Yeah, just a noseless, unhirable freak white-knuckling it from binge to binge, truly a champion

Lol I was literally just in the process of making a very similar comment

I think he pickled himself into eternity

Very true, but once his mother dies its gonna be within a couple years.

I felt bad for Cumia. He looked so weak and frail. He drinking again too, not as much but still. I hope he stopped that testosterone therapy because I feel that had something to do with his heart attack. That guy has made me laugh more than anyone else.

48:30 is when Jason starts talking about him on the wrap up show

So what's all the lead up before that?

@@peteparker22 Bullshit.

Thank you!!

Jason fighting anything is a laugh.

no doubt, grabbed his food once he was all set, attempting to throw off any suspicion

Yep for sure

Nope. He doesn't do drugs. Never did.

Yup

He probably hit too much H in the bathroom. He even said himself he “nodded off” on the escalator. He was probably slapping water on his face or drinking coffee to snap out of it before coming back in

Nah he’s the most annoying when he tries to do an impression of someone or an accent from a foreign country. Straight up cringe

You should hear him when he speaks about politics

that's because he's had an eating disorder for decades that his parents helped along. I, honestly, think it's one of the things him and Beth bonded over without even knowing it. They both have disordered eating still.

@@saudasiri6019 Imagine the recluse billionaire who never deals with anyone from the public at any time is going to tell me which politician I should vote for.

I dunno Woke Wiggy on The View show claiming that he never used racial slurs including the N word has to be the height of annoying. I mean he has to be delusional… We have the recordings of him saying it thousands of times…

Got to keep those sacrifices going

And cabbie !!!

patrickbailey9120 Good-for-nothing Ralph was a junky, strung out on coke, which is a powerful drug. Not crazy at all. When you look like a drug addict you usually are. Ralph could never hide it.

But not undeserving

And Robin

He would swear on Grandma DiCaprio😂😂😂

he is a goof

He wasn’t shocked lol. He was a defensive addict. It’s what addicts do. You don’t say “yeah man I’m totally hopelessly addicted right now. Can I get my check?” No you deny deny deny and hope they’re slow enough to believe you.

@@tobysgamingworld1550Im shocked that you believe Artie was shocked when people accused him of being on drugs. Users are acutely aware of people being on to them.

@@BwInNewJersey who said I was shocked? lol. I said he wasn’t. I’ve been clean 8 years. You could get caught with a needle in your arm and the first response is almost always “I don’t have a problem you’re overreacting” it’s just part of it. I’m not saying it makes Artie a better or worse person. I don’t know him. I know addiction turns people into liars, cowards and thieves. God willing, they realize nobody likes cowards, liars or thieves and they get help.

100%! Sal seemed to be the only one talking common sense. Everyone else basically lying through theyre teeth, or too scared to tell the truth. Sal just played dumb for the show. I think hes actually a pretty smart guy.

norm said the same thing howard forced him to grovel and apologize on the show

I think it saved him tbh

@@joeymims5852 LOL. No, he's not.

Eh that’s one critique of Howard I disagree with. Enabling would mean assisting the addict with their habit. By giving them money or drugs or a place to stay while they’re using etc. Nobody forced Artie to use drugs and then tell the tales on the air. Nobody forced him to be open about his struggles. Sure maybe it could have been insisted since Howard loved talking about personal problems on air but overall nobody enabled him or encouraged him to do anything but get help and get better.

And Pat Cooper And Blue Iris (granted they were old af)

​@@mattyboyanderson And Norm and Greg Giraldo

It’s a toss up between him and high pitch Eric

And Gilbert and cabbie

And bob sagaet

Wow did he??

​@@suzanneearththese guys read his book and dont realize artie exaggerated the extent of his drug use.

@@IAEMThatIAEMHow do you know he exaggerated? Like it’s so far fetched an addict with a lot of money couldn’t score in the city. If you’re hooked when it’s time to score…it’s time to score. He probably texted his guy to meet him there.

@clinteastwood6875 do you want the full explaination? ok. well. when i overdrank; i hid it from people. meaning... i downplayed my amounts. Losers i went to school with who were drunk off 3 beers claimed at school "we all drank a case a beer a piece this weekend (24 beers)"... 9 times outta ten; these guys used the "omg i was so hammered that i was outta my mind" argument to excuse their bad behavior. i agrue artie was the second type. the "i am superman" argument. a weird way to brag but they do it. so yes. i could make the point further but maybe you get it from that @clinteastwood6875 artie was fat and out of shape and there is NO WAY he could survive more than 2 overdoses. he exaggerated his constitution as a weird way to brag, and excuse his bad behavior

@@IAEMThatIAEM Agreed. Its like the having fake piss story. Its just obvious he's making up weird shit

I thought I had heard or watched every Artie episode, but this was new to me. This was seriously upsetting to listen to. He obviously had just shot up, or sniffed his H since he claims he never shot, which i find hard to believe. But either way, thats clearly what his " losing time, and feeling out of it on the escalator was all about. He had just gotten high, and i found it really hard to listen to everyone joking about it. Either a room full of morons, or a room full of people thinking hes making us money lets laugh and pretend hes not high as a kite. Howard couldnt have been that stupid!!! Really sad imo, and as a former H addict it hits home!

