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Speaker 3: Hello, Hello, twenty one truck teleman joining us in the
Speaker 3: chat again tonight. The little guy gotten missed it for
Speaker 3: a while, Now he's back. Welcome back to the Getting
Speaker 3: Salty Experience Podcast. You only want to bring to the
Speaker 3: fire house kitchen table to you. Ruffy's got the grizzly Adams.
Speaker 4: Look going on. Bro Gonzos ten, me too.
Speaker 3: Just came back from Mexico. Baby, Yeah, straight face on
Speaker 3: the beach.
Speaker 4: Straight what to you putting?
Speaker 3: Yeah, well you got your picture. I'm not too uh,
Speaker 3: I'm not a barrass of this, but you know, at
Speaker 3: one point I did black out on a beach chair
Speaker 3: and uh, first, as you can see, first you put
Speaker 3: it in my mouth, then it was on my shoulder,
Speaker 3: then he stuck it in my nose, and then you
Speaker 3: put it on my I never felt the thing. Bro
Speaker 3: out for two hours, woke up there was nobody there.
Speaker 5: Oblivious when you go for the colonsay, that's that's how
Speaker 5: you felt, right, Oh yeah.
Speaker 6: Yep, what we've done already woast Yeah.
Speaker 3: My daughter says, Dad, is that straight vacua in that gliss?
Speaker 3: I'm like, yep, And that's the last thing I remember
Speaker 3: that was it? Good times? But you know when you're
Speaker 3: away your son and your daughter and they can drink
Speaker 3: now and you can do that bonding time, bro, you know,
Speaker 3: and the little guys and the.
Speaker 6: Pull alcohol and family, it's always good.
Speaker 3: Always good. My sister came with kaids good time, good
Speaker 3: time to be had by all.
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Is it me?
Speaker 4: Or is?
Speaker 5: When Mikey's reading that disclaimer, he sounds like he's just
Speaker 5: like exhausted almost like when he's reading.
Speaker 3: It he's busy again. Man, you know, he's very He's.
Speaker 5: Like, he's like the thoughts and of of our guests
Speaker 5: are not of that getting this all the experience.
Speaker 3: And maybe he was, you know up late, you know
Speaker 3: what I'm saying. Where was he? He wasn't in it.
Speaker 3: He wasn't in the pre show tonight. Where is he tonight?
Speaker 6: No? No, he's been on the hiatus, as he says,
Speaker 6: he's he's on hiatus now. I don't know what he's
Speaker 6: doing right now.
Speaker 5: He's in the three four corner doing something, you know,
Speaker 5: overhaul or something.
Speaker 4: Right, isn't he doing? Is he on the driver? Nah?
Speaker 3: Not yet. He didn't go on the academy yet.
Speaker 6: Nope, he's still waking.
Speaker 3: How was your cruise? Guns?
Speaker 6: It was actually it was actually pretty good. My wife
Speaker 6: gets some feedback now on the face book, and a
Speaker 6: bunch of people got COVID. So think I didn't.
Speaker 4: I mean throat is that still around Trump's at office? COVID?
Speaker 6: I'll still think? Yeah, but all all is good? I
Speaker 6: mean one of these guys, one of the guys will
Speaker 6: joined me.
Speaker 3: He went on the upside down Pineapple cruise, right, that's where.
Speaker 6: On every cruise. That's the sign.
Speaker 4: He's Did you get the JAB?
Speaker 7: No, I don't mean that jab.
Speaker 5: I mean.
Speaker 3: COVID shot.
Speaker 4: No, No, that's what he meant. I met the other jab.
Speaker 4: Oh you know what I mean? You know, you.
Speaker 6: Know there's always a little something like hey, you know,
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Speaker 3: Who cares?
Speaker 6: All?
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 3: Quiet, It's a place of commercials. We have to get
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Speaker 5: Y Captain Timmy Grant.
Speaker 3: Well, what are you sipping on over there? Cape cap?
Speaker 3: What do you got there? What are you sipping on?
Speaker 7: I can't hear you. Oh that's a little bourbon, that's
Speaker 7: a little.
Speaker 3: Burb What you got?
Speaker 4: I got a little red breast robin redbreast Irish whiskey
Speaker 4: from my Irish friend.
Speaker 6: That's not because they've been smacked around a little bit.
Speaker 3: But I'm six, I'm out. I'm going through with girls
Speaker 3: right now. I can't drink another thing. I swear. I
Speaker 3: thought about it when he raised that glass before the
Speaker 3: captain like, oh man, that was good.
Speaker 4: I can't do it. I got more poison in my
Speaker 4: body than you.
Speaker 3: Yeah, shaking, Let's get patriotic before you dive into the
Speaker 3: captain's career.
Speaker 6: There we go.
Speaker 2: I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States
Speaker 2: of America and to the report public, for which it
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Speaker 2: for all.
Speaker 3: And there you go. So before we get started with
Speaker 3: the captain's career, I'm gonna throw this out to the chat.
Speaker 3: I want them to play detective tonight and maybe they
Speaker 3: can take two things and figure out how they go together.
Speaker 3: I'm not going to say, but the first one in
Speaker 3: the chat to say, maybe how Captain Grant maybe got
Speaker 3: some places that he got. You put the two things
Speaker 3: together and you say it up out of the chat,
Speaker 3: and we'll send you some free stickers that you got. No,
Speaker 3: not even that. No, no, no, Well anyway, cat, welcome
Speaker 3: to this ridiculous show.
Speaker 7: Thanks for coming on, Thank you, thank you.
Speaker 3: Let's uh, let's go back to the early days of
Speaker 3: the Grants. Where are you, where you're born, where you're from?
Speaker 3: What's the family like family life back then?
Speaker 7: Well, Uh, my father claims that the whole planet is
Speaker 7: originally from the Bronx. I'm sure there's a lot of
Speaker 7: Brooklyn people that would think differently. But I was actually
Speaker 7: born in Manhattan. My mother lived in the Bronx. But
Speaker 7: then right after I was born, we moved up to Carmel.
Speaker 7: So I grew up in Carmel, New York. It's about
Speaker 7: an hour north of the city. I think a lot
Speaker 7: of you guys know Carmel. Some people say Carmel, but
Speaker 7: people that live in Carmel say Carmel.
Speaker 3: Carmel. Yeah, Carmel is that close to you.
Speaker 4: But he went to school with Yo, it's my cousin Yrdies.
Speaker 7: Oh right, yeah. We went to Jamie Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 7: Jamie was closer to my age, and then I think
Speaker 7: Mike was maybe two.
Speaker 4: Or three, a couple of years old.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, yep, yep. We figured that out one day
Speaker 7: when we were sitting there bs and right, yes, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 7: So your father was from the Bronx then, yeah, parents, Well, well,
Speaker 7: my whole family is originally from the Bronx. I mean
Speaker 7: before Ireland originally, but then everybody was in the Bronx.
Speaker 7: And but uh yeah, I went to Carmel High School.
Speaker 3: Family, brothers and sisters.
Speaker 7: I have one. I got one brother who's on the job.
Speaker 7: He's he's still working. He's he's a little bit younger.
Speaker 7: He's five years younger than me. He was in forty
Speaker 7: seven forty seven engine, then he went to one thirteen
Speaker 7: trucks as a lieutenant. Now he's in the Marine division.
Speaker 7: Now whole family.
Speaker 3: Was data fireman, no nor fire department.
Speaker 7: I knew nothing about the fire far I mean, absolutely
Speaker 7: zero about the fire debarm. When I when I was
Speaker 7: in high school, my friend Vinnie came into school with
Speaker 7: all the applications for everybody, you know, and there was
Speaker 7: like twelve of us that went down and took the
Speaker 7: test together. And uh, you know, if you look back
Speaker 7: in time, now was I was the only one that
Speaker 7: took the fire department. Vinnie became a Putnam County Sheriff,
Speaker 7: and I was the only guy that became a farreman.
Speaker 7: But I knew, I mean, and when I was in
Speaker 7: Proby school, you could tell I knew nothing. Man, I
Speaker 7: was just absolutely clueless about the.
Speaker 5: Entire I think our our careers I was when he
Speaker 5: sent me his timeline. Our career is pretty mirrored. Like
Speaker 5: he got on just I think he got on the
Speaker 5: class after me.
Speaker 4: He got on. I got out.
Speaker 7: Did you have Kiaren Browsan in your class?
Speaker 5: Yes, Karen sat next to me. He was the three truck. Yes,
Speaker 5: I remember that seventy five. Yeah he was, he was
Speaker 5: the seventy five with me.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he sat right next to me. Good friend of mine.
Speaker 6: How did he get the thirty three truck?
Speaker 3: Just you know, we don't know anything. We don't know that, we.
Speaker 6: Don't know that.
Speaker 4: Remember that, I've never done this before.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so did that have a broken everything? Was he
Speaker 3: right from Ireland?
Speaker 7: That?
Speaker 3: Did your dad speak with a Brogan every?
Speaker 6: No?
Speaker 7: No, no, no, my dad's not from Ireland. No, his
Speaker 7: his parents from Ireland, all right, both to his parents.
Speaker 7: So I'm actually in the process of getting my Irish
Speaker 7: citizenship now because.
Speaker 5: All the time, I mean since I know him, he's
Speaker 5: been going Uh really yeah, I.
Speaker 3: Go along a part of Ireland.
Speaker 7: I go all over Ireland. I mean I have to.
Speaker 7: I'll text text you a picture. Well I had just
Speaker 7: had a just did up a whole map of all
Speaker 7: the pubs I've been to and uh, my last trip,
Speaker 7: I just celebrated one hundred and fiftieth pub in Ireland.
Speaker 3: Crap, that's some pub crawl, man.
Speaker 5: You always you always get a Guinness, you always get
Speaker 5: at it.
Speaker 4: There, Tim, you always get a guinness when you go there.
Speaker 7: Oh yeah, so much better over there. It really does.
Speaker 7: I don't know if it's in my head or what,
Speaker 7: but it does so good when it touches your lips.
Speaker 7: If any of my Irish buddies are listening on this,
Speaker 7: they're gonna be a saying, of course it's better. Of
Speaker 7: course it's better, exactly alright.
Speaker 3: So ninety three, what were you doing before you got
Speaker 3: on the job.
Speaker 7: Uh So, right after high school I went to I
Speaker 7: went to Courtland. Uh for five years. I finally got out.
Speaker 7: That's like jail. No, that was not jail. That was
Speaker 7: not jail. I love. So I went to Courtland. And
Speaker 7: then after Courtland, uh, me and a bunch of guys
Speaker 7: went out to the Hampton's for the summer. I got
Speaker 7: a house out there. As soon as the summer was over,
Speaker 7: I went out to Vail to ski for the winter.
Speaker 7: And and while I was out there, they I got
Speaker 7: the call to that they call you. The first thing
Speaker 7: they do right before you get hired is the psychological right.
Speaker 7: Is that when they do the psychologist correct I have.
Speaker 7: I'm having a lot of issues with remember and stuff sometimes.
Speaker 7: But yeah, so they may the psychologic crawl to the Yeah,
Speaker 7: that was so I got called back for the psychological
Speaker 7: and I took that psychological test. That was actually interesting
Speaker 7: because you know, you you remember that thing, right, it's
Speaker 7: like seven hundred questions, but there's only like.
Speaker 3: Yeah, five ye, fifty million times, fifty bun times.
Speaker 7: So so just as a as a you know, prior
Speaker 7: to me even getting on a fire depart when I
Speaker 7: was in high school, we used to we used to
Speaker 7: go to these this trestle by a reservoir and we jump,
Speaker 7: you know, in the summertime, we would jump off into
Speaker 7: the water and you know, you used to have to
Speaker 7: climb up really high. And one of these psychological questions
Speaker 7: was do you like to jump from places? I'm reading
Speaker 7: this like, all right, I'm going to be a fireman,
Speaker 7: and they're asking me I'm afraid of heights, Like that's
Speaker 7: how I was taking it. So I answered, yes, I
Speaker 7: like to jump from places.
Speaker 5: So they met on the concrete like from a fifty
Speaker 5: story building.
Speaker 4: Off yourself.
Speaker 7: So I get called back for a second psychologist then
Speaker 7: calling back and they're like, so you like to jump
Speaker 7: from my places? I had to explain that, you know
Speaker 7: what what I uh, I used to do because we
Speaker 7: used to do that a lot because right by where
Speaker 7: I lived, it was, you know, it was you had
Speaker 7: to you had uh, lakes that had big heights, diving
Speaker 7: rocks that you could jump off of. So we were
Speaker 7: always doing that growing up as kids. So I took
Speaker 7: the question the wrong way.
Speaker 3: You read into the question.
Speaker 7: First learning thing and taking a fire Department test.
Speaker 3: Flying to anybody. Any notables in your Probo class with you?
Speaker 6: Uh?
Speaker 7: Yeah, I had. I had Bronco. It was Bronco. Uh,
Speaker 7: Maddie Long, Uh, Jimmy Brosie. Jimmy Brosi was my Uh.
Speaker 7: We shared the locker right next to you. The only
Speaker 7: thing I remember about Proby School, and this is no joke.
Speaker 7: I don't remember anything about Brob School. I remember is laughing.
Speaker 7: All I did was laugh and and Jimmy Brosie made
Speaker 7: me laugh constantly. That guy was so funny.
Speaker 3: Uh. The soccer mono out there when you were there.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but Junkin was my favorite guy out there.
Speaker 7: Nick Junkin.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he was freaking awesome.
Speaker 7: He was great. The little guys, Yeah, he was good.
Speaker 4: He was great.
Speaker 7: Uh. I'm trying to think who else from my Proby class. Uh,
Speaker 7: you know, Mike Caine, Chris Jensen, Chris Burreck. Uh, those
Speaker 7: are the guys that I kept in touch with over
Speaker 7: the is.
Speaker 3: So you're going there, you know absolutely nothing, And they
Speaker 3: picked that out right.
Speaker 7: Away, like I knew nothing. I knew, I knew nothing.
Speaker 7: But you know, you just you just close your mouth
Speaker 7: and you know, right, all.
Speaker 4: Right, So here comes to I knew was gont.
Speaker 7: Go ahead? Go ahead?
Speaker 5: How in God's name for a guy who knows nothing?
Speaker 5: Who his friend Vinnie gave him a cheat sheet? Goes
Speaker 5: to seventy five engine at a Proby school.
Speaker 7: Forget about it. My father worked My father had a
Speaker 7: friend of his that worked out at the gym with
Speaker 7: Mike Everett, and I gotta.
Speaker 5: Mike Everett was the connection, one of my favorite guys,
Speaker 5: cat memory.
Speaker 7: And and you know what it's it's the way it
Speaker 7: worked out. I went, I went to seventy five and
Speaker 7: he was in thirty three. Uh. He got promoted a
Speaker 7: couple of years after I was there, and then we
Speaker 7: worked together back in forty one. I was a lieutenant
Speaker 7: there he was, he was captain.
Speaker 4: What a guy?
Speaker 3: Didn't you go to forty four to though?
Speaker 5: Like I was the best story ever, that was the
Speaker 5: best story ever. He's like, I was beating thirty three,
Speaker 5: and then he's like, where I would kill people when
Speaker 5: I was at thirty three with thirty three or nothing.
Speaker 4: Then I get promoted.
Speaker 5: I go over to forty four, which was the arch enemy, right,
Speaker 5: and now I'll run thirty three off the road.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 7: It's like the best.
Speaker 4: Oh, it's the best story ever. Yeah, it's so true.
