Comments on: The real free FM

By: John Doe

John Doe — Wed, 10 May 2006 14:53:19 +0000

Sid, you are a stupid jackass. Opie and Anthony are stupid hacks, and nobody forbid anything about them…frankly because nobody cares and they have no audience. Go eat a shit cake.

By: Sid

Sid — Sun, 02 Apr 2006 10:00:50 +0000

If anyone actually bought his story about moving to satellite for the “freedom” when he first started spouting it… I’d think twice now…

Howard Stern has been in full hypocrite mode for the past month and it seems as though he’s finally destroyed the last shred of credibility he might have had left. These are some of his quotes in the current issue of Entertainment Weekly,

“I was just at my psychiatrist and I said, `I just got great news: We hit the 4 million mark. And I’m angry. It should be 20 million”

“It’s insulting to me that everyone hasn’t come with me. I take it personally,”
“I want to say to my audience … `You haven’t come with me yet? How dare you? We’re up to wild, crazy stuff, the show has never sounded better. You cheap bastard!’”

So, in the name of “freedom” you take you show off free radio and take over $600 million dollars to go to satellite? To be “free”, you need to be paid $600+ million dollars and your fans need to spend a hundred or a few hundred bucks on a radio as well as a monthly subscription? Then you take your show off E!, so you can be more free… also so your fans can pay even more subscription fees to watch your show in pay per view?

Where do you get off, being a man who just got paid $600 million, calling your fans cheap for paying to hear you? Maybe if you’d done some interesting radio in the past 10 years, people may have actually followed you. By your own admission, your show was “subpar”. Awww… The few hundred million you were making a year then wasn’t enough for you to put out some effort? Oh yeah, you weren’t “free” enough… because you care about freedom. You care about the government telling someone they can’t say something, you care about an employer telling you not to say something.. or do you?

If you really cared about any of that, you wouldn’t have(by your own admission) forced your bosses at CBS to forbid Opie & Anthony to talk about you. What was your quote again? “I’m a strong supporter of MY free speech.” You don’t care about free speech. You care about money, which that’s fine with me. Make as much money as you’d like. However, don’t go spouting off all this hypocritical garbage about free speech. You aren’t doing something noble. You are no crusader. That much is obvious.

By: bsqwared

bsqwared — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 19:15:33 +0000

wow… i have never actually seen somebody try to make an argument for dopey and anthony being better than Howard… and i must say, i have spent the last fifteen minutes laughing hysterically… do you O&A fans really believe they were the first to do anything? to be completely honest, Bubba the Love Sponge was the first “shock jock” to do satellite radio, on XM nonetheless… of course, he works with Howard now because Sirius is really just plain better at this point… oh, and just because you were listening to O&A doing bits months ago about pat o’brien doesn’t mean Howard wasn’t doing them on Testicle radio… listen to whomever you want, but when O&A call for people to show up and protest at Howard’s Letterman appearance and 7 people show up, 3 of which ask howard for autographs, there is obviously a lack of reality going on in the lifes of you O&A diehards…

By: conner kerplunk

conner kerplunk — Thu, 02 Mar 2006 15:02:52 +0000

I am so sick of hearing stern fans say o&a have 3 listeners when the plain and simple truth is xm has twice the subs as sirius. It must hurt to see their hero lie to everyone and say he is the first when o&a were. Every thing they do howard is doing just 8 months behind.Example the pat obrien tapes.Howard is so washed up he is rerecording old bits. I guess he is going to still do the sub-par radio show that he said in his own words he has been doing for 10 years. Its over Johnny.When was the last time Howard had a listener party and actually met his fans without the velvet rope barrier.The plain and simple truth is he does not care about any of his listeners he just takes their money to buy howie-copters.

Sorry to burst bubbles,
Ex stern fan

By: David Levin

David Levin — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 02:17:30 +0000

Great review! George Takei is such an awesome addition to the show. This week has really suffered compared to last week. I sure hope they wind up hiring him full time.

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By: ERock

ERock — Thu, 12 Jan 2006 00:01:23 +0000

RamOOOOONNNne, get this douchebag a grammar tutor!

By: Tom Watson

Tom Watson — Tue, 10 Jan 2006 13:56:37 +0000

Jeff - it came back this morning, 25 posts came in - weird….

By: Jim Treacher

Jim Treacher — Tue, 10 Jan 2006 10:27:35 +0000

Well said!

By: David

David — Tue, 10 Jan 2006 05:16:31 +0000

Jim,

O&A have no where near the draw Howard does simply being on Satellite first doesn’t mean anything. Howard was doing what O&A is doing on XM 20 years ago on regular radio before the FCC got a stick up it’s ass. They where on XM a year before Howard it’s Howards world O&A live in. I never heard anyone say I have to get XM O&A are on it.

