down either. You
know, that's one small pizza cutter from man one giant pizza cutter from mankind.
Right, baby, that's pretty funny. So how how big is that
department? Man? That's smaller? We uh, we got thirty two guys.
We got medics every day, we got one of emails that we run,
and then we run a truck an engine, and then we got a
command car with the captain. Okay, and how did you meet each other?
Well, it's your classic story, boy meets boy, boy falls in
love. Yummy. No, we so me events, yeah, me events.
When we first met each other, we were both working. Uh we
were both working in the ambulance kind of in that same neighborhood, like the
West suburbs of Chicago. And uh, yeah, we just catch each other
at the hospital. We've been buddies for a long time. Then we finally
finally got this party together. Right then, Yeah, we kind of hooked
up at a con ed when they came out to the place where I was
working as a fireman, like some pals or and Pepper or something like that,
Right, And I was like, hey, if you guys heard a
podcast about out the stories that you heard at the firehouse, but heard it
from the guy himself, would you listen to it? And him and the
other guy who is our partner here who's missing. They're like, yeah,
we should do that like tomorrow, and off we went. How long ago
is that? It was going on four years? Right? Yeah? Yeahs
think for about four years now the report. Yeah, you guys, So
it's usually take thank you. You guys are really taking the whole brought to
this one. Usually it's us that's all right, well we can we can
hand up. I thought they'd be giving you, uh, you know,
you've got the muscle shirt there, kubs. I thought, uh, you
got the muscle shirt today? What the muscle's coming tomorrow? I hope it's
not that David Crockett. I hope you don't have shot. You got a
load the musket polls, you know what I mean? Another that's a good
one. Hold on one of these. Where is its comment? First there
was space Balls, the space nozzle he had that one was wait for that
one change. I'll come on you. So you did watch the podcast,
right, I told you? Oh right, I'm sorry, I be remiss
if I didn't say that. Mike, Yes, I the podcast out,
Uh just play the tape. Yeah, here we go, as Warner Wolf
would say, since it sounds like they're on the radio night, let's go
to the videotape. I'm exhausted, man, I need a nap. I
think I'll do what he used to do in the firehouse. I'm gonna put
on good old Bob Ross. See if I get him on the TV and
make taking that night winter type scene especially to do let's start out, brought
all the colors across the screen, the truly to pay this. Damn.
I can't fall asleep, not even Bob's working ship. I gotta taking that.
Man. What else did I find? And then what's those bravest stories?
I was, Yeah, the towers fell. We were in the academy.
I remember Chief. Do you remember Chief Martin? It's his face.
I love my own jokes. By the way, just for you joke,
I was pretty fun. Cope said that to me this afternoon. Man.
I was crying. Man, I said, that's pretty good. It would
be interested. I couldn't help but notice that the camera is shaken a little
bit, and we couldn't see the lower half. Is that frowned upon?
I don't know. I'll tell you it puts me right to sleep. You're
right, what do you? What are you taking in the cory? What
do you got? You got me a little little John Jameson here. We
like to call this to talk to you. Know, you guys are about
the guys right, Oh look at you, fella, Louise uh of a
right bourbon mm hmm. Yeah. We normally we normally drink bourbon here,
yeah, on the show. But you guys are so sulky. We decided
to go vodka. Yeah, you got to thin out the salt, I
know you. Yeah, thank you guys, So cos I just drank the
last like five days in a row. So so coops when you you when
you to me that these guys were coming on, I didn't know too much
about them, so I did a little research myself, you did. I
looked it up. I said, you know, let me see the about
us page on the Chicago's Bravest dot com right. So, I didn't know
if you know this, but the crew at Chicago's Bravest Stories are real life
firefighters and paramedics, almost like the cheese you know, like sometimes you get
cheese. It has real cheese, you know, like you And then our
mission at Chicago's Braver Stories is to bring a positive light, not that one
the other one, a positive light to the nation's fire responders. Well documenting
and memorial liesuralsingalising. The audience will see it momentarily. They don't have spell
check in uh on the other guy, but they do. They do bring
these stories of historical facts to you through a fun and relaxed atmosphere. In
long form discussion, memorialsing, that's what it is. Memorial zing, memorials
in memorial memorial zing, in long form discussion. Wow, what the hell
is long what is cool? What have you ever discussed? Hence forthing?
Lou your hends forcing fourth? All right, I just I wasn't sure what
long I haven't. I don't think I've have a long form discussed discussed anything
you long dicked anything. That's a different question. I was just looking for.
I got nothing. I got. I got That's all I got your
Daivy Crockett. So let's get serious. Who are some of the guys that
you had on? Like, who are somebody Chicago? You know a couple
of we had on hobjack Off, Mitch Kruker and Timothy and Bob Hoff.
Yeah, yeah, you had the top dog himself on your show. I
was fortunate enough to uh be in the department when right when I got on,
Chief Off was still the commissioner, and so I got to work with
him for a short time. He retired right after I came on, But
the department is so much different now, and it just was a cool thing
that to actually meet him, because he's an historic icon in the fire Service.
So to be able to say that I worked for him, it's a
really cool thing that you know, I hold dear to my heart. Yeah,
any time you go anywhere and that guy's name is dropped, it's always
just accolades and accolades and what a great guy and what he did for the
department, and and you can't they can't say enough about that guy. So
you got a chance to work with him. That's every one of those guys
half Timothy, uh Crooker Croker, right, I mean, every one of
those guys is one better than the next. Charges We've been so lucky to
have those guys on our show as well like that, you know, they're
brothers right. They constantly texting us all the time every time we see him,
you know, Chief Timothy. You know, I'm surprised he's not in
the chat tonight. All of them are great guys, and the crooker was
in the chat. Just retired, right, yeah, retired recently. Yeah,
yeah, yep. We got a couple of them coming on to coming
down the pike. Oh, we got the uh just talked to the captain.
He was a captain of rescue services. Maloney is that his name?
Yeah, might know him his past, I know hims. Chief. I
don't know. Well if you if you're trying to narrow down Maloney in the
fire service you yeah, yeah, yeah, good point. Yeah, it's
about eight thousand. Yeah, we got to go middle and there on that
one. We Uh. One of my favorite jokes around here is that,
you know, uh, Chief Off was you know, he's obviously a Chicago
guy, and I'm always firing off that he likes to do New York podcast
before he does he does the Chicago one. Yeah, he's a big New
York guy. Mister christ you're going to go there. Hey, we got
some love by thanks William. Yeah. We honestly, guys, we've had
some We've had some pretty great guys around on our end from from this area.
