Originally posted by: chibchakan
Originally posted by: kyparrish
Originally posted by: chibchakan
The King Of All Media > Dopie & Aintfunny
Great argument. He's the
self-proclaimed (ever notice how most articles written on the guy say that) King of All Media.
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Howard has never taken that title seriously. It was always meant as a joke. He came up with that after Michael Jackson started calling himself the king of pop.
It's really just what you want to listen to. Different strokes for different folks.
I'll take a fresher crowd with smarter humor who actually cares about furthering their careers and working their asses off than some old washed up hack who got a huge payday and lost his passion for making great innovative radio a long time ago.
He gets paid more because he deserves it, get over it.
He gets paid more for name recognition... Whether or not he deserves it when he does far less actual broadcasting than certain other shows is another story. From a business standpoint he deserves it because he brings listeners, but is he earning it? Up for debate.
There is no doubting that he brought many subscriptions to Sirius, but (as a side note) I don't think it was anywhere near 4 million.
Plus, Stern should have cut off Robin a LONG time ago. Whenever I hear a clip of Stern ranting and Robin just blabbering on and on, I really want to drive into a pole.
Yeah, maybe he should had replaced her with Lobster girl.
Insert random Stern reference here.
Dopie and Aintfunny, hahahaha OMFG, O&A have never heard that before, did you make that up just now? How about you call in tomorrow and let them know of the name you just thought of. You should know the number if you call between 6am-9am. It's probably the same one you could reach Hoo Hoo on last year. The screeners would let you on to so that you could get torched.
:roll:
In the end, it all comes down to personal opinion - and I truly wish fewer people were swayed by O&A's and Howard's ramblings about the other show. I used to listen to Stern on the radio in NY on the way to school, and he was okay, but nothing I would have considered paying a monthly fee for - perhaps because I never gave him the chance, but whatever. Stern has his moments, but I do believe that his best years are behind him. He was an innovator, no doubt, but (and I've posted this before) as far as I'm concerned at the very least Anthony is more 'talented.' His impressions, improv skills, and overall sense of humor are great. Jim Norton, who gets hardly a mention in these debates, has ridiculous improvisational skills, and has a wicked sense of humor. Opie, I must admit, seems like the odd man out at times, but from what I hear he keeps things together, etc. etc.
And don't forget that this whole rivalry comes from the fact that Howard had the radio station they were affiliated with at the time basically censor Opie and Anthony. Whatever his reasons, that's a fvcked up move.