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EATIN SHRIMP posted:What was the reason for Bubbas downfall? Did his ratings just start falling as his type of show got old or what? Never really listened much just watched Hogan bang his wife Not sure if it was one thing in particular, but he lost most all of the crew that was with him during the great run in 2007-2010. Spice, 25 Cent, Big Dick, and Dave Rice all left. Then eventually Brent left I believe. Part of the reason that Stern fans got into Bubba was because of the way he interacted with the circle of guys he had there.
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Brent leaving was actually a good thing because I think that guy was about to go postal. Listen to the show when they got him drunk on whiskey. The guys has/had serious PTSD from his military career or just life in general. EATIN SHRIMP posted:What was the reason for Bubbas downfall? Did his ratings just start falling as his type of show got old or what? Never really listened much just watched Hogan bang his wife Bubba claims the Sirius execs had it in for him pretty early one stemming from a law suit by one of this guests. He had some porn star in and was doing what most shock jocks do with a porn star during a show. For some reason she decided to sue Sirius for the way she was treated. Bubba told him to ignore her because she was just using drama to stir up the pot and get something for it. They settled out of court and Bubba had to pay back Sirius out of his pocket. As his contract got closer and closer to expiring, Sirius had still not talked about renewing. During this time Bubba built his own studio so that he could broadcast the show on Sirius or FM. He singed a deal with some local FM stations and also renewed with Sirius. The guys did a morning show 6am-10am on FM and then a Sirius show from 3pm-6pm Monday - Thursday and a live Sirius show on Fridays from noon to 3pm. That lasted about a year until he and Sirius just decided not to renew. Bubba claims that they offered him very little money considering his guys were working 18 hour days doing two shows 4 days a week. Tim Sabean got a lot of heat from fans over this.
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Jul 31, 2015 18:36
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Bonzo posted:Tim Sabean got a lot of heat from fans over this. If it was created by man, we can solve it by man!
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Sand Monster posted:If it was created by man, we can solve it by man! I don't remember hearing him say that, but I do remember Richard pretending to be Tim while saying that, after that bathroom making GBS threads incident 
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Jul 31, 2015 19:21
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Howard hyping the channels before his move to Sirius and what we have now has been the epitome of  "They're going to give me two whole channels to program, Robin!"It started off so promising with the goal of giving random wack packers, staffers, and exiled terrestrial radio folks a new home. During the soft launch they had a show with Howard's parents answering fan questions and a 24 hour feed of Wendy the Retard doing random poo poo to give a taste of what the channels would be like, which ended up being a bit of bait and switch IMO. To be fair, there's been a slew of good shows in the past like Back Office Radio, Geek Time, Black on Black, but those have all fallen to the wayside. I think things have become so much worse with the new PD, they even cancelled the Harry Fisch show, only old dogs like Fitzsimmons and Jay Thomas have stuck around, Riley is the only wack packer there (and who knows how long that will last with his health), and the WUS reformatting has been harrible.
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Jul 31, 2015 19:39
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:I know, I know, Family Guy and all, but this is relevant. That's still way more high brow than like, 99% of morning zoo shows.
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Bonzo posted:Brent leaving was actually a good thing because I think that guy was about to go postal. Listen to the show when they got him drunk on whiskey. The guys has/had serious PTSD from his military career or just life in general. Oh man, this brings back memories. I remember that Howard was hinting at Bubba to not build this giant studio right before Sirius made their low offer, and Bubba was so angry that he burnt the bridge with Sirius and went off to that failed RadioIO thing that was basically revealed to be some scam on Bubba's fans. I remember listening to the first day of it and all the truckers bitching about having to get a data plan for their phones and....yeah, it was just nuts.
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Jul 31, 2015 20:43
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Whatever happened to Tim Sabean?
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Jul 31, 2015 21:54
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Lateral move to sort out the Opie and Anthony show, then shortly fired and replaced with a new PD.
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Wow, bit of a whimper end to a pretty long, successful radio career. Did they ever say why he left Howard?
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I think the only mention of it was Jerry O'Connell of all people once calling in and saying he heard a disturbing rumor that he left the show for Opie and Anthony. But Howard explained that Tim was a Sirius employee and that's where he was needed apparently. Don't think they've ever mentioned Tim actually leaving Sirius on air, I just remember Howard talking about a new program director all of a sudden.
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Smeep posted:Wow, bit of a whimper end to a pretty long, successful radio career. Did they ever say why he left Howard? I think there was a rumor that Howard hired an efficiency expert. She came in and observed everyone and told Howard that Tim wasn't necessary. I don't know why he left OandA but he wasn't there very long.
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prefect posted:I enjoyed the Bubba-Spiceboy relationship. It might have all been an act, but it really seemed like Spice could get under Bubba's skin so well. They had good fighting chemistry; Spice would poke one teeny little sensitive spot and the Bubba would flip his lid. He really got under Bubba's skin by stealing and selling that sex tape. Allegedly.
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I read a few somewhat credible theories that Tim may have had a cocaine problem and that was a factor in him essentially leaving the industry. It would explain the hyped up demeanor, nonsensical speech and constant making GBS threads problems. Then again he was a fat piece of poo poo so who knows.
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moot the hopple posted:Howard hyping the channels before his move to Sirius and what we have now has been the epitome of Most of those projects floundered the second anyone asked for money, little did anyone know that Howard was using the "Free Labor or Plugs" business model.
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Two Kings posted:I think there was a rumor that Howard hired an efficiency expert. She came in and observed everyone and told Howard that Tim wasn't necessary. I don't know why he left OandA but he wasn't there very long. 90% of Howard's staff isn't necessary and he's never fired anyone ever, there's no way he'd tell Tim to hit the road. The only thing that gets you permanent separation from the show is doing legal things to Howard & Co.(see: Elliot Offen, Chaunce, Crazy Cabbie, etc.)
