Inez Sainz was talked about the Stern show today.  Inez recently clamined she was uncomfortable during a Jets training session. She claims it was sexual harrasment.  Anyway, Howard Stern mentioned it on during the show today, and played some clips of Inez speaking.  It was quite hard to listen to, but then again, she is the reporter of a mexican news station.

Howard must not have seen pictures of this one though. I think he would have changed his tone a little after seeing just a couple pictures.

The only coverage that was lackluster was the addressing of Allison, Howard’s now ex-wife. She played a major role on the show, and apparently due to legal issues, she could not be mentioned. (Her name barely even made it out, only being uttered once or twice the entire special).

Overall it was terrific, I hope we see more great programming in the future from the tapes team. I still don’t see why they could not have worked on Master Tape Theater simultaneously though.

Artie has suffered from heroin addiction in the past and never really dealt with it properly. During the shooting of Beer League, Artie stopped doing heroin cold turkey, and started taking subutex to deal with the addictive cravings. This got Artie off heroin, bit never went through any proper treatment to deal with the addiction.

Upon the return from his Afganistan USO show, he brought up the fact he had been talking to Dana hes ex-girlfriend, but that she wouldn’t think about getting back together with him until he properly dealt with the addiction.

Artie also mentioned another girl in his life lately. And along the same lines he mentioned that Gary had given him some good advice while in Afganistan.
I think Artie finally realized that if he wants a somewhat regular life he needs to treat the addiction before going forward.

Hopefully artie is able to complete the steps necessary to deal with his problem, and get his life in order.

And everyone knows its going to be superb radio when they get back from break.

When the show began at Sirius, one thing Howard was concerned with was “content burnout,” (Playing one bit or segment too many times). So now as I sit here listening to the Richard Christy waxing segment for the 11th time, I wonder what went wrong. They seemed to have quite a programming department a few months ago, but now Tim Sabien is all but dried up. There is NO excuse for not airing a new Master Tape Theater each week, but for the past 2 months, it has been nothing but repeats. There have been no new Mammary Lane segments, those don’t require much effort.

From my correspondance with Tim Sabien and his people, I learned that the tapes team has devoted all energy to the new History Of Howard special. Although that didn’t seem to stop them from making an entry for the Bababooey song parody contest, a project demanding more effort than cueing a tape for Master Tape Theater (especially since the catalog they have a digital catalog).

Tim Sabien needs to clean up his act quickly and get his people in line, or else a large number of fans will eventually call for him to be fired. Best Of The Week is a lazy excuse to get out of Master Tape Theater. Don’t let Tim Sabien get away with this. Call Sirius Employee Directory at 212-584-5100 and ask for Tim Sabien. Tell him you won’t take any more Best of The Week, and that you want Master Tape Theater back on the air with new episodes. Let your voice be heard on the show by dialing 888-9-Asshole when they come back from vacation and telling them the same. As paying subscribers, it’s our right to have the content that was promised to us.
UPDATE: Thanks to Cameltoe for letting me know that you can also email Sirius and let them know you want MTT back using this link.

I really don’t like repeats,  but I do think if anything is worthy of a repeat, it has to be the History Of Howard Stern. I think these specials are produced very well, and are very interesting to listen to. They really pulled a lot of material out of the closet and were able to contact an amazing amount of people to interview.  I think thats one of the best parts. They were actually able to interview people that Howard referenced in the past, or were with him when it happened. Listening to the show from day to day, its hard to tell whats truth and whats fluff, but having some people actually back up the stories is great, and puts things into perspective.  The music is so fitting also, it really makes the whole production fit together.  So I guess I’m kinda glad they are doing this material again, because I missed a lot of it last time.

On the Wrap-Up Show (everyone listens to that as often as I do, right?), at the end when Jason was giving plugs you may have heard him say something along the lines of, “… on the Intern Show, tonight on one-oh-one, er I mean one-hundred-one.”

WUS 11JUN2008 – \”One-oh-one\”

This is where my photographic memory would come in handy because I know that in the past numerous people have said “one-oh-one” in reference to the Howard 101 channel. People that I believe to have had this problem include, but are not limited to, Bubba, Greg Fitzsimmons, John the Stutterer and The Blood Hound Gang guys. I know that various other people on the Wrap-Up show like JD or Will have also been guilty of that.

My point (did it really take me this long to get to my point?) is not to point out the potential hyprocracy of what would appear to be Howard’s request to have the channels referred to as “one-hundred” and “one-hundred-one” but rather to ask if because of this, Howard now understands why it is that NBC was so hung up on saying “w-EN-bc” in reference to their channel.

To me, even with the NBC situation, it’s always a matter of branding and name recognition. This is also of course under the assumption that Howard is the one who wants it to be “one-hundred-one”. I don’t think that’s a huge assumption because I think I remember Howard telling a guest that the channel was to be referred to as, “one-hundred-one”.

One would assume he’s trying to create the brand of “one-hundred” and “one-hundred-one”. I see nothing wrong with this but just am curious if he still is willing to rip on w-EN-bc the way he used to. I know when he does his talk-ups he jokingly over-pronounces it but I cannot remember a recent time when WNBC has come up that he has ripped on the management for coaching him to say it correctly.

Perhaps Howard has changed. He’s often ripped by this RS community for selling-out and being out-of-touch with who he used to be. Maybe it’s just that he is (and has been) seeing things in a different light. He’s no longer working under a hierarchy of people – well he is, but most likely has significantly more pull than he did in his FM day. He is, more or less, the one in charge of his stations and wants things done his way. Am I over-analyzing this or is it just another possible addition to the seemingly ever-growing list of “Ways That Howard Has Changed”?