Howard Sternum

The Howard Stern Show gets better and better, and is in an overall incline. If you could picture the incline as going backward - like going up, backward on a rollercoaster. For the most part I can’t stop listening. It’s like Howard has put a hook in my mouth and tugs on it threw the speakers. …Hooked, manipulated, because you have to.

The Howard Stern Show is a contradiction inside of an enigma all wrapped up in a joke on the world that few people get. Howard’s interview with Barbra Walters is a perfect example of this. He was asking her controversial questions that she would deny. Howard would then ask again, or in another way, as if doubting her answers. When she brought up an article in the news paper about him saying he doesn’t want to marry Beth anymore because of all the hassle that people are giving him, he wanted to deny everything. But she (imitating him) wouldn’t let him answer and kept doubting his answers. When she pulled the same tactic on him, he couldn’t handle letting her rant on like he was doing to her, and does all the time. He could then say that was the joke. He was intentionally doing that to be funny and you are dumb if you didn’t get it. But you would never know if he was reacting like that because he was trying to be funny or if he really can’t handle a taste of his own medicine. And anybody else's evaluation of this is looking too deep into it. But he can be deep when he wants, and don’t question that!

It’s like listening to a bunch of people try to figure out life. But they are five and have a lot of money and time. They have problems, they question why the way things are, but never have any real resolution to things. Their lives are like a cliff hanger that never gets answered.

Resolution: Howard wakes up and starts appreciating the life he has, and is happy with Beth, and just wants others to be happy with their lives. He would say that is what is true now; but it sure in the hell doesn't look like he is expressing that. Robin stops trying to prove that she can make it in the world, and starts making a difference for people. Fred starts to talk, and realizes he is just as interesting to people as Howard is. Artie gets committed to losing weight, starts going to church with his family, and lets go of losing his dad.

I used to go to church when I was a kid, and always left feeling good and refreshed. I have the opposite feeling when I listen to the Howard Stern Show. I feel like the world is wrong and every thing is in a bad place. I have a scared feeling; the kind of scared you get after a natural disaster. Like there is nothing you can do to stop it, and you just know someting worse is coming.

In almost every sitcom there is a point where they flash to the future of the characters and show what will become of them. The Howard Stern Show is almost actually there. I can just imagine Robin being 80 and still talking about how she had anal sex one time, and got molested by her father. Howard is 100 and still fascinated by two girls kissing, and discussing how small his penis is. Gary walks in hunched over with a cane, looking like an old monkey, trying to let Howard know about something that doesn’t make sense or have any relevance.  Artie with only half of his face working, because of a stroke is drooling, eating, and making a joke that no one can understand; but he seems to think it is hilarious.  Fred is there.