Okay, this is not something I thought I would discuss on my complaint blog, but when I was driving home from work I got pissed off about the latest goings on regarding Howard Stern.
I am not a person you would think would be a Howard Stern listener, I work in a very conservative place, I have been married for 11 years, have a son in kindergarten and am more innocent than most, with that said I am a HUGE and I mean HUGE Howard Stern fan. I have been listening to Howard Stern for about 10 years and I really have to admit I am addicted to the show, some people need Starbucks to start their day, I need to listen to Stern. All of my friends and even some of my family who know my personality and how I conduct myself find the above statement pretty shocking. I started listening to Stern because I really think he is a great interviewer when it comes to stars. He asks the real hard hitting questions that other talk show hosts would be way to afraid to even dare ask, but he does it in a way, where I really believe allows the celebrities to feel at home and relax. I drive an hour each way to work and listening to the Howard Stern Show makes my commute bareable, I love Artie, he is such a great addition to the show and a thousand times better than Jackie, and of course I have always loved Robin and Fred.
Some of the things that supposedly people have been saying are more rumor and innuendo designed to make Howard Stern say their name on his show and feed their ego. The only way they can even get face time on television is by bashing Howard Stern, saying things that are lies. Any person who has any common sense at all realizes they are just jealous of Howard Stern's fame and talent, and they want to ruin his success. I don't really understand this at all, his success has never been based on what the main stream media thinks or says about him, he is successful, whether he realizes it or not, because he is TALENTED, down to earth, surrounds himself with a crew that is also talented and last but not least makes his fans laugh out loud.
I will tell you this, with the recent five year anniversary of September 11, 2001, there is not one show you can watch, that is more poignant, will make you cry harder and get you mad all over again at the terrorists that flew those planes, than the Howard Stern rebroadcast of that day. Who the hell do these people think they are when they talk about his fans. I remember during this horrible time in our country, Stern fans raised quite a lot of money for the New York firefighters and the families they left behind, yes we did this because it was the right thing to do but we did it through his show as opposed to anywhere else because Howard asked us to and we, his loyal fans trust him. There is no more fitting praise that I can give to Stern, than the fact that NY firefighters and police love Howard Stern, if he is good enough for these people that put their lives on the line everyday for us, than he is good enough for me. Not only that, do you have any idea how many soldiers call into his show or say they are so happy when they can listen to his show, because it makes them laugh and forget about the war they are fighting for our country. They respect Howard Stern and he respects them because they both fight for freedom.
It infuriates me when they say Howard Stern fans are all men, basically stupid, never went to college and are really lazy~funny last time I checked I graduated from college, am definitely female, work a full time job and have a small chocolate business. Yes, there are times when I find his show a little to raunchy for my taste, like when women ride the sybian, but like anything else I don't want to listen to or watch, IMAGINE THIS, I just change the station, I don't write a letter to my congressman.
Thanks to Sirius Satellite, I now have a choice of hundreds of other stations to listen to without all that morning filler that is on terrestial radio. One other point I would like to refute is about all these statistics regarding Howard Stern's website and how his name and his website are not getting many hits. This is ridiculous, the only hits it probably gets are from people that don't have Sirius Satellite and can't listen to Stern. Unlike other super stars, that lie to their fans, have their publicists come out and say "how this is not true and that is not true" and then a week later we all come to find out everything they have denied was true. HOWARD STERN FANS don't have to click on a website to get information about Howard Stern and his life, because if you listen to the show, he tells us, his audience everything and then some on any topic we could possibly want to find out about, and we get our information right from the proverbial horse's mouth. I bought my Sirius Satellite radio a few weeks before Howard was starting the show, I did not bother having someone install it until the day before, because I really only bought it for him, I did not want to miss one minute of the new show. However, I quickly began to love my Sirius Satellite for all of the other channels as well. I can't live without having cable television and now I can't imagine not having Sirius Satellite. My car was in the shop for 3 days a few months ago, so I had to drive my husband's car without Sirius Satellite and Stern and I thought I would go crazy.
Anyway, long rant, but I love Stern, love my Sirius Satellite and would challange anyone out there to buy a Sirius Satellite, use it for a month and then try to live without it for a few days,
IT CAN'T BE DONE I TELL YOU, IT JUST CAN'T BE DONE!!!
