08-06-25 YMS HR1 The future of Trumpism and the lack of a future for Howard Stern.

The future of Trumpism and the lack of a future for Howard Stern.

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Speaker 4 (01:10):
He's got to put this mess together.

Speaker 3 (01:12):
Oh no, I wasn't. I wasn't belittling him. We were
just talking off the air. There's nothing earth shattering happening today.
But there are a handful of things like, is Howard
Stern the next Stephen Colbert? And by the way, the
immature or shallow way of looking at it is Donald

(01:34):
Trump's behind the scenes pulling the strings on all these people.
Come on, do you know that Howard Stern's five year
contract that expires this year is one hundred million dollars
a year. Yeah, Now, I'm by the way, I don't
play the envy jealousy game. First of all, good for him,

(01:54):
but from a business standpoint, I'm trying to figure out
how that made sense for Serious XM. First of all,
if you have children in minor twenty so they're not children,
they're young adults, they would no more listen to Serious
Xman and pay for I mean, they're all I don't

(02:18):
even know the names of them, but they get in
the car and it just comes up and it just
plays whatever they want. That's bottom by, that's what all
the cool kids are listening to. Yeah, it's like a
nine dollar. You know, it creates things for themselves. They're
not scared how I mean? I guess my question is,
how was serious XM? Does Howard Stern really bring enough

(02:41):
subscribers to cover one hundred million dollars? I find that
hard to believe. I find it hard to believe that
that Colbert was worth.

Speaker 4 (02:54):
Obviously it wasn't. They were losing forty million dollars.

Speaker 3 (02:57):
These are things that just don't make sense on paper
to be blaming Donald Trump for. But it is certainly
the end of an era. Who's the future of Mega?
First of all, Donald Trump chimed in. He believes it's
Jdvans and he has the right to that opinion, quite frankly,

(03:21):
guessing with three years left to go of Donald Trump,
that'd be my guest too. Polling might suggest it's Marco Rubio.
Where's the story? First of all, too soon? Second of all,
either one's fine with me, but I really do see

(03:47):
I go back to nineteen eighty and nobody ever brings
this up. But nineteen eighty and twenty twenty stick out
for me in presidencies like Kennedy and Trump, and nobody

(04:07):
ever brings them up.

Speaker 4 (04:08):
And you're like, what.

Speaker 3 (04:12):
Because in twenty twenty, in addition to weaponizing COVID, changing
election laws at state legislatures unconstitutionally, and then harvesting ballots,
in other words, cheating and stealing the election. I would
say with a trojan horse. But a trojan horse is

(04:33):
cognitively more impaired than Joe Biden was. But what Podesta
behind the scenes did to take the Clinton apparatus and
the Obama apparatus and combine them, because from one angle
it makes no sense. Kamala Harris is one of the
most unlikable politicians ever. She was the first one out
in the primary, and she was supposed to be having

(04:55):
the whole thing handed to her, and she blew it.

Speaker 4 (04:58):
She just blow it. She was the first out.

Speaker 3 (05:01):
But to satisfy the Clinton apparatus and the money and
the foot soldiers and the loyalists with the Obama they
combined it.

Speaker 4 (05:09):
And that's exactly what they did in nineteen eighty.

Speaker 3 (05:12):
I remember sitting there quite frankly, I was only sixteen
years old and I'm watching the convention, and believe it
or not, I'm embarrassed to say I think as a kid,
I was leaning H. W.

Speaker 4 (05:27):
Bush.

Speaker 3 (05:30):
But it was like fifty to fifty all the way
to the end. And so what did the Republicans naturally do? Well,
we need unity and we need energy to take out
an incumbent. Why don't we unite the party and combine
them both? And I look at this today now, I'm

(05:52):
not going to lose consciousness and do noster del journe.

Speaker 4 (05:54):
I'll just do it straight. This is looking so obvious
to me.

