Another Reason Why We Love NY1’s Pat Kiernan

by Tony Ortega

July 7, 2009

On his Twitter, Pat Kiernan just noted that tomorrow morning it will be 04:05:06 on 07/08/09.

The best thing about that, from our perspective, is that he’ll be the only one up for it.

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