WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.120 --> 00:00:01.000 That's so funny. 2 00:00:01.679 --> 00:00:03.919 Disclaimer, we'd like to know before the start of this 3 00:00:04.000 --> 00:00:06.559 interview that the opinions about to be expressed by the 4 00:00:06.599 --> 00:00:09.679 guest of tonight's Getting Salty Experience Podcast are that of 5 00:00:09.720 --> 00:00:12.679 the guest and do not directly or necessarily reflect the 6 00:00:12.800 --> 00:00:30.079 views of the host of the Getting Salty Experience Podcast. 7 00:00:31.719 --> 00:00:34.840 You're listening to the Getting Salty Experience podcast. 8 00:00:37.560 --> 00:00:38.280 A low. 9 00:00:42.359 --> 00:00:51.479 In a world. We go, well bye, you know it's 10 00:00:51.479 --> 00:00:55.240 again in Salty Experience podcast. I'm gonna say this, it's 11 00:00:55.280 --> 00:00:58.320 the only one that brings the fly house gets a 12 00:00:58.359 --> 00:00:58.960 table to you. 13 00:01:00.200 --> 00:01:07.319 Fucking brilliant, great idea, actually says it, but behind you, 14 00:01:07.400 --> 00:01:13.159 it actually says it behind me? You know? 15 00:01:13.319 --> 00:01:18.640 Made that my boy Frankie something yep, Frankie, because I 16 00:01:18.640 --> 00:01:20.439 think we would say that since State one, which is 17 00:01:20.480 --> 00:01:21.799 like five years ago. 18 00:01:21.840 --> 00:01:25.200 But anyway, I think that what what shirt do you 19 00:01:25.239 --> 00:01:26.120 have on there? Kobe? 20 00:01:26.400 --> 00:01:29.079 I got my met shirt on my just for Gonzo 21 00:01:29.359 --> 00:01:30.920 this right yere, little one? 22 00:01:31.040 --> 00:01:33.280 Who is that? Who is that guy? 23 00:01:33.959 --> 00:01:44.079 So this is a guy that decided to play for 24 00:01:44.120 --> 00:01:45.920 the Mets and maybe not the Yankees. I don't have 25 00:01:46.719 --> 00:01:50.760 after how amount of money? Oh seven hundred million? 26 00:01:51.400 --> 00:01:54.480 No, oh, yeah, Oh my god. 27 00:01:54.400 --> 00:01:57.079 Over seven hundred million to play life and for the 28 00:01:57.120 --> 00:02:00.319 rest of his life. Was it a fifteen years, ten 29 00:02:00.400 --> 00:02:02.200 year contract, ten year contract, something like that? 30 00:02:02.200 --> 00:02:02.480 I don't know. 31 00:02:02.560 --> 00:02:07.439 Once he left, I was like, who's. 32 00:02:05.439 --> 00:02:07.840 Not to mention? He probably made three hundred million already, 33 00:02:08.319 --> 00:02:10.120 I would say in his Korea? 34 00:02:10.479 --> 00:02:12.800 Right he speak English? Yes? 35 00:02:14.000 --> 00:02:18.560 I don't know how well he speaks this kind of English. 36 00:02:20.199 --> 00:02:25.840 English. We hired him. He barely speaks English. Million, you 37 00:02:25.879 --> 00:02:28.919 know what I mean? Anyway, we got a good guess 38 00:02:28.960 --> 00:02:31.280 coming on tonight. This guy felt chemistry with him already 39 00:02:31.280 --> 00:02:34.199 in the beginning. The funny guy been in a busy place, 40 00:02:34.319 --> 00:02:39.599 tell you that much? Any engine doing it? We're engine 41 00:02:39.800 --> 00:02:43.360 rock broke the room going around the districts? Less shot. 42 00:02:46.639 --> 00:02:48.919 Are you talking about? I'm trying to get rid of. 43 00:02:53.319 --> 00:02:57.599 Gonzo? Is irreplaceable? Right? What will we do without Pete? 44 00:02:57.680 --> 00:02:58.360 I mean Gonzo? 45 00:03:00.120 --> 00:03:02.719 But we're going to sell all those plastic knickknacks to 46 00:03:02.919 --> 00:03:06.800 all the time gods, what do you what are you 47 00:03:06.840 --> 00:03:09.159 gonna do with that that fdmy patch we were talking 48 00:03:09.199 --> 00:03:09.879 about in the pre show. 49 00:03:10.039 --> 00:03:12.000 We're gonna get a gold chain that's gonna be right here. 50 00:03:14.479 --> 00:03:19.000 Ye, Hey, where do you work? You know where I work, 51 00:03:19.479 --> 00:03:20.759 you know. 52 00:03:22.400 --> 00:03:28.680 All the only place to be could springs ag. Yeah, 53 00:03:29.280 --> 00:03:32.319 well we do it heavy, that's. 54 00:03:32.159 --> 00:03:35.840 What you like to call it. 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Oh that's not what I'm 97 00:05:39.680 --> 00:05:40.240 looking for. 98 00:05:40.360 --> 00:05:42.040 Oh, you're all alright. Let me say a little. Some 99 00:05:42.079 --> 00:05:44.279 guys out there. Pee Wee's at there, Brian K, Chucky 100 00:05:44.319 --> 00:05:47.959 one to seventeen, Johnny Albanizet Beast, Brian K. We got 101 00:05:47.959 --> 00:05:50.639 pro Kacchini, Darren Phillips in there. We got a new 102 00:05:50.720 --> 00:05:53.879 puzzon the xx Delta two nine x X. I guess 103 00:05:53.920 --> 00:05:56.040 he's a hallm guy fifty nine and thirty. Hollm zoo. 104 00:05:56.120 --> 00:05:57.439 What's going on with the freeze. 105 00:05:57.759 --> 00:05:59.120 Let's go the. 106 00:05:59.120 --> 00:06:01.279 Freeze to freeze. We gotta give a little shoutut to 107 00:06:01.319 --> 00:06:02.279 mister Darren de freeze. 108 00:06:02.920 --> 00:06:06.680 A couple of man what's going on with man? Uh? 109 00:06:06.680 --> 00:06:08.680 They actually didn't say, Actually, I'm sorry. They didn't say 110 00:06:08.720 --> 00:06:10.879 someone in the chats up whose aphib was acting up? 111 00:06:11.040 --> 00:06:15.360 Oh quick speedy reprobably for a boy. He's always in there. 112 00:06:15.480 --> 00:06:17.639 We got QC Beast in there. We got pee Wee. 113 00:06:17.879 --> 00:06:20.519 I U Rato not Laredo like I thought his name was. 114 00:06:20.600 --> 00:06:25.279 Till he's in there. Till Patty had a whole bunch 115 00:06:25.279 --> 00:06:25.680 of people. 116 00:06:25.759 --> 00:06:28.959 A word got in there. 117 00:06:28.800 --> 00:06:31.240 Too, the VARDI. We had a whole bunch of guys 118 00:06:31.279 --> 00:06:35.040 in there, dedicated hard crews in there. 119 00:06:35.079 --> 00:06:40.279 Bro all right, Luke, safety tip ready, we want to 120 00:06:40.519 --> 00:06:41.439 make it up. Do it. 121 00:06:41.519 --> 00:06:42.600 Let's do it out of the way. 122 00:06:42.839 --> 00:06:43.240 Here we go. 123 00:06:43.920 --> 00:06:46.680 The First Responder Center for Excellence is not for profit 124 00:06:46.800 --> 00:06:51.079 organization dedicated to protecting their lives and livelihoods of first responders. 125 00:06:51.319 --> 00:06:54.480 Their education and research initiatives aim to bring greater awareness 126 00:06:54.480 --> 00:06:58.240 and understanding the challenges to the health, safety and well 127 00:06:58.279 --> 00:07:01.800 being of firefighters ems per to know another first responders too. 128 00:07:02.240 --> 00:07:05.680 They're an affiliate of the National Falling Firefighter Foundation. 129 00:07:07.079 --> 00:07:09.800 There you go. Tonight's health and safety tip is listen 130 00:07:09.800 --> 00:07:11.480 if you have a problem. When you suspect to have 131 00:07:11.519 --> 00:07:13.759 a problem, other they're telling you have a problem with 132 00:07:13.839 --> 00:07:16.120 maybe something like this. You know what a problem is. 133 00:07:16.959 --> 00:07:19.759 There's plenty of places that the job offers, plenty of 134 00:07:19.800 --> 00:07:23.759 opportunities to get help. Quitting anything. It could be gambling, 135 00:07:23.800 --> 00:07:26.279 could be smoking, you could be drinking whatever it is, 136 00:07:26.319 --> 00:07:30.120 gonzo and crack anything that you think landering you help 137 00:07:30.120 --> 00:07:31.959 and filandering. I don't know if you can help you 138 00:07:32.000 --> 00:07:34.639 with that. But whatever it is, reach out. There's always 139 00:07:34.680 --> 00:07:36.800 help available, all the brothers of there for you always. 140 00:07:37.680 --> 00:07:38.920 That's all I got. Let's problem. 141 00:07:38.959 --> 00:07:41.800 Let me just say this quick. When I was talking 142 00:07:41.839 --> 00:07:45.839 to our guest, uh this past couple of weeks, he 143 00:07:45.920 --> 00:07:53.720 actually started his podcast, The Kitchen Table basically four or 144 00:07:53.839 --> 00:07:58.680 geared towards mental health. Really, yes, he did. So that'll 145 00:07:58.720 --> 00:08:01.759 just be another nugget that you'll love him about. 146 00:08:02.079 --> 00:08:03.600 You know what I love about him. Yeah, we're gonna 147 00:08:03.600 --> 00:08:05.079 have him. He might be a third. He might be 148 00:08:05.079 --> 00:08:07.439 a substitute if I'm out or Louis out from now on, 149 00:08:07.879 --> 00:08:13.000 there we go. If guns is out, we might have 150 00:08:13.040 --> 00:08:13.759 him as a third. 151 00:08:14.879 --> 00:08:16.959 He's got good hair. He's got better hair than me, 152 00:08:17.000 --> 00:08:18.120 and you could that's for sure. 153 00:08:18.279 --> 00:08:20.560 Well that's not hard, bro, I can get a newborn. 154 00:08:20.560 --> 00:08:22.920 Baby's got better ahead of me. You kidding me? Forst's sake? 155 00:08:25.040 --> 00:08:26.959 Put an at. I just got a hecker today. I'm 156 00:08:26.959 --> 00:08:34.759 gonna put an ahead. Wow, what did I say? 157 00:08:34.840 --> 00:08:36.360 Eat it? Joe's what. 158 00:08:38.159 --> 00:08:39.039 Mama's house. 159 00:08:42.600 --> 00:08:45.960 Guy who created the fire Hours Kitchen Table. Bro, Let's 160 00:08:45.960 --> 00:08:46.559 get him into here. 161 00:08:47.039 --> 00:08:49.600 Let's do it all right, You're ready, Yeah, I'm ready? 162 00:08:49.639 --> 00:08:50.159 Are you ready? 163 00:08:50.679 --> 00:08:53.360 I'm going to the stay jef d n Why Firefighter 164 00:08:53.440 --> 00:09:00.000 Kenny Delaney? 165 00:09:00.320 --> 00:09:01.399 What is that behind you? 166 00:09:01.480 --> 00:09:01.600 Bro? 167 00:09:01.679 --> 00:09:04.519 What I was feeling? I was feeling a little nervous. 168 00:09:04.679 --> 00:09:10.120 Being on the number one podcast. 169 00:09:09.679 --> 00:09:11.440 Was a little I. 170 00:09:11.399 --> 00:09:13.200 Got a little nerves going. So I thought I'd get 171 00:09:13.200 --> 00:09:14.799 a little more comfortable and put. 172 00:09:14.639 --> 00:09:15.799 Up my sign. 173 00:09:17.840 --> 00:09:22.080 Really the table, like make me feel like I'm the 174 00:09:22.080 --> 00:09:23.679 host and I'm interviewing you guys. 175 00:09:23.759 --> 00:09:26.120 You know what it is that is so original? I 176 00:09:26.480 --> 00:09:29.360 can't tell you that isn't it? 177 00:09:29.639 --> 00:09:29.960 You know what? 178 00:09:30.919 --> 00:09:32.320 Did we just become best friends? 179 00:09:32.360 --> 00:09:32.639 Yep? 180 00:09:33.639 --> 00:09:39.200 Ye, it was a little bit more wow. 181 00:09:39.600 --> 00:09:42.200 I when I came up with this. First of all, 182 00:09:42.200 --> 00:09:44.000 it was active you came up, but okay, get ahead. 183 00:09:44.039 --> 00:09:44.120 Ye. 184 00:09:45.799 --> 00:09:48.120 In the kitchen table we were talking, I was like, 185 00:09:48.240 --> 00:09:50.559 I thought I was a genius. I was like, this 186 00:09:50.759 --> 00:09:54.399 is the best name. Everybody will watch it. It'll be great. 187 00:09:54.480 --> 00:09:54.679 You know. 188 00:09:54.799 --> 00:09:58.000 Then I upload stuff and there's like a hundred kitchen 189 00:09:58.039 --> 00:09:59.960 tables and you guys stayed the kitchen table. 190 00:10:00.080 --> 00:10:03.960 Really, you know you know what, Kenny, I took the 191 00:10:04.000 --> 00:10:06.000 liberty of let me show you this. So you think 192 00:10:06.039 --> 00:10:07.919 that maybe you did come up with maybe not? You 193 00:10:08.159 --> 00:10:14.039 steal and that bring to you the kitchen table, the 194 00:10:14.039 --> 00:10:16.840 firehouse kitchen table, you know, the one rough right, the 195 00:10:16.919 --> 00:10:19.639 whole of a thousand stories. 196 00:10:21.720 --> 00:10:27.960 The unit nothing ahead again, I ve my sorn horn 197 00:10:28.159 --> 00:10:28.840 and go. 198 00:10:30.600 --> 00:10:31.279 And a word. 199 00:10:32.320 --> 00:10:36.519 We welcome back to the unmuted version of the Getting 200 00:10:36.559 --> 00:10:40.039 Soult Experienced podcast. That's the only one. We don't bring 201 00:10:40.039 --> 00:10:42.279 only the kitchen table anymore. I'm not saying anymore. Guns. 202 00:10:42.360 --> 00:10:45.240 We bring the whole fire house experience to you. Bro, 203 00:10:45.519 --> 00:10:47.679 you could be the Philippines. I don't know. You could 204 00:10:47.679 --> 00:10:48.919 be a set of word. 205 00:10:50.399 --> 00:10:51.080 We go. 206 00:10:51.320 --> 00:10:56.799 We are back, just like Jacob to grub his back way. 207 00:10:56.639 --> 00:10:59.679 Back at the kitchen table, the firehouse kitchen table, to 208 00:10:59.759 --> 00:11:02.000 get all these peers podcasts, the only one, the whole one. Well, 209 00:11:02.000 --> 00:11:03.559 to bring the fire house kitchen table to. 210 00:11:03.559 --> 00:11:13.399 You in a world we go, man, we would have 211 00:11:13.440 --> 00:11:15.919 been gone a while. Welcome back to get all these 212 00:11:15.960 --> 00:11:18.559 peer one. Will we take one day off a week now? 213 00:11:18.799 --> 00:11:21.559 Thank you. We bring the firehouse kitchen table to you 214 00:11:22.360 --> 00:11:29.519 once a week. I said it twice. Wow, I don't 215 00:11:29.559 --> 00:11:34.720 know what I came from. You know, I never saw 216 00:11:34.759 --> 00:11:36.320 any of those episodes, so I didn't know. 217 00:11:37.039 --> 00:11:40.399 Kenny, I'll step in here. Listen. We gotta say the 218 00:11:40.440 --> 00:11:41.240 pledge first. 219 00:11:41.240 --> 00:11:44.000 Yes, we do, all right, Sorry we ran off the track. 220 00:11:48.759 --> 00:11:52.519 I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States 221 00:11:52.799 --> 00:11:57.080 of America and to the Republic, for which it stands, 222 00:11:57.919 --> 00:12:15.960 one nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. 223 00:12:16.360 --> 00:12:20.159 Still giggling over here, listen, Kenny, we say all the time, man, 224 00:12:20.519 --> 00:12:22.960 we want, we want, We could wait to get you 225 00:12:23.039 --> 00:12:24.759 on the show. We wish you the best. But glad, 226 00:12:24.759 --> 00:12:27.240 I'm glad you put it back up and uh, you know, 227 00:12:27.360 --> 00:12:28.919 keep it wronging, man, don't give up. 228 00:12:29.200 --> 00:12:30.519 Appreciate first of all, guys. 229 00:12:30.879 --> 00:12:32.799 First of all, I mean I am truly honored and 230 00:12:32.879 --> 00:12:34.039 humble to be on the show that. 231 00:12:34.000 --> 00:12:35.039 You guys asked me to do it. 232 00:12:35.639 --> 00:12:38.600 You guys have a long line of warrior guys and 233 00:12:38.639 --> 00:12:41.759 guys that have just who paved the way for guys 234 00:12:41.879 --> 00:12:44.559 like me to come on and keep the traditions going 235 00:12:44.919 --> 00:12:46.720 and do the right thing around the firehouse. And I 236 00:12:46.759 --> 00:12:49.519 learned from a lot of those guys, So I got big, 237 00:12:49.559 --> 00:12:51.960 big shoes to fill. You know, I don't have the 238 00:12:52.039 --> 00:12:54.240 experience that those guys, but I got I got I 239 00:12:54.279 --> 00:12:57.120 got plenty working in Harlem with guys like Nick and 240 00:12:57.360 --> 00:12:59.960 and those guys in Big Mac and and God. 241 00:12:59.759 --> 00:13:02.559 Rest his soul e J. Tierney and Pat Cleary. 242 00:13:02.840 --> 00:13:06.279 So I mean for you guys to call on me 243 00:13:06.320 --> 00:13:09.679 and bring me it's really truly humbling experience. I was 244 00:13:09.720 --> 00:13:13.000 considered you guys the senior guys of the Folluming podcast. 245 00:13:13.279 --> 00:13:17.600 So I so you know, if you want me to 246 00:13:17.600 --> 00:13:21.440 go quick you I'll do it. Listen. Kenny the something 247 00:13:21.480 --> 00:13:23.320 to be said about being one hundred and twenty fifth 248 00:13:23.320 --> 00:13:27.480 best podcast in the world. You know what I mean? No, no, no. 249 00:13:27.799 --> 00:13:30.759 When I started mine, I was number seven in Sweden 250 00:13:30.799 --> 00:13:31.519 for mental health. 251 00:13:35.600 --> 00:13:38.200 Moving up, moving on up, He's moving up. 252 00:13:40.120 --> 00:13:40.279 Down. 253 00:13:40.440 --> 00:13:43.399 Kenny's one of us. Bro get ready fits right in. 254 00:13:43.759 --> 00:13:44.759 Thank you again, guys. 255 00:13:44.759 --> 00:13:47.080 I'm really truly humbled and I'm looking hopefully I can 256 00:13:47.440 --> 00:13:49.679 make you guys laugh, you make the audience laugh. 257 00:13:49.559 --> 00:13:52.080 And about maybe we do something in trade and maybe 258 00:13:52.080 --> 00:13:53.600 we have you on a few times and maybe you 259 00:13:53.639 --> 00:13:55.360 send me that Neon sign back there. I don't know. 260 00:13:55.519 --> 00:14:03.480 Maybe you know local pick up only, Yeah, the. 261 00:14:03.440 --> 00:14:06.559 Warwick guy, he's a Warwick guy. Nice. Yeah, God, you 262 00:14:06.679 --> 00:14:07.039 know what. 263 00:14:07.240 --> 00:14:09.799 We'll talk about the podcast little but Whatt's diving too. 264 00:14:09.879 --> 00:14:12.360 Kenny's career because he's had a very diverse career man. 265 00:14:12.360 --> 00:14:14.600 Not only in the the fd N Y, but the 266 00:14:14.639 --> 00:14:17.519 guy's been doing it all over the pops. When you're retired, 267 00:14:17.519 --> 00:14:19.200 did you bring those bricks with you? Somebody wants to 268 00:14:19.200 --> 00:14:20.759 know if he took him from fifty nine engine or 269 00:14:21.600 --> 00:14:22.600 thirty trucks. 270 00:14:24.879 --> 00:14:29.120 Nobody, Yeah, allegedly, allegedly. I'm sorry, cool, go ahead. 271 00:14:29.559 --> 00:14:32.000 He wouldn't know that we're going any He was in 272 00:14:32.039 --> 00:14:34.720 the you know, a slip of a lip sticker ship you. 273 00:14:34.679 --> 00:14:38.120 Know WHOA that's right, ruff, be good for you, that 274 00:14:40.000 --> 00:14:44.200 loose slips o rough uh talk gonzo. Let's go back 275 00:14:44.279 --> 00:14:46.559 to roots here. What's the old school? What's the old 276 00:14:46.600 --> 00:14:48.519 school tip of the day? What's the word of the day? 277 00:14:49.080 --> 00:14:51.039 The word of the day? Hold on, hold on, hold on, 278 00:14:51.159 --> 00:14:53.120 hold on, going back, we're going back to. 279 00:14:54.559 --> 00:14:56.559 No, I have other thing done it in a while. 280 00:14:56.759 --> 00:14:59.000 You haven't done it in a while, Big. 281 00:14:58.960 --> 00:15:01.919 Mac oh Christ, he put him on his spot. 282 00:15:02.279 --> 00:15:10.879 No, before I know, I was looking for there's the horn, Harlem, 283 00:15:12.279 --> 00:15:18.759 where's the horn? Hollow Holly crist Sorry, I had to 284 00:15:18.799 --> 00:15:21.159 make up for the day. There you go, going back to. 285 00:15:21.679 --> 00:15:23.600 I'm also that also makes me feel good because when 286 00:15:23.600 --> 00:15:25.879 you guys had Big Jim McClusky on the show. 287 00:15:26.080 --> 00:15:29.080 I believe the word of the day was allright. 288 00:15:28.879 --> 00:15:34.720 Oh, I'm gonna have tutes. 289 00:15:37.240 --> 00:15:40.279 Actually born in Park Slope, Brooklyn, I couldn't tell actually 290 00:15:40.360 --> 00:15:44.480 really from the Windsor terraced Brooklyn in nineteen seventy three. 291 00:15:45.519 --> 00:15:47.360 What was it like back in the day? Man? Brooklyn 292 00:15:47.480 --> 00:15:47.799 was nice. 293 00:15:49.559 --> 00:15:51.279 Back in the day, park Slope, you know, it was 294 00:15:51.320 --> 00:15:54.080 still kind of a middle class, lower middle class area. 295 00:15:54.600 --> 00:15:57.519 You know, it was a great, great neighborhood. Everybody was 296 00:15:57.559 --> 00:16:01.399 a city worker. Everybody's father was a annotation, fireman, cop, 297 00:16:01.879 --> 00:16:04.240 you name it. So they all they all told us 298 00:16:04.919 --> 00:16:07.200 in all group, you gotta take every test, you gotta 299 00:16:07.240 --> 00:16:08.000 be this, you gotta be that. 300 00:16:08.399 --> 00:16:10.240 So we all tried to follow in their footsteps. 301 00:16:10.320 --> 00:16:12.279 And you know, the guys in poss Up, all the 302 00:16:12.320 --> 00:16:15.399 guys that I grew up with, they truly, they're truly 303 00:16:15.480 --> 00:16:18.399 the guys and the girls, my crew, our friends that 304 00:16:18.559 --> 00:16:20.840 that kind of helped me build my character and kind 305 00:16:20.840 --> 00:16:21.360 of who I am. 306 00:16:21.559 --> 00:16:23.320 As you see I'm talking with my hands, and. 307 00:16:25.480 --> 00:16:27.960 You know, they're really truly who kind of started shaping 308 00:16:28.039 --> 00:16:30.720 me into the person that I am still yet to be, 309 00:16:30.960 --> 00:16:36.960 still growing as a person of no we lived on 310 00:16:37.519 --> 00:16:41.399 I grew up in uh a small tenement on Twelfth Street. 311 00:16:41.559 --> 00:16:44.759 I was born on twelve Street. Moved to a Brownstone 312 00:16:44.799 --> 00:16:47.399 type building. It's not a Brownstone. They were, they were connected, 313 00:16:48.000 --> 00:16:50.519 but they weren't Brownstones. But they were kind of had 314 00:16:50.600 --> 00:16:52.600 the same layout. So if you look at them, you 315 00:16:52.639 --> 00:16:54.679 look at Brownston. You know what brownstone looks like. It's 316 00:16:54.679 --> 00:16:57.919 a long stoop, you know, brown freaking building. 317 00:16:58.279 --> 00:16:59.120 Mine was not. 318 00:16:59.279 --> 00:17:01.039 The stoop wasn't that long, but it still had the 319 00:17:01.080 --> 00:17:03.519 dead man's room above the front door. Still kind of 320 00:17:03.559 --> 00:17:05.799 the same layout, but it wasn't technically a brownstar. 321 00:17:05.960 --> 00:17:08.880 Right. We have those queen's like Ridgewood Roofie. There's a 322 00:17:08.920 --> 00:17:09.440 bunch of those. 323 00:17:10.359 --> 00:17:12.640 Yeah, so you play stickball when you were a kid, bro, 324 00:17:13.240 --> 00:17:17.039 you know, we played stickballs, Spongebowl, we played you know, 325 00:17:17.359 --> 00:17:19.079 kill the Quarterback, but we don't. 326 00:17:21.839 --> 00:17:22.119 Pony. 327 00:17:22.200 --> 00:17:27.480 We played buck Buck, we played Scalzis, we played man Yeah, 328 00:17:28.359 --> 00:17:33.279 Manhunt was our favorite. You know, we got Manhunt of Coco, Levio, 329 00:17:33.359 --> 00:17:36.039 whatever you want to call it. But the greatest thing 330 00:17:36.079 --> 00:17:39.160 about my neighborhood is was togetherness at the key parties 331 00:17:39.480 --> 00:17:42.799 in Suicide Hill, Uh in Parks prospect. 332 00:17:43.200 --> 00:17:44.759 Who's first do over there? One fourteen? 333 00:17:45.880 --> 00:17:49.400 First due to Farrel's two twenty engine my first company 334 00:17:49.799 --> 00:17:53.279 what yeah, had a shirt and everything said first to 335 00:17:53.400 --> 00:17:53.880 the Farrels. 336 00:17:54.680 --> 00:17:56.480 First, far That's where you went? 337 00:17:56.680 --> 00:17:57.839 Uh? Is that where you went? 338 00:17:57.880 --> 00:18:00.960 When you know we went to sign up for Pudgy 339 00:18:01.039 --> 00:18:09.400 Walsh exactly? Pleasure was his thing was over in Floyd Bennetfield. 340 00:18:09.640 --> 00:18:11.920 He had his right, but when he went to a 341 00:18:12.000 --> 00:18:13.880 bar to sign up for it, I forget where it was. 342 00:18:14.279 --> 00:18:15.160 I think that might have been it. 343 00:18:16.839 --> 00:18:19.480 Maybe yeah, yeah, I didn't sign up for it there 344 00:18:19.680 --> 00:18:21.559 when he was doing his thing, I was like, you know, 345 00:18:21.599 --> 00:18:23.440 we'll get into this. But I was a US Park 346 00:18:23.480 --> 00:18:25.960 policeman on Floyd Bennefield and I just kind of drove 347 00:18:26.039 --> 00:18:27.720 over there and I talked to him, and he was like, 348 00:18:27.920 --> 00:18:28.599 you passed the test. 349 00:18:28.720 --> 00:18:29.799 Come on once a week. 350 00:18:29.839 --> 00:18:30.440 What if you want to do? 351 00:18:30.640 --> 00:18:31.440 Just come on when you want. 352 00:18:31.640 --> 00:18:34.240 So, So anybody in yet? And what what what did 353 00:18:34.279 --> 00:18:35.759 your father do? You brought you have any brothers? And 354 00:18:35.839 --> 00:18:38.640 what family do that? God? So nobody in my family 355 00:18:38.759 --> 00:18:41.119 was a fireman or my father worked for. 356 00:18:41.480 --> 00:18:44.279 My father was the Navy. He did four years active 357 00:18:44.319 --> 00:18:47.440 then he did like twenty two years reserve. So then 358 00:18:47.559 --> 00:18:50.680 he was a park service worker. He was a forest ranger, 359 00:18:50.720 --> 00:18:53.839 a forester to the park Service in Prospect Park. He 360 00:18:53.880 --> 00:18:56.519 cut down trees. Ship, but he worked for the city 361 00:18:56.640 --> 00:18:58.880 right in the neighborhood, write the neighborhood. 362 00:18:58.880 --> 00:19:00.759 What do you do in the navy? He was a 363 00:19:00.799 --> 00:19:04.079 boasters mate in the navy. Yeah, made first class. And 364 00:19:04.119 --> 00:19:06.440 then he then he got on the ship. What kind 365 00:19:06.480 --> 00:19:07.279 of ship was young? 