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Yesterday, I went over to The Howard Stern Show at Sirius XM central HQ here in midtown Manhattan to hand-deliver copies of the June/July/August issue to Gadget Gary himself, Gary Dell'Abate. The issue features a piece that reports on the session we conducted in Gary's new home theater where both he and I auditioned some amazing video and audio samplings for a roomful of gear-lovin' guys. (We'll post the full story here soon, but you can get a preview over at Gary's own site, bababooey.com, over the weekend.)

And, yeah, we talk about the infamous "bar stools." (Which are most decidedly NOT frakkin' bar stools, of course...)

Gary and I did a joint interview for Howard 100 News about the piece, so keep your ears peeled for that. Segments from our chat with Lisa G started airing all throughout the Stern Show world today. (News segments appear all throughout the day on both Howard 100 and Howard 101, in fact, so they're run through the weekend and into next week.) Gary told Lisa that his favorite sentence in the story describes what would happen to CBS exec Vinnie Favale if he didn't pipe down during the session.

After that, I sat in on The Wrap Up Show (which Gary co-hosts with Jon Hein, a fellow Pittsburgh Penguins fan), where Jillian Barberie-Reynolds regaled us with tales of, er, tail (among other things). Talk about timing — I'd interviewed Jillian about her days of selling hi-fi gear in Canada a few months back, and you can see that piece in the Press & Publicity section at askjillian.com. I promised Jillian's right-hand gal Liz I'd give her an exclusive on the extended version of the interview, so they'll get that one soon.

Enjoy the weekend, everyone. Tonight, I'm watching Game 7 of the Stanley Cup Finals on the new 50-inch plasma. And Baba Booey to you all...  —Mike Mettler, S&V EIC