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Curtis takes your calls! · The Mark Simone Show

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  Speaker 1: The voice that fights for New York literally, Curtis leewa
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  Speaker 1: guest hose for Mark Simone on sevent tenor artificial intelligence Aisy,
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  Speaker 1: You're gone. If I remain at OK radio show hosts,
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  Speaker 1: I'll be gone. There won't be jobs for anybody, because
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  Speaker 1: let's leave it to the masters of the universe Elon
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  Speaker 1: Musk and the other billionaires trillionaires who said, don't worry,
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  Speaker 1: we'll have universal high income.
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  Speaker 2: We'll take care of all of you from the cradle
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  Speaker 2: to the grave. You're on one hundred.
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  Speaker 1: And fifty five thousand dollars a year and you can
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  Speaker 1: play with your belly button lint at home. Yeah, well,
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  Speaker 1: you're going to trust any of them before we go
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  Speaker 1: to the folds. I went through Times Square earlier this week,
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  Speaker 1: and they have what they call their Wishing War. It's
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  Speaker 1: mostly for tourists who are dumb enough to show up
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  Speaker 1: and want to wait for the ball to drop. Remember today,
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  Speaker 1: the rules are three o'clock. That's when you got to
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  Speaker 1: get into your cattle pens. All the depends have been
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  Speaker 1: cleaned off the racks at CBS and Dwayne Reid because
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  Speaker 1: you met a you met a double bundle yourself imagine
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  Speaker 1: you got to be there from three to twelve. When
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  Speaker 1: the ball drops nine hours you've been drinking a little bit, right,
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  Speaker 1: you know you're gonna have to go, and you can't
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  Speaker 1: squeeze your legs forever.
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  Speaker 2: But if you leave the cattle pen, you can't come back.
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  Speaker 1: Now, why would anybody in their right mind who lives
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  Speaker 1: in the Tri State area want to venture into that?
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  Speaker 1: Normally they'd start loading up the cattle pens at six,
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  Speaker 1: but Jessica Tis she wants everybody search twice. It's like
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  Speaker 1: taking the list and then checking it twice. Ridiculous. But
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  Speaker 1: then again, you gotta be ridiculous to be there. That's
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  Speaker 1: why you notice it's all turus. But anyway, so they're
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  Speaker 1: putting up these pasties on this wishing wall. I got
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  Speaker 1: about two hundred thousand that'll be shredded up put with
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  Speaker 1: the confetti that drops with the release of the ball
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  Speaker 1: to welcome in twenty twenty six.
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  Speaker 2: And there's one paste it stood out to me. It
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  Speaker 2: said no more AI.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, we're gonna get into that on Friday, and we're
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  Speaker 1: gonna talk about bitcoin, crime, coin and driverless vehicles. A
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  Speaker 1: lot of you driving right now not gonna need you
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  Speaker 1: if you're doing this for a profession. The masters of
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  Speaker 1: the universe don't want to have to pay any of you.
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  Speaker 1: They're gonna they're gonna take care of you from the
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  Speaker 1: cradle to the grave. Yeah, yeah, right, don't trustem. Let's
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  Speaker 1: go if we can to Bill, who's calling? Your turn
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  Speaker 1: to be heard here at seven ten wor.
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  Speaker 3: Billy, Good Morning, Curtis Walter Winchell's radio shows he had
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  Speaker 3: There was a major plumbing league in the White House
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  Speaker 3: between nineteen thirty three and nineteen forty five, and that
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  Speaker 3: leak went right to Walter Winch's radio show. The leak
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  Speaker 3: was the President himself.
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  Speaker 2: Fdr Right.
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  Speaker 3: Every one had been because of that league. He my god,
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  Speaker 3: he had more. Walter Winshell had more enemies after forty five.
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  Speaker 3: Truman hated Winschell, so after forty five his radio net
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  Speaker 3: just collapsed on him.
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  Speaker 1: Well, let me tell you one thing. When I was
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  Speaker 1: over at WABC, no longer my place to be, we
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  Speaker 1: had a crown jewel in broadcasting on Sunday Night who
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  Speaker 1: just wanted to be like his mentor, Walter Winschell. His
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  Speaker 1: name was Matt Trudge. The guy loved talk radio. I
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  Speaker 1: know because when I met him in LA for the
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  Speaker 1: first time. He was behind the seven and eleven serving
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  Speaker 1: not chosen slurpies. He was not the mad trudge that
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  Speaker 1: he became, and he would go and listen to Kiev.
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  Speaker 2: George Putnam.
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  Speaker 1: I would be a guest there organizing Guardian Angels, and
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  Speaker 1: we got to know one another. And George Putman was
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  Speaker 1: sort of like the Bob Grant of LA and he
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  Speaker 1: would regale us with stories. He wanted to be just
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  Speaker 1: like Walter Winchell. He had to hat the whole nine yards.
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  Speaker 1: Lynn Samuel's another great hostess and talk creator never gets
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  Speaker 1: recognized was his board operator.
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  Speaker 2: On Sunday Nights, they had ratings that nobody ever had.
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  Speaker 2: And you know what happened.
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  Speaker 1: Bill the program director at the time, Phil Boyce, goes
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  Speaker 1: and the network wants.
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  Speaker 2: To syndicate you.
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  Speaker 1: You're doing so well Monday through Friday from six to nine.
