Showing posts with label Stern show. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Stern show. Show all posts

Monday, January 20, 2020

Robin's Wrong - Early 2020 Update

Back in the day, someone undertook the task of keeping up with Robin Quivers’ many blunders during the Stern show and memorialized them on the www.robinswrong.com website.  The site isn’t active today, but cached versions are still around online.

While the following list is far from complete, here are some more subsequent screw ups by Robin, who modestly described herself as “arguably one of America’s most popular female radio personalities” in her bio at a 2019 Landmark Forum event.

January 14, 2020.  When discussing Ronan Farrow’s book “Catch and Kill”, Robin referred to the title as “Cut and Kill”. 

January 8, 2020.  Robin read a story about the death of author Elizabeth Wurtzel - the hefty newswoman didn’t realize her book “Prozac Nation” was a memoir and described it as a novel. 

August 6, 2019.  Avid TV watcher Robin referred to Jerry Seinfeld’s Netflix show “Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee” as ”Comedians in Cars Doing Some Coffee Thing.”

August 5, 2019.  Robin, who ate lots of fast food during her infamous military career, got confused by a story involving Burger King’s introduction of a meatless burger.  She thought that the Impossible Whopper had an ingredient called “impossible food” and didn't realize that Impossible Foods is the name of a company.

June 4, 2019.  Robin read a story about Damon Wayans going on social media to defend his 15-year-old daughter after she came out as gay.   However, she quickly had to correct the story to mention that (1) it was Marlon Wayans rather than Damon, and (2) the daughter in question was 19 rather than 15.

February 4, 2019
.  Robin brought up a story about Virginia governor Ralph Northam appearing in blackface (something that an unevolved Howard Stern also used to do).  Robin said that the picture was in his high school yearbook, although the picture was from his medical school yearbook. 

January 9, 2019.  Robin referred to a story about Mark Harmon making $19 million a year on NCIS but referred to him as Mark Hamill. 

November 5, 2018.  Robin told Howard that Steven Tyler officiates weddings and will marry people for a fee of $1,000.  Howard and the guys thought this was ridiculously low but Robin continued to insist that she was right.  However, someone found that the correct fee was $200,000. 

July 24, 2018.  Robin botched a story about former porn star Stormy Daniels getting divorced.  Robin initially said that Stormy filed for divorce from her husband but later realized that the husband was the one who requested the divorce.

February 26, 2018.  The show played Living Colour’s “Cult of Personality” when coming back from one of the numerous breaks.  Music expert Robin chimed in to show that she knew about the song but thought that it was by Rage Against the Machine. 

April 17, 2017.  Robin read a story about a couple who went to a fertility clinic and found out that they were fraternal twins.  Even Howard, who is rumored to have an IQ of 99, thought this story sounded fishy.  After being pressed, Robin cited her source as the “India Express” - needless to say, this ended up being fake news and not a real story.

Wednesday, May 29, 2019

It Takes a Village

The Howard Stern show has been on a break during the last week, as Howard has just finished his grueling tour to promote his new book “Howard Stern Comes Again”.  Congratulations to Howard, as it managed to become a New York Times bestseller even though one individual estimated that the text consists of 84% transcripts of old interviews and only 16% original content.

During the downtime, the staffers are hopefully getting a chance to recharge.  Gary Dell’Abate mentioned earlier this year that they have 65-70 people working to deliver radio gold to subscribers three days a week.  While some of the people are well-known, others work clandestinely behind the scenes (who knows what type of hijinks they may be up to while the show is on break).

Here's a list of the show employees and contributors that I found, which should help the millions of Stern show fans get a better chance to learn about some of these folks.  Howard is probably wondering if one of them may be the mole who has been leaking information to Stuttering John Melendez.

1. Howard Stern
2. Robin Quivers
3. Fred Norris
4. Gary Dell’Abate.  Gary was at the Bottlerock festival in California again this week.  He posed for a picture with his wife - maybe he was also able to meet up with some of his other West Coast friends while he was out there. 


5. Benjy Bronk
6. Jon Hein
7. Rahsaan Rogers - now working out in Los Angeles
8. Marci Turk - COO (and Getting Things Done!)
9. Jeremy Coleman - SVP Programming
10. Will Murray
11. Jason Kaplan
12. Sal Governale
13. Richard Christy (no relation to Howard's son-in-law Colin Christy)
14. Shuli Egar
15. Brent Hatley
16. JD Harmeyer
17. Memet Walker
18. Steve Nowicki - who continues to hit it out of the park (?) with his fake Alex Jones bit
19. Chris Wilding - #BuildThatWall

Some of the other show contributors:

20. Ben Barto - current husband of Marci Turk?
21. Joseph Berson - Associate Production Manager 
22. Jonathan Blitt
23. Steve Brandano - Director of Talent Relations
24. Michael Flandina - Technical Producer
25. Michael Fox - Producer
26. Chris Gibbons - Director, Studio Operations 
27. Greg Giordano - Associate Producer 
28. Paul Grassini - Supervising Producer 
29. Steve Griffiths - https://www.linkedin.com/in/stevengriffiths/ 
30. Daniel Grote - Assistant
31. Sean Hanahue - Technical Producer 
32. Matt Hansen - Director of Information Technology at One Twelve, Inc.
33. Derek Jones - Writer Producer
34. Ashley Khan - Production Assistant
35. Jessica Kirson - https://jessicakirson.com/bio/
36. David LeClaire - Supervising Producer 
37. Jeremy Lipkin - Director of Tapes & Post Production
38. Ryan McKenna - Publisher, Video/Talk Programming (former Stern show research producer until this month - still at Sirius in Los Angeles, but unclear if he's still with the Stern show) 
39. Michelle Miloscia - Transcriber / Production Assistant 
40. Laura Muraczewski https://www.linkedin.com/in/lauren-muraczewski-72999282/ - former agents assistant at Don Buchwald & Associates and has been with the Stern show since 2014.
41. Angela Muto - comedienne contributor (example - Ronnie Mund's mom
42. Ryan O’Connell - Managing Editor of Howardstern.com at Whalerock
43. Mike Pearlman Producer
44. Ryan Pienciak - Senior Director, Programming
45. Ryan Rasmason - Producer https://twitter.com/user/status/1059645257216860160
46. Nik Ruckert - https://twitter.com/NikRuckert
47. Michael Shepard - Digital Media Researcher  
48. Matt Soares - Production Assistant  
49. Tim Stimpson - Associate Producer
50. Kyle Simon Researcher Producer also is a t-shirt designer
51. Mike Trainor - "Comedy" Writer
52. Prateek Vij -  Production Assistant 
53. Chris Weiler - Producer