The Dark and Disturbing Downfall of Howard Stern 

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I like that woman that told him exactly how she felt about him. "Crude and disgusting " wasnt afraid to say it to his face

I like how he pretends he’s a good person now

He didn't change because he had regrets. He changed because that's where the money was. He's both a liar and a coward.

Please stop promoting gambling

"Now that I'm extremely rich off of saying wildly inappropriate things for attention and money, it's no longer ok for others to do so" this is how Jimmy Kimmel acts as well.

The biggest irony of all of this is Howard is the most sensitive person on the planet. That dude can't take the slightest joke or he crumbles

Every Howard Stern fan basically tells the same story. "In the beginning he was great! and then....." The excuses vary.

Damn, Stern looked 60 in his 20s and 40 in his 60s 😂😂

In his book "Private Parts", Howard wrote about how at WNBC Don Imus had a rule that you could not say anything to him - not even "good morning" - or even make eye contact with him if you passed him in the hallway. Howard came down hard on Imus on this, saying, "Who does he think he is?" Well, guess what? HOWARD ENACTED THE EXACT SAME RULE AT SIRIUS! Who do you think YOU are, Howard? Hypocrite.

Stern stands tall as one of the biggest hypocrites in entertainment history.

Stern looks and sounds like an evil Space Warlock attempting to act human.

"Creepy dads enjoyed it too much"... I don't even know what to say. That is vile

Scott Salem (Scott the Engineer) was a 30 plus year loyal employee and frequent on air member of stern’s staff. His wife of 30 plus years who also appeared on air occasionally was diagnosed with terminal cancer. Scott was forced to start a GoFundMe to help with the extreme expenses associated with her illness. Scott was trying to raise $50,000. Howard not only flat out refused to mention the GoFundMe to his audience, he penalized Scott for mentioning his fundraising efforts on other Sirius shows and social media. Howard took this as a direct insult. Rather than donate the 50k to Scott which is essentially pocket change to Howard, he demoted Scott and had him removed from the stern compound. Howard also scrubbed Scott from any and all show bits and would not allow his name to be mentioned by any staff member ever. Scott’s wife succumb to her illness and passed away. Even though Howard did everything in his power to prevent Scott from raising the money, the fans came through and Scott reached the 50k goal. Howard then instructed the despicable cult leader Marci Turk, who controls the entire current stern show content and staff, to fire Scott and eliminate his association with Sirius altogether. Howard is a truly vile human being.

Back in 2009 when i was a teenager addicted to opiates, I called the show alot. One time I spoke to Artie and told him I was struggling with drugs. He was saying he was sober, but later found out he was a full blown addict too. However, he texted with me all the time and spoke to me for hours on different occasions. Even though he was struggling just as bad, he tried to help me. I was a huge fan of Norm, Artie, and dirty work. Just the type of person Artie Lange is.

It really burns him that Joe Rogan is at the top, and he's a has-been.

The biggest amounts of cringe I can ever feel is when a notoriously edgy and unapologetically crude person tries to sell themselves as "clean". It's so obvious that they never actually cared about how hurtful the things they said/did were, as long as they don't lose that sweet green paper, they'll sell out everything they ever stood up for. If you're going to be a douchebag then at least stand by that bag of douchery, don't go back on it when you get called out.

The awkward nerdy guy who made it to the popular kids table at school and betrayed his old friends just to stay there

loved how offended he was that some famous basketball players didn’t recognize him at a game can’t remember who was it but hearing that the new generation will forget him or remember him as a degenerate not worth recognizing is gold

The way you pronounced Potomac River is sending me Pat 🤣🤣 I’m from Virginia. And you butchered that love. Lol but it’s okay! Great vid!

He only says he regrets his past stuff cause he ain’t making that money anymore

Dark and disturbing? That describes how Stern has always acted. His downfall isn't a shock. The only shock is that it didn't happen sooner.

His treatment of Selena's tragic passing tipped it for me (Debbie's ashes wasn't any better). What a stupid and cruel man, yet when the gun is trained on him, he can't take it. You made your bed, Howard. Nighty-night!

From shock jock to frightened old man.

Glad I found you Patrick. Great work, great writing and great research on your end.

Can’t believe you didn’t mention the 1999 interview with former child star Dana Plato. The interview was so embarrassing for her. She was found dead the next day from an overdose.

I heard what he said to Dana Plato when she was struggling and that’s all I needed to hear. She died a short time later. The guy is an absolute scumbag.

He just doesnt want to get cancelled

Stern was a cultural parasite, but also a chameleon and shape shifting mercenary

Two reasons I'll always hate people that try to "reinvent their image" later in life is, 1. This reinvention never comes when they are at their zenith of popularity. It always comes way after this are washed up in terms of popularity. 2. Instead of making up for decades of being a piece of shit, they instead act like a moral arbiter choosing instead to criticize younger people who do the same dumb shit they once did. They literally pull up the ladder from younger people who haven't learned decades of lessons like they have. Howard Stern is firmly on fraud watch.