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  Speaker 1: And Matt Judge said, all they want to do is
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  Speaker 1: Sunday nights. Just like my mentor, Walter Winchell, I don't
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  Speaker 1: want to do radio five days a week. And then
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  Speaker 1: Phil just kept pressing him and you know saw he
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  Speaker 1: picked up.
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  Speaker 2: He left. He went down to Miami the rest is history.
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  Speaker 1: The person who go hired to fill that void because
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  Speaker 1: they were so hoping that Matt Drudge would get those
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  Speaker 1: same ratings from Monday through Friday. Uh, take a guess
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  Speaker 1: somebody who also his mentor when he was listening on
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  Speaker 1: hiatus to Bob Grant at WWB, Mark Levin, who grew
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  Speaker 1: up outside of Philadelphia, and that's how his radio career started.
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  Speaker 2: If only they had left Matt.
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  Speaker 1: Drudge alone with Lynn Samuels's board operator, both of them
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  Speaker 1: very eccentric, but it was some of the greatest radio
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  Speaker 1: of all time.
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  Speaker 2: And the ratings were through the roof.
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  Speaker 1: The other trick they use over there at WABC, they
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  Speaker 1: had this thing is.
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  Speaker 2: Look at the stream on my phone. Look at the stream,
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  Speaker 2: Look how my ratings are going up. That's not ratings.
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  Speaker 1: It's like the Wizard of Ours, like snake oil salesman,
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  Speaker 1: and they'll buy that. You want real ratings, Boy, I've
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  Speaker 1: never seen ratings like Matt Trudge got on Sunday nights.
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  Speaker 1: Imitating his mentor, Walter Winschew, who would do only one
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  Speaker 1: radio show a week on Sunday nights on the ABC network.
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  Speaker 1: Thousands of radios would be tuned to him, thousands of
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  Speaker 1: radio stations carried that.
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  Speaker 2: The golden age of radio. Well, let's go back.
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  Speaker 1: To the phones in honor today of the father of
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  Speaker 1: talk radio, Barry Gray, who really created the format of
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  Speaker 1: taking calls. Let's go to Maria, who's calling from Westchester.
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  Speaker 1: Your turn to be heard here at seven to ten WR.
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  Speaker 4: Hello, Curtis, what an honor to talk to you. Can
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  Speaker 4: we ask if Jillham and Donnie will be taking his
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  Speaker 4: oath of office with his hand on the Constitution, well
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  Speaker 4: one of his swearing inns on the Constitution, and will
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  Speaker 4: he respect this Constitution of the United States.
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  Speaker 1: I wouldn't know because I haven't been invited. You know,
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  Speaker 1: you show the ma'm alu carricatam to show up. If
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  Speaker 1: you tell you a zornista's not taboomy, oh my god.
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  Speaker 1: I will try to find that out for you. Whether
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  Speaker 1: he's taking it on a Qur'an, a Bible based on
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  Speaker 1: our United States Constitution, the Bill of Rights. I will
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  Speaker 1: certainly let you know by Friday, because, as I told
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  Speaker 1: my wife Nancy, if I'm not invited, I'm going.
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  Speaker 2: Anyway, right, you know me, what are they gonna do
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  Speaker 2: stop me? I'll go there for that What are that
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  Speaker 2: street party they're gonna have. What are they gonna do?
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  Speaker 2: Say you can't come here?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm the only real New Yorker who was in
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  Speaker 1: this race. Hey, look, he won fair and square. But
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  Speaker 1: he says it's a block party for people in New
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  Speaker 1: York City, Right, It didn't just say a block party
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  Speaker 1: for those people who voted for him. Am I correct
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  Speaker 1: on that? To be continued. That's why you better be listening.
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  Speaker 1: On Friday morning when I returned for my final program
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  Speaker 1: here in substitute for Mark Simon, Let's go to Tony,
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  Speaker 1: who's calling from White Plains your turn to be heard
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  Speaker 1: here at seven to ten war the Voice of.
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  Speaker 2: New York Tone.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, hi, churs, churs. Before you mentioned Salatto over there
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  Speaker 5: on the other station. I thought of that before you did.
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  Speaker 5: But you gave him the perfect name, Salato, because that's
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  Speaker 5: exactly what he means.
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  Speaker 1: Well, let me clarify for our listeners, Tony, I did
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  Speaker 1: not give him that name.
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  Speaker 2: It was actually another caller, Who'll say.
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  Speaker 1: The Salazzo at WABC is Dominic Carter, Oh, and he is,
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  Speaker 1: and the moo Green Greg Kelly, and the Tessio who
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  Speaker 1: may have been the worst is Sid Rosenberg. And you
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  Speaker 1: know on Friday what I do every year, I always
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  Speaker 1: do a tribute to Bernard McGirk, who was I mean,
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  Speaker 1: not only the hardest working guy in radio, but took
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  Speaker 1: so much grief from Don Naima said. I witnessed personally
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  Speaker 1: what a great radio guy he was. Died way too early.
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  Speaker 1: If you're getting together with family and friends, tell all
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  Speaker 1: the males get the PSA test, the prick of the finger,
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  Speaker 1: a simple blood test. If McGirk had done that, he'd
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  Speaker 1: be alive today. And all the nonsense that occurred against
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  Speaker 1: me at WABC, always bashing Curtis, always blaming Curtis, would
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  Speaker 1: never have occurred if Bernard McGirk were alive and well.
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  Speaker 1: But we'll get that tribute on Friday. This boy, he
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  Speaker 1: was an ictic figure in this thing of ours radio