Posted on 03/15/2002 7:12:33 AM PST by PJ-Comix
6:40am: Yesterday Howard made a deal with Scott the Engineer. He had a trip to a NASCAR race but Scott the Engineer had to agree to go without asking for his wife's permission. Scott accepted the prize and said he was going. Ronnie the Limo Driver was also going to go as long as Scott got to go. Within minutes of that conversation yesterday Scott's wife called in and wanted to talk to Scott. Scott said his wife told him she wasn't even listening. Now Scott says he has other stuff he has to do that he can't get out of and he can't go on the trip. Ronnie said he knew this was going to happen. Howard said he lost respect for Scott when he heard about this. He knew it was going to happen this way. He predicted it during the conversation yesterday. Howard wanted to know what was so important that he wouldn't be able to go. Scott kept repeating that he had to ''...take care of some personal things.'' He wouldn't give specific reasons though. Someone joked that he has to stay home and watch the race on TV.
Howard said there's nothing that important that would keep Scott home. He said nothing is open on Sunday for him to go to. Howard then offered Scott's wife $1000 if she lets him go. He told Scott to call his wife and offer her the money to let him go. He said he doesn't want to pressure her into this though.
Ronnie thinks that it has to do with him. Last year the two of them went to a NASCAR race school and Scott's wife seems to think that Ronnie's wife ''swindled'' her into letting Scott go to the school. Now she won't talk to Ronnie or his wife. Scott told Howard that it's got nothing to do with Ronnie. He said he has to take care of his wife that weekend and that's it.
Mike Gange from E! came in and said that they already booked a trip to the race so they could tape it. He asked Scott if he could tell his wife that it's a business thing and he has to do it for his job. He said he'd call her and ask her about the $1000 thing and see what happens but they've already discussed it with her.
Howard pointed out how Scott was so defiant when he said ''I'm going!'' during the discussion yesterday. Today he's a completely different man.
Howard took a break and asked Scott what happened when he called her. Scott said she wasn't answering the phone so he wasn't able to talk to her. He said he left her a message for her though.
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9:25am
Scott the Engineer finally got an answer from his wife about the trip to the NASCAR race. Howard and Fred both thought that Scott's wife would change her mind after being offered $1000 and a day spa trip. Robin and Artie didn't think she'd change her mind. Scott came in and said that he spoke to his wife and, although she doesn't like the idea of him flying on a commercial jet, she's going to let him go. She also turned down the money and the spa trip saying that she didn't want to be bribed. Scott said that he'd take the money himself because his wife has wanted to take a trip to Atlantic City. Howard told Scott that the money is now off the table so he doesn't get it. Only his wife was offered the money. Howard was thinking that Scott was taking the money so he wouldn't make his wife look bad. He's been down on cash lately so that's why he needed the money.
Scott's wife Robin called in and told Howard everything is fine with her. She told him why she turned down the money and said that she was pressured into letting Scott go. Howard had her on the phone for a few minutes and said that he predicted how this whole thing was going to go because he knows how their relationship works. Robin said Howard has never met her so he really doesn't know her.
Ronnie the Limo Driver was also there and he still thinks that Scott won't be going. He's still got 7 days to back out of the whole thing. Ronnie spoke to Robin about the problem they had about a year ago with the whole Pocono NASCAR race school situation. He said that he and his wife haven't spoken to Robin since then because Scott told them that she didn't want to talk to them. Robin said she would have accepted an apology and she never said she didn't want to talk to them. Scott took the blame for speaking for his wife on that subject. Robin said that Ronnie said some mean things about her on the show last year so that's what upset her. He'd said something about how he wouldn't stay married to her if she didn't let him do something he really wanted to do. Ronnie still says that he wouldn't let his wife hold him back. He said he's got freedom in his marriage that Scott apparently doesn't have.
So true. The most hilarious thing about this was how defiant sounding Scott the Engineer was yesterday. He said that he was definitely going to the NASCAR race and that he didn't need to ask his wife's permission. He even got upset with Howard Stern when Howard claimed that he would show up at the studio today sounding like a totally defeated man.
That is exactly what happened today when Scott announced that he couldn't go. Whatever self-confidence was in his voice yesterday was totally drained from him and today he had no ego left. Scott kept reciting: ''...take care of some personal things,'' over and over again in the same automaton way that Algore repeated "No controlling legal authority."
I think we all know guys like Scott the Engineer. They have let their wives totally dominate them in a most humiliating way. Hey, no problem if a wife wants to have input in matters that affect them but if you listen to Howard's show, you know that Scott the Engineer is totally dominated by his wife. It pathetic but it is also hilarious to observe.
BTW, I still don't think Scott is going to the NASCAR race. He still had that defeated sound in his voice when he said he was going. Perhaps he knows that in the end, his wife won't let him go.
Scott the Engineer needed to be publicly humiliated (plus it was great entertainment). Something is wrong with a marriage if one of the partners is allowed to totally dominate it. I don't like it when husbands try to dominate their wives and the reverse situation (as in Scott's marriage) is equally wrong. I've seen marriages like this and they sure aren't happy. I had one uncle who was completely P-Whipped by his wife and I rarely saw him smile. One day, when I was visiting, he had a sort of nervous breakdown when he screamed at the top of his lungs at my aunt: "OH GOD! I CAN'T STAND YOU ANY LONGER!!!"
No, he didn't leave her but he spent his remaining years in total misery.
While I remain a listener to the Stern show (I shut it off when he does the stripper/porn star sh-t, which amused me when I was 14, though not anymore), he has always come across as an a-shole as a person. I am also sick of him talking about life at Nobu, which is OVERRATED anyway.
Scott Salem, unfortunatly, is merely reinforcing a stereotype about Jewish men who are bossed around by their wives. C'mon Scott, be a man!!!
I think he's a radio "shock-jock" who's made a living "entertaining" his fans on-air by farting, exploiting human dregs and mutants, exchanging "witty" banter with his emotionally disturbed cohorts, and "interviewing" DD-cup single-digit bimbos while he plays "pocket-pool."
LOL -- For this, he is considered "a talent."
Hmmmmmmm!
Guess Howard Stern is newsworthy.....
Howard's show was at its peak everywhere around 1992 to 1995 when they had voice impressionist, Billy West, on the show. One of the best of Billy West's impressions was him doing an impression of Paul Tsongas doing an impression of Elmer Fudd (they both sounded almost identical). I laughed so hard at that bit that I had to pull my car to over to the curb and let the laughter and tears flow.
Howard used to put more effort into his show. They produced some incredible bits for the show which they rarely do nowadays. And of course, things are different now that Jackie the Jokeman is gone.
However, today's bit with Scott the Engineer was quite hilarious because it was so true. There are lots of guys out there who have all their ego deflated from them because they are Pu**y Whipped.
p.s. Imagine the Hell Scott is going to catch later today from his wife.
The contrast between Scott's voice yesterday (full of confidence) and today (totally defeated) was quite hilarious. BTW, I still don't think Scott is going to the NASCAR race.
Thanks for the update. I didn't get to hear the show after 8:00AM.
However, I do question if marksfriggin' (a site I visit daily) is FR worthy! :-)
A lack of Manhood which is permeating our society. This attitude of Scott's is becoming more and more prevelant nowadays.
Maybe we can do this sort of thing every day - we might need to move it to General Interest, but I'm game. We have the Howard Stern bump list (type KOAM into the To: section).
Did you hear his commenteries on Butch O'Donnell's Diane Sayer interview today? Hilarious. I like it when he goes after Spielberg (using a "gay" accent!) and Kathie Lee as well.
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