Do fridays piss you off?

I think it would be great if he did 7 shows a week, but he's not. The majority of people are not going to be happy with anything less that a live Friday show. Everyone would work 5 hours a day, 4 days a week, if they could. I got into sat rad for Howard, and sports. I'm dreading the day he retires, so i'm grateful for the entertainment I get. I enjoy Bubba and Ferrall, and have tried listening to others, and there is no replacement for Howard. Enjoy it while you can.
 
Ehilbert1 said:
At first I was pissed. I still think Howard is being a hypocrite. He did say and I quote..."If your not their on Fridays your doing a diservice to your audience". That being said I really could care less now. He's there 5 hours a day 4 days a week and there are hardly any commercials. I don't see how anyone can complain about commercials. I listen to Rivals Radio for my college football fix and then Bubba on Fridays. Now I have friends that went to XM because their were pissed that Howard wasn't working Fridays. I understand why people are mad,but really they need to just let it go. It is what it is. You can't blame the guy for doing it. Thats a hell of a contract.

What does piss me off still to this day is the people that say he deserves all that time because of who he is and what he has done in radio. Granted he deserves a lot,but soldiers,fireman,police,teachers deserve time off like that.
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Nice post. You're right that the contract OLB (Old Lazy Bastard) signed was great - for him only.

For the most part, it has to be dissapointing to his fans, and the company he works for. Despite what he says, what Mel says, and the list of thoses still defending him say, there's no way Sirius could have known signing him that a few years later they would have to buckle and merge with the competition....then have to refinance a BILLION dollars plus in order to further stay afloat. Half of the refi amount is invested in someone who believes he's owed time off because of.....whatever.

The company would have flopped long ago if it had not been for the countless Stern fans who bought stock in Sirius, believing that Howard would not let it fail. Wonder how that's going...LOL.

Here's a test to see just how much Mr. Revolution believes in himself. Next time someone gets through to the show, don't ask about Beth's implants or Howard's ever-changing "natural" hair color, ask him how much of the HUGE amount of Sirius stock he has....TODAY. I wonder if he'll squirm more than when someone mentions one of Beth's old boyfriends in passing. Hahahahaha.....
 
Die_LaMattres said:
Nice post. You're right that the contract OLB (Old Lazy Bastard) signed was great - for him only.

For the most part, it has to be dissapointing to his fans, and the company he works for. Despite what he says, what Mel says, and the list of thoses still defending him say, there's no way Sirius could have known signing him that a few years later they would have to buckle and merge with the competition....then have to refinance a BILLION dollars plus in order to further stay afloat. Half of the refi amount is invested in someone who believes he's owed time off because of.....whatever.

The company would have flopped long ago if it had not been for the countless Stern fans who bought stock in Sirius, believing that Howard would not let it fail. Wonder how that's going...LOL.

Here's a test to see just how much Mr. Revolution believes in himself. Next time someone gets through to the show, don't ask about Beth's implants or Howard's ever-changing "natural" hair color, ask him how much of the HUGE amount of Sirius stock he has....TODAY. I wonder if he'll squirm more than when someone mentions one of Beth's old boyfriends in passing. Hahahahaha.....
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I'm positive that it is disappointing to his fans and I would like to think that Sirius would prefer that he work 5 days a week instead of 4 days a week. That said, Sirius knew about his time off when they signed him...the fans, or at least the ones that were listening knew that he was going to work four days a week because he said as much a number of times in 2005.

However, in light of the fact that Sirius is teetering close to falling under a Quarter a share, even before the nightmare in the stock market started its collapse, perhaps now would be a good time to maybe go that extra mile and give the fans of his stations something to believe in.

If Howard is gone in two years, there really isn't any true replacement being groomed on his station. If it were Bubba, I don't think that Mel would keep stringing him along.
 
