I caught the tail end of the broadcast. I just heard Bendis mentioned and I thought that he was going to be a guest on the show or something. But, yeah, I've definitely noticed that Bendis has put Stern show references into his stories. Bendis probably is writing his stories while listening to the show. I know that I do a lot of my writing listening to music or the Stern show.
But, yeah, at first I thought Bendis was going to be on the show. I was thinking, "Wow, Bendis really broke through. Stern hasn't even had Stan Lee on the show and he's putting Bendis on there?" I actually remember Bendis writing about how he and Quesada hung out at Howard Stern's apartment and talked about comics. I think that was in the back of one of the issue of Powers.