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Two Kings posted:I think there was a rumor that Howard hired an efficiency expert. She came in and observed everyone and told Howard that Tim wasn't necessary. I don't know why he left OandA but he wasn't there very long. Her name is Marci Turk and I think shes still there.
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Crotch Bat posted:The only thing that gets you permanent separation from the show is doing legal things to Howard & Co.(see: Elliot Offen, Chaunce, Crazy Cabbie, etc.) or spitting on cupcakes
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DeadBonesBrook posted:Most of those projects floundered the second anyone asked for money, little did anyone know that Howard was using the "Free Labor or Plugs" business model. Yeah that's true, though Back Office Radio got the kibosh because it was predictably causing ill feelings at work and Geek Time was a victim of Ralph's chronic laziness.
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moot the hopple posted:Geek Time was a victim of Ralph's chronic laziness. I don't buy that for a second. Geek Time was starting to get better guests then the Stern show (in part because they could get an rear end in a top hat lathering that Howard would never give), so Howard axed it.
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Squashy Nipples posted:I don't buy that for a second. Geek Time was starting to get better guests then the Stern show (in part because they could get an rear end in a top hat lathering that Howard would never give), so Howard axed it. I looked forward to Geek Time for two reasons: 1) They had good interesting guests. 2) Their complete inability to understand any type of technology. It was glorious.
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I thought it was great when Gary said the iPad would be a flop....instead it created a whole new product category.
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kylej posted:I read a few somewhat credible theories that Tim may have had a cocaine problem and that was a factor in him essentially leaving the industry. It would explain the hyped up demeanor, nonsensical speech and constant making GBS threads problems. Then again he was a fat piece of poo poo so who knows. I don't think the O&A assignment was something he wanted. The only thing with them that he tried to do was the 'media destination' madness before he left. In fact, the only thing he really did with anything was help Ron & Fez move to Raw Dog so they could try to revamp the show and bring Fez out of his funk. The big Fez meltdown in late 2013 was based around a dinner Tim, Ron, Fez, and Chris Stanley had at the Friar's Club. I'm guessing Tim was on his way out and they wanted to see if they could make him fix some problems that nobody with a career in mind wanted to deal with.
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Mad Doctor Cthulhu posted:The big Fez meltdown in late 2013 was based around a dinner Tim, Ron, Fez, and Chris Stanley had at the Friar's Club. To be fair to Fez, there were spices on his steak.
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kylej posted:I read a few somewhat credible theories that Tim may have had a cocaine problem and that was a factor in him essentially leaving the industry. It would explain the hyped up demeanor, nonsensical speech and constant making GBS threads problems. Then again he was a fat piece of poo poo so who knows. Bubba had a 2 hour video of his wedding showing all the NY people down in Florida hanging out with them. Its common knowledge that a few of the BTLS crew liked to wrap the toots and many of the NY crew looked like they had just done a line with them...Tim included.
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kylej posted:I read a few somewhat credible theories that Tim may have had a cocaine problem and that was a factor in him essentially leaving the industry. It would explain the hyped up demeanor, nonsensical speech and constant making GBS threads problems. Then again he was a fat piece of poo poo so who knows. Cookies are my weakness.
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Aug 1, 2015 15:17
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Didn't TIm get divorced and then went on Robin's "diet" and lost a ton of weight?
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Bonzo posted:Didn't TIm get divorced and then went on Robin's "diet" and lost a ton of weight? Then gained it back. Then lost it. Then gained it back. Then lost it. Then gained it back.
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I remember Sal being in the studio once with Tim, while Howard and everyone was doing their thing making fun of Sal for not producing content and Howard was telling him he shouldn't be doing road gigs and partying all the time. Sal swung it to Tim and said "well I know how Tim likes to party all the time, ha-ha" which got immediately shut up and ended the whole bit. So I believe the coke problem thing.
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I just saw this posted ona Stern FB group. I haven't got to watch it yet http://comediansincarsgettingcoffee.com/howard-stern-the-last-days-of-howard-stern
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Jose Oquendo posted:I thought it was great when Gary said the iPad would be a flop....instead it created a whole new product category. especially considering he tried to be some kind of gadget expert
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Techno beaver was pretty funny, though.
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With all this talk of Tim, let's not forget his evil assistant Jared: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXJb6pL9pHM
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GobiasIndustries posted:With all this talk of Tim, let's not forget his evil assistant Jared: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXJb6pL9pHM That was the best edit: "Tim's assistant Jared took us wilding in Central Park." Smeep fucked around with this message at 01:25 on Aug 3, 2015 |
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The "living under the tyranny of red sun of Krypton" makes me lose it every time.
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Evil Agita posted:So I believe the coke problem thing. After reflecting on all of the evidence presented here, I do too. Man was a goddamn fiend.
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GobiasIndustries posted:With all this talk of Tim, let's not forget his evil assistant Jared: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXJb6pL9pHM This was a good and funny thing that I had forgotten about. Thanks. 
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Tim must have been doing some hosed up things behind the scenes if he got fired dude to coke, considering Artie used to show up high on the air and would fall asleep during the show.
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DeadBonesBrook posted:Tim must have been doing some hosed up things behind the scenes if he got fired dude to coke, considering Artie used to show up high on the air and would fall asleep during the show. Artie was on-air talent; much, much more important to the show's success. If Stuttering John hadn't been valuable for on-air hijinks, he wouldn't have lasted very long at all.
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