Ifandorbut said:
I'm positive that it is disappointing to his fans and I would like to think that Sirius would prefer that he work 5 days a week instead of 4 days a week. That said, Sirius knew about his time off when they signed him...the fans, or at least the ones that were listening knew that he was going to work four days a week because he said as much a number of times in 2005.

However, in light of the fact that Sirius is teetering close to falling under a Quarter a share, even before the nightmare in the stock market started its collapse, perhaps now would be a good time to maybe go that extra mile and give the fans of his stations something to believe in.

If Howard is gone in two years, there really isn't any true replacement being groomed on his station. If it were Bubba, I don't think that Mel would keep stringing him along.
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The 4 day workweek was mentioned a few times, but as the exception, not the rule. There's a clip of Howard on Letterman explaining it that way. Also, the audio in my signature has Howard telling Stutteing John that a four day workweek was not an option. Click on it if you haven't heard it yet - it comes right from the horse's husband's fibbing lips.:yesshake:

I think Sirius will be gone before Howard's contract is up. How much further can a business sink before throwing in the towel? They are so deep in debt, floundering in a financially tapped period, in a medium that not enough people supported when the economy wasn't that bad. To borrow a popular Internet phrase "They won't recover."

What will Howard do next - try and lure fans to subscribe to Internet radio? Perhaps a three day week? Fool me once........
 
Die_LaMattres said:
The 4 day workweek was mentioned a few times, but as the exception, not the rule. There's a clip of Howard on Letterman explaining it that way. Also, the audio in my signature has Howard telling Stutteing John that a four day workweek was not an option. Click on it if you haven't heard it yet - it comes right from the horse's husband's fibbing lips.:yesshake:

I think Sirius will be gone before Howard's contract is up. How much further can a business sink before throwing in the towel? They are so deep in debt, floundering in a financially tapped period, in a medium that not enough people supported when the economy wasn't that bad. To borrow a popular Internet phrase "They won't recover."

What will Howard do next - try and lure fans to subscribe to Internet radio? Perhaps a three day week? Fool me once........
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I have audio of Howard mentioning to a caller in July of 2005 that he was going to Sirius to do four days a week. He didn't mention it as something he would do sometimes, he said that was going to be the schedule. I don't know how to post it onto a website, but I would certainly do it if I knew how to do it. It was July 21, 2005 during the "Wendy Vs. Miss Howard Stern" game. Howard took the call as the game was winding down and he answered him back in a matter of fact kind of way. The clip, if I could make it into a clip, is all of about thirty seconds. You can look it up on Marksfriggin. That's the earliest audio that I was able to dig up on the subject of a four day work week.

I'm familiar with his statement on the Letterman show. I don't know how to explain that one away, other than perhaps Howard was embarrassed about being called out for only working four days a week by Dave and so he hemmed and hawed about it for a couple of seconds and yes, lied about it to not look bad while trying to sell a product on national television.

The link you provide was from a much earlier time in Howard's career. It really is just one of the many statements and about faces that Howard has gone through over the years. The most egregious error was the one he made on the Letterman show.
 
DoublEE said:
I've resolved myself to the fact that Howard will never work Fridays and the staff is too lazy to put any effort into a live show.

I use Fridays to get caught up on the week's shows.
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I definately try to postpone listening to the shows that I taped but I definately blew it today by staying up all night to catch the entire Thrsuday episode.

In general of course it pisses me off because Howard worked a Friday here and there the frist year but then totally stopped when MTT started. Ending MTT I think was the worst idea ever...I know for some reason people are set against hearing Howard shows from his golden era of the nineties but it sure beats hearing something like Gomba Johnny again!
 
Ifandorbut said:
I'm positive that it is disappointing to his fans and I would like to think that Sirius would prefer that he work 5 days a week instead of 4 days a week. That said, Sirius knew about his time off when they signed him...the fans, or at least the ones that were listening knew that he was going to work four days a week because he said as much a number of times in 2005.

