Your Mother’s Howard Stern

Townhall.com ^ | February 22, 2022 | Derek Hunter

[EvilCapitalist]

I used to listen to Howard Stern on the radio when I was in High School, but I grew out of him, and now I can’t stand him.

[Alberta's Child]

If I wanted to make a biographical movie about the life story of a neurotic Jewish guy from New York, I’d have cast Howard Stern to play the main role up to the age of 45, then Woody Allen for the remainder of the guy’s life.

These are just weird people who I will never understand.

[bankwalker]

Howard Stern ... the Tiny Tim of talk radio ...

[UNGN]

“Shock Jocks” aren’t BFF’s with Oprah and Gale King.

Who still listens to him, anyway?

People that can’t let go of 1983?

[ronniesgal]

Stern is now a menopausal old woman complete with cats thanks to Beth.

[Moltke]

Used to listen to him driving to school when he had a morning slot on WWDC - DC101. ~1980. Yeah, we had some good laughs about his show.

Seems he went off the deep end later.

[bankwalker]

I sometimes wonder what Don Imus would have to say about masks and lockdowns ...

[sauropod]

Ditto, except i first heard of him early in college.

[HonkyTonkMan]

Townhall used to feature great content, now it’s reduced to some guy with a satellite radio subscription writing about shock jocks.

[Clutch Martin]

Never cared much for shock-jocks

[Fester Chugabrew]

I spefically rejected Sirius XM Radio because of Howard Sternum’s association with it, and I ain’t no prude.

[SamAdams76]

I thought it was a good article. Howard Stern is basically a frightened old lady, like the ones in my condo complex who nervously shuffle to the mailboxes in our lobby in their housecoats with masks on while wiping down doorknobs with Kleenex. It is so sad to see.

Ironically I've been a Sirius subscriber practically since it began and yet I've never listened to the Howard Stern station even one time. Last time I heard Howard Stern was on terrestrial radio some 30 years ago. Even then, he was old hat with his sophomoric jokes about breasts and farts. You have to be a 15 year old boy to fully appreciate them.

Stern has always been an insecure boy who never quite grew up. He did have the vision to see how being a "shock jock" could make him famous and rich but it was all just an act. The real Howard Stern is nowhere close to the character you hear on the radio.

[wingnut1971]

Circa 1993-2003 I lived in NJ and worked on W 57 & 12th. Had to be at work by 7am and would switch between Stern (93.3?) and 1010wins. WINS was usually more amusing.

[Mr Ramsbotham]

Never cared much for shock-jocks.

Nor I. Maybe that's because I was more shocking than the lot of them.

[DoodleBob]

When I worked in NYC, I listened to Howard. His writers were VERY funny, and the show Jumped the Shark when Jackie quit and you saw who was the talent. I also liked the free speech dimension of the show and getting fined by the FCC for saying Bad Words. That's why there's an off button or channel changer. His funniest bits were when he impersonated Ted Kennedy.

I haven't listened in years, even though I too have XM. He's allegedly "matured" into a great interviewer. Well, I listened to an interview with Robert Plan on YouTube and he sucks.

Howard is no longer relevant, and THAT probably eats him up more than his covid paranoid.

In contrast, on WABC the Curtis and Kuby show was MUCH better, entertaining, enlightening, and informative. Ron Kuby is as liberal as they come, but he was smart and at time reasonable (other times he was a loon). Curtis...well...he's a showman but he bleeds NYC and was the perfect compliment to Kuby. That show trumped Howard.

I spend my commutes now streaming Bandcamp and their recommended new, unsigned music. In turn, anyone under 40 is streaming Rogan on their commute. Times change.

[skimbell]

It's all been steadily downhill since Uncle Lar’ and Lil snotnose Tommy signed off.

[Clemenza]

Was a huge fan in the NBC days, and the K ROCK era up until “Private Parts,” when the decline started. Did not subscribe to Sirius as even back then I saw him falling more in love with himself.

[PittsburghAfterDark]

He lost me with his Trump bashing and believing someone ate a bat that caused all this.

[McBuff]

Wasn’t Howard Stern a shock jock or something back in the 80’s. I thought he died a few years ago . . .I guess not.