Howard Stern "Stunned" by News That Sirius Wants Done With Him

Before getting to that, some facts about Howard Stern's show. According to Maureen Callahan:

1. He has a staff of 95. What?

2. Sirius pays him $120 million per year to produce the show. I assume the lion's share of that goes into Stern's pocket.

3. The usual morning host works 250 days per year. Five days a week, fifty weeks per year. Stern, on the other hand, works 112 days per year. Three days a week, Monday through Wednesday, and for only 37 weeks per year. Fifteen weeks off per year.

In addition, the days of four or five or even six hour shows are long, long gone. Apparently he now only does three hour shows.

4. Also, he no longer does the news. Which is fine, considering his cranky underbridge-troll wokeness. Apparently he's now picking up the guitar at age 71, which is fine -- I'm all for late in life learning -- but then he talks incessantly about his guitar lessons and has his guitar teacher on the air to talk about his Guitar Journey.

Wow. A bitter old hippie pervert talking about having trouble nailing the chords to "Smoke on the Water." Sounds like appointment viewing.

Callahan also discusses this leaked video. In 2013, Stern held a staff meeting in an auditorium called "Revolution 2013." It's so gay. Even then he realized his ratings and relevance were on the slide, because he spends the first 17 minutes demanding that his staff "blast" emails to publicists to let them know that Howard Stern still exists. Then he turns to demanding that the staff book guests who don't want to be on the show, claiming, absurdly, that Jerry Seinfeld and David Lettermen owe him big-time for making them stars, and so they are obligated to appear on the show again.

I always thought that Stern's constant claims to have "innovated" everything in talk radio was a put-on. Sure, I figured that there was some truth to him feeling insufficiently acknowledged as a media star, but I thought that 90% of his constant complaining that he's never recognized for, say, the "innovation" of long interviews with guests was mostly exaggerated for comedic effect.

This video shows that no, even when he's not doing a show and just berating his staff, he really believes he's owed huge credit for (checks notes) launching the careers of Jerry Seinfeld and David Letterman.

It also shows that his staff hates him, because who else would leak this except for an enemy?

I missed this Daily Mail article from last week. The reporters make it sound like Sirius is not engaging in aggressive bargaining with Stern just to reduce his demands for the new contract (the old one expires in Decemberbut really want to sever ties.

Howard Stern's 95-strong staff had only one goal in mind when they gathered for a 'team building' bash in Manhattan on Tuesday afternoon.
A few cocktails coupled with games of ping pong and serious laughs ahead of the 20th season of the show on SiriusXM on September 2.
Their 71-year-old boss was a world away from Midtown's Spin bar, instead chilling at the $21 million Southampton pile he has spent most of his time since Covid.

There's a reason Howard Hughes was never a great radio personality. If you just sit in your house all day wearing a face-diaper because you're still afraid of covid -- what do you even have to talk about?

No seriously let me know because I'm way more homebound than I should be and I need a list of topics that non-hermits find interesting. Seriously what the hell do normal people talk about?

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By 5.30pm, the group had split; some going bar hopping in Hell's Kitchen while others taking dinner at Japanese restaurant, Benihana.
That's when the lifechanging the bombshell dropped: a news alert claimed Stern was on the verge of walking away from SiriusXM altogether because the station couldn't come close to meeting his financial demands for another contract.
'The mood changed quickly. No one knew this was coming... and we couldn't get any answers,' one stunned insider said.
Repeated calls to executive producer Gary Dell'Abate went unanswered.
What staff didn't know was the bombshell came as a shock to Stern himself, who received it via a Google Alert as he finished dinner after a walk on the beach.
His famous friends were quick to call, with Stern allegedly avoiding calls from Ali Wentworth [George Stephanopolous's wife] and Jimmy Fallon. He did, however, pick up the phone when longtime friend Jimmy Kimmel rang.
'First I'm hearing of it,' was all a reportedly stunned Stern could manage.
Multiple sources confirmed Stern decided to make an 'emergency show' on Wednesday morning to quell concerns he was finished.

But apparently that show was just an interview with Lars from Metallica. All Stern said about his show was that he would be back from his nth hiatus on September 2nd.

He claims he's ready to prove to the world he's still got it. And by "it" he means a spastic colon.

A source exclusively tells the Daily Mail that a 'pumped up' Stern is ready to 'prove people wrong again' and is confident he is still 'the best' at his craft as he considers a future outside of SiriusXM.
'He is in a bring-it-on mind frame right now. Howard likes what he likes and though he could be bitter on how things are going, it isn't anything new to him', the insider said.
'He also isn't blaming things on his age; the world has changed. He has changed himself. If he didn't, he would have been gone a long time ago.
'It is true, he doesn't like the uptick of podcasts, where everyone can be on the radio, he just thinks he is the best and there is a lot to learn from him rather than throwing him away.'

LOL. Sad! BTW, Stern is incredibly egotistical while also having an eggshell-fragile ego -- a bad combination, which you see a lot -- and has for years been slagging off podcasters for being more relevant than he is.

Now he's whining that the podcasters he attacks should "learn from him rather than throwing him away."

For now, Stern has plans to potentially join huge streamers HBO or Netflix - in a bid to bring his career to an end 'on his own terms.'
The source continued: 'All this unknown is music to Howard's ears. He thrives in this element of the unknown.'

Obviously. The 71-year-old who's too afraid to come out of his basement and complains that his Southampton neighbors don't wear face-nappies when they're at the beach is very thrilled by chaos and the unknown. He certainly sees his impending firing and discarding as an opportunity.

Absolutely I believe this.

'He needs to deal with a personal bad guy in the situation. In the past it was NBC, just watch his movie.
'Then it was Simon Cowell, look at the fallout of AGT and now the honeymoon might be over with Sirius after almost 20 years, but he still wants to figure something out to stay, especially for his team that would mostly be affected.

So they mean that Howard Stern can't really flourish without an Enemy he can direct all of his stinky spleen at. That's been true before, but... No one cares any more. No one is going to pay money to hear Stern complain that his bosses at Sirius gave Andy F***ing Cohen more attention and respect than they gave him.

'And now if the fallout continues with Sirius, he has made roads elsewhere to potentially do something with HBO or Netflix. It is not all bad if this goes bad. His story isn't done.
'Because he wants it to all end on his own terms. He believes he deserves that for all that he has done in the medium.'

I suppose it's possible they offer him some kind of a deal to do ten one-hour shows or something, like they gave Letterman.

But he's a very damaged brand with a limited audience and falling ratings. How much money does Stern think he'll be able to command at this point? What kind of audience does he think he still has?

Posted by: Ace at 04:39 PM

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1 A man with his finger on the pulse.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 12, 2025 04:40 PM (ExV1e)

2 Maybe he should move to Ireland.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at August 12, 2025 04:40 PM (u73oe)

3 I gave the prior thread the ~~911~~ 411.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 12, 2025 04:40 PM (ExV1e)

4 Sirius is getting serious.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 12, 2025 04:41 PM (Dv3i1)

5 Howdy!

Posted by: Moonbeam at August 12, 2025 04:42 PM (rbKZ6)

6 What's the term for an old Jewish guy? Alte-kocker??

Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 12, 2025 04:42 PM (Dv3i1)

7 Howard who?

The Duck?

Shemp?

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 12, 2025 04:42 PM (BKPAh)

8 I never really understood Stern's appeal.

So, I'm not too surprised to see him get cancelled.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 12, 2025 04:42 PM (N1tpc)

9 I wish someone would ask Chuck Schumer what the Bailey's think about Stern. Or anything.

I have always felt Stern to be a gross shock jock scumbag (a word I learned from my NY husband that I love as much as the word, "douchebag." Another favorite word. Stern is a douchebag, which, I think, is worse than a scumbag. Unsure.

I have been laughing about Schumer's imaginary Long Island friends for a few minutes of lost time of doing something, anything, productive.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at August 12, 2025 04:42 PM (6PCLE)

10 Well in California we talk about the weather and the fires but mostly the weather.

Posted by: CaliGirl at August 12, 2025 04:43 PM (hs4ik)

11 He could just give his staff of 95 some of the money he's been hoarding.

Posted by: huerfano at August 12, 2025 04:43 PM (98kQX)

12 Another nasty 'host'.
Can't pay me to listen.

Posted by: torabora at August 12, 2025 04:43 PM (2IVq3)

13 Never liked that turd. His idea of entertainment is humiliating others. That's a sickness. Also, never funny.

And this ?

But apparently that show was just an interview with Lars from Metallica. All Stern said about his show was that he would be back from his nth hiatus on September 2nd.

Two poops in a pod. Don't like either of them.

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at August 12, 2025 04:43 PM (NtVYv)

14 1. He has a staff of 95. What?

When you are the king, you need a retinue.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 12, 2025 04:44 PM (xTIDn)

15 Good rudders I hope

Posted by: Skip at August 12, 2025 04:44 PM (+qU29)

16 A source exclusively tells the Daily Mail that a 'pumped up' Stern is ready to 'prove people wrong again' and is confident he is still 'the best' at his craft as he considers a future outside of SiriusXM.

Podcast?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 12, 2025 04:45 PM (ExV1e)

17 Ba-ba-boring

Posted by: Howard Snooze at August 12, 2025 04:45 PM (hD90I)

18 His famous friends were quick to call, with Stern allegedly avoiding calls from Ali Wentworth

Schmoopie!

Posted by: far cry at August 12, 2025 04:45 PM (Uy8FE)

19 Stern truly looks kind of lesbionic from Berkeley.

Posted by: CaliGirl at August 12, 2025 04:46 PM (hs4ik)

20 I always thought Stern was creepy...

Posted by: It's me donna at August 12, 2025 04:46 PM (VE6XX)

21 You hate to see it, and listen to it.
Howard Stern's penis and Howard Stern, that is.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 12, 2025 04:46 PM (xcxpd)

22 Riddens

Posted by: Skip at August 12, 2025 04:46 PM (+qU29)

23 He claims he's ready to prove to the world he's still got it.

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Has he tried penicillin?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 12, 2025 04:46 PM (L/fGl)

24 howard stern had a good show 25 years ago on AM radio in NYC. He got famous got a big contract from XM radio and went woke.

He needs to be cancelled.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 12, 2025 04:46 PM (0N4FZ)

25 I always thought that Stern's constant claims to have "innovated" everything in talk radio was a put-on.

Let's compare lasting impacts. Stern said some naughty things and pushed boundaries of decorum. Lefties tell me Rush Limbaugh single-handedly brainwashed multiple generations of Americans into becoming istaphobic monsters that have kept the Republicans competitive for over 30 years, and he so completely dominated AM radio that it overwhelmed all other forms of media combined.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at August 12, 2025 04:47 PM (JCZqz)

26 So, Stern was "avant-garde" back in the day.

Problem is, now he's just "garde".

Posted by: Another Anon at August 12, 2025 04:47 PM (4h45B)

27 Right now, on this post, is the biggest audience Stern currently has.

Well, the most attention, at least.

And, Mohammed is a butt boy.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at August 12, 2025 04:47 PM (ufFY8)

28 95 staff members to produce what is nothing more than a puffed up and glorified *radio show*.

It seems like every single day I learn yet another example of how easy it must be to spend OTHER PEOPLE'S money.

Posted by: Crusader at August 12, 2025 04:47 PM (TN0g+)

29 Benihana is still a thing?

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 12, 2025 04:48 PM (wVcYX)

30 >>6 What's the term for an old Jewish guy? Alte-kocker??

yes! and I learned that term from Howard Stern, who routinely used to call anyone older than 55 an altekocher.