366 00:19:07.440 --> 00:19:10.599 He was on the USS Wasp No, no, no, the 367 00:19:10.680 --> 00:19:12.240 Wine Dot. He was on the Wine Dot I think 368 00:19:12.240 --> 00:19:15.559 it was called. He went across the Antarctic. You know, 369 00:19:15.640 --> 00:19:18.039 that's when that's when men were men, That's when men. 370 00:19:18.000 --> 00:19:24.880 Really yeah, you know, yeah, yeah, yeah, my old man 371 00:19:24.960 --> 00:19:27.480 was on an aircraft carrier. Nice. 372 00:19:28.759 --> 00:19:29.480 Do you know what you want? 373 00:19:30.119 --> 00:19:33.880 The s s Bennington? Bennington? Right, yeah, nice decommission now, 374 00:19:33.960 --> 00:19:37.400 but I have a shirt with it nicely all right, So, 375 00:19:37.720 --> 00:19:40.960 uh you could get uh what was what was uh? 376 00:19:41.039 --> 00:19:42.720 Let's go back? What was high school? 377 00:19:42.799 --> 00:19:42.839 Like? 378 00:19:42.960 --> 00:19:46.079 Were you you good student? You're fucking around? What are 379 00:19:46.079 --> 00:19:48.000 you doing? My first two years of high school I 380 00:19:48.000 --> 00:19:51.960 went to La Salle Academy. That's where Roof's cousins went. 381 00:19:52.440 --> 00:19:56.279 Oh yeah, from green Point, you know, back in UH 382 00:19:56.839 --> 00:19:57.559 back in the late. 383 00:19:57.440 --> 00:19:59.680 Eighties, you know, the lower lower East start of Manhattan 384 00:19:59.759 --> 00:20:00.880 was still Shiphole. 385 00:20:01.160 --> 00:20:04.119 You know, it was crack Crack area, Baby Crack area, 386 00:20:04.240 --> 00:20:04.680 like crazy. 387 00:20:05.079 --> 00:20:07.240 The Hell's Angels had had the whole block around the 388 00:20:07.279 --> 00:20:10.960 corner on Third Street. So taking the train to Lisal 389 00:20:11.599 --> 00:20:14.559 was you know, you kind of but you're taking your 390 00:20:14.599 --> 00:20:16.079 life into your hands. But you know, back then it 391 00:20:16.160 --> 00:20:17.440 was you didn't wonry, but you just kind of just 392 00:20:17.480 --> 00:20:18.039 did what you had to do. 393 00:20:18.119 --> 00:20:19.079 That's just how the city was. 394 00:20:19.599 --> 00:20:21.160 So I did my first two years in the South 395 00:20:22.160 --> 00:20:24.720 and then I transferred back to the neighborhood in bishop Ford, 396 00:20:25.000 --> 00:20:28.519 finished up my my my time there because Lisal was 397 00:20:28.519 --> 00:20:29.960 an all boys school, and I was. 398 00:20:29.960 --> 00:20:31.559 Like, you know what, I'm done with this, Let's go 399 00:20:31.720 --> 00:20:33.200 get some a little bit of a tuki. 400 00:20:34.440 --> 00:20:36.559 Yeah, but back in the neighborhood with all my friends, 401 00:20:36.640 --> 00:20:38.279 so it was right, I looked at a lot better 402 00:20:38.279 --> 00:20:39.440 than Bicherpford. 403 00:20:39.160 --> 00:20:48.119 Catholic, good Catholic school boy, good root. So you graduate 404 00:20:48.279 --> 00:20:50.200 high school, what do you do? It looks like you 405 00:20:50.279 --> 00:20:53.680 went to uh right into the navy, right into the navy. 406 00:20:53.720 --> 00:20:54.720 As friends were going to school. 407 00:20:55.400 --> 00:21:00.759 Wow, look at that, Wow, look at that guy that 408 00:21:00.880 --> 00:21:04.000 was seventeen seventeen. Yeah, my mom and dad had to 409 00:21:04.039 --> 00:21:04.720 sign me over. 410 00:21:05.000 --> 00:21:06.920 The high school ring and everything. The high school ring. 411 00:21:08.240 --> 00:21:09.759 Actually, I don't know. 412 00:21:10.039 --> 00:21:12.000 It might be it might be black ONYX. You know 413 00:21:12.160 --> 00:21:15.720 what's on the peaky yeah, well. 414 00:21:16.279 --> 00:21:18.640 Slope you know when you're drinking? Is your mother Italian? 415 00:21:18.680 --> 00:21:18.799 Bro? 416 00:21:19.640 --> 00:21:21.519 No, no time. 417 00:21:22.400 --> 00:21:30.160 I'm American first of all, Irish and Polish. Wow yeah, yes, right. 418 00:21:31.839 --> 00:21:33.799 We got a couple let me just while on the 419 00:21:33.920 --> 00:21:35.119 Navy kick before we run off. 420 00:21:35.240 --> 00:21:37.160 Who was out of the left an Asian guy. So 421 00:21:37.400 --> 00:21:39.200 that's my that's a very good friend of mine. I 422 00:21:39.240 --> 00:21:41.559 still speak to him on occasion. His name is Anthony Shackner. 423 00:21:42.000 --> 00:21:45.119 He is from Tennessee. He went to a submarine up 424 00:21:45.160 --> 00:21:47.400 in Connecticut, and I still think he lives in Tennessee. 425 00:21:47.440 --> 00:21:49.400 But I still I still hit him up from time 426 00:21:49.440 --> 00:21:52.559 to time. Yeah, on the left, the other guy is 427 00:21:53.079 --> 00:21:55.799 the white guy is Jason Rivers. He was from Camden, 428 00:21:55.880 --> 00:21:58.200 New Jersey. After after. 429 00:21:59.640 --> 00:22:01.559 Yeah, the camp, I never saw him again. Yeah. But 430 00:22:01.599 --> 00:22:04.960 the guy with the glasses is he uh, he's Asian, dude. 431 00:22:05.680 --> 00:22:10.720 I believe he might have some Filipino oh a thingo 432 00:22:12.920 --> 00:22:14.759 he' wrong and he'll probably hit me up later on 433 00:22:14.839 --> 00:22:17.519 and be like, dude, he looks like one of my kinds. 434 00:22:17.519 --> 00:22:19.720 But like, dude, you know me thirty five years and 435 00:22:19.799 --> 00:22:20.599 you don't know what I am. 436 00:22:21.279 --> 00:22:23.119 One of the nicest, one of the nicest guys you're 437 00:22:23.160 --> 00:22:23.720 ever gonna meet. 438 00:22:25.160 --> 00:22:31.960 Oh, looking at that's that the rear admiral. 439 00:22:32.559 --> 00:22:35.599 That was the that was the captain, And I think, uh, jeez, 440 00:22:35.599 --> 00:22:37.559 I can't remember his name, but he was. 441 00:22:38.839 --> 00:22:40.599 He's too happy giving you that whatever it is. He's like, God, 442 00:22:40.680 --> 00:22:41.640 let me get this guy out of here. 443 00:22:42.160 --> 00:22:46.119 He was probably ready to get he was drunk. It 444 00:22:46.160 --> 00:22:49.480 looks like the dead fish handshake he's giving. Yeah, he was. 445 00:22:49.559 --> 00:22:51.240 He had one hundred years on. He just wanted to 446 00:22:51.240 --> 00:22:51.480 get the. 447 00:22:51.480 --> 00:22:53.880 Hell out of that. So you know, what were you 448 00:22:53.960 --> 00:22:54.680 doing in the navy? 449 00:22:55.359 --> 00:22:57.640 I was a whole maintenance technician. I was a welder. 450 00:22:58.279 --> 00:23:01.559 The proper term is called thurd chaser. 451 00:23:01.319 --> 00:23:03.920 So I was like the plumber of the name. It 452 00:23:04.079 --> 00:23:07.279 was a chaser. Was aurchase? Yeah, what kind of boat? 453 00:23:07.480 --> 00:23:09.160 On any kind of boat or what? I actually I 454 00:23:09.240 --> 00:23:10.359 got after my a school. 455 00:23:10.400 --> 00:23:12.720 My school was welding School, which is in Philadelphia. Boot 456 00:23:12.759 --> 00:23:17.200 camp was in Great Lakes, Chicago. Went to engineering school 457 00:23:17.279 --> 00:23:20.200 right after boot camp in Chicago, jumped right to a 458 00:23:20.359 --> 00:23:23.319 school which is my welding school in Philadelphia, and they 459 00:23:23.440 --> 00:23:27.680 sent me right to a floating dry dock where instead 460 00:23:27.720 --> 00:23:28.960 of going out to see it, I went up and 461 00:23:29.079 --> 00:23:31.480 down in the sea and pulled chips in and welded 462 00:23:31.559 --> 00:23:33.079 on the ships whatever we could. 463 00:23:33.160 --> 00:23:36.759 So where was that? So it was technically considered neutral duty. 464 00:23:36.759 --> 00:23:40.720 I wasn't going out to see said duty duty neutral? 465 00:23:41.079 --> 00:23:46.079 Where were you though, Norfolk, Virginia, Norfolk? Right, Yeah, that's 466 00:23:46.119 --> 00:23:47.799 what that was. That's a good skill. I have to 467 00:23:47.880 --> 00:23:49.799 learn why you're in the in the service, bro, good 468 00:23:49.839 --> 00:23:52.279 skills to pick up, right. Oh it was good. It 469 00:23:52.319 --> 00:23:54.200 got me. It got me a job after the maybe 470 00:23:54.279 --> 00:23:56.359 for a year or so before I got on my 471 00:23:56.480 --> 00:23:59.480 other jump, which is let me check this out, which 472 00:23:59.680 --> 00:24:03.559 was the United States Park Police from ninety six to two. 473 00:24:03.640 --> 00:24:05.920 So you did some time there, bro, Yes, they did 474 00:24:05.960 --> 00:24:07.759 about six years or so. Up there. 475 00:24:07.839 --> 00:24:10.480 Look at that young guy you get and the guy 476 00:24:10.680 --> 00:24:13.160 I'm standing next to is actually you on the right. 477 00:24:14.119 --> 00:24:15.200 Yeah. Look how short I am? 478 00:24:15.240 --> 00:24:15.319 Bro? 479 00:24:17.799 --> 00:24:20.519 Looks like you look like you just stuck across the 480 00:24:20.559 --> 00:24:21.279 border or something. 481 00:24:25.039 --> 00:24:27.640 Dude, you look like a baby. For god, Oh my God. 482 00:24:29.079 --> 00:24:31.519 Yeah, that's uh, that's me, man, It's you know, I'm 483 00:24:31.559 --> 00:24:33.359 not the I don't know if anybody told you, but 484 00:24:33.400 --> 00:24:36.400 I'm not the tallest guy walking around as. 485 00:24:36.240 --> 00:24:40.519 You I mean, crying out loud, I'm five six. Well 486 00:24:40.839 --> 00:24:43.599 you know that's being tall in me. Isn't that hard 487 00:24:43.599 --> 00:24:47.119 to do? So I would? Yeah, that's what my kids say. 488 00:24:47.200 --> 00:24:49.319 Dad was as tall as you like. Yeah, shoot for 489 00:24:49.440 --> 00:24:51.680 hire or not. Bro, don't use you. Don't use me 490 00:24:51.759 --> 00:24:53.119 as your barometer, please. 491 00:24:53.519 --> 00:24:55.000 You know what, here's the thing about that, Like, I 492 00:24:55.240 --> 00:24:56.680 feel like that's part This is just part of me. 493 00:24:56.759 --> 00:24:59.440 That's part of what makes me me. It makes me unique, 494 00:25:00.000 --> 00:25:02.519 you know, being being that small and having this energy, 495 00:25:02.880 --> 00:25:04.960 And if I was if I was what five nine, 496 00:25:05.039 --> 00:25:07.440 five ten, i'd just be ordinary. Like everybody to fuck out? 497 00:25:07.880 --> 00:25:08.319 Do you know? 498 00:25:09.160 --> 00:25:13.039 I feel like people give me Kenny, don't funk with 499 00:25:13.119 --> 00:25:15.160 the short guys. Bro, I'll tell you right now, don't 500 00:25:15.160 --> 00:25:19.559 funk with the short guys. Prove I'm a little teddy. 501 00:25:21.000 --> 00:25:23.440 I got, man, I got the Napoleonic complex. 502 00:25:23.519 --> 00:25:24.519 So I'm trying to get past it. 503 00:25:24.640 --> 00:25:25.240 But it wasn't working. 504 00:25:27.839 --> 00:25:29.640 I was just trying to distract you, that's all it was. 505 00:25:30.200 --> 00:25:32.039 We're trying to get trying to get off the short jokes. 506 00:25:32.519 --> 00:25:34.839 All right, so good, all right, Well. 507 00:25:35.160 --> 00:25:37.079 Bro I was in I was in fifty nine engineering 508 00:25:37.119 --> 00:25:38.119 that you say, he's gonna ball. 509 00:25:39.240 --> 00:25:41.759 Me, not me, but you know, well we're all the 510 00:25:41.799 --> 00:25:43.240 pd of just that guy? 511 00:25:43.880 --> 00:25:45.039 Is that you and the tank top? 512 00:25:49.119 --> 00:25:52.039 Funny thing is that actually looks like Keith Nicoleello. 513 00:25:51.519 --> 00:25:55.759 In the tank time. He's in good shape. 514 00:25:55.799 --> 00:25:58.519 Now on that pump, that guy's he was always in 515 00:25:58.559 --> 00:26:01.720 great shape, always kept himself top still in great ship. 516 00:26:01.880 --> 00:26:04.240 That guy. Yeah, it looks like a movie started. You 517 00:26:04.279 --> 00:26:07.240 see that down the back. Look at that Wow, look 518 00:26:07.279 --> 00:26:07.720 at that guy. 519 00:26:07.960 --> 00:26:10.359 There's a couple more. I saw it from the emails 520 00:26:10.400 --> 00:26:12.480 when he's in the f D. I don't know if 521 00:26:12.480 --> 00:26:14.839 he sees the camera and he does, you know, the profile, 522 00:26:18.519 --> 00:26:20.119 he's always on his side, you know? 523 00:26:23.319 --> 00:26:25.440 Is that that looks like me walking regular? 524 00:26:26.839 --> 00:26:30.000 That's a yeh sticking in your grandma, yea, your grandma? 525 00:26:32.079 --> 00:26:33.559 Where was that was? 526 00:26:33.799 --> 00:26:36.319 That was the Horse Mounted Unit office in the Park Police. 527 00:26:36.400 --> 00:26:38.839 One of my best friends, he was actually my partner 528 00:26:38.880 --> 00:26:41.680 for a long time, Rob O'Brien. He got on the 529 00:26:41.720 --> 00:26:44.039 horse Mounted Unit and it was an office in Staten Island. 530 00:26:44.480 --> 00:26:46.400 So on midnight tours, we go over there and just 531 00:26:46.519 --> 00:26:48.920 before we go on patrol and just hoot and holler and. 532 00:26:48.960 --> 00:26:50.799 Have have a great time. And you know that's just 533 00:26:50.880 --> 00:26:53.359 me being a knucklehead. So you stayed there for a 534 00:26:53.440 --> 00:26:55.519 while though, Man, did you like the job? But where 535 00:26:55.519 --> 00:26:56.319 were you assigned? 536 00:26:57.079 --> 00:27:01.960 I our our our CAD was in Glenn County, Georgia, 537 00:27:02.559 --> 00:27:06.079 in the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center FLETSI for sure. 538 00:27:06.480 --> 00:27:08.400 So we did about six months down there, five or 539 00:27:08.400 --> 00:27:09.160 six months down. 540 00:27:09.079 --> 00:27:11.480 There, go up to d C. Do a couple months 541 00:27:11.559 --> 00:27:11.960 in DC. 542 00:27:12.079 --> 00:27:13.880 It's a little bit of training here and there, and 543 00:27:13.960 --> 00:27:16.000 then I get assigned to the New York Field Office, 544 00:27:16.079 --> 00:27:19.000 which was Gateway National Recreation Area run. But you know 545 00:27:19.039 --> 00:27:21.319 that's Floyd been Afield, the Statue of Liberty. There was 546 00:27:21.319 --> 00:27:24.880 a Point Rockaways, Great Hills Park in Staten Island, a 547 00:27:24.920 --> 00:27:26.480 couple other small places in. 548 00:27:26.519 --> 00:27:28.759 The midgate U. No, it was great. 549 00:27:28.839 --> 00:27:31.400 You know, federal job. We had city authority and we 550 00:27:31.480 --> 00:27:34.000 had federal authority. So when we were going from one 551 00:27:34.799 --> 00:27:37.799 park to another, one federal property to another, somebody cuts 552 00:27:37.880 --> 00:27:40.359 you off or their speed and we had full authority 553 00:27:40.440 --> 00:27:42.359 to pull them over. Right in tickets if we had 554 00:27:42.400 --> 00:27:43.039 to make an arrest. 555 00:27:43.119 --> 00:27:43.480 We did that. 556 00:27:44.880 --> 00:27:46.720 It was, it was, it was. 557 00:27:46.960 --> 00:27:48.440 It was a really good job, you know, a really 558 00:27:48.480 --> 00:27:53.000 good you know, learning experience, a lot of great people 559 00:27:53.079 --> 00:27:55.079 on that job, so it really really, you. 560 00:27:55.119 --> 00:27:56.319 Know, it means a lot to me. 561 00:27:56.599 --> 00:27:59.079 I went through a lot in the beginning on that job, 562 00:27:59.480 --> 00:28:02.440 so you know, that job definitely holds a big place 563 00:28:02.480 --> 00:28:02.920 in my heart. 564 00:28:03.559 --> 00:28:05.000 So why did you leave there when you went to 565 00:28:05.359 --> 00:28:06.440 Air Marshal. 566 00:28:06.680 --> 00:28:09.359 So I'm still I'm still in the park police when 567 00:28:09.400 --> 00:28:12.640 nine to eleven apples, and we all know how everybody 568 00:28:12.720 --> 00:28:15.000 felt on nine to eleven and being in a United 569 00:28:15.000 --> 00:28:17.279 States park policeman. I just didn't feel like I was 570 00:28:17.920 --> 00:28:20.119 doing enough, you know. I just felt like I needed 571 00:28:20.119 --> 00:28:22.039 to do more. I wanted to help out. I wanted 572 00:28:22.079 --> 00:28:24.480 to be in you know, front lines. I wanted to 573 00:28:24.559 --> 00:28:26.440 fucking I did my time in the military. I was 574 00:28:26.440 --> 00:28:28.559 already kind of past that. I was waiting for the 575 00:28:28.599 --> 00:28:33.240 flight department. So they opened up the Air Marshal Service. 576 00:28:33.480 --> 00:28:37.640 Pretty much, you had law enforcement experience, you had military experience. 577 00:28:38.000 --> 00:28:40.759 All you have to do is pass excuse me, pass 578 00:28:40.839 --> 00:28:44.359 a quick background check, the psychological you know, go through 579 00:28:44.359 --> 00:28:45.920 the academy and stuff and then they'll put you right 580 00:28:46.000 --> 00:28:46.960 on a plane. And I was like, you know what, 581 00:28:47.720 --> 00:28:49.079 I'm gonna do it. I'm gonna give it a shot. 582 00:28:49.079 --> 00:28:50.960 I feel like I'm helping. I feel like I'm doing 583 00:28:51.000 --> 00:28:54.119 a service to the country and helping protect civilians or 584 00:28:54.160 --> 00:28:56.000 whatever from from another terrorist attack. 585 00:28:56.559 --> 00:28:59.359 And so they didn't have air marshalls. Prior to that, 586 00:28:59.440 --> 00:29:02.079 there was no such so, no they were air marshalls. 587 00:29:02.160 --> 00:29:03.599 So back in I want to say it was the 588 00:29:03.880 --> 00:29:07.480 eighties when there were a lot of hijacks, hijackings going on, 589 00:29:08.000 --> 00:29:10.400 and they were flying planes to like fucking you know, 590 00:29:10.559 --> 00:29:13.359 grease or I ran or whatever they want. They built 591 00:29:13.440 --> 00:29:16.720 up the air marshals back then, but after a while 592 00:29:17.319 --> 00:29:20.880 nothing happened, so they started downsizing. As the government does, 593 00:29:21.000 --> 00:29:24.720 they downsize, and there, I believe when nine to eleven happened, 594 00:29:24.960 --> 00:29:28.160 I could be wrong. There were about fifty active air 595 00:29:28.240 --> 00:29:32.000 marshals and they were only doing they weren't doing like 596 00:29:32.480 --> 00:29:35.680 you you're California and backflight. They were doing like six 597 00:29:35.799 --> 00:29:38.480 guys on a plane going Southeast Asia and doing all 598 00:29:38.519 --> 00:29:41.440 sorts of you know, tours. But when nine to eleven happens, 599 00:29:41.480 --> 00:29:43.440 they just opened it up and kind of put as 600 00:29:43.519 --> 00:29:46.359 many people on flights as they could that had experience, 601 00:29:46.960 --> 00:29:49.240 and after a while they started kind of weaning down, 602 00:29:49.319 --> 00:29:51.960 like like you know, trimming the fat off you. You 603 00:29:52.640 --> 00:29:55.119 go to a second academy. My first academy was in 604 00:29:56.000 --> 00:29:57.759 Atlantic City. It was only about a week, week and 605 00:29:57.799 --> 00:30:00.480 a half because I had law enforcement experience. You got 606 00:30:00.599 --> 00:30:03.799 to pass a firearms qualification, a couple test, blah blah 607 00:30:03.799 --> 00:30:05.440 blah blah blah, and they get you out on the plane. 608 00:30:06.279 --> 00:30:09.279 But then a year later you go to uh, the 609 00:30:09.400 --> 00:30:10.799 real academy, which was. 610 00:30:11.039 --> 00:30:12.279 You know, I'm not gonna say where it was because 611 00:30:12.279 --> 00:30:14.799 I don't know what kind of you know, uh, top 612 00:30:14.920 --> 00:30:16.960 secret ship they got going on. But you do that 613 00:30:17.079 --> 00:30:18.799 for like a month, month and a half, and they 614 00:30:18.920 --> 00:30:21.680 really start it got really really difficult and they start 615 00:30:21.720 --> 00:30:22.440 cutting people out. 616 00:30:22.480 --> 00:30:23.920 But I was by the time I went there, I 617 00:30:24.000 --> 00:30:25.119 was already on a fight apartment. 618 00:30:25.519 --> 00:30:25.640 Right. 619 00:30:25.839 --> 00:30:29.519 But like when you get on a plane, not even 620 00:30:29.599 --> 00:30:32.039 the stewardess to know who the air marshal is, right, 621 00:30:32.759 --> 00:30:34.039 I don't know how. 622 00:30:34.000 --> 00:30:36.480 It is now, but when we got on on a flight, 623 00:30:37.200 --> 00:30:40.079 we had to brief the crew. Oh okay, so the 624 00:30:40.160 --> 00:30:44.000 flight attendants and the pilots knew who we were you 625 00:30:44.079 --> 00:30:46.319 had they actually gave you like a little card. You're like, hello, 626 00:30:46.559 --> 00:30:50.039 my name is Aaron Marshall, Kenny Delaney, and this, this, 627 00:30:50.200 --> 00:30:53.200 this and this. But sometimes you tell them kind of 628 00:30:53.240 --> 00:30:55.640 beforehand and they would they would meet you like before 629 00:30:55.680 --> 00:30:57.640 you get on, because you didn't want you just didn't 630 00:30:57.640 --> 00:30:59.440 want it was it was an undercovered job and we 631 00:30:59.480 --> 00:31:02.119 just didn't want to make you know, yourself noticeable. 632 00:31:02.200 --> 00:31:05.920 So but you were supposed to brief the crew, right, yeah, 633 00:31:06.599 --> 00:31:09.279 So you would sit anywhere though, amongst the passengers and 634 00:31:09.480 --> 00:31:12.599 just sit amongst the passengers. My main focus was protecting 635 00:31:12.640 --> 00:31:13.240 the flight deck. 636 00:31:13.640 --> 00:31:16.319 Get if something happens, you get a position of dominance 637 00:31:16.359 --> 00:31:18.720 in the flight deck and get that plane on the ground. 638 00:31:18.720 --> 00:31:20.599 Hopefully the pilots get that plane on the ground as 639 00:31:20.680 --> 00:31:23.680 quickly as they can. Something's going on in the back 640 00:31:23.720 --> 00:31:28.240 of the plane. You know, maybe your partner will handle 641 00:31:28.279 --> 00:31:30.799 it or somebody. Hopefully the civilians will step up, especially 642 00:31:30.839 --> 00:31:33.279 after nine to eleven. You know, people are very aware 643 00:31:33.440 --> 00:31:36.599 at that time. Our job was to protect that flight. 644 00:31:36.720 --> 00:31:38.519 So there was two years on it, on every flight 645 00:31:39.759 --> 00:31:43.680 at least right top secret information. 646 00:31:43.759 --> 00:31:45.200 I'm sorry, I don't. 647 00:31:47.680 --> 00:31:51.839 Liberty you know a little more maybe, but there was 648 00:31:51.839 --> 00:31:53.839 always that to us, always to us. 649 00:31:54.240 --> 00:31:56.640 So when you I'm just walking around, So when you 650 00:31:56.680 --> 00:31:58.599 first get on right right after nine eleven, like as 651 00:31:58.640 --> 00:32:00.240 soon as the guy walks in with a towel, gonna 652 00:32:00.240 --> 00:32:02.240 tell you, like, yep, all right, I'm gonna watch that 653 00:32:02.359 --> 00:32:02.680 guy and. 654 00:32:04.400 --> 00:32:05.440 This guy right. 655 00:32:05.920 --> 00:32:08.240 The funny thing is, the funny thing is we would 656 00:32:08.279 --> 00:32:11.039 have at the time, we had blackberries, and they would 657 00:32:11.039 --> 00:32:13.319 they would hit us up on the plane if something happened. 658 00:32:13.319 --> 00:32:15.559 Only one time, only one time we were on the 659 00:32:15.599 --> 00:32:21.200 plane being excuse me, Me and my partners got a 660 00:32:21.319 --> 00:32:23.440 text that there was a guy on a watch list 661 00:32:24.200 --> 00:32:24.920 on our flight. 662 00:32:25.279 --> 00:32:29.559 Really yep, flying back into into Newark. So you know, 663 00:32:29.880 --> 00:32:32.160 me and him, you know we we we we get. 664 00:32:32.039 --> 00:32:34.240 In contact, We find out where the guy is sitting. 665 00:32:34.559 --> 00:32:35.519 We keep an eye on him. 666 00:32:35.839 --> 00:32:38.880 We landed, We land in Newark, We get off the plane, 667 00:32:38.920 --> 00:32:41.880 port authority, met him at the gate, took him behind 668 00:32:41.920 --> 00:32:45.079 the door, never seen him again, went home, good night. 669 00:32:45.799 --> 00:32:48.039 Sonless just said, you're not watching any movies, you're eating 670 00:32:48.039 --> 00:32:50.279 any pretzels. You're keeping your eyes on that guy right 671 00:32:50.880 --> 00:32:56.960 there is there is no sleeping marshals. Lady like this. 672 00:32:57.680 --> 00:32:58.400 The lady. 673 00:33:03.160 --> 00:33:04.880 One of the hardest things in the world was to 674 00:33:04.960 --> 00:33:08.839 stay awake on a freaking eight hour flight. Oh man, bro, 675 00:33:09.160 --> 00:33:11.319 you have to get up, your washing, your face, your 676 00:33:11.400 --> 00:33:12.920 drink coffee. 677 00:33:13.680 --> 00:33:13.759 Bro. 678 00:33:13.960 --> 00:33:15.720 I read a book of flight when I was on that. 679 00:33:15.839 --> 00:33:18.960 I was just leading reading, reading, watching movies, reading, you know, 680 00:33:19.200 --> 00:33:21.440 But it was it was. It was a very I 681 00:33:21.519 --> 00:33:23.240 saw a lot of great places in this country. 682 00:33:23.319 --> 00:33:24.279 I went to a lot of places. 683 00:33:24.519 --> 00:33:28.039 It was really cool, learned a lot, got trained by 684 00:33:28.240 --> 00:33:30.680 by some heavy duty guys back in the academy that 685 00:33:30.759 --> 00:33:33.319 everybody was on the same page. Everybody wanted to do 686 00:33:33.400 --> 00:33:35.599 the right thing. You guys remember how the country was 687 00:33:35.720 --> 00:33:36.039 back then. 688 00:33:36.240 --> 00:33:37.279 Yeah, we're all together. 689 00:33:37.359 --> 00:33:39.880 We all just wanted to just do the right thing. 