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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If I did a show every day where I just interviewed one guest, that would be fascinating to me. But there's also an audience in my group that likes to hear us doing, you know, bits and shtick and, like, sitting and talking, Robin and I just talking, and I recognize that. So I don't overload the show with a lot of guests. But sometimes we do reach out, like...
You know, I wanted Joe Biden on, so we had him on. And I wanted Bruce Springsteen. I begged him to come on. I just wanted him to come on.
It was unbelievable to be sitting in a room with Bruce, and he's doing a concert, basically, and talking about how he creates songs. So, you know, we do reach out, and there are people I just love talking to.
No, it never was about music. You know, it's weird. I play music and I talk over it. Yeah, yeah. So, you know, it's like I can't... Playing, when I got into radio, I was a disc jockey, you know, straight disc jockey. My father would say, first you must learn to be a straight disc jockey, not all that nonsense you do.
So I went on the radio and be like, hi, this is Howard Stern, WR&W, progressive music from the woods. And this is Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. And so, you know, we would do that. And I hated it. I hated it. Even you had to segue, you had to play a record and make sure there was no dead air.
Oh, no, no. I played whatever I wanted. But it was horrible. I mean, it was a lot of pressure. You had to get the commercials lined up. It was just you in a little room in a house somewhere up in the woods. These were these shitty radio stations, $96 a week. And you played records and you announced them. And this is what I did. And I was the worst at it. I was the worst.
There were no performers in my family. I didn't understand performance. I was not in show business. My father even said, you cannot be a millennial.
Between that and the music... When I'd walk around college, nobody seemed to pay attention to me. I think I had the worst personality. You had no confidence that you were going to be somewhat compelling at all. I would write letters to my girlfriend saying, I will be the world's greatest radio performer.
I have no idea. I don't know. I just knew that there was something there.
No, it took me years. That's why I resent this podcast. You guys are just out here talking. I had to spend years. I had to spend years. It took me 10 years just to get conversational.
You guys are too talented. No, but in all seriousness, playing records was horrible. Were you a fan of music, though? Oh, huge fan of music. You know, music meant more to me than religion. I never got a thing out of religion, but man, when I'd hear the Beatles or the Stones or George Harrison, you know, My Sweet Lord, that stuff, that spoke to me.
That moved me, and I was happy to launch a lot of bands. I was a program director for a while, and I didn't even understand. I didn't know anything. A guy from a record company would call me up, and he'd go, would you play our record? I'd go, sure. He goes, no, no, no, I'll play it for you. I said, you don't have to play it for me. I'll report it to Billboard. I didn't care.
I was happy to help somebody out. Did you get starstruck around musicians? I admire musicians, and I know how hard they work at it.
Oh, geez. Is it a Beatle? Well, I've met Paul and Ringo, and they were great on the show.
I want to thank the guys for that story.
Yeah.
All right, here's one you didn't know, Sean. Sean, here's one I guarantee you you didn't know. Yeah. You know the place you go for roast beef, right? Arby's, right? Yeah. Why is it called Arby's? They got the meat or whatever they say. No. No. Think about it. Why is it Arby's? Roast beef. R-B. Roast beef.
Oh, Arby's. Arby's. Oh, I see. Did not know that. Look at Will.
Really glad I came on. By the way, these guys treat it like it's a TV show. I'm in a trailer. I'm waiting to come on. No. There's a warm-up act for the audience. I don't know from this. You just go on the radio.
Happy to be here.
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