Good-bye My Friend, I hope to Hear you Again..

Today is Howard Stern's last show on free/public FM radio. It's the end of an era, not only for him but for me. Every morning, for the past five years, I've switched on my radio to listen to Stern and company as I get ready for work (at non-descript airline). I've liked the banter without the music - its like having some company in an otherwise very silent house. You start to get to know the personalities and it became familar, like friends. Despite my deep faith, I never had a problem with Stern's antics, always just laughing at the outlandishness of some of it. Most of the time, in that first hour, at 6am, Stern was pretty tame and I enjoyed and agreeded with many of his opinions on Hollywood (especially liking it when he made fun of Starr Jones and Kathy Lee and similiar holier than thou hypocrites with no sense of humor!), his take on narcissism and in the end, his unabashed hatred of the Bush administration. I will miss those rants. I'll miss the in-fighting in the cast of characters and the making fun of each other. I'll miss Artie, the newest addition to the Stern gang, who ALWAYS made me laugh. I'll miss the terrible parady songs, especially about Gary (who I adored as being the only sane one in the bunch). I'll miss the weird callers who always were begging for free stuff. I'll miss Ronnie the Limo Driver getting mad at a drop of a hat. I'll miss common sense Robyn. I'll miss Howard recounting his weekend stories and how he always feels insecure at big Hollywood shindigs. Really, I think...I'll miss my morning friends.

Ironically the show is on the same day as my final Christmas party with non-descript airline, as the company is closing down my location and I'll be out of a job sometime next year. Things, they are a-changing...

Good-bye Howard and good-luck!

http://www.howardstern.com/

Side note - so disappointed last night that on The Apprentice Randall didn't allow Rebecca a position as well. That was mean-spirited and has diminished my opinion of him.