I subscribe to Sirius for the classical channel and Sinatra, but I have never wanted to pay extra for Stern. I have never understood how he has a following.
Well, I am the Klassische Musik König after all.
However, I never once tuned in Howard Stern. I heard quite enough of him on terrestrial radio back in the 1980s and 1990s. I guess I outgrew him along with sneakers and Beavis & Butthead.
Stern was genuinely anti PC for a while and although he was obviously a Leftist, he made fun of Leftists, and I found it refreshing for a time, as I drove to work in the AM.
Back then, PC wasn’t necessarily an exclusively Leftist thing - and being anti PC had not become “criminalized”.
But at some point Leftists weaponized PC as a tool to exclusively shame conservatives... at that point, comedians like Stern were forced to choose: be PC or be cancelled.
For example, Seinfeld type humor would not fly today. Seinfeld (Larry David) made fun of stupidity, hypocrisy, awkwardness and absurdity regardless of political stripe.
Let’s face it, Leftists are some of the stupidest, most awkward and most absurdly hypocritical people you’ll ever meet, so they made a target-rich area for a sharp comedian - even a Leftist comedian couldn’t pass that up.
Think “All in the Family”. Making fun of Meathead’s Leftism was the funny part of that show - a show written by Leftists. They wanted to make money - they wanted to be funny.
So they went where the funniness was; the absurdity of wealthy Leftists running their mouths about sacrifice and idealism, when all they want to “sacrifice” is other people’s money and other people’s privilege - not their own. It’s absurd. It’s laughable. It is genuinely funny.
But now that Leftist comedians can no longer get away with making fun of Leftism, these comedians are totally defanged - totally unfunny.