690 00:33:39.920 --> 00:33:41.759 And and that was part you know, we all did. 691 00:33:41.799 --> 00:33:44.039 And good thing. You went on a flight to the 692 00:33:44.079 --> 00:33:48.079 Philippines twenty one hours, probably put toothpicks in your eyes. Yeah, yeah, 693 00:33:49.960 --> 00:33:51.480 something like that, something like that. 694 00:33:51.599 --> 00:33:55.319 If there's something like that, this guy's probably going, all right, 695 00:33:55.319 --> 00:33:56.839 you take ten, you take fifty out. 696 00:33:56.720 --> 00:33:57.759 Of Yeah, no doubt about it. 697 00:33:58.400 --> 00:34:03.759 Yeahdad, I wanted to because you mentioned nine eleven pretty quickly. 698 00:34:03.759 --> 00:34:04.319 I didn't get to them. 699 00:34:04.359 --> 00:34:05.680 We got a few pictures just so I wanted to 700 00:34:05.680 --> 00:34:07.880 share really quick, wanted to just touch on them. 701 00:34:09.039 --> 00:34:10.880 You had, I'm the druck guy. 702 00:34:11.360 --> 00:34:15.159 Yeah, come on, where is that? 703 00:34:16.960 --> 00:34:20.000 I counted exactly. That's that's me and my my partner 704 00:34:20.079 --> 00:34:21.920 Rob O Brian. And that was in a couple of 705 00:34:22.000 --> 00:34:23.960 days after you know, the talers came down. We're just 706 00:34:24.599 --> 00:34:26.079 just trying to get on bucket for gades and help 707 00:34:26.159 --> 00:34:28.280 out and just went man, that's all I did, you know, 708 00:34:28.440 --> 00:34:30.920 just showed up and just and just wanted to help 709 00:34:31.000 --> 00:34:31.920 out whatever I could. 710 00:34:32.320 --> 00:34:34.559 You know, I don't remember people. 711 00:34:34.320 --> 00:34:36.000 Were looking at this photo when they would make comments 712 00:34:36.000 --> 00:34:37.360 about the orbs and the pictures. 713 00:34:38.480 --> 00:34:40.559 Oh yeah, I was, you know, they probably would. I 714 00:34:40.599 --> 00:34:46.119 didn't even realize that, yeah. 715 00:34:46.079 --> 00:34:48.559 Oh look at this guy here or the lady which 716 00:34:48.599 --> 00:34:51.000 wanted to you. I'm sorry, the guy in the blue helmet. 717 00:34:51.480 --> 00:34:53.280 No, I'm the guy in the white helmet closest to that. 718 00:34:54.000 --> 00:34:59.039 Oh okay, okay, that was that was a contingency of 719 00:34:59.119 --> 00:35:04.320 park policeman right there. Okay, do your doing your yeah, bro, sorry, 720 00:35:04.440 --> 00:35:05.039 And there you got. 721 00:35:06.760 --> 00:35:09.760 So that picture there is National Park Service property, that's 722 00:35:09.840 --> 00:35:12.239 Federal Hall. Its right across street from Wall Street. I 723 00:35:12.280 --> 00:35:14.360 don't know if you guys know that that's where George 724 00:35:14.440 --> 00:35:17.559 Washington took his oath of office. That's owned by National 725 00:35:17.639 --> 00:35:20.079 Park Service, the government Department of Interior, and. 726 00:35:20.119 --> 00:35:21.000 That's our property. 727 00:35:21.320 --> 00:35:24.519 So when nine to eleven happened, they automatically stationed officers 728 00:35:24.599 --> 00:35:27.559 at that, uh, you know, to protect the Federal Hall. 729 00:35:28.119 --> 00:35:31.679 Okay, that's true, all right, that was it. I want 730 00:35:31.719 --> 00:35:33.320 to I want to miss him and come back to him. 731 00:35:35.519 --> 00:35:36.880 Yeah, back when you're doing it. 732 00:35:37.559 --> 00:35:39.519 Yeah on Wall Street and you're doing. 733 00:35:39.440 --> 00:35:41.480 The Wall Street gag. Bro, you're doing. 734 00:35:45.679 --> 00:35:46.360 The rookie numbers. 735 00:35:46.599 --> 00:35:50.920 Yeah, all right, So when did you take the fire 736 00:35:50.920 --> 00:35:52.719 department test? Then you had an interest in being a 737 00:35:52.800 --> 00:35:57.119 fireman or what I wanted to be my whole life? 738 00:35:57.559 --> 00:36:02.440 Why so back in Park Float wins Terrace, never forget 739 00:36:02.519 --> 00:36:08.400 for life, the house floor life. I grew up on 740 00:36:08.519 --> 00:36:11.440 eight Day Avenue between Windsor and Prospect. Two blocks over 741 00:36:11.760 --> 00:36:14.400 was seventeenth Street and eighteenth Street, and then you got 742 00:36:14.440 --> 00:36:17.519 to the Prospect of Expressway. So on eighteenth Street and 743 00:36:17.599 --> 00:36:21.119 eighth Avenue there was a factory, a three story factory. 744 00:36:22.000 --> 00:36:24.360 It was like eight like where people send the dry 745 00:36:24.440 --> 00:36:26.679 clean is sending their clothes to actually get dry clean. 746 00:36:28.199 --> 00:36:31.119 So good so every day, you know, you didn't think 747 00:36:31.400 --> 00:36:33.360 you see the clothes coming down on the on the 748 00:36:33.440 --> 00:36:34.360 zip line every day. 749 00:36:34.400 --> 00:36:35.639 It was just that was just what it was. 750 00:36:36.960 --> 00:36:38.360 One day, I was a kid, I couldn't have been 751 00:36:38.719 --> 00:36:41.079 eight years old, maybe nine years old, I can't remember exactly. 752 00:36:41.440 --> 00:36:43.400 You smell the smoke, you hit a sirens, you know, 753 00:36:43.480 --> 00:36:45.320 and back in the back in the in the eighties 754 00:36:45.320 --> 00:36:48.519 and the late seventies, early eighties, that was a normal occurrence, right, 755 00:36:48.559 --> 00:36:50.159 You just hear them. That was the Warriors, that was 756 00:36:50.199 --> 00:36:53.239 part of the Warriors, and the guys were just superheroes 757 00:36:53.280 --> 00:36:55.519 to us. And sure enough, there was a fire in 758 00:36:55.599 --> 00:36:59.360 that factory, top floor, ripping, ripping out the fucking you know. 759 00:36:59.480 --> 00:37:01.679 I come out on my stoop and I look over 760 00:37:01.719 --> 00:37:05.000 and and the rigs are pulling up, and the truck's 761 00:37:05.039 --> 00:37:07.199 putting a stick up and it was probably two twenty engine, 762 00:37:07.239 --> 00:37:09.320 it was probably two forty engine. It was probably one 763 00:37:09.400 --> 00:37:12.320 thirty one truck and one twenty two truck, and the 764 00:37:12.679 --> 00:37:15.119 guys are going to work. So I I run right 765 00:37:15.159 --> 00:37:17.639 over there, and I'm just I'm I'm in awe of 766 00:37:17.800 --> 00:37:21.079 seeing these guys doing their thing. It looks like chaos 767 00:37:21.239 --> 00:37:24.239 to a civilian. Right, guys stretching lines, guys getting the hose. 768 00:37:24.320 --> 00:37:26.559 Hear the saws going, you see the stick going up. 769 00:37:26.880 --> 00:37:29.360 It was just to me, that was it was everything, 770 00:37:29.559 --> 00:37:31.119 and I just I got this feeling. I was like, 771 00:37:31.280 --> 00:37:34.360 I I want to fucking do that, man, that's what 772 00:37:34.480 --> 00:37:38.159 I want to do. I've always had this, I've need 773 00:37:38.400 --> 00:37:40.760 I need to keep moving, I need this adrenaline. And 774 00:37:40.920 --> 00:37:43.679 that gave me that, and I said, I gotta. 775 00:37:43.440 --> 00:37:44.599 Do that, you know I didn't. 776 00:37:44.840 --> 00:37:46.920 That was way before I knew anything about the flying Point. 777 00:37:46.920 --> 00:37:48.639 I just saw a fire and I said, I want 778 00:37:48.679 --> 00:37:49.360 to fucking go do it. 779 00:37:49.400 --> 00:37:51.000 Those had you have hello, bro. 780 00:37:51.159 --> 00:37:53.760 They had me at Helloa. You knew the fire went out, 781 00:37:53.800 --> 00:37:56.079 the water's coming out the window. I was like, holy, 782 00:37:56.440 --> 00:37:57.599 that was the greatest thing I've ever. 783 00:37:57.559 --> 00:37:58.159 Seen, you know. 784 00:37:58.320 --> 00:38:00.320 So that's what made me want to be Why did 785 00:38:00.360 --> 00:38:03.239 you take the test? I took the test in ninety nine, 786 00:38:03.559 --> 00:38:06.920 nineteen ninety nine, Okay, and now you've gone through two careers, 787 00:38:06.960 --> 00:38:09.840 oh well, two jobs before and then the job calls 788 00:38:09.920 --> 00:38:16.119 you when you're a plot police, the job men air Marshall. Right, 789 00:38:16.679 --> 00:38:18.280 it was it was right after nine to eleven. 790 00:38:18.840 --> 00:38:19.239 I missed. 791 00:38:19.400 --> 00:38:21.480 I believe there was a test. I was in the service. 792 00:38:21.840 --> 00:38:22.639 I believe there was a. 793 00:38:22.679 --> 00:38:25.559 Test, and I want to say it was ninety five. 794 00:38:25.800 --> 00:38:28.119 Who ninety four? I can't remember, but I know I 795 00:38:28.239 --> 00:38:31.039 was away and I missed the test. So then ninety 796 00:38:31.079 --> 00:38:34.519 two ninety two maybe maybe that was that's when I 797 00:38:34.599 --> 00:38:37.639 took it. Yeah, was there one after that? I can't remember. 798 00:38:37.760 --> 00:38:38.280 I don't think so. 799 00:38:39.079 --> 00:38:41.400 Anyway, you guys know how long it took to get 800 00:38:41.440 --> 00:38:43.400 on the job or another test to come out. 801 00:38:44.159 --> 00:38:46.280 So I missed that test. I was in the service 802 00:38:47.039 --> 00:38:48.840 whenever it was, I get out. 803 00:38:48.920 --> 00:38:50.679 And now I'm I'm like, goll d, I'm gonna I'm 804 00:38:50.679 --> 00:38:52.880 gonna take the fire department test when it comes out. Yeah, 805 00:38:52.920 --> 00:38:57.039 I'll fucking I'll collect cobwebs before the next test comes out. 806 00:38:57.639 --> 00:39:00.280 Something. So I get on the par police. 807 00:39:00.280 --> 00:39:02.440 I took the police test that took him, my PD NASA, 808 00:39:02.679 --> 00:39:06.960 UH sanitation I took. I didn't take corrections, no offense 809 00:39:07.000 --> 00:39:09.000 to any corrections guys out there. But I don't think 810 00:39:09.039 --> 00:39:12.719 I would do well in prison for me. Those guys 811 00:39:12.800 --> 00:39:14.400 are something else. 812 00:39:15.280 --> 00:39:17.119 Those guys are something else, is right man? 813 00:39:17.480 --> 00:39:17.679 Yeah? 814 00:39:17.920 --> 00:39:19.840 Yeah, so I know I know a guy who's correction 815 00:39:20.039 --> 00:39:23.920 was Marines Corrections, Fight Department, Big Mickey Riley, if he's listening, 816 00:39:24.280 --> 00:39:24.880 he lives. 817 00:39:24.719 --> 00:39:27.400 Up here with us, great dude, you know the only 818 00:39:27.480 --> 00:39:29.360 Irish guys. You know, you hang out with anybody else, 819 00:39:29.400 --> 00:39:31.559 So what the hell, bro? You know, I hang out 820 00:39:31.960 --> 00:39:33.039 lots of people hang out. 821 00:39:35.559 --> 00:39:37.599 Those Oh forget about it. 822 00:39:40.079 --> 00:39:46.079 To cheese, come on, happy that we got another irishman on. 823 00:39:46.199 --> 00:39:46.760 So he is. 824 00:39:46.840 --> 00:39:49.079 He was as far back as I can remember, I 825 00:39:49.119 --> 00:39:50.519 always wanted to be a gangster. 826 00:39:53.960 --> 00:39:57.159 Remember, I always wanted to be a fineman. I relate 827 00:39:57.320 --> 00:39:59.119 that movie to a lot of things in the Fight 828 00:39:59.159 --> 00:40:00.719 Apartment man. 829 00:40:00.800 --> 00:40:03.480 All right, But nineteen ninety nine is when I is 830 00:40:03.519 --> 00:40:05.519 when I was able to take the next test, and 831 00:40:05.840 --> 00:40:09.039 I did. I got a hundred on the critain with 832 00:40:09.199 --> 00:40:12.039 my city points and veterans points, I was like one 833 00:40:12.079 --> 00:40:14.360 hundred and fucking ten. And then I got one hundred 834 00:40:14.360 --> 00:40:16.440 on it or ninety nine or ninety eight on the physical. 835 00:40:17.559 --> 00:40:20.360 I ended up being like like three thousand on the list. 836 00:40:20.920 --> 00:40:22.519 So you know, I was like, all right, I know 837 00:40:22.559 --> 00:40:23.519 I'm gonna get hired. 838 00:40:23.440 --> 00:40:25.880 Sooner or later, right just by my time, you know. 839 00:40:26.039 --> 00:40:26.960 So where'd you get the call? 840 00:40:27.800 --> 00:40:28.360 I got the call? 841 00:40:28.400 --> 00:40:32.360 I got on the air Marstrils in ten thousand. 842 00:40:31.920 --> 00:40:35.800 And two, and it was pretty much the first couple 843 00:40:35.840 --> 00:40:38.480 of weeks I was on the air, Marshals my background 844 00:40:38.480 --> 00:40:40.840 investigator call me. He was like, stop getting the shit together. 845 00:40:41.639 --> 00:40:43.280 Uh you know you're going to be We want to 846 00:40:43.320 --> 00:40:44.840 get you in the next class or whatever it is. 847 00:40:44.880 --> 00:40:48.360 I was like, all right, cool, So but my I 848 00:40:48.440 --> 00:40:51.760 don't remember the guy's name, but my background investigator fucking sucked. 849 00:40:52.079 --> 00:40:52.880 He dropped the ball. 850 00:40:53.039 --> 00:40:54.320 He had me doing this, that and the other thing. 851 00:40:54.360 --> 00:40:54.639 I was like. 852 00:40:55.159 --> 00:40:57.679 I was like, bro, I held the top secret security 853 00:40:57.760 --> 00:41:01.599 clearance for the federal government. This background investigation is the 854 00:41:01.679 --> 00:41:03.440 hardest thing that that I've ever had to do. 855 00:41:03.559 --> 00:41:04.119 What are you doing? 856 00:41:04.280 --> 00:41:07.239 Who are you talking to that that you're holding this up? 857 00:41:07.480 --> 00:41:10.880 I missed a class to two because of the background investigator, 858 00:41:10.960 --> 00:41:12.559 But maybe that was meant to be. 859 00:41:12.719 --> 00:41:14.760 Who knows, Yeah, right, you never know. 860 00:41:14.880 --> 00:41:18.400 Man interviewed maybe one of your ex girlfriends. I don't know. 861 00:41:18.519 --> 00:41:21.840 Maybe I don't know who they were talking to. I 862 00:41:21.840 --> 00:41:24.079 don't know, I don't know. I thought I have a 863 00:41:24.159 --> 00:41:28.079 pretty good report and that was a nice guy. So 864 00:41:28.159 --> 00:41:31.519 where were you when you got the call? Call you? Well? 865 00:41:32.199 --> 00:41:35.239 I was I was in staten Island in my in 866 00:41:35.320 --> 00:41:38.480 my sister and brother in law's God rest his soul 867 00:41:38.559 --> 00:41:42.559 died in nine to eleven cancer Ray Buzzo. Best guy 868 00:41:42.599 --> 00:41:45.519 I ever knew anyway. They bought a house in Staten Island. 869 00:41:45.800 --> 00:41:48.159 I lived in the mother in law house. 870 00:41:48.199 --> 00:41:48.440 You know that. 871 00:41:50.360 --> 00:41:52.320 I was getting ready to go to work. Actually I 872 00:41:52.360 --> 00:41:54.000 was getting ready to go on a flight, and they 873 00:41:54.079 --> 00:41:57.639 called me and I was like, do I want the job? 874 00:41:58.000 --> 00:41:59.480 You know, what are you kidding me? Of course, yes, 875 00:41:59.639 --> 00:42:02.480 thought it right now, let's go. Yeah, and you have 876 00:42:02.559 --> 00:42:05.079 wooden balls. You're like, yeah, bro, I want that job. 877 00:42:05.400 --> 00:42:09.800 I actually went yes, yes, it was. 878 00:42:10.719 --> 00:42:12.920 It was just such a great feeling because when I 879 00:42:13.000 --> 00:42:15.400 took the physical, you know, this is something I wanted. 880 00:42:15.199 --> 00:42:15.679 My whole life. 881 00:42:15.760 --> 00:42:19.480 As most firemen do, It's it's a calling. You see 882 00:42:19.559 --> 00:42:21.079 that fire and that's all you want to do. 883 00:42:21.159 --> 00:42:23.360 Like it's just like like I gotta do that. But 884 00:42:23.440 --> 00:42:24.599 when I did the when I took. 885 00:42:24.480 --> 00:42:27.840 The physical, I studied with Pudgy Walsh. He had me 886 00:42:27.920 --> 00:42:30.440 coming and doing all the stuff. So I take the 887 00:42:30.480 --> 00:42:34.440 physical and I'm expecting six foot five, big burley mustache 888 00:42:34.519 --> 00:42:36.119 fireman to be like, yeah. 889 00:42:36.000 --> 00:42:38.599 Let's go, let's go. Kenny let's go come on, put 890 00:42:38.639 --> 00:42:39.039 the pack on. 891 00:42:39.199 --> 00:42:39.840 Do it, do it, do it. 892 00:42:40.119 --> 00:42:43.920 I had some ninety year old proctor woman like, Okay, you. 893 00:42:44.000 --> 00:42:48.039 Can come here, and I was like, I was like, 894 00:42:48.280 --> 00:42:48.880 what's going on? 895 00:42:49.400 --> 00:42:52.440 I was so when I was doing a hose pool. 896 00:42:52.440 --> 00:42:54.000 I'll never forget that. I was doing a hose pull 897 00:42:54.079 --> 00:42:56.440 and I must have been like off to the side 898 00:42:56.519 --> 00:42:59.159 or like ten feet away, and halfway through it, She's goes, oh, 899 00:42:59.800 --> 00:43:01.760 you could stand over here in the middle of it. 900 00:43:01.960 --> 00:43:03.599 So I fucking run back and I do it. It 901 00:43:03.719 --> 00:43:06.559 cost me like a pointer to two. So I was like, oh, 902 00:43:06.760 --> 00:43:08.920 fuck man. I and I came out of there and 903 00:43:09.000 --> 00:43:12.519 I was so emotional. I just I was like, I'm 904 00:43:12.559 --> 00:43:14.320 not I'm never getting this job. I know how hard 905 00:43:14.360 --> 00:43:16.440 it is to get this job. I'm never gonna get it. 906 00:43:16.440 --> 00:43:18.239 I'm never gonna get the call because I fucked up 907 00:43:18.559 --> 00:43:20.159 two seconds worth of a host pull. 908 00:43:20.400 --> 00:43:21.320 I don't know what I'm gonna do. 909 00:43:21.360 --> 00:43:22.480 This is all I wanted in my life. 910 00:43:23.559 --> 00:43:24.199 What am I gonna do? 911 00:43:24.280 --> 00:43:24.400 Now? 912 00:43:24.639 --> 00:43:26.000 You went up and you punched it right in a 913 00:43:26.079 --> 00:43:30.960 mush No, no, no, I didn't do that, all right. 914 00:43:31.880 --> 00:43:33.400 She actually kicked me in the ass because I was 915 00:43:33.440 --> 00:43:34.960 standing in one spot and made. 916 00:43:34.760 --> 00:43:37.559 Me move over to the ah. Little did she know 917 00:43:37.719 --> 00:43:39.400 that you one day being Halem. 918 00:43:49.199 --> 00:43:50.679 Just took me a second to find his day. But 919 00:43:50.920 --> 00:43:54.159 I have ten pages of sound effects. We haven't used 920 00:43:54.159 --> 00:44:00.159 it in a while, all right, so you get the all. 921 00:44:00.199 --> 00:44:03.039 You're going to PROB school. Give me some names. Who 922 00:44:03.079 --> 00:44:05.159 are you with in provy school? Who who was teaching? 923 00:44:05.480 --> 00:44:07.039 Who was some of the guys in prob school? 924 00:44:07.119 --> 00:44:10.199 Donnie I remember Donnie wonder Lick was like the man 925 00:44:10.559 --> 00:44:14.760 Donnie wonder Lick was was our head company commander or 926 00:44:14.800 --> 00:44:16.800 a drill instructor, whatever you want to call him. 927 00:44:17.079 --> 00:44:19.719 And that guy was so fucking inspiring to me. 928 00:44:20.280 --> 00:44:24.400 Just high energy, just rah rah rah, like military guy, 929 00:44:24.480 --> 00:44:25.840 like I don't even know if he was in the military, 930 00:44:25.880 --> 00:44:28.400 but just the way he presented himself and how he 931 00:44:28.559 --> 00:44:31.440 yelled and how he his confidence and like I was like, 932 00:44:31.559 --> 00:44:34.400 I will, I will take me with you into fucking hell, 933 00:44:34.519 --> 00:44:39.159 bro I like curiously, like he was one of those guys, 934 00:44:39.199 --> 00:44:41.400 and I'm and I was, that's the guy that I 935 00:44:41.559 --> 00:44:41.880 want to be. 936 00:44:42.159 --> 00:44:44.119 He was. Was he the guy that gave that speech 937 00:44:44.199 --> 00:44:47.719 roof no crazy. 938 00:44:47.440 --> 00:44:50.559 Pe that was crazy p on the on the He 939 00:44:50.679 --> 00:44:54.239 was shartless on the like on the roof giving a speech. 940 00:44:55.840 --> 00:44:59.599 You will be old, you will be that's crazy peo. 941 00:45:00.599 --> 00:45:03.920 Oh yeah, I made I made it for Cadence about 942 00:45:03.960 --> 00:45:05.679 crazy people in the academy too. 943 00:45:05.920 --> 00:45:07.199 Was he there when you were that crazy? 944 00:45:07.360 --> 00:45:08.199 Yes he was. 945 00:45:08.440 --> 00:45:11.760 He was about chief Soakamano. Was he do there? 946 00:45:12.079 --> 00:45:15.599 But he was gone there that he was gone? 947 00:45:16.079 --> 00:45:21.880 I can't remember, That's all he used to say. Who 948 00:45:22.000 --> 00:45:22.280 is there? 949 00:45:22.679 --> 00:45:26.199 Fucking I can't remember lieutenant name. I have such a 950 00:45:26.239 --> 00:45:28.559 bad memory with ship like that. I was just trying 951 00:45:28.599 --> 00:45:30.239 to get I was a squad leader. They made me 952 00:45:30.239 --> 00:45:34.079 a squad leader, military guy. Of course, my buddy goes, 953 00:45:34.320 --> 00:45:37.440 my buddy, my buddy, who's in that pictures picture he 954 00:45:37.599 --> 00:45:39.800 got he was in the class before me. And he goes, Bro, 955 00:45:40.239 --> 00:45:42.960 with your background, they're gonna want you to be a squadi. 956 00:45:43.159 --> 00:45:44.760 He goes, don't do it. 957 00:45:45.079 --> 00:45:48.400 Don't fucking volunteer, don't do it. I go, I go, 958 00:45:48.480 --> 00:45:49.800 all right, okay, you know I'm nervous. 959 00:45:49.800 --> 00:45:51.400 I don't know what to fuck do I find it? 960 00:45:51.960 --> 00:45:55.360 So they called everybody with military and law enforcement experience 961 00:45:55.400 --> 00:45:58.000 in a room, right, and he goes, and Donnie wanted 962 00:45:58.000 --> 00:45:59.519 to looks like we got it. They got us whole 963 00:45:59.559 --> 00:46:02.880 lined up, and he any of you fucking guys don't 964 00:46:02.920 --> 00:46:06.360 want to be a fucking squad leader, step forward right now. 965 00:46:06.880 --> 00:46:08.760 So I look to my my right and I look 966 00:46:08.800 --> 00:46:10.519 to my left, and I go this, and I'm like, 967 00:46:10.519 --> 00:46:12.320 and I'm thinking of what my buddy said, and I 968 00:46:12.480 --> 00:46:13.960 go to take a step out. I go, you know what, 969 00:46:14.320 --> 00:46:16.800 I'm gonna keep my mouth shut and step back. And 970 00:46:17.000 --> 00:46:22.199 one guy steps forward. And they fucking annihilated. 971 00:46:21.440 --> 00:46:22.000 This guy. 972 00:46:24.360 --> 00:46:26.840 The rest of Proby school. Every time he did something, 973 00:46:26.880 --> 00:46:28.440 they were like, this is the guy that didn't want to. 974 00:46:30.079 --> 00:46:32.440 This is the guy that big this. 975 00:46:33.199 --> 00:46:35.280 I was gonna say, that's some bad advice, Kenny. I 976 00:46:35.320 --> 00:46:37.280 don't know. Would you get somebody out advice now you 977 00:46:37.320 --> 00:46:39.519 wouldn't give I don't know. 978 00:46:39.920 --> 00:46:43.440 I don't know if I think he was fucking with me, 979 00:46:44.239 --> 00:46:46.599 but I thank god. I just I was like, you 980 00:46:46.639 --> 00:46:50.880 know what I'm gonna get. Thank God, so you can 981 00:46:50.960 --> 00:46:54.199 go a squad leader. Usually I let the squad leaders pick. 982 00:46:54.079 --> 00:46:54.719 Where I want to go. 983 00:46:54.960 --> 00:46:56.719 No, bro, I picked. 984 00:46:56.760 --> 00:46:59.920 I had a pick list, and I knew the only 985 00:47:00.159 --> 00:47:02.719 thing I knew about the fight department was that I 986 00:47:03.199 --> 00:47:05.639 wanted to fight fires. I didn't know what was busy, 987 00:47:05.760 --> 00:47:09.280 what wasn't busy, What where was where I thought everybody was. 988 00:47:09.360 --> 00:47:10.880 I grew up in a time where everybody there was 989 00:47:10.920 --> 00:47:13.760 fires everywhere. He didn't know any better. So I got 990 00:47:13.800 --> 00:47:17.519 the pick list and I picked, Uh. My first pick 991 00:47:17.840 --> 00:47:20.840 was more of a sentimental pick because my best friend's 992 00:47:20.920 --> 00:47:24.440 dad died line of duty in nineteen seventy four. His 993 00:47:24.599 --> 00:47:27.360 name was Fabian Extraverierta. He died on a roof in 994 00:47:27.559 --> 00:47:31.119 Parks Flote, you know, coincidentally, and he was one on 995 00:47:31.280 --> 00:47:34.800 nine truck, but they were relocated coincidentally. I think two 996 00:47:34.840 --> 00:47:37.639 one two truck, but I'm not sure they caught a thirdle. 997 00:47:37.639 --> 00:47:38.840 I think it was a third along, but he was 998 00:47:38.880 --> 00:47:40.960 on the roof, died on a roof line of duty. 999 00:47:41.559 --> 00:47:44.199 So one of my first pick, I want to go 1000 00:47:44.280 --> 00:47:46.280 to an engine. To me engine work. I wanted to 1001 00:47:46.360 --> 00:47:49.920 learn the engine, transfer to a truck, maybe make lieutenant, 1002 00:47:49.960 --> 00:47:52.039 and just do the natural progression of the job. But 1003 00:47:52.159 --> 00:47:53.719 the engine work to me was you know. So I 1004 00:47:53.800 --> 00:47:58.559 picked all engines and two forty one engine. I believe 1005 00:47:58.599 --> 00:48:00.280 it was two forty one. I think it was, yeah, 1006 00:48:00.920 --> 00:48:04.079 And that was my first pick, and then everything else 1007 00:48:04.199 --> 00:48:06.639 was like, you know, two fifty five to ninety to 1008 00:48:07.159 --> 00:48:12.280 all really ninety to ninety was busy. But again I 1009 00:48:12.320 --> 00:48:13.920 didn't what did I knew. I was still living in 1010 00:48:13.960 --> 00:48:17.039 Brooklyn at the time. So my last pick was, like, 1011 00:48:17.360 --> 00:48:19.239 you know what Park Slope two twenty, I was fucking 1012 00:48:19.840 --> 00:48:20.679 Fox Slope boom. 1013 00:48:21.119 --> 00:48:23.079 They sent me right too, yo. 1014 00:48:23.559 --> 00:48:25.719 Yeah, but you know it was great about Pox Flow. 1015 00:48:26.199 --> 00:48:28.519 I knew that neighborhood. First of all, the guys were 1016 00:48:28.679 --> 00:48:32.079 fucking awesome, I mean really really together. The house, the 1017 00:48:32.119 --> 00:48:34.960 guys really looked out for really really close. The house 1018 00:48:35.079 --> 00:48:38.880 is immaculate, just like I felt as soon as I 1019 00:48:38.960 --> 00:48:41.159 got there. I felt like the like I felt like, 1020 00:48:41.159 --> 00:48:43.079 all right, this is all proby, We're gonna have a 1021 00:48:43.079 --> 00:48:43.400 great time. 1022 00:48:43.400 --> 00:48:44.760 We're gonna teach you. We're a teacher. 