We know some celebs only go on Howard for a PR boost, while others are forced to do the press tour for a new project. But who completely changed your opinion, in a bad way, because of what they said during their interview?
Classic Howard, whenever he asks a celebrity or a staff member for a specific number, he immediately tries to negotiate it into whatever figure he wants to believe. I can't even imagine how many guests have been put off by giving him an honest answer, only to have him argue back with a 'better' number. Do you just roll with it, or do you actually push back and tell him that's the real, actual number?
Of course, like a lot of things with him, if you dare question his version of reality, he just snaps and gets defensive, insisting he's telling the truth.
So is Howard right to questioned or are most people honest when they answer?
I have tried to listen to shows as far back as when Billy West on staff and they just don't stand the test of time. The replays are just filler since nobody edits them for content and only for time. The did a replay the other day with Scarlett Johansson and it was her first time on. Howard starts to tell her about a rumor he heard that director Sofia Coppola shot herself wearing only underwear to convince Johansson to film certain revealing scenes in Lost in Translation. In reality Johansson flatly refuted the rumor, confirming it never happened.
What was the point of this segment to be replayed? Even if picking a section that has any of the whack packers on for 2 minutes is not entertaining and actually sad. You have to have history with these people for any of the conversations to work.
What someone should do is put together most of the story lines of each packer so you can listen to it in order. Each day is a different packer. Just play the segments.
Instead of asking who can get a job after the show ends, who do you think is wasting their actual talent by staying? Who is playing it safe instead of branching out, despite having major skills (even ones we don't see on the show)?
It feels like some people are underpaid just to stick around, while others are happy doing barely any work. Who should have left to find a place that actually values them?
My vote is Richard. The guy is an amazing drummer, but he'd rather stick to low-brow humor, phony phone calls, and naked stunts.
Howard as usual is trying to blame the parents for how the artist came to be. Taylor shut that right down on how it affected his work; he said it affected his parenting. Howard is only ever trying to reinforce the blame he puts on his parents for all his issues, but never once said because of it, this made him a popular radio host.
On a side note, I heard today an old clip of Howard talking with his parents about how they liked his second book and his mother said they didn't know any of what he was talking about. To use Howard's phrase...in other words Howard's own parents didn't see the OCD, the drugs, beatings, etc... as if they were made up.
Whenever Howard starts complaining about his "obligations" outside the house, I completely tune out. Take his guitar, for instance. He bitched about his self-imposed promise to practice daily, turning it into a major hassle for his trip—even though we all know he didn't touch it until he absolutely felt like it. If anyone has a right to complain, it’s the people doing the heavy lifting: the house staff who packed it, the limo driver who loaded it, and the airport crew handling it for his private jet—plus everyone who had to reverse the entire process on the other end, and then repeat it all for the flight home.
Furthermore, if a staff member picked up a hobby, never showed their work, and just whined about being bad at it, Howard would crucify them for wasting time. Everyone knows you're learning, so naturally, they want to hear your progress. But Howard just complains. If you don't want people asking about it, stop talking about it.
All the show is now is just staff members ratting each other out, or digging through whack-packers' Twitter feeds just to mock them. And Howard loves to act like he’s still one of the guys, starting segments with, 'Hey, I heard [Staff Member] did this...' Come on. You aren't 'hearing' anything when you're never even in the office walking around chatting with people.
What actually happens is Memet sits in a production meeting and says, 'Hey Howard, Perlman posted a shirtless selfie in his car. That’s an easy 20 minutes of material where you can mock his gym routine and dating life, and then we can drag Ronnie in because of a Facebook post.' Then they just pray a Whack-Packer posts something dumb so Howard can riff on it instead of talking about anything actually topical. It's always the same old a common screwup gets you poked fun at; 'Hey Bobo, spell Knicks'.
Howard can’t talk about the economy because he has absolutely no clue what a dollar is even worth anymore. He can’t talk politics because he didn't deliver a win for his party. He can't even fake sports talk without sounding completely clueless.
