The 9/24/07 Show

During the show Howard was giving Ronnie a hard time (which is always funny) and he, once again, made a psychoanalysis comment. He said Ronnie’s anger stems from mother/father issues. Frankly, Freudian psychoanalysis is a bunch crap. I’ll say it again, I think it’s for people who just have too much money to spare and those who need to be coddled all the time. “You Can Act Like a Man!” (from the Godfather). Time to try another therapy, the current one isn't working too well.

Gary’s call on not pushing Kevin into the OutQ studio was completely right. Don’t get me wrong, the OutQ show was an absolute bore. But if you think about it, they had an important issue that was being discussed and perhaps showing a tiny bit of respect was the right thing to do. All of Howard’s audience, including me, would have loved to see Kevin go in. But the timing was wrong.

Just because everyone knows that the OutQ show was a total bore doesn’t warrant a disruption of a discussion of a solider considering suicide. Howard makes enough gems and interrupting their show would have been a great disrespect to his fellow broadcasters (who work for the same company nonetheless). I'm sure he can get them during a different segment.

It was suggested to put something racist on Kevin's face and send him to the Shade 45 studio. So let me understand this. You can insult gays, Jews, and any other group but the blacks are a special case that do not need to be messed with? Of course Howard is “scared” of that channel but come on, be an equal opportunity offender. Also, let’s be honest here. There are as many black DJs on that Shade 45 channel as there are blacks at a Klansmen gathering. I remember that when Howard invited Shade 45 broadcasters into his studio, there were no blacks in the group (maybe a half black). But I wonder if it’s widespread throughout Sirius. Even on the Howard Stern Show, there isn’t much of a minority representation, aside from Robin who been with Howard for decades. But for the most part it’s a very light skinned crowd, white operation over there. This makes me wonder a bit of the hiring practices at Sirius and the Howard Stern Show.

Here’s another genius move by Howard. He decided to play a clip of the pantomime Marcel Marceau, who has recently passed away. He plays some clips, but there’s only one problem. We can only listen to Sirius and not see it. He was playing a clip of a pantomime, which is completely a visual thing, over the radio. Smooth move there.