GETTIN' SALTY EXPERIENCE PODCAST Ep:219 | FDNY COMMISSIONER THOMAS VON ESSEN

Gettin' Salty Experience Firefighter Podcast

Gettin Salty Experience

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🗓️ 16 August 2024

⏱️ 139 minutes

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Join us on our Youtube Channel with our special guest, Thomas Von Essen New York City's 30th fire commissioner after serving as a member of the FDNY for 26 years. Following two years of active duty in the U.S. Naval Submarine Service, He went to proby school in May 1970. He was assigned to Ladder Company 42 in the South Bronx, where he spent spend over 15 years as a firefighter and also became the company delegate to the Uniformed Firefighters Association (UFA). We will get the whole skinny. You don’t want to miss this one. In 1993 Von Essen was elected as President of the Uniformed Firefighters Association representing the department's firefighters. He was appointed the 30th FDNY Commissioner of the City of New York by Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani on April 15, 1996, and served in that position until the end of the Giuliani Administration on December 31, 2001, nearly four months after the September 11, 2001 attacks. Join us at the Kitchen Table on the BEST FIREFIGHTER PODCAST ON THE INTERNET! You can also Listen to our podcast ...we are on all the players #lovethisjob #GiveBackMoreThanYouTake #Oldschool

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0:00.0	Disclaimer, we'd like to note before the start of this interview that the opinions about to be expressed by the guest on tonight's Get Insulte Experience podcast are that of the guest and do not directly or necessarily reflect the views of the host of the Getting Salty Experience podcast.
0:40.3	You're listening to the getting salty experience podcast hello hello darren de frees who's going to be busy tonight he's going to be my head on a
0:47.9	swivel looking for guys who get out of line and kicked their ass right out of this shot welcome
0:51.9	back to the getting toldolt the Experience podcast.
0:57.8	It's the only one that brings the firehouse kitchen table to you.
1:00.3	And tonight, we got a good one.
1:01.2	Doosy.
1:02.4	Man, we got a dozy.
1:07.5	We got a guy on here who's, uh, I got more emails and texts, but you know how the brothers are, bro, right?
1:08.5	Go down bad.
1:11.3	Yeah, what are the brothers like? But one of the brothers, two things
1:12.6	that the brothers...
1:14.3	They hate the way things are,
1:17.2	and they don't like change.
1:18.4	Right. That's the brothers.
1:20.3	That's it.
1:21.6	I was on the beach
1:23.2	after Louis posted that on our social media,
1:26.0	and guys would send in these shit on Facebook.
1:30.4	My wife is looking at him like, these guys are men babies.
1:33.7	What is going on?
1:35.1	I put the disclaimer too.
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