If Artie’s out, who’s in?

by Craig

Newsday’s Pop Culture blog, Pet Rock, speculated recently on who would replace Artie Lange on the Howard Stern Show, assuming the Hoboken comedian really is leaving the show.

If Artie leaves, it would be a big chair to fill, literally and figuratively. Who would be a good fit?

Pet Rock plays it straight, suggesting regulars Greg FitzSimmons, Nick Dipaolo, Bob Levy, Jim Florentine and John Hein. All are well-known to Stern listeners, and of the five, only one – Hein – isn’t a working stand-up comic.But why give up on Hoboken? We’d like to nominate Adam Wade or Chris DeLuca for the post. Both are professional comedians and each would bring a distinctive voice to the show. And if they’re looking to go in an entirely different direction, how about Dr. Blogstein? He’s got plenty of (Internet) radio experience, much of it relevant to the Howard Stern Show.

Coming up this week on DR. BLOGSTEIN’S RADIO HAPPY HOUR: (Live on Tuesday March 26th at 9PM ET and forever archived at BlogTalkRadio.)

“Stuttering John” Melendez, announcer for the Tonight Show with Jay Leno and former member of the Howard Stern Show will lead things off this week on the Radio Happy Hour.

We’ll find out how a man with a stutter ended up with an announcing career, what he does all day, and whether he thinks Howard or Jay is funnier. We’ll also learn about his upcoming feature film that he wrote, directed and starred in: National Lampoon’s One, Two, Many.

Also, Singer Sherri Eldin will perform live on the air, Dangerous Lee co-hosts, Vinny Bond drags his Big Leather Couch into the Radio Happy Hour Lounge to chat live with the listeners and Justin the Weatherman stops in to tell us how he almost drowned in Costa Rica.

All that, and we’ll take your calls at 646-652-4804

Join us live every Tuesday night at 9PM ET. The Radio Happy Hour Lounge-a live chat room during show time-is a whole new reason to make sure you listen live! It’s the show within the show!

But if you can’t and miss us live, we’re ALWAYS ON at www.DrBlogstein.com

Psychics are frauds. I’ve never believed them and have always hated how they take advantage of people by preying on their grief. I have always felt that if I were psychic and able to speak to the dead that there is no way that I would charge people to talk to their relatives that have passed. If I were given that gift, I would pass it on to others as a gift. If I wanted to make money off of my talent, I’d join the CIA or FBI.

Why do I bring this up? Well it has to do with one of the kidnapped boys that was recovered in Missouri last week and Howard Stern.

Huh?

Believe it or not, the story I’m about to relay to you was brought to my attention by yesterday’s Howard Stern Show. It was brought to Stern’s attention by yesterday’s New York Daily News. As you can see, I’m bringing you yesterday’s news–its a wonder you all keep coming back here.

As you know by now, two kidnapped Missouri boys were found alive last week. One of those boys, Shawn Hornbeck, was brought home after being gone for almost 4 years! Well, according to Howard and the Daily News, back in February 2003, four months after Shawn disappeared, psychic Sylvia Browne appeared on The Montel Williams Show and told the boy’s parents that she believed their son was “no longer with us.”

She went on to tell them that his body could be found in a wooded area 20 miles from their Richwoods, Mo., home, near two large jagged boulders.

Apparently, Browne’s “vision” of his death caused search teams to redirect their efforts and drew dozens of calls from the public who believed they lived near the woods matching Browne’s descriptions.

Browne then “offered” to continue to help the family for $700 a consultation. What a sweet woman.

She knew how these missing children cases usually turn out and she went with the odds. Doing so, she impeded the search for Shawn (though that says as much about the police as it does about Browne) and messed with the hopes of his family. HOW DARE SHE!

She is a fraud. A charlatan. And she should be ashamed of herself. Check this out, as it seems others agree.

And if you’re still not sold, watch this!

(Note to my female, homosexual male and foreign readers: Please stick with me through the beginning of this post where I briefly discuss certain baseball players. I know you won’t care about them, but I assure you that you’ll enjoy the point of the story.)

Jose Uribe was a shortstop for the San Francisco Giants while I was growing up. He was fairly obscure, nothing special, and mostly anonymous to a mere casual fan. He died on Friday in a car crash.

I was talking about this tragedy with one of my buddies. He, like me, is a walking baseball encyclopedia so when I mentioned another story of a baseball player dying way too soon, I figured he would have been familiar with the story. He wasn’t.

I brought up Bo Diaz. He was a catcher, mostly for the Cincinnati Reds. He also played while I was growing up. He was killed in 1990 when he was crushed by the satellite dish he was installing on his roof. My friend doubted my story so he did what anyone does these days to confirm a fact—He Googled “Bo Diaz died”.

That led us to one of the most macabre, yet entertaining website that I ever have come across: http://www.deadoraliveinfo.com/It’s the ultimate database of dead celebrities from all walks of fame. You not only find out who is dead, when they died and how it happened but you also learn who they’ve outlived, how many more days you have to live to outlive them and much, much more.

Did you know that if Artie Lange, the portly comedian from the Howard Stern Show, who is known for his abuse of drugs, alcohol and food can manage to stay alive for just 1,255 more days he can outlive Elvis Presley (also known for his “excesses”)? Fascinating!

I spent hours on this site last night. They even have games you can play like “Dead or Alive?” or “Guess The Age”Try it out…here’s one:

Dead or Alive?

Cass Elliot, AKA “Mama Cass” of the group The Mamas & The Papas

Click here for the answer…

Fun, right? I can play on there all day and I think that I will…Imagine, if Bo Diaz had cable, I never would have known about http://www.deadoraliveinfo.com/ !

UPDATE (12-13-06) Peter Boyle AKA “Frank Barone” just swiched teams.