Howard Stern
speaker
224 appearances
7 recordings
6 series
first heard Sep 2024
last heard 6 Mar
Howard Stern’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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How much are you playing a day? Well, I'm on vacation now, so I can play. From guitar? No, from work. I'm on vacation from work, so I can play some days five, six hours. Really? So you must be good now. I'm not good.
Well, I mean, you got to say Hendrix. You got to say Jimmy Page. I mean, Jimmy Page. Now I have even more appreciation for Jimmy Page.
I was playing one of the most beautiful love songs, Thank You, by Zeppelin, and the intro to that. And you sit and you realize this guy wrote this. Yes. Excellent. Excellent. Thanks, guys. Was that you singing or playing the guitar? Keep that applause up. But you realize how brilliant it is. And in order to get to that level, you've got to play every day for hours and hours.
And I'm mad at myself because when I was younger, I didn't allow myself to practice music, which Sean did. He was smart about it.
No, radio, it had to be radio for me.
No, I announced to my family, I will be on the radio, which was ridiculous. It doesn't make any sense. I don't understand it.
Yeah, well, he was a radio engineer.
Yeah, but listen, my father didn't spend a lot of time paying attention to me or interacting with me. And I used to sit... Mine did. Well, I would watch him. He was focused on you. No, but he would... When I would see him commuting to work, and he'd put the radio on, and Bob Grant was on, who was this conservative broadcaster, but the guy was mesmerizing on the radio.
And I saw the way my father listened and shushed me, told me to shut the fuck up so he could hear Bob Grant. Shut up! I said, so that's how you get someone's attention.
I think so, yeah.
Yeah, I think my mother put him on, you know, he just went, he just said, oh, okay, I love you. My father grew up in the Depression. He had nothing. When I say nothing, it was literally like no shoes. His father worked in a sweatshop as a pants presser. My father was a very deprived guy, and he didn't have a lot of room for emotion.
I think he probably had a lot of bottled-up emotion, but he couldn't express it, and he didn't know how. He didn't have the facility. But I would have loved to have known my father.
Beth wouldn't be with an idiot. I didn't say I was an idiot. I said I'm fucked up. Honey, come up here and tell people I'm fucked up. Please come up. She says I'm a lot. Honey, please. You don't want to come up?
But what I said was, you know, it was unfair. You used to go around saying, oh, well, that's an act on the radio. It was. It was who I was.
Yeah, but my attitude about radio, and I say this over and over again, was... I just want to make people laugh. I want people to have a great time in their car. If it's a compelling interview, great. But if I'm sitting there and I'm being really funny and I'm doing something good, Well, you know, that's what I'm trying to do. So I never did anything out of malice.
I did it because I thought I was genuinely funny. Was I genuinely funny? Sometimes, sometimes not. You were speaking the truth.
And is there anything? I'll tell you why. And you guys probably know this from, from doing this now and having a popular show. You know, if you go on a radio and you say, listen, I could potentially, I have this thing and they're telling me it could be cancer, a 95% chance. You start to get letters from every know-it-all in the audience. Listen, my mother died. You're fucked.
You're this, you're that. And I'm neurotic. I am neurotic about my health. I don't want to know. Where's Bradley Cooper? I just want to look at him. Come on. Come on, Bradley.
Look at that. Son of a bitch. So good looking. He's gorgeous. I love Bradley Cooper. I don't mind saying it.
There are people. Sean doesn't love him. He told me about him earlier. Bradley, I love you.
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