Posted by: ace at August 12, 2025 04:48 PM (KRtlO)

31 Howard Stern launched the career of David Letterman???

I was watching David Letterman for at least 8 years before I had EVER heard of Howard Stern.

Of course, you basically can't tell the difference between the two now: two old, bitter has-beens who hung on well past their best-buy dates.

Posted by: Tex Lovera at August 12, 2025 04:48 PM (wtvvX)

32 Maybe an onion on his belt would help his image.

Posted by: davidt at August 12, 2025 04:48 PM (i0F8b)

33 Not to go all Pauline Kael but not only have I never listened to Stern, I don't know anyone who listened to Stern. How was this assclown got $100 million a year?

Posted by: JackStraw at August 12, 2025 04:49 PM (viF8m)

34 Last thing I heard from Stern is that he hateses the Bagginses.

Posted by: Axeman at August 12, 2025 04:49 PM (krQz2)

35 "No seriously let me know because I'm way more homebound than I should be and I need a list of topics that non-hermits find interesting. Seriously what the hell do normal people talk about?"

Boob, sports, guns....um....bourbon? Food?
All the other stuff I'm into is in the homebound vibe...books, video games, rpgs...

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 12, 2025 04:49 PM (xcxpd)

36 1. He has a staff of 95. What?

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The idea that someone needs a staff of 95 to do what the average podcaster millennial dude does with a staff of .2 is laughable.

(.2 because everyone knows that on average each millennial dude has 5 podcasts that they do themselves, of course)

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at August 12, 2025 04:49 PM (B9Prs)

37 Then he turns to demanding that the staff book guests who don't want to be on the show, claiming, absurdly, that Jerry Seinfeld and David Lettermen owe him big-time for making them stars, and so they are obligated to appear on the show again.
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Even if true - and I doubt it, especially in Letterman's case, given his age - it doesn't mean dick. Stern knows that. Show business is cut throat. There are no friends, and there are no enemies. There are just money, power, influence and sex. That's it. End of list.

So Stern did them a favor (real or imagined)? So what. It's a business of whores, liars and con men. It's the ultimate mercenary business outside of literal soldiers of fortune - and they could probably give the soldiers of fortune a run for their money.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 12, 2025 04:49 PM (6bTRc)

38 LOL!

Long deserved comeuppance for a piece of garbage.

*spit*

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 12, 2025 04:49 PM (qB1ye)

39 I read the other day that that fugly red haired harlot, Kathy Griffin, had her third facelift. Not that it will improve things...

However, perhaps she and cussboy Stern could podcast together to see how many f bombs they can drop in one hour. That's all he is known for in my opinion, which is not humble.

Maybe they could attempt to breed on air.

That's all that is left for either of them to draw an audience. Well, other than a duo self-immolation. That I might watch.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at August 12, 2025 04:49 PM (6PCLE)

40 F Harold Stern.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 12, 2025 04:50 PM (HJwiy)

41 >>>I read the other day that that fugly red haired harlot, Kathy Griffin, had her third facelift. Not that it will improve things...

she was one of this six celebrities (does she count as a celebrity?) that Stern was yelling owed him for making her a star.

Was she ever a star?

Posted by: ace at August 12, 2025 04:50 PM (KRtlO)

42 It also shows that his staff hates him, because who else would leak this except for an enemy?
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Unless it was leaked by an acolyte who thought it showed the raw power, charisma and sway of their amazing boss - in a completely bonkers inverted interpretation of reality.

I wouldn't bet on that, though.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 12, 2025 04:50 PM (6bTRc)

43 And now if the fallout continues with Sirius, he has made roads elsewhere to potentially do something with HBO or Netflix. It is not all bad if this goes bad. His story isn't done.

I wonder if he's considered doing a podcast on Lemondrop with Meghan Markle. He could interview her for hours, letting her talk about herself - which she'd enjoy. He could ask her to describe, for the up and coming gold-diggers in their audience, what she was famous for as a yacht girl - which would be on-brand for him. And it would keep both of them away from anything normal people pay attention to - which would be a bonus for the rest of the planet.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 12, 2025 04:50 PM (ExV1e)

44 I thought he was pointlessly crude back when I was a Democrat.

Posted by: Crusader at August 12, 2025 04:51 PM (TN0g+)

45 Imagine pumping Ashely Biden like you’re trying to pump air into a leaking life raft on the ocean, watching her eyes roll back in deep pleasure, then she looks up and you see Joe.

Posted by: That Guys Nightmare at August 12, 2025 04:51 PM (Htehk)

46 Stunned by 30,000 volts would be better...

Posted by: Elrond Hubbard at August 12, 2025 04:51 PM (PndG2)

47 I read the other day that that fugly red haired harlot, Kathy Griffin, had her third facelift. Not that it will improve things...

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat

With four you get goatee.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 12, 2025 04:51 PM (HJwiy)

48 Nasty progtarded lefty. May he suffer hemeroids and spicy chipotle for many sleepless nights.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at August 12, 2025 04:51 PM (QcUc+)

49 As far as I can tell, the allure of stern was a counter culture vibe, plus naked women (on radio) doing and talking about salacious things.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 12, 2025 04:51 PM (zZu0s)

50 29 Benihana is still a thing?
Posted by: Count de Monet at August 12, 2025 04:48 PM (wVcYX)

Shocking news!

We were at a similar restaurant when one of the chefs nearly killed a customer with his knife. All the guy wanted was a shrimp.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at August 12, 2025 04:51 PM (6PCLE)

51 >>>Even if true - and I doubt it, especially in Letterman's case, given his age - it doesn't mean dick. Stern knows that. Show business is cut throat. There are no friends, and there are no enemies. There are just money, power, influence and sex. That's it. End of list.

So Stern did them a favor (real or imagined)? So what

...

it's not a favor. Stern needs guests. No one's doing anyone a favor here. Stern wants a guest to fill up his slot and to get ratings, and his guests want exposure. Where is the favor? It's a trade.

Posted by: ace at August 12, 2025 04:51 PM (KRtlO)

52 Where can you even hide 95 bodies on a radio show? That's ridiculous and can't go on.

Posted by: Hence, The Cancellation at August 12, 2025 04:51 PM (G5+As)

53 Last thing I heard from Stern is that he hateses the Bagginses.
Posted by: Axeman at August 12, 2025 04:49 PM (krQz2)

Close it up everyone. Threadwinner right here.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 12, 2025 04:51 PM (N1tpc)

54 I wonder if he's considered doing a podcast on Lemondrop with Meghan Markle. He could interview her for hours, letting her talk about herself - which she'd enjoy. He could ask her to describe, for the up and coming gold-diggers in their audience, what she was famous for as a yacht girl - which would be on-brand for him.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 12, 2025 04:50 PM (ExV1e)
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"Can I touch your tits?" -- Stern

Posted by: Axeman at August 12, 2025 04:52 PM (krQz2)

55 No seriously let me know because I'm way more homebound than I should be and I need a list of topics that non-hermits find interesting. Seriously what the hell do normal people talk about?
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Sports. Food. Families - wives, kids, etc. - or girls (or boys) if no family. Cars. Shop, if they share an industry. Music and movies, not so much anymore in my experience. Other than some things that at least *used* to be niche (anime, foreign shows/movies, etc.), popular entertainment isn't a water cooler topic at all anymore.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 12, 2025 04:52 PM (6bTRc)

56 when stern turned Letterman into a star, Letterman had already been a frequent guest host on a little show called The Tonight Show, and Carson thought he would be a good replacement. Instead he took the 12:30 slot.

When stern took Jerry Seinfeld into a star, Seinfeld was already the hottest comedian in America.

yeah he's a real "star-maker," that one.

Posted by: ace at August 12, 2025 04:53 PM (KRtlO)

57 Stern should take his marbles and go home. Nobody wants to play anymore.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 12, 2025 04:53 PM (ZVgZ4)

58 There was a brief window where his brand of humor intersected with the zeitgeist, but it wasn’t that big of a window and it was many years ago.

Posted by: Open Channel D at August 12, 2025 04:53 PM (gYnrv)

59 >I'm all for late in life learning

ace, for example, took up the hobby of shelf-building at the ripe old age of 28.

Posted by: mea culpa at August 12, 2025 04:53 PM (PVK22)

60 Last thing I heard from Stern is that he hateses the Bagginses.
Posted by: Axeman at August 12, 2025 04:49 PM (krQz2)

Close it up everyone. Threadwinner right here.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 12, 2025 04:51 PM (N1tpc)

Well crap. Now what are we supposed to do?

Posted by: Bastards at August 12, 2025 04:53 PM (i24o9)

61 If your claim to fame is doing the news years eve broadcast with Anderson Cooper, are you really a star?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 12, 2025 04:53 PM (zZu0s)

62 41 >>>I read the other day that that fugly red haired harlot, Kathy Griffin, had her third facelift. Not that it will improve things...

she was one of this six celebrities (does she count as a celebrity?) that Stern was yelling owed him for making her a star.

Was she ever a star?

Posted by: ace at August 12, 2025 04:50 PM (KRtlO)

A red dwarf headed for heat death.

Posted by: Tex Lovera at August 12, 2025 04:53 PM (wtvvX)

63 Huh, Howard Stern is alive? I thought he died years ago.

Posted by: That Guys Nightmare at August 12, 2025 04:53 PM (Htehk)

64 45 Imagine pumping Ashely Biden like you’re trying to pump air into a leaking life raft on the ocean, watching her eyes roll back in deep pleasure, then she looks up and you see Joe.
Posted by: That Guys Nightmare

Dude!?!?!?

Continue....I'm almost there!!!!!

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at August 12, 2025 04:53 PM (JCZqz)

65 What a decadent, gross turd of a person he has always been.
He can't disappear soon enough.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 12, 2025 04:54 PM (wHp1L)

66 oh fascinating

Stern is incredibly egotistical while also having an eggshell-fragile ego -- a bad combination, which you see a lot

yes it's a "weak narcissist" or something. it has a name

an aggressive beta male, or in Howard's case, whatever is way lower than beta

Posted by: Black Orchid at August 12, 2025 04:54 PM (Pv3Rg)

67 howard stern had a good show 25 years ago (for people in NYC or who want to pretend that they're in NYC) on AM radio in NYC.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 12, 2025 04:54 PM (ExV1e)

68 Last thing I heard from Stern is that he hateses the Bagginses.
Posted by: Axeman at August 12, 2025 04:49 PM (krQz2)

Close it up everyone. Threadwinner right here.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 12, 2025 04:51 PM (N1tpc)

Well crap. Now what are we supposed to do?
Posted by: Bastards at August 12, 2025 04:53 PM (i24o9)

There's always the shunning.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 12, 2025 04:54 PM (N1tpc)

69
Was she ever a star?
Posted by: ace at August 12, 2025 04:50 PM (KRtlO)

In her own galaxy. I think I found one of her stand up shows funny decades ago. I can't recall.

I am very sleep deprived. Heaven knows what I may comment on today, dear Ace.