You know, we've had a couple, uh, a couple of old
Tiber firemens. Some of the we've had, like, you know, guys
that maybe you guys would be familiar with, like Kevin Casey, who was
in the movie Backdraft, which you guys had to have seen, you guys
in the fire Service, so you've definitely seen it. And yeah, he
was a longtime guy in Chicago. He did over thirty I think, didn't
he Uh yeah, yeah, I think thirty two years. Maybe he was.
He was one of the guys when you were joking about like getting uh
getting guys on the zoom. It was one of the guys like on the
way into the podcast, I gotta like scrape them off the floor of a
pub to bring them in and you did, yeah, and and got the
But again, like these guys, these guys been around for so long that
like I mean, even if I get an ounce of like what is to
be a good fireman from this guy, I feel like I feel a little
bit better about going into work the next day. You know, you know,
we said to them, like they got to get these stories on tape,
because once they've gone, those stories are you know, you don't want
That's why hand stories. You want these stories told and preserved. The general
Well, that's why it was so important for us to have our chaplain on
Father tom'crone, because there are people on our department right now who don't
even know who he is, and he's gone through what eight mayors, wow,
and just the things that he's The stories that he told on our podcast
just blew me away. And I think Father Tom was our second second or
third podcast, And once we had Father Tom on, I kind of got
an idea of the importance of capturing those stories, like you're saying, like
archive them for people who are in the fire service now to listen to how
things used to be back in the day. There's a good chance those four
years and those fires that ain't even coming back broll that tenacity of the fire
I mean, who did so much with little equipment? Bro, I mean
no masks, blue jeans, pull up boots. They were going to fire
at the fire have to fall. So you're not you're not going to have
that. You gotta preserve that, are you guys just doing Chicago only?
I was no, no, no, no, no, we had a
guy I think, right, Oh yeah, well we have we have the
oak Oldma City guy. That's what I meant. I'm sorry. Yeah,
yeah, oh you yeah. We had your guy who did a roof rope
rescue, Brian Quinn. Uh. Years ago. We had him on uh
for a quick podcast. Uh. He was such a great guy. He
was really great to hear U a younger guy still have that old school mentality.
It was. It was really cool having Brian on. Chicka Roots was
the other one too, Oh chick Rotis Yeah, we saw him at in
Yeah. Yeah, mister Chicago Fire himself. Yeah, man, yeah,
are you are you guys similar to the way we do theodcast, like you're
just going through the guys timeline type of thing. What do you guys do?
Yeah, we so we When we first started, we'd start from the
beginning of their career and work our way the current time. But as we
started doing more podcasts, we're kind of seeing it. There are people who
will look at how long a podcast is because sometimes that in the beginning,
it would be a two and a half hour or three hour podcasts, so
it took so long to get to the meat of the podcast. So now
we kind of sprinkle in a lot of the good stuff and then like revisit
the history so that it keeps everything fresh, like a Tarantino film. Yeah
there, Tarantino. Yeah. You know, as long as you're still getting
the story, it seems like the order isn't as important if you're if you're
getting because maybe this guy did something this way because of what he experienced or
what he went through earlier on in his career. So if it's relevant,
we'll flash back to the beginning. But we just feel like it's more entertaining
that way, and we capture the audience for longer that way, kind of
just brushing over sophomore shop class and then you know, zip back to what
he's on. Yeah, yeah, it seems to be I mean I like
it too. So that's really the most support thing. If we're entertained,
then somebody else is going to be entertained. Do you you guys do training
videos too or anything like that or just mostly interviews. We've done training videos
for our sponsors. We don't we don't really dabble into that. Uh.
We've always said when we started the podcast that nobody's tuning in to listen to
us. We're just the storytellers and we're just facilitate. People want to hear
who our guests have to say, so kind of Evince fourteen with the yeah,
it's I've been fortunate enough to be at a busy company my whole career,
so hopefully i'll when I get twenty, I can start slowing down.
But I've been at the Academy the past two years as an instructor, and
we just moved to a new training facility, which reminds me that when I
got down to the Academy, I was looking to see things about the Rock
and that's how I stumbled upon you guys when you guys did your video with
you going to your training center in New York and that facility is amazing.
Yeah, and that's why I was like, oh man, that's how that's
who these guys are. Huh. When you guys went there and that such
a cool facility took us out of the from from jack Boss, so hey,
these guys ain't bad something like that. I thought you were Jagos.
She just had a really cool video. We can still be Jackos will always
don't change for us. The audio sounds like water hitting a stats piece.
On the jap. Okay, it must be the internet connection, because you
guys sound good to us and that's coming through our headphones. Good. Yeah,
So where do they find your podcast? I would imagine on YouTube and
speaker Spotify, yeah, I mean Spotify, Apple, anywhere you listen to
the podcast. We're still like updating everything on our YouTube. We didn't even
really start uploading too much to YouTube until recently, so we're still getting caught
up on our YouTube. The episode yeah, total, I think we're going
on seventy. I think we just we just did an episode with our Children's
burn Camp guys who were amazing camp I am me, which they like,
I said, it's just a children's burnt camp and they have pediatric burn victims
go and they just have a great day of like just in a camp like
atmosphere with other burn victims, and it was just amazing to hear their stories
and stuff like that that we do the podcast, which which obviously was was
like a bummer, but like it was cool getting to talk to like guys
that were on the job and kind of kind of going through their stories as
they went through and then and then we were able to kind of circle into
like their experiences at the burn camp, and all of a sudden, we're
you know, all of a sudden, you have you got two idiots like
us kind of fucking tearing up a little bit, and I go, okay,
this it's a it's a pretty nice thing you guys are doing. Mm
hm. You guys planning on I mean, obviously you've evolved since the beginning.
What your plans looking at for the future, going to do more shows
or you Well, I can tell you what. One of our first plans
is to fix the spell checking on that website. I think that's job.
That's why he's not in the spouse. Was able to make it out tonight
unfortunately. Yeah, I mean I personally want to just there. When we
started this, we told, you know, I told these guys, I'm
like, we're never going to run out of stories because stories are being,
you know, made every single day. We just got to find them.
And we get a lot of help from our listeners saying, hey, you
should have this guy on, you should have that guy on, and so
we'll kind of vet him and you guys know what it's like, if you
hear something about somebody, you're only a couple of people away from finding out
who this guy is. Yeah, well, we don't like doesn't like to
take emails from people. Say no, this is what I you should get
this guy on a lot of that, right, And then I write back
to the guy after he says, hey should get this guy on, I
write back, Hey, do you know the guy? Can you get me
his contact information? He's like, I don't know. I'm like, dude,
what are you doing? What are you doing? Probably guys everybody.