I love how he denied saying the n-word sitting at a table with whoopi when in reality he said the n-word in a skit he was making fun of whoopi in lol

I remember the clip where he had Hulk Hogan and his ex wife Linda on his show, and Stern proceeded to openly gush about how sexy his underage daughter Brooke was, literally talking about taking her virginity...and both parents just acted so casual about it. I guess if the price is right, Hogan isn't so protective over Brooke

How can you live with yourself and sleep at night when you’ve exploited, shamed and humiliated so many people?? All the money in the world won’t give him peace of mind.

What hypocrisy - I'm now going to deny the persona I had that made me wealthy - using people, being crude, insulting, and heartless to make my bags of gold. Give me a break.

Gotta love the dichotomy of talking about gambling twitch users - to using a gambling service as a sponsor. Love to see it, everyone has a price.

I'm convinced robin faked laughing for a paycheck, especially during those early years

been binging your content big fan my brotha

I think one thing that inevitably led to his downfall was the massive increase in brash media figures as time went on. When Stern first hit the airwaves no one was as raw as he was, but these days he's just lost in an ocean of content creators who are more extreme than he ever would be. Regardless of what Stern does or say, his novelty is long gone in the modern Information Era.

He lived long enough to become what he hated.

Some tall weird, older guy yelled at me for riding my bike on a path into central park the other day and I think it was Stern.

Dude.. your research and storytelling are amazing

If he's so disgusted with his past then he can just donate all his profits from over the years. Calling bullshit on this one!

I wish I were as rich as him so I can buy my way out of my past and hide from the world in mega-mansions. Makes it MUCH easier to "be a new person".

Ugh everything he does is grotesque, but poor Anna. What a sweet woman she was when she said, "I'm here for the weekend, maybe we can get dinner" and he makes a comment about how she should skip dinner 😥 that made me so sad

His humor was so vapid and banal. He's a child sitting in the back of the classroom trying to get attention.

"He doesn't love the man he was. He loves the man he is." HE LOVES MONEY.

in my opinion it’s obvious howard stern only “changed” because he knows he can’t get away with the stuff he used to do. Now he talks about the decades of horrible things he’s said and done, when he was a grown man, as if they was just a few little mistakes he made when he was a kid. He acts as if he’s a new man but everyone can see that it’s just a facade; I wouldn’t be surprised if he still acts the way he used to in real life.

I remember watching an episode of Stern one time, and he had Brooke Hogan on the show (daughter of Hulk Hogan). It was at the height of their reality show. Brooke was talking about how the show filmed her when she was in the shower, and Howard kept going "so they could see your anus?". And he asked more than once before she finally brushed it off with a funny answer. The whole thing gave me major creepy vibes, and i could feel how uncomfortable the other people in the studio were

Boy, Howard was never easy on the eyes with his looks.

Dude was, is and will always be all about doing whatever to get as much money as possible for himself.

“Pote-ta-mack river” that’s an interesting way to say it lol

Powt-toe-Mac river, I died 😂😂 it’s Pah-taw-mic patrick.

Sterns life is like when somebody got away with murder most of their life and then they are suddenly introduced to DNA.

"Fuck your freedom". All I need to hear from anyone to form an opinion of who and what they are.

Stern was always such a huge part of my life since 1988, it's heartbreaking to see what he's become. I can hardly bring myself to even listen to the old stuff. Very sad.

You left out some of the most important moments of Stern's speech to his own staff at 30:30. He literally admits in that speech that they're trying to sway his long-time lingering average-joe right-leaning male audience to vote demo.crat, and highlight programming that propagates such leanings, even mentioning trying to get his audience to think left is now officially a goal of the show. That was the single most interesting part of that leaked video that explains EXACTLY why he switched his entire public personality so quickly and drastically, and why he so desperately wants everyone to know how far left he and the entire 'Stern brand' is every two seconds. Aka, why he reads so incredibly fake and disingenuous to anyone paying attention.

Howard always reminds me of one of the half rotten-looking bird creatures from The Dark Crystal !

What comes out of a mans' mouth is what his heart is full off. Howard has one dark sick heart.

I didn’t realize that Howard stern was that big at one point in time..

"You're rather disgusting and I don't care to give you an example". She rather rose to the occasion I'd say. Classic quote. She said it so calmly yet tough.

He’s the biggest hypocrite in radio history and was always a creep. He has millions and is afraid of dying - it must be a horrible life.

He hasn’t changed, he just learned who he was being was no longer profitable. He’s just a hypocrite out of time.

He did apologise for the Selena incident in Spanish on his show

15:37 This guy is literally a comic book supervillain

It’s always funny how the super edgy shock jock shuts down at even a hint of a Jewish joke. He’ll be saying slurs, bashing every religion and race, but as soon as someone hit back he’d have a temper tantrum

I can understand Howard Stern’s appeal in the 80’s and 90’s, in a time before the internet, he was like early 4chan representing our deepest impulses to be edgy and crass. Now, in the online world where everyone acts like that nowadays, that appeal is almost entirely gone.