I could be on another galaxy and not even know!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at August 12, 2025 04:54 PM (6PCLE)

70 >>>ace, for example, took up the hobby of shelf-building at the ripe old age of 28.

i thought you'd mention the language learning but you went right for the shelves

i get no respect, no respect at all

Posted by: ace at August 12, 2025 04:54 PM (KRtlO)

71 Who's bitch this Stern is?

Posted by: Gloria Swanson at August 12, 2025 04:55 PM (i0F8b)

72 Last thing I heard from Stern is that he hateses the Bagginses.
Posted by: Axeman at August 12, 2025 04:49 PM (krQz2)

Close it up everyone. Threadwinner right here.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 12, 2025 04:51 PM (N1tpc)

Well crap. Now what are we supposed to do?

Posted by: Bastards at August 12, 2025 04:53 PM (i24o9)
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Easy.

Crossbows or Longbows?

Posted by: Axeman at August 12, 2025 04:55 PM (krQz2)

73 Howard needs an Enemy.

but he's the bad guy now.

sad.

look in the mirror man!

Posted by: Black Orchid at August 12, 2025 04:55 PM (Pv3Rg)

74 By 5.30pm, the group had split; some going bar hopping in Hell's Kitchen while others taking dinner at Japanese restaurant, Benihana.
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Really? Benihana? Why?

I like Benihana. It's a good product, last time I was there many years ago. Solid. A little more money than it's worth but all-around, fine. Would go back.

But in NYC, where you can't swing a cat without hitting legitimately exceptional Oriental food of all varieties, it seems a bit odd. I don't know how a Benihana or a Sbarro stays in business in NYC. There is just too much variety and quality from authentic to proudly inauthentic and everything in between. But to each his own. Different strokes and all.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 12, 2025 04:55 PM (6bTRc)

75 Where can you even hide 95 bodies on a radio show? That's ridiculous and can't go on.
Posted by: Hence, The Cancellation at August 12, 2025 04:51 PM (G5+As)

We'll have to ask Lena Dunham. That's a typical fortnight for her.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 12, 2025 04:55 PM (zZu0s)

76 Stern could interview Bonnie Blue and they could compete to see who's more debased and disgusting.

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at August 12, 2025 04:55 PM (JCZqz)

77 Easy.

Crossbows or Longbows?
Posted by: Axeman at August 12, 2025 04:55 PM (krQz2)

Throwing Axes.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 12, 2025 04:55 PM (N1tpc)

78 Last thing I heard from Stern is that he hateses the Bagginses.
Posted by: Axeman at August 12, 2025 04:49 PM (krQz2)

Close it up everyone. Threadwinner right here.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 12, 2025 04:51 PM (N1tpc)

Well crap. Now what are we supposed to do?
Posted by: Bastards at August 12, 2025 04:53 PM (i24o9)

There's always the shunning.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 12, 2025 04:54 PM (N1tpc)
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Those bastards!

Posted by: Axeman at August 12, 2025 04:55 PM (krQz2)

79 45 Imagine pumping Ashely Biden like you’re trying to pump air into a leaking life raft on the ocean, watching her eyes roll back in deep pleasure, then she looks up and you see Joe.
Posted by: That Guys Nightmare

I can do more pushups than you. No joke!

Posted by: Nightmare cont. at August 12, 2025 04:56 PM (Dv3i1)

80 I wouldn’t hit Kathy Griffin with a spiked rounders bat.

Posted by: That Guys Nightmare at August 12, 2025 04:56 PM (Htehk)

81 The Horde could put a better show than Stern's together. I know it.

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at August 12, 2025 04:56 PM (OUMaO)

82 'It is true, he doesn't like the uptick of podcasts, where everyone can be on the radio, he just thinks he is the best and there is a lot to learn from him rather than throwing him away.'
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Ah, so Stern is the equivalent of the 40-something in the bar who boasts about his high school football career?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 12, 2025 04:56 PM (6bTRc)

83 Last thing I heard from Stern is that he hateses the Bagginses.
Posted by: Axeman at August 12, 2025 04:49 PM (krQz2)

Close it up everyone. Threadwinner right here.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 12, 2025 04:51 PM (N1tpc)

Well crap. Now what are we supposed to do?
Posted by: Bastards at August 12, 2025 04:53 PM (i24o9)

There's always the shunning.
-----

And Star Trek references.

Posted by: Crusader at August 12, 2025 04:56 PM (TN0g+)

84 Imagine pumping Ashely Biden like you’re trying to pump air into a leaking life raft on the ocean, watching her eyes roll back in deep pleasure, then she looks up and you see Joe.
Posted by: That Guys Nightmare at August 12, 2025 04:51 PM (Htehk)

Joe or Bill Lumbergh?

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 12, 2025 04:56 PM (wVcYX)

85 Doesn't Colbert have a bigger staff?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 12, 2025 04:56 PM (63Dwl)

86 But in NYC, where you can't swing a cat without hitting legitimately exceptional Oriental food of all varieties, it seems a bit odd. I don't know how a Benihana or a Sbarro stays in business in NYC. There is just too much variety and quality from authentic to proudly inauthentic and everything in between. But to each his own. Different strokes and all.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 12, 2025 04:55 PM (6bTRc)

As we learned from Michael Scott, it's the best place to go for New York Style Pizza!

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 12, 2025 04:56 PM (N1tpc)

87 Last thing I heard from Stern is that he hateses the Bagginses.
Posted by: Axeman at August 12, 2025 04:49 PM (krQz2)

Close it up everyone. Threadwinner right here.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 12, 2025 04:51 PM (N1tpc)

Well crap. Now what are we supposed to do?
Posted by: Bastards at August 12, 2025 04:53 PM (i24o9)

There's always the shunning.
-----

And Star Trek references.
Posted by: Crusader at August 12, 2025 04:56 PM (TN0g+)
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5 trillion quatloos that doesn't happen!

Posted by: Axeman at August 12, 2025 04:56 PM (krQz2)

88 Really? Benihana? Why?

maybe it was in a hotel?

I dunno

Posted by: Black Orchid at August 12, 2025 04:56 PM (Pv3Rg)

89 Stern is incredibly egotistical while also having an eggshell-fragile ego -- a bad combination, which you see a lot

yes it's a "weak narcissist" or something. it has a name

an aggressive beta male, or in Howard's case, whatever is way lower than beta
Posted by: Black Orchid

I, uh, wouldn't know anything about that.

Posted by: Obama at August 12, 2025 04:57 PM (JCZqz)

90 He's got a huge deal from Sirius for working occasionally. Like Maddow and her deal and Colbert his . Is it any wonder that the propaganda ministries and media in general is dying. An even bigger firing in the media is coming for a lot more people than just these clowns

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 12, 2025 04:57 PM (0EwKT)

91 >>>76 Stern could interview Bonnie Blue and they could compete to see who's more debased and disgusting.

i saw someone talking about her a couple of months ago. Maybe Sydney Watson.

A two word description of her exploits came to mind: Sexual horror. She's going for sexual body horror.

Posted by: ace at August 12, 2025 04:57 PM (KRtlO)

92 #37.
It's a business of whores, liars and con men.

Sounds like congress.

Posted by: Case at August 12, 2025 04:57 PM (iwlvf)

93 Not to go all Pauline Kael but not only have I never listened to Stern, I don't know anyone who listened to Stern. How was this assclown got $100 million a year?
Posted by: JackStraw at August 12, 2025 04:49 PM (viF8m)

It's the incestuous nature of everything. Everyone who mattered knew who he was and agreed that he was edgy. Most of them didn't listen to him but they knew who he was and agreed that he was edgy.

Sirius was looking for edgy. Plus, everyone who mattered knew who he was and agreed that he was edgy.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 12, 2025 04:57 PM (ExV1e)

94 But he's a very damaged brand with a limited audience and falling ratings. How much money does Stern think he'll be able to command at this point? What kind of audience does he think he still has?
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There was a time - and it is only just now ending - that this wouldn't matter. Until very, very recently, he would have gotten that show and then some. He still might.

Hollywood is only starting the process of *stopping* giving politically-correct hacks with no following or appeal gobs of money to produce bad products that hurt the business.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 12, 2025 04:58 PM (6bTRc)

95 >>>There's a reason Howard Hughes was never a great radio personality. If you just sit in your house all day wearing a face-diaper because you're still afraid of covid -- what do you even have to talk about?

Now we know where Ace got the time machine.

Posted by: Bastards at August 12, 2025 04:58 PM (i24o9)

96 >i get no respect, no respect at all

Posted by: ace at August 12, 2025 04:54 PM (KRtlO)

My psychiatrist told me I was crazy and I said I want a second opinion. He said okay, you're ugly too.

Posted by: Zombie Rodney Dangerfield at August 12, 2025 04:58 PM (NgqoH)

97 First: Benihana still exists?

Second: Ali Wentworth was the actress who played the "Schmoopie" girl in an episode of Seinfeld more than twenty years ago.

Other than that, I got nuthin'. I'm not sure I've ever heard or seen any of Howard Stern's shows. When I read that he was hiding from people because of the Sniffle Scare, I really lost interest in ever seeing any of them.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 12, 2025 04:58 PM (omVj0)

98 81 The Horde could put a better show than Stern's together. I know it.

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at August 12, 2025 04:56 PM (OUMaO)

We already do! I get more laughs here from youse guys than anything I've watched on TV in the last 10 years.

Posted by: Tex Lovera at August 12, 2025 04:58 PM (wtvvX)

99 #37.
It's a business of whores, liars and con men.

Sounds like congress.
Posted by: Case at August 12, 2025 04:57 PM (iwlvf)

To get congress you have to add dementia patients.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 12, 2025 04:58 PM (N1tpc)

100 By 5.30pm, the group had split; some going bar hopping in Hell's Kitchen while others taking dinner at Japanese restaurant, Benihana.
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Really? Benihana? Why?

I like Benihana. It's a good product, last time I was there many years ago. Solid. A little more money than it's worth but all-around, fine. Would go back.

But in NYC, where you can't swing a cat without hitting legitimately exceptional Oriental food of all varieties, it seems a bit odd. I don't know how a Benihana or a Sbarro stays in business in NYC. There is just too much variety and quality from authentic to proudly inauthentic and everything in between. But to each his own. Different strokes and all.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 12, 2025 04:55 PM (6bTRc)

So Benihana is the Olive Garden of Oriental restaurants?

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 12, 2025 04:58 PM (wVcYX)

101 i thought you'd mention the language learning but you went right for the shelves

i get no respect, no respect at all
Posted by: ace

I imagine Ace typing this one-handed...

...because he's tugging his collar

Posted by: Moron Analyst at August 12, 2025 04:58 PM (JCZqz)

102 What a ridiculous old fool.

Limbaugh was worth $1B+ and worked through a serious illness practically to the moment he died. But that was understandable. But it made sense.

It had long ceased to be about the money for him. He had all the money. It wasn't about the fame and prestige. He was the biggest star in the history of radio, and nobody will ever match his fame again.

The guy had a cause. That's what kept him sitting behind the golden EIB microphone, with talent on loan from G-d.

WTF is this desiccated freak's cause? Proving he's more popular than Joe Rogan, in the face of all evidence to the contrary?

Pathetic. Take your nine digit bankroll, retire, and pound your flaccid old pecker to clips of your glory days, old man.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 12, 2025 04:59 PM (t/WMl)

103 >>>Not to go all Pauline Kael but not only have I never listened to Stern, I don't know anyone who listened to Stern. How was this assclown got $100 million a year?
Posted by: JackStraw

He had the right kind of fans: Devoted fans who would follow him to Sirius and pay money to listen to them.

I heard someone say that if you have 10,000 genuinely appreciative fans, you basically have a career.

I have two. I'm working on it.

