WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.879 --> 00:00:02.480 Disclaimer. 2 00:00:02.640 --> 00:00:04.639 We'd like to know before the start of this interview 3 00:00:04.639 --> 00:00:07.120 that the opinions about to be expressed by the guest 4 00:00:07.400 --> 00:00:10.039 of Tonight's Getting Salty Experience Podcast are that of the 5 00:00:10.080 --> 00:00:13.359 guest and do not directly or necessarily reflect the views 6 00:00:13.800 --> 00:00:30.239 of the host of the Getting Salty Experience Podcast. 7 00:00:31.920 --> 00:00:34.560 You're listening to the Getting Salty Experience Podcast. 8 00:00:37.799 --> 00:00:46.520 Hello, Hello, and we are back. Welcome back to the 9 00:00:46.799 --> 00:00:49.359 Salty Experience Podcast. It's the only one that brings the 10 00:00:49.359 --> 00:00:51.159 fire house kitchen table to you. We got a real 11 00:00:51.560 --> 00:00:54.439 kitchen table guy tonight. Bro, will you know sult to 12 00:00:54.479 --> 00:00:56.799 the good dude tonight? We got coming on? Bro? You know, 13 00:00:57.200 --> 00:01:05.040 I don't sorry you're still roff. What seems like we 14 00:01:05.040 --> 00:01:06.680 haven't been here for a while, Bro, you know what 15 00:01:06.719 --> 00:01:11.480 I means like we haven't been back here? We're back. 16 00:01:12.359 --> 00:01:12.959 I don't understand. 17 00:01:12.959 --> 00:01:17.040 What's the that's the the handy talking when it used 18 00:01:17.040 --> 00:01:17.959 to run out of battery. 19 00:01:18.439 --> 00:01:21.599 Oh really, that's what That's how He's kind of like 20 00:01:22.079 --> 00:01:23.280 leave an l off the marshall. 21 00:01:23.400 --> 00:01:23.959 You know what I mean? 22 00:01:24.400 --> 00:01:25.439 What Dick would do that? 23 00:01:25.519 --> 00:01:25.680 Bro? 24 00:01:27.480 --> 00:01:29.519 You think a chief took all those tests? Would No? 25 00:01:29.799 --> 00:01:31.560 I mean, come on, what are you talking about. 26 00:01:31.319 --> 00:01:33.280 He's actually out there commanding people, and you don't know 27 00:01:33.280 --> 00:01:34.120 how to spell Marshall. 28 00:01:34.439 --> 00:01:36.319 He yelled at him earlier in the day. 29 00:01:36.519 --> 00:01:41.280 Rattled, who the fuck are we talking about? I don't 30 00:01:41.319 --> 00:01:43.840 talk about the guy who like, we've had Mike's pictures 31 00:01:43.840 --> 00:01:46.120 maybe for about two months, and today at about. 32 00:01:46.159 --> 00:01:48.120 Two months, your your ass two months. 33 00:01:48.400 --> 00:01:51.319 When Mike comes in, we'll ask him when the pictures came. 34 00:01:51.439 --> 00:01:52.879 It was it was about a month and a half. 35 00:01:53.000 --> 00:01:54.879 It had to be about a month. And now at 36 00:01:54.879 --> 00:01:57.359 three o'clock, I'm sing maybe later I'm eating dinner, it 37 00:01:57.400 --> 00:02:00.640 was the pictures? Did he send the pictures six o'clock? 38 00:02:00.640 --> 00:02:01.840 I think it was you. 39 00:02:03.120 --> 00:02:07.159 I came through his hands, a little mess. 40 00:02:08.800 --> 00:02:09.840 Sometimes you gotta do what. 41 00:02:12.400 --> 00:02:15.039 We got to tighten the bolts, even the chiefs, even 42 00:02:15.039 --> 00:02:16.319 the chiefs loosening the balls up. 43 00:02:16.360 --> 00:02:17.120 I guess I don't know. 44 00:02:17.319 --> 00:02:18.280 I don't know what he's doing. 45 00:02:19.120 --> 00:02:20.199 I still don't know who he's talking. 46 00:02:20.319 --> 00:02:22.120 You know what I mean? When you when you're constantly 47 00:02:22.159 --> 00:02:24.919 at the overtime openings and you're not paying attention to 48 00:02:24.960 --> 00:02:25.319 the show. 49 00:02:25.599 --> 00:02:28.680 That was female deppointment somewhere. 50 00:02:28.439 --> 00:02:34.120 Out wait yeah, wait, wait wait wait, that deserves a 51 00:02:34.439 --> 00:02:35.719 that deserves one of my new ones. 52 00:02:36.360 --> 00:02:40.479 Yeah, that's a new one. 53 00:02:40.800 --> 00:02:44.439 Actually actually got the real voice done all the time. 54 00:02:44.479 --> 00:02:47.319 So all right, so everything set now for the show. 55 00:02:47.360 --> 00:02:50.120 We don't have to get who the fuck knows something? 56 00:02:50.159 --> 00:02:53.000 I'll make something work, you know. I improvised, adapt and overcome, 57 00:02:53.000 --> 00:02:54.159 and that's how that's the way we go. 58 00:02:54.319 --> 00:02:56.120 You got all the pictures. He didn't even have Mike. 59 00:02:56.639 --> 00:02:58.159 I don't have his email address. 60 00:02:58.240 --> 00:02:59.639 What I'm like, well, for. 61 00:02:59.599 --> 00:03:01.879 Your sense to two months ago, I'm looking for something recent. 62 00:03:02.560 --> 00:03:04.439 Yesterday I forwarded, Oh. 63 00:03:04.360 --> 00:03:06.240 Yesterday, we had two months ago. But you guys are 64 00:03:06.280 --> 00:03:07.280 hitting me up yesterday. 65 00:03:07.520 --> 00:03:09.639 Well, it's better than six o'clock on the night before 66 00:03:09.680 --> 00:03:10.039 the show. 67 00:03:10.199 --> 00:03:10.759 You know what. 68 00:03:10.840 --> 00:03:14.360 In the end, it's here, it's done. It's all good 69 00:03:14.400 --> 00:03:14.599 for you. 70 00:03:14.840 --> 00:03:15.479 It's good for you. 71 00:03:15.599 --> 00:03:20.000 Gone sucking my dicke. 72 00:03:21.080 --> 00:03:22.680 He's throwing the D word around. 73 00:03:23.039 --> 00:03:25.680 Well, I don't know who you know what happened to 74 00:03:25.719 --> 00:03:27.319 get away from the show for a couple of weeks 75 00:03:27.360 --> 00:03:29.759 and he comes back like old Lucy Goosey. I don't 76 00:03:29.800 --> 00:03:30.479 know what's a. 77 00:03:31.080 --> 00:03:35.360 I'm gonna have to tighten the bolt up, tighten them up. 78 00:03:38.400 --> 00:03:40.479 Hey, talking to my guy, all wrong, it's wrong. 79 00:03:40.599 --> 00:03:40.879 Tone. 80 00:03:41.479 --> 00:03:42.039 Do it again? 81 00:03:42.639 --> 00:03:44.479 A stab in her face with a soddering eye. 82 00:03:44.879 --> 00:03:46.719 Are you coming up for the eleventh? 83 00:03:50.400 --> 00:03:55.280 He's not coming. You know who's coming? Is my man, Jose. 84 00:03:55.599 --> 00:03:57.400 Jose's coming. 85 00:03:58.080 --> 00:03:59.400 I was gonna say. 86 00:03:59.240 --> 00:04:02.000 Yeah, And I don't know Tank's coming up. But I 87 00:04:02.039 --> 00:04:05.479 know somebody that's not coming up. I won't say his name. 88 00:04:05.639 --> 00:04:05.840 Man. 89 00:04:05.840 --> 00:04:07.520 It might be a guy who didn't load pictures in tonight, 90 00:04:07.560 --> 00:04:10.199 but I don't know. It could be m hm, could 91 00:04:10.199 --> 00:04:11.960 you play the d so he can get mic on 92 00:04:12.039 --> 00:04:13.400 here because he left the seat maybe one. 93 00:04:13.840 --> 00:04:15.360 Oh no, he's good, he's good, he's fine. Alright, we're 94 00:04:15.360 --> 00:04:16.879 gonna go. We're gonna we're coming at you hot with 95 00:04:16.959 --> 00:04:19.519 a nice new one, hot, nice and hot. 96 00:04:19.560 --> 00:04:19.920 Here we go. 97 00:04:19.959 --> 00:04:21.639 We're gonna run a photo kite. 98 00:04:21.720 --> 00:04:25.920 Oh the new h. 99 00:05:01.839 --> 00:06:11.839 Nice nice. That's all played the new Vince. 100 00:06:11.959 --> 00:06:14.120 We got the new Vince commercial that we Oh no, 101 00:06:14.120 --> 00:06:17.160 we don't get that one. I'm happy with that too. 102 00:06:17.240 --> 00:06:19.680 Right, we're still on vacation. 103 00:06:19.839 --> 00:06:21.560 Somebody dropped the ball on that one again, so you 104 00:06:21.639 --> 00:06:25.319 have to listen to the same old amed Tech commercial 105 00:06:25.439 --> 00:06:26.800 because we're all tough. 106 00:06:26.839 --> 00:06:27.600 But we'll. 107 00:06:29.839 --> 00:06:40.399 Play Vince is commercial crying out loud or whatever you 108 00:06:40.560 --> 00:06:42.040 made a player. 109 00:06:43.480 --> 00:06:47.720 Armor Tough firehouse flooring was recently installed in Station number seven, 110 00:06:48.199 --> 00:06:52.120 the newest of the Dacab County fire stations in Decatur, Georgia. 111 00:06:52.879 --> 00:06:57.079 Meeting Deputy Chief Smith of Support Services, Vince explained that 112 00:06:57.319 --> 00:07:00.839 Armor Tough interlocking flooring is the only floor that is 113 00:07:00.879 --> 00:07:04.600 tough enough to withstand the abuse of fire apparatus along 114 00:07:04.600 --> 00:07:08.720 with fire personnel at a very busy station. Chief Smith 115 00:07:08.759 --> 00:07:11.879 explained the flooring in all of our stations over the 116 00:07:11.959 --> 00:07:15.160 years gave us multiple problems. We need a floor that 117 00:07:15.240 --> 00:07:17.600 can last as long as the walls and the roof. 118 00:07:18.199 --> 00:07:21.920 That's why we chose Armor Tough. The installation team came 119 00:07:21.920 --> 00:07:25.000 from New Jersey and in three days they had completed 120 00:07:25.040 --> 00:07:28.959 their work without any disruption to our daily operations. We 121 00:07:28.959 --> 00:07:32.040 were very impressed with not only the product, but with 122 00:07:32.120 --> 00:07:35.680 the workmanship as well. I highly recommend Armour Tough for 123 00:07:35.720 --> 00:07:39.759 your station's floor. Call Vince today for a no obligation 124 00:07:39.920 --> 00:07:43.800 quote at nine oh eight nine one seven seven six 125 00:07:44.079 --> 00:07:44.879 nine seven. 126 00:07:49.720 --> 00:07:51.759 Noel's has come to the fire house in nine to eleven. 127 00:07:51.920 --> 00:07:56.959 Darren Phillips, yep, oh he's a regular. Yeah it's not coming. 128 00:07:57.079 --> 00:07:58.920 I let's say all right, come on let's get him 129 00:07:58.920 --> 00:08:04.639 in rough all right, my fellow Proby school mate, I 130 00:08:04.639 --> 00:08:06.600 didn't know that we were there from the beginning in 131 00:08:06.639 --> 00:08:09.600 Prob School together, probably hated me. I don't know, we'll 132 00:08:09.600 --> 00:08:09.959 find out. 133 00:08:10.000 --> 00:08:11.879 We're gonna find out here to check. 134 00:08:13.279 --> 00:08:17.399 Coming to the stage f d N y five Marshall 135 00:08:17.399 --> 00:08:18.959 without the l Mike O'Neill. 136 00:08:26.959 --> 00:08:28.720 I don't think you hated being Prob school, right. 137 00:08:28.759 --> 00:08:31.839 Nobody hated anybody in that Prob class. 138 00:08:31.839 --> 00:08:37.799 It was awesome, except for maybe big Vin Vinnie and 139 00:08:37.840 --> 00:08:39.440 the other big guy. 140 00:08:39.639 --> 00:08:41.240 I knew him since the fourth grade. Bro, he's a 141 00:08:41.320 --> 00:08:43.279 year younger than me. Yeah, I went to high school 142 00:08:43.279 --> 00:08:45.879 with him. Who video Brady. I went to ground I 143 00:08:45.879 --> 00:08:48.080 grew up, lived on the block from him, I grew up. 144 00:08:48.559 --> 00:08:50.600 We went to the same grammar school, same high school. 145 00:08:50.679 --> 00:08:52.440 He went to college. I went to the police department 146 00:08:52.720 --> 00:08:54.960 and then in Proby School together. And then if you remember, 147 00:08:55.039 --> 00:08:57.159 remember the day before we got our assignments. 148 00:08:56.720 --> 00:08:58.279 They had the secret meta in the room. 149 00:08:58.759 --> 00:09:00.399 He comes out of the room. He goes, Bro, we'll 150 00:09:00.440 --> 00:09:01.080 going to the same place. 151 00:09:01.120 --> 00:09:02.679 And I was like, we're going to and I'll say 152 00:09:02.720 --> 00:09:03.919 I won't say the company, but I thought he was 153 00:09:03.960 --> 00:09:04.559 going somewhere else. 154 00:09:04.679 --> 00:09:04.960 He goes. 155 00:09:05.000 --> 00:09:06.679 Now, I'm like, that's fucking great. 156 00:09:06.679 --> 00:09:09.240 Where is that? 157 00:09:11.039 --> 00:09:12.919 But then I drove to twoity three that day, and 158 00:09:12.960 --> 00:09:14.519 you know, through the neighborhood which I had never been 159 00:09:14.559 --> 00:09:18.159 in before. And uh I got home to my parents' house, 160 00:09:18.159 --> 00:09:20.399 which I found out was fifty minutes away, which is interesting. 161 00:09:20.519 --> 00:09:22.320 And I said to my father, I go, uh, I 162 00:09:22.360 --> 00:09:24.360 never bet the war, but uh, what's what that? 163 00:09:24.360 --> 00:09:26.120 There's no how can we have fired? There's no billis 164 00:09:26.159 --> 00:09:27.679 left brumbled. 165 00:09:28.039 --> 00:09:31.919 It looks like it's terrible, the end of the human race? 166 00:09:32.480 --> 00:09:34.879 Yeah, briefs. He went to one thirty two we after 167 00:09:34.919 --> 00:09:37.559 the rotation right away, so oh he did. He's been 168 00:09:37.559 --> 00:09:40.360 there ever since. I loved the guy, still loves Still 169 00:09:40.440 --> 00:09:41.240 a big presence. 170 00:09:42.080 --> 00:09:43.720 A big dude. Football player, wasn't he. 171 00:09:44.000 --> 00:09:46.840 Oh big yeah? Football player, yep? A rugby player? Is Davia? 172 00:09:47.600 --> 00:09:48.240 Some breaker? 173 00:09:48.519 --> 00:09:49.919 Oh some breaker? 174 00:09:50.720 --> 00:09:52.519 Oh well, you know Flapper Sheeran. He was a little 175 00:09:52.559 --> 00:09:53.480 rough for all of us. 176 00:09:54.639 --> 00:09:56.679 Let's get patriotic before we go on and talk about 177 00:09:56.679 --> 00:09:57.279 my career. 178 00:09:58.000 --> 00:09:58.840 Here we go, do it. 179 00:10:01.639 --> 00:10:05.399 I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States 180 00:10:05.720 --> 00:10:09.960 of America and to the Republic for which it stands 181 00:10:10.799 --> 00:10:18.080 one nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. 182 00:10:29.000 --> 00:10:33.799 There is Richie Bag saying there's my proby. 183 00:10:34.759 --> 00:10:36.039 It's not my bag baby. 184 00:10:35.840 --> 00:10:39.120 It's not my bag baby. All right, so let's go back. 185 00:10:39.200 --> 00:10:42.559 We know your dad is what got into the fight uponment, right, Yeah, 186 00:10:43.000 --> 00:10:44.279 when'd you grow up? 187 00:10:44.960 --> 00:10:46.440 Yeah? I grew up Marine Park. My dad was a 188 00:10:46.480 --> 00:10:48.399 fine I start at Garratton Beach. Then we got a 189 00:10:48.440 --> 00:10:50.759 house in Marine Park, you know, like Beverly Hills back then, 190 00:10:50.840 --> 00:10:53.000 you know, or it was in a Bungo and Garretton Beach. 191 00:10:54.639 --> 00:10:54.840 Yeah. 192 00:10:54.840 --> 00:10:56.519 He was a fireman and seven engine. He got laid 193 00:10:56.519 --> 00:10:59.120 off and he was laid up for six months. He 194 00:10:59.159 --> 00:11:01.519 was a veteran, say, hided him back pretty quick. He 195 00:11:01.600 --> 00:11:03.639 ended up in thirty seven engine briefly and switched with 196 00:11:03.720 --> 00:11:07.159 a guy you know, come to Brooklyn. He ended up 197 00:11:07.159 --> 00:11:08.919 being a fireman in two thirty four for a long time, 198 00:11:09.440 --> 00:11:11.120 and then he transferred to one fifty nine truck to 199 00:11:11.120 --> 00:11:12.360 be close to the home. We were all like, you know, 200 00:11:12.440 --> 00:11:15.000 kind of in the commuting days as kids going to school. 201 00:11:15.720 --> 00:11:17.960 So he went there. He enjoyed, you know, being close 202 00:11:18.000 --> 00:11:18.639 to home and stuff. 203 00:11:18.679 --> 00:11:22.200 And they got promoted and lieutenant in one twenty one truck. 204 00:11:22.639 --> 00:11:25.720 Remember the school wh Jimmy Wiams passed away? Yep, yes, 205 00:11:26.279 --> 00:11:27.639 so that was it. That was an interesting thing. 206 00:11:27.679 --> 00:11:28.360 And then he ended up being the. 207 00:11:28.320 --> 00:11:31.360 Capital one fifty eight. But Jimmy Wayne, I don't know 208 00:11:31.399 --> 00:11:32.679 if you remember the Jimmy Williams thing. 209 00:11:33.360 --> 00:11:34.679 So he dies. 210 00:11:34.720 --> 00:11:36.120 He was my father's boy, and that was late in 211 00:11:36.120 --> 00:11:39.080 our class. And my father tells me, doesn't ask me, 212 00:11:39.159 --> 00:11:41.159 doesn't whatever. He goes, you're going with the company to 213 00:11:41.159 --> 00:11:42.759 this thing. I'm like, oh, all right, that's gonna go 214 00:11:42.799 --> 00:11:43.200 over a while. 215 00:11:43.720 --> 00:11:46.679 So I went to Billy Burke. Remember Billy Yeah, Kirk Yeah. 216 00:11:46.679 --> 00:11:47.639 So I go to him. He was nice. 217 00:11:47.679 --> 00:11:48.919 I said, listen, he's asked me. 218 00:11:48.919 --> 00:11:51.720 He goes, all right, I'll ask the cheap upstairs Sakamano. 219 00:11:52.320 --> 00:11:52.720 Yeah. 220 00:11:52.759 --> 00:11:54.399 So two hours later he comes over. He goes, listen, 221 00:11:54.919 --> 00:11:56.039 the chief said, you can't do it. 222 00:11:56.120 --> 00:11:57.679 Just come with us. It's got no problem. So I 223 00:11:57.679 --> 00:11:59.840 went to the pay phone. Remember that pay phone, Yeah, 224 00:12:00.240 --> 00:12:03.200 prob I called him. He goes, oh, really all right? 225 00:12:03.480 --> 00:12:05.639 He hangs up. I knew right away. I'm like, here 226 00:12:05.679 --> 00:12:09.159 we go. So an hour later, Billy goes, okay, listening, 227 00:12:09.200 --> 00:12:10.919 you're gonna go up to see Sacon Monto. He's gonna 228 00:12:10.919 --> 00:12:13.440 scream his head off, don't say a word, which is amazing, 229 00:12:13.480 --> 00:12:16.080 you know, not easy. This guy written me apart because 230 00:12:16.080 --> 00:12:19.240 my father hated that guy for some strange reason, and 231 00:12:19.480 --> 00:12:21.399 he called somebody and then I ended up going with 232 00:12:21.399 --> 00:12:23.360 the company and uh sackingounted in like it one bit. 233 00:12:24.080 --> 00:12:26.600 So what did he say? He's gonna step on your cop? 234 00:12:26.679 --> 00:12:28.840 That was his big word, big severals. 235 00:12:29.080 --> 00:12:32.759 Yeah, like cop. It wasn't like I was a kid 236 00:12:32.759 --> 00:12:34.159 out of high school. I was a cop for six years. 237 00:12:34.200 --> 00:12:36.080 This guy is screaming at me, a little old guy. 238 00:12:36.080 --> 00:12:38.240 I'm like, nothing uphing, bro. If I put you in, 239 00:12:38.399 --> 00:12:39.559 he's no one going. I care to go back to 240 00:12:39.559 --> 00:12:43.759 the cop like that, Just go back to the cops. 241 00:12:43.840 --> 00:12:45.600 I didn't give a fuck whatever. 242 00:12:46.360 --> 00:12:48.080 So was that you in that picture with your father? 243 00:12:48.240 --> 00:12:49.240 That's you little Yes? 244 00:12:49.480 --> 00:12:52.879 Yes, yes, that's me right there with the blonde hair. 245 00:12:53.360 --> 00:12:55.559 Do you do you remember going to the fire houses 246 00:12:55.600 --> 00:12:56.279 when you were younger? 247 00:12:56.440 --> 00:12:59.879 Oh yeah, I was in two thirty four more times 248 00:12:59.879 --> 00:13:02.759 than he can remember. What a place, what a great 249 00:13:02.759 --> 00:13:05.759 bunch of guys. Chief Glbum was there. I remember him, 250 00:13:05.799 --> 00:13:08.200 I remember his kids. Jack Toomi also passed away. That 251 00:13:08.240 --> 00:13:10.559 was my father's best friend. He passed away eighty seven. 252 00:13:10.600 --> 00:13:13.039 It was and yeah, I mean that was a great place. 253 00:13:13.080 --> 00:13:15.320 We owned all the picnics and stuff. It was just 254 00:13:15.320 --> 00:13:18.879 a real good bunch of dudes. Is your pop still around? Yeah, 255 00:13:18.879 --> 00:13:22.559 he's in Florida. My artist probably watching right now, Caitlin, 256 00:13:22.960 --> 00:13:24.720 and I don't know if he's I'm not sure if 257 00:13:24.720 --> 00:13:26.440 he's savvy enough to watch it live, but I'm sure 258 00:13:26.519 --> 00:13:28.000 she'll get it fromhim in the back of ice. 259 00:13:28.320 --> 00:13:28.960 That's pretty cool. 260 00:13:29.080 --> 00:13:31.279 Now you got a brother that's on too, I do. 261 00:13:31.639 --> 00:13:32.200 He's a chief. 262 00:13:32.279 --> 00:13:34.440 Now we did all that we did. My father's left 263 00:13:34.519 --> 00:13:37.559 put together as a captain. That was interesting too. 264 00:13:38.480 --> 00:13:39.879 Work on his list too. 265 00:13:40.200 --> 00:13:42.600 Yeah, So we made a deal, like my father was 266 00:13:42.639 --> 00:13:44.360 gonna come to one fifty nine truck and be the 267 00:13:44.399 --> 00:13:45.879 captain for the night. You know, did a free mutral 268 00:13:45.919 --> 00:13:47.759 for the guy. My brother worked at one at the time, 269 00:13:48.120 --> 00:13:50.120 and I did a few free mutral for a guy. 270 00:13:50.679 --> 00:13:53.440 So I remember Chief as Posito, as my brother. I 271 00:13:53.440 --> 00:13:56.440 remember Chief as Posito. Jimmy telling us I know him, Yeah, 272 00:13:56.480 --> 00:13:56.879 he tells me. 273 00:13:56.879 --> 00:13:58.559 In the fifteenth he goes to you, my father, Well, 274 00:13:58.639 --> 00:13:59.639 my father, everybody liked my father. 275 00:13:59.679 --> 00:14:02.320 He was an guy not like me. But uh he 276 00:14:02.360 --> 00:14:04.600 s he says, he goes, Mike, just do me a favor, 277 00:14:04.759 --> 00:14:07.600 don't get hurt. Okay. So we go to the firehouse 278 00:14:07.879 --> 00:14:09.120 that my father's got old, you know, all the friend 279 00:14:09.120 --> 00:14:11.519 from Garrett to Beach Marine Park. There's a good night Steaks, 280 00:14:11.519 --> 00:14:13.919 the whole bit. We watched the Sopranos. My brother, the 281 00:14:13.960 --> 00:14:16.720 cop stops by, you know, for a half hour, and 282 00:14:16.799 --> 00:14:18.440 he's gone for a half hour. We get the one 283 00:14:18.440 --> 00:14:20.480 and only run of the night first two job on 284 00:14:20.519 --> 00:14:24.480 Clinton Road. It was my father was fast and he's like, 285 00:14:24.879 --> 00:14:26.519 runs in the building. I'm like, what the I had 286 00:14:26.519 --> 00:14:31.320 the camera. That's freaking awesome job. Yeah. So I follow 287 00:14:31.399 --> 00:14:33.080 him to the back and it's a room lit like 288 00:14:33.080 --> 00:14:34.240 I'm in now. And I said to him, I go 289 00:14:34.480 --> 00:14:35.240 thirty two years. 290 00:14:35.159 --> 00:14:44.200 Huh go to the front ship. This is the window 291 00:14:44.240 --> 00:14:45.600 of firelight. So it goes perfectly. 292 00:14:45.639 --> 00:14:47.519 No, it couldn't couldn't have been any easier. Now now 293 00:14:47.519 --> 00:14:49.679 we're overhul he thinks this is for real. He's like, 294 00:14:50.039 --> 00:14:52.279 he's like, oh, Michael, who just pull this steel in here? 295 00:14:52.320 --> 00:15:00.320 I go, hold on a minute, bright come here. That 296 00:15:00.440 --> 00:15:02.840 whole I think that's it bigger. I'll be hotside. I 297 00:15:02.879 --> 00:15:06.360 rescued the hamster pet hamster. That was my big claim 298 00:15:06.399 --> 00:15:10.200 for the one run. Unfortunately, one guy did actually get hurt. 299 00:15:10.559 --> 00:15:13.000 He got three quarters for that, but he fantastic guy. 300 00:15:13.279 --> 00:15:14.799 I'm kind of sorry his tour ended early with a 301 00:15:14.879 --> 00:15:17.360 nice night with us, but yeah, that was his last. 302 00:15:17.559 --> 00:15:18.720 He went out with a bagne. 303 00:15:18.960 --> 00:15:20.679 Where's your brother? Where's your brother work? 304 00:15:21.519 --> 00:15:21.759 Uh? 305 00:15:21.799 --> 00:15:23.879 He was the he was ten one sixty five truck 306 00:15:23.919 --> 00:15:24.519 for ten years. 307 00:15:24.519 --> 00:15:26.600 He was a Yeah he comes. 308 00:15:26.960 --> 00:15:30.279 We see him at the show all the time. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, 309 00:15:30.279 --> 00:15:31.840 I'm pretty sure. Yeah he works. 310 00:15:31.879 --> 00:15:33.639 He works with Gil Frank out in Long Island doing 311 00:15:33.679 --> 00:15:36.519 some teaching or something. So he's always around doing something. 312 00:15:36.600 --> 00:15:39.919 I'm pretty sure the side job, right, but yeah, he 313 00:15:39.960 --> 00:15:41.559 just got qu a few a little while back. He's 314 00:15:41.600 --> 00:15:44.240 covering the fifteen. Allegedly he's been all. 315 00:15:44.159 --> 00:15:45.240 Over the place like everybody else. 316 00:15:45.440 --> 00:15:47.639 Yeah, you know, he loves it and my follows a captain. 317 00:15:47.879 --> 00:15:50.240 You could I think if that's him. He loves the job, man, 318 00:15:50.320 --> 00:15:52.159 that guy. Oh he loves the job. 319 00:15:52.840 --> 00:15:54.279 Yeah, he definitely does. 320 00:15:54.320 --> 00:15:56.039 He's so he got on PETE. He got on p 321 00:15:56.240 --> 00:15:58.480 D first. Had you taken the Fire Department test score. 322 00:15:58.919 --> 00:16:00.919 I took the test and eighty seven I think it 323 00:16:00.960 --> 00:16:01.720 was or eighty eight, the. 324 00:16:01.639 --> 00:16:04.039 One of the eighty seven. I took that test. 325 00:16:04.679 --> 00:16:07.159 They stopped the test and they bring us back for 326 00:16:07.519 --> 00:16:09.240 it was a white course of pink cour there was 327 00:16:09.279 --> 00:16:11.720 colored courses. They tell you not to eat, don't don't 328 00:16:11.759 --> 00:16:13.679 do anything, just show up and hope you don't die. 329 00:16:13.840 --> 00:16:15.679 You know, they didn't mention it, don't do cocaine, but whatever. 330 00:16:16.080 --> 00:16:17.840 So I'm sitting on the course waiting to go next 331 00:16:17.840 --> 00:16:20.559 and the cop. So now it's an hour forty fixed 332 00:16:20.600 --> 00:16:22.679 the clock. I haven't eaten, I didn't drink anything. The 333 00:16:22.720 --> 00:16:25.399 bottom line is I missed getting one hundred by four seconds. 334 00:16:25.559 --> 00:16:27.279 So I didn't get cold, which was fine because I'm 335 00:16:27.279 --> 00:16:28.799 not gonna lie to you. Everybody knows me, knows this. 336 00:16:29.120 --> 00:16:31.200 I never wanted to be a fineman originally, like my 337 00:16:31.279 --> 00:16:34.240 father came home burnt all the time. I'm like, what 338 00:16:34.279 --> 00:16:39.480 who does this? Thirty birds on his hand, skin grass, burn, 339 00:16:39.519 --> 00:16:42.919 center on. So I became a cop and I enjoyed it. 340 00:16:43.200 --> 00:16:45.279 And then finally I was either gonna get arrested or 341 00:16:45.320 --> 00:16:47.840 killed one or the other. I took the next one 342 00:16:47.840 --> 00:16:49.440 and obviously we're it's the second class of the list. 343 00:16:49.440 --> 00:16:51.600 We did all right, and I have no regrets. Man, 344 00:16:51.639 --> 00:16:52.720 I ended up being a cop at the end, So 345 00:16:52.759 --> 00:16:55.200 the nights it all worked out through. 346 00:16:55.399 --> 00:16:56.240 Actually that's true. 347 00:16:56.320 --> 00:16:58.240 Yeah, that pretty what you got. 348 00:16:58.279 --> 00:17:03.120 Any cops walk up and we could talk about yeah, 349 00:17:03.720 --> 00:17:04.039 all of them. 350 00:17:04.160 --> 00:17:07.359 Uh there's some funny ones and then uh that aren't 351 00:17:07.359 --> 00:17:08.680 going to get anybody arrested. 352 00:17:10.279 --> 00:17:11.119 Or killed hopefully. 353 00:17:11.920 --> 00:17:12.440 Yeah, we had. 354 00:17:12.640 --> 00:17:14.359 We had a good time in the step. I saw 355 00:17:14.359 --> 00:17:15.079 it in the two five. 356 00:17:15.119 --> 00:17:17.240 I was there for a period of time where like 357 00:17:17.279 --> 00:17:19.839 we were rookies. It's like having a bunch of probies together. 