There's a reason Howard edited Artie out of all the classic clips and pretends like he never existed: he feels guilty and knows he used this guy.

​@@DABA2024exactly. It pisses me off there's nothing Artie related ever on the stupid app. Especially because Artie made the show SO much better than it ever was or will be. All because he knows he enabled Artie for profit.

​@@joeymims5852he, wasn't a shooter far as I know, and knowing artie I question just how much heroin he actually did while around the time of the stern show anyway , I think he snorted it occasionally at the most.... Did pills and coke more than heroin

@@TheDreamer1980 I know he says he never shot it, Im just saying as a former addict, I was scared of needles as most people are. Its very easy to say, and have people believe just because it takes it to another level of humility if you admit to shooting it. But as every H addict knows eventually sniffing it isnt enough and eventually you shoot. So I find him hard to believe that he didnt get to shooting, but who knows. But youre thoughts on how long he was on H, or opiates I believe is way off. You can pretty much clearly know if hes on coke or H by his weight. All his funniest imo years were Heroin. When he was gettingg close to 300 pounds and falling askleep at work. Those were heroin years. Tow3ards the end, and I only think it was the last year he was on the show, is when i believe he got back into. He became unfunny, lost a ton of weight, and got mean a lot of the time, and wouldnt shut up alot of time as well. When he said he was losing all the weight by jet skiing LOL.

Addicts generally don't put up with people that are always late and have little patience with people but they will stick with an always late dealer for years if the gear is good...and god don't dealers love to make you wait, . Most are on power trips

Except he happened to be right during this discussion

But he nailed Artie.

​@@peteparker22He can be right AND the worst. The two aren't mutually exclusive.

@@pji1979 honestly I'd rather have Jason on the air then half the new people they use now

Weaselly little J.

It's so dumb too because even they know they're lying and trying to cover up for him just to keep on Artie's good side and cover for the fact Howard is letting a drug addict continue to use on his how. Just shameful stuff.

You have to care about a person to enable them. And in hindsight, none of em ever truly cared about Artie IMO. They just all knew he was great material for the show. What they are doing here is towing the "company" line with him. Artie didnt care if some backroom nobody like Jason or Sal brought up his addiction. He would've cared if any of the top guys did though which is why the Gary fights were always the most real. Once Gary started going into Artie's addictions, things turned real sour with their relationship. But Artie would've either fell in a much bigger depression or left the show altogether if it was someone whose opinion he cared about. And if you get rid of Artie at the height of his addiction, the show loses as many viewers in 2007 or 2008 as they did when he finally left at the end of 09. That would've looked a lot worse for Stern a year or two into his Sirius run

@@NothingToPointOut24 this is literally a video detailing Artie going after Jason for bringing up his drug addiction

@@killustrator But he didnt really give a shit about Jason. He threw shit at Sal, do you think he ever cared about him? Sometimes you fight with people who you just dont like.

@@killustrator He fought with Will the same way, then later said that he doesnt care about Will. Artie didnt care about many people during these years but he wasnt going to just sit back and be called out. Jason was just of big an addict as Artie was. But his addiciton I guess was acceptable to society

We should’ve gotten the Hein hang-up clicker hand cam 👍🏻

That's just how it is you can't admit when your actively in addiction. Only after.

​@@Vub.Ya but I went through this shit with friends too. They may not be able to admit it but you don't have to accept their bullshit lying all day either. Artie definitely left in the middle of the show to get drugs. I literally have no doubt

he also adds side stories to try and change subject.

i want you to go to jail for this.

​@@Triumph865 lmao

Why would you say something so controversial yet so brave?

Lol Flacco

Artie sucked bad. Liars aren’t too good for this show. He wasn’t good enough.

Hes a compulsive habituale liar and a self destructive addict. He aired his private life as a cry for help. Hes a tragic figure but certainly not too good for the show.

Yeah, it's like it's the Howard Stern show or something. It's like he's the boss, crazy.

How?

I would say it too.

Thanks Dude 👌🏾

I don’t know why people like you think that it is so funny to call him that. When the same joke is repeated over and over, it just isn’t funny. Have you ever been to that building? I used to work in that building and it is huge. There are multiple ways to get in and out. the train station is connected and you have to go all the way down to the street level to get to Café Metro. It isn’t like they just go down the hall and go to the elevator and they’re at the street. It’s complicated. There are 1 million different ways to get in and out.