Posted by: ace at August 12, 2025 04:59 PM (KRtlO)

104 11 He could just give his staff of 95 some of the money he's been hoarding.
Posted by: huerfano at August 12, 2025 04:43 PM

Absolutely! I was wondering who pays them- Sirius or Stern.

Posted by: Moonbeam at August 12, 2025 04:59 PM (rbKZ6)

105 I'm trying to think if the first time I saw Stern was on Letterman's NBC show.....

But it could have been Tom Snyder... -- WHICH I SAW ON YOUTUBE (*puffs* being only 29)

Posted by: Axeman at August 12, 2025 04:59 PM (krQz2)

106 Doesn't Colbert have a bigger staff?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, J

HUng like a hamster.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 12, 2025 04:59 PM (P7vXf)

107 So Benihana is the Olive Garden of Oriental restaurants?
Posted by: Count de Monet at August 12, 2025 04:58 PM (wVcYX)
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Nah. It's upscale. And it's good. I'm not knocking Benihana. I just can't fathom that one can't do better and for the same or less money in NYC.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 12, 2025 04:59 PM (6bTRc)

108 I read the other day that that fugly red haired harlot, Kathy Griffin, had her third facelift. Not that it will improve things...

There is an end state to this:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Bnx95KyQEAA

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 12, 2025 05:00 PM (ZVgZ4)

109 I'll soon be 72. I'd like to learn the harmonica.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at August 12, 2025 05:00 PM (kTd/k)

110 STERNN!! He's nothing but a low down, double-dealin', back-stabbin', larcenous, perverted worm. Hangin's too good for him. Burnin's too good for him! He should be torn into little pieces and buried alive!

{ Testimony of Hanover Fiste, "Heavy Metal" 1981, Segment: 'Captain Sternn' }

Posted by: Hanover Fiste at August 12, 2025 05:00 PM (O7YUW)

111 ... The guy had a cause. That's what kept him sitting behind the golden EIB microphone, with talent on loan from G-d.

WTF is this desiccated freak's cause? Proving he's more popular than Joe Rogan, in the face of all evidence to the contrary?

Pathetic. Take your nine digit bankroll, retire, and pound your flaccid old pecker to clips of your glory days, old man.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 12, 2025 04:59 PM (t/WMl)
+++++
Ruthless.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 12, 2025 05:00 PM (6bTRc)

112 >>>Now he's whining that the podcasters he attacks should "learn from him rather than throwing him away."

I told you not to be stupid, you moron!

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 12, 2025 05:00 PM (i24o9)

113 I saw whores, liars and con men open for my brothers band Mamouth at the corner tappy where I drank and my old lady tended bar..
They really were just customers playing for open mike night..

Posted by: Captain Fantastic at August 12, 2025 05:00 PM (VPPG8)

114 Go to Wo Hop in NYC Chinatown for good Chinese.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 12, 2025 05:01 PM (0EwKT)

115 It's like eating Papa John's in NYC. No point to it.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 12, 2025 05:01 PM (P7vXf)

116 When you start using terms like “last I listened to him was the turn of the century” (LOL), your cooked.

TBH, few people want to listen to older people talk because old people’s voices are shit sounding. My main beef with Incredibles 2 was the rough sounding voice of Craig T Nelson.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at August 12, 2025 05:01 PM (n0ETd)

117 34 Last thing I heard from Stern is that he hateses the Bagginses.
Posted by: Axeman at August 12, 2025 04:49 PM (krQz2)
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Okay, I didn't understand the reference so I had to do a little internet searching and I have to say: well played.

Posted by: WisRich at August 12, 2025 05:02 PM (G0vdT)

118 I heard someone say that if you have 10,000 genuinely appreciative fans, you basically have a career.

I have two. I'm working on it.

Posted by: ace at August 12, 2025 04:59 PM (KRtlO)

Be better, Ace.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 12, 2025 05:02 PM (i24o9)

119 I would think a bloated budget would get you hiring employees to at least make that budget look impressive

Posted by: Skip at August 12, 2025 05:02 PM (+qU29)

120 85 Doesn't Colbert have a bigger staff?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

A TV show should have more staff than a radio show.

Posted by: Key Grip at August 12, 2025 05:02 PM (G5+As)

121 my doctor Vinnie Boombatz told me he had some bad news. I said give it to me straight, doc. He said he was sleeping with my wife

i get no respect I tell ya

Posted by: ace at August 12, 2025 05:02 PM (KRtlO)

122 Stern is the Disney of Marvels

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at August 12, 2025 05:02 PM (DODe4)

123 Gol Dang with the news coming out of Texas, DC and Cali
I'ma have to call my cousins Heavy and Duty.

-The Fan

Posted by: Captain Fantastic at August 12, 2025 05:02 PM (VPPG8)

124 (I have no talent for Rodney Dangerfield jokes, obviously)

Posted by: ace at August 12, 2025 05:02 PM (KRtlO)

125 To even remember Tom Snyder says you are at least 29!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 12, 2025 05:02 PM (ZVgZ4)

126 Why in the fucking hell does that egotistical scarecrow think he deserves any-God-Damned-Thing???

He's not even a human anymore.

Posted by: That Hippie Chick from at August 12, 2025 05:03 PM (i49OE)

127 Now he's whining that the podcasters he attacks should "learn from him rather than throwing him away."

"I'll take a hard pass on what Howie Stern thinks is comedy"
- John Oliver -- oops, Andrew Schulz

Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 12, 2025 05:03 PM (5BjuY)

128 To even remember Tom Snyder says you are at least 29!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 12, 2025 05:02 PM (ZVgZ4)
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Luckily, I don't.

Posted by: Axeman at August 12, 2025 05:03 PM (krQz2)

129 62 41 >>>I read the other day that that fugly red haired harlot, Kathy Griffin, had her third facelift. Not that it will improve things...

she was one of this six celebrities (does she count as a celebrity?) that Stern was yelling owed him for making her a star.

Was she ever a star?

Posted by: ace at August 12, 2025 04:50 PM (KRtlO)

A red dwarf headed for heat death.
Posted by: Tex Lovera at August 12, 2025 04:53 PM (wtvvX)

The red goatee is a nice look on her.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at August 12, 2025 05:03 PM (OA79/)

130 >>>STERNN!! He's nothing but a low down, double-dealin', back-stabbin', larcenous, perverted worm. Hangin's too good for him. Burnin's too good for him! He should be torn into little pieces and buried alive!

{ Testimony of Hanover Fiste, "Heavy Metal" 1981, Segment: 'Captain Sternn' }

I knew it from the second 'n' in "Sternn."

Posted by: ace at August 12, 2025 05:03 PM (KRtlO)

131 108 I read the other day that that fugly red haired harlot, Kathy Griffin, had her third facelift. Not that it will improve things...

There is an end state to this:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Bnx95KyQEAA
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit

That's nothing. I was expecting this:
https://tinyurl.com/54dw6wa8

Posted by: Moron Analyst at August 12, 2025 05:03 PM (JCZqz)

132 I agree with That Hippie Chick!!! LOL

Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at August 12, 2025 05:04 PM (i49OE)

133 my doctor Vinnie Boombatz told me he had some bad news. I said give it to me straight, doc. He said he was sleeping with my wife

i get no respect I tell ya
Posted by: ace at August 12, 2025 05:02 PM (KRtlO)

Comment of the week!

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 12, 2025 05:04 PM (wVcYX)

134 He could just give his staff of 95 some of the money he's been hoarding.
Posted by: huerfano at August 12, 2025 04:43 PM (98kQX)

Does seem a bit absurd how much he gets paid and how many staff he has. But if he is worried about his staff (as he should be) surely he can peel off $50 million to give all 95 of them a very generous severance.

Also does he have a channel with 24/7 radio broadcasts or is that 95 staff members for one 3 hour show?

I never listened to him beyond clips I have seen floating around over the years where he seems like an unpleasant lecherous old man so I dont know how it works.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at August 12, 2025 05:04 PM (zF/pB)

135 103 >>>Not to go all Pauline Kael but not only have I never listened to Stern, I don't know anyone who listened to Stern. How was this assclown got $100 million a year?
Posted by: JackStraw

He had the right kind of fans: Devoted fans who would follow him to Sirius and pay money to listen to them.

I heard someone say that if you have 10,000 genuinely appreciative fans, you basically have a career.

I have two. I'm working on it.
Posted by: ace at August 12, 2025 04:59 PM (KRtlO)

Fan #1: garrett
Fan #2: Lamont

Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 12, 2025 05:04 PM (5BjuY)

136 A TV show should have more staff than a radio show.
Posted by: Key Grip at August 12, 2025 05:02 PM (G5+As)
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Maybe. A TV show, in total? Yeah. A lot more.

The staff of the *host*? Not necessarily. Writers, the producer, the guy who gives the star a handy on break, etc. That should be pretty similar. Nothing inherently "more" about TV in that respect.

But I suspect all of the technical people are on Stern's payroll rather than SiriusXM's, though I am not sure about that. As opposed to, say, Kimmel. I suspect his technical people work for the network, not him or his program per se.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 12, 2025 05:04 PM (6bTRc)

137 i wore a peek-a-boo nightie for my husband. He peeked, and then he booed

wait that's Phyllis Diller

Posted by: ace at August 12, 2025 05:04 PM (KRtlO)

138 Whatever happened to, "At some point you've made enough money?"

Seems like Howie could stop broadcasting tomorrow and live comfortably the rest of his life, even if he spent it all on hookers and blow.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 12, 2025 05:04 PM (7fElN)

139 @125 I'm old enough to remember Dan Ackroyd doing Tom Snyder on SNL.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 12, 2025 05:05 PM (0EwKT)

140 A two word description of her exploits came to mind: Sexual horror. She's going for sexual body horror.
Posted by: ace at August 12, 2025 04:57 PM (KRtlO)

I think she's possessed. I can't imagine even a nymphomaniac would be as debased as she is. And she's so proud of herself because disgusting trolls would pay for her 'content'.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 12, 2025 05:05 PM (ExV1e)

141 My eyebrows are falling out.

Posted by: Tom Snyder at August 12, 2025 05:05 PM (i0F8b)

142 Because he wants it to all end on his own terms.
......

How about seppuku?

Posted by: wth at August 12, 2025 05:05 PM (v0R5T)

143 128 To even remember Tom Snyder says you are at least 29!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 12, 2025 05:02 PM (ZVgZ4)
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Luckily, I don't.
Posted by: Axeman at August 12, 2025 05:03 PM (krQz2

Swear i saw ted nugent do great white buffalo on tom snyder in like 78. I snuck out of bed to watch TV. I think I was in 6th grade. Mind blowing.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at August 12, 2025 05:05 PM (OA79/)

144 Was she ever a star?

Posted by: ace at August 12, 2025 04:50 PM (KRtlO)
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She was a mildly humorous insult comic, IIRC.

I think way back when, I laughed at more of her jokes than I do for some comics. But still, not that many.

She was one of that "attitude comedians".

Posted by: Axeman at August 12, 2025 05:06 PM (krQz2)

145 139 @125 I'm old enough to remember Dan Ackroyd doing Tom Snyder on SNL.
Posted by: Smell the Glove

Oh my! And they showed it on broadcast TV? So progressive and queer-positive!!!!! Did you develop a cuck fetish?!?!?!?

