I-Hate-You
06-18-2004, 12:53 PM
After the break Howard said he was jamming with Hoobastank during the commercials. He's going to play keyboards for them during their song. He went on to talk about Ray Charles and a discussion they had the other day about whether or not he'd be buried with the sunglasses on. Howard read that Charles is laying in state with his sunglasses on. Howard was surprised and found that to be kind of surprising. They spent a minute on that and then brought in Bradshaw from the WWE.
Howard said that the guy was dressed in a suit and you don't usually see wrestlers dressed in a suit. He went on to talk about how Bradshaw has been in the WWE since 1995. He was also a financial analyst as well. He was working on CNBC as a financial analyst but part of his act over in Germany was to goose step in front of the audience. He said that he'd been doing it for 13 years over there because he plays the part of villian in the WWE.[COLOR=blue] He said his character is supposed to be a reprehensible character. He said it's a cross between Pat Buchannan and David Duke among a few others.
Bradshaw does have a basic script to follow when he's playing his character but he also has a certain amount of freedom to do what he wants as well. He gets the audience going and when the good guy wins, everyone goes home happy. Howard said all he was doing when he was goose stepping was reminding the Germans about their history. Howard pointed out that Bradshaw is just playing the part of a character in this WWE thing so people shouldn't take it so seriously. It's like he's in a movie or something and it's scripted.
Bradshaw doesn't think that he's that great of an actor so he doesn't know why CNBC fired him for playing a part like that. Bradshaw said that the German media says that him giving a Nazi salute is not against the law over there so they're actually defending him. Bradshaw says that CNBC believes that what he did was wrong so they let him go.
Artie did his Eric Bishoff impression for a few seconds but forgot the name of the character he was impersonating which was pretty funny. Gary came in and told Howard that Bradshaw found out about being fired through a press release. They didn't even tell him directly. Howard said it's very similar to what Clear Channel is doing to him. They are slandering him and making it very hard for him to get another job.
Howard took some phone calls and let some people talk about what's going on. One guy said that Bradshaw went over to Iraq and wrestled over there. Eric the Midget called in and said that he finds some of that stuff that Bradshaw did to be offensive because he had family members who fought in that war and died. Bradshaw said he had people in his family who died as well. He told Eric that his character is scripted so he should get over it. Howard said that Eric is out of it because he has a crush on American Idol Kelly Clarkson.
Howard told Bradshaw that he thinks CNBC is out of line for doing this to him so he feels bad for him. He gave him a couple of plugs for an upcoming match he has against Eddie Guererro.
A guy claiming to be a CNBC producer called in and said that this guy pretending to be a Nazi was just wrong and if he has to go around posing as a Nazi to make a pay check, he deserves to be fired. Howard told him he was out of line and got him off the phone a short time later.
Howard talked about Bradshaw about his engagement to Merideth Whitney from FOX news for a short time. They've only been together for about 9 months but they're already engaged. Howard thinks that he should take it a bit slower and not do the same thing that Stone Cold Steve Austin did and go through a bunch of marriages. He ended the segment a short time later and took another commercial break.
Howard said that the guy was dressed in a suit and you don't usually see wrestlers dressed in a suit. He went on to talk about how Bradshaw has been in the WWE since 1995. He was also a financial analyst as well. He was working on CNBC as a financial analyst but part of his act over in Germany was to goose step in front of the audience. He said that he'd been doing it for 13 years over there because he plays the part of villian in the WWE.[COLOR=blue] He said his character is supposed to be a reprehensible character. He said it's a cross between Pat Buchannan and David Duke among a few others.
Bradshaw does have a basic script to follow when he's playing his character but he also has a certain amount of freedom to do what he wants as well. He gets the audience going and when the good guy wins, everyone goes home happy. Howard said all he was doing when he was goose stepping was reminding the Germans about their history. Howard pointed out that Bradshaw is just playing the part of a character in this WWE thing so people shouldn't take it so seriously. It's like he's in a movie or something and it's scripted.
Bradshaw doesn't think that he's that great of an actor so he doesn't know why CNBC fired him for playing a part like that. Bradshaw said that the German media says that him giving a Nazi salute is not against the law over there so they're actually defending him. Bradshaw says that CNBC believes that what he did was wrong so they let him go.
Artie did his Eric Bishoff impression for a few seconds but forgot the name of the character he was impersonating which was pretty funny. Gary came in and told Howard that Bradshaw found out about being fired through a press release. They didn't even tell him directly. Howard said it's very similar to what Clear Channel is doing to him. They are slandering him and making it very hard for him to get another job.
Howard took some phone calls and let some people talk about what's going on. One guy said that Bradshaw went over to Iraq and wrestled over there. Eric the Midget called in and said that he finds some of that stuff that Bradshaw did to be offensive because he had family members who fought in that war and died. Bradshaw said he had people in his family who died as well. He told Eric that his character is scripted so he should get over it. Howard said that Eric is out of it because he has a crush on American Idol Kelly Clarkson.
Howard told Bradshaw that he thinks CNBC is out of line for doing this to him so he feels bad for him. He gave him a couple of plugs for an upcoming match he has against Eddie Guererro.
A guy claiming to be a CNBC producer called in and said that this guy pretending to be a Nazi was just wrong and if he has to go around posing as a Nazi to make a pay check, he deserves to be fired. Howard told him he was out of line and got him off the phone a short time later.
Howard talked about Bradshaw about his engagement to Merideth Whitney from FOX news for a short time. They've only been together for about 9 months but they're already engaged. Howard thinks that he should take it a bit slower and not do the same thing that Stone Cold Steve Austin did and go through a bunch of marriages. He ended the segment a short time later and took another commercial break.