May Day 🤩😳😮 May Day

As blogged about almost every year since circa 2014, Beth Stern has her annual Met Gala meltdown on the first Monday of May because she is universally snubbed by that event and her hubby Howard Stern can't coerce SiriusXM to pay for a table at the gala because it's too expensive and the Sterns have zero clout and are not famous enough to score tickets anyway because each person has to be approved, you don't simply fork over the dough and horn in, you have to be approved and no one can stand Beth Buttinsky and Howard Horninsky. [Plug in 'Met gala' in the search bar at the footer of this blog to bring up those numerous past blog entries.]

So, Howard has had to come up with a diversion for Beth so she won't have a Met Gala meltdown for being snubbed every year. This year, he had to shell out some dough for a children's book, "Coco and Stephen" for little cry baby Bethie that will be released on May 5th, when the Met Gala is on the 4th, so Beth can pretend she's too busy with the hubbub surrounding her book release and completing the audiobook to attend the Met Gala when in fact, she is snubbed every year.

Beth Bugged Bezos?

The Met Gala 2026 theme is, "Costume Art", and the dress code is "Fashion is Art". The “Costume Art” exhibit will be open after the Met Gala, from May 10, 2026, to January 10, 2027. 

The lead sponsors are Jeff Bezos and his Frankenstein-faced wife, and they are also honorary chairs of the event yet didn't Beth Buttinsnky bug Bezos for a ticket to the Met Gala this year? 

Well, that's the scuttlebutt since Beth hosted Bezos a few years ago at her Florida Flophouse to get him to take that reptile ranch off her hands [see BFP 4-10-26 and 11-9-24 that cites references to the prior blog entries about Bezos]. 

But Bezos ran out of there terrified his little dog would be a bite sized snack for the little Godzillas that have overtaken Beth and Howard's Floriday Folly that stands empty with only a few rooms having electrical power and a tub and shower for Beth to get hosed down for her spray tanning session. 

Yeah, and you think their alleged personal assistant Leslie Kuhn suffered a nightmare, what about Beth's toadying sister-in-law Amy Grets. She's got to hose down Beth with that spray tan in the shower every year and has to kiss her ass on top of it [I hope figuratively].

Witz is Winning

Howard Stern announced on his show that aired on April 28th that he might be downsizing from his two Sirius channels to only one as it seems that Boss Witz is winning the battle of the buttinsky Stern. 

We know Witz is winning because that's the reason why Howard keeps resurrecting his 'evil' Jennifer Witz character because he is angry he can't bully her into expanding his show by giving him that coveted third channel dedicated to music, much like Andy Cohen has with his Kiki Lounge.

Also, as reported on multiple news media outlets, Sirius is flailing once again and seeks a merger with iHeart radio, a company that went bankrupt in 2019. Everyone knows about the Sirius contract signing debacle in 2005 when a man in a dress gave Stern a lifetime contract and he can't be fired unless of course Sirius folds or Stern somehow violates his ironclad contract.

But, when Stern started his satellite radio show in 2006, it sent the flailing company into a tailspin trying to pay his overpriced salary and it forced Sirius into a merger with the other loser satellite radio company XM, or both of the platforms would have sunk into oblivion.

So, lets move onto merger talks with iHeart hoping to save SiriusXM from the chopping block as the satellite radio industry is losing ground while video podcasting is the wave of the future, something Howard Stern could never move into permanently. His E! Channel show ended over 20 years ago and he could never get a talk radio show back on cable TV like Andy Cohen has with Bravo TV. 

As blogged about already on 10-22-25, Howard Stern is not a podcaster and he has zero livestreaming video of his own rarely live satellite radio show, it is chopped up and available on a phone app after the show has aired live, and the reruns are audio only, with video clips uploaded to YouTube, but it is behind a paywall for the full interviews. Many of his guests don't like doing the Stern how because it is audio only with only video clips available for free to the masses. So some celebs have a deal where their complete interview on video is posted on Stern's YouTube channel for free, but it's a whole problem for celebrities wanting to plug their latest projects. Video killed the radio star, you know, and Sirius wants to kill the Stern show.

