show, robin and fred and gary. all the people i work with. i said to myself, why am i doing this anymore? it makes me crazy. i hate getting up early in the morning. and i don t particularly like doing the show. i am driven by a neurotic compulsion to do that show. and it doesn t seem enjoyable. i go home every night and say, i didn t get it right, i didn t do it right, i did a horrible job, the show was horrible. how much of that comes from that early experience with your parents? i read about you watching your father praising people that he really respected and you craving that praise. and you ve touched on that. there was a key part of your early life was this need to please your parents. do you still feel that do they listen to the show? my parents listen every day. i don t think my father listened to me growing up. when i say listen, don t think we had a relationship where he sat and he said, how are you doing son, what is happening? the thing i used to see my father doing wh
i learned from watching these pornos. do you watch porno i was going to ask you about this. you bang a lot about the glory of porno. but i come back to you re a family guy. you ve got kids. they re going to be exposed to all this stuff. what s your real view? my real view is this, it s a sad day i interview many porno stars and i m fascinated by their lives. i say their parents must be out of their minds. and you get all kinds of strange reactions. you get, my parents are my best friends, they support me in the business. and then you get the opposite reaction, i come from a very religious family. and then you get this other kind of wacky answer. and that s what i m after. i think that s what s interesting about the show. sitting and interviewing another naked porno star would not be interesting. the show would have been off the air. do you ever feel i m going to play you a clip of the david arquette moment which is the stuff of legend. and we ll come back after that i wan
this world that s off limits to adults. i had all these fantasies about it. quite frankly, there are so many people hopped up on regular drugs out there, pharmaceutical drugs that it hardly makes a difference at this point. everyone s high on something. i think a show like mine is actually healthy because when kids do listen to it, i can say to them, this didn t work for me, here s why, i tried it and almost lost my mind doing it. i m going to come back with the only drug you really seem to really delight in partaking in is the drug of love with your wife. i m in love with my wife. i m in love with you.
and you know what, it s so stupid, the whole thing then what happens? nothing happened. my friends were thrilled. three women standing in the restaurant with their breasts out, you re saying they re beautiful that s it. the normal process they were there with their boyfriends. what? it wasn t a sexual thing for them. they just wanted to show it to me. how did the boyfriends feel? they seemed to be proud to show what if my wife went up to you in a restaurant and said, howard, look at my breasts, i would be absolutely horrified. i would do appearances at record stores and this was the amazing power of radio and what i was doing, i walk in and this beautiful woman comes up to me with her boyfriend and says, howard, do you want my girlfriend? i said, what do you mean? he says, do you want to have sex with my girlfriend? you re the only guy i would allow this. and of course i was married at the time. the answer was no for me.
in a horrible location. everything was bad about it. and i was alone in detroit. my wife hadn t moved there at the time. and i was living in a hotel. i would tape my show. i d go back to the hotel, listen to the show and then i would sit in the room, i wouldn t leave it. i never socialized. i never went out to dinner. i would sit and wait for the next show. i was insane. i would wait and think about the next show. i only wanted to be successful on the radio. and not being successful in detroit tore me apart. i became distraught, really, because i put so much energy into it. and then i just sort of had an epiphany and i said, i think i know what i need to do now. i ve worked this out. i went to washington and the show took off and was very successful. and one of the things that i knew that i needed in the show was someone to play off who was really great with me. and that was robin. i got lucky and got her. so this career has been neurotic.