Yeah, I was just gonna say on top of on top of the guys
the email and say, hey, I knew a fireman from Chicago once.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, oh yeah, dude, you cannot
even imagine the emails that I you know, and listen, I have gotten
a lot of guys from emails too, right. I'm not saying that the
guy will say, hey, listen, I got a guy for you.
He did forty years, you know, burning his face off in Detroit,
and this is his number, this is my number. Reach out to me.
I already told him about it. He's interested. Done. Yeah,
that's how you say. That's how you send an email. You don't say,
hey, get this guy on. And I you know, I took
a train class with him, you know, twenty five years ago. He
was great, Hey, do's you get Captain Morris? Really, no shit,
I would have never thought of that. Actually, get Captain Morris for
the show. Thank you. I got an email like that the other day.
Actually I thought of you lived. Yeah, he did, got of
guys, put your number his number. Let me know that you already spoke
to him. He'll probably be on the show, you know what I mean.
But right, and you know again, like you guys know, like
these guys, there's so many guys out there, there's so many stories,
and like you know, just just a matter of nailing it down and figuring
out who's in the neighborhood and who we can get out. And I mean,
you guys said, it's nice. You guys got the video calling thing
where you guys can kind of reach out. But we've always tried to kind
of get people in this studio, which is always a little bit of an
undertaking. Guys. Some guys moved to Florida. This guy's here, this
guy's there, it's talking. I know, you're definitely limiting yourself. Plus
lou lives only upstate. I live on the island. So we did a
couple like that, the first in the living room when when COVID hit,
it actually worked out for us. And I think that's why the show kind
of morphed into a little bit of something because people were stuck home. And
then we you know, working remote and being remote kind of you know,
now we're just a Brady bunch, you know. You go, Corey,
I knew somebody who's gonna catch hold on, hold on a minute, this
guy, you know, the guy I knew they were going to get onto
you the beginning, you know, boo a little baby Seth, little Sethrogan
for you. Hey, you guys get who's your favorite guest? A lot
when you guys have when people talk to you, you get who's your favorite
guests? I get emails, you know, guys saying, uh, you
know who they like the best? You know, could you get a part
two on or something like that. Yeah, And then to times I'll throw
it to the Koubes and you know, sometimes we do have a guy.
You know, listen, you can't stick thirty forty years into into two hours,
you know what I mean. We kind of stick to a two hour
thing, so you you know, you can't fit especially anything he has eight
million stories and yeah, calamari love the guy. So who is who is
your who's your big fish? Like, who are you trying to get?
Who is the guy that you've been trying to get that he just keeps alluding
it. I mean, it shouldn't be obvious who that is. Who we
haven't had on in a podcast called Chicago's Favorite Story. You guys had them
it's about it's about half oh, Bob Hoff, I'll call Bobby for you.
I'll spare it away, don't worry about it. And we've talked to
him and it's not like he hasn't agreed to come on. He's so busy
man, trying to put our schedules together with his schedules. It's nearly impossible,
right right, that's why you got to do the remote thing. Yeah.
Yeah, but you know, like it's just not the same feel when
we're sitting here in the studio we're having a glass of whiskey. I don't
know if you guys have the same thing. But once we finish a podcast,
we like become really good friends with these guys who walk out of here
never meeting them until we've done the podcast. So some of our really good
friends to this day where people because they came into this studio. We've had
that too, Captain just with Captain Rotans now we talked about every day every
other day. Or there are guys that you talk to a lot now,
right, Nicol asks me all the time, and so you definitely become close
with the guys. There's no doubt about that. I'll tell you I was
actually gonna ask you guys. Another another guy i'd like to have on I'm
just now telling Vince about this now, but another guy i'd love to have
on New York guy Ray mccorman. Have you guys had him? We have
not had him yet. No, the Great White Whale. Yeah, yeah,
he's. I mean he's He's definitely one that's up there. You know.
I took a couple of classes with him and he's, uh, you
know everything that I'm getting from him. He's a he's a hard charger and
a good dude that I'd like to talk to get a little bit more info
on see a bro of h two. Oh you the Sultan was the other
one. Oh fuck, uh, I don't remember that, dude, I
remember. Do you ever get the emails? I get these emails sometimes give
me guy gives me his whole fucking career and why he should be on the
shelf. I love those. I'm always a little Larry. I always kind
of throw the flag when somebody's saying, oh, by the way, you
know, I got a good guess and it's me, you know what I
mean? I'm like, I don't know the Wizard of Water, thanks Gabe,
which I'm not. I'm not opposed to it, but you know what,
I could be a good show words. By the way, the water
is coming on the Salty Wire. He's doing three two or three training episodes
on Engine Ops, the Wizard of Water catch It, and Mike Millner was
coming on to do a may Day training episode. Oh hey, Michael,
what are you talking about with these majors talking about Michael? The standpipe?
On the stand pipe? Ye? What? Let me ask you guys,
what's uh you're of the guests that you guys have from Chicago, What's what's
on the best Chicago stories you guys got? You're the fucking have you gotta
tell you? Man, fucking Mitch told some of the funniest fucking stories.
Man, Like he could have been on there for five hours telling stories and
some stories because because they were beating on him because he was so short,
right, because he was so short. Funny, funny. I mean they
were all good though. Chicka Rows had stories, but just entertaining. Timothy
had real hot charging and he don't take ship. We still see him as
another guy. Yeah, we see him a lot, like all the time.
You know what that that was the common denominated with those all four of
those guys, was that you could have just plug and played right. They
were all the same guy. They all were in busy places like their whole
Korea. They they really were like a chief that I would want to have.
Like, they didn't take no ship. They expected everything from you,
but you know, they let you slide a little bit maybe on the bullshit,
you know, and uh, it just seemed like they were like old
school chiefs. You know, there's no doubt about that. So that was
that was bad. Yeah, exactly exactly. Yeah. They had high expectations
of what you were supposed to do when it got time to go to work.
And I think we're out don't know if you guys noticed that by you,
but just the fire Service alone, I think we're we're losing some of
that that grit. Oh. Yeah, those old guys brought to the table.
And you know, I'm all for advancing the fire service and you know,
advancing it forward, and you know, change isn't necessarily bad, but
there's certain things that we should keep. One guy told us on the podcast
that all he needs are good guys and some balls and he can put out
any fire. And you know that's all they really cared about back then.
You know, there was no policy. Right now, there you go,
there, there you go, general. Right, we learned about having guys
from all over the country too. The different terminologies was still buggies. You
guys call them buggies, right, the chiefs have buggies. Yeah, that's
what you know, even the differences at the at the core the role,
the fucking same tone drop tone drop what Mike? Yeah, good events?
What you say? Yeah, you guys don't use terminologies like still in box
and stuff like that. Right, Uh, we use box we go.
