Howard Stern staff member Bubba Love Sponge on getting fired on air, Artie Lange, Hulk Hogan tape

[@11bravo57]

I heard Howard changed his name recently to Don Imus.

[@tommyj6834]

He’s a walking replica of Imus now. Lol. It’s sad.

[@drexlspivey3047]

@@tommyj6834 So you here trying to find out anything you can about Don imus🤣, get some help man.

[@tommyj6834]

@@drexlspivey3047 What?….

[@roguebot6132]

Imus was never that big of a douche

[@phb715]

And what have you contributed? Not shit. GFYM 👏

[@flyinthebug35]

As much as most of us Stern fans are disappointed in Howard since around 2010-2012 when things really started to change...it is nice to see Bubba give Howard his props for the man he once was. RIP Stern show 1992-2010. @stweekly new sub! Love your interviews

[@trishboogie]

Shut up! The show is still Gold!

[@robbraden6103]

Why is your audio always so low? Then we get pounded by the commercials and wake up the whole household.

[@crunchyfrog0001]

Truth

[@HandJob69-w3p]

Skip all the whoring and plugging to get to the watered-down "content": 1:14.

[@mcd858]

i used to work with Bubba in the 90s and i got to catch up with him on his show last year. He was like my Howard & helped my career a lot.

[@estherdoyle6408]

I am so glad to see you. Howard is really more conservative than most people think. But he took ur side on the stupid scandal with Ĥogan that was wonderful.

[@ChrisSMurphy1]

Toughest years for me were 06-08, had Howard, Bubba and Ferrell at nights that got me through…epic lineup

[@kirkangel525]

that was an epic time, and you had O&A and Ron & Fez on XM as well...when life was good(sigh)

[@doejon9424]

The 'ol.. "Windsor Mikey" two step.

[@jerryransbarger8927]

Same here, I went through a hard time and Bubba was funniest 🤣

[@caseyvidrine3189]

Basically worked in my truck all of 2006. Howard from 6-10, wrap up show at 10. Bubba at 2-6, ferrall at 7-11. Plus miserable men show sprinkled in there.

[@anouck86]

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[@JasonFlorida]

Not one thing about getting fired on air like the title says. If I missed it, someone please reply with the tinestamp

[@crunchyfrog0001]

Didn't hear it either 🤷

[@michaelchristianson3179]

This story is so different then when Bubba told it on Bubba Army.

[@torccchaser6712]

GREAT interview !

[@STWEEKLY]

Thank you! Bubba is great

[@travellguy6500]

To the host: you have great guests but listen to your questions. They tend to be rambling, long winded and unfocused. Practice asking short and concise questions with short folo-ups.

[@burkefox3208]

Neil Rogers and Phil Hendrie were the hay days of South Florida AM radio! RIP Neil? God??

[@Nobodyshoes]

Phil is a legend. Neil...not so much. 😆

[@burkefox3208]

@@Nobodyshoes Neil was an absolute legend and a best of the air waves. Im not sure if you are old enough to remember the early 90s before he moved to Toronto and it became lists.

[@Nobodyshoes]

@burkefox3208 I remember those days. Rick Riley was in there too.

[@burkefox3208]

Rick and Suds!!

[@Nobodyshoes]

@burkefox3208 okay, now we're friends. 👍🏾😆

[@dirtybeard70_Alivein85]

Excellent Excellent Excellent interview. Thanx

[@PiTjlang]

"Protect HULK from pics leaked from a surgical procedures" .....IS THAT EVEN A THING??

[@phb715]

Thanks for the interview. You did a great job.

[@aarongarry3025]

Here’s the deal…..

[@TheMotiveDJ]

Febreze

[@JasonSum1979]

As a former die hard Stern fan i honestly think Howard hooked-up with Bubba to have him under his thumb (Plus that would keep XM from having another Controversial act on there platform) Bubba is way to nice the 2022 version of the Howard Stern show is garbage and very insulting (Howard has always been a true blue narcissist he doesn’t care about anyone but, himself! ask Scott Salem what a stand up guy Stern is

[@Widemouth1832]

I love Bubba.

[@carlhammill5774]

I wasn't huge listener of Bubba but I remember his having something they called "rattler" it sounded like something that held his pills and if you shook it sounded like rattle snake. I hope I am remembering that correctly.

