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It's just painful how much being without an Artie or a Jackie really is when listening. You could keep all the content and just add them in and the show is instantly better by leaps and bounds. It doesn't matter whether they're making fun of Jackie or Artie's making subtle jabs at porn stars, the show just seems soulless right now. It's a shell and there's nothing inside making it what it used to be.
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nurall posted:i tried to cancel today. I tried to cancel; Sirius wouldn't let me: I got two free months.
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Djarum posted:Over the years they did start to worry more about having a visual element to all the radio bits but the audio presentation always came first. This has changed completely for Howard TV, where it is a television bit and they are just playing the audio on the radio. It sounds like you're reaching for something to complain about since you've been universally negative in this thread. Howard has had on strippers and porn stars and visual bits since before the E show started in 1994. They've actually cut down a lot of those guests over the years. The radio show at this point is 90% Howard telling Robin about his latest hobby or Wolfie interviewing nerds. That's hardly "a television bit and they are just playing the audio on the radio." HowardTV is nothing new and it's probably better because it's uncensored, commercial free, and has no timeslot restrictions. quote:Also most the good talent that worked on the E! show left before the transition to Howard TV. Besides Robin Radzinski and Scott Einziger who left? Einziger turned out to be a plagiarist so good riddance.
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Aug 12, 2011 03:35
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Djarum posted:The E! Show was a entirely different beast than Howard TV. For one they only had to create at most 2.5 hours of new content a week and most of the time they didn't really do that. It was more organic as they were just filming what was going on in the studio. Over the years they did start to worry more about having a visual element to all the radio bits but the audio presentation always came first. This has changed completely for Howard TV, where it is a television bit and they are just playing the audio on the radio. The E! show was loving awesome. It just had the right feel to it. It kills me to think it will never be put out on DVD. Scott Einziger was the genius behind the E! show and produced 99% of the episodes. He went on to work for CBS and did Big Brother and a few other shows.
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A Intimate Rimjobs posted:I tried to cancel; My account has been canceled for about 7 months, I've deleted my online account and tried to unsubscribe from everything and they still keep launching spam my way.
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How often do Sal and Richard do prank phone calls today? I've never subscribed to Sirius, although I would now if Artie was still on and people said the show was still good, but the prank calls on youtube are by far the funniest I've heard the show be in the satellite era. I was crying from laughing so hard the first time I discovered them on youtube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzcwNhjHS_U&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMquBRTGhik&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOZYKaMQTL0
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Aug 12, 2011 04:28
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Former Human posted:I wonder how much HowardTV you've seen since you claim nobody subscribes to it, or the last time you listened to the radio show? I have watched plenty of it, and I listened to the show the other day as evidenced by my knowledge of the Howard look alike whom was a bad radio guest. Every so often there is something released by HowardTV that I would like to see, mostly older stuff uncensored as you said. While it is nice to have content uncensored there is a HUGE difference in the quality between the old E! show and HowardTV. Not only is the budget on each episode near nothing so there is very bad production values on it that makes it look cheap, but in the move from E! they lost a lot of talent that you are not aware of, mostly in the post production department in which HowardTV has basically none. They have no real professionals working there, Goodstein, Depace and loving Gauge. Gauge is a loving supervising producer. This is a guy who can't make a loving baked potato if we don't remember. While I am aware that most of the show has always been Howard just talking about nonsense, when there is a actually preplanned segment anymore it is mainly done for the HowardTV audience. I am not talking about the naked girls and whatnot either, even the contests and faux gameshows are more of a visual thing today compared to the old days. I mainly listen to old shows anymore. While you have always been able to see a evolution of the show while listening to different years, there were always little things that were the same, it was never drastic. A show from 91 and 98 for example are fairly the same, although you have little changes the humor and flow of the show still works the same way. If you listen to a show from 2008 and compare that to a show last week you would be shocked at how different it is. Perhaps I am negative on the show, but I feel like they have let me down as a long time listener and fan. I imagine it is like if you are a sports fan and your favorite player either sticks around longer than they should have or underperforms on purpose. It is depressing, sad and makes you a little angry at them. I don't feel like I am anymore more negative about the current state of the show than anyone else here, I think we sort of have a universal consensus that it is terrible.
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Squashy Nipples posted:I feel the exact opposite. If were to live without a car, the only place I'd want to live is in Manhattan. Kelly posted:Seriously...this is exactly how I feel. I have a good friend who lives in Dallas (which is a beautiful city) but all I could think when I was there was I couldn't live there without a car. Have you been to Seattle, Chicago, and Portland? All great cities with good public transportation. Much cleaner than NYC, too. Djarum posted:The E! Show was a entirely different beast than Howard TV. For one they only had to create at most 2.5 hours of new content a week and most of the time they didn't really do that. It was more organic as they were just filming what was going on in the studio. Over the years they did start to worry more about having a visual element to all the radio bits but the audio presentation always came first. This has changed completely for Howard TV, where it is a television bit and they are just playing the audio on the radio. Man, I really miss the E! show. We didn't get Stern in my city (Toledo Ohio) and the E! show was how I kept up with the Stern show. I was really sad when they ended it. Corb3t fucked around with this message at 04:50 on Aug 12, 2011 |
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Aug 12, 2011 04:47
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Yucko or someone being paid by Yucko is posting his lovely videos in GBS.
