The Howard Stern Thread

Sounding rusty and old today, but the gene wilder phone call with Sal and Richard Simmons was great

i love whenever Howard puts heavy reverb on his mic, i lost it when he was talking about Gene Wilder's real name and he just switches the reverb on and shouts "HE'S A JEW" and then immediately turned it off. it's this massive fucking hall reverb setting, usually applied when doing an Oprah "PEOPLE OF EARTH!" type thing, or "DOES ANYONE REMEMBER LAUGHTER?"

enjoyed his live-tweeting during the news today

oh right, i came here to post that it looks like Shuli was fired. thank god

people of earth is yoko! omg about shuli wtf?!

ah gotcha. yeah yesterday robin came back from break and said something like "i was surprised to see some people aren't here anymore!" or something, Howard immediately changed the subject, then there was some guessing and digging and seems like Shuli got the boot based on his latest tweets/his employment status on FB...

I'll miss his tan mom impression but not much else. especially disliked his laugh. the move surprises me, as he's always seemed very deferential to H.

yah ok shulis probably still there. just all speculation.

also today is the 15th anniversary of KC being forced to wear a dress for running out of the building on 9/11 and not coming in on 9/12

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbdUSbz2fjE

Howard musing today on having to deal with his parents' funeral when the time comes...

The longer I listen, the less I get out of the show these days. Exponential diminishing returns

2 years since Eric the Actor's death. Best Wack Packer of all time by a long-shot, Beetle close second obviously but Eric was articulate, insane, and insolent... like Ralph said today, he didn't even like Howard, it was just a means to an end... miss him

like Eric responding to people tweeting at him that he was born the same year as his parents, that he was the one that killed JFK, and getting so incensed...

i am not vegan or gluten free. you. stupid. jackass!

Sal's booth stories were pretty good on 9/14 would have liked to have witness him blacking out at the staff dinner too.

halfway through the norm interview and really enjoying it even though howard has trouble letting him finish a thought.

regarding diminishing returns, your situation is probably different but i've found that the show is such a self-enclosed world that sometimes taking a long break from the show allows you to enjoy it again.

I hear you. I just don't want to take that break!

Jan Hein's anger emerging is the most amazing thing on the show lately. i can't wait until he just explodes one day. thank you jason for hit em with the hein

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rQchVLqkLo

a great moment from 1994? howard calls in to a new affiliate station in phoenix, where they pass the phone around the room the morning after firing all the on-air talent. anger slowly builds.

as noted in the youtube comments, carla foxx, the ringleader of the press conference, killed someone in a hit and run a year later.

holy fuck this is great, thanks for sharing

lol @ "the stars of satellite radio"
Somehow I doubt they mean that ironically

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwYhMHUejp4

another moment from 1995. a press conference with friend of the show, al d'amato. stuttering john asks a few mild questions, and then d'amato mentions imus, which sends howard into a rage.

Nice clip of Phoenix. Lol @ H at the beginning when he puts them on hold to collect his thoughts.

Jeff was gold this week!

Agreed. I just can't listen to anything involving HPE for longer than 5 min, so Wednesday's show was a bit of a wash for me. And even though it would probably be one of the all time best bits on the show, wouldn't it be impossible for Jeff to give his amputated arm to Jason so he can eat it? Seems like a lot of legal/medical/ethical (ehh..) hurdles to clear. Loved how you could tell Benjy was so beaten & jealous that he didn't come up with the idea.

Find that guy

His name's Jerry

You know what to do

beetmoji

Really thought this kid from Kuwait caller was a bit last week, but he called in again today, mentioned he had a Twitter, and the thing goes back to April 2014. weird. it would be great if Howard adopted him and then just gave him to Gary or something.

Howard's interview style has really degraded even in the past 3 years. He's just way too manic and he's not really interested in follow-up questions. The Green Day interview today was so rough, it was an hour and a half but it still felt rushed because Howard couldn't let a thought develop. It's a drag.

What's the Kuwait kid's twitter handle?

fwiw I've only been a fan since 2011, but I noticed such a stark difference between his June 2012 and December 2014 interviews with Billy Corgan. I don't know what to make of this Getting Things Done/Marci Turk business, but reading some dirt from reddit user ASiriusProblem is illuminating. (Turk is apparently dating Steve Brandano lmao)

xp https://twitter.com/q8i_snake

on interview style degrading, i listened to the norm macdonald 9-19-2016 interview and it's about all i've heard of the show since the re-up of the contract. he asks about the same questions he's asked norm for a decade (don ohlmeyer, snl impressions, "you were so good at that news!") but the interview is forty five minutes longer than norm's last appearance in 2011. he lets him talk for longer, seems more engaged, more polite than his 2011 interview. there might be other reasons for the 2011 interview being different, like their mutual friend drinking a jug of bleach and stabbed himself about a year prior, comments norm made before about enabling artie, etc.

Interesting article on Stern having Trump on for years, and how his particular interviewing style got Trump to tip his hand and voice a lot more shit than regular chat shows or journos could:

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/10/howard-stern-donald-trump-2016-214322

xp I agree, the Norm interview was really good because Norm was able to take control and steer the thing (that 10 minute joke at the end was amazing). some guests like Bill Murray, Gregg Allman, and Neil Young have called him on his interruptions and get little digs in with "so, as I was saying..." but he also asks the same fucking questions he asked the guest 2/3 years ago. i was blown away in that December 2014 interview when he forgot that Billy Corgan and Courtney Love dated before she was married to Cobain. Corgan seemed genuinely hurt (lol).

and yeah, I love that Howard is on the news constantly because of all of his Trump interviews through the years. he said the other day he's pretty sure Trump is pissed at him because of it... remember that as recently as January, Trump called Howard personally just to chat and clear up some mistake in the press... Trump's last appearance (a call-in) was on August 25, 2015...

"unceasingly onanistic and anhedonic, using others only to spark his disgust or his libido"

Probably the best description of him I've ever read

going to credit/blame the recent interview style on just having so many dudes in back feeding him information and stuff. hes more distracted and also doesnt give a shit anymore.

i skip the interviews quite often unless it's another person who is professionally funny. he tends to give them more leeway in any case.

Will is responsible for the pre-interviews and research but apparently he always passes it off to an intern. H's memory has been particularly bad lately, too.

feel like robin is more cuckoo than usual too lately/

"Again..."

microphone confusion with the back office on the show with JD in the background cackling was A+

Could any kind soul summarise what is going on with Hein? I've been clicked out of the show for about a year now but I'm intrigued.

Upset in a passive aggressive way towards Jason for popularizing "Hit em with the Hein"

Hein seems to be a particularly joyless and unfunny dude, totally unfit for radio

I've said it before but Jan Hein's anger emerging bc of this is amazing. The fucking guy stands in place at the front of the counter when he buys fast food after he's paid "to make sure they get my order right." Doesn't masturbate, doesn't use condiments. Allegedly hates the show and was totally emasculated by the change of format of TWUS two years ago.

anyone else bummed out about Howard getting dragged in the election coverage especially since Friday?

the politico piece about howard luring trump into painting himself as a buffoon is an interesting reading of the interviews because i never thought of howard as particularly savvy??? like, yeah, maybe he did lure trump into debasing himself-- i found myself, like, proud of howard in that interpretation but like i never saw it that way.

Me neither, but I'm glad CNN and Politico have given H some respect here. He's gotta be really bummed though, especially in light of his out of character groveling for HRC to come on the show in the WaPo in August. No presidential candidate will ever go on his show now.

i googled to check what mark harris thinks about trump

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3p5OquHPpNk

he posted this on youtube.