minutes or an hour. it depends how interesting howard thinks you are. talk about piling the pressure on. so today, the same rule applies. be good or you re gone. first of all, i have no idea what you just said. i m looking at myself in the monitor and seeing that my hair looks awfully big today. it s a pleasure to be here on your show. thank you, howard. i want to congratulate you on reseating a 95-year-old man. poor larry king is sitting at home right now pulling what few hairs he has in his head out. i mean, what a nut job. you leave larry king alone. do you like larry? i love larry king. i was always amazed that dig dignitaries, presidents, people who have security teams would sit here with this