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During the vacation I listened to a ton of the Artie flood. At first I was happy to have new shows to listen to this week. Then I heard Monday's show and the lack of Artie (and all that Robin... animatronic apes???) put a nice fine point on how much worse the show has become. I still enjoyed the stuff about Richard's wedding, though. What it Tim on? I'll be listening to Tuesday's show tomorrow. I hope Psyche is awesome live, because his vocals, instrumentation, and production are loving amazing. I sing and play guitar and make music, and I know how insanely hard it is to sing like that, especially with hose dense vocals a la Queen. Amazing production, Little Mikey sounds like a terrible hack by comparison. Also, I am SO loving SICK of little Mikey always rhyming oo with goo. Thing of something new, goddammit.
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Aug 12, 2011 05:29
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Little Mikey owns, I love that a dude that can't sing is singing songs about loving a woman he would never gently caress.
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If anyone is still wondering about Bubba, I found this http://tunein.com/. They stream his RadioIO stuff and it actually works. Also, apps for all your cell phones. Also, you can get BBC Radio 1 and literally every radio station in the world that has an internet stream. And a number of podcasts.
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Aug 12, 2011 16:12
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Corbet posted:Have you been to Seattle, Chicago, and Portland? All great cities with good public transportation. Much cleaner than NYC, too. lol Seattle is not in the same league as Portland. They have very limited light rail and the public bus system is a mess. Portland is pretty much the standard at this point for good public transportation outside of NY.
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So tired of hearing about what a REAL MANLY MAN Chuck Zito is. Is he for real or is he kind of Dice where he actually somewhat became his character?
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At some point Chuck Zito invented a story wherein he knocked out Jean-Claude Van Damme with one punch after a bit of shittalking and fisticuffs; JCVD claims to never have met Mr. Zito and there is some dispute as to whether this event ever actually happened. Zito then parlayed it into a role on Oz, which cemented his role as Alpha Male in Howard's mind.
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Aug 14, 2011 18:26
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I'd say if Zito was the leader of Hell's Angels and did real time in prison then he is probably legit. Although it is annoying when Howard talks about him. Same as when Howard gushes about how handsome Stamos is.
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an adult beverage posted:I'd say if Zito was the leader of Hell's Angels and did real time in prison then he is probably legit. Although it is annoying when Howard talks about him. Same as when Howard gushes about how handsome Stamos is. Chuck Zito is just full of bluster - I'd say we will never know if he is a tough guy. The fact that he talks about it so relentlessly makes me think he's mostly talk. Plenty of weaklings end up in prison for violent crimes. They don't always come out tougher, either. Edit: speaking of bluster, that sounded VERY aggressive on my part! 
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Are you people doubting Chuck's story of gaining 40 lbs of muscle while only eating bread and water and doing pushups in a Chinese prison? I'm going to email these posts to him and then he's going to track you down and punch you all in the face, because that's what true men do!
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Howard Stern : Chuck Zito :: Dale Gribble : Cotton Hill
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Kelly posted:Chuck Zito is just full of bluster - I'd say we will never know if he is a tough guy. The fact that he talks about it so relentlessly makes me think he's mostly talk. Guys who are all talk tend not to spend 25 years in a motorcycle gang, much less one like the Hell's Angels. Was there exaggeration from him on some things? Probably, but the HA stuff really sticks out. Crotch Bat fucked around with this message at 22:49 on Aug 14, 2011 |
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Crotch Bat posted:Guys who are all talk tend not to spend 25 years in a motorcycle gang, much less one like the Hell's Angels. The list of felonies that guy has probably committed is longer than your arm. I'm sure he was in the Hell's Angles, but really, he is so obviously a bullshitter. When he tells his little stories he always seems to have some sort of witty reply to whomever is in his face. Do any of you really believe he is witty in any way? But I do agree he is a tough guy - just a huge bullshitter I think.
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Aren't the Hell's Angels more of a club than gang in most aspects? The Pagans are very active around here (some family members are involved) and their lower chapter the Tribe and it seems much more of a club aspect than all around gang level activity. Then again I don't know what their MO is these days other than probably drugs.
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Shes Not Impressed posted:Aren't the Hell's Angels more of a club than gang in most aspects? During my "bad boy" phase years ago, I dated a guy in the Breed. It was fun! Kind of like being on vacation - nice to visit, but I wouldn't want to be stuck there.
