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Josh Innes, on Wednesday, describing to me a confrontation he had with Anthony Gargano while Gargano was still at WIP:

“The only time I’ve seen him hustle is when he came to the prep room to get in my face… you wanna talk, then don’t chirp to people in the office.”

Mike Missanelli, on the air yesterday, describing his buddy Gargano’s role in said confrontation:

“But I love this story that this kid is denying the fact, when Anthony got in his face over there, cause the kid had a habit of ripping his own people over there on the radio station, and Anthony got in his face and the kid turned white as a sheet and almost peed himself. And he’s saying that didn’t happen. I know for a fact it happened.”

Today, I spoke to a fly on the wall who claims to have intimate knowledge of the SHOWDOWN. Here’s how (they) described it (there’s a whisper down the lane quality to the quotes here):

Gargano was angry that day, my friends. Like an old man trying to send back soup in a deli. He got off the air, presumably at 6 p.m., and made a beeline into the prep room, where Innes was hanging out, presumably waiting to go on the air. Gargano walks toward Innes, who was sitting, stands a few feet away – not in his face – and says something to the effect of (and I can totally hear this coming from Gargano): “YO I HEARD YOU’RE A BIG FAN OF THE SHOW. GOOD SHOW LAST NIGHT, BO!” This was perhaps in response to Innes declaring on his show that Missanelli had no competition in the afternoons at that point.

“Glad you enjoyed it,” Innes allegedly replied (an alternate version I got has him replying: “Not really.”)

There may have been some more back-and-forth, and brief stare-down, and then Gargano left the room, trailing something to the effect of “I’ll see you around, Cuz” in his wake.

Now, this comes from a (confirmed) tipster and enters a third account into public record. The tipster claims there was no backing down or “turning white” by Innes. Nor did Gargano get in Innes’ face, according to the tipster.

Any other office spies want to step forward? Anonymity assured. MAESTRO NOW:

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