Former shock jock Howard Stern is now claiming that he is not woke and doesn’t even know what that word means. Amazing.

This comes after weeks of speculation over the summer that he may not be renewed for a new contract with the Sirius network. Stern’s audience has dwindled to shockingly low numbers in recent years, which most people attribute to his newfound wokeness and the fact that he basically abandoned his show during the Covid-19 lockdowns.

For him to play word games now and pretend not to know what woke means is just absurd.

FOX News reports:

Howard Stern balks at claims he went ‘woke,’ chides people who see it as not ‘macho’ to care for others

Shock jock radio host Howard Stern balked Thursday at claims he has gone “woke” amid rumors of his retirement, arguing both are untrue.

Stern was once on the cutting-edge of shock-jock radio, famously sparring with the FCC for decades to defend his raunchy and politically incorrect show. In later years, Stern was accused of losing the very devil-may-care approach to humor that led to his rise in the first place. This has been a repeated claim over the years as have been rumors of his retirement.

“I was on vacation, and the next thing I know, I was in ‘Stephen Colbert land’ where I was being thrown off by the FCC somehow. I don’t know what, whatever it was or because I’m too woke. … Too woke? I don’t even know what a ‘woke’ is. What is woke?” Stern asked.

“If I’m too woke, the world has turned upside down,” Stern claimed. “I mean, the stuff I do and talk about, I don’t even know what that means. But you know what? If it means I’m awakened, God bless.”

Fellow radio host Andy Cohen suggested the accusation “might mean that you care about other people.”

That’s not what woke means and these people know that.

Also, back in 2023, Stern angrily claimed that he was woke.

“I am woke, motherfucker, and I love it.”

– Howard Stern https://t.co/dvOia2eMvE pic.twitter.com/uzXsYi9VUY

— Flappr (@flapprdotnet) October 11, 2025

Howard Stern claims he doesn’t know what “woke” means. Or why people cancelled him. Hah! The bigger question is how did a fart obsessed germaphobic weenie that verbally assaulted women ever get a radio show to begin with? ⁦@sternshow⁩ https://t.co/o7P3KwemZB

— Colette Harrington (@sweetcarolinatv) October 11, 2025

At this point, Stern should just retire. How much more money does he even need?