GETTIN' SALTY EXPERIENCE PODCAST Ep. 270 | JACK MCGEE

Gettin' Salty Experience Firefighter Podcast

Gettin Salty Experience

Society & Culture

4.9 • 765 Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2025

⏱️ 87 minutes

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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 Fire Department. As a firefighter, he served with FDNY Engine Company 38 and Ladder Company 51 in the Bronx. During his acting career, he was in the TV Series RESCUE ME, he portrayed FDNY 15th Battalion Chief Jerry Reilly. He also played Otis Schmidt, the driver and engineer in the movie BACKDRAFT. He has appeared in over 100 films and television series. 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 #volunteerfirefighters #FDNY #learyfirefightersfoundation #rescueme

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0:00.0	Disclamor, 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 to the getting salty experience podcast.
0:36.6	Hello!
0:40.9	That's right.
0:42.0	Hello.
0:43.8	Welcome back to the getting sold to experience podcast.
0:46.5	This is the only one that brings the firehouse kitchen table and Hollywood to you, bro.
0:52.8	Yeah. We got them.
0:54.0	This guy was peppering me up in the pre-show.
0:56.7	Coobbs is going like this.
0:58.6	Body blow, body pump.
1:00.2	Knock them out.
1:01.1	Humbercut.
1:01.7	I got to bring up the game a little bit.
1:04.0	I got to do stuff.
1:04.8	I'm just to pepper me up, bro.
1:07.4	My face hurts already.
1:09.0	Holy mackle.
1:10.4	Man, the one line is over here. Then he, just before we came on, he was, Gonzo threw like a little line out. And he's like, oh, Gonzo, you're charming in now? Let's go. I was like, Godzo's like, I want to get involved with the discussion, Mr. Helper. Mr. Helper. Holy shit, that's going to be great.
1:32.5	A lot of belly laughs. discussion mr helper mr helper oh shit that's gonna be great oh this man was he on the job in a job in the war yeah how many of these shows that he said did 190 100 to 200 something like that
1:38.7	this one more than we can't like five pages six pages I don't know what it is this man's been in
1:43.7	at all and back draft at Turk 182, and Rescue me. And Seinfeld. Four lines in Seinfeld, he said. You don't know what Turk 182 is? No, no, I said Turk 182. That's an old story. Yeah, no, no. Yeah, Zimmerman flew and Tyler knew. Yeah, just throwing him out there.
2:04.3	He's old.
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