Uh, we'll say your old lady box. Oh maybe your old lady's box
too, a little different. Yeah, no, I got h I'll tell
you what. Speaking speaking of the plug and play ship on our end,
speaking of my old lady's box, I thought we said it's a gentleman show,
so you're right, right, right right. I you know what,
one of my favorite things I ask every single guy that comes on, uh,
towards the end of the show, I ask every guy what their best
ball bust is, what their best firehouse prank is? How about you guys
have a couple of good ones. You guys, ever remember any of the
old field pranks you guys were thrown out the firehouse? Your favorite one was
if you could talk about Oh, you know Coobs was doing some ship mine
was at the time that movie was it Waiting? We did the goat like
if you came around that guys, guys would have like I would come up
the stairs for a tour and on the stairs and turn the corner and blaze.
The guy's name his Blaze. He would be on a chair backwards with
his balls hanging out, so you'd walk right into his fucking ball and then
if you look at his balls they get the kicks in again. Yeah,
that went off for about a month, the new guys with these things hanging
down. Oh would we send the new guy to the fucking gold room to
get a tool or something, and all the life would be out the door
would be locked, and when you open the door, there's a guy's fucking
ball bag hanging right in his face. Bro To. That always always made
me laugh all time was when you had the gallon of milk, you always
would put like a little hole right before the spout, so that when you
started to pour it, the milk would spit out the hole before they got
to the spout to pour into your coffee. I mean, it never gets
all especially you know, to see the chief or somebody comes down to do
it. And then the other one was they would take like a raccoon tail
and put it in the freezer and tie it to the to the inside of
the door so that when you open the freezer door, out yet like an
ice cream it would you know, a short short the fishing line, it
would come shooting right out at you. And I tell you, I mean
obviously if people knew about it, right, but it was always the detail
or somebody they would say, hey, dude, there's ice cream in there.
If you want you always go over there. The other guys told who
the one guy hit a dog. You killed the dog, and the next
day they took the dog and they fucking duct taped the dead dog to the
guy's steering wheel in the car. The shelf is steering. Well, yeah,
yeah, yeah, Well one of our favorite podcasts that we've done.
The guy who actually caught a little girl off a banger ladder, caught her
in mid air as she she was eight years old. She they were jumping
from a fire floor and he caught her mid air. And yeah, you
guys, if you guys are ever looking for another SETI guy, let us
know, we'll fire him over to you. He was a Squad two.
Well he's a Squad five guy, but he like early in his career,
he was a hunter. And there's a firehouse over on like the north side
of Chicago, and he they it butts up to a forest preserve. So
he goes there with his bowl and winds up shooting one of the raccoons,
not knowing that that particular raccoon that he shot was the house mascot. And
so one of my favorite stories. Yeah, so is he still on the
job. He just retired. Two will go. Yeah, if you want
to know, we'll get He's you'll love guy, you love one of my
favorite guys. Now another coming in now the coming in the fucking chat hot
and plastic wrapping on the toilet bowl is another good one. Uh, you
put your over some when you sit down and dump in as catch your packets
underneath the standos and the toilet seat. Yeah yeah, Matt. Matt used
to leave one right in there, just for you. Oh my god.
I used to when I had when I drove, but I was onlight duty.
I drove my brother last year on the job. He was a deputy
chief. I used to go in his bathroom, turn the water off,
flush it to be in the water, and take a giant fucking turd,
so just the turd, no water, and he couldn't and he couldn't flush
it. We put, we put, we put shrimps. He used to
put shrimp in the engine apartment, like if it was a company that you
didn't. He ran in with and they were always you put it, just
throwing it, you know, open the lid, throw into the shrimp on
the engine compartment. You know, it's pretty pretty good. What the hell
was happening the shrimp? That's a that's a long joke because it takes a
while. Takes a while. Oh yeah, they don't know what's going on,
they do, They smell it the carriers, you know, the postal
carriers. They had to have smelled it the ship. Yeah, we put
them in a beaker. Oh I think the fire man. Oh my god.
Oh, hey Jack Bigs, Hey Mauricio. We had we had an
old timer over by us that was he was cutting peppers, who was considered
was cutting peppers, and he did something, uh, he did something where
after he got done, cuddie and he went to the bathroom and he comes
out and he's like, ah, oh my god, I didn't wash my
hands after I was cutting the peppers. My dick's burning right now, it's
burning real bad. And we're like, oh, listen, lou. The
only way to get that feeling is you have to take white bread and you
have to rub it on your balls and dick and it takes away the feeling.
And so you just hear this guy in the bathroom just just it's not
working yet, it's not working at it. He just kept on rubbing him,
kept on rubbing with the white Brad's I think I need another piece of
bread working. He had this guy going for a while. Here's a good
one. Yeah. And one of his first jobs, the lieutenant was testing
and asking for the give me the can while you go do something, and
Louis gave him the can and Lieutenant threw it down the hole and said,
don't give you a tool. That's my that's my old lieutenant, right.
I never gave up my tool after that. Kid. Hey, Chicago,
Chicago has Tiller Riggs. No, no, not anymore. No Tiller Riggs.
There's uh, there's a couple outside outside of the city. We had
a couple of guests on Cicerre, Illinois. I think they got one still,
and then uh where else? I thought Niles used to have one.
I don't know that one. I can't remember last time I saw Tiller Rigg.
Yeah it's been a while, do you guys, You guys still got
him, right? Yeah? Yeah? Well hey, listen, I want
to ask you guys. So, so normally when we're going into our podcast,
we kind of do a little bit of introduction, I mean, just
just because we haven't gotten anything formal. Dude, lou coops, can we
get like, where are you guys from? Where'd you guys get set up?
At? Set up? How we mean? Well, when you guys
started, you guys both started obviously, you guys both at K and why
who's one did you get on? Oh? When there? Oh you mean
on the job, that's what you're talking about. Yeah, So Louis and
I have been friends for like forty three years. We grew up together.
We went to the same grammar school, high school, college, then we
wound up in the same finals. Yeah. Well yeah, no shit,
Louis got onto college. Yeah, believe it or not, bro, I
dropped out. Louis got on two and a half or three years before me.
He got in ninety two three, Right, he got on like two
years before me. I got in ninety five. Uh. Now we wound
up when they started a new company, special operations, the squad. We
both went there and uh I stayed there for the rest of my career and
Louie we got promoted, went to one O three two ninety and then came
back to the squad and I drove him as my lieutenant. And that's the
story in a nutshell. Well, see, that's the other thing like here,
And we never used the term chauffeur. And that's that's your engineer,
your driver, right, yep, right, No matter no matter what,
anybody behind the wheel is considered a chauffeur, correct. That's interesting. I
like to use it when I'm jagging guys, I mesha, I'm like,
you're the fucking chauffeur. Sit in the fucking right there you go. Bro.
