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Speaker 4: Hello, Hello, and we are back. Welcome back to the
Speaker 4: Salty Experience Podcast. It's the only one that brings the
Speaker 4: fire house kitchen table to you. We got a real
Speaker 4: kitchen table guy tonight. Bro, will you know sult to
Speaker 4: the good dude tonight? We got coming on? Bro? You know,
Speaker 4: I don't sorry you're still roff. What seems like we
Speaker 4: haven't been here for a while, Bro, you know what
Speaker 4: I means like we haven't been back here? We're back.
Speaker 4: I don't understand.
Speaker 5: What's the that's the the handy talking when it used
Speaker 5: to run out of battery.
Speaker 1: Oh really, that's what That's how He's kind of like
Speaker 1: leave an l off the marshall.
Speaker 6: You know what I mean?
Speaker 4: What Dick would do that?
Speaker 7: Bro?
Speaker 6: You think a chief took all those tests? Would No?
Speaker 6: I mean, come on, what are you talking about.
Speaker 4: He's actually out there commanding people, and you don't know
Speaker 4: how to spell Marshall.
Speaker 6: He yelled at him earlier in the day.
Speaker 4: Rattled, who the fuck are we talking about? I don't
Speaker 4: talk about the guy who like, we've had Mike's pictures
Speaker 4: maybe for about two months, and today at about.
Speaker 7: Two months, your your ass two months.
Speaker 4: When Mike comes in, we'll ask him when the pictures came.
Speaker 6: It was it was about a month and a half.
Speaker 4: It had to be about a month. And now at
Speaker 4: three o'clock, I'm sing maybe later I'm eating dinner, it
Speaker 4: was the pictures? Did he send the pictures six o'clock?
Speaker 7: I think it was you.
Speaker 5: I came through his hands, a little mess.
Speaker 4: Sometimes you gotta do what.
Speaker 5: We got to tighten the bolts, even the chiefs, even
Speaker 5: the chiefs loosening the balls up.
Speaker 6: I guess I don't know.
Speaker 4: I don't know what he's doing.
Speaker 7: I still don't know who he's talking.
Speaker 4: You know what I mean? When you when you're constantly
Speaker 4: at the overtime openings and you're not paying attention to
Speaker 4: the show.
Speaker 6: That was female deppointment somewhere.
Speaker 7: Out wait yeah, wait, wait wait wait, that deserves a
Speaker 7: that deserves one of my new ones.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's a new one.
Speaker 7: Actually actually got the real voice done all the time.
Speaker 4: So all right, so everything set now for the show.
Speaker 7: We don't have to get who the fuck knows something?
Speaker 7: I'll make something work, you know. I improvised, adapt and overcome,
Speaker 7: and that's how that's the way we go.
Speaker 4: You got all the pictures. He didn't even have Mike.
Speaker 4: I don't have his email address.
Speaker 8: What I'm like, well, for.
Speaker 7: Your sense to two months ago, I'm looking for something recent.
Speaker 6: Yesterday I forwarded, Oh.
Speaker 7: Yesterday, we had two months ago. But you guys are
Speaker 7: hitting me up yesterday.
Speaker 4: Well, it's better than six o'clock on the night before
Speaker 4: the show.
Speaker 1: You know what.
Speaker 7: In the end, it's here, it's done. It's all good
Speaker 7: for you.
Speaker 1: It's good for you.
Speaker 5: Gone sucking my dicke.
Speaker 6: He's throwing the D word around.
Speaker 4: Well, I don't know who you know what happened to
Speaker 4: get away from the show for a couple of weeks
Speaker 4: and he comes back like old Lucy Goosey. I don't
Speaker 4: know what's a.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna have to tighten the bolt up, tighten them up.
Speaker 1: Hey, talking to my guy, all wrong, it's wrong.
Speaker 6: Tone.
Speaker 1: Do it again?
Speaker 4: A stab in her face with a soddering eye.
Speaker 6: Are you coming up for the eleventh?
Speaker 4: He's not coming. You know who's coming? Is my man, Jose.
Speaker 4: Jose's coming.
Speaker 7: I was gonna say.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And I don't know Tank's coming up. But I
Speaker 4: know somebody that's not coming up. I won't say his name.
Speaker 6: Man.
Speaker 4: It might be a guy who didn't load pictures in tonight,
Speaker 4: but I don't know. It could be m hm, could
Speaker 4: you play the d so he can get mic on
Speaker 4: here because he left the seat maybe one.
Speaker 7: Oh no, he's good, he's good, he's fine. Alright, we're
Speaker 7: gonna go. We're gonna we're coming at you hot with
Speaker 7: a nice new one, hot, nice and hot.
Speaker 1: Here we go.
Speaker 7: We're gonna run a photo kite.
Speaker 4: Oh the new h.
Speaker 9: Nice nice. That's all played the new Vince.
Speaker 4: We got the new Vince commercial that we Oh no,
Speaker 4: we don't get that one. I'm happy with that too.
Speaker 7: Right, we're still on vacation.
Speaker 4: Somebody dropped the ball on that one again, so you
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Speaker 7: But we'll.
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Speaker 4: Noel's has come to the fire house in nine to eleven.
Speaker 4: Darren Phillips, yep, oh he's a regular. Yeah it's not coming.
Speaker 4: I let's say all right, come on let's get him
Speaker 4: in rough all right, my fellow Proby school mate, I
Speaker 4: didn't know that we were there from the beginning in
Speaker 4: Prob School together, probably hated me. I don't know, we'll
Speaker 4: find out.
Speaker 7: We're gonna find out here to check.
Speaker 6: Coming to the stage f d N y five Marshall
Speaker 6: without the l Mike O'Neill.
Speaker 4: I don't think you hated being Prob school, right.
Speaker 1: Nobody hated anybody in that Prob class.
Speaker 4: It was awesome, except for maybe big Vin Vinnie and
Speaker 4: the other big guy.
Speaker 1: I knew him since the fourth grade. Bro, he's a
Speaker 1: year younger than me. Yeah, I went to high school
Speaker 1: with him. Who video Brady. I went to ground I
Speaker 1: grew up, lived on the block from him, I grew up.
Speaker 1: We went to the same grammar school, same high school.
Speaker 1: He went to college. I went to the police department
Speaker 1: and then in Proby School together. And then if you remember,
Speaker 1: remember the day before we got our assignments.
Speaker 4: They had the secret meta in the room.
Speaker 8: He comes out of the room. He goes, Bro, we'll
Speaker 8: going to the same place.
Speaker 1: And I was like, we're going to and I'll say
Speaker 1: I won't say the company, but I thought he was
Speaker 1: going somewhere else.
Speaker 7: He goes.
Speaker 8: Now, I'm like, that's fucking great.
Speaker 4: Where is that?
Speaker 1: But then I drove to twoity three that day, and
Speaker 1: you know, through the neighborhood which I had never been
Speaker 1: in before. And uh I got home to my parents' house,
Speaker 1: which I found out was fifty minutes away, which is interesting.
Speaker 1: And I said to my father, I go, uh, I
Speaker 1: never bet the war, but uh, what's what that?
Speaker 8: There's no how can we have fired? There's no billis
Speaker 8: left brumbled.
Speaker 4: It looks like it's terrible, the end of the human race?
Speaker 1: Yeah, briefs. He went to one thirty two we after
Speaker 1: the rotation right away, so oh he did. He's been
Speaker 1: there ever since. I loved the guy, still loves Still
Speaker 1: a big presence.
Speaker 4: A big dude. Football player, wasn't he.
Speaker 1: Oh big yeah? Football player, yep? A rugby player? Is Davia?
Speaker 6: Some breaker?
Speaker 4: Oh some breaker?
Speaker 1: Oh well, you know Flapper Sheeran. He was a little
Speaker 1: rough for all of us.
Speaker 4: Let's get patriotic before we go on and talk about
Speaker 4: my career.
Speaker 7: Here we go, do it.
Speaker 3: I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States
Speaker 3: of America and to the Republic for which it stands
Speaker 3: one nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all.
Speaker 4: There is Richie Bag saying there's my proby.
Speaker 6: It's not my bag baby.
Speaker 4: It's not my bag baby. All right, so let's go back.
Speaker 4: We know your dad is what got into the fight uponment, right, Yeah,
Speaker 4: when'd you grow up?
Speaker 1: Yeah? I grew up Marine Park. My dad was a
Speaker 1: fine I start at Garratton Beach. Then we got a
Speaker 1: house in Marine Park, you know, like Beverly Hills back then,
Speaker 1: you know, or it was in a Bungo and Garretton Beach.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 1: He was a fireman and seven engine. He got laid
Speaker 1: off and he was laid up for six months. He
Speaker 1: was a veteran, say, hided him back pretty quick. He
Speaker 1: ended up in thirty seven engine briefly and switched with
Speaker 1: a guy you know, come to Brooklyn. He ended up
Speaker 1: being a fireman in two thirty four for a long time,
Speaker 1: and then he transferred to one fifty nine truck to
Speaker 1: be close to the home. We were all like, you know,
Speaker 1: kind of in the commuting days as kids going to school.
Speaker 8: So he went there. He enjoyed, you know, being close
Speaker 8: to home and stuff.
Speaker 1: And they got promoted and lieutenant in one twenty one truck.
Speaker 1: Remember the school wh Jimmy Wiams passed away? Yep, yes,
Speaker 1: so that was it. That was an interesting thing.
Speaker 8: And then he ended up being the.
Speaker 1: Capital one fifty eight. But Jimmy Wayne, I don't know
Speaker 1: if you remember the Jimmy Williams thing.
Speaker 8: So he dies.
Speaker 1: He was my father's boy, and that was late in
Speaker 1: our class. And my father tells me, doesn't ask me,
Speaker 1: doesn't whatever. He goes, you're going with the company to
Speaker 1: this thing. I'm like, oh, all right, that's gonna go
Speaker 1: over a while.
Speaker 8: So I went to Billy Burke. Remember Billy Yeah, Kirk Yeah.
Speaker 1: So I go to him. He was nice.
Speaker 8: I said, listen, he's asked me.
Speaker 1: He goes, all right, I'll ask the cheap upstairs Sakamano.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 8: So two hours later he comes over. He goes, listen,
Speaker 8: the chief said, you can't do it.
Speaker 1: Just come with us. It's got no problem. So I
Speaker 1: went to the pay phone. Remember that pay phone, Yeah,
Speaker 1: prob I called him. He goes, oh, really all right?
Speaker 1: He hangs up. I knew right away. I'm like, here
Speaker 1: we go. So an hour later, Billy goes, okay, listening,
Speaker 1: you're gonna go up to see Sacon Monto. He's gonna
Speaker 1: scream his head off, don't say a word, which is amazing,
Speaker 1: you know, not easy. This guy written me apart because
Speaker 1: my father hated that guy for some strange reason, and
Speaker 1: he called somebody and then I ended up going with
Speaker 1: the company and uh sackingounted in like it one bit.
Speaker 4: So what did he say? He's gonna step on your cop?
Speaker 4: That was his big word, big severals.
Speaker 1: Yeah, like cop. It wasn't like I was a kid
Speaker 1: out of high school. I was a cop for six years.
Speaker 1: This guy is screaming at me, a little old guy.
Speaker 1: I'm like, nothing uphing, bro. If I put you in,
Speaker 1: he's no one going. I care to go back to
Speaker 1: the cop like that, Just go back to the cops.
Speaker 1: I didn't give a fuck whatever.
Speaker 4: So was that you in that picture with your father?
Speaker 4: That's you little Yes?
Speaker 8: Yes, yes, that's me right there with the blonde hair.
Speaker 6: Do you do you remember going to the fire houses
Speaker 6: when you were younger?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I was in two thirty four more times
Speaker 1: than he can remember. What a place, what a great
Speaker 1: bunch of guys. Chief Glbum was there. I remember him,
Speaker 1: I remember his kids. Jack Toomi also passed away. That
Speaker 1: was my father's best friend. He passed away eighty seven.
Speaker 1: It was and yeah, I mean that was a great place.
Speaker 1: We owned all the picnics and stuff. It was just
Speaker 1: a real good bunch of dudes. Is your pop still around? Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's in Florida. My artist probably watching right now, Caitlin,
Speaker 1: and I don't know if he's I'm not sure if
Speaker 1: he's savvy enough to watch it live, but I'm sure
Speaker 1: she'll get it fromhim in the back of ice.
Speaker 6: That's pretty cool.
Speaker 4: Now you got a brother that's on too, I do.
Speaker 8: He's a chief.
Speaker 1: Now we did all that we did. My father's left
Speaker 1: put together as a captain. That was interesting too.
Speaker 4: Work on his list too.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So we made a deal, like my father was
Speaker 1: gonna come to one fifty nine truck and be the
Speaker 1: captain for the night. You know, did a free mutral
Speaker 1: for the guy. My brother worked at one at the time,
Speaker 1: and I did a few free mutral for a guy.
Speaker 1: So I remember Chief as Posito, as my brother. I
Speaker 1: remember Chief as Posito. Jimmy telling us I know him, Yeah,
Speaker 1: he tells me.
Speaker 8: In the fifteenth he goes to you, my father, Well,
Speaker 8: my father, everybody liked my father.
Speaker 1: He was an guy not like me. But uh he
Speaker 1: s he says, he goes, Mike, just do me a favor,
Speaker 1: don't get hurt. Okay. So we go to the firehouse
Speaker 1: that my father's got old, you know, all the friend
Speaker 1: from Garrett to Beach Marine Park. There's a good night Steaks,
Speaker 1: the whole bit. We watched the Sopranos. My brother, the
Speaker 1: cop stops by, you know, for a half hour, and
Speaker 1: he's gone for a half hour. We get the one
Speaker 1: and only run of the night first two job on
Speaker 1: Clinton Road. It was my father was fast and he's like,
Speaker 1: runs in the building. I'm like, what the I had
Speaker 1: the camera. That's freaking awesome job. Yeah. So I follow
Speaker 1: him to the back and it's a room lit like
Speaker 1: I'm in now. And I said to him, I go
Speaker 1: thirty two years.
Speaker 8: Huh go to the front ship. This is the window
Speaker 8: of firelight. So it goes perfectly.
Speaker 1: No, it couldn't couldn't have been any easier. Now now
Speaker 1: we're overhul he thinks this is for real. He's like,
Speaker 1: he's like, oh, Michael, who just pull this steel in here?
Speaker 1: I go, hold on a minute, bright come here. That
Speaker 1: whole I think that's it bigger. I'll be hotside. I
Speaker 1: rescued the hamster pet hamster. That was my big claim
Speaker 1: for the one run. Unfortunately, one guy did actually get hurt.
Speaker 1: He got three quarters for that, but he fantastic guy.
Speaker 1: I'm kind of sorry his tour ended early with a
Speaker 1: nice night with us, but yeah, that was his last.
Speaker 4: He went out with a bagne.
Speaker 6: Where's your brother? Where's your brother work?
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 8: He was the he was ten one sixty five truck
Speaker 8: for ten years.
Speaker 1: He was a Yeah he comes.
Speaker 6: We see him at the show all the time. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 6: I'm pretty sure. Yeah he works.
Speaker 1: He works with Gil Frank out in Long Island doing
Speaker 1: some teaching or something. So he's always around doing something.
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure the side job, right, but yeah, he
Speaker 1: just got qu a few a little while back. He's
Speaker 1: covering the fifteen. Allegedly he's been all.
Speaker 8: Over the place like everybody else.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, he loves it and my follows a captain.
Speaker 5: You could I think if that's him. He loves the job, man,
Speaker 5: that guy. Oh he loves the job.
Speaker 8: Yeah, he definitely does.
Speaker 4: He's so he got on PETE. He got on p
Speaker 4: D first. Had you taken the Fire Department test score.
Speaker 8: I took the test and eighty seven I think it
Speaker 8: was or eighty eight, the.
Speaker 6: One of the eighty seven. I took that test.
Speaker 1: They stopped the test and they bring us back for
Speaker 1: it was a white course of pink cour there was
Speaker 1: colored courses. They tell you not to eat, don't don't
Speaker 1: do anything, just show up and hope you don't die.
Speaker 1: You know, they didn't mention it, don't do cocaine, but whatever.
Speaker 1: So I'm sitting on the course waiting to go next
Speaker 1: and the cop. So now it's an hour forty fixed
Speaker 1: the clock. I haven't eaten, I didn't drink anything. The
Speaker 1: bottom line is I missed getting one hundred by four seconds.
Speaker 1: So I didn't get cold, which was fine because I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna lie to you. Everybody knows me, knows this.
Speaker 1: I never wanted to be a fineman originally, like my
Speaker 1: father came home burnt all the time. I'm like, what
Speaker 1: who does this? Thirty birds on his hand, skin grass, burn,
Speaker 1: center on. So I became a cop and I enjoyed it.
Speaker 1: And then finally I was either gonna get arrested or
Speaker 1: killed one or the other. I took the next one
Speaker 1: and obviously we're it's the second class of the list.
Speaker 1: We did all right, and I have no regrets. Man,
Speaker 1: I ended up being a cop at the end, So
Speaker 1: the nights it all worked out through.
Speaker 6: Actually that's true.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that pretty what you got.
Speaker 6: Any cops walk up and we could talk about yeah,
Speaker 6: all of them.
Speaker 1: Uh there's some funny ones and then uh that aren't
Speaker 1: going to get anybody arrested.
Speaker 8: Or killed hopefully.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we had.
Speaker 8: We had a good time in the step. I saw
Speaker 8: it in the two five.
Speaker 1: I was there for a period of time where like
Speaker 1: we were rookies. It's like having a bunch of probies together.
Speaker 1: See you're like a man power deal. But me and
Speaker 1: this one guy, Steve Morel, we were like into it,
Speaker 1: like we were like cops and Robbins deal. We locked
Speaker 1: up everybody, and I kept getting in trouble for resting
Speaker 1: PEOPLECAUSEY didn't want to rest anybody. So I keep getting
Speaker 1: in trouble, like getting yelled at whatever. But I'm making
Speaker 1: a ton of arrest And if you don't like see
Speaker 1: and how you passed away with the reporter, Yeah, in.
Speaker 8: The homicide squad and he looked and he was all
Speaker 8: over me.
Speaker 1: He's like yo, I like the young guys. I'm twenty
Speaker 1: one years old. So the sergeant sends me and a
Speaker 1: guy who came over from Transit to Queens to get
Speaker 1: an R and P pick up front of shops.
Speaker 8: I was told very directly this this guy was like
Speaker 8: a veteran a transit.
Speaker 1: So he rolled over. He goes, I want you to
Speaker 1: go to the shops, get the car and bring it back.
Speaker 1: We have to go to detail, don't fucking do anything
Speaker 1: in between. So I tell this guy showing my Gowan
Speaker 1: a great guy. I was like, showing this is whatever.
Speaker 8: He's not problem.