Posted by: Sam Brinton at August 12, 2025 05:06 PM (JCZqz)

146 Amateurs, the lot of you.

Posted by: Morton Downey, Jr. at August 12, 2025 05:07 PM (wVcYX)

147 Holy fuck, just started that video of Stern and right away, I am thinking this is either an Apple reveal, or some sort of modern-day Hitler shit.... seriously, took all of 16 seconds......

Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at August 12, 2025 05:07 PM (i49OE)

148 Second: Ali Wentworth was the actress who played the "Schmoopie" girl in an episode of Seinfeld more than twenty years ago.

Married to George Stephanopoulos.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 12, 2025 05:07 PM (ExV1e)

149 I heard Stern a couple of times on the TV. That was enough to convince me that that stinking talentless rat turd wasn't worth my time.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at August 12, 2025 05:07 PM (pohLc)

150 Posted by: ace at August 12, 2025 04:57 PM (

and she'll probably be dead by the time she's 30 I suppose she has money but setting a goal to do 1000 men in one day? !! Unless she was physically or sexually abused as a young person I can't imagine anyone gets into because they think it's a great thing to do

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 12, 2025 05:07 PM (2GCMq)

151 lol ace

Phyllis diller! wow

OT but I am struggling to get thru letterkenny

it's way more woke and just kind of ... boring? repetitive? do you have to be stoned?

Shoresy was EXCELLENT but this is just .. yahso

Posted by: Black Orchid at August 12, 2025 05:07 PM (Pv3Rg)

152 I was a big fan of Stern, from when he first showed up in Philly in 1986. I was 18, Stern's wacked-out brand of radio was right up my alley, especially compared to the idiotic "morning zoo" crap that dominated the airwaves. I stuck with him through the 90's, and was on the Sirius bandwagon when he first went over. But the big satellite deal killed his career, IMO. Once he had no rules, no FCC or "religious nuts" to rail against, he lost his edge. I stopped listening over 15 years ago.

Posted by: Kareem of Wheat at August 12, 2025 05:08 PM (BMHsU)

153 Right now, on this post, is the biggest audience Stern currently has.

If he could somehow manage to get his staff to listen in, then his ratings would double.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at August 12, 2025 05:08 PM (+4Cf6)

154 Howard Stern was often disappointed by his staff.

His staff just didn't measure up.

Posted by: Axeman at August 12, 2025 05:08 PM (krQz2)

155 Whatever happened to, "At some point you've made enough money?"

Seems like Howie could stop broadcasting tomorrow and live comfortably the rest of his life, even if he spent it all on hookers and blow.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 12, 2025 05:04 PM (7fElN)
++++
Definitely. But I also think it actually *isn't* about the money. The money is a symbol, not a driving force. It's a symbol of his status. His influence. His importance. His relevance. His industrial and social power.

Once you're up at that level, the money pales in comparison to that which it symbolizes. The pain of this kind of development isn't the fear of losing a paycheck or going broke, it's the inversion of those symbols. He no longer has the status. He no longer has the influence. He is no longer important. He is no longer relevant. He no longer wields tremendous industrial and social power. Those symbols vanish because they became unreal some time before.

*That* is the trauma, and it's real. It doesn't mean he's undeserving of it, just don't get lost in the dollars and cents. They don't matter. Their importance is only in the downstream implications.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 12, 2025 05:08 PM (6bTRc)

156 I saw Fugly Red Haired Harlot open for Thin Lizzy at the House of Blues back in 2019!

Posted by: runner at August 12, 2025 05:08 PM (g47mK)

157 Funny you mention Tom Snyder, the only time I ever watched was when Kiss was on when I was a little kid. Ace Frehley showed up drunk and was laughing his ass off while Gene Simmons was stewing.

Now that I think about it, Howard and Gene Simmons seem to have a lot in common especially as they enter the twilight years.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at August 12, 2025 05:09 PM (qwx/I)

158 Moron Analyst -

You did one up me, but I didn’t want to give any publicity to that show, given what it’s become!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 12, 2025 05:09 PM (ZVgZ4)

159 I'll soon be 72. I'd like to learn the harmonica.
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA
.......

Start with an easy one like "When the Levee Breaks".

Posted by: wth at August 12, 2025 05:10 PM (v0R5T)

160 i wore a peek-a-boo nightie for my husband. He peeked, and then he booed

wait that's Phyllis Diller
Posted by: ace at August 12, 2025

***
Phyllis, on her flight on a cut-rate airline:

"Our stewardess was so old . . . You know how some women get those little crow's feet around their eyes? This broad had mastodon tracks."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 12, 2025 05:10 PM (omVj0)

161 "It also shows that his staff hates him, because who else would leak this except for an enemy?"

So he has that in common with Don Imus as well. Bernie McGuirk (PBUH) said that Imus was a terrible, loathsome bully to work for - even though Bernie owed his career to him.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 12, 2025 05:10 PM (5BjuY)

162 137 i wore a peek-a-boo nightie for my husband. He peeked, and then he booed

wait that's Phyllis Diller
Posted by: ace

Phyllis had an old card catalog full of index cards with jokes, 50,000 in total. And a Wig Room, full of styrofoam heads with her wigs on them. If you bought a piece of her art, she'd let you look at them. She lived to 95.

Posted by: The Pruitts of Southampton at August 12, 2025 05:10 PM (G5+As)

163 What dire sort of "man" would want to be #631 in a thousand dude train. All these hominids need to be on a registry.

Posted by: gKWVE at August 12, 2025 05:10 PM (gKWVE)

164
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Bnx95KyQEAA
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 12, 2025 05:00 PM (ZVgZ4)

Ha! Looks like Pelousi!

I read that the sign of too many facelifts is that their ears grow bigger! So I looked at Nic Kidman (whom I despise with her bones protruding) and she has huge earlobes. It made me happy. I don't ask for much.

In general, I apparently despise everyone today due to severe sleep deprivation, then a 4hr morning nap after the reasons for the lack of sleep left full of life at 0715. They are charming reasons for lack of sleep, I'll give them that!

The nap made me worse. Now most of the day is gone and I am as useless as a Dim in Congress. Or an anchor on NBC.

In college I could function fine with lack of sleep, then go ace a test and continue with life. Repeat. Now I want to rewind the clock.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at August 12, 2025 05:10 PM (6PCLE)

165 No seriously let me know because I'm way more homebound than I should be and I need a list of topics that non-hermits find interesting. Seriously what the hell do normal people talk about?
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- Plots to run the table at the Sunday buffet.
- Stories. Some of which are true.
- Internet search history.

Posted by: scampydog at August 12, 2025 05:10 PM (2bFN5)

166 *That* is the trauma, and it's real. It doesn't mean he's undeserving of it, just don't get lost in the dollars and cents. They don't matter. Their importance is only in the downstream implications.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 12, 2025 05:08 PM (6bTRc)
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Yep. I agree. He is controlled entirely by his ego. He can't imagine a life where he no longer matters because he's been told his entire adult life that he's the most important man in the room.

Now that's gone and he can't cope with it.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 12, 2025 05:11 PM (7fElN)

167 I was a big fan of Stern, from when he first showed up in Philly in 1986

me too Kareem! this is kinda sad

The pain of this kind of development isn't the fear of losing a paycheck or going broke, it's the inversion of those symbols. He no longer has the status

yeah this is just aging. people seem to have lost the knack. a good start is when you actually believe in mentoring and do it, and take a step back in your career. I did that, and I'm a lot happier, and I have these younger kids that are doing well not just my own kids.

not sure why our elders seem to not want to do this. it's a lost path for some reason? we don't stay 29, not really.

at least me, I wouldn't want to.

Posted by: Black Orchid at August 12, 2025 05:11 PM (Pv3Rg)

168
Haven't listened to him for decades.

Seen a few video clips where the person he's questioning looks somewhere between uncomfortable and terrified.

Posted by: Auspex at August 12, 2025 05:11 PM (Y8DZL)

169 That damn Trump!

DC Mayor Warns Trump’s Crime Fighting Measures Will Unfairly Impact Criminals

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From the Bee.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 12, 2025 05:11 PM (L/fGl)

170 Howard Stern has lost whatever cachet he once had: he just doesn’t want to admit it, least of all to himself!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 12, 2025 05:12 PM (ZVgZ4)

171 Ms. Diller also owned a Checker station wagon.

Posted by: I'm So Jealous at August 12, 2025 05:12 PM (G5+As)

172 To even remember Tom Snyder says you are at least 29!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 12, 2025

***
I recall him interviewing Harlan Ellison sometime in the early '70s.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 12, 2025 05:12 PM (omVj0)

173 Uh-oh

FoxNews is on whike I'm eating.

You're never going to believe this but the Democrats of all people are labelling President Trump as racist and a Nazi!!

And they are singing!

Crap just got real.

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at August 12, 2025 05:12 PM (jvJvP)

174 Sticking it to the scolds and pearl clutchers was fine for about five minutes but then his shtick got old fast. I genuinely do not understand the duration of his career.

Posted by: His fifteen minutes lasted way too long at August 12, 2025 05:13 PM (TbWk/)

175 I was a big fan of Stern, from when he first showed up in Philly in 1986. I was 18, Stern's wacked-out brand of radio was right up my alley, especially compared to the idiotic "morning zoo" crap that dominated the airwaves. I stuck with him through the 90's, and was on the Sirius bandwagon when he first went over. But the big satellite deal killed his career, IMO. Once he had no rules, no FCC or "religious nuts" to rail against, he lost his edge. I stopped listening over 15 years ago.

Posted by: Kareem of Wheat at August 12, 2025 05:08 PM

Same here. I listened to him everyday driving a truck into New York City. He had some awesome guests and once or twice a week Donald Trump would call in or howard would call him and they would chat about random stuff for 20-30 minutes. He started to go woke right before 9/11 and his wife left him.

After the 9/11 hype slowed down stern went full woke and took the XM radio deal for $61 million IIRC. I quit listening to him then.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 12, 2025 05:13 PM (0N4FZ)

176 That damn Trump!

DC Mayor Warns Trump’s Crime Fighting Measures Will Unfairly Impact Criminals

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From the Bee.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 12, 2025 05:11 PM (L/fGl)
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"UNLEASH THE JOKER!" -- DC Mayor

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 12, 2025 05:13 PM (7fElN)

177 He gave the world Fartman, and still the world turns its back on him.

Posted by: Wally at August 12, 2025 05:13 PM (7CamO)

178 I miss Larry Bud Mehlman. He was the true mentor behind David Letterman.

Posted by: Orson at August 12, 2025 05:13 PM (dIske)

179 Stern hasn't been properly positioned for success.

Posted by: Kamala at August 12, 2025 05:13 PM (i0F8b)

180
NASDAQ hits & closes at ALL-TIME High.

Also: S&P hits & closes at ALL-TIME High.

Posted by: Soothsayer knows his Star Wars lore at August 12, 2025 05:14 PM (Y2ryp)

181 "Oh, Susannah" is the go to starter song when learning the harmonica.

Posted by: Elrond Hubbard at August 12, 2025 05:14 PM (PndG2)

182 VDH was talking about Howard in his podcast today...starting to think Ace is Victor's alter ego.

Stern tried to enter the Chicago market in the mid-90s but never really took off here. I think when he made light of the death toll from the Heat Wave of 95 he was basically finished. The NY attitude didn't really fly in Chicago, at least when it was a tolerable place to live.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at August 12, 2025 05:14 PM (qwx/I)

183 Almost time for me to slop the feline hogs.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 12, 2025 05:14 PM (omVj0)

184 Speaking of Pelosi, she got body-slammed on X the other night.

She posted how Trump was going to take over DC, but he was slow to bring in the National Guard on January 6th.