Do you guys have snorkels? Yeah, every day. They don't really
call it a snorkel. Uh. That would be our squad, the squad
has in the city. We only have a handful of snorkels for the squads,
but your your I don't want to say regular ladder truck. We don't
have anything like that. It's just for the squads. Yeah. The city
Chicago has what they have five or six squads. That would be five five
squads and yeah, and so like the squads kind of like they operate city
wide, and so like if there's a big thing going on the West side
of Chicago, or if there's a big thing going on the South side or
north side, wherever, wherever it is in the city, these five different
squads will respond from where they're at. And and the squads are two piece,
I think, right, yeah, yeah, they'll all together. One
of them has one of one of the two ones, one's a snorkel with
a with a pretty big cab. And then what you guys. I think
it would be something similar to what you guys would call like a rescue or
something like that. Okay, but we have squads, so oh okay,
Yeah, I was trying to sort that all out when we had your when
we had Brian quinn on trying to run me through the whole set up there.
But uh, you know, we just had a guy, uh who
was He came out of the academy, he went right to the squad and
spent his whole career there. He just retired a couple of months ago actually,
and he wound up being one of the guys on the TV show Chicago
Fire, Tony Ferrars. He came in and he had a couple of really
interesting fires where I mean he got he got sucked up on a few.
He's coming. I think he's coming on our show. You're you're gonna get
Tony. Yeah, he he he Yeah. He was a great guy for
us, just you know, a guy who only went to fires his whole
career, you know that, Jack He talked, Uh, he'll get back
to me. Oh, mister fucking busy guy. Huh, he's busy.
He's out of town. Uh. So I got to test him. Well,
yeah, he's great guy, really good podcast. And there's some videos
where he actually sent us where he got hurt. We have the video from
the actual fire where he got hurt. Actually two videos of the fires where
he actually got hurt. So it's interesting. If you go back to uh,
like our social media, you can find those videos of Tony. I
think those are on our YouTube as well. You guys, uh, you
guys have a drink on this thing or what do you and you're in the
Oval office over there is athing? Uh has he ever happen over there?
We just came back from a week of drinking every day out there now,
drinking water every day. Did did you guys check out when you guys were
at ft I C. Did you check our buddies over at at the Art
Foundation at or were you guys laying low? What foundation is right here?
So one of our buddies, he I'm sure you heard of them. They
operate, Uh, he operates a Facebook that's hitting it hard from the yard
group. You ever heard them? Yep, guys, Yeah, so,
uh yeah, that's one of our buddies out here and out here in the
Chicago area and uh yeah, yeah, he's he's actually Vince is wearing wearing
a shirt they Yeah, it's the basically the abbreviation of your Yard. Oh
all right, yeah so yeah, yeah, it's kind of like a parody
page that they run on on Facebook where there's kind of jagging guys off.
And but their charitable organization is the Yard Foundation, right, and they have
done amazing things like somebody will get hurt or sick on the job, they'll
raise a ton of money for these people, and every penny goes to those
guys. So you know, can't say enough about that organization. Yeah,
well, Be and Louis are from the Fraternal Order of Pizza Cutter Makers.
Come in now, we didn't have time, Broke was swamped at the booth.
If we weren't fucking hanging out of the booth selling stuff, we were
drinking or doing nice So I'm not Yeah, twelve o'clock till six, we
were pounding and I've had enough from from Wednesday till yesterday. So you know,
it's funny. So like we were talking a little bit before, I
we just got done doing the our Belt of the Madge. I'll tell you
that would have been a great show if if we could have gotten gotten you
guys is out with us and doing the uh uh Chicago versus New York guys
doing the Bat of the Badge. I think that would have been a cool
show they're doing. Uh, they're doing a New York and Chicago Battle of
the Badges. They're currently in talks with that. So when that happened,
you guys should come out for that. What are they doing boxing exhibission?
Oh? Ship? Really? Yeah? What does that come out? You
mean, like you why out the Chicago? Yeah? If you guys fly
up, we'll put you up. We'll put you up. Uh, you
guys, can you send me a picture of what you roll lady looks like?
First? Is that possible? That might that might tip the scales.
I'm just saying, I don't know, it's Oh yeah, absolutely. I
mean listen, you guys deal because everything on the table, okay, everything
every What does that happen? I'd love Yeah, well, I as soon
as we find out that they're still working on the deal. As soon as
it happens, we'll we'll make this happen. Jeremy John Johnson too, was
another awesome, awesome guy we met out there for the first that sounds made
up when uh, well, we uh and listen it goes out there.
I mean, obviously I'm not flying out there. Then yeah, that's uh,
I mean not from what I hear. It's relatively stinky out in your
neighborhood. Nice, but I uh, I'm sure that there's a lot of
things that New York brings to the table when it comes to uh sites and
sound like. Right, yeah, there's nothing from that video that coops made.
There's obviously nothing long in Long Island. No, oh, really coming
out? Cook? Who these guys up? Bro? Oh Jack Jack Daniels
going man, Jack put away. He took the time to revolve must clubs
away. Now we got to get the gloves back outright, all right,
we'll come out, will come out. We'll do something together. You bring
all one hundred of your listeners and we'll bring our guys. Mike here,
Mike's here, a hundred and one. Okay, A look at Mike.
He's like, I don't care, I love, I love. I'm a
nude for partying this, Mike, what's storing? Fifty five fifty one six
ers started their quarter? Oh thank you? Oh problem, Oh, no
problem. Yeah, So we would talk at um you guys from fire you
were talking to the guys from fire Y. That's why I got your number.
So I think we're gonna be doing some stuff. Yeah, this whole
started. So this is how my introduction to these guys are. I get
a voicemail, Hey you jack off? I love it. I'm like,
who the fuck this is? Guy, Vince? You fucking jack off?
You want to come on the show? And I said, I didn't know
you guys from New York knew how to work off phone. Let's going back
down, up, crashing and burning, burning hold on. Yeah, yeah,
actually, I mean, I mean again, I don't love to talk
to you guys without without sound delay on our end. Again A m from
radio was very tough in this neighborhood. Nice studio, bro oh, thank
you fellas? Are you are you? Are you syndicating nationally though you know
you're on Morning Drive? Yeah for more. Is there anybody that you guys
are Is there anybody that you guys are trying to get that is on your
wish list for your podcast? Cleehouse, Chief Cleehouse, who was in Rescue
to Squad forty one, All the busy Places, Great guy Pritchard, Prichard,
Chief Pritchard three. Once in a while he answers michels and then he
goes to me for like two years, chief fish sounds like bob ha fishlery.
