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***Howard Stern*** (3 Viewers)

17seconds said:
Love when Gonzo comes on with Eric. The dynamic is perfect. Gonzo is all mellow, nothin bugs him at all, but also slightly passive aggressive and Eric loses his mind.
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yup, it's great. Eric going ballistic is the best.

I know some feel Eric is playing a role but he's not some genius comedian, his iq was like 80 when they tested it. He's truly an ungrateful angry guy which is why he's so amazing.

 
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John Bender said:
ANOTHER week of vacation.

It's just laughable at this point. 3 Days a week of live shows and I don't think he ever goes 4 weeks anymore without a week off.
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Last time his contract was up...

Stern : OK, if I'm going to come back, I want another 5 years at the same $500 million (or whatever)

Sirius : We can't afford that contract again. We gave you that insane amount of money because we needed the influx of subscribers to get the jump on XM or we were going to fail. You were the only one who could save us. Now, we're in 24 million homes/cars. We need a business model that's sustainable and profitable. We can't give you 70% of the entire company's operating budget any more.

Stern : If I walk, half your subscribers will cancel.

Sirius : Maybe so, but we still can't pay you that much. We can give you $60 million annually, you're worth that much to us, but we can't do another $100 million.

Stern : That's a pay cut. I can't have the papers reporting that I took a pay cut, it will give my critics fuel and make me look like a schmuck. I'll take $60 million, but I'm only doing 3 shows a week in perpetuity, and I'm taking off 15 weeks a year in vacation and to do AGT to make up for the lost revenue. That way, when you break it down, I'm making more money per show, so it's technically a raise. But I'll still be on here enough that subscribers won't cancel.

Sirius : Fine.

Or something along those lines, I don't know whose idea it was, but I'd be willing to wager this isn't far from the truth. Of course, Howard still makes a fortune, gets to save face and not be "ridiculed" for taking a pay cut, Sirius maintains its subscriber base. Who pays in the end? The listener...or the end customer. However, anyone who knows anything about business knows the end customer is always the one who takes it in the proverbial poopchute. Until they vote with their wallets en masse and stop buying, then the company goes defunct. Nothing new here.

 
I get it, and I hate being that guy who whines about it because it all makes perfect sense. Howard held and holds the cards in negotiations and this is what he negotiated.

I still have been a loyal listener for much of my life and reserve the right to ##### about it. Especially when my day is much better with a live Howard show.

Not sure what I'll do when he retires, probably quit my job because I couldn't fathom getting through the work day without him. (Luckily, Carolla is still going strong and puts out a new show almost every week day of the year save for the week between Xmas and New Years)

Respect to him for making that kind of deal. Just sucks to turn on the radio on a random snowy day in March and be listening to re-runs again.

Oy

 
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Keerock said:
17seconds said:
John Bender said:
ANOTHER week of vacation.

It's just laughable at this point. 3 Days a week of live shows and I don't think he ever goes 4 weeks anymore without a week off.

Ugh

In the meantime

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4GeQ10uXRc
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I hate when Howard 100 shows 1-888-WRAP-UP (or whatever) and 101 shows West Coast Feed when it's a vacation day. I thought it was new for a while.
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The wrap up show was new today...
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hmmm.. weird

 
17seconds said:
Keerock said:
17seconds said:
John Bender said:
ANOTHER week of vacation.

It's just laughable at this point. 3 Days a week of live shows and I don't think he ever goes 4 weeks anymore without a week off.

Ugh

In the meantime

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4GeQ10uXRc
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I hate when Howard 100 shows 1-888-WRAP-UP (or whatever) and 101 shows West Coast Feed when it's a vacation day. I thought it was new for a while.
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The wrap up show was new today...
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hmmm.. weird
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Yeah, that threw me today. Turned it on and heard a repeat this morning and then later caught the very end of a live Wrapup. I thought maybe they came on late for the show this morning for some reason so I listened for the replay and it was an old New Year's Eve party talk.

 
Robin has one ####### job... the news. She had no idea Fred Phelps died last week.

Then of course she had to do a "oh I was gonna say I thought things felt lighter in the world today". Shut up

 
jamny said:
17seconds said:
Keerock said:
17seconds said:
John Bender said:
ANOTHER week of vacation.

