Archive for the 'Radio' Category


How Do You Become Indispensable?

In a couple of years Howard Stern is gonna retire from the radio and I don’t know what I’m gonna do with myself. Hi. I was just driving down Sunset Boulevard in the Palisades and the road was closed. An SUV had jumped the guardrail and ended up on its side. Kind of like NASCAR, [...]

Playlists

They’re the new radio. As a result, you’ve got to exercise tender loving care, you’ve got to be a deejay, you’ve got to earn your listeners’ trust and keep it. We’ll only tolerate a fifteen or twenty percent tune-out rate. I was forwarded Esquire’s "Songs Every Man Should Listen to 2012" and you shouldn’t. But [...]

Roger Waters On Howard Stern

He’s so damn difficult! Usually Howard gets the interviewee going and then interrupts him with left field questions. Frustrated that Roger was not forthcoming, Howard keeps firing away, hoping to rev up an interview that never truly gets rolling because Roger’s so reluctant. Maybe if you’re his buddy, he relaxes and moves up from 16 [...]

Originality

So Howard Stern is sitting at home during Christmas vacation and he gets a call saying Paul is on the line. It’s weird that the head of NBC alternative programming responsible for "America’s Got Talent" would ring him, there’s no business pending, but it’s nice so Howard starts waxing rhapsodic, talking about the publicity, thanking [...]