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  • WEDNESDAY, 7PM Slight schedule change The podcast will now be airing Wednesdays and Fridays at 7PM as opposed to Tuesdays and Fridays. Who’s our first guest of 2024? Well, with 34 years on the NYPD he rose from cadet cop to top from 1988 through 2022. The rise was quite quick. What do I mean?

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  • What these 12 months in particular taught me Looking back over my shoulder to borrow an old line from a really good Mike & The Mechanics song, 2023 was in many senses the year I finally entered into this whole adulthood thing if you will. This time last year, I was not a happy camper.

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  • On June 5, 1998, FDNY Assistant Chief then Battalion Chief Tom Galvin responded to the infamous Atlantic Avenue fire in Brooklyn which resulted in two firefighters, Lieutenants James Blackmore & Scott LaPiedra being killed, and Lt. Timothy Stackpole (killed on September 11, 2001) suffering awful burns. 25 years later, the job remains fresh in the

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  • (FRIDAY, 7PM) Unfortunately, Chief John Esposito, was not feeling well and thus we pivot to this man who for 37 years served the citizens of NYC proudly as a firefighter from 1978 until 2015. In those 37 years, 31 of them were spent as a fire officer, giving him a wealth of experience in not

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  • The Yankees add a generational talent and reclaim their identity in the process A seven player blockbuster brought a 25-year old generational talent in Juan Soto to The Bronx. After a day’s worth of seemingly a million and one different reports from a variety of wanna be insiders plagued with a bad case of gotta

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  • During the 1980’s was under siege thanks to the brutal combination of crime and crack. But that didn’t deter NYC firefighters like Jim Graham from getting the job done. In this instance, in one of the best stories I’ve ever heard, getting the job done involved saving a family who as the retired FDNY Captain

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  • (TUESDAY, 7PM) Across 25 years in the FDNY, he ate flames & charged into any & all kinds of danger with no hesitation. Sworn in during the sweltering spring of 1979, Brooklyn was his base with stops at Engine now Special Operations Command Squad 252 & Ladder Companies 175, 174, 21, & 102. Promoted to

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  • (TUESDAY, 7PM) Across 25 years in the FDNY, he ate flames & charged into any & all kinds of danger with no hesitation. Sworn in during the sweltering spring of 1979, Brooklyn was his base with stops at Engine now Special Operations Command Squad 252 & Ladder Companies 175, 174, 21, & 102. Promoted to

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  • With over 40 years worth of law experience as a prosecutor, private attorney, and judge, Jerry Garguilo was dealt perhaps the most complex case of his lengthy career when he was tapped to preside over the New York opioid trials, in a time in which the crisis had reached a fever pitch and corporations were

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  • (FRIDAY, 7PM) First, I interviewed the daughter and now I’ll be interviewing the father. In conversation with my friend and mentor Joelle Garguilo ometime ago, I found out her father was a judge and not just any judge, but a justice in the Suffolk County Supreme Court at that! A former prosecutor, he grew up

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