1023 00:48:45.039 --> 00:48:47.079 Like I really felt great going into that house. 1024 00:48:47.239 --> 00:48:47.400 Huh. 1025 00:48:47.559 --> 00:48:50.320 So, but that was the and and being in Pox Slope. 1026 00:48:50.360 --> 00:48:51.920 I knew that neighborhood like the back of my hand. 1027 00:48:52.199 --> 00:48:55.719 So anyway we went. My size up was, oh, it's 1028 00:48:55.760 --> 00:48:57.199 a Brownstone. I know I know this place. 1029 00:48:57.199 --> 00:48:58.760 I know the address right away. I kind of know 1030 00:48:58.800 --> 00:49:00.559 what building it's gonna be. I kind of know where 1031 00:49:00.559 --> 00:49:01.199 the hydroens are. 1032 00:49:01.480 --> 00:49:03.519 So it was it was it was really really good, 1033 00:49:04.639 --> 00:49:10.159 right uh oh three guns okay, bronze. So maybe he 1034 00:49:10.280 --> 00:49:11.840 was down in Provy school at that time. 1035 00:49:11.920 --> 00:49:13.800 Ro it's a pretty cool firehouse, Coobs, if you ever 1036 00:49:13.840 --> 00:49:15.599 seen it has two different firehouses. 1037 00:49:16.119 --> 00:49:17.840 But condo is gonna pull it up two twenty. 1038 00:49:18.119 --> 00:49:19.039 I'm working on it right now. 1039 00:49:20.360 --> 00:49:22.559 Who are they with one truck? 1040 00:49:22.880 --> 00:49:23.000 Oh? 1041 00:49:23.119 --> 00:49:24.599 Isn't that where little guy was? 1042 00:49:26.360 --> 00:49:27.079 Donny Campbell. 1043 00:49:28.079 --> 00:49:31.239 I was in Provy school with Anthony. Me and Anthony 1044 00:49:31.320 --> 00:49:33.920 got to start to two twenty engine together com. 1045 00:49:34.039 --> 00:49:36.400 This, so you could have been. 1046 00:49:38.599 --> 00:49:42.599 Anthony Anthony Galtieri, My fucking boy, that's. 1047 00:49:46.400 --> 00:49:46.679 About it. 1048 00:49:48.119 --> 00:49:50.639 Let me tell you something. Cunny his house, this fuck 1049 00:49:50.760 --> 00:49:53.119 My grandfather was in his house. He was telling me 1050 00:49:53.400 --> 00:49:55.239 grandfather right. 1051 00:49:56.039 --> 00:49:57.920 I swear my niece's eyes, Kenny. 1052 00:49:58.280 --> 00:50:02.119 That's franky to see. I swear to God Gatty when 1053 00:50:02.119 --> 00:50:04.079 my grandfather, I'm gonna be great. It's gonna be good. 1054 00:50:04.079 --> 00:50:04.920 I got you, don't worry. 1055 00:50:05.360 --> 00:50:08.519 But his grandfather was a thought was was its sign 1056 00:50:08.599 --> 00:50:11.119 to that house? So I thought I was like, I'm fucked. 1057 00:50:11.320 --> 00:50:13.800 I go. This guy's his family was there. I'm fucked. 1058 00:50:13.840 --> 00:50:16.679 I'm a new probe. Everything's gonna be on me, so, 1059 00:50:17.119 --> 00:50:18.800 you know, but Anthony. 1060 00:50:18.519 --> 00:50:20.440 Is a great He had to take all the pressure 1061 00:50:20.519 --> 00:50:20.760 right off. 1062 00:50:21.079 --> 00:50:23.280 He was your lightning, rod bro he was your lightning. 1063 00:50:23.400 --> 00:50:25.199 I mean, he had to take the pressure right off. 1064 00:50:26.239 --> 00:50:28.440 I'm thinking, I'm thinking, you know that I'm gonna be 1065 00:50:28.480 --> 00:50:30.400 the guy at their own because he's a legacy or whatever, 1066 00:50:30.440 --> 00:50:34.400 you know, or there's no and it turns. 1067 00:50:34.159 --> 00:50:36.199 Out, you know, they were just on him. Fucking of 1068 00:50:36.440 --> 00:50:37.800 course could not there it is. 1069 00:50:41.360 --> 00:50:43.440 It was blooms. There was a couple of pictures, but 1070 00:50:43.480 --> 00:50:44.800 I can't it's not just a great. 1071 00:50:45.800 --> 00:50:48.679 Oh, eleven Street was a great block. It was a 1072 00:50:48.760 --> 00:50:51.400 little a little small. It was tough to to respond 1073 00:50:51.519 --> 00:50:54.119 to get out right, you know, but it's a tight block. 1074 00:50:54.880 --> 00:50:56.679 But that house was split. I want to say they 1075 00:50:56.760 --> 00:51:00.880 opened that both houses up seven five to seven years 1076 00:51:00.880 --> 00:51:03.000 before I got there. So you used to have to 1077 00:51:03.079 --> 00:51:04.599 like fucking take a detail and get it go. 1078 00:51:08.679 --> 00:51:12.960 Gunny Campbell. It was my favorite, my favorite guy. Donnie 1079 00:51:13.119 --> 00:51:14.159 was one of my favorite guys. 1080 00:51:14.239 --> 00:51:16.880 Yeah, he's the rest of your five now, right, I think, yes, 1081 00:51:17.159 --> 00:51:18.519 I believe the last time I talked to him, he 1082 00:51:18.639 --> 00:51:20.920 was Donne was he came on. I want to say 1083 00:51:20.920 --> 00:51:23.920 it was the class after me or two. Great dude, man, 1084 00:51:24.039 --> 00:51:25.719 love Donny. Haven't seen him in a long time. But 1085 00:51:26.079 --> 00:51:28.320 but being there together, like he was such a great guy. 1086 00:51:28.400 --> 00:51:30.239 Great for Himan, really into the job. 1087 00:51:30.639 --> 00:51:30.840 Just to. 1088 00:51:32.320 --> 00:51:35.000 Really good, dude, really good. The truck pull out of 1089 00:51:35.039 --> 00:51:36.639 one and the engine pull out of the other. What 1090 00:51:36.679 --> 00:51:38.119 are the cars doing in front of the other gate? 1091 00:51:38.159 --> 00:51:39.000 They have the other door? 1092 00:51:40.519 --> 00:51:43.239 Maybe the truck was relocated now the engine pulled out 1093 00:51:43.239 --> 00:51:44.599 of the engine quarters and the truck pulled out of 1094 00:51:44.639 --> 00:51:44.960 the truckle. 1095 00:51:45.079 --> 00:51:46.880 So the truck quarters on the left and the engine 1096 00:51:46.960 --> 00:51:50.679 quarters are on the right. I'm looking at yeah there, 1097 00:51:50.719 --> 00:51:52.280 you know. Yeah, I'll try to pull up a little 1098 00:51:52.280 --> 00:51:54.679 bit closer. That is cool, man, that's really cool. 1099 00:51:55.199 --> 00:51:57.320 You would you wouldn't even know, Like if you're walking 1100 00:51:57.320 --> 00:51:58.280 down the street, you wouldn't even know. 1101 00:51:58.320 --> 00:52:00.599 You wouldn't even know it. The block is like so quaint. 1102 00:52:00.920 --> 00:52:03.719 That's so unique, man. I love that. Very cool, very 1103 00:52:03.800 --> 00:52:05.320 very cool. House is immaculate. 1104 00:52:07.360 --> 00:52:10.119 I told you the story. Uh when I first I 1105 00:52:10.559 --> 00:52:12.599 just must have missed Kenny when he got there because 1106 00:52:12.679 --> 00:52:15.639 I covered a vacation there when I got promoted in 1107 00:52:15.800 --> 00:52:18.039 Junivo two, and but I was already out of there, 1108 00:52:18.239 --> 00:52:20.960 like in December. But that was one of the places 1109 00:52:21.079 --> 00:52:23.599 Cuse where I worked where I forgot. I went in 1110 00:52:23.719 --> 00:52:27.760 there and now it's dinner time, and the guys are like, 1111 00:52:27.760 --> 00:52:29.679 all right, yeah, it's ten bucks you know for the 1112 00:52:29.760 --> 00:52:32.519 meal pay up. So I go to look for my 1113 00:52:32.639 --> 00:52:34.760 wallet and I'm like, holy shit, man, I forgot my 1114 00:52:34.920 --> 00:52:37.239 wallet home, Like you know what I mean, Like I'm 1115 00:52:37.239 --> 00:52:38.159 a covering lieutenant. 1116 00:52:38.320 --> 00:52:38.599 I was. 1117 00:52:40.000 --> 00:52:46.760 Can I ever tell you the story I was when 1118 00:52:47.119 --> 00:52:47.920 But this is the thing. 1119 00:52:48.039 --> 00:52:50.079 They let you, you ain't working here again. 1120 00:52:50.239 --> 00:52:53.639 They pay the offices park inside, right, So I had 1121 00:52:53.679 --> 00:52:56.280 my car inside. So now I'm in my car. I 1122 00:52:56.360 --> 00:52:59.920 swear to god, I'm picking out cars. I'm looking for change, 1123 00:53:00.119 --> 00:53:04.719 the glove box, everything. I don't even remember who it was, 1124 00:53:05.000 --> 00:53:07.400 but one of the guys comes out and says, look, 1125 00:53:07.440 --> 00:53:11.920 what's up. I'm like, dude, I fucking forgot my wallet. 1126 00:53:11.960 --> 00:53:15.360 I'm fucking throwing crazy. They're like, what are you nuts? Like, dude, 1127 00:53:15.360 --> 00:53:17.519 they didn't even think. It wasn't even a thought, Like, 1128 00:53:17.599 --> 00:53:20.000 they didn't break my balls nothing, right, Like, the guys 1129 00:53:20.079 --> 00:53:21.239 were absolutely incredible. 1130 00:53:21.320 --> 00:53:21.440 Right. 1131 00:53:22.159 --> 00:53:24.800 So the next the next time I worked in that area, 1132 00:53:24.840 --> 00:53:27.800 I was working at two oh four and I told 1133 00:53:27.800 --> 00:53:29.039 the guys are two of far. I'm like, listen, this 1134 00:53:29.079 --> 00:53:30.920 is what happened. I forgot my wallet. I gotta I 1135 00:53:31.000 --> 00:53:33.519 gotta buy some shift for them, you know. So they're like, yeah, 1136 00:53:33.519 --> 00:53:36.039 we'll go over there in the afternoon. So they brought 1137 00:53:36.079 --> 00:53:38.480 me to this fruit store. I bought. I don't know 1138 00:53:38.559 --> 00:53:40.239 how much fruit I bought, water mount I bought. I 1139 00:53:40.320 --> 00:53:43.360 bought everything, right, and we drove over there with the 1140 00:53:43.480 --> 00:53:45.719 rig in two o four two or four is closed now, 1141 00:53:45.800 --> 00:53:47.760 but we went there and we dropped off. You know, 1142 00:53:47.800 --> 00:53:49.400 I told the guys, a couple of guys are working 1143 00:53:50.199 --> 00:53:54.000 next thing. I know, they're cutting everything up to the 1144 00:53:54.039 --> 00:53:55.719 guys from two o four were there. You know. We 1145 00:53:55.880 --> 00:53:58.480 just stayed there and you know, hung out with eating fruit. 1146 00:53:59.079 --> 00:54:00.360 Brothers. Bron Love Bro. 1147 00:54:00.760 --> 00:54:01.199 The guy. 1148 00:54:03.519 --> 00:54:05.239 Guys will be like, oh, that's all right, lou you 1149 00:54:05.320 --> 00:54:06.719 convent moment, It's all right, don't worry. 1150 00:54:06.800 --> 00:54:13.000 Yeah, yeah, true, good point, yeah yeah point. 1151 00:54:14.199 --> 00:54:16.639 A lot of senior guys when you gotta dick Kenny, Yeah, 1152 00:54:17.760 --> 00:54:19.599 I had a lot of senior guys that Bobby Younger 1153 00:54:19.719 --> 00:54:22.079 was in the truck. I'm trying to think of guys. 1154 00:54:22.920 --> 00:54:26.039 I mean, Frank Tarantino was there, Brian Shehan was there. 1155 00:54:27.119 --> 00:54:31.480 Fucking Matt Jacobs was there. Fuck, I'm trying to remember 1156 00:54:31.559 --> 00:54:37.480 some guys. Carlock O, Carlock rest God rest the soul. 1157 00:54:37.519 --> 00:54:44.519 I believe Carlock passed away. Which Bryan, Brian mccan, Brian mccannon, Brian. 1158 00:54:45.960 --> 00:54:46.079 Uh. 1159 00:54:46.480 --> 00:54:49.039 But but Frank was my boy. Frank Tarantino, Anthony was 1160 00:54:49.039 --> 00:54:53.880 my boy. Brown, Rob Brown went it, Rob Brown Brown Ship. 1161 00:54:55.159 --> 00:54:56.719 I don't know, I can't remember. But there was a 1162 00:54:56.760 --> 00:54:59.000 bunch of guys there and I was only there. I 1163 00:54:59.159 --> 00:55:02.920 was I was only there year. You know, work, Kevin Hearn. 1164 00:55:02.800 --> 00:55:05.920 Was there, the hernia was there. Yeah. Did you catch 1165 00:55:05.960 --> 00:55:08.679 me work there? Bro? What's that catching me? Work? 1166 00:55:09.920 --> 00:55:12.239 I caught a little bit of work. But I caught 1167 00:55:12.320 --> 00:55:14.920 my first fire. I caught my first fire on a 1168 00:55:15.000 --> 00:55:19.760 detail in two forty seven job, first job, first real 1169 00:55:19.920 --> 00:55:22.719 job at two forty seven engine on a detail in 1170 00:55:22.760 --> 00:55:23.960 the afternoon as a proby. 1171 00:55:24.719 --> 00:55:27.320 Really you what you have backup? 1172 00:55:27.440 --> 00:55:28.559 I had had the door. 1173 00:55:29.320 --> 00:55:32.400 I had the door because it was a five minut engine. 1174 00:55:34.159 --> 00:55:35.760 I am, I get, you know, it was like one 1175 00:55:35.760 --> 00:55:38.519 of my first details. I'm proby, you know, So I'm 1176 00:55:38.639 --> 00:55:40.840 just I think I was standing in the fire house 1177 00:55:40.880 --> 00:55:43.360 the whole time I didn't sit down. The guys was like, dude, 1178 00:55:43.400 --> 00:55:45.480 take a fucking load off. We gotta go get the meal. Anyway, 1179 00:55:45.920 --> 00:55:47.719 as we're out geting, I think we're out getting the meal. 1180 00:55:47.800 --> 00:55:49.719 We're out on a run, and we get the box. 1181 00:55:49.800 --> 00:55:52.599 While we're out, you know, everybody's trying to put this 1182 00:55:52.679 --> 00:55:55.480 shit on. I'm already ready to go. And it was 1183 00:55:55.559 --> 00:55:59.920 a basement fire in a brownstone type looking building, uh, 1184 00:56:00.119 --> 00:56:01.800 because the basement was like the first wall, but it 1185 00:56:01.840 --> 00:56:02.280 went down. 1186 00:56:02.159 --> 00:56:04.079 A couplet and it was like two rooms. 1187 00:56:04.199 --> 00:56:05.639 It was like it was in the mill of the afternoon, 1188 00:56:05.760 --> 00:56:08.320 two rooms. These guys put it out in like fucking 1189 00:56:08.360 --> 00:56:09.559 two seconds, you. 1190 00:56:09.599 --> 00:56:10.920 Know, but it was it was. 1191 00:56:11.119 --> 00:56:13.599 It was done and quick. And I equate that fire 1192 00:56:13.679 --> 00:56:16.800 to like the first time having sex. You know, you 1193 00:56:16.840 --> 00:56:17.599 don't know if you're. 1194 00:56:17.480 --> 00:56:18.039 Doing it right. 1195 00:56:21.800 --> 00:56:22.559 With your clothes. 1196 00:56:24.719 --> 00:56:27.239 It's dark, it's hot. 1197 00:56:27.320 --> 00:56:29.800 You're sweating, you know, and then all of a sudden 1198 00:56:29.800 --> 00:56:30.280 it's over. 1199 00:56:31.159 --> 00:56:36.280 And then you started asking what happened? Okay, did I do? 1200 00:56:36.480 --> 00:56:37.000 Did I do? All? 1201 00:56:37.119 --> 00:56:37.280 Right? 1202 00:56:37.440 --> 00:56:41.280 Yeah, So that's kind of what I equate my first 1203 00:56:41.320 --> 00:56:44.760 fly too. And we had guys had the good fella's 1204 00:56:44.960 --> 00:56:47.239 thing up before and when I got back to two 1205 00:56:47.320 --> 00:56:49.519 twenty engine. You know you could hear everything over the 1206 00:56:50.159 --> 00:56:53.760 pitch box. Well, the guys greeted me at the firehouse, 1207 00:56:54.159 --> 00:56:56.119 like when when Henry got out of jail for the 1208 00:56:56.199 --> 00:56:59.119 first time, and they were like, oh yeah, pop ja 1209 00:57:00.400 --> 00:57:04.119 I where they were all there. They fucking hugged me 1210 00:57:04.199 --> 00:57:05.840 and they were patting on the back and they're like 1211 00:57:05.920 --> 00:57:06.559 lifted me up. 1212 00:57:06.599 --> 00:57:08.079 And it was I felt. 1213 00:57:08.360 --> 00:57:10.840 I felt so much love from those guys, and I 1214 00:57:10.920 --> 00:57:13.039 was like, this is this is it, this is what 1215 00:57:13.199 --> 00:57:15.719 I've I've wanted my whole life. And that was what 1216 00:57:15.920 --> 00:57:17.960 was so great about two twenty and twenty two, and 1217 00:57:18.079 --> 00:57:19.760 that's I had didn't have a hard time leeting there 1218 00:57:19.760 --> 00:57:20.480 because of those guys. 1219 00:57:20.719 --> 00:57:23.159 Was so great to me. Wow, did you do a 1220 00:57:23.239 --> 00:57:29.639 thirty day funim? Night and day? They're always firemen. 1221 00:57:30.079 --> 00:57:30.519 Did you hear that? 1222 00:57:34.400 --> 00:57:35.599 I thought we know that ship. 1223 00:57:35.719 --> 00:57:37.199 I was going to ask you to look at you. 1224 00:57:38.440 --> 00:57:40.400 You don't know. You don't know what I did? 1225 00:57:41.840 --> 00:57:43.719 Oh sorry, go ahead, I totally real, coops. 1226 00:57:44.119 --> 00:57:45.360 I don't remember what I was. Oh did you do 1227 00:57:45.400 --> 00:57:48.239 a thirty day detail in the truck? I did? 1228 00:57:48.360 --> 00:57:49.639 I think I did, But I worked in the truck 1229 00:57:49.679 --> 00:57:51.599 all the time. Like, you know, he's just getting going 1230 00:57:51.639 --> 00:57:55.159 across the floor. We were always drilling, you know, two 1231 00:57:55.199 --> 00:57:57.920 twenty and twenty two, not the busiest place, which was 1232 00:57:58.159 --> 00:58:01.079 kind of frustrating for a proby because you'd go twenty 1233 00:58:01.119 --> 00:58:03.440 forward sometimes in the summer time without turning the wheel. 1234 00:58:03.800 --> 00:58:05.960 And you can only clean so much, you can only 1235 00:58:06.000 --> 00:58:08.400 study so much, you know, you can't go. And I 1236 00:58:08.480 --> 00:58:10.679 slept in the kitchen. I didn't sleep up and sleep 1237 00:58:10.840 --> 00:58:12.480 was not I didn't sleep, but I laid down in 1238 00:58:12.519 --> 00:58:13.880 the kitchen. I didn't go up to the bunk room, 1239 00:58:14.159 --> 00:58:16.840 you know, as a proby. But we're always drilled. The 1240 00:58:16.920 --> 00:58:20.000 guys will always always into it, always drilling, because if 1241 00:58:20.039 --> 00:58:22.199 you don't work in that busy of a house, you 1242 00:58:22.320 --> 00:58:24.519 gotta stay sharp by drilling with the guys. 1243 00:58:24.880 --> 00:58:25.039 You know. 1244 00:58:25.199 --> 00:58:27.159 That's and they were like that. They were really good. 1245 00:58:27.199 --> 00:58:29.760 Like that taught me a lot. Did you do the 1246 00:58:29.880 --> 00:58:31.599 rotation and they have that done? It was done? 1247 00:58:32.039 --> 00:58:33.840 No, they didn't have the rotation. They didn't have the 1248 00:58:33.920 --> 00:58:34.519 rotation all. 1249 00:58:34.440 --> 00:58:35.960 Right, So what makes you want to transfer up to 1250 00:58:36.000 --> 00:58:37.960 the halem? And how do the guys feel about it? 1251 00:58:40.239 --> 00:58:45.760 Yeah, you were on it, you were on going. 1252 00:58:46.320 --> 00:58:48.559 Did you did you text him and say, hey, I'm 1253 00:58:48.599 --> 00:58:50.519 gonna say I. 1254 00:58:53.199 --> 00:58:54.000 Have my good moments. 1255 00:58:55.880 --> 00:58:59.719 You know, I want to I want to go to work. 1256 00:58:59.760 --> 00:59:01.360 I want to fucking go to work. I want to 1257 00:59:01.440 --> 00:59:03.880 work in Manhattan. I wanted to work in Harlem. 1258 00:59:07.719 --> 00:59:08.239 I was thinking. 1259 00:59:09.639 --> 00:59:11.239 I was thinking about how I can bring a peppercini 1260 00:59:11.239 --> 00:59:11.840 into this with those. 1261 00:59:12.840 --> 00:59:15.000 It's called living on your laurels. Right there, bro, you 1262 00:59:15.119 --> 00:59:17.559 already had one shot. You' you know, pat yourself on 1263 00:59:17.639 --> 00:59:18.920 the back, and then that's what happens. 1264 00:59:18.960 --> 00:59:22.159 See, do you know I heard my next skit. 1265 00:59:23.800 --> 00:59:26.559 I had heard the sixteenth Battalion was was the best 1266 00:59:26.599 --> 00:59:30.480 battalion on the job. Gentlemen, fireman ninety sixth Street North 1267 00:59:30.719 --> 00:59:34.199 into the Bronx. I really liked the idea of the 1268 00:59:34.360 --> 00:59:37.880 gentleman fireman. You know that I'm not I'm not gonna 1269 00:59:38.000 --> 00:59:41.360 fucking break anybody's chops or say anything bad about anybody. 1270 00:59:41.400 --> 00:59:43.679 And how they do things and how companies run, that 1271 00:59:43.880 --> 00:59:46.320 is what they do and that's how they do it. 1272 00:59:46.800 --> 00:59:50.559 I really appreciated the gentlemanly fireman because I had so 1273 00:59:50.679 --> 00:59:52.920 much to think about already. And when the ticket comes in, 1274 00:59:53.079 --> 00:59:55.800 I know that my place on the ticket, and I 1275 00:59:55.920 --> 00:59:58.159 know my job, and I don't have to fucking think 1276 00:59:58.199 --> 01:00:00.800 on the fly if you get in first, unless something 1277 01:00:00.840 --> 01:00:01.480 crazy happens. 1278 01:00:02.079 --> 01:00:04.679 And I heard he wouldn't have made it ninety bro, 1279 01:00:05.239 --> 01:00:07.280 no ninety engine. 1280 01:00:09.280 --> 01:00:12.880 I worked with a guy he was a detail in 1281 01:00:13.960 --> 01:00:15.800 he worked in I don't know. I think I was 1282 01:00:15.800 --> 01:00:17.719 in detail in two forty and he was working in 1283 01:00:17.920 --> 01:00:20.440 two forty. Was like, he got lifted for something and 1284 01:00:20.519 --> 01:00:21.079 we went on a. 1285 01:00:21.119 --> 01:00:23.400 Box and I was a prod get up to right 1286 01:00:23.920 --> 01:00:24.559 and he goes, I. 1287 01:00:24.559 --> 01:00:26.079 Don't remember who the guy was, and he goes, you 1288 01:00:26.199 --> 01:00:29.719 gotta let everybody he had know that DC is all 1289 01:00:30.039 --> 01:00:33.599 box and nobody can fuck with him. And I was like, wow, guys, 1290 01:00:34.480 --> 01:00:36.519 this guy's fucking curious. Does anybody else here this? 1291 01:00:36.639 --> 01:00:38.280 Like, let's we got this guy. 1292 01:00:41.559 --> 01:00:43.280 I was like, all right, let's let's fucking go. 1293 01:00:43.679 --> 01:00:44.920 Let's baby, let's row. 1294 01:00:45.599 --> 01:00:47.599 But that's you know, that's that's great. That's how those 1295 01:00:47.639 --> 01:00:50.920 guys run, and that's that's fine for them. I wanted 1296 01:00:50.960 --> 01:00:54.280 to be, you know, the traditions of the the gentleman 1297 01:00:54.360 --> 01:00:57.760 for him, up and up and you know eight the 1298 01:00:57.880 --> 01:00:59.280 sixteenth Battalion in the Bronx. 1299 01:01:01.000 --> 01:01:01.119 Bro. 1300 01:01:01.239 --> 01:01:03.400 He likes you know, he likes no, no, no, you 1301 01:01:03.480 --> 01:01:05.159 guys are first, you go first. No no no no 1302 01:01:05.320 --> 01:01:07.480 no no no, no, you go first, you're first. You 1303 01:01:07.639 --> 01:01:09.800 know what, Bro? No, no, no, you fuck my sister. 1304 01:01:10.000 --> 01:01:10.760 Now go ahead. 1305 01:01:10.840 --> 01:01:12.599 I insist, I insist. 1306 01:01:14.880 --> 01:01:16.559 Did you actually go? Did you go up to fifty 1307 01:01:16.679 --> 01:01:17.719 nine to meet the captain? 1308 01:01:18.199 --> 01:01:18.400 Oh? 1309 01:01:18.920 --> 01:01:24.719 Bro, talk to listen. That's what we do, that's what 1310 01:01:24.800 --> 01:01:25.320 you do, right. 1311 01:01:25.480 --> 01:01:26.519 All right. So here's the thing. 1312 01:01:27.119 --> 01:01:30.119 So this is a story that that I've put it 1313 01:01:30.199 --> 01:01:32.000 on my on my kitchen table. 1314 01:01:32.639 --> 01:01:33.880 I heard of it, never heard of it. 1315 01:01:35.159 --> 01:01:39.679 I completely completely fucked up. And I take full accountability 1316 01:01:39.760 --> 01:01:43.239 for this, and it's my fault. And I just don't 1317 01:01:43.280 --> 01:01:45.760 know what I was thinking. So I I want to 1318 01:01:45.800 --> 01:01:48.079 put my paper in. I'm getting married or moving upstate. 1319 01:01:48.320 --> 01:01:53.639 I want to go to the sixteenth battalion. So my guy, 1320 01:01:54.199 --> 01:01:57.880 my hook goes, you got to put your paper in. 1321 01:01:57.920 --> 01:01:59.960 There's there's an order coming out, and what the I'm 1322 01:02:00.000 --> 01:02:01.719 I'm all right whatever? You know this, three or four 1323 01:02:01.760 --> 01:02:04.000 guys into twenty one, twenty two with their papers in 1324 01:02:04.079 --> 01:02:06.760 for like years. They got to keep reputting their paper. 1325 01:02:07.199 --> 01:02:09.159 I'm like, a I go, I go, yeah, but I 1326 01:02:09.199 --> 01:02:11.239 gotta I gotta go up there and see where he goes, 1327 01:02:11.760 --> 01:02:13.760 the order is coming out. Get your paper in your 1328 01:02:13.800 --> 01:02:15.960 next fucking and then you'll get to go up there 1329 01:02:15.960 --> 01:02:17.199 and don't worry about and da da da. 1330 01:02:17.440 --> 01:02:19.239 I go all right, so I go in. 1331 01:02:19.320 --> 01:02:22.840 I see what's going on here. It's getting see. 1332 01:02:22.719 --> 01:02:25.840 Where I'm going. Yeah, yeah, it was a guy in 1333 01:02:25.920 --> 01:02:27.760 my photio. I want to be a squad leader and 1334 01:02:27.840 --> 01:02:29.039 don't go up and see the captain. 1335 01:02:30.239 --> 01:02:33.599 Good friends, good friends, Give me a second, all right, 1336 01:02:33.719 --> 01:02:36.199 let me get ahead. I tell a guy and if 1337 01:02:36.199 --> 01:02:38.039 I asked he wants to go up there, I'm like, bro, 1338 01:02:38.199 --> 01:02:39.639 do you mind if I put my paper in to 1339 01:02:39.679 --> 01:02:41.599 go up there? I tell my captain, like, just do 1340 01:02:41.679 --> 01:02:44.000 what you gotta do. Put my paper in that den, 1341 01:02:44.920 --> 01:02:47.840 do my twenty four. I get off the fucking next day, 1342 01:02:47.840 --> 01:02:51.920 I get a phone call congratulations, I go no way 1343 01:02:52.800 --> 01:02:55.320 for what they go You just got transmit to fifty 1344 01:02:55.400 --> 01:02:59.440 nine engine And I went, oh shit, I fucking holy shit. 1345 01:02:59.480 --> 01:03:01.519 I didn't get to go up there, and now I'm 1346 01:03:01.559 --> 01:03:04.039 going to probably the toughest fire house. 