Howard, NFL , NHL is going to allow Sirius to over take XM within 2 years. XM is only bigger because they where the first to have car manufacturers install there system. In 2006 Sirius has a lot of Auto Manufacturers that they didn’t have in 2005. Secondly even if Howard draws people in initially no one will go back to regular radio, they’ll just find something else on Sirius. Secondly I can get a XM unit anywhere right now. I personnally know people that have there systems on raincheck because all the Sirius radio stock is sold out everywhere.

By: Jim Treacher

Jim Treacher — Tue, 10 Jan 2006 03:54:42 +0000

Yeah, he invented Pat O’Brien!

By: Teresa

Teresa — Tue, 10 Jan 2006 02:30:40 +0000

HS did the bits on Pat O’Brien long before O&A.

By: Jim Treacher

Jim Treacher — Tue, 10 Jan 2006 00:44:46 +0000

Here’s some of the Pat O’Brien stuff from the guys nobody listens to, back when it was big news.

By: Jeff Jarvis

Jeff Jarvis — Mon, 09 Jan 2006 23:19:18 +0000

Tom:
Dunno. Looks like it’s working to me; just checked both bloglines and my reader. j

By: Tom Watson

Tom Watson — Mon, 09 Jan 2006 22:37:42 +0000

btw, your RSS feed died a few days ago at bloglines - just fyi - did you change it?

By: tigh

tigh — Mon, 09 Jan 2006 22:21:57 +0000

I may be wrong on this, God Knows, as does Jeff, I have been wrong before.. But if one looks beyond the celbrity of Ms Stern, one can view a very funny take on pop culture and mock of Ms Cicone and her new found religion. I think it is quite creative and couragious. I applaud her

By: Bill Henry

Bill Henry — Mon, 09 Jan 2006 20:19:25 +0000

Tony, yes ,the opening was excellent! For a person as myself who loves classical music, but yet appreciates the “wholesome” entertainment offered by Howard, it was a marvelous combination! I suggest this hybrid title to the Strauss/Stern collaboration: Also Farts Zarathustra.

By: tony

tony — Mon, 09 Jan 2006 20:00:19 +0000

Jeff you’re right the show was great.

takeai is a nice suprise

but the opening of the theme to 2001 laced with long drawn out farts was classic.

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By: Full Disclosure

Full Disclosure — Mon, 09 Jan 2006 19:03:27 +0000

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By: Bill Henry

Bill Henry — Mon, 09 Jan 2006 18:44:47 +0000

It seems that Howard is just trying to keep the language in perspective so that every other word is not fuck, etc. He’s used the word himself a few times already as have some other members of his cast of characters. Some of the bits he’s played are pretty well laced with the the “F-word”. CT: Just using my little cheapo XACT car visor radio in my office with a 4 ft wire antenna hanging out of the “FM out” jack, I can receive the show on any radio in my house and even in my shop in the backyard, about 100 feet away. If I ran a small coax cable out of the “FM out” jack to a FM dipole antenna in the attic, I could probably hear the sat radio for a block or so.

By: JayZ

JayZ — Mon, 09 Jan 2006 18:41:23 +0000

C’mon, Jeff. You’re a media watcher. Don’t sound so giddy about the Pat O’Brien tapes when everybody knows that Opie & Anthony worked through the Pat O’Brien tapes for days MONTHS ago. There are so many edits out there that came from the O&A show that you can probably Google them by now. I truly don’t understand the hype around Howard’s Sirius launch when he’s now simply following in O&A’s footsteps. His struggle now is going to be distinguishing himself from what O&A have already done so he doesn’t appear to be a copycat like he does with the Pat O’Brien tapes.

By: Rich Drees

Rich Drees — Mon, 09 Jan 2006 17:32:35 +0000

Ummm…. How is Stern deciding on the content of his own show censorship?

By: The Zoner

The Zoner — Mon, 09 Jan 2006 16:54:16 +0000

What did O&A do with the Oâ€™Brien tapes? Just play them? Howard and company actually spliced them into Zeppelinâ€™s â€œBlack Dogâ€ for a rather hysterical bit.

Wow geinus idea; inventive. Where do I sign up?

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By: Jake Thompson

Jake Thompson — Mon, 09 Jan 2006 16:19:56 +0000

>>> Stern says he has a no-cursing rule
>>> for himself and a few of the cast members

first Opie & Anthony and now his own cast. Howie the censor is at it again.

>>> Theyâ€™re playing the Emily Stern audio right now.

and here is the emily stern video:

http://media.putfile.com/Emily-Sterns-play-KabbalahMadonnawebwwwjewishtheaterorg