358 00:17:19.839 --> 00:17:21.599 See you're like a man power deal. But me and 359 00:17:21.640 --> 00:17:24.200 this one guy, Steve Morel, we were like into it, 360 00:17:24.200 --> 00:17:26.119 like we were like cops and Robbins deal. We locked 361 00:17:26.160 --> 00:17:27.680 up everybody, and I kept getting in trouble for resting 362 00:17:27.680 --> 00:17:30.759 PEOPLECAUSEY didn't want to rest anybody. So I keep getting 363 00:17:30.759 --> 00:17:32.799 in trouble, like getting yelled at whatever. But I'm making 364 00:17:32.839 --> 00:17:34.319 a ton of arrest And if you don't like see 365 00:17:34.319 --> 00:17:38.599 and how you passed away with the reporter, Yeah, in. 366 00:17:38.559 --> 00:17:40.799 The homicide squad and he looked and he was all 367 00:17:40.839 --> 00:17:41.039 over me. 368 00:17:41.039 --> 00:17:42.440 He's like yo, I like the young guys. I'm twenty 369 00:17:42.480 --> 00:17:45.359 one years old. So the sergeant sends me and a 370 00:17:45.400 --> 00:17:47.279 guy who came over from Transit to Queens to get 371 00:17:47.319 --> 00:17:49.200 an R and P pick up front of shops. 372 00:17:49.319 --> 00:17:51.920 I was told very directly this this guy was like 373 00:17:51.960 --> 00:17:52.720 a veteran a transit. 374 00:17:52.839 --> 00:17:54.519 So he rolled over. He goes, I want you to 375 00:17:54.599 --> 00:17:56.559 go to the shops, get the car and bring it back. 376 00:17:56.559 --> 00:17:58.680 We have to go to detail, don't fucking do anything 377 00:17:58.680 --> 00:18:00.759 in between. So I tell this guy showing my Gowan 378 00:18:00.759 --> 00:18:03.400 a great guy. I was like, showing this is whatever. 379 00:18:03.440 --> 00:18:04.160 He's not problem. 380 00:18:04.200 --> 00:18:06.240 We're driving over to Traboro Bridge and its livery car 381 00:18:06.319 --> 00:18:08.279 is trying to fucking hit me. I'm like, what the 382 00:18:08.319 --> 00:18:10.839 fucking and finally keybones in front of me sha him 383 00:18:10.839 --> 00:18:13.359 on the breaks. The driver does fucking the one hundred 384 00:18:13.359 --> 00:18:15.599 your death down, the driver pointing you, guy's got a gun. 385 00:18:15.839 --> 00:18:17.200 Sure enough, I go to the care the guy's got 386 00:18:17.200 --> 00:18:19.519 a gun. I great. McGowan's like, oh, it's a great kid. 387 00:18:19.559 --> 00:18:22.400 I'm like, no, there's a fucking dead This guy's gonna 388 00:18:22.480 --> 00:18:22.759 kill me. 389 00:18:23.480 --> 00:18:25.440 I can't come back. So we go to the Traveler 390 00:18:25.519 --> 00:18:26.599 Bridge a little preaching there. 391 00:18:26.799 --> 00:18:28.519 I called the two five. He's I get the good 392 00:18:28.519 --> 00:18:30.920 sergeant on the phony, no problem, bring it in, bring 393 00:18:30.920 --> 00:18:33.319 it in. Go to the death sergeant who's a seventies guy, 394 00:18:33.319 --> 00:18:35.839 like look like Fred Quinstone. He's like, good for you, kid, 395 00:18:35.920 --> 00:18:37.640 Go to back, said, I go in the back. 396 00:18:37.799 --> 00:18:39.839 Guys sitting there, I'm doing the paperwork. And this sergeant 397 00:18:40.400 --> 00:18:41.079 his name is Rohan. 398 00:18:41.160 --> 00:18:44.359 I don't like him anyway. So that's matter, big batman, 399 00:18:44.759 --> 00:18:48.759 fucking big, you know, tall, imposing guy. I'm fucking telling 400 00:18:48.799 --> 00:18:50.839 you you're a fucking trouble maker and no one's gonna 401 00:18:51.680 --> 00:18:52.279 own crazy. 402 00:18:52.480 --> 00:18:53.440 And he leaves. 403 00:18:53.440 --> 00:18:55.440 The old time sergeant in goes Okay, I'm just gonna 404 00:18:55.440 --> 00:18:56.960 tell you right now that guy's a dick. He's been 405 00:18:56.960 --> 00:18:57.880 at dick as whole Korea. 406 00:18:58.079 --> 00:19:00.000 He doesn't want to do anything, so just keep the. 407 00:19:00.079 --> 00:19:03.000 Only doing is that the picture of the car that 408 00:19:03.079 --> 00:19:03.400 we had. 409 00:19:03.519 --> 00:19:04.279 No, that's a seven. 410 00:19:04.680 --> 00:19:06.799 That's right. Wait wait, he's got to get up. You 411 00:19:06.880 --> 00:19:09.680 got to get up the hall on Yet there's. 412 00:19:09.519 --> 00:19:13.279 One more thing about hall that's another car dasy And 413 00:19:13.319 --> 00:19:15.559 he's he fucking hated me because I just caused problems. 414 00:19:15.599 --> 00:19:17.599 He was in the house mouse what a gonna call him? 415 00:19:17.759 --> 00:19:20.160 So it comes down for assignments, right, and I knew 416 00:19:20.240 --> 00:19:22.440 my mother's friend was an inspector and I knew himself 417 00:19:22.440 --> 00:19:22.839 as a kid. 418 00:19:23.200 --> 00:19:24.599 And he's like, you're going to this, You're going to 419 00:19:24.599 --> 00:19:25.240 the seven hours. 420 00:19:25.279 --> 00:19:25.559 Okay. 421 00:19:25.599 --> 00:19:26.920 So I walk into his Assholds office. 422 00:19:26.960 --> 00:19:29.480 He goes, ah, thank god, I could finally get rid 423 00:19:29.519 --> 00:19:32.279 of you tomorrow. You're going to the three two. I 424 00:19:32.319 --> 00:19:33.440 was like, okay, great, no problem. 425 00:19:33.839 --> 00:19:34.400 I went home. 426 00:19:34.680 --> 00:19:36.119 Now obviously they got a phone course. I came in 427 00:19:36.160 --> 00:19:37.599 the morning, my hockey big. I was never gonna set 428 00:19:37.599 --> 00:19:39.160 foot net place again. I knew it. 429 00:19:39.200 --> 00:19:40.920 I'm packing my ship. He calls me only. 430 00:19:40.799 --> 00:19:42.480 I'm get in here. I'm like, fuck, here we go. 431 00:19:43.000 --> 00:19:45.160 He's like, I don't know who you fucking cried to 432 00:19:45.359 --> 00:19:45.640 or what the. 433 00:19:45.640 --> 00:19:48.039 Whole big fucking show. I'm like, are you done? 434 00:19:48.279 --> 00:19:50.759 I said the good news, Louise, You'll never see me again. 435 00:19:50.559 --> 00:19:52.799 Because I'm not coming to Manhattan whatever again. To my 436 00:19:52.880 --> 00:19:54.559 stit went to the seven O and that was the 437 00:19:54.640 --> 00:19:58.000 end of that. Thank god. That was experience. 438 00:19:58.079 --> 00:20:01.000 Where is the seven O on what street? Don Lawrence Avenue? 439 00:20:01.000 --> 00:20:03.319 But it covers like it's it's like a cutout where 440 00:20:03.319 --> 00:20:06.119 the priests is Ocean popet but it covers flappers like uh, 441 00:20:06.519 --> 00:20:08.039 West flappers, like just flappers in general. 442 00:20:09.440 --> 00:20:12.200 But yeah, it goes from lower neighborhoods. 443 00:20:11.759 --> 00:20:15.119 Jewish, Russian, you know whatever, and then once you get north, 444 00:20:15.160 --> 00:20:16.039 it's it's a little more. 445 00:20:17.319 --> 00:20:18.240 It's a little more. 446 00:20:20.039 --> 00:20:20.680 Church Avenue. 447 00:20:20.680 --> 00:20:22.960 No, it's like Church Avenue, like the big apartment building 448 00:20:23.000 --> 00:20:24.359 with a lot of people in them. You know. 449 00:20:24.400 --> 00:20:26.000 It was not the greatest part of the preason, but 450 00:20:26.000 --> 00:20:26.279 there was. 451 00:20:26.359 --> 00:20:27.559 There was a lot of good people at there, but 452 00:20:27.759 --> 00:20:31.880 we never saw them. So yeah, the car, the car 453 00:20:31.960 --> 00:20:36.279 stories that pull up, the car, bro it's coming, it's coming. 454 00:20:36.559 --> 00:20:41.559 Yeah, not that car, not that car, that car, the car. 455 00:20:41.680 --> 00:20:46.039 Oh, my bed, my bed, holl are you doing? I 456 00:20:46.079 --> 00:20:48.519 forgot we were on the p D stories. 457 00:20:49.039 --> 00:20:50.279 That young baby taste too. 458 00:20:50.319 --> 00:20:53.240 Man, this is I think it's ninety one. I had 459 00:20:53.279 --> 00:20:55.319 been there over a year. I was working with a 460 00:20:55.319 --> 00:20:58.079 guy just for the night and uh, there was a 461 00:20:58.079 --> 00:21:00.200 car jacking earlier in the night HOUNDAI. 462 00:21:00.000 --> 00:21:01.359 Imagine call jacking ady nowadays. 463 00:21:01.400 --> 00:21:04.160 But anyway, so the forest gump that I am of 464 00:21:04.200 --> 00:21:06.839 the boat jobs, we drive past this car. 465 00:21:06.839 --> 00:21:08.920 I wasn't driving the guys, I said, that's the fucking car. 466 00:21:09.279 --> 00:21:12.880 He loops around now We were following the car for 467 00:21:12.920 --> 00:21:15.079 a while and they ended up making a left down 468 00:21:15.079 --> 00:21:15.279 of Debt. 469 00:21:15.279 --> 00:21:16.039 It's a full on pursuit. 470 00:21:16.039 --> 00:21:19.240 We're driving, He's driving world driving idiots, and they turned 471 00:21:19.279 --> 00:21:20.839 out a dead end. I'm I got perfect, this is it. 472 00:21:20.880 --> 00:21:23.039 Stupid is good. So they get they get to the 473 00:21:23.039 --> 00:21:25.519 dead end. Now they back up and I'm like, you know, 474 00:21:25.559 --> 00:21:27.359 we're a good distance, but I'm like, at some point 475 00:21:27.359 --> 00:21:29.680 you have to stop going forward. So he decided he 476 00:21:29.720 --> 00:21:32.119 wanted to avoid hitting them. When I say avoid hitting him, 477 00:21:32.240 --> 00:21:34.359 avoid hitting hits out of the car. I got my 478 00:21:34.400 --> 00:21:37.160 gun out. Everything we didn't wear seabelt in the police ever. 479 00:21:37.759 --> 00:21:39.640 So yeah, he swerves to my side. 480 00:21:39.640 --> 00:21:41.200 Now on purpose. He mights be a good guy, but 481 00:21:41.359 --> 00:21:43.559 hits the fuck. I mean, this thing got rocked, so 482 00:21:43.680 --> 00:21:45.240 the gun falls on the floor. Now I know that 483 00:21:45.279 --> 00:21:47.079 these guys were armed earlier in the tour, but they 484 00:21:47.160 --> 00:21:49.440 just bolted. One went that way, one went that way, 485 00:21:49.480 --> 00:21:52.279 So Mike went that way. We caught them, but after 486 00:21:52.279 --> 00:21:53.640 a week of medically, we came back and took a 487 00:21:53.680 --> 00:21:54.440 nice picked it with the car. 488 00:21:55.400 --> 00:21:56.960 They weren't happy we ruined the car, but it's the 489 00:21:56.960 --> 00:21:57.279 way it. 490 00:21:57.200 --> 00:22:00.440 Goes, so he said, yeah, you have had to pull 491 00:22:00.440 --> 00:22:03.000 your weapon out. You have to pull Yeah. 492 00:22:03.319 --> 00:22:05.200 Yeah, in the seven oer comes out of a hole 493 00:22:05.279 --> 00:22:06.920 and too, it comes out a lot. People say, oh, 494 00:22:06.920 --> 00:22:08.200 I didn't pulled my gun, And I don't know where 495 00:22:08.200 --> 00:22:10.240 you work bro pulling in and shooting in or two 496 00:22:10.240 --> 00:22:14.079 to things, But yeah, it comes out a lot around. 497 00:22:15.039 --> 00:22:16.799 I'll be walking around like this the whole day. 498 00:22:18.079 --> 00:22:20.160 You have to let the off. You haven't squeezing the off. 499 00:22:20.799 --> 00:22:23.400 So yeah, we had. I was working with a guy. 500 00:22:23.440 --> 00:22:24.680 We were an anti crime. Plain closes. 501 00:22:24.680 --> 00:22:26.799 It's pouring rain. I was going upstate that night. It's 502 00:22:26.799 --> 00:22:30.000 probably about eleven fifteen. We're almost done and robbery comes 503 00:22:30.039 --> 00:22:32.240 over in the junction. Everybody's in the junctions, very flabishing ocean. 504 00:22:32.759 --> 00:22:34.920 So it is fucking pouring rain and we're driving and 505 00:22:34.960 --> 00:22:36.799 I see the two guys. Like I said, I struck 506 00:22:36.839 --> 00:22:39.160 that's them. He turns the car onmark call, but yeah, 507 00:22:39.279 --> 00:22:41.519 unmark my ass fucking screen police car. 508 00:22:42.039 --> 00:22:42.839 So the guy sees it. 509 00:22:42.880 --> 00:22:44.680 So one guy runs, turns around, runs backwards, and the 510 00:22:44.680 --> 00:22:46.079 other guy runs into the alley. So I run in 511 00:22:46.119 --> 00:22:47.759 the guy on the alley he gets over the fence 512 00:22:47.759 --> 00:22:49.680 before I get back there. So now he jumps out. 513 00:22:49.720 --> 00:22:50.920 He points a gun at me from the other side 514 00:22:50.920 --> 00:22:52.319 of the fence. So I think I got out shoot 515 00:22:52.440 --> 00:22:55.599 and I fall in the water. The chuck comes running around, 516 00:22:55.640 --> 00:22:57.240 he's like he shot him, Like, no, I'm not shot. 517 00:22:57.319 --> 00:23:00.359 Get that fucking guy. Meanwhile, the people were wanted to 518 00:23:00.400 --> 00:23:02.880 help us get into a car accident right front of 519 00:23:02.880 --> 00:23:04.920 one to fifty seven quarters. They get pitted between the 520 00:23:04.920 --> 00:23:07.440 two poles the cop cars. So now they're fox no 521 00:23:07.440 --> 00:23:09.160 one's coming. You guys are in the wind. Now I 522 00:23:09.200 --> 00:23:11.000 got to the oldest people workout. I didn't hit a 523 00:23:11.039 --> 00:23:11.640 thing that. 524 00:23:11.720 --> 00:23:13.400 The ground guys are in the wind. 525 00:23:15.640 --> 00:23:17.559 So much. I actually worked out. 526 00:23:17.839 --> 00:23:19.759 So let me ask you a question because this has 527 00:23:19.799 --> 00:23:22.000 come up not too often because we don't usually talk 528 00:23:22.000 --> 00:23:25.519 about the police stuff. But what would like if you 529 00:23:25.640 --> 00:23:27.519 ask me? People always ask how the hell are you 530 00:23:27.559 --> 00:23:29.480 run at the Burnham buildings, right? And I always say 531 00:23:29.599 --> 00:23:32.880 because I would never run and follow some guy into 532 00:23:32.920 --> 00:23:36.519 a dark alley after he has about ten steps on 533 00:23:36.559 --> 00:23:38.039 me and I don't know where the hell he is, 534 00:23:38.359 --> 00:23:40.119 right Like, by the time you get to the corner 535 00:23:40.200 --> 00:23:42.559 and look down there, it's like yeah. 536 00:23:42.599 --> 00:23:45.079 But again the mentality, Remember I got hired and I 537 00:23:45.079 --> 00:23:46.799 was twenty years old, and I did go. I told 538 00:23:46.839 --> 00:23:48.720 you guys before I had gone to college to do radio, 539 00:23:48.799 --> 00:23:51.079 that was my dream or whatever. In the des I'm ass. 540 00:23:51.319 --> 00:23:52.880 I never liked how it's done, but I'm as the 541 00:23:52.920 --> 00:23:53.559 old time is. 542 00:23:53.519 --> 00:23:54.279 Like, I like that stuff. 543 00:23:54.279 --> 00:23:57.359 So I was gonna do that obviously back then, that's. 544 00:23:57.119 --> 00:23:59.240 That's a one in a million shots. So I took 545 00:23:59.279 --> 00:24:02.640 the police test. I got hard. I always want to 546 00:24:02.640 --> 00:24:04.039 be a cop. I mean I watched Hill Street Blues 547 00:24:04.079 --> 00:24:05.839 and that was sold. I think this is this is what, 548 00:24:06.039 --> 00:24:08.400 this is awesome, the perfect for this. I don't you know, 549 00:24:08.440 --> 00:24:10.759 I gotta I could talk obviously, you know, I can 550 00:24:10.839 --> 00:24:12.720 work it out. I end up talking myself, you know, 551 00:24:12.799 --> 00:24:14.799 talking people in the cuffs a lot more than having 552 00:24:14.880 --> 00:24:17.079 the sports on them. But it is a little but 553 00:24:17.119 --> 00:24:20.000 it's it's very exciting, like fires are exciting. It's exciting, 554 00:24:20.079 --> 00:24:22.039 especially when you're young. You know you're you're out there 555 00:24:22.079 --> 00:24:24.279 running like crazy. I mean, if I had thought about 556 00:24:24.319 --> 00:24:26.039 how much I ran then now and how to do 557 00:24:26.079 --> 00:24:27.000 it now, I forget it. 558 00:24:27.240 --> 00:24:28.880 I take it open the stairs without something. 559 00:24:30.000 --> 00:24:34.079 Horrible running down the block after a guy bro especially, 560 00:24:34.079 --> 00:24:37.839 I recommend it for everybody. 561 00:24:38.319 --> 00:24:39.880 My back was hurt when he said that he shot 562 00:24:39.920 --> 00:24:42.680 and he slipped in the wall. 563 00:24:46.880 --> 00:24:49.160 Got him like, no, I'm not shot him, Charlie Brown. 564 00:24:50.000 --> 00:24:52.880 There's some other pictures in there, bro what some pictures 565 00:24:52.920 --> 00:24:55.039 of him as a cop. Let's get through them before 566 00:24:55.240 --> 00:24:55.920 h Oh, we. 567 00:24:55.920 --> 00:24:56.759 Can bang those that quick. 568 00:24:56.880 --> 00:24:57.720 Those are quick stories. 569 00:24:57.960 --> 00:25:01.759 I remember them all you muted. 570 00:25:03.000 --> 00:25:03.640 This is okay. 571 00:25:03.680 --> 00:25:06.079 So that guy on with the shotgun in his hand, 572 00:25:06.119 --> 00:25:09.680 which thankfully is unloaded. He's working with his partner and 573 00:25:09.720 --> 00:25:11.799 they're what we considered to be old timers. They had 574 00:25:11.839 --> 00:25:13.240 about five years more than we did, but they got 575 00:25:13.279 --> 00:25:14.799 on like eighty forty five, so they were like the 576 00:25:14.799 --> 00:25:18.799 season guys. These guys never called for help for anything, right. 577 00:25:19.279 --> 00:25:21.640 So me and my partner are sitting up on Beverly 578 00:25:21.759 --> 00:25:24.680 Road with another radio clock talking Mike. The guy Mike 579 00:25:24.759 --> 00:25:26.680 with the shotgun goes over to the radio real quiet, 580 00:25:26.960 --> 00:25:29.039 we need a tennity five, but it gives the address. 581 00:25:29.400 --> 00:25:31.519 They were eating in a restaurant next to a nailsalon 582 00:25:32.079 --> 00:25:34.839 and two jackasses going now rub the nailsalon and it's 583 00:25:34.839 --> 00:25:37.279 the full on like everybody on the floor, the whole bit. 584 00:25:37.799 --> 00:25:39.480 Some dude runs out the back and goes and gets 585 00:25:39.480 --> 00:25:41.720 the comps. So I'm looking at my partner. I'm like, 586 00:25:41.759 --> 00:25:43.680 if they're calling for help, it's gotta be good. I mean, 587 00:25:43.720 --> 00:25:46.079 we got a call. So we fly down there and 588 00:25:46.119 --> 00:25:47.680 by the time we get down there, the guy with 589 00:25:47.759 --> 00:25:49.400 the shotgun and you get a hit up money box. 590 00:25:49.680 --> 00:25:51.200 He runs out the back door, so I cut down 591 00:25:51.200 --> 00:25:52.400 the block. I tried to hit him with the car, 592 00:25:52.400 --> 00:25:54.359 but I missed. It's not gonna lie to yet. So 593 00:25:54.440 --> 00:25:56.000 he's got a shotgun in his hand and the box. 594 00:25:57.000 --> 00:25:58.759 If you see the clip in the picture on my belt, 595 00:25:58.759 --> 00:26:00.920 that's where a radio is supposed to go. You know, 596 00:26:01.039 --> 00:26:02.640 we always carried between our legs and the cost So 597 00:26:02.680 --> 00:26:03.880 I got out of car, went to put it on 598 00:26:03.880 --> 00:26:05.799 the cliff, drop it right on the floor. No radio. 599 00:26:06.240 --> 00:26:08.799 Hopping fences, hopping fences. They finally catch up to him. 600 00:26:09.440 --> 00:26:11.720 He kicks me in the face, knocks me off the fence, 601 00:26:11.720 --> 00:26:14.400 which that got even showed me. But I guess I'm screaming. 602 00:26:14.400 --> 00:26:16.880 My partner, Joe was running on the street. I'm yelling 603 00:26:17.359 --> 00:26:19.039 this way, this way, this way. They finally catch me 604 00:26:19.079 --> 00:26:21.119 in an apartment building. They bring him out, so they 605 00:26:21.119 --> 00:26:23.720 bring the nail salon on her around little short guy. 606 00:26:24.119 --> 00:26:26.240 He Joe Peschi's this guy like in the like in 607 00:26:26.559 --> 00:26:29.039 my cousin Vinny, like off his feet, lays him out. 608 00:26:30.240 --> 00:26:31.440 Did you collect two hundred bucks? 609 00:26:31.640 --> 00:26:35.160 No, he did not do that. But the fact that, 610 00:26:35.200 --> 00:26:37.079 like these two guys, they didn't want the arrest. I'm like, 611 00:26:37.160 --> 00:26:39.519 I just like, no, you're gonna have it. I'm like, okay, whatever. 612 00:26:39.559 --> 00:26:41.039 They were great. Those two guys were the best. 613 00:26:41.440 --> 00:26:41.680 They were. 614 00:26:41.759 --> 00:26:43.839 They were such characters. That guy is a complete character. 615 00:26:44.640 --> 00:26:45.359 Is he still around? 616 00:26:45.400 --> 00:26:47.240 That guy? He looks like he's retired. 617 00:26:47.279 --> 00:26:48.559 He's a sergeant. He was a sergeant. 618 00:26:48.599 --> 00:26:52.000 He retired. He lives in Florida. He's a good due 619 00:26:52.039 --> 00:26:54.359 parts in Breezy Point. I mean, two of the best dudes. 620 00:26:54.400 --> 00:26:58.160 They were so cool. Nothing bothered them, you know, dude. 621 00:26:57.960 --> 00:27:00.000 Go back to that picture. He looks like Jack Nicholson. 622 00:27:00.759 --> 00:27:01.759 Who me or the other guy? 623 00:27:01.880 --> 00:27:04.400 You? Oh, nobody ever told you that. 624 00:27:05.680 --> 00:27:08.880 No, you don't look like him? You think no. I 625 00:27:08.920 --> 00:27:10.480 was looking at the cash, to be honest with. 626 00:27:10.440 --> 00:27:14.400 You, I didn't see anything else in that picture but 627 00:27:14.440 --> 00:27:18.839 the scut all over? Here go the money? 628 00:27:18.839 --> 00:27:19.720 That was it? Yeah? 629 00:27:19.799 --> 00:27:21.160 Nother one? God's will? I think there was an. 630 00:27:21.079 --> 00:27:22.440 Idea we have another run here? 631 00:27:22.559 --> 00:27:24.640 Oh yeah, all right, So that's my partner, Joe. Joe 632 00:27:24.680 --> 00:27:26.079 and I grew up kind of group, knew each other 633 00:27:26.079 --> 00:27:28.039 from the neighborhood. His father was the captain of three 634 00:27:28.039 --> 00:27:30.920 twenty one UH for a period of time. So Joe 635 00:27:30.960 --> 00:27:33.559 and I are driving down Flatfish Avenue. I'm driving was 636 00:27:33.599 --> 00:27:35.960 in his the lighted avenue d and flappish. It's dark. 637 00:27:36.559 --> 00:27:37.880 I look to my left and I see this guy 638 00:27:37.920 --> 00:27:39.640 running across sheet and he starts pulling a gun up 639 00:27:39.640 --> 00:27:41.039 and he puts it right in his old guy's feak. 640 00:27:41.039 --> 00:27:42.079 He just got his Chinese food. 641 00:27:42.400 --> 00:27:44.119 So Joe's idea was, he goes, we'll put the lights 642 00:27:44.119 --> 00:27:46.039 on turning the corner. I said, Joe, if I put 643 00:27:46.039 --> 00:27:48.240 the lights on, he's gonna blow his head off. I said, 644 00:27:48.240 --> 00:27:50.480 he doesn't even see us. He's so stupid. So we'll 645 00:27:50.559 --> 00:27:52.440 let him, you know, So we let him get away 646 00:27:52.440 --> 00:27:55.039 from him. Now we turn the corner. Now Joe is 647 00:27:55.039 --> 00:27:57.559 gonna run. Now. I love Joe. He's one of my 648 00:27:57.559 --> 00:27:59.119 best friends. I still told him to this day. Actually 649 00:27:59.200 --> 00:28:05.000 Tilba' exactly same. But Joe's gon a runners running after 650 00:28:05.039 --> 00:28:08.720 this guy, young young guy. I'm on the radio giving 651 00:28:08.759 --> 00:28:11.200 the like where we're going, Like I'm laughing. They heard 652 00:28:11.200 --> 00:28:13.000 me laughing on the radio. I'm like, I felt so bad, 653 00:28:13.039 --> 00:28:15.480 but it's the truth. So finally I knew Joe what 654 00:28:15.519 --> 00:28:17.400 didn't have it in him? And I I had no patience. 655 00:28:17.400 --> 00:28:18.359 I wasn't get out running. 656 00:28:18.480 --> 00:28:20.400 So I hit him with the car, tossed him. 657 00:28:20.279 --> 00:28:22.559 Over the fence. And I was always plaint. That's all 658 00:28:22.559 --> 00:28:24.359 he cared about, is like he kept telling my lieuten yo, he. 659 00:28:24.519 --> 00:28:26.000 Be with the car. He's like, he hit him with 660 00:28:26.000 --> 00:28:26.160 the car. 661 00:28:26.160 --> 00:28:27.400 I'm like, yeah, with the car, Why do you think 662 00:28:27.440 --> 00:28:34.640 Joe can run? So the guys, the guy who got robbed, Katchamovids, 663 00:28:34.680 --> 00:28:35.960 this old guy. We went back to him to get 664 00:28:35.960 --> 00:28:37.839 the statement and everything. The guy was hugging us. He 665 00:28:37.880 --> 00:28:40.400 was like a Ukrainian immigrant or something. Old guy. All 666 00:28:40.440 --> 00:28:42.319 he was doing is getting Chinese food and his motherfucker's 667 00:28:42.319 --> 00:28:43.960 trying to rob him. And the kid like he was 668 00:28:43.960 --> 00:28:46.440 a kid. He turned Okay, he was the gun's fake. 669 00:28:46.519 --> 00:28:49.119 That's not a real gun. But he didn't know that 670 00:28:49.240 --> 00:28:52.240 neither way, so he's looking at but yeah, it worked 671 00:28:52.240 --> 00:28:53.559 out the kid. It worked out for the kid too. 672 00:28:54.559 --> 00:28:56.880 Over the fence with the car, over the defense with 673 00:28:56.880 --> 00:29:01.000 the car. Yes, I wasn't guy, I would. 674 00:29:00.759 --> 00:29:02.160 Have liked to do that, maybe for like a couple 675 00:29:02.200 --> 00:29:03.200 of weeks, you know, just. 676 00:29:03.920 --> 00:29:06.000 It's gotta be. It sounds like fun, bro, I mean. 677 00:29:05.920 --> 00:29:07.799 But it would have to be in the eighties. It 678 00:29:07.839 --> 00:29:11.160 couldn't be now. To go on the time I'd have 679 00:29:11.160 --> 00:29:13.160 to go on the time machine with the fat motorola. 680 00:29:13.440 --> 00:29:15.440 You know, you know, anybody on the job now, Mike, 681 00:29:15.559 --> 00:29:18.079 it's gotta be way different that I said. You know, 682 00:29:18.160 --> 00:29:20.400 anybody on the job now, it's gotta be way different. 683 00:29:20.480 --> 00:29:22.519 My my brother just retired with twenty seven years and 684 00:29:22.720 --> 00:29:23.759 he had a good career too. 685 00:29:23.799 --> 00:29:26.680 He uh he ended up being cheap Patrol's office, which 686 00:29:26.720 --> 00:29:28.640 was really good. But he was an active compist. He 687 00:29:28.680 --> 00:29:31.119 was in the UH seven seven as a cop No. 688 00:29:31.240 --> 00:29:33.200 Six mes A Cops seven seven as a soergeant and 689 00:29:33.200 --> 00:29:36.319 the six hours lieutenant, all high profile stuff, anti crime stuff. 690 00:29:36.359 --> 00:29:38.039 He's got medals that have metals. 691 00:29:38.279 --> 00:29:38.720 He's good. 692 00:29:39.200 --> 00:29:40.000 But now you're tired. 693 00:29:40.079 --> 00:29:42.519 So the job ain't the same now, right, can't. 694 00:29:43.039 --> 00:29:43.759 It's a little different. 695 00:29:43.799 --> 00:29:45.880 We work a lout with the cops like UH with 696 00:29:45.920 --> 00:29:47.720 the NYPD, with the marshals like it's a lot of 697 00:29:47.759 --> 00:29:50.400 interaction with the auction explosion tactives and stuff. And even 698 00:29:50.440 --> 00:29:53.400 if the you know, pro cops, we deal with them 699 00:29:53.400 --> 00:29:55.240 all the time. They you know, they're all great guys 700 00:29:55.359 --> 00:29:57.680 and guys, but it is different for them, you know. 701 00:29:57.839 --> 00:29:59.440 It's the body camera has done them a lot of 702 00:29:59.680 --> 00:30:02.359 good things. Actually, if you ever I'm sure there's a 703 00:30:02.400 --> 00:30:04.519 YouTube channel for the something. Go watch body camp for 704 00:30:04.559 --> 00:30:05.000 like an hour. 705 00:30:05.400 --> 00:30:09.359 Oh actually had a TV show and Discovery one of 706 00:30:09.400 --> 00:30:10.839 those things that I just told they were showing with 707 00:30:10.880 --> 00:30:11.880 those body can. 708 00:30:12.720 --> 00:30:15.200 Yeah, body cams are great. 709 00:30:15.240 --> 00:30:17.640 So when you get the call for the fire department, 710 00:30:17.759 --> 00:30:19.720 was there any hesitation you think that you might not 711 00:30:19.759 --> 00:30:20.160 take it? 712 00:30:20.279 --> 00:30:23.000 Or no? So I was an anti crime which is great. 