I haven't listened in years but the new car has Sirius in it. It's not bad listening to old replays for me because I've been out of the loop for a while but is this guy ever on the air anymore? Even the weeks when he is in, it only seems like two days or so. What a sweet gig.

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Yeah, he's only on air 3 days a week. He always seems to take vacation the week of, and the week before or after, a holiday.

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I stopped listening everyday about three years ago, now I don't listen at all. I got bored hearing about his dinners, vacations, how awesome his wife is (she is so perfect, that she doesn't even shit), his Long Island red carpet affairs, and animal charities. The guy who got a purebred English Bulldog from a breeder, tells others to adopt. The guy whose wife had the dog professionally trained, wrote a book on how to train your dog. I got sick of his constant taint licking of celebrities, which he thinks will make his super talented wife a big star. He works three days a week when he works, and some of the shows are pre-recorded. He used to say that radio guys had to work five days a week, be on at the same time, and be honest, as a way to connect with the audience. He now has somebody, I forgot her name, to sanitize the show, so he doesn't offend anybody. He still insists that his hair is completely natural.

At his 60th birthday party, He was kissing Lena Dunham's ass on stage, while Gilbert Gottfried (long time friend of the show, and one of the best guests ever), could barely get in the building. He still thinks he is the rebel he once was, but the truth is, he has become what he used to mock. I bought the hype when he made the move to Sirius, but I was duped. I can't believe they signed him to another five year deal.

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I don't listen much but I had it in the car for a cross country trip...12 hours and it seemed like it was entirely interviews with Chelsey Handler, Amy Schumer, Lena Dunham types

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Although if DiCaro took the kind of abuse that Stern's wife takes she'd be for real suicidal. Someone needs to create a Julie Fan Page.

https://bethfanpage.blogspot.com/

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Yeah, I'm kind of over it, too. Some of the interviews are still great, except that now when he gets a rather big-name, first time guest, he goes into career retrospective mode, which eats up a lot of fucking time from getting to the good stuff.

I guess you can say that the show has evolved and matured - I mean, it would be silly to expect a 60+ year-old guy to be doing the same brash stuff he was doing 25 years ago, but then again ever since Tim Sabean was bus-tossed and Marci Turk took over as the behind-the-scenes show "advisor", things have gone really downhill. It was also after she took over that certain guests were quietly banned (Gilbert), all of the news people were let go, etc., and steered toward more PC-correctness, when his show was the antithesis for so long.

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http://chicagofanatics.com/viewtopic.php?f=66&t=51742

i do agree with a lot of what chus said but i admit i still find a lot of it entertaining enough.

my biggest pet peeves are:

1) loaded guest weeks. usually about 4-6 of them in 3 days, and a lot of them aren't interesting to me.
2) the interviewing style with "first-timers" who are big celebrities. he definitely has a "method" that includes asking the same goddamn questions in the same way ("what about that 'lincoln' guy who acts like lincoln throughout the whole shoot?", "you know you don't want to be elliott gould, who threw away his career because no one wanted to work with him")...and he now has a catch-phrase to wrap it up..."you said it all".
3) the prank calls. internet podcasts are obviously shitty, and they target them all the time.
4) Bobo and Maryann from Brooklyn. holy shit.

Still love Ronnie, the parody songs, and whenever Wolfie does interviews at weird cons. and i am a fan of "hit 'em with the hein".

but yes, HS is no longer the lovable rebel he once was--but you can pretty much always catch old stuff on there that reminds you of what he once was and it's pretty great.

a lot of classic artie stuff this past week. artie vs. sal was probably one of the best hours of radio ever.

The same thing could be said of Dahl.

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