​@@suzanneearth So what's the excuse of Howard not being able to find his apartment from the studio? Your not amusing either miss know it all. So mind your own business.

@@msw8966Why are you so hostile? If you want to live in a world where people mind their own business, you might want to get off of social media and get your grammar in order. Who cares if he can’t find his apartment? Why are you even listening to these clips when you clearly don’t like Howard Stern? I am genuinely curious. My comment wasn’t even directed you and yet you’re telling me what to do, while ironically not mind YOUR own business.😂😂 It’s YOU’RE, not your. I’m not sure why you’re so upset about me pointing out very basic information about this building but I hope someone gives you a hug today. Genuinely.

Wigward lives in his own world.

@@suzanneearthwiggy is too cool to know the building layout.

Yeah Im a huge fan of the Artie era, only time I listened to the show, cause i loved Artie. Never heard or saw this either. Its really ridiculous how nieve all of them acted. Artie even used the term nodded out to describe what happened on the escalator or whatever. He was 100% using Heroin or whatever opiate he was on. As a former addict, I can almost guarantee you he had just shot up, or snorted, since he "claims" he never shot it. He was feeling the rush on the escalator which was why he almost passed out, no other option or story! For everyone to joke about it and blame it on food or diabetes was just honestly cringe to listen to, especially knowing the outcome in the end. if they truly cared about him, they wouldnt have made it into a bit, but made him get help or leave the show.

Yeah Artie's life long addiction was not Howard and Robins problem

he used a typical addict tactic adding numerous side storys to get people off subject they were originally talking about

@@joeymims5852 They were worse than naive. Howard knew but didn't want to admit it to anyone because he knew Artie was so great on the show, and he got a lot of material out of it. I mean, I'm sure there was a level of affection there too, but admitting it would mean he was enabling and open him up to lawsuits (in his own messed up mind that became obsessed with the thought of people suing him) but listening back is cringy because Fred and Howard will out-right attack Robin for thinking something is off with him like... they really didn't GAF. As long as the show was good - Howard and his little lapdog Fred don't care.

@@ellan.124 I agree with everything you said except about Fred. Fred ALWAYS had Arties back whether it was about drugs or any other topic. If you listen he defended Artie on every topic, to the point it was really odd to me, but I think Fred really loved and respected Artie. Howards a dif story and I think you said it all perfectly as far as he was concerned!

Idk Jackie and Fred Norris 😂😂

He was great on it.

The Wrap Up show led to some of the shows best moments.

I agree it led to good moments but it's still painful to fight through to get the context of what is about to go down. Artie absolutely hit it on the head with the "lies about everything" saga.

@@S7232S It’s weird, it seems like everyone universally hates it, but I enjoy it most of the time, I’m definitely in the minority though.

It was where the staffers could actually have a singular testicle as opposed to none on THSS

What the WUS became was terrible. What it was in its prime was pure gold

Totally. When I first heard this clip I actually tended to believe Artie but in retrospect its so obvious he's lying. He's changing his story mid sentence

Howard’s best delivery 😂

“W-what do you do for a living, sir?”

So f-ing annoying

I hate when he’s trying to make a point his follow up is ALWAYS “no seriously!”

His constant mothering of Jason is so cringey

If you really want to torture yourself, listen to Gary's audiobook

lol no he wasn't. His sister tried to get him to go, but he only relented and went to a wellness spa that he checked out of. He wanted to be fired so leaving the show wasn't his fault, and he could be bitter about it and not blame himself. You can't make someone go to rehab. They literally told him over and over again that he should go to rehab, and they would welcome him back.

@@ellan.124spazzy

Artie took some below the belt shots at Gary and nobody except you blames Gary for sticking it to Artie any time he could.

People who take you to task for your addictions are better friends than those who do not.

It's true.

What?!? You must be delusional.

​@canag0d I don't think Howard is innocent and he 100% exploited Artie throughout all of this, but I absolutely believe that if Artie agreed to go to REAL treatment for 90 days, 180 days, whatever it took, he would have been able to return to his job. He didn't want to stop.

Artie and Jackie had the easiest job in the world and it's ridiculous that both felt it was such a challenge. Pay me $1 million+ year for spend 5 hours a day, 4+ days a week for 8 months a year and I think I can stay off drugs. They both should be eternally grateful they were allowed to be included in that.

@@jasonlysne5725they didn’t make anywhere near that. Artie was making 250 thousand a year. He said so in an interview after he left. Had to work weekends doing comedy to make a decent living

It is so obvious at Arte came late cause he was waiting for is heroin dealer downstairs.He bought food too just to have an excuse

@@dingusbro925 eh it’s more likely that he was just snorting some that he already had and then nodded off on the escalator

Nerdy hairy virgin.

No I'm not