I try to preach tolerance to my audience. But if you read my books or listen to my old raps, I sound insane. I think maybe you just got caught up in your answer, but you punted on the racial part of that question.
Do you feel like you ever crossed lines about race? No, I never felt that way. I always felt that my commentary was valuable because of my unique upbringing. I grew up with the greatest hypocrisy a human being can ever see. I grew up in Roosevelt, Long Island. And that hypocrisy was my impetus. If I was going to be truthful on the air and talk about stuff that I knew, race would have to be included.
Nothing was more startling in my young life than to see white people flee in the middle of the night, the same people who would tell me you have to love your black brothers. Were you ever aware of whether you were pandering when you talked about social issues? Listen, I believed that my career would end at any minute. I thought I was letting out my id. That was my approach, and let me tell you, some of that was damaging in my personal life.
In my life now, I have a comfortable balance between doing a good radio show and being able to live with myself. Mike Pence pissed me off when I was reading about his thing with Pete Buttigieg. Anything can piss me off. Any parent would do that for their kid.
Because you hated him 10 minutes ago! Why did you hate him in the first place? And now that he was able to be No. Does it bother you when an interview subject is performing what they think you want in an interview rather than just being in the moment?
My biggest fault as an interviewer is I keep trying. Robert Plant. I am such a fan of that guy, and I took the wrong approach. I wanted every detail. So in some ways I blew it with him. But some people are just open books. Vincent Gallo. Mick Jagger. Oh, my God, I love the Stones. Musicians to me were like prophets. I learned more from musicians than I ever did from religious training.
So to sit down with Mick Jagger and talk about his career — that might be incredible. Speaking of religious training, is it right that one of your daughters is a rabbi? It blows my mind what my kids do. Did you raise your kids with religion?
As far as raising the kids, I would not have really given them any religion. My ex-wife 14 believed that they should have it, and my kids ended up loving it. They got comfort from it. Being Jewish for me was always wonderful. Well, it was a double-edged sword. I had experienced a lot of anti-Semitism. I never was superreligious, but I understood the importance of Israel and of Jews needing a homeland because of persecution.
You get into this in the book, but when you took a sick day from work a couple years ago, you conspicuously decided not to talk about the specifics on the air.
Seems weird, right? Yeah, only because in the past you seemed happy to discuss your anal fissures, among other things. I know. Can I tell you my theory?
My guess is that because the sick day had to do with a cancer scare, that meant it also had to do with mortality. One hundred percent. Few people do. This was my first major health sock -in -the -head. I just wanted to recover. I have the strongest work ethic of anyone I know, and yet I was so heavily criticized for missing one day. I could not bring myself to admit my own mortality. Does that play into any thinking about retirement? I can say to you with almost percent certainty that I would retire at the end of this contract, 16 but I say that about the end of every contract.
A lot of my life force is generated from that radio show. That rush is remarkable. But I have two more years on this contract. Riley analyst Zack Silver wrote to clients, in part:. Our recent survey work suggests that only a low-single-digit percentage of respondents subscribe to SiriusXM solely because of Howard Stern. The less he puts into the show and the more he treats his paying audience with contempt, the more money he makes. The News cost nothing to produce, was a must-listen, and usually guaranteed at least one unpredictable hot take from Stern, earning him a spot in the news cycle.
Yet in quarantine — the most newsworthy year in recent memory — this segment has completely disappeared, with zero explanation. There may be no greater F-you to his longtime fan base: Even that is too much work. The self-proclaimed King of All Media has, without seeming to realize it, given a master class in how to lose an entirely captive audience. He called a crisis meeting, thankfully taped and leaked by a disgruntled employee you can watch it on YouTube.
This is Howard Stern as Norma Desmond, blaming everyone else for his decline. He was just getting started. A PowerPoint of favored guests, whom Stern fawns over to a disgusting degree on-air, turned into a verbal assault against almost every single one. Nah — he kept on blaming the overworked, underappreciated and abused staff , who, he added, looked like unwashed slobs.
Go the f—k home and go get dressed. To the dismay of his "colleagues" at the event, Melendez didn't hold back, asking Flowers if Clinton practiced safe sex and whether she planned on sleeping with any other candidates.
Stern's popularity was taken to new heights soon after with the release of his autobiography, Private Parts , a detailed, funny look at Stern's life that also served to pay homage to his wife, Alison, and the job she'd done to raise their three daughters, Emily Beth b. After taking the top spot on The New York Times best-seller list in October , it remained there for a full month. Stern followed in with another best-seller, Miss America.
In , Private Parts was turned into a successful movie starring Stern himself. Instead, it seemed to only unleash more of the very things that had made him successful. Following the death of Tejano singer Selena , Stern mocked the star by playing gunfire over the performer's music. In addition, Stern went to say that "Spanish people have the worst taste in music," prompting protests and a warrant for his arrest by the justice of the peace in Harlingen, Texas.
Stern later apologized for the comments. Another firestorm erupted in April when, just one day after the Columbine High School shootings, Stern questioned why the killers didn't try and have sex with some of the girls before they shot them. The Colorado State Legislature issued a censure against the shock jock.
Of course, Stern's behavior didn't just catch the attention of the radio-listening public. He also proved to be far from popular with the Federal Communications Commission, too. Stern, though, is a lesson in contrasts. For all his bravado and wild behavior, he is by his own admission an insecure person, whose self-deprecating humor factors greatly into his show. Which is a shame. You'd think that that kind of adulation would make you feel on top of the world.
And yet I don't. I don't know why. In early , Clear Channel, then the country's largest radio station chain, pulled the plug on Stern after an especially contentious show that saw the use of a racial slur from a call-in listener and featured Rick Solomon, Paris Hilton 's ex-boyfriend and the man involved in her infamous sex video, describing in detail his relationship with the famous socialite. The resulting fines, and the further fights with the FCC over control of his show, set the stage for Stern to leave terrestrial radio for good.
He began broadcasting exclusively on the subscription-based radio service on January 9, Freed from the constraints of the FCC rules, Stern's show took his shock jock formula into new territory. It also made him wildly wealthy. In addition to his contract, Stern also helped catapult satellite radio's popularity.
In , Sirius boasted 2. Stern, who said that his final 10 years under the FCC made him "hate" going to work, sounded refreshed after making the move to satellite and signed on for another five years in But it hasn't all been smooth sailing for the shock jock and the satellite radio giant. He engaged in a legal battle with Sirius, which merged with satellite rival XM in , over stock rewards in A judge threw out the suit in , and Stern also lost the appeal.
Despite his reputation for harshness, Stern proved surprisingly supportive of contestants at times while showcasing his quick wit. He stayed on for four seasons before signing off from AGT in , where he was replaced by executive producer Simon Cowell.
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