713 00:30:23.039 --> 00:30:24.079 That's what I wanted to do. I want to be 714 00:30:24.119 --> 00:30:25.759 the tech was or my way to it's detective. That 715 00:30:25.799 --> 00:30:26.200 was the goal. 716 00:30:26.759 --> 00:30:30.079 And uh so I caught mem and Monte Prada. Wait, Mike, 717 00:30:30.680 --> 00:30:31.440 best to get a girl? 718 00:30:32.079 --> 00:30:34.359 Mike, you want to be a Sorry I mean, but 719 00:30:34.359 --> 00:30:37.680 didn't you want to be a Did you want. 720 00:30:37.559 --> 00:30:38.079 To be an actor? 721 00:30:38.079 --> 00:30:39.480 The lord own a guy or something like that? Before 722 00:30:39.480 --> 00:30:41.720 we get to the fire story right in here, it's 723 00:30:41.799 --> 00:30:43.079 kind of a cap story a. 724 00:30:43.039 --> 00:30:44.720 Couple of different TV shows with this group. This is 725 00:30:44.720 --> 00:30:46.559 all rock guys. They come to the rock, they want 726 00:30:46.559 --> 00:30:48.519 the rig to take a couple of guys. We were 727 00:30:48.559 --> 00:30:51.799 just background guys. We didn't do much but everywhere I 728 00:30:51.799 --> 00:30:54.000 don't know what shows were great. Then you got the 729 00:30:54.039 --> 00:30:54.960 rescue makeup going. 730 00:30:55.039 --> 00:30:56.200 I was gonna say, he's got the fu. 731 00:30:56.680 --> 00:30:57.559 Yeah they did that to us. 732 00:30:57.559 --> 00:30:59.799 We didn't do it. Yeah, you know, well Mike's got it. 733 00:30:59.759 --> 00:31:04.039 On, you know, come on, all right, sorry, go ahead, 734 00:31:04.039 --> 00:31:06.160 you which is totally railroad to your conversation. 735 00:31:06.240 --> 00:31:07.799 Oh yeah, we get So. 736 00:31:07.880 --> 00:31:10.359 I called Margie Proud because I was a copper Larry 737 00:31:10.359 --> 00:31:11.480 your son who was jimmified. 738 00:31:12.160 --> 00:31:13.680 And I said to her, I was six twenty eight 739 00:31:13.720 --> 00:31:15.799 on the list, six twenty eight. I call her. I go, 740 00:31:15.960 --> 00:31:17.160 so I'll be in like the January class. 741 00:31:17.240 --> 00:31:19.200 Right, she goes, January, you just miss getting July. Bro, 742 00:31:19.480 --> 00:31:22.079 you're gonna be in like October. My fuck, because we were. 743 00:31:22.079 --> 00:31:24.039 We were in the championships at a stadium with the 744 00:31:24.400 --> 00:31:25.359 the presint and. 745 00:31:25.359 --> 00:31:28.640 I didn't really tell anybody, but you know, my partner knew, 746 00:31:28.839 --> 00:31:30.359 but want you tell somebody's the end of it. 747 00:31:30.519 --> 00:31:33.680 So my inspector, Patty Brennan, God rests what a great. 748 00:31:33.519 --> 00:31:35.799 Man he was. Uh, he said, yeakeet, and we win 749 00:31:35.839 --> 00:31:37.480 the championship. I walk over with the trophy. I go 750 00:31:37.880 --> 00:31:40.920 inspector for you. Did you know whatever? By the way, 751 00:31:40.920 --> 00:31:43.799 I'm leaving next week. He goes, I know how the 752 00:31:43.799 --> 00:31:44.559 fuck this guy? Now? 753 00:31:44.759 --> 00:31:45.680 That guy was great man. 754 00:31:46.000 --> 00:31:48.640 I got a civilian complaint from Norman Segul, the actual 755 00:31:48.680 --> 00:31:51.240 head of a CLU, and I had got a lot 756 00:31:51.240 --> 00:31:51.960 of SAVIN complaints. 757 00:31:52.000 --> 00:31:54.400 But you know whatever, I walk into the prest. He's 758 00:31:54.400 --> 00:31:54.880 in his office. 759 00:31:54.920 --> 00:31:55.640 He has a bro heasy. 760 00:31:55.839 --> 00:31:58.000 He goes, Mike, come in here a second, shut the door. 761 00:31:58.319 --> 00:31:58.880 I got a fuck. 762 00:31:58.920 --> 00:32:00.599 I knew what happened, knew what he did. He goes, 763 00:32:00.960 --> 00:32:03.519 I can't believe you got a civilian complaint from fucking 764 00:32:03.559 --> 00:32:04.240 Norman Siegel. 765 00:32:04.519 --> 00:32:08.599 That's fucking amazing. I was like, well, he didn't move. 766 00:32:08.599 --> 00:32:10.359 I actually the move three times. I knew who he was, 767 00:32:10.400 --> 00:32:11.440 and then he got cross checked. 768 00:32:11.519 --> 00:32:12.680 Were gonna do the top of the broken leg? He 769 00:32:12.720 --> 00:32:13.960 was gonna run over him? You can't have that. 770 00:32:14.200 --> 00:32:15.599 So he took care of the sweat it all the way. 771 00:32:15.599 --> 00:32:17.599 But that guy was the best I got to work. 772 00:32:17.880 --> 00:32:19.960 Uh my anti crite details to the last day before 773 00:32:19.960 --> 00:32:22.640 I left, and the only way day fucked me. Was 774 00:32:22.640 --> 00:32:24.000 that made me buy a dark blue shirt for one 775 00:32:24.079 --> 00:32:26.880 day because I hadn't like flue shirts, but I bought 776 00:32:26.880 --> 00:32:27.279 the one. 777 00:32:27.119 --> 00:32:31.359 Shirt to my brother, What did you did your dad 778 00:32:31.400 --> 00:32:33.079 tell you like, this is no brain. You gotta take 779 00:32:33.119 --> 00:32:33.440 the job. 780 00:32:33.480 --> 00:32:33.599 Bro. 781 00:32:33.880 --> 00:32:34.519 No, he didn't care. 782 00:32:34.960 --> 00:32:35.240 He knew. 783 00:32:35.279 --> 00:32:36.519 I was like, I didn't care. 784 00:32:37.119 --> 00:32:37.440 He didn't. 785 00:32:38.000 --> 00:32:40.200 There was not even for a second. You're like, yeah, 786 00:32:40.200 --> 00:32:40.839 maybe I'll stay. 787 00:32:40.960 --> 00:32:42.680 He was no. No, I was gone. 788 00:32:42.720 --> 00:32:44.359 Like I said, you know, I've been divorced. 789 00:32:44.359 --> 00:32:46.599 I felt, you know, everything was not It was okay, 790 00:32:46.599 --> 00:32:47.119 but it wasn't. 791 00:32:47.279 --> 00:32:47.960 It could be better. 792 00:32:48.640 --> 00:32:51.319 He's got a LifeWise, So I made the right move. 793 00:32:51.640 --> 00:32:52.400 I have no regrets. 794 00:32:52.519 --> 00:32:54.119 I you know, he was talking. 795 00:32:53.920 --> 00:32:56.519 About the fire now, I mean I can it is. 796 00:32:56.559 --> 00:32:58.799 It's just so many you meet on both jobs. When 797 00:32:58.799 --> 00:33:00.799 you're on both jobs, you meet so many good people 798 00:33:00.799 --> 00:33:03.240 and did of course there are, but you would know 799 00:33:03.319 --> 00:33:04.960 that they're not coming to your house and I call 800 00:33:05.000 --> 00:33:07.839 him on the phone, you know, but whatever, it's mostly 801 00:33:07.880 --> 00:33:10.200 good people. And it's everybody's a team. Games PD, you 802 00:33:10.240 --> 00:33:13.440 got your partner or a team. Fire department speaks for itself. 803 00:33:13.440 --> 00:33:15.119 Everybody's the team. No one's an individual. 804 00:33:15.920 --> 00:33:18.240 It's good well there are, but we got hired actually 805 00:33:18.240 --> 00:33:23.759 as provisional firefighters, right yeah, because they were uh sue 806 00:33:23.759 --> 00:33:26.960 in the city or something. The guys from Long Island 807 00:33:27.039 --> 00:33:31.319 was suing the at that point, right five attend that 808 00:33:31.599 --> 00:33:35.440 five points for city residents, right yeah, yeah, And so. 809 00:33:35.880 --> 00:33:38.119 Yeah, my father said, once he goes, once you're on, 810 00:33:38.440 --> 00:33:40.759 you'll be all right at the very least, I'll just 811 00:33:40.759 --> 00:33:44.279 settle and hire them too. All right, good class, A lot. 812 00:33:44.160 --> 00:33:46.519 Of fun we did. We had some characters, and we 813 00:33:46.519 --> 00:33:51.440 were talking about Vinnie before and I remember a graduation bro. 814 00:33:51.559 --> 00:33:54.119 He he had faith teeth because he was a boxer too, right, 815 00:33:54.359 --> 00:33:56.519 most teeth, Yeah yeah, So he's taking him out and 816 00:33:56.519 --> 00:33:59.880 fun around all the time. So at graduation he loses them. 817 00:34:00.000 --> 00:34:02.119 He's not a half on my teeth. I looked down 818 00:34:02.160 --> 00:34:05.559 on my shoe and his teeth are on my shoe. 819 00:34:05.680 --> 00:34:11.480 Yeah, he was, Oh my god, he's He's a character. 820 00:34:11.679 --> 00:34:14.440 That whole class was bro. Neil from Boston was like 821 00:34:14.679 --> 00:34:16.239 I ended up living with Neil and three other guys 822 00:34:16.239 --> 00:34:18.880 from both He was living in Staten Island, right yeah. 823 00:34:19.159 --> 00:34:21.320 The one guy moved out, so he's like, oh I 824 00:34:21.360 --> 00:34:22.599 got I got you know, got a room and I 825 00:34:22.679 --> 00:34:24.480 knew I hung out with old him. I'm like, I 826 00:34:24.559 --> 00:34:25.920 got my rent in half and I get to live 827 00:34:25.960 --> 00:34:28.400 with three guys who had an absolute ball with you know, 828 00:34:28.440 --> 00:34:29.920 it was like good in the fire hoss. It was great, 829 00:34:29.920 --> 00:34:32.199 and I lived. I was on the rotation at seventy seven, 830 00:34:32.199 --> 00:34:34.400 which is essentially down the block, so it was good. 831 00:34:35.400 --> 00:34:37.760 So he got you over to two eighty three. My 832 00:34:37.840 --> 00:34:40.199 father did. That was because we had so many chiefs 833 00:34:40.239 --> 00:34:41.559 kids in that class. He wanted to me in two 834 00:34:41.599 --> 00:34:43.280 thirty four. That was to say that was his idea. 835 00:34:43.320 --> 00:34:44.840 I was all for it, and then you know he's 836 00:34:44.840 --> 00:34:48.119 a boxed out but uh, you know, I they did 837 00:34:48.159 --> 00:34:49.719 find out about that, and I did. I did take 838 00:34:49.760 --> 00:34:51.960 some heat for that, but uh it wasn't really like 839 00:34:52.159 --> 00:34:54.239 that wasn't malicious. And you know, if you look around 840 00:34:54.280 --> 00:34:55.440 my bes, and I know you can't see all of it, 841 00:34:55.480 --> 00:34:57.599 but there's two eighty three ship everywhere, I mean that's. 842 00:34:57.480 --> 00:34:59.960 Right, that's Yankee ship everywhere. But you know that's okay. 843 00:35:00.159 --> 00:35:02.880 Oh yeah, behind I won't hold it against I won't 844 00:35:03.559 --> 00:35:04.159 me at all times. 845 00:35:04.400 --> 00:35:05.960 I won't hold it against either. You see my ship 846 00:35:06.039 --> 00:35:06.480 behind me? 847 00:35:08.960 --> 00:35:09.199 Sorry? 848 00:35:09.280 --> 00:35:10.039 Oh sorry? 849 00:35:10.679 --> 00:35:14.039 Yeah? Who are there anybody from my class can go 850 00:35:14.119 --> 00:35:14.800 to two thirty four. 851 00:35:15.800 --> 00:35:17.639 Uh yeah, corkorand Jimmy Pockets. 852 00:35:18.880 --> 00:35:20.760 I got a lot of a lot of the chief 853 00:35:20.840 --> 00:35:22.400 sons in there. Bro a lot of chief We had 854 00:35:22.440 --> 00:35:23.400 fe hand Son in there. 855 00:35:24.320 --> 00:35:25.079 Yeah, Dahm was there. 856 00:35:25.840 --> 00:35:27.119 Yeah, I helped, he was there. 857 00:35:27.400 --> 00:35:30.679 All was a big and rescue two we I mean 858 00:35:30.880 --> 00:35:32.679 for chief sons. We had good guys. 859 00:35:32.840 --> 00:35:35.199 Listen to Waity three wasn't too shabbly, you know what 860 00:35:35.280 --> 00:35:35.599 I mean? 861 00:35:36.480 --> 00:35:38.239 All right, Oh, we definitely did all right single lend 862 00:35:38.239 --> 00:35:38.679 you been nice. 863 00:35:38.679 --> 00:35:41.239 Although when I got there one twenty and was in 864 00:35:41.280 --> 00:35:43.599 with us with the four to four, and I didn't 865 00:35:43.599 --> 00:35:45.199 know any better because I got there they were there already, 866 00:35:45.760 --> 00:35:47.599 I quickly found out that they really didn't get along. 867 00:35:48.719 --> 00:35:50.559 Who to Waity three and went twenty. 868 00:35:50.800 --> 00:35:53.840 Yeah real time. Yeah, well there was. 869 00:35:54.840 --> 00:35:57.320 I liked all of them because their character. I love characters. 870 00:35:57.360 --> 00:35:59.920 One twenty he had characters. They were great. There were characters. 871 00:36:00.159 --> 00:36:02.599 But yeah, I came to learn that you know, when 872 00:36:02.599 --> 00:36:04.119 you're single, you don't want to get a forced marriage. 873 00:36:04.119 --> 00:36:04.880 That's what I got out. 874 00:36:05.000 --> 00:36:06.280 Yeah, exactly right. 875 00:36:06.360 --> 00:36:09.280 No, it's just a matter of like different like when 876 00:36:09.280 --> 00:36:10.280 they had the meal we. 877 00:36:10.239 --> 00:36:12.039 Had like eleven o'clock or twelve o'clock or whatever. We 878 00:36:12.119 --> 00:36:13.719 when we did it, it was like eat thirty nine o'clock. 879 00:36:13.920 --> 00:36:15.400 That was apparently a big deal. I didn't really give 880 00:36:15.400 --> 00:36:16.719 a I'm happy to eat, you know. 881 00:36:16.760 --> 00:36:20.440 I mean, that's a big firehouse for just one engine there, right, 882 00:36:20.519 --> 00:36:20.760 I mean? 883 00:36:20.800 --> 00:36:23.000 And then yeah, yeah, my dad said, when they built it, 884 00:36:23.000 --> 00:36:24.000 they had designs on. 885 00:36:24.039 --> 00:36:27.719 Putting the squad was there, squat for yeah, the. 886 00:36:27.679 --> 00:36:29.440 Ambulance was there, and then they were gonna put a 887 00:36:29.480 --> 00:36:31.599 truck there, and then never happened because the budget cuts 888 00:36:31.599 --> 00:36:34.119 and everything else. So yeah, it's. 889 00:36:34.000 --> 00:36:34.599 Not as big as you. 890 00:36:34.800 --> 00:36:36.199 I'm sure you've been in there, but like when you 891 00:36:36.239 --> 00:36:38.320 go upstairs, it's a locker room, a division and then 892 00:36:38.320 --> 00:36:42.840 it's just now. Yeah, yeah, it was a little tough. 893 00:36:42.840 --> 00:36:43.320 It was all right. 894 00:36:43.840 --> 00:36:44.440 I dealt with it. 895 00:36:44.880 --> 00:36:47.360 Who is who is the captain some of the forces? 896 00:36:47.400 --> 00:36:49.239 Daddy? Remember who was when I first got there was 897 00:36:49.320 --> 00:36:51.880 Charlie Williams. He was a rescue to fireman. My my 898 00:36:51.920 --> 00:36:54.239 dad was finding Garretts, the beach guy. Charlie was. He looked 899 00:36:54.239 --> 00:36:57.039 like Wilfrid Brimley in this much smaller version, but uh, 900 00:36:57.199 --> 00:36:58.079 tough his nails man. 901 00:36:58.480 --> 00:37:01.119 That guy was he was a nice guy, a nice Uh. 902 00:37:01.199 --> 00:37:02.320 Then we had Rocker. 903 00:37:02.400 --> 00:37:06.599 Ronaldi came in after that. He's, I mean that guy 904 00:37:06.679 --> 00:37:14.320 is except for the far but he whispers, yeah, kitchen table, 905 00:37:14.400 --> 00:37:18.159 the Tasmanian Devil, fire out, three windows full. Everybody's everybody's like, 906 00:37:18.159 --> 00:37:19.199 what are we going in here? 907 00:37:19.719 --> 00:37:20.480 Or feast behind you? 908 00:37:20.519 --> 00:37:22.480 When you get into an accident and you'd say, chief, 909 00:37:22.480 --> 00:37:23.559 I'm gonna take care of that, and he says, what 910 00:37:23.599 --> 00:37:24.159 are you talking about? 911 00:37:24.199 --> 00:37:25.960 I have no idea. 912 00:37:26.360 --> 00:37:28.280 Why don't we keep getting that? Why did that keep 913 00:37:28.280 --> 00:37:30.039 coming up? I don't understand why I didn't. 914 00:37:30.519 --> 00:37:32.599 I didn't say anything about that you were driving. I 915 00:37:32.599 --> 00:37:36.360 didn't said was that we got into an accident? Anything 916 00:37:36.400 --> 00:37:36.760 about you? 917 00:37:36.840 --> 00:37:40.079 And always comes up on the shout. I'm constantly give you. 918 00:37:40.079 --> 00:37:41.880 I'll give you guys a minute. Figured it out all right, 919 00:37:42.519 --> 00:37:44.599 But uh then we had so nine to eleven happened, 920 00:37:44.599 --> 00:37:46.239 and like they promoted so many people. 921 00:37:46.320 --> 00:37:48.320 Rocker got voted and we got Jack Burke and there Jack. 922 00:37:48.280 --> 00:37:52.960 Was there for I think what twenty is? Uh yeah, 923 00:37:53.000 --> 00:37:54.800 and then you know like what I got there was 924 00:37:54.840 --> 00:37:55.559 Gary and Bennedict. 925 00:37:55.559 --> 00:37:58.159 It was uh how to beat that? 926 00:37:58.280 --> 00:37:58.440 Right? 927 00:37:58.599 --> 00:37:58.840 Sorry? 928 00:37:58.880 --> 00:38:00.840 Yeah, no song was he was built with the building. 929 00:38:00.840 --> 00:38:01.199 He stayed there. 930 00:38:01.239 --> 00:38:02.039 He got there when the building. 931 00:38:03.360 --> 00:38:06.199 I'm surprised he's got in the chat tonight man he is, 932 00:38:06.960 --> 00:38:09.320 but well, you guys know him, right, So baby, I 933 00:38:09.360 --> 00:38:10.599 don't know if he told you this, And I'm gonna 934 00:38:10.599 --> 00:38:12.079 tell the secret because he's been busting My area is 935 00:38:12.119 --> 00:38:12.599 right in the middle. 936 00:38:12.800 --> 00:38:14.119 Oh that's that's actually a good story. 937 00:38:14.320 --> 00:38:16.360 Hit this one. So this is my first job as 938 00:38:16.360 --> 00:38:17.880 a show. If it was cool, it's what my pants on. 939 00:38:18.199 --> 00:38:20.079 So I said, Rutland Plaza. Anybody playing with the area 940 00:38:20.079 --> 00:38:21.960 knows where the plasa is. Nobody ever wants to go 941 00:38:21.960 --> 00:38:23.840 there for a fire. First job is a show. But 942 00:38:23.880 --> 00:38:25.440 I'm driving like I stole it because you don't drive 943 00:38:25.480 --> 00:38:27.519 fast over they fire. So I get out there, I 944 00:38:27.559 --> 00:38:30.000 pull in. I'm like, oh perfect. Once he pull cuts 945 00:38:30.000 --> 00:38:31.519 the gate, I pull in. I know there's a hydrant there. 946 00:38:31.599 --> 00:38:32.519 You know what's not in there? 947 00:38:32.880 --> 00:38:33.679 That stampipe up? 948 00:38:34.480 --> 00:38:34.719 Fuck? 949 00:38:35.480 --> 00:38:37.280 But somebody was coming out. So I grabbed the door, 950 00:38:37.360 --> 00:38:38.480 chopped it with the bag. I go in. 951 00:38:38.519 --> 00:38:39.880 I did the whole thing for the first floor. 952 00:38:40.199 --> 00:38:41.800 Everything went fine, you know, miss it there was it 953 00:38:41.880 --> 00:38:44.039 was actually a missing fireman at the time. You know, 954 00:38:44.079 --> 00:38:45.880 may day the whole bed and he walked right past me, 955 00:38:45.880 --> 00:38:47.000 and I grew up with him. I knew who he was. 956 00:38:47.039 --> 00:38:50.199 I'm like, yo, bro, they're looking for you. Oh yeah, 957 00:38:50.360 --> 00:38:51.960 that's the side of the point. Donald comes out and 958 00:38:51.960 --> 00:38:54.000 goes you looked up to the first floor. Great job 959 00:38:54.039 --> 00:38:56.199 of a h couldn't couldn't have been nicer about it 960 00:38:56.280 --> 00:38:58.360 that the fire off the go. He's just so you know, 961 00:38:58.760 --> 00:39:01.199 there's no stampipe book there. I had no choice, like 962 00:39:01.239 --> 00:39:03.719 I was. I was stuttering for a bit death. Thank 963 00:39:03.719 --> 00:39:05.599 god somebody was evacuine. They wanted to jump. I'm like, 964 00:39:05.599 --> 00:39:09.320 don't boot them, don't get the lando made go. Well, 965 00:39:10.039 --> 00:39:11.599 but yeah, that was that was a bad fire too. 966 00:39:11.960 --> 00:39:13.159 They got their es kip in that. I was very 967 00:39:13.159 --> 00:39:15.119 happy to be a strike for that one. Brothern Plaza 968 00:39:15.199 --> 00:39:17.360 was Nobody wanted to go there. Ever, nobody nobody prayed 969 00:39:17.400 --> 00:39:20.880 for a firing Ronan Plaza. That's for sure. 970 00:39:20.719 --> 00:39:22.760 There he is. I knew he'd be in there, yes 971 00:39:22.760 --> 00:39:26.880 I am, but he just plugged in the great my dad, 972 00:39:27.079 --> 00:39:28.480 I tell him, he reminds me of my father. 973 00:39:28.519 --> 00:39:29.000 For some reason. 974 00:39:29.079 --> 00:39:30.519 He looks he talks like my father. 975 00:39:31.119 --> 00:39:33.119 He don't really like the job that much now he 976 00:39:33.239 --> 00:39:33.719 is a job. 977 00:39:34.280 --> 00:39:35.280 No hates it right. 978 00:39:35.800 --> 00:39:38.079 He said it was a good job too. Son said 979 00:39:38.079 --> 00:39:38.679 it was really good. 980 00:39:38.920 --> 00:39:41.880 That was yeah, I mean there was you know yeah, 981 00:39:41.960 --> 00:39:43.760 I mean I got lost and get turned around. 982 00:39:43.800 --> 00:39:44.960 I mean it worked out okay. 983 00:39:45.000 --> 00:39:48.400 But his boss wasn't too happy, obviously missing a guy 984 00:39:48.400 --> 00:39:48.760 for a bit. 985 00:39:49.280 --> 00:39:50.760 Who were some of the guys when you first got 986 00:39:50.800 --> 00:39:53.920 there that you're you you remember like kind of like 987 00:39:54.719 --> 00:39:56.599 taking they were taking you on the under their wings. 988 00:39:56.840 --> 00:40:00.360 So first guy, the first guy, that John News John 989 00:40:00.400 --> 00:40:01.639 he was you know, he was one of seeing you 990 00:40:01.679 --> 00:40:05.559 guys there, real soft, brooking guy kind of talks. I 991 00:40:05.639 --> 00:40:07.280 ended up calling him the Duke because he walk like 992 00:40:07.320 --> 00:40:09.119 John Wayne, but like not in a dead. 993 00:40:08.960 --> 00:40:09.880 Way, like just that's just the way. 994 00:40:09.880 --> 00:40:13.559 He was very very easy, even keeled the way he talked, 995 00:40:13.599 --> 00:40:16.559 carried the rag in his pocket. So then he tells 996 00:40:16.599 --> 00:40:19.960 me about this other guy Flint John Flynt, and oh 997 00:40:19.960 --> 00:40:21.159 he's a funny guy who's a cop. 998 00:40:21.159 --> 00:40:22.239 You'll get along with him. Whatever. 999 00:40:23.320 --> 00:40:25.920 So he was out on vacation whenever I got there. 1000 00:40:26.000 --> 00:40:28.880 So but you know the other guys are telling me, 1001 00:40:28.920 --> 00:40:31.000 like Daryl Adone him and Fleaster all the time that 1002 00:40:31.079 --> 00:40:32.480 I was like, yo, you's got a big mount. He's 1003 00:40:32.480 --> 00:40:34.679 gonna break them by. I get all these descriptions of Flynn. 1004 00:40:35.239 --> 00:40:36.880 So I come into work one day and I walked 1005 00:40:36.880 --> 00:40:38.480 through the door and the house watch is dark. 1006 00:40:38.559 --> 00:40:40.000 It's like, you know, I got that like three thirty. 1007 00:40:40.400 --> 00:40:41.599 So I go to put my keys in there. 1008 00:40:41.639 --> 00:40:43.079 He goes, hey, how you doing? That's all. 1009 00:40:46.440 --> 00:40:46.599 Here? 1010 00:40:46.639 --> 00:40:48.400 You getting me? Bro? I said, oh, you must be Flynn. 1011 00:40:48.440 --> 00:40:49.519 He goes, how do you know that? I said, they 1012 00:40:49.559 --> 00:40:50.519 said you be on your back and you had a 1013 00:40:50.519 --> 00:40:56.840 big mouth. Great right there, then he's probably know what 1014 00:40:56.880 --> 00:41:00.719 to do it himself. He loved it. That was tough, Bro, 1015 00:41:00.760 --> 00:41:02.519 for a single legend. Change your tours. Man, if the 1016 00:41:02.559 --> 00:41:03.840 right guys are in that kitchen, you had to go 1017 00:41:03.840 --> 00:41:05.239 in there, like you almost stop the door. You're like, 1018 00:41:05.480 --> 00:41:07.519 all right, I'm ready, Vid, you could be forget it 1019 00:41:07.920 --> 00:41:11.679 and just like took a shooting gallery. Horrible, well, horrible 1020 00:41:11.679 --> 00:41:13.000 for the guys who were getting crushed. 1021 00:41:12.800 --> 00:41:15.920 But yeah, how was it for you being a cop 1022 00:41:16.000 --> 00:41:17.679 for so many years and then coming in there. 1023 00:41:17.719 --> 00:41:19.320 You know, that's always like a little fine for me. 1024 00:41:19.360 --> 00:41:23.000 I was not paid full vacation, but that they you 1025 00:41:23.039 --> 00:41:24.639 fucking cops, This fucking cops. 1026 00:41:24.800 --> 00:41:28.199 I'm like, bro whatever. Man don't hate to play. They 1027 00:41:28.239 --> 00:41:28.679 hate the game. 1028 00:41:29.320 --> 00:41:32.880 Yeah, but they it was funny because the cop time 1029 00:41:32.960 --> 00:41:34.840 is the cop time, Maple Cup pop time forget I 1030 00:41:34.840 --> 00:41:36.960 got crushed all of it all. 1031 00:41:36.960 --> 00:41:38.599 Right, pop time too. Yeah. 1032 00:41:38.719 --> 00:41:41.440 So the tian needs the need to go to provy 1033 00:41:41.480 --> 00:41:44.360 school to teach right, has to be a first grade fireman. Well, 1034 00:41:44.440 --> 00:41:45.719 guess who was the first grade fire mid All of 1035 00:41:45.719 --> 00:41:48.320 a sudden, this guy. They're like, oh, he's first grade. 1036 00:41:48.320 --> 00:41:48.960 Send him. 1037 00:41:49.079 --> 00:41:50.800 So Gil Frank was achieved in a five. We played 1038 00:41:50.800 --> 00:41:52.639 hockey together. He's like, yeah, a nice try. He's got 1039 00:41:52.639 --> 00:41:54.760 fucking four years on the job. You're not sending him. 1040 00:41:54.920 --> 00:41:56.199 Oh yeah, that was that was fun. 1041 00:41:56.239 --> 00:41:58.280 I ended up going later on, but yeah, it was fun. 1042 00:41:58.719 --> 00:42:01.480 But uh yeah, like John Flynn, John used got Calhoun's 1043 00:42:01.480 --> 00:42:04.320 got Calhoun was the best because he never talked ever 1044 00:42:05.239 --> 00:42:08.079 and when he when he uttered words, they were they 1045 00:42:08.119 --> 00:42:10.480 were funny, sarcastic, and there was a needle of pasch 1046 00:42:10.480 --> 00:42:11.599 to the'm like he was giving you a shot. 1047 00:42:12.800 --> 00:42:13.880 The best line I ever heard. 1048 00:42:14.760 --> 00:42:17.400 I didn't hear it personally, but it was quickly went around. 1049 00:42:17.840 --> 00:42:20.000 Guy had transferred from A three twenty three to twenty three. 1050 00:42:20.039 --> 00:42:22.800 I wanted to get him more work whatever. So Scott 1051 00:42:22.800 --> 00:42:24.960 doesn't talk. Scott just smokes the cigarlles out the window. 1052 00:42:25.119 --> 00:42:27.280 You know, nice guy, very funny guy too when he 1053 00:42:27.320 --> 00:42:29.239 gets going. So the guy says to me, because hell you, 1054 00:42:29.360 --> 00:42:31.920 where's a good place to study around here? Scott goes 1055 00:42:33.360 --> 00:42:41.840 three twenty three. 1056 00:42:48.039 --> 00:42:50.840 That is a perfect thing, man, that's the scene guy. 1057 00:42:51.079 --> 00:42:53.519 Now, I mean the polse never got about fort I 1058 00:42:53.519 --> 00:42:54.639 mean it could be ripping out. 1059 00:42:54.480 --> 00:42:55.320 Two three windows. 1060 00:42:55.559 --> 00:43:00.719 He come up there, never said a word, never yelled nothing, 1061 00:43:00.840 --> 00:43:02.840 just went in there, put the fire out, put it down. 1062 00:43:03.119 --> 00:43:05.920 That was it. And uh we find out like so 1063 00:43:07.000 --> 00:43:08.519 you know, no one's ever out on the meal back then, 1064 00:43:08.599 --> 00:43:10.840 like you eating cook and we all know single were 1065 00:43:11.480 --> 00:43:13.480 His wife has to tell us that he had siliyac, 1066 00:43:13.519 --> 00:43:15.280 which now is like everybody has it, you know, the 1067 00:43:15.320 --> 00:43:17.199 gluten thing. He never said a word. He was just 1068 00:43:17.199 --> 00:43:20.320 eating in Pean. That's how he was. Well. Like we 1069 00:43:20.360 --> 00:43:23.239 told him like if you're sick, dude, will you know whatever. 1070 00:43:23.639 --> 00:43:24.960 He didn't want to do it that he was like 1071 00:43:25.039 --> 00:43:25.880 a dude. 1072 00:43:26.679 --> 00:43:28.000 That's old school right there. 1073 00:43:28.119 --> 00:43:28.320 Man. 1074 00:43:28.840 --> 00:43:30.880 His one of his sons is in one cixty five truck. 