Obviously Boss Witz is at her wit's end trying to downsize Stern and get him to retire, which Howard briefly mentioned on his radio show on April 28th, that his second channel may be toast very soon. As blogged about exclusively for many years, Howard has badgered Boss Witz to get a third satellite channel dedicated to music like Andy Cohen has with the Kiki Lounge along with his own podcast "Daddy Diaries". So Andy Cohen is just about everywhere, a satellite radio show host, a cable TV talk show host, a music channel host, and a podcaster.

#dawgshed #howardstern #bethstern #florida #palmbeachzoo

#zoo #zoom #jack #amygrets #malone #buffet #allyoucaneatbuffet

#robinquivers #drydiva #diva #showercapqueen #shower

Hall of Fame Horninsky 😕🎤🎵

On Monday, April 20, 2026, on the Howard Stern SiriusXM satellite radio show, he bloviated about how a journalist [Malina Saval, who worked for the Jerusalem Post], wrote an article for Rolling Stone digital magazine about how Howard Stern should be recognized by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame because Ed Sullivan is receiving the "Ahmet Ertegun" award this year, posthumously.

So, apparently, Howard Stern needs to be honored for introducing musical performers to the mainstream public like Ed did even though Ed was on TELEVISION and Stern was a DJ on free radio years ago and now is a talk show host on pay radio. It doesn't add up, does it. 

Howard did have a stint as a cable TV talk show host on the E! Channel in 1992/93, "The Howard Stern Interview", interviewing a slovenly disgruntled Grace Slick who was desperate to dart off to catch her plane. The show was quickly yanked off the cable network.

As blogged about many times, Howard resurrected his solo interview segment from the E! Channel on his rarely live Sirius satellite radio show, 'The Howard Stern Interview", and it's as boring as you can imagine garnering zero new subs for Sirius.

So, here we go with Howard getting his little publicity puff piece in Rolling Stone magazine online, because his agent sends out press releases seeing who will print them at cost, when it costs Howard an arm and a leg to get these puff pieces printed.

As also blogged about numerous times, Howard has bugged his boss Jennifer Witz for a third channel dedicated to music, which he has failed to get, so he uses Howard 100 for his talk radio show and Howard 101 for reruns of his show and musical guests and specials. He thinks that since he is now on pay radio, he can pay for any award he can get but so far, he wants Sirius to pay and they refuse.

Ahmet Ertegun signed Led Zeppelin 

to Atlantic Records

This Rolling Stone Hall of Fame 'Ahmet Ertegun' award that Ed Sullivan is getting this year was named after the legendary co-founder and President of Atlantic Records, who famously signed LED ZEPPELIN to the label in 1968. 

Peter Grant and Jimmy Page wanted only the 'Cadillac of music labels" to launch Led Zeppelin, which was the highest paid contract amount at that time period with any record label prior to Led Zeppelin. After hearing their demo tapes in 1968, Ahmet immediately had Jimmy Page sign on that famous dotted line and the rest is history.

Led Zeppelin officially signed with Atlantic Records on 

November 11, 1968.  The contract, signed by Jimmy Page and 

Atlantic Records co-founder Ahmet Ertegun in New York, was a major

deal for the time, providing a $200,000 advance and paving the 

way for the release of their debut album shortly after. This is why

the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame instituted the legendary "Ahmet Ertegun"

award because he had the expertise and foresight to recognize

what would become the world's greatest rock band of all time.

Peter Grant, Jimmy Page, and Ahmet at the contract signing.

Atlantic Records honored Led Zeppelin with numerous gold records
with them now being reclassed to the higher platinum levels.

Howard Horninsky Doesn't Qualify for any Hall of Fame Awards

Howard is desperate to horn in on the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, but he doesn't fit into any category. He doesn't even qualify in the DJ category.

Tom Donahue was inducted because he was not just a radio DJ, he was a record producer and concert promoter. Alan Freed was also inducted and he was a concert promoter, not just a DJ. He did get a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, something Howard's harangued Boss Witz about for years but Sirius refuses to pay for it. Andy Cohen got his star but BravoTV paid for it and gee, Stern is not on TV is he. HAHAHAHAHA.

Alan Freed was involved with a payola scandal involving bribes from record companies and was convicted of tax evasion. Gee, if that alleged lawsuit from the Sterns' assistant Leslie Kuhn moves forward to a jury trial, Howard may have something in common with Freed as Stern hopes to be freed from all hostile environmental charges brought about by Kuhn. I mean, that horrible Hamptons house is overrun with ants, termites, you name it and it's an environmental hazard along with feral felines desperate to escape from Stalag Beth.

