Gettin' Salty Experience Firefighter Podcast

Be sure and join us with our special guest, former 31 year FDNY Lieutenant Ray Strong. He was a FF. in Ladders 51, 126 and 111 and Rescue 4. He was Lt. in Div 13 and then in Rescue 4. Ray has been very involved with the Axemen Motorcycle Club NY chapter. We will be discussing how it started and how we can help. Their sole charitable focus is towards the children of F.D.N.Y. & Axemen firefighte...

Be sure and join us with our special guest, FDNY 23 year veteran, Lieutenant Charles Schmid. Lt. was appointed to the FDNY on 2/24/1979 and retired in December of 2002. With over 20 years of dedicated service to the FDNY, Lt. has had the honor of working with and learning from some of the greats within the FDNY. We’ll hear all about his career and the many stories he’s sure to share. Once appointe...

Be sure and join us live Thursday night, March 5th at 8pm on our Youtube Channel with our special guest, 34-year FDNY veteran, Battalion Chief George Gierer. Chief Gierer was appointed to the FDNY in 1969 and retired in 2003. With three and a half decades of service to the FDNY, he has had an outstanding career. Once appointed to the FDNY he went on to: Assigned 1970 to Engine 46 / Ladder 27 both...

The Getting’ Salty Experience Podcast is happy to present you with another episode of History with Hash on our youtube channel. We will be discussing the history of Isaac Ludgate, another legend of the job!. It literally just never stops in this era. So Pour a drink and enjoy this episode of The Gettin Salty Experience.podcast. After you watch the live show, be sure and tell your friends about our...

Be sure and join us on our Youtube Channel. Our special guests will be retired FDNY Truckies... FF Keith Nicollielo and FF Greg Bruno, also joining is Harrisburg FD FF Jeff Miller . We will be sitting down for drill at the kitchen table..shooting the sh$t. Topics for tonight are "All Things Search" ...Should be a doozy . You don’t want to miss this one. You can also Listen to our podcast ...we are...

Be sure and join us live Thursday night, February 12th at 8pm on our Youtube Channel with our special guest, 36-year FDNY veteran, Battalion Chief Jack Spillane . Chief Spillane was appointed to the FDNY in 1982 and retired in 2018. With three and a half decades of service to the FDNY, he has had an outstanding career. Once appointed to the FDNY he went on to: Assigned Engine 14 Onion skin to Ladd...

Be sure and join us on our Youtube Channel with our special guest, 30-year FDNY veteran, Bobby McGuire. Bobby was appointed to the FDNY in 1982 and retired in 2002. With three decades of service to the FDNY, Bobby has had an outstanding career. He also spent three decades in the ring, fighting some great fights. Bobby was the first member of the FDNY to win a gold in boxing. He may or may not have...

Be sure and join us on our Youtube Channel with our special guest, 35-year FDNY veteran, Battalion Chief Charles Williams. Chief was appointed to the FDNY on 11/24/1973 and retired on September 11th in 2008. With over three decades of service to the FDNY, Chief Williams has built an extraordinary career. We’ll hear all about his journey and the many stories he’s sure to share. Once appointed to th...

Be sure and join us live Thursday night, January 22nd at 8pm on our Youtube Channel with our special guest, FDNY 40-year veteran, Deputy Chief Joseph Jardin. Chief was appointed to the FDNY on 12/9/1985 and recently retired in October of 2025. With over 4 decades of service to the FDNY, Chief Jardin has had the honor of working with and learning from some of the greats within the FDNY. We’ll hear...

Be sure and join us for our next segment of the "Inventors Corner" on our Youtube Channel. Our special guest will be 28-year veteran Michael Dragonetti of the Stamford (CT) Fire Department. Michael Dragonetti is a nationally recognized expert in elevator emergency management, with hands-on experience in construction, modernization, maintenance, and repair of elevators and escalators in the New Yor...

Be sure and join us Live this Thursday January 8th on our Youtube Channel with our special guest, FDNY veteran Kenny D and a couple of his FDNY dudes from the Zoo for a collaboration. The Salty Guys and the zoo dudes will be at the kitchen table for some Q&A and ball breaking!! Maybe... Best of all, you guys get to pick the topics. It can be ANYTHING. Send questions, topics ,photos or anything...

Be sure and join us Live on our Youtube Channel this Thursday December 18th with our special guest, FDNY Veteran, Jack Carney. Jack joined the FDNY in March of 1965 and was assigned to Engine 7 out of Probie school. From there he went to Engine 219 in late 1965, then in 1966 he went to Engine 283. The following year he went to Squad 4 where he was "allegedly" lifted. In 1970 he did some time in Tr...

Here we are Leatherhead Nation... The show we have ALL been waiting for for YEARS! Lou and Kev have FINALLY pulled the Rabbit out of the hat and Landed the big one!! Denis Leary is a five-time loser at the Emmy Awards. He hopes to one day also lose an Oscar, a Grammy and a Tony. In his long and storied entertainment career Leary has also never won The Stanley Cup, The Nobel Peace Prize or an argum...