Yeah, you've been working on him. Yeah, me be great.
Forget don't forget about that show me on the job eleven four. I knew
that just twur years. Huh. Do do you guys know anybody that worked
with him during the nine to eleven thing? Or No, he wasn't working
doing eleven He was just you mean, just going down there with him.
Well, I'm I mean again, this this might be conjecture, nonsense,
but I had always heard that, you know, he had left the fdmy
and then when nine to eleven happened, the story goes from what I heard
was that he showed up to the firehouse and he started working and helping out
whenever he could. I wasn't sure if if he helped like with him or
around. Well, he went back to his old company, fifty five Engine,
and he helped and he was helping those guys. That was interesting.
Do you guys know anybody that was working with them? Or I don't know
anybody from fifty five Engine, although we did. It was fifty five what
your brother was at fifty five inchin for quite a while. Oh, that
was a long time ago. That was I think that was right after he
left. Now, my father was still alive, so it was like eighty
nine someone around. That's the other difference between you guys and us is you
guys always put the number in front of I know, it's more prominent when
I hear you guys talk that, it's like twenty three truck. You know,
twenty five truck, right. I hear you guys mix it up with
engine thirty two or thirty two engines. So is that like a just common
like vocabulary for you guys. Yeah, I don't know why we do that,
but it's both ways really. You know, I think if you said
ladder one seventeen or one seventeen truck, it's the same. You know,
it's no preference really, but it does, right. Would you say,
would you say if you put the number in front of it, that you
would be saltier by seeing it that way? You'd have to ask those guys
from back in the day. I'm sure they would have a little something to
say about that. I'm sure you said twenty eight truck or twenty six truck,
you know, thirty three truck, nineteen truck you go on, you
know, you know it was. Oh but man, who's your favorite guest
that you've had on your podcast? Hmmm, that's a tough question, man,
Ooh, there's been some Yeah, there's been some surprises, some guys
that I thought wouldn't you know, usually when you're talking to guests, I'm
sure you know the same thing. You talk to guests, you think,
like, this guy would be a really good guest, and then sometimes he's
not as he was. Maybe he's a little nervous or whatever, he's not
as uh uh as he is on the phone. And then some guys you
think are just gonna you know, you want to get him on the show,
and then they surprise the heck at you and they just knock it out
of the park. But I don't think I have Both are my favorite podcasts.
The guys who surprised me come in and are articulate, and the way
that they tell the story is captivating. I love being surprised by those.
I would say one of my favorites was uh Higgins one to eleven. He
had all his face you know. I like the family part of it.
Like when the guys talk about their family hit. You know, he had
to talk about how to beat the ship out of each other. The brothers,
she had all his brothers functions. His father was on the job.
You know, like there's was good roof. Lois was a good part.
She was great. Yes, we had the first one of the first female
fire fighters, but kick the living ship out of three quarters of the guys
in the fucking chat here, it was awesome unless it's the whole time,
don't you guys don't have a female commissioner now right? All right? Moving
on, moving along next, mm hm, who's your who's your favorite guy?
Who's my favorite guy? To have another show? Well, Lois was
one of them. I like Kevin, who's the guy who's hunter again?
Roofi Kevin? She was a great show. Listen in the end, very
humble man. Really, it's that's the truth. There's very few, you
know, bad shows where I think we only had maybe one or two where
maybe the guys were drinking too much or something like that. You know,
and was great too from Detroit and got so big. He was one of
my favorites, one of my favorite old chief. I think he was in
his eighties. His wife was walking out Martinez like every fifteen minutes. He
said something like, bring him out every fifteen minutes until I pass out,
and then bring him out every seven minutes. Then he was like fucking but
he had the best old school tip of the day, right, His old
school tip of the day was, you know, you're on the pipe,
you're stretching into the building. You open up, you know, and you're
going down the hall, and all the guys start filing I'm working the rock.
Well, yeah, I'm working the pipe. Baby, I'm rolling a
baby, you know. And he gets in there, and now guys start
coming in on the pipe behind me, and they're backing, you know,
four or five guys behind and the guys I get it there, you don't
put you know, put movie, you know all this stuff. And he's
like, you know, and you know, and then you know you're doing
the best your canton. He goes. He's like, I'm not gonna I'm
not gonna say it. I don't think I'm going to say it. He's
like, you know what, screw it. I'm gonna say. If you're
like the third or fourth or fifth guy back there, shut the f up,
Like he just just shut the hell. I'm doing the best I can
down here, man, you know, like it was just how he did.
It was perfect. Nicole was great too with the fucking rooftop easy.
Oh. He was already said, hey, let me ask you real quick.
So what's again? It could be a it could be a hero story,
it could be a fucking uh, it could be a funny story.
What what what's the best fire you had? What's the best fire I have
had? Yeah? Oh, man, come on one of the ones that
me and Louis went to one time with the fucking the down of Massmis in
Polock Alley, somebody fell off the second floor on Louis's leg and we had
a fucking fly blowing out. We went in and then all of a sudden
it lap up behind us and came came from behind us on an engine or
truck company. Where you guys at, we're on a squad. So first
do your first, second or third do you're an engine anything? After that
your truck and you do rescue work as well. So Louie Louis had to
back up. I was behind him and it was like a Friday night fucking
fire ripping, and then they went to hell in a hand bans. We
put the fire up and somebody some fact that I found Louis leg my ankle
broke, your ankle came from the second and the fire was going up the
stairs and they were on the stairs. So they filed out stairs and we
were on the bottom ship. Yeah, or the Father's Day fire. I
was at the Father's Day fire too, So that was it didn't work out
so great. It's never a great, you know fire when when we lose
three guys. But still, yeah, you guys have people who aren't in
the fire service on your podcast at all. We had the guy who shot
on the show, Rob O'Neil. Yeah, we had a guy who else.
We had guys in the bomb squad, right, Mike, you Kevin
Barry, a good friend of mine. A handful. Yeah, we've we've
had that. Uh. We just had a guy. I don't know if
you guys are familiar are with Chicago, but our Lady of Angels fire,
well, we had one of the survivors of that fire. He lost his
brother and sister in that fire, and he kind of walked us through and
there was so much that that we didn't know. He was featured in this
documentary called h Angels Too Soon and you can find it on or whatever.