Speaker 3 (06:00):
That maybe, and depending on how it looks from three
years from now, and it may not three years from now,
but right now, what would be wrong but just putting
these two on the ticket together and completely uniting, and
you wouldn't be uniting the Republican Party, although you would,
you'd be uniting this whatever trump Ism, Maga, Reagan Revolution,

(06:23):
tea Party movement, America first has become the fact that
you know you have this big handoff. I mean, the
only thing I wouldn't be interested in I wouldn't think,
and I don't think anybody in the I'm not a
Republican or a Democrat. I'm an independent, but I don't
I could become a Republican again if it stays on

(06:43):
this course. I think what people would respond to is
as long as you don't go back to the old
inside or establishment Republican Party in name only you know,
the guys that are just as bad as the Democrats,
or not doing anything they'd say they're going to do
to stop the dummer.

Speaker 4 (07:01):
I just don't go back to that.

Speaker 3 (07:04):
And there's a list longer than this, but a really
good list everything Donald Trump has done. And it sounds
so sophomore to say all the amazing historic things Donald
Trump has done because nobody has a grasp of the

(07:26):
historic greatness of Donald Trump. You won't get to see
it clearly because of the matrix and division in this
country until he leaves. So you get a historical perspective,
especially with foreign policy, completely ignorant to the brilliance there.
It's reshaping the world, he's reshaping America, but setting us
down a trajectory for our time, for all time. It's

(07:49):
Kennedy only still living. His biggest contribution will be the
creation of what still doesn't have a name other than
Mega Mega's a movement. This is bigger than a movement.

(08:11):
So I mean, bottom line on that one is, if
it's JD or if it's Marco, why are we all fighting?
Just combine them like nineteen eighty you'll be just fine.
And then behind them, whether it's hegseat or others, you
ought to be able to orchestrate this to be at

(08:32):
least twelve to sixteen years of leadership, that's pretty significant.
There's a lot of stories ESPN deal. My only concern
there was NFL red zone. My entire fall revolves around it.
I never watch a whole football game. It's put on

(08:53):
red zone. I watch them all at one, just want
the highlights. Well it's not highlights, it's in real time.
Oh is it the minute the team gets into the
red zone and you switched there? Okay, you can't. I
mean to me, going back to one game is like
I have some Franklin police officers who listened to the
show in Nashville on WLAC. I was gonna say, it's

(09:14):
like driving the speed limit, which I really do. Don't
you like the emotional Have you ever twenty miles an
hour through a neighborhood?

Speaker 4 (09:23):
How slow that feels? Well, yeah, that's my neighborhood and
cops it on.

Speaker 3 (09:26):
The people are walking faster than me, they're passing me walking.

Speaker 4 (09:30):
Yeah, but you know.

Speaker 3 (09:31):
It has that feeling watching one game, But as long
as we got NFL reds, Like in my life Scott
Hansen him securing his contract with the NFL Red Zone,
that was everything for me and Nick. Once that was secured,
we were like, Okay, what's next? Howard Stern's leaving? Does
that in affect me? I haven't listened to Howard Stern

(09:51):
whatever shell of what he used.

Speaker 4 (09:53):
To be too. I can't even imagine what they do now.

Speaker 3 (09:56):
I mean I do see the clips of his interviews,
and it sounds like he's gotten a lot less shock
and a lot more thoughtful, fascinate therapist. Well there is that.
If you listen to his interviews today, they are not
what they used to be.

Speaker 4 (10:10):
It's not How does that make you feel? I don't know.

