Howard Stern, who had a turbulent climb to the top of the radio waves decades earlier, expressed that he considers the widespread popularity of celebrity podcasts produced from one’s house to be “aggravating.”
The 70-year-old shock jock was a guest on a recent recording of the SmartLess podcast, which was uploaded on Monday and featured Jason Bateman, Sean Hayes, and Will Arnett.
He revealed his disillusionment with the ostensibly simpler route to success that contemporary podcasters seem to enjoy compared to his former days in the competitive radio industry. Since the coronavirus epidemic hit in 2020, the King of All Media, who has hosted a significant number of shows virtually, has complained that “everyone is on the radio” and “everyone has a f****** microphone in their house.”
As an emerging broadcaster, the Private Parts star reflected on the “brutal” radio environment he encountered, which included his rivalries with Don Imus, John “The Zookeeper” DeBella, Erich “Mancow” Muller, and the former duo of Gregg “Opie” Hughes and Anthony Cumia.
The seventy-year-old Howard Stern expressed his frustration with the rise of celebrity podcasts hosted from homes, saying it reminded him of his own difficult climb to the top of the charts some decades ago. shown in 2019 in Los Angeles
Stern recounted an uncomfortable conversation he had at his house with Bateman, 55, on the opportunities that podcasters now had. taken earlier last month in New York City.
Stern related an uncomfortable conversation he had with Bateman at his house regarding the opportunities that have arisen for podcasters in the past few years. “You three, care to hear what irritates me the most?” “Jason was over at my house, and I really admire him,” Stern remarked. “I’m having a great conversation with Jason about my career and everything else.”
‘And Jason says, “You know man, it’s crazy, we like, started this thing out of our basement, like a radio show.” ‘ Stern went on: ‘He replies, “Yeah, we started this thing and it’s just the three of us sitting around and we talk and we just crack each other up and everything.” I’m like, “Oh here we go, cool.” They tell me it’s the biggest thing ever, but I have no idea what will happen with it, guy.
“Bull**** I didn’t say that,” Bateman spat back, as Stern brooded on the challenging road to broadcast relevance he had to travel on his way to unparalleled success, which included national syndication and subsequently a lucrative contract with SiriusXM. Stern exclaimed, “Oh this is great, I spent my whole life begging people to put me on the radio.” “He’s clowning around; you have to work on your voice this and that, work on the content, and make sure you get people.”
In addition to prior contributors like Jackie Martling, Artie Lange, and John Melendez, Stern gained notoriety with a group that included Robin Quivers, Fred Norris, and Gary Dell’Abate. Stern talked candidly about the difficult obstacles he overcame to become a radio celebrity. “It was brutal when I was on the radio,” he remarked. ‘They would take the ratings every fifteen minutes to draw in and keep an audience. Where you go, it’s not like this—a lot of people are listening, you know.
Author of books including Howard Stern Comes Again, Miss America, and Private Parts, Stern continued, “There could be three people listening to this, nobody knows, nobody cares.” “How are you going to keep people’s attention when you’re on the radio and they take ratings every fifteen minutes?” According to Newsday, Stern made an appearance on the SmartLess podcast alongside Bateman, Arnett, and Hayes on August 17 at the Stephen Talkhouse in Amagansett, New York.
“It’s a Sirius honour for us three jesters to interview the King of All Media,” the trio said in a joint statement following Stern’s appearance to celebrate their launch on Sirius XM.