1347 01:03:03.960 --> 01:03:06.159 On the job. I want to be such a nervous 1348 01:03:06.719 --> 01:03:08.599 I'm nervous right now. I'm already nervous. 1349 01:03:09.119 --> 01:03:14.000 I was a wreck and I knew I I it's 1350 01:03:14.119 --> 01:03:14.559 my fault. 1351 01:03:14.840 --> 01:03:15.679 I fucked up this. 1352 01:03:16.360 --> 01:03:18.559 Anybody on the job, anybody looking at a finement, this 1353 01:03:18.719 --> 01:03:20.639 is what not to do. You gotta go there. I 1354 01:03:20.760 --> 01:03:21.960 broke the tradition of the job. 1355 01:03:22.480 --> 01:03:23.199 I didn't mean to. 1356 01:03:23.400 --> 01:03:26.320 I didn't mean to, but it happened. It happened so 1357 01:03:26.480 --> 01:03:29.880 quick my head was spinning. So I get the call congratulations. Now, 1358 01:03:29.960 --> 01:03:32.199 usually when a guy shows up in order that nobody 1359 01:03:32.280 --> 01:03:34.519 knows he's getting lifted, he's a bag of ship. 1360 01:03:34.840 --> 01:03:35.519 He fucking missed. 1361 01:03:35.519 --> 01:03:37.360 And that the other thing, right, like we all we 1362 01:03:37.480 --> 01:03:39.519 all know the deal, and I'm like fuck. As soon 1363 01:03:39.559 --> 01:03:42.039 as I got that phone call, I ran, I got cigars, 1364 01:03:42.079 --> 01:03:44.199 I got my cakes, and I fucking drove up there 1365 01:03:44.800 --> 01:03:47.199 and I was like, I knock on the door. 1366 01:03:47.840 --> 01:03:49.719 And I got I got nerves. 1367 01:03:49.800 --> 01:03:52.079 How nervous were you right at that point? Oh my? 1368 01:03:55.280 --> 01:03:59.440 They opened the door. And the silence that that I 1369 01:03:59.559 --> 01:04:02.280 got from from these guys is worst. Is worse than 1370 01:04:02.320 --> 01:04:05.480 guys breaking your balls. No one fucking talking. 1371 01:04:09.480 --> 01:04:09.599 Bro. 1372 01:04:10.199 --> 01:04:11.079 The crickets were. 1373 01:04:13.559 --> 01:04:15.880 The Crickets were my only friends in that fly house 1374 01:04:15.920 --> 01:04:19.239 for two almost two years. So anyway I get there, 1375 01:04:19.599 --> 01:04:23.199 Big Mac is working, Jim mcclusky's working. I think Keith 1376 01:04:23.239 --> 01:04:26.239 Nicholeello was working and he gets right in my fucking 1377 01:04:26.320 --> 01:04:28.599 face or it was one of my first toys and 1378 01:04:28.719 --> 01:04:29.119 he's like. 1379 01:04:29.280 --> 01:04:30.119 Who the fuck are you? 1380 01:04:30.480 --> 01:04:32.960 Who you blah blah blah blah, and then he you know, 1381 01:04:32.960 --> 01:04:34.760 and I'm just like, I'm sorry. I didn't mean I'm sorry. 1382 01:04:35.000 --> 01:04:37.719 This is where I wanted to come, and nobody's talking 1383 01:04:37.719 --> 01:04:39.920 to me. This is just just he's ripping into me. 1384 01:04:40.440 --> 01:04:43.199 It was Big Mac's working. Big Mac, all right, you here, 1385 01:04:43.440 --> 01:04:47.159 you fucked up your scum, Big, but uh, you're working tonight. 1386 01:04:47.519 --> 01:04:48.800 I go, what do you mean I'm working tonight. He's like, 1387 01:04:48.800 --> 01:04:50.679 you're working it tonight over time. We need a guy 1388 01:04:50.880 --> 01:04:52.920 and I'm like, I don't have any He's like, you're working. 1389 01:04:52.960 --> 01:04:53.760 I was like, all right, I'm working. 1390 01:04:53.840 --> 01:04:56.280 I'm working. I work, you know now working. 1391 01:04:56.719 --> 01:04:58.719 As soon as I show up to the Flyhouse for 1392 01:04:58.800 --> 01:05:00.679 the fucking tour, I got no bunk of year. The 1393 01:05:00.760 --> 01:05:03.559 prob who has to talk to me is like, O 1394 01:05:03.679 --> 01:05:05.800 get this, we'll get you this. And he didn't want 1395 01:05:05.840 --> 01:05:08.320 to be near me. Nobody wanted to be near they'd 1396 01:05:08.360 --> 01:05:13.639 be guilty by association, bro exactly. So that was my 1397 01:05:13.880 --> 01:05:17.199 first talk I took. So the next two years was 1398 01:05:17.440 --> 01:05:19.079 I said, all right, this is this is where I 1399 01:05:19.159 --> 01:05:21.480 want to be. I'm gonna show these guys. I'm gonna 1400 01:05:21.519 --> 01:05:23.960 fucking dig my heels in because that house was known, 1401 01:05:24.679 --> 01:05:27.159 those guys were known, Those tough bastards were known for 1402 01:05:27.239 --> 01:05:31.000 running people out of there. Bosses, firemen didn't map. They 1403 01:05:31.039 --> 01:05:34.239 were fucking tough. And right before, like, I went back 1404 01:05:34.239 --> 01:05:35.920 to the two twenty when I got my stuff and 1405 01:05:35.960 --> 01:05:38.119 one of the guys was like, you know where you're going, 1406 01:05:38.239 --> 01:05:38.480 right bro? 1407 01:05:39.079 --> 01:05:40.519 And I go, yeah, I'm going to fifty nine. And 1408 01:05:40.639 --> 01:05:42.559 you what I'm going to? You know, going up there? 1409 01:05:42.559 --> 01:05:43.159 It's a firehouse. 1410 01:05:43.159 --> 01:05:44.880 He goes, no, no, no, no, do you have any 1411 01:05:44.880 --> 01:05:48.400 idea what the reputation is of that flyhouse? I go, wow, Wow, 1412 01:05:48.440 --> 01:05:49.960 what do I It's the fire house. They're gonna love me. 1413 01:05:50.000 --> 01:05:50.760 I'm Kenny d And. 1414 01:05:53.440 --> 01:05:57.840 They're like they're like, they're like, nah, dude, you're it's 1415 01:05:58.119 --> 01:05:59.519 it's gonna You're gonna have a tough time. 1416 01:06:00.159 --> 01:06:02.320 So I go, all right, I go up there, and yes. 1417 01:06:02.280 --> 01:06:05.079 I had a very very tough time, but I proved. 1418 01:06:05.159 --> 01:06:06.920 I said, I'm gonna prove to these guys I want 1419 01:06:06.960 --> 01:06:08.920 to be here. So I kept my head down, my 1420 01:06:09.079 --> 01:06:10.480 mouth shut. I stayed in the sink. 1421 01:06:10.519 --> 01:06:11.199 I stepped up. 1422 01:06:11.519 --> 01:06:14.760 I fucking drilled, I caught fire. I fucking did everything right, 1423 01:06:15.280 --> 01:06:17.320 everything that I had to do to show them that 1424 01:06:17.360 --> 01:06:20.440 I wanted to be there. Guys came in, got run out. 1425 01:06:20.760 --> 01:06:23.039 Bosses came in, got run out. I dug my fucking 1426 01:06:23.079 --> 01:06:24.920 heels in and I said, I ain't going anywhere no 1427 01:06:25.039 --> 01:06:27.639 matter what you guys, do, what you say, I'm digging it. 1428 01:06:28.079 --> 01:06:31.400 And I took a lot of fucking heat deservingly, so 1429 01:06:32.559 --> 01:06:35.480 I brought it all on to myself. But that all 1430 01:06:35.559 --> 01:06:38.800 being said, once I really proved myself, I fucking belong 1431 01:06:38.920 --> 01:06:42.880 in that place. I fit into that place fucking perfectly, 1432 01:06:43.239 --> 01:06:44.719 you know. And I think the guys started seeing that 1433 01:06:44.760 --> 01:06:47.079 I want to be there, that I'm into the job, 1434 01:06:47.519 --> 01:06:50.280 and if this guy can handle what we're giving him, 1435 01:06:50.679 --> 01:06:51.280 he definitely did. 1436 01:06:51.519 --> 01:06:53.079 That's all they want to do, right, They want to 1437 01:06:53.079 --> 01:06:55.800 make sure that they can depend on you, right, and yeah, absolutely, 1438 01:06:56.000 --> 01:06:59.320 especially if they feel like you're not you're coming in 1439 01:06:59.400 --> 01:07:00.599 the right way, uone unquote. 1440 01:07:01.360 --> 01:07:04.159 I I definitely came in the wrong way. It was 1441 01:07:05.039 --> 01:07:06.360 I hate to say it was a mistake, but I 1442 01:07:06.400 --> 01:07:08.280 fucked up. I learned from that mistake. 1443 01:07:08.639 --> 01:07:10.480 It was Kenny. I didn't even know that. Sorry, I 1444 01:07:10.639 --> 01:07:14.639 just I just asked that question, honestly because I know 1445 01:07:14.719 --> 01:07:16.960 how they're ring. I know what. I went up to 1446 01:07:17.039 --> 01:07:18.679 thirty three truck and I was nervous, and I had 1447 01:07:18.679 --> 01:07:20.719 about five four or five years on the job. I 1448 01:07:20.800 --> 01:07:23.760 can't imagine going to see the captain after like one year. 1449 01:07:24.079 --> 01:07:26.159 So that's why I was asking that question. So that's 1450 01:07:26.199 --> 01:07:27.199 why it just came up like that. 1451 01:07:27.480 --> 01:07:29.079 What would do? And you were doing the right thing. 1452 01:07:29.519 --> 01:07:33.800 You got up to see him transfer this, I said, 1453 01:07:33.840 --> 01:07:35.360 fuck those guys updown, I'm coming out. 1454 01:07:36.920 --> 01:07:41.480 Listen, do you know who worked witching table? 1455 01:07:41.559 --> 01:07:42.960 When I get up here, you guys know who? 1456 01:07:45.119 --> 01:07:47.320 And then and then roll the holls. 1457 01:07:47.559 --> 01:07:54.599 Now, there was some tough, tough bastards in that place, 1458 01:07:55.159 --> 01:07:59.000 and you know they just and a lot they Listen, 1459 01:07:59.159 --> 01:08:01.559 you guys got a picture me. I'm about five feet nothing. 1460 01:08:02.000 --> 01:08:04.159 They made a door for me, right, I think the 1461 01:08:04.280 --> 01:08:06.079 young guys made it. But they made a door for 1462 01:08:06.199 --> 01:08:08.480 me that was about four feet tall and they wrote 1463 01:08:08.480 --> 01:08:10.400 it was ready. It looked like a firehouse door. They 1464 01:08:10.480 --> 01:08:12.760 put a handle on it and they wrote the Laney's 1465 01:08:12.800 --> 01:08:16.079 door and it said so and they put it right 1466 01:08:16.119 --> 01:08:18.319 by the front door, right where the writing list was. 1467 01:08:18.600 --> 01:08:20.279 And I had to look at that door every time 1468 01:08:20.359 --> 01:08:22.720 I came in and out of that firehouse for six 1469 01:08:22.840 --> 01:08:25.600 fucking months. And every time I did, I said, I'm 1470 01:08:26.239 --> 01:08:28.600 I'm fucking coming back, and I'm gonna show these guys 1471 01:08:28.600 --> 01:08:29.880 that this is what I want where I want to be. 1472 01:08:29.960 --> 01:08:32.359 It was tough. It was tough. Man. What was the 1473 01:08:32.479 --> 01:08:35.640 first sign that they made you thought that maybe they 1474 01:08:35.680 --> 01:08:37.600 were accepting you? Like, what was the first one? 1475 01:08:38.359 --> 01:08:40.960 So all this shit's going on, I'm keeping my mouth shut. 1476 01:08:41.000 --> 01:08:43.079 We're getting Proby's in, I'm in the sink. I'm doing 1477 01:08:43.119 --> 01:08:45.239 the right thing. You know, guys are yelling at me. 1478 01:08:46.000 --> 01:08:48.079 One day, I come in right, come in early. 1479 01:08:48.159 --> 01:08:48.840 I come in early. 1480 01:08:48.880 --> 01:08:50.079 I like to get a work at it or relieve 1481 01:08:50.119 --> 01:08:52.680 somebody early, have coffee, be at the kitchen table, and 1482 01:08:53.079 --> 01:08:55.640 the nine by cour in the firehouse is the best 1483 01:08:56.119 --> 01:08:57.159 fucking time in the world. 1484 01:08:57.600 --> 01:08:59.720 So I come in one day. I'm going to grate 1485 01:08:59.800 --> 01:09:00.199 my year. 1486 01:09:00.439 --> 01:09:01.880 Put a butt a rig as soon as you're walking 1487 01:09:01.920 --> 01:09:03.760 and I look for somebody to relieve. I can't find 1488 01:09:03.800 --> 01:09:06.119 my helmet I got my my pants and my my coat, 1489 01:09:06.359 --> 01:09:09.520 can't find my helmet, right, and I'm like, where the 1490 01:09:09.560 --> 01:09:11.680 fuck is where the fuck is my helmet, you know, 1491 01:09:11.800 --> 01:09:13.800 And I'm looking around. I'm like, I know, I know, 1492 01:09:14.479 --> 01:09:17.000 I'm looking up in the rafters. Nothing was hanging up, 1493 01:09:17.319 --> 01:09:17.600 I know. 1494 01:09:17.720 --> 01:09:20.039 I yeah, I know. 1495 01:09:21.439 --> 01:09:21.840 Beautiful. 1496 01:09:22.640 --> 01:09:24.680 All of a sudden, you know, we have we have 1497 01:09:25.199 --> 01:09:27.880 just a straight rack, no no cubbies, you know, it's 1498 01:09:27.920 --> 01:09:30.640 just one big rack of gear. So I see all 1499 01:09:30.680 --> 01:09:32.800 the helmets on top of of the rack, and then 1500 01:09:32.840 --> 01:09:37.079 I see a cardboard box, and I go, what the 1501 01:09:37.159 --> 01:09:39.479 fuck is in that card wood box? I pull a 1502 01:09:39.560 --> 01:09:41.800 cord wood box down and it's my helmet in about 1503 01:09:41.840 --> 01:09:44.960 six hundred pieces with the with the front piece on it. 1504 01:09:45.399 --> 01:09:50.159 Somebody yep, yeah, somebody smashed my helmet under the rig. 1505 01:09:50.399 --> 01:09:52.880 So now I fucking lose it. If the everything that 1506 01:09:52.960 --> 01:09:54.720 I you know, everything was building up in me. You know, 1507 01:09:55.000 --> 01:10:00.039 I'm an updat guy as it is, right, So so 1508 01:10:00.439 --> 01:10:02.960 I'm thinking they crushed my helmet because they want me, 1509 01:10:03.039 --> 01:10:05.000 if they want me out of here. This fucking bad 1510 01:10:05.399 --> 01:10:06.560 that they're gonna crush my helmet. 1511 01:10:06.560 --> 01:10:07.079 I said, this is it. 1512 01:10:07.560 --> 01:10:10.279 I'm either gonna kill somebody they're gonna throw me out 1513 01:10:10.680 --> 01:10:11.760 or I'm getting transferred. 1514 01:10:11.760 --> 01:10:12.439 I'm getting somethings. 1515 01:10:12.520 --> 01:10:15.600 This is it, this is where it's. This is where 1516 01:10:15.720 --> 01:10:18.439 the fucking shit ends. And I kick open the fucking 1517 01:10:18.479 --> 01:10:21.279 house watchdoor and there's three Proby's in there, brand new guys. 1518 01:10:21.680 --> 01:10:22.319 Flip the lights on. 1519 01:10:22.359 --> 01:10:24.640 It's like six in the morning, it's still, you know, dark, 1520 01:10:25.079 --> 01:10:27.159 and I'm screaming at these guys, wait, what the fuck 1521 01:10:27.239 --> 01:10:28.319 happened to my fucking helmet? 1522 01:10:28.560 --> 01:10:29.159 Who did there? 1523 01:10:29.159 --> 01:10:30.279 Tell me to fucking kill him? 1524 01:10:30.439 --> 01:10:34.079 And they're like, Kenny, calm down, please, it was an accident, 1525 01:10:34.159 --> 01:10:35.720 Please calm down. Da da da da da. 1526 01:10:36.079 --> 01:10:37.399 And I'm like, this is no accident. 1527 01:10:37.520 --> 01:10:37.800 This is you. 1528 01:10:37.880 --> 01:10:39.960 Guys are sending me a message. You want me fucking 1529 01:10:40.000 --> 01:10:41.800 out of here. Tell me who the fuck it was. 1530 01:10:41.840 --> 01:10:43.520 I'll kick the shit out of it and then I'll leave. 1531 01:10:43.560 --> 01:10:44.680 You want me out of here? This, I was like, 1532 01:10:44.720 --> 01:10:46.359 that's it, this is it, It's over. 1533 01:10:47.199 --> 01:10:50.000 It was an accident, they said, a guy freaking pulled 1534 01:10:50.319 --> 01:10:53.520 all the gear off and everything fell down, and your 1535 01:10:53.560 --> 01:10:55.960 helmet got slid under the rig and we didn't know 1536 01:10:56.039 --> 01:10:57.800 it was there, and then the rig ran it over 1537 01:10:58.600 --> 01:11:01.319 and I was like, that's fucking shit. If you picked 1538 01:11:01.319 --> 01:11:03.359 everything up, you would have seen it. Nobody called me. 1539 01:11:03.840 --> 01:11:06.159 Nobody called me to tell me about this, and it 1540 01:11:06.319 --> 01:11:09.239 was my helmet was getting saltyep, you know, like it 1541 01:11:09.359 --> 01:11:12.720 was getting black and flyinman's helmet is his resume and 1542 01:11:12.840 --> 01:11:16.159 it was catching work. And I was so fucking pissed off. 1543 01:11:17.079 --> 01:11:20.800 So the senior guy who was working that day, Rob Cadelka, 1544 01:11:21.039 --> 01:11:24.399 great guy, cuckoo, one of a great, one of the 1545 01:11:24.479 --> 01:11:27.680 best show for his engine ever saw you would drive 1546 01:11:27.760 --> 01:11:30.279 so fast with life you wanted to put your seatbelt on, 1547 01:11:30.359 --> 01:11:32.680 but he get you there, get your water, great out, 1548 01:11:33.119 --> 01:11:34.079 nicest guy in the world. 1549 01:11:34.479 --> 01:11:36.720 Was like, Ken, sits me down in the kitchen. We 1550 01:11:36.800 --> 01:11:38.279 have a couple of coffee. He's like, bro, it was 1551 01:11:38.279 --> 01:11:39.680 an accident. I'm telling you. 1552 01:11:40.680 --> 01:11:43.159 The ship that you're thinking in your head it's over with. 1553 01:11:44.039 --> 01:11:46.439 You're gonna get your balls broke. That shit's never gonna leave. 1554 01:11:46.520 --> 01:11:49.039 But you're it's okay, don't worry. He didn't do it 1555 01:11:49.119 --> 01:11:50.359 on purpose. It was an accident. 1556 01:11:50.680 --> 01:11:52.880 And the guy that did it was a bag of 1557 01:11:53.000 --> 01:11:56.880 fucking shit. And he I'm not gonna say his name, 1558 01:11:57.239 --> 01:11:58.720 but he was like, Kenny, was an accident. I go 1559 01:11:58.720 --> 01:12:01.119 all right, he calms me down, and I'm like, you know, 1560 01:12:01.199 --> 01:12:02.600 a cuckoo. I really appreciate it. 1561 01:12:02.680 --> 01:12:02.960 Thank you. 1562 01:12:03.479 --> 01:12:05.439 You know, I'm really upset that my helmet was destroyed. 1563 01:12:05.439 --> 01:12:06.079 It was my thing. 1564 01:12:06.199 --> 01:12:07.640 But okay, it was an accident. 1565 01:12:07.800 --> 01:12:08.199 He says. 1566 01:12:08.239 --> 01:12:12.640 Sorry, We're all good, roll good after this, I'm good now. 1567 01:12:13.279 --> 01:12:15.479 The guy doesn't get up until fucking nine o'clock in 1568 01:12:15.520 --> 01:12:18.640 the morning. Like I'm the first guy in the fly house. 1569 01:12:19.039 --> 01:12:21.199 He doesn't come down until nine o'clock. This guy was 1570 01:12:21.239 --> 01:12:24.319 notorious for sleeping late. Blah blah blah blah blah. Everybody 1571 01:12:24.359 --> 01:12:27.840 else is relieved, but there's a bunch of guys waiting 1572 01:12:27.880 --> 01:12:29.640 around to see what happens. 1573 01:12:29.920 --> 01:12:31.039 Nobody wanted to go home. 1574 01:12:31.239 --> 01:12:33.840 So it's after nine o'clock now, and the guy finally 1575 01:12:33.920 --> 01:12:36.840 comes down at the bunk room and he's like, I'll 1576 01:12:36.880 --> 01:12:39.319 take up on you. And I was like, bro, you 1577 01:12:39.359 --> 01:12:40.840 how am I gonna take up on you? You fucking 1578 01:12:40.840 --> 01:12:42.800 wrecked my helmet And he was like, what are you 1579 01:12:42.880 --> 01:12:43.399 talking about? 1580 01:12:43.640 --> 01:12:45.399 I was like, what do you mean? What am I 1581 01:12:45.520 --> 01:12:47.439 talking about? He was like, I don't know what you're 1582 01:12:47.439 --> 01:12:49.479 talking about. I was like, bro, did you not take 1583 01:12:49.520 --> 01:12:50.159 everything off that? 1584 01:12:50.279 --> 01:12:50.720 Oh no? 1585 01:12:51.760 --> 01:12:53.680 And knock everything down. He was like, I don't know 1586 01:12:53.760 --> 01:12:55.439 what you're talking about. I go, you're lying to me now. 1587 01:12:55.760 --> 01:12:56.920 Now I'm starting to get up again. 1588 01:12:57.159 --> 01:12:58.600 I go, you're fucking lying to me now. 1589 01:12:59.239 --> 01:13:01.479 He goes, I don't know talking about. Now I'm fucking 1590 01:13:01.520 --> 01:13:03.239 going at him, screaming at him. They hold the guy's 1591 01:13:03.239 --> 01:13:05.119 are holding me back, and he's like ah and he 1592 01:13:05.199 --> 01:13:07.119 turns around and he goes, fuck you like. 1593 01:13:07.159 --> 01:13:09.199 He does want to go as fuck yous, And. 1594 01:13:09.279 --> 01:13:12.279 I fucking freaked out. I grabbed the box and helmet. 1595 01:13:12.319 --> 01:13:14.680 I threw it at him, pieces of helmet and hitting him, 1596 01:13:14.920 --> 01:13:19.319 like all over the floor. The captain, captain, he's I 1597 01:13:19.399 --> 01:13:21.000 believe he's a chief. Now he might even be like 1598 01:13:21.079 --> 01:13:23.199 a big chief. He was just covering for the day. 1599 01:13:23.239 --> 01:13:25.399 He's like, Kenny, calm down, you gotta get out of here, 1600 01:13:25.520 --> 01:13:27.840 go to Fort Totten and get a new helmet. 1601 01:13:28.000 --> 01:13:29.479 And I was like, I'm gonna fucking kill him. I'm 1602 01:13:29.479 --> 01:13:34.000 gonna kill him. Get out of here, all right, all right? 1603 01:13:34.159 --> 01:13:35.359 And so I drive to. 1604 01:13:35.399 --> 01:13:38.039 Fort Totten and what happens is I get lost, go 1605 01:13:38.159 --> 01:13:40.199 into four Totten because I don't know where the fuck 1606 01:13:40.199 --> 01:13:40.600 I'm going. 1607 01:13:42.199 --> 01:13:45.479 I'm like, this is before he asked, like, I'm gonna 1608 01:13:45.560 --> 01:13:47.880 kill this fucking guy. He's gonna laughing. 1609 01:13:48.840 --> 01:13:50.560 I have now I have to call the firehouse and 1610 01:13:50.640 --> 01:13:55.319 be like, where the fuck he's fucking totten. I get 1611 01:13:55.359 --> 01:13:57.640 my new helmet, I get my new helmet. 1612 01:13:57.680 --> 01:13:58.239 I come back. 1613 01:13:58.840 --> 01:14:01.319 And after that I expected to walk in that fly 1614 01:14:01.359 --> 01:14:03.039 house and then be like, you're out of here, you know, 1615 01:14:03.079 --> 01:14:05.680 because the way I reacted, they were like and they 1616 01:14:05.720 --> 01:14:09.119 were like, Kenny, nobody said anything. It was almost like 1617 01:14:09.359 --> 01:14:13.439 symbolic that the helmet getting smashed was like the ship 1618 01:14:13.479 --> 01:14:14.359 that they were giving me was. 1619 01:14:14.359 --> 01:14:16.760 Like, all right, you had enough, You're good, right, and 1620 01:14:16.920 --> 01:14:17.239 it was like. 1621 01:14:17.239 --> 01:14:20.119 Smashing everything away. And from then on, from then on, 1622 01:14:21.079 --> 01:14:23.279 it was fucking it was. 1623 01:14:23.399 --> 01:14:24.359 It was great, man, you know. 1624 01:14:25.640 --> 01:14:26.760 That's how it was from here on. 1625 01:14:26.840 --> 01:14:28.279 It is that the new helmet of the old one. 1626 01:14:28.399 --> 01:14:32.640 Oh that's the helmet. That's the new helmet. That's the helmet. 1627 01:14:32.920 --> 01:14:35.239 That's the morning. Hey, Kenny, who who are some of 1628 01:14:35.279 --> 01:14:37.960 the guys that that you know, you latched out to 1629 01:14:38.079 --> 01:14:40.680 early on? Like, uh, even going through all the turmoil 1630 01:14:40.680 --> 01:14:42.439 and everything, who did you feel like were the guys 1631 01:14:42.479 --> 01:14:44.079 that you really could count. 1632 01:14:43.960 --> 01:14:46.039 On, the guys that I could count on When I 1633 01:14:46.079 --> 01:14:47.640 first got there, one of my best friends in the 1634 01:14:47.880 --> 01:14:52.079 house was Colin Halon, Brandon McCarthy, Ralph Holgwin, Pat Collingsfreg 1635 01:14:52.199 --> 01:14:57.079 Bow fucking Hodges. I'm and I'm naming engine guys right now. 1636 01:14:57.399 --> 01:14:59.159 You know, I can get to the truck guys. John 1637 01:14:59.239 --> 01:15:00.760 Moran got there, a lot of these guys got it 1638 01:15:00.800 --> 01:15:04.199 there after me. So us young guys are now taking over. 1639 01:15:04.840 --> 01:15:07.359 You know, we're taking over from the senior guys, and 1640 01:15:07.479 --> 01:15:10.840 we're all coming up together. Danie O'Connell, Rich mccheel, Danny Hayes, 1641 01:15:11.199 --> 01:15:14.279 Mark Victorio, Danny Erickson. Dany Erickson's a great, great fucking 1642 01:15:14.359 --> 01:15:16.079 enjer man. You know, he had a couple more years 1643 01:15:16.119 --> 01:15:20.039 on than me. Russell Miklich, Greg Williams. All guys are 1644 01:15:20.119 --> 01:15:22.359 all around kind of the same time, and we all 1645 01:15:22.439 --> 01:15:25.000 got to, like, you know, come up together, and uh, 1646 01:15:25.199 --> 01:15:27.159 it was just it was great. Once all that's kute 1647 01:15:27.199 --> 01:15:29.000 was over, we just had such a great time and 1648 01:15:29.079 --> 01:15:32.399 going to the guy you mentioned, Yeah, Colin Hanlon is there. 1649 01:15:32.520 --> 01:15:34.520 Terry O'Connor was the senior guy of the engine. 1650 01:15:35.119 --> 01:15:40.760 That's Mike Canally, that's me and the captain. That was 1651 01:15:40.840 --> 01:15:42.720 just after the night for that tour. His name was Tim, 1652 01:15:43.319 --> 01:15:46.079 Tim something. I can't remember his last name. I'm sorry, 1653 01:15:46.439 --> 01:15:48.520 But this other guy, I won't, I won't. 1654 01:15:48.680 --> 01:15:49.880 Who's the guy right above you. 1655 01:15:50.640 --> 01:15:52.720 That's Terry O'Connor. He was the senior guy of fifty 1656 01:15:52.800 --> 01:15:53.239 nine engine. 1657 01:15:53.319 --> 01:15:55.039 Oh he looks for me. I don't know why. 1658 01:15:56.000 --> 01:15:57.640 He had one hundred years on the job. So when 1659 01:15:57.680 --> 01:15:59.640 I got there, he was the senior got the engine. 