PAcpl
Just a couple of DINK's
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Oh, how I wish Artie would get his act together and talk Sirius into letting him come back to the show. Howard is getting on my nerves so much lately and he has had so few interesting guests that Artie's energy would very much be appreciated about now. It used to be in the old days that after the show took a vacation and came back, I was up at 3:00 a.m. Pacific time to hear that first show on the East Coast feed after they returned. I was so excited to hear what they had to say. This time, I rolled over out of a perfectly good slumber this morning, turned on the radio, heard Howard ranting about American Idol again - and then I shut off the radio and went back to sleep!!!When I turned it on again later, I heard him doing a long, drawn-out bit about J.D. and Ashley Dupree - and I turned it off. Same old same old. He drags stuff out for too long and then doesn't let other thing go as long as they should - like he will cut off guests when they are speaking, or cut off Artie's stories or whatever.
I hate to say it - I think Howard really may be better off retiring or cutting his hours on air back substantially when this contract ends. I don't think he WILL leave radio, but if he does, I think it will be for the best. And believe me, 10 years ago I would have been completely upset if he left radio. But he is even crankier and more irritated and more juvenile about everything than ever before, and I think he needs a long, long, long break!!!
I agree 100% with everything you said, except the Artie coming back thing. I think by the time he would be well enough to come back, the show would be on its way out. I miss the guy and liked him even through his binge when he wouldn't shut up for two seconds, but I don't see him coming back. I do think everything else you said was dead on. I am tired of Howard interrupting Robin's news clips because he wants to get out of the studio. He gets 100 million dollars for the six months he works. He is just tired of it and he wants to go. He will always be involved in some sense because he needs to be heard, but not the 4am five our shifts that kill him.
I hope we at least hear Artie on some kind of going away wrap up show if they have one.
Howard Stern?
I was unaware it was still 1995.
I was a huge O&A fan ever since they started broadcasting in Philly. Little Jimmy will always be the man, but for some reason I just lost interest. I don't know if they were too scared to be edgy when they got back on the air or what, but something wasn't there for me. Then when Tippy Tom (RIP) said what he said and they got thrown off again, well they were walking on eggshells. Every now and then I will tune in and listen if Patrice or someone is in studio, but that is usually when Stern is on another one of his vacations.