[@John-209]

You are definitely remembering right, he would shake that thing. Every time he wanted a Boner pill, a Vic a perk, and whatever else he had in that thing.and he talked about Febreeze a lot

[@brianmags1999]

Yes,Bubba carried Vicodin and Cialis in a pill bottle which was called the rattler.Funny thing is though,he would talk about taking a 5mg Vicodin and once offered Artie a half of Vicodin like it would get either of those 350 lb guys a buzz😂😂Artie admitted that he told Bubba he’d need 30 5mg Vicodin just to get a little high😂😂

[@CM-ef2hd]

I remember one time they were shooting on Hall and Oates and i had to pull over and park the car. My wife and i were crying with laughter. I wish Bubba was still on

[@JasonFlorida]

The show was great during the Artie years! I still listen to Howard since I drive so much but the show is not near as good as it used to be.

[@DatruthBtoldy-do6bl]

It was great during Jackie years

[@watchthetriple8224]

He went to your wedding for his show. Not you Bubba.

[@darylhowell2806]

Exactly.They just moved to SiriusXM.Good PR.

[@jupitershark2636]

Howard seems odd these days

[@neilson4483]

He always was

[@Arthur-hg7ny]

Because he’s staring down the barrel of his own mortality

[@BenM81]

@@Arthur-hg7ny Ahh you’ve said it all.

[@bloodybones63]

@@Arthur-hg7ny Well said. The blood is dry on that contract.

[@Arthur-hg7ny]

@@bloodybones63 I do feel for him. He has all the money, a celebrity, young wife he adores, and knowing it will all end is hard to swallow.

[@seabrook1976]

Nice clickbait title there.

[@ScottParisi]

Tail between the legs Jones followed by the let's work together McGillicuddy.

[@tgunn2034]

I always thought Stern picked Bubba to join him at Sirius so he wouldn't go to XM and compete with him as the companies were separate then. O and A were on Krock mornings, then walked over to XM about 10 am to finish the show with no restrictions on speech. I heard them on Philly.

[@ronjoshua8356]

I remember when Bubba was all over the place in Tampa and Orlando back in the 90s.

[@wickedcurve]

I worked in Polk County in Auburndale back in 2001 and again in 2002 and listened to Bubba on a daily basis. I loved that guy. I even got one of his CD’s with many of his bits on there.

[@gregjohnson7666]

When did he talk about how he got fired from Stern show

[@palaciosjorge3075]

I guess howard should have kept all these guys employed, all these guys thought they were Howard's girlfriend

[@vicalamuso3427]

yeah def better now 🙄dopey

[@Teeveepicksures]

Didnt you know that an employer is bound to his co-workers and employees in perpetuity? It's a law that if you make it big you have to take everyone with you and keep everyone on the payroll.

[@J.Tronix]

How did Stern not even talk about how he owns NWA wrestling

[@Andylicios57]

That’s Billy Corgan dude.

[@awesomecool3280]

In the Billy Corgan Howard didn't talk about it was all about Billy Father

[@garytheretaaraaaaaaard.9173]

What did bubba say when he was talking about Artie that made you edit it out??? Great interview though.

[@andrewisjesus]