1075 00:43:30.920 --> 00:43:32.559 Now, he worked with my brother briefly, but uh yeah, 1076 00:43:32.599 --> 00:43:34.960 I mean his wife's a sweetheart, the kid's a great 1077 00:43:35.679 --> 00:43:37.519 and he's just that. He's just a quiet guy, like 1078 00:43:37.559 --> 00:43:40.000 you know, but when he's when he spoke, yeah, like 1079 00:43:40.039 --> 00:43:41.559 I took a whole time. No one cares what I say. 1080 00:43:41.639 --> 00:43:42.719 This guy when he spoke, he. 1081 00:43:42.760 --> 00:43:45.360 Was like like yes, hunting bro. 1082 00:43:45.519 --> 00:43:52.320 But talking. I know, sorry, everybody. God was good. 1083 00:43:52.320 --> 00:43:54.719 He very very He did the dinner dance MC stuff. 1084 00:43:54.480 --> 00:43:56.360 The first time. I'm like, he's doing this. There should 1085 00:43:56.360 --> 00:43:58.280 be something. Oh my god, let me tell you right now, 1086 00:43:58.440 --> 00:43:59.679 you want to go to the bathroom. He's gonna take 1087 00:43:59.679 --> 00:44:01.360 your part. Funny as hell. 1088 00:44:02.679 --> 00:44:05.519 I was right up your rally too, like red buttons 1089 00:44:05.519 --> 00:44:08.679 now yeah, right, that was like right up your. 1090 00:44:08.599 --> 00:44:10.480 Rally, O'Neill. 1091 00:44:11.320 --> 00:44:12.880 I'm trying to make us old guys feel better. 1092 00:44:13.119 --> 00:44:14.239 Thanks, you appreciated. 1093 00:44:14.239 --> 00:44:19.000 I don't know what they do comics, okay, George, he's dead. Yeah, 1094 00:44:19.119 --> 00:44:20.880 but the problem was funny, you know, you know again, 1095 00:44:21.000 --> 00:44:21.719 like it was different. 1096 00:44:21.920 --> 00:44:23.400 How long how long did it take you to catch 1097 00:44:23.400 --> 00:44:24.920 your first job? You remember? 1098 00:44:26.119 --> 00:44:26.400 Funny? 1099 00:44:26.400 --> 00:44:29.280 You should mention that. That's another great story. So yeah, 1100 00:44:29.320 --> 00:44:32.239 so me and Kevin, you remember Chris Chiles, Kevin Beblock 1101 00:44:32.360 --> 00:44:32.679 and Vinnie. 1102 00:44:32.719 --> 00:44:33.559 So the four of us go there. 1103 00:44:33.800 --> 00:44:34.000 I know. 1104 00:44:34.880 --> 00:44:38.360 Yeah, So everybody catches the job except this guy. 1105 00:44:38.519 --> 00:44:39.840 So I came into work. 1106 00:44:40.119 --> 00:44:42.719 Funny night, Joe. It's snow and it wasn't crazy snow, 1107 00:44:42.719 --> 00:44:44.800 but it was good snow. It got better, worse whatever. 1108 00:44:45.280 --> 00:44:48.480 John Flynn remember him, got in his back. We're in 1109 00:44:48.559 --> 00:44:50.440 the office, Gary Bennanick's the boss. I forgot the other 1110 00:44:50.480 --> 00:44:52.880 Oh no I did, yeah, soupex work and whatever. So 1111 00:44:54.280 --> 00:44:57.159 Flynn famous words, let's king draw up. Let's give them 1112 00:44:57.199 --> 00:45:00.559 the probate novel. All right, great to in the morning. 1113 00:45:00.599 --> 00:45:02.760 We get a run for a phone. Alom on, I 1114 00:45:02.760 --> 00:45:04.639 think dumont I forgot exactly where it was. I was 1115 00:45:04.639 --> 00:45:05.639 still terrified as the matter. 1116 00:45:06.480 --> 00:45:07.079 So we get there. 1117 00:45:07.119 --> 00:45:10.280 It's one of those duplex down things, right, oh yeah, yeah. 1118 00:45:10.280 --> 00:45:11.679 I get to the back, I got the line. I 1119 00:45:11.679 --> 00:45:13.719 go to step off and somebody says, hold the line. 1120 00:45:13.800 --> 00:45:15.519 Now I have a radio back then, you know, but 1121 00:45:15.840 --> 00:45:18.079 you could hear it, all right, And then to our door. 1122 00:45:18.119 --> 00:45:20.360 Our control man says, no, no, bring line, bring line, 1123 00:45:20.440 --> 00:45:22.440 and the boss we get to the front door us 1124 00:45:22.480 --> 00:45:24.400 so now once went he's in the basement. This is 1125 00:45:24.440 --> 00:45:26.800 a mattress fire at this point, right, but it's smoke everywhere. 1126 00:45:27.360 --> 00:45:30.480 So once twenty thinks, you know, will we charge the 1127 00:45:30.480 --> 00:45:32.360 line with the door. They're like, all right, there, you 1128 00:45:32.400 --> 00:45:35.760 know lines it right? The windows go. Nobody tells me 1129 00:45:35.880 --> 00:45:37.679 or I didn't know. I didn't see whatever. There were 1130 00:45:37.719 --> 00:45:40.159 stairs right inside the door, right, and I was looking 1131 00:45:40.599 --> 00:45:44.159 this way to the first floor. Oh no, oh yeah, 1132 00:45:44.480 --> 00:45:48.159 So I go went on two knees right, So as 1133 00:45:48.159 --> 00:45:51.760 soon as my first knee goes, I go roll over. 1134 00:45:51.920 --> 00:45:54.880 Then now there's long gone. That helmet's long gone. Two 1135 00:45:54.880 --> 00:45:57.039 different directions, but all I remember from Provy school. All 1136 00:45:57.079 --> 00:45:58.519 I got out of was don't get stuck on the 1137 00:45:58.519 --> 00:46:01.000 fucking stairs right, shoot the bottom of the stairs. 1138 00:46:01.039 --> 00:46:03.039 Gary Betten comes down. He grabs me. You get the 1139 00:46:03.079 --> 00:46:03.639 helmet back on. 1140 00:46:03.679 --> 00:46:04.079 We're good. 1141 00:46:04.400 --> 00:46:06.079 He goes, where's an ozz while I go, huh, and 1142 00:46:06.159 --> 00:46:08.400 here's the thing. It's up there. He goes, all right, 1143 00:46:08.440 --> 00:46:09.920 no problem. So the other guy brings it up. As 1144 00:46:09.960 --> 00:46:12.320 soon as he opens it, he crushes both of us. 1145 00:46:12.480 --> 00:46:15.280 Helmets go flying again. I'm like, I'm in my first fire. 1146 00:46:16.960 --> 00:46:19.960 I've fallen down the stairs bost of my helmets white 1147 00:46:20.719 --> 00:46:21.639 now and that. 1148 00:46:21.760 --> 00:46:23.559 Is fire because they broke the window, thinking water. 1149 00:46:23.639 --> 00:46:26.239 When you get down there with them, the fire is late, 1150 00:46:26.320 --> 00:46:28.360 literally freight treating over our heads. That is three of 1151 00:46:28.400 --> 00:46:30.679 us trapped in the basement. Like I have no radio. 1152 00:46:30.840 --> 00:46:32.679 I can hear them on the radio saying you're on boost, 1153 00:46:32.760 --> 00:46:35.280 you out of water. There's no water. Now there's four 1154 00:46:35.320 --> 00:46:37.320 of us in the basement and I'm sitting there like, 1155 00:46:37.400 --> 00:46:39.840 you know, I mean, I wasn't. He had his hand, 1156 00:46:39.920 --> 00:46:41.320 was like he was taking care of me. But in 1157 00:46:41.360 --> 00:46:43.519 my head, I'm going, at what point do we leave? 1158 00:46:43.840 --> 00:46:45.840 Like we don't have water, there's a lot of fire. 1159 00:46:45.960 --> 00:46:48.760 It's getting kind of hot. Like the door's right there, like, 1160 00:46:48.800 --> 00:46:51.280 we gotta go. I'm waiting. I'm waiting. Gary won't leave. 1161 00:46:51.400 --> 00:46:53.719 He's like what so it was twelve frozen hydrants. We 1162 00:46:53.719 --> 00:46:56.880 weren't getting water. Finally they're screamed our door. Our control 1163 00:46:56.880 --> 00:46:58.320 man is on his stomach at the top of the stairs, 1164 00:46:58.360 --> 00:46:59.440 going you have to get out of here. 1165 00:46:59.719 --> 00:47:01.639 And I'm I'm like, oh, I'm with him, bro let's go. 1166 00:47:02.800 --> 00:47:04.000 So and he just stands. 1167 00:47:04.039 --> 00:47:05.400 He goes in fun of ex usic whatever. 1168 00:47:05.480 --> 00:47:07.880 So Gary's they all we all jump out into the 1169 00:47:07.920 --> 00:47:10.239 snow on the stoop like and he's coach on fire. 1170 00:47:10.679 --> 00:47:11.719 Everybody's smoking. 1171 00:47:12.360 --> 00:47:15.039 I'm standing there like all right, relatively one piece and 1172 00:47:15.079 --> 00:47:17.880 not burnt, not hurt. The chief walks over to us 1173 00:47:17.920 --> 00:47:20.199 and says two eighty three go to the ambulance. Gary 1174 00:47:20.199 --> 00:47:21.800 Bettanan says to him, he goes, oh, no, chief for 1175 00:47:21.880 --> 00:47:25.239 going back in. I go going back here where. I'm like, 1176 00:47:25.719 --> 00:47:27.360 no fucking way, we're going back in there. 1177 00:47:28.239 --> 00:47:31.440 So I'm like this is I'm like, this is not happening. 1178 00:47:31.599 --> 00:47:34.079 So they go back. They put the fire out. Now 1179 00:47:34.119 --> 00:47:35.480 the rod bent out of sheet that we put the 1180 00:47:35.480 --> 00:47:37.159 fire out. I'm like, yo, we live, didn't we I 1181 00:47:37.159 --> 00:47:39.039 didn't know, So you go back to the fire house. 1182 00:47:39.079 --> 00:47:40.679 Now I'm quitting. At this point, I'm going back to 1183 00:47:40.719 --> 00:47:42.800 the cop I'm done, Like this is crazy. I'm not 1184 00:47:42.840 --> 00:47:45.360 doing this. So all the hoses frozen. I'm trying to 1185 00:47:45.360 --> 00:47:46.760 be the good prob. It's like four in the morning. 1186 00:47:46.760 --> 00:47:48.320 I'm setting it all up in there. I hit him 1187 00:47:48.320 --> 00:47:49.920 in the opice there rolls talking. I'm like, house fuck. 1188 00:47:50.880 --> 00:47:52.599 So I knew, like that's walking into the lions then 1189 00:47:52.679 --> 00:47:55.480 right now. So all right, so I walk in. They 1190 00:47:55.480 --> 00:47:58.920 stopped talking and I'm looking around flying tupac h mcgibb 1191 00:47:58.960 --> 00:48:02.440 in the hands of Gary. No one's fucking. I looked 1192 00:48:02.480 --> 00:48:04.719 at them, so, flingles, you got any questions? I go, 1193 00:48:05.159 --> 00:48:08.199 I only have one questions, like, just one? Just one? 1194 00:48:08.800 --> 00:48:11.800 Are they all like that? 1195 00:48:11.920 --> 00:48:17.519 Like no, I'd rather chase the guy into the alley. 1196 00:48:18.760 --> 00:48:20.159 So I'm like, I just said it to them, and 1197 00:48:20.199 --> 00:48:22.920 I'm like whatever. It's like five o'clock. I called my father. 1198 00:48:22.960 --> 00:48:25.400 I'm like, yo, bro, what's up. I tell him to 1199 00:48:25.400 --> 00:48:27.119 read his judges birds that same. So I just told 1200 00:48:27.119 --> 00:48:28.719 you it was what's a mat? I go, what's up? 1201 00:48:28.840 --> 00:48:29.239 I'm done? 1202 00:48:29.239 --> 00:48:31.119 Bro, this is stupid. I told you this was stupid. 1203 00:48:31.159 --> 00:48:32.960 You were stupid but doing I'm stupid for doing it. 1204 00:48:33.119 --> 00:48:35.119 I'm fucking I'm going back to the coff feels. Are 1205 00:48:35.119 --> 00:48:36.920 you getting open in the morning? I said, yeah, just 1206 00:48:37.079 --> 00:48:38.960 pick up the beers and stop by the house, all right. 1207 00:48:39.480 --> 00:48:41.519 So me and my father sat there questioning a Keason 1208 00:48:41.519 --> 00:48:42.199 beer ten in the morning. 1209 00:48:42.239 --> 00:48:42.880 He told me the same. 1210 00:48:43.800 --> 00:48:45.159 I was like, but it's you know, it was a 1211 00:48:45.199 --> 00:48:47.119 little overwhelming, to say the least. 1212 00:48:47.639 --> 00:48:50.800 First job, bro, thirty seconds in waht the helmets twice, 1213 00:48:50.840 --> 00:48:52.400 trapped in the basement. We didn't have radio, so I 1214 00:48:52.400 --> 00:48:55.760 didn't know any better the guy and Nobody's like they 1215 00:48:55.880 --> 00:48:56.440 took care of me. 1216 00:48:56.800 --> 00:49:00.440 But I was like, this is it's pretty sitting a 1217 00:49:00.480 --> 00:49:02.440 mattress in the you know, in that lower level. 1218 00:49:02.440 --> 00:49:03.199 That's pretty shitty. 1219 00:49:03.519 --> 00:49:05.519 Listen, bro, you're not gonna be me feel but that's stupid. 1220 00:49:05.559 --> 00:49:06.559 So the good one. 1221 00:49:08.440 --> 00:49:10.639 Proby School. I went to teach Proby School. 1222 00:49:10.639 --> 00:49:12.559 I kept emphasizing to keep one leg up, and they 1223 00:49:12.559 --> 00:49:14.639 were doing the navelism evolutions and I was just I 1224 00:49:14.639 --> 00:49:16.159 was trying to teach him how to do it. And 1225 00:49:16.239 --> 00:49:18.079 I told every single one of them, every probem I 1226 00:49:18.079 --> 00:49:19.960 ever thought. At the lecture. I told him that story 1227 00:49:20.119 --> 00:49:22.159 and why it happened that way, and I, you know, 1228 00:49:22.239 --> 00:49:23.960 it's as a learning experience. 1229 00:49:24.679 --> 00:49:26.960 You know Kevin Malone in the chat, So can I 1230 00:49:27.000 --> 00:49:27.760 hit it with the car? 1231 00:49:31.480 --> 00:49:33.960 This is what SnO said that you guys were affectionately 1232 00:49:34.079 --> 00:49:36.280 known as the crap of nineteen ninety five. 1233 00:49:37.840 --> 00:49:38.960 No, it gets better than that. 1234 00:49:39.239 --> 00:49:41.320 So there was four of us, So like, nobody wants 1235 00:49:41.360 --> 00:49:43.480 to be number one and nobody wants to number four. 1236 00:49:43.920 --> 00:49:47.599 So I was I fluctuated between three and four a lot. 1237 00:49:48.000 --> 00:49:51.599 I was never one. So it became like Coke PEPSI Snapple. 1238 00:49:51.719 --> 00:49:53.840 I would Snapple and there was no fourth drink. You 1239 00:49:53.840 --> 00:49:55.599 were just fought. No one cared. Everybody took a turn 1240 00:49:55.599 --> 00:49:56.920 of me in fourth, but I was fought a lot. 1241 00:49:57.320 --> 00:49:59.480 I did some stupid stuff, but not crazy stupid stuff, 1242 00:49:59.480 --> 00:50:00.000 but stuper enough. 1243 00:50:00.119 --> 00:50:00.320 Four. 1244 00:50:00.440 --> 00:50:02.440 It's hard to like Child's always number one. He was 1245 00:50:02.440 --> 00:50:04.360 like twenty two years old, pretty, you know, pretty hair 1246 00:50:04.400 --> 00:50:06.960 and everything. He kept telling you know, he come into 1247 00:50:06.960 --> 00:50:09.000 work and tell stories of his weekends on my flock. 1248 00:50:09.239 --> 00:50:12.079 I can't drop that, you know. But Benny, Benny was 1249 00:50:12.079 --> 00:50:13.480 good to have because Benny floor to three four a 1250 00:50:13.559 --> 00:50:16.239 lot too. Oh, when you thought you were getting fired 1251 00:50:16.320 --> 00:50:17.920 or getting beat up by one of these guys, Benny 1252 00:50:17.920 --> 00:50:18.760 would do something and it'd be. 1253 00:50:18.800 --> 00:50:20.400 Like here we go. 1254 00:50:20.719 --> 00:50:22.480 Plus you want video on your side in case you're 1255 00:50:22.519 --> 00:50:25.519 going out somewhere. You know, Oh you had a little ruckus, 1256 00:50:25.559 --> 00:50:28.320 you know, yeah, just grabbed the ruckus, you know like. 1257 00:50:28.639 --> 00:50:32.599 Those Yeah, there was uh yeah, it was a lot 1258 00:50:32.599 --> 00:50:33.000 of fun. 1259 00:50:32.840 --> 00:50:34.719 At first to see that coop. 1260 00:50:34.880 --> 00:50:40.360 It was like, maybe now what happened? What what? 1261 00:50:40.679 --> 00:50:41.239 What? 1262 00:50:42.480 --> 00:50:42.639 Oh? 1263 00:50:42.679 --> 00:50:43.960 No, no, there's no sort of telliges. 1264 00:50:44.199 --> 00:50:46.360 Oh you had that look like we gotta say something 1265 00:50:46.599 --> 00:50:48.719 like no, I believe me. 1266 00:50:48.760 --> 00:50:50.559 I was fourth a lot on my own doing you 1267 00:50:50.559 --> 00:50:50.760 know this. 1268 00:50:51.039 --> 00:50:52.280 Those stories don't have to be told, they were just 1269 00:50:52.320 --> 00:50:56.639 they were corrected properly. Uh yeah, it was. It was 1270 00:50:56.679 --> 00:50:58.360 a lot of fun with those guys, the four of us, 1271 00:50:58.360 --> 00:51:00.519 like Kevin Beverlock, built a bunch of stuff and fires 1272 00:51:00.519 --> 00:51:02.880 like all these wooden things to put placks up that 1273 00:51:02.920 --> 00:51:05.199 have been up there forever, like son tell you it's beautiful, 1274 00:51:05.440 --> 00:51:05.639 you know. 1275 00:51:06.400 --> 00:51:08.119 And that was a good bunch of dudes. I mean, 1276 00:51:08.360 --> 00:51:09.679 the hit the best show was I had ever. 1277 00:51:09.599 --> 00:51:11.480 Seen in my life, you know, after a period of time. 1278 00:51:11.599 --> 00:51:14.320 I mean Tommy Good, John Hughes, Babo, Johnson, John Flynn, 1279 00:51:14.840 --> 00:51:16.360 and then then we started getting to the you know, 1280 00:51:16.400 --> 00:51:18.239 to the arts. Once not eleven hit, a lot of 1281 00:51:18.239 --> 00:51:20.519 them retired. I became a show for Jimmy Lang became 1282 00:51:20.519 --> 00:51:22.960 a show. Jimmy Lang was son I swear to God, 1283 00:51:23.000 --> 00:51:25.159 like we used to joke it with dating SONA loved 1284 00:51:25.199 --> 00:51:27.760 him so much like he would anything that Jimmy couldn't 1285 00:51:27.800 --> 00:51:29.760 do any wrong with. Jimmy was the best guy whatever 1286 00:51:29.840 --> 00:51:32.360 had to be there. But no, Jimmy is He's one 1287 00:51:32.400 --> 00:51:33.239 of my best friends. 1288 00:51:33.280 --> 00:51:35.840 He's he's good, he's he can drive it. That's the show. 1289 00:51:35.840 --> 00:51:36.880 I need to put a fire up too. 1290 00:51:36.960 --> 00:51:37.480 He didn't pull on. 1291 00:51:40.440 --> 00:51:41.000 He got perple. 1292 00:51:42.960 --> 00:51:46.199 That's why Sono liked him. You so you went on 1293 00:51:46.199 --> 00:51:48.639 the rotation. You went to what. 1294 00:51:49.480 --> 00:51:49.800 Rotation? 1295 00:51:49.840 --> 00:51:52.000 He said, yeah? So you where'd you go first? To 1296 00:51:52.320 --> 00:51:53.159 SATN Island truck. 1297 00:51:53.559 --> 00:51:55.480 No, So my father was in charge of the rotation. 1298 00:51:55.639 --> 00:51:58.320 So my favorite numb was fifteen right month is in 1299 00:51:58.320 --> 00:52:00.440 the background. So I said, is it for they? Actually 1300 00:52:00.480 --> 00:52:02.199 there was a seventy engine because it's sven Oh he said, yes, 1301 00:52:02.199 --> 00:52:02.519 it's not city. 1302 00:52:02.599 --> 00:52:04.719 Yeah, you're not going as so I said, fifteen is 1303 00:52:04.719 --> 00:52:06.360 my favorite number. Sends me to fifteen engine. It was 1304 00:52:06.360 --> 00:52:10.360 a single engine at the time, Bro, it was an 1305 00:52:10.400 --> 00:52:13.639 insuring experience. A lot of the guys were when I 1306 00:52:13.679 --> 00:52:15.840 say older, probably my is now maybe a little younger. 1307 00:52:15.840 --> 00:52:19.239 But like they were very very very quiet place, very 1308 00:52:19.280 --> 00:52:21.639 good guys. Very but yeah, I tell you, Bro. 1309 00:52:21.559 --> 00:52:26.039 I'm like, do we ever get runs like it happened? Yeah? 1310 00:52:26.119 --> 00:52:27.840 That that that I took every detail. 1311 00:52:27.880 --> 00:52:29.760 It was, where were they on, what street? 1312 00:52:30.000 --> 00:52:32.039 They were on Henry Street? It's it's it actually an 1313 00:52:32.079 --> 00:52:33.840 old firehouse, it's still there. It's just that the day 1314 00:52:33.880 --> 00:52:36.199 city sold that they will do with eighteen. But I 1315 00:52:36.239 --> 00:52:37.800 did get see the cities. I took every detail it 1316 00:52:37.960 --> 00:52:39.159 was and that was good. 1317 00:52:39.159 --> 00:52:41.719 Then I went to seventy seven truck, which was phenomenal showcase. 1318 00:52:42.559 --> 00:52:45.039 Yeah, I had I had hit. Patty Mahane was my captain. 1319 00:52:45.039 --> 00:52:46.440 He was a two ninety one or three guy back 1320 00:52:46.440 --> 00:52:48.559 in the day. He was a character. He's about is 1321 00:52:48.559 --> 00:52:51.119 that the hot Corn seventy seven, No. No. Seventy seven 1322 00:52:51.280 --> 00:52:55.199 is on Broad Street, the Bully Great House. Great guys 1323 00:52:56.039 --> 00:52:57.800 coast to my house in Rosebank, which was good. So 1324 00:52:57.840 --> 00:52:59.599 anytime they called like you need some quick last minute, 1325 00:52:59.599 --> 00:53:01.239 I was there, and I believe or not, I think 1326 00:53:01.360 --> 00:53:03.280 I probably went to a dozen fires first do that. Yeah, 1327 00:53:03.719 --> 00:53:06.119 and uh, I realized one thing when that was over. Besides, 1328 00:53:06.159 --> 00:53:08.639 the seventy seven was good guys. I never wanted to 1329 00:53:08.639 --> 00:53:10.000 work in the truck again. It was we knew you 1330 00:53:10.599 --> 00:53:13.760 that it's way too much work. Like you know you coming, 1331 00:53:14.119 --> 00:53:15.960 you're NASA guy. If you don't fall down the stairs, 1332 00:53:15.960 --> 00:53:17.199 you go and you put the fire out, you work 1333 00:53:17.199 --> 00:53:20.719 out like a champ. These guys are pulling. Sucked this, 1334 00:53:20.960 --> 00:53:26.519 but it was good characters, bro, They were all good characters. 1335 00:53:26.519 --> 00:53:26.679 Man. 1336 00:53:26.760 --> 00:53:28.639 I ended up framing out of that guy asked me 1337 00:53:28.639 --> 00:53:30.079 to a load of dumpster for one hundred dollars. Me 1338 00:53:30.079 --> 00:53:32.199 and Steve Saider. Steve said, I'm not doing it. Steve 1339 00:53:32.199 --> 00:53:35.119 was nan he had another gig. So I said, I'll 1340 00:53:35.159 --> 00:53:36.800 do it for h load of dumpster for one hundred bucks, 1341 00:53:36.800 --> 00:53:38.719 no problem. I was done by eleven o'clock in the morning. 1342 00:53:39.000 --> 00:53:40.840 So the guy's like, all right, he's your hundred bus. 1343 00:53:40.840 --> 00:53:42.440 I'm like, can I help you with anything here? Like 1344 00:53:42.480 --> 00:53:43.400 lift you or anything? 1345 00:53:43.679 --> 00:53:44.920 That was it started, you. 1346 00:53:44.920 --> 00:53:46.840 Know, helping him out. I worked all the time with 1347 00:53:46.880 --> 00:53:49.360 them between I thought, you know, obviously pushing a lumber 1348 00:53:49.400 --> 00:53:49.719 up to them. 1349 00:53:49.719 --> 00:53:50.639 Then they showed me a few things. 1350 00:53:50.639 --> 00:53:52.360 I learned enough to you know, when you get a house, 1351 00:53:52.360 --> 00:53:54.920 two things, but all not a bad guy in a bunch. 1352 00:53:55.960 --> 00:53:59.039 There were very nice rotators. It was me. Steve was there. 1353 00:54:00.440 --> 00:54:02.239 They got a couple of probi's in the meantime. They 1354 00:54:02.239 --> 00:54:04.400 were all good dudes. The bosses were me. 1355 00:54:04.440 --> 00:54:05.880 Haiti was the best. He was a character. 1356 00:54:06.679 --> 00:54:09.480 Oh my god, did you get guys like from Brooklyn? 1357 00:54:09.559 --> 00:54:11.719 I still wanted to stay on the job and we're 1358 00:54:11.719 --> 00:54:12.840 going to go to Staten Island? 1359 00:54:12.880 --> 00:54:14.239 Like was that? 1360 00:54:14.440 --> 00:54:16.679 Did you get guys who were like from Brooklyn, busy 1361 00:54:16.719 --> 00:54:18.800 places who decided to go out to Staten Island. 1362 00:54:19.079 --> 00:54:21.000 Yeah, that was that was eighty four truck. 1363 00:54:21.199 --> 00:54:23.760 Was that place. A lot of guys from good places 1364 00:54:23.800 --> 00:54:25.880 in Brooklyn lived out here. Still wanted to stay on 1365 00:54:25.920 --> 00:54:27.320 the job and you know, just slow down a little 1366 00:54:27.320 --> 00:54:29.519 bit with the number of runs. So eighty four truck 1367 00:54:29.760 --> 00:54:32.159 when I was coming to Staten Island was obviously well known. 1368 00:54:32.159 --> 00:54:33.440 A lot of Brooklyn guys were there, like, you know, 1369 00:54:33.440 --> 00:54:34.960 it was cool, like they say, come here, come here, 1370 00:54:34.960 --> 00:54:35.320 coming in. 1371 00:54:35.880 --> 00:54:37.840 So when I came out to Staten Island, wouldn't go there. 1372 00:54:37.760 --> 00:54:39.840 Because it's on a highway and I already experienced the 1373 00:54:39.840 --> 00:54:42.960 Belt Parkway my entire twenty three Korea, So I said 1374 00:54:42.960 --> 00:54:45.760 that a highway. Yeah, so I ended up any two 1375 00:54:45.840 --> 00:54:47.159 right down in the box. It was. It was, you know, 1376 00:54:47.440 --> 00:54:49.480 it was fine, but you're running them, you know, Darryl, 1377 00:54:49.559 --> 00:54:51.039 don't end up eighty four truck. He was a twoty 1378 00:54:51.039 --> 00:54:53.480 three guy originally a few other guys from places, and 1379 00:54:53.480 --> 00:54:55.400 that's good because they come out and you know, they 1380 00:54:55.400 --> 00:54:57.320 can show you stuff that you may not have gotten, 1381 00:54:57.400 --> 00:54:58.800 you know, different perspective. 1382 00:54:58.800 --> 00:55:01.920 You know, I mean, right that Island seems like a 1383 00:55:01.920 --> 00:55:04.480 whole different fight department sometimes, but like it's. 1384 00:55:04.440 --> 00:55:07.000 It's all local guys. Yeah, Bill live here, you know, 1385 00:55:07.039 --> 00:55:10.480 with neighborhood guys. But uh listen, you heard the stories. Ah, 1386 00:55:10.519 --> 00:55:14.000 they throw rocks at the windows. They carry batteries, brod. 1387 00:55:14.079 --> 00:55:15.920 I was out here for ten years. I saw plenty 1388 00:55:15.920 --> 00:55:17.960 of fives to know that no one carries batteries and 1389 00:55:18.039 --> 00:55:21.880 throws batteries. There is it? You know? The problem out 1390 00:55:21.880 --> 00:55:23.599 here is that I never realized that I got out here, 1391 00:55:23.639 --> 00:55:24.760 was like, why'd you be a second a long? 1392 00:55:24.960 --> 00:55:27.000 Because everybody's so far away? 1393 00:55:27.320 --> 00:55:27.519 Right? 1394 00:55:27.559 --> 00:55:28.239 So that's sure. 1395 00:55:28.320 --> 00:55:29.760 Right, I'm in the I'm like great Hills on the 1396 00:55:29.760 --> 00:55:32.119 middle to top and Bille. We're going as either extra 1397 00:55:32.159 --> 00:55:34.079 truck or fast truck depending where it is. Twelve minute 1398 00:55:34.159 --> 00:55:37.440 ride and I'm down hind the boulevard ripping twelve minutes. 1399 00:55:37.679 --> 00:55:40.320 That's why they do it. Now, once you hear you 1400 00:55:40.400 --> 00:55:41.159 understand it, you know, I. 1401 00:55:41.079 --> 00:55:43.800 Mean, so so coobs, did you know that the job 1402 00:55:44.159 --> 00:55:46.440 I was talking to Nikki when we were in my talk, 1403 00:55:47.440 --> 00:55:49.519 if it goes to all hands, now they send you 1404 00:55:50.119 --> 00:55:54.920 an extra engine and truck automatic really yeah. 1405 00:55:55.480 --> 00:55:57.400 So so you don't have to ask for it anymore. 1406 00:55:57.440 --> 00:56:00.440 You don't have to answer ask for it. It comes automatic, now. 1407 00:56:00.039 --> 00:56:01.840 Know, Yeah that's good. 1408 00:56:02.559 --> 00:56:05.159 Yeah, So like he was saying that, like like Mike 1409 00:56:05.239 --> 00:56:08.320 is saying right now, like especially out there, those guys 1410 00:56:08.320 --> 00:56:09.800 probably ask for extra injured in the truck if the 1411 00:56:09.880 --> 00:56:13.039 chief automatic, Yeah, it has to be automatic as soon 1412 00:56:13.039 --> 00:56:13.519 as we hear. 1413 00:56:13.639 --> 00:56:15.679 Like so if you're in Great Hills working, and you're working, 1414 00:56:15.960 --> 00:56:17.920 you know, and you're into it, like you you're awake whatever, 1415 00:56:17.920 --> 00:56:20.079 you're paying attention as soon as a phone one comes 1416 00:56:20.119 --> 00:56:21.920 in with more than one phone call in Tottenville or 1417 00:56:21.960 --> 00:56:24.320 you cannot you're on the rigging rolling because it's it 1418 00:56:24.400 --> 00:56:26.079 cuts out the time. And a lot of you know 1419 00:56:26.079 --> 00:56:27.519 a lot of young guys get sent out here and 1420 00:56:27.559 --> 00:56:29.760 they are into it. They're into every aspect of it. 1421 00:56:30.119 --> 00:56:32.440 You know, they'll drill, they'll like they're buffy about it, like. 1422 00:56:32.440 --> 00:56:34.280 They want to go right, let's go. 1423 00:56:34.760 --> 00:56:36.519 It keeps you, keeps you in like you know when 1424 00:56:36.559 --> 00:56:38.400 you're older or whatever. I remember when I first rants 1425 00:56:38.400 --> 00:56:39.840 for you, I did fivey fours in a row with 1426 00:56:39.840 --> 00:56:40.199 no runs. 1427 00:56:40.199 --> 00:56:44.920 I'm like, five fours in a row. 1428 00:56:44.960 --> 00:56:46.079 I'm like, holy shit, what am I doing? 