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chiz posted:Jesus, from scoring hookers offa Howard to begging for free movie tickets of the internet. This is why I think Eric the Midget isn't as cunning as we give him credit for. He might be setting up for another appearance on Stern's show, but if he was actually a good panhandler, he might still be getting his daily calls in. Keep in mind this little turd has an 89 IQ and has pretty much alienated everybody in his life through his behavior. Think about it: a few years ago he had a way into the Bunny Ranch for sex, he had Fratto promoting him, he had his own makeshift show that was getting hits, and he was a daily fixture on Stern's show and the fascination of Stern himself. With a little knowledge of how the adult mind works, the Midget could have spun this into something good. He wouldn't have made that much, but the fact that he could have gotten an honest acting career filling a niche and had close to a normal life was all negated by his personality flaws. Namely, that he has no idea how to be an adult or how to handle any sort of criticism at all. Think about how he hosed up everything: he demanded his own way to the letter. He kept backing out of promises under completely fictional excuses. His entitlement is off the charts and the only reason he's still in the public eye right now is because he thinks he's being harassed. Eric the Midget, nearing middle-age, is a squatter version of a six year old boy throwing a tantrum in a Toys R Us. The only difference is that instead of having a parental figure to deal with it, it's a crowd of people trying to equate the proud dignity of most disabled people with the childish begging of a spoiled child and unable to separate pity from sheer disbelief. I honestly believe the day before he dies will be that moment when he realizes all of his 'fame' isn't admiration, but the fact that we're all in awe of what sort of freak he is both physically and emotionally. When he learns the world is laughing at him and can see right through him, his heart will give out. Seriously, this misshapen man who got incredibly lucky through a phone call will have a fatal heart attack when he matures to a middle-school level. That's how sad this whole thing is. Honestly, there is no plan here. Eric the Midget should be Charity Case the Midget. There is no cunning mastermind trapped in a twisted body. He's just a pathetic young adolescent who has had the longest and luckiest childhood ever, and still refuses to grow up.
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heavy liquid posted:I think he just can't be bothered. He mentioned a couple weeks ago when he was talking about finding a replacement for Bubba how he hates it when they bring him a bunch of tapes to listen to. This isn't really that new. He's been coasting ever since the merger. The only problem now is Artie isn't there to cover up the holes in each show.
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Graviton v2 posted:Norm wouldnt work, hes to strong a personality, he would gently caress Howards ego up. Plus Norm just doesn't give a poo poo. Keep in mind he's probably on Howard's bad sign after the whole 'he's enabling Artie a lot' line MacDonald threw out in 2009, shortly before Artie's possible firing and suicide attempt.
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Mr Lance Murdock posted:I honestly think one of the goals that is hopefully helping Artie's recovery is his desire to get back on the show. He clearly cant do the road anymore and its going to be hard for movies and tv to take a chance on him. Artie can do the road. He would probably prefer it since the show meant he had to get up early each day. The man's a night owl and parties hard, that's hard to change. If anything, he could fall on his feet if he did a radio show on his own maybe once a week or something. He's already shown he can do radio without a loving problem.
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Former Human posted:Hey Gar, it's Art *cough* I'm not coming in today.... Throw him on from 11-3pm and you won't have a problem. gently caress, throw him on during overnights and you'll have concentrated awesome.
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Crotch Bat posted:Oh please. His mom is now freaking out about this? The Midget's been getting slammed for YEARS on this. Now his mom cares? Get Shuli to interview his parents for air. Seriously. I want to see what these people are like. $5 says the most stressful thing in their life is their son, and that was even before he got on the show. -Atom- posted:The 'Eric the Midget is dead' thing is genius and I salute SFN for running in into the ground. They're really good at it. They might be assholes for the most part, but they're doing a good job with this. It's been going for a few months at this point. MoreMetalBrian posted:I think he would have to prove that the rumors negatively effected him from getting work, by contrasting the "pay" he was getting before the rumors, with what he's making now. Which, in either case, is a giant 0.0 The lawsuit wouldn't get beyond that point. "I have-n't got-ten any jobs si-nce this beg-a-n!" "Okay, how has it affected your income? Can you show me your records for the last few years compared to now?" I'm sure that'll go over well with SSI.