Speaker 1: We're driving over to Traboro Bridge and its livery car
Speaker 1: is trying to fucking hit me. I'm like, what the
Speaker 1: fucking and finally keybones in front of me sha him
Speaker 1: on the breaks. The driver does fucking the one hundred
Speaker 1: your death down, the driver pointing you, guy's got a gun.
Speaker 1: Sure enough, I go to the care the guy's got
Speaker 1: a gun. I great. McGowan's like, oh, it's a great kid.
Speaker 1: I'm like, no, there's a fucking dead This guy's gonna
Speaker 1: kill me.
Speaker 8: I can't come back. So we go to the Traveler
Speaker 8: Bridge a little preaching there.
Speaker 1: I called the two five. He's I get the good
Speaker 1: sergeant on the phony, no problem, bring it in, bring
Speaker 1: it in. Go to the death sergeant who's a seventies guy,
Speaker 1: like look like Fred Quinstone. He's like, good for you, kid,
Speaker 1: Go to back, said, I go in the back.
Speaker 8: Guys sitting there, I'm doing the paperwork. And this sergeant
Speaker 8: his name is Rohan.
Speaker 1: I don't like him anyway. So that's matter, big batman,
Speaker 1: fucking big, you know, tall, imposing guy. I'm fucking telling
Speaker 1: you you're a fucking trouble maker and no one's gonna
Speaker 1: own crazy.
Speaker 8: And he leaves.
Speaker 1: The old time sergeant in goes Okay, I'm just gonna
Speaker 1: tell you right now that guy's a dick. He's been
Speaker 1: at dick as whole Korea.
Speaker 8: He doesn't want to do anything, so just keep the.
Speaker 6: Only doing is that the picture of the car that
Speaker 6: we had.
Speaker 8: No, that's a seven.
Speaker 4: That's right. Wait wait, he's got to get up. You
Speaker 4: got to get up the hall on Yet there's.
Speaker 1: One more thing about hall that's another car dasy And
Speaker 1: he's he fucking hated me because I just caused problems.
Speaker 8: He was in the house mouse what a gonna call him?
Speaker 1: So it comes down for assignments, right, and I knew
Speaker 1: my mother's friend was an inspector and I knew himself
Speaker 1: as a kid.
Speaker 8: And he's like, you're going to this, You're going to
Speaker 8: the seven hours.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 8: So I walk into his Assholds office.
Speaker 1: He goes, ah, thank god, I could finally get rid
Speaker 1: of you tomorrow. You're going to the three two. I
Speaker 1: was like, okay, great, no problem.
Speaker 8: I went home.
Speaker 1: Now obviously they got a phone course. I came in
Speaker 1: the morning, my hockey big. I was never gonna set
Speaker 1: foot net place again. I knew it.
Speaker 8: I'm packing my ship. He calls me only.
Speaker 1: I'm get in here. I'm like, fuck, here we go.
Speaker 8: He's like, I don't know who you fucking cried to
Speaker 8: or what the.
Speaker 1: Whole big fucking show. I'm like, are you done?
Speaker 8: I said the good news, Louise, You'll never see me again.
Speaker 1: Because I'm not coming to Manhattan whatever again. To my
Speaker 1: stit went to the seven O and that was the
Speaker 1: end of that. Thank god. That was experience.
Speaker 4: Where is the seven O on what street? Don Lawrence Avenue?
Speaker 1: But it covers like it's it's like a cutout where
Speaker 1: the priests is Ocean popet but it covers flappers like uh,
Speaker 1: West flappers, like just flappers in general.
Speaker 8: But yeah, it goes from lower neighborhoods.
Speaker 1: Jewish, Russian, you know whatever, and then once you get north,
Speaker 1: it's it's a little more.
Speaker 4: It's a little more.
Speaker 8: Church Avenue.
Speaker 1: No, it's like Church Avenue, like the big apartment building
Speaker 1: with a lot of people in them. You know.
Speaker 8: It was not the greatest part of the preason, but
Speaker 8: there was.
Speaker 1: There was a lot of good people at there, but
Speaker 1: we never saw them. So yeah, the car, the car
Speaker 1: stories that pull up, the car, bro it's coming, it's coming.
Speaker 5: Yeah, not that car, not that car, that car, the car.
Speaker 7: Oh, my bed, my bed, holl are you doing? I
Speaker 7: forgot we were on the p D stories.
Speaker 4: That young baby taste too.
Speaker 1: Man, this is I think it's ninety one. I had
Speaker 1: been there over a year. I was working with a
Speaker 1: guy just for the night and uh, there was a
Speaker 1: car jacking earlier in the night HOUNDAI.
Speaker 8: Imagine call jacking ady nowadays.
Speaker 1: But anyway, so the forest gump that I am of
Speaker 1: the boat jobs, we drive past this car.
Speaker 8: I wasn't driving the guys, I said, that's the fucking car.
Speaker 1: He loops around now We were following the car for
Speaker 1: a while and they ended up making a left down
Speaker 1: of Debt.
Speaker 8: It's a full on pursuit.
Speaker 1: We're driving, He's driving world driving idiots, and they turned
Speaker 1: out a dead end. I'm I got perfect, this is it.
Speaker 1: Stupid is good. So they get they get to the
Speaker 1: dead end. Now they back up and I'm like, you know,
Speaker 1: we're a good distance, but I'm like, at some point
Speaker 1: you have to stop going forward. So he decided he
Speaker 1: wanted to avoid hitting them. When I say avoid hitting him,
Speaker 1: avoid hitting hits out of the car. I got my
Speaker 1: gun out. Everything we didn't wear seabelt in the police ever.
Speaker 8: So yeah, he swerves to my side.
Speaker 1: Now on purpose. He mights be a good guy, but
Speaker 1: hits the fuck. I mean, this thing got rocked, so
Speaker 1: the gun falls on the floor. Now I know that
Speaker 1: these guys were armed earlier in the tour, but they
Speaker 1: just bolted. One went that way, one went that way,
Speaker 1: So Mike went that way. We caught them, but after
Speaker 1: a week of medically, we came back and took a
Speaker 1: nice picked it with the car.
Speaker 8: They weren't happy we ruined the car, but it's the
Speaker 8: way it.
Speaker 4: Goes, so he said, yeah, you have had to pull
Speaker 4: your weapon out. You have to pull Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, in the seven oer comes out of a hole
Speaker 1: and too, it comes out a lot. People say, oh,
Speaker 1: I didn't pulled my gun, And I don't know where
Speaker 1: you work bro pulling in and shooting in or two
Speaker 1: to things, But yeah, it comes out a lot around.
Speaker 6: I'll be walking around like this the whole day.
Speaker 4: You have to let the off. You haven't squeezing the off.
Speaker 8: So yeah, we had. I was working with a guy.
Speaker 8: We were an anti crime. Plain closes.
Speaker 1: It's pouring rain. I was going upstate that night. It's
Speaker 1: probably about eleven fifteen. We're almost done and robbery comes
Speaker 1: over in the junction. Everybody's in the junctions, very flabishing ocean.
Speaker 1: So it is fucking pouring rain and we're driving and
Speaker 1: I see the two guys. Like I said, I struck
Speaker 1: that's them. He turns the car onmark call, but yeah,
Speaker 1: unmark my ass fucking screen police car.
Speaker 8: So the guy sees it.
Speaker 1: So one guy runs, turns around, runs backwards, and the
Speaker 1: other guy runs into the alley. So I run in
Speaker 1: the guy on the alley he gets over the fence
Speaker 1: before I get back there. So now he jumps out.
Speaker 1: He points a gun at me from the other side
Speaker 1: of the fence. So I think I got out shoot
Speaker 1: and I fall in the water. The chuck comes running around,
Speaker 1: he's like he shot him, Like, no, I'm not shot.
Speaker 1: Get that fucking guy. Meanwhile, the people were wanted to
Speaker 1: help us get into a car accident right front of
Speaker 1: one to fifty seven quarters. They get pitted between the
Speaker 1: two poles the cop cars. So now they're fox no
Speaker 1: one's coming. You guys are in the wind. Now I
Speaker 1: got to the oldest people workout. I didn't hit a
Speaker 1: thing that.
Speaker 6: The ground guys are in the wind.
Speaker 1: So much. I actually worked out.
Speaker 5: So let me ask you a question because this has
Speaker 5: come up not too often because we don't usually talk
Speaker 5: about the police stuff. But what would like if you
Speaker 5: ask me? People always ask how the hell are you
Speaker 5: run at the Burnham buildings, right? And I always say
Speaker 5: because I would never run and follow some guy into
Speaker 5: a dark alley after he has about ten steps on
Speaker 5: me and I don't know where the hell he is,
Speaker 5: right Like, by the time you get to the corner
Speaker 5: and look down there, it's like yeah.
Speaker 1: But again the mentality, Remember I got hired and I
Speaker 1: was twenty years old, and I did go. I told
Speaker 1: you guys before I had gone to college to do radio,
Speaker 1: that was my dream or whatever. In the des I'm ass.
Speaker 8: I never liked how it's done, but I'm as the
Speaker 8: old time is.
Speaker 1: Like, I like that stuff.
Speaker 8: So I was gonna do that obviously back then, that's.
Speaker 1: That's a one in a million shots. So I took
Speaker 1: the police test. I got hard. I always want to
Speaker 1: be a cop. I mean I watched Hill Street Blues
Speaker 1: and that was sold. I think this is this is what,
Speaker 1: this is awesome, the perfect for this. I don't you know,
Speaker 1: I gotta I could talk obviously, you know, I can
Speaker 1: work it out. I end up talking myself, you know,
Speaker 1: talking people in the cuffs a lot more than having
Speaker 1: the sports on them. But it is a little but
Speaker 1: it's it's very exciting, like fires are exciting. It's exciting,
Speaker 1: especially when you're young. You know you're you're out there
Speaker 1: running like crazy. I mean, if I had thought about
Speaker 1: how much I ran then now and how to do
Speaker 1: it now, I forget it.
Speaker 8: I take it open the stairs without something.
Speaker 1: Horrible running down the block after a guy bro especially,
Speaker 1: I recommend it for everybody.
Speaker 5: My back was hurt when he said that he shot
Speaker 5: and he slipped in the wall.
Speaker 1: Got him like, no, I'm not shot him, Charlie Brown.
Speaker 4: There's some other pictures in there, bro what some pictures
Speaker 4: of him as a cop. Let's get through them before
Speaker 4: h Oh, we.
Speaker 8: Can bang those that quick.
Speaker 4: Those are quick stories.
Speaker 1: I remember them all you muted.
Speaker 8: This is okay.
Speaker 1: So that guy on with the shotgun in his hand,
Speaker 1: which thankfully is unloaded. He's working with his partner and
Speaker 1: they're what we considered to be old timers. They had
Speaker 1: about five years more than we did, but they got
Speaker 1: on like eighty forty five, so they were like the
Speaker 1: season guys. These guys never called for help for anything, right.
Speaker 1: So me and my partner are sitting up on Beverly
Speaker 1: Road with another radio clock talking Mike. The guy Mike
Speaker 1: with the shotgun goes over to the radio real quiet,
Speaker 1: we need a tennity five, but it gives the address.
Speaker 1: They were eating in a restaurant next to a nailsalon
Speaker 1: and two jackasses going now rub the nailsalon and it's
Speaker 1: the full on like everybody on the floor, the whole bit.
Speaker 1: Some dude runs out the back and goes and gets
Speaker 1: the comps. So I'm looking at my partner. I'm like,
Speaker 1: if they're calling for help, it's gotta be good. I mean,
Speaker 1: we got a call. So we fly down there and
Speaker 1: by the time we get down there, the guy with
Speaker 1: the shotgun and you get a hit up money box.
Speaker 1: He runs out the back door, so I cut down
Speaker 1: the block. I tried to hit him with the car,
Speaker 1: but I missed. It's not gonna lie to yet. So
Speaker 1: he's got a shotgun in his hand and the box.
Speaker 1: If you see the clip in the picture on my belt,
Speaker 1: that's where a radio is supposed to go. You know,
Speaker 1: we always carried between our legs and the cost So
Speaker 1: I got out of car, went to put it on
Speaker 1: the cliff, drop it right on the floor. No radio.
Speaker 1: Hopping fences, hopping fences. They finally catch up to him.
Speaker 1: He kicks me in the face, knocks me off the fence,
Speaker 1: which that got even showed me. But I guess I'm screaming.
Speaker 1: My partner, Joe was running on the street. I'm yelling
Speaker 1: this way, this way, this way. They finally catch me
Speaker 1: in an apartment building. They bring him out, so they
Speaker 1: bring the nail salon on her around little short guy.
Speaker 1: He Joe Peschi's this guy like in the like in
Speaker 1: my cousin Vinny, like off his feet, lays him out.
Speaker 7: Did you collect two hundred bucks?
Speaker 1: No, he did not do that. But the fact that,
Speaker 1: like these two guys, they didn't want the arrest. I'm like,
Speaker 1: I just like, no, you're gonna have it. I'm like, okay, whatever.
Speaker 8: They were great. Those two guys were the best.
Speaker 4: They were.
Speaker 8: They were such characters. That guy is a complete character.
Speaker 1: Is he still around?
Speaker 6: That guy? He looks like he's retired.
Speaker 8: He's a sergeant. He was a sergeant.
Speaker 1: He retired. He lives in Florida. He's a good due
Speaker 1: parts in Breezy Point. I mean, two of the best dudes.
Speaker 1: They were so cool. Nothing bothered them, you know, dude.
Speaker 4: Go back to that picture. He looks like Jack Nicholson.
Speaker 8: Who me or the other guy?
Speaker 4: You? Oh, nobody ever told you that.
Speaker 6: No, you don't look like him? You think no. I
Speaker 6: was looking at the cash, to be honest with.
Speaker 7: You, I didn't see anything else in that picture but
Speaker 7: the scut all over? Here go the money?
Speaker 1: That was it? Yeah?
Speaker 4: Nother one? God's will? I think there was an.
Speaker 7: Idea we have another run here?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, all right, So that's my partner, Joe. Joe
Speaker 1: and I grew up kind of group, knew each other
Speaker 1: from the neighborhood. His father was the captain of three
Speaker 1: twenty one UH for a period of time. So Joe
Speaker 1: and I are driving down Flatfish Avenue. I'm driving was
Speaker 1: in his the lighted avenue d and flappish. It's dark.
Speaker 1: I look to my left and I see this guy
Speaker 1: running across sheet and he starts pulling a gun up
Speaker 1: and he puts it right in his old guy's feak.
Speaker 8: He just got his Chinese food.
Speaker 1: So Joe's idea was, he goes, we'll put the lights
Speaker 1: on turning the corner. I said, Joe, if I put
Speaker 1: the lights on, he's gonna blow his head off. I said,
Speaker 1: he doesn't even see us. He's so stupid. So we'll
Speaker 1: let him, you know, So we let him get away
Speaker 1: from him. Now we turn the corner. Now Joe is
Speaker 1: gonna run. Now. I love Joe. He's one of my
Speaker 1: best friends. I still told him to this day. Actually
Speaker 1: Tilba' exactly same. But Joe's gon a runners running after
Speaker 1: this guy, young young guy. I'm on the radio giving
Speaker 1: the like where we're going, Like I'm laughing. They heard
Speaker 1: me laughing on the radio. I'm like, I felt so bad,
Speaker 1: but it's the truth. So finally I knew Joe what
Speaker 1: didn't have it in him? And I I had no patience.
Speaker 1: I wasn't get out running.
Speaker 8: So I hit him with the car, tossed him.
Speaker 1: Over the fence. And I was always plaint. That's all
Speaker 1: he cared about, is like he kept telling my lieuten yo, he.
Speaker 8: Be with the car. He's like, he hit him with
Speaker 8: the car.
Speaker 1: I'm like, yeah, with the car, Why do you think
Speaker 1: Joe can run? So the guys, the guy who got robbed, Katchamovids,
Speaker 1: this old guy. We went back to him to get
Speaker 1: the statement and everything. The guy was hugging us. He
Speaker 1: was like a Ukrainian immigrant or something. Old guy. All
Speaker 1: he was doing is getting Chinese food and his motherfucker's
Speaker 1: trying to rob him. And the kid like he was
Speaker 1: a kid. He turned Okay, he was the gun's fake.
Speaker 1: That's not a real gun. But he didn't know that
Speaker 1: neither way, so he's looking at but yeah, it worked
Speaker 1: out the kid. It worked out for the kid too.
Speaker 1: Over the fence with the car, over the defense with
Speaker 1: the car. Yes, I wasn't guy, I would.
Speaker 6: Have liked to do that, maybe for like a couple
Speaker 6: of weeks, you know, just.
Speaker 4: It's gotta be. It sounds like fun, bro, I mean.
Speaker 5: But it would have to be in the eighties. It
Speaker 5: couldn't be now. To go on the time I'd have
Speaker 5: to go on the time machine with the fat motorola.
Speaker 4: You know, you know, anybody on the job now, Mike,
Speaker 4: it's gotta be way different that I said. You know,
Speaker 4: anybody on the job now, it's gotta be way different.
Speaker 8: My my brother just retired with twenty seven years and
Speaker 8: he had a good career too.
Speaker 1: He uh he ended up being cheap Patrol's office, which
Speaker 1: was really good. But he was an active compist. He
Speaker 1: was in the UH seven seven as a cop No.
Speaker 1: Six mes A Cops seven seven as a soergeant and
Speaker 1: the six hours lieutenant, all high profile stuff, anti crime stuff.
Speaker 8: He's got medals that have metals.
Speaker 4: He's good.
Speaker 1: But now you're tired.
Speaker 4: So the job ain't the same now, right, can't.
Speaker 8: It's a little different.
Speaker 1: We work a lout with the cops like UH with
Speaker 1: the NYPD, with the marshals like it's a lot of
Speaker 1: interaction with the auction explosion tactives and stuff. And even
Speaker 1: if the you know, pro cops, we deal with them
Speaker 1: all the time. They you know, they're all great guys
Speaker 1: and guys, but it is different for them, you know.
Speaker 1: It's the body camera has done them a lot of
Speaker 1: good things. Actually, if you ever I'm sure there's a
Speaker 1: YouTube channel for the something. Go watch body camp for
Speaker 1: like an hour.
Speaker 7: Oh actually had a TV show and Discovery one of
Speaker 7: those things that I just told they were showing with
Speaker 7: those body can.
Speaker 1: Yeah, body cams are great.
Speaker 4: So when you get the call for the fire department,
Speaker 4: was there any hesitation you think that you might not
Speaker 4: take it?
Speaker 1: Or no? So I was an anti crime which is great.
Speaker 1: That's what I wanted to do. I want to be
Speaker 1: the tech was or my way to it's detective. That
Speaker 1: was the goal.
Speaker 8: And uh so I caught mem and Monte Prada. Wait, Mike,
Speaker 8: best to get a girl?