But Howard hardly qualifies for the Ahmet Ertegun award anyway. All Howard's produced in the last quarter of a century is his own 60th birthday party and an HBO special in conjunction with SiriusXM that taped his interview with The Boss who should've hung up that guitar years ago and stop boring people with his tired old songs that remain the same. That interview failed to get any recognition or award nominations. So how that qualifies Stern to be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is a mystery because all he does is introduce a bunch of musicians and nonmusicians trolling around Sirius looking for any radio host to plug their latest project to paying subscribers.

And the winner is, Becoming Led Zeppelin

#dawgshed #howardstern #rockandrollhalloffame #halloffame

#fame #ledzeppelin #becomingledzeppelin #ahmet #page #plant

#beth #robin #atkins #satellite #critics #criticschoiceaward

Howard's Working Vacation to Make Beth Famous 👱‍♀️😮🎤😳

On March 30, 2026, Beth Stern was a guest on her hubby Howard Stern's stale satellite radio show to promote her upcoming book about a cat and a rabbit called "Coco and Stephen" and she was going to do an audiobook which is a joke since that book is mainly all illustrations and little dialogue but then it saves Howard some money. Oh, but of course the people voicing the characters will not be paid due to it being all for charity, namely, all proceeds go into Beth's Birkin Bag where her foundation Beth's Furry Friend's leaves her holding the bag. [Ref: BFP 4-2-26 about Beth's audiobook discussion during the Stern show.]

So, every year at this time, Howard Stern takes a week off on vacation. Let that sink in for a moment because now you know the timing of Beth using Sirius audio equipment to record the audiobook for her children's book "Coco & Stephen" and do her book promotion with Zoom interviews, so Howard is working during his time off to make Beth famous once again. 

Howard gave the impression that he could record the audiobook during his regularly scheduled work days, but now it seems that he had to wait until his vacation to work on their book that benefits the Sterns' foundation. The thing is, Beth appears to be in the Hamptons working on her book promotion because the Sterns like to confuse their fan and any aberrant former personal assistants of their exact location to avoid any alleged subpoenas. Beth's book is scheduled to be released on May 5th, to detract from the annual Met Gala, wherein Beth is snubbed every year so Howard has to come up with some promotional item for Beth, like a book or calendar or merchandize so Beth can appear to snub the Met Gala as if she's too busy when the Met Gala has never met Beth.

Once again Howard takes time off to make Beth famous. She was doing the audiobook tapings and now is doing Zoom interviews, whatever that means, but one wonders if she now wants her own podcast on the Stern Show. 

Another Spring Break

Howard already had time off for spring break, but it seems the Beth O family are taking over their Florida flophouse because Beth likes to brag and show off how famous she is, so she's pretending to be busy with her book promotion. This is usually an annual event when the O Family invades the Florida Fortress and Howard escapes back to NY.

O Family hand-me-down? Beth wore a daisy bikini in 2021 and now her
niece sports a similar one.

Another O Family visit with Beth's toadying sister-in-law Amy Grets
and her daughter. Normally with the O Family invasion, Howard
hikes back to New York.

Bella Urns It

It's really strange how Beth showed off a special urn for her cat Bella who just died, because all her personal pets get cremated and thrown into that giant urn in the master bedroom at their Hamptons home. It's common knowledge, Beth has said this, all the animals get dumped into that huge urn, only her personal pets, not the faux feline fosters who may happen to cross the rainbow bridge. So this is very strange that Bella earns her own personal purse size urn. Maybe Beth can take it around on her book tour for sympathy sales even though the book's about Coco the cat and Stephen the rabbit, unless Bella makes an appearance in the book. I guess we'll have to wait and see.

All of Beth's pets used to end up in this urn. See the BFP 9-12-17 and 7-15-23.

So, Beth carts Bella the cat from the Hamptons where she's lived her whole life with the Sterns, then transports her to Florida where she apparently died and now she has her little urn in Florida.

#dawgshed #grets #amy #florida #coco #cocoandstephen

#hamptons #studio #basement #bella