Audiobook - They Call Me Baba Booey - Gary Dell'Abate

One of pop cultureΓΓé¼Γäós great enduring unsung heroes: Gary DellΓΓé¼ΓäóAbate, Howard Stern Show producer, miracle worker, professional good sport, and servant to the King of All Media, for the first time tells the story of his early years and reveals how his chaotic childhood and early obsessions prepared him for life at the center of the greatest show on earth.

Baba Booey! Baba Booey! It was a slip of the tongueΓΓé¼ΓÇ¥that unfortunately was heard by a few million listenersΓΓé¼ΓÇ¥but in that split second a nickname, a persona, a rallying cry, and a phenomenon was born. Some would say it was the moment Gary DellΓΓé¼ΓäóAbate, the long-suffering heroic producer of The Howard Stern Show, for better or worse, finally came into his own. In They Call Me Baba Booey, DellΓΓé¼ΓäóAbate explains how his early life was the perfect training ground for the day-to-day chaos that comes with producing the most popular radio show on earth.

Growing up on Long Island in the 1970s, the youngest of three boys born to a clinically depressed mother, Gary learned how to fend for himself when under attack. Obsessed with music, he listened with religious intensity to Casey Kasem's Top 40 every Sunday morning, compulsively bought 45s of his favorite songs, and nerdily copied the lyrics into a notebook. Music became an ordering principle to his life, even as the chaos at home got out of hand. DellΓΓé¼ΓäóAbateΓΓé¼Γäós memoir sketches the trajectory from the obsessive pop-music trivia buff to the man in the beekeeperΓΓé¼Γäós mask who handily defeats his opponents playing ΓΓé¼┼ôStump the Booey.ΓΓé¼┬¥ We learn about the memorable moments in his life that taught him to endure epic bouts of humiliation and get his unique perspective on some of his favorite Stern show episodesΓΓé¼ΓÇ¥such as the day he nearly killed the Mets mascot while throwing out the first pitch, or the time his mother called HowardΓΓé¼Γäós mother and demanded an apology.

Hilarious, painful, and eye-opening, itΓΓé¼Γäós Gary as youΓΓé¼Γäóve never seen him before, telling a story that even Stern show insiders canΓΓé¼Γäót begin to imagine.