Speaker 7: Wherever you're at, and you know, you know Shakey Kevin
Speaker 7: o'han he's in the pipe band. He I think he
Speaker 7: used to drive ever Crazy Ever called. I think Everyett
Speaker 7: was working in the engine one day. I might have
Speaker 7: this story wrong, but I think he was working in
Speaker 7: the engine one day and they needed the suction. Uh
Speaker 7: you know it was an EMS run and they needed
Speaker 7: the suction and Kevin walked up with the suction. I
Speaker 7: might have that story. He's going his mouth, this is
Speaker 7: the stuff I forget.
Speaker 3: So you get over to seventy five.
Speaker 4: What was it like walking in at a first day?
Speaker 7: You know what, I'll remember, I'm coming out of Provy school,
Speaker 7: you last day, and you're going to visit the firehouse
Speaker 7: for the first time. And I remember coming down, I
Speaker 7: remember driving down the concourse, and I knew that area
Speaker 7: of the Bronx because that's where my grandmother lived. So
Speaker 7: I'm driving down the concourse and seventy five engineers going
Speaker 7: the opposite way, flying on a run, and I see
Speaker 7: the American flag flying behind the rig, and it just
Speaker 7: I was like, wow, that's where I'm working. I know,
Speaker 7: it's just something about the flag. And at that time,
Speaker 7: I'm fairly sure that's the only rig that had the
Speaker 7: American flag flying behind it. It wasn't that wasn't a
Speaker 7: thing right it Actually it became it became a thing
Speaker 7: they actually were trying to I don't know if it
Speaker 7: was when I first went to seventy five, if Jerry
Speaker 7: Hall was the captain, and then Dennis Devon became captain.
Speaker 7: Dennis Devin passed nine to eleven, but Dennis was the
Speaker 7: captain and he was ordered by one of the days
Speaker 7: I'm not going to say anything, get off right. He
Speaker 7: was ordered to take it off. And everybody they said
Speaker 7: it was improper display of the American flag. But I remember, Dennis,
Speaker 7: do you remember that? So Dennis actually went to some
Speaker 7: like National I don't know if it's the VFW or
Speaker 7: he went to some organization that would know the rules
Speaker 7: for that, and he came back that it was it
Speaker 7: was being displayed properly. And then you saw a flag.
Speaker 5: I remember when I was at Once seventeen. I remember
Speaker 5: when we put that rig on. We had two little
Speaker 5: ones that were on the handholds in the back, and
Speaker 5: I remember every time you would come back, like one
Speaker 5: would you know, over time, a couple of weeks, it
Speaker 5: would fall, you know, get ripped or something, and we
Speaker 5: would put new ones on there all the time after that.
Speaker 7: I remember, I loved it, man, I mean, it was
Speaker 7: the first time I ever seeing seventy five. I don't know,
Speaker 7: but I don't even know where I'm going, you know,
Speaker 7: I'm driving. We didn't have GPS back then, Like okay,
Speaker 7: one hundred and eighty third Street, I make it right here,
Speaker 7: you know. I never went south to briggs Am, and
Speaker 7: you know that's where where my grandmother lived.
Speaker 3: They just recently had that again when they forced the
Speaker 3: companies to take that off the rate like with.
Speaker 4: I don't know if that was true.
Speaker 5: It was the blue line flag, I think or something,
Speaker 5: and it was oh yeah, yeah, sumptionnantis.
Speaker 4: I don't know if that was entirely true.
Speaker 3: The post had in the newspaper.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't know if that was entirely.
Speaker 3: Right. So you walk in the firehouse and who was there?
Speaker 3: Who the first guy?
Speaker 7: Well, so another guy from my probay class was Jay Walsh,
Speaker 7: and we both went to seventy five. There was two
Speaker 7: of us that went to seventy five. And he knew.
Speaker 7: Jay knew a lot more about the job than I did.
Speaker 7: He was a fireman, he was a I think he
Speaker 7: was a lieutenant. He might he might have been. I
Speaker 7: don't know if he was a lieutenant. But he worked
Speaker 7: in Connecticut and he and he came to New York.
Speaker 7: He was a big buffy. Used to ride with Rescue
Speaker 7: three or you know, I guess years ago. I never
Speaker 7: even understood any of that. You know, right, what do
Speaker 7: you mean you ride? I had no no clok for free?
Speaker 7: And Jay also used to have He was a photographer
Speaker 7: and he's taken. I don't know if you remember. It
Speaker 7: used to be a calendar that came out every year.
Speaker 7: He was pretty good at that. I think he used
Speaker 7: to sell a lot of calendar. Anyway, he med and
Speaker 7: him were.
Speaker 6: Both in it.
Speaker 7: What's that?
Speaker 6: No? I Thinklewin Coops were both in it.
Speaker 7: So we went We went to seventy five together and
Speaker 7: we were mutual partners, you know, because we were both
Speaker 7: probi's and I don't you know Kieran went there that
Speaker 7: Kieran went to pro school with you. But I think
Speaker 7: you know, between Kieran and me and Jay, it was
Speaker 7: like the first probes that went there in a while,
Speaker 7: if I remember correctly. You know they all went to
Speaker 7: the engine. What's that they all went to the engine? Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 7: there was there. There was three of us there. You know,
Speaker 7: Kieran was had three more months than us. Who's in
Speaker 7: that picture? This is a little bit later. This is okay,
Speaker 7: this is like ninety seven. I'd say, uh on the
Speaker 7: all the way on the right there, that's Burger. Burger
Speaker 7: just passed away. He was he was my he was
Speaker 7: my button man. I was. I was one of the
Speaker 7: pall bears at his funeral, that was that was.
Speaker 5: Are you in this picture second from the left, yeah,
Speaker 5: second from the left, oh ship right?
Speaker 7: Yeah? Yeah, And that's Tony Kremik there, he was a proby.
Speaker 7: There that's me and Matt Hanson, Dave O'Donell, Tony Ventrella
Speaker 7: and Burger.
Speaker 4: How long did it take.
Speaker 7: Burger. Let me tell you something, man, is you know,
Speaker 7: the job had lots of guys that could break balls.
Speaker 7: That guy was like a master. And I you know,
Speaker 7: being in the bank pipe in it was guys there too.
Speaker 7: We'll get to that. But you know, in my career,
Speaker 7: I definitely had the pleasure of being around the guys
Speaker 7: who were so good at breaking balls. And it's just,
Speaker 7: you know, whether it was or anybody else, you you
Speaker 7: weren't hanging out if you had thin skin with these people,
Speaker 7: you know, but it was uh and.
Speaker 5: That's legit, like you could say that, but that's like legit,
Speaker 5: like you were not hanging out with some of these
Speaker 5: guys if you a lot of kitchens.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, yeah, I don't think. I think it's just
Speaker 4: different today.
Speaker 5: I honestly, you know, you hate to say, oh yeah today,
Speaker 5: you know, you know when I was on, but there's
Speaker 5: no comparison. I don't think to how the kitchen was
Speaker 5: then to to you know, and forget.
Speaker 7: About different, all different. You know, it's so many things.
Speaker 4: A lot more ship than you can't you can now.
Speaker 7: Obviously, so many things are different now. But you know, listen,
Speaker 7: you know guys are always saying, oh change you know,
Speaker 7: everything is changing no matter where you're at at any
Speaker 7: point in time. You know, I came up, we came
Speaker 7: on ninety three, right, think about like we were. We
Speaker 7: were doing really good with fires. But every single person
Speaker 7: that you met there, that you know, that was there
Speaker 7: ten years before that, they're like, so you should have
Speaker 7: been here ten years ago.
Speaker 4: Yeah you're late, Yeah exactly.
Speaker 7: You know, so you get used to what you have
Speaker 7: and everything isative, man, everything is relative. I said, don't
Speaker 7: be afraid of the change. It happens. You know, hopefully
Speaker 7: it's going to change slow, but you got to realize
Speaker 7: change happens.
Speaker 3: Yeah. But for the normal people, they don't really they
Speaker 3: can't grasp what it's like to be at the kitchen table, man,
Speaker 3: of what they just don't get it.
Speaker 7: It's yeah, yeah, yeah. I know a couple of guys
Speaker 7: you know that have said told their wives a couple
Speaker 7: of things, and they they just don't get that. What
Speaker 7: do you so funny about that house?
Speaker 6: You know?
Speaker 7: When I was in college, you know, I played rugby
Speaker 7: in college and there was a thing we had cold
Speaker 7: spoon fights, and you know it's it's it's a pretty
Speaker 7: good gimmick, you know, like everybody's in on the joke
Speaker 7: except for the one guy that's not in on a joke.
Speaker 7: And so I kind of brought that into the bagpipe man.
Speaker 7: And I remember we did it too, Uh we were
Speaker 7: we were out in Dallas. I'm kind of jumping ahead here,
Speaker 7: but it's.
Speaker 3: All right, we'll get back to it.
Speaker 7: We're in Dallas for the Dallas Giant game and we
Speaker 7: have a big tailgate and we end up doing this
Speaker 7: spoon fight things and it's Mike mcpoulland's son, Mike mcpoland,
Speaker 7: who's in forty four truck. So it's it's two guys.
Speaker 7: It's it's the spoon fight champion who I was the
Speaker 7: champion And everybody knows, you know who the champion is.
Speaker 7: The guy who doesn't, Mike mcpon knows nothing about it.
Speaker 7: And you're hitting each other on the head with a spoon,
Speaker 7: and it is doesn't you can't hurt somebody hitting them,
Speaker 7: you know, the spoon is in your mouth, but mean, yeah, meanwhile,
Speaker 7: Leam Flawherty's later in the back of the head. Everybody.
Speaker 5: Oh, but then he has to do it to you, right,
Speaker 5: to me, He has to put the spoon in his
Speaker 5: mouth and hit you on the head.
Speaker 4: And then turned around.
Speaker 7: And every time he hits me, I go, ah, oh,
Speaker 7: a man, that hurts.
Speaker 3: You know, uh, I've never heard of that.
Speaker 7: If you are, it is on YouTube, if you I think,
Speaker 7: if you look up, yeah, yeah, you know, I doubt you.
Speaker 5: Watch the guys kept You put the like a woodspoon
Speaker 5: and you go and you know, you can only do it,
Speaker 5: like you said, it's only somebody.
Speaker 7: But I had a little gimmick. I had a little
Speaker 7: I used to have. It was it was actually a
Speaker 7: piece of cancer that they took off eventually, but I
Speaker 7: had this bump on the top of my head and
Speaker 7: I would I would know sometimes if that spoon came
Speaker 7: in the right way, it could cut. It could cut
Speaker 7: that thing. So I would make it bleed. And now
Speaker 7: I'm like, I'm like, holy shit, this guy's good. You know,
Speaker 7: he's making me bleed. And everybody's going you got you
Speaker 7: got Tommy killing in the background, taking he's taking bets.
Speaker 4: They got.
Speaker 3: The bare knuckle fight.
Speaker 7: The only person that does not know what's going on
Speaker 7: is the the.
Speaker 6: Guy.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 7: So it's it's pretty funny, man. But but going back
Speaker 7: to why I brought that up is, you know, there's
Speaker 7: like some guys have said to their wives or or
Speaker 7: I don't understand, how is that funny?
Speaker 3: Yeah, they don't get it. Clown as if you walked
Speaker 3: into one twenty fourth kits the first thing you did
Speaker 3: was cover your nuts.
Speaker 4: Uh what a guy.
Speaker 5: When you first got there, it stuck out to you
Speaker 5: a lot, like who are you.
Speaker 7: Working in seventy five and thirty three?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 7: Uh you know, Louis, I really I can say this honestly, everybody,
Speaker 7: everybody stuck out, everybody had I loved working there. I was.
Speaker 7: It was such a as they say in Ireland, it
Speaker 7: was a it was brilliant. It was a brilliant brilliant No,
Speaker 7: it was it was absolutely You know, you have a
Speaker 7: guy like Burger who who controls the tempo. I'm not
Speaker 7: saying only him is everybody had their their place, you know,
Speaker 7: and you had the guy that really put the hammer
Speaker 7: down when it needed to be put down. But you
Speaker 7: it's just like the way everything just worked. I would
Speaker 7: say I was there for nine years before I got promoted,
Speaker 7: and those nine years to me, like everybody got along.
Speaker 7: And another thing about those nine years, it seemed there
Speaker 7: was really really not a lot of turnover. You know,
Speaker 7: there a lot. It was definitely a big study house.
Speaker 7: But one lieutenant's list had just sort of like ended,
Speaker 7: kind of like Everett and Brian Fink, and there was
Speaker 7: a certain group that had just gotten quoted off that
Speaker 7: last list, you know, the screwed up tist with the
Speaker 7: eight hundred million questions and then and then, I don't know,
Speaker 7: it was like nine years of like working with the
Speaker 7: same guys, and you know how awesome that is. It
Speaker 7: was very rare you had a new guy come in awhere.
Speaker 7: But I always say, me and Tony Vinchella always had
Speaker 7: this conversation. It was that this some group and I'm
Speaker 7: sure every every every you know, five years later, ten
Speaker 7: years the guys were saying the same thing about their
Speaker 7: little niche. But for me, from my point of view
Speaker 7: and my perspective, every single guy in their house stuck
Speaker 7: out because it was just a great place to work.
Speaker 7: A great firemanney crazy. Yeah, my first year was the
Speaker 7: busiest year. It was absolutely the busiest year. And I
Speaker 7: mean talk about great fireman. You know, you know how
Speaker 7: some guys remember, like they can remember, oh this address
Speaker 7: that they had this fire at and it was on
Speaker 7: this day I only have one fire that I actually
Speaker 7: know the address, the date, to time, everything, and it
Speaker 7: was when I was proby. It was twenty one to
Speaker 7: seventy University Avenue and I almost I almost died. We
Speaker 7: were in a flashover. But and Kevin Kallon, who was in,
Speaker 7: he was, he was in, he was in the engine
Speaker 7: at that time. He went to the truck layer. He
Speaker 7: I had the nozzle and he was backing me up
Speaker 7: and we lost water in the fire department and flashed
Speaker 7: and Kevin had me by the ankle and our chins
Speaker 7: were on the floor and we inched out. You know,
Speaker 7: it was a very very long It was a project
Speaker 7: type building, so getting out of that hallway was tough.
Speaker 7: And here Burger I told this story at Burger's funeral.
Speaker 7: Burger never went to Metal Day, and he should have.
Speaker 7: For that particular fire. He had the he had the
Speaker 7: door position, and he held that position at the door
Speaker 7: and he got everybody out of that hallway. And if
Speaker 7: he if he was not at that door position and
Speaker 7: reaching in to get everybody out because it was you know,
Speaker 7: it was very day. It was January thirteenth. It was
Speaker 7: freezing cold out like three o'clock in the morning and
Speaker 7: when we right before we as soon as I got water,
Speaker 7: the OV took the window. The wind came. This was
Speaker 7: like wind driven fire to a tee took the window.
Speaker 7: We lost water. It just had you know what just
Speaker 7: happened like that. I'm a proby. I'm thinking, all right,
Speaker 7: I guess this is the way all fires go. I
Speaker 7: don't know know, but but Kevin Callon and especially Burger
Speaker 7: being in the right position, they saved I I've said
Speaker 7: it my whole career. They saved my life. My helmet
Speaker 7: was absolutely cooked, like cooked pieces and I was a proby.
Speaker 7: Three weeks after that fire was the uh maybe it
Speaker 7: was four weeks later it was the Hunter Mountain ski races,
Speaker 7: and I'm going to show up there. I'm going up
Speaker 7: the jail lift and going up the jailer for the
Speaker 7: guy that I don't even know. And he looked over
Speaker 7: him and he says, uh, so, uh, how many years
Speaker 7: have you been a proby? His helmet was like completely cooked,
Speaker 7: and I said, I was just it was. We had
Speaker 7: a bad fire. But yeah, everybody in that house great fireman.