1429 00:56:46.119 --> 00:56:48.079 The truck didn't get that many runs because it's you know, 1430 00:56:48.400 --> 00:56:49.880 but that's a good thing. So you when the truck 1431 00:56:49.920 --> 00:56:52.119 goes out either going to you're going to something. 1432 00:56:52.119 --> 00:56:53.280 You're going to something right. 1433 00:56:53.719 --> 00:56:56.400 Our accident shows are horrific. Out of here or job? 1434 00:56:56.440 --> 00:56:57.840 You know, middle of the night, you're going to a job. 1435 00:56:57.880 --> 00:57:00.000 There's no or car accident. No, there's no gassings out 1436 00:57:00.119 --> 00:57:02.119 For some reason, I'm not sure why. 1437 00:57:01.960 --> 00:57:04.000 Did you go back there after you? Or Marshall? And 1438 00:57:04.039 --> 00:57:05.360 we got to get to the Marshall, but did you 1439 00:57:05.400 --> 00:57:07.280 go back to the truck after you Marshall? 1440 00:57:07.400 --> 00:57:09.239 So we were in class during COVID. So I get 1441 00:57:09.280 --> 00:57:10.079 I get promoted to. 1442 00:57:10.119 --> 00:57:13.360 Marshall in February of twenty February twenty ninth. Actually I'm 1443 00:57:13.360 --> 00:57:15.199 friends with Tom Kaine. He was a seventy seven fireman. 1444 00:57:15.239 --> 00:57:17.719 He's the chief fire Marshal. So we get promoted. We 1445 00:57:17.760 --> 00:57:19.639 go to the class. I don't remember how long we 1446 00:57:19.639 --> 00:57:21.639 were in the class, but like COVID was starting, like 1447 00:57:21.679 --> 00:57:24.239 you know, guys who you know this guy got COVID whatever, 1448 00:57:24.320 --> 00:57:27.199 So the job made a move. They sent us from 1449 00:57:27.239 --> 00:57:29.239 Hooper Street where the classroom was, to the Rock, which 1450 00:57:29.239 --> 00:57:30.800 I was the only got happy about it because I'm 1451 00:57:30.800 --> 00:57:33.280 like Cooper Street. So it's too tight and the rocks 1452 00:57:33.280 --> 00:57:35.519 the rock. So they sent us there because they want 1453 00:57:35.519 --> 00:57:37.400 to spread us out and on top of each other. 1454 00:57:37.679 --> 00:57:39.480 So the first day of the job, decision to send 1455 00:57:39.519 --> 00:57:41.800 us there because of COVID where their flips is there, 1456 00:57:41.800 --> 00:57:44.360 prop schools there, there giving blood. It's packed and this 1457 00:57:44.400 --> 00:57:46.400 is when COVID's like, it's gonna kill you. You smoke 1458 00:57:46.480 --> 00:57:48.199 and it what you know, We're all gonna die. I 1459 00:57:48.239 --> 00:57:49.559 looked down in one of the tunnels and I see 1460 00:57:49.559 --> 00:57:51.159 all these people, the kids, and they go, I don't 1461 00:57:51.199 --> 00:57:54.039 think this was the plan. Whatever, it worked out. Yeah, 1462 00:57:54.079 --> 00:57:55.840 so we got sent We did a few weeks and 1463 00:57:55.880 --> 00:57:58.440 then outside eatings, he weren't coming to teach us and 1464 00:57:58.480 --> 00:57:59.840 you're kind of just going over the same stuff. So 1465 00:57:59.880 --> 00:58:02.159 they made a decision sent us back to the fived 1466 00:58:02.239 --> 00:58:05.199 for We were back to six months, and I chose 1467 00:58:05.239 --> 00:58:07.199 to go to the battalion because the guys had already 1468 00:58:07.199 --> 00:58:09.480 had My seat was filled. I didn't want to disrupt 1469 00:58:09.519 --> 00:58:11.719 what they had going. So the only time I drove 1470 00:58:11.760 --> 00:58:13.719 et two truck was if they were out of trophies 1471 00:58:13.719 --> 00:58:15.880 all together and no one would work, I drove Tommy Moone. 1472 00:58:15.920 --> 00:58:18.280 I don't know if they might do with comedy. Tommy 1473 00:58:18.400 --> 00:58:20.239 was great. I saw who was driving him, and I 1474 00:58:20.280 --> 00:58:22.360 figured Tommy that guy the engine was short, so that 1475 00:58:22.360 --> 00:58:24.880 guy needed to go back downstairs. I said, I'll drive 1476 00:58:24.920 --> 00:58:27.599 you have a good time. Yeah, it was good. We 1477 00:58:27.599 --> 00:58:29.559 did that for six months, then went back to the Marshalls, 1478 00:58:29.599 --> 00:58:30.559 and then we were able to. 1479 00:58:30.519 --> 00:58:32.800 When did you actually transfer them to sat Nile? 1480 00:58:32.840 --> 00:58:36.119 And then twenty ten, so I had tore it the 1481 00:58:36.239 --> 00:58:37.679 rock for a while and back to two B three 1482 00:58:38.239 --> 00:58:40.920 and my daughter had gotten sick ones at the rock briefly, 1483 00:58:41.159 --> 00:58:43.039 and uh, it was fine. It was a little more 1484 00:58:43.039 --> 00:58:45.280 scared than anything else. But that was pretty much when 1485 00:58:45.320 --> 00:58:47.639 I realized, I'm like, all right listening. You know, you 1486 00:58:47.679 --> 00:58:49.000 run around with your hair on fire as a cop. 1487 00:58:49.079 --> 00:58:51.039 You went to busy place of fire and like, and 1488 00:58:51.079 --> 00:58:53.119 now the young the kid my kids, I think eight 1489 00:58:53.199 --> 00:58:55.920 and six or whatever at the time. Now I can 1490 00:58:55.960 --> 00:58:57.960 come out here, I can be close to home. You know, 1491 00:58:58.519 --> 00:59:00.199 I'm able to, like in ten minutes to make the 1492 00:59:00.199 --> 00:59:02.039 Litle League game instead of having you know, leave the LEFL. 1493 00:59:02.159 --> 00:59:05.639 So I made that decision as mostly a family decision, 1494 00:59:06.000 --> 00:59:07.760 but it worked out. I mean down the pocket. 1495 00:59:07.920 --> 00:59:09.320 Yeah, ten years in a place where I end up 1496 00:59:09.320 --> 00:59:12.760 meeting great people. So I literally work right down the block, 1497 00:59:13.360 --> 00:59:14.480 I less than a mile from my house. 1498 00:59:14.559 --> 00:59:15.440 Yeah wow, that's great. 1499 00:59:15.840 --> 00:59:17.559 So how many years did you do? Two eighty three? 1500 00:59:17.719 --> 00:59:20.000 Then I was assigned for fifteen years? 1501 00:59:20.239 --> 00:59:20.719 Oh shit. 1502 00:59:21.239 --> 00:59:23.000 I did the rotations at course, and I did probab 1503 00:59:23.000 --> 00:59:24.519 school three years in and out, you know, do whatever 1504 00:59:24.719 --> 00:59:25.840 I had, probably schools. 1505 00:59:25.880 --> 00:59:26.679 My wife lost the jobs. 1506 00:59:26.679 --> 00:59:29.480 That was always to make overtime. But uh it was good. 1507 00:59:29.760 --> 00:59:34.760 That was fifteenth There was no overtime, man, cool like legitly, yeah, 1508 00:59:34.920 --> 00:59:38.519 no overtime, Like guys had like forty hours, sixty hours, 1509 00:59:38.599 --> 00:59:42.519 like yeah, yeah, I'm not kidding, it would be now 1510 00:59:42.599 --> 00:59:44.760 now it is over. You know, everybody laughs if you 1511 00:59:44.760 --> 00:59:48.159 don't have eight a thousand hours probably I remember guys 1512 00:59:48.239 --> 00:59:51.840 like legitly, if you had over sixty hours, like you 1513 00:59:51.880 --> 00:59:54.599 were like it was you red light. 1514 00:59:55.599 --> 00:59:58.480 Yeah no now I'm not kidding and my kidding. And 1515 00:59:58.519 --> 01:00:00.800 I was just thinking space Mike before. 1516 01:00:00.880 --> 01:00:03.719 I don't want to forget about it, because you know 1517 01:00:03.760 --> 01:00:05.880 what was important what you said about seventy seven truck 1518 01:00:05.960 --> 01:00:08.440 that was your second you know, your rotation there. 1519 01:00:08.840 --> 01:00:09.760 I mean third rotation. 1520 01:00:10.199 --> 01:00:12.920 Yeah, like, think about all those guys, like, that's cool 1521 01:00:12.920 --> 01:00:15.360 that the guys, because I don't think everybody had that 1522 01:00:15.440 --> 01:00:18.679 experience where you know they had you know, they still 1523 01:00:18.679 --> 01:00:21.639 had other Proby's right now, you got it, you're not 1524 01:00:21.760 --> 01:00:24.039 really quote unquote of Proby. Forget about the fact that 1525 01:00:24.079 --> 01:00:27.519 you were a copyfore right, but you know it was 1526 01:00:27.559 --> 01:00:30.039 tough to be in a new place for the third time, 1527 01:00:30.280 --> 01:00:32.719 and and you know, you know, you're still new and 1528 01:00:32.760 --> 01:00:34.159 you want to do the right thing, but you're not 1529 01:00:34.199 --> 01:00:35.719 a fucking Proby anymore, you know what I mean. 1530 01:00:36.159 --> 01:00:37.239 Those guys treated us great. 1531 01:00:37.239 --> 01:00:39.760 They like by that point, the second road, they dealt 1532 01:00:39.760 --> 01:00:42.280 with it once, right, like delve and Steve. 1533 01:00:42.039 --> 01:00:45.000 Siller and you know we we we were happy. 1534 01:00:44.719 --> 01:00:46.400 To do the last stop. I mean we're both on 1535 01:00:46.440 --> 01:00:48.360 Staten Islands, so it's close enough to home. They're a 1536 01:00:48.360 --> 01:00:50.280 busy place. They were a good, good but a really 1537 01:00:50.320 --> 01:00:51.519 good bunch of guys. I mean, all the. 1538 01:00:51.719 --> 01:00:54.880 Senior guys would teach you stuff. So you want to 1539 01:00:54.880 --> 01:00:55.360 tell this story. 1540 01:00:55.360 --> 01:00:57.960 This is pretty actually pretty tell the story on this 1541 01:00:58.000 --> 01:01:00.000 one roof you was here when you told me. 1542 01:01:00.280 --> 01:01:03.079 A lady knocks on the door and she says, hey, 1543 01:01:03.119 --> 01:01:05.159 do you guys want to do your practice on my car. 1544 01:01:05.480 --> 01:01:06.119 You know the drill. 1545 01:01:06.480 --> 01:01:08.920 So that guy this. 1546 01:01:08.800 --> 01:01:12.400 Is Randy, Uh yeah, he's Randy. This guy was new Magison, 1547 01:01:12.519 --> 01:01:14.280 good dude. So Willie right was the boss, but if 1548 01:01:14.280 --> 01:01:16.960 everyone was Willi, Willie's a character. So Willi goes, yeah, sure, 1549 01:01:17.280 --> 01:01:18.840 So we start with dog. We're forced to do it's 1550 01:01:18.840 --> 01:01:20.639 a it's a seventy. It's an old wagon in right, 1551 01:01:20.920 --> 01:01:22.760 Well force the door, don't force to do it. Next thing, 1552 01:01:22.760 --> 01:01:24.480 you know, Well, story short, all four doors are in it, 1553 01:01:24.599 --> 01:01:26.559 the roofs off it, and we're like, oh, great drill. 1554 01:01:26.599 --> 01:01:28.039 You know A had good time, beautiful day. 1555 01:01:28.559 --> 01:01:29.079 Oh no. 1556 01:01:29.480 --> 01:01:31.559 About an hour later or so, maybe two hours later, 1557 01:01:31.599 --> 01:01:32.159 I'm gonna. 1558 01:01:32.000 --> 01:01:32.679 Knock on the door. 1559 01:01:33.079 --> 01:01:33.480 There it is. 1560 01:01:35.039 --> 01:01:36.519 I'm like, hey, what's up, bro? What I do for you? 1561 01:01:36.599 --> 01:01:37.440 He goes, Yo, you. 1562 01:01:37.400 --> 01:01:41.079 Guys fucked up my car. So right into cop I'm 1563 01:01:41.119 --> 01:01:43.719 in trouble mode. No problem, let me get you the boss. 1564 01:01:43.760 --> 01:01:47.159 I go up there. So Willie, this guy's downstairs, that's 1565 01:01:47.159 --> 01:01:49.840 his car, and he's pissed. He goes, wow, no problem, 1566 01:01:50.000 --> 01:01:52.679 So Willie, Willie's good man. He went down there. You 1567 01:01:52.719 --> 01:01:54.679 can drive this guy like it has no registration on 1568 01:01:54.800 --> 01:01:56.480 or anything. And this lady said it was hers. She 1569 01:01:56.519 --> 01:01:58.920 showed the paperwork. So this is where he knows two 1570 01:01:59.199 --> 01:02:01.199 like this is what you you and HER's cil matter. 1571 01:02:01.719 --> 01:02:03.880 See yea, I said, tom My, go that was imp 1572 01:02:09.039 --> 01:02:09.639 That was good. 1573 01:02:12.519 --> 01:02:12.800 Together. 1574 01:02:14.559 --> 01:02:15.760 I had a couple of those. 1575 01:02:17.639 --> 01:02:19.239 You got. Then you go at random when you just 1576 01:02:19.239 --> 01:02:21.239 come across from abandoned the roadway, you just cut them. 1577 01:02:21.159 --> 01:02:24.719 Up a couple of buildings for God's sake, And. 1578 01:02:24.679 --> 01:02:26.400 We did that to the one building on Grandad and 1579 01:02:26.440 --> 01:02:27.719 we cut the ship out of the roof for the 1580 01:02:28.039 --> 01:02:30.320 we had to go back and fix it. I can't 1581 01:02:30.360 --> 01:02:31.079 knock it on the door. 1582 01:02:32.119 --> 01:02:35.360 It is. They treated us very good, like you know, 1583 01:02:35.480 --> 01:02:36.920 when we held we did a lot of stuff there 1584 01:02:36.920 --> 01:02:38.519 to They were building a weight room up there. 1585 01:02:38.559 --> 01:02:39.679 They separated the mountains, so. 1586 01:02:41.199 --> 01:02:42.639 That was good. It was a very good experience. 1587 01:02:42.639 --> 01:02:44.519 And I thought the rotation was good. 1588 01:02:44.519 --> 01:02:44.679 Man. 1589 01:02:44.679 --> 01:02:46.480 It made the job a lot smaller. You know, you 1590 01:02:46.480 --> 01:02:48.960 get to see, uh, meet other guys from all the 1591 01:02:48.960 --> 01:02:51.679 burrows working on the burrows. Sometimes you go to a 1592 01:02:51.719 --> 01:02:54.199 place you get complacent. You never freaking leave there, you know. 1593 01:02:54.480 --> 01:02:56.280 Yeah, true, no, it was good, it was it was 1594 01:02:56.320 --> 01:02:59.199 you know, the Manhattan could be wasn't badslow Manhattan. 1595 01:02:59.199 --> 01:03:00.960 That wasn't terrible, just a little bit slower than I 1596 01:03:01.000 --> 01:03:01.679 would have liked it to be. 1597 01:03:01.800 --> 01:03:02.440 But what are you gonna do? 1598 01:03:02.840 --> 01:03:05.199 So you did fifteen there and then you went back. 1599 01:03:05.280 --> 01:03:06.679 You just said you were never going to do work 1600 01:03:06.679 --> 01:03:07.360 in the truck again. 1601 01:03:08.320 --> 01:03:10.079 Yeah. Well what happened was I put him for the 1602 01:03:10.119 --> 01:03:11.519 engine and I went and met the captain. When I 1603 01:03:11.519 --> 01:03:13.280 went to the police academy with I know you're gonna 1604 01:03:13.280 --> 01:03:15.880 meet the captain whatever, it's all set. I'm talking to 1605 01:03:15.960 --> 01:03:18.119 the chief of personnel at the time, who's very good 1606 01:03:18.119 --> 01:03:18.760 friend of mine. 1607 01:03:19.159 --> 01:03:20.920 He calls me up. I'm in twenty three. He calls 1608 01:03:20.920 --> 01:03:21.159 me up. 1609 01:03:21.159 --> 01:03:23.880 He goes, you can't go to one tat two. I go, jee, 1610 01:03:24.239 --> 01:03:27.519 I have no medical leaves. I'm like, I got but 1611 01:03:27.760 --> 01:03:30.320 fifteen years, yeah, fifteen years. I was like, come on man. 1612 01:03:30.400 --> 01:03:32.119 He goes, they have twenty four people on the rosta. 1613 01:03:32.199 --> 01:03:33.760 You can go to one. He gave me every engine 1614 01:03:34.119 --> 01:03:36.679 in the borough except one. Twenty five did a special guys. 1615 01:03:37.480 --> 01:03:40.000 I was like, fuck, you're gonna come to Statn'm like, 1616 01:03:40.000 --> 01:03:41.639 what do I want to travel? I was like, well, 1617 01:03:41.639 --> 01:03:43.440 what about eighty two? He goes, Oh, they have eight openings. 1618 01:03:43.440 --> 01:03:45.079 I'm like, well, i'll send you new papers. I'll take 1619 01:03:45.079 --> 01:03:47.079 care of it. And the captain of eighty two was 1620 01:03:47.159 --> 01:03:49.039 Jack Spalline, who was the two thirty four fiveman. He 1621 01:03:49.079 --> 01:03:50.719 was in the question before us. I knew him the 1622 01:03:50.719 --> 01:03:54.760 whole time, so worked out perfect. So yeah, fine, but 1623 01:03:54.840 --> 01:03:56.159 you know it was good because I had to work 1624 01:03:56.400 --> 01:03:59.480 here here. You are right, you're fifteen years of the job, business, company, 1625 01:03:59.480 --> 01:04:02.320 the city, whatever. I walked into the kitchen. I taught 1626 01:04:02.360 --> 01:04:04.719 half of them, and I used to we played the 1627 01:04:04.719 --> 01:04:06.199 game with the rock. I'm teaching engines. You know the 1628 01:04:06.199 --> 01:04:06.599 truck ball. 1629 01:04:06.599 --> 01:04:08.880 You break truck balls, right, I'm not stupid. 1630 01:04:08.880 --> 01:04:11.039 I go into Listen tells everything I said about the 1631 01:04:11.079 --> 01:04:11.599 truck is wrong. 1632 01:04:11.800 --> 01:04:17.079 I might have been cooking out of my ass. 1633 01:04:19.119 --> 01:04:20.519 They made me do it. 1634 01:04:21.519 --> 01:04:21.960 I was just. 1635 01:04:23.880 --> 01:04:24.000 Now. 1636 01:04:24.639 --> 01:04:27.159 They were all good guys, I said. I felt all seriousness. 1637 01:04:27.199 --> 01:04:29.760 I said, I need you guys to show me how 1638 01:04:29.800 --> 01:04:32.760 you guys operate with certain I mean, I know we're fared. 1639 01:04:33.079 --> 01:04:33.480 Just give me. 1640 01:04:33.519 --> 01:04:35.159 You gotta teach me how you guys do it. 1641 01:04:35.239 --> 01:04:35.960 If you're company. 1642 01:04:36.280 --> 01:04:36.920 They loved it. 1643 01:04:37.119 --> 01:04:38.840 You know you could look some guys like you said, 1644 01:04:38.880 --> 01:04:41.400 come to Staten Island and you know if they walk around, 1645 01:04:41.639 --> 01:04:43.800 they come to muscles, the T shirt, they whip about, 1646 01:04:43.800 --> 01:04:46.079 the dirty helmet. I mean like I changed my front 1647 01:04:46.079 --> 01:04:47.920 piece right away, I changed my pats right away, Like 1648 01:04:48.159 --> 01:04:48.840 I'm not that guy. 1649 01:04:49.000 --> 01:04:49.960 But there are guys that come. 1650 01:04:49.880 --> 01:04:51.159 Out there and that that guy, and they don't like 1651 01:04:51.159 --> 01:04:54.239 those guys like you demeaning them, you know, and who 1652 01:04:54.280 --> 01:04:56.440 does that? Like I know what I can do, They'll 1653 01:04:56.440 --> 01:04:58.880 see what I can do. We're good man, do something 1654 01:04:58.880 --> 01:05:01.000 if I can show you something great, something even better. 1655 01:05:01.599 --> 01:05:03.320 You know, no one's the one's about getting taught. 1656 01:05:03.960 --> 01:05:05.400 Did you wind up driving there at all? 1657 01:05:05.760 --> 01:05:09.400 I guess yeah, because what happened was like I swore 1658 01:05:09.440 --> 01:05:11.159 when I drove twenty three, like one thirty four come 1659 01:05:11.199 --> 01:05:12.679 right next to us. You know, I'm like, I'm never 1660 01:05:12.719 --> 01:05:14.039 driving that fucking thing. It's huge. 1661 01:05:14.480 --> 01:05:15.519 Well, I kept getting covering. 1662 01:05:15.559 --> 01:05:17.760 Choulfis come in that like didn't know what I was 1663 01:05:17.760 --> 01:05:19.880 tough because it's not grids. It's like you know Maple Street, 1664 01:05:19.920 --> 01:05:21.519 Holly Street that you know, you know where you're going. 1665 01:05:21.719 --> 01:05:23.239 These guys didn't where they were going. They couldn't back 1666 01:05:23.280 --> 01:05:25.239 into the firehouse. I ended telling Jack one day, I'm like, 1667 01:05:25.719 --> 01:05:27.599 listen if you got a spot in shover school, do you. 1668 01:05:27.480 --> 01:05:29.159 Send me because I'm tired of covering guys coming here. 1669 01:05:29.639 --> 01:05:30.239 Yeah, no problem. 1670 01:05:30.400 --> 01:05:31.039 So that happened. 1671 01:05:31.039 --> 01:05:33.559 I went to show school again and uh, they were good. 1672 01:05:33.800 --> 01:05:36.639 It was very great. And then uh, shortly there after, 1673 01:05:36.719 --> 01:05:38.079 like a couple of guys got hurt and it was 1674 01:05:38.079 --> 01:05:40.039 the seat and no time. When a new captain came 1675 01:05:40.039 --> 01:05:42.880 and when Jack left, barbells between the captain and the 1676 01:05:42.920 --> 01:05:44.960 seat opened up, and I got it and I love 1677 01:05:45.599 --> 01:05:47.480 I love driving it. The guys looked like when I drove. 1678 01:05:47.559 --> 01:05:49.760 So I lived here, so I know all the streets right, 1679 01:05:50.280 --> 01:05:50.840 So it was fun. 1680 01:05:50.880 --> 01:05:53.280 It was a lot of fun with a couple of 1681 01:05:53.320 --> 01:05:55.119 young guys other day and they actually said that they 1682 01:05:55.480 --> 01:05:58.239 wish I was still in the firehouse. That was nice. 1683 01:05:58.400 --> 01:05:59.320 That's a good compliment. 1684 01:05:59.360 --> 01:05:59.480 Bro. 1685 01:05:59.679 --> 01:06:02.599 Yeah, they're good guys. They're all young guys, old guys. 1686 01:06:02.599 --> 01:06:04.559 They're all again, we're all locals, you know what I mean. 1687 01:06:04.559 --> 01:06:05.199 We're all friends. 1688 01:06:06.039 --> 01:06:07.840 You know when you go there, though it can't be 1689 01:06:07.880 --> 01:06:09.519 too many guys that you work was still there are 1690 01:06:09.559 --> 01:06:10.760 the well the younger guys. 1691 01:06:10.840 --> 01:06:14.039 Yeah, yeah, yeah, somebody they're seeing guys now. They were 1692 01:06:14.039 --> 01:06:16.639 young guys when I was there, right. I remember Vinnie Mayor, 1693 01:06:16.639 --> 01:06:18.000 who I taught in probably school. He was in a 1694 01:06:18.079 --> 01:06:19.880 being of Marshall too. Then he's one of the smartest. 1695 01:06:19.920 --> 01:06:21.920 He's the one, uh Vin, He's one of the smartest 1696 01:06:21.920 --> 01:06:24.239 guys that worked with and uh he was breaking my 1697 01:06:24.239 --> 01:06:25.960 balls and I got there. It goes my house time, Bro. 1698 01:06:26.519 --> 01:06:28.119 I was like, so, what do you want to washing 1699 01:06:28.199 --> 01:06:30.480 this or something for you? Like the floor? I have 1700 01:06:30.519 --> 01:06:32.239 no problem with that. Like his bunch of my balls 1701 01:06:32.239 --> 01:06:33.519 the whole time, but he was good about it. 1702 01:06:34.079 --> 01:06:35.360 Now I got him in the Marshalls, I'm like, oh, 1703 01:06:35.400 --> 01:06:39.480 remember that time you talked about part up in a barrel? Bro, 1704 01:06:40.800 --> 01:06:41.760 Now he's lieutenant though. 1705 01:06:41.760 --> 01:06:42.199 You got me. 1706 01:06:43.239 --> 01:06:45.360 See you finally get to the Marshalls right and there? 1707 01:06:45.480 --> 01:06:49.320 Well yeah, I mean I don't even know nothing about 1708 01:06:49.320 --> 01:06:51.639 the Marshalls. But how many what do they have? 1709 01:06:53.800 --> 01:06:57.519 There's two bases there in Brooklyn and city wide north 1710 01:06:57.559 --> 01:07:00.480 so city White South covers from a hundred and tenth 1711 01:07:00.480 --> 01:07:03.039 streets south in Manhattan, all of Brooklyn and all of 1712 01:07:03.039 --> 01:07:05.239 Staten Island. City wide North covers north one hundred and 1713 01:07:05.239 --> 01:07:06.960 tenth Street, all the Queens and all of the Bronx. 1714 01:07:07.519 --> 01:07:10.400 So any whatever the assignments are you know, they get 1715 01:07:10.400 --> 01:07:13.159 handed out in that way. Then there's those are the 1716 01:07:13.159 --> 01:07:15.480 two bases. Then you have there's a canine unit, there's 1717 01:07:15.480 --> 01:07:18.920 a photo unit, and then s I U a special 1718 01:07:19.000 --> 01:07:21.280 vestigatu and its headquarters. And there's not a lot of 1719 01:07:21.280 --> 01:07:23.840 places to go once you get onto Marshalls. You know, 1720 01:07:23.840 --> 01:07:25.519 you go into a base like everybody else. You learn 1721 01:07:25.519 --> 01:07:27.760 your job and go over with a few things. It's 1722 01:07:27.760 --> 01:07:30.480 a very interesting job. This school was a little six 1723 01:07:30.519 --> 01:07:32.599 months six months and six months, bro, Like we're all 1724 01:07:32.599 --> 01:07:34.320 fine and coming from the kitchen and now we're doing 1725 01:07:34.360 --> 01:07:35.679 five days a week list in the clad. It's a 1726 01:07:35.679 --> 01:07:38.599 little rough, but uh, but there's a lot of information. 1727 01:07:38.679 --> 01:07:40.480 And if you were a cop before, it's that it 1728 01:07:40.480 --> 01:07:42.119 doesn't advantage. But you don't have to be a cop 1729 01:07:42.119 --> 01:07:44.840 to get it. There's plenty of marshals that were never 1730 01:07:44.880 --> 01:07:46.079 cops that are very good. 1731 01:07:46.880 --> 01:07:47.280 I remember. 1732 01:07:47.400 --> 01:07:49.360 So you got of school after the whole truncation thing 1733 01:07:49.679 --> 01:07:50.800 to go to the base and like you don't know 1734 01:07:50.800 --> 01:07:52.559 who you're meeting, Like I don't. I only knew three marshals, 1735 01:07:52.599 --> 01:07:54.840 but I got there. So I go to city why 1736 01:07:54.880 --> 01:07:56.280 south and I'll mention his name. I think he's most 1737 01:07:56.559 --> 01:07:58.800 watching them. So this guy, Anthony Henry's the ten ten 1738 01:07:58.840 --> 01:08:01.639 engine ten truck guy, was the endine. Uh, he's like 1739 01:08:01.639 --> 01:08:04.719 the office organizer, like because you have to sit a 1740 01:08:04.760 --> 01:08:06.760 certain just to do that, you know. I mean it's like, oh, 1741 01:08:06.960 --> 01:08:10.880 he hasn't all worked out phone list, computer, this Excel 1742 01:08:10.920 --> 01:08:13.519 program that he's telling me. I'm like, I really appreciate 1743 01:08:13.519 --> 01:08:14.880 all the stuff you're doing, but I don't know what 1744 01:08:14.920 --> 01:08:17.079 program you're I don't know this stuff. I know computers 1745 01:08:17.119 --> 01:08:19.199 a little, but he had all worked out and I ended 1746 01:08:19.239 --> 01:08:22.279 up in a squad with rich Bolzone is the boss 1747 01:08:22.520 --> 01:08:26.079 and he uh is pretty good as far as like 1748 01:08:26.119 --> 01:08:28.199 showing you what to do, making sure you're settled, and 1749 01:08:28.199 --> 01:08:30.159 then once you once you do it and you figure 1750 01:08:30.159 --> 01:08:30.680 it out. 1751 01:08:30.960 --> 01:08:32.880 It's it's it's a lot of fun, you know. 1752 01:08:32.880 --> 01:08:35.279 It's interesting. It's different, especially after so many years of 1753 01:08:35.439 --> 01:08:38.880 putting prize out or whatever. But it's a very interesting job. 1754 01:08:39.319 --> 01:08:41.039 That's the curses that I can ever come to be detective. 1755 01:08:41.079 --> 01:08:42.960 So it was good and I ended up doing the 1756 01:08:43.039 --> 01:08:45.079 last year and a half in SIU, which is full 1757 01:08:45.119 --> 01:08:48.279 of very good guys who do a lot of in 1758 01:08:48.359 --> 01:08:50.079 depth work that I was able to learn from the 1759 01:08:50.359 --> 01:08:53.560 three guys that when I got there all very shop investigators. 1760 01:08:53.600 --> 01:08:55.520 So I enjoyed my time in the Marshals very much, 1761 01:08:55.920 --> 01:08:56.319 too great. 1762 01:08:57.119 --> 01:08:58.960 Any jobs that you had that were like, you know, 1763 01:08:59.800 --> 01:09:02.359 noble ones that were in the papers or so. 1764 01:09:02.560 --> 01:09:04.520 There was a I won't mention the catering place, but 1765 01:09:04.520 --> 01:09:06.479 there was a I was. I was out of the 1766 01:09:06.520 --> 01:09:08.399 class about a month and there was a fire in 1767 01:09:08.399 --> 01:09:11.399 a very well known catering place down in Brooklyn, uh 1768 01:09:11.520 --> 01:09:14.600 like catering place Delhi on Christmas Eve on Christmas night, 1769 01:09:14.640 --> 01:09:16.800 Christmas night, and the guy who set us up tells me, 1770 01:09:16.840 --> 01:09:18.000 he goes, you have the hege ds, you can just 1771 01:09:18.039 --> 01:09:18.800 take Christmas off. 1772 01:09:18.840 --> 01:09:22.359 It's not like the firehouse. So I'm like, no, I 1773 01:09:22.359 --> 01:09:23.119 always work in my house. 