This. IIRC, I believe he literally stabbed himself in the gut nine times with a long-handled knife, six relatively shallow ones and three deep ones. It was his second attempt, I believe the first one was years back, an OD.
My pet peeve is they are using it wrong, which Dave the inventor objected to as well. That, and you put a professional porn star on the thing, someone who spends part of most days faking orgasms, they have no idea what to do with a real orgasm. If Stern would invite ordinary female listeners to ride it and use an insert if they choose (no FCC, why should there be a problem?) that would be some compelling listening.
I’m not a Stern listener, but I enjoyed the film Private Parts and there was a scene with a female listener straddled her stereo speaker, with Howard making motorboat noises attempting to get her off.
As for who would? There is a huge world of porn that does not involve professional porn actors, and the fact that they are not all bleached blondes with artificial breasts is what is especially appealing - that and they have not been through the porn wringer.
I’d imagine there are quite a few perfectly normal women who would volunteer to ride the Sybian, especially if they were on the radio and could use a fake name. The amateur Sybian videos I’ve seen - i.e. NOT the ones featuring professional porn starlets - are frequently awe-inspiring.
I looked it up. All I got wrong was that it was an FHM model, not a Maxim model. The wiki says his divorce was “amicable,” but doesn’t state the reason.
Thi is sounding like sour grapes. “Start living with some [FHM] model”? I suppose that’s one way to put it. Another would be “met his eventual second wife, together for 8 years before getting married 2 years ago, still happily together.”
That and the “half his age” bit. Beth hasn’t been half Howard’s age since he was 36 and she was 18, 20 years ago, 10 years before they met.
Also, “bimbos” is kind of a subjective term, no? Is Angie Everheart a bimbo? Is Robin Givens? as far as I can tell, Beth certainly isn’t. Of course, most of his exploits in that time have remained anonymous, so it’s rather hard to know if they were bimbos or not.
No offense Diogenes the Cynic, but shouldn’t you change your handle to Diogenes the Guy that Doesn’t Know Anything About Howard Stern But Still Likes Climbing on His High Horse Like He Does Know Something?
IOW Diogenes the GDKAAHSBSLCHHHLHDKS for short? Cynic doesn’t quite encompass your majesty.
Whatever the reason, what bothered me was the way he devolved from being a family guy joking about his frustrations, but his love for his family to just doing a lot of sophomoric bragging about the “broads” he was banging after his divorce. I could relate to the first guy. I could not relate to “hey, look how hot my 20 year old girlfriend is.” I never thought he’d turn into one of those guys.