Anyone still listen? I pretty much have Sirius Radio just for the Howard Stern Show.

His interview skills are actually really impressive. Was just listening to the Robert O'Neill episode (SEAL who shot bin laden).

He's a gun supporter too. Every so often he'll talk about his views on the topic.


http://www.dailywire.com/news/...amanda-prestigiacomo

On Wednesday, shock-jock Howard Stern went off on the Left’s latest gun control push in the wake of the radical Islamic terrorist attack in Orlando that left at least 49 innocents dead, calling the political move “f**king mind-blowing.”

“I’m so upset about Orlando and what went down, but I can’t believe these people who come out afterwards and their answer to Orlando is to take away guns from the public,” he said. “It’s f**king mind-blowing to me.”

Stern explained that a large portion of Americans are like oblivious “sheep” ready to be preyed upon by armed terrorists, the “wolves.” Our brave military and law enforcement officers, our “sheepdogs,” are scarce and sometimes minutes away when there are only seconds left to fight back. Disarming Americans, argues Stern, would only assist the terrorists and bring more sheep to the slaughter.

“The military — and they don’t mean it in a derogatory way — but they look at the public as sheep,” he explained. “And we are sheep. Most of us sit around all day and we don’t know how to defend ourselves. We basically think everything’s OK.”

But there are “wolves,” he warned, “the bad guys, ISIS, or terrorists, homegrown or otherwise — they’re wolves.”

And the wolves “all have AR-15s, they have glocks, they have every kind of pistol,” he added. Driving home his point, Stern recalled the recent attack in Paris where terrorists were successfully armed and murdered innocents despite having some of the strictest gun laws “on the planet.”

Stern then illustrated his point: “Now what if I went up to the sheep and I said, ‘You wanna have a shot at the wolves? I’m going to give you a pistol. You can actually even the playing field with these wolves whose fangs are out — you can shoot them.’ There’s not a sheepdog for every citizen.”

Continuing, he explained that terrorists will find a way to kill, be it via planes or box-cutters, they will find a way: “The wolves are always planning. They’ll use box-cutters. They’ll use an airplane fly it right into a building. They don’t need AR-15s.”

Stern, who is Jewish, then invoked the Holocaust, which, he mentioned, didn’t happen all that long ago. “It happened within my father’s lifetime,” he stated.

“Can you imagine if the Jews, at least when the Nazis were banging on the doors, if they had couple of pistols and AR-15s?” he asked. “Maybe at least he could have taken a few Nazis out.”

When responding to a caller later during the show, Stern painted a rather vivid picture of the horror facing unarmed Jews during Nazi Germany:

“The German army tells ‘em: ‘Round up all the Jews and uh, tell ya what, for fun, let’s take the women and fill up their uteruses with cement; let’s kill their children; let’s let the men work, starve them to death, let them work for us for awhile, then make soap out of their bones.”

What are the Jews who want to get together and fight these guys going to do? he asked himself aloud. “Throw a rock?!”

The caller rebutted: “But, that’s an extreme case.”

Stern slammed him. “Yes, it’s extreme,” he said, “Except it happened!”

The controversial radio host then pointed out that many of the politicians who are pushing to disarm the public have the luxury of armed security, a right all Americans should and do have per the Second Amendment.

“I don’t like violence — I don’t like any of this stuff — but I consider myself a sheep. Most of your politicians have private security, so they’re OK. Those are sheep that are very well-protected. You, on the other hand, are a sitting duck,” he said.

“I’m not for taking away people’s rights," he said.

Stern is an interesting guy.

He is smarter and more thoughtful than a lot of people realize, and even more than he often lets on.

Sure, he is a crude and crass entertainer, but that isn't all he is.

What I find interesting is he has changed telecommunication forever. I attribute all the click baiting the news does by learning from Howard. All the video commercials/everything.

He used to be on 97.1 The Eagle in Dallas back in the day and I enjoyed listening to him, and watched his late night show as well. But i have not had a Sirius subscription so I just sorted dropped it a while back and lost track of him.

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Originally posted by jhe888:
Stern is an interesting guy.

He is smarter and more thoughtful than a lot of people realize, and even more than he often lets on.

Sure, he is a crude and crass entertainer, but that isn't all he is.

You're absolutely right.

He's a very intelligent guy and listening to him, you can tell he sometimes hides his intelligence in order to sound more like a "regular guy".

He's had a huge impact on radio and broadcasting, and other mediums. He's also worth over 100 million.

Still a listener. I appreciate his interview skills and I like when people call him a hypocrite regarding his 2A stance and he crushes them.

I was a huge fan of his, started to listen to him in the early 90s when his show was syndicated in CA. Back then, battling AM traffic, I listened to him every morning in the car, then continued at work. Saw the movie in the theater, bought the book, etc.

After Jackie left, and after his divorce, I felt the show started to recede little by little. He was losing his edge. By the time he left terrestrial radio, I lost interest. I heard some of the Sirrius broadcasts, but it wasn't the 90s anymore. My friend told me he is more politically correct (The Homo Room is now the Homosexual Room?). He is now part of the celebrity Hamptons crowd that he used to make fun of and despise.