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KKKLIP ART posted:I love everything about this. Even his goatee, which on most people makes you look like a tool, I think it makes him look pretty ok. Also It's pretty awesome. It's about time someone started mocking the poo poo out of the midget.
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Kragger99 posted:Should be interesting how the little poo poo backs out of this challenge... I'll agree with this. I came for Artie, and I only hang around to see if something interesting happens that breaks into the sphere of ignorance they create around them. That, and for the inevitable moment when Eric the Midget has a heart attack on the phone and loudly shits his pants.
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BooDaa posted:@Eric The Actor posted: "My tw-o appearances on T-V have made me the ul-timate cri-ti-c!"
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Butthole Prince posted:YES!! burmart posted:Unfortunately, that's not his real twitter. His real twitter is restricted. When I read the one that said he preferred Chuck E. Cheese to Dave and Busters due to better entertainment at Chuck E. Cheese, I got suspicious. Strangely enough, it would be something he would say. -Atom- posted:
Fred eats at his desk and drops everything to play sound clips, it seems.
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Manwithastick posted:Welp, ETM has responded to JD's challenge to be an actor by deleting all of his Youtube videos, his page just shows the TNA eliminate the hate video Manwithastick posted:I disagree, the best outcome would to see him do the Godfather Monologue thinking he is awesome and being proved otherwise Exactly. The Midget trying to act would have been awesome. Instead, we get nothing. The Midget has probably already started calling in so he can be outraged on the show and get the attention he wants. It's so loving tired at this point. He should just go away for a few months, he's just flaming out. -Atom- posted:Opie and Anthony is pretty good when they have a swarm of comedians sitting in. But in reality, the two shows are very different and it doesn't make sense to compare the two. This is true. I just got heavily into O&A and Ron and Fez and the shows are vastly different. It's pointless to compare.
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Priapist posted:Did something happen to the Carolla-Sirius deal? First it was "delayed for technical reasons", then at the end of today's podcast Adam went on a brief rant about those "assfuck clowns" at Sirius XM. It was in reference to their 80s channel, but even Adam has enough self-control to know that's a bad move if you just signed a deal. I wonder if it fell through already. It would be epic if it did. AxeManiac posted:When Howard thinks of BLACK MEN he probably thinks of the kids in his school, violent and mean, hulking monsters and the idea of them ravaging his Beth is too much for him. You hear him all the time dropping hints, he hates to hear anything about Beth not being an fresh flower for him to pick. Haven't we gotten a few more hints that the bloom is off the rose? I thought Howard did a weird thing where he dumped out something he let loose on the air about a therapy session that bought up Beth for some reason. In either case, it must be interesting to be a worker at Sirius right now.
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picosecond posted:I don't think he's a racist either, at least not in the strict sense of the word (seeing certain other ethnic/social groups as being inferior, or so fundamentally different that they can't be related to). I just think he's a product of his times. As a guy who's pushing 60, he's got an outlook that people born in later decades can't really process, because it's rooted in ideas on race & society that most of us consider outdated now. Hence the apparent preoccupation with white dudes banging black chicks -- he probably doesn't hate black dudes, or white chicks who bang black dudes, but he was raised at a time when that was a big no-no and I imagine some of that attitude is still in him somewhere. Yeah, but the way he gets about the black men/white women thing shows a base racial issue that is hidden in the fetish. Stern loves degrading women, and sees white women sleeping with black guys as degrading. Plus, the idea of black men having enormous penises is always bought up in that context as well. It could be a reaction to the norms of the '50s that created the fetish, but at the root of it is a racial stereotype. Howard isn't a Klan member, but there's a lot of shades of gray in racism and having a sexual fetish based in it is quite disturbing. chiz posted:One thing is for certain though, apart from the racial thing, that woman destroyed him. She's the reason he's in therapy and the undeniable pinpoint source for ALL of his neuroses. At this point he should shoulder some of the blame. It's hard as hell to erase neuroses and deal with them, but his fortune has insured that he will never get real help for them. He's going to pick and choose therapists and use the old 'give me a pill for it' standby and never confront those issues. If he was a regular joe, he probably could make some headway. Given his fame and fortune, he's never going to have a fulfilling life where his problems are actually dealt with.
