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Speaker 1: All right, guys. In sad news, the legendary Phil Donahue,

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Speaker 1: who blades the trail for daytime talk shows, has passed away.

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Speaker 1: He was eighty eight. He had a lengthy illness. He

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Speaker 1: has survived by his wife of forty four years, Marlow Thomas,

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Speaker 1: Remember her from that Girl. Donahue was born in Cleveland, Ohio.

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Speaker 1: Steve he was the Yeah. He was the first to

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Speaker 1: cover controversial topics and allow his audience to participate as

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Speaker 1: he walked around handing them his microphone. At its peak,

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Speaker 1: Donahue had nine million viewers per day. Donahue retired back

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Speaker 1: in nineteen ninety six after doing his syndicated talk show

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Speaker 1: for twenty nine years. Wow love ate Yeah, Yeah he was.

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Speaker 2: He was the best. He was the dude caller.

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Speaker 1: You say yeah, you say what? I love it when?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? He was great.

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Speaker 3: No Oprah, Shelly, let's move home because you don't do

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Speaker 3: more than real well, because you you're gonna kill off

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Speaker 3: a family member if we leave your.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know Thomas ain't doing good either. Come on, baby, love.

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Speaker 1: Him all right. We'll have more of the Steve Harvey

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Speaker 1: Morning Show coming up at thirty three minutes after the hour.

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Speaker 1: But anything was he special to you, Steve? Did you

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Speaker 1: watch the show and all that?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, no more special than nobody else for y'all.

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Speaker 4: I mean I never met him. I didn't know him

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Speaker 4: personally or anything. I just admired him. I thought he

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Speaker 4: was great.

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Speaker 2: I liked him cool to just a good pain great. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 2: yeah yeah, never met him though.

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Speaker 1: All right, all right, coming up at thirty three minutes after,

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Speaker 1: we'll play around and would you rather right after this

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