1774 01:09:23.199 --> 01:09:25.720 It's gonna work. So I end up working. There's four 1775 01:09:25.760 --> 01:09:28.399 marshals in the basement and all four of it it's freezing. 1776 01:09:28.399 --> 01:09:30.159 Call is third along whatever, like you know, it's over, 1777 01:09:30.199 --> 01:09:32.720 and I'm just hold the millions of happened. Nobody can 1778 01:09:32.720 --> 01:09:34.760 figure it out. So we end up taking the DVR. 1779 01:09:34.800 --> 01:09:36.000 We go back to the base and wake up in 1780 01:09:36.000 --> 01:09:36.319 the morning. 1781 01:09:36.319 --> 01:09:37.520 We look at it and sure enough there's a guy 1782 01:09:37.520 --> 01:09:39.039 that breaks in and I likes to wait on fire, 1783 01:09:39.880 --> 01:09:42.039 so now it's my keys now. So when you're a 1784 01:09:42.039 --> 01:09:43.640 base mar show and you get sent to SYU, the 1785 01:09:43.680 --> 01:09:46.199 SYU investigator is gonna enhance your case. He's gonna get 1786 01:09:46.199 --> 01:09:48.000 you videos like you're gonna go with him. So I 1787 01:09:48.039 --> 01:09:49.560 got to do it very early on, and I went 1788 01:09:49.560 --> 01:09:54.039 with two very very good guys, and I just basically 1789 01:09:54.079 --> 01:09:55.960 stood there and watched them in action for the first 1790 01:09:56.000 --> 01:09:58.399 couple of days, tried to contribute. Then I realized, like. 1791 01:09:58.479 --> 01:10:00.560 I was way out of my league. These we're good man. 1792 01:10:00.600 --> 01:10:03.960 So short, long story short, nine months later, this guy 1793 01:10:04.039 --> 01:10:05.520 is moving all around. He was. He got him on 1794 01:10:05.560 --> 01:10:08.199 video everywhere he was in Pennsylvania and one of the 1795 01:10:08.199 --> 01:10:09.920 investigators had set something U because he was a sex 1796 01:10:09.920 --> 01:10:12.039 offender that he had a reregisterce he moved. 1797 01:10:12.399 --> 01:10:13.000 I didn't know where. 1798 01:10:13.039 --> 01:10:15.439 This guy calls the other Marshall's cell phone, so he 1799 01:10:15.479 --> 01:10:18.960 pretends he's you know, INVESTIGATORIM sexyphon and it convinced him 1800 01:10:18.960 --> 01:10:20.800 to come in the next day to register to reregister. 1801 01:10:21.079 --> 01:10:22.279 He walked right in, locked him. 1802 01:10:22.239 --> 01:10:24.039 Up, sat him down, BINGO. 1803 01:10:25.279 --> 01:10:27.800 That was a great case, and I guess I had 1804 01:10:27.800 --> 01:10:28.680 a lot of great help on it. 1805 01:10:29.199 --> 01:10:30.960 Well, great help. They did a lot of the work 1806 01:10:30.960 --> 01:10:32.359 and I learned how they did it. And at the 1807 01:10:32.439 --> 01:10:35.039 end it was all big teamwork. Thing was great, really 1808 01:10:35.039 --> 01:10:37.000 good case. Uh, that was a good one. 1809 01:10:37.119 --> 01:10:39.359 The guy from our class was in, wasn't he a 1810 01:10:39.399 --> 01:10:41.159 supervising five Marshall was? 1811 01:10:44.520 --> 01:10:44.680 Oh? 1812 01:10:44.720 --> 01:10:48.760 I know, Oh Billy Raw, Billy Raw. Yeah, I think 1813 01:10:48.800 --> 01:10:50.159 he just retire, right, Yeah he did. 1814 01:10:50.279 --> 01:10:53.840 Yeah, yeah, Billy's Billy was when I was in ceremonial. 1815 01:10:53.880 --> 01:10:56.039 Billy was in the headquarters all the time, like they 1816 01:10:56.039 --> 01:10:57.840 have a unit down there. He'd done his time in 1817 01:10:57.880 --> 01:11:00.119 the base or whatever, and then the chiefs changed, he 1818 01:11:00.159 --> 01:11:02.199 shuffled the people around. He ended up in Hooper Street 1819 01:11:02.239 --> 01:11:04.680 for a little bit. I think it was the city North. So, yeah, 1820 01:11:04.680 --> 01:11:06.520 he just retired. I guess he just decided this. I 1821 01:11:06.520 --> 01:11:09.199 think he was pretty far out in the island, doesn't Yeah. 1822 01:11:09.199 --> 01:11:10.680 I know he's married. Oh yeah he does, because I 1823 01:11:10.680 --> 01:11:13.840 saw him at a book signing one night, his way 1824 01:11:13.840 --> 01:11:16.199 out there, like talking. 1825 01:11:18.359 --> 01:11:21.840 Like you were a delegate, weren't you too? How I 1826 01:11:21.880 --> 01:11:23.000 was a delegate eighty two trunk? 1827 01:11:23.960 --> 01:11:26.119 How long did you do that? The whole time there? 1828 01:11:27.239 --> 01:11:28.439 Yeah, the whole time I was there? And then it 1829 01:11:28.560 --> 01:11:30.640 was a trustee. I think I think I was the 1830 01:11:30.760 --> 01:11:33.399 UFA board for about eight minutes. I think it was 1831 01:11:33.399 --> 01:11:35.159 three months. I was filling in the spot when the uh, 1832 01:11:35.439 --> 01:11:37.840 this trustee was running for something else, and then I 1833 01:11:37.840 --> 01:11:39.119 got promoted near the guy took over. 1834 01:11:39.439 --> 01:11:41.399 So yeah, trust me. 1835 01:11:41.840 --> 01:11:43.880 Yeah, because this down of trustee at the time wanted 1836 01:11:43.920 --> 01:11:45.960 to run for vice president. I think that was it. 1837 01:11:46.039 --> 01:11:47.760 So he had a vacate the spot and I just 1838 01:11:47.800 --> 01:11:49.399 held it, you know, like I said, for two three months, 1839 01:11:49.399 --> 01:11:51.359 and then I got promoted and another guy took it, 1840 01:11:51.399 --> 01:11:53.279 and then they had the election later on, so I 1841 01:11:53.279 --> 01:11:55.039 really didn't have to I did run for it years 1842 01:11:55.439 --> 01:11:58.680 years before because the trustee vacated it. So this other 1843 01:11:58.680 --> 01:12:01.640 guy ran, I ran against him, and uh he end 1844 01:12:01.720 --> 01:12:03.680 up winning by eleven votes, which was like the closest 1845 01:12:04.199 --> 01:12:06.239 degree to go, Like, yo, not but I knew you lost, 1846 01:12:06.239 --> 01:12:06.560 But that was. 1847 01:12:06.560 --> 01:12:07.600 The closest election in history. 1848 01:12:07.640 --> 01:12:12.199 I'm like, I give a flying fuck I lost. To 1849 01:12:12.239 --> 01:12:14.079 tell you the truth, bro, I'm probably one of the 1850 01:12:14.079 --> 01:12:15.079 most competitive people in the world. 1851 01:12:15.199 --> 01:12:17.079 Becomes the sports. That was probably the best blasts of 1852 01:12:17.079 --> 01:12:18.159 my life. I made a lot of money. 1853 01:12:18.520 --> 01:12:20.760 Uh. He ended up were actually in me very good friends. 1854 01:12:21.239 --> 01:12:24.079 I actually spoke him today. He did a fantastic job 1855 01:12:24.119 --> 01:12:26.520 and took care everything I made. The overtime. 1856 01:12:26.600 --> 01:12:29.199 No, he's good because if you're not first, you last. Ricky, Bobby, 1857 01:12:29.239 --> 01:12:29.720 you know what I mean. 1858 01:12:30.800 --> 01:12:31.920 Love votes. Well, I couldn't. 1859 01:12:34.840 --> 01:12:41.279 Somebody said to ask you about your Sandy superstumstance Sandy rescue. 1860 01:12:41.800 --> 01:12:45.520 Well, I said, just skip right over your Hurricane Sandy. 1861 01:12:45.960 --> 01:12:48.000 Club Nelson. Who the Club Nelson is? 1862 01:12:48.199 --> 01:12:49.840 Club Nelson, that's the firehouse. 1863 01:12:51.079 --> 01:12:53.760 Uh, Sandy was like everybody was working that night, did 1864 01:12:53.800 --> 01:12:54.760 the same thing we did. 1865 01:12:54.760 --> 01:12:57.399 And just a matter where you were, and uh, it's 1866 01:12:57.479 --> 01:12:58.359 you know, it is what it is. 1867 01:13:00.359 --> 01:13:01.479 I'll tell you that. Vinny may A part of the 1868 01:13:01.520 --> 01:13:04.199 story Vinnie Mayor was, Uh, we were together and I 1869 01:13:04.279 --> 01:13:06.800 left to take a couple of people away from the house. 1870 01:13:06.840 --> 01:13:08.840 This is early on, it wasn't crazy yet. And he 1871 01:13:08.920 --> 01:13:10.439 was in there for six hours by himself. We were 1872 01:13:10.479 --> 01:13:11.600 trying to get to him, and he tried to get 1873 01:13:11.600 --> 01:13:13.039 to them with both Everybody tried to get to where 1874 01:13:13.039 --> 01:13:15.600 he was and they couldn't. So at the end of 1875 01:13:15.640 --> 01:13:17.600 the day, Vinny ended up coming up out of nowhere. 1876 01:13:17.760 --> 01:13:19.439 He just walked up to the ring with with being 1877 01:13:19.439 --> 01:13:22.760 blown up an air mattress with his mouth and put 1878 01:13:22.760 --> 01:13:25.000 the old person on it, and he got some drift 1879 01:13:25.000 --> 01:13:26.560 wood and some rope that he had rope with him 1880 01:13:26.880 --> 01:13:28.520 literally brought under read there was the picture was in 1881 01:13:28.640 --> 01:13:31.000 w in my ap So if you want to showt 1882 01:13:31.000 --> 01:13:33.439 in that story the fact that he I thought he 1883 01:13:33.479 --> 01:13:34.399 was in a punch me in the feat. I lived 1884 01:13:34.479 --> 01:13:35.600 him in the house and I never got back to 1885 01:13:35.640 --> 01:13:39.239 my tried. We all tried. He wasn't happening. Yeah, Vinnie 1886 01:13:39.239 --> 01:13:39.920 was Vinni's more of. 1887 01:13:39.960 --> 01:13:42.239 The story as far as the let's that's stick it 1888 01:13:42.239 --> 01:13:44.159 outside the box and air mattress and some. 1889 01:13:44.119 --> 01:13:47.680 That he is by far not that, not that everybody 1890 01:13:47.720 --> 01:13:48.399 work was smart. 1891 01:13:48.479 --> 01:13:51.800 That was one of the smartest guys at work. It 1892 01:13:51.840 --> 01:13:53.640 was way before that any drill and he chief walked 1893 01:13:53.680 --> 01:13:54.960 in and said, I want to do a drill on this. 1894 01:13:55.640 --> 01:13:59.000 Benny had it all right. Yeah, he's good, very smart guy. 1895 01:14:00.399 --> 01:14:04.039 The rest about fire Marshall Gunderson, Gunderson is am I 1896 01:14:04.079 --> 01:14:07.279 saying that right, yeah, what about him? They just said 1897 01:14:07.520 --> 01:14:10.279 they just had the same people club Nelson as they 1898 01:14:10.359 --> 01:14:13.199 asking you about him. 1899 01:14:13.439 --> 01:14:15.439 Well, Gunderson is one of the guys that I worked 1900 01:14:15.439 --> 01:14:17.079 with initially in su when I first had. 1901 01:14:16.920 --> 01:14:19.359 That first case, it was him. 1902 01:14:19.680 --> 01:14:22.520 You know, they gave his name, but you know he was. 1903 01:14:22.880 --> 01:14:24.960 He has one of the best guys I've ever seen 1904 01:14:25.000 --> 01:14:27.199 interviewed any any bad guys Like the interview room. I'm 1905 01:14:27.279 --> 01:14:28.840 terrible the interview room because I want to get right 1906 01:14:28.840 --> 01:14:30.960 to the chase, you know what I mean. Like these 1907 01:14:30.960 --> 01:14:34.399 guys have developed techniques over the years that it's amazing. Yeah, 1908 01:14:34.399 --> 01:14:35.079 he's phenomenal. 1909 01:14:36.800 --> 01:14:40.640 They have another one club something here. Ask him out 1910 01:14:40.680 --> 01:14:43.680 of service into the day to do Sandy after this 1911 01:14:43.840 --> 01:14:45.000 Metal Day performance. 1912 01:14:45.399 --> 01:14:46.600 Well, if you want to have the boss on and 1913 01:14:46.640 --> 01:14:51.239 talk him about it, go ahead at a service. 1914 01:14:54.039 --> 01:14:59.439 Yeah, what a great question there. Somebody's asking about George 1915 01:14:59.399 --> 01:15:02.319 Schneider the acting away. 1916 01:15:02.680 --> 01:15:05.560 But yes, So when we first got to the base 1917 01:15:05.600 --> 01:15:07.439 and I told you that Henry was the nerdy guy 1918 01:15:07.439 --> 01:15:10.399 with all the spreadsheets, So George had been on light dude, 1919 01:15:10.439 --> 01:15:13.760 he had something roll in his eye. I've met a 1920 01:15:13.800 --> 01:15:16.079 lot of funny people and a lot of outgoing personalities. 1921 01:15:16.279 --> 01:15:18.960 He is on the top five, no doubt, like just 1922 01:15:19.000 --> 01:15:22.640 a really gregarious like. So he doesn't know any of us. 1923 01:15:22.680 --> 01:15:24.239 We walk in, He has a list he has to 1924 01:15:24.239 --> 01:15:25.560 go over all. I'll leave we have left. We got 1925 01:15:25.600 --> 01:15:27.039 out of November, so he had, like you know you, 1926 01:15:27.199 --> 01:15:29.720 the dates couldn't carry him over. One by one. He 1927 01:15:29.760 --> 01:15:30.680 took us up there. 1928 01:15:30.600 --> 01:15:32.079 And we were all like breshed to this place. 1929 01:15:32.560 --> 01:15:34.439 Probably on the job. You knew to this place. This 1930 01:15:34.520 --> 01:15:36.960 guy you don't know him. What a gentleman sat down, 1931 01:15:37.079 --> 01:15:39.319 especially me. He's like, bro, get twenty five years on 1932 01:15:39.319 --> 01:15:39.560 a job. 1933 01:15:39.600 --> 01:15:40.319 You can take the holiday off. 1934 01:15:40.359 --> 01:15:41.920 You can take wherever you want. And I said to him, 1935 01:15:42.039 --> 01:15:43.279 I worked my holiday. I'm whatever. 1936 01:15:43.279 --> 01:15:44.319 He ended up being a boss that night. 1937 01:15:44.279 --> 01:15:48.479 For the catering things. But uh, funny guy. Man, he 1938 01:15:49.920 --> 01:15:51.720 had a way about him. Man, he just uh, he 1939 01:15:51.760 --> 01:15:53.760 could light up a room. He never came into a 1940 01:15:53.760 --> 01:15:57.039 bad movie ever, never ever. Ever, he wrecked his call 1941 01:15:57.279 --> 01:15:59.640 like by accident. I obviously told him. He didn't give 1942 01:15:59.640 --> 01:16:01.560 a shit. Nowte M keep it how it happened. 1943 01:16:01.560 --> 01:16:04.159 But I was really hot, like a really hot day. 1944 01:16:04.279 --> 01:16:09.640 Was he in a good mood? Then? I know a 1945 01:16:09.680 --> 01:16:11.880 certain guy who gets loses his ship when it's really 1946 01:16:11.920 --> 01:16:16.039 hot and he gets sweaty. Man, Yeah, it's not a 1947 01:16:16.039 --> 01:16:16.640 good day. 1948 01:16:16.800 --> 01:16:18.960 Who's that guy we're talking about? I don't know who 1949 01:16:19.000 --> 01:16:19.880 anybody we know. 1950 01:16:21.279 --> 01:16:24.439 Sameother you know from never did b I think it said. 1951 01:16:24.239 --> 01:16:26.079 Oh yeah, somebody want to ask about B I too, 1952 01:16:26.119 --> 01:16:29.319 But oh mate, yeah they want to ask about b I. 1953 01:16:29.359 --> 01:16:30.000 What what is that? 1954 01:16:30.319 --> 01:16:33.079 Don't mean? But anyway, you don't have to answer. 1955 01:16:33.479 --> 01:16:35.479 I did every B because my partner didn't want to 1956 01:16:35.479 --> 01:16:37.800 go to training. I'm like, I mean sorry, my partner 1957 01:16:37.760 --> 01:16:39.399 didn't want to do B I and I didn't want 1958 01:16:39.399 --> 01:16:40.800 to go to training, so I said, I'll do all 1959 01:16:40.840 --> 01:16:42.560 the bid you can go to training. 1960 01:16:43.279 --> 01:16:46.600 There you go, my best nozzle, best nozzle job in 1961 01:16:46.640 --> 01:16:48.600 two eighty three, I've had. 1962 01:16:49.840 --> 01:16:54.319 Best not the job. Oh just back from the rotation. 1963 01:16:54.640 --> 01:16:56.399 We were side by side with two thirty four Kings 1964 01:16:56.399 --> 01:16:59.720 County Hospital. Jack was just explains working two thirty four. Okay, 1965 01:16:59.840 --> 01:17:02.840 t back photo arm around it, you know, down the block. 1966 01:17:03.000 --> 01:17:04.319 It was their first two bucks. They go faced from 1967 01:17:04.319 --> 01:17:04.600 one way. 1968 01:17:04.760 --> 01:17:06.840 Too bad for them, so it's blowing out the bill 1969 01:17:06.880 --> 01:17:09.359 cooat tours Gary Bennings the borce again, so I know 1970 01:17:09.359 --> 01:17:11.359 he's gonna be drouble, So I get. 1971 01:17:11.880 --> 01:17:13.399 I go to the curb. He goes up. 1972 01:17:13.439 --> 01:17:15.159 Gary goes up to the Billcoat doors and the truck 1973 01:17:15.239 --> 01:17:17.239 was there already. So they started breaking the windows and 1974 01:17:17.239 --> 01:17:18.359 now it hits them in the head, like you know, 1975 01:17:18.640 --> 01:17:20.800 because he goes back to the curve. I go, I 1976 01:17:20.880 --> 01:17:28.159 was like, that was damage. Yeah, I like so two 1977 01:17:28.159 --> 01:17:29.640 and a half. I'm not a big dude, so I 1978 01:17:29.920 --> 01:17:31.760 get I knock it down. I shoot at the bottom 1979 01:17:31.760 --> 01:17:33.399 of the stairs and out of fire to the left. 1980 01:17:33.600 --> 01:17:34.960 But I like, I can't bend it. The guy, the 1981 01:17:35.000 --> 01:17:37.239 backup guy's not right behind me just yet. So now 1982 01:17:37.279 --> 01:17:39.199 he starts getting he gets down, he pushes off the stairs. 1983 01:17:39.239 --> 01:17:41.279 Now he's pushing me straight ahead, and I'm trying to 1984 01:17:41.279 --> 01:17:43.279 bend this fucking thing and they just keep yelling. I'm like, 1985 01:17:43.359 --> 01:17:45.439 just back up, back up. I am backing you up, 1986 01:17:45.439 --> 01:17:47.840 like back up. So I fucking turn around and just 1987 01:17:47.840 --> 01:17:49.239 bombs on him back to the stairs. I'm like it's 1988 01:17:49.239 --> 01:17:51.359 over there. So he does the fucking bend. So yeah, 1989 01:17:51.359 --> 01:17:52.960 that was That was a lot of fire, and I 1990 01:17:53.039 --> 01:17:55.199 really was really over very quickly. But it was a 1991 01:17:55.199 --> 01:17:56.760 lot of fun because like I'm yelling back, this guy 1992 01:17:56.760 --> 01:17:59.119 was a sceney guy, Like I didn't fucking backing you up, 1993 01:17:59.159 --> 01:18:02.199 Like I'm looking fits by in the basements over there. 1994 01:18:02.239 --> 01:18:03.319 Bro two and a halfs. 1995 01:18:03.079 --> 01:18:03.640 The sucking man. 1996 01:18:03.680 --> 01:18:05.399 I think, screw the two and a half. 1997 01:18:05.680 --> 01:18:06.880 Yeah, that was. That was a good one. 1998 01:18:07.359 --> 01:18:07.600 That was. 1999 01:18:07.640 --> 01:18:09.840 That was a lot of fun and we just got back. 2000 01:18:09.880 --> 01:18:11.680 So like you're all fired up right. I didn't fall 2001 01:18:11.760 --> 01:18:13.119 on a huge plus. 2002 01:18:14.199 --> 01:18:16.079 He didn't fall down. That's always a plus. 2003 01:18:16.279 --> 01:18:17.920 I slid down on my ass, I supposed. 2004 01:18:18.520 --> 01:18:20.920 Yeah, one of little pictures we got, guys, let's go 2005 01:18:20.920 --> 01:18:21.760 through some of the pictures. 2006 01:18:21.840 --> 01:18:23.359 We have a couple. Let me go back to the 2007 01:18:23.359 --> 01:18:25.239 beginning here that we didn't hit. We have Actually, let's 2008 01:18:25.239 --> 01:18:25.840 bring this one in. 2009 01:18:26.600 --> 01:18:30.560 Uh my boy high school friend Pat Tansy. Uh again, 2010 01:18:31.239 --> 01:18:34.119 Patty's a really smart guy. Uh high school. He was 2011 01:18:34.119 --> 01:18:34.880 on a football team. 2012 01:18:34.880 --> 01:18:36.399 I think he got hitting ahead a lot as a 2013 01:18:36.439 --> 01:18:36.800 tight end. 2014 01:18:37.560 --> 01:18:41.600 He had a way of talking. So that's from say 2015 01:18:41.640 --> 01:18:43.640 Patrick's day. That's got to be two thousands, I can 2016 01:18:43.720 --> 01:18:47.159 see that. Uh two thousand, maybe maybe ninety nine whatever, 2017 01:18:47.359 --> 01:18:49.079 but uh yeah, out in the balls, hanging up, having 2018 01:18:49.079 --> 01:18:52.439 a good time. He ended up being he didn't twenty three, 2019 01:18:52.600 --> 01:18:55.359 you know, litenant cabinet and retarded the chief. He then 2020 01:18:55.479 --> 01:18:59.479 nursed the nesteasist who works I think he works Sloan Still, 2021 01:18:59.479 --> 01:19:03.520 I'm not sure real real, real, real good guy man lives. 2022 01:19:03.319 --> 01:19:05.880 He buys a house after the plane question in Rockaway. 2023 01:19:05.920 --> 01:19:06.680 He's from Rockaway. 2024 01:19:07.159 --> 01:19:08.760 So he calls a bunch of guys from two thirty 2025 01:19:08.760 --> 01:19:10.640 four to some picks that I come down and I 2026 01:19:10.680 --> 01:19:12.640 pulled it to the house. He sat on the phone, 2027 01:19:12.640 --> 01:19:14.600 slightly damaged. I look at the house right. 2028 01:19:14.439 --> 01:19:18.119 By the bark of the ball, but it's right there, 2029 01:19:18.439 --> 01:19:19.000 right behind it. 2030 01:19:21.640 --> 01:19:21.760 Light. 2031 01:19:22.159 --> 01:19:25.119 I look at this house. I got me a second. 2032 01:19:25.239 --> 01:19:28.199 I says, I need to get your full definition of slightly. 2033 01:19:28.960 --> 01:19:33.199 I said, fuel fell on. It's destroyed. I was like, 2034 01:19:33.319 --> 01:19:35.000 it's like, no, no, I'm probably at that house. I'm like, 2035 01:19:35.039 --> 01:19:37.239 all right, that's destroyed. This is pretty fucking cold, dude. 2036 01:19:37.520 --> 01:19:41.279 So all his we we had this house in two 2037 01:19:41.439 --> 01:19:43.119 thirty yard dumps is in three hours. 2038 01:19:43.720 --> 01:19:44.319 What do you want out? 2039 01:19:44.319 --> 01:19:46.319 You know, not the whole house? But yeah, built a 2040 01:19:46.359 --> 01:19:48.960 nice house down there, and it's beautiful. He grew up 2041 01:19:48.960 --> 01:19:50.960 two blocks away. I spent more time in his house. 2042 01:19:51.000 --> 01:19:52.319 We're in high school. I spent him my own have 2043 01:19:52.359 --> 01:19:52.840 to un park. 2044 01:19:54.239 --> 01:19:57.199 You not a feeling fantastic guy man with his parents? 2045 01:19:57.199 --> 01:19:57.479 Sweet? 2046 01:19:57.520 --> 01:20:02.279 I mean it's great people. Oh follows a superintendent for sanitation. 2047 01:20:02.880 --> 01:20:07.920 HM, we have that one and this is another irishman. 2048 01:20:08.520 --> 01:20:10.840 So this is so on the left, that's Gary Benedict 2049 01:20:10.920 --> 01:20:11.199 the base. 2050 01:20:11.399 --> 01:20:12.600 Oh that's him. I know him. 2051 01:20:12.720 --> 01:20:15.000 I know he had brown. He had brown here when 2052 01:20:15.000 --> 01:20:19.359 I met him, I ruined him. If that's his son 2053 01:20:19.399 --> 01:20:22.159 Pete next to him, and then me, and that's the Harris. 2054 01:20:22.159 --> 01:20:24.079 That's Harris, and then there's Joe Bennett and some other 2055 01:20:24.119 --> 01:20:26.439 Porta Sarity cops. But that's I think that's Pet's first 2056 01:20:26.439 --> 01:20:28.119 saint Patrick's days a fireman and stand now if I'm 2057 01:20:28.119 --> 01:20:29.479 not mistaken, I could be wrong about that. 2058 01:20:29.479 --> 01:20:31.399 But always went to Gary's house. 2059 01:20:31.399 --> 01:20:33.520 He had his white be the Irish shouder bread and 2060 01:20:33.640 --> 01:20:35.680 went down the Forest Avenue and we walked as far 2061 01:20:35.720 --> 01:20:37.119 as you know. So we got to the right bar. 2062 01:20:37.640 --> 01:20:39.840 Nobody ever offt the Whope raid bar. 2063 01:20:43.079 --> 01:20:45.119 There's Yankee Stadium. I saw your story before where I 2064 01:20:45.399 --> 01:20:48.399 had a week left to go. But yeah, we played 2065 01:20:48.399 --> 01:20:50.239 for the championship. We played two years in a row. 2066 01:20:50.279 --> 01:20:52.840 There, kice what position you play, Mike. 2067 01:20:53.760 --> 01:20:54.520 Third base. 2068 01:20:57.880 --> 01:21:00.600 That you had to play out here of that year 2069 01:21:00.600 --> 01:21:04.079 because that was ninety five when Man's first playoffs. But 2070 01:21:04.119 --> 01:21:06.079 while we were playing, Tommy McDonald was in his stance. 2071 01:21:06.119 --> 01:21:07.479 He worked out something with the ticket Pep. We got 2072 01:21:07.520 --> 01:21:08.920 me and him two tickets on the third base side 2073 01:21:08.960 --> 01:21:11.479 for the home playoff game. Well mainly hit the home run. 2074 01:21:11.760 --> 01:21:14.319 I thought the place's gonna fall down. It was great. 2075 01:21:16.920 --> 01:21:19.479 That if you're a Monthson fan, you gotta be Greg 2076 01:21:19.520 --> 01:21:21.359 Nettles fan. Being a third book vote. 2077 01:21:21.359 --> 01:21:23.159 You can name all except Reggie Jackson. I was like, 2078 01:21:23.760 --> 01:21:24.399 we did a good job. 2079 01:21:25.800 --> 01:21:26.760 Sorry, so we have this. 2080 01:21:27.560 --> 01:21:30.039 That's family day when Pete graduated was graduating. 2081 01:21:30.199 --> 01:21:32.000 Yeah, we dressed Pete up in a chicken like we 2082 01:21:32.039 --> 01:21:33.720 alway dressed somebody up in a chicken outfit to get 2083 01:21:33.760 --> 01:21:36.439 rescued or whatever. So we dressed because Pete, because Pete 2084 01:21:36.479 --> 01:21:37.199 my lieutenant son. 2085 01:21:37.239 --> 01:21:40.800 I mean Pete with a chicken outfit. Gy Yeah, yeah, 2086 01:21:40.840 --> 01:21:41.279 he loved it. 2087 01:21:41.439 --> 01:21:43.399 Gary loved Gary's great. I quote Gary the other day. 2088 01:21:43.920 --> 01:21:46.600 He's big golfer, Gary, big golfer. Now he's got grand kids. 2089 01:21:46.600 --> 01:21:47.000 He's great. 2090 01:21:47.760 --> 01:21:48.920 You wish he had his brown hair. 2091 01:21:48.800 --> 01:21:50.079 Back, but I can't help you. I mean, he lost 2092 01:21:50.079 --> 01:21:51.119 that a year after he met me. 2093 01:21:53.039 --> 01:21:53.479 It happened. 2094 01:21:54.640 --> 01:21:56.239 We got I got two more for you. We have 2095 01:21:56.319 --> 01:21:57.640 this one which we I think we touched on a 2096 01:21:57.640 --> 01:21:59.600 little bit, right. This is your your trading days. 2097 01:22:00.039 --> 01:22:02.600 We to we tought, we tought at Prob School. We 2098 01:22:02.600 --> 01:22:04.920 would go out and we go over the day's lessons 2099 01:22:04.960 --> 01:22:08.359 afterwards out by the water, and as you could see, 2100 01:22:08.399 --> 01:22:11.880 we were studying hard. It was probably twenty five degrees 2101 01:22:11.880 --> 01:22:12.319 in that picture. 2102 01:22:12.359 --> 01:22:15.600 It was ridiculous, Like we on the right. Huh, who's 2103 01:22:15.640 --> 01:22:16.279 that on the right. 2104 01:22:16.560 --> 01:22:17.760 That's Pete Culchan on the right. 2105 01:22:17.840 --> 01:22:19.439 Yeah, I came on with him, I knew, Yeah. 2106 01:22:19.279 --> 01:22:19.720 I grew up with. 2107 01:22:21.399 --> 01:22:23.560 They told Jimmy. And then right up here in the foreground, 2108 01:22:23.640 --> 01:22:25.479 right right, closest to the barrel on the left, the 2109 01:22:25.479 --> 01:22:26.039 shorter guy. 2110 01:22:26.279 --> 01:22:27.840 That's Wally Blum from what's seventy four? 2111 01:22:28.159 --> 01:22:28.640 Oh, I know. 2112 01:22:29.159 --> 01:22:31.600 He was the rock for a while, man. 2113 01:22:31.880 --> 01:22:32.079 Yeah. 2114 01:22:32.079 --> 01:22:34.079 If you see the rock now as opposed to Kevin 2115 01:22:34.079 --> 01:22:35.479 when we went through certain the other guys. 2116 01:22:35.840 --> 01:22:38.600 Uh, that's that's yeah, that's all Wally did that. 2117 01:22:38.600 --> 01:22:39.640 That's Wally and his boys. 2118 01:22:39.960 --> 01:22:41.399 I've been trying to get him on the show for 2119 01:22:41.399 --> 01:22:42.119 a while. Wally. 2120 01:22:43.520 --> 01:22:45.199 You can't get Willy on a phone, forget about it. 2121 01:22:45.199 --> 01:22:46.000 He's busy. 2122 01:22:46.479 --> 01:22:49.640 I see him occasionally here and there, but he's always busy, 2123 01:22:49.720 --> 01:22:52.880 and he always has the right ideas and the right thing. 