Howard Stern likely through at XM. Good riddance

I agree with virtually every word of this. I listened to Stern daily. Loved it. There were days I was late to work because I was in the parking lot and couldnt stop listening like when they had the Iron Sheik in the studio. Some of the best radio in history. That show began to tumble when Artie went off the rails and the death blow was Eric the Midget kicking the bucket. Sterm became literally the exact thing he built his entire career and fortune upon lampooning and deriding. Begone you fucking hypocrite

Stern contract ending

Never could listen to Stern.

I knew a lot of people who did.
I just didn’t get it.

Of course, they never saw the appeal of Limbaugh - so I had that going for me.

Leee said:

Never could listen to Stern.

I knew a lot of people who did.
I just didn’t get it.

Of course, they never saw the appeal of Limbaugh - so I had that going for me.

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The show was funny. Was it 100% great everyday? of course not. 5 hours a day 4 days a week is a lot of content. But when it was funny it was really really funny. Floating Eric the midget with balloons was one of the all-time great running bits. And Gary the retard going to the moon was amazing. Then he bacame Gary the slow adult. Amd it wasnt the same. It was intentionally offensive and that's why it was funny. Stern literally held society's "taboos" right in their faces and made fun of them for being offended by it. No subject was off limits, even his own personal tragedies were available for jokes. And thats why it worked. He was, above all else, honest with his audience. And that all changed.

Hasn’t been funny in 30 years.

From a news article I cannot post a link to due to its political nature:

Over the years, Stern’s controversial show decreased from millions of listeners a day to a reported 125,000.

VictorB said:

From a news article I cannot post a link to due to its political nature:

Over the years, Stern’s controversial show decreased from millions of listeners a day to a reported 125,000.

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that many still??

Im a native New Yorker........I grew up on him. Everyone said he was evil and you were going to hell if you listened to him. So.......yeah Im gonna listen. And laugh........I believe I owe any semi balance of a sense of humor I possess because of him. Just as American Chopper was one of the first reality shows......Stern was the first of his kind......like a podcast. He was the first person I ever heard of interviewing the Janitor! And old Ted loved big titties.......and Howards newscaster just happen to have giant FF's.........
Then he introduced stuttering John. His celebrity hit shots were the funniest REAL humor at the time. Crack head bob singing for Van Halen!? It doesn't get any better.
Then Sal the stock broker. My god ......those prank calls......I still quote them. The wack pack? He made stars out of strippers, migets, handicapped people. The best.

Howard Stern is a sick guy. Most Hollyweird ellites have therapists in every city and daily meds.
Not judging.....but paranoia and depression runs deep in those hills and Howard is no exception. His mother was extremely depressed all his life. It would be easy to hate him now. I just pity him. A billion $$$$ and a super model must be nice......but its only temporary. Enjoy your basement in the hamptons and your Signed Iron man movie used costume. He really took a shit on those that made him famous. F Him. His movie was funny as hell........and hes made me laugh a hell of alot more then cry. I wish him no ill will. Go retire and suck Jimmy Kimmels cock full time...........

If a band came out and blew your mind for 3 decades.......I couldn't care if they went disco. I just wont listen anymore. And I havnt. Not since 2015. Millions feel the same. Ill stop there.

Kamen_Kaiju said:

Hasn’t been funny in 30 years.

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Bingo.
I happened across him a couple of times in the late 80s on the way to work... didn't get it.
Next job, my supervisor said I could listen to anything I wanted the rest of the day, but Stern in the morning.
He grew on me, and I listened to him until 9/11 when he was making jokes about the attack (likely not realizing what was happening, neither did I at the time).
But after that, it was too much of the same-ol same-ol, the Whack Pack changed a few members and stopped being funny... I never cared for Artie Lang, and have NEVER liked Gilbert.
Wasn't long before he went to XM... never listened to him there.

WaywerdSon said:

that many still??

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XM eliminated their traffic/weather channels in most markets a couple of years ago, so he picked up those listeners.

Was never a fan. Tried listening a couple of times, but no appeal for me. The amount of money someone that I thought had such little talent was making is mind boggling.

The thing I remember most is hearing Stern trot out some lame-ass joke or bit for an hour - and it never got any better.

Wondering what I was missing.
Can we move on now?

Never listened to/watched the radio show.
Got to see some stuff from the show over the years.
But I randomly got this clip on Facebook.
Used to mimic it with my kids.
If one of us seemed to be doing nothing,
he/she would be asked "wha you' doin' ?"
and had to do the bit.
We had a lot of fun with that.
Especially with people around us.
I still think he took advantage of people's "disabilities/particularities".
Good for them they got paid. Hopefully decent amounts of money.

I liked him when I first discovered him circa '86... at K-Rock, I believe.

Then he started trashing talented musicians, for no apparent reason (to me, anyway)... with his trained chimp Robin giggling away. Disliked him ever since.

I don't care about Howard and XM is unlistenable.

I still have a $5 a month subscription in my car, but it is a waste of money. There is not anything on XM that is even mildly of interest to me.

Between Spotify (also not perfect but one million times more relevant in 2025) and terrestrial radio, XM is way over the hill.

mdubya said:

I don't care about Howard and XM is unlistenable.

I still have a $5 a month subscription in my car, but it is a waste of money. There is not anything on XM that is even mildly of interest to me.

Between Spotify (also not perfect but one million times more relevant in 2025) and terrestrial radio, XM is way over the hill.

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I should probably kill it.
We'll use the streaming sub from time to time on Alexa.
Maybe once every couple of months I'll use it in the car.

Main reason we have it is because there are so many areas in the Southwest that don't have sufficient cellular coverage to stream anything, and we don't have unlimited plans on our personal phones.
But mom & dad are gone, and it's been 2 years since we've taken any kind of road trip.

Stern was great when he was on the radio, haven't listened to him since he left. I know he had a cable show and then a subscription based podcast, I don't have cable or pay for podcasts so that was the end of that, and probably for most of his radio fan base.

CB91710 said:

I should probably kill it.
We'll use the streaming sub from time to time on Alexa.
Maybe once every couple of months I'll use it in the car.

Main reason we have it is because there are so many areas in the Southwest that don't have sufficient cellular coverage to stream anything, and we don't have unlimited plans on our personal phones.
But mom & dad are gone, and it's been 2 years since we've taken any kind of road trip.

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I am not sure how I would feel if I didn't have Spotify.

Spotify has nearly endless content. Nearly.

Never listened to Stern. Heard him once, maybe twice, and said, nah. I’ll pass on that.

But loved the Tom Leykis radio show when it was on in So. Cal! Flash fridays and Leykis 101 were da bomb!

Leykis 101 was how to get laid and spending the least amount of money doing it!

He was a narcissistic cunt in the 80's, and he still is a narcissistic cunt today.

I never liked his 'humor', and I always felt that his face was extremely punchable.

It seems like Stern was EVERYWHERE in the late 90s into early 2000s. When he was on regular radio syndication.
He went to XM radio and seemed like he disappeared from the general public consciousness within a couple of years.
I'm surprised he was around this long.

Also......my Dad was a Stern type shock-jock in Chicago in the mid-late 70s in Chicago. I heard all the stuff my dad did, and was later kinda embarrassed by some of it.