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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So you go, and we ended up having a very romantic time, honey, right? Romantic. Romance was in the air. romance happened, and... Barely confirming that last night. Poor woman. Imagine, you know, think about it.
Imagine, you know, imagine me crawling on top of you in Florence. I mean... Okay. It's like a praying mantis attacking you. So I felt for the woman. I did. But she's a good sport. She took it like a champ. Jesus Christ. I felt horrible. I felt horrible. But, honey, it wasn't so bad, right? It was over quick. You're the king of the insects. You're like, whoo. Yeah, yeah. It's like, ooh.
Like the fly, brindle fly, you know.
What's the one you regret the most? Well, because I was an asshole many times. When I was on regular radio, terrestrial radio, whatever you want to call it, I didn't have the faith that if I did an interview that my audience would hold. We had something like a 10 share, a number one in New York.
And I thought, well, if someone comes on the air and they're talking, I could hear the radios clicking off. That the only thing that might be compelling is if, you know, I was doing my thing.
Which means I was not trusting of other people that other people might have talent. So there were people, and I've written about this, The fabulous, most wonderful Robin Williams, for example, came on my show. And I just was ridiculously insulting. And why? Because I was trying to be funny. Robin Williams is way funnier than I am. Let him be funny.
But being the insecure child that I was, and somehow having some connection with an audience where I was intuitive and thinking I could hear when they're turning off the radios, if somebody gave a long answer or wasn't moving fast enough, the rhythm wasn't right, I could hear the radios clicking off. And so I really had no business having guests on.
It's a result of leaving terrestrial radio and going to satellite. It suddenly dawned on me. I work for a company now that has 100-something channels. As long as the person who's paying for a subscription is happy with the product, and if they're listening to me and I'm doing a long-form interview, and if it's not their cup of tea, they can go to a different channel on our service.
And that freed me. That liberated me. Because it wasn't about me necessarily holding the audience. The pressure. If you enjoy listening to Robin Williams, great. Then we have you as a listener. But if you don't, there's a million other choices on satellite.
Yes, but you couldn't have done that. If you guys started your radio, let's say you started a career in radio back in the day. This format would not have lasted. It would not be on the radio. It doesn't hold an audience en masse. Jimmy Fallon's sitting in our audience, right? When he does an interview, he can't do an hour interview.
He's got to sit there because he's dealing with televisions coming on and off and on and off. We're in a unique position. The period of time we're in right now has allowed us to sit here and have a real conversation, and we can play to a niche audience. And so, you know, not to get too academic about it, radio, the old format of radio is gone.
And I recognized that when I came to satellite, and I felt that was the innovation. I could sit and have a real conversation with someone like Robin Williams. And I have regrets. Interesting. Yeah. The format... help me to evolve.
I guess I just haven't delivered the goods. Jimmy, why don't you take over? This always happens.
He's never going to leave.
Look at the Fallon mic. I love this.
Yeah. Come on, Jimmy. God bless you. Come on, Jimmy. Can I leave now?
Give her a call. Paula Chablon. I love Jimmy very much, by the way. I want to tell you. We love Jimmy. Who doesn't love Jimmy Fallon? I'll let you in on a secret. And Nancy Jovonen. Oh, Nancy's the best. Jimmy and I are going to go camping together on a beach, and it's just going to be the two of us alone. Jimmy, right? We're going to be in a, what is that called? An RV? An Airstream.
He thinks I'm going to go.
We reach out to some people, but mostly, and this is probably to our detriment, but I don't want to have a lot of guests. We keep a limited amount. I think some of our strongest shows are when we're just sitting and doing our own thing.
You know what I was like? Honestly, and I've said this to Jason. I said, look, I could Google you and find out enough stuff. I don't really need to sit and talk to you. What have you done? Stop it.
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