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Manwithastick posted:ETM Update NOW he's dead. See? He died a few months back and they're covering it up.
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Kelly posted:On TWUS, Gary said he didn't know what he was talking about and also wasn't sure if he has kidding. I thought he was kidding...or making light of how easy it was. As in, it was so easy that even he could do it. The only viral videos Howard could make would involve him not knowing how to use his phone, then accidentally uploading them. That's what threw Booey. Oh, and catch out this screengrab from the Midget's spare account. He hates being outsmarted: 
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Manwithastick posted:I was looking at the SFN site and I saw this: "Oh God, why, Eric? Why did you have to come out of the lakehouse??" "B-ut mo-M--" "But nothing! And nude pics? WHORES?? You're extorting money from a radio show, you rear end!!" "--I c-an e-xpl-a-in--" Yeah, it was the dead midget stuff. Sure.
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burmart posted:Old people discussing the internet at 7:48. It's painful to listen to. heavy liquid posted:Does anyone really believe that Howard was laughing all the way through the trailer of Big Momma 3 and can't wait to see the movie? TheLakers posted:Howard's sounding nervous as gently caress talking about Charlie Sheen's drug problems interfering with his work. Just wow. Somewhere in an alternate reality, Howard Stern is taking time after the show to write a Twitter, check his Facebook, and take his iPhone off the charger so he can film his way out of the studio. Once he gets past his fans, he updates his YouTube account and then goes home to do a special 'Live From Trump Tower' special where he just talks about himself and takes callers unfiltered while talking about his passions in life. This year? He's bunching his holidays together so he can tour the whole of South America. That must be a fun dimension.
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Ether Frenzy posted:Ah, Howard "Socialism is BULLSHIT!!!!" Stern ranting about the inequities of the NFL and how the salary cap should be abolished. Nothing beats this for radio gold. I think Howard should just go balls to the wall and drop the passive-aggressiveness. Seriously, if he's got a beef with his contract, air it. loving call out Sirius for their bullshit and pay cuts. gently caress, what are they doing to do? Fire him? Sue him? Sirius doesn't give a poo poo about the show outside of it runs for the allotted time, so gently caress it. Flushing the show down the toilet doesn't hurt Sirius in the least and Howard should grasp that.
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Vakal posted:On the WUS yesterday, someone called in asking why there haven't been any contests or phone games lately. Bolded for making me laugh. Say, when do we get word about Howard's contract? -Atom- posted:I hope they're gone for good, it's so annoying to hear the callers beg for money. Say goodbye to the Wack Pack. I know ETM would call in regardless, but without money nobody is going to really bother anymore. No more freaks except the ones in studio. heavy liquid posted:Hey, they HAVE to do all those commercials! Those incredibly hard four hour shows. They have to wake up early for those, you know. All four days a week currently. Smeep posted:Talking of which, Charlie Sheen is apparently on the Artie Lange - Hire A Couple of Guys To Watch Me rehab plan: This would rock if Artie was still on the show, drugged to the gills. He would be defending Sheen to the hilt.