It's just laughable at this point. 3 Days a week of live shows and I don't think he ever goes 4 weeks anymore without a week off.

Ugh

In the meantime

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4GeQ10uXRc
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I hate when Howard 100 shows 1-888-WRAP-UP (or whatever) and 101 shows West Coast Feed when it's a vacation day. I thought it was new for a while.
Click to expand...
The wrap up show was new today...
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hmmm.. weird
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Yeah, that threw me today. Turned it on and heard a repeat this morning and then later caught the very end of a live Wrapup. I thought maybe they came on late for the show this morning for some reason so I listened for the replay and it was an old New Year's Eve party talk.
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They are running live WUS's on many of the days when the show is not live. Gary not there. Mainly Hein with JD, Sal or Benji. Perhaps I've missed it but I don't see these wrap-ups OnDemand. I usually listen to OnDemand. Wish everything they played on 100 & 101 was OnDemand at least for a few days.

 
Daywalker said:
jamny said:
17seconds said:
Keerock said:
17seconds said:
John Bender said:
ANOTHER week of vacation.

It's just laughable at this point. 3 Days a week of live shows and I don't think he ever goes 4 weeks anymore without a week off.

Ugh

In the meantime

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4GeQ10uXRc
Click to expand...
I hate when Howard 100 shows 1-888-WRAP-UP (or whatever) and 101 shows West Coast Feed when it's a vacation day. I thought it was new for a while.
Click to expand...
The wrap up show was new today...
Click to expand...
hmmm.. weird
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Yeah, that threw me today. Turned it on and heard a repeat this morning and then later caught the very end of a live Wrapup. I thought maybe they came on late for the show this morning for some reason so I listened for the replay and it was an old New Year's Eve party talk.
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They are running live WUS's on many of the days when the show is not live. Gary not there. Mainly Hein with JD, Sal or Benji. Perhaps I've missed it but I don't see these wrap-ups OnDemand. I usually listen to OnDemand. Wish everything they played on 100 & 101 was OnDemand at least for a few days.
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I thought they left OnDemand? What is the TV situation now?

 
Great show today.

The band tryouts and George Lopez interview were just great. One of my favorite shows in a few weeks.

 
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Does anyone else wish they could carry around Freds soundboard with them all day?

Was at Panera today waiting for a salad and they called out the order ahead of me for "Gary" "Gary" over and over again. I was cracking up thinking of the Simmons drop

 
John Bender said:
Does anyone else wish they could carry around Freds soundboard with them all day?
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That and every one of his impressions

Personally I'm not into the band stuff. Usually not that sensitive to Howard making it all about him but the music thing is too much. I'm amazed anyone would care about Howard becoming a musician or forming a band. Just do the damn show.

 
Howie Mandel's stories drag out forever.

Nick Cannon is just not that interesting to me.

Meh - I laughed pretty hard at the pay off of the Mandel / Carson story when he brought out a 15 foot long fake sabertooth tiger and a carrot. :lmao:

 
chet said:
jamny said:
AcerFC said:
Balco said:
John Bender said:
Great show today.

The band tryouts and George Lopez interview were just great. One of my favorite shows in a few weeks.
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I was crying in my car listening to Howard singing "Hurt" with Benji on trumpet. Hysterical.
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It was a shofar (a rams horn)
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I loved it last time Bengy brought that in and all the jokes were about him blowing the shofar (chauffeur)
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:confused:

because I spelled Benji wrong?

 
John Bender said:
Howie Mandel's stories drag out forever.

Nick Cannon is just not that interesting to me.

Meh - I laughed pretty hard at the pay off of the Mandel / Carson story when he brought out a 15 foot long fake sabertooth tiger and a carrot. :lmao:
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I can't find that chris rock clip from the joan rivers show, dying to see that

 
jamny said:
chet said:
jamny said:
AcerFC said:
Balco said:
John Bender said:
Great show today.