But we reached out to him and he came out here and he was one
of those guests that knocked it out of the park. Uh. He just
you know, I can't even imagine he was eight years old at that time
and uh, just what he went through and the whole history. There's so
much backstory to that fire that I never knew about and I would never have
known. But to be able to sit in the same studio with I mean,
he really is a Chicago icon and apart in Chicago history. And for
him to tell the story firsthand, I thought that was well. I just
got the number of a husband and wife who's both their fathers died at the
Wall Bounce fire and they both saw their father on that day and they wound
up getting married. And I think, no, kidd, Yeah, we
had the New York Range run whose father was he was okay, his father
passed away, uh nine to eleven cancer. Yeah, we knew, we
knew him very well, his father. But he he made it to the
NHL and he played for the Ranges. And that was pretty good show too.
That was a good show. You had the car Bones on Nancy and
Kia who do Oh yeah, we do a lot of health. Yeah,
we had like four shows Travis on. Oh yeah, but there's name Travis
Housy. Oh is that it? It is? Yeah, yeah, our
mental health podcast. The guy you were actually making fun of when he was
leaving, Uh, he was, you know, uh, we do a
lot of mental health stuff here too, And he's one of our our guys.
He was, he's on the job. He's on the job. And
yeah, right, and and yeah, he started up, he became a
counselor counselor therapist, and and he has our guys out whenever, whenever they're
having any type of PTSD thing going on. So, so was really funny
when you were making fun of him. Hey, Lou, when you're uh,
you seem like a ballbuster? What side you, no, lou?
So Lou, when have you come out come a Kobshall any any good branks
on him? Or no fights? Oh? My god? Should we tell
a story quick roof? No, I don't want to talk. Oh okay,
all right, No. It involved figure poking and a whole lot of
young Yeah. We every once in a while, actually been a while though,
every once in a while, you gotta do like I wish I can
remember what that guy said. That was perfect, right, You got to
clear the pipes or something. You gotta while, you gotta have a knockdown,
drag out screaming match, and then it's all good, you know,
for a while. So oh, I have to say we could, we
could go nose to nose its something and then no exaggeration. Twenty minutes after
it's done, we want Yeah, I have to say we were very good
at that. We talk talk it out after that, and then I got
yelling it out and get red and all of a sudden like fifes and breaking
each other's bulls or you've seen it. Can I you mind if I tell
the story in between the knicks aggravating me. So there was a particularly this
is you know. I think last year there was a particularly troublesome show.
I wasn't on the ones and two S four, but one of our producers
who were filling in for I had a rough night. And that's not his
fault. As PC was older, he had to update it. So after
the show it was like, I'm not doing it. I'm not doing it.
I'm watching it and I'm we're me and two other guys are watching Lou
and Koob scream at each other for six no kidding, twenty minutes straight.
Twenty minutes straight. I literally changed my name on the screen to can we
just get along? And then at the end of it, yep, he
didn't notice it. I was trying to add some levity of the situation.
Clearly didn't work. But at the at the end of it, Lo was
like, in the same tone of voice he's speaking in now, he says,
I'm sorry I called you a nahole call you so yeah, you know
what, It's funny. That's that's how it's like we're grown up brothers,
you know, like we we were Actually I was actually just had a conversation
with the There was an airing of the grievances. Yeah no, me and
me and spell check I know a fight earlier this week and and it was
the same thing. We we were yelling each other for about twenty five minutes.
At the end, I was like, I love you. Never we
have never went to music. I don't think no, yeah, oh we
have No, I'm not doing that. Plus ye yeah, I have to
go now. I worry about him. You know that goes com bluely,
I got the hook. You know, it could be it's funny, you
funny fragile. I get it. It's a fragile. It's a fragile.
That's a frigill. Yeah, all right, you guys do anything with h
when you guys try to grab anything from the TV show Rescue Me, where
like grab an actor or a guy. We had Burke, Bob, Yeah,
Bobby Burke with Bobby Burke who was from Rescue Me. He also played
Robot. He was played He didn't play wide up, but he was in
Yeah, he got shot, star wied up or yeah. Uh. And
he's a volley he's a voluncy of fireman and we had him on. He's
a great guy. Come on, yeah, I can't remember. Yeah,
we I gotta tell you of all I mean me personally. I probably should
say this before we interviewed chicker Otis, but you know, not not the
biggest fan of like most firefighter things on television or on movies, but one
of my favorite IT shows to this day. Honestly, I think of any
of them, I won't watch anything else but Rescue Me. First couple of
episodes are Rescue Me. They're the most uh, they're the most realistic depictions
of the fire department that I've ever seen. You know, you've got you've
got these Chicago fires that are going out there. They're you know, they're
fighting everybody. Everybody's that's right out of the bat. There's no fat guys,
everybody's good looking at everybody's banging each other. Everybody each other. Yeah
yeah, obviously everyone's banging. Yeah yeah, no OSTI Rescue Rescue Me is
one of my favorite shows to this day, the only like the most realistic
depiction of the fire department that I've ever seen. The other problem with Rescue
Me is they had every degenerate that's in the fire service all in the same
firehouse. Again, the woman guys, every throw in one firehouse. I'm
like, holy ship. Yeah, but you know, but again, like
that's the funny thing is that, like I feel like we're hitting we're hitting
more real issues in the fire department than we are you know, talking to
talking to our cousins or our buddies at at home. You know, like
I feel like the firehouse. I mean, you guys talk about with the
kitchen table, it's the last place that you can talk and you know,
be a gentleman about things and actually be real about how you feel about something,
like, you know, like this is how I feel about this thing.
Like you know, nobody's getting canceled at the kitchen table. You know,
nobody's uh, nobody not to say we we've had some troubles in our
department as of recent which is which is a major city in Illinois. Just
so you guys know, you're I'm just going on here out with what nicks
nick sixty eight sixty seven bruns and just hit a go ahead shot firstly to
the night six sixty sixty and you dial. We have Vincent Corey and any
questions from the chat before you wrap this bad boy up. Any chat questions
from the chat, you fire them up. New York. What is that
the state of Chicago? Schberger Schomberg b put that in the chat. Nobody
cares about basketball, Robini says, somebody from Schomberg. Nobody cares about basketball.
Come on, Procaccini, Well, I mean, actually I had one
question. You know, it's been mostly of a pretty relaxed show tonight compared
to our usual interviews. Not that they're not relaxed, but just a different
format. Yeah, I'm sorry, guys drink a lot more. No,
it's fine. One of the things I have tried to do with my own
show, and Getting Salty has certainly done a good job of. Is you
have your said audience. I get a lot of the New York guys,
They get a lot of the New York guys, and you get guys from
outside, like we were talking about earlier on occasion, have you thought about
try besides New York, which is the obvious answer, have you tried to
like other places maybe La Boston, like guys from those departments, other big
cities around the country or even the world where if we come across a story,
we'll try to track somebody down if we hear something. And that's what
our social media is so good about giving us like leads if you will.
