GETTIN' SALTY EXPERIENCE PODCAST Ep. 287 | FDNY | Commissioner Robert Tucker

Gettin' Salty Experience Firefighter Podcast

Gettin Salty Experience

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🗓️ 10 April 2026

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Be sure and join us on our Youtube Channel with Our special guest, Former FDNY Commissioner Robert Tucker. Commissioner Tucker graduated from George Washington University and Pace University School of Law. Following law school, he worked as special assistant to the District Attorney in Queens County, Richard A. Brown. In 1999 he became chairman and CEO of T&M Protection Resources, a company specializing in security, intelligence and investigations. In 2007 he restructured T&M as a limited liability company and sold a minority interest to Pegasus Capital Advisors as well as another private investor. In 2024 he accepted the position as the 35th Fire Commissioner of the City of New York (FDNY), the largest fire department in the United States. This appointment, by the Mayor of New York City, recognized his reputation as a highly successful businessman able to build strong foundations to foster collaboration and growth. In his role as one of the chief risk management executives in New York City, he was responsible for the day-to-day leadership of the nation’s most complex public safety agency, with roughly 18,000 personnel, including firefighters, paramedics, EMTs, fire marshals and fire prevention inspectors, and a multibillion-dollar budget. He has served on various boards including the New York City Police Foundation, Pace University and White Plains Hospital. He currently serves on the board of the FDNY Foundation and the Gary Sinise Foundation. 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 salty experience podcast are that of the guest and do not directly or necessarily reflect the views of the host of to the getting salty experience podcast.
0:36.6	Hello!
0:42.5	All right.
0:43.9	That one looks like it's working.
0:48.9	Yeah, it's working on my ears, so.
0:49.6	All right, good.
0:50.7	All right, so it's live.
0:53.0	Hello, here they come.
0:53.8	They're all following.
0:55.4	Come back. Come on back, guys. Come on back to the to get all these screen podcasts the other one of three house we can't
0:58.5	we'll just go ahead and screw delaney
1:03.7	oh here's my book all right let's get him here's all right let's get the commission here. Okay. You want to tell the joke again? You know what? You got to tell that joke quick. Come on. You don't want to tell it? No, I'll tell it at the end of the show. Here I are. Here I are. All right. Everybody's coming back. You ready, God? Oh, my God, that was close. All right, you ready? All right, here we go. Coming to the stage, Commissioner Robert S. Tucker. Whoa, there he is. Hey, we're alive, actually. In case you didn't know, we're live. Sorry, that commission. No worries. This happens to me all the time. That's what firefight is due. I don't have anything to do anymore. So take your time. I was like, I'm sure he's got nothing going on. He's not going on. I will tell the story. Did you even realize that that took place the other day and the phone commissioner of course it you know it happens to me all the
2:01.2	time now yeah it's right it's always it's always robert who now exactly so he calls me at the end of
2:08.2	the day and it comes in as a private number i don't usually pick them up because the solicitors i pick
2:13.7	this one up and i hear kevin i'm like yes he, he goes, it's Robert. And I go, yeah?
2:19.0	And he says, Robert Tucker. And I go, yeah, you said that. And it's like, Robert Tucker, the commissioner who's going on your show. I'm like, oh, you get, you idiot. You dick. Yeah. Dude, he called me right after that. He was so like I said I said, I just stuck my foot in my mouth at the commission.
2:35.7	I'm like, I'm already starting, like, with this guy.
2:38.0	So, listen, before we start, let's do the pledge before we get it.
2:42.0	Yeah, okay.
2:42.8	John, I'm going to give you kudos for changing that around really quick.
2:45.1	Good job, brother.
2:46.8	Well done.
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