He’s like a RU-vidr today: Doing everything (!) to get exposure and collect an audience. And then being stuck with those people and his own way of doing content

when artie was gone, that was it for the show.

Wait, so this man peaked in his 40s and is trying to say we shouldn't look at his behaviour because he was young....

if he’s disgusted by his legacy, he should give away every penny that legacy gave him.

It’s crazy how he went from being the man to being a total joke. It’s really to bad

I remember his late night television show where he always promoted Snapple Ice Tea! He was like their first celebrity endorsement I think?

You left out when in 1999 Dana Plato went on his show. Howard was taking call after call bullying a fragile Plato. He had the power to just stop taking the calls. Instead Dana was in tears then committed suicide the next day. She could've gone on to make some changes for the better in her life. Now we'll never know RIP Dana Plato 😢

“….his words and actions were always used to protect his giant mountain of gold.” That’s a bingo!

14:45 - "apple-ate" made my eye twitch. I've *NEVER* heard it said that way before. lol

Have you never heard the words "appellate" and "censure" before? Shoddy work.

How can you fall from the gutter?

Shocking! Especially considering his empire was built of a foundation of solid slime.

They might as well give him a seat on the view considering how out of touch and ridiculous he sounds now. Definitely the biggest sellout ever

Isn’t this what Shock Jocks do ? 🤷‍♂️

I know a lot of you are super young, but when he was in his prime, his show was hugely popular! And everyone would talk about it the next morning. It was insane Edit: thank u for all the likes guys.

As a former die hard Stern fan from ‘96-2010 (It’s truly easy to break down The man he’s a delusional narcissist of the highest order: He’s also a massive plagiarist while he was in Detroit he heard tapes of Chicago’s Steve Dahl (completely ripped of his shtick/gimmick) Ask anyone 50+ in the midwest about Stern they will tell you he ripped of Dahl (He also ripped of many elements of Larry Flynt) Flynt was a legit free speech guy (Someone tried to assassinate Flynt for Freedom of speech) Stern did nothing Viacom payed every fine out of pocket (Stern didn’t lose a dime but, loved to play the free speech martyr) He’s the ultimate grifter he thinks he’s smarter then everyone else (The core of his act is a Morning Zoo Radio with a edge) He knows absolutely nothing about music, he isn’t funny (Jackie wrote 75% of his dialogue) He’s a hack that got lucky and during his rise of fame had no internet to do a deep dive on his revisionist history) You forgot the Dana Plato interview, The really uncomfortable Julie Robert’s interview, The time Rachel Hunter refused to sign a release and Howard flip out and called her every name in the book, the countless years he would do a Intern Beauty pageant (Which lead to a massive lawsuit) making interns worked 30+ hours a week getting no pay. Staffers that openly admitted to sexual assaults on air, There is a lot to his rise and fall (If anyone does a real breakdown it has to be 4+ hours(He only had that come to Jesus moment due to The #MeTooMovement) He knew he had a lot of skeletons in his closet was more than likely given a heads up before the movement ignited (Stern was also good friends with Harvey Weinstein) Stern was never a rebel it was all a long con (he always wanted to sit at the cool kids table in school)

"I have no responsibilities" Well thats a nice mental arrangement youve made for yourself.

Haha downfall. He's never been more relevant. He just interviewed the President.

The first tragedy that Stern didn't joke about immediately after was 9/11. Pretty sure that's because it hit close to home. If it had happened anywhere else, he would've treated it the same way he treated things like Columbine.

That whole thing with that womans cremated remains really got to me. Words cant describe how fucked up that was

0:32 Israel. He won't joke about Israel. Here, I said it

Howard’s the most self absorbed person in the world. His staff had been scared of him for years. The pay he takes compared to his staff is downright shameful.

The irony of pointing out degeneracy as a career to turn around and CONSTANTLY plug sports gambling is hilarious 😂

Remember when Stern said he didn't like Jay Leno? Said he was a "robot" and a sell out to the establishment. Stern has become the very thing he used to despise. He is a sellout.

He’s became what we once hated and made fun of . Now he does the same show everyday . Then won’t leave he’s basement . I understand he’s gotten older . Still he just sold out , then that video of him doing a state of union . With he’s employees lol wow that was so bad .

The problem with "shock jocks" is as they try to one up themselves they will eventually go to far or overplay their hand.

Remember that one time a certain Radio Host fired his audio engineer when the engineer's wife was almost dead of cancer? Pepperidge Farm remembers.

27:40 wtf the subscribe button glows when you say subscribe lmao

He belongs to that club George Carlin talked about.

It's weird how Stern became exactly the same person that used to hate him back in the day.

Anyone remember when Howie cried to his bosses because Opie and Anthony were making fun of him on air? What a tough free speech warrior he was.

The early Eminem on Howard Stern show video is gold… Eminem hated Howard after that and even references him on his song “I Am”

It amazes me the type of people who get far in this thing called life!

Young stern would be ashamed of the karen he became.