46/2 ≠ 28 (Beth’s age when she met Howard. The first number was Howard’s age when he met her)
Same difference.
It’s already been pointed out to you that she isn’t half his age, and I’m not going to scan the entire thread again on my phone, but you better not have been one of the people calling Stern a sexist before busting out with this bimbo shit.
Actually, it isn’t. But since it conflicts with one of the several incorrect things you’ve stated in this thread, I’m not surprised to see you wave it aside, being as you’re seemingly incapable of stating when you’re wrong.
That’d be far too civil, huh?
I had a few boyfriends who were big fans back in his heyday, so I’ve heard a lot of his radio shows. He’s a total one trick pony. Almost nothin’ but sleaze, strippers, and misogyny. He’s a very judgmental, snide “hipper than thou” frat boy with serious Peter Pan syndrome. That said, there were rare moments of brilliance shining through. I always found it a huge shame that he chose to go the way he did. He’s obviously very intelligent, and I’ve seen and read a few snippets (interview in playboy, or maybe penthouse back in the 80s sometime) where’s he’s dropped the “show us your boobies/oh those aren’t very good you need to lose a few pounds” act and actually had some interesting and insightful things to say.
He comes across as a very unhappy person, so most of all, I feel sorry for him.
You know, I hear people say that a lot, and I really don’t get it. But then they inevitably turn out to be people who either: only ever saw the E! show (didn’t hear the radio show), heard the radio show a few times, haven’t heard the radio show since the 80s or early 90s, or the worst of the worst-- those people who haven’t actually heard him but have heard a lot about him.
Even though I’m a big fan, I actually don’t like the “sleaze, strippers, and misogyny.” But you know why I keep listening? Because that stuff is maybe 10% of the show, at the very most.
That’s 90% of the show. When I started listening in '97 that was probably 60-70% of the show, and he’s gotten steadily less “outrageous” and more thoughtful since then. He’s really calmed down a lot since meeting his current wife.
That 90/10 ratio may not be perfect, but it’s far better than anything else on the radio. Stern is more intelligent and honest than any of the other DJs I’ve ever heard, and his show comes without censorship or tons of commercials now’days. Double bonus, in my book.
I’m not a Dio defender, but I think the reason is that he always exaggerates what he means in the first place, but thinks the exaggeration is perfectly obvious. He knows what he means, though, so when people challenge him, he doesn’t realize the actual literal meaning of what he said.
Playing the field with a bunch of younger girls, and then marrying one 18 years his junior does fit what he said. He just characterized it as much worse than it actually was.
As for my opinion: I’ve only heard him on E!, so I can’t comment. If he’s really not the guy they showed on there, then they did him an awful disservice.
The only other thing I’ve heard was his rant against Jay Leno, and while I didn’t like his characterization of him, I’ve heard worse.
I listened to Stern several times on the radio when he was on a Dallas station. I’d say that about 10% of his show was worth listening to, for me. The rest was sleaze and strippers and misogyny and how very, very hot he thought lesbians were. For me, it wasn’t worth trying to get through all the crap to find the diamonds. I heard him interview a couple of people, and while he was a brilliant interviewer, he still had to work in various bits about how VERY much he liked lesbians. Stern just didn’t offer me enough interesting bits to make up for all the dreary recitations of his private fantasies. Maybe you like to hear his fantasies. I don’t.
Right now, I mostly listen to a radio station that doesn’t even HAVE DJs. It has commercials and station announcements, but it has no DJs, and it has no sports broadcasts, and I’m delighted with that.
The most recently I’ve heard him was in around 2006 on Serius (sp?) or one of those types when I was in NOLA helping on the Katrina cleanup. To me, it seemed more the other way around. Or maybe it was just that when he was bad, he was just SOOOO bad.
I honestly wouldn’t mind if it were cleverly done sleaziness. It can be done in a funny way, his is just so*** mean-spirited ***and sleazy for sleazy’s sake. But maybe he’s turned over some sort of leaf since 2006. 
I swear I just do not get this at all. He does some sleazy/disgusting stuff, YES. I’ll give you that wrapped in a bow. The Robin songs they play before the news have gotten downright filthy (but hilarious, IMO), and almost everything Richard and Sal do is completely wretched, but I just don’t get the “mean-spirited” accusation. The guy is a friend of gays and minorities, pretty tolerant of all religions despite being an atheist, willing to listen to almost anyone (even people who disgust him like the Phelps clan, KKK members, 9/11 Troothers, etc), literally just gives money to almost every caller and “wack packer” who asks for it, etc etc. The last mean-spirited thing I remember him doing was the whole “Cum Paste” fiasco* about 3 or 4 years ago and his fans gave him absolute hell over it.
*A guy sent in an audio bit called “cum paste” that was just awful; it was was one of those things that really makes you wish that there was a word in English that means “the opposite of funny.” Howard got him on the phone and said he loved it, and he’d like to buy the bit and hire the guy for $250,000 a year, then when the guy was elated Howard basically said, “just kidding, it’s terrible.”
Now why would his fans get so angry and give him so much shit about this if he was always so mean spirited?
As far as sleazy for sleazy’s sake? Well, here’s the best analogy I can give you: some people see South Park and find it to be nothing but a bunch of kids cursing and doing filthy things. Of these people, some find that reprehensible, and some find it hilarious. Others see the social commentary in it.