Speaker 7: Mike, you want to be a Sorry I mean, but
Speaker 7: didn't you want to be a Did you want.
Speaker 1: To be an actor?
Speaker 7: The lord own a guy or something like that? Before
Speaker 7: we get to the fire story right in here, it's
Speaker 7: kind of a cap story a.
Speaker 1: Couple of different TV shows with this group. This is
Speaker 1: all rock guys. They come to the rock, they want
Speaker 1: the rig to take a couple of guys. We were
Speaker 1: just background guys. We didn't do much but everywhere I
Speaker 1: don't know what shows were great. Then you got the
Speaker 1: rescue makeup going.
Speaker 4: I was gonna say, he's got the fu.
Speaker 1: Yeah they did that to us.
Speaker 8: We didn't do it. Yeah, you know, well Mike's got it.
Speaker 7: On, you know, come on, all right, sorry, go ahead,
Speaker 7: you which is totally railroad to your conversation.
Speaker 8: Oh yeah, we get So.
Speaker 1: I called Margie Proud because I was a copper Larry
Speaker 1: your son who was jimmified.
Speaker 8: And I said to her, I was six twenty eight
Speaker 8: on the list, six twenty eight. I call her. I go,
Speaker 8: so I'll be in like the January class.
Speaker 1: Right, she goes, January, you just miss getting July. Bro,
Speaker 1: you're gonna be in like October. My fuck, because we were.
Speaker 8: We were in the championships at a stadium with the
Speaker 8: the presint and.
Speaker 1: I didn't really tell anybody, but you know, my partner knew,
Speaker 1: but want you tell somebody's the end of it.
Speaker 8: So my inspector, Patty Brennan, God rests what a great.
Speaker 1: Man he was. Uh, he said, yeakeet, and we win
Speaker 1: the championship. I walk over with the trophy. I go
Speaker 1: inspector for you. Did you know whatever? By the way,
Speaker 1: I'm leaving next week. He goes, I know how the
Speaker 1: fuck this guy? Now?
Speaker 8: That guy was great man.
Speaker 1: I got a civilian complaint from Norman Segul, the actual
Speaker 1: head of a CLU, and I had got a lot
Speaker 1: of SAVIN complaints.
Speaker 8: But you know whatever, I walk into the prest. He's
Speaker 8: in his office.
Speaker 1: He has a bro heasy.
Speaker 8: He goes, Mike, come in here a second, shut the door.
Speaker 4: I got a fuck.
Speaker 1: I knew what happened, knew what he did. He goes,
Speaker 1: I can't believe you got a civilian complaint from fucking
Speaker 1: Norman Siegel.
Speaker 8: That's fucking amazing. I was like, well, he didn't move.
Speaker 8: I actually the move three times. I knew who he was,
Speaker 8: and then he got cross checked.
Speaker 1: Were gonna do the top of the broken leg? He
Speaker 1: was gonna run over him? You can't have that.
Speaker 8: So he took care of the sweat it all the way.
Speaker 8: But that guy was the best I got to work.
Speaker 1: Uh my anti crite details to the last day before
Speaker 1: I left, and the only way day fucked me. Was
Speaker 1: that made me buy a dark blue shirt for one
Speaker 1: day because I hadn't like flue shirts, but I bought
Speaker 1: the one.
Speaker 4: Shirt to my brother, What did you did your dad
Speaker 4: tell you like, this is no brain. You gotta take
Speaker 4: the job.
Speaker 5: Bro.
Speaker 1: No, he didn't care.
Speaker 6: He knew.
Speaker 4: I was like, I didn't care.
Speaker 1: He didn't.
Speaker 4: There was not even for a second. You're like, yeah,
Speaker 4: maybe I'll stay.
Speaker 1: He was no. No, I was gone.
Speaker 8: Like I said, you know, I've been divorced.
Speaker 1: I felt, you know, everything was not It was okay,
Speaker 1: but it wasn't.
Speaker 8: It could be better.
Speaker 1: He's got a LifeWise, So I made the right move.
Speaker 1: I have no regrets.
Speaker 8: I you know, he was talking.
Speaker 1: About the fire now, I mean I can it is.
Speaker 1: It's just so many you meet on both jobs. When
Speaker 1: you're on both jobs, you meet so many good people
Speaker 1: and did of course there are, but you would know
Speaker 1: that they're not coming to your house and I call
Speaker 1: him on the phone, you know, but whatever, it's mostly
Speaker 1: good people. And it's everybody's a team. Games PD, you
Speaker 1: got your partner or a team. Fire department speaks for itself.
Speaker 1: Everybody's the team. No one's an individual.
Speaker 4: It's good well there are, but we got hired actually
Speaker 4: as provisional firefighters, right yeah, because they were uh sue
Speaker 4: in the city or something. The guys from Long Island
Speaker 4: was suing the at that point, right five attend that
Speaker 4: five points for city residents, right yeah, yeah, And so.
Speaker 1: Yeah, my father said, once he goes, once you're on,
Speaker 1: you'll be all right at the very least, I'll just
Speaker 1: settle and hire them too. All right, good class, A lot.
Speaker 4: Of fun we did. We had some characters, and we
Speaker 4: were talking about Vinnie before and I remember a graduation bro.
Speaker 4: He he had faith teeth because he was a boxer too, right,
Speaker 4: most teeth, Yeah yeah, So he's taking him out and
Speaker 4: fun around all the time. So at graduation he loses them.
Speaker 4: He's not a half on my teeth. I looked down
Speaker 4: on my shoe and his teeth are on my shoe.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he was, Oh my god, he's He's a character.
Speaker 1: That whole class was bro. Neil from Boston was like
Speaker 1: I ended up living with Neil and three other guys
Speaker 1: from both He was living in Staten Island, right yeah.
Speaker 1: The one guy moved out, so he's like, oh I
Speaker 1: got I got you know, got a room and I
Speaker 1: knew I hung out with old him. I'm like, I
Speaker 1: got my rent in half and I get to live
Speaker 1: with three guys who had an absolute ball with you know,
Speaker 1: it was like good in the fire hoss. It was great,
Speaker 1: and I lived. I was on the rotation at seventy seven,
Speaker 1: which is essentially down the block, so it was good.
Speaker 1: So he got you over to two eighty three. My
Speaker 1: father did. That was because we had so many chiefs
Speaker 1: kids in that class. He wanted to me in two
Speaker 1: thirty four. That was to say that was his idea.
Speaker 1: I was all for it, and then you know he's
Speaker 1: a boxed out but uh, you know, I they did
Speaker 1: find out about that, and I did. I did take
Speaker 1: some heat for that, but uh it wasn't really like
Speaker 1: that wasn't malicious. And you know, if you look around
Speaker 1: my bes, and I know you can't see all of it,
Speaker 1: but there's two eighty three ship everywhere, I mean that's.
Speaker 7: Right, that's Yankee ship everywhere. But you know that's okay.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, behind I won't hold it against I won't
Speaker 1: me at all times.
Speaker 7: I won't hold it against either. You see my ship
Speaker 7: behind me?
Speaker 4: Sorry?
Speaker 7: Oh sorry?
Speaker 4: Yeah? Who are there anybody from my class can go
Speaker 4: to two thirty four.
Speaker 8: Uh yeah, corkorand Jimmy Pockets.
Speaker 4: I got a lot of a lot of the chief
Speaker 4: sons in there. Bro a lot of chief We had
Speaker 4: fe hand Son in there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Dahm was there.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I helped, he was there.
Speaker 1: All was a big and rescue two we I mean
Speaker 1: for chief sons. We had good guys.
Speaker 6: Listen to Waity three wasn't too shabbly, you know what
Speaker 6: I mean?
Speaker 8: All right, Oh, we definitely did all right single lend
Speaker 8: you been nice.
Speaker 1: Although when I got there one twenty and was in
Speaker 1: with us with the four to four, and I didn't
Speaker 1: know any better because I got there they were there already,
Speaker 1: I quickly found out that they really didn't get along.
Speaker 4: Who to Waity three and went twenty.
Speaker 8: Yeah real time. Yeah, well there was.
Speaker 1: I liked all of them because their character. I love characters.
Speaker 1: One twenty he had characters. They were great. There were characters.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I came to learn that you know, when
Speaker 1: you're single, you don't want to get a forced marriage.
Speaker 1: That's what I got out.
Speaker 6: Yeah, exactly right.
Speaker 8: No, it's just a matter of like different like when
Speaker 8: they had the meal we.
Speaker 1: Had like eleven o'clock or twelve o'clock or whatever. We
Speaker 1: when we did it, it was like eat thirty nine o'clock.
Speaker 1: That was apparently a big deal. I didn't really give
Speaker 1: a I'm happy to eat, you know.
Speaker 5: I mean, that's a big firehouse for just one engine there, right,
Speaker 5: I mean?
Speaker 1: And then yeah, yeah, my dad said, when they built it,
Speaker 1: they had designs on.
Speaker 8: Putting the squad was there, squat for yeah, the.
Speaker 1: Ambulance was there, and then they were gonna put a
Speaker 1: truck there, and then never happened because the budget cuts
Speaker 1: and everything else. So yeah, it's.
Speaker 8: Not as big as you.
Speaker 1: I'm sure you've been in there, but like when you
Speaker 1: go upstairs, it's a locker room, a division and then
Speaker 1: it's just now. Yeah, yeah, it was a little tough.
Speaker 1: It was all right.
Speaker 8: I dealt with it.
Speaker 6: Who is who is the captain some of the forces?
Speaker 1: Daddy? Remember who was when I first got there was
Speaker 1: Charlie Williams. He was a rescue to fireman. My my
Speaker 1: dad was finding Garretts, the beach guy. Charlie was. He looked
Speaker 1: like Wilfrid Brimley in this much smaller version, but uh,
Speaker 1: tough his nails man.
Speaker 8: That guy was he was a nice guy, a nice Uh.
Speaker 8: Then we had Rocker.
Speaker 1: Ronaldi came in after that. He's, I mean that guy
Speaker 1: is except for the far but he whispers, yeah, kitchen table,
Speaker 1: the Tasmanian Devil, fire out, three windows full. Everybody's everybody's like,
Speaker 1: what are we going in here?
Speaker 6: Or feast behind you?
Speaker 5: When you get into an accident and you'd say, chief,
Speaker 5: I'm gonna take care of that, and he says, what
Speaker 5: are you talking about?
Speaker 8: I have no idea.
Speaker 4: Why don't we keep getting that? Why did that keep
Speaker 4: coming up? I don't understand why I didn't.
Speaker 5: I didn't say anything about that you were driving. I
Speaker 5: didn't said was that we got into an accident? Anything
Speaker 5: about you?
Speaker 4: And always comes up on the shout. I'm constantly give you.
Speaker 1: I'll give you guys a minute. Figured it out all right,
Speaker 1: But uh then we had so nine to eleven happened,
Speaker 1: and like they promoted so many people.
Speaker 8: Rocker got voted and we got Jack Burke and there Jack.
Speaker 1: Was there for I think what twenty is? Uh yeah,
Speaker 1: and then you know like what I got there was
Speaker 1: Gary and Bennedict.
Speaker 6: It was uh how to beat that?
Speaker 7: Right?
Speaker 1: Sorry?
Speaker 8: Yeah, no song was he was built with the building.
Speaker 4: He stayed there.
Speaker 8: He got there when the building.
Speaker 1: I'm surprised he's got in the chat tonight man he is,
Speaker 1: but well, you guys know him, right, So baby, I
Speaker 1: don't know if he told you this, And I'm gonna
Speaker 1: tell the secret because he's been busting My area is
Speaker 1: right in the middle.
Speaker 8: Oh that's that's actually a good story.
Speaker 1: Hit this one. So this is my first job as
Speaker 1: a show. If it was cool, it's what my pants on.
Speaker 1: So I said, Rutland Plaza. Anybody playing with the area
Speaker 1: knows where the plasa is. Nobody ever wants to go
Speaker 1: there for a fire. First job is a show. But
Speaker 1: I'm driving like I stole it because you don't drive
Speaker 1: fast over they fire. So I get out there, I
Speaker 1: pull in. I'm like, oh perfect. Once he pull cuts
Speaker 1: the gate, I pull in. I know there's a hydrant there.
Speaker 1: You know what's not in there?
Speaker 8: That stampipe up?
Speaker 7: Fuck?
Speaker 1: But somebody was coming out. So I grabbed the door,
Speaker 1: chopped it with the bag. I go in.
Speaker 8: I did the whole thing for the first floor.
Speaker 1: Everything went fine, you know, miss it there was it
Speaker 1: was actually a missing fireman at the time. You know,
Speaker 1: may day the whole bed and he walked right past me,
Speaker 1: and I grew up with him. I knew who he was.
Speaker 1: I'm like, yo, bro, they're looking for you. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: that's the side of the point. Donald comes out and
Speaker 1: goes you looked up to the first floor. Great job
Speaker 1: of a h couldn't couldn't have been nicer about it
Speaker 1: that the fire off the go. He's just so you know,
Speaker 1: there's no stampipe book there. I had no choice, like
Speaker 1: I was. I was stuttering for a bit death. Thank
Speaker 1: god somebody was evacuine. They wanted to jump. I'm like,
Speaker 1: don't boot them, don't get the lando made go. Well,
Speaker 1: but yeah, that was that was a bad fire too.
Speaker 1: They got their es kip in that. I was very
Speaker 1: happy to be a strike for that one. Brothern Plaza
Speaker 1: was Nobody wanted to go there. Ever, nobody nobody prayed
Speaker 1: for a firing Ronan Plaza. That's for sure.
Speaker 4: There he is. I knew he'd be in there, yes
Speaker 4: I am, but he just plugged in the great my dad,
Speaker 4: I tell him, he reminds me of my father.
Speaker 7: For some reason.
Speaker 4: He looks he talks like my father.
Speaker 6: He don't really like the job that much now he
Speaker 6: is a job.
Speaker 7: No hates it right.
Speaker 4: He said it was a good job too. Son said
Speaker 4: it was really good.
Speaker 1: That was yeah, I mean there was you know yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean I got lost and get turned around.
Speaker 8: I mean it worked out okay.
Speaker 1: But his boss wasn't too happy, obviously missing a guy
Speaker 1: for a bit.
Speaker 5: Who were some of the guys when you first got
Speaker 5: there that you're you you remember like kind of like
Speaker 5: taking they were taking you on the under their wings.
Speaker 1: So first guy, the first guy, that John News John
Speaker 1: he was you know, he was one of seeing you
Speaker 1: guys there, real soft, brooking guy kind of talks. I
Speaker 1: ended up calling him the Duke because he walk like
Speaker 1: John Wayne, but like not in a dead.
Speaker 8: Way, like just that's just the way.
Speaker 1: He was very very easy, even keeled the way he talked,
Speaker 1: carried the rag in his pocket. So then he tells
Speaker 1: me about this other guy Flint John Flynt, and oh
Speaker 1: he's a funny guy who's a cop.
Speaker 8: You'll get along with him. Whatever.
Speaker 1: So he was out on vacation whenever I got there.
Speaker 1: So but you know the other guys are telling me,
Speaker 1: like Daryl Adone him and Fleaster all the time that
Speaker 1: I was like, yo, you's got a big mount. He's
Speaker 1: gonna break them by. I get all these descriptions of Flynn.
Speaker 1: So I come into work one day and I walked
Speaker 1: through the door and the house watch is dark.
Speaker 8: It's like, you know, I got that like three thirty.
Speaker 8: So I go to put my keys in there.
Speaker 1: He goes, hey, how you doing? That's all.
Speaker 7: Here?
Speaker 1: You getting me? Bro? I said, oh, you must be Flynn.
Speaker 1: He goes, how do you know that? I said, they
Speaker 1: said you be on your back and you had a
Speaker 1: big mouth. Great right there, then he's probably know what
Speaker 1: to do it himself. He loved it. That was tough, Bro,
Speaker 1: for a single legend. Change your tours. Man, if the
Speaker 1: right guys are in that kitchen, you had to go
Speaker 1: in there, like you almost stop the door. You're like,
Speaker 1: all right, I'm ready, Vid, you could be forget it
Speaker 1: and just like took a shooting gallery. Horrible, well, horrible
Speaker 1: for the guys who were getting crushed.
Speaker 5: But yeah, how was it for you being a cop
Speaker 5: for so many years and then coming in there.
Speaker 6: You know, that's always like a little fine for me.
Speaker 1: I was not paid full vacation, but that they you
Speaker 1: fucking cops, This fucking cops.
Speaker 8: I'm like, bro whatever. Man don't hate to play. They
Speaker 8: hate the game.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but they it was funny because the cop time
Speaker 1: is the cop time, Maple Cup pop time forget I
Speaker 1: got crushed all of it all.
Speaker 6: Right, pop time too. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So the tian needs the need to go to provy
Speaker 1: school to teach right, has to be a first grade fireman. Well,
Speaker 1: guess who was the first grade fire mid All of
Speaker 1: a sudden, this guy. They're like, oh, he's first grade.
Speaker 8: Send him.
Speaker 1: So Gil Frank was achieved in a five. We played
Speaker 1: hockey together. He's like, yeah, a nice try. He's got
Speaker 1: fucking four years on the job. You're not sending him.
Speaker 8: Oh yeah, that was that was fun.
Speaker 1: I ended up going later on, but yeah, it was fun.
Speaker 1: But uh yeah, like John Flynn, John used got Calhoun's
Speaker 1: got Calhoun was the best because he never talked ever
Speaker 1: and when he when he uttered words, they were they
Speaker 1: were funny, sarcastic, and there was a needle of pasch
Speaker 1: to the'm like he was giving you a shot.
Speaker 8: The best line I ever heard.
Speaker 1: I didn't hear it personally, but it was quickly went around.
Speaker 1: Guy had transferred from A three twenty three to twenty three.
Speaker 1: I wanted to get him more work whatever. So Scott
Speaker 1: doesn't talk. Scott just smokes the cigarlles out the window.
Speaker 1: You know, nice guy, very funny guy too when he
Speaker 1: gets going. So the guy says to me, because hell you,
Speaker 1: where's a good place to study around here? Scott goes
Speaker 1: three twenty three.
Speaker 6: That is a perfect thing, man, that's the scene guy.
Speaker 1: Now, I mean the polse never got about fort I
Speaker 1: mean it could be ripping out.
Speaker 8: Two three windows.
Speaker 1: He come up there, never said a word, never yelled nothing,
Speaker 1: just went in there, put the fire out, put it down.
Speaker 1: That was it. And uh we find out like so
Speaker 1: you know, no one's ever out on the meal back then,
Speaker 1: like you eating cook and we all know single were
Speaker 1: His wife has to tell us that he had siliyac,
Speaker 1: which now is like everybody has it, you know, the
Speaker 1: gluten thing. He never said a word. He was just
Speaker 1: eating in Pean. That's how he was. Well. Like we
Speaker 1: told him like if you're sick, dude, will you know whatever.