Speaker 3 (10:12):
You don't even want to know. We'd have to go
off the air. Well, no, we can do it right
here in here. How does that make I'm being your
therapist right now? You don't even get the joke. I
got the joke. You don't want to know. Of all
the things I can't, red can't, you can't. Everyone I've
shared it with most don't say anything. They just make

(10:32):
a face. You know, It's like this can this will
instantly make you an emoji. In Denmark, the zoo is
asking the general public if you have any unwanted pets
you would like to donate to the zoo. We need

(10:56):
them to feed our enclosed predators. Don't take him to
the pound, don't give him away, don't put an ad
you know. And I'm thinking, I mean, this is a
right up there with bring out your dad, right, bring
go to dad? Who would do that? Well, I'll tell

(11:17):
you what this dog I warned him one last time,
no more peeing in the house. Come on, We're going
to the zoo. I mean, who would do that? I
don't even know what I mean. This is one of
those where you go what zoo would ask you? What
I mean? Well, they're saying, hey, why euthanize them? You know,

(11:39):
you donate your pets, your horses. That was the other
thing they got into specific who would bring them?

Speaker 4 (11:46):
Hang on, then I can do this sound effect all right?
This guy lost in the fifth and acquauc.

Speaker 3 (11:59):
I mean that's what the more it times I bringiush
your chickens, bring USh your horses, your dogs, yours, whatever
you don't want.

Speaker 4 (12:09):
They're just gonna euthanize them anyway. Are the people of
Greenland rethinking Donald Trump's offering.

Speaker 3 (12:20):
Most people can't even utter a response that when you're
telling them no, that's one No, they're not doing it. Yeah,
could you imagine feed him to the to the animals?

Speaker 4 (12:39):
We got to say about all of this.

Speaker 3 (12:40):
That's my favorite comedian, one of my favorites, Tom Papa
does a whole routine about what if we weren't supposed
to eat the animals?

Speaker 4 (12:50):
You know, and the angels are going up into heaven.

Speaker 3 (12:53):
God, God, we got a problem. They're eating everything down there.
And then he talks about, you know how we eat everything.
But then somewhere along the line, somebody picked up a
dog and a cat said, no, not this one, but
not in Denmark. I guess you're on wanted animals. We'll
throw them this so make it come full circle, you know.
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Howard Stern may be leaving SiriusXM as his contract expires
this fall.

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Report from the British tabloid The Sun claims the seventy
one year old Stern is not likely to agree on
a contract extension with the satellite radio company before his
current deal winds down later on this year. Stern and
Sirius XM have not commented on the report. The legendary
shock jock has been on Serious XM since two thousand
and six and makes one hundred million dollars per year

(16:28):
in his current five year contract. I'm Tammy Trhio.

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I have crunched the numbers, I have done the research
well that my brain tied behind my back. How Howard
Stern makes no sense? In twenty twenty five, when your
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Speaker 4 (19:20):
What did that comes to?

Speaker 9 (19:21):
You?

Speaker 4 (19:21):
Read about five hundred mili.

Speaker 3 (19:25):
And Howard Stern's gone, or the rumor is he will
be gone when his contract expires, and then buried in
the story is Howard Stern has had a five year,
one hundred million dollar a year contract. Now there's no
envy me whatsoever, no jealousy of me whatsoever. I'm just
trying to get my arms around the business model because

(19:46):
I think a lot of who are making this. I mean,
the left is knots. They're trying to make Colbert being
fired over Donald Trump. I'm fired because the business model
didn't make any sense. People don't watch network television at
night anymore, not enough to justify a twenty million dollar salary.
The show was losing forty million dollars. That's why I
got canceled. So now we go to Howard Stern, and

(20:10):
the left is already trying to say, well, here comes
the next one. First Colbert and then the one that
speaks against Donald Trump. Howard Stern is next. And I'm
just sitting here thinking there's been a massive shift in
technology and a massive shift in behavior. People aren't making

(20:33):
millions anymore, let alone one hundred million. So then I
get the calculator out and I try to think how
many subscribers to Serious XM would there have to be
just to cover his one hundred million dollar salary. Now,
my son has a teacher who had the line of
the year last year. He looks at my son and

(20:57):
go up, time to cancel my Serious x And I
then goes, why are you cancel it?

Speaker 4 (21:02):
You're gonna do Spotify or one of the other one.

Speaker 3 (21:06):
No, I have to cancel it every year and then
they then they can send me. Then they let me
back in at five dollars a month, all right, So
most people.