Speaker 7: And you know what, I'll say this today they are
Speaker 7: still great fireman. I know, I know that for a fact. Man,
Speaker 7: they have great freaking officers. It's just a great house.
Speaker 7: I don't know. I can't even say anything more about
Speaker 7: it makes me feel proud. You go, we go back
Speaker 7: to our Christmas reunion.
Speaker 3: Every I was gonna ask you to go back.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, First the first since I've been in the company,
Speaker 7: the first Friday of every December is our is our reunion.
Speaker 7: And you get anywhere from one hundred and twenty to
Speaker 7: one hundred and fifty guys that show up, And that
Speaker 7: tells you something right there, right addition, right then, but
Speaker 7: the guys, you know, the officer, Brian Coverage, for one.
Speaker 7: You know Brian, you know he he wants to make
Speaker 7: it a point to talk to guys that were in
Speaker 7: that house before, to explain to them how well they're
Speaker 7: doing and how they how great the guys are, and
Speaker 7: how great the fireman are, you know, and you know
Speaker 7: how great that is. I I mean, it's it fills
Speaker 7: you with pride, knowing that that's where you came from.
Speaker 4: You know, I put my paper for thirty three truck.
Speaker 3: Did you know that that's gonna blurt that out?
Speaker 7: Real? I guess, I guess I went to see I
Speaker 7: guess it was before you knew.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I went to see Captain Finnemore twice.
Speaker 4: Actually what makes to call him fun no more or
Speaker 4: something like yeah no more?
Speaker 5: Yeah, but uh, and then the squad thing came up,
Speaker 5: so I went with that. With that, otherwise I think
Speaker 5: I would have probably went.
Speaker 4: I went to the truck at some point.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, yeah. So actually, so when I was studying
Speaker 7: for lieutenant, I started studying. I guess you know that
Speaker 7: was when when was our lieutenant's test? That was in
Speaker 7: ninety seven, ninety seven. So so I'm studying in ninety six,
Speaker 7: we get we get on the job in ninety three.
Speaker 7: Now I'm studying for lieutenant ninety six. I had a
Speaker 7: great study group, but it was run by Billy McGinn.
Speaker 7: Billy McGinn was uh he was a lieutenant forty eight
Speaker 7: engine and he was studying for captain. So he ran
Speaker 7: our study group. And it was five of us. It
Speaker 7: was me, Kiaren Brosnan, Jerry Tucker, Patty McNally and Steve
Speaker 7: de Lockry. We we uh we met every we we
Speaker 7: weren't fire at tech guys. I didn't even know where
Speaker 7: fire attack was. Uh. We met every Thursday night never missed.
Speaker 7: We never missed a Thursday for an entire year. And
Speaker 7: Billy McGinn was the guy that got us promoted. He
Speaker 7: was very very sharp, and you know, you know he
Speaker 7: went to Squad eighteen and ended up dying on nine
Speaker 7: to eleven. But great freaking guy, very very sharp.
Speaker 3: So you spent the quite a while in the engine.
Speaker 3: H seventy years in the engine.
Speaker 4: How was Eddy g Man? How was the Z Man
Speaker 4: over there?
Speaker 7: Man?
Speaker 4: He was absolutely.
Speaker 7: Back then he was he was even notudler than he
Speaker 7: is now. He was nuts man, he was nuts. I
Speaker 7: was doing uh, I think I was doing my thirty
Speaker 7: day detail. Either it was my I think we did
Speaker 7: a thirty or sixty day detail in the Yeah, thirty
Speaker 7: day detail. And we were up on the Grand Concourse
Speaker 7: and the officer was, uh, Jimmy Gill, you know, and
Speaker 7: some some firemen rub officers, you know, they could they
Speaker 7: could rub the rub them the wrong way sometimes. And
Speaker 7: Z Man used to get under Jimmy Gills, uh, under
Speaker 7: his nerves. We're we're we're going down the Grand Concourse
Speaker 7: and z Man climbs up. We're driving. I don't know,
Speaker 7: you know, we're not responding to anything, but he goes up,
Speaker 7: he gets up on the roof of the cab and
Speaker 7: he leans down.
Speaker 4: Gods, that didn't happen in f l A is it?
Speaker 7: Oh?
Speaker 6: Hell no?
Speaker 7: And we pulled up, and we pulled up. There was
Speaker 7: like a carnival going on, and he's also getting on
Speaker 7: the first wheel that you know, and it's in the
Speaker 7: middle of it's in the middle of there's like two
Speaker 7: h type buildings right next to each other, the first
Speaker 7: wheels right in the middle. And so you're going up
Speaker 7: and like you could look in windows and there's people
Speaker 7: like looking out and z Man, you know, just because
Speaker 7: he's he's the z Man.
Speaker 3: I love him.
Speaker 7: I love him, but he's he. It's me and him
Speaker 7: in the car and every time the first we love
Speaker 7: he's screaming at the top of his lungs, like like
Speaker 7: he's scared, you know, he's not. He's screaming at the
Speaker 7: top of his lungs. And all these people, all the
Speaker 7: all these people are out at the windows like what's God,
Speaker 7: that's awesome, so funny, that was great.
Speaker 3: I said, before you went to the truck door. You
Speaker 3: got in the band, Yeah, in ninety five, Yeah, I
Speaker 3: got in the band.
Speaker 7: Really, so I couldn't. I couldn't learn while I was
Speaker 7: on probation. So right after I came out of probation,
Speaker 7: I bought my chanter and I started. I got a
Speaker 7: private instructor and and you know, I put, I really
Speaker 7: like practiced a lot, and I got in the band.
Speaker 7: Pretty cool. I was in the I bought my chanter
Speaker 7: in August, and I my audition was in January. That January.
Speaker 3: Is that how it worked? You auditioned for the band?
Speaker 7: And yeah, it usually takes It can take anywhere from
Speaker 7: you know, it could take a year, two years, some people,
Speaker 7: some people more, but I did. I did start learning
Speaker 7: the chanter when I was a kid, so that kind
Speaker 7: of helped a little bit. But once you discovered girls,
Speaker 7: it wasn't a chance. I wasn't playing the chanter anymore.
Speaker 3: So did you always know that you wanted to be
Speaker 3: in a bando since you got on.
Speaker 7: I always liked the bagpipes. I remember, even when I
Speaker 7: was in college, I had an artist draw a leprechaun
Speaker 7: playing the bagpipes and I was gonna get it on
Speaker 7: my leg, but I ended up not getting it. But
Speaker 7: I always liked the bagpipes and my growing up, my
Speaker 7: father had the original record of the Bagpipe Band and
Speaker 7: he used to play it all the time with his
Speaker 7: Irish music on a Friday night, and so I kind
Speaker 7: of knew all of the songs in my head. I
Speaker 7: got a private instructor. He says, all right, what song
Speaker 7: do you want to learn first? And I hummed the
Speaker 7: song to him, the one that goes on, you know,
Speaker 7: and uh so we started learning that it was good
Speaker 7: to have a private instructor because it definitely helped me
Speaker 7: learn a lot faster.
Speaker 4: What what's it like like being in that?
Speaker 5: Like, first you're in the FDNY, for God's sakes, right,
Speaker 5: and and like you said, the pride that comes along
Speaker 5: with that and that.
Speaker 4: Whole Anthony right, it's like incredible.
Speaker 5: And then to be in the pipe band in the Emeralds,
Speaker 5: you know, the Emerald Society pipe band in the FDNY,
Speaker 5: and then starting to do parades and doing that ship.
Speaker 4: I mean, he's dreaming as a Talian dude.
Speaker 5: But I used to see the fucking pipe band coming
Speaker 5: no matter where I was, if it was unfortunately at
Speaker 5: a funeral, if it was at Saint Patti's day, if
Speaker 5: it was the fucking pipes were coming.
Speaker 7: Bro.
Speaker 5: My hash stands up and that's how it's just a prideful.
Speaker 4: Thing, right.
Speaker 5: So yeah, it has to be incredible for you to
Speaker 5: watch people looking at you with that pride, right.
Speaker 4: I mean, it's got me.
Speaker 7: It's kind of what got me to do it. You know.
Speaker 7: The first time I saw Jimmy Corker and marching into
Speaker 7: one of our I don't know if it was a
Speaker 7: Memorial Day or a. I think it was Memorial Day,
Speaker 7: it probably was. It was probably when we came on
Speaker 7: and I went to seventy five in October of ninety
Speaker 7: three after graduating Provy School.
Speaker 4: That first then.
Speaker 7: That would that would have been that would have been
Speaker 7: the first Metal Day Memorial Day that I would have went.
Speaker 4: Because he passed away to following you, right, he.
Speaker 7: Passed away in March of ninety five. All right, so
Speaker 7: it's been a year.
Speaker 4: Yea.
Speaker 7: So my actually my first parade in Saint Patrick's State
Speaker 7: Parade was his last. He died in my first parade.
Speaker 7: It's tradition for us to bring a bottle of whiskey,
Speaker 7: you know, to celebrate your you know, coming into the band.
Speaker 7: We always do that, and all my whiskey we were
Speaker 7: we were toasting to Jimmy because he died at the
Speaker 7: end of the parade.
Speaker 4: I remember I was at the what was that at
Speaker 4: the Armory, right or something like that.
Speaker 7: Yeah, we used to have the Yeah, we used to
Speaker 7: have our party at the Armory. And uh, you know
Speaker 7: when we got back to the armory after the parade,
Speaker 7: because he had passed away on the platform of the
Speaker 7: subway station, you know, before coming making his way down
Speaker 7: to the.
Speaker 4: Trying And I remember hearing all that when we were but.
Speaker 7: Anyway he was. It was when it was seeing him
Speaker 7: marching in with the band. Uh that Otober and then
Speaker 7: and I said, I gotta do this. That that was
Speaker 7: kind of what set that ball of motion. And then
Speaker 7: I see Bronco. You know, I'm friends with Bronco. We
Speaker 7: went to prov school together. I see him. Bronco was
Speaker 7: a drummer, and he was already in the band because
Speaker 7: by Metal Day, by the following July, which is the
Speaker 7: time we just came off probation, right, Wait, is medal
Speaker 7: day June June or July. That's June June June. Yeah,
Speaker 7: So regardless, Bronco was already in the band, and he
Speaker 7: had already been in a bagpipe band to being in
Speaker 7: our band. So he you know, he had an actually
Speaker 7: up so I spoke to him and he introduced me
Speaker 7: to Tommy McEnroe, who was the pipe major at the time,
Speaker 7: and and that was how I got the ball rolling
Speaker 7: to get in. But but what I said before about
Speaker 7: seventy five thirty three and the tightness of the guys.
Speaker 4: Oh my god, that's so those guys are so tight.
Speaker 7: That's how I felt in the band. So now like, oh,
Speaker 7: I'm overwhelmed with freaking greatness. I mean, the people, the guys,
Speaker 7: you know, just Geene Freyer, Jean Jean Freyer was you
Speaker 7: know I speak about I speak very highly of Burger
Speaker 7: and you know his ball breaking ability and everything. Jeane Freyer.
Speaker 7: I'll go on the record right now, is I know
Speaker 7: there's a lot of funny men on the fire. I
Speaker 7: know there's been extremely funny people on this job. I
Speaker 7: will go on record saying that man was the funniest
Speaker 7: man I ever because he was It's not a not
Speaker 7: only was he like talented it at just breaking people's walls,
Speaker 7: but he was that guy that could say anything anywhere
Speaker 7: to anybody and get away with it like he he we.
Speaker 7: I remember one time we were up in Albany and
Speaker 7: there's all big wigs at this thing, everybody except the governor.
Speaker 7: And he was roasting everybody at the table and and
Speaker 7: and everybody's laughing. You know, he just from Jimmy.
Speaker 4: What company was he from?
Speaker 6: Well?
Speaker 7: Was I know, like I remember, I know that he
Speaker 7: was an eighty one engine a long long time ago,
Speaker 7: but then he retired as a fire marshal. He was
Speaker 7: a fire marshal when he retell. He was a lot older.
Speaker 7: He's passed. He died just before nine to eleven, like
Speaker 7: months before nine to eleven. Wow. But he you know,
Speaker 7: when I came in the band, there was a certain
Speaker 7: group of guys that he took under his wing. And
Speaker 7: I talk about being proud again, I mean he it
Speaker 7: was it was myself. Uh, I don't want to get
Speaker 7: into that, but you know it was it was a
Speaker 7: group of guys that he just kind of you know,
Speaker 7: younger guys, and he took it. He was the older guy,
Speaker 7: and he took us on our way and just felt
Speaker 7: really good, you know that to be part of something
Speaker 7: like that.
Speaker 5: But it wasn't just him. It was I mean, you
Speaker 5: had I mean, just who was the guy who was
Speaker 5: the crazy guy Coobs, I had the tattoo mctigue.
Speaker 7: That's Tommy mctigue. Tommy mctigue. So Tommy mctigue's son, Tommy
Speaker 7: got in the band with me. He you know, so
Speaker 7: we have a thing in the band. You're a son
Speaker 7: of a member. If he's not on the fire from me,
Speaker 7: a son of a member can be in the band.
Speaker 7: So Tommy mctigue's son, who was in the military time
Speaker 7: he was at I think he he was, Uh, he
Speaker 7: graduated from West Point. I didn't know that it was
Speaker 7: he was think it was a hell. I don't know
Speaker 7: if he was a helicopter I think it was a
Speaker 7: helicopter pilot. But Tommy unfortunately had look got leukemia. He
Speaker 7: had beat it the first time, but it got him
Speaker 7: the second time. And uh, but he was my age
Speaker 7: and and we had got got in the jubb. But
Speaker 7: Tommy is he was he was another he's another crazy one.
Speaker 7: He went. Did you ever see his drive around a
Speaker 7: little volks He was the rescue three guy and he
Speaker 7: used to drive he had.
Speaker 4: When he came.
Speaker 7: And it had a freaking scaling ladder hooked at the
Speaker 7: time and we were at one medal day. It was
Speaker 7: one medal day and he pulls up and he grabs
Speaker 7: Van Is the commissioner at the time. He grabs Van
Speaker 7: and throws him in the car, gets in the car
Speaker 7: with him and they're flying down the road Riverside Avenue.
Speaker 3: He came on the bathroom in the bathroom.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, he had to show him.
Speaker 4: He came on in the bathroom.
Speaker 7: Oh, he's He's great.
Speaker 3: That's a big commitment though it right, I mean a
Speaker 3: lot of.
Speaker 7: Time, huge, especially for the younger guys and everything. You know,
Speaker 7: like I still go to stuff, but I'm I don't.
Speaker 7: I'm not at I try to go to a couple
Speaker 7: of things when I can. Now I got But it's
Speaker 7: a great, great organization. I'm very proud to be part
Speaker 7: of it, and the guys are.
Speaker 4: Liam has done an incredible job too, right, I.
Speaker 7: Mean Liam's you know when when Jimmy Corkoran passed away,
Speaker 7: you know it was kind of we had a we
Speaker 7: had a tryout for you know, who's going to be
Speaker 7: the next guy, and you know it had to be Liam.
Speaker 7: You know, it had to do big dude. There was
Speaker 7: a million reasons. He's a big dude. He's got presence.
Speaker 7: He he at the time at the time he was
Speaker 7: he had the most we had. We used to have
Speaker 7: points for you show up at things. You know. Liam
Speaker 7: Hay had the most points. He probably was the most
Speaker 7: Irish guy in the band. Both of his parents from Ireland. Uh,
Speaker 7: you know, travel to Ireland all time. I actually been
Speaker 7: to Ireland with him to his mother's houses. I met
Speaker 7: his grandmother numerous times. Uh, you know, passed by now,
Speaker 7: but yeah, he was, he was the right choice. That
Speaker 7: was an interesting night too, It was that was pretty funny.