Speaker 1: He didn't want to do it that he was like
Speaker 1: a dude.
Speaker 4: That's old school right there.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 8: His one of his sons is in one cixty five truck.
Speaker 1: Now, he worked with my brother briefly, but uh yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean his wife's a sweetheart, the kid's a great
Speaker 1: and he's just that. He's just a quiet guy, like
Speaker 1: you know, but when he's when he spoke, yeah, like
Speaker 1: I took a whole time. No one cares what I say.
Speaker 1: This guy when he spoke, he.
Speaker 4: Was like like yes, hunting bro.
Speaker 1: But talking. I know, sorry, everybody. God was good.
Speaker 8: He very very He did the dinner dance MC stuff.
Speaker 1: The first time. I'm like, he's doing this. There should
Speaker 1: be something. Oh my god, let me tell you right now,
Speaker 1: you want to go to the bathroom. He's gonna take
Speaker 1: your part. Funny as hell.
Speaker 5: I was right up your rally too, like red buttons
Speaker 5: now yeah, right, that was like right up your.
Speaker 4: Rally, O'Neill.
Speaker 8: I'm trying to make us old guys feel better.
Speaker 4: Thanks, you appreciated.
Speaker 1: I don't know what they do comics, okay, George, he's dead. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but the problem was funny, you know, you know again,
Speaker 1: like it was different.
Speaker 6: How long how long did it take you to catch
Speaker 6: your first job? You remember?
Speaker 7: Funny?
Speaker 1: You should mention that. That's another great story. So yeah,
Speaker 1: so me and Kevin, you remember Chris Chiles, Kevin Beblock
Speaker 1: and Vinnie.
Speaker 8: So the four of us go there.
Speaker 7: I know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So everybody catches the job except this guy.
Speaker 8: So I came into work.
Speaker 1: Funny night, Joe. It's snow and it wasn't crazy snow,
Speaker 1: but it was good snow. It got better, worse whatever.
Speaker 1: John Flynn remember him, got in his back. We're in
Speaker 1: the office, Gary Bennanick's the boss. I forgot the other
Speaker 1: Oh no I did, yeah, soupex work and whatever. So
Speaker 1: Flynn famous words, let's king draw up. Let's give them
Speaker 1: the probate novel. All right, great to in the morning.
Speaker 1: We get a run for a phone. Alom on, I
Speaker 1: think dumont I forgot exactly where it was. I was
Speaker 1: still terrified as the matter.
Speaker 8: So we get there.
Speaker 1: It's one of those duplex down things, right, oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: I get to the back, I got the line. I
Speaker 1: go to step off and somebody says, hold the line.
Speaker 1: Now I have a radio back then, you know, but
Speaker 1: you could hear it, all right, And then to our door.
Speaker 1: Our control man says, no, no, bring line, bring line,
Speaker 1: and the boss we get to the front door us
Speaker 1: so now once went he's in the basement. This is
Speaker 1: a mattress fire at this point, right, but it's smoke everywhere.
Speaker 1: So once twenty thinks, you know, will we charge the
Speaker 1: line with the door. They're like, all right, there, you
Speaker 1: know lines it right? The windows go. Nobody tells me
Speaker 1: or I didn't know. I didn't see whatever. There were
Speaker 1: stairs right inside the door, right, and I was looking
Speaker 1: this way to the first floor. Oh no, oh yeah,
Speaker 1: So I go went on two knees right, So as
Speaker 1: soon as my first knee goes, I go roll over.
Speaker 1: Then now there's long gone. That helmet's long gone. Two
Speaker 1: different directions, but all I remember from Provy school. All
Speaker 1: I got out of was don't get stuck on the
Speaker 1: fucking stairs right, shoot the bottom of the stairs.
Speaker 8: Gary Betten comes down. He grabs me. You get the
Speaker 8: helmet back on.
Speaker 4: We're good.
Speaker 1: He goes, where's an ozz while I go, huh, and
Speaker 1: here's the thing. It's up there. He goes, all right,
Speaker 1: no problem. So the other guy brings it up. As
Speaker 1: soon as he opens it, he crushes both of us.
Speaker 1: Helmets go flying again. I'm like, I'm in my first fire.
Speaker 1: I've fallen down the stairs bost of my helmets white
Speaker 1: now and that.
Speaker 8: Is fire because they broke the window, thinking water.
Speaker 1: When you get down there with them, the fire is late,
Speaker 1: literally freight treating over our heads. That is three of
Speaker 1: us trapped in the basement. Like I have no radio.
Speaker 1: I can hear them on the radio saying you're on boost,
Speaker 1: you out of water. There's no water. Now there's four
Speaker 1: of us in the basement and I'm sitting there like,
Speaker 1: you know, I mean, I wasn't. He had his hand,
Speaker 1: was like he was taking care of me. But in
Speaker 1: my head, I'm going, at what point do we leave?
Speaker 1: Like we don't have water, there's a lot of fire.
Speaker 1: It's getting kind of hot. Like the door's right there, like,
Speaker 1: we gotta go. I'm waiting. I'm waiting. Gary won't leave.
Speaker 1: He's like what so it was twelve frozen hydrants. We
Speaker 1: weren't getting water. Finally they're screamed our door. Our control
Speaker 1: man is on his stomach at the top of the stairs,
Speaker 1: going you have to get out of here.
Speaker 8: And I'm I'm like, oh, I'm with him, bro let's go.
Speaker 6: So and he just stands.
Speaker 8: He goes in fun of ex usic whatever.
Speaker 1: So Gary's they all we all jump out into the
Speaker 1: snow on the stoop like and he's coach on fire.
Speaker 8: Everybody's smoking.
Speaker 1: I'm standing there like all right, relatively one piece and
Speaker 1: not burnt, not hurt. The chief walks over to us
Speaker 1: and says two eighty three go to the ambulance. Gary
Speaker 1: Bettanan says to him, he goes, oh, no, chief for
Speaker 1: going back in. I go going back here where. I'm like,
Speaker 1: no fucking way, we're going back in there.
Speaker 8: So I'm like this is I'm like, this is not happening.
Speaker 1: So they go back. They put the fire out. Now
Speaker 1: the rod bent out of sheet that we put the
Speaker 1: fire out. I'm like, yo, we live, didn't we I
Speaker 1: didn't know, So you go back to the fire house.
Speaker 1: Now I'm quitting. At this point, I'm going back to
Speaker 1: the cop I'm done, Like this is crazy. I'm not
Speaker 1: doing this. So all the hoses frozen. I'm trying to
Speaker 1: be the good prob. It's like four in the morning.
Speaker 1: I'm setting it all up in there. I hit him
Speaker 1: in the opice there rolls talking. I'm like, house fuck.
Speaker 1: So I knew, like that's walking into the lions then
Speaker 1: right now. So all right, so I walk in. They
Speaker 1: stopped talking and I'm looking around flying tupac h mcgibb
Speaker 1: in the hands of Gary. No one's fucking. I looked
Speaker 1: at them, so, flingles, you got any questions? I go,
Speaker 1: I only have one questions, like, just one? Just one?
Speaker 1: Are they all like that?
Speaker 5: Like no, I'd rather chase the guy into the alley.
Speaker 8: So I'm like, I just said it to them, and
Speaker 8: I'm like whatever. It's like five o'clock. I called my father.
Speaker 1: I'm like, yo, bro, what's up. I tell him to
Speaker 1: read his judges birds that same. So I just told
Speaker 1: you it was what's a mat? I go, what's up?
Speaker 8: I'm done?
Speaker 1: Bro, this is stupid. I told you this was stupid.
Speaker 1: You were stupid but doing I'm stupid for doing it.
Speaker 1: I'm fucking I'm going back to the coff feels. Are
Speaker 1: you getting open in the morning? I said, yeah, just
Speaker 1: pick up the beers and stop by the house, all right.
Speaker 8: So me and my father sat there questioning a Keason
Speaker 8: beer ten in the morning.
Speaker 1: He told me the same.
Speaker 8: I was like, but it's you know, it was a
Speaker 8: little overwhelming, to say the least.
Speaker 1: First job, bro, thirty seconds in waht the helmets twice,
Speaker 1: trapped in the basement. We didn't have radio, so I
Speaker 1: didn't know any better the guy and Nobody's like they
Speaker 1: took care of me.
Speaker 5: But I was like, this is it's pretty sitting a
Speaker 5: mattress in the you know, in that lower level.
Speaker 6: That's pretty shitty.
Speaker 8: Listen, bro, you're not gonna be me feel but that's stupid.
Speaker 1: So the good one.
Speaker 8: Proby School. I went to teach Proby School.
Speaker 1: I kept emphasizing to keep one leg up, and they
Speaker 1: were doing the navelism evolutions and I was just I
Speaker 1: was trying to teach him how to do it. And
Speaker 1: I told every single one of them, every probem I
Speaker 1: ever thought. At the lecture. I told him that story
Speaker 1: and why it happened that way, and I, you know,
Speaker 1: it's as a learning experience.
Speaker 6: You know Kevin Malone in the chat, So can I
Speaker 6: hit it with the car?
Speaker 4: This is what SnO said that you guys were affectionately
Speaker 4: known as the crap of nineteen ninety five.
Speaker 8: No, it gets better than that.
Speaker 1: So there was four of us, So like, nobody wants
Speaker 1: to be number one and nobody wants to number four.
Speaker 8: So I was I fluctuated between three and four a lot.
Speaker 1: I was never one. So it became like Coke PEPSI Snapple.
Speaker 1: I would Snapple and there was no fourth drink. You
Speaker 1: were just fought. No one cared. Everybody took a turn
Speaker 1: of me in fourth, but I was fought a lot.
Speaker 1: I did some stupid stuff, but not crazy stupid stuff,
Speaker 1: but stuper enough.
Speaker 4: Four.
Speaker 1: It's hard to like Child's always number one. He was
Speaker 1: like twenty two years old, pretty, you know, pretty hair
Speaker 1: and everything. He kept telling you know, he come into
Speaker 1: work and tell stories of his weekends on my flock.
Speaker 1: I can't drop that, you know. But Benny, Benny was
Speaker 1: good to have because Benny floor to three four a
Speaker 1: lot too. Oh, when you thought you were getting fired
Speaker 1: or getting beat up by one of these guys, Benny
Speaker 1: would do something and it'd be.
Speaker 8: Like here we go.
Speaker 5: Plus you want video on your side in case you're
Speaker 5: going out somewhere. You know, Oh you had a little ruckus,
Speaker 5: you know, yeah, just grabbed the ruckus, you know like.
Speaker 1: Those Yeah, there was uh yeah, it was a lot
Speaker 1: of fun.
Speaker 8: At first to see that coop.
Speaker 4: It was like, maybe now what happened? What what?
Speaker 8: What?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 8: No, no, there's no sort of telliges.
Speaker 4: Oh you had that look like we gotta say something
Speaker 4: like no, I believe me.
Speaker 8: I was fourth a lot on my own doing you
Speaker 8: know this.
Speaker 1: Those stories don't have to be told, they were just
Speaker 1: they were corrected properly. Uh yeah, it was. It was
Speaker 1: a lot of fun with those guys, the four of us,
Speaker 1: like Kevin Beverlock, built a bunch of stuff and fires
Speaker 1: like all these wooden things to put placks up that
Speaker 1: have been up there forever, like son tell you it's beautiful,
Speaker 1: you know.
Speaker 8: And that was a good bunch of dudes. I mean,
Speaker 8: the hit the best show was I had ever.
Speaker 1: Seen in my life, you know, after a period of time.
Speaker 1: I mean Tommy Good, John Hughes, Babo, Johnson, John Flynn,
Speaker 1: and then then we started getting to the you know,
Speaker 1: to the arts. Once not eleven hit, a lot of
Speaker 1: them retired. I became a show for Jimmy Lang became
Speaker 1: a show. Jimmy Lang was son I swear to God,
Speaker 1: like we used to joke it with dating SONA loved
Speaker 1: him so much like he would anything that Jimmy couldn't
Speaker 1: do any wrong with. Jimmy was the best guy whatever
Speaker 1: had to be there. But no, Jimmy is He's one
Speaker 1: of my best friends.
Speaker 8: He's he's good, he's he can drive it. That's the show.
Speaker 1: I need to put a fire up too.
Speaker 8: He didn't pull on.
Speaker 1: He got perple.
Speaker 4: That's why Sono liked him. You so you went on
Speaker 4: the rotation. You went to what.
Speaker 8: Rotation?
Speaker 4: He said, yeah? So you where'd you go first? To
Speaker 4: SATN Island truck.
Speaker 8: No, So my father was in charge of the rotation.
Speaker 8: So my favorite numb was fifteen right month is in
Speaker 8: the background. So I said, is it for they? Actually
Speaker 8: there was a seventy engine because it's sven Oh he said, yes,
Speaker 8: it's not city.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're not going as so I said, fifteen is
Speaker 1: my favorite number. Sends me to fifteen engine. It was
Speaker 1: a single engine at the time, Bro, it was an
Speaker 1: insuring experience. A lot of the guys were when I
Speaker 1: say older, probably my is now maybe a little younger.
Speaker 8: But like they were very very very quiet place, very
Speaker 8: good guys. Very but yeah, I tell you, Bro.
Speaker 1: I'm like, do we ever get runs like it happened? Yeah?
Speaker 1: That that that I took every detail.
Speaker 4: It was, where were they on, what street?
Speaker 1: They were on Henry Street? It's it's it actually an
Speaker 1: old firehouse, it's still there. It's just that the day
Speaker 1: city sold that they will do with eighteen. But I
Speaker 1: did get see the cities. I took every detail it
Speaker 1: was and that was good.
Speaker 8: Then I went to seventy seven truck, which was phenomenal showcase.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I had I had hit. Patty Mahane was my captain.
Speaker 1: He was a two ninety one or three guy back
Speaker 1: in the day. He was a character. He's about is
Speaker 1: that the hot Corn seventy seven, No. No. Seventy seven
Speaker 1: is on Broad Street, the Bully Great House. Great guys
Speaker 1: coast to my house in Rosebank, which was good. So
Speaker 1: anytime they called like you need some quick last minute,
Speaker 1: I was there, and I believe or not, I think
Speaker 1: I probably went to a dozen fires first do that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and uh, I realized one thing when that was over. Besides,
Speaker 1: the seventy seven was good guys. I never wanted to
Speaker 1: work in the truck again. It was we knew you
Speaker 1: that it's way too much work. Like you know you coming,
Speaker 1: you're NASA guy. If you don't fall down the stairs,
Speaker 1: you go and you put the fire out, you work
Speaker 1: out like a champ. These guys are pulling. Sucked this,
Speaker 1: but it was good characters, bro, They were all good characters.
Speaker 4: Man.
Speaker 1: I ended up framing out of that guy asked me
Speaker 1: to a load of dumpster for one hundred dollars. Me
Speaker 1: and Steve Saider. Steve said, I'm not doing it. Steve
Speaker 1: was nan he had another gig. So I said, I'll
Speaker 1: do it for h load of dumpster for one hundred bucks,
Speaker 1: no problem. I was done by eleven o'clock in the morning.
Speaker 1: So the guy's like, all right, he's your hundred bus.
Speaker 1: I'm like, can I help you with anything here? Like
Speaker 1: lift you or anything?
Speaker 8: That was it started, you.
Speaker 1: Know, helping him out. I worked all the time with
Speaker 1: them between I thought, you know, obviously pushing a lumber
Speaker 1: up to them.
Speaker 8: Then they showed me a few things.
Speaker 1: I learned enough to you know, when you get a house,
Speaker 1: two things, but all not a bad guy in a bunch.
Speaker 1: There were very nice rotators. It was me. Steve was there.
Speaker 1: They got a couple of probi's in the meantime. They
Speaker 1: were all good dudes. The bosses were me.
Speaker 8: Haiti was the best. He was a character.
Speaker 4: Oh my god, did you get guys like from Brooklyn?
Speaker 4: I still wanted to stay on the job and we're
Speaker 4: going to go to Staten Island?
Speaker 1: Like was that?
Speaker 4: Did you get guys who were like from Brooklyn, busy
Speaker 4: places who decided to go out to Staten Island.
Speaker 8: Yeah, that was that was eighty four truck.
Speaker 1: Was that place. A lot of guys from good places
Speaker 1: in Brooklyn lived out here. Still wanted to stay on
Speaker 1: the job and you know, just slow down a little
Speaker 1: bit with the number of runs. So eighty four truck
Speaker 1: when I was coming to Staten Island was obviously well known.
Speaker 1: A lot of Brooklyn guys were there, like, you know,
Speaker 1: it was cool, like they say, come here, come here,
Speaker 1: coming in.
Speaker 8: So when I came out to Staten Island, wouldn't go there.
Speaker 1: Because it's on a highway and I already experienced the
Speaker 1: Belt Parkway my entire twenty three Korea, So I said
Speaker 1: that a highway. Yeah, so I ended up any two
Speaker 1: right down in the box. It was. It was, you know,
Speaker 1: it was fine, but you're running them, you know, Darryl,
Speaker 1: don't end up eighty four truck. He was a twoty
Speaker 1: three guy originally a few other guys from places, and
Speaker 1: that's good because they come out and you know, they
Speaker 1: can show you stuff that you may not have gotten,
Speaker 1: you know, different perspective.
Speaker 4: You know, I mean, right that Island seems like a
Speaker 4: whole different fight department sometimes, but like it's.
Speaker 1: It's all local guys. Yeah, Bill live here, you know,
Speaker 1: with neighborhood guys. But uh listen, you heard the stories. Ah,
Speaker 1: they throw rocks at the windows. They carry batteries, brod.
Speaker 1: I was out here for ten years. I saw plenty
Speaker 1: of fives to know that no one carries batteries and
Speaker 1: throws batteries. There is it? You know? The problem out
Speaker 1: here is that I never realized that I got out here,
Speaker 1: was like, why'd you be a second a long?
Speaker 6: Because everybody's so far away?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 8: So that's sure.
Speaker 1: Right, I'm in the I'm like great Hills on the
Speaker 1: middle to top and Bille. We're going as either extra
Speaker 1: truck or fast truck depending where it is. Twelve minute
Speaker 1: ride and I'm down hind the boulevard ripping twelve minutes.
Speaker 8: That's why they do it. Now, once you hear you
Speaker 8: understand it, you know, I.
Speaker 5: Mean, so so coobs, did you know that the job
Speaker 5: I was talking to Nikki when we were in my talk,
Speaker 5: if it goes to all hands, now they send you
Speaker 5: an extra engine and truck automatic really yeah.
Speaker 4: So so you don't have to ask for it anymore.
Speaker 6: You don't have to answer ask for it. It comes automatic, now.
Speaker 1: Know, Yeah that's good.
Speaker 5: Yeah, So like he was saying that, like like Mike
Speaker 5: is saying right now, like especially out there, those guys
Speaker 5: probably ask for extra injured in the truck if the
Speaker 5: chief automatic, Yeah, it has to be automatic as soon
Speaker 5: as we hear.