Speaker 4 (21:14):
Do that.

Speaker 3 (21:16):
There's not a lot of people that are doing SERIOUSXM
beyond what comes with the car when they buy it
and then they don't subscribe, or they do the introductory
offer and then you don't so to get full price premium,
let's say that's twenty five bucks a month. Now, there's
a lot of people that have a lot of subscriptions.
They lose track of them, so who knows, you know,

(21:38):
maybe they get their twenty five dollars, but don't even
get me started.

Speaker 4 (21:42):
At five dollars a month? How many you'd have to have?

Speaker 3 (21:46):
I'm gonna do best case scenario for serious XM. And
and then I thought, well, well how about I do
it in between? So I just took the one hundred
million dollars seal of Howard Stern and divided it by
fifteen dollars a month, and it would take You're not

(22:11):
going to believe this. What is one hundred million divided
by fifteen dollars six six six six six six six.
What are the odds of that? Seriously, let's speak a
lot to you, Satan. So it came it came to six.

(22:34):
You would need six million, six hundred and sixty six that.

Speaker 4 (22:37):
What if I had a slur? This would be a tragedy.

Speaker 3 (22:39):
This morning, I just did the numbers on Howard's term,
and it would take six million, six hundred and sixty,
six thousand and six hundred and sixty six subscribers in
order just to pay his salary. You're not even making profits,
you can salary. That's not even the support staff salary.
The mark of the Stern, the mark of the Slur.
What are the odds that.

Speaker 4 (23:00):
I would come to six six six six six six
six six six six six. All right.

Speaker 3 (23:04):
So then you go, well, what is the premium subscription
that you would have to pay for Howard Stern after
the introductory offer, And it's twenty five dollars. At twenty
five dollars, you would need four million unique subscribers just

(23:24):
to cover his salary. You're not making money that that's
not even paying for I forgot her name now, Robin,
Robin or any of.

Speaker 4 (23:33):
The other.

Speaker 3 (23:36):
And so you'll see America and I can see it
on social media. You know, you got the left saying
this is this because you spoke against Trump. First First,
first they got Colbert and now they're getting Trump. And
I'm like, no, wake up to the shift in viewership
and listenership, in age and technology.

Speaker 4 (23:56):
That has taken place.

Speaker 3 (24:01):
That's why ESPN is gutting and can't justify in salaries.
It's a lot of people to pay. You know, it
used to be I was thinking of this the other day.
They were doing flashback type pictures from radio and these

(24:22):
guys are doing this would be a w WKKC in Jaffla, Missouri,
you know, and you're like, what, every little town had
a radio station, every little town was selling advertising, and
every little town was paying for disc jockeys.

Speaker 4 (24:41):
Do you know how small the world has gotten? Let
alone America.

Speaker 3 (24:46):
Used to land on a plane in a city like
you were in a strange place, and everything was duplicated.
It's not anymore. You do it once somewhere, and it
air is everywhere. Why because if you put a radio
station in that small town in a state talking about
the school board last night we're talking about.

Speaker 4 (25:08):
There, there'd be nobody listening.

Speaker 3 (25:11):
We're all talking about the same things. Because that's what
social media has done. That is what television has done
with satellites, that's what radio has done. I was in
a car one time in New York City and the
guy that picked us up from the airport, we're talking
about New York.

Speaker 4 (25:29):
I was trying to explain New York City to my son, and.

Speaker 3 (25:34):
This guy, you know too much looking back at us
in the back seat, not enough with his eyes on
the road. You can't think of New York City as
one city. It's not the largest city in America. It's
three hundred small cities. And he's right, and not just
to the borough, but to the neighborhood. That's what New

(25:57):
York City really is. That's why everybody outside here's the
talk and they don't get it, but they bring up
a part of town. Even when if you see a
couple of New Yorkers outside of New York talking and
they go, hey, where you from, Well they'll start with
the borough, but then they'll get more specific.

