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Subject: Re: Anybody sick of those parody songs? <- no but I'm sick of whiners. Im sick if the hate haters.
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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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