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Chimneyfish posted:What do you mean? Divine is looking good for being dead for decades. POCKET CHOMP posted:That's really weird, cause I came here to post a screencap of Robin's hair from Vegucating Robin and it turns out someone beat me to the punch. Oh well, I'll attach what I had anyways, may take a moment for it to appear thanks to the weirdo attachments on SA. Howard's been stealing her hair for decades. That's why he keeps her on! qbert posted:Yeah whatever her diet is, it's terrible. You're telling me you're running several miles on a regular basis, eating nothing but vegetable and "green drink", and you still look like THAT? Her definition of 'vegetables' means 'green root covered in cheese whiz.' And green drink is nothing but high fructose corn syrup with green dye in it. Each bottle is 450% of your normal daily carbohydrate content.
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chiz posted:Have you seen the pictures posted of that scalp? Try to imagine what it looks like without the dreads. Alkaphanel posted:He was in full Hughes mode this morning. Did you hear the meeting he had at his apartment last night? He railed on Gary for about 10 minutes about coughing. Gary claimed that it was a wheat thin caught in his throat, but Howard insisted "You're sick! There was phlegm! And Germs! I'm never having anyone over in my office again!" He's going to be spraying everybody down with Lysol in a few months. Just wait. chiz posted:ugh I know. Plus he's got that worthless, talentless barbie doll who will divorce him soon. She will. I actually feel bad for Beth now. You went in thinking that she would just have to sex the old fucker up every so often to keep the money train, and now she has to live with the rear end in a top hat in the plastic bubble. No wonder she loving runs out of the house. Can you imagine Stern bitching every single moment about being clean, then asking her why she won't lick his rear end? therapy posted:"Fruit? That's just SUGAR!" And there's no fiber in it at all. Or vitamins, nutrients. Just a bunch of calories and sugar. No benefit to humanity at all! Kelly posted:I was actually yelling at the radio as that went down. I wish they called her out more, though at this point the risk versus the reward skews too far in the former's favor for them to do so. She loses her mind in a split second when she gets angry - there's no build up, it's just full on 34 outta nowhere. Plus she might walk out again and they could have to deal with her prima donna attitude. Seriously, when did the studio people become the Wack Pack?
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AltronHGX posted:I just read George's first page of tweets and I got about halfway through when I noticed I was reading them all in George's voice "Ha hahaha!" Has there been any word if George or Gilbert are ever coming back in?
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Mr Lance Murdock posted:Ya I have a few other things to add to the OP as well. "Hey, I got Carolla interested in broadcasting his popular podcast! How much should we pay?" "Pay? He should be grateful for the boost that we give him!" They pay Riley more than Adam Carolla. Holy poo poo.
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Skitz posted:-Here is a list of all the Twitter accounts posted thus far. Notable omissions: Mad Doctor Cthulhu and...uh...actually just the Mad Dr. Come on now! I need your crazy conspiracy theories tweeted at me on a regular basis, dude! You think I can be limited to 140 characters for my conspiracy theories? But seriously, I have nothing to Twitter about. I'm glad Howard found himself on it, but I'm too loving verbose.
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Kelly posted:...and this is as true as when she is on Twitter, or on the show, or in her living room, etc etc. I like to think that her hair is a good sign of her madness. I can see her hassling her hairdresser, saying that she wants the dreads tighter and tighter and just speaking over her stylist until, one day, the stylist does exactly as she wants. And snickering when she sees Robin, bravely trying to pull off the Pickles look.
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Kelly posted:This is absolutely what I think probably happened with her hair. The stylish knows it's no good, but you know how that goes....gotta give the client what she wants! On the bright side, this means any wig that she'll get will probably be atrocious.
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sedative posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Mtbk6XeHIY Artie's infectious laughter is there too. It is a beautiful moment.
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Smeep posted:I think we can all agree that anyone who is or has ever been on the show is a loving mess of a human. I'd argue Gilbert Gottfried. Sure, this is the man who tells the best Aristocrats joke, but he was hosed up long before the show. As for George, he's dealt with actual pain in his life. This show is nothing compared to being gay and nonwhite in this country midway in the twentieth century. I'd change the thesis to 'this show can mess you up if you were predisposed to wanting to be normal.'
