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Former WIBC Newsman extraordinaire Eric Berman passed away this morning. And for those of you who know, a long-time

WIBC listeners, look, I think he was here for more than 20 years from the 90s all the way into,

I mean, he was here through parts of COVID. And many of you will remember Eric Berman as a longtime voice of the Statehouse back when

WIBC used to have a permanent entrenched, like many other news outlets, position in the

statehouse.

He would do daily reports from the statehouse.

He would get the interviews with the politicians.

And he was a phenomenally interesting

guy, despite, or in addition to his reporting that everybody knew him from, best known probably

as he won on Jeopardy. He was a Jeopardy champ. He was on it. He won an episode of Jeopardy. And Eric was a very interesting guy. Obviously, if you went on Jeopardy champ. He won an episode of Jeopardy.

And Eric was a very interesting guy.

Obviously, if you went on Jeopardy, like a guy whose IQ was off the charts.

And, you know, when you deal with people who are so ridiculously intelligent like an Eric Berman, and then you have a guy like me, so what's up? Right? Like, what do you even talk to a guy like that?

But I was talking to him about his appearance on Jeopardy. And he said the biggest challenge of

jeopardy was not the questions, but it was mastering the buzzer. Yeah, buzzing in to answer the

questions. Because there's really an art to doing the buzzer. And what he said was he said a lot of times the people who will be very, the most effective on jeopardy are not necessarily the smartest people. It obviously helps or even the most well-rounded. It also helps. But the people who can master the buzzer because it is a sprint to get into that buzzer properly. So anyway, I wanted to pass that along that he did pass away this morning. I worked with Eric for, I say with. I mean, he was over at the state house most of the time, but I'd see him in the building. And obviously, we would air his reports for numerous years and just a really great guy. Sort of a, not sort of, he was, a throwback,

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