This thread is the first I thought of Howard in a long time.

I've been listening to him for about 25 years now and will continue to pay for Sirius as long as he stays with the company.
For all the people who complain about him, I doubt many of them have ever even actually listened to him.

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What are the Jews who want to get together and fight these guys going to do? he asked himself aloud. “Throw a rock?!”

The caller rebutted: “But, that’s an extreme case.”

Stern slammed him. “Yes, it’s extreme,” he said, “Except it happened!”

No, actually genocide is not an extreme case. It happens quite regularly. In the past 100+ year, how many acts of genocide have occurred.

1) The Armenian/Greek Holocaust in Turkey.
2) Stalin's purge of the Kulaks.
3) The Nazi Holocaust in WW2 (which included homosexuals, etc. as well as Jews)
4) The purge of the intellectuals by the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia in the 1970's.
5) The Ethnic Cleansing of the Bosnian Muslims.
6) The genocide of the Tutsis minority by the Hutus in Rwanda.
7) The campaign to eliminate white farmers in Rhodesia/Zimbabwe.
8) The 45 million killed in Mao Zedong's Great Leap Forward in China.

I'm sure I've missed some.

That's not going to sit well with his good buddy Jimmy Kimmel.

I think his interviews are some of the best in the business and I wish he would do a Barbera Walters type show.

I listen off and on to his morning show but some of his stuff I can't imagine doing as a 67 year old man. Like this month is cocktober. Super lame.

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Originally posted by oddball:
I was a huge fan of his, started to listen to him in the early 90s when his show was syndicated in CA. Back then, battling AM traffic, I listened to him every morning in the car, then continued at work. Saw the movie in the theater, bought the book, etc.

After Jackie left, and after his divorce, I felt the show started to recede little by little. He was losing his edge. By the time he left terrestrial radio, I lost interest. I heard some of the Sirrius broadcasts, but it wasn't the 90s anymore. My friend told me he is more politically correct (The Homo Room is now the Homosexual Room?). He is now part of the celebrity Hamptons crowd that he used to make fun of and despise.

This thread is the first I thought of Howard in a long time.

This is exactly the same progression that I followed. I was a big listener back in the day, but his switch to satellite ultimately ended all that.

His interviewing skills are legendary. I've never heard anyone better.

Been a fan for years but admittedly haven't listened much lately.

Ya, he's the same, but different.

I agree, Cocktober is lame, and he does do more gay stuff than I like sometimes (not that I like gay stuff). His show does still have some hilarious moments though, and his interview skills are top notch...sorta Larry King-esque.

I guess he's gone a little more politically correct on some areas of the show, but it's only the terms he uses, such as Gary the Retard is now Gary the Conquerer and Wendy the Retard is now Wendy the Slow Adult. Must be trying to appeal to a wider audience. I blame his wife Beth for this. There's fewer porn stars and things like that now.

He's really into cats and animal rescue, and that's purely the influence of his wife, which isn't a bad thing.

I do miss Artie and Jackie though. The two Howard channels on Sirius do run shows 24/7, both old and new. They still play a good amount of shows featuring Artie, as well as his shows from the 80s and 90s, which I think is really fun to listen to.

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Originally posted by redstone:
He used to be on 97.1 The Eagle in Dallas back in the day and I enjoyed listening to him, and watched his late night show as well. But i have not had a Sirius subscription so I just sorted dropped it a while back and lost track of him.

Same for me. Loved to listen when he was on the air in Dallas. I don't think I ever laughed so hard, so frequently, before or since. That being said, I have no desire to pay for radio, however good, so I moved on.

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Originally posted by RAMIUS:
I guess he's gone a little more politically correct on some areas of the show, but it's only the terms he uses, such as Gary the Retard is now Gary the Conquerer and Wendy the Retard is now Wendy the Slow Adult. Must be trying to appeal to a wider audience. I blame his wife Beth for this. There's fewer porn stars and things like that now.

Wow, he has really jumped the shark. And he used to be anti PC on free radio.

I also heard he is now friends with Rosie O'Donnell and Chevy Chase. WTF.

Watched the tv show for a while. Honestly, I haven't thought about it in years. Not interested in his shtick anymore.

Howard has been practicing Transcendental Meditation for more than 40 years. Not what you would expect.

This is an interesting conversation about TM with Jerry Seinfeld, another long-time TMer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nL_m5X-YaHM

I am a new listener of the Stern show since getting Sat. Radio in the car early this year. Love most of the interviews, but a lot of the "humor" is just too 4th grade level for me. Some of the prank calls are hilarious, but that's about it.

He's pro-gun for himself anyway. Others not nearly as much.

I listened off and on since the early 80's from the start of the WNBC days, but I gave up a few years ago when I couldn't stand the hypocrisy anymore. Listening to him rant about big government for 30 years only to listen to him change to saying we need more government under O.

Big fan here, going back to his Washington, DC days.