That's when one of the top guys of the Metro Police quote-posted a reply that January 3rd there was a request to bring in the NG, that House leadership *refused*.

All the receipts that you need to tell you, Trump's been telling the truth, and the Dems have been lying.

People screen-shotted that post in case Nanzi took it down.

Posted by: Axeman at August 12, 2025 05:14 PM (krQz2)

185 @130/ace: { I knew it from the second 'n' in "Sternn." }

I've lost count how many times I've watched that movie. It never gets old.

Posted by: Hanover Fiste at August 12, 2025 05:15 PM (O7YUW)

186 FoxNews is on whike I'm eating.

You're never going to believe this but the Democrats of all people are labelling President Trump as racist and a Nazi!!

And they are singing!

Crap just got real.
Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at August 12, 2025 05:12 PM (jvJvP)
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For some reason, I'm picturing the Democrats joining hands like the Whos down in Whoville at the end of "The Grinch Who Stole Christmas."

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 12, 2025 05:15 PM (7fElN)

187 Whoops, off Hanover sock.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 12, 2025 05:15 PM (O7YUW)

188 Doesn't Colbert have a bigger staff?

What does the size of his junk have to do with producing a show? Or is that supposed to be a benefits "package" for young female interns?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at August 12, 2025 05:15 PM (+4Cf6)

189 Democrat Mayors Report Violent Crime Down 40% Since They Redefined ‘Violent’ And ‘Crime’

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Well, you can't argue with results.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 12, 2025 05:15 PM (L/fGl)

190

It’s not fun, it’s not funny.

Has he done a single thing that would get him pub in ten years?

He fell off a cliff. Fucked it up when he blew off Billy then Jackie.

Artie was his tie to actual comedy and that he fucked up.

And he fucked up going uncensored and marrying that bimbo that’s sucking him dry.

Karma pal.

Posted by: E Buzz at August 12, 2025 05:15 PM (O6cFZ)

191 He is a mean sixth grade girl. Good riddance.

Posted by: No sympathy at August 12, 2025 05:16 PM (/oUAl)

192 Also, I italics fail. It was very hot out there today. I'm a little fried.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 12, 2025 05:16 PM (O7YUW)

193 Buried Lede!
There's still a Benihana's somewhere? Especially in NYC?

Posted by: GWB at August 12, 2025 05:16 PM (Qo5P5)

194 Also from the Bee -

Trump Vows To Drastically Reduce The Number Of Criminals In Washington By Sending Congress Home

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 12, 2025 05:16 PM (ZVgZ4)

195 Re: sidebar

I think DOA is about a car crash.

It is the natural progression of the teen death rock song.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 12, 2025 05:16 PM (zZu0s)

196 "Oh, Susannah" is the go to starter song when learning the harmonica.
Posted by: Elrond Hubbard at August 12, 2025 05:14 PM (PndG2)

Yeah, but you gotta be sitting around a campfire while you play it.

Posted by: hobbitopoly at August 12, 2025 05:16 PM (k9OZB)

197 I have two. I'm working on it.

Posted by: ace at August 12, 2025 04:59 PM (KRtlO)

Three. You have me and I am worth a million.

I apparently have a lot of self esteem during severe sleep deprivation.

Oh,hell, I always have it. I still got it!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at August 12, 2025 05:16 PM (6PCLE)

198 130/ace: { I knew it from the second 'n' in "Sternn." }
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I've lost count how many times I've watched that movie. It never gets old.
Posted by: Hanover Fiste at August 12, 2025

***
The final sequence, "Taarna," was not only hot, but a classic.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 12, 2025 05:16 PM (omVj0)

199 170 Howard Stern has lost whatever cachet he once had: he just doesn’t want to admit it, least of all to himself!
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 12, 2025 05:12 PM (ZVgZ4)

Stern is the victim of the classic Anne Beatts quote: "you can only be avant-garde so long before you become garde."

Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 12, 2025 05:17 PM (5BjuY)

200 I liked- what I saw if it- Phyllis Diller's self deprecating humor and she was married to the first husband for about 26 years. I tlaughed at Rodney Dangerfield's humor as well and he seemed to be married to an attractive woman.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 12, 2025 05:17 PM (2GCMq)

201
To be fair, I stopped listening to Sean Hannity 10 years ago as well.

Posted by: Auspex at August 12, 2025 05:17 PM (Y8DZL)

202 What dire sort of "man" would want to be #631 in a thousand dude train. All these hominids need to be on a registry.
Posted by: gKWVE at August 12, 2025 05:10 PM (gKWVE)

It's not as thrilling as being plane #631 in a thousand plane raid over Germany.

Posted by: Col. Greg Brandon at August 12, 2025 05:17 PM (wVcYX)

203 FoxNews is on whike I'm eating.

You're never going to believe this but the Democrats of all people are labelling President Trump as racist and a Nazi!!

And they are singing!

Crap just got real.
Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at August 12, 2025 05:12 PM (jvJvP)

I didn't believe them before, when they said he was a racist and a nazi. But now that they are singing it, the message takes on a whole new level of credibility.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 12, 2025 05:17 PM (i24o9)

204 Howard Stern was often disappointed by his staff.

His staff just didn't measure up.
Posted by: Axeman at August 12, 2025 05:08 PM (krQz2)

Don't I know it!!!

Posted by: Michelle Obam- wait, um, Barak Oba...fuck it. at August 12, 2025 05:18 PM (i49OE)

205 Yeah, but you gotta be sitting around a campfire while you play it.
Posted by: hobbitopoly at August 12, 2025 05:16 PM (k9OZB)

I once saw a funny meme of playing the harmonica during a panic attack and hyperventilating. I sort of like this idea.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at August 12, 2025 05:18 PM (6PCLE)

206 Heavy Metal had the best soundtrack back in the day

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at August 12, 2025 05:18 PM (3Ope8)

207 70s - Grossed out by Stern
80s-90s - Listened to every minute
00s - Yeah I'm not paying for satellite

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 12, 2025 05:18 PM (RIvkX)

208 Stern was before my time (his good stuff, anyway). I listened to O&A. If you know anything about their show, you know Opie (Gregory Hughes) was obsessed with Stern and constantly denigrated the guy on-air for supposedly taking credit for O&A's innovations. Which is funny, because O&A largely succeeded as a competitor to Stern and owed a lot of their success to the trail Stern blazed. What's even funnier is that Hughes himself because an obnoxious aging cat-lady leftist who still styles himself an edgy radio legend. Peas in a pod.

Posted by: mea culpa at August 12, 2025 05:19 PM (PVK22)

209 I played harmonica in music class when I was about 12. I gave a recital of blues hits but had a very bad cold that day and wound up blowing snots in front of the class.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at August 12, 2025 05:19 PM (qwx/I)

210 And they are singing!

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at August 12, 2025 05:12 PM (jvJvP)
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Rainbow, Rainbow, Over All--ees.

Posted by: Axeman at August 12, 2025 05:19 PM (krQz2)

211 Phyllis also owned an Excalibur, a Silver Cloud Rolls Royce, and a 71 Mercedes 220.

Posted by: Funky Cars, Funky Lady at August 12, 2025 05:19 PM (G5+As)

212 206 Heavy Metal had the best soundtrack back in the day
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at August 12, 2025 05:18 PM (3Ope

That's a flashback from the weekend drive in. Cool soundtrack.

Posted by: CaliGirl at August 12, 2025 05:19 PM (hs4ik)

213 I use to listen to Howard doing his radio show when in NY at night in Philadelphia suburbs, followed a few years when he did NY and Philadelphia simultaneously.

Posted by: Skip at August 12, 2025 05:19 PM (+qU29)

214 Heavy Metal had the best soundtrack back in the day

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at August 12, 2025 05:18 PM (3Ope

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If you listen to fools, the mob rules!

Posted by: Axeman at August 12, 2025 05:20 PM (krQz2)

215 Letterman was always an ass to his guests.

Posted by: runner at August 12, 2025 05:20 PM (g47mK)

216 Doesn't Colbert have a bigger staff?

What does the size of his junk have to do with producing a show?

Just putting those two words together is a killin' offense.

Posted by: Michelle Obam- wait, um, Barak Oba...fuck it. at August 12, 2025 05:20 PM (i49OE)

217 I once saw a funny meme of playing the harmonica during a panic attack and hyperventilating. I sort of like this idea.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at August 12, 2025 05:18 PM (6PCLE)

I like that! Sort of like you can play the kazoo if you can only hum the tune to a song because you can't remember the words.

Posted by: hobbitopoly at August 12, 2025 05:20 PM (k9OZB)

218 AGREED!!!!

Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at August 12, 2025 05:21 PM (i49OE)

219 Howard's such a b-b-b-bitch.

Posted by: Stuttering John at August 12, 2025 05:21 PM (paSBy)

220 yesterdays news:

Newscum: at the runaway Dems Boo Game in Cali-
I am giving President Trump 24 hours to pull back and rethink the redistricting of Republican states

Trump proxy Gov "Hot Wheels" 18 hours later:

Texas Senate Officially PASSES New Congressional Map — Democrats STORM OUT in Protest

Posted by: Captain Fantastic at August 12, 2025 05:21 PM (VPPG8)

221 I'll soon be 72. I'd like to learn the harmonica.
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA
.......

Start with an easy one like "When the Levee Breaks".
Posted by: wth
__________

One of the few times harmonica improves a tune. I just don't like it in rock.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 12, 2025 05:22 PM (XvL8K)

222 All I have to add is this.

I think there is a lot of leverage for a near-daily show with a lot of listeners to make people tune in regular. This market is highly sensitive to habit (social media is the same.)

I think a guy like Rogan got past that, and people tune in irregularly when he has a good guest. He knows how to keep on top of things people are talking about, or are going to talk about.

So Rogan could get away with irregular shows and still be a draw.

Stern-- when was the last time his name came up in anything you all have seen? Besides his lunacy over covid, and now being fired, he is a non-issue. He thought he was big and could get away with 117 shows a year. But disappear for two weeks and people lose the habit. Do that for 10 years and your audience is gone.

So I see that as his main failing.

Posted by: Reverend Al Sharpton (before he got AIDS) at August 12, 2025 05:22 PM (vjkEj)

223 As far as Sean Hannity goes, I’ll only listen during his time slot if it’s a guest host. Otherwise, it’s flip to another station or turn the radio off!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 12, 2025 05:22 PM (ZVgZ4)

224 Full Ass-Stern

Posted by: Joe Mama at August 12, 2025 05:22 PM (2sMLA)

225 Yeah, but you gotta be sitting around a campfire while you play it.
Posted by: hobbitopoly at August 12, 2025 05:16 PM (k9OZB)

The campfire isn't really regulated, though. It could be a dumpster. Or one of those bougie backyard patio "fireplaces". Or a hobo fire in the Tenderloin. It's really pretty flexible.

(Technically, you don't require a campfire if you're on a train, too.)

Posted by: GWB at August 12, 2025 05:23 PM (Qo5P5)

226 Lux Interior, front man of the Cramps played harmonica on several of their songs and would toss it out to the audience when he was done. A Hazmat situation.

Posted by: Red Bag Waste at August 12, 2025 05:23 PM (G5+As)

227 Letterman was always an ass to his guests.

Posted by: runner at August 12, 2025 05:20 PM (g47mK)
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Carrolla was pulling no punches a week or so back.

The staff feared Dave.

