re: The Howard Stern show is close to being canceled

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Pig vomit

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I can hear that gif

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I haven’t listened to Stern in many years, but I’m sure that he can still make a killing selling direct subscriber access.

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He has always dabbled in direct subscriber access. For instance there was Howard TV which was a pay per view or subscription for cable subscribers. He also did Pay Per View Specials.

Now with the internet you could say he could go independent and stream his own direct to consumers.

Part of me wants to think he wants to retire and go off into the sunset, or this could be a big ole publicity stunt to drum up his next move especially in the wake of the Colbert firing. If I recall Howard’s people or even himself have leaked the threat of leaving to the media as leverage for him to negotiate his next deal. He can be very public at times when renegotiating a new deal.

But as with anything, sometimes people just don’t know when to quit. It is best to leave when your up, but then there are times you run yourself into the ground and straight into the grave.

It was a good run.

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Howard Stern was born on January 12, 1954. As of today, August 6, 2025, he is 71 years old

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Good. Well deserved. As far as I’m concerned the show officially died in 2015 when he interviewed one of his archenemies Ellen DeGenres and yucked it up with her. Anyone who had listened to Howard over the years fully knew what a scumbag she was well over a decade before the press reported on it. Richard, Sal, and Baba Booey should have walked right the frick out then and started their own podcast and would probably be much richer and more important today had they done so then. This scumbag also demanded that the unvaxxed be banned from hospitals (an opinion also said by his BFF Jimmy Kimmel) and pretty openly wished death upon half the country. I love that when Imus died that Howard bragged that he was mentioned in all of Imus’ obituaries but that Imus would be mentioned in none of his. Oh how wrong you are, Howard. Any honest obituary of you will mention Imus several times. This is the final line of a truly honest Howard Stern obituary: “In the end Howard became what he always despised; he became Don Imus.” I really hope Trump or Rogan say that this week about Howard, because he should take it about as well as Joe Pesci did being told by Frank Vincent to go home and get his fricking shinebox.

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Jfc how many vyvanses did you take this morning

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yeah he has been on a long and slow decline for quite a while

he fell in love with a thirsty woman and she tamed him to the point that he would annually fly out to Hollywood to take her on the celebrity rounds and he would talk endlessly about their cats and her rich lady cat rescue organization.

he signed the Infinity deal which gave him his first taste generational wealth and he was motivated and working hard for a while which lead to the first 5yr/$500mm production deal with SXM

so he moved to SXM which put his onair fights with “management” and the FCC behind him, but that was a big content driver for his show and he had nobody to fight with any more

the show became centered around one big interview a week, the mundane details of his rich guy life, long segments featuring mindless BS from the staff and discussing the news with Robin

he joined AGT which was a massive sellout and completed his move to become the corporate media shill he said he hated for so long

the AGT deal pushed him back from 4 days a week to barely 3 days a week on his radio show and he shifted by making at least one of the three shows the long form interview that they talked about on the other two shows

the guy has OCD but it was clear he had some insecurities but nothing really wrong with him. He starts seeing a therapist and he basically becomes an old Jewish woman on air with all of the fears and unreasonable obsessing over money and health.

thirsty wife + therapy for 20yrs + generational wealth and he changed completely. He was already well on his way to King of Wokeville when Covid hit, doing the show from his House in the Hamptons was the last straw for any cultural relevance. The Biden and then Harris interviews was the show hitting absolute rock bottom.

Ralph Cirella dying in 2023 should have been the end but he rode out the end of the last SXM deal that he probably should not have signed. He did another 5years to take care of his staff and that put him on the air for Covid which was a disaster for what was left of his reputation and legacy

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You know way more than is healthy about late career Howard Stern.