It appears from years of listening to Howard, when there is controversy with his close friends and he is involved, his memory seems to be bad and claims he knows nothing. When it has nothing to do with him, his memory is lack a steel trap and recalls every detail. When did you realize Howard is a blatant habitual liar to the point he will just lie to lie.
For me the one that sticks out is when Ralph stole $100 on the plane with Howard being there. Howard was wishy-washy about what he recalled was said and then retracts he can't remember, but is admit he didn't see it happen.
Feel free and include when you realized he lied by telling a different version of a previous story.
I have the $20 plan and I did a lot of requests that burned thru the weekly in 3 days instead of the 7 days before it resets. I thought if I purchased an additional $20 of tokens, it would have reset the 7 days as if it was I created a new account, but it didn't. It used the $20 in less than a day and I am still reflecting I have to wait another 3 days. So what did I just pay for and get with as well as should I have just opened another account and bounce between the two?
We all have triggers that if someone says something it will cause you to have a stroke. What do you think Howard's trigger is? Howard acts if he has none, but he then also bans anyone pranking him, or going to him for anything claiming he isn't the boss.
I think if you bring up his appearance and cosmetic surgeries.
I have always wondered with all the antics the staff does with the backstabbing, pranks, etc pulled on them, how do they not go home and slaughter their family. Some people can't just say enough is enough and just move on to another job so they take the daily beating hoping it goes better the next day. Which staff member's life will instantly become better following the last day of Howard's show? The flip side is some need the job, don't have any valid skills and does everything than can just to keep the job.
I think JD's life will be better due to his nerves and all the picking done mostly by the guy that says he wants to protect and help him; Howard. We know Sal was in dept due to his wife's lifestyle and I doubt he was able to get it under control. He will definitely struggle since nobody wants a racists employee and without any useful skills will not find a job that covers his family lifestyle.
You ever wonder how many times an actor read a line and said my character would never do or say that? Sure the writers have visions of where they want to go, but it really is the actors playing the role that brings them to life and I would assume they have some understanding of what the imaginary person in real life would be like?
The only character I would think would have had the least pushback would be Michael since he would stay dumb stuff as it was, but there is a chance that some writer may have wanted to give him some quality that he wouldn't have like "perspective".
Sounds very calculated on her part vs Howard saying all proceeds goes to the animal rescue. So everyone gets paid from the publisher, artists, ghost writer, etc... and whatever is left I guess would be Beth's cut which she is turning over to the shelter. Gotta love if you buy the book for $20, the shelter might get $2-$3 buck. So at the end of the day, the shelter does get a couple of bucks and promotion, but Beth receives the biggest reward with getting to do the talk circuit, a published author Wikipedia entry and a persona that she is a saint.
I want to be able to access my project from different machines so I moved ii up to a google drive. It was working until it wasn't. The error I'm seeing is specifically a JSON parse error in the package.json of your React plugin. This usually happens when a file in your node_modules becomes corrupted or is incomplete.
Since my project is located in Google Drive, this is the most likely culprit. Cloud-syncing services often struggle with node_modules because they contain thousands of tiny files that are constantly being updated, leading to sync conflicts or locked files.
My question is are their alternatives so I can do this, but it doesn't fail?
Anyone else find it appalling that Howard spends more time in him entertaining his grandchildren than his fans? I wonder if they only get 2 days a weeks and only a few hours?
Back in the day Howard would tell his audience this host stole this bit or they were doing that before it had a name, etc... Sure I believe Howard came up with throwing lunchmeat at a woman's ass was original, but did anyone else do it after him and it was a hit? The last claim he had I heard was that he was the one that suggested they make a TV show around Ozzy and his family and that was the start of reality tv.
Nothing I can think of he did on his show first which wasn't a knockoff never made it to any other show and was a hit on there?
Lately when Sal is on, he has this sarcastic laugh towards Howard. Robin has been faking laughing for a few years now, but she at least put some effort into it. Benji hasn't ever changes so it has either been fake or real the whole time. Gary rarely laughs and only what he finds it funny, the rest of the laughs are more of an amusement chuckle. Richard laughs at things that are not funny. Ronnie doesn't laugh. The rest don't know when to laugh, real or fake. Oh and JD, he laughs at everything!