He said it was like Ellen's show and like Rosie's show. A lot of people had fear in their eyes.

Posted by: Axeman at August 12, 2025 05:23 PM (krQz2)

228 TX Fleebagger news:

TX Senate passed the new legislative maps after the Dem's made a dash for the door but two lingered thus having a quorum to vote.

Now we have to get the assembly fleebaggers.

Posted by: WisRich at August 12, 2025 05:24 PM (G0vdT)

229 Two launches in a row tonight

ULA - Vulcan VC4S - USSF-106 (NTS-3 & Others)
SLC-41 - CCSFB - Space Affairs Live
Launch Date: August 12, 2025
Launch Time: 7:59 p.m. EDT (2359 UTC (August 13, 01:59 CEST)

https://youtu.be/cZX1hguKrQE

Arianespace - Ariane 62 - METOP-SG A1
ELA-4 - Guiana SC, French Guiana - Space Affairs Live
Launch Date: August 12, 2025
Launch Time: 21:37 (August 13, 0037 UTC (02:37 CEST)

https://youtu.be/v6Nq3nV8h3c

Posted by: Joyenz at August 12, 2025 05:24 PM (sPQoU)

230 1 Phyllis also owned an Excalibur, a Silver Cloud Rolls Royce, and a 71 Mercedes 220.
Posted by: Funky Cars, Funky Lady at August 12, 2025

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She earned it. She was a pioneer; there weren't too many women standup comics when she started.

An MB 220 -- do you mean a 280 SL, the little sporty car? MB offered a 220 SE earlier, but they were sedans, or coupes and convertibles, like the one in the movie The Hangover. By '71 that model was a 280SE, I think.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 12, 2025 05:24 PM (omVj0)

231 70 >>>ace, for example, took up the hobby of shelf-building at the ripe old age of 28.

i thought you'd mention the language learning but you went right for the shelves

i get no respect, no respect at all

Posted by: ace at August 12, 2025 04:54 PM (KRtlO)

You were absolutely right at the time. No, you will never hear the end of it.

Posted by: Jeff Weimer at August 12, 2025 05:24 PM (gUs21)

232 What exactly can California Gruesome do? Haven’t they already gerrymandered CA to the max?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 12, 2025 05:24 PM (ZVgZ4)

233 Doesn't Colbert have a bigger staff?
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That could be a tallest midget type of thing.

Posted by: Axeman at August 12, 2025 05:25 PM (krQz2)

234 Funny you mention Tom Snyder, the only time I ever watched was when Kiss was on when I was a little kid. Ace Frehley showed up drunk and was laughing his ass off while Gene Simmons was stewing.
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I saw an epic Tom Snyder episode where Paul Simon was the guest. He performed an AMAZING solo version of "The Late Great Johnny Ace".

Posted by: Crusader at August 12, 2025 05:25 PM (TN0g+)

235 Carrolla was pulling no punches a week or so back.

The staff feared Dave.

He said it was like Ellen's show and like Rosie's show. A lot of people had fear in their eyes.
Posted by: Axeman at August 12, 2025 05:23 PM (krQz2)

I think the staff genuinely liked Conan O'Brien. Who was not an ass to his guests.

Posted by: runner at August 12, 2025 05:25 PM (g47mK)

236 223 As far as Sean Hannity goes, I’ll only listen during his time slot if it’s a guest host. Otherwise, it’s flip to another station or turn the radio off!
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit

Can tell from here that you're no Hammond Egger!

Posted by: Great American at August 12, 2025 05:25 PM (G5+As)

237 The corvette re-entry was a cool sequence, but my favorite was the one featuring GFRs Queen Bee

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at August 12, 2025 05:25 PM (3Ope8)

238 Best Harmonica is done in a yarmulke during Hannukah.

Ok, lame, but I actually spelled everything correctly on the first go.

Posted by: Nelly at August 12, 2025 05:25 PM (cHLus)

239 Re: sidebar pt 2

Plus, your description of the lyrics is a bit overwrought, isn't it? They're not that bad. I mean, a Kamala speech was more horrifying.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 12, 2025 05:25 PM (zZu0s)

240 @110.
Low down, double-dealin', back-stabbin', larcenous, perverted worm. Hangin's too good for him.

Again, sounds like congress. This guy could of had a great political career.

Posted by: Case at August 12, 2025 05:25 PM (iwlvf)

241 Speaking of Bloodrock and DOA . . . pretty sure I still have that album.

Posted by: Thanatopsis at August 12, 2025 05:25 PM (GYt5+)

242 Full Ass-Stern

Posted by: Joe Mama at August 12, 2025 05:22 PM (2sMLA)
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Especially as Fartman.

Posted by: Axeman at August 12, 2025 05:26 PM (krQz2)

243 When I saw Musk launch that car into space with the space suit in the driver's seat, all I could think about was the opening to Heavy Metal, and the "Soft Landing" sequence at the beginning.

Here, enjoy it again:
https://youtu.be/Bla1SIOLMDE?t=81

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 12, 2025 05:26 PM (O7YUW)

244 Slut!

https://is.gd/pBv6qy

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 12, 2025 05:26 PM (L/fGl)

245 What exactly can California Gruesome do? Haven’t they already gerrymandered CA to the max?
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 12, 2025 05:24 PM (ZVgZ4)

Well, they haven't started putting Republicans in camps, yet. So there's that route.

Posted by: GWB at August 12, 2025 05:26 PM (Qo5P5)

246 Howard hasn't been the same since Hank The Angry Dwarf died. We all lost our innocence that day.

Posted by: Mister Ghost at August 12, 2025 05:26 PM (TGPs7)

247 >>I think DOA is about a car crash.

I heard it was a plane crash.

Lyrics:

I remember
We were flying along and hit something in the air
I remember
We were flying along and hit something in the air

Posted by: ace at August 12, 2025 05:26 PM (KRtlO)

248 As far as Sean Hannity goes, I’ll only listen during his time slot if it’s a guest host. Otherwise, it’s flip to another station or turn the radio off!
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 12, 2025

***
I listened to SH nearly every afternoon from 2008 until I retired this spring. Since then, I could listen to his entire show from 2pm until 5 pm, and rarely ever do.

You have to give him credit though: He vetted Obama and brought up the inconsistencies in Obama's public stories in '08 when nobody else would.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 12, 2025 05:27 PM (omVj0)

249 I love that Ace called Stern a mask-wearing sissy!

Even during the covid I wanted to yell at people in cars by themselves with masks on. It became the pacifier of the plandemic. Haven't seen one in a few months, but with fall approaching they will pop out and get their boosters. In the event my sister-in-laws are reading this (no way), hurry!

We once passed a hiker, wearing a mask, at 10k feet. He gave us a wide berth on the trail as we had cooties in the air. I should have pushed him off the trail. Instead we passed him and I rolled my eyes. I am peaceful this way vs acting on my better instincts.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at August 12, 2025 05:27 PM (6PCLE)

250
If tariffs increase on, say, a BMW, and I and others buy fewer BMW's as a result, How INTHEFUCK does that tariff "increase inflation?"

Answer: It doesn't.

The idiotic fake bullshit notion that tariffs = inflation is fuckingdumb.

Posted by: Soothsayer knows his Star Wars lore at August 12, 2025 05:27 PM (SDRTK)

251 *That* is the trauma, and it's real. It doesn't mean he's undeserving of it, just don't get lost in the dollars and cents. They don't matter. Their importance is only in the downstream implications.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 12, 2025 05:08 PM (6bTRc)
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I don't think there are words to express the depth of my indifference.

Let me check my German thesaurus.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 12, 2025 05:27 PM (RIvkX)

252 Just got her, but you can't talk harmonica without bringing up Magic Dick on the Lickin Stick.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at August 12, 2025 05:28 PM (vjkEj)

253 Letterman always seemed bitter and angry to me. Maybe when Carson saw him in his youth he was different.

Posted by: runner at August 12, 2025 05:28 PM (g47mK)

254 238 Hanukkah

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 12, 2025 05:28 PM (ZVgZ4)

255 I should have pushed him off the trail. Instead we passed him and I rolled my eyes. I am peaceful this way vs acting on my better instincts.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at August 12, 2025 05:27 PM (6PCLE)
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I'm proud of myself every day for not slapping the sh*t out of these people.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 12, 2025 05:29 PM (RIvkX)

256 244 Slut!

https://is.gd/pBv6qy
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 12, 2025 05:26 PM (L/fGl)

Age restricted? Did you just try to ace us?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 12, 2025 05:29 PM (zZu0s)

257 Hank of course was from Fall River.
The second most famous citizen from that town after Lizzie Borden

Posted by: Mister Ghost at August 12, 2025 05:29 PM (TGPs7)

258 Saw Bloodrock open for Grand Funk Railroad in 1970, in Chicago. My first concert. DOA was huge!

Posted by: Berwyn Mutt at August 12, 2025 05:29 PM (HcbZb)

259 253 Letterman always seemed bitter and angry to me. Maybe when Carson saw him in his youth he was different.
Posted by: runner

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That was after NBC screwed him. He was OK for a couple years on CBS, but he was never the same as before.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at August 12, 2025 05:29 PM (vjkEj)

260 Some harmonica training:

If You Want To Get To Heaven
https://youtu.be/uiZtXvECE_Y

Posted by: Ozark Mountain Daredevils at August 12, 2025 05:29 PM (wVcYX)

261 Posted by: Reverend Al Sharpton (before he got AIDS) at August 12, 2025 05:22 PM (vjkEj)

Oh, shit, is THAT why he is just a head on a stick??

Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at August 12, 2025 05:29 PM (i49OE)

262 We once passed a hiker, wearing a mask, at 10k feet. He gave us a wide berth on the trail as we had cooties in the air. I should have pushed him off the trail. Instead we passed him and I rolled my eyes. I am peaceful this way vs acting on my better instincts.
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There's a barely 20-year-old guy who still wears a mask at his job at the local grocery store. Is he going to wear one for the next 60 years?

Posted by: Crusader at August 12, 2025 05:30 PM (TN0g+)

263 Seriously what the hell do normal people talk about?

You're asking us?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 12, 2025 05:30 PM (0sNs1)

264 BTW San Francisco is cold, dark, and foggy.

*dons long pants and hoodie*

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 12, 2025 05:30 PM (RIvkX)

265 yeah, Christy, hikers wearing masks out in the forest gave me the same feeling.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 12, 2025 05:30 PM (qB1ye)

266 Letterman always seemed bitter and angry to me. Maybe when Carson saw him in his youth he was different.
Posted by: runner at August 12, 2025

***
Amazing to me, but Letterman and the young Michael Keaton were regulars on The Mary Tyler Moore Hour, her 1979 variety show.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 12, 2025 05:30 PM (omVj0)

267
Just saw something following the DC "police chief" not knowing what chain of command meant. Somebody asked Grok, "Explain the chain of command now that Trump has taken over to the police chief as if she's a 5 yr old".

Result was "The chain of command is like a Boss Ladder. In police, the officers obey sergeants who obey lieutenants, who obey captains, who obey the chief, that's you.

Now, Trump is the Commander in Chief, who is the Big Boss. He has taken over, and appointed Pam Bondi as your boss."

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 12, 2025 05:31 PM (w6EFb)

268 I remember
We were flying along and hit something in the air
I remember
We were flying along and hit something in the air
Posted by: ace at August 12, 2025 05:26 PM (KRtlO)

But they get picked up in an ambulance. I do not think he'd still be alive in the ambulance, not would they be shuttling his gfs dead body.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 12, 2025 05:31 PM (zZu0s)

269 You're asking us?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 12, 2025 05:30 PM (0sNs1)

us?? Are you royalty ??