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Kelly posted:During my "bad boy" phase years ago, I dated a guy in the Breed. It was fun! Kind of like being on vacation - nice to visit, but I wouldn't want to be stuck there. The mailman in my neighborhood was in the Pagans and died during an incident some years ago where they tried to crash a Hell's Angels party with guns and got shot. My dad belonged to some clubs that had a bunch of members, so I sort of grew up around them and really never paid any attention to it. Bad boy phase aka Alcide phase (I think I've seen you post in the TB thread...) Anyway to add related content: I guess it's possible Zito was a thug or something, but he just seems so ridiculous. Like people wouldn't call the cops on this guy if he's going around threatening them all the time?
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Shes Not Impressed posted:
You have indeed seen me in there! And no joke, whenever they show the werewolves and the type of people in the packs, it reminds me of my summer dating that guy. I think what annoys me so much about Chuck Zito is that everyone pretends that he is something special...as if he is still a tough guy. I mean, he's almost 60.
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Has there been any other news on whether or not Artie is actually doing that radio show with Nick Dipaolo? A blurb in the New York Times about the podcast with Joe Materese quotes someone from Fox Sports saying that they weren't interested in Artie. http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/07/22/artie-lange-discusses-a-return-to-radio-and-his-road-to-recovery/ Maybe they just said that since nothing had been signed yet?
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Howard: "Doug didn't you get my email last night? Why didn't you put the pictue on the web site?" Doug: "I was at a birthday party for my son." Howard: "Why didn't you do if after, or this morning?" Doug: "Sorry Howard." Howard: "I never ask you to do anything, and now this one thing you can't do!" Holy poo poo, what a baby. I know he wants the drat picture up but expecting your staff to be ready and willing to bend to your every whim, on a weekend, placing his requests above their family. Sheesh! Hey Howard, some of work to live, not live to work. Speaking of which, doesn't Howard get all bitchy when people tweet at him that he should be working during his time off, yet he can browbeat his staff about their work ethic on their unpaid weekends.
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Qaz Kwaz posted:Goddamn, do you guys nitpick. Gary makes this noise in the morning
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Shes Not Impressed posted:Gary makes this noise in the morning He probably needs some orange juice.
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Howard talking about being at the birthday party with Elton John performing gave me douche chills. What was a even mote disturbing conversation was Robin talking about her car accident over the weekend. Robin was over reacting about the situation like the 34 she is but Howard showed no concern over the story at all. It was a bizarre interaction.
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Kelly posted:Where did the car accident happen? You know it was never mentioned. Howard really had no interest in it and quickly pushed it aside. I was floored since it was the first real interesting thing that had happened in awhile and Howard brushed it aside to talk about his new cat "Leon Bear". I am not even loving kidding. After about 10-15 minutes of that he played Jackie's "How to be a Comedian" videos, which entailed him just playing the audio. There was like no goofing at all on it really. It was just kind of sad.
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What's this about a car accident? I haven't heard anything about it! I must've just missed it, because I heard the boring talk about "Leon Bear" and Jackie's instructions on how to tell a punchline.
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heavy liquid posted:What's this about a car accident? I haven't heard anything about it! Some guy in a truck coming out of a parking lot tried to cut off Robin's SUV. He took the turn too fast, spun out, slammed into her front end, and then drove away. Expect the Little Mickey song about the event by tomorrow morning.
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Listening back to all the Artie vs HPM stuff and it's amazing how all the stuff just piles up and the kid just denies, denies, denies. Artie practically begged him to just come out, saying he'd be accepted by everyone and live a much happier lifestyle.
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Sasquatch! posted:So tired of hearing about what a REAL MANLY MAN Chuck Zito is. Is he for real or is he kind of Dice where he actually somewhat became his character? He just sounds like an rear end in a top hat, not a manly man. All his stories are him looking for trouble, blowing up situations to "scare" people and enjoying being a bully. He's like Howard's super hero alter ego, doing all the stuff he wants to do.
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Howard sounded almost Larry David-esque at that party. As much as hearing about billionaires and their private Elton John concert made me dizzy, Howard's little complaints and nitpicks always make me laugh because I'm the same way. He's wealthy enough to be a social assassin, although it seems like the more money Howard earned the less he was inclined to hold a funeral for lovely DJs.
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I ran into Chuck Zito at the Rainbow Room on Sunset 5 or 6 years ago, he definitely had a tough-guy attitude and was certainly intimidating enough, but it looked like he was playing a Hollywood role straight from Central Casting. I have no doubt he is/was a toughguy, but I also think he's definitely embellished his story to make it more interesting. I walked past him on my way to the toilets and said "Hey Chuck, big fan - keep up the good work on Oz...where you play yourself as a character" and he said "Hey thanks man" and scowled and went back to chatting up the porn blonde he was talking to. I got the gently caress out of there before he started swapping spits though.
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