GETTIN' SALTY EXPERIENCE PODCAST Ep.267 | CHIEF OF DEPT. JOHN SUDNIK

Gettin' Salty Experience Firefighter Podcast

Gettin Salty Experience

Society & Culture

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🗓️ 24 October 2025

⏱️ 184 minutes

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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 Assistant Chief – Queens Boro Command (2008–2012) -Assistant Chief – Manhattan Boro Command (2012–2014) -Chief of Operations – FDNY (2014–2019) -Chief of Department – FDNY (2019–2023) -Retired in 2023 after nearly four decades of service Pretty sure he didn’t see any fires Going to be another great show. We will get the whole skinny. You don’t want to miss this one. 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 #Tradition #FDNY

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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 and Salty Experience podcast are that of the guest and do not directly or necessarily reflect the views of the host of the Getton Salty Experience podcast. You're listening to the getting a lot and
0:31.2	to the getting salty experience podcast.
0:35.9	Hello! Hello Hello Hello and welcome back to the getting sold to experience podcast
0:47.6	I lost my voice again
0:48.8	Fucking yum yum
0:49.7	Welcome back It's the only one.
0:55.4	Gonsa. What does it do?
0:57.2	It brings this, what do you call it, the kitchen table thing?
1:00.1	Crazy world of the kitchen table to you.
1:03.0	To you.
1:03.6	Stories.
1:05.4	We got another one of these guys, Ruff, that started from here and went all the way through the ranks to the
1:12.4	top dog head hancho he did it the right way he did it the right way you can tell too when he
1:18.0	sends all his information right we say it all it's like eight pages long something like that yeah
1:22.1	it's just done well like it's done well oh yeah yeah it's in the water everything you know yeah
1:27.0	yeah no don't be fine it's gonna put this together You know Come on I mean give me a break Every chief has a great secretary Let me just tell you Is that what it is Even a training chief Oh yeah for sure Yeah for sure Chat CPD is my friend lately too i don't even know it's cheater it's cheating no no it polishes you got a pollute you put your thoughts
1:50.6	there and you just let it fix it for you but you had to come from here so oh i see what do you mean
1:56.0	we got some good fires because he's been some busy places, too. So I'm sure.
2:01.4	He's not listening to us.
2:03.2	No.
2:03.9	Who?
2:05.1	He's talking about something.
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