Posted by: runner at August 12, 2025 05:31 PM (g47mK)

270 Stern and Olberman were deployed to push the limits of societal norms .
Just like when Dick and Jane books were replaced with Dr. Suess and Kids shows was replaced with Sesame St.
the guy in the BIG BIRD was prolly a some black tranny with a big schlong the writers of the show slurped in the green room. Do I hate those people? What do you think????

Posted by: Captain Fantastic at August 12, 2025 05:31 PM (VPPG8)

271 Seriously what the hell do normal people talk about?

You're asking us?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 12, 2025 05:30 PM (0sNs1)

Lol.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 12, 2025 05:32 PM (zZu0s)

272 This leggy Asian schoolteacher has never been a big fan of the shock jock thing:
http://tiny.cc/8x3r001

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 12, 2025 05:32 PM (6bTRc)

273 Oh, shit, is THAT why he is just a head on a stick??
Posted by: SSBN 656

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Who knows (that was my sock)
He looks it, and it is too good to check.

AoS Fact Checker rates it: truth directional.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at August 12, 2025 05:33 PM (vjkEj)

274 don't think there are words to express the depth of my indifference.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 12, 2025 05:27 PM

Does this mean you're indifferent to the depth of your indifference?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 12, 2025 05:33 PM (0sNs1)

275 ChristyBlinkyTheGreat -

I still see mask-wearing women at Publix. Presumably single women professors from the local university. I haven’t noticed, but expect I would find cat food in their shopping carts.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 12, 2025 05:34 PM (ZVgZ4)

276 Stern and Olberman were deployed to push the limits of societal norms .
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Olberman was a non-entity once he left ESPN. He made the mistake of thinking that because he could make pithy jokes about sports while a highlight was playing that he was somehow an *artist*.

It was just sports Keith--if there hadn't been baseball highlights playing behind what you were talking over none of us would have tuned in.

Posted by: Crusader at August 12, 2025 05:34 PM (TN0g+)

277
Well, he can always retreat to his closet and suck his thumbs.

Live as he has for the past five years, in other words.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at August 12, 2025 05:34 PM (pGcu2)

278 Does this mean you're indifferent to the depth of your indifference?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 12, 2025 05:33 PM (0sNs1)
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Meh.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 12, 2025 05:34 PM (RIvkX)

279 If tariffs increase on, say, a BMW, and I and others buy fewer BMW's as a result, How INTHEFUCK does that tariff "increase inflation?"

Answer: It doesn't.

The idiotic fake bullshit notion that tariffs = inflation is fuckingdumb.
Posted by: Soothsayer knows his Star Wars lore at August 12, 2025 05:27 PM (SDRTK)

According to Modern Monetary Theory which is all the rage these days you control inflation via taxes.

Government can spend all it wants and if things get inflationary they just raise taxes and remove some of the money from circulation.

So how can we square that circle with the idea that tariffs cause inflation?

The answer is we cant and the media / deep state is just glomming on to the word "inflation" because they think everyone is a retard and that the word "inflation" is why Trump won in 2024. So theyre trying to turn that around on him.

Its literal retard level of public discourse at this point.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at August 12, 2025 05:34 PM (zF/pB)

280 Fuck. ace is right, the furry ankle fucker.

According to Bloodrock guitarist Lee Pickens, the origin of the song is about an airplane incident he encountered when he was a teenager.

When I was 17, I wanted to be an airline pilot. I had just gotten out of this airplane with a friend of mine, at this little airport, and I watched him take off. He went about 200 feet in the air, rolled and crashed.

The band decided to write a song about the incident and it was featured on their sophomore album.

The song peaked at #36 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1971, but many radio stations and high schools in the United States banned the song due to its content.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 12, 2025 05:34 PM (zZu0s)

281 Tish James on legal strategy.

https://is.gd/w9Ndxy

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 12, 2025 05:35 PM (L/fGl)

282 Rock harmonica!

Posted by: Steven Tyler, Aerosmith at August 12, 2025 05:35 PM (wVcYX)

283 I still see mask-wearing women at Publix. Presumably single women professors from the local university. I haven’t noticed, but expect I would find cat food in their shopping carts.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 12, 2025

***
Hey!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Crazy Cat Guy (OK, I only have 2) at August 12, 2025 05:35 PM (omVj0)

284 Suggested list of topics of conversation for those who are way more homebound than they should be:

1) Movies about pets making a trek to reunite with their owners.
2) Weather- when weather really starts to weather, you don't know whether it will be stormy weather. Good topic to broach with fair-weather friends, as it is not likely to veer into the controversial, (just don't mention anthropomorphic global warming.)
3) Baseball, huh.
4) High Plains Drifter is just an uncredited remake of Shane.
5) When did white cake become synonymous with birthday cake?
6) Etymology.
7) You have to trade one of the Seven Dwarfs for one of the Ninja Turtles. Who do you trade? Think of the question from both the pov of Snow White and Shredder.

What type of wine should I be using in my mac and cheese recipe?
9) Did I remember to unplug the toaster?
10) Woodrow Wilson or Barack Obama- who's legacy is more damaging?

Posted by: tankdemon at August 12, 2025 05:35 PM (qIswc)

285 There's a barely 20-year-old guy who still wears a mask at his job at the local grocery store. Is he going to wear one for the next 60 years?
Posted by: Crusader at August 12, 2025 05:30 PM (TN0g+)

Probably the same one. Heaven knows what is growing on those masks.

I knew FROM THE START that masks did mostly nothing. But I had N95's and dispensed them to people I wanted to live (not my sister-in-laws). Paper masks don't do squat! I wanted to yell. But I did not want to call attention to myself and stayed in my castle, protecting my toilet paper and dried foods.

This being sleep deprived is almost as good as how I felt in college parties for sarcasm. But without the energy, nor the reasons behind living it up.

The reason is our DIL is having a new baby anytime now. She could sneeze and hello! So we had the siblings who had to be out the door at 0715 for school. Our granddaughter looked feral as I don't know how to do her hair. We then went back to bed.

And we will have to do this again at some point in the next week or so as it was apparently a trial run.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at August 12, 2025 05:35 PM (6PCLE)

286 Nood Second Judge blocks Epstein files.

Posted by: CaliGirl at August 12, 2025 05:36 PM (hs4ik)

287 Stuttering John once accosted the Dalai Lama and asked, "D-d-does anyone every say to you 'H-h-hello Dolly?'"

That was pretty funny.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at August 12, 2025 05:36 PM (paSBy)

288
Its literal retard level of public discourse at this point.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes

You just described Reddit.

Posted by: Soothsayer knows his Star Wars lore at August 12, 2025 05:36 PM (SDRTK)

289 What's the point of a Shock Jock when the audience is no longer shockable

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at August 12, 2025 05:37 PM (wBaIH)

290 >>ank of course was from Fall River.
The second most famous citizen from that town after Lizzie Borden

You are forgetting famous cajun chef Emeril Lagasse. Because nothing says cajun like Fall River.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 12, 2025 05:37 PM (viF8m)

291 New thread, about Epstein, and also Texas. NOOD

Posted by: gdgm+ at August 12, 2025 05:38 PM (C5GSe)

292 Seriously what the hell do normal people talk about?

You're asking us?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 12, 2025 05:30 PM (0sNs1)

George Carlin has your answer...
https://tinyurl.com/yzn3d3k6

Posted by: Captain Fantastic at August 12, 2025 05:38 PM (VPPG8)

293 No seriously let me know because I'm way more homebound than I should be and I need a list of topics that non-hermits find interesting. Seriously what the hell do normal people talk about?
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I usually go with "bow-hunting grizzlies" and "Condition Black longboarding". Who's to say I'm not? Everybody else is homebound too.

Have a flying squirrel suit hanging prominently in your living room, along with maps and a diagram of Burj Khalifa.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 12, 2025 05:39 PM (kpS4V)

294 293 No seriously let me know because I'm way more homebound than I should be and I need a list of topics that non-hermits find interesting. Seriously what the hell do normal people talk about?
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You don't want to know what my husband and I talk about. Mostly it's pretty funny. We rarely go to sleep without laughing. Our sarcasm is off the charts.

If we are watching a tv series that is semi entertaining but also boring and has ugly people, we invent our own dialogues. This cracks us up.

It does not take much to set me off.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at August 12, 2025 05:42 PM (6PCLE)

295
Stern is a thunderously crashing midwit bore and always has been. I never found him appealing.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at August 12, 2025 05:42 PM (pGcu2)

296 A new Hamas recruit.

https://is.gd/4uFbaE

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Something Smells Funny In Here at August 12, 2025 05:42 PM (L/fGl)

297 There's nothing stopping Stern from going back to an NYC FM radio station to do his act for a few hours a day.

He won't get paid the big bucks like at Sirius but he can end his career his way and still get paid without lowering himself to do YouTube.

Unless no radio station wants him, which could put a serious snag in that plan.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 12, 2025 05:43 PM (6ydKt)

298
Who cares what some provincial New Yawker douchebag thinks? When was the last time he traveled more than 20 miles from Times Square?

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 12, 2025 05:44 PM (y9nCu)

299 I will NEVER understand why when covid hit all the asswipe disappeared from store shelves. Whut the ever lovin fuck?

Posted by: Xipe Totec at August 12, 2025 05:47 PM (pohLc)

300 272 This leggy Asian schoolteacher has never been a big fan of the shock jock thing:
http://tiny.cc/8x3r001
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 12, 2025 05:32 PM (6bTRc)

Oh my. I have been a naughty schoolboy, a very naughty schoolboy indeed.

Posted by: Great googly moogly at August 12, 2025 05:47 PM (TbWk/)

301 Not that anyone could possibly care about this in 2025, but one of Stern's dirtiest secrets is that he stole his entire shtick from Steve Dahl who popularized shock jockey in Chicago shortly before Stern tried it.

The story was that Stern would get tapes of Dahl and study them. That's fine. That's fair, but then Stern went out of his way to disparage Dahl over the years. Like, why be so pointlessly petty?

Don't cry for Dahl, though. He did okay, and, by many accounts was kind of a jerk, too.

Posted by: Kensington at August 12, 2025 05:51 PM (ponas)

302 When Howard Stern looks in the mirror, what he sees is Don Imus. Two tree Ents that should have been shuffled off into the enchanted forest 35 years ago.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 12, 2025 05:59 PM (/vPt3)

303 I still can't get past the fact that a company paid him $120,000,000/yr.

Posted by: Pooklord at August 12, 2025 06:01 PM (asU3w)

304 A lot of wiseacres post comments here.

Posted by: Jerry Carroll at August 12, 2025 06:21 PM (RRQTN)

305 I said for years that Stern transitioned into his neurotic Long Island mother--but there is a touch of nasty Charles Johnson there too. The whole guitar thing is very LGF/CJ. He just needs to post boring beach photos.

Posted by: Evi L. Bloggerlady at August 12, 2025 06:21 PM (8yM+6)

306 "Who cares what some provincial New Yawker douchebag thinks? When was the last time he traveled more than 20 miles from Times Square?"

It is more than 20 miles out to the Hamptons. More like 95 miles.

Posted by: Evi L. Bloggerlady at August 12, 2025 06:55 PM (8yM+6)

307 ...God I miss Rush.

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