Vince McMahon didn't have a vision Howard Stern and his story are intimately tied to ratings, and I can tell you straight up that ratings for radio are b*******. I genuinely don't know why he made how they do ratings a part of his movie. It's the same thing with Nielsen for TV, which plays into Vince McMahon's story Monday Night War. But as much as I ride on Nielsen for being worse than polling in every way as far as accuracy, radio did their ratings by books. And there were God knows how many people that actually was who were paid to write down. Periodically what radio stations they were listening to for what period of time. Then those people would turn in their book to some Nielsen type organization responsible for advertisers getting radio numbers, then after they tallied up who listened to what for what period of time, then they would publish those things as the radio ratings. It was purely advertiser fodder. So it did nothing outside of provide advertisers with figures is to see where they wanted to spend their money on ads. But it wasn't accurate. I don't know how it could be accurate. Because basically if 100 people in any given Market, let's say New York, in order to be able to actually get the numbers to publish them for the ratings. They couldn't have been sorting through a thousand books in order to come up with who listen to what for however long. So we're talking about maybe 100 people writing down what their favorite shows they were listening to they wrote time stamps on there. And they supposedly were writing down when they change the station during a commercial and then when they switched it back. Absolute ridiculous garbage like that. So you basically know in my opinion that most of the people were not actually doing that but they were just writing things down to get paid. The Nielsen homes were very similar situation. Where you got about a hundred households. And they get a little box that monitors what they watch. But the amount of homes that they have were minuscule compared to the actual number of people who are watching things. So when you see the Nielsen ratings that are still published to this day and they tell you 10 million people watched something, they don't know how many people watched anything. I It simply gives figures for advertisers to look at and see where they want to invest their money. I argue strongly that Vince McMahon nwcw had quadruple the viewers then what Nielsen reported because if you go look in 1998 WCW sold out arenas, basketball stadiums, everywhere they went and so did the WWF in all 50 states and overseas. We're talking 40 50,000 people regularly on a consistent basis whether it was a basketball arena in Iowa or Wisconsin Oregon Texas california. There's a famous match from when WCW was supposedly bad and WWF had taken over popularity supposedly where it's a match between Goldberg and Scott Steiner and it's in Sacramento California. And they are in Arena that is packed and hyped and it's like a southern wrestling territory from the '80s. And it was that way for a while until like mid-2000s. But they would get rating totals that said like 3 million people were watching each show. The reality is the most people in 1997 1998 1999 2000 who were in school like I was in elementary school remember almost everybody watching wrestling it was must see TV particularly for kids and teenagers and you got to look at how many people there were in the United States and way more people had cable back then on average. And yet they never drew the type of viewership that the NFL or Monday Night Football got. But everybody with brains knew did everybody was watching that. That's the reason that 10-15 years later, you've got all these professional athletes who virtually all watched pro wrestling growing up. So many UFC fighters model their career after Pro wrestlers. From that time and it was because that was the biggest s*** anywhere. Steve Austin was his big of a star in the United States as Brad Pitt or somebody like that. Whereas now those guys are nowhere near the popularity if they going to show people have to explain that oh this is the WWF guy remember Steve Austin and The Rock And I used to argue it was bigger than than it was in the 80s. But the reality is that the numbers are all cooked. Because it's not intended to actually be real listenership or viewership totals it's just estimates for advertisers to see where they want to put their money but it used to be presented in the newspapers as real viewing figures the way that opinion polling data works. If you look at opinion polls, there was a pole that came out a decade ago in Alabama that said they were trying to get numbers of how many people in Alabama supported same-sex marriage, if something like 80% or 75% or so we're against gay marriage in alabama, but in the same poll they asked him if they supported interracial marriage and it was like 55% of registered Republicans in Alabama were against interracial marriage. What's that statistic may be right, hey just wild for when the poll is taken. But then if you just look at the pole fine print it'll tell you that they asked a thousand people what they thought and there's 3 million people in the state. So a thousand people out of 3 million doesn't actually give you accurate data because 1000 people they could have asked could have been from particular areas in the state where the people are more backward, or whatever. And the thing with ratings is is they select the household and the people who they want to get the data from. So they could be selecting a particular type of people that's not representative of the population at large. So all of Howard Stern success was based on the books. And who knows if the books were representative of what the public liked or not. The main thing was with stern was that he was a publicity w****. He was a publicity horror and the books loved him. And he went after the books and he tried to manipulate the people who did the books. He was very much a power broker and did it explicitly

[@jonkrapper]

Great points, Andrew.

[@williamblaney904]

Bubba is the man!

[@Valkonnen]

A "man" doesn't get off seeing his wife with other men. You are either just a dummy or a disgraceful cuck like him.

[@brandonschiavone9221]

Hearing all these old stories make me so sad. I love Howard so so so much and 1998-2010. Howard is possibly the most special person in the entertainment industry and when he is gone 40 years of the best entertainment will just simply be over. I think people don’t give him enough credit. Politically I don’t agree with a lot of what he says and he is in no way the same Howard stern king of all media but he is still a GOD in the industry.

[@ethanmurray2203]

Howard was fake! It was all a lie! Wiggy was always an elitist, and a left wing hack. He somewhat hid it, but constantly talking about therapy, Dancing with The Stars, gay stuff every day, cross dressing on book covers, then finally getting in with the celebrity crowd, and turning his back on his fans. Working 2-3 days a week for $100 million a year? F Howie!

[@JasonFlorida]

The show was great during the Artie years! I still listen to Howard since I drive so much but the show is not near as good as it used to be.

