Posted on 10/07/2022 11:24:53 AM PDT by conservative98
We start today’s program, sadly. Talking about the passing of Bernard McGuirk. Nationwide, you know him from the Imus program. In and around New York City, many of you know him from WABC. Where he did a morning show, the great twosome in the morning on WABC.
Bernie and I were buddies. I don’t mean social buddies. I don’t mean that we went out. I don’t mean that we called every day. But we were buddies. We shared the same philosophy. Kind of the same weird humor. We didn’t take any enemies. And. He was a really, really smart guy, but kind, extremely kind.
He would call me before I'd go on Imus, Imus would like me to come on from time to time, actually often. And he would say, heads up, you know, he’s going to do this, he’s going to talk about that, I said, OK, that’s cool.
And he was very loyal, extremely loyal. And I wish more of you around the country could have heard his morning show. Because he was just fantastic.
About three or four weeks ago, give or take. I tried to call him on his cell phone, which I almost never did, and there was no answer. And there was no voicemail.
And I knew there was a big problem at that point, but he will be remembered as one of the greats of radio and one of the great people, kindest, decent people you can meet in this business. And those of you who may have met him outside this business know exactly what I’m talking about.
So I want to wish Bernie’s family and friends my deepest sympathies. And I want to say rest in peace, my brother.
None of us, none of us make it out of here alive one way or another, one age or another, one illness or disease or another, one crime or another. We just don’t make it out of here. Not alive.
You know, I think it was, another great radio man years and years ago, who said and I was a young kid when I heard this in Philadelphia, you know, with the transistor radio antenna picking up New York radio. But he said and I remember he said something like this because it has stuck with me forever. And I may have mentioned this to you in years past, he said, and I think I’m pretty close. You’re not going to be remembered. After a third or fourth generation, he said, you didn’t exist for all intents and purposes. And over the course of a thousand years or human history, there’s probably 500 people, maybe a thousand at the most. Whose names, whose existence are known and remembered, it’s true, isn’t it. Not to make you sad, to make the best of the time you have on this Earth with your family and friends, because that’s all it’s going to matter.
And I believe that’s true, how many of you know who your great great great grandfather was or your great great great grandmother was or go back one more great if you do. And then you probably don’t. It's really not as long ago as you think. 150 years ago, 200 years ago. It’s true.
So I just want to say rest in peace and God bless to Bernie and his family. And he’s gone to, as we say, a better place.
My only memories of him were on the O’Reilly factor. Gutfeld said yesterday they were the two that did that hit with him, funny I don’t remember Gutfeld.
“You’re not going to be remembered. After a third or fourth generation, he said, you didn’t exist for all intents and purposes. And over the course of a thousand years or human history, there’s probably 500 people, maybe a thousand at the most. Whose names, whose existence are known and remembered, it’s true, isn’t it. Not to make you sad, to make the best of the time you have on this Earth with your family and friends, because that’s all it’s going to matter. “
Very well said.
A nice write up and eulogy by Mark.
I like him better in his FedEx cardinal hat. ROTFL!
Bernie was great. Very smart, kind, very funny. When he was amused at something he would really crack up. He was irreverent. He made grouchy imus laugh
He had a great voice for radio
So sorry he’s gone.
Always liked Bernie. Used to watch him daily on Imus in the morning (yes MSNBC at least until the Rutgers issue got Imus cancelled) as I got ready to head out for the day.
Rest In Peace, Bernard McGuirk | Bill O’Reilly
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxmVtcmLkzU
Here’s a video on that. Bill put Bernie on every week with Gutfeld. During the 2016 election Gutfeld was a snarky NeverTrumper at the time. Bernie was a strong Trump supporter. As Bill said, Bernie turned out to be right.
+1 good post.
Bernie was a funny man and a great foil for Imus. It was Imus’s show but it would have been far less without Bernie. RIP.
I listened to Imus beginning in 1972-1973 and always listened when I could get his program right up until he retired. Until the mid-80s it was Imus and Charles McCord. Bernie joined Imus in the mid-80s and was a GREAT addition. Funny, politically incorrect, and he kept the show moving. He had that New York City attitude without the coarseness. RIP to Bernie and condolences to his family.
RIP this guy really made me LOL a number of times!
Thanks for the link.
Oh dear, hate to see this. Bernie had great wit and was smart. Really smart. And quick. I used to watch Imus regularly when Bernie was on with Don. Good team back then. It was so long ago that we thought John McCain was cool to go on Imus show. Hahh! The things we learned.
Godspeed, Bernie...
I heard him say that. It’s so true. We just live in a tiny sliver of time in this world.
“Which doesn’t belong and why?” RIP Bernie. The Cardinal was one of the highlights of the old Imus show.
I remember Bernard McGuirk’s Irish priest character on the Imus show. It was laugh out loud material. One after another. so sad to see him go.
You got that right. Bernie was great. I just couldn’t stop laughing when he’d put on his “cardinal hat.”
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