Speaker 1: Like so if you're in Great Hills working, and you're working,
Speaker 1: you know, and you're into it, like you you're awake whatever,
Speaker 1: you're paying attention as soon as a phone one comes
Speaker 1: in with more than one phone call in Tottenville or
Speaker 1: you cannot you're on the rigging rolling because it's it
Speaker 1: cuts out the time. And a lot of you know
Speaker 1: a lot of young guys get sent out here and
Speaker 1: they are into it. They're into every aspect of it.
Speaker 1: You know, they'll drill, they'll like they're buffy about it, like.
Speaker 4: They want to go right, let's go.
Speaker 1: It keeps you, keeps you in like you know when
Speaker 1: you're older or whatever. I remember when I first rants
Speaker 1: for you, I did fivey fours in a row with
Speaker 1: no runs.
Speaker 4: I'm like, five fours in a row.
Speaker 8: I'm like, holy shit, what am I doing?
Speaker 1: The truck didn't get that many runs because it's you know,
Speaker 1: but that's a good thing. So you when the truck
Speaker 1: goes out either going to you're going to something.
Speaker 6: You're going to something right.
Speaker 1: Our accident shows are horrific. Out of here or job?
Speaker 1: You know, middle of the night, you're going to a job.
Speaker 1: There's no or car accident. No, there's no gassings out
Speaker 1: For some reason, I'm not sure why.
Speaker 4: Did you go back there after you? Or Marshall? And
Speaker 4: we got to get to the Marshall, but did you
Speaker 4: go back to the truck after you Marshall?
Speaker 8: So we were in class during COVID. So I get
Speaker 8: I get promoted to.
Speaker 1: Marshall in February of twenty February twenty ninth. Actually I'm
Speaker 1: friends with Tom Kaine. He was a seventy seven fireman.
Speaker 1: He's the chief fire Marshal. So we get promoted. We
Speaker 1: go to the class. I don't remember how long we
Speaker 1: were in the class, but like COVID was starting, like
Speaker 1: you know, guys who you know this guy got COVID whatever,
Speaker 1: So the job made a move. They sent us from
Speaker 1: Hooper Street where the classroom was, to the Rock, which
Speaker 1: I was the only got happy about it because I'm
Speaker 1: like Cooper Street. So it's too tight and the rocks
Speaker 1: the rock. So they sent us there because they want
Speaker 1: to spread us out and on top of each other.
Speaker 1: So the first day of the job, decision to send
Speaker 1: us there because of COVID where their flips is there,
Speaker 1: prop schools there, there giving blood. It's packed and this
Speaker 1: is when COVID's like, it's gonna kill you. You smoke
Speaker 1: and it what you know, We're all gonna die. I
Speaker 1: looked down in one of the tunnels and I see
Speaker 1: all these people, the kids, and they go, I don't
Speaker 1: think this was the plan. Whatever, it worked out. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so we got sent We did a few weeks and
Speaker 1: then outside eatings, he weren't coming to teach us and
Speaker 1: you're kind of just going over the same stuff. So
Speaker 1: they made a decision sent us back to the fived
Speaker 1: for We were back to six months, and I chose
Speaker 1: to go to the battalion because the guys had already
Speaker 1: had My seat was filled. I didn't want to disrupt
Speaker 1: what they had going. So the only time I drove
Speaker 1: et two truck was if they were out of trophies
Speaker 1: all together and no one would work, I drove Tommy Moone.
Speaker 1: I don't know if they might do with comedy. Tommy
Speaker 1: was great. I saw who was driving him, and I
Speaker 1: figured Tommy that guy the engine was short, so that
Speaker 1: guy needed to go back downstairs. I said, I'll drive
Speaker 1: you have a good time. Yeah, it was good. We
Speaker 1: did that for six months, then went back to the Marshalls,
Speaker 1: and then we were able to.
Speaker 4: When did you actually transfer them to sat Nile?
Speaker 1: And then twenty ten, so I had tore it the
Speaker 1: rock for a while and back to two B three
Speaker 1: and my daughter had gotten sick ones at the rock briefly,
Speaker 1: and uh, it was fine. It was a little more
Speaker 1: scared than anything else. But that was pretty much when
Speaker 1: I realized, I'm like, all right listening. You know, you
Speaker 1: run around with your hair on fire as a cop.
Speaker 1: You went to busy place of fire and like, and
Speaker 1: now the young the kid my kids, I think eight
Speaker 1: and six or whatever at the time. Now I can
Speaker 1: come out here, I can be close to home. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm able to, like in ten minutes to make the
Speaker 1: Litle League game instead of having you know, leave the LEFL.
Speaker 1: So I made that decision as mostly a family decision,
Speaker 1: but it worked out. I mean down the pocket.
Speaker 8: Yeah, ten years in a place where I end up
Speaker 8: meeting great people. So I literally work right down the block,
Speaker 8: I less than a mile from my house.
Speaker 1: Yeah wow, that's great.
Speaker 4: So how many years did you do? Two eighty three?
Speaker 1: Then I was assigned for fifteen years?
Speaker 4: Oh shit.
Speaker 1: I did the rotations at course, and I did probab
Speaker 1: school three years in and out, you know, do whatever
Speaker 1: I had, probably schools.
Speaker 8: My wife lost the jobs.
Speaker 1: That was always to make overtime. But uh it was good.
Speaker 5: That was fifteenth There was no overtime, man, cool like legitly, yeah,
Speaker 5: no overtime, Like guys had like forty hours, sixty hours,
Speaker 5: like yeah, yeah, I'm not kidding, it would be now
Speaker 5: now it is over. You know, everybody laughs if you
Speaker 5: don't have eight a thousand hours probably I remember guys
Speaker 5: like legitly, if you had over sixty hours, like you
Speaker 5: were like it was you red light.
Speaker 6: Yeah no now I'm not kidding and my kidding. And
Speaker 6: I was just thinking space Mike before.
Speaker 5: I don't want to forget about it, because you know
Speaker 5: what was important what you said about seventy seven truck
Speaker 5: that was your second you know, your rotation there.
Speaker 6: I mean third rotation.
Speaker 5: Yeah, like, think about all those guys, like, that's cool
Speaker 5: that the guys, because I don't think everybody had that
Speaker 5: experience where you know they had you know, they still
Speaker 5: had other Proby's right now, you got it, you're not
Speaker 5: really quote unquote of Proby. Forget about the fact that
Speaker 5: you were a copyfore right, but you know it was
Speaker 5: tough to be in a new place for the third time,
Speaker 5: and and you know, you know, you're still new and
Speaker 5: you want to do the right thing, but you're not
Speaker 5: a fucking Proby anymore, you know what I mean.
Speaker 8: Those guys treated us great.
Speaker 1: They like by that point, the second road, they dealt
Speaker 1: with it once, right, like delve and Steve.
Speaker 8: Siller and you know we we we were happy.
Speaker 1: To do the last stop. I mean we're both on
Speaker 1: Staten Islands, so it's close enough to home. They're a
Speaker 1: busy place. They were a good, good but a really
Speaker 1: good bunch of guys. I mean, all the.
Speaker 8: Senior guys would teach you stuff. So you want to
Speaker 8: tell this story.
Speaker 4: This is pretty actually pretty tell the story on this
Speaker 4: one roof you was here when you told me.
Speaker 1: A lady knocks on the door and she says, hey,
Speaker 1: do you guys want to do your practice on my car.
Speaker 4: You know the drill.
Speaker 8: So that guy this.
Speaker 1: Is Randy, Uh yeah, he's Randy. This guy was new Magison,
Speaker 1: good dude. So Willie right was the boss, but if
Speaker 1: everyone was Willi, Willie's a character. So Willi goes, yeah, sure,
Speaker 1: So we start with dog. We're forced to do it's
Speaker 1: a it's a seventy. It's an old wagon in right,
Speaker 1: Well force the door, don't force to do it. Next thing,
Speaker 1: you know, Well, story short, all four doors are in it,
Speaker 1: the roofs off it, and we're like, oh, great drill.
Speaker 1: You know A had good time, beautiful day.
Speaker 6: Oh no.
Speaker 1: About an hour later or so, maybe two hours later,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna.
Speaker 6: Knock on the door.
Speaker 1: There it is.
Speaker 8: I'm like, hey, what's up, bro? What I do for you?
Speaker 6: He goes, Yo, you.
Speaker 1: Guys fucked up my car. So right into cop I'm
Speaker 1: in trouble mode. No problem, let me get you the boss.
Speaker 1: I go up there. So Willie, this guy's downstairs, that's
Speaker 1: his car, and he's pissed. He goes, wow, no problem,
Speaker 1: So Willie, Willie's good man. He went down there. You
Speaker 1: can drive this guy like it has no registration on
Speaker 1: or anything. And this lady said it was hers. She
Speaker 1: showed the paperwork. So this is where he knows two
Speaker 1: like this is what you you and HER's cil matter.
Speaker 1: See yea, I said, tom My, go that was imp
Speaker 1: That was good.
Speaker 8: Together.
Speaker 6: I had a couple of those.
Speaker 7: You got. Then you go at random when you just
Speaker 7: come across from abandoned the roadway, you just cut them.
Speaker 6: Up a couple of buildings for God's sake, And.
Speaker 4: We did that to the one building on Grandad and
Speaker 4: we cut the ship out of the roof for the
Speaker 4: we had to go back and fix it. I can't
Speaker 4: knock it on the door.
Speaker 1: It is. They treated us very good, like you know,
Speaker 1: when we held we did a lot of stuff there
Speaker 1: to They were building a weight room up there.
Speaker 8: They separated the mountains, so.
Speaker 1: That was good. It was a very good experience.
Speaker 4: And I thought the rotation was good.
Speaker 5: Man.
Speaker 4: It made the job a lot smaller. You know, you
Speaker 4: get to see, uh, meet other guys from all the
Speaker 4: burrows working on the burrows. Sometimes you go to a
Speaker 4: place you get complacent. You never freaking leave there, you know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, true, no, it was good, it was it was
Speaker 1: you know, the Manhattan could be wasn't badslow Manhattan.
Speaker 8: That wasn't terrible, just a little bit slower than I
Speaker 8: would have liked it to be.
Speaker 1: But what are you gonna do?
Speaker 4: So you did fifteen there and then you went back.
Speaker 4: You just said you were never going to do work
Speaker 4: in the truck again.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Well what happened was I put him for the
Speaker 1: engine and I went and met the captain. When I
Speaker 1: went to the police academy with I know you're gonna
Speaker 1: meet the captain whatever, it's all set. I'm talking to
Speaker 1: the chief of personnel at the time, who's very good
Speaker 1: friend of mine.
Speaker 8: He calls me up. I'm in twenty three. He calls
Speaker 8: me up.
Speaker 1: He goes, you can't go to one tat two. I go, jee,
Speaker 1: I have no medical leaves. I'm like, I got but
Speaker 1: fifteen years, yeah, fifteen years. I was like, come on man.
Speaker 1: He goes, they have twenty four people on the rosta.
Speaker 1: You can go to one. He gave me every engine
Speaker 1: in the borough except one. Twenty five did a special guys.
Speaker 1: I was like, fuck, you're gonna come to Statn'm like,
Speaker 1: what do I want to travel? I was like, well,
Speaker 1: what about eighty two? He goes, Oh, they have eight openings.
Speaker 1: I'm like, well, i'll send you new papers. I'll take
Speaker 1: care of it. And the captain of eighty two was
Speaker 1: Jack Spalline, who was the two thirty four fiveman. He
Speaker 1: was in the question before us. I knew him the
Speaker 1: whole time, so worked out perfect. So yeah, fine, but
Speaker 1: you know it was good because I had to work
Speaker 1: here here. You are right, you're fifteen years of the job, business, company,
Speaker 1: the city, whatever. I walked into the kitchen. I taught
Speaker 1: half of them, and I used to we played the
Speaker 1: game with the rock. I'm teaching engines. You know the
Speaker 1: truck ball.
Speaker 8: You break truck balls, right, I'm not stupid.
Speaker 1: I go into Listen tells everything I said about the
Speaker 1: truck is wrong.
Speaker 6: I might have been cooking out of my ass.
Speaker 8: They made me do it.
Speaker 4: I was just.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 8: They were all good guys, I said. I felt all seriousness.
Speaker 1: I said, I need you guys to show me how
Speaker 1: you guys operate with certain I mean, I know we're fared.
Speaker 1: Just give me.
Speaker 8: You gotta teach me how you guys do it.
Speaker 1: If you're company.
Speaker 8: They loved it.
Speaker 1: You know you could look some guys like you said,
Speaker 1: come to Staten Island and you know if they walk around,
Speaker 1: they come to muscles, the T shirt, they whip about,
Speaker 1: the dirty helmet. I mean like I changed my front
Speaker 1: piece right away, I changed my pats right away, Like
Speaker 1: I'm not that guy.
Speaker 8: But there are guys that come.
Speaker 1: Out there and that that guy, and they don't like
Speaker 1: those guys like you demeaning them, you know, and who
Speaker 1: does that? Like I know what I can do, They'll
Speaker 1: see what I can do. We're good man, do something
Speaker 1: if I can show you something great, something even better.
Speaker 1: You know, no one's the one's about getting taught.
Speaker 4: Did you wind up driving there at all?
Speaker 1: I guess yeah, because what happened was like I swore
Speaker 1: when I drove twenty three, like one thirty four come
Speaker 1: right next to us. You know, I'm like, I'm never
Speaker 1: driving that fucking thing. It's huge.
Speaker 8: Well, I kept getting covering.
Speaker 1: Choulfis come in that like didn't know what I was
Speaker 1: tough because it's not grids. It's like you know Maple Street,
Speaker 1: Holly Street that you know, you know where you're going.
Speaker 1: These guys didn't where they were going. They couldn't back
Speaker 1: into the firehouse. I ended telling Jack one day, I'm like,
Speaker 1: listen if you got a spot in shover school, do you.
Speaker 8: Send me because I'm tired of covering guys coming here.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no problem.
Speaker 8: So that happened.
Speaker 1: I went to show school again and uh, they were good.
Speaker 1: It was very great. And then uh, shortly there after,
Speaker 1: like a couple of guys got hurt and it was
Speaker 1: the seat and no time. When a new captain came
Speaker 1: and when Jack left, barbells between the captain and the
Speaker 1: seat opened up, and I got it and I love
Speaker 1: I love driving it. The guys looked like when I drove.
Speaker 8: So I lived here, so I know all the streets right,
Speaker 8: So it was fun.
Speaker 1: It was a lot of fun with a couple of
Speaker 1: young guys other day and they actually said that they
Speaker 1: wish I was still in the firehouse. That was nice.
Speaker 4: That's a good compliment.
Speaker 7: Bro.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they're good guys. They're all young guys, old guys.
Speaker 1: They're all again, we're all locals, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: We're all friends.
Speaker 4: You know when you go there, though it can't be
Speaker 4: too many guys that you work was still there are
Speaker 4: the well the younger guys.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, somebody they're seeing guys now. They were
Speaker 1: young guys when I was there, right. I remember Vinnie Mayor,
Speaker 1: who I taught in probably school. He was in a
Speaker 1: being of Marshall too. Then he's one of the smartest.
Speaker 1: He's the one, uh Vin, He's one of the smartest
Speaker 1: guys that worked with and uh he was breaking my
Speaker 1: balls and I got there. It goes my house time, Bro.
Speaker 1: I was like, so, what do you want to washing
Speaker 1: this or something for you? Like the floor? I have
Speaker 1: no problem with that. Like his bunch of my balls
Speaker 1: the whole time, but he was good about it.
Speaker 8: Now I got him in the Marshalls, I'm like, oh,
Speaker 8: remember that time you talked about part up in a barrel? Bro,
Speaker 8: Now he's lieutenant though.
Speaker 1: You got me.
Speaker 4: See you finally get to the Marshalls right and there?
Speaker 4: Well yeah, I mean I don't even know nothing about
Speaker 4: the Marshalls. But how many what do they have?
Speaker 1: There's two bases there in Brooklyn and city wide north
Speaker 1: so city White South covers from a hundred and tenth
Speaker 1: streets south in Manhattan, all of Brooklyn and all of
Speaker 1: Staten Island. City wide North covers north one hundred and
Speaker 1: tenth Street, all the Queens and all of the Bronx.
Speaker 1: So any whatever the assignments are you know, they get
Speaker 1: handed out in that way. Then there's those are the
Speaker 1: two bases. Then you have there's a canine unit, there's
Speaker 1: a photo unit, and then s I U a special
Speaker 1: vestigatu and its headquarters. And there's not a lot of
Speaker 1: places to go once you get onto Marshalls. You know,
Speaker 1: you go into a base like everybody else. You learn
Speaker 1: your job and go over with a few things. It's
Speaker 1: a very interesting job. This school was a little six
Speaker 1: months six months and six months, bro, Like we're all
Speaker 1: fine and coming from the kitchen and now we're doing
Speaker 1: five days a week list in the clad. It's a
Speaker 1: little rough, but uh, but there's a lot of information.
Speaker 1: And if you were a cop before, it's that it
Speaker 1: doesn't advantage. But you don't have to be a cop
Speaker 1: to get it. There's plenty of marshals that were never
Speaker 1: cops that are very good.
Speaker 8: I remember.
Speaker 1: So you got of school after the whole truncation thing
Speaker 1: to go to the base and like you don't know
Speaker 1: who you're meeting, Like I don't. I only knew three marshals,
Speaker 1: but I got there. So I go to city why
Speaker 1: south and I'll mention his name. I think he's most
Speaker 1: watching them. So this guy, Anthony Henry's the ten ten
Speaker 1: engine ten truck guy, was the endine. Uh, he's like
Speaker 1: the office organizer, like because you have to sit a
Speaker 1: certain just to do that, you know. I mean it's like, oh,
Speaker 1: he hasn't all worked out phone list, computer, this Excel
Speaker 1: program that he's telling me. I'm like, I really appreciate
Speaker 1: all the stuff you're doing, but I don't know what
Speaker 1: program you're I don't know this stuff. I know computers
Speaker 1: a little, but he had all worked out and I ended
Speaker 1: up in a squad with rich Bolzone is the boss
Speaker 1: and he uh is pretty good as far as like
Speaker 1: showing you what to do, making sure you're settled, and
Speaker 1: then once you once you do it and you figure
Speaker 1: it out.
Speaker 8: It's it's it's a lot of fun, you know.
Speaker 1: It's interesting. It's different, especially after so many years of
Speaker 1: putting prize out or whatever. But it's a very interesting job.
Speaker 1: That's the curses that I can ever come to be detective.
Speaker 1: So it was good and I ended up doing the
Speaker 1: last year and a half in SIU, which is full
Speaker 1: of very good guys who do a lot of in
Speaker 1: depth work that I was able to learn from the
Speaker 1: three guys that when I got there all very shop investigators.
