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Howard used to call his mom often while on the air in New York, both his parents had gone on air to do a few shows with Howard. Seems Imus thought it was a great idea doing that, so much so that he called Howard’s mom because he wanted a mom on his show! Howard talks about being so close to his mom now that she can reach him at anytime, one time he called to tell her that he will wear what he wants to, he said he is wearing jeans to the Bar Mitzvah. Howard seemed to have the power to turn regular people into celebrities. Fred talked about how Janie the Cleaning Lady was one of the nicest people in the world, she would just do her job and didn’t complain about it. They played a clip where Janie the Cleaning Lady was talking about her hang over from partying the night before and she ended up reading a fan letter she got about her appearing on the show. Howard also had Bob Hope on the show and he decided to interview him as a out of the closet Stern, Bob Hope was a bit confused and did not find it amusing at all. Kevin Metheny Howard’s old boss, was talking about how he was trying to keep Howard under control but he was actually trying to keep him out of trouble. He said that he was trying to get the Standards and Practices people to lighten up back then and Howard probably didn’t know about that. Al Rosenberg talked about Howard using the word smegma on the air one day and how they got into trouble with management after that, Howard also did a gay spoof of ”2001 A Space Odyssey” called ”2010 A Gay Space Odyssey.”