Speaker 3: Those guys in the band. Did they play an instrument,
Speaker 3: Those guys will.
Speaker 7: Become to that position that Liam is a piper.
Speaker 3: Okay, so they're already in the band and they play
Speaker 3: something and then they moved to that next progression.
Speaker 7: Well that that was I mean the pipe the drum
Speaker 7: with Liam Lilliam's the drum major. Right, So that position
Speaker 7: is a lifelong position. That's you know, as long as
Speaker 7: he wants. That's not a part of the board, right. Uh,
Speaker 7: So that's that's he's that's his position. You know.
Speaker 5: I remember watching the video of the documentary when you
Speaker 5: guys reached whatever was it fifty years or something like,
Speaker 5: you guys just had had a f here. What a
Speaker 5: what a documentary that was? I don't remember.
Speaker 7: Good Timmy Garritty did a great job with that. Ye Timmy,
Speaker 7: that's that's one of Timmy is like into the whole
Speaker 7: video production thing, even before the job.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm trying to get Edett Garritty. I've been trying
Speaker 5: to get ed on the show.
Speaker 7: Oh he's great. That's his dad.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, we're trying to get him on the show.
Speaker 7: A little it's a little bit of a hight difference set.
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, yeah, I'm good for I'll work with Beatty.
Speaker 7: Oh yeah yeah, yeah. Good people.
Speaker 3: So let's get back to get over to thirty three
Speaker 3: truck in ten thousand. A lot of guys slide across
Speaker 3: the floor. He just felt that he was your time
Speaker 3: to go there.
Speaker 7: Well, I was on the litle Tennis list, so you know,
Speaker 7: it was just kind of the thing you wanted to,
Speaker 7: you know, try and get some truck experience before you
Speaker 7: get promoted. Now that's actually interesting, uh that I you know,
Speaker 7: I get over there and the list is moving, it's
Speaker 7: going nowhere. That list was going absolutely. You know, I
Speaker 7: did not think, well, Louis, you're the same. We got
Speaker 7: promoted together, so were the same. I did not think.
Speaker 7: I did not think that we were getting promoted at all.
Speaker 7: So I actually started buddying again.
Speaker 5: We were doing we were doing the uh, what's the
Speaker 5: thing the coalition?
Speaker 6: Right?
Speaker 4: We used to have the when you were on the list, Right,
Speaker 4: you used to do the.
Speaker 7: Oh what the hell did they call that? Yeah?
Speaker 5: You Eddie Balls was right. I came on with Eddie,
Speaker 5: so I was close with him. He started the.
Speaker 7: What is that called the the provisionals, you know, Yeah.
Speaker 5: Like when you're gonna get you you're on the list
Speaker 5: and you're trying to get promote everybody.
Speaker 7: You're bucking up money so that you if you have
Speaker 7: to hire a lawyer or something to fight to right.
Speaker 5: Or you would go to like these political things so that,
Speaker 5: you know, you would go give out flyers for these guys,
Speaker 5: so that they would push for the list to get
Speaker 5: to the end, because the eligibles, the eligible eligible.
Speaker 4: Son of them. Bitch, I'm getting old, some ship.
Speaker 7: So I never thought. I didn't even think we were.
Speaker 7: I didn't think I was gonna get promoted. Actually at
Speaker 7: that time too, I was thinking about going to Rescue
Speaker 7: four because at the time, you know me, me Liam
Speaker 7: and Bronco we were all really tight in those days,
Speaker 7: and and they weren't Rescue four. So I was thinking,
Speaker 7: I'm not getting promoted. I had talked to, uh, you know,
Speaker 7: some of the guys there. John Gain was the senior
Speaker 7: guy there, and I talked to him about it. And
Speaker 7: then and then nine to eleven happens, and then that's
Speaker 7: you know, that changed everything. They started promoting, you know,
Speaker 7: we me and Louis got promoted. Was it like eight
Speaker 7: or nine months after nine to eleven?
Speaker 5: There was July of two, June June second, oh two,
Speaker 5: that's when we got Yeah.
Speaker 4: So we had a lot of guys. We had a
Speaker 4: lot of classes, right, we had a lot of guys.
Speaker 7: I remember George Johnson was up in the upstairs session here.
Speaker 7: I figured who else was up with him.
Speaker 5: We had Billy Ryan, We had a lot of Ryan. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 5: we had a bunch of Billy Redden was in there.
Speaker 3: Oh, Billy Redden.
Speaker 5: So this was this is something I remember. I don't
Speaker 5: even know if Timmy remembers this, but we had so
Speaker 5: many sock guys that and we were you know, again,
Speaker 5: it was ball breaking all the time, right, and you'd
Speaker 5: have to stand up and pick a thing out of
Speaker 5: the can and you know, you'd have to talk about
Speaker 5: something for three minutes. You didn't even know what the
Speaker 5: hell you were going to pick out right right and
Speaker 5: stand up in front of the thing. And Tim would
Speaker 5: break balls about the sock guys, right, he was a
Speaker 5: he was a Brox guy, you know, thirty three truck.
Speaker 5: He would break sock ball. Oh, socks, socks, sock you know, Oh, well,
Speaker 5: whatever you know, I'm available ten eight, whatever you know,
Speaker 5: don't you know? Like after I go I go to
Speaker 5: tow ninety in December of two, all of a sudden,
Speaker 5: I see this son of a bitch.
Speaker 4: What the sock?
Speaker 5: He didn't break the balls, but he already knew, right,
Speaker 5: he never let on.
Speaker 4: He was good.
Speaker 7: Well, in my defense, I did have I was told
Speaker 7: early in my career that you don't even think about
Speaker 7: going to SoC have ten years on a job, right,
Speaker 7: So that was that was my ball breaking thing?
Speaker 4: Was No, I got you. Yeah, I do remember that
Speaker 4: seeing you.
Speaker 5: I don't remember. We'll go through the timeline. It's coming up,
Speaker 5: but I do remember.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that was. That was a weird time.
Speaker 5: We actually took Timmy we took did you you didn't
Speaker 5: get promoted off of that did you take that test,
Speaker 5: which the Captain's Test.
Speaker 4: We took the Captains test.
Speaker 7: Oh, we took the Captains test while we were in flips.
Speaker 4: Did you did you get on the list?
Speaker 7: No? No, and yeah, And I didn't get promoted off
Speaker 7: the next I took three Captains tests. The one after that,
Speaker 7: the one that I did study for, was the one
Speaker 7: that the men who we will not shall not name
Speaker 7: wrote that bullshit test and it was like you know
Speaker 7: past tests where uh, there was your handful of gimmes,
Speaker 7: then you had your handful of like real you know,
Speaker 7: like hard hard questions, and then there was your your
Speaker 7: fluff in the middle. You had to be a study here.
Speaker 7: But they weren't, you know, they were straightforward questions. But
Speaker 7: that one test.
Speaker 4: Yeah, was so hard and the test that we would
Speaker 4: have ever.
Speaker 7: Wrote that test. I feel like the guys that were
Speaker 7: tested every single question, they said, how can we screw
Speaker 7: them here? How can we screw them here? How can
Speaker 7: we screw there? It was such a hard test and
Speaker 7: only two hundred people passed it and with ties, I
Speaker 7: think it was two ten to Dominic Bertucci was the
Speaker 7: last guy to get promoted off that list, right, I
Speaker 7: think his list number was two ten something like that,
Speaker 7: and you know normally they would promote four hundred.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that that that test in school that time. That
Speaker 5: was like again, nobody was really studying. I mean we
Speaker 5: were down at you know, down to ground zero all
Speaker 5: that stuff, but there were guys studying for that test.
Speaker 4: You know what I mean, Like, yeah, I didn't.
Speaker 5: I mean I think I got like a sixty something
Speaker 5: on that test and I didn't even study one minute.
Speaker 5: But we had to take it because we were promoted
Speaker 5: one day. As long as you were promoted one day
Speaker 5: and rank you could take the test. And I think
Speaker 5: it was like a week or two later or something.
Speaker 7: Well, the third one that I took, the third after
Speaker 7: the hard one, you know, which was only two years
Speaker 7: later because they only had two hundred people to promote
Speaker 7: on that one. Two years later, they gave another test
Speaker 7: that one I didn't. I barely studied for, but that's
Speaker 7: the one I got promoted off. But I remembered everything
Speaker 7: from the first time. I said, you know, and the
Speaker 7: guys that were in my study group break my balls
Speaker 7: because they say, I, you know, I decided to renovate
Speaker 7: my kitchen at the same time, and which dayline I said,
Speaker 7: day line day, All right, you cat could all work out.
Speaker 3: When you went over to the truck. Do you catch
Speaker 3: good work before you got promoted?
Speaker 7: While I was in the truck, and the whole time
Speaker 7: I was there, I always I always did very well.
Speaker 7: I did well there. I probably got more job. My
Speaker 7: first part of my career in seventy five is when
Speaker 7: I got the most work, because things started to tell
Speaker 7: a little fizzle off a bit. But yeah, it was
Speaker 7: in the beginning there when it was still crazy. You know,
Speaker 7: Wayne Hollerin was a senior man. I respect Wayne more
Speaker 7: than he even knows. But I remember him saying that
Speaker 7: the years of the Animal House where it was absolutely
Speaker 7: insane was seventy five to eighty five. Those were that
Speaker 7: was the time frame where it was just because prior
Speaker 7: to that it was a camp.
Speaker 6: Was it really?
Speaker 7: Yeah? Yeah, prior to that I was total camp. People
Speaker 7: used the companies used to interchange there.
Speaker 5: Wow, isn't that crazy to think that in ninety three,
Speaker 5: thinking all the work you went to and that's not
Speaker 5: even in that guy's.
Speaker 4: Ball in is we all?
Speaker 7: No? I was going we were doing six thousand runs
Speaker 7: a year, I think sixty five runs a year. They
Speaker 7: were doing over ten thousand runs a year in that time,
Speaker 7: and they didn't, I don't they didn't have two sections.
Speaker 5: Yeah right, that's a weird thing that those guys didn't
Speaker 5: have a second section there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but I think what I read somewhere was that
Speaker 3: the Warriors, uh well earlier in uh like Halem and
Speaker 3: Brooklyn and a little bit later on in the Bronx,
Speaker 3: like the mid seventies, it was still going on in
Speaker 3: the eighties. We're in the in Brooklyn. It was slowing
Speaker 3: down in the eighties, but it was still rocking in
Speaker 3: the bar.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 7: Yeah, Well the vacant buildings, you know, that was a big,
Speaker 7: big thing, and and and and what was I think
Speaker 7: what made it so, you know, when I first got
Speaker 7: there so busy still was the crack. The crack epidemic was.
Speaker 7: You know, it was terrible. And as a matter of fact,
Speaker 7: I tell people my whole first year as a proby
Speaker 7: and and and after until the crack thing, you know,
Speaker 7: Giuliani really cleaned things up. But we're seventy our old firehouse,
Speaker 7: the old because now seventy five is on Cameron Place,
Speaker 7: they're two blocks away. But the first you know, our
Speaker 7: the old firehouse was on Jerome and one hundred and
Speaker 7: eighty third Street. When the doors opened up, one hundred
Speaker 7: and eighty third Street was right, you know, right front
Speaker 7: of you. So if you had to go up to
Speaker 7: the Grand Concourse, you were shooting right out of the
Speaker 7: fire house and going straight up hundred eighty third Street
Speaker 7: when the apparatus doors opened at any point of the day,
Speaker 7: I don't care whether the way the wind always blew.
Speaker 7: Everything blew into the fire so potato chip bags where
Speaker 7: you know, we went to fireout, including all of the
Speaker 7: crack files. Now, you couldn't walk on the street in
Speaker 7: that hole there. You couldn't walk on the sidewalk without
Speaker 7: stepping on an empty crack file. There was that much crazy.
Speaker 7: That's the old firehouse.
Speaker 3: That's what's there now.
Speaker 7: Cap It's an EMS station. Actually, that's a whole nother story,
Speaker 7: is is it's I'm I'm really upset that it was
Speaker 7: nice to go into a brand new firehouse, but they
Speaker 7: Dennis Devon was the captain at the time, and the
Speaker 7: city it was the worst living firehouse in all of
Speaker 7: New York City at this time. There was two different
Speaker 7: times where a rat jumped on me while I was
Speaker 7: on a on a house swat. What's worse is there
Speaker 7: was uh and this is what this was the story
Speaker 7: that broke Camel's back. There was twelve guys that were
Speaker 7: on medical leave with flea bites from the rats. Oh
Speaker 7: my gosh, Rick COMISKI great guy right there. He was
Speaker 7: captain in thirty three when I was there, and then
Speaker 7: he became a nineteenth battalion.
Speaker 6: Was there right?
Speaker 4: How was? Somebody asked me for uh, what's his name?
Speaker 7: I totally just got off topic.
Speaker 4: That's all right. Garrett was Garrett, Garrett Garrett.
Speaker 7: So Garrett was a sign that when I was there,
Speaker 7: he was still a sign there. And but he wasn't there.
Speaker 7: I don't know. Oh, I think he was in rescue three.
Speaker 7: Didn't you go to rest.
Speaker 3: H Yeah, I haven't seen him in the chat.
Speaker 7: While I think I wrote his check home once or twice.
Speaker 7: He lived by me.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that placed. Uh, that was some place man. Still,
Speaker 5: like you said, it's still if there's work anywhere.
Speaker 7: Prince the Prince was my lieutenant when I first got there,
Speaker 7: and and he I was in group eighteen. He was
Speaker 7: in group eighteen, and John Halpin was in group five.
Speaker 7: And I told you Jay Walsh, Yeah, He was the
Speaker 7: other guy I went to from probaby school. We went
Speaker 7: we went to Semi five together. He was in Group five.
Speaker 7: So we only worked with those two officers. I always
Speaker 7: worked with either the Prince or John Halpin, and you
Speaker 7: couldn't have asked for two better officers. I mean, just
Speaker 7: it was, it was. It was great. The Prince was
Speaker 7: a character. You know, between the Prince and Burger, they
Speaker 7: did nickname everybody. Everybody had a nickname. I actually write
Speaker 7: that was one of the things I wanted to I
Speaker 7: actually wrote down there a bunch of them. Here's a
Speaker 7: handful of the nicknames from the Animal House, Lucky, Burger,
Speaker 7: Wayne and I, the Deuce, the Ace, Missus Mellon, the
Speaker 7: Polish Prince, Sparky, Morty. You know Mordy right, Remember you
Speaker 7: know Morty from Rescue for he was no no Morty.
Speaker 7: Dave Winthrop Marty, Oh my god, Prince gave him that name.
Speaker 7: The background behind that is his name is Dave Winthrop
Speaker 7: right Winthrop translating to win Thorpe from oh my god,
Speaker 7: that's the evolution of Morty.
Speaker 4: I gotta hit him with that horsehead.
Speaker 7: The Swede, dell Wood and the blue Falcon are the
Speaker 7: same person the goose Great Fireman. That was Gary mcclink,
Speaker 7: Gray Fireman. Uh k Rock White Rock, Shanny O'Donnell. That's
Speaker 7: another story, Uh Doc. We had the good roach and
Speaker 7: the bad roach. Of course had the gimph hardball as
Speaker 7: hardball happened. Rest of Saul, the Commission, svend Baby, the
Speaker 7: pest panties, Ayatola. The icon, Oh, the icon. I'm gonna
Speaker 7: tell you I have another story about the icon trigger
Speaker 7: frog balls now frog balls is the nickname that Prince
Speaker 7: called everybody a frog bulls, big Bird, little Ricky Topper.