Speaker 4 (26:17):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I got a cousin there. We lived
in Long Island.

Speaker 3 (26:20):
Yeah, that's how it works. But that's what's happened to
the world. So what's happened to America? Well, that impacts everything.
We're not watching ABC, NBCCBS. I mean, I'm old enough
and I'm not that old to remember when you watched
the six o'clock news or that was it till ten o'clock, right,

(26:42):
and you had weather and you had sports and you
had news. That's how I kept up with sports. I
waited for the sports guys six minutes.

Speaker 4 (26:50):
That was it.

Speaker 3 (26:55):
Newspapers are a great example why. I mean, as much
as I missholding them, the heck would you do with
the newspaper today? Not just the offensive bias, but the
concept who could be in tomorrow's newspaper that I don't
already know it's yesterday's news? Today, I find out when

(27:19):
somebody dies. The second they die, I get notified the
way news directors used to get notified. So everything's changed,
and everything is divided up and everything is consolidated. You
don't change the technical landscape, the technology landscape, the broadcast

(27:42):
landscape and not have it impact salaries, business plans, and
so one of the things that we always point out,
and everybody's gonna try to make this about Donald trumpdal
Trump has nothing to do with this.

Speaker 4 (27:58):
Phone does.

Speaker 3 (28:01):
The ability to listen to anything on your phone in
your car. Nobody gets into a car and hits an
AM or an FM. Some do, but not all like
they used to. And everybody doesn't get serious XM to
get Howard Stern, especially when he has changed so much

(28:24):
in style and content, the very things that made I'm
just gonna say this loosely. I don't necessarily want to
defend it for three hours, but the very things that
made Howard Stern may be worth that one hundred million
he doesn't do anymore, and it's not acceptable anymore. So,
I mean, I just looked at it. I'm like, Howard
Stern making one hundred million dollars a year. I guess

(28:45):
he is gone at the end of this contract. How
else could you make five hundred million dollars makes sense
for the next five years, not in the serious XM
business model. That's the changing landscape now. Years ago, it
it made a little bit of sense. But five years
ago people weren't listening to podcasts like they are today.

(29:09):
They didn't have their favorite shows on demand whenever they
want them, not just when they're live. I don't know
how you could possibly crunch the numbers and make any
sense for Howard Stern to continue on SERIOUSXM. You only
have thirty three million subscribers, and unless you can you know,

(29:33):
what do we talk about good profit margin ten to one?
Unless you can prove all thirty three million they're only
there to hear Howard Stern, you'd have to relook at that.
And then what happens on the reverse of that is
people that are used to making that much money, well,
they don't keep a sensible mind about that. The more
sensible figure might be, well, we either start doing commercials

(29:55):
on Serious XM, which they may do.

Speaker 4 (29:58):
They all ready talk too much.

Speaker 3 (30:02):
I guess they'd start doing commercials too, But their home
model caves, so Howard Stern would have to get used
to making about two hundred thousand dollars a year, not
one hundred million. Well, he gonna stick around for that.
That's why you're going to see a lot of the
talent you grew up with. Some will do it not
for the love of the money, but for the love
of the game. Many will just go away. But don't

(30:24):
track this like oh, Stern's following Colbert or even on
the right. Oh, the left is getting canceled for all
their leftist views. Now, these are business models in a
changing industry and a dissolving industry. Howard Stern may not
only be the next he may be like Colbert at
the tip of the iceberg because it's unsustainable from a

(30:49):
business plan standpoint. I know you like the freedom to
watch and listen to whoever you want. Well, a lot
of things that you like to listen to every now
and then are going to disappear because you're not listening
to them all the time.

Speaker 4 (31:01):
And the latest is Howard Stern.

Speaker 5 (31:03):
It's your Morning show with Michael del Chorno.

Speaker 3 (31:08):
This is how Red crunches and numbers from our last segment.
He sends me the revenue net income diluted EPs adjusted
ebd DDA free cash flow figgers for Serious Smart.