2124 01:22:52.920 --> 01:22:53.399 It's always a. 2125 01:22:53.399 --> 01:22:54.159 Positive thing with him. 2126 01:22:54.479 --> 01:22:56.800 Yeah, and he's just he's a working man. He's never 2127 01:22:56.840 --> 01:22:57.319 gonna stop. 2128 01:22:58.319 --> 01:22:58.640 All right. 2129 01:22:58.760 --> 01:23:00.760 I think this might be the last one we have here, 2130 01:23:00.800 --> 01:23:02.640 the ski trip, the ski races. 2131 01:23:02.640 --> 01:23:04.960 That's me, Jimmy Lang and his cousin Kenny Dangerson, who's 2132 01:23:04.960 --> 01:23:06.680 actually achieving the two three right now in the middle. Guy. 2133 01:23:07.119 --> 01:23:08.079 Uh yeah, we were up there. 2134 01:23:08.119 --> 01:23:10.000 We weren't bad skiers, but like those races, like these 2135 01:23:10.000 --> 01:23:11.039 guys thought it was on a level. 2136 01:23:11.439 --> 01:23:13.079 So we just decided to go to the wine shack. 2137 01:23:12.920 --> 01:23:13.600 And do we do best. 2138 01:23:13.920 --> 01:23:18.000 Just drink you guys want to go first, Absolutely fuck 2139 01:23:18.000 --> 01:23:19.039 out of here down. 2140 01:23:19.199 --> 01:23:19.520 And that's it. 2141 01:23:20.640 --> 01:23:21.760 Uh nice. 2142 01:23:21.800 --> 01:23:23.439 I think I have this one too. This is your 2143 01:23:23.439 --> 01:23:25.800 two eighty three one. I don't think I showed this one. Yeah, 2144 01:23:25.840 --> 01:23:28.600 So that's that's definitely the last one, right, that's two 2145 01:23:28.640 --> 01:23:29.079 eighty three. 2146 01:23:29.600 --> 01:23:32.119 After nine eleven, unfortunately, obviously they had a lot of 2147 01:23:32.119 --> 01:23:34.640 funerals to deal with, and our old Captain Charlie Williams 2148 01:23:34.920 --> 01:23:37.159 was a chief in the Night Battalion, so we would 2149 01:23:37.199 --> 01:23:39.159 go up there and do the tours while they were 2150 01:23:39.199 --> 01:23:41.720 at the funerals during the day, and I think I 2151 01:23:41.720 --> 01:23:44.600 think I did eight tours up there, and uh, it 2152 01:23:44.680 --> 01:23:46.479 was a lot. I mean, obviously it's fresh, you know, 2153 01:23:46.479 --> 01:23:48.079 I mean, and people are stopping by every day, and 2154 01:23:48.079 --> 01:23:49.880 then they're looking for the guys that worked there, and 2155 01:23:49.880 --> 01:23:51.920 we're not the kites that work there. But it was 2156 01:23:51.960 --> 01:23:55.159 it was in the experience. I didn't like that a lot. 2157 01:23:55.479 --> 01:23:57.840 That's Wayne piet Yeah right. 2158 01:23:57.720 --> 01:24:00.760 There, right between myself and John Flay. Yeah, that's why 2159 01:24:01.039 --> 01:24:02.199 his son just got on a job. So I got 2160 01:24:02.239 --> 01:24:05.039 a son in two y three, actually, is that right? Yeah, 2161 01:24:05.279 --> 01:24:06.680 he put in the group chat. We were very happy 2162 01:24:06.680 --> 01:24:07.039 for him. 2163 01:24:07.239 --> 01:24:08.920 I said, oh, he needs to caught a cigarettes and 2164 01:24:09.039 --> 01:24:09.159 be like. 2165 01:24:09.159 --> 01:24:12.760 It's problem his name, Mike. What was your experience working 2166 01:24:12.800 --> 01:24:14.680 with Gleason at Club Nelson? 2167 01:24:16.000 --> 01:24:17.720 Maddy Gleeson in middle Eames O'Neal. 2168 01:24:17.760 --> 01:24:20.359 I like that, Uh, Matty was good. I had Maddie, 2169 01:24:20.680 --> 01:24:22.439 like you know, Maddie. Maddie is a little bit of 2170 01:24:22.520 --> 01:24:24.359 an eccentric guy, like you know, kind of a free 2171 01:24:24.359 --> 01:24:25.000 spirit dude. 2172 01:24:26.079 --> 01:24:27.840 But listen, you know I got a special plate like 2173 01:24:27.880 --> 01:24:29.479 he he would do silly things. 2174 01:24:29.279 --> 01:24:31.079 And guys who were you know, I have a special 2175 01:24:31.079 --> 01:24:33.680 place for silly things because you know, like I don't 2176 01:24:33.720 --> 01:24:35.079 like the kick guys in the down like you try 2177 01:24:35.119 --> 01:24:37.079 to try to Mike je to help you out, but 2178 01:24:37.319 --> 01:24:38.800 he was in the engine, so he really wasn't under 2179 01:24:38.800 --> 01:24:39.880 my speak. 2180 01:24:40.279 --> 01:24:41.479 Uh, the engine took care of him. 2181 01:24:41.560 --> 01:24:42.880 We we you know, I try to find him a 2182 01:24:42.880 --> 01:24:43.239 little bit. 2183 01:24:43.680 --> 01:24:44.000 Tell you this. 2184 01:24:44.159 --> 01:24:46.880 Like anything else, man, he's you know, never heard anybody, 2185 01:24:47.039 --> 01:24:49.880 you know what I mean, his own thing, Uh go 2186 01:24:49.920 --> 01:24:50.279 to a fire. 2187 01:24:50.319 --> 01:24:52.279 Matt knew his job. The only problem with Mattie was when. 2188 01:24:52.199 --> 01:24:54.199 He cooked and we fucking pot me kick. 2189 01:24:56.479 --> 01:24:57.960 That's the song of a good chef, though, isn't it 2190 01:24:57.960 --> 01:25:00.159 a good chef? Dirty? Is everything? Well? 2191 01:25:00.159 --> 01:25:01.560 He was okay, but like it was too. 2192 01:25:01.439 --> 01:25:05.880 Much, like like it's like the only elaborating like was 2193 01:25:05.920 --> 01:25:07.800 it saffronny bowl? And I'm like, what the fuck this bro? 2194 01:25:08.159 --> 01:25:08.600 I need this. 2195 01:25:11.119 --> 01:25:16.520 Dude seven dollars and for that that's a man. 2196 01:25:16.560 --> 01:25:18.520 I don't give an I'm not watching them. But it's 2197 01:25:18.560 --> 01:25:19.680 like it's enough already. 2198 01:25:19.760 --> 01:25:21.399 Oh guys, they're trying to eat eat, you know, prob, 2199 01:25:21.439 --> 01:25:23.239 we have to get up down because somebody fucking finished eating. 2200 01:25:23.279 --> 01:25:23.840 Give me a break. 2201 01:25:24.560 --> 01:25:26.560 No, he just all did you cook it all in 2202 01:25:26.560 --> 01:25:27.039 the fly house? 2203 01:25:27.520 --> 01:25:28.720 I did? I did? Yeah, I like cooking. 2204 01:25:28.880 --> 01:25:31.399 I actually did one of the things I missed the most. Yeah, 2205 01:25:31.439 --> 01:25:32.439 not ever, you know, every night. 2206 01:25:32.359 --> 01:25:33.680 But like if they were like stock, I'm like, I'll 2207 01:25:33.680 --> 01:25:35.039 make this, like you know you got your five or 2208 01:25:35.039 --> 01:25:35.720 six staples. 2209 01:25:35.960 --> 01:25:37.640 I was gonna say, what's in your wheel? What's your 2210 01:25:37.680 --> 01:25:39.279 best meal in your wheel? 2211 01:25:39.279 --> 01:25:39.399 There? 2212 01:25:39.439 --> 01:25:49.279 Bro, chicken Uh chicken palm no, and so on? 2213 01:25:49.199 --> 01:25:51.920 On your two boys, right, uh lasagna. I can make 2214 01:25:51.920 --> 01:25:53.479 a nice if I'm working up and down and making. 2215 01:25:53.359 --> 01:25:55.239 Ices on you. 2216 01:25:55.319 --> 01:25:57.840 Craig Sulbino and Bobby Joying. Oh, I was gonna make 2217 01:25:57.840 --> 01:26:00.800 it all three of them. Then it was better. Grandma's 2218 01:26:00.800 --> 01:26:02.600 like get crazy, but they go, I'll tell you what, Bro, 2219 01:26:02.640 --> 01:26:05.680 it's pretty good. But you can't make for an irishman. No, 2220 01:26:05.840 --> 01:26:07.880 my father's you're be gonna make it. So my father's 2221 01:26:08.319 --> 01:26:10.119 a good cooking the fire house. Then it made the 2222 01:26:10.159 --> 01:26:12.039 mistake when I retired because like I was working in 2223 01:26:12.159 --> 01:26:13.880 su So, I was working five days a week, working 2224 01:26:13.960 --> 01:26:15.760 till ne o'clock, so my wife was cooking every day. 2225 01:26:16.039 --> 01:26:18.000 I said, I'm miss cooking. Don't ever say that out 2226 01:26:18.039 --> 01:26:21.479 long for you. Oh yeah, I'm gont like chef Bay 2227 01:26:21.479 --> 01:26:28.159 all day, like shift. But I don't know. You want to stay? 2228 01:26:28.560 --> 01:26:33.720 Fuck you want I'm doing you if you can change 2229 01:26:33.720 --> 01:26:36.439 anything in your career, if you go back and change anything, 2230 01:26:36.479 --> 01:26:37.000 what would you do? 2231 01:26:38.359 --> 01:26:41.359 I could change anything. I might have studied, Like I 2232 01:26:41.399 --> 01:26:44.239 never really wanted to be a boss. Yeah, it's not 2233 01:26:44.279 --> 01:26:47.560 that I'm stupid, that's besides the point. It's just I studied. 2234 01:26:47.560 --> 01:26:48.920 I was studying for the test that was gonna be 2235 01:26:48.920 --> 01:26:50.520 in October of two thousand and one. 2236 01:26:50.800 --> 01:26:52.199 Like means you mean like you was studying all day. 2237 01:26:52.239 --> 01:26:54.119 The wives work, so we would study hard till like 2238 01:26:54.119 --> 01:26:56.359 two o'clock separately, but at two o'clock we go to 2239 01:26:56.359 --> 01:26:58.079 the bar with the girls, do at the train or 2240 01:26:58.119 --> 01:26:59.560 the bus or whatever. But you do know, play pok 2241 01:26:59.640 --> 01:27:02.479 or whatever. Fuck. But I think I legit would have 2242 01:27:02.479 --> 01:27:05.039 passed that test. But I tell the truth then I 2243 01:27:05.039 --> 01:27:07.920 said it out loud. Since then, I mean, everything happened 2244 01:27:07.920 --> 01:27:10.239 to me worked out for me, right. I mean, I 2245 01:27:10.239 --> 01:27:13.359 know guys on hereil with their crazy questions, but I'm 2246 01:27:13.399 --> 01:27:15.479 sure whoever's type of him knows me. You can ask 2247 01:27:15.520 --> 01:27:15.960 me in person. 2248 01:27:17.640 --> 01:27:18.800 I was gonna ask you the same thing with a 2249 01:27:18.800 --> 01:27:20.319 little bit different wakups. But if you can go back 2250 01:27:20.319 --> 01:27:21.880 tomorrow where you're going, because you you know, got a 2251 01:27:21.880 --> 01:27:24.680 pretty unique career and dabbled in a little bit of 2252 01:27:24.680 --> 01:27:26.199 a couple of different areas. If you're going back tomorrow, 2253 01:27:26.239 --> 01:27:27.479 where you're gonna go kind of a thing. 2254 01:27:28.119 --> 01:27:30.640 So if I had to go back tomorrow, Yeah, I 2255 01:27:30.760 --> 01:27:32.720 go back to SIU because I ended up working at 2256 01:27:32.720 --> 01:27:35.159 the end of SIU because, uh, two of the guys 2257 01:27:35.159 --> 01:27:38.319 there got sent to the headquarters and then one of 2258 01:27:38.319 --> 01:27:39.119 the other guys got promoted. 2259 01:27:39.159 --> 01:27:40.640 So it was me, just me and my part of Dave. 2260 01:27:41.239 --> 01:27:43.880 And uh when I first met Dave, when I first 2261 01:27:43.920 --> 01:27:45.720 got there, like he was he wasn't a fifty days yet, 2262 01:27:45.720 --> 01:27:48.000 but he was there. Uh days a hart Jargia. 2263 01:27:48.239 --> 01:27:49.920 You know, they is a lot younger than I am. 2264 01:27:50.359 --> 01:27:52.479 And uh, he was never a cop, but he could. 2265 01:27:52.600 --> 01:27:54.800 He's one of the best cops ever worked with. He 2266 01:27:54.960 --> 01:27:57.800 just has it and he doesn't stop. And you know 2267 01:27:58.159 --> 01:27:59.800 when you first get out of there, like, all right, bro, 2268 01:27:59.880 --> 01:28:01.560 how how far we going with this? He was able 2269 01:28:01.560 --> 01:28:03.439 to push me past points I would have put myself, 2270 01:28:03.760 --> 01:28:05.159 so I would go back tomorrow and be with him. 2271 01:28:05.199 --> 01:28:06.199 I saw him his morning for breakfast. 2272 01:28:06.199 --> 01:28:09.720 I went and breakfast nice. Uh. Yeah, I do miss 2273 01:28:09.960 --> 01:28:12.640 the chase. I do miss the the investigations. I miss 2274 01:28:12.640 --> 01:28:14.319 working with the guys, you know, the different stuff that 2275 01:28:14.359 --> 01:28:17.039 happens every day. But after thirty five years, like I 2276 01:28:17.079 --> 01:28:19.119 just had enough. I just you know, it's time. 2277 01:28:20.000 --> 01:28:22.039 Yeah, man, there's nothing enough, buddy. 2278 01:28:22.279 --> 01:28:24.960 I was actually gonna ask you that, you go, bro, 2279 01:28:25.520 --> 01:28:28.119 do you keep in touch with with anybody like I do? 2280 01:28:28.239 --> 01:28:30.000 I keep touch with as many people as I can. 2281 01:28:30.800 --> 01:28:34.199 You know, there's just group b's and stuff. Yeah, I don't. Unfortunately, 2282 01:28:34.199 --> 01:28:37.079 we had Snyder's funeral. That's an unfortunate way to get together. 2283 01:28:37.119 --> 01:28:39.279 But I did see everybody, and I was happy to 2284 01:28:39.319 --> 01:28:41.600 see everybody, you know. I mean, you know, I could 2285 01:28:41.600 --> 01:28:43.199 say at this moment, like you know, Joe Schmid's a 2286 01:28:43.239 --> 01:28:44.600 jerk off, but the reality is like he was a 2287 01:28:44.640 --> 01:28:46.920 jerko for a minute. He probably I'm a jerk off. Reality. 2288 01:28:47.520 --> 01:28:49.399 I didn't really work with many bad guys over my 2289 01:28:49.399 --> 01:28:52.039 thirty five years. You know, I had people maybe differences 2290 01:28:52.079 --> 01:28:54.479 of opinion about things, but like nobody who I said, 2291 01:28:54.479 --> 01:28:55.880 like his guys are totals combag. 2292 01:28:55.880 --> 01:28:58.399 I'm not dealing with him. You know, everybody, we're all fine, man. 2293 01:28:58.399 --> 01:29:00.600 Then we all talked shit like say is say that 2294 01:29:00.640 --> 01:29:03.199 I find that that's what that's what you do right, 2295 01:29:03.680 --> 01:29:05.840 and it's it's never you know, and it never bothers me. 2296 01:29:05.840 --> 01:29:08.560 It's never personal. If you don't like me, great, no problem. 2297 01:29:08.680 --> 01:29:13.760 Don't buy me a beer. I won't find you a behind. 2298 01:29:11.920 --> 01:29:13.039 Me when I go down the basement. 2299 01:29:13.239 --> 01:29:14.279 Yeah. 2300 01:29:14.600 --> 01:29:16.079 Just make sure you're behind me when I go down 2301 01:29:16.119 --> 01:29:16.600 the basement. 2302 01:29:16.960 --> 01:29:19.439 Yeah yeah, yeah, how you feel about me, just make 2303 01:29:19.439 --> 01:29:20.760 sure I'm behind you. 2304 01:29:20.760 --> 01:29:21.880 You find me all right, We'll take care. 2305 01:29:22.439 --> 01:29:24.680 But what are you doing with yourself now? Mike? Were retired? 2306 01:29:24.760 --> 01:29:27.439 I mean you just retired recently, right, Yes, we went on. 2307 01:29:27.399 --> 01:29:29.520 You know, we're by sun, graduated college, went on a cruise. 2308 01:29:29.560 --> 01:29:32.520 We nineteen people. We had a great time, just kind 2309 01:29:32.520 --> 01:29:34.279 of hanging around the house. You know. Like my wife 2310 01:29:34.359 --> 01:29:36.319 wost our job nineen years ago. She's been home take 2311 01:29:36.319 --> 01:29:38.319 care of the kids. Now we're in the pool every day. 2312 01:29:38.920 --> 01:29:41.159 You know, just just just I said, just take it 2313 01:29:41.279 --> 01:29:42.479 to you with the summer, give me a couple of 2314 01:29:42.479 --> 01:29:43.600 months and then you. 2315 01:29:43.520 --> 01:29:44.800 Know, there's a couple of things we got to do, 2316 01:29:45.079 --> 01:29:46.359 you know, and we'll do it right. 2317 01:29:47.079 --> 01:29:49.039 My daughter'srom Jacksonville, so I'm gonna go down there for 2318 01:29:49.039 --> 01:29:52.039 the JAT game in December. Uh, she's not too far 2319 01:29:52.079 --> 01:29:53.159 for my father. So it'll be like I get a 2320 01:29:53.199 --> 01:29:53.920 two for one out of that. 2321 01:29:54.880 --> 01:29:55.079 Yeah. 2322 01:29:55.319 --> 01:29:57.520 Nice. Yeah, just little things here and there. You know. 2323 01:29:57.800 --> 01:29:59.479 Of course we're plan a big trip somewhere. I think 2324 01:29:59.520 --> 01:30:00.560 you want to go to see next week? 2325 01:30:00.600 --> 01:30:01.479 Is my birthday? Next week? 2326 01:30:01.960 --> 01:30:03.520 Just for the night sext to gamble. I don't so 2327 01:30:03.520 --> 01:30:04.800 show gamble. I'll drink the free drinks. 2328 01:30:04.800 --> 01:30:05.319 Will be all sad. 2329 01:30:05.800 --> 01:30:07.199 How how old are the combination? 2330 01:30:07.680 --> 01:30:08.359 How old am I? 2331 01:30:08.359 --> 01:30:09.199 I'll be fifty six. 2332 01:30:10.399 --> 01:30:10.960 That's all right. 2333 01:30:13.000 --> 01:30:26.279 Again, I got twenty So yeah. 2334 01:30:23.600 --> 01:30:26.039 It's coming. Bullet, we're loop just passed. Somebody's present me. 2335 01:30:26.079 --> 01:30:27.600 Ask the questions. Do you have the dream that all 2336 01:30:27.840 --> 01:30:29.640 mustra time guys have that they get a run and 2337 01:30:29.640 --> 01:30:30.600 they can't find their year. 2338 01:30:31.399 --> 01:30:33.239 No, because I wasn't in the fire house when I retired. 2339 01:30:33.279 --> 01:30:34.720 I right right, right right. 2340 01:30:35.399 --> 01:30:37.720 He's looking for the gun. It's like, where's my cut? 2341 01:30:38.760 --> 01:30:40.079 I'm on a video camus and me and d You 2342 01:30:40.079 --> 01:30:41.720 can't find a Dunkin Donuts fast enough. 2343 01:30:45.520 --> 01:30:47.720 Cream chocolate latte. 2344 01:30:49.680 --> 01:30:51.840 Dave runs on Duncan man. He knows that he can 2345 01:30:51.840 --> 01:30:53.199 find a Duncan in the middle of the desert if 2346 01:30:53.199 --> 01:30:53.520 you have to. 2347 01:30:53.760 --> 01:30:54.600 He's unbelievable. 2348 01:30:55.119 --> 01:30:56.800 Yeah, that's the dream I have. Like we were a 2349 01:30:56.800 --> 01:30:58.279 lot of vide guns like Duncan. 2350 01:31:01.920 --> 01:31:03.279 And you know he does not You do not want day. 2351 01:31:03.439 --> 01:31:04.960 You don't want anybody that you're looking for, you man, 2352 01:31:05.000 --> 01:31:07.800 the guys who were there before, you know, just you 2353 01:31:07.800 --> 01:31:08.640 don't want that happening. 2354 01:31:10.199 --> 01:31:12.119 But the Marshals is a good thing. I know there's 2355 01:31:12.119 --> 01:31:12.920 a bunch of guys. 2356 01:31:12.720 --> 01:31:16.039 Going in soon. You know they're they're asking questions and 2357 01:31:16.079 --> 01:31:18.000 stuff and people you know, you said, we don't know 2358 01:31:18.119 --> 01:31:21.880 marshals on this. You have to have the mindset of like, 2359 01:31:22.000 --> 01:31:23.560 first of all, you're to be in school for six months, right. 2360 01:31:23.680 --> 01:31:25.359 Once you get past that, it's fine. You learn a 2361 01:31:25.399 --> 01:31:28.199 lot of stuff. It's totally different than what you do now. 2362 01:31:28.239 --> 01:31:29.640 Like you're in the fire house a couple of days, 2363 01:31:29.640 --> 01:31:31.079 but the guys are working a lot now because it 2364 01:31:31.119 --> 01:31:34.439 over time. But it's like totally different, like fireman, Fireman, 2365 01:31:34.479 --> 01:31:35.560 don't carry pens. 2366 01:31:36.159 --> 01:31:38.439 Ryman don't really like five walks in the office and 2367 01:31:38.479 --> 01:31:38.840 goes to the. 2368 01:31:38.760 --> 01:31:40.279 Ball because you know, bro, I can't did that roster 2369 01:31:40.399 --> 01:31:43.159 on Wednesday and walked out like and the bossill figure 2370 01:31:43.159 --> 01:31:45.479 it out with a pen or whatever. Like that's over. 2371 01:31:45.800 --> 01:31:48.199 Like you you're on the computer. You have to make 2372 01:31:48.279 --> 01:31:50.399 up reports, you have to talk to people. See fireman, 2373 01:31:50.439 --> 01:31:52.680 don't talk to people. You show up, the house is 2374 01:31:52.720 --> 01:31:55.760 on fire, everybody's out. You wreck it and you leave, 2375 01:31:56.319 --> 01:32:00.119 and now we come and now the pictures is that 2376 01:32:00.239 --> 01:32:02.960 is in the terrible. You feel horrible to these people. 2377 01:32:03.239 --> 01:32:06.159 This is when no one dies with dies horrible. 2378 01:32:06.720 --> 01:32:07.840 But that's naturally. 2379 01:32:07.840 --> 01:32:10.399 You have to walk upright and talk like a human being, 2380 01:32:10.560 --> 01:32:12.520 and you like a crow magnum man. 2381 01:32:13.039 --> 01:32:14.279 I feel the peple again. 2382 01:32:14.279 --> 01:32:17.520 I'm just dealing with the innocuous regular. It's an accident fire, 2383 01:32:17.560 --> 01:32:21.239 you know, yeah, it's you know, you have to put that, 2384 01:32:21.399 --> 01:32:23.000 you know, listen, at the top of the list is 2385 01:32:23.000 --> 01:32:24.319 the top of list. That these guys want to be 2386 01:32:24.359 --> 01:32:25.640 on the top of the list. They want to go 2387 01:32:25.680 --> 01:32:27.720 do it and they'll be good at it. The people 2388 01:32:27.720 --> 01:32:30.479 who teach there are good. You do get a lot 2389 01:32:30.520 --> 01:32:32.319 of information in the outside. She's a fantastic You do 2390 01:32:32.359 --> 01:32:34.600 go on some field trips. Those are nice, and uh 2391 01:32:34.680 --> 01:32:37.319 you know, it's it's just a lot to absorb, especially 2392 01:32:37.319 --> 01:32:40.600 if you really like to fire. So you're like, oh man, 2393 01:32:40.600 --> 01:32:42.760 I'm going back, but uh no, it's good. 2394 01:32:42.880 --> 01:32:45.039 And you do interview the chiefs. The chiefs, both chiefs. 2395 01:32:44.840 --> 01:32:46.680 Will interview you before you go and they'll tell you 2396 01:32:46.720 --> 01:32:48.039 no one likes you. This, this is where you're in 2397 01:32:48.079 --> 01:32:50.760 b bro. You know, just let me know now. But everybody, 2398 01:32:51.000 --> 01:32:52.479 I want the gun. 2399 01:32:52.119 --> 01:32:55.800 Then I got a gun. Great, it'll good for you. 2400 01:32:56.359 --> 01:32:58.479 Was there any guys like you know in the fire 2401 01:32:58.520 --> 01:33:00.800 department they have a legendary I was like, this guy 2402 01:33:00.920 --> 01:33:03.800 was a legendary firefighter. They had that in the marshals, 2403 01:33:03.800 --> 01:33:05.119 like legendary marshals. 2404 01:33:05.720 --> 01:33:08.840 So I don't know too many, like older retired marshals, but. 2405 01:33:08.840 --> 01:33:11.520 I can tell you this. You know this. You know, 2406 01:33:11.840 --> 01:33:13.840 I don't know one hundred and ten marshals or whatever. 2407 01:33:14.840 --> 01:33:18.039 There are some very good marshals and they're very good guys, 2408 01:33:18.039 --> 01:33:20.840 and they're very low key, like no one really you know. 2409 01:33:21.640 --> 01:33:23.640 They just do their job and they do it well. 2410 01:33:23.880 --> 01:33:26.159 But as far as like old timers and stuff like that, 2411 01:33:26.560 --> 01:33:28.119 you know, I've heard names, but I don't know them, 2412 01:33:28.199 --> 01:33:31.000 Like I don't know they were like Tom Kaine was 2413 01:33:31.000 --> 01:33:33.159 the chief fire Marshal, like I said, fire minute seventy seven. 2414 01:33:33.560 --> 01:33:36.199 He was, by all accounts an excellent marshal, and of 2415 01:33:36.199 --> 01:33:38.279 course went to the chief Fire marshals, so they like that. 2416 01:33:38.319 --> 01:33:40.199 Well, but the cops used to do before we got 2417 01:33:40.199 --> 01:33:42.600 the marshals, right, they used to handle fire investigation. 2418 01:33:43.239 --> 01:33:45.600 No, the cops, the fire marshals have handled fire investigations 2419 01:33:45.680 --> 01:33:47.960 since the seventies and they became police officers a whole 2420 01:33:47.960 --> 01:33:49.960 big thing, like they explained to you. But I'm not 2421 01:33:49.960 --> 01:33:51.359 gonna lie of you. That probably to sleep that day. 2422 01:33:52.239 --> 01:33:53.560 That was like the history of the Marshalls thing. 2423 01:33:53.960 --> 01:33:56.279 But I remember being a cop and Marshalls committed the 2424 01:33:56.279 --> 01:33:58.800 the precast when I can arrest and because my dad 2425 01:33:58.840 --> 01:34:00.560 was a fireman, like you could s the because that 2426 01:34:00.680 --> 01:34:04.079 wear suits and this is the you know, early nineties, right, 2427 01:34:04.800 --> 01:34:07.600 an Irish fireman suit in the early nineties. Bro, come on, man, 2428 01:34:07.760 --> 01:34:09.840 you're like one step of the Bubba Lucky Trumps guy 2429 01:34:10.199 --> 01:34:15.800 like old you know Corduroys, the boat, you know, the 2430 01:34:15.880 --> 01:34:19.479 guns hanging out the front. I was literally if I 2431 01:34:19.479 --> 01:34:21.399 sort of would be like, you've got fire marshals, I 2432 01:34:21.399 --> 01:34:23.279 come back and bring him, take care of them, and 2433 01:34:23.319 --> 01:34:23.960 I would do everything. 2434 01:34:24.079 --> 01:34:25.760 Five marstles he. 2435 01:34:29.000 --> 01:34:29.159 Bent. 2436 01:34:29.239 --> 01:34:31.840 It was a fire marshal at some point he was 2437 01:34:31.880 --> 01:34:33.359 a red cap, like he explained the whole thing one 2438 01:34:33.399 --> 01:34:33.680 day to ma. 2439 01:34:33.720 --> 01:34:34.399 I'm like, that's nice. 2440 01:34:34.960 --> 01:34:35.560 The red cap. 2441 01:34:36.119 --> 01:34:39.000 Yeah, I mean he was proud of it. I'm proud 2442 01:34:39.039 --> 01:34:41.319 of it. I'm proud of almost everything I did that 2443 01:34:41.640 --> 01:34:44.359 we talked about some stuff we didn't bring out up. 2444 01:34:45.319 --> 01:34:48.319 The best part of the whole boat jobs and and 2445 01:34:48.399 --> 01:34:50.600 what we do is the amount of people you get 2446 01:34:50.600 --> 01:34:54.359 to meet, the great people and interacting with people you know. 2447 01:34:54.359 --> 01:34:56.119 You don't you don't you remember all the good guys. 2448 01:34:56.159 --> 01:34:58.439 You don't remember the idiots because there's so few between, 2449 01:34:59.079 --> 01:35:02.239 you know, and not everybody's gonna like you or the 2450 01:35:02.239 --> 01:35:04.560 way you are, but they'll respect what you did or 2451 01:35:04.560 --> 01:35:06.399 how you did it. And if I asked, you know, 2452 01:35:06.399 --> 01:35:08.960 as a union guy or whatever. 2453 01:35:09.000 --> 01:35:11.439 I mean, I enjoyed helping people. I just wish I 2454 01:35:11.439 --> 01:35:13.560 didn't have to, you know, And. 2455 01:35:13.800 --> 01:35:15.640 Well they only call the union when they need help, right, 2456 01:35:15.720 --> 01:35:17.920 So I mean you're the guy. 2457 01:35:18.399 --> 01:35:21.359 Yeah, people would call like just because they figured, Like, 2458 01:35:21.520 --> 01:35:23.800 I don't really want to ask this question. No, I 2459 01:35:23.840 --> 01:35:25.640 mean I will not tell anybody any any of your 2460 01:35:25.640 --> 01:35:29.039 problems or anything, right right, Whatever you tell me is 2461 01:35:29.399 --> 01:35:31.399 me and you. But when I get a cold free 2462 01:35:31.399 --> 01:35:32.880 in the morning, and the quest first question is can 2463 01:35:32.920 --> 01:35:37.520 I work with stitches? I'm like fun, like get out 2464 01:35:37.520 --> 01:35:41.199 of there. You know, that's the simple response. And then 2465 01:35:41.199 --> 01:35:44.159 the wife goes, who is that? Don't even worry about it? 2466 01:35:44.640 --> 01:35:44.880 You know. 2467 01:35:46.479 --> 01:35:50.359 I used to get those who is this? Crank call? 2468 01:35:50.640 --> 01:35:51.159 Crank call? 2469 01:35:51.800 --> 01:35:54.319 Hang up? I tell him I got that one one 2470 01:35:54.359 --> 01:35:56.920 time when I was uh uh in the Union. The 2471 01:35:56.920 --> 01:35:59.600 guy calls me up at like eleven o'clock and I 2472 01:35:59.680 --> 01:36:02.760 can we got a real issue, real problem. I went 2473 01:36:02.800 --> 01:36:04.560 down to a quarter mess today. They only gave me 2474 01:36:04.640 --> 01:36:08.199 one pair of shorts. Prom Yeah, yeah, that's your problem. 