Biden tells Howard Stern women would send him ‘very salacious’ photos in the 1970s, was the ‘runner-up’ scorer in college football and saved six people from drowning in bizarre Howard Stern interview

Joe Biden mused again about battling Donald Trump on the playground in a meandering interview with Howard Stern that took the president through family tragedies, morbid thoughts and memories of his time as a young widower in the Senate, where his dating life became a ‘celebrity problem’ became. .’

Biden said he would be “thrilled” to meet Trump on the debate stage. after previously questioning the idea during a bizarre conversation with Stern on his Sirius XM that lasted more than an hour and pulled highlights from Biden’s action-packed 81-year life story.

“Trump is making fun of me, right?” Biden told Stern. “This is the kind of guy who really wishes it could have come close…” he said, without finishing his thoughts.

Stern asked a series of heartbreaking questions about the car crash that involved Biden’s first wife Neilia and his one-year-old daughter Naomi. But things quickly changed during Biden’s romantic availability — and women took notice.

“I was put on the list of the 10 most eligible bachelors,” he told Stern, who noted that he was a U.S. senator at the time.

‘And many lovely women, just women, sent very salacious photos and I simply gave them to the Secret Service. And I thought someone would think I was…’ he said, without clarifying why the presidential security agency would be involved.

He decided to use the breaks for his romantic pursuits.

“And I just gave up,” Biden said. Then: ‘I got a call from my brother. So I have a girl here in Delaware – Jill is nine years younger than me. He said you will love her. She doesn’t like politics,” he continued, describing the events that led to his second marriage.

It was one of the few times their conversation veered into the territory of Stern making his reputation as a radio shock jock. Throughout much of the interview, Stern asked a series of biographical softball questions in an interview that culminated with the host sharing his own exasperation with how people could vote for someone who told an election official in Georgia to find “11,780” votes.

Biden talked about his time as a lifeguard in the predominantly black Delaware neighborhood.

Biden said he had rescued six people from need, without bragging about his venture.

“Have you ever saved someone’s life when you were a lifeguard?” he asked.

“Half a dozen times,” Biden replied.

Stern was ready to see more on the big screen and repeatedly expressed surprise at what Biden had experienced.

‘It’s a big problem. We should show that in the movie of a lifetime,” Stern advised.

The two men talked about the dark times after the car accident.

“You don’t have to be crazy to commit suicide,” he said. ‘

‘I do not drink. That is not a virtue. I just never drank. And I used to sit there and think to myself, I think I’ll get a bottle of whiskey. We always had liquor in the house… and I would just drink and get drunk, but I could never bring myself to do that. And I was actually thinking about, you know, you don’t have to be crazy to commit suicide. When you’ve been to the top of a mountain, you think it will never be there again. And for a moment I thought maybe I would just go to the Delaware Memorial Bridge and jump. but I had two children.’

Biden also regaled Stern with stories about his high school football career.

“You were like the first string guy. You were the guy who caught the ball,” Stern told him.

‘Runner up scores! Who cares,” Biden continued. “Wow,” STern said.

Stern tried to extract comments from Biden about the Supreme Court, whose conservative rulings have shaped electoral politics, even as he said the Violence Against Women Act, which he helped draft, was under threat.

“I have to be careful what I say about the court,” Biden said, calling the law one of his “proudest achievements.”

It was Stern who talked about the time Senate Republicans led by Biden’s friend Sen. Mitch McConnell killed Barack Obama’s nomination of Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court.

“These maniacs in the sen said no. And now we have a Supreme Court that is crazy,” Stern said.

‘It is a very conservative court. Perhaps the most conservative court in modern history,” Biden said.

Stern, who has interviewed Trump in the past, was not exposed to the Stormy Daniels trial underway in his home state of New York. But he pushed back on the Jan. 6 charges against Trump.

‘What are we debating about? A man picked up the phone and wanted to say: fake the elections. Give me 11,000 votes. I don’t know how any American loves this country. That’s the end of the debate. You are not allowed to stand as a candidate if you want to arrange elections.’

Biden went after Trump’s inaction in the White House during the Capitol riot. ‘It was deserted. It was almost criminal,” he said.

In his comments on the Trump debate, Biden went further than previous hedging.

‘I’m somewhere, I don’t know when. I’m happy to debate him,” he told Stern.

By March, Biden had hedged, saying in March, “It depends on his behavior.”

“Alright, let’s set it up!” Chris LaCivita, a senior adviser to the Trump campaign, posted shortly after the comment.