But uh yeah, it doesn't matter where where it is. We'll do like
a phone interview a podcast where we'll be in the studio and they'll be on
the phone. But ultimately our best podcasts are when we can sit here with
with somebody in the studio, have a drink with them. We like to
get them nice and moved up there they talk a little bit more. We
uh you know, we got We've got Murady Lucky with guys coming in from
like you guys were talking about, we had uh, we had a firefighter
from We had Chris Field's coming. We picked him up from the airport.
He was going to do a conference here. We brought him into the studio
and that was an amazing podcast. We had our boss agent right, Yeah,
I'm coming from Yeah he uh. He wrote a couple of books about
Uh. It was like the Ring the arsists in uh in Boston. Else
we have them out of town. But yeah, he would love to go
pick guys up in the Kennedy. I'll go right to Kennedy. There's a
drink even more due to the cold the weather up there. Boy, yes,
Mark way more. There's I mean, there's there's always shrinkage. Okay.
I don't know who's going to argue that there isn't it that's because okay,
all right, so so so Todd Todd over here had a question about
about what how come so many guys have have summer homes out of town because
nobody wants to live here? Right, man, come on, right,
who wants to be in the city. I don't I don't disagree with that.
Well, we have residency here in Chicago. So if you get hired
on, you have to live here in Chicago. You have to live in
Chicago. I got you right. That's that's one of the things that will
legitimately get you fired. But yeah, yeah, so it is, it
is what it is, speaking living here in Chicago. I should show you,
guys this casting couch that Vince has right behind him where he lives.
So that's that's like an office you guys rent somewhere or something. We're in
a we're in a building that houses like artists and musicians. There's a like
a like a hipster like punk rock store called The Alley Chicago. Uh yeah.
He the guy who owns this building became a good friend of ours,
and he we were in a studio like around the corner, which was actually
smaller, but then he brought his store here to this building. And then
he's like, I'm gonna have to move you guys, So we're like fuck.
He goes, but the place I'm gonna the other studio that I'm moving
into, is bigger. And then we got this baby, so we actually
looked out. Yeah, we actually left out. I'm gonna place that houses
a bunch of Asian kids and Asian wife and a couple of front three dogs.
That's where you say that because I didn't really want to draw attention to
it. But honestly, like so, I'm I'm the chad Lu and Koob's
are above us on the on this YouTube channel. Very difficult for Vince to
look like. Side to side is not a problem, but but upwards a
little bit, a little bit more difficult when it's Jesus Christ. You two,
I don't even know what you just said. Hold on mine, but
but I'm an it's a bulletin. All right, we're gonna do shout out.
Who's got shout out? Let's do first and then we'll look. I
have one as well. You can leave me for the end though, right
I want to do the Anthony the Firefighter from I'm going to share the screen
right now, stand by all right, So this is uh Anthony Kelly.
I hope I say it right. Kelly Endo served our country as a marine,
serving tours and duty in Afghanistan. He was appointed to the fd N
y May of twenty nineteen and was an active member and was assigned to Lat
of one fifty eight in South Queens on April fifteenth. He never walked up
leaves behind his loving family, most appartantly in eighteen month old daughter. If
you could share the link, spread the word. This is his go fundme
page. Do we have that page? Hold on a second, I'm going
to check now. I don't believe we do. His last name, Yeah,
have it in a text. If you guys send us his go fund
the page, we'll put it up on ours too. I'll pull it up.
I'm going to put it in the description. In the description. So,
yeah, he only had five years, but he a couple other guys.
One guy emailed me on Facebook, another guy emailed me through the web
page, and the guys there are some of the guys that they watched the
show and he enjoyed watching the show. So I just put it in the
chat. Thank you to you, Okay, the peace brother. All Right,
you guys have they shout outs? Where where can they find you?
Guys? Uh? Anywhere that you listen to podcasts, you can find us,
Uh Chicago's Bravest Stories. Uh yeahple Spotify, Yeah, yeah, we're
We're on every platform. But yeah, we just want to say thank you
guys. We appreciate it. I guess we're going to be doing some business
together. Like, yeah, I'm going to talk to uh guys over at
the fire while we're talking about doing something. We're going to be Yeah,
we'll we will being a little more. Yeah, so uh yeah, thank
you so much. I'd love to do the color commentary with some of you
fellows, I think. Yeah, all right, better bring your right game
you can. I A game is my big game, all right, perfect
care. So I don't know how it's coming over on your end, that's
fine, you know. And So Thursday night, Thursday night, big show,
Thursday night, we're doing one of our tribute shows. We're doing it
to Chief Gancy. His son Chris Gancy is coming on the show, so
guys tune in. It's gonna be a great show, along with pictures too.
Definitely, Yeah, I can't remember his name, Chief Jonas, Thank
you, brave fun. Chief Jonas is going to join us. Holy the
pictures. I'm not gonna drinking and drinking great for water only here following the
Chief guanty and we'll have the personal side with his son Chris Gancy. So
get on Thursday night. It should be a good show. Mike, you
gotta shut up. It's very heart breaking story out of Chicago, and I
think it's important that we mentioned this. So this is police officer Luis Westka
and Louis had about three years in the job. He had just finished his
shift the other day. It was in uniform heading home in his personal car
when he was stopped and carjacked. He tried to fight his attackers off.
They shot and killed him. Numerous rounds were fired. He was shot I
believe six times. They stole his service weapon, stole his car, and
officers responded to reports of a shot spotter and it went off in the area
and that's when they found him, still in full uniform. Leaves behind parents
and I believe a girlfriend. They still haven't found his killers yet, but
I just wanted to take a second and honor his memory by shouting him out.
Thanks Mikey. I think his birthday is tomorrow or thirty one years old.
Find those fuckers. He cut the bulls off. That's what you needed
to just saying yeah, in three days, I can't think this kid.
He sounds like he was a sweetheart and uh and again from God above and
beyond the way of duty to to do what he cooked for the City can't
say enough about him. He fought till the end. He did. Brother,
I hope the Knicks fight to the end. Yeah, the three r
fellas. Thanks for coming on, Vince, Corey, Mike, thanks for
filling it for Gonzo. You'll be filling it for a week, right,
He's going away. You get a couple of weeks of MC, you know,
then you'll get sick of me inevitably, and then he'll be back right
right when you start to get sick of all right, boys, guys,
we'll see you to meet you, guys, move coops, Mike, thank
you so much. Pleasure. We'll hanging up here all right, guys,
we'll see you Thursday night. Until then, stay loan yo. All right,
everybody, we'll see it the big one. Thanks again. Going on
behalf of the Chicago's Bravest podcast, Luis Frano and Kevin Coober and Mike Cologne.
I'll see you next time. Stay salty, my friends, and be
advised the tones are dropping. Good night,