Howard Stern's Staff 'Panicked' About Their Jobs After Shock Jock's Radio Prank With Andy Cohen Goes Viral

Howard Stern’s radio show cancelation prank has his staff very concerned, according to a new report.

As retirement rumors swirl, Stern trolled listeners on September 8 alongside Andy Cohen.

"This is, I know, not the voice that you expected to hear,” Cohen said. “This is not the voice that you probably wanted to hear, but it is I, Andy Cohen, and this is our first day broadcasting on Channel 100. I know that you’re expecting a big announcement from Howard, and this is not how things were meant to go."

Cohen then noted he could not “fill [the] void” left by Stern, but he was sure his pal would get a gig on another network soon.

Stern then took over, thanking Cohen for his part in the joke.

“People are panicking,” an insider shared with a media outlet after the prank went viral. “Many employees who work there have a family to take care of, have kids, have a mortgage payment, and this is their main source of income.”

They noted “fear has sunk in” that they could possibly “not have a job,” claiming “getting laid off has been in the back of their minds for quite some time.”

According to the insider, the stress level at the show is so high staff is “talking about leaving.”

People who work at the show are “terrified” due to signing nondisclosure agreements, which would prohibit them from talking about details of their workplace, the insider claimed.

“Employees can get fired instantly and lose everything, especially if Stern found out that they broke their confidentiality agreement,” the insider detailed. “There’s a ton of people there whose lives would drastically change based on Stern firing on a whim.”

The source added the current environment at Stern’s show is “not fair to a lot of them.”

On the September 8 episode of his show, Stern directly addressed the rumors he was leaving SiriusXM.

"What pisses me off is now I can’t leave,” he told listeners. “I’ve been thinking about retiring, now I can’t.”

He insisted he’s in the middle of working out a new contract with the network, as his $500 million, five-year deal is finished at the end of 2025.

"SiriusXM and my team have been talking about how we go forward in the future, they’ve approached me. They’ve sat down with me like they normally do and they’re fantastic," he detailed. “We’ve been talking.”

The shock jock also discussed a rumor “Call Her Daddy” podcast host Alex Cooper would be taking over for him.

"I don’t know Alex Cooper. And if she is young and bubbly, God bless her because I’m the opposite," he said.

Stern also shot down hearsay he is jealous of Cohen getting promoted at the network and that SiriusXM was going to let him go due to him being “too woke.”

"None of this is going on. None of it is true. Zero truth," he directly stated.