The band tryouts and George Lopez interview were just great. One of my favorite shows in a few weeks.
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I was crying in my car listening to Howard singing "Hurt" with Benji on trumpet. Hysterical.
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It was a shofar (a rams horn)
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I loved it last time Bengy brought that in and all the jokes were about him blowing the shofar (chauffeur)
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:unsure:
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:confused:

because I spelled Benji wrong?
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try it one more time

It's Benjy. You probably saw it once and knew it had a y. Shame on you for not knowing how to spell the unusual name of an ancillary Howard Stern employee. :)

 
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@artiequitter:

Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak Michigan is forcing me into a mental ward just cause I want to leave. I need your help. Calls. Radio. Love u

 
I hate to say it,but Artie may be too far gone to save. He never recovered from what happened to his Dad and he doesn't really want to be alive anymore.

 
I think there's no way he hasn't relapsed. For a while I thought he'd been off the stuff long enough to have a chance but now, I'm not so sure. You have to be pretty damn belligerent and unreasonable for a hospital to threaten throwing you in a mental hospital. When were the other times Artie showed such anger? On the show, when he was at the peak of his heroin use.

 
Haven't had Gilbert on in a long time. I wish they'd bring him in more. He's my favorite recurring guest.

Also... What ever happened to Double A? Does anyone know or remember why he's not longer associated with the show?

 
John Bender said:
Haven't had Gilbert on in a long time. I wish they'd bring him in more. He's my favorite recurring guest.

Also... What ever happened to Double A? Does anyone know or remember why he's not longer associated with the show?
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hey, how's it goin what's goin on?

seems like there are 2 explanations:

At a show at the BORGATA, he couldn't get backstage and he told the bouncer that he was "AA" and the bouncer said "who" and wouldn't let him in.

He also got busted with Howard Stern talent scout cards and got called out by Howard about them.

and

allegedly being arrested for child pornography. Supposedly this is him: http://www.newjerseynewsroom.com/state/angelo-crocco-of-belleville-indicted-for-alleged-distribution-of-child-porn

 
Stern did a piss-poor job interviewing Louis CK. He just keeps peppering him with questions and never really lets him expand on anything. And the information he had was awful.

 
Good Posting Judge said:
Stern did a piss-poor job interviewing Louis CK. He just keeps peppering him with questions and never really lets him expand on anything. And the information he had was awful.
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Found it quite entertaining that everything was wrong and LCK had to clarify everything. He's really been pounding out the celebrity interviews.

 
I like that people are willing to come on the show and not give standard answers, but Howard is like an ADD kid. He breaks off answers and repeats the exact thing they said as if he was an interpreter for the audience. Most of the guests don't even seem to notice that Robin is part of the show. I know she brings nothing to it, but if she is going to be on you would think that when she spoke that Howard would acknowledge that she said something. It's as if she is one of the wack pack and it's par for the course to tune them out. The after show seems like a North Korean radio program. The all have parts of the show where they talk about things that happened and things that upset them, but they know that Kim Jong Howard will hear them so they make excuses why Howard is such a dink to them. They act like abused children tip toeing around their drunken father.

 
LAUNCH said:
I like that people are willing to come on the show and not give standard answers, but Howard is like an ADD kid. He breaks off answers and repeats the exact thing they said as if he was an interpreter for the audience.
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I noticed this with the Mike Judge interview today also. Didn't hear Louis CK but I think he goes into a different mode when the guest is more introverted. Somebody like James Franco, Seth Rogen, or Tom Arnold he just lets them go off and it's better

 
17seconds said:
LAUNCH said:
I like that people are willing to come on the show and not give standard answers, but Howard is like an ADD kid. He breaks off answers and repeats the exact thing they said as if he was an interpreter for the audience.
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I noticed this with the Mike Judge interview today also. Didn't hear Louis CK but I think he goes into a different mode when the guest is more introverted. Somebody like James Franco, Seth Rogen, or Tom Arnold he just lets them go off and it's better
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Yes, if there's anything you don't want Louis CK to do on your show, it's to speak at-length about a topic uninterrupted for a good chunk of time. I mean he never really gets a chance to do that in his line of work ever.

 
Some pretty bad interviews by Stern recently. Last week with Louis CK and today with Carolla he's basically hamhandedly tried to talk them through their standup (or Corolla's book).

"So, you say socks should have sizes - tell me about that. . ."

He's not good being a setup man. These guys are smart and quick and interesting - just interview them and let them riff

EDIT - didn't see the above interview criticisms before posting, but totally agree that his info was awful with CK too

 
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