1660 01:15:59.720 --> 01:16:02.560 Keith the senior guy in a truck. And Terry's this 1661 01:16:02.680 --> 01:16:06.479 easy going, laid back everything is everything you know. And 1662 01:16:06.640 --> 01:16:10.239 Keith was a maniac, you know, like just in your 1663 01:16:10.319 --> 01:16:13.439 face guy. And I felt like I equated those guys 1664 01:16:13.479 --> 01:16:17.000 to Platoon Elias and Barnes, and I was Charlie Sheen 1665 01:16:17.039 --> 01:16:18.479 and they were fighting for my soul. 1666 01:16:23.199 --> 01:16:23.479 Everything. 1667 01:16:23.479 --> 01:16:26.119 The only thing that could kill BUTNS is bonds. 1668 01:16:26.319 --> 01:16:27.520 The only thing that could kill. 1669 01:16:31.000 --> 01:16:32.840 That's kind of what it was like, like like like 1670 01:16:33.000 --> 01:16:35.079 Terry was so easy going and Nick was so. 1671 01:16:36.039 --> 01:16:39.640 Like wired, yeah wired, you know, just nuts so but 1672 01:16:39.720 --> 01:16:40.159 it was great. 1673 01:16:40.199 --> 01:16:41.800 I gotta read. I gotta read it quick. I gotta 1674 01:16:41.840 --> 01:16:45.079 read a quick text from Uh. Keith always sends me 1675 01:16:45.159 --> 01:16:48.199 text all the time. He says to me, Kenny will 1676 01:16:48.239 --> 01:16:50.199 be a great guest. He was a great fireman. When 1677 01:16:50.239 --> 01:16:52.119 I looked at fifty nine engine and he was working, 1678 01:16:52.239 --> 01:16:54.600 I had no worries. There's an NPO always got water. 1679 01:16:55.199 --> 01:16:57.520 Even seeing him drive the rig on the sidewalk, the 1680 01:16:57.560 --> 01:17:00.920 hook up on the backstep, he was feeling and determined. 1681 01:17:01.640 --> 01:17:02.359 Please let him know. 1682 01:17:02.960 --> 01:17:08.279 Love you Keith, Keith, you know love I love Keith. 1683 01:17:08.479 --> 01:17:11.119 You know Keith was Keith just taught us so much. 1684 01:17:11.239 --> 01:17:14.000 He was such you think of fireman, you think of 1685 01:17:14.159 --> 01:17:16.800 FDN Y New York City fireman. A guy like Keith 1686 01:17:16.880 --> 01:17:20.039 pops up so into the job, so into the traditions, 1687 01:17:20.319 --> 01:17:23.880 taught us like man work axes and fucking holligans and 1688 01:17:24.119 --> 01:17:26.359 and just we would light shit on fire in the 1689 01:17:26.479 --> 01:17:28.119 in the in the parking lot and just cut up 1690 01:17:28.520 --> 01:17:31.439 stuff like it was always drilling with the guys, always 1691 01:17:31.520 --> 01:17:34.199 expected so much of us. Brought out the best fireman 1692 01:17:34.720 --> 01:17:37.520 that that we could be. Like you think that you're good, 1693 01:17:37.560 --> 01:17:39.199 and then now you're climbing a stick with all the 1694 01:17:39.239 --> 01:17:43.800 shit on. And he just was amazing, you know, like we. 1695 01:17:44.119 --> 01:17:46.279 Keith was tough to deal with in the beginning for 1696 01:17:46.359 --> 01:17:48.319 anybody see any guy like that and junior guy. But 1697 01:17:49.159 --> 01:17:52.479 after once you prove yourself to Keith and you know 1698 01:17:52.640 --> 01:17:54.319 that you want to be He knows that you want 1699 01:17:54.359 --> 01:17:56.119 to be a fireman, and you prove yourself that you 1700 01:17:56.199 --> 01:17:58.319 can learn in the job and do a good job. 1701 01:17:58.439 --> 01:18:01.720 He's got your back for life. He bleeds for the 1702 01:18:01.840 --> 01:18:06.000 job that guy still does. And that's a guy bro. 1703 01:18:06.239 --> 01:18:09.079 No matter where you go in this country, because we 1704 01:18:09.159 --> 01:18:12.399 go to a lot of trade shows, you know, yeah, 1705 01:18:13.439 --> 01:18:16.000 no matter where you are in the country, somebody knows 1706 01:18:16.079 --> 01:18:18.600 this guy. He's amazing. 1707 01:18:20.119 --> 01:18:23.359 To the truck, you know, I I did think about 1708 01:18:23.399 --> 01:18:25.560 going to the truck, but you know, my love of 1709 01:18:25.640 --> 01:18:28.760 the job was engine mark. I love stretching hose lines 1710 01:18:28.960 --> 01:18:32.319 and putting water on fire. You know, that's that was 1711 01:18:32.439 --> 01:18:33.199 my lovely job. 1712 01:18:34.800 --> 01:18:36.880 Everybody's got to do a job. Every the truck's got 1713 01:18:37.000 --> 01:18:37.439 to do everything. 1714 01:18:37.439 --> 01:18:39.920 They got to vent search fucking open up windows, open 1715 01:18:40.000 --> 01:18:41.119 up the roof, do what they got to do for 1716 01:18:41.239 --> 01:18:43.560 us as engine guys can put the fire out. You 1717 01:18:43.680 --> 01:18:45.920 take a beaten in there like a beaten if they 1718 01:18:46.279 --> 01:18:48.840 if they aren't venting, you know, So it's it's it's 1719 01:18:48.880 --> 01:18:50.239 it's a it's a it goes. 1720 01:18:50.079 --> 01:18:50.600 Hand in hand. 1721 01:18:50.960 --> 01:18:54.239 But my prevy, my love, my adrenaline with stretching hose 1722 01:18:54.279 --> 01:18:57.119 lines on the nozzle on the backup and going into 1723 01:18:57.159 --> 01:18:58.720 the seated fire and putting water on fire. 1724 01:18:59.079 --> 01:19:01.399 So you know, so being a guy that they were 1725 01:19:01.439 --> 01:19:03.600 trying to drive out of that, how long before they 1726 01:19:03.640 --> 01:19:05.439 actually gave you the nozzle or did they give it 1727 01:19:05.479 --> 01:19:07.479 to you early to see what you you know, what 1728 01:19:07.600 --> 01:19:07.960 you could do. 1729 01:19:08.560 --> 01:19:11.520 So even though even though I came in the way 1730 01:19:11.600 --> 01:19:14.439 I came and nobody was talking to me, they still 1731 01:19:14.479 --> 01:19:16.720 had rules, and the rules were senior guy in his 1732 01:19:16.800 --> 01:19:19.760 groups gets the nozzle. So there was always got different guys. 1733 01:19:20.239 --> 01:19:22.600 I was always in my groups because nobody wanted to 1734 01:19:22.680 --> 01:19:23.680 do mutuals. 1735 01:19:23.319 --> 01:19:24.520 With me, so I was. 1736 01:19:26.439 --> 01:19:28.119 So I always I had the nozzle a lot. 1737 01:19:28.199 --> 01:19:31.079 And then there was there was one time Colin Hanlin, 1738 01:19:31.600 --> 01:19:34.199 great buddy of mine, young guy, he was supposed to 1739 01:19:34.279 --> 01:19:37.199 have the nozzle, and they changed things for me to 1740 01:19:37.640 --> 01:19:40.199 give me the nozzle that tour. They're like, let's see 1741 01:19:40.199 --> 01:19:41.840 what this kid can do. Give them the nozzle and 1742 01:19:41.880 --> 01:19:44.279 see what happens. And sure enough I catch a first 1743 01:19:44.279 --> 01:19:47.319 two fucking nozzle job across the street from the firehouse, 1744 01:19:47.680 --> 01:19:51.119 top floor brownstone, fucking kick ass job at the change 1745 01:19:51.119 --> 01:19:53.119 of tours at like seven thirty eight. 1746 01:19:53.039 --> 01:19:53.439 In the morning. 1747 01:19:53.479 --> 01:19:57.199 Everybody's in the front, everybody's there. It's right, it's in 1748 01:19:57.199 --> 01:19:59.720 the summer time. Keith is coming down from the second floor. 1749 01:19:59.760 --> 01:20:02.119 He's like, hey, why is there fucking smoke coming from 1750 01:20:02.119 --> 01:20:06.520 the Province store. And we're like, holy shit. 1751 01:20:06.800 --> 01:20:09.520 So the guys bring the bells before they can get 1752 01:20:09.680 --> 01:20:11.720 get to the dispatcher, you know, to tell him to 1753 01:20:11.760 --> 01:20:14.520 turn out the companies. We're ringing bells and popping the doors. 1754 01:20:14.800 --> 01:20:16.760 The guys are all all these senior guys are running 1755 01:20:16.760 --> 01:20:18.840 out from the kitchen, running up to the brownstone, no 1756 01:20:19.039 --> 01:20:21.520 fucking bunk of gear on, kicking doors open. 1757 01:20:23.359 --> 01:20:23.600 Yeah. 1758 01:20:24.000 --> 01:20:24.199 Yeah. 1759 01:20:24.279 --> 01:20:26.319 I'm like, I'm like, all right, I put my bunker 1760 01:20:26.359 --> 01:20:28.159 gear on, I got the nozzle column puts his bunking 1761 01:20:28.199 --> 01:20:30.479 gear on. The engine show who pulls the rag out, 1762 01:20:30.520 --> 01:20:33.279 pulls up to the hydroen, which was probably, uh, you know, 1763 01:20:33.319 --> 01:20:35.239 one hundred and fifty feet away or so, right on 1764 01:20:35.319 --> 01:20:37.680 the on the block. I go, I go to I 1765 01:20:37.720 --> 01:20:39.439 take my folds, he takes his folds. We go to stretch, 1766 01:20:39.720 --> 01:20:42.680 and this even the control man who was the senior guy, 1767 01:20:42.840 --> 01:20:44.960 ran up to the fucking billy. Everybody wanted to get 1768 01:20:45.000 --> 01:20:47.079 in there. So we at the moment we didn't have 1769 01:20:47.119 --> 01:20:50.199 anybody controlling the stretch. There was a senior guy, Kevin Shanahan. Yo, 1770 01:20:50.560 --> 01:20:52.720 Hope you're listening to yo fucking Hope. You know he's 1771 01:20:52.720 --> 01:20:55.600 a friend of mine. I'm saying, I go, Kevin, can 1772 01:20:55.640 --> 01:20:59.079 you please control this stretch until our control man gets 1773 01:20:59.119 --> 01:21:01.720 He's like, yeah, yo it. So we fucking stretch up 1774 01:21:01.760 --> 01:21:03.960 to the Brownstone. We're going up to the top floor 1775 01:21:04.800 --> 01:21:07.239 flaking out the host. Colin's got to kick open the 1776 01:21:07.279 --> 01:21:09.720 fucking door on the floor on the floor below, and 1777 01:21:09.800 --> 01:21:12.039 there's some naked guy standing there. He must have been 1778 01:21:12.279 --> 01:21:14.119 getting out of the shower. He's like, bro, I need 1779 01:21:14.159 --> 01:21:16.199 your appallment, and he goes okay, and he slams the 1780 01:21:16.279 --> 01:21:23.640 door shut on Colin. So and he and when he 1781 01:21:23.720 --> 01:21:25.159 gets up to back me up, he's like, no, there 1782 01:21:25.199 --> 01:21:26.159 was a naked guy in the. 1783 01:21:30.119 --> 01:21:30.880 In the landings. 1784 01:21:31.159 --> 01:21:32.680 That Brownstone had very small landing. 1785 01:21:32.720 --> 01:21:33.199 So I get it. 1786 01:21:33.279 --> 01:21:35.920 I'm going up to the top landing and now I'm 1787 01:21:35.960 --> 01:21:39.279 looking at fire out this door from the top of 1788 01:21:39.319 --> 01:21:41.399 the door to the bottom of the door. Blow fortune 1789 01:21:41.439 --> 01:21:44.439 out like fucking and and all I thought was for 1790 01:21:44.520 --> 01:21:48.600 a split second, I went, that's beautiful. Look how beautiful 1791 01:21:48.640 --> 01:21:53.520 that fire is. I was so like enamored by by 1792 01:21:53.560 --> 01:21:54.319 with is. 1793 01:21:54.319 --> 01:21:56.680 This when you look at the fire just like that 1794 01:21:56.760 --> 01:21:57.840 from the outside. 1795 01:21:58.600 --> 01:22:00.760 That's that's a good side, because that's a good. 1796 01:22:02.159 --> 01:22:02.880 I know what that is. 1797 01:22:03.000 --> 01:22:04.760 That's that headshot that you send out to. 1798 01:22:05.359 --> 01:22:09.319 Get my good side right right right, bro, I can't 1799 01:22:09.359 --> 01:22:09.600 hear you. 1800 01:22:10.880 --> 01:22:11.960 It looks like quasi motive. 1801 01:22:16.000 --> 01:22:17.520 We get up to I get up to the top 1802 01:22:17.560 --> 01:22:18.960 floor and I'm looking at this fire just you know, 1803 01:22:19.119 --> 01:22:20.960 split second. I go now, I can't wait to keep 1804 01:22:21.039 --> 01:22:23.720 the fucking ship out of it. And there's six truck guys, 1805 01:22:23.920 --> 01:22:26.600 some with bunker gears. I'm not all leaning up against 1806 01:22:26.600 --> 01:22:27.560 the wall with this fire. 1807 01:22:28.119 --> 01:22:30.239 I go get out of the way. You guys ain't 1808 01:22:30.279 --> 01:22:32.520 going in there without me. Get out of it. Close 1809 01:22:32.600 --> 01:22:33.399 the door, close the door. 1810 01:22:33.760 --> 01:22:35.640 The one guy reaches with the hook, he closes the door, 1811 01:22:35.920 --> 01:22:38.000 gets gets control of the door. 1812 01:22:38.560 --> 01:22:41.319 You know, smoke. Now I get up there. I'm fucking 1813 01:22:41.399 --> 01:22:41.760 ready to go. 1814 01:22:41.880 --> 01:22:45.359 And Colin comes up behind me and the and then 1815 01:22:45.479 --> 01:22:46.560 camm in the audience. 1816 01:22:46.600 --> 01:22:48.960 He goes, you know you're going in first. I go, yeah, 1817 01:22:49.000 --> 01:22:49.800 I know, I know, I know. 1818 01:22:51.159 --> 01:22:53.279 I open the line and the door fucking swings open. 1819 01:22:53.359 --> 01:22:55.760 I'm hitting fire. I'm hitting fire. I'm hitting fire. And 1820 01:22:55.920 --> 01:22:58.760 the door only opened up halfway. It stopped right there 1821 01:22:58.800 --> 01:22:59.359 and cut off. 1822 01:22:59.279 --> 01:22:59.960 The whole hallway. 1823 01:23:00.359 --> 01:23:02.039 So the fire was to the right of us, like 1824 01:23:02.119 --> 01:23:04.760 it was just fucking pouring out and I can't get 1825 01:23:04.920 --> 01:23:06.479 till now I'm finding the fire on my left hand 1826 01:23:06.479 --> 01:23:08.039 and I'm trying to get the door open on my right, 1827 01:23:08.159 --> 01:23:10.000 I'm trying to kick, and I'm like, I can't, I 1828 01:23:10.079 --> 01:23:12.119 can't get Something is blocking that door. 1829 01:23:12.159 --> 01:23:13.680 Whether it was a rug. 1830 01:23:15.119 --> 01:23:17.439 A desk, I don't know, but it's blocking that whole 1831 01:23:17.439 --> 01:23:19.439 way off from the front of the apartment to the rear. 1832 01:23:19.720 --> 01:23:25.119 But now the front of the apartment. Ten forty five 1833 01:23:25.239 --> 01:23:26.920 jumped out the window as they were trying. 1834 01:23:26.720 --> 01:23:28.199 To set up for a roof for a rescue at 1835 01:23:28.439 --> 01:23:29.960 jo No shit, So. 1836 01:23:30.199 --> 01:23:32.119 The front of the apartment's lighten up. So I'm like, 1837 01:23:32.800 --> 01:23:34.600 the truck's got to get in here to get this door. 1838 01:23:35.000 --> 01:23:37.399 So I there's about this much room, about this much 1839 01:23:37.479 --> 01:23:39.159 room in between the door and the wall. So I 1840 01:23:39.279 --> 01:23:40.800 just put the nozzle in there and I just try 1841 01:23:40.800 --> 01:23:42.920 and put out as much fire as I could, right 1842 01:23:43.279 --> 01:23:45.600 and then I turned and put and go to the 1843 01:23:45.880 --> 01:23:48.079 front to put that out to turn around. Once I 1844 01:23:48.159 --> 01:23:50.159 turn around, the truck had the door off, and just 1845 01:23:50.199 --> 01:23:53.119 make the push down, put those two three rooms back 1846 01:23:53.159 --> 01:23:55.239 out and uh and the fire went out really quickly. 1847 01:23:55.880 --> 01:23:57.359 But turns out that the guy that they were trying 1848 01:23:57.359 --> 01:23:58.560 to roof for a rescue. 1849 01:23:58.439 --> 01:23:58.880 He fell. 1850 01:23:59.239 --> 01:24:00.920 He fell out the wind though and hit like all 1851 01:24:00.960 --> 01:24:03.079 the electrical lines and ship and the guy lived. 1852 01:24:06.680 --> 01:24:09.960 What I always say that you you know, you get 1853 01:24:10.000 --> 01:24:12.159 to you get to your place, right. They don't know 1854 01:24:12.239 --> 01:24:14.640 about you, right, and you kind of went in little backwards. 1855 01:24:15.439 --> 01:24:18.439 You show them that job right there. That's all I 1856 01:24:18.560 --> 01:24:20.399 want to know, right, I mean, you're gonna I don't 1857 01:24:20.439 --> 01:24:22.479 give a ship what happens, But you put out three 1858 01:24:22.520 --> 01:24:25.640 rooms of fire like that, they're gonna you know, they 1859 01:24:25.680 --> 01:24:27.520 still might be obviously they're still going to break your balls, 1860 01:24:27.560 --> 01:24:29.439 but in the back of their head they're happy, you 1861 01:24:29.520 --> 01:24:31.000 know what I mean, Like you're part you're going to 1862 01:24:31.039 --> 01:24:31.840 be part of that company. 1863 01:24:31.920 --> 01:24:33.720 Well, they take note of it anyway, right, I know 1864 01:24:33.840 --> 01:24:35.840 I would. They definitely took note. 1865 01:24:35.920 --> 01:24:36.039 You know. 1866 01:24:36.079 --> 01:24:36.520 It was hard. 1867 01:24:36.760 --> 01:24:39.079 Some of the guys like Kenny, good job. Some guys 1868 01:24:39.119 --> 01:24:44.319 are like, all right, you know that what was great 1869 01:24:44.359 --> 01:24:45.840 about that. I caught a lot of work in the 1870 01:24:45.880 --> 01:24:48.439 first few years in that flyhouse, so you know, I 1871 01:24:48.520 --> 01:24:50.119 was just showing them how what I want to do, 1872 01:24:50.159 --> 01:24:52.119 how I want to be And listen, everybody fucks up 1873 01:24:52.119 --> 01:24:55.920 a jobs. Everybody makes mistakes. Yeah, yeah, every single job 1874 01:24:56.000 --> 01:24:59.079 doesn't go perfect. But if you could acknowledge that, learn 1875 01:24:59.159 --> 01:25:02.479 from that, and hopefully nobody gets seriously hurt or heard 1876 01:25:02.520 --> 01:25:04.840 it all from your mistakes and you can drill on 1877 01:25:04.920 --> 01:25:07.359 it and talk about it in the kitchen about the job, 1878 01:25:07.800 --> 01:25:09.680 then really that's all they want. They can they can 1879 01:25:10.119 --> 01:25:12.520 teach you and train you, and as long as you 1880 01:25:12.600 --> 01:25:14.439 want to be there and you know and they know 1881 01:25:14.600 --> 01:25:16.119 that and you're that's it. 1882 01:25:16.640 --> 01:25:16.920 That's it. 1883 01:25:17.319 --> 01:25:19.000 That's that's really what we're in a. 1884 01:25:19.000 --> 01:25:20.920 Place like that, Bro, you have it's not going to 1885 01:25:20.960 --> 01:25:23.039 be low before you're able to redeem yourself. It's not 1886 01:25:23.159 --> 01:25:28.880 like you gotta be going to another fire fairly quickly. Yeah, 1887 01:25:30.560 --> 01:25:30.880 how is. 1888 01:25:30.920 --> 01:25:32.399 Kirk lest I was going to say, how was he? 1889 01:25:32.680 --> 01:25:33.359 I love that guy? 1890 01:25:34.159 --> 01:25:36.760 He was so great, so much experience. It was so 1891 01:25:37.000 --> 01:25:39.399 fun talk, you know, working with him because his stories 1892 01:25:39.439 --> 01:25:42.760 were just hysterical and the way he told them we're 1893 01:25:42.840 --> 01:25:44.800 just we're just great, and that guy was just I 1894 01:25:44.920 --> 01:25:47.199 love that guy and learned so much from him working 1895 01:25:47.239 --> 01:25:49.079 with those guys, being a young guy in the job 1896 01:25:49.119 --> 01:25:52.479 and knowing how the job was. I just loved working 1897 01:25:52.520 --> 01:25:54.560 with those guys and the experience that had. It gave 1898 01:25:54.640 --> 01:25:55.600 me so much confidence. 1899 01:25:55.840 --> 01:25:59.800 You know. So now the whole firehouse, bro, who wrote 1900 01:25:59.840 --> 01:26:02.520 you the hardest? Who do you have to really convince 1901 01:26:02.600 --> 01:26:04.560 the most? If you had to say, one guy in 1902 01:26:04.640 --> 01:26:05.600 the firehouse, which. 1903 01:26:05.560 --> 01:26:13.760 Is probably Listen Keith, was really really tough, especially in 1904 01:26:13.800 --> 01:26:15.880 the beginning. A lot of the a lot of the 1905 01:26:16.119 --> 01:26:19.359 the younger guys, a lot of it like the middle 1906 01:26:19.359 --> 01:26:20.920 of the road guys kind of you know, they were 1907 01:26:20.960 --> 01:26:24.000 like because they took the heat from a lot of 1908 01:26:24.039 --> 01:26:26.720 these guys before and now they had somebody right. 1909 01:26:27.119 --> 01:26:29.039 It's always like that, bro, It's always the guy who 1910 01:26:29.159 --> 01:26:30.880 just a few more years than you who breaks your 1911 01:26:30.920 --> 01:26:33.199 bulls the most. Man, you know, the senior guys. 1912 01:26:33.239 --> 01:26:35.359 There was a guy he was like, he was like, 1913 01:26:35.439 --> 01:26:37.199 I think he's still I don't really talk to him, 1914 01:26:37.199 --> 01:26:39.319 but there's still the guy that's like, he's just the 1915 01:26:39.359 --> 01:26:40.760 fucking guy that just showed up and I was like, 1916 01:26:40.880 --> 01:26:42.800 I'm sorry he was like, damn whatever, you know he 1917 01:26:42.880 --> 01:26:43.720 still holds a grudge. 1918 01:26:43.840 --> 01:26:46.279 Whatever, I don't what am I gonna do this? 1919 01:26:46.479 --> 01:26:51.000 This that's in the end. That's when you talk about 1920 01:26:51.039 --> 01:26:53.720 Neanderthal fireman. That that's what we talk about, right, Like, 1921 01:26:53.840 --> 01:26:54.680 that's ridiculous. 1922 01:26:55.359 --> 01:26:57.000 Some guy wanted to know what if you know what 1923 01:26:57.079 --> 01:26:59.560 the difference is between an e ers and an EMS box. 1924 01:27:01.159 --> 01:27:03.520 Yeah, I was gonna wait for the right time for that. 1925 01:27:03.960 --> 01:27:05.800 You know what, I didn't see it between. 1926 01:27:07.680 --> 01:27:10.239 Bro, who the fuck is ex Delta? 1927 01:27:11.560 --> 01:27:12.039 Who knows you? 1928 01:27:12.199 --> 01:27:12.319 Bro? 1929 01:27:12.600 --> 01:27:16.960 So all right, funny fucking story, funny story. So I'm 1930 01:27:17.000 --> 01:27:19.039 there like a week and a half, I don't. 1931 01:27:18.880 --> 01:27:23.399 Know, and oh my god, and a half a week 1932 01:27:23.399 --> 01:27:28.479 and a half, they shoved me. You know, I step up. 1933 01:27:28.840 --> 01:27:31.479 They put me on the fucking twelve by twelve bye 1934 01:27:31.520 --> 01:27:34.319 for anybody doesn't know, there's the midnight fucking watch. So 1935 01:27:34.920 --> 01:27:37.479 I come from a pretty slow place where we didn't 1936 01:27:37.520 --> 01:27:39.920 really run after midnight, so the tones didn't go off 1937 01:27:39.960 --> 01:27:42.279 too much. And now I go to a place where 1938 01:27:42.319 --> 01:27:46.000 I'm petrified. I'm just sitting like, I'm just like fucking scared. 1939 01:27:47.000 --> 01:27:47.960 I don't know what's going on. 1940 01:27:48.119 --> 01:27:54.840 Nobody's talking to me. Two twenty engines. Nobody's talking to me. 1941 01:27:54.920 --> 01:27:55.039 Bro. 1942 01:27:56.119 --> 01:27:56.800 I was just like what. 1943 01:27:57.000 --> 01:27:57.760 I was like, what did I? 1944 01:27:58.319 --> 01:27:58.960 What did I do? 1945 01:27:59.359 --> 01:27:59.520 Man? 1946 01:27:59.560 --> 01:27:59.960 Where did I? 1947 01:28:00.479 --> 01:28:02.520 What am I doing? What A doing? 1948 01:28:03.560 --> 01:28:04.560 The tones go off. 1949 01:28:05.039 --> 01:28:08.720 Now it pops up engine only r S right, and 1950 01:28:09.119 --> 01:28:11.399 I'm I'm still like it's dark. I'm like, I can't 1951 01:28:11.439 --> 01:28:13.000 fucking I love you too, I don't. 1952 01:28:12.880 --> 01:28:13.359 Know who you are. 1953 01:28:14.720 --> 01:28:16.640 Won't reveal himself for herself. 1954 01:28:16.800 --> 01:28:18.840 So I'm like, I'm like trying to like fucking figure 1955 01:28:18.880 --> 01:28:21.159 it out. Like I'm like, e R what the fuck? 1956 01:28:21.239 --> 01:28:21.640 EMS? 1957 01:28:21.800 --> 01:28:22.680 I said, e MS. 1958 01:28:23.239 --> 01:28:24.239 I had never seen an. 1959 01:28:24.439 --> 01:28:26.960 R S box in two twenty two in the year 1960 01:28:27.000 --> 01:28:31.159 that I was there, so I was like, no, you know, 1961 01:28:31.399 --> 01:28:33.720 and if you know, if you remember, if you're reading 1962 01:28:33.760 --> 01:28:35.760 an er S box and it turns out to be 1963 01:28:36.199 --> 01:28:39.359 a job immediately as you're reading it, the fucking they 1964 01:28:39.439 --> 01:28:42.279 fill out the ticket while I'm still reading. So we 1965 01:28:42.439 --> 01:28:44.199 have a policy. I don't know who how you guys 1966 01:28:44.239 --> 01:28:46.640 do it. You read it twice so you get it right. 1967 01:28:47.000 --> 01:28:48.600 So I read it once and I go engine only 1968 01:28:48.640 --> 01:28:51.000 e MS right because I'm trying to turn out the 1969 01:28:51.039 --> 01:28:53.479 company's fist. And as I go to read it a 1970 01:28:53.560 --> 01:28:56.560 second time, I now I see that it says E 1971 01:28:56.720 --> 01:28:59.000 R S, but I can't say it because the fucking 1972 01:28:59.079 --> 01:29:02.760 full ticket pops up and it says fire thirty first dude, 1973 01:29:05.239 --> 01:29:08.960 And I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, the trucks go 1974 01:29:09.079 --> 01:29:10.960 to a fire, engines go to an MS run and 1975 01:29:11.000 --> 01:29:11.720 I'm ringing bells. 1976 01:29:11.760 --> 01:29:16.680 I'm popping those. You're gonna put the doors up. I 1977 01:29:16.760 --> 01:29:17.800 gotta put the doors up. 1978 01:29:17.840 --> 01:29:18.760 I gotta. I haven't. 1979 01:29:18.800 --> 01:29:20.720 I'm turning the companies and I don't know what to say. 1980 01:29:20.800 --> 01:29:26.680 I'm fucking panicking. So we the engine engine turns out 1981 01:29:26.720 --> 01:29:28.319 of court is first, believe it or not, because I 1982 01:29:28.359 --> 01:29:31.000 called engine only first. So we get to the spot 1983 01:29:31.279 --> 01:29:34.239 the truck fucking rips. We stop at the corner waiting 1984 01:29:34.359 --> 01:29:39.000 for any MS person and the truck rips by us, 1985 01:29:39.079 --> 01:29:41.319 and we look up the block. There's people pointing, and 1986 01:29:41.439 --> 01:29:46.720 we look up the block and this fire ripping out 1987 01:29:46.800 --> 01:29:49.279 the first block of this brown stone. And if we 1988 01:29:49.359 --> 01:29:52.119 all go holy ship, and we're trying, we're putting on 1989 01:29:52.720 --> 01:29:54.960 We're putting our stuff on the Holy Ship. The truck 1990 01:29:55.000 --> 01:29:58.239 fucking peels by, takes the fucking block. The engine goes 1991 01:29:58.319 --> 01:30:03.359 up with with with stretching hose lines fucking frozen hydrant. 