Speaker 1: So I enjoyed my time in the Marshals very much,
Speaker 1: too great.
Speaker 4: Any jobs that you had that were like, you know,
Speaker 4: noble ones that were in the papers or so.
Speaker 1: There was a I won't mention the catering place, but
Speaker 1: there was a I was. I was out of the
Speaker 1: class about a month and there was a fire in
Speaker 1: a very well known catering place down in Brooklyn, uh
Speaker 1: like catering place Delhi on Christmas Eve on Christmas night,
Speaker 1: Christmas night, and the guy who set us up tells me,
Speaker 1: he goes, you have the hege ds, you can just
Speaker 1: take Christmas off.
Speaker 8: It's not like the firehouse. So I'm like, no, I
Speaker 8: always work in my house.
Speaker 1: It's gonna work. So I end up working. There's four
Speaker 1: marshals in the basement and all four of it it's freezing.
Speaker 1: Call is third along whatever, like you know, it's over,
Speaker 1: and I'm just hold the millions of happened. Nobody can
Speaker 1: figure it out. So we end up taking the DVR.
Speaker 8: We go back to the base and wake up in
Speaker 8: the morning.
Speaker 1: We look at it and sure enough there's a guy
Speaker 1: that breaks in and I likes to wait on fire,
Speaker 1: so now it's my keys now. So when you're a
Speaker 1: base mar show and you get sent to SYU, the
Speaker 1: SYU investigator is gonna enhance your case. He's gonna get
Speaker 1: you videos like you're gonna go with him. So I
Speaker 1: got to do it very early on, and I went
Speaker 1: with two very very good guys, and I just basically
Speaker 1: stood there and watched them in action for the first
Speaker 1: couple of days, tried to contribute. Then I realized, like.
Speaker 8: I was way out of my league. These we're good man.
Speaker 1: So short, long story short, nine months later, this guy
Speaker 1: is moving all around. He was. He got him on
Speaker 1: video everywhere he was in Pennsylvania and one of the
Speaker 1: investigators had set something U because he was a sex
Speaker 1: offender that he had a reregisterce he moved.
Speaker 8: I didn't know where.
Speaker 1: This guy calls the other Marshall's cell phone, so he
Speaker 1: pretends he's you know, INVESTIGATORIM sexyphon and it convinced him
Speaker 1: to come in the next day to register to reregister.
Speaker 1: He walked right in, locked him.
Speaker 4: Up, sat him down, BINGO.
Speaker 8: That was a great case, and I guess I had
Speaker 8: a lot of great help on it.
Speaker 1: Well, great help. They did a lot of the work
Speaker 1: and I learned how they did it. And at the
Speaker 1: end it was all big teamwork. Thing was great, really
Speaker 1: good case. Uh, that was a good one.
Speaker 4: The guy from our class was in, wasn't he a
Speaker 4: supervising five Marshall was?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 4: I know, Oh Billy Raw, Billy Raw. Yeah, I think
Speaker 4: he just retire, right, Yeah he did.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, Billy's Billy was when I was in ceremonial.
Speaker 1: Billy was in the headquarters all the time, like they
Speaker 1: have a unit down there. He'd done his time in
Speaker 1: the base or whatever, and then the chiefs changed, he
Speaker 1: shuffled the people around. He ended up in Hooper Street
Speaker 1: for a little bit. I think it was the city North. So, yeah,
Speaker 1: he just retired. I guess he just decided this. I
Speaker 1: think he was pretty far out in the island, doesn't Yeah.
Speaker 4: I know he's married. Oh yeah he does, because I
Speaker 4: saw him at a book signing one night, his way
Speaker 4: out there, like talking.
Speaker 5: Like you were a delegate, weren't you too? How I
Speaker 5: was a delegate eighty two trunk?
Speaker 6: How long did you do that? The whole time there?
Speaker 1: Yeah, the whole time I was there? And then it
Speaker 1: was a trustee. I think I think I was the
Speaker 1: UFA board for about eight minutes. I think it was
Speaker 1: three months. I was filling in the spot when the uh,
Speaker 1: this trustee was running for something else, and then I
Speaker 1: got promoted near the guy took over.
Speaker 4: So yeah, trust me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because this down of trustee at the time wanted
Speaker 1: to run for vice president. I think that was it.
Speaker 1: So he had a vacate the spot and I just
Speaker 1: held it, you know, like I said, for two three months,
Speaker 1: and then I got promoted and another guy took it,
Speaker 1: and then they had the election later on, so I
Speaker 1: really didn't have to I did run for it years
Speaker 1: years before because the trustee vacated it. So this other
Speaker 1: guy ran, I ran against him, and uh he end
Speaker 1: up winning by eleven votes, which was like the closest
Speaker 1: degree to go, Like, yo, not but I knew you lost,
Speaker 1: But that was.
Speaker 8: The closest election in history.
Speaker 1: I'm like, I give a flying fuck I lost. To
Speaker 1: tell you the truth, bro, I'm probably one of the
Speaker 1: most competitive people in the world.
Speaker 8: Becomes the sports. That was probably the best blasts of
Speaker 8: my life. I made a lot of money.
Speaker 1: Uh. He ended up were actually in me very good friends.
Speaker 1: I actually spoke him today. He did a fantastic job
Speaker 1: and took care everything I made. The overtime.
Speaker 4: No, he's good because if you're not first, you last. Ricky, Bobby,
Speaker 4: you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: Love votes. Well, I couldn't.
Speaker 4: Somebody said to ask you about your Sandy superstumstance Sandy rescue.
Speaker 7: Well, I said, just skip right over your Hurricane Sandy.
Speaker 4: Club Nelson. Who the Club Nelson is?
Speaker 8: Club Nelson, that's the firehouse.
Speaker 1: Uh, Sandy was like everybody was working that night, did
Speaker 1: the same thing we did.
Speaker 8: And just a matter where you were, and uh, it's
Speaker 8: you know, it is what it is.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you that. Vinny may A part of the
Speaker 1: story Vinnie Mayor was, Uh, we were together and I
Speaker 1: left to take a couple of people away from the house.
Speaker 1: This is early on, it wasn't crazy yet. And he
Speaker 1: was in there for six hours by himself. We were
Speaker 1: trying to get to him, and he tried to get
Speaker 1: to them with both Everybody tried to get to where
Speaker 1: he was and they couldn't. So at the end of
Speaker 1: the day, Vinny ended up coming up out of nowhere.
Speaker 1: He just walked up to the ring with with being
Speaker 1: blown up an air mattress with his mouth and put
Speaker 1: the old person on it, and he got some drift
Speaker 1: wood and some rope that he had rope with him
Speaker 1: literally brought under read there was the picture was in
Speaker 1: w in my ap So if you want to showt
Speaker 1: in that story the fact that he I thought he
Speaker 1: was in a punch me in the feat. I lived
Speaker 1: him in the house and I never got back to
Speaker 1: my tried. We all tried. He wasn't happening. Yeah, Vinnie
Speaker 1: was Vinni's more of.
Speaker 4: The story as far as the let's that's stick it
Speaker 4: outside the box and air mattress and some.
Speaker 8: That he is by far not that, not that everybody
Speaker 8: work was smart.
Speaker 1: That was one of the smartest guys at work. It
Speaker 1: was way before that any drill and he chief walked
Speaker 1: in and said, I want to do a drill on this.
Speaker 1: Benny had it all right. Yeah, he's good, very smart guy.
Speaker 7: The rest about fire Marshall Gunderson, Gunderson is am I
Speaker 7: saying that right, yeah, what about him? They just said
Speaker 7: they just had the same people club Nelson as they
Speaker 7: asking you about him.
Speaker 1: Well, Gunderson is one of the guys that I worked
Speaker 1: with initially in su when I first had.
Speaker 8: That first case, it was him.
Speaker 1: You know, they gave his name, but you know he was.
Speaker 1: He has one of the best guys I've ever seen
Speaker 1: interviewed any any bad guys Like the interview room. I'm
Speaker 1: terrible the interview room because I want to get right
Speaker 1: to the chase, you know what I mean. Like these
Speaker 1: guys have developed techniques over the years that it's amazing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's phenomenal.
Speaker 4: They have another one club something here. Ask him out
Speaker 4: of service into the day to do Sandy after this
Speaker 4: Metal Day performance.
Speaker 8: Well, if you want to have the boss on and
Speaker 8: talk him about it, go ahead at a service.
Speaker 7: Yeah, what a great question there. Somebody's asking about George
Speaker 7: Schneider the acting away.
Speaker 1: But yes, So when we first got to the base
Speaker 1: and I told you that Henry was the nerdy guy
Speaker 1: with all the spreadsheets, So George had been on light dude,
Speaker 1: he had something roll in his eye. I've met a
Speaker 1: lot of funny people and a lot of outgoing personalities.
Speaker 1: He is on the top five, no doubt, like just
Speaker 1: a really gregarious like. So he doesn't know any of us.
Speaker 1: We walk in, He has a list he has to
Speaker 1: go over all. I'll leave we have left. We got
Speaker 1: out of November, so he had, like you know you,
Speaker 1: the dates couldn't carry him over. One by one. He
Speaker 1: took us up there.
Speaker 8: And we were all like breshed to this place.
Speaker 1: Probably on the job. You knew to this place. This
Speaker 1: guy you don't know him. What a gentleman sat down,
Speaker 1: especially me. He's like, bro, get twenty five years on
Speaker 1: a job.
Speaker 8: You can take the holiday off.
Speaker 1: You can take wherever you want. And I said to him,
Speaker 1: I worked my holiday. I'm whatever.
Speaker 8: He ended up being a boss that night.
Speaker 1: For the catering things. But uh, funny guy. Man, he
Speaker 1: had a way about him. Man, he just uh, he
Speaker 1: could light up a room. He never came into a
Speaker 1: bad movie ever, never ever. Ever, he wrecked his call
Speaker 1: like by accident. I obviously told him. He didn't give
Speaker 1: a shit. Nowte M keep it how it happened.
Speaker 4: But I was really hot, like a really hot day.
Speaker 4: Was he in a good mood? Then? I know a
Speaker 4: certain guy who gets loses his ship when it's really
Speaker 4: hot and he gets sweaty. Man, Yeah, it's not a
Speaker 4: good day.
Speaker 7: Who's that guy we're talking about? I don't know who
Speaker 7: anybody we know.
Speaker 4: Sameother you know from never did b I think it said.
Speaker 7: Oh yeah, somebody want to ask about B I too,
Speaker 7: But oh mate, yeah they want to ask about b I.
Speaker 1: What what is that?
Speaker 7: Don't mean? But anyway, you don't have to answer.
Speaker 1: I did every B because my partner didn't want to
Speaker 1: go to training. I'm like, I mean sorry, my partner
Speaker 1: didn't want to do B I and I didn't want
Speaker 1: to go to training, so I said, I'll do all
Speaker 1: the bid you can go to training.
Speaker 4: There you go, my best nozzle, best nozzle job in
Speaker 4: two eighty three, I've had.
Speaker 1: Best not the job. Oh just back from the rotation.
Speaker 1: We were side by side with two thirty four Kings
Speaker 1: County Hospital. Jack was just explains working two thirty four. Okay,
Speaker 1: t back photo arm around it, you know, down the block.
Speaker 8: It was their first two bucks. They go faced from
Speaker 8: one way.
Speaker 1: Too bad for them, so it's blowing out the bill
Speaker 1: cooat tours Gary Bennings the borce again, so I know
Speaker 1: he's gonna be drouble, So I get.
Speaker 8: I go to the curb. He goes up.
Speaker 1: Gary goes up to the Billcoat doors and the truck
Speaker 1: was there already. So they started breaking the windows and
Speaker 1: now it hits them in the head, like you know,
Speaker 1: because he goes back to the curve. I go, I
Speaker 1: was like, that was damage. Yeah, I like so two
Speaker 1: and a half. I'm not a big dude, so I
Speaker 1: get I knock it down. I shoot at the bottom
Speaker 1: of the stairs and out of fire to the left.
Speaker 1: But I like, I can't bend it. The guy, the
Speaker 1: backup guy's not right behind me just yet. So now
Speaker 1: he starts getting he gets down, he pushes off the stairs.
Speaker 1: Now he's pushing me straight ahead, and I'm trying to
Speaker 1: bend this fucking thing and they just keep yelling. I'm like,
Speaker 1: just back up, back up. I am backing you up,
Speaker 1: like back up. So I fucking turn around and just
Speaker 1: bombs on him back to the stairs. I'm like it's
Speaker 1: over there. So he does the fucking bend. So yeah,
Speaker 1: that was That was a lot of fire, and I
Speaker 1: really was really over very quickly. But it was a
Speaker 1: lot of fun because like I'm yelling back, this guy
Speaker 1: was a sceney guy, Like I didn't fucking backing you up,
Speaker 1: Like I'm looking fits by in the basements over there.
Speaker 8: Bro two and a halfs.
Speaker 1: The sucking man.
Speaker 6: I think, screw the two and a half.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that was. That was a good one.
Speaker 4: That was.
Speaker 8: That was a lot of fun and we just got back.
Speaker 1: So like you're all fired up right. I didn't fall
Speaker 1: on a huge plus.
Speaker 4: He didn't fall down. That's always a plus.
Speaker 8: I slid down on my ass, I supposed.
Speaker 4: Yeah, one of little pictures we got, guys, let's go
Speaker 4: through some of the pictures.
Speaker 7: We have a couple. Let me go back to the
Speaker 7: beginning here that we didn't hit. We have Actually, let's
Speaker 7: bring this one in.
Speaker 1: Uh my boy high school friend Pat Tansy. Uh again,
Speaker 1: Patty's a really smart guy. Uh high school. He was
Speaker 1: on a football team.
Speaker 8: I think he got hitting ahead a lot as a
Speaker 8: tight end.
Speaker 1: He had a way of talking. So that's from say
Speaker 1: Patrick's day. That's got to be two thousands, I can
Speaker 1: see that. Uh two thousand, maybe maybe ninety nine whatever,
Speaker 1: but uh yeah, out in the balls, hanging up, having
Speaker 1: a good time. He ended up being he didn't twenty three,
Speaker 1: you know, litenant cabinet and retarded the chief. He then
Speaker 1: nursed the nesteasist who works I think he works Sloan Still,
Speaker 1: I'm not sure real real, real, real good guy man lives.
Speaker 1: He buys a house after the plane question in Rockaway.
Speaker 8: He's from Rockaway.
Speaker 1: So he calls a bunch of guys from two thirty
Speaker 1: four to some picks that I come down and I
Speaker 1: pulled it to the house. He sat on the phone,
Speaker 1: slightly damaged. I look at the house right.
Speaker 8: By the bark of the ball, but it's right there,
Speaker 8: right behind it.
Speaker 1: Light.
Speaker 8: I look at this house. I got me a second.
Speaker 1: I says, I need to get your full definition of slightly.
Speaker 1: I said, fuel fell on. It's destroyed. I was like,
Speaker 1: it's like, no, no, I'm probably at that house. I'm like,
Speaker 1: all right, that's destroyed. This is pretty fucking cold, dude.
Speaker 1: So all his we we had this house in two
Speaker 1: thirty yard dumps is in three hours.
Speaker 6: What do you want out?
Speaker 1: You know, not the whole house? But yeah, built a
Speaker 1: nice house down there, and it's beautiful. He grew up
Speaker 1: two blocks away. I spent more time in his house.
Speaker 1: We're in high school. I spent him my own have
Speaker 1: to un park.
Speaker 8: You not a feeling fantastic guy man with his parents?
Speaker 4: Sweet?
Speaker 1: I mean it's great people. Oh follows a superintendent for sanitation.
Speaker 7: HM, we have that one and this is another irishman.
Speaker 8: So this is so on the left, that's Gary Benedict
Speaker 8: the base.
Speaker 6: Oh that's him. I know him.
Speaker 1: I know he had brown. He had brown here when
Speaker 1: I met him, I ruined him. If that's his son
Speaker 1: Pete next to him, and then me, and that's the Harris.
Speaker 1: That's Harris, and then there's Joe Bennett and some other
Speaker 1: Porta Sarity cops. But that's I think that's Pet's first
Speaker 1: saint Patrick's days a fireman and stand now if I'm
Speaker 1: not mistaken, I could be wrong about that.
Speaker 8: But always went to Gary's house.
Speaker 1: He had his white be the Irish shouder bread and
Speaker 1: went down the Forest Avenue and we walked as far
Speaker 1: as you know. So we got to the right bar.
Speaker 8: Nobody ever offt the Whope raid bar.
Speaker 1: There's Yankee Stadium. I saw your story before where I
Speaker 1: had a week left to go. But yeah, we played
Speaker 1: for the championship. We played two years in a row.
Speaker 4: There, kice what position you play, Mike.
Speaker 8: Third base.
Speaker 1: That you had to play out here of that year
Speaker 1: because that was ninety five when Man's first playoffs. But
Speaker 1: while we were playing, Tommy McDonald was in his stance.
Speaker 1: He worked out something with the ticket Pep. We got
Speaker 1: me and him two tickets on the third base side
Speaker 1: for the home playoff game. Well mainly hit the home run.
Speaker 1: I thought the place's gonna fall down. It was great.
Speaker 4: That if you're a Monthson fan, you gotta be Greg
Speaker 4: Nettles fan. Being a third book vote.
Speaker 8: You can name all except Reggie Jackson. I was like,
Speaker 8: we did a good job.
Speaker 7: Sorry, so we have this.
Speaker 8: That's family day when Pete graduated was graduating.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we dressed Pete up in a chicken like we
Speaker 1: alway dressed somebody up in a chicken outfit to get
Speaker 1: rescued or whatever. So we dressed because Pete, because Pete
Speaker 1: my lieutenant son.
Speaker 8: I mean Pete with a chicken outfit. Gy Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 8: he loved it.
Speaker 1: Gary loved Gary's great. I quote Gary the other day.
Speaker 1: He's big golfer, Gary, big golfer. Now he's got grand kids.
Speaker 1: He's great.
Speaker 8: You wish he had his brown hair.
Speaker 1: Back, but I can't help you. I mean, he lost
Speaker 1: that a year after he met me.
Speaker 6: It happened.
Speaker 7: We got I got two more for you. We have
Speaker 7: this one which we I think we touched on a
Speaker 7: little bit, right. This is your your trading days.
Speaker 1: We to we tought, we tought at Prob School. We
Speaker 1: would go out and we go over the day's lessons
Speaker 1: afterwards out by the water, and as you could see,
Speaker 1: we were studying hard. It was probably twenty five degrees
Speaker 1: in that picture.
Speaker 6: It was ridiculous, Like we on the right. Huh, who's
Speaker 6: that on the right.
Speaker 8: That's Pete Culchan on the right.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I came on with him, I knew, Yeah.
Speaker 4: I grew up with.
