yes sir
our first guest tonight spent a few memorable years working in this building and is now the
morning man here in new york city at a radio station called wxrk fm how do they get k rock
out of this i couldn't tell you well we'll find out when he arrives wxrk uh the only reason
his first uh he oh the only reason he's our first guest tonight is because he's been moaning on the
air all week long about this please welcome the controversial but lovable howard stern
how are you doing you know what always uh strikes me interesting about you you're such a you have
such a baby face you look like a little kid you're very young i am i'm young at heart i'm really i'm
very happening aren't i hey i look good tonight you uh there's a lot of pressure on me to come
out here let me ask you a question before you get into that how do we get k rock out of that
wxrk is that just they take the laughs let me say something before you get to k-rock because i have
nothing bad to say about k-rock the people i'm working for now are lovely this is the best radio
station in the country i want to say something that being back in this building makes me nauseous
i think the biggest bunch of creeps are on this company i think when i got fired
it was and you know it too dave it's nothing you haven't said to me before
really and they know it the people who fired me though are suffering now unbelievably how
so well let's face it all the ratings i used to work for nbc radio wnbc afternoons yeah
and i used to think the station was happening i got when they fired me i was upset i thought
the station was happening but i realized the station's not happening i was happening the damn
station wasn't happening i was happening and when i left the station everything uh everything fell
apart they got a bunch of jerks there they got the imus and soupy sales and i thought you i thought
you liked don imus and soupy's no i hated them i hated working with those guys i had a i had a
oh this yeah real creative the mouse give me a break but i could have done that on ed sullivan
uh imus is history soupy's history of the entire nbc radio division is history
and uh you know it david all right but weren't you you were the one who called me when they
hired soupy and said what the hell is this what are they bringing in back for and don't deny it
but is it isn't it true howard that at some point in your life dynamos was kind of an
influence on your no i never really liked him never thought he had any talent in fact
i'll be honest with you i don't think he had much in fact most of the people in radio don't have
any talent uh i think it's a cruel joke that uh i ended up in radio yeah where where should where do
you see yourself where would you rather be well i would rather be on tv or in film yeah film oh
that'd be good i would like that a lot yeah and uh but television would be just fine i really
feel i was born to be on television or something but i can't imagine god is playing god is testing
me are you are you close to any kind of a film or television deal however yeah very close yeah
but we got more radio deals going on you want me to tell you about that no oh yeah uh no we'll get
we'll get to the radio deals in a second what kind of tv do we talking about some kind of a
cable thing i'm working no no no cable dave when i come on i'm talking about 12 30 night i think i'm
gonna have to go up against you i need to make an announcement here because dave dave doesn't have
the guts to tell johnny carson this he's going to work for the fox network and uh and he's not
even going to tell johnny about he's going to throw a rock through johnny's window and malibu
so about that fox network do you think that's going to work out uh
i don't know it'd be interesting to see what happens i think johnny's in trouble dave really
yeah i think he is based on on what based on the fact that he's been on tour he's kind of like imus
he's kind of like been on too long you know they need a young guy a young whippersnapper
like yourself doing that kind of thing i think television i belong on television i think that
radio for now is uh you know what i'm doing we're starting how long have you been in radio how old
were you when you first had your first job ten years ago i started but now we have a nationally
syndicated radio program dave i'd like to mention this so with dir lorimar we're gonna be on every
uh every state in the country counting down the hips perfectly no countdown i know casey casey
i'm no jerk you can count down your own damn records you don't need me to do that
everybody here knows how to count all right uh we'll do a commercial here howard when we come
back you tell us what you're going to do on your syndicated radio show all right we'll be back here
hi uh welcome back here with uh howard stern wxrk is that that's right wbxrk i hope jerry
garcia is feeling better man was i shocked imagine that guy going into a coma i can't
imagine the picture of health and jerry garcia goes into a coma i got nervous i was afraid we
wouldn't have any more 15 hour concerts with him in hot tuna but i'm glad hot tuna yeah
uh now tell us the kind of things you're going to do in this syndicated radio show
well we're going to bring lesbian dial a day to the rest of the country i've told you about that
keep people caught up and you try and fix them up with various folks yeah you know jim lange jr i
become i actually become the jim lange junior experience and i always thought that this was a