[@johanericsson2403]

As close to an actual human pig as it's possible to get. When they remake Animal Farm maybe Bubba will have a resurgence

[@christopherjones8517]

He is not a staff member!

[@drippinglass]

Bubba is still kool! 😎👍

[@ethanmurray2203]

Stop kissing old man Howies butt...he treated you so badly, and has a horrible pod cast

[@Wongwongwong10000]

Bubba got paid a lot of money because of Howard Stern. Why would Bubba bad mouth a guy that made you wealthy? Howard Stern haters just want everyone to say negative things and if any former employees that say something positive, there like quit kissing Stern’s ass. Every former Stern employee owes there career to the Stern Show. Not one of the news team were anything if it wasn’t for Howard Stern. Everyone was lucky that they were on that show, and there so called fame dwindled once they left.

[@ethanmurray2203]

@@Wongwongwong10000 Bubba had a show, and probably made more money before Sirius. Stern mocked him for years. Stern is now a sad joke. There's a difference between being negative, and kissing ass. Just don't say anything.

[@kennethsexton9913]

Bubba is great. How about something different on bubba from 2 years ago.

[@brantl3yth3b3ast]

Sorry for your Cardinals..still can't believe how they melted in the 9th in game 1

[@mikewolf8268]

How can you best friends with a dude ......that you dont talk too anymore?

[@heatherwwasright9836]

What's wrong with Bubba's voice?

[@tobysgamingworld1550]

He’s never used his real voice. He just uses the Mancow, Tom Likeass “radio voice”

[@bski824]

HOWARD TURNED INTO A OLD JEW.AND HES A GRANDPA NOW

[@alexdee6776]

So people get old?

[@Andylicios57]

And?🤷‍♂️

[@jimmydabaker]

Phil Hendrie 🔥

[@mafishco98]

Bubba he's a real soldier. Howard should do something for this guy. We all know Howard wipes his behind with ex employee but this Bubba, omg. I love this interviews bcs Howard he never mention what happened or why someone left , or he never brings up their name...it's like they never exists which is his weakness. Also lately to much politics and ass kissing.. to much Jewiness and politics but still the best on radio

[@roguebot6132]

This is sad. This dude definitely has his own version of reality. Howard’s best years were well behind him once he started at Sirius.

[@garytheretaaraaaaaaard.9173]

2000-2010 best stern years

[@BarneeFife]

Steve Dahl in Chicago (WDAI, WLUP", WMVP) was Howard Stern before Howard Stern was Howard Stern. He was great! The radio station made him play some music in the late 70’s, and I, and I’m sure everyone else, would just want him to TALK! He was that great. I still listen to his podcast once in a while, and he IS, STILL way better than Stern. He Was, and always will be, THE Original Shock Jock!

[@Mico8791]

Exactly

[@johndaley9594]

tell that to the NOBODY's who work for him

[@nskr160]

Bubba is a better radio guy today than Howard of the last 15 years.

[@alexdee6776]

So you’ve been listening to Howard for the the last 15 years, got it

[@Account1i]

Bubber...

[@jtschnow9253]

Bubba is the guy friend that hangs around the hot chicks (howard & artie) in hopes of someday.

[@heatstroke584]

Dirt bag 🎒

[@jerryransbarger8927]

Bubba had the funniest shit on Sirius radio

[@morsedregs9239]

I miss Scott Ferrell’s show

[@scottduncan8915]

He still does a podcast called ferrall coat to coast and it’s pretty much the same show

[@yopacific]

@@scottduncan8915 Where is Scott on? Is they the Sunday TV show?

[@rodedawg77]

@@yopacific Scott is on a somewhat new sirius channel 159. He's on every day and on Sundays with Gabe Morency doing in game live

[@yopacific]

@@rodedawg77 Thanks brother. I thought Uncle Futrelli’s show on Sirius was just amazing. The most fun I ever had listening to and calling in to a show. “Hey Scottie Gimmee a rocks class full of whiskey and 2 lines off a hookers ass”

[@detroitrocker4098]

I used to go and watch Ferrall live down in Georgia back in the 90s. Great times!

[@PeterParker-yr8yb]

Would love to hear from crazy cabbie

[@mumblesthefireman496]

he's in one vid

[@alexdee6776]

He’s in a wheelchair, still lying his ass off

[@awesomecool3280]

All you would hear from him is quack quack quack quack quack quack quack quack quack 😂