Speaker 7: And my favorite is Jay Walsh who came to seventy
Speaker 7: five with me from Proby School. He had no nickname,
Speaker 7: so the Prince called him no nickname. That was his
Speaker 7: that was.
Speaker 3: Did he stay there his whole career?
Speaker 7: He got promoted, Uh yeah, Jay went. He also went
Speaker 7: to thirty three and then he got promoted and he
Speaker 7: went to lieutenant. He was a lieutenant and fifty nine
Speaker 7: injured for a long time. He retired a couple of
Speaker 7: years ago.
Speaker 3: When you leave him off that list is who are you?
Speaker 7: I was I said that before. My name is Tim.
Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, So who was the guy who just wanted
Speaker 5: to talk about.
Speaker 7: There was a guy that you saw the icon. That's
Speaker 7: that's Jimmy Dotty. Jimmy Dotty was a lieutenant and uh again,
Speaker 7: I don't know, I can't, I can stop. I can't
Speaker 7: stop saying that this is this guy's the nicest guy. No,
Speaker 7: this guy's the nicest guy. It was like one of
Speaker 7: the nicest far You know, John Ivolo, we all know
Speaker 7: is the nicest fireman that ever was on New York
Speaker 7: City fire But the icon it was Jimmy Dotty, great guy.
Speaker 7: Every meal, every single meal that was the best, that
Speaker 7: was best meal. But Jimmy Dotty. And this is I'm
Speaker 7: gonna make it. This is a very short thing. But
Speaker 7: I actually I have a sister that I never knew about.
Speaker 7: And I found out about her because Jimmy Dotty grew
Speaker 7: up he knew my I have. I never met my
Speaker 7: biological father. Another story. But Jimmy grew up with this
Speaker 7: guy and when he first started working in my firehouse,
Speaker 7: I just happened to mention, did you know this guy
Speaker 7: Tommy Diamond who was from Park Chester in the Bronx
Speaker 7: And he said, he said, my dad and him are
Speaker 7: best friends, and so fuck and then and then he
Speaker 7: ended up dying. And when he doted, and I didn't
Speaker 7: talk about my biological father. Guy I never met. I
Speaker 7: find out through the mutual friend with Dottie that I
Speaker 7: have a sister, and to this day we have an
Speaker 7: unbelievable relationship.
Speaker 4: Wow.
Speaker 7: We met. She was living in North Carolina, but she
Speaker 7: moved back to New York when she found out she
Speaker 7: knew nothing about me. I knew nothing about her.
Speaker 4: Wow, that's a great story.
Speaker 7: When she got married. I was just at her house
Speaker 7: last weekend with one of her kids.
Speaker 4: Uh, this is all from this guy that was working that.
Speaker 7: Imagine if it didn't even work, If he didn't that's
Speaker 7: meant he was covering at the time too. He didn't
Speaker 7: have the spot there. This is what a special thing
Speaker 7: that is. Yeah, it was very It's very good. Me
Speaker 7: and him, that is a special thing. Me and him
Speaker 7: both shares so good stuff. Good stuff on my mind
Speaker 7: right now, good stuff.
Speaker 3: Yep.
Speaker 7: Wow.
Speaker 3: As you get promoted in two thousand and two and
Speaker 3: then assigned to the third division.
Speaker 7: Yes, I went to the third division. I went to Uh.
Speaker 7: But again remember this is like shortly after nine to eleven, right,
Speaker 7: there were spots everywhere, So I did. I probably did,
Speaker 7: like maybe two vacations. I never was essay once as
Speaker 7: a lieutenant. I was never ever essay, not even once.
Speaker 7: I went to fourteen Truck and I was there for
Speaker 7: I think six or seven months UFO. But then that's
Speaker 7: when I went I ended up. Jerry Mirtha asked me
Speaker 7: if I was interested in going to socc.
Speaker 3: This is when the band comes in rough.
Speaker 7: Not the band thing. Listen. I know you don't like
Speaker 7: to say that, but it's it's it's I like to
Speaker 7: say that I got to places on my own merit,
Speaker 7: and I say that.
Speaker 4: I did work with three you know, the animal House.
Speaker 3: I meant story.
Speaker 7: I like to say I got places on my own merit.
Speaker 7: But so so there was.
Speaker 4: A lot of things.
Speaker 7: Jerry right, So so Jerry call too, and I said, yeah, definitely.
Speaker 6: I knew.
Speaker 7: Jerry knew that I was trying before the whole promotion thing,
Speaker 7: before nine to eleven. He knew that I was thinking
Speaker 7: about going to rest before. So that's when he said,
Speaker 7: you know, that's why he came up to me. He's
Speaker 7: still interested in going because they needed officers, you know,
Speaker 7: it was every everybody needed everything. So so I can't
Speaker 7: I I went uh. John Norman called me at home
Speaker 7: and I had to He said, I had to go
Speaker 7: to Hazmat school first, because I guess that's something that
Speaker 7: an officer has. You have to be hasmat trained before
Speaker 7: you can work in socc So I went right to
Speaker 7: Hazmat school and then I was covering in SoC So
Speaker 7: it was it was definitely interesting because it was I
Speaker 7: wasn't aware. I didn't know that, you know, officers could
Speaker 7: be not you know, like I thought it was guys
Speaker 7: that had to be in soccer before or whatever. But
Speaker 7: it worked out. They worked out for me. I was
Speaker 7: very happy. And then and then I saw I saw
Speaker 7: Billy wall Billy wallfs was captain of forty one. I
Speaker 7: had covered their vacation or something, and I pulled them
Speaker 7: aside one day and I said, listen, I don't care
Speaker 7: how long it takes. I said, but this is where
Speaker 7: I want to work. So I'm just letting you know
Speaker 7: that I don't care how long it takes. I'll cover
Speaker 7: for as long as it takes.
Speaker 6: What was it?
Speaker 3: What was it about that place?
Speaker 7: I'll say this keV I loved. I loved when I
Speaker 7: went to the third division to cover, it was something
Speaker 7: different you know, Manhattan was you know, because the third
Speaker 7: Division is from like I don't know what streets start saying,
Speaker 7: but like sixty five Engine's part of the third Division,
Speaker 7: so that that is where I worked on one like
Speaker 7: vacation spot, or maybe it was just a couple of tours,
Speaker 7: but it was interesting, you know, it was it was
Speaker 7: really cool to be out of the ghetto and in
Speaker 7: in being inserted like that. But then I started, now,
Speaker 7: I'm I'm working at twenty six truck one day, and
Speaker 7: I'm like, you know, I feel a lot better here.
Speaker 7: I just I liked being in, you know, and it
Speaker 7: was a lot of it was the buildings, you know,
Speaker 7: like you feel comfortable. I felt very, very very comfortable
Speaker 7: in a five story walk up, you know. The tenement
Speaker 7: to me is like a walk in the park, and
Speaker 7: that's where I felt really comfortable. Now I know. I
Speaker 7: actually had a conversation with kill Duff about this. I
Speaker 7: understand that I understand the idea of you know, diversifying,
Speaker 7: you know, going to different areas of the city, and
Speaker 7: and I get that. But I'm just saying how I
Speaker 7: felt when I came back, when I came back to
Speaker 7: the Bronx and I'm covering in forty one Engine Squad
Speaker 7: forty one. Uh, it just felt great, It felt like comfortable,
Speaker 7: and I was I was just happy to be there.
Speaker 7: And again here we go again. Every freaking guy. It's awesome,
Speaker 7: every freaking guy that works there, you know, so.
Speaker 3: And they do a ship ton of work.
Speaker 5: And they were just rebuilding too. I mean obviously they
Speaker 5: were just rebuilding everything.
Speaker 7: Really, I mean they lost yeah, yeah, it's it's it was,
Speaker 7: it was, it was. I was happy to be there,
Speaker 7: and I'm not I loved working in every uh squad rescue.
Speaker 7: I loved working in every part of the city and
Speaker 7: in those companies. It did. I will say I was
Speaker 7: a little uneasy at first, because you know, you're I
Speaker 7: don't know if guys looked at you and say, oh,
Speaker 7: this guy was never in soccer before or whatever. But
Speaker 7: you know, I just kept my mouth shut and just
Speaker 7: you know, just did my thing and and it all
Speaker 7: worked out and I got along with everybody, and you know,
Speaker 7: but going to forty one was just it was just
Speaker 7: I was really really comfortable.
Speaker 5: So too, Tool is dad, but he is speaking of
Speaker 5: Timmy fucking Timmy o'tool.
Speaker 7: When I when I, uh, the whole time I was
Speaker 7: UFO there and then when I got there, me and
Speaker 7: Timmy were in the same group, and Timmy lives near
Speaker 7: me here, so we we carpooled together. We were you know,
Speaker 7: we always worked here. It was it was either Timmy
Speaker 7: or Owen mcgovernor that I was working with.
Speaker 4: Oh I love fucking Owen. Fucking another Owen fucking.
Speaker 7: I tell you my brother, My brother's Owen too.
Speaker 4: It's Barrett, right, Is that Barrett.
Speaker 7: That's uh so on all the way on the left,
Speaker 7: that's Scott Hickey than John Barrett. The guy that's on
Speaker 7: the left that's cut off though, is that's Jerry Kennelly.
Speaker 7: I love working with Jerry. I love working with a guy.
Speaker 7: I love working with a guy that's got an Irish accent. Yeah,
Speaker 7: and you know what maybe he used to make me
Speaker 7: laugh is nobody can understand anything he said. Some you know,
Speaker 7: some Irish accents are stronger than others. And Jerry's from
Speaker 7: Limerick and they have a very strong Irish accent and
Speaker 7: sometimes people couldn't quite you know, get what he said.
Speaker 7: I remember we were at a job one time. We
Speaker 7: were coming down actually we I think we were just
Speaker 7: doing a secondary at a project in Manhattan and the
Speaker 7: Jerry's coming downstairs. Somebody said, Jerry, where are you on
Speaker 7: the radio, and Jerry, what Jerry said was I'll be
Speaker 7: right down. That's what he said on the radio. But
Speaker 7: what everybody heard was French Toast breakfast. So so yeah,
Speaker 7: there was I don't know who it was. I think
Speaker 7: it was Mike. He was so funny. I think it
Speaker 7: was either him or CC. Forget what he was gonna
Speaker 7: do it. We're gonna do a shirt, make his shirt, Jerry,
Speaker 7: you know, uh, French Toast breakfast and on the back,
Speaker 7: I'll be right down, Simmy.
Speaker 5: Timmy Mark is in the chat, he says, Jerry only
Speaker 5: said f you came.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Who was the guy in rescue one who had the
Speaker 5: brogue all the time?
Speaker 4: Was it Cummins?
Speaker 7: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4: He was another guy you could never understand. He would
Speaker 4: be story.
Speaker 7: Have you ever heard the story of Amon Killian?
Speaker 4: I know, do you know?
Speaker 6: Do you know? Uh?
Speaker 7: Tommy Killian. Tommy killing was in fifty six trucks. He's
Speaker 7: he was, he was in the band. He hasn't been
Speaker 7: around a band of years. But Tommy's father was a
Speaker 7: battalion aide. I think in the third battalion. I know, yeah,
Speaker 7: it was the third battalion, I think, And I guess
Speaker 7: the dispatchers. They're at a job and the dispatcher's egging him.
Speaker 7: You gotta give me, you got it?
Speaker 4: What do you got? What do you got?
Speaker 7: I need a size up at the building. I need
Speaker 7: to size up at the building.
Speaker 4: A little bit.
Speaker 8: Yeah, he says, He says, Oh the sight, he says,
Speaker 8: it's massive.
Speaker 7: Send more lads, Send.
Speaker 3: More lads, more fucking lads.
Speaker 7: I love working with a guy with that Irish accents.
Speaker 5: Great, that's true, I have to say that's not Uh,
Speaker 5: it's pretty good.
Speaker 7: Great to hear on the radio. I just I don't
Speaker 7: know whatever it is. I love it. But yeah, great
Speaker 7: guys in forty one.
Speaker 3: Man, how long do you have to wait before you
Speaker 3: got that call?
Speaker 7: Two years?
Speaker 9: For two years? Yeah, it was two years. I covered
Speaker 9: for two years, right, roughly. This is as much as
Speaker 9: I can remember. Again, my my memory is shocked. But
Speaker 9: two years and I was at.
Speaker 7: I was at the rocket. Billy came up to me
Speaker 7: and he said, uh, time to go, Bubby. That he
Speaker 7: always used that word bubby. Yeah, yeah, you're coming over, Bubby.
Speaker 7: And it's because of what you said to me two
Speaker 7: years ago. I think that's how I know it was
Speaker 7: two years because he knew I wanted I was waiting
Speaker 7: and I wanted to go there. Wow.
Speaker 3: And motherfucker too. That guy's funny as hell.
Speaker 7: Man, Oh he was. He was great. It was great
Speaker 7: working with him. I worked with three captains. There was
Speaker 7: him and ever it came, and then Larry Thompkins.
Speaker 5: We're gonna have Larry on in a couple of weeks.
Speaker 5: Larry's Larry is one of my favorite guys too.
Speaker 3: You know what's funny, cap you had just said that
Speaker 3: you kept like when you first got there. He didn't
Speaker 3: talk much, he kept a low profile. So Louis said, hey, yeah,
Speaker 3: we're having Tim Grandall. I'm like, I don't think I
Speaker 3: ever talked to that guy. And all the time he
Speaker 3: seemed like a really quite guy. I don't know how
Speaker 3: good guess he's gonna be and who knows, look at
Speaker 3: this guy.
Speaker 4: I know, I know.
Speaker 5: So you know, we didn't talk about this tim when
Speaker 5: when I was me and Roe in like the late nineties,
Speaker 5: we started like a wedding.
Speaker 4: Favorite thing, Italian favorite. Oh yeah, Timmy started and Irish.
Speaker 7: You know, Louis Louis, I can't even there. I lost
Speaker 7: a freakingunt of money, lost a lot of money. We tried,
Speaker 7: we tried to work. Bad business decision.
Speaker 4: But I remember talking to him a lot about this.
Speaker 3: Only Guineas can make wedding favors, bro the Irish.
Speaker 7: Yeah still does she still do that?
Speaker 3: I know?
Speaker 4: No, we got it basically dried up. But you know,
Speaker 4: probably like.
Speaker 7: Very the whole wedding market thing is yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: Now it's all T shirts baby, Yeah, let's go.
Speaker 7: Great guys in forty one, man, I got it. You know,
Speaker 7: I could mentioned everybody there, but uh, you know, just
Speaker 7: Timmy and Owen. You know, those are the guys that
Speaker 7: I drove me so was always work them.
Speaker 5: They were Is that the guy? Owen was the one
Speaker 5: who went out. He moved out to Oregon. Yeah he's
Speaker 5: out in Oregon. Yeah he was, he was originally. He
Speaker 5: still sends me messages every once in a while.
Speaker 4: He watches the show.
Speaker 7: I talked to him on the phone every once in
Speaker 7: a while.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 7: He was a good kid, great great. All the chauffeurs
Speaker 7: man were freaking yeah, everybody's great fun.
Speaker 5: He was a chauffer right a chauffer. Yeah, Owen, yeah,
Speaker 5: was he was. Yeah, so I worked there. I covered there.
Speaker 5: It had to be him. I'm I'm ninety percent sure.
Speaker 5: And we responded to I was covering there for just
Speaker 5: for the tour. We respond to a gas leak. I
Speaker 5: think we're second due or third due. Yeah, And it
Speaker 5: hits the brake and I opened the door and.