Speaker 1: They told Jimmy. And then right up here in the foreground,
Speaker 1: right right, closest to the barrel on the left, the
Speaker 1: shorter guy.
Speaker 8: That's Wally Blum from what's seventy four?
Speaker 6: Oh, I know.
Speaker 4: He was the rock for a while, man.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 1: If you see the rock now as opposed to Kevin
Speaker 1: when we went through certain the other guys.
Speaker 4: Uh, that's that's yeah, that's all Wally did that.
Speaker 1: That's Wally and his boys.
Speaker 4: I've been trying to get him on the show for
Speaker 4: a while. Wally.
Speaker 8: You can't get Willy on a phone, forget about it.
Speaker 7: He's busy.
Speaker 1: I see him occasionally here and there, but he's always busy,
Speaker 1: and he always has the right ideas and the right thing.
Speaker 8: It's always a.
Speaker 1: Positive thing with him.
Speaker 8: Yeah, and he's just he's a working man. He's never
Speaker 8: gonna stop.
Speaker 4: All right.
Speaker 7: I think this might be the last one we have here,
Speaker 7: the ski trip, the ski races.
Speaker 1: That's me, Jimmy Lang and his cousin Kenny Dangerson, who's
Speaker 1: actually achieving the two three right now in the middle. Guy.
Speaker 8: Uh yeah, we were up there.
Speaker 1: We weren't bad skiers, but like those races, like these
Speaker 1: guys thought it was on a level.
Speaker 8: So we just decided to go to the wine shack.
Speaker 4: And do we do best.
Speaker 1: Just drink you guys want to go first, Absolutely fuck
Speaker 1: out of here down.
Speaker 4: And that's it.
Speaker 1: Uh nice.
Speaker 7: I think I have this one too. This is your
Speaker 7: two eighty three one. I don't think I showed this one. Yeah,
Speaker 7: So that's that's definitely the last one, right, that's two
Speaker 7: eighty three.
Speaker 1: After nine eleven, unfortunately, obviously they had a lot of
Speaker 1: funerals to deal with, and our old Captain Charlie Williams
Speaker 1: was a chief in the Night Battalion, so we would
Speaker 1: go up there and do the tours while they were
Speaker 1: at the funerals during the day, and I think I
Speaker 1: think I did eight tours up there, and uh, it
Speaker 1: was a lot. I mean, obviously it's fresh, you know,
Speaker 1: I mean, and people are stopping by every day, and
Speaker 1: then they're looking for the guys that worked there, and
Speaker 1: we're not the kites that work there. But it was
Speaker 1: it was in the experience. I didn't like that a lot.
Speaker 6: That's Wayne piet Yeah right.
Speaker 1: There, right between myself and John Flay. Yeah, that's why
Speaker 1: his son just got on a job. So I got
Speaker 1: a son in two y three, actually, is that right? Yeah,
Speaker 1: he put in the group chat. We were very happy
Speaker 1: for him.
Speaker 8: I said, oh, he needs to caught a cigarettes and
Speaker 8: be like.
Speaker 4: It's problem his name, Mike. What was your experience working
Speaker 4: with Gleason at Club Nelson?
Speaker 8: Maddy Gleeson in middle Eames O'Neal.
Speaker 1: I like that, Uh, Matty was good. I had Maddie,
Speaker 1: like you know, Maddie. Maddie is a little bit of
Speaker 1: an eccentric guy, like you know, kind of a free
Speaker 1: spirit dude.
Speaker 8: But listen, you know I got a special plate like
Speaker 8: he he would do silly things.
Speaker 1: And guys who were you know, I have a special
Speaker 1: place for silly things because you know, like I don't
Speaker 1: like the kick guys in the down like you try
Speaker 1: to try to Mike je to help you out, but
Speaker 1: he was in the engine, so he really wasn't under
Speaker 1: my speak.
Speaker 8: Uh, the engine took care of him.
Speaker 1: We we you know, I try to find him a
Speaker 1: little bit.
Speaker 4: Tell you this.
Speaker 1: Like anything else, man, he's you know, never heard anybody,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, his own thing, Uh go
Speaker 1: to a fire.
Speaker 8: Matt knew his job. The only problem with Mattie was when.
Speaker 1: He cooked and we fucking pot me kick.
Speaker 7: That's the song of a good chef, though, isn't it
Speaker 7: a good chef? Dirty? Is everything? Well?
Speaker 8: He was okay, but like it was too.
Speaker 1: Much, like like it's like the only elaborating like was
Speaker 1: it saffronny bowl? And I'm like, what the fuck this bro?
Speaker 8: I need this.
Speaker 5: Dude seven dollars and for that that's a man.
Speaker 8: I don't give an I'm not watching them. But it's
Speaker 8: like it's enough already.
Speaker 1: Oh guys, they're trying to eat eat, you know, prob,
Speaker 1: we have to get up down because somebody fucking finished eating.
Speaker 8: Give me a break.
Speaker 4: No, he just all did you cook it all in
Speaker 4: the fly house?
Speaker 1: I did? I did? Yeah, I like cooking.
Speaker 8: I actually did one of the things I missed the most. Yeah,
Speaker 8: not ever, you know, every night.
Speaker 1: But like if they were like stock, I'm like, I'll
Speaker 1: make this, like you know you got your five or
Speaker 1: six staples.
Speaker 4: I was gonna say, what's in your wheel? What's your
Speaker 4: best meal in your wheel?
Speaker 1: There?
Speaker 7: Bro, chicken Uh chicken palm no, and so on?
Speaker 1: On your two boys, right, uh lasagna. I can make
Speaker 1: a nice if I'm working up and down and making.
Speaker 7: Ices on you.
Speaker 1: Craig Sulbino and Bobby Joying. Oh, I was gonna make
Speaker 1: it all three of them. Then it was better. Grandma's
Speaker 1: like get crazy, but they go, I'll tell you what, Bro,
Speaker 1: it's pretty good. But you can't make for an irishman. No,
Speaker 1: my father's you're be gonna make it. So my father's
Speaker 1: a good cooking the fire house. Then it made the
Speaker 1: mistake when I retired because like I was working in
Speaker 1: su So, I was working five days a week, working
Speaker 1: till ne o'clock, so my wife was cooking every day.
Speaker 1: I said, I'm miss cooking. Don't ever say that out
Speaker 1: long for you. Oh yeah, I'm gont like chef Bay
Speaker 1: all day, like shift. But I don't know. You want to stay?
Speaker 4: Fuck you want I'm doing you if you can change
Speaker 4: anything in your career, if you go back and change anything,
Speaker 4: what would you do?
Speaker 1: I could change anything. I might have studied, Like I
Speaker 1: never really wanted to be a boss. Yeah, it's not
Speaker 1: that I'm stupid, that's besides the point. It's just I studied.
Speaker 1: I was studying for the test that was gonna be
Speaker 1: in October of two thousand and one.
Speaker 8: Like means you mean like you was studying all day.
Speaker 1: The wives work, so we would study hard till like
Speaker 1: two o'clock separately, but at two o'clock we go to
Speaker 1: the bar with the girls, do at the train or
Speaker 1: the bus or whatever. But you do know, play pok
Speaker 1: or whatever. Fuck. But I think I legit would have
Speaker 1: passed that test. But I tell the truth then I
Speaker 1: said it out loud. Since then, I mean, everything happened
Speaker 1: to me worked out for me, right. I mean, I
Speaker 1: know guys on hereil with their crazy questions, but I'm
Speaker 1: sure whoever's type of him knows me. You can ask
Speaker 1: me in person.
Speaker 7: I was gonna ask you the same thing with a
Speaker 7: little bit different wakups. But if you can go back
Speaker 7: tomorrow where you're going, because you you know, got a
Speaker 7: pretty unique career and dabbled in a little bit of
Speaker 7: a couple of different areas. If you're going back tomorrow,
Speaker 7: where you're gonna go kind of a thing.
Speaker 1: So if I had to go back tomorrow, Yeah, I
Speaker 1: go back to SIU because I ended up working at
Speaker 1: the end of SIU because, uh, two of the guys
Speaker 1: there got sent to the headquarters and then one of
Speaker 1: the other guys got promoted.
Speaker 8: So it was me, just me and my part of Dave.
Speaker 1: And uh when I first met Dave, when I first
Speaker 1: got there, like he was he wasn't a fifty days yet,
Speaker 1: but he was there. Uh days a hart Jargia.
Speaker 8: You know, they is a lot younger than I am.
Speaker 1: And uh, he was never a cop, but he could.
Speaker 1: He's one of the best cops ever worked with. He
Speaker 1: just has it and he doesn't stop. And you know
Speaker 1: when you first get out of there, like, all right, bro,
Speaker 1: how how far we going with this? He was able
Speaker 1: to push me past points I would have put myself,
Speaker 1: so I would go back tomorrow and be with him.
Speaker 8: I saw him his morning for breakfast.
Speaker 1: I went and breakfast nice. Uh. Yeah, I do miss
Speaker 1: the chase. I do miss the the investigations. I miss
Speaker 1: working with the guys, you know, the different stuff that
Speaker 1: happens every day. But after thirty five years, like I
Speaker 1: just had enough. I just you know, it's time.
Speaker 4: Yeah, man, there's nothing enough, buddy.
Speaker 6: I was actually gonna ask you that, you go, bro,
Speaker 6: do you keep in touch with with anybody like I do?
Speaker 1: I keep touch with as many people as I can.
Speaker 1: You know, there's just group b's and stuff. Yeah, I don't. Unfortunately,
Speaker 1: we had Snyder's funeral. That's an unfortunate way to get together.
Speaker 1: But I did see everybody, and I was happy to
Speaker 1: see everybody, you know. I mean, you know, I could
Speaker 1: say at this moment, like you know, Joe Schmid's a
Speaker 1: jerk off, but the reality is like he was a
Speaker 1: jerko for a minute. He probably I'm a jerk off. Reality.
Speaker 1: I didn't really work with many bad guys over my
Speaker 1: thirty five years. You know, I had people maybe differences
Speaker 1: of opinion about things, but like nobody who I said,
Speaker 1: like his guys are totals combag.
Speaker 8: I'm not dealing with him. You know, everybody, we're all fine, man.
Speaker 1: Then we all talked shit like say is say that
Speaker 1: I find that that's what that's what you do right,
Speaker 1: and it's it's never you know, and it never bothers me.
Speaker 1: It's never personal. If you don't like me, great, no problem.
Speaker 1: Don't buy me a beer. I won't find you a behind.
Speaker 6: Me when I go down the basement.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Just make sure you're behind me when I go down
Speaker 6: the basement.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah, how you feel about me, just make
Speaker 1: sure I'm behind you.
Speaker 8: You find me all right, We'll take care.
Speaker 4: But what are you doing with yourself now? Mike? Were retired?
Speaker 4: I mean you just retired recently, right, Yes, we went on.
Speaker 1: You know, we're by sun, graduated college, went on a cruise.
Speaker 1: We nineteen people. We had a great time, just kind
Speaker 1: of hanging around the house. You know. Like my wife
Speaker 1: wost our job nineen years ago. She's been home take
Speaker 1: care of the kids. Now we're in the pool every day.
Speaker 1: You know, just just just I said, just take it
Speaker 1: to you with the summer, give me a couple of
Speaker 1: months and then you.
Speaker 8: Know, there's a couple of things we got to do,
Speaker 8: you know, and we'll do it right.
Speaker 1: My daughter'srom Jacksonville, so I'm gonna go down there for
Speaker 1: the JAT game in December. Uh, she's not too far
Speaker 1: for my father. So it'll be like I get a
Speaker 1: two for one out of that.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Nice. Yeah, just little things here and there. You know.
Speaker 8: Of course we're plan a big trip somewhere. I think
Speaker 8: you want to go to see next week?
Speaker 1: Is my birthday? Next week?
Speaker 8: Just for the night sext to gamble. I don't so
Speaker 8: show gamble. I'll drink the free drinks.
Speaker 1: Will be all sad.
Speaker 4: How how old are the combination?
Speaker 1: How old am I?
Speaker 8: I'll be fifty six.
Speaker 4: That's all right.
Speaker 8: Again, I got twenty So yeah.
Speaker 7: It's coming. Bullet, we're loop just passed. Somebody's present me.
Speaker 4: Ask the questions. Do you have the dream that all
Speaker 4: mustra time guys have that they get a run and
Speaker 4: they can't find their year.
Speaker 8: No, because I wasn't in the fire house when I retired.
Speaker 4: I right right, right right.
Speaker 7: He's looking for the gun. It's like, where's my cut?
Speaker 1: I'm on a video camus and me and d You
Speaker 1: can't find a Dunkin Donuts fast enough.
Speaker 6: Cream chocolate latte.
Speaker 8: Dave runs on Duncan man. He knows that he can
Speaker 8: find a Duncan in the middle of the desert if
Speaker 8: you have to.
Speaker 4: He's unbelievable.
Speaker 8: Yeah, that's the dream I have. Like we were a
Speaker 8: lot of vide guns like Duncan.
Speaker 1: And you know he does not You do not want day.
Speaker 1: You don't want anybody that you're looking for, you man,
Speaker 1: the guys who were there before, you know, just you
Speaker 1: don't want that happening.
Speaker 8: But the Marshals is a good thing. I know there's
Speaker 8: a bunch of guys.
Speaker 1: Going in soon. You know they're they're asking questions and
Speaker 1: stuff and people you know, you said, we don't know
Speaker 1: marshals on this. You have to have the mindset of like,
Speaker 1: first of all, you're to be in school for six months, right.
Speaker 1: Once you get past that, it's fine. You learn a
Speaker 1: lot of stuff. It's totally different than what you do now.
Speaker 1: Like you're in the fire house a couple of days,
Speaker 1: but the guys are working a lot now because it
Speaker 1: over time. But it's like totally different, like fireman, Fireman,
Speaker 1: don't carry pens.
Speaker 8: Ryman don't really like five walks in the office and
Speaker 8: goes to the.
Speaker 1: Ball because you know, bro, I can't did that roster
Speaker 1: on Wednesday and walked out like and the bossill figure
Speaker 1: it out with a pen or whatever. Like that's over.
Speaker 1: Like you you're on the computer. You have to make
Speaker 1: up reports, you have to talk to people. See fireman,
Speaker 1: don't talk to people. You show up, the house is
Speaker 1: on fire, everybody's out. You wreck it and you leave,
Speaker 1: and now we come and now the pictures is that
Speaker 1: is in the terrible. You feel horrible to these people.
Speaker 1: This is when no one dies with dies horrible.
Speaker 8: But that's naturally.
Speaker 4: You have to walk upright and talk like a human being,
Speaker 4: and you like a crow magnum man.
Speaker 8: I feel the peple again.
Speaker 1: I'm just dealing with the innocuous regular. It's an accident fire,
Speaker 1: you know, yeah, it's you know, you have to put that,
Speaker 1: you know, listen, at the top of the list is
Speaker 1: the top of list. That these guys want to be
Speaker 1: on the top of the list. They want to go
Speaker 1: do it and they'll be good at it. The people
Speaker 1: who teach there are good. You do get a lot
Speaker 1: of information in the outside. She's a fantastic You do
Speaker 1: go on some field trips. Those are nice, and uh
Speaker 1: you know, it's it's just a lot to absorb, especially
Speaker 1: if you really like to fire. So you're like, oh man,
Speaker 1: I'm going back, but uh no, it's good.
Speaker 8: And you do interview the chiefs. The chiefs, both chiefs.
Speaker 1: Will interview you before you go and they'll tell you
Speaker 1: no one likes you. This, this is where you're in
Speaker 1: b bro. You know, just let me know now. But everybody,
Speaker 1: I want the gun.
Speaker 8: Then I got a gun. Great, it'll good for you.
Speaker 4: Was there any guys like you know in the fire
Speaker 4: department they have a legendary I was like, this guy
Speaker 4: was a legendary firefighter. They had that in the marshals,
Speaker 4: like legendary marshals.
Speaker 8: So I don't know too many, like older retired marshals, but.
Speaker 1: I can tell you this. You know this. You know,
Speaker 1: I don't know one hundred and ten marshals or whatever.
Speaker 1: There are some very good marshals and they're very good guys,
Speaker 1: and they're very low key, like no one really you know.
Speaker 8: They just do their job and they do it well.
Speaker 1: But as far as like old timers and stuff like that,
Speaker 1: you know, I've heard names, but I don't know them,
Speaker 1: Like I don't know they were like Tom Kaine was
Speaker 1: the chief fire Marshal, like I said, fire minute seventy seven.
Speaker 1: He was, by all accounts an excellent marshal, and of
Speaker 1: course went to the chief Fire marshals, so they like that.
Speaker 4: Well, but the cops used to do before we got
Speaker 4: the marshals, right, they used to handle fire investigation.
Speaker 1: No, the cops, the fire marshals have handled fire investigations
Speaker 1: since the seventies and they became police officers a whole
Speaker 1: big thing, like they explained to you. But I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna lie of you. That probably to sleep that day.
Speaker 8: That was like the history of the Marshalls thing.
Speaker 1: But I remember being a cop and Marshalls committed the
Speaker 1: the precast when I can arrest and because my dad
Speaker 1: was a fireman, like you could s the because that
Speaker 1: wear suits and this is the you know, early nineties, right,
Speaker 1: an Irish fireman suit in the early nineties. Bro, come on, man,
Speaker 1: you're like one step of the Bubba Lucky Trumps guy
Speaker 1: like old you know Corduroys, the boat, you know, the
Speaker 1: guns hanging out the front. I was literally if I
Speaker 1: sort of would be like, you've got fire marshals, I
Speaker 1: come back and bring him, take care of them, and
Speaker 1: I would do everything.
Speaker 6: Five marstles he.
Speaker 4: Bent.
Speaker 1: It was a fire marshal at some point he was
Speaker 1: a red cap, like he explained the whole thing one
Speaker 1: day to ma.
Speaker 8: I'm like, that's nice.
Speaker 4: The red cap.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean he was proud of it. I'm proud
Speaker 1: of it. I'm proud of almost everything I did that
Speaker 1: we talked about some stuff we didn't bring out up.
Speaker 1: The best part of the whole boat jobs and and
Speaker 1: what we do is the amount of people you get
Speaker 1: to meet, the great people and interacting with people you know.
Speaker 1: You don't you don't you remember all the good guys.
Speaker 1: You don't remember the idiots because there's so few between,
Speaker 1: you know, and not everybody's gonna like you or the
Speaker 1: way you are, but they'll respect what you did or
Speaker 1: how you did it. And if I asked, you know,
Speaker 1: as a union guy or whatever.
Speaker 8: I mean, I enjoyed helping people. I just wish I
Speaker 8: didn't have to, you know, And.