1992 01:30:04.079 --> 01:30:05.199 Uh, we're in there. 1993 01:30:05.279 --> 01:30:08.520 You know, Tom Heally, Tom Healey, the great Tom Heally, 1994 01:30:08.840 --> 01:30:12.159 the best character on the job. Frank, he's fucking he's cutting. 1995 01:30:12.159 --> 01:30:14.199 It was it was a vacant so he's cutting the 1996 01:30:15.439 --> 01:30:19.840 the window. Yeah, and in this fire like licking out 1997 01:30:19.920 --> 01:30:22.640 on his head. He thought it was snowflakes hit them 1998 01:30:22.960 --> 01:30:24.800 and he's like, I can't believe what's going on here. 1999 01:30:25.239 --> 01:30:30.079 But I said, I said, he are ms when it was, 2000 01:30:31.520 --> 01:30:33.880 And I'm like, you didn't get right. 2001 01:30:35.479 --> 01:30:38.760 They already hate me, they already hate me, and now 2002 01:30:38.840 --> 01:30:39.760 I fucked up the take. 2003 01:30:39.840 --> 01:30:41.880 I was gonna say, you couldn't even have fucking done. 2004 01:30:42.159 --> 01:30:43.680 The only thing that made that good was that there 2005 01:30:43.760 --> 01:30:45.439 was a fire. For God's sake, at least it was 2006 01:30:45.479 --> 01:30:46.640 all right then, you know what I mean. 2007 01:30:46.720 --> 01:30:48.960 But a fire and we still we still got him 2008 01:30:48.960 --> 01:30:55.399 first new and you know, can you imagine they would 2009 01:30:55.439 --> 01:31:02.119 have packed your shipations. I was like, I'm that's it, 2010 01:31:02.239 --> 01:31:02.479 that's it. 2011 01:31:02.520 --> 01:31:03.279 I'm fucking. 2012 01:31:04.600 --> 01:31:05.800 E r s the mask. 2013 01:31:05.840 --> 01:31:10.800 But I never said, I don't know. Let me ask 2014 01:31:10.840 --> 01:31:13.279 you a question. At any point, did you almost say 2015 01:31:13.319 --> 01:31:15.199 fuck this, I'm going back. I can't. 2016 01:31:16.920 --> 01:31:19.399 So it was it was very difficult, you know, I was. 2017 01:31:21.239 --> 01:31:23.399 I was having a tough time, you know, just coming in. 2018 01:31:23.479 --> 01:31:25.760 I was like, these guys don't want me. Who wants 2019 01:31:25.800 --> 01:31:27.359 to be in a place. The guys don't want They 2020 01:31:27.359 --> 01:31:29.479 don't want you to you know, Like I want to 2021 01:31:29.560 --> 01:31:31.319 be there, but they don't want me there, So why 2022 01:31:31.359 --> 01:31:33.439 would I want to stay in place? But I I 2023 01:31:33.560 --> 01:31:35.279 am so stubborn. I would cut my nose off to 2024 01:31:35.319 --> 01:31:37.760 spite my face. It's a it's a quality that I 2025 01:31:37.840 --> 01:31:40.760 hate about myself. I'm working on it every day. But 2026 01:31:40.880 --> 01:31:42.960 I said, I said, I'm not leaving. I'm not letting 2027 01:31:43.000 --> 01:31:44.640 them win. I'm not letting them in. 2028 01:31:44.760 --> 01:31:47.600 That's what they do. They want me to go and 2029 01:31:47.680 --> 01:31:50.199 then be like I remember that fucking little ship that 2030 01:31:50.359 --> 01:31:51.720 came up here and didn't say nothing. 2031 01:31:51.800 --> 01:31:54.079 I was like, I'm not I'm not going inwhere you're 2032 01:31:54.079 --> 01:31:56.359 gonna have to deal with me. And I'm telling you, guys, 2033 01:31:56.399 --> 01:31:59.399 transfer in and transfer out while I was going to 2034 01:32:00.039 --> 01:32:02.239 so they were kicking guy like it's just and I 2035 01:32:02.319 --> 01:32:02.720 was like, I'm not. 2036 01:32:02.880 --> 01:32:04.800 I'm not going not gonna be that guy. 2037 01:32:05.319 --> 01:32:07.119 I'm gonna hold my breath like a little kid and 2038 01:32:07.199 --> 01:32:09.880 not fucking go until I went and It wasn't a 2039 01:32:09.960 --> 01:32:12.640 win to lose. It was just eventually I proved myself 2040 01:32:12.760 --> 01:32:15.119 because I fucked up and I just had to prove myself, 2041 01:32:15.239 --> 01:32:17.319 just like you have to do any job, any man's job. 2042 01:32:17.560 --> 01:32:19.319 You gotta prove this stuff, you know, And that's it. 2043 01:32:19.560 --> 01:32:24.520 That's it, Especially with fifty men. Yeah, fifty rough, I 2044 01:32:24.600 --> 01:32:29.000 mean yeah, yeah, everybody's different. Every personality is different. Right, 2045 01:32:29.079 --> 01:32:32.039 You're never gonna make everybody happy, you know, and vice versa. 2046 01:32:32.319 --> 01:32:37.399 It's just, uh, it's it ain't easy, man, you know. Done. 2047 01:32:37.760 --> 01:32:40.039 Yeah, I know they're tough guys. But then anybody ever 2048 01:32:40.159 --> 01:32:42.159 come up to you and like apologize for being such 2049 01:32:42.159 --> 01:32:43.840 a dick to you, like, hey, listen, we had it 2050 01:32:43.920 --> 01:32:45.800 wrong or whatever. No, those guys are. 2051 01:32:47.359 --> 01:32:48.680 Where he calls off, hey, I'm sorry if you're being 2052 01:32:48.720 --> 01:32:50.159 a thick to you during high school and he closes 2053 01:32:50.199 --> 01:32:50.760 his name home with. 2054 01:32:55.680 --> 01:32:58.239 Those guys. Are those guys they still break my balls 2055 01:32:58.279 --> 01:32:58.560 about that. 2056 01:32:58.600 --> 01:33:00.439 They're still like they're still like I was gonna say, 2057 01:33:00.439 --> 01:33:02.560 if they're still talking, if that guy's in the chat 2058 01:33:02.640 --> 01:33:05.239 and still putting about the EMS thing, that thing has 2059 01:33:05.279 --> 01:33:07.079 never died, yeah, I mean never. 2060 01:33:10.119 --> 01:33:11.079 It follows you forever. 2061 01:33:11.199 --> 01:33:13.680 And that's and it becomes fun. It's a fun story. 2062 01:33:14.000 --> 01:33:14.880 Nobody got hurt. 2063 01:33:15.119 --> 01:33:17.920 We forgot it in. You know, it's just on on 2064 01:33:18.760 --> 01:33:21.800 my podcast. Oh, I didn't know you had a podcast. 2065 01:33:22.960 --> 01:33:26.760 Most of my most of my stories are me fucking up. 2066 01:33:27.159 --> 01:33:27.760 I can admit. 2067 01:33:28.079 --> 01:33:31.119 I can just make it of myself. You know, we 2068 01:33:31.239 --> 01:33:33.800 all but that's but that's part of it. Like everybody 2069 01:33:33.840 --> 01:33:36.319 sucks up, man, But you got to learn from those 2070 01:33:36.359 --> 01:33:38.920 mistakes and try not to make those mistakes again and 2071 01:33:39.119 --> 01:33:41.520 just move on. You know, as long as nobody gets hurt, 2072 01:33:43.079 --> 01:33:46.439 you're gonna suck up. Everybody's gonna fuck up, but you 2073 01:33:46.520 --> 01:33:47.800 gotta step up the fuck up. 2074 01:33:47.840 --> 01:33:47.960 Bro. 2075 01:33:48.159 --> 01:33:52.319 Absolutely, Hey Kenny, how was it like being in that place, 2076 01:33:53.199 --> 01:33:55.840 like after you got past all this ship, like having 2077 01:33:55.920 --> 01:33:59.640 ten fifteen years whatever you had, Like that place has 2078 01:33:59.680 --> 01:34:03.439 such a uh like pride right like uh and tradition 2079 01:34:03.720 --> 01:34:06.000 like every every time you see those guys out of 2080 01:34:06.039 --> 01:34:08.199 Saint Patty's Day or whatever. Right, you just how is 2081 01:34:08.199 --> 01:34:10.359 it being in a place that has so much like 2082 01:34:10.520 --> 01:34:12.880 pride in how they do things and keep the tradition 2083 01:34:12.960 --> 01:34:13.600 and all that right? 2084 01:34:14.439 --> 01:34:15.600 It's just great? 2085 01:34:15.800 --> 01:34:18.199 You know, Like you knew fifty nine and thirty when 2086 01:34:18.199 --> 01:34:20.600 the Holmes you showed up like guys, all right, we 2087 01:34:20.720 --> 01:34:23.840 got it like that. Everybody carried that pride, that tradition, 2088 01:34:23.880 --> 01:34:26.159 and we wanted to keep it going because all those guys, 2089 01:34:26.239 --> 01:34:29.600 all those tough ass bastards, they fucking they put up 2090 01:34:29.640 --> 01:34:31.279 with a lot of shit and they passed it on 2091 01:34:31.359 --> 01:34:34.000 to us, and we wanted to live up to those standards. 2092 01:34:34.239 --> 01:34:35.600 So we all had a lot of pride. 2093 01:34:35.640 --> 01:34:37.920 We kept it going. I hope they're keeping I think 2094 01:34:37.960 --> 01:34:38.680 they're keeping it going. 2095 01:34:38.720 --> 01:34:40.279 I don't know a lot of the new guys. I 2096 01:34:40.399 --> 01:34:43.079 met a couple of them, but I loved, you know, 2097 01:34:43.319 --> 01:34:45.680 I love being there. The guys were great. I just 2098 01:34:45.800 --> 01:34:48.840 loved that that we were a tough house, like guys like, 2099 01:34:48.880 --> 01:34:50.319 oh shit, I don't want to I don't want to 2100 01:34:50.319 --> 01:34:52.800 go there, you know. Like but that being said, as 2101 01:34:52.840 --> 01:34:55.000 tough as we were and as tough as we were 2102 01:34:55.079 --> 01:34:58.520 on each other, anytime anybody got detailed there, they would 2103 01:34:58.560 --> 01:35:00.640 fucking treat it like gentlemen. They didn't have to pay 2104 01:35:00.680 --> 01:35:02.520 for meals, they didn't have to do anything. We treated 2105 01:35:02.560 --> 01:35:05.680 those guys like gold. So anybody that showed up, they knew, 2106 01:35:05.720 --> 01:35:07.680 they said, oh that's a great fucking place, man, that 2107 01:35:07.840 --> 01:35:09.520 really is a good place. They treat the guys right, 2108 01:35:09.760 --> 01:35:12.840 they know what they're doing, uh, and and they keep traditions. 2109 01:35:12.920 --> 01:35:14.600 It was it was really really a great place. 2110 01:35:15.000 --> 01:35:15.159 You know. 2111 01:35:15.920 --> 01:35:18.680 Keith always said, we got we got our fucking diplomas 2112 01:35:18.720 --> 01:35:21.720 from UCLA, the University of your corner of Lennox Avenue, 2113 01:35:22.119 --> 01:35:26.479 and that just just that experience was just so great, man. 2114 01:35:26.880 --> 01:35:31.920 It really was cheas probably too, but that the chiefs 2115 01:35:31.920 --> 01:35:32.880 would probably happen. 2116 01:35:32.760 --> 01:35:34.840 To see you on the box, right, I mean the 2117 01:35:34.960 --> 01:35:41.199 sixteenth Battalion period, you know, eight eighteen, twenty three, fifty 2118 01:35:41.279 --> 01:35:44.800 nine and thirty sixteenth Battalion one of the top notch, 2119 01:35:45.000 --> 01:35:47.000 if not the top notch, in my opinion, the top 2120 01:35:47.079 --> 01:35:48.199 knoche battalion on the job. 2121 01:35:48.840 --> 01:35:50.680 Everybody they showed up, we just knew what we were doing. 2122 01:35:50.720 --> 01:35:52.600 Everybody knew was sixteen I was going to be twenty eight. 2123 01:35:52.680 --> 01:35:54.079 What they were doing and how they were doing and 2124 01:35:54.119 --> 01:35:57.600 who's working, you just fucking knew. There was no questions, 2125 01:35:58.119 --> 01:36:01.119 like you never had to worry. If sixty one wasn't 2126 01:36:01.119 --> 01:36:03.119 gonna make the push for eighty, you knew they were 2127 01:36:03.159 --> 01:36:04.159 gonna fucking get that ship. 2128 01:36:04.560 --> 01:36:04.880 You knew. 2129 01:36:05.000 --> 01:36:07.359 And if not fucking we're gonna be right there with them. 2130 01:36:07.520 --> 01:36:07.800 That's it. 2131 01:36:07.960 --> 01:36:08.439 Like we were. 2132 01:36:08.760 --> 01:36:11.239 We were very close battalion, and I love that. I 2133 01:36:11.319 --> 01:36:12.199 love going to the to. 2134 01:36:12.239 --> 01:36:14.600 The Gocitos guys and hang out and them seeing us. 2135 01:36:14.680 --> 01:36:17.000 It was just a lot of fun. Man, great, great guys. 2136 01:36:17.239 --> 01:36:20.039 Whether they just start driving, Kenny, I. 2137 01:36:20.159 --> 01:36:25.039 Actually started driving right before I became a first grade fireman. 2138 01:36:25.159 --> 01:36:28.279 I wasn't even first grade fireman yet, and I was terrified, 2139 01:36:28.800 --> 01:36:31.520 terrified to drive the fire engine. 2140 01:36:32.119 --> 01:36:33.880 You know there It was like it didn't look like 2141 01:36:33.960 --> 01:36:35.880 it like yeah, I got to oh. 2142 01:36:36.119 --> 01:36:39.079 Yeah, because we were parked, we weren't driving. 2143 01:36:40.880 --> 01:36:46.239 Hit any garbage. Just wanted to know, just ask. 2144 01:36:46.199 --> 01:36:47.319 Who I hit? 2145 01:36:47.439 --> 01:36:47.720 I hit? 2146 01:36:48.279 --> 01:36:54.119 I hit something else other than the funny story of 2147 01:36:54.319 --> 01:36:58.359 me fucking up again. New chauffeur right. Got the guys, 2148 01:36:58.439 --> 01:36:59.880 young guys in the back. I think they might have 2149 01:36:59.880 --> 01:37:01.000 been the scene and guy in the back, but they 2150 01:37:01.039 --> 01:37:05.760 were letting me drive. Uh Danny Dostra double days retired? 2151 01:37:05.840 --> 01:37:07.199 Now is the was the engine board? 2152 01:37:08.840 --> 01:37:09.199 We get? 2153 01:37:09.600 --> 01:37:14.159 We get a call uh EMS box in the subway. 2154 01:37:13.800 --> 01:37:16.199 One hundred and thirty fIF street e R S which 2155 01:37:16.239 --> 01:37:20.880 one I didn't I didn't call it rsn't remember ship. 2156 01:37:22.199 --> 01:37:25.680 So make the right out of corners, go up to Powell, 2157 01:37:25.840 --> 01:37:27.159 make the ride on one three five. 2158 01:37:27.640 --> 01:37:28.000 Come down. 2159 01:37:28.039 --> 01:37:29.239 Now, I'm gonna make a right on Lenox. 2160 01:37:29.239 --> 01:37:30.560 They have you right in front of the subway station 2161 01:37:30.680 --> 01:37:33.760 with it em E M. S. Box is so as 2162 01:37:33.840 --> 01:37:37.279 I'm I'm trying to cut the corner fucking pretty tight, 2163 01:37:37.399 --> 01:37:39.560 so the guys didn't have to walk too far. And 2164 01:37:40.279 --> 01:37:42.600 there was a light pole don't a walk, don't walk 2165 01:37:42.760 --> 01:37:45.239 with a light on it right on the corner, and 2166 01:37:45.359 --> 01:37:47.680 I fucking cut the corner too close and I sheared. 2167 01:37:48.239 --> 01:37:50.560 I sheared the bottom of that light pole off, and 2168 01:37:50.640 --> 01:37:52.439 the boss is going, you're gonna hit the pole. You're 2169 01:37:52.439 --> 01:37:53.399 gonna hit the fucking pole. 2170 01:37:53.560 --> 01:37:57.239 And I go, I go, what you know? The pole 2171 01:37:57.439 --> 01:37:59.960 fucking boom, It hits the tree. 2172 01:38:00.039 --> 01:38:03.439 He's like fucking nine feet tall, hits the street, comes down, 2173 01:38:03.760 --> 01:38:05.800 and the boss freaks out. The guy's in the back 2174 01:38:05.880 --> 01:38:08.680 of laughing, and I'm like, holy shit, I just hit 2175 01:38:08.760 --> 01:38:10.319 this pole and knocked it over on one hundred and 2176 01:38:10.359 --> 01:38:13.000 thirty fifth Street and Lennox Avenue, and I look over 2177 01:38:13.039 --> 01:38:14.720 across the street and there's a cop car with two 2178 01:38:14.760 --> 01:38:16.720 cops in it, and they look the other way and 2179 01:38:16.760 --> 01:38:17.680 they drive off. 2180 01:38:23.399 --> 01:38:27.399 Double l that's old school, that's fucking great. He's pissed. 2181 01:38:27.439 --> 01:38:29.399 He gets out and now we're all laughing, and he's 2182 01:38:29.479 --> 01:38:31.920 mad that we're laughing that I did this. So I 2183 01:38:32.000 --> 01:38:34.600 step on the light pole like I'm Captain Morgan. I'm like, guys, 2184 01:38:34.920 --> 01:38:35.560 take a picture. 2185 01:38:35.600 --> 01:38:39.039 How are you like? I just slaid a dragon? And 2186 01:38:39.199 --> 01:38:40.159 he was so mad. 2187 01:38:40.239 --> 01:38:41.840 So we get back to the fire house and he's like, Chief, 2188 01:38:42.279 --> 01:38:45.720 distress happened And Chief was like, didn't hit anybody? And 2189 01:38:45.840 --> 01:38:48.000 he's like, uh no, I don't think I don't think so, 2190 01:38:48.840 --> 01:38:50.319 and he was like, all right, don't worry about it, 2191 01:38:50.399 --> 01:38:52.760 right it up and if something happens, we'll figure it out. 2192 01:38:52.920 --> 01:38:54.800 We go for another run like an hour later, and 2193 01:38:54.880 --> 01:38:55.600 the pole is gone. 2194 01:38:56.000 --> 01:38:57.960 So I knocked over a pot. 2195 01:39:00.079 --> 01:39:01.760 That bro. 2196 01:39:01.880 --> 01:39:04.319 They came up in like in like an ow man. 2197 01:39:04.600 --> 01:39:07.880 But every anything you could imagine. 2198 01:39:08.520 --> 01:39:10.520 Driving an engine or a truck in New York City 2199 01:39:10.760 --> 01:39:15.760 is is really really it's insane double park cars. But 2200 01:39:15.920 --> 01:39:18.600 once I got into it, once I got comfortable, I. 2201 01:39:21.800 --> 01:39:23.680 The most bro. I think I loved it. 2202 01:39:24.239 --> 01:39:26.680 It was Joe, did you get skinny? You too? 2203 01:39:27.600 --> 01:39:34.479 Yes? Oh my god. 2204 01:39:35.239 --> 01:39:37.000 We used to go down the FDR on occasion and 2205 01:39:37.359 --> 01:39:39.760 its fucking by the u N and gets like this 2206 01:39:40.159 --> 01:39:40.399 and you. 2207 01:39:40.479 --> 01:39:42.119 Just go, everybody go like this, We'll get through it. 2208 01:39:43.359 --> 01:39:45.720 Yeah, but it's great. I love I love driving the engine. 2209 01:39:45.760 --> 01:39:46.560 I love being an engine. 2210 01:39:47.920 --> 01:39:50.119 We call that the r O D position down here 2211 01:39:50.399 --> 01:39:52.039 retired on duty. 2212 01:39:53.520 --> 01:39:57.680 Did you did you get to seat Kenny eventually? No? 2213 01:39:57.840 --> 01:40:00.359 I never got to see. We never technically had seats. 2214 01:40:00.479 --> 01:40:03.359 But usually the senior guys would drive, but but they 2215 01:40:03.520 --> 01:40:05.840 technically didn't have to see. So a lot of times 2216 01:40:07.039 --> 01:40:08.640 I would come in, I would be driving, and the 2217 01:40:08.680 --> 01:40:10.760 senior guy would get over time and you know, you 2218 01:40:10.840 --> 01:40:14.119 got to give him the show France. But I ended 2219 01:40:14.199 --> 01:40:15.840 up driving a lot. You caught a lot of work, 2220 01:40:16.000 --> 01:40:17.960 pumped a lot. You know, it was a lot of fun. 2221 01:40:18.039 --> 01:40:18.439 I loved. 2222 01:40:18.560 --> 01:40:21.319 I loved driving the ngine. That picture is from Brian 2223 01:40:21.399 --> 01:40:26.000 Quinn's Rooffrop Rescue in twenty twenty one, I think. And 2224 01:40:26.199 --> 01:40:29.720 I pumped I back stretched eight lengths of three and 2225 01:40:29.760 --> 01:40:33.079 a half to the Siamese pretty much by myself. And 2226 01:40:33.199 --> 01:40:36.479 I was on the sidewalk of Lenox Avenue. Oh that 2227 01:40:36.600 --> 01:40:39.600 is the sidewalk, Yeah, sidewalk. And I didn't know any 2228 01:40:39.640 --> 01:40:41.479 better because there's a subway tunnel that runs right onto 2229 01:40:41.520 --> 01:40:43.479 Lenox Avenue, and I'm like, is the way to the 2230 01:40:43.560 --> 01:40:47.439 rig gonna fucking collapse this sidewalk into the fucking tunnel? 2231 01:40:48.199 --> 01:40:48.359 Late? 2232 01:40:48.760 --> 01:40:50.439 Oh yeah, I can see. I definitely posed. You saw 2233 01:40:50.479 --> 01:40:51.039 the camera guy? 2234 01:40:51.239 --> 01:40:52.199 Oh he's doing. 2235 01:40:54.199 --> 01:40:54.560 I know. 2236 01:40:58.079 --> 01:41:01.640 So what major did you think about? I'm sorry I 2237 01:41:01.680 --> 01:41:02.359 say that again. 2238 01:41:02.199 --> 01:41:05.079 Though, Did you ever think about studying at all? 2239 01:41:06.039 --> 01:41:06.319 I did. 2240 01:41:07.319 --> 01:41:09.800 I took the test, but I didn't I didn't really study. 2241 01:41:09.840 --> 01:41:12.119 I read the books, you know, for evolutions and shit 2242 01:41:12.199 --> 01:41:14.199 like that, you know, just for drills and stuff and 2243 01:41:14.279 --> 01:41:16.479 just to keep up. But I never really studied study 2244 01:41:16.520 --> 01:41:19.239 to become a lieutenant. So I took the test twice though, 2245 01:41:19.279 --> 01:41:21.279 but I didn't do too good. 2246 01:41:22.880 --> 01:41:26.159 But you know, some guys have meant to be, you know, chiefs. 2247 01:41:26.239 --> 01:41:28.720 Some guys are meant to be Indians, right, Kenny. So yeah, 2248 01:41:28.880 --> 01:41:30.960 I loved I loved what I did. I love being 2249 01:41:31.000 --> 01:41:31.479 in the fire. 2250 01:41:31.600 --> 01:41:34.720 You know, we need lieutenants, obviously, we need good ones, 2251 01:41:35.159 --> 01:41:37.920 and they're great guys that got promoted at fifteen one 2252 01:41:37.960 --> 01:41:40.560 and thirty. But once you're a lieutenant, you're out of 2253 01:41:40.640 --> 01:41:42.800 the out of the loop. You're not in the back 2254 01:41:42.880 --> 01:41:45.119 room anymore. You're not with the guys too much. Yeah 2255 01:41:45.239 --> 01:41:47.279 you no, just for an hour or two during change 2256 01:41:47.279 --> 01:41:52.279 of toils. But in dinner or lunch, Roofie was one 2257 01:41:52.319 --> 01:41:56.039 of the better. He was a great officer. Too much 2258 01:41:56.039 --> 01:41:56.439 smoke up? 2259 01:41:58.000 --> 01:41:59.079 Who who I feel that? 2260 01:41:59.279 --> 01:42:06.000 Louis? Oh look, so what what made you want to retire? Eventually? 2261 01:42:06.119 --> 01:42:06.560 Hang it up? 2262 01:42:07.520 --> 01:42:11.079 I just you know, I was getting tired, man, I 2263 01:42:11.760 --> 01:42:13.720 had I wanted to sleep more. I got sick of 2264 01:42:13.800 --> 01:42:17.039 fucking community. I didn't I didn't have that feeling that 2265 01:42:17.119 --> 01:42:18.319 I used to have when I first got on the 2266 01:42:18.399 --> 01:42:21.119 job of going into fires. You know, you catch a job. 2267 01:42:21.439 --> 01:42:22.800 This picture right here, I don't know if you can 2268 01:42:22.840 --> 01:42:26.319 see it. This is this is a fucking hundred alarm 2269 01:42:26.479 --> 01:42:29.079 that we caught across the street from the firehouse during COVID, 2270 01:42:29.520 --> 01:42:32.000 and I got bumped to the backstep. 2271 01:42:32.840 --> 01:42:35.239 And it was at that time. 2272 01:42:35.279 --> 01:42:38.800 I don't know if you guys were working then at midnight, 2273 01:42:38.960 --> 01:42:41.039 if you're working too much. The hours were crazy. They 2274 01:42:41.079 --> 01:42:44.079 were kicking guys off the rig, closing companies. Guys would 2275 01:42:44.079 --> 01:42:46.119 show up out of nowhere. You didn't know who was working. 2276 01:42:46.520 --> 01:42:47.720 It was just it was it was. 2277 01:42:47.840 --> 01:42:50.039 It was a nightmare, and I was getting tired anyway, 2278 01:42:51.039 --> 01:42:53.399 And one night we catched this, We catch this alarm 2279 01:42:53.439 --> 01:42:56.640 and I had the nozzle and tones go off, and 2280 01:42:56.680 --> 01:42:58.640 we knew it was a job. We could smiley and 2281 01:42:58.680 --> 01:43:00.840 it's because it's pretty much right around the corner. And 2282 01:43:00.960 --> 01:43:03.319 I got and it's the show for me, and I'm like, 2283 01:43:03.359 --> 01:43:05.039 where the fuck where is everybody? 2284 01:43:05.279 --> 01:43:06.439 And some probat from. 2285 01:43:06.399 --> 01:43:08.680 From the Bronx comes out of the back room. He's like, hey, 2286 01:43:08.720 --> 01:43:10.800 I'm your control man, and I was like, fuck, man, 2287 01:43:11.319 --> 01:43:13.199 here we go, you know. So we get dressed, we 2288 01:43:13.239 --> 01:43:15.560 get on the rig, we go around, and you know, 2289 01:43:15.600 --> 01:43:16.920 I'm taking my folds off. 2290 01:43:17.199 --> 01:43:17.560 Trying to win. 2291 01:43:17.640 --> 01:43:19.800 Sixty nine engine shows up and I was like, thank god, guys. 2292 01:43:19.960 --> 01:43:21.079 They're like, hey, what do you want us to do? 2293 01:43:21.239 --> 01:43:22.359 Is it just back me up? 2294 01:43:22.920 --> 01:43:23.079 You know? 2295 01:43:23.079 --> 01:43:25.399 And I and I usually a file like that. I 2296 01:43:25.479 --> 01:43:27.920 take my folds and I was licking my my chops 2297 01:43:28.199 --> 01:43:29.680 like I can't wait to get the fucking it. I 2298 01:43:29.680 --> 01:43:30.520 can't wait to go to work. 2299 01:43:30.880 --> 01:43:31.199 This one. 2300 01:43:31.239 --> 01:43:33.560 I was just like, I was like, this is gonna suck. 2301 01:43:34.079 --> 01:43:34.840 This is gonna suck. 2302 01:43:34.960 --> 01:43:38.279 Like that's when I kind of knew, right Like I 2303 01:43:38.319 --> 01:43:40.000 didn't love it. I didn't love it anymore. We got 2304 01:43:40.039 --> 01:43:42.319 our we got our asses kicked there like we didn't 2305 01:43:42.319 --> 01:43:44.760 get into fundy. They were calling people off the roof 2306 01:43:44.840 --> 01:43:47.079 right away. Shit was falling on us, and I was 2307 01:43:47.119 --> 01:43:49.039 like pushing a two and a half in for freaking 2308 01:43:49.359 --> 01:43:52.119 how long I was fumbling. It was just I was like, 2309 01:43:52.800 --> 01:43:55.159 you know, I knew, I knew, and I was I 2310 01:43:55.239 --> 01:43:57.680 was healthy and I can still go down on my 2311 01:43:57.720 --> 01:43:59.800 own terms. That's when I that's when I knew, you. 2312 01:43:59.800 --> 01:44:02.119 Know, for the most part, my uncle did forty three years. 