2475 01:36:08.479 --> 01:36:09.920 He called me eleven o'clock at night. 2476 01:36:10.800 --> 01:36:12.600 That's my favorite. My other favorite, Ole barn on the 2477 01:36:12.600 --> 01:36:16.800 phone like somebody calls like well like hyperventilating, like, yo, yeah, 2478 01:36:16.800 --> 01:36:17.479 we got a problem. 2479 01:36:17.560 --> 01:36:19.199 I said, first of all, we don't have a problem. 2480 01:36:19.239 --> 01:36:22.119 You have a problem, Well tell me what happened and 2481 01:36:22.119 --> 01:36:24.439 out the side of its problem. Because Tommy McGough is 2482 01:36:24.439 --> 01:36:26.239 the Retirreal Time two seventeen. He's in one of those 2483 01:36:26.239 --> 01:36:29.359 pictures in the Rock. Tommy Goff's famous line is, uh, 2484 01:36:29.399 --> 01:36:31.319 you'll never know how to get in trouble get out 2485 01:36:31.319 --> 01:36:33.399 of trouble if you've never been in trouble. So you 2486 01:36:33.479 --> 01:36:35.119 have to know how to you know, there's certain things 2487 01:36:35.159 --> 01:36:36.880 you can deal with and certain things. All right, we 2488 01:36:36.880 --> 01:36:41.600 have to do this this program for everything, like if 2489 01:36:41.600 --> 01:36:43.000 you're going to become a Marshall. And you asked when 2490 01:36:43.000 --> 01:36:45.000 the group me like, how long is weed steing your system? 2491 01:36:45.039 --> 01:36:47.640 I'm like, bro, I don't know. 2492 01:36:47.880 --> 01:36:50.319 I don't know about weed. They never told us we 2493 01:36:50.359 --> 01:36:51.680 could or couldn't do it. I don't know. 2494 01:36:51.880 --> 01:36:52.439 He got weed. 2495 01:36:52.439 --> 01:36:55.960 He got weed. Yeah, we wet every day. Good for you, buddy, 2496 01:36:56.159 --> 01:36:58.960 we every day? O great? 2497 01:37:00.079 --> 01:37:00.279 Yeah. 2498 01:37:00.279 --> 01:37:04.279 So yeah, it's it's interesting you guys didn't touch on 2499 01:37:04.319 --> 01:37:05.840 the nine to eleven. I can't believe it. 2500 01:37:05.840 --> 01:37:06.359 It's coming up. 2501 01:37:06.399 --> 01:37:08.520 You guys didn't bring it up. That's shocking. 2502 01:37:08.640 --> 01:37:11.439 Swinging away, bro, No, what do you guys do? 2503 01:37:11.439 --> 01:37:13.760 You don't? All right? All right? So so nine to 2504 01:37:13.760 --> 01:37:16.960 eleven morning, right, Yeah, I up a championship get before 2505 01:37:17.000 --> 01:37:19.039 he got ringined out. So nine to eleven morning. I 2506 01:37:19.079 --> 01:37:22.479 have two concerns. I got instore security cameras, which I 2507 01:37:22.520 --> 01:37:24.640 hated doing, but it was all right. And I gotta 2508 01:37:24.640 --> 01:37:26.520 get off TUESDA night because I gotta play this game again. 2509 01:37:26.880 --> 01:37:29.760 This is the concern. So I get on the Arizona 2510 01:37:29.800 --> 01:37:31.199 Bridge and as soon as I get on the bridge, 2511 01:37:31.199 --> 01:37:32.319 like where you can't see the city. 2512 01:37:32.399 --> 01:37:34.000 They cut the radio off and tell us what happened. 2513 01:37:34.840 --> 01:37:36.600 I see down its smoke. I'm like, this is dead. 2514 01:37:36.640 --> 01:37:37.960 So the guys thought I was going to work with 2515 01:37:37.960 --> 01:37:38.520 the day Ridge. 2516 01:37:38.520 --> 01:37:40.319 So we just thought, you know, we didn't. Now I 2517 01:37:40.319 --> 01:37:42.000 had to watch the TV. We see it like flog 2518 01:37:42.920 --> 01:37:46.520 go to the firehouse. I never should hangover so fast 2519 01:37:46.560 --> 01:37:48.880 as that day, right, So I called the guy Jimmy 2520 01:37:48.960 --> 01:37:50.720 Lane White works in the building like, oh my god, 2521 01:37:50.920 --> 01:37:51.640 she was fine. 2522 01:37:52.239 --> 01:37:54.359 Get to the city. Do we gotta do with it 2523 01:37:54.439 --> 01:37:55.079 for eleven hours? 2524 01:37:55.159 --> 01:37:55.439 Whatever? 2525 01:37:56.279 --> 01:37:58.079 So now everybody's settling down. 2526 01:37:58.159 --> 01:38:00.600 Now we know where we're at. I get a phone 2527 01:38:00.600 --> 01:38:02.800 call in my apartment from John Flynn, the big head 2528 01:38:02.800 --> 01:38:06.359 of guy. He goes, listen, one of our guys passed 2529 01:38:06.359 --> 01:38:08.319 away on the rotation and he's in thirty five truck. 2530 01:38:08.600 --> 01:38:10.800 But they were still like twelve or thirteen from that house. 2531 01:38:11.119 --> 01:38:12.840 They wanted us to take care of him. He goes, 2532 01:38:13.159 --> 01:38:15.279 you're gonna be the family the ease on. I go, okay, 2533 01:38:15.960 --> 01:38:17.479 So he's going through this whole big rigam roll. I 2534 01:38:17.479 --> 01:38:20.199 guess something came down the fire house whatever. All right, 2535 01:38:20.319 --> 01:38:24.119 no problem, no problem, Okay, listen before you go, I says, 2536 01:38:24.439 --> 01:38:27.680 I have a question. I says, I've live in Staten Island. 2537 01:38:27.760 --> 01:38:29.800 Benning lives in the middle village. Oh you Goodland guys. 2538 01:38:29.800 --> 01:38:30.560 None of us could do this. 2539 01:38:31.119 --> 01:38:33.319 He goes, you're next cop. You'll figure it out. 2540 01:38:33.720 --> 01:38:36.119 He hung up on me on Oh now the cop 2541 01:38:36.159 --> 01:38:38.159 he's back and play. 2542 01:38:38.199 --> 01:38:38.920 This is bullshit. 2543 01:38:39.319 --> 01:38:41.439 So I ended up being the leis on for Vinnie 2544 01:38:41.439 --> 01:38:44.359 Merlo's family. His father, John's retired chief of the ninth Battalion. 2545 01:38:45.039 --> 01:38:50.760 He's since passed again. Great family, Debbie's down in South Carolina. 2546 01:38:51.199 --> 01:38:53.000 I still take Kavid touch on. I usually speak to 2547 01:38:53.000 --> 01:38:55.479 her sometime around this time. A year i've been. 2548 01:38:55.560 --> 01:38:57.000 I went to the twentieth anniversary. 2549 01:38:57.039 --> 01:38:58.920 She invited my wife and I out at Manhattan Sty with 2550 01:38:59.039 --> 01:39:01.439 all of any friends, and I thought that was a 2551 01:39:01.520 --> 01:39:04.640 very rewarding job. I know, you guys find knew lesons 2552 01:39:04.680 --> 01:39:07.319 that you know that they were doing it. It was new. 2553 01:39:07.520 --> 01:39:10.920 We all got thrown into it, and he was right. 2554 01:39:10.960 --> 01:39:13.239 The X cop thing helped because I'm pretty organized and 2555 01:39:13.279 --> 01:39:15.000 I was able to take care of a lot of things. 2556 01:39:15.239 --> 01:39:17.319 I remember going to the church that by his house 2557 01:39:17.359 --> 01:39:18.960 and I had I had been theready. I chartted the 2558 01:39:19.000 --> 01:39:20.720 whole thing out, like these people are gonna sit here, 2559 01:39:20.760 --> 01:39:22.840 you know roughly. So at the time there was no 2560 01:39:22.920 --> 01:39:26.399 ceremonial unit as there is now. But these guys show up. 2561 01:39:26.560 --> 01:39:28.439 They called me, they only like two hours at the time. 2562 01:39:28.439 --> 01:39:29.760 I'm like two hours. 2563 01:39:29.760 --> 01:39:31.159 I said, I'll give you like a half hour. 2564 01:39:31.199 --> 01:39:33.600 Bro. They show up. I have all these charts and 2565 01:39:33.640 --> 01:39:36.600 I hand them to them and they're like, you want 2566 01:39:36.600 --> 01:39:38.960 a job. I'm like, I'm never doing another funeral again. 2567 01:39:39.239 --> 01:39:41.199 I said, this is it. You know, this guy's friend 2568 01:39:41.239 --> 01:39:42.960 of mine. Now I know, like I'm done, Like here 2569 01:39:43.000 --> 01:39:45.840 we go. I ended up being ceremonial for fourteen years. 2570 01:39:47.079 --> 01:39:49.760 We're working with Joe and yeah, I actually I didn't 2571 01:39:49.760 --> 01:39:51.960 go in by the way, Craigsilbino got me into it, 2572 01:39:52.199 --> 01:39:54.640 and I loved it. Another great experience that you want 2573 01:39:54.680 --> 01:39:56.800 to meet people. And of course you know yo, well 2574 01:39:56.880 --> 01:39:58.640 yeah you guys. You guys get paid for everything. Yeah, 2575 01:39:58.640 --> 01:40:02.760 okay whatever. H very rewarding because you make people's horrible 2576 01:40:02.840 --> 01:40:06.520 days as possible as as possible, and uh, that's one 2577 01:40:06.560 --> 01:40:08.600 fortunate thing I've had on both sides for the most part, 2578 01:40:09.119 --> 01:40:12.039 almost almost exclusively. I have really never worked for a 2579 01:40:12.079 --> 01:40:14.560 completely bad boss. Other than those rookie experiences as a cop, 2580 01:40:15.880 --> 01:40:19.359 great bosses everywhere I went, I mean, just nice guys, 2581 01:40:19.640 --> 01:40:21.680 very and even if they were like this guy a 2582 01:40:21.800 --> 01:40:23.640 jerk off. Yeah, okay, we just figure. 2583 01:40:23.399 --> 01:40:24.520 Out the quirks. He's not a jerk. 2584 01:40:24.960 --> 01:40:26.640 You just don't know the quirks like you can't deal 2585 01:40:26.680 --> 01:40:28.159 with it. I like the quirk you guys. 2586 01:40:28.159 --> 01:40:32.560 I like, Karen, does you work with McVeigh Mike, yes, Mike. 2587 01:40:37.159 --> 01:40:39.560 Squared away? Who Elvis? 2588 01:40:40.479 --> 01:40:41.079 Elvis? Yeah? 2589 01:40:41.119 --> 01:40:42.439 Oh my god, no. 2590 01:40:42.359 --> 01:40:46.800 Mike's grade and so right, Bobby, Bob, Bob sorry son Steve. 2591 01:40:46.880 --> 01:40:47.960 Yeah, Bob's good. 2592 01:40:48.079 --> 01:40:48.960 Bob's always happy. 2593 01:40:49.399 --> 01:40:52.399 You know, he's great. I worked with him seventeen and was. 2594 01:40:52.359 --> 01:40:54.760 The guy that was in uh. He taught us in 2595 01:40:54.800 --> 01:40:56.880 Probary School and then he went to the ceremony and 2596 01:40:57.560 --> 01:40:59.319 uh Shirret. 2597 01:40:59.000 --> 01:41:02.479 Cat Chirk cat with oh Jimmy sorry, yes, the bell ring, yeah, 2598 01:41:02.520 --> 01:41:03.079 bell ring? 2599 01:41:03.439 --> 01:41:06.520 But what was this thing down in uh in Proby School? 2600 01:41:06.560 --> 01:41:08.760 What do he's do like right or something like that? 2601 01:41:08.840 --> 01:41:10.520 Like he would yell something out right. 2602 01:41:10.920 --> 01:41:13.399 Yeah, yeah he did that. That was their attempt at 2603 01:41:13.399 --> 01:41:15.039 making us, like, you know, with the drill instruct thing. 2604 01:41:15.039 --> 01:41:17.920 I mean come on, yeah, yeah, that was that was different. 2605 01:41:17.920 --> 01:41:20.439 Now Jimmy Jimmy tote extracation in pro school, right. 2606 01:41:21.000 --> 01:41:22.600 I got to know him through ceremony pretty like he's 2607 01:41:22.640 --> 01:41:26.880 he's genuinely sweetheart of a guy. He can ring about 2608 01:41:26.960 --> 01:41:28.479 know that about it. 2609 01:41:28.600 --> 01:41:31.920 He still is he still around? Oh yeah he retired? 2610 01:41:32.560 --> 01:41:32.720 Is he? 2611 01:41:33.319 --> 01:41:33.560 Yeah? 2612 01:41:33.600 --> 01:41:34.079 He? Uh? 2613 01:41:34.880 --> 01:41:37.760 Joel ap points season occasionally. You know, I've seen him 2614 01:41:37.760 --> 01:41:38.840 in a couple of things. I've seen him at the 2615 01:41:38.840 --> 01:41:41.159 Silla picnicing on the twelveth of the thirteenth October. Whenever 2616 01:41:41.239 --> 01:41:41.560 it is. 2617 01:41:42.359 --> 01:41:43.920 Yeah, he's always around, He's he's. 2618 01:41:44.199 --> 01:41:46.279 He was in a proby class, right, Steven. 2619 01:41:45.960 --> 01:41:49.600 Silla, Yeah, yep he was. 2620 01:41:49.720 --> 01:41:51.199 Uh. I forgot what squatt he was in, but he 2621 01:41:51.239 --> 01:41:55.239 was in our group because yeah, no. 2622 01:41:54.319 --> 01:41:56.640 No, Frank Silla. Is that his brother or his father? 2623 01:41:56.960 --> 01:41:57.520 That's his brother? 2624 01:41:58.079 --> 01:41:59.960 He was what I said, somebody's telling me it's his fall. 2625 01:42:01.600 --> 01:42:04.000 There was a lot of Sillers, there was Hyeah, Frank's 2626 01:42:04.000 --> 01:42:08.039 the most prominentvious with the foundation, right. Uh they I 2627 01:42:08.039 --> 01:42:11.439 forgot the other brothers, oh Russ Russell those they owned 2628 01:42:11.800 --> 01:42:13.720 a sporting goods store ons that now in Victory Sports. 2629 01:42:13.880 --> 01:42:16.399 A couple of brothers Frank owned something else at the time. Steve, 2630 01:42:16.560 --> 01:42:18.560 Steve was always doing something. Man, Steve never stopped like 2631 01:42:18.600 --> 01:42:20.319 he's always on the move, you know what I mean, 2632 01:42:20.680 --> 01:42:25.159 always the chopping on his signe's mouth. Hey, Johnny, that's 2633 01:42:25.159 --> 01:42:29.079 what he would always say. It was drug hey you know. 2634 01:42:29.359 --> 01:42:31.359 So yeah, he picked that up pretty quick. I kind 2635 01:42:31.399 --> 01:42:35.600 of got annoying. But no, again, another fantastic guy. 2636 01:42:37.039 --> 01:42:38.319 You know. We didn't even do our World of the 2637 01:42:38.399 --> 01:42:42.439 Day that the little I don't know what is it 2638 01:42:42.520 --> 01:42:45.800 gonza Uh. Neil gave it to us. 2639 01:42:46.399 --> 01:42:46.600 Yeah. 2640 01:42:48.279 --> 01:42:50.359 Yeah, I didn't hear it work, so I was waiting 2641 01:42:50.399 --> 01:42:50.600 for it. 2642 01:42:51.079 --> 01:42:51.680 That's him. 2643 01:42:52.199 --> 01:42:54.399 He said it was you. 2644 01:42:53.640 --> 01:42:56.840 No slipping there a couple of times. But then I 2645 01:42:56.880 --> 01:42:57.600 picked up on him, like. 2646 01:42:58.159 --> 01:42:58.760 I haven't done that. 2647 01:42:59.560 --> 01:43:03.039 Yeah, huh yeah that was something we had. 2648 01:43:02.880 --> 01:43:04.479 Watched and I broke you both all the time because 2649 01:43:04.479 --> 01:43:05.079 he had the accident. 2650 01:43:05.319 --> 01:43:11.840 Yeah yeah he did that. Sure, sure, sure, that's a 2651 01:43:11.960 --> 01:43:14.279 character we just had him on. Uh. 2652 01:43:19.279 --> 01:43:22.600 I remember meeting years ago with Neil. How did THEE 2653 01:43:22.800 --> 01:43:24.560 one go? I didn't see it, but you gotta watch. 2654 01:43:24.600 --> 01:43:27.680 It's good. Good feedback, okay, good check it out. 2655 01:43:27.680 --> 01:43:29.199 Now you're now you're a subscriber. Look at you. 2656 01:43:29.760 --> 01:43:33.199 You know you're fired up, and now you get the governor. 2657 01:43:33.319 --> 01:43:34.680 When you're in you can watch it. When you're in 2658 01:43:34.680 --> 01:43:36.319 the hot top with the old lady. You know I 2659 01:43:36.399 --> 01:43:44.720 wasn't get him. 2660 01:43:45.600 --> 01:43:51.119 We need we need a chef for we need a 2661 01:43:51.199 --> 01:43:51.960 chef for the boat trip. 2662 01:43:52.039 --> 01:43:55.039 So you know now you're officially invited to the boat trip. Mike. 2663 01:43:55.119 --> 01:43:57.640 You have a boat trip every year in August. There's 2664 01:43:57.680 --> 01:44:00.680 the boat trip that's in Manhattan. We take out the 2665 01:44:00.680 --> 01:44:06.000 old John J. Hoby boat five boat. We cruise around Manhattan, 2666 01:44:06.039 --> 01:44:09.880 drink our faces off, eat our faces off, and all 2667 01:44:09.880 --> 01:44:11.520 the guests from the past year get to go on. 2668 01:44:11.600 --> 01:44:15.760 So now you're fishing, I'll go upstairs and I'll sell 2669 01:44:15.840 --> 01:44:16.680 this like honey. 2670 01:44:16.479 --> 01:44:17.600 I got a free cruise. 2671 01:44:21.039 --> 01:44:22.279 A bunch of drunk and fireman. 2672 01:44:22.720 --> 01:44:23.680 It's a guy only thing. 2673 01:44:23.760 --> 01:44:25.520 Sorry, picked me up. 2674 01:44:25.680 --> 01:44:26.359 Sorage fist. 2675 01:44:26.720 --> 01:44:33.840 Make it that far sausage. You guys get like the 2676 01:44:33.840 --> 01:44:34.880 guy Dave I want this morning? 2677 01:44:35.439 --> 01:44:36.159 Can I call it him? 2678 01:44:36.159 --> 01:44:36.199 Like? 2679 01:44:36.199 --> 01:44:38.720 I don't think it's calling Joe bro if we didn't. 2680 01:44:38.520 --> 01:44:41.159 But people call in calling. 2681 01:44:42.960 --> 01:44:44.439 Video and arrest bad people. 2682 01:44:44.439 --> 01:44:47.000 He has no idea about podcast or phone a friends. 2683 01:44:47.000 --> 01:44:50.239 We're gonna phone a friend. You gotta help me, honey, 2684 01:44:50.239 --> 01:44:52.520 I'm not stories that's not true. 2685 01:44:53.640 --> 01:44:55.079 No, no, no, but it is that time. 2686 01:44:56.279 --> 01:44:56.800 Isn't that time? 2687 01:44:57.359 --> 01:44:57.960 About this time? 2688 01:45:00.039 --> 01:45:03.399 Yeah, you want to buy a tip or a Marshall tip. 2689 01:45:04.520 --> 01:45:06.840 It's time for they get it in there. The old 2690 01:45:06.840 --> 01:45:07.439 school ship. 2691 01:45:07.359 --> 01:45:07.880 To the day. 2692 01:45:09.840 --> 01:45:11.479 Of the very Oh you gotta do the other two 2693 01:45:11.479 --> 01:45:12.560 commercial stuff. 2694 01:45:12.319 --> 01:45:14.680 Yes, we do so, Mike, you can do whichever one 2695 01:45:14.720 --> 01:45:16.119 you feel is best. You want to do a little 2696 01:45:16.119 --> 01:45:18.239 devil of a couple. But whatever you feel is the 2697 01:45:18.279 --> 01:45:21.039 troops out they can benefit from. 2698 01:45:21.279 --> 01:45:23.960 So if you are sitting in the firehouse right now 2699 01:45:24.000 --> 01:45:26.199 with some senior guy trying to tell you something and 2700 01:45:26.239 --> 01:45:29.319 you don't care for what's being said, you should probably 2701 01:45:29.399 --> 01:45:31.439 just listen and understand because you get a lot of 2702 01:45:31.439 --> 01:45:34.960 that now with the generations, you know, like they're big 2703 01:45:35.000 --> 01:45:39.000 on the well we should do this, like bro, this 2704 01:45:39.039 --> 01:45:41.279 is how we do things, adapt to it and figure out. 2705 01:45:41.359 --> 01:45:42.720 But not everybody's always right. 2706 01:45:42.760 --> 01:45:46.000 Like I said, nobody's above being educated. 2707 01:45:46.039 --> 01:45:48.199 So for you older guys who think you can tell 2708 01:45:48.239 --> 01:45:49.760 the young kids what to do and how many times 2709 01:45:49.800 --> 01:45:51.319 you get this to buy us? Oh, you guys are 2710 01:45:51.359 --> 01:45:54.560 the college kids. The college kids, there's no generation, they're 2711 01:45:54.560 --> 01:45:56.640 no different than any other generations. You just have to 2712 01:45:56.680 --> 01:45:58.079 figure out how to work with them. If you have 2713 01:45:58.159 --> 01:46:00.439 kids at home, you'll not work with them. But you 2714 01:46:00.520 --> 01:46:03.359 gotta just both sides gods each other, otherwise you have problems. 2715 01:46:03.840 --> 01:46:05.479 Then you get the young guys, you know, over throw 2716 01:46:05.560 --> 01:46:08.399 these guys. The junior revolution or what juniority. That's another 2717 01:46:08.399 --> 01:46:08.720 good one. 2718 01:46:09.560 --> 01:46:11.920 The millennials. 2719 01:46:12.439 --> 01:46:14.520 Yeah, all the millennials, all right, But you know, it's 2720 01:46:14.560 --> 01:46:16.960 just a matter of like listening to both sides and 2721 01:46:17.000 --> 01:46:19.760 don't get the bosses about whatever you do. You know, 2722 01:46:19.800 --> 01:46:22.800 Timmy mcarth another another great one. First full problems and 2723 01:46:22.880 --> 01:46:26.800 second bore problems. Make them first fur problems don't cause problems, 2724 01:46:26.840 --> 01:46:28.520 just both sides to each other. Fire has to be 2725 01:46:28.560 --> 01:46:30.520 much better. Eighty two trucks seems to be a good 2726 01:46:30.560 --> 01:46:32.600 place where they listen to each other. I get good 2727 01:46:32.640 --> 01:46:34.640 young guy feedback when I see them, a good older 2728 01:46:34.640 --> 01:46:36.600 guy feedback when I see them. Everybody's happy with each other. 2729 01:46:36.800 --> 01:46:39.119 They're playing sports, they're going to paintball. Everything they could 2730 01:46:39.119 --> 01:46:40.760 possibly get them hurt off duty, they're trying to do. 2731 01:46:41.680 --> 01:46:42.920 So that's that's a good thing. 2732 01:46:43.600 --> 01:46:45.439 Make sure you tell them you can't work with stitches. 2733 01:46:46.560 --> 01:46:54.000 Bro, bro, bro, I have ten of those stories like like, 2734 01:46:54.000 --> 01:46:55.279 what are you gonna do now? I'm like, oh God, 2735 01:46:55.760 --> 01:46:56.159 where are you? 2736 01:46:56.760 --> 01:46:56.920 Rank? 2737 01:46:57.479 --> 01:46:58.399 Crank calls. 2738 01:47:00.600 --> 01:47:01.279 My bad idea? 2739 01:47:01.319 --> 01:47:03.279 Boys, is this a phone. 2740 01:47:05.319 --> 01:47:07.159 Call? A do on the outside? No? 2741 01:47:07.159 --> 01:47:09.079 No, no, we get outside phone. Forget the apartment phone, 2742 01:47:09.079 --> 01:47:12.279 all these things in the tape. Oh, everybody out there 2743 01:47:12.720 --> 01:47:15.159 who has a problem and wants to talk to the delegate. 2744 01:47:15.199 --> 01:47:16.880 I told my guys this all the time, and people 2745 01:47:16.920 --> 01:47:19.319 don't listen. Having been in the Lord force the world 2746 01:47:19.319 --> 01:47:31.640 again for four years, don't text your problems to anybody. 2747 01:47:26.800 --> 01:47:28.159 Or or or. 2748 01:47:31.119 --> 01:47:32.439 Well that's a whole different. 2749 01:47:34.119 --> 01:47:36.439 Honestly, don't text anybody anything. If you want to. 2750 01:47:36.399 --> 01:47:40.680 Know something about something, Nobody can ever tell you what 2751 01:47:40.720 --> 01:47:42.479 you said on the phone unless you're post being taped, 2752 01:47:42.520 --> 01:47:44.159 and if your phones being taped, you've got a lot 2753 01:47:44.199 --> 01:47:46.720 more problems in texting people by working for the mayor. 2754 01:47:46.720 --> 01:47:51.079 At this point, say oh, here we go. 2755 01:47:51.319 --> 01:47:52.680 You heard it here first. 2756 01:47:52.600 --> 01:47:53.600 You heard it here first? 2757 01:47:54.560 --> 01:47:58.239 I heard that was all right. 2758 01:47:58.279 --> 01:48:01.199 But we're gonna play two commercials quick guns. Yeah you 2759 01:48:01.680 --> 01:48:03.159 get the old let me get the help part. 2760 01:48:03.479 --> 01:48:05.239 I'm going to do New Jersey Fire. 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To help 2796 01:50:28.520 --> 01:50:34.119 you effectively implement these screenings, the FRCE he formed a 2797 01:50:34.199 --> 01:50:38.199 group of experts to offer exclusive guidance for fire departments. 2798 01:50:38.239 --> 01:50:41.840 Find our complete report at First Responders Center dot org. 2799 01:50:42.279 --> 01:50:44.720 And let's make up a found impact on the lives 2800 01:50:44.840 --> 01:50:48.119 of five facts. Get your new checked out. It checked 2801 01:50:48.119 --> 01:50:51.640 out from different you know, checked out from the net up. 2802 01:50:51.680 --> 01:50:53.720 You know what I'm saying, bro, cons Yep. 2803 01:50:53.560 --> 01:50:55.079 They just sent me mind. I have to do mine. 2804 01:50:55.119 --> 01:50:56.760 I do well. Lere's three years now. They do a 2805 01:50:56.760 --> 01:50:57.720 mental screening on us. 2806 01:50:57.760 --> 01:51:03.880 They do fine. What's up? Thanks for coming on, bro, No, 2807 01:51:04.000 --> 01:51:06.359 thanks for having me? Kevin standing out stories here? 2808 01:51:06.399 --> 01:51:06.560 Man? 2809 01:51:06.600 --> 01:51:08.199 What what is that on the factor? Is that you? 2810 01:51:08.279 --> 01:51:09.119 And that says O'Neil. 2811 01:51:09.239 --> 01:51:10.960 What is that where all my kids got me a 2812 01:51:11.000 --> 01:51:11.640 couple of years ago. 2813 01:51:11.880 --> 01:51:12.640 That's pretty cool. 2814 01:51:13.119 --> 01:51:13.560 It's not bad. 2815 01:51:13.960 --> 01:51:15.960 That's a scary helmet back there too. Two aye, three 2816 01:51:16.000 --> 01:51:17.880 is give me a little Willies. The man's very scary. 2817 01:51:18.239 --> 01:51:24.279 I borrowed the background if we down thestairs a thousand stories. 2818 01:51:24.319 --> 01:51:25.520 Yeah, Marshall is excellent. 2819 01:51:25.760 --> 01:51:26.399 We never were at. 2820 01:51:27.840 --> 01:51:27.960 All. 2821 01:51:28.359 --> 01:51:29.800 We had a lot of guys in the chat tonight. 2822 01:51:30.000 --> 01:51:31.760 Got new guys that we've never seen for probably a 2823 01:51:31.760 --> 01:51:33.520 lot of Marshalls. So make sure you hit the like 2824 01:51:33.560 --> 01:51:34.479 and subscribe right. 2825 01:51:34.399 --> 01:51:37.239 Guns, Yes, for sure, it was. I stuck that up 2826 01:51:37.279 --> 01:51:39.000 in there before for those guys hit it up. It was. 2827 01:51:39.359 --> 01:51:40.760 We got a couple of good shows coming out. We've 2828 01:51:40.760 --> 01:51:44.239 got a Warbaums fire show, with Jay Jonas and two 2829 01:51:44.359 --> 01:51:47.119 of the guys that passed away at that fire. Their 2830 01:51:47.199 --> 01:51:51.319 kids wound up marrying each other. It's a great story. Yeah, 2831 01:51:51.399 --> 01:51:52.680 so we got that coming up. I don't know what 2832 01:51:52.760 --> 01:51:55.159 date that is. We got a couple of hot charges. 2833 01:51:54.840 --> 01:51:56.600 Right, I think that's coming out. 2834 01:51:57.640 --> 01:52:01.600 Take a look at you right now, the twenty sixth 2835 01:52:01.600 --> 01:52:02.079 of this month. 2836 01:52:02.159 --> 01:52:04.560 Yes, right, we got a couple of the hot charges coming. 2837 01:52:04.560 --> 01:52:06.279 I don't think we're going to be on next week, right, 2838 01:52:06.319 --> 01:52:06.680 the twelve. 2839 01:52:06.840 --> 01:52:09.600 Next week, I will be down in wild Wood at 2840 01:52:09.600 --> 01:52:12.640 the Wildwood Fire Show. I'll be down there with the 2841 01:52:12.680 --> 01:52:15.199 wife and kids. I'll see pee wee down there and 2842 01:52:15.239 --> 01:52:15.920 all the other guys. 2843 01:52:16.000 --> 01:52:17.760 You're gonna be you'll be there for for the eleventh. 2844 01:52:17.880 --> 01:52:19.920 Correct, I'll be at the fire house for the eleven. 2845 01:52:20.399 --> 01:52:22.760 I don't let's see you. I'll be there. Everybody's gonna 2846 01:52:22.760 --> 01:52:27.760 be there. Raise your hand. Oh sorry, guys, love you guys. 2847 01:52:27.720 --> 01:52:31.439 I'm only kidd I can't find it quick enough, you, dick. 2848 01:52:32.439 --> 01:52:38.800 I'll play a whole lot of minute. How about this one? 2849 01:52:39.039 --> 01:52:40.880 Yes, that one's even better. 2850 01:52:40.880 --> 01:52:41.920 I can all right. 2851 01:52:42.600 --> 01:52:45.319 My great story is great career. I enjoyed being in 2852 01:52:45.359 --> 01:52:47.079 probably school with you, who would have thought thirty five 2853 01:52:47.159 --> 01:52:49.920 years later we would have hooked up. It's amazing. I appreciate. 2854 01:52:49.960 --> 01:52:51.439 It's a lot of fun and you still have all 2855 01:52:51.439 --> 01:52:53.279 your hair and I know, well there's a kick and 2856 01:52:54.640 --> 01:53:01.159 a kick in the excellent. We'll see you guys. Well, 2857 01:53:01.159 --> 01:53:02.439 i'll see you doing the week for a cup of 2858 01:53:02.479 --> 01:53:05.520 Joe if we go, and then we'll see you next Thursday. 2859 01:53:05.760 --> 01:53:08.000 Until then, guys, stay low and go. 2860 01:53:08.520 --> 01:53:10.119 All right, everybody will see it, the big one. Thank 2861 01:53:10.159 --> 01:53:10.640 you again, Mike. 2862 01:53:10.880 --> 01:53:12.760 All right, We're good night everyone. 2863 01:53:12.960 --> 01:53:13.159 Yep.