I remember listening to Howard Stern on the local radio station when I was in high school. This was the late 80s. Then we moved and I went years without hearing his show. We got Sirius radio back in like 2012 maybe and I listened to his show and was shocked at how different he was.
Different in a good way. His show doesn't appeal to me because it does feel more like a guy's show with some of the gross shit they do. But I think his wife Beth has had a good influence on him. He was going on about them doing rescue and fostering. He mentioned worrying about his daughters with the Harvey Weinstein's of the world.
I wish he could have changed sooner but maybe he can reverse some of the damage he did by admitting he was wrong rather than quietly changing his views but never going public.
God his radio show gave me body issues though. I remember them having girls weigh themselves in the studio and making fun of a girl who weighed 130lbs and the guys in the studio laughing. I mean this was the late 80s and I still remember it. He definitely was all about that toxic bro culture.
My BF had been a Stern fan since the early 90s. He's not a fan of the new format. Why? Because he feels like Howard is a hypocrite. He made his name and hundreds of millions of dollars on the 'shock jock' thing and now not only is he bringing in the exact same people who he made fun of in his earlier years, he and his staff are systematically removing the more egregious bits out of his playbacks, even from shows 30 years ago. He even had a rant a few weeks ago and just let it fly. Guess what? On the replay, gone.
Until the press junket for this book, he's never come out and admitted why he changed the format. He's just acted like "he's evolved" & that's that. Certain former members and frequent callers of the show are no longer allowed on nor even talked about (cough Artie cough). Again, if he's changed the format and/or personally "evolved" then just come out and say it. Don't act like it never happened.
His interviews follow the same format, with relatively the same questions. I've enjoyed a few but the rest, eh.
My BF had been a Stern fan since the early 90s. He's not a fan of the new format. Why? Because he feels like Howard is a hypocrite. He made his name and hundreds of millions of dollars on the 'shock jock' thing and now not only is he bringing in the exact same people who he made fun of in his earlier years, he and his staff are systematically removing the more egregious bits out of his playbacks, even from shows 30 years ago. He even had a rant a few weeks ago and just let it fly. Guess what? On the replay, gone.
Until the press junket for this book, he's never come out and admitted why he changed the format. He's just acted like "he's evolved" & that's that. Certain former members and frequent callers of the show are no longer allowed on nor even talked about (cough Artie cough). Again, if he's changed the format and/or personally "evolved" then just come out and say it. Don't act like it never happened.
His interviews follow the same format, with relatively the same questions. I've enjoyed a few but the rest, eh.
I'm confused about this. He actually has talked about his personal changes over the past number of years, and the change in what he does on the show was just following in suit. It wasn't an overnight change.
What is the "why" that you're looking for him to talk about?
Again, if he's changed the format and/or personally "evolved" then just come out and say it. Don't act like it never happened.
But that isn't even the real reason. As he himself said on Terry Gross, he changed it because he thought his audience would think he was a gross and skeevy old man if he didn't adapt as he aged.
The insight he gained from therapy wasn't "don't be an asshole" it was "people think you are a skeevy gross asshole (and won't pay for that shit forever)"
Again, if he's changed the format and/or personally "evolved" then just come out and say it. Don't act like it never happened.
But that isn't even the real reason. As he himself said on Terry Gross, he changed it because he thought his audience would think he was a gross and skeevy old man if he didn't adapt as he aged.
The insight he gained from therapy wasn't "don't be an asshole" it was "people think you are a skeevy gross asshole (and won't pay for that shit forever)"
Yeah, sounds more like he went to a branding session more than therapy. Still a narcissistic idiot IMO. I'm not caring or buying what he's selling.