thing that only new yorkers could handle dave but i think the rest of the country is ready
and when can we uh start listening for the show hopefully for september 1st is our
air date all across the country yeah and then we have other big news that i'm announcing on your
show for the first time this is going to freak some people out in philadelphia we're going to
start doing our morning show not only in new york but it's going to be aired over wisp fm
in philly so we're simulcasting it to philadelphia building a little network we're building a mini
network because i can't wait around for any more networks to uh ask me to work i'm going to start
my own damn network going city to city city to city now do you get more money when you go to
philadelphia getting a lot more money yeah getting more money in fact uh leaving nbc nbc hardly paid
i'm not going to get into the specifics didn't they renegotiate your deal at one point didn't
you go to them and say i really ought to be making more money and they said okay howard
dave i was carrying the radio station as you know you know it sounds awfully pompous when it comes
from me but no sincerity nobody else nobody else is going to shoot my horn if you know what i mean
so i have to come on here and say this myself yeah but nbc was making like five million
dollars a year off of my show yeah just selling time on your selling time on my program family
entertainment was what we were about and we were well if you're the manson family okay thank you
thank you very much you have sixes carved in your head this is for you but they held me back
i tried to get a network deal with nbc i wanted new network show no go they held me back every
step of the way why did you get uh released did we ever get to the bottom of that well there was
a couple of stories going around dave and right now you know i was too emotional the last time
i was on to talk about it you can see i was deeply upset yeah you were it had been a couple of months
right now it was a very emotional experience i was crying every night in my life but the reason i got
fired was because the chairman of the board of nbc decided to tune into of rca decided to tune
in to my show how do you know this because i know i know everybody in the business dave no i just
i've heard rumors of this i've heard rumors about rumors you know the rumor mill was flying
and um i heard that the chairman of the board was rolling by in his car and he heard me doing
bestiality dial a date and the guy got bent out of shape but i wasn't really going to do what i
was talking about doing i was discussing it just conjecturing the perhaps dave but you would never
do that would you of course not i wouldn't set a man up with a dog i think that's sick
you know at some point you have to draw a line don't you yeah you think yeah uh and you went to
london a couple of months ago went to london we did our show from the hard rock cafe those guys
bags they kicked me out of the hard rock cafe i'm never coming back again
i mean it dave and you know they are i i've never never actually been there but
i've heard just nothing hey what do you want to do go see elvis old guitar hanging on a wall
still the same crummy hamburgers just because they have elvis guitar hanging on the wall doesn't make
it any better or worse i'm sick of the hard rock cafe i'm tired of those hit places uh
so it's how did the audiences like you in london oh they hated us yeah we are the ugly american
you know that yeah we did nothing to uh help the situation over there and yet you have um
you have here a uh uh this is the current issue of well actually the september 86 issue of uh
penthouse magazine big article in there about uh you and uh and a lot about yeast infection
you know i had a great idea to on this show can you guys never let me do this i want to ask you
why i was going to come out tonight i was going to bring two big fluffy pillows with me and i thought
we would do the interview in a more comfortable environment instead of sitting in the chairs
where i tend to look bad because you see a side shot of my nose i would have liked to have sat on
the floor in big fluffy pillows and done it like that kind of like interview style but everybody
and that's your idea of a really good idea you don't like that well i don't know that big fluffy
pillows really makes a much difference you want a fluffy pillow next to me no i don't i mean howard
you're you're happening remember that's true so so i think the the pillows would only interfere with
your happeningness yes for sure um so uh let me just say that i am very glad to be done with nbc
all right you said honest to god i am i think you mentioned that all right uh tay rock darroch wxrk
he's on in the morning now you you moved from afternoon to morning is that a tough transition
for you oh it's a lot of fun getting up at four in the morning yeah i really enjoyed it yeah
yeah but we did it for more money basically not that i love radio in fact i hate radio
i hate i i really do never go into radio although you do get women is that right yeah outside of
the hotel there were like five women waiting for me i couldn't believe it i have groupies
here or in london no i'm talking about right here stay in a hotel yeah stay in a hotel okay uh it's
howard stern kids on monday through fridays at wxrk what time is it howard six to ten in
the morning six to ten a lot of time checks it's gonna be yeah a lot of fun a lot of time tricks
a lot of weather we like to give the weather howard stern nice to see you thank you very much