In reply to "sal" who wrote the following:
> Before the knee jerk haters reply to this with "If you hate Howard,
> just stop listening! Don't complain!" Let me say this - I did stop
> listening. About seven months after Artie left, I started to find the
> show repetitive and formulaic. So I stopped. I checked in every now
> and then.
>
> About three months after not listening, I turned it on to see if I
> missed anything. Howard was imitating his parents. I listened for
> about two minutes then turned it off. Heard it before. It wasn't new
> or particularly funny.
>
> Tried again a few months later. JD was in the studio, or Richard, or
> maybe Ronnie, and Howard was picking on him, and Gary was piling on
> via intercom, about some thing that I didn't know about but they were
> revisiting; some indiscretion that had happened a few weeks before. I
> listened for about 20 minutes then gave up. Heard it before. It wasn't
> new or particularly funny.
>
> Tried again a few months later. Howard was interviewing someone I had
> heard him interview a bunch of times already. Might have been Joan
> Rivers, or maybe even Beth. For all the talk of what a great
> interviewer Howard is, if you actually listen to his interview with a
> critical ear, you'll notice that he barely listens to the answers.
> Most of the time he asks a question, and then, before letting the
> person answer, says, "In other words..." and then rephrases the
> question he just asked with the answer he expects the person to give.
> If the person doesn't agree or give the answer he wants, he interrupts
> the person and keeps bringing it back to the subject he wants the
> answer to be. Rarely, in this "long form interview," does he ever let
> a person talk for a very long time. And Robin chimes in without
> knowing anything.
>
> I started listening again regularly about two years ago, and was
> surprised he was down to three times a week. I usually listen to the
> first hour, although I regularly skip anything that is a phony phone
> call, interviews at conventions, or especially anything where Howard
> just plays something that was on TV and then comments on it, which is
> usually some interview on another show I don't watch. The shows I do
> like that he talks about, he gives no personal insight into. He
> described the plot of Rambo the other day and said it's fucking great.
> Just listening to Howard describe a movie I've seen isn't fun or
> funny. Used to be he'd give commentary and opinion, a recap with his
> thoughts. Now he just says how great Gotham is and doesn't talk about
> specifics.
>
> I do keep listening for the rare interesting gems. The sting on Bobo
> forcing him to stay off the show was the last time I didn't want to
> get out of the car and stop listening. Some of the interviews I've
> enjoyed. I haven't listened to Robin's news in about four years.
>
> I keep listening because I'm a fan, and there's only six shows left.
> Until he quits Sirius, which he's obviously going to do, and starts
> his web-content-only show, where you have to subscribe to his website
> to hear it. Which is obviously what he's going to do, if you listen to
> what he's been saying. If I'm wrong, I'm wrong, and I really don't
> care if I am. Maybe he'll be enthused again by the switch to a new
> medium, like he was in the early days of Sirius, but I don't think so.
> I think Howard's bored with doing the show and has been since Artie
> left and he's got other interests with Beth.
>
> On Wed, 02 Dec 2015 02:19:11 GMT, artie's liver
> <diseasedliver@artie.com> wrote:
>
> > Yes but not as much as the pranked phone calls, which seem forced
> > and set up. Totally 90's bullshit that howard thinks are funny. He
> > can't even fake his enthusiasm without making his listeners
> > uncormforatable.
> >
> >
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