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Subject: Re: Anybody sick of those parody songs? <- no but I'm sick of whiners. tl;dr
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On Mon, 07 Dec 2015 20:05:47 GMT, Beelzabozo <satan@hell.org> wrote:
>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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>
I appreciate that y6ou spent a lot of time writing this letter. I
agree stern has been the same ol same ol for a long time. I do find
that I am not interested in some of the people he interviews. Beth
changed him and I guess he evolved from a star basher. what is the
alternative on radio? I don't have Sirius and d/l the show like some
others who frequent this ng do. im not cheap. it takes a half hour to
get to work nd a half hour to get home. other then that, im not in
the car. Justin fuckin beaver and all those other sugar sweet boy
bands that get prepubescent girls hot. two seconds of that shit make
my head ache.
i was around for all the original rock groups...ie led zep, allman
bros, eagles and so many more that I cant remember because I was
stoned out of my mind. the state of music sucks so I listen to stern.
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