Speaker 4 (31:19):
Now I want Scotch, let me cut to the chase.

Speaker 3 (31:23):
The net income for Serious XM was two hundred and
five million dollars, sets down from three hundred and fifty
four million the same period last year. Howard Stern would
represent you know, his salary alone almost half of one quarter,
so uh, and the revenue was down greatly from subscriptions
and up greatly in podcasts. That's probably where maybe Howard

(31:46):
Stern finds himself in the near future. But it's a
business model issue, not of Howard Stearn. Although when Howard
Stern does go so low like others have, well he's
not the same Howard Stern that they grew to fancy.

Speaker 4 (32:00):
He's alienated himself. Let's face it.

Speaker 3 (32:03):
There's a lot of conservatives used to laugh at the
filthiness of that. They've been since offended. So it won't
be the same scenario. But I would presume if you
want to see have you ever interviewed with Sirius or
XM me, No, they'll tell you straight up that a
lot of the money goes to Stern.

Speaker 4 (32:18):
We're not going to pay you that much. Oh lovely
what that's goodness for that?

Speaker 3 (32:21):
Maybe the can now President Trump is threatening a federal
takeover of Washington, d C. It kicks off our top
five stories of the day. The reason a DOGE staffer
was reportedly assaulted.

Speaker 6 (32:33):
Police say Edward Corstine was attacked by a group of
people outside his car. Earlier this week, Wheresident Trump posted
what appear to be an image of Corstine after the
assault untruth of Social In the post, Trump said crime
in DC is out of control and threatened that if
the city doesn't fix the issue, we will have no
choice but to take federal control of the city. Two
people so far have been arrested in connection to the
alleged assault of Courstine, a DOJE staffer who now works

(32:56):
at the Social Security Administration.

Speaker 4 (32:58):
I'm Mark Mayfield.

Speaker 3 (32:59):
Looks like the clintonser head back to Washington in connection
with the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Speaker 10 (33:04):
Besides the Clintons, former attorneys General William Barr and Merrick Garland,
as well as the former FBI director James Comy, have
been subpoened. The Republican led Committee has also subpoened the
Justice Department to hand over any files related to the
Epstein case, with the names of victims blacked out. This
comes as the Trump administration tries to tamp down calls

(33:26):
from the MAGA base for all the files to be
released to the public, and after the Republican Speaker of
the House sent lawmakers home before they could vote on
the files being released. Tony Waterman Washington.

Speaker 3 (33:40):
The Department of Health and Human Services is canceling nearly
two dozen vaccine development projects targeting viruses like COVID nineteen
in the flu. Tammy Trijello has the details.

Speaker 9 (33:49):
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Junior says he's stopping five
hundred million dollars in funding for mRNA based vaccines. Those
vaccines were credited with helping to slow the COVID nineteen.
Kennedy has long been a critic of mRNA vaccine technology.
He says the funding would be better spent elsewhere. I'm
Tammy Truheo.

Speaker 3 (34:08):
The cause of death of metal icon Ozzy Osbourne is
being revealed.

Speaker 6 (34:19):
Osbourne and died due to a heart attack. The death
certificate also cites coronary artery disease and Parkinson's as playing
a role in his death. The Prince of Darkness passed
away on July the twenty second, just weeks after taking
the stage one final time.

Speaker 4 (34:34):
I'm Mark Nephew. Baseball.

Speaker 3 (34:35):
Tigers lost six to three to the Twins. Cards lost
twelve to six of the Dodgers. Guardians beat the Mets
three to two. Brew Crew wons seven to two. They
are so hot right now over the Braves, so they
are playing the Braves. Raise beat the angel seven to three,
Dbacks lost ten to five to the Padres, and the
A's sixteen to seven over the nets.

Speaker 5 (34:53):
We're all in this together. This is your morning show
with Michael ndheld Jo and No.

Speaker 3 (35:00):
The Bat.

Speaker 9 (35:01):
The Past