Speaker 7: He goes no, no, no, no, no, oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4: We don't get we don't get out right.
Speaker 5: I turn around. I'm like, what are you talking about.
Speaker 5: He's like, no, no, Lou, we don't get out. We
Speaker 5: don't get off. I'm like, bro, I gotta get off.
Speaker 5: He's like, no, Lulu, we don't we over here. We
Speaker 5: don't do that. I understand, but we don't do that.
Speaker 5: I said, are you fing with me? He's like no, no.
Speaker 5: I said, all right, when in Rome, you.
Speaker 7: Right? And that's exactly right. And you know what, I've
Speaker 7: had people arguing me, oh no, no about listen. The
Speaker 7: right way to operate is the way that company operates.
Speaker 4: Correct.
Speaker 7: That's how you operate as an officer. That would be
Speaker 7: a good tidbit for any officer. You go there, you
Speaker 7: operate the way the company operates.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but he did.
Speaker 5: He had to tell me like two or three times, like, dude,
Speaker 5: I'm getting off. He's like, no, no, Lou, we don't.
Speaker 5: We don't do that here. You know, like it'll be
Speaker 5: like almost like disrespectful if you got off or something
Speaker 5: like that.
Speaker 4: I guess. So I said, all right, I'll stay on
Speaker 4: the rick.
Speaker 3: I no, no, you've been gone a while.
Speaker 4: Maybe he didn't get over that, but I was.
Speaker 7: I was golfing.
Speaker 4: Oh Sully was there too, Stevie.
Speaker 5: Uh oh, Steve Sullivan was there, right, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 5: but I was golfing just last week.
Speaker 7: Uh, with a buddy of mine I got with all
Speaker 7: the time. He's a suffer cop and he he's he
Speaker 7: says he's got two other guys that he was that
Speaker 7: he was a cop with. So my buddy's retired now.
Speaker 7: But he I'm talking to this guy Sean, and he says, uh,
Speaker 7: I said, I asked him where he worked as a cop.
Speaker 7: You know what unity is he's in whatever, and uh
Speaker 7: he you know, he's telling me where he works. But
Speaker 7: he said that my buddy Kenny, when they work together,
Speaker 7: they he made my buddies job easy. This This is
Speaker 7: what my buddy Keny says that these two guys they
Speaker 7: made my easy. And I said the thing I said
Speaker 7: right to him, right to him back, You're going to
Speaker 7: work in Squad forty one, and every single guy in
Speaker 7: that fly house made my job easy.
Speaker 4: And make me look like a star. I told him
Speaker 4: to make me look like a star. Yeah, it's like
Speaker 4: Disney World.
Speaker 7: It is just I want, I want you.
Speaker 5: To start taking the china, but you can't use any tools,
Speaker 5: use your team.
Speaker 7: One particular person that was just it just don't do
Speaker 7: anything for you the right freaking place at the right
Speaker 7: time was Mike Lindy. Mike Lindy was a great for him.
Speaker 4: It was a good fireman. Mike.
Speaker 7: Every time when he was you know, he would I would.
Speaker 7: He wouldn't drive me that often because it was either
Speaker 7: to me your own because they were the same group.
Speaker 7: We were in the same groups. But every once in
Speaker 7: a while I get microft. So now we're at a
Speaker 7: job or something like I need an extra I was
Speaker 7: just going to say, I need an extra hook, and
Speaker 7: Mike's right there, you know, he.
Speaker 3: Just always on point, maybe on point on point man.
Speaker 5: Maybe it was uh he was a thinking maybe allegedly
Speaker 5: could have been a Connecticut guy.
Speaker 4: But he hooked me up like he was like a seaport.
Speaker 5: Guy over there when I went on vacation, Oh, only
Speaker 5: way to go and do all that stuff, whatever that
Speaker 5: places over there.
Speaker 4: Forget what that hackens. Everybody goes over there.
Speaker 7: To look at the old ships and stuff.
Speaker 4: When you mystic when.
Speaker 3: You first got into sock, didn't take you a while
Speaker 3: to adjust to the you know, not first do mindset,
Speaker 3: Like a whole different mindset being in sock, right, you're
Speaker 3: coming in after the fact for the most point.
Speaker 7: Well, uh yeah, there's that's a whole different mindset of operations.
Speaker 7: But you know, in forty one, we actually did have
Speaker 7: a lot of first do work.
Speaker 3: You guys did over there, no doubt.
Speaker 5: Yeah, So that was that's a shithole over there, My goodness,
Speaker 5: it was still a shithole.
Speaker 7: Pretty good, Yeah, But but I did get a lot.
Speaker 7: I got a lot of you know, quality work there,
Speaker 7: quality work. One of my worst nights was, uh, I
Speaker 7: don't know if it was all over the news that
Speaker 7: one night that there was like eight or nine and
Speaker 7: kids that died and that that fire was up up
Speaker 7: by Yankee, stay off of it wasn't Ogden Avenue it
Speaker 7: was a Woody Crest, this fire on Woody Crest Avenue.
Speaker 7: It was it was terrible. It was like a brownstone
Speaker 7: building and just like nine kids died. It was terrible
Speaker 7: that saying. That night, though, we had three other jobs,
Speaker 7: so it was four jobs that were all kick ass,
Speaker 7: and I remember being the most spent. You know, if
Speaker 7: anybody's listening to this, that worked, going back to the
Speaker 7: whole point of reference thing they worked back, you know,
Speaker 7: back in the in the eighties, in seventy five. I
Speaker 7: know for a fact that they're laughing at me because
Speaker 7: that's what they were doing every night. But right, it's okay,
Speaker 7: it's okay. I'm comfortable with it. Very I'm really comfortable
Speaker 7: being retired.
Speaker 3: I was just gonna ask you it don't suck.
Speaker 7: It's it's great. It is good.
Speaker 5: I mean, he's stripped around the world, that guy man.
Speaker 3: Yeah, excellent, get promoted to captain. You spent the let's
Speaker 3: see you there, Oh you went forty one as a
Speaker 3: lieutenant for a long time.
Speaker 7: Huh yeah, I was there for like nine years. I think.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Wow, I didn't know that. Wow looking a long time.
Speaker 3: Quiet.
Speaker 7: That was quiet.
Speaker 3: I told you I was quiet. You see the guy
Speaker 3: you never talked, and look at this personality bubbling out
Speaker 3: of him. It's coming out of nowhere.
Speaker 7: No, it's it's low a great thing. And and you
Speaker 7: know what, that's another place it's changed again. But that
Speaker 7: was another place where a lot of the guys we
Speaker 7: in those we'll call it nine years. For the most part,
Speaker 7: it was the same guys we had. We really had
Speaker 7: a great Especially you go to when how great is
Speaker 7: it You go to a job and like when guys
Speaker 7: are talking to radio, you you know who they are, right,
Speaker 7: not only do you know who they are, but you
Speaker 7: know where they are because you know how they operate.
Speaker 7: You know on that.
Speaker 4: It's just.
Speaker 7: It was a great you know, going back to seventy
Speaker 7: five and thirty three, that that firehouse. The day I
Speaker 7: got promoted, I went to the member in the kitchen,
Speaker 7: you had the where the phone is. There'll be all
Speaker 7: a telephone list of everybody in the company. So it's
Speaker 7: a double house. So let's just say there's fifty people
Speaker 7: in the house. Right the day I get promoted, I
Speaker 7: looked at the phone list and I counted how many
Speaker 7: guys are still in the house. Now the damn get promoted?
Speaker 7: That were there when I went there as a prob
Speaker 7: and it was twenty five guys. So it it changed
Speaker 7: in the nine years I was at seventy five and
Speaker 7: thirty three, the house had changed by half, right, half
Speaker 7: the house had changed. A year after I got promoted,
Speaker 7: I went back to seventy five and thirty three, I
Speaker 7: looked at that same list and it changed a half again. Wow,
Speaker 7: it's so what it took me to do in the
Speaker 7: nine years that I was there. In only one year,
Speaker 7: it the half of the guys that were there from
Speaker 7: that changed. And that's you know, that's promotions as guys
Speaker 7: retire and everything. And it's the same thing with forty
Speaker 7: one we I was when I was there, we had,
Speaker 7: you know, for them. I would say it was me,
Speaker 7: Mickey and Sean the whole almost the whole time as
Speaker 7: lieutenant's there, right, uh yeah, mister Happy and Genevie's want
Speaker 7: to come on to recue three. And then you know,
Speaker 7: I'm forgetting my timeline here. I forget if Mickey went
Speaker 7: after I got promoted, or I think he went after
Speaker 7: I go.
Speaker 3: I don't think he went after you got promoted.
Speaker 7: He probably got Yeah, So it was sewn there for
Speaker 7: the whole the whole time I was there, Mickey went.
Speaker 7: I think Mickey went to forty one a year before me,
Speaker 7: because I was I was covering there. I was UFO,
Speaker 7: and two spots had opened. John Hogan got promoted and
Speaker 7: John Flatley got promoted. Jack Flatley h So those are
Speaker 7: the two spots. So Mickey got the first one that opened,
Speaker 7: and I got the second one that opened. But I
Speaker 7: was UFO because John Hogan was on medically for a
Speaker 7: long time, so I was. I was there for I
Speaker 7: think it was two years UFO.
Speaker 3: So I say all the time like that. My best
Speaker 3: times was when, like you were saying, when you're working
Speaker 3: with the same guys, Like if I work with the
Speaker 3: same offices and I had the same guys work with me,
Speaker 3: there's a level of confidence that you have, and there
Speaker 3: is you feel you make a huge impact at a
Speaker 3: job because you know where the other guys go and
Speaker 3: you know what they're thinking. So I always said, when
Speaker 3: this certain group of guys work together all the time,
Speaker 3: those are my best times. I think, Yeah, I.
Speaker 7: Agree, and you know, and I understand the other side
Speaker 7: of the corn. When you get another guy in, especially
Speaker 7: a newer guy, and you got you know, and you're
Speaker 7: you're trying to you're trying to train that guy to
Speaker 7: be that that that next guy. Right, So there's you know,
Speaker 7: there's that level of it can't always be the same guys.
Speaker 3: And with a new guy, now you have to think
Speaker 3: about him because he is new, and so he's also
Speaker 3: distracting you from what you know, maybe you would be doing.
Speaker 3: If it was all guys that you had to you
Speaker 3: didn't have to worry about it all because you know
Speaker 3: where they were gonna.
Speaker 6: Be, what they were doing normal.
Speaker 7: I mean, even though I didn't work with like let's
Speaker 7: let's say Phil z Ice, phils Ice, uh, because I
Speaker 7: always work remember I said, I always work with Timmy
Speaker 7: and Owen. But every once in a while Mike Lindy
Speaker 7: would drive me or Phil z Ice would drive because
Speaker 7: those were the other chauffeurs. Phil's Phil's Ice. Another great
Speaker 7: another great fireman, thank you for your service. Just a
Speaker 7: great guy. You know Jimmy would yeah, yeah, yeah, he
Speaker 7: was good man. He's good fireman, great fireman.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 7: I mean I I John Barrett, John Barrett was a
Speaker 7: great fire and and so I remember he was so
Speaker 7: now he's like the seasoned veteran there you know, but
Speaker 7: I remember him just being the conscientious new guy that
Speaker 7: wanted to do every single thing right. You know, it's
Speaker 7: and he did. He was he was always in the
Speaker 7: right place at the time he was learning. He was
Speaker 7: he was down in the basement building collapse simulators and
Speaker 7: doing the guy was very, very handy. Scottie Oltman. I
Speaker 7: loved working with Mike Leo. You know, I'm really sorry
Speaker 7: if I miss guys. I hope I don't every like
Speaker 7: That's why I said everybody I worked with.
Speaker 4: I think what a firehouse like.
Speaker 5: If you're a fireman, I know how it was for me,
Speaker 5: and you had the same bosses for a long time.
Speaker 5: You know when I say long time five years or more,
Speaker 5: if you're if you stayed in the same place or
Speaker 5: something like that, that was that was a positive things
Speaker 5: for the fire That was like a comfort thing. That
Speaker 5: was it was just a good thing because you had consistency, right,
Speaker 5: you knew the same. If you had a firehouse that
Speaker 5: the boss has turned over rapidly, I think that that
Speaker 5: was where you the firehouses lose their identity a little bit,
Speaker 5: where they either yeah, they just run into problems like
Speaker 5: you you know, you need guys that if you had
Speaker 5: a captain that's in a place for ten years or more,
Speaker 5: or a boss like you know, to me, I was
Speaker 5: in TO eighty eight for nine years. Right, if you
Speaker 5: have a boss that stays there for that long, you
Speaker 5: actually see it. Yeah, I mean, forget all of those guys.
Speaker 5: Look at Sarno.
Speaker 4: Sarno was in some something. My cousin's in what thirty
Speaker 4: two twenty years? Yeah, he's in one thirty two truck
Speaker 4: for twenty years. I just was talking to him.
Speaker 7: Yeah, it just reminded me of a right when I
Speaker 7: got promoted to lieutenant, obviously, I'm coming out of the
Speaker 7: nineteenth Battalion. Forty two engine was in the nineteenth battalion. Also,
Speaker 7: Roy Levec was a lieutenant forty two engine for at
Speaker 7: least twenty years. He retired, and I'm I'm still in
Speaker 7: flips now. I know I'm not going. I know I'm
Speaker 7: not going to the nineteen battalion out of the coming.
Speaker 7: You know, I'm not gonna They're not gonna give me
Speaker 7: to me. But I went to the captain time I
Speaker 7: think it was I think it was uh Hervey Penner,
Speaker 7: I think, and I told him, I said, listen, cap
Speaker 7: you know, I know this spot's going to open there,
Speaker 7: and I know I'm never gonna get it, but I
Speaker 7: am going to put my paper in just out of.
Speaker 3: You know, your luck here, not not your luck.
Speaker 7: It wasn't it wasn't a look just at a precedent,
Speaker 7: you know, just out of uh, what's the word I'm
Speaker 7: looking for, just that principle, because the place was a
Speaker 7: great place. I love. We used to I worked there
Speaker 7: a lot. Oh, uh, seventy five engine when I first
Speaker 7: went there was a four man engine. Actually forty two
Speaker 7: engine was the only five man engine. Uh, So we
Speaker 7: would get detailed there a lot. You know, if we
Speaker 7: had five guys coming in, you know, you always a
Speaker 7: lot of guys were always going to forty So I
Speaker 7: got you know, the whole time I was in seventy five,
Speaker 7: you really got to know guys in uh, forty two
Speaker 7: and a lot forty three and fifty nine, And worked
Speaker 7: there a lot too, but probably mostly in forty two
Speaker 7: because they needed the extra that extra guy.
Speaker 3: What did he say to you when you went there?
Speaker 3: Was he like, yeah, what do you mean when you
Speaker 3: went to when you told the captain you're gonna put
Speaker 3: the paper.
Speaker 7: In for that Oh, oh, he said, no, no problem
Speaker 7: to me, you know, no problem to you know. But
Speaker 7: I just told him, I said, it's just out of principle,
Speaker 7: great place I put my paper in. I know, I'm
Speaker 7: not getting it. They probably didn't even look at it.
Speaker 7: You know, they probably took that and throw it right
Speaker 7: in the garbage.
Speaker 3: But like a yeah, actually you get promoted captain now
Speaker 3: after you there for a while. Uh, and he gets
Speaker 3: sent to the fourteenth. Right.