Be sure and join us with our special guest, FDNY veteran Captain Nick Gaudiosi. Cap has had a great career with FDNY and wrote a book titled, A Fireman's Life For Me: My Time in the FDNY 1979-2003. We will be sure to ask him all about it. Captain Gaudiosi Joined the Long Beach Volunteer FD- assigned Eng 2 “Suicide Squad” in 1976, from there he, -Took the FDNY test in Dec of 1977  -May 1978 Graduat...

Be sure and join us live Thursday Nov 20th at 8pm on our Youtube Channel. Our special guest will be 82 year old and 22 year FDNY veteran Mike Penchina. In 1963 he became a volunteer firefighter of Alert Fire Dept in Great Neck, NY 11/29/1969 – Appointed to Proby School 1/22/1970 Assigned to Engine 91 In 1971 transferred to Ladder 26-2 In 12/1974 disbanded L26-2 and transferred to Engine 54 In 4/19...

Be sure and join us with our special guest, FDNY veteran and actor Jack McGee. He was born in the South Bronx, New York, the youngest of eight children. He attended Cardinal Hayes High School in the Bronx, where he was class president and also played on the Football team, and appeared as a member of the background harmony in The Young Rascals. In 1977, he became a firefighter for the New York City...

Be sure and join us on our Youtube Channel with our special guest, FDNY veteran Craig Monahan. Craig started his career in January of 87 with transit PD and in July of 93, rolled over to FDNY. From there he spent 14 years with Ladder 5 and worked with some great firefighters, including Captain John Drennen. Tune in as we listen to Craig share his experiences and his story of the infamous Watts Str...

Be sure and join us with our special guest will be 35 year FDNY veteran, Capt. Donnie Schneider. He has had an absolutely incredible career and worked in some great companies. - Probie School 8/3/1985 - Assigned Engine 233 9/1985 - Transfer Ladder 126 3/1990 - Transfer Ladder 120 3/1994 - Transfer Squad 270 5/1998 - Promoted to Lt 9/2001 - Assigned Batt 7 2/2022 - Engine 26 (UFO) 5/2002 - SOC Cove...

Be sure and join us with our special guest, 38 year FDNY veteran, Chief of Dept. John Sudnik. He has had an absolutely incredible career and worked in some great companies. -Appointed to FDNY Oct 1985 -Firefighter – Engine 23 (1985–1994) -Lieutenant – Engine 235 (1994–1999) -Captain – Engine 290 (1999–2001) -Battalion Chief – Battalion 50 (2001–2003) -Deputy Chief – Division 3 (2003–2008) -Deputy...

Be sure and join us on for another episode of our "Author's Corner" with our special guests, veteran Captain, publisher and editor in chief, Kory Pearn from the St. Thomas Fire Department in Ontario, and the one and only FDNY(retired) DC, senior editor and partner, Frank Leeb. We are going to sit down with these two fine gentlemen and discuss the explosive growth of the magazine, CRACKYL and the n...

Be sure and join us on our Youtube Channel with our special guests, Darrell Sales & Frank Walsh from Santa Clara California. Both are veteran firefighters from the Santa Clara Fire Department. Darrell retired in 2013 as a driver engineer and Frank retired in 2000 as a Captain. Darrell & Frank have interesting nicknames which we will learn how that came to be. These gentlemen have a riding...

Be sure and join us on with our special guest, 38 year FDNY veteran, Capt Mike Currid. He has had an absolutely incredible career and worked in some great companies. - Marine Corp. 1965 - Appointed 9/1970 to Engine 83 - Transferred to Ladder 29 -8/1972 - Lay Off 3/1975 - 5 days - Promoted to Lt. -3/1983 - Assigned to Ladder 45 -6/1984 - Promoted to Captain -11/1990 - Assigned to Ladder 49 -11/1990...

Be sure and join us on our Youtube Channel with our special guest, former Fire Patrolman Arnold Roma, father of Patrolman Keith Roma. Tune in as we honor and pay tribute to the ONLY patrolman that perished on 911. Keith was with Fire Patrol 2 in Greenwich Village and responded to the trade center on that horrific day. Keith performed some great heroic acts on 911 including several trips into the N...

Be sure and join us with our special guest 34 year veteran, Captain Jim Carpenter. Jim was appointed to the FDNY in October of 1969 to ladder 103-2 which was disbanded in December of 1974. From there he served in Ladders, 18, and 172. Was then promoted to Lt. in 1984 and went to 113 truck. Promoted to Captain in 1990, then worked in 153 truck. Cap also had the honor of being detailed to Chief Ganc...

Be sure and join us on our Youtube Channel. We will be talking all things FDNY RES1CUE. Our special guests will be past FDNY Rescue 1 members, Paul Hashagen, Hank Molle, and Joel Kanasky. Rescue Company 1 was organized on March 8, 1915 and services the New York City borough of Manhattan, below 116th Street in East Harlem and 125th Street in Morningside Heights and Harlem. Going to be a great show....