However, in light of the fact that Sirius is teetering close to falling under a Quarter a share, even before the nightmare in the stock market started its collapse, perhaps now would be a good time to maybe go that extra mile and give the fans of his stations something to believe in.

If Howard is gone in two years, there really isn't any true replacement being groomed on his station. If it were Bubba, I don't think that Mel would keep stringing him along.
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I think Howard's commitment to Sirius is best displayed by the fact that he seems to be refusing to make his fourth quarter push for Sirius on Letterman because it is just too much pressure to be funny....Obviously he did not feel that pressure this week, either! A real shame that Howard seemed to have seriously crowed about the success of Sirius and the merger...doubt he'll take the blame if things don't work out. If he wanted to be a real part of Sirius, I think that a seasonal Sirius push should be the least of his problems. It's too bad that Sirius got Stern when he lost all of his bite (and thus, defanged his entire yes man staff as well).
 
Ifandorbut said:
I have audio of Howard mentioning to a caller in July of 2005 that he was going to Sirius to do four days a week. He didn't mention it as something he would do sometimes, he said that was going to be the schedule. I don't know how to post it onto a website, but I would certainly do it if I knew how to do it. It was July 21, 2005 during the "Wendy Vs. Miss Howard Stern" game. Howard took the call as the game was winding down and he answered him back in a matter of fact kind of way. The clip, if I could make it into a clip, is all of about thirty seconds. You can look it up on Marksfriggin. That's the earliest audio that I was able to dig up on the subject of a four day work week.

I'm familiar with his statement on the Letterman show. I don't know how to explain that one away, other than perhaps Howard was embarrassed about being called out for only working four days a week by Dave and so he hemmed and hawed about it for a couple of seconds and yes, lied about it to not look bad while trying to sell a product on national television.

The link you provide was from a much earlier time in Howard's career. It really is just one of the many statements and about faces that Howard has gone through over the years. The most egregious error was the one he made on the Letterman show.
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I'm unaware of the specific clip, but I definitely believe you if you say it exists. That being said, I wonder why he didn't say the same thing consistantly, leading up to the switch to Sirius, although the answer is quite obvious. Other than the two instances I've mentioned, I remember the topic coming up now and again and Howard not being too quick to proudly announce his shortened schedule. He did play up a lot of other things that would happen at "Eh Eh Eh" that never came close. Once he cashed in, then out early on, it was over for the most part.
 
Die_LaMattres said:
I'm unaware of the specific clip, but I definitely believe you if you say it exists. That being said, I wonder why he didn't say the same thing consistantly, leading up to the switch to Sirius, although the answer is quite obvious. Other than the two instances I've mentioned, I remember the topic coming up now and again and Howard not being too quick to proudly announce his shortened schedule. He did play up a lot of other things that would happen at "Eh Eh Eh" that never came close. Once he cashed in, then out early on, it was over for the most part.
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Yea remember he was talking about having 3 channels-if i remember corectly 1 for his show 1 for other talent and 1 for specials or the tapes-as it is 101 has 2 radio shows and his show thats it.Whack pack show should not count as programing.
 
Hey hank, I love you new signature man! Very cool stuff. You've kind of turned into DLM, Jr. :bigthumbup:
 
hank-the-dwarf said:
Yea remember he was talking about having 3 channels-if i remember corectly 1 for his show 1 for other talent and 1 for specials or the tapes-as it is 101 has 2 radio shows and his show thats it.Whack pack show should not count as programing.
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Yep, you're right. The one for "talent" was filled with Bubba, Ferrell, then.........uh......let me see.....Riley? Mutt? Wendy?

The reason that no real talent graces the channels is because real talent costs money - in this case, Howard's money. God forbid the cheap SOB opens the purse strings to fill his channels with substance, like he initially claimed would happen. Remember how he claimed that "all the top radio talent" couldn't wait to leave FM and join his BS revolution? Hahahaha.... Where did they all go? Here's where - Back to FM to be paid. Riley is 100% accurate when he calls out Howard on his cheapness. I mean, how far does 100 MILLION per year go these days, right? As Jackie used to say, Howard has to have all the marbles.
 