Speaker 7: So so I went to the fourteenth and I went
Speaker 7: and saw a chief forean and he straight out said
Speaker 7: to me, are you going to go back to SOCC
Speaker 7: And I said, uh I, I have intentions on going
Speaker 7: back to soccer. So he said, well that's I appreciate
Speaker 7: your honesty. And he said, he said, I can't give
Speaker 7: you like a UFO spot or anything. I said, how
Speaker 7: about the AR Group? I said, I'll take the R group.
Speaker 7: He said, you want the AR group? I guess they
Speaker 7: hadn't given anybody our group in years.
Speaker 4: There or whatever.
Speaker 7: I said, he said, it's yours. So now I'm working
Speaker 7: in uh two eighty seven, what their six? Two eighty nine,
Speaker 7: what's thirty eight? You know, like they're great companies. So
Speaker 7: I loved you know. That was that was that was good.
Speaker 7: And I did that for six months and then down
Speaker 7: He called me and asked me if I wanted to
Speaker 7: come offline and do the Governor's Island drill. Louis, you
Speaker 7: were the legit logistics for that rock. Yeah, for the
Speaker 7: art task for US. So so I came offline and
Speaker 7: then I was there was a little it was a
Speaker 7: little kind of cue. He Downey wanted to make me
Speaker 7: a logistics officer for the FEMA team and then or
Speaker 7: or the Sockcask Force and then I'm losing my train
Speaker 7: throwt here. Oh, but I was doing planning for the
Speaker 7: Governor's Island drill. So the Governor's Island drill was they
Speaker 7: took the the mirakel On husson the plane crash. They
Speaker 7: they redid this scenario and said, all right, it's the
Speaker 7: same exact scenario, but they're going to crash the plane
Speaker 7: on Governor's Island, a populated area. And at the time,
Speaker 7: Governor's Island was wiping away all these old military based
Speaker 7: buildings that they had, all the residential buildings.
Speaker 4: That they had, I forget what they were now.
Speaker 7: Yeah, they were like two or three story residential buildings.
Speaker 7: So they wanted to recreate the that plane crash and
Speaker 7: make it a three day drill. There was gonna be
Speaker 7: a has meat incident there. There was gonna be dive
Speaker 7: incidents mostly collapsed. They were going to get the robots
Speaker 7: involved from Hasmat. We had drones from the FBI. This
Speaker 7: was in twenty fourteen, so drones weren't There was no
Speaker 7: drone unit back then. Actually that's kind of how it
Speaker 7: got started. But so so I got involved with that
Speaker 7: and that was that was working with the IMT. So
Speaker 7: that was three months to get that. It was three
Speaker 7: months of planning and it was that was cool. That
Speaker 7: was a whole different you know. I never did anything
Speaker 7: like that before, so that was cool. It was a
Speaker 7: different part of my career. That was interesting and challenging,
Speaker 7: you know, and you're a different rank now, so it's
Speaker 7: it just it was pretty cool. And then after that
Speaker 7: Garyty said you're back, and then I said, well, no,
Speaker 7: I had I had to be his exo a year
Speaker 7: and then I was back covering.
Speaker 4: Were you you were in the I M T.
Speaker 7: You were in the I M No. No, I was
Speaker 7: never your no, but it was it. But but that
Speaker 7: drill was specifically planned by the I N T and
Speaker 7: the Sock Task Force.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so you're bouncing around and had not many times,
Speaker 3: is it? Well Ralphie just did it though he's a
Speaker 3: lieutenant fireman and now he.
Speaker 4: So you go back?
Speaker 3: How old? Wait you have to wait to get to
Speaker 3: the cat Well you UFO in forty one?
Speaker 7: Right? You never got the went back? What did I
Speaker 7: gave you the year? Right? Uh? I don't even know.
Speaker 7: Does it just says like sixteen?
Speaker 3: Maybe it says twenty sixteen, twenty thirteen assigned to fourteen
Speaker 3: six months later back in Sock and it doesn't get
Speaker 3: I was.
Speaker 7: I was Garretty's XO for a year and then uh,
Speaker 7: and then I went and.
Speaker 4: I was.
Speaker 7: I did a couple of vacations, but then I ended
Speaker 7: up backing forty one.
Speaker 4: And then I didn't realize you were there for that long.
Speaker 4: Nine years is a long time to be.
Speaker 7: Over there, man, And I was probably the UFO was
Speaker 7: the captain there for over a year.
Speaker 3: Whose spot was that? They who left when he went there?
Speaker 7: That was Larry Tompkins, Oh, Larry Tomkins, Yeah, it's house. Yeah,
Speaker 7: So I was, Uh, I was excited to be back,
Speaker 7: and I think even for a little while there we
Speaker 7: were they were in with they were renovating the house,
Speaker 7: so they they were in with sixteen seventeen for over
Speaker 7: a year.
Speaker 4: What was that like, It's cool, you know what.
Speaker 7: I love working with a lot of guys. You know,
Speaker 7: like it's uh, dinner.
Speaker 4: Time, you know, you have there's a lot of guys.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, we'll.
Speaker 7: Break and it was it was great. I do like
Speaker 7: those guys are great.
Speaker 3: Well, personalities what bulls to break more?
Speaker 4: Just yeah.
Speaker 5: I think if you were in a single engine and
Speaker 5: you only got four guys, you know, people.
Speaker 4: You could guys.
Speaker 3: One guy's on the watch, one guy's studying, and then uh, you.
Speaker 7: Know, going back to what I was saying about forty
Speaker 7: two engine, that's not how that house was. Forty two engine.
Speaker 7: Those guys were always together, you know, it was. It's
Speaker 7: actually interesting. That house is massive. It's a there used
Speaker 7: to be you know, it used to be fifty six
Speaker 7: truck used to be in there years and years and
Speaker 7: years ago. So it's a big freaking firehouse, three story firehouse,
Speaker 7: massive firehouse, but just the one engine company and they
Speaker 7: only ever really hung out in the kitchen. Their beds
Speaker 7: were in the kitchen. Everything was in the kitchen, and
Speaker 7: uh what a tight firehouse. If you were if you
Speaker 7: weren't working, you were at the ski race, you know,
Speaker 7: like if the ski racers. That's a great place in
Speaker 7: that company was at the ski races unless you were working.
Speaker 7: Uh off wall, same thing they were all together. They're
Speaker 7: big in Their big thing was whitewater rafting. They used
Speaker 7: to do white water rafting trips.
Speaker 4: One house, one mission.
Speaker 3: Yeah, God, let's go to some of the pictures. We
Speaker 3: didn't get to.
Speaker 4: You muted.
Speaker 6: Oh damn, sorry about that. I want to hear a
Speaker 6: story behind this one.
Speaker 7: So, uh there was a hint. The guy on the
Speaker 7: left there is Jimmy Graeney, great fireman, probably been the
Speaker 7: Middle Day four times, I'd say, all freaking legit au
Speaker 7: grabs he had. He's a great great firemen And uh,
Speaker 7: you'll never see him wear anything on his jacket either,
Speaker 7: because he's a humble, humble human being. Jimmy was involved
Speaker 7: with acting, not not necessarily acting, but he did extra
Speaker 7: works and stuff like that. But not only that, he
Speaker 7: owned like I don't know, fifty years, I don't know
Speaker 7: how many cars he owned, like fifty like old time
Speaker 7: cars and from all different eras. So the movie the
Speaker 7: movies knew about his little business that he had going,
Speaker 7: and they like like you know the movie the Bronx
Speaker 7: Sale and they read your car or something. It's set
Speaker 7: in a different time. You know, those are all his cars.
Speaker 7: Every car that movie is his car. And so he
Speaker 7: used to do that with a lot of movies. But
Speaker 7: he also got involved with you know, being an extra,
Speaker 7: so he got there was probably at one time there
Speaker 7: was probably like eight or nine of us, maybe ten
Speaker 7: of us that we were extras in movies. This is
Speaker 7: at the filming of die Hard three. It was filmed
Speaker 7: I think this was in Washington Heights. It was at
Speaker 7: a school and it was apparently you know, Bruce Willis
Speaker 7: had ab there was a bomb in one of the schools.
Speaker 7: Oh yeah, yeah, yep, that this is where. This is
Speaker 7: where that was for Diehard three. It was a good
Speaker 7: little you know, we would do it every once in
Speaker 7: a while. And what made it fun is that it
Speaker 7: was you know, it was all you know, everybody together.
Speaker 7: I kind of felt bad for all the other people
Speaker 7: that were doing extra work because like they were all
Speaker 7: like struggling.
Speaker 5: People trying to you don't make much money, you don't
Speaker 5: make much money. No, but we were doing it as fun.
Speaker 7: And you know, we all because we were in two
Speaker 7: movies and you know, yeah, I think the rule was
Speaker 7: you had to be in two movies and then you
Speaker 7: could get your card. Yeah, we were all insane. So
Speaker 7: then we're all now we're all getting our you know,
Speaker 7: getting our head shots done and trying to get other movies.
Speaker 6: So we were all doing it.
Speaker 5: Dude, that's hilarious, Like, well, you never know like what
Speaker 5: guys are doing right, like in each firehouse, there's so
Speaker 5: many different avenues guys, but we're The fun.
Speaker 7: Is because we all did it together. You know. That's
Speaker 7: what made it so much fun. You know. Uh it
Speaker 7: was that's that's me and Nicole Kidman. That that was
Speaker 7: the peacemaker. Uh I forget what you hear?
Speaker 4: That is she hot, like really hot up close, very skinny.
Speaker 7: Very thin. You know the movies you think, yeah, the
Speaker 7: movies does put weight on you? She was very thick.
Speaker 4: Look at him, Yeah, give it a stiff. Did you
Speaker 4: sniff her up there or anything?
Speaker 7: I know? It was those were they were they were fun. Fun.
Speaker 7: Actually that set, I did meet a girl and take
Speaker 7: her out on the date and she ended up being
Speaker 7: a lush we were at the we were. I took
Speaker 7: it to some place in Irish. What's that place? What's
Speaker 7: that place in Manhattan that's right uh, across from across
Speaker 7: from where the U N is. It's kind of like
Speaker 7: sits up high. So no, no, no, it's it's it's
Speaker 7: an area of Manhattan.
Speaker 6: We were.
Speaker 4: We were city. No, no, city brunch, not co Op City.
Speaker 4: It's uh, what the hell is the name of that
Speaker 4: place over there?
Speaker 6: I know where it is?
Speaker 7: Well, it doesn't matter. That's what he lived over there.
Speaker 7: But we went to some Mexican place and she got stewed,
Speaker 7: and she's getting up to go use the bathroom, bumping
Speaker 7: into tables.
Speaker 4: And I'm like, she was like, Skytown? Is it town?
Speaker 7: No?
Speaker 3: That Stytown's all the way downtown.
Speaker 6: Yeah, what do you know? What do you know in town?
Speaker 7: Though I forget the name, it doesn't it doesn't matter.
Speaker 7: It's drunk irrelevant, drunk in town.
Speaker 4: She was from drunkingantytown.
Speaker 3: Oh God, give me another one.
Speaker 6: Here we go.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 7: So that's I was in forty one there. That's when
Speaker 7: they were tearing down the old stadium. So they uh,
Speaker 7: they built the old, they built the new stadium first
Speaker 7: just north of the old Yankee Stadium, and then when
Speaker 7: they were done building a new one, they started tearing
Speaker 7: down the old one. So we got really tight with
Speaker 7: the safety company there. I can't remember the name of
Speaker 7: the safety company, but the guy there was top notch
Speaker 7: and he always let us come in and you know,
Speaker 7: just kind of watch how they were doing it. You
Speaker 7: can see how that section like they were the whole
Speaker 7: uh row of seating. There's like they're in sections and
Speaker 7: they would cut the concrete go all the way down
Speaker 7: and then they put in the see that crane there.
Speaker 7: They they'd have like five or six of those things
Speaker 7: in a couple of excavators and they would put cables
Speaker 7: on top on the cement and then pull the entire
Speaker 7: section into the middle until it just collapsed. And then
Speaker 7: they would you know, demo it and carry it away.
Speaker 7: But that's how they pulled it, pulled it apart. Was interesting,
Speaker 7: but it was sad. You know, I'm a great stadium.
Speaker 7: It was a great stadium. Any seats I asked not
Speaker 7: grab any seats. I haven't asked me that before.
Speaker 3: I got a couple from Shay one actually one remember
Speaker 3: if they had a pile like a mountain high. Were
Speaker 3: you there then when.
Speaker 4: They Yeah, I was off that day.
Speaker 5: And then guys brought a whole bunch back and I said, okay,
Speaker 5: I'm gonna take one, and then they were all gone, everybody, yeah,
Speaker 5: that's taking them.
Speaker 3: I just took one seat and one set of seats
Speaker 3: and I put them to give it to my son.
Speaker 3: But as you know, some of them a bitch, greedy bastards.
Speaker 4: Oh Water Rescue nice, Yeah, that was swift Water.
Speaker 7: Swift Water training that was in You know, when you're
Speaker 7: going down ninety five through like going into Baltimore and
Speaker 7: is that huge bridge, we just think it's that's Quhana River. Maybe, yes,
Speaker 7: I think that's that's where that was. We were doing
Speaker 7: training on that river.
Speaker 3: Mikey Wood in the corner the roof bro that was.
Speaker 7: That Freddy Hill there on the right and Mike Wood.
Speaker 4: Wouldn't you that's some tough training man.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, not hotter than.
Speaker 4: Actually, somebody can actually ty that. There's no doubt.
Speaker 7: What was that.
Speaker 5: Somebody could die at swift forward to training. When you're
Speaker 5: doing that, there's no doubt somebody could die.
Speaker 7: It's no joke. Some people are not some people don't
Speaker 7: so that so this picture is actually a little bit
Speaker 7: more recent. This is right after Joe Murphy, who's in
Speaker 7: the bagpipe band, passed away. This is right after his funeral.
Speaker 7: The guy right to my left, that's John Daly from Ireland,
Speaker 7: and Damien is all the way to the right. These
Speaker 7: are two guys that are in the Dublin Fibergate Bagpipe Band.
Speaker 7: We've been friends with these guys since I'm since I'm
Speaker 7: in the band, I mean thirty thirty years I'm in
Speaker 7: the band, so I've known this guy for thirty years.
Speaker 7: I met him right out of the gate. We've been
Speaker 7: great friends the whole time. And it's just it's nice
Speaker 7: to have these acquaintances. You know, across the pond, who's
Speaker 7: the tall guy in the middle people, that's Tommy Kneen.
Speaker 7: He's the captain seventy five engine right now, all right,
Speaker 7: that's familiar. And then is that the guy is now Bronx,
Speaker 7: the Brooklyn Borough commander.
Speaker 3: Is that the guy who said that you said, the
Speaker 3: gout on a plane from Florida to go back to
Speaker 3: the island. Then he found out somebody waiting, jump back
Speaker 3: on a plane and came back.
Speaker 7: Right So John the guy right to my left. He
Speaker 7: was in Florida with his family on vacation and he
Speaker 7: flies home to Ireland and he lands in the airport
Speaker 7: and gets a message that Joe Murphy passed away. He
Speaker 7: gets right back on a plane and flies back to
Speaker 7: New York.
Speaker 3: Wow, that's a brother for you.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, for sure, yeah for sure.
Speaker 7: While we're in the band, so the band used to
Speaker 7: go to Ireland every other year. Billy Hopkins is the
Speaker 7: guy with the suit on in the back there or
Speaker 7: the jacket and the shirt.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 7: He used to organize these trips every other year for
Speaker 7: the band. And this this is nineteen ninety seven. This
Speaker 7: particular year is the year that we went in memory
Speaker 7: of Jim Corkoran. It was kind of like an in
Speaker 7: memory of Jim Corkoran trip to Ireland. So we went
Speaker 7: to Scotland first and we competed in the World Bagpipe
Speaker 7: Championships in ninety seven, and then we were only in
Speaker 7: Scotland for three days and then we came back to
Speaker 7: Ireland and then I decided to propose to my wife
Speaker 7: on equipse some more there. So that's that's that picture
Speaker 7: in this picture, Liam all the way over there the
Speaker 7: right limb. There's the guys that are no longer with us.