2313 01:44:02.199 --> 01:44:04.920 He said to me, uh, you know how excited you 2314 01:44:05.000 --> 01:44:06.920 are when you're on vacation to get back to work, 2315 01:44:07.239 --> 01:44:09.399 Because we're not excited like that anymore. You know, it's 2316 01:44:09.439 --> 01:44:12.720 time to pack it in. That's good, you know, like 2317 01:44:12.800 --> 01:44:15.720 I used to be on vacation call fires like, how 2318 01:44:15.760 --> 01:44:19.600 are you on vacation? Yeah? Now you get the FireWire 2319 01:44:19.680 --> 01:44:22.640 wrapp and you see what you're missing? What FireWire? 2320 01:44:25.279 --> 01:44:25.760 That's what I thought. 2321 01:44:26.359 --> 01:44:31.720 Whatever, Okay, that's we're We're in business with the fire 2322 01:44:31.760 --> 01:44:34.680 wi We have the salty wire with them, So check 2323 01:44:34.760 --> 01:44:38.640 it out, all right, So what are you doing now 2324 01:44:38.760 --> 01:44:41.720 besides the kitchen table firehouse podcast? 2325 01:44:42.159 --> 01:44:46.199 So I for to keep you know, fine, looking for 2326 01:44:46.319 --> 01:44:49.039 my purpose, because as a man, we all need a 2327 01:44:49.119 --> 01:44:51.399 sense of purpose, right right. I was in a military 2328 01:44:51.600 --> 01:44:54.840 cop and Marshall fireman always had that sense of purpose 2329 01:44:54.840 --> 01:44:56.880 to wing to work, helping out the community, helping out 2330 01:44:56.880 --> 01:44:59.840 my brothers, you know whatever. I retired, and I was 2331 01:45:00.000 --> 01:45:01.640 the first six months were great. I was like, I'm 2332 01:45:02.079 --> 01:45:02.560 this is great. 2333 01:45:02.560 --> 01:45:03.760 I'm catching up on shit, I'm. 2334 01:45:03.880 --> 01:45:05.960 I'm not missing anything with the family and dah dah, 2335 01:45:06.039 --> 01:45:09.479 dah dah. And all of a sudden, I started feeling like, shit, man, 2336 01:45:09.520 --> 01:45:10.680 I'm I'm not that. 2337 01:45:10.760 --> 01:45:11.520 I was missing. 2338 01:45:13.319 --> 01:45:14.840 Yeah, yeah, you know. 2339 01:45:15.199 --> 01:45:16.840 The wife, I'm come home and she's like, what did 2340 01:45:16.880 --> 01:45:18.640 you What did you do today? And I was like, oh, 2341 01:45:19.159 --> 01:45:21.560 I didn't do anything today, you know. So I was 2342 01:45:21.600 --> 01:45:25.039 feeling like I felt like I was withering away. I 2343 01:45:25.119 --> 01:45:26.960 lost my sense of purpose. I needed to find something 2344 01:45:27.000 --> 01:45:31.119 else to do. I needed an outlet. So I figured 2345 01:45:31.159 --> 01:45:34.279 everybody else is fucking doing it. I'm watching everybody talk. 2346 01:45:34.720 --> 01:45:37.239 I figured I've had a lot of mental health issues 2347 01:45:37.640 --> 01:45:39.600 in the past, a lot of experiences that that have 2348 01:45:39.760 --> 01:45:41.640 got me to that place. And I was like, you know, 2349 01:45:41.720 --> 01:45:45.079 what if I can bring I missed the guys at 2350 01:45:45.119 --> 01:45:48.199 the table, and the guys at the table are where 2351 01:45:48.239 --> 01:45:51.079 I had therapy, right, like just talking to them, talking 2352 01:45:51.079 --> 01:45:52.960 about family, and you don't even know you're in like 2353 01:45:53.039 --> 01:45:55.239 a therapy with them because they all understand what you're 2354 01:45:55.239 --> 01:45:57.199 going through and you understand them and they know what 2355 01:45:57.319 --> 01:46:00.199 you're doing. And so I was like, I started really 2356 01:46:00.239 --> 01:46:01.640 missing that I didn't have any outlet. I don't have 2357 01:46:01.640 --> 01:46:03.760 anybody to talk to or as the group, you know, 2358 01:46:03.840 --> 01:46:04.439 as a tribe. 2359 01:46:04.479 --> 01:46:05.039 I felt like I was. 2360 01:46:06.159 --> 01:46:07.680 So it's like, if I thought this and I can 2361 01:46:07.760 --> 01:46:10.399 talk like I'm at the kitchen table with the guys, 2362 01:46:11.439 --> 01:46:13.960 It'll make me feel better. And if and in turn, 2363 01:46:14.399 --> 01:46:17.439 maybe I can fucking help somebody off the ledge. Maybe 2364 01:46:17.479 --> 01:46:19.720 I could let somebody know that they're not alone in 2365 01:46:19.840 --> 01:46:22.359 this world and feeling the way they feel as much 2366 01:46:22.399 --> 01:46:24.239 of a man as they think they are a tough guys. 2367 01:46:24.279 --> 01:46:27.079 That a lot of guys to feel the way you feel. 2368 01:46:27.680 --> 01:46:29.560 For thirty years, I kept my mouth shut. I never 2369 01:46:29.600 --> 01:46:34.399 said nothing in anybody, and it manifested in anger, violence, alcohol, 2370 01:46:35.079 --> 01:46:37.520 just not sleeping, all sorts of shit. And that's just 2371 01:46:38.039 --> 01:46:41.560 to be for me to be a full present man. 2372 01:46:42.279 --> 01:46:42.600 I got it. 2373 01:46:42.640 --> 01:46:44.920 I had to control all that shit and by talking 2374 01:46:44.960 --> 01:46:47.279 about it and having this outlet and maybe helping people, 2375 01:46:47.359 --> 01:46:50.560 letting guys know that you're not alone. Bro that maybe 2376 01:46:50.600 --> 01:46:52.840 I that was helping me do this. So I started that, 2377 01:46:54.239 --> 01:46:56.319 you know, it was it was very, very time consuming 2378 01:46:56.359 --> 01:46:57.119 and very tough to do. 2379 01:46:58.079 --> 01:46:58.199 Uh. 2380 01:46:58.399 --> 01:47:00.680 It just and then I didn't feel like was working out. 2381 01:47:00.720 --> 01:47:01.079 I don't know. 2382 01:47:01.199 --> 01:47:03.760 And then I got a job in the local school 2383 01:47:03.800 --> 01:47:07.000 district as a security officer, and I felt, oh, I 2384 01:47:07.079 --> 01:47:09.239 got a first sense of purpose. Now I can protect 2385 01:47:09.279 --> 01:47:12.119 these kids. Something happens, I'm gonna put myself in the 2386 01:47:12.199 --> 01:47:14.960 way of the threat to those kids, you know, role 2387 01:47:15.000 --> 01:47:18.039 school shootings or whatever. I had no problem talk, you know, 2388 01:47:18.279 --> 01:47:20.039 being in my head going I'm gonna I would take 2389 01:47:20.039 --> 01:47:22.039 a bullet for any one of these kids, because that's 2390 01:47:22.079 --> 01:47:23.079 my sense of purpose now. 2391 01:47:23.600 --> 01:47:25.680 So this is kind of what I'm doing now, you know, 2392 01:47:26.279 --> 01:47:29.159 in a nutshell. If you guys want to see more 2393 01:47:29.199 --> 01:47:31.399 of Kenny, just hit us up in the comments and 2394 01:47:31.479 --> 01:47:33.800 say we need more Kenny, and we'll have Kenny on 2395 01:47:33.880 --> 01:47:37.119 the show. Maybe you fill in maybe. 2396 01:47:38.920 --> 01:47:42.199 The uh just put the podcast back up. What is 2397 01:47:42.239 --> 01:47:45.560 it on the Kenny d right, The name. 2398 01:47:45.479 --> 01:47:47.359 Of it's the Kitchen Table, but I think the handle 2399 01:47:47.479 --> 01:47:49.000 is at Kenny D five nine. 2400 01:47:49.159 --> 01:47:51.119 Yeah, Kenny D. I looked it up today when you 2401 01:47:51.239 --> 01:47:51.479 told me. 2402 01:47:52.279 --> 01:47:54.760 Yeah, so it's that, Kenny D. I'm still so so 2403 01:47:54.920 --> 01:47:56.680 much to learn. I have no idea what I'm doing. 2404 01:47:57.000 --> 01:48:00.680 I just we need Kenny. Thank you. It could Jacob 2405 01:48:00.920 --> 01:48:01.560 appreciate that. 2406 01:48:02.960 --> 01:48:03.119 You know. 2407 01:48:03.239 --> 01:48:06.000 It's so it's you guys know how time consuming. 2408 01:48:08.199 --> 01:48:10.760 Man, When I was down one day a week instead 2409 01:48:10.760 --> 01:48:13.520 of too we were losing right cookies and. 2410 01:48:13.560 --> 01:48:15.279 Then I'd put up like a like an interview or something. 2411 01:48:15.319 --> 01:48:16.720 I'd be like, oh, this is just gonna be the best, 2412 01:48:16.800 --> 01:48:18.279 and like five people watching. 2413 01:48:19.680 --> 01:48:22.359 What It takes time to get It takes time to 2414 01:48:22.399 --> 01:48:25.239 get traction. But you did have you know, you had 2415 01:48:25.279 --> 01:48:27.600 the guys live in front of you right, you were 2416 01:48:27.640 --> 01:48:31.199 doing it together, you know, Kevin and I started that. 2417 01:48:31.359 --> 01:48:34.359 But it's it was tough to do, you know what 2418 01:48:34.399 --> 01:48:35.560 I mean. More tough. 2419 01:48:36.880 --> 01:48:39.319 Guys got time, they got families, they got whatever. It's 2420 01:48:39.399 --> 01:48:41.600 really really tough. I just felt like if I sat 2421 01:48:41.840 --> 01:48:44.960 with them, I'd have a better report. I can I 2422 01:48:45.039 --> 01:48:47.520 can drag out like the kids to the table was 2423 01:48:48.640 --> 01:48:51.279 about mental health through all my experiences. So if I 2424 01:48:51.319 --> 01:48:54.199 could sit with a guy and I can maybe get 2425 01:48:54.560 --> 01:48:56.680 more out of him than than through like the screen 2426 01:48:56.760 --> 01:48:58.680 or whatever. So I was like, got it, but it 2427 01:48:58.800 --> 01:49:00.840 was really hard to get guy, but this is so 2428 01:49:01.039 --> 01:49:03.000 convenient doing it this way, you. 2429 01:49:03.039 --> 01:49:08.039 Know, started getting salty family, Kenny will use you. 2430 01:49:08.520 --> 01:49:10.359 I appreciate it, man, this is this is a lot 2431 01:49:10.399 --> 01:49:12.239 of fun. I'm really really I enjoyed. 2432 01:49:12.319 --> 01:49:16.319 Really we started doing it like that and then covid 2433 01:49:16.560 --> 01:49:20.199 uh kind of put the on that and then we 2434 01:49:20.319 --> 01:49:22.800 started doing the Brady Bunch like you see. I mean 2435 01:49:22.840 --> 01:49:25.239 that's how it turned out. So that kind of helped. 2436 01:49:25.279 --> 01:49:28.319 And then love it. You know, it was like you said, 2437 01:49:28.640 --> 01:49:31.840 five people watch it. But because COVID happened, like it 2438 01:49:31.920 --> 01:49:34.520 was perfect timing for us because now everybody was home 2439 01:49:35.439 --> 01:49:37.880 and just the start of it and we started getting 2440 01:49:38.119 --> 01:49:40.560 traction like right away, you know, which you know, we 2441 01:49:40.600 --> 01:49:43.079 didn't really think was gonna not like that anyway. 2442 01:49:43.119 --> 01:49:44.760 Now people come just to see Gonzo. 2443 01:49:45.159 --> 01:49:48.239 So yeah, how do you say that? 2444 01:49:48.359 --> 01:49:48.479 Man? 2445 01:49:48.479 --> 01:49:51.560 I received two calls this week from uh, well, people 2446 01:49:51.600 --> 01:49:54.079 wanting information because they saw me on the show for 2447 01:49:54.199 --> 01:49:58.399 the department. I was like, oh, I like, I don't 2448 01:49:58.399 --> 01:49:59.680 know if it's a good or a bad thing, but. 2449 01:50:04.479 --> 01:50:07.319 And are they hiring you? That's all we want to know. 2450 01:50:07.840 --> 01:50:08.800 They got catch. 2451 01:50:11.279 --> 01:50:14.720 And you know what you got to do? Though, bro, 2452 01:50:15.479 --> 01:50:16.199 know what time it is? 2453 01:50:16.680 --> 01:50:18.880 At that time? Time is it is? 2454 01:50:19.239 --> 01:50:23.800 I think I think it's time for old school tip. 2455 01:50:24.239 --> 01:50:28.359 Time for it's time for the kitchen table, old school 2456 01:50:28.439 --> 01:50:29.279 tip of the day. 2457 01:50:31.439 --> 01:50:35.920 There you go, I got the floor screen, whatever you 2458 01:50:35.960 --> 01:50:36.439 want to call it. 2459 01:50:37.000 --> 01:50:39.960 So my old school tip of the day is for 2460 01:50:40.119 --> 01:50:43.560 new guys coming on the job. It's job is full 2461 01:50:43.600 --> 01:50:48.800 of tradition. This job is rich in tradition. We've done 2462 01:50:48.880 --> 01:50:53.319 things pretty much the same way for a very long time. 2463 01:50:53.520 --> 01:50:57.560 The reason being because it fucking works. Yes, times are 2464 01:50:57.680 --> 01:51:01.640 changing and fires are acting different, and you know the 2465 01:51:01.840 --> 01:51:06.760 the materials and fires are changing, but for the most part, 2466 01:51:07.079 --> 01:51:10.840 the fundamentals of the job stay the same. Fucking direct 2467 01:51:10.880 --> 01:51:16.079 interior attack to the fucking fire, aggressive interior attack, vent 2468 01:51:16.760 --> 01:51:21.079 horizontal ventilation and fucking vertical ventilation. You all fucking do 2469 01:51:21.199 --> 01:51:24.319 that stuff. You meet in the middle the fire goes out, right, 2470 01:51:24.720 --> 01:51:27.880 That's how we talk, That's how it is. Keep that 2471 01:51:28.039 --> 01:51:32.239 tradition up. Don't try to overthink things. Fucking just don't 2472 01:51:32.279 --> 01:51:33.880 try and be like one of them guys like you know, 2473 01:51:34.279 --> 01:51:36.680 I'm gonna invent the fucking uh. I'm gonna invent a 2474 01:51:36.760 --> 01:51:39.880 nozzle that fucking opens and closes with the uh, with 2475 01:51:40.000 --> 01:51:41.239 the with the sense of the heat. You know, I 2476 01:51:41.239 --> 01:51:43.159 wouldn't even have to touch it. It'll it'll do its 2477 01:51:43.199 --> 01:51:46.600 own thing. Bro Open a nozzle, make a fucking push, 2478 01:51:46.960 --> 01:51:49.960 and just keep fucking going. And that being said a 2479 01:51:50.000 --> 01:51:50.880 lot of the new guys. 2480 01:51:50.720 --> 01:51:51.399 Coming on the job. 2481 01:51:52.560 --> 01:51:54.239 I mean, I don't know now I'm gone three years, 2482 01:51:54.319 --> 01:51:59.239 but the job. You're not an individual anymore. This job 2483 01:51:59.399 --> 01:52:03.439 is a change of lifestyle. Whether you're married and have kids, 2484 01:52:03.479 --> 01:52:05.840 you are going to have to change how you do 2485 01:52:06.039 --> 01:52:09.119 things in your life. Yes, your wife and your children 2486 01:52:09.159 --> 01:52:11.319 will come first, and everybody on the job if something 2487 01:52:11.359 --> 01:52:14.439 happens to them, will help you out. But the job 2488 01:52:15.199 --> 01:52:18.840 isn't and should not adapt to you. You need to 2489 01:52:18.960 --> 01:52:21.720 adapt to the job, you know what I'm saying, Like, 2490 01:52:21.960 --> 01:52:24.640 keep those traditions. We shouldn't have to work around you 2491 01:52:24.680 --> 01:52:28.680 as collectively to dance around what your little needs are. 2492 01:52:28.960 --> 01:52:31.880 The needs of the few never outweigh the needs of 2493 01:52:31.920 --> 01:52:34.640 the many on this job. And that's what I have 2494 01:52:34.760 --> 01:52:39.239 to say. So you know that's that's that's really you pull. 2495 01:52:39.359 --> 01:52:45.960 You pull the spot on us, Bros. The needs of 2496 01:52:46.119 --> 01:52:50.359 the of the many outweigh the needs of the needs 2497 01:52:50.359 --> 01:52:54.119 of the few, never outweigh the needs going on? 2498 01:52:54.239 --> 01:52:54.600 Right, come on? 2499 01:52:57.800 --> 01:53:00.880 I had something similar to that. You ready, But that 2500 01:53:01.079 --> 01:53:04.479 one guy thinks five guys are an asshole, But five 2501 01:53:04.600 --> 01:53:06.880 guys think that the one guy is an asshole. Guess 2502 01:53:06.920 --> 01:53:11.439 who's right, Probably the five guys. That's what I'm saying, bro. 2503 01:53:12.359 --> 01:53:13.960 So if you want to see more, Kenny, I want 2504 01:53:13.960 --> 01:53:19.279 to see more. Oh, what's there's a guy who's shorter 2505 01:53:19.399 --> 01:53:23.840 than me. Thank you. I don't know how told you are. 2506 01:53:23.880 --> 01:53:27.319 You didn't you didn't divulge that information, bro, six and 2507 01:53:27.319 --> 01:53:27.600 a half. 2508 01:53:28.159 --> 01:53:28.359 You know. 2509 01:53:31.479 --> 01:53:34.720 Warm Mountain in the summer time. I'm like, you saw 2510 01:53:34.880 --> 01:53:35.920 Darren in there, right? Roof? 2511 01:53:36.119 --> 01:53:37.039 Yeah, Arren came back. 2512 01:53:37.199 --> 01:53:39.319 Diamond's back. He's got an infection in his leg. 2513 01:53:40.000 --> 01:53:40.800 He does all right. 2514 01:53:41.119 --> 01:53:42.560 They gotta they gotta cut his big coat off. And 2515 01:53:42.600 --> 01:53:45.840 I'm just kidding, no stopping, I'm just kidding. 2516 01:53:45.880 --> 01:53:48.680 Ice to see darn in there. God speed, get healthy 2517 01:53:48.760 --> 01:53:53.319 there roughly any shout outs, Buddy, I got nothing, nothing, 2518 01:53:53.399 --> 01:53:56.960 God got Bobby Austin next week probably. 2519 01:53:57.479 --> 01:53:59.199 Sorry ahead, So procain, you want to know if you 2520 01:53:59.279 --> 01:53:59.920 knew Jay Messing. 2521 01:54:00.479 --> 01:54:03.079 Yes, they work for j Messenger. I actually saw him recently. 2522 01:54:03.560 --> 01:54:04.920 I'm still friends with Jack. 2523 01:54:05.079 --> 01:54:08.600 Yes, all right, excellently and one last one really quick. 2524 01:54:08.720 --> 01:54:10.319 You guys should be getting us up with the super chat. 2525 01:54:10.359 --> 01:54:12.560 But anyway, Kenny wanted to know. I wanted to know 2526 01:54:12.640 --> 01:54:16.399 about the preference or Riggs Seagrave, the key km. 2527 01:54:16.439 --> 01:54:17.920 Oh you know what I was. 2528 01:54:18.079 --> 01:54:19.920 I got used to the Sea Grave, but but when 2529 01:54:19.960 --> 01:54:22.039 the k and came around, we had a couple of 2530 01:54:22.119 --> 01:54:24.880 problems with it in the beginning, like minor ship. But 2531 01:54:25.119 --> 01:54:28.239 like after a while, I was like, this is I 2532 01:54:28.399 --> 01:54:30.039 drove more with the km ME than I did with 2533 01:54:30.119 --> 01:54:33.720 the Sea Grave. So I'm gonna you know, I'm gonna 2534 01:54:33.720 --> 01:54:34.720 stay km H. 2535 01:54:36.319 --> 01:54:41.279 Good choice there, you Gony. Thanks for coming on today, BROV. 2536 01:54:41.359 --> 01:54:44.960 We're gonna have you back on anytime you fucking want 2537 01:54:45.000 --> 01:54:48.159 me on. You just let me know. I appreciate a 2538 01:54:48.199 --> 01:54:52.359 couple of people, maybe a guy that likes to go 2539 01:54:52.520 --> 01:54:55.880 hunting and now and again, I don't know, so Kenny 2540 01:54:55.920 --> 01:55:00.479 will be me, you and Gonzo. This guy, this guy 2541 01:55:00.760 --> 01:55:03.159 I see his eyes like that, like, oh what fun. 2542 01:55:08.159 --> 01:55:08.680 We do have? 2543 01:55:09.439 --> 01:55:13.760 Bobby Austin one eleven guy, Uh, he'll be on next week. 2544 01:55:14.119 --> 01:55:15.199 Spoke recently. 2545 01:55:15.600 --> 01:55:17.640 Yeah, he sent me some pictures. I just spoke to him. 2546 01:55:18.079 --> 01:55:20.680 I'll reach out to him again and that's all I got. 2547 01:55:20.880 --> 01:55:22.920 Keep on watching we get some good things. Oh God, 2548 01:55:23.000 --> 01:55:25.960 So you keep bringing up and I keep forgetting County. 2549 01:55:26.039 --> 01:55:30.319 Me and Roofie. You'll be out the Harrisburg Fire Expo 2550 01:55:30.880 --> 01:55:34.319 on May sixteenth and May seventeenth. Roofy, You'll be pulling 2551 01:55:34.600 --> 01:55:37.720 more of the weight because I'll just be getting my 2552 01:55:37.800 --> 01:55:42.279 new knee going right after that, before that, actually right 2553 01:55:42.319 --> 01:55:44.960 before that, So he'll be doing the heavy lift and 2554 01:55:44.960 --> 01:55:46.960 I'll be sitting there with my leg up, you know, 2555 01:55:47.079 --> 01:55:48.600 signing helmets because that's what I did. 2556 01:55:51.079 --> 01:55:53.960 I'll have his pen ready. God help me get my 2557 01:55:54.079 --> 01:55:54.399 pen and. 2558 01:55:54.439 --> 01:56:00.399 My crutches ready. All right, guys, thanks for joining us tonight. 2559 01:56:00.479 --> 01:56:01.359 I had a great time. 2560 01:56:01.640 --> 01:56:04.800 Am I able to shout out a couple of uh? Absolutely, 2561 01:56:05.760 --> 01:56:08.439 So I'd like to shout out first and a couple 2562 01:56:08.479 --> 01:56:10.960 of three charities. I'd like to really quick do it. 2563 01:56:11.680 --> 01:56:14.239 The first charity is to Live Like Chris Foundation Live 2564 01:56:14.319 --> 01:56:17.920 like Chris dot org. Christopher Tucci is my wife's cousin. 2565 01:56:17.960 --> 01:56:21.319 He was twenty seven years old and he died suddenly 2566 01:56:21.439 --> 01:56:26.560 of an undiagnosed heart condition, and it was really really 2567 01:56:26.640 --> 01:56:28.279 tough on the family. As you can tell, I'm a 2568 01:56:28.319 --> 01:56:30.640 little emotional, really really tough on us. And Chris is 2569 01:56:30.680 --> 01:56:32.680 one of the reasons why I started this because Chris 2570 01:56:32.840 --> 01:56:35.520 lived every single day like it was he just he 2571 01:56:35.880 --> 01:56:38.159 he was like the key to life is to never 2572 01:56:38.239 --> 01:56:41.199 give up. So they started a foundation for him and 2573 01:56:42.000 --> 01:56:45.039 in his name, and it's just grants for people who 2574 01:56:45.520 --> 01:56:48.399 need it or whatever. So that's to live like Chris 2575 01:56:49.199 --> 01:56:51.960 dot org. Live like Chris Foundation. That's number one, and 2576 01:56:52.039 --> 01:56:55.399 that's very, very close to me and my family's heart. 2577 01:56:55.720 --> 01:57:02.479 Number two is Tomahawk Charitable Solutions dot org. Tomahawk Charitable 2578 01:57:02.560 --> 01:57:08.159 Solutions is the charity company of Tomahawk's Strategic Solutions, which 2579 01:57:08.680 --> 01:57:12.600 is a company owned and operated by Tier one Special 2580 01:57:12.720 --> 01:57:18.840 Forces fucking veterans that teach military, teach law enforcement, and 2581 01:57:19.000 --> 01:57:23.960 security how to deal with incident responses, active shooters, all 2582 01:57:24.000 --> 01:57:24.560 sorts of stuff. 2583 01:57:24.680 --> 01:57:25.479 I used to work for them. 2584 01:57:25.479 --> 01:57:27.319 I was a role player for those guys, and those 2585 01:57:27.399 --> 01:57:30.479 guys are have done things that the people in this 2586 01:57:30.600 --> 01:57:34.000 country will never ever know. So they started an organization 2587 01:57:34.119 --> 01:57:38.760 called Tomahawk Charitable Solutions dot org and may help. One 2588 01:57:39.159 --> 01:57:42.119 percent of that money goes to veterans and first responders 2589 01:57:42.199 --> 01:57:42.560 in need. 2590 01:57:42.880 --> 01:57:44.279 So checked out those guys out. 2591 01:57:44.319 --> 01:57:47.319 And number three another one who my buddy, Damien Et 2592 01:57:47.319 --> 01:57:50.399 saverieda whose father died minded duty that I was telling 2593 01:57:50.399 --> 01:57:53.119 me about earlier. He is on the board of the 2594 01:57:53.239 --> 01:57:55.319 Friends off Firefighters dot org. And I know you guys 2595 01:57:55.359 --> 01:57:57.560 had Nancy carbon On a long time ago, and they 2596 01:57:57.600 --> 01:58:00.239 have done so much great work for mental health for 2597 01:58:00.319 --> 01:58:02.359 firemen in the City of New York. 2598 01:58:02.319 --> 01:58:04.880 And they are in need of donations. 2599 01:58:05.159 --> 01:58:08.840 So please any one of those three donations or charity 2600 01:58:08.920 --> 01:58:13.399 if you can just donate, check it out, whatever, please 2601 01:58:13.479 --> 01:58:13.640 do it. 2602 01:58:13.920 --> 01:58:16.520 And uh, we're having a show from her firehouse soon. 2603 01:58:16.600 --> 01:58:19.840 Bro oh you really yeah, mental health, So you'll be 2604 01:58:19.920 --> 01:58:22.199 welcome to join us if you want. Yeah, when is that? 2605 01:58:22.319 --> 01:58:22.560 Let me not. 2606 01:58:22.600 --> 01:58:24.079 I don't have a date yet. I have to call 2607 01:58:24.119 --> 01:58:26.199 her back, but it's going to be sometime fairly so. 2608 01:58:26.560 --> 01:58:28.760 Touch basically, Kenny. So let me make sure I got 2609 01:58:28.800 --> 01:58:33.000 it live like Chris dot org, Tomahawk Charitable Solutions dot 2610 01:58:33.520 --> 01:58:37.399 com dot org and Friends of Firefighters. 2611 01:58:36.920 --> 01:58:38.600 Obviously Friends of Freighters. 2612 01:58:39.760 --> 01:58:41.960 Alright, all right up on the description. 2613 01:58:41.880 --> 01:58:44.520 Get into your wallet you Chief Bassetts, donate something a 2614 01:58:44.560 --> 01:58:46.880 couple of bucks. Don't take much of shekels. Let's a 2615 01:58:46.920 --> 01:58:49.920 couple of shekels. Guns, you know, let's go. I'll do 2616 01:58:49.960 --> 01:58:53.239 your reaching for the gun. All right, guys, we'll see. 2617 01:58:53.800 --> 01:58:57.239 Oh it's empty. How is it? You just don't want 2618 01:58:57.239 --> 01:59:02.039 to clean up the masks? All right? Until next Thursday. 2619 01:59:02.079 --> 01:59:04.239 You know what we're gonna say, Stay low. 2620 01:59:04.159 --> 01:59:08.640 And go, Kenny, Thanks a lot, brother Lem big one. Everybody, 2621 01:59:09.760 --> 01:59:10.479 all right, guys. 2622 01:59:10.600 --> 01:59:13.800 Happy saying Patty's Day. Make good decisions this weekend. Make 2623 01:59:13.880 --> 01:59:16.680 good decisions, make good decisions, and we're rolling heavy in 2624 01:59:16.760 --> 01:59:17.319 South Florida. 2625 01:59:17.880 --> 01:59:20.520 Remember, remember it must be true. If you're heard, it's 2626 01:59:20.520 --> 01:59:28.760 the kitchen table, damn you. We'll see into at the show. Thanks, gentlemen,