Famous WFAN Prank Calls

Boomer & Gio

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Sports, News

4.2 • 707 Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Mike Francesa wished Mets historian and media relations director Jay Horwitz a happy birthday. It leads to a conversation about classic prank calls to Mike and the rest of WFAN. We remember famous flubs in WFAN history.

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0:00.0	Happy birthday, Jay Horowitz, 80 years old.
0:02.0	Oh, happy birthday.
0:03.1	You know, I tweeted about that today already?
0:05.8	Who?
0:06.1	Mike Francesa.
0:07.1	Really?
0:07.4	Yeah.
0:07.9	Oh.
0:27.1	Happy birthday to Jay, 80. Good for him. Struggling. What did Mike say? It was short. Good, good PR guy, not great. Yeah. That's what made me that take note of it just because, you know, Mike doesn't always go out of his way to reference things on individuals on Twitter.
0:28.6	He's impossible to find him. Happy birthday to the amazing Jay Horowitz, spelled wrong.
0:32.2	Simply the best, many, many more.
0:34.0	Oh my God.
0:35.3	He misspelled his name.
0:36.7	Nobody cares how he spells his name. Everybody knows what I meant. Okay. It's not like I said. His last name was Rosh Hashanah. I like that guy. On ESPN, okay. I said Horowitz. A lot of people say Horowitz. Okay. I had an extra I'll get over it. He loses. Do something else. Open old lady cross the street. Whatever it is. Get off my back. 80 years old for Jay. Wow. Can you see the replies in there? Did anybody correct him? I'm just curious. I'm honestly, I wouldn't know how to spell Jay's last name. I mean, social media, I'm sure. I mean, I would look it up before I'd put it out there. No correction yet.
1:12.9	The third comment is signed Jason Giambi.
1:17.1	Time to start up the snowblower.
1:22.9	It's unbelievable.
1:25.4	Giambi next Yankee manager.
1:26.4	Oh yeah, here we go. His name is Horowitz, in quotes.
1:29.2	That's okay.
1:29.9	You're new.
1:32.4	Like, how would you explain, like, the Jason Giambi, snowblower, like, Brandon Engage,
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