Die_LaMattres said:
I'm unaware of the specific clip, but I definitely believe you if you say it exists. That being said, I wonder why he didn't say the same thing consistantly, leading up to the switch to Sirius, although the answer is quite obvious. Other than the two instances I've mentioned, I remember the topic coming up now and again and Howard not being too quick to proudly announce his shortened schedule. He did play up a lot of other things that would happen at "Eh Eh Eh" that never came close. Once he cashed in, then out early on, it was over for the most part.
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Yeah, I agree absolutely about playing up things that would happen when he was going over to "eh-eh-eh". That was part of the reason I joined up, I was excited that Howard would be reborn to an earlier form. In any case, here's a section from Marksfriggin, the July 21, 2005 show. This is the earliest mention that I can think of where he knew what was going to happen at Sirius. Anything he mentioned before this date was purely of a speculative nature.

The mention occurs in the second paragraph...

Andrea ended up winning the contest so she was going home with five grand. Wendy the Retard was given a $500 prize for coming in. Robin interrupted and said that there was a nail bomb that exploded in a London subway this morning. She said there was also a shooting there but there wasn't much more information. Howard asked Andrea if she knew where London was. She actually knew it was in England. Howard took a call from a guy who wondered how they got these two super-geniuses in there at the same time. Howard said it was actually pretty tough, they had to beg Andrea to come in, now she's walking out with $5,000. Another guy said that Andrea sounds like a drunken, coke whore this morning and he wanted her off the air. Andrea said she was tired and just woke up so she wasn't drunk. Andrea said she's going to put the money in the bank for her daughter and that's why she does all of this stuff, for her daughter. Andrea went on to say that she's in the process of getting her high school degree (at 22) and she doesn't care what people think of her. She also revealed that she had an abortion at one time and she doesn't plan on having anymore kids.

The caller Howard had on the line asked him if he was doing 4 or 5 days over at SIRIUS. Howard told him that he's doing 4 days but they have something planned for Friday's when they make the move over there. He said we'd learn more about that when he makes the move. Howard started to wrap up and asked Wendy if she could point to her shins. She pointed to her chin. Howard asked Andrea to do it. She pointed to her elbow. Wendy went on to tell Howard that she's been on a diet and is down to about 185 pounds. She was up over 200 before the diet. Howard had to end the segment but Wendy and Andrea kept going on and on about a bunch of nonsense. Andrea didn't want to leave so Howard told her the only way she could stay is if she was naked. Andrea said she'd do that for Howard but not for everyone else. Howard went to break after that.

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Ifandorbut said:
I have audio of Howard mentioning to a caller in July of 2005 that he was going to Sirius to do four days a week. He didn't mention it as something he would do sometimes, he said that was going to be the schedule. I don't know how to post it onto a website, but I would certainly do it if I knew how to do it. It was July 21, 2005 during the "Wendy Vs. Miss Howard Stern" game. Howard took the call as the game was winding down and he answered him back in a matter of fact kind of way. The clip, if I could make it into a clip, is all of about thirty seconds. You can look it up on Marksfriggin. That's the earliest audio that I was able to dig up on the subject of a four day work week.

I'm familiar with his statement on the Letterman show. I don't know how to explain that one away, other than perhaps Howard was embarrassed about being called out for only working four days a week by Dave and so he hemmed and hawed about it for a couple of seconds and yes, lied about it to not look bad while trying to sell a product on national television.

The link you provide was from a much earlier time in Howard's career. It really is just one of the many statements and about faces that Howard has gone through over the years. The most egregious error was the one he made on the Letterman show.
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If you can convert the clip into a format YouTube accepts, you could post it there. There wouldn't be any picture or visual video, but I've seen people post audio-only clips there before.
 
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