Speaker 7: You got well. Left to right you have Billy Duffy
Speaker 7: just passed last year, and Tommy McEnroe Sr. Has his
Speaker 7: hand on my shouldered air behind my head. There that's
Speaker 7: Joe Murphy who's passed. Jimmy Guinty died a couple of
Speaker 7: years ago. Bronco was passed. And the guy, the guy
Speaker 7: next to him is Tommy mctigue Jr. That's Tommy Mctigue's.
Speaker 4: Song looks just like that's half the guys.
Speaker 7: Man. Yeah, sad crazy there said that. You know, it's like,
Speaker 7: you know, this is it's it's part of your family.
Speaker 7: You know, the fire departments are family. The band is
Speaker 7: part of the family, and it's it's it's sad to see,
Speaker 7: you know, but that's life.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know that. We gotta say congratulations. You're a
Speaker 3: part of the I Married Up Club too, just as
Speaker 3: I am. And Louis is so good for you. That's up,
Speaker 3: I Married Up club. What else you got, oh some hockey?
Speaker 3: Nobody cares about hockey? Uh you know what.
Speaker 7: Nobody That Burger on the right, that's Burger yeap on
Speaker 7: the bottom of the right and then Dennis Devlon is
Speaker 7: in between me and Burger. Dennis was my captain. Uh
Speaker 7: Dennis Dennis, Uh, he got promoted to battalion chief right
Speaker 7: for four nine to eleven, and he ended up dying
Speaker 7: on nine to eleven. Now this is kind of a
Speaker 7: crazy story, but uh, September eleventh, you know, we were
Speaker 7: down there. I was at my firehouse and we all
Speaker 7: loaded in the back of my pickup truck and we
Speaker 7: went down there.
Speaker 3: After.
Speaker 7: You know, we got down there around three o'clock in
Speaker 7: the afternoon, and we were doing our thing, you know,
Speaker 7: searching on the pile the whole night. And then the
Speaker 7: next morning we go back to the firehouse. As soon
Speaker 7: as we get to the firehouse, we there's a call
Speaker 7: from Dennis Devlin's wife to the firehouse. She's saying that
Speaker 7: she has Dennis on the phone and he's trapped and
Speaker 7: he's under the foot bridge and Edie wants a turkey
Speaker 7: Sam lunch in water, which is something he would have done,
Speaker 7: like I could pay. Dennis was he was a uh
Speaker 7: he was an iron worker. Uh not in Iowa. He
Speaker 7: was a sandhog freaking you know, u larger than life
Speaker 7: human being.
Speaker 5: Uh he was.
Speaker 7: He was a great captain. I but we all we're
Speaker 7: all like, this is like crazy, He's she's got him
Speaker 7: on the phone. So now everybody's getting there. Now we're
Speaker 7: get back in and now we're driving back down we
Speaker 7: had just got back. We're driving back down there now
Speaker 7: and we're going under the footbridge. Now we're trying to
Speaker 7: get communication with his wife, Like, what is there any
Speaker 7: more information? She's still on the phone with him. What's
Speaker 7: going on? You know, this is what we're talking about.
Speaker 7: Less than twenty four hours after, you know, or just
Speaker 7: just over twenty four hours after the collapse. So nothing,
Speaker 7: There was no more communication, no more nothing. And what
Speaker 7: we find out I don't know if we found out
Speaker 7: that night or the next day. What happened was Jimmy McClusky,
Speaker 7: who is Dennis's best friend, had Dennis's cell phone in
Speaker 7: his back pocket and he was at a deli a
Speaker 7: turkey sandwich and water. Somehow redial must have you know,
Speaker 7: so the phone his self, Dennis's cell phone is called
Speaker 7: the wife in Jimmy McCluskey's bound. Oh, it was such
Speaker 7: a it was such a crazy story, such a really
Speaker 7: really weird.
Speaker 4: I don't think I ever heard something like that that's yeah.
Speaker 7: Crazy, you know, like there was such a window there
Speaker 7: that we had hope, you know what I mean. And
Speaker 7: it was so early, and you don't know what, never
Speaker 7: wind up finding him, you know what. I'm embarrassed to say.
Speaker 7: I actually we don't remember half this either, man. I
Speaker 7: don't remember that.
Speaker 4: It's all a blur.
Speaker 7: In fact, I had a lot of guilt with his funeral.
Speaker 7: I remember when they finally had his funeral with the
Speaker 7: bagpipe and we're trying to play it all these different things,
Speaker 7: and I believe it was Dennis. His His funeral was
Speaker 7: the same day as Tommy Foley, and I was good
Speaker 7: friends with Tommy. And I had to go to the
Speaker 7: beginning of one funeral and then leave, and then to
Speaker 7: to get to the end of the the next funeral.
Speaker 7: And I was guilty that I wasn't at both for
Speaker 7: the whole thing, you know.
Speaker 3: But you guys were spread thin back then. Bro Oh
Speaker 3: my god. Yeah.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 7: Wally Blum, you know, talk about its ebody a Wally
Speaker 7: Wally Blum, you know he was he was always at
Speaker 7: the rock and he did so.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 7: I had gotten in touch with Wally and while I
Speaker 7: asked him if we could get vans for the band,
Speaker 7: so that so that we could you know, spread out
Speaker 7: guys going to all the different funerals. And while he
Speaker 7: gave us five, he was he was the guy in
Speaker 7: charge of getting vans out to companies and you know everything.
Speaker 7: So he got us five vans and there were two
Speaker 7: on Long Island, one upstate, and two in the city.
Speaker 7: And that's how we got guys to go to all
Speaker 7: the you know, different funerals. I mean, we had a
Speaker 7: department van to do it.
Speaker 6: M But.
Speaker 4: I can't believe that story.
Speaker 3: You got two of them. Well, he's got the one
Speaker 3: with his sister and now this one.
Speaker 7: What's that?
Speaker 3: You got two crazy stories? The one we you met
Speaker 3: your sister and now this one. Yeah, would have known
Speaker 3: this would have been such a crazy show tonight.
Speaker 4: Oh, I know, I know, I know you knew.
Speaker 3: I was like, well, the guy never said hello to me.
Speaker 5: Well, you know, when you're a seventy five and the
Speaker 5: thirty three and then you know, you don't talk to
Speaker 5: the MEA Pitton's on the job, you know what I mean?
Speaker 4: That works maybe so.
Speaker 3: Maybe I'm lucky that he's still talking to me. A
Speaker 3: big one on three.
Speaker 7: Guys, you know, can we do. Uh can we do
Speaker 7: a uh you want, Cap, I'd like to uh toast
Speaker 7: to uh Tony MSTRELLI. Tony passed away.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 7: His funerals this Wednesday. A great guy. I went to
Speaker 7: college with him. We both were in Courtland together.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 7: I played football my first year while I was there.
Speaker 7: He was. He's the only guy that remembers that I
Speaker 7: even was there.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 7: But a great man, a great human being, a teddy bear.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 7: We're all gonna miss him. Such a great guy.
Speaker 4: And he just retired too.
Speaker 7: Huh yeah, yeah, what did what did he have?
Speaker 4: Yeah? Cancer?
Speaker 6: What did he have?
Speaker 7: Pancreatic?
Speaker 4: Oh goodness, gracious m hm, that sucks.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna give him the five bells line of duty.
Speaker 4: Wow, that's crazy.
Speaker 7: Another one?
Speaker 3: You got some other shoutouts?
Speaker 6: Rough?
Speaker 4: Hold on, we got to get the guys.
Speaker 3: Oh my goodness. You know what time it is? What
Speaker 3: time is at a time for shoutouts? I can tell
Speaker 3: you that much time for what.
Speaker 6: Is time for? Alright? Cap?
Speaker 7: Now you can take it away, old skip tip of
Speaker 7: the day. All right, Well, I hope that we'll you
Speaker 7: never ever have to give a May Day. But this
Speaker 7: is this was a tip that was given to me,
Speaker 7: I think actually Liam Flowherty might give me this tip
Speaker 7: twenty five years ago, but practice giving yourself a may day, uh,
Speaker 7: in your car and your way home from work, on
Speaker 7: your way to where go through the whole thing.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 7: You want to be concise in your may day if
Speaker 7: if you ever have to give one for yourself, so
Speaker 7: make sure it rolls off your tongue without you even thinking.
Speaker 7: I know it's a lot easier to say, but it's
Speaker 7: I think it's a good practice to every once in
Speaker 7: a while just practice giving yourself a may Day. That's
Speaker 7: that's uh. That's number one. Another another little tidbit. This
Speaker 7: was I'm gonna go back to Dennis Devlin. This this
Speaker 7: is more for the officers. But Dennis Devlin, when when
Speaker 7: I was in seventy five, we had a we had
Speaker 7: an operation one day where we I don't even remember
Speaker 7: what we did, but it was something that it didn't
Speaker 7: it didn't like we weren't going to get a unit
Speaker 7: citation or anything like that. But Dennis wrote a nice
Speaker 7: note to the whole to all the guys that work
Speaker 7: that day, and he he pinned it up in the kitchen,
Speaker 7: and you know what, to me, that felt better than
Speaker 7: getting a unit citation that he just you know, acknowledged
Speaker 7: the work, the job that we did at this particular job.
Speaker 7: So I always remembered that little tidbit and when I
Speaker 7: was when I I'm not going to say we're company
Speaker 7: because there's some other stuff involved, but I did that.
Speaker 7: One day we had an operation and it was in Manhattan,
Speaker 7: and I wrote a note. They the guys did a
Speaker 7: great job, not a unit citation, they just did a
Speaker 7: great job, and I wrote it. I just wrote a note.
Speaker 7: I put it up in the kitchen. I was a
Speaker 7: covering officer. But I gotta tell you that those guys
Speaker 7: that were working, they respected that so much. And any
Speaker 7: time I ever worked with them again, it was I
Speaker 7: can't even explain it, like these guys were they felt,
Speaker 7: you know, that it was the right thing, and you know,
Speaker 7: it wasn't a unit citation, but it meant more to them.
Speaker 7: So you know, give the guys sometimes less is more,
Speaker 7: you know. And I always said it's the little things.
Speaker 7: The little things matter the most. And one last thing
Speaker 7: is communication. I think everybody probably always brings up communication,
Speaker 7: but if we lose communication, everything falls apart. So we
Speaker 7: want to always keep our reports concise. Concise is really
Speaker 7: the key. That's the that's the key to keeping the
Speaker 7: information good. And have big ears and a small mouth.
Speaker 7: Somebody yelling on the radio. I always feel it's it
Speaker 7: just causes it causes havoc. So big ears, little mouth.
Speaker 7: You got to say something. You're obviously going to say it,
Speaker 7: but say it calmly and say it concisely. And that's
Speaker 7: all I got, right, I did rough.
Speaker 3: I told you before that there was two guys and
Speaker 3: the other guy was your former captain from Tablada one seventeen.
Speaker 3: Captain Flood passed away last week too. Yes, him the
Speaker 3: five bills, I said, it was a lot of duty,
Speaker 3: all right, roofie my god.
Speaker 4: I I have two quick shout outs. Uh you got
Speaker 4: uh the gofund me there?
Speaker 6: Which one do you with? The baby?
Speaker 4: The baby baby kier.
Speaker 7: I pulled up a.
Speaker 6: Picture, O, my god.
Speaker 5: So this We got quite a few of these, but
Speaker 5: some of them just stick out to me. This is
Speaker 5: Timmy Sullivan from one hundred and eight truck said this
Speaker 5: to me, just uh a member of the company. Obviously,
Speaker 5: Uh it looks like they're raising they already reached a goal,
Speaker 5: but uh, just something to take a look at Uh.
Speaker 5: I guess UH had a tough time since the daughter
Speaker 5: was born a couple of months ago emergency C section.
Speaker 5: She's up in Boston now receiving specialized care. So he
Speaker 5: had sent this out to me to give the guys
Speaker 5: a shout out for one hundred and eighth truck and
Speaker 5: if you can help out, help out. It's a little
Speaker 5: bit counts brother fund, the first fund first dot com
Speaker 5: and it's helped baby Kira Adams.
Speaker 4: And then I'll post it the chat, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 4: And then I have my boy Bobby Benome. Yeah oh.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, so Humble Heroes, these guys, they were on
Speaker 5: the show. I think probably it's probably like three or
Speaker 5: four years ago. Yeah, he gets he gets stressed up
Speaker 5: and he goes to the hospitals, to to the pediatric
Speaker 5: ICU at Saint Luke's Hospital.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 5: They partnered with Hot nine to eleven Foundation and they
Speaker 5: they basically do a lot of great stuff for these
Speaker 5: kids that are really at uh. You know, I guess
Speaker 5: maybe don't have much hope. So he's always done this.
Speaker 5: He always sends me to pictures all the time. He
Speaker 5: did say, hey, if you could go to go to
Speaker 5: their humble heroes. I think it's hh what's the website
Speaker 5: hhfdny dot org. And if you donate right now, they
Speaker 5: have a donor who has pledged to match all their
Speaker 5: donations within the next one hundred days. So he was
Speaker 5: pretty excited about that. So, you know, he always sends
Speaker 5: me to stuff I always enjoy. Around this time he goes,
Speaker 5: you know, to visit the kids during the holidays. So yeah,
Speaker 5: he does a great job.
Speaker 7: Man.
Speaker 4: Good for him doing the Lord's work.
Speaker 3: That's it, baby. Yes, cons we got to play the
Speaker 3: pet list two commercials really quick.
Speaker 6: Yes.
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Speaker 6: One more, one more, Here we Go.
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Speaker 3: And tonight so health and safety old skills. Tip of
Speaker 3: the day is we always talk about we actually we're
Speaker 3: just talking about this in the pre show, right, Kap
Speaker 3: getting early detection with Rob Brown going to get everything
Speaker 3: taking care of it. But we always speak that me
Speaker 3: and a little But what I'm gonna tell you also
Speaker 3: is very important because it happened to my dad. Before
Speaker 3: God forbid, they do pick something up on you, you
Speaker 3: need to get your finances in order, as in an
Speaker 3: insurance policy for your wife and kids, because after they
Speaker 3: picked something up, it's a hell of a lot more
Speaker 3: difficult to get that insurance policy once you have something
Speaker 3: that's diagnosed. So get out there and get yourself checked
Speaker 3: out early, but also take care of your wife and
Speaker 3: kids and get the insurance policy before they diagnose you
Speaker 3: with something. And that's all I got. Kap, thank you
Speaker 3: so much, great stories, great career, Thanks for coming on
Speaker 3: the show. Thank you, Thank you guys, Ruffie, thanks for
Speaker 3: finding this gem here. Good for you.
Speaker 4: To find them.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and don't forget to send your stuff please for
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Speaker 3: I saw you, and I keep sending them in. I
Speaker 3: just got something from tivodal rough.
Speaker 6: We're talking about, oh my god, the next I will.
Speaker 3: See you guys next week. All right. Until then, you
Speaker 3: know what I always say, stay low and yo.
Speaker 5: All Right, everybody, Timmy, thanks a lot. We'll see at
Speaker 5: the big one, everybody.
Speaker 6: All right, guys, we'll catch you on the top floor
Speaker 6: this time.
Speaker 4: How about that.
Speaker 6: I don't have a top floor right here anyway. Good Night,