In for Mr. New York, Mark Simone on 710 W.O.R.

Here's Joe Kachia.

And welcome back, everybody.

This is a, I guess, the only way we could call it is a relief story.

And that is that Seinfeld star Michael Richards, Kramer, of course, Cosmo Kramer.

He just revealed that he nearly died a couple of years ago of prostate cancer,

and he had to undergo this dramatic surgery in order to save himself.

Quote, I would have been dead in eight months had he not gone through this surgery that isn't very common,

and that was to take out

the entire prostate it's amazing meanwhile if you want to feel old cosmo kramer is now 74 years old

but i guess since the show went off the air and do the map 26 years ago right 1998 i believe

was the last episode may of 1998 may even been this week, that it went off.

Horrible final episode, by the way.

But the series itself was great, at least for the first five seasons, and that's just me.

Anyway, so, yeah, he has a memoir coming out, entrances and exits, and he basically wrote this memoir

based on all these diaries that he's kept over the years.

And I'm thinking, that's such a smart idea.

We waste so much time on our phones.

We might as well just type a couple of paragraphs every couple of days and what's going on in our life and what we're going through.

So that's what this is going to be based on, that cancer battle and many other things.

Has over 40 journals that he kept

over the years and he wanted to write this memoir to mark his 75th birthday so that's going

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