Speaker 5: Well they only call the union when they need help, right,
Speaker 5: So I mean you're the guy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, people would call like just because they figured, Like,
Speaker 1: I don't really want to ask this question. No, I
Speaker 1: mean I will not tell anybody any any of your
Speaker 1: problems or anything, right right, Whatever you tell me is
Speaker 1: me and you. But when I get a cold free
Speaker 1: in the morning, and the quest first question is can
Speaker 1: I work with stitches? I'm like fun, like get out
Speaker 1: of there. You know, that's the simple response. And then
Speaker 1: the wife goes, who is that? Don't even worry about it?
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 6: I used to get those who is this? Crank call?
Speaker 1: Crank call?
Speaker 4: Hang up? I tell him I got that one one
Speaker 4: time when I was uh uh in the Union. The
Speaker 4: guy calls me up at like eleven o'clock and I
Speaker 4: can we got a real issue, real problem. I went
Speaker 4: down to a quarter mess today. They only gave me
Speaker 4: one pair of shorts. Prom Yeah, yeah, that's your problem.
Speaker 4: He called me eleven o'clock at night.
Speaker 1: That's my favorite. My other favorite, Ole barn on the
Speaker 1: phone like somebody calls like well like hyperventilating, like, yo, yeah,
Speaker 1: we got a problem.
Speaker 8: I said, first of all, we don't have a problem.
Speaker 1: You have a problem, Well tell me what happened and
Speaker 1: out the side of its problem. Because Tommy McGough is
Speaker 1: the Retirreal Time two seventeen. He's in one of those
Speaker 1: pictures in the Rock. Tommy Goff's famous line is, uh,
Speaker 1: you'll never know how to get in trouble get out
Speaker 1: of trouble if you've never been in trouble. So you
Speaker 1: have to know how to you know, there's certain things
Speaker 1: you can deal with and certain things. All right, we
Speaker 1: have to do this this program for everything, like if
Speaker 1: you're going to become a Marshall. And you asked when
Speaker 1: the group me like, how long is weed steing your system?
Speaker 1: I'm like, bro, I don't know.
Speaker 8: I don't know about weed. They never told us we
Speaker 8: could or couldn't do it. I don't know.
Speaker 6: He got weed.
Speaker 8: He got weed. Yeah, we wet every day. Good for you, buddy,
Speaker 8: we every day? O great?
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So yeah, it's it's interesting you guys didn't touch on
Speaker 1: the nine to eleven. I can't believe it.
Speaker 8: It's coming up.
Speaker 1: You guys didn't bring it up. That's shocking.
Speaker 4: Swinging away, bro, No, what do you guys do?
Speaker 1: You don't? All right? All right? So so nine to
Speaker 1: eleven morning, right, Yeah, I up a championship get before
Speaker 1: he got ringined out. So nine to eleven morning. I
Speaker 1: have two concerns. I got instore security cameras, which I
Speaker 1: hated doing, but it was all right. And I gotta
Speaker 1: get off TUESDA night because I gotta play this game again.
Speaker 1: This is the concern. So I get on the Arizona
Speaker 1: Bridge and as soon as I get on the bridge,
Speaker 1: like where you can't see the city.
Speaker 8: They cut the radio off and tell us what happened.
Speaker 8: I see down its smoke. I'm like, this is dead.
Speaker 8: So the guys thought I was going to work with
Speaker 8: the day Ridge.
Speaker 1: So we just thought, you know, we didn't. Now I
Speaker 1: had to watch the TV. We see it like flog
Speaker 1: go to the firehouse. I never should hangover so fast
Speaker 1: as that day, right, So I called the guy Jimmy
Speaker 1: Lane White works in the building like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: she was fine.
Speaker 8: Get to the city. Do we gotta do with it
Speaker 8: for eleven hours?
Speaker 4: Whatever?
Speaker 8: So now everybody's settling down.
Speaker 1: Now we know where we're at. I get a phone
Speaker 1: call in my apartment from John Flynn, the big head
Speaker 1: of guy. He goes, listen, one of our guys passed
Speaker 1: away on the rotation and he's in thirty five truck.
Speaker 1: But they were still like twelve or thirteen from that house.
Speaker 1: They wanted us to take care of him. He goes,
Speaker 1: you're gonna be the family the ease on. I go, okay,
Speaker 1: So he's going through this whole big rigam roll. I
Speaker 1: guess something came down the fire house whatever. All right,
Speaker 1: no problem, no problem, Okay, listen before you go, I says,
Speaker 1: I have a question. I says, I've live in Staten Island.
Speaker 1: Benning lives in the middle village. Oh you Goodland guys.
Speaker 1: None of us could do this.
Speaker 8: He goes, you're next cop. You'll figure it out.
Speaker 1: He hung up on me on Oh now the cop
Speaker 1: he's back and play.
Speaker 8: This is bullshit.
Speaker 1: So I ended up being the leis on for Vinnie
Speaker 1: Merlo's family. His father, John's retired chief of the ninth Battalion.
Speaker 1: He's since passed again. Great family, Debbie's down in South Carolina.
Speaker 1: I still take Kavid touch on. I usually speak to
Speaker 1: her sometime around this time. A year i've been.
Speaker 8: I went to the twentieth anniversary.
Speaker 1: She invited my wife and I out at Manhattan Sty with
Speaker 1: all of any friends, and I thought that was a
Speaker 1: very rewarding job. I know, you guys find knew lesons
Speaker 1: that you know that they were doing it. It was new.
Speaker 8: We all got thrown into it, and he was right.
Speaker 1: The X cop thing helped because I'm pretty organized and
Speaker 1: I was able to take care of a lot of things.
Speaker 1: I remember going to the church that by his house
Speaker 1: and I had I had been theready. I chartted the
Speaker 1: whole thing out, like these people are gonna sit here,
Speaker 1: you know roughly. So at the time there was no
Speaker 1: ceremonial unit as there is now. But these guys show up.
Speaker 1: They called me, they only like two hours at the time.
Speaker 1: I'm like two hours.
Speaker 8: I said, I'll give you like a half hour.
Speaker 1: Bro. They show up. I have all these charts and
Speaker 1: I hand them to them and they're like, you want
Speaker 1: a job. I'm like, I'm never doing another funeral again.
Speaker 1: I said, this is it. You know, this guy's friend
Speaker 1: of mine. Now I know, like I'm done, Like here
Speaker 1: we go. I ended up being ceremonial for fourteen years.
Speaker 1: We're working with Joe and yeah, I actually I didn't
Speaker 1: go in by the way, Craigsilbino got me into it,
Speaker 1: and I loved it. Another great experience that you want
Speaker 1: to meet people. And of course you know yo, well
Speaker 1: yeah you guys. You guys get paid for everything. Yeah,
Speaker 1: okay whatever. H very rewarding because you make people's horrible
Speaker 1: days as possible as as possible, and uh, that's one
Speaker 1: fortunate thing I've had on both sides for the most part,
Speaker 1: almost almost exclusively. I have really never worked for a
Speaker 1: completely bad boss. Other than those rookie experiences as a cop,
Speaker 1: great bosses everywhere I went, I mean, just nice guys,
Speaker 1: very and even if they were like this guy a
Speaker 1: jerk off. Yeah, okay, we just figure.
Speaker 8: Out the quirks. He's not a jerk.
Speaker 1: You just don't know the quirks like you can't deal
Speaker 1: with it. I like the quirk you guys.
Speaker 6: I like, Karen, does you work with McVeigh Mike, yes, Mike.
Speaker 4: Squared away? Who Elvis?
Speaker 1: Elvis? Yeah?
Speaker 6: Oh my god, no.
Speaker 1: Mike's grade and so right, Bobby, Bob, Bob sorry son Steve.
Speaker 8: Yeah, Bob's good.
Speaker 1: Bob's always happy.
Speaker 6: You know, he's great. I worked with him seventeen and was.
Speaker 4: The guy that was in uh. He taught us in
Speaker 4: Probary School and then he went to the ceremony and
Speaker 4: uh Shirret.
Speaker 1: Cat Chirk cat with oh Jimmy sorry, yes, the bell ring, yeah,
Speaker 1: bell ring?
Speaker 4: But what was this thing down in uh in Proby School?
Speaker 4: What do he's do like right or something like that?
Speaker 4: Like he would yell something out right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah he did that. That was their attempt at
Speaker 1: making us, like, you know, with the drill instruct thing.
Speaker 1: I mean come on, yeah, yeah, that was that was different.
Speaker 8: Now Jimmy Jimmy tote extracation in pro school, right.
Speaker 1: I got to know him through ceremony pretty like he's
Speaker 1: he's genuinely sweetheart of a guy. He can ring about
Speaker 1: know that about it.
Speaker 4: He still is he still around? Oh yeah he retired?
Speaker 7: Is he?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 7: He? Uh?
Speaker 1: Joel ap points season occasionally. You know, I've seen him
Speaker 1: in a couple of things. I've seen him at the
Speaker 1: Silla picnicing on the twelveth of the thirteenth October. Whenever
Speaker 1: it is.
Speaker 8: Yeah, he's always around, He's he's.
Speaker 4: He was in a proby class, right, Steven.
Speaker 8: Silla, Yeah, yep he was.
Speaker 1: Uh. I forgot what squatt he was in, but he
Speaker 1: was in our group because yeah, no.
Speaker 4: No, Frank Silla. Is that his brother or his father?
Speaker 8: That's his brother?
Speaker 4: He was what I said, somebody's telling me it's his fall.
Speaker 1: There was a lot of Sillers, there was Hyeah, Frank's
Speaker 1: the most prominentvious with the foundation, right. Uh they I
Speaker 1: forgot the other brothers, oh Russ Russell those they owned
Speaker 1: a sporting goods store ons that now in Victory Sports.
Speaker 1: A couple of brothers Frank owned something else at the time. Steve,
Speaker 1: Steve was always doing something. Man, Steve never stopped like
Speaker 1: he's always on the move, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: always the chopping on his signe's mouth. Hey, Johnny, that's
Speaker 1: what he would always say. It was drug hey you know.
Speaker 1: So yeah, he picked that up pretty quick. I kind
Speaker 1: of got annoying. But no, again, another fantastic guy.
Speaker 4: You know. We didn't even do our World of the
Speaker 4: Day that the little I don't know what is it
Speaker 4: gonza Uh. Neil gave it to us.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I didn't hear it work, so I was waiting
Speaker 7: for it.
Speaker 1: That's him.
Speaker 4: He said it was you.
Speaker 7: No slipping there a couple of times. But then I
Speaker 7: picked up on him, like.
Speaker 1: I haven't done that.
Speaker 7: Yeah, huh yeah that was something we had.
Speaker 8: Watched and I broke you both all the time because
Speaker 8: he had the accident.
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah he did that. Sure, sure, sure, that's a
Speaker 4: character we just had him on. Uh.
Speaker 1: I remember meeting years ago with Neil. How did THEE
Speaker 1: one go? I didn't see it, but you gotta watch.
Speaker 1: It's good. Good feedback, okay, good check it out.
Speaker 4: Now you're now you're a subscriber. Look at you.
Speaker 1: You know you're fired up, and now you get the governor.
Speaker 6: When you're in you can watch it. When you're in
Speaker 6: the hot top with the old lady. You know I
Speaker 6: wasn't get him.
Speaker 7: We need we need a chef for we need a
Speaker 7: chef for the boat trip.
Speaker 4: So you know now you're officially invited to the boat trip. Mike.
Speaker 4: You have a boat trip every year in August. There's
Speaker 4: the boat trip that's in Manhattan. We take out the
Speaker 4: old John J. Hoby boat five boat. We cruise around Manhattan,
Speaker 4: drink our faces off, eat our faces off, and all
Speaker 4: the guests from the past year get to go on.
Speaker 8: So now you're fishing, I'll go upstairs and I'll sell
Speaker 8: this like honey.
Speaker 1: I got a free cruise.
Speaker 4: A bunch of drunk and fireman.
Speaker 8: It's a guy only thing.
Speaker 1: Sorry, picked me up.
Speaker 6: Sorage fist.
Speaker 8: Make it that far sausage. You guys get like the
Speaker 8: guy Dave I want this morning?
Speaker 1: Can I call it him?
Speaker 7: Like?
Speaker 1: I don't think it's calling Joe bro if we didn't.
Speaker 6: But people call in calling.
Speaker 8: Video and arrest bad people.
Speaker 1: He has no idea about podcast or phone a friends.
Speaker 1: We're gonna phone a friend. You gotta help me, honey,
Speaker 1: I'm not stories that's not true.
Speaker 4: No, no, no, but it is that time.
Speaker 1: Isn't that time?
Speaker 4: About this time?
Speaker 1: Yeah, you want to buy a tip or a Marshall tip.
Speaker 7: It's time for they get it in there. The old
Speaker 7: school ship.
Speaker 1: To the day.
Speaker 4: Of the very Oh you gotta do the other two
Speaker 4: commercial stuff.
Speaker 7: Yes, we do so, Mike, you can do whichever one
Speaker 7: you feel is best. You want to do a little
Speaker 7: devil of a couple. But whatever you feel is the
Speaker 7: troops out they can benefit from.
Speaker 1: So if you are sitting in the firehouse right now
Speaker 1: with some senior guy trying to tell you something and
Speaker 1: you don't care for what's being said, you should probably
Speaker 1: just listen and understand because you get a lot of
Speaker 1: that now with the generations, you know, like they're big
Speaker 1: on the well we should do this, like bro, this
Speaker 1: is how we do things, adapt to it and figure out.
Speaker 1: But not everybody's always right.
Speaker 8: Like I said, nobody's above being educated.
Speaker 1: So for you older guys who think you can tell
Speaker 1: the young kids what to do and how many times
Speaker 1: you get this to buy us? Oh, you guys are
Speaker 1: the college kids. The college kids, there's no generation, they're
Speaker 1: no different than any other generations. You just have to
Speaker 1: figure out how to work with them. If you have
Speaker 1: kids at home, you'll not work with them. But you
Speaker 1: gotta just both sides gods each other, otherwise you have problems.
Speaker 1: Then you get the young guys, you know, over throw
Speaker 1: these guys. The junior revolution or what juniority. That's another
Speaker 1: good one.
Speaker 7: The millennials.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all the millennials, all right, But you know, it's
Speaker 1: just a matter of like listening to both sides and
Speaker 1: don't get the bosses about whatever you do. You know,
Speaker 1: Timmy mcarth another another great one. First full problems and
Speaker 1: second bore problems. Make them first fur problems don't cause problems,
Speaker 1: just both sides to each other. Fire has to be
Speaker 1: much better. Eighty two trucks seems to be a good
Speaker 1: place where they listen to each other. I get good
Speaker 1: young guy feedback when I see them, a good older
Speaker 1: guy feedback when I see them. Everybody's happy with each other.
Speaker 1: They're playing sports, they're going to paintball. Everything they could
Speaker 1: possibly get them hurt off duty, they're trying to do.
Speaker 1: So that's that's a good thing.
Speaker 4: Make sure you tell them you can't work with stitches.
Speaker 8: Bro, bro, bro, I have ten of those stories like like,
Speaker 8: what are you gonna do now? I'm like, oh God,
Speaker 8: where are you?
Speaker 1: Rank?
Speaker 6: Crank calls.
Speaker 4: My bad idea?
Speaker 1: Boys, is this a phone.
Speaker 4: Call? A do on the outside? No?
Speaker 1: No, no, we get outside phone. Forget the apartment phone,
Speaker 1: all these things in the tape. Oh, everybody out there
Speaker 1: who has a problem and wants to talk to the delegate.
Speaker 1: I told my guys this all the time, and people
Speaker 1: don't listen. Having been in the Lord force the world
Speaker 1: again for four years, don't text your problems to anybody.
Speaker 6: Or or or.
Speaker 1: Well that's a whole different.
Speaker 8: Honestly, don't text anybody anything. If you want to.
Speaker 1: Know something about something, Nobody can ever tell you what
Speaker 1: you said on the phone unless you're post being taped,
Speaker 1: and if your phones being taped, you've got a lot
Speaker 1: more problems in texting people by working for the mayor.
Speaker 8: At this point, say oh, here we go.
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Speaker 4: You heard it here first?
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Speaker 1: Man?
Speaker 4: What what is that on the factor? Is that you?
Speaker 4: And that says O'Neil.
Speaker 8: What is that where all my kids got me a
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Speaker 4: That's pretty cool.
Speaker 1: It's not bad.
Speaker 4: That's a scary helmet back there too. Two aye, three
Speaker 4: is give me a little Willies. The man's very scary.
Speaker 1: I borrowed the background if we down thestairs a thousand stories.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Marshall is excellent.
Speaker 1: We never were at.
Speaker 7: All.
Speaker 4: We had a lot of guys in the chat tonight.
Speaker 4: Got new guys that we've never seen for probably a
Speaker 4: lot of Marshalls. So make sure you hit the like
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Speaker 7: Guns, Yes, for sure, it was. I stuck that up
Speaker 7: in there before for those guys hit it up. It was.
Speaker 4: We got a couple of good shows coming out. We've
Speaker 4: got a Warbaums fire show, with Jay Jonas and two
Speaker 4: of the guys that passed away at that fire. Their
Speaker 4: kids wound up marrying each other. It's a great story. Yeah,
Speaker 4: so we got that coming up. I don't know what
Speaker 4: date that is. We got a couple of hot charges.
Speaker 6: Right, I think that's coming out.
Speaker 7: Take a look at you right now, the twenty sixth
Speaker 7: of this month.
Speaker 4: Yes, right, we got a couple of the hot charges coming.
Speaker 6: I don't think we're going to be on next week, right,
Speaker 6: the twelve.
Speaker 4: Next week, I will be down in wild Wood at
Speaker 4: the Wildwood Fire Show. I'll be down there with the
Speaker 4: wife and kids. I'll see pee wee down there and
Speaker 4: all the other guys.
Speaker 6: You're gonna be you'll be there for for the eleventh.
Speaker 4: Correct, I'll be at the fire house for the eleven.
Speaker 4: I don't let's see you. I'll be there. Everybody's gonna
Speaker 4: be there. Raise your hand. Oh sorry, guys, love you guys.
Speaker 7: I'm only kidd I can't find it quick enough, you, dick.
Speaker 4: I'll play a whole lot of minute. How about this one?
Speaker 7: Yes, that one's even better.
Speaker 6: I can all right.
Speaker 4: My great story is great career. I enjoyed being in
Speaker 4: probably school with you, who would have thought thirty five
Speaker 4: years later we would have hooked up. It's amazing. I appreciate.
Speaker 4: It's a lot of fun and you still have all
Speaker 4: your hair and I know, well there's a kick and
Speaker 4: a kick in the excellent. We'll see you guys. Well,
Speaker 4: i'll see you doing the week for a cup of
Speaker 4: Joe if we go, and then we'll see you next Thursday.
Speaker 4: Until then, guys, stay low and go.
Speaker 6: All right, everybody will see it, the big one. Thank
Speaker 6: you again, Mike.
Speaker 7: All right, We're good night everyone.
Speaker 1: Yep.