{"id":8058,"date":"2016-12-26T18:47:23","date_gmt":"2016-12-27T01:47:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=8058"},"modified":"2017-01-05T18:52:54","modified_gmt":"2017-01-06T01:52:54","slug":"baba-booey-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2016\/12\/26\/baba-booey-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"Baba Booey Gone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/life\/people\/2016\/12\/24\/joey-boots-bassolino-from-howard-stern-show-dies-at-49\/95829684\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>from USA Today<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>Joey Boots from &#8216;Howard Stern Show&#8217; dies at 49<\/h1>\n<p>by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/staff\/868\/jayme-deerwester\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"author\">Jayme Deerwester\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/-mm-\/9c633d7c2a77d578f6ef005994d7b8361be2c511\/c=0-169-1997-2832&amp;r=537&amp;c=0-0-534-712\/local\/-\/media\/2016\/12\/24\/USATODAY\/USATODAY\/636181929065841757-623462170.jpg\" width=\"480\" \/><em><span class=\"js-caption-wrapper\"><span class=\"credit\">(Photo: Jamie McCarthy)<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Joey Boots, who helped introduce America to\u00a0the expression &#8220;Baba Booey&#8221; on\u00a0<em>The Howard Stern Show<\/em>, has died at 49.<\/p>\n<p>The radio personality, whose real surname is\u00a0Bassolino, was found unresponsive in his Bronx apartment Friday, report\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2016\/12\/23\/howard-stern-joey-boots-dead-wack-pack\/\" target=\"_blank\">TMZ<\/a>\u00a0and \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2016\/12\/24\/entertainment\/howard-stern-show-joey-boots-dead\/\" target=\"_blank\">CNN<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The NYPD later confirmed his death to the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/news\/joey-boots-dead-howard-stern-show-personality-dies-at-49-959187\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Hollywood Reporter<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Bassolino, who was part of the rogue&#8217;s gallery known as the Wack Pack, grabbed attention by shouting &#8220;Baba Booey&#8221; on Stern&#8217;s show and during live TV reports. He even managed to successfully defend his right to do so in a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en_us\/article\/there-was-just-a-historic-legal-ruling-for-people-who-yell-about-howard-sterns-penis-730\" target=\"_blank\">New York court<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/life\/people\/2016\/12\/24\/joey-boots-bassolino-from-howard-stern-show-dies-at-49\/95829684\/\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at USAT<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from USA Today Joey Boots from &#8216;Howard Stern Show&#8217; dies at 49 by\u00a0Jayme Deerwester\u00a0 (Photo: Jamie McCarthy) Joey Boots, who helped introduce America to\u00a0the expression &#8220;Baba Booey&#8221; on\u00a0The Howard Stern Show, has died at 49. The radio personality, whose real surname is\u00a0Bassolino, was found unresponsive in his Bronx apartment Friday, report\u00a0TMZ\u00a0and \u00a0CNN. The NYPD later [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8058\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}