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four one one dot com roger friedman how you doing i'm great how are you I'm good. Hey, you must have known Ernie Anastus. I didn't really know him, but I loved him. Everyone loved him. The outpouring of love for him is amazing. I mean, I met him a couple of times. I see some nice pictures of you on Instagram with him. Yeah, but he was, well, you met him. You know, he was just a very happy guy.

He kind of put a positive glow in every room he came into.

Yeah, and he was also, what a career.

I mean, he was so popular.

And, you know, tastes change in television, the television world and television news.

And they're also looking for the next big thing, but he was always the next big thing. in television, the television world and television news.

And they're also looking for the next big thing.

But he was always the next big thing because he did 11 years at one station,

then 12 years at another station.

So it was like even when he, you know, he just kept going and going and going and going.

And people loved watching him.

But there's no more big thing in local television. You know, in the good old days you had chuck scarborough roger grimsby bill

butel you don't have that anymore you can't name i miss roger grimsby yeah um bill butelle

was a great guy by the way yeah did you know him yeah yeah bill butelle he wasel. He was a lovely, he was a lovely guy. Very stern, somber newsman, but off the air was like this wild nightclub guy. He was a lot of fun. Yeah, he was just very, he was a lot of fun, very nice, and a real newsman. But Ernie and S this was, he was really the, like the epitome of york and uh they don't say why he passed

what happened to him but um i hope he didn't have a bad time no he'd been sick for a little while

and the final cause was pneumonia uh that was it yeah yeah but look at the outpouring of love for him

uh on all the stations last night and on all over social media. It's just great. I mean, that's very rewarding, you know. Hey, let's talk about the Oscars. It's Sunday night, the big Oscar ceremony. Yes. It's like local TV news. You knew every name. You knew the big anchors. Now you don't know who they are.

Same thing with the Oscars.

You had the list of presenters.

I don't know who half these people are.

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