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dvgrhl posted:I really, really miss THIS Howard Stern show. Me too. Now I'm sad. This was just condensed awesome.
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therapy posted:Sirius/XM is making the calls on people who haven't paid - a friend of mine just got a call from XM saying that he owes them over $300 for payments on a radio he hasn't owned in three years. He told them he wouldn't pay the $300 as he didn't own the stereo any more, but he'd gladly re-up his yearly subscription for the XM radio he DID have installed in his car. Bright side? The Consumerist will grab a week's worth of articles with that.
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Bonzo posted:I don't know how Sirius would spin this, but my former company's thought was this: There's a world of difference between utilities and satellite radio. Plus, utilities would shut off service if you stopped paying. Sirius just can't be bothered to do their job and expect people to pay for it.
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Djarum posted:If that is true then that is a real scummy practice. I am honestly going to be surprised if they are going to make it until the end of the year at this rate. They were having money problems before and I imagine that things are just going to get worse for them. The first quarter profit report is going to be real telling and I got a feeling some people are going to be forced out of jobs. The name I keep hearing is Scott Greenstein. Just curious: is it common for contracted talent to be paid in full if the business goes under? Because if Howard knew that Sirius was on shaky ground, signing up for a number of years could be a way to get enough money out of them that he's sure to get before they sink. I doubt they'll go to poo poo this year, but it really looks like they're in the death throes and are just about to start sinking quick. The only thing left to look for is rapid management changes and consolidation of positions. If this is all true, at least Howard can look forward to one thing: that he managed to get a lot of money out of them before it ended.
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sedative posted:It's the season finale of That's all I can see now. It's like she's playing a joke on people by scotchtaping random dreads to her scalp and waiting how long it takes before people call her out on it.
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ChubbyEmoBabe posted:With beetle he put a hole in the bottom of a chicken bucket so beetle would grab it, with ron jeremy he was chasing some girl around he didn't know with his dick out because ron jeremy was doing it (ron knew the girl) and later tried to put his dick on ron jeremys head in a picture. What's the over/under on Sal getting fired by Sirius? Seriously, this is all basic sexual assault and someday he's going to get canned for it. The only really shocking thing is how he'll eventually take his own life shortly after. As for Breuer, I don't think he'll take the job. I went to a show of his a year ago and he had video of him taking care of his dad as he slips into dementia.
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lynch_69 posted:As much as I like Kevin Smith this is largely true. Howard's show, for all its edgy humour, is geared towards a fairly mainstream American audience. It's no accident that they discuss Lindsay Lohan, reality TV shows, those horrible dancing and singing talent shows so much on the Howard Stern Show. It was better when Artie or even Jackie was on to needle and poke fun at Howard, but that element is gone and the overall show suffers. I think this is the problem that Howard's show faces: it has lost all sense of identity. While all radio shows have to touch on popular culture for material (it would be impossible just to do a show on the stuff you like all the time), the edgy humor combined with the mainstream appeal creates an odd beast. How edgy can you be if you're appealing to a mainstream audience? Especially when the show during its heyday was posed as something outside of the norm?
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Alkaphanel posted:But to all the people saying Kevin Smith isn't relevant, I'd almost make the argument that he's a better fit for the "King of all Modern Media" title that Howard professes himself to be. Actually, one thing I took from this was that both men peaked in the '90s and have never, ever gotten over it. Yeah, they've had a few hits here and there, but for the most part they're in the same boat: their biggest successes seem to behind them, they want but aren't able to transgress what they were (Stern with radio, Smith with films about directionless twentysomethings), and both have a affinity for toilet humor that is unparalleled but unable to really grow. You would think they would have more things in common since they're both huge geeks.
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