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🗓️ 2 June 2025
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0:00.0 | An interesting text just came in. We were talking about radio earlier, right? Different people |
0:04.5 | worked in radio, Howard Stern, Man Cow, etc. So somebody texted in, and this is an interesting |
0:09.8 | point to me. It says, I was listening to Man Cow on the morning of 9-11, and I thought it was just a poorly |
0:14.9 | thought-out bit until I heard him choke up. Well, I hopped out of the shower, turned on the TV just in time to see the second tower get hit. |
0:22.7 | So he thought Man Cow was doing a bit, didn't realize it was a new thing. |
0:25.9 | One of the things I remember about 9-11, because it was like all hands on deck, so they called us all into work, no problem. |
0:31.6 | And what was crazy to me, all of the major news, whether it is cable or network, right? They're trying to figure out what's going |
0:37.6 | on and what's happening. That's when Howard Stern basically showed them how to do broadcast. |
0:42.2 | Because at the heart of what we do is that if the S hits the fan, we're here to tell you, |
0:46.0 | hopefully nothing horrible is going on and we can entertain. So 9-11 happens. And you name the news |
0:52.4 | outlet, right? It can be Fox, it can be CNN, it can be ABC, any one of them. |
0:56.6 | It was the Howard Stern Show has confirmed. |
0:59.5 | Like this became the fact that he was on at first. |
1:02.6 | But up until that point, you know, all those same news channels, all they did was, I mean, just rake him over the colds because he's this, he's that. |
1:09.8 | And then when the S hit the fan, you realize he is significantly better at your job than you are. |
1:15.8 | Oh, yeah. |
1:16.3 | Oh, yeah. |
1:16.7 | He does all the stupid stuff and all that. |
1:18.6 | But then when the S hit the fan, this guy coordinated all of his people to go out there, get information. |
1:23.9 | He became the de facto place to get information. He became the de facto place to get information. What drove me nuts was I just remember |
1:28.2 | watching all of these different talking heads and newscasters and it's people you recognize, |
1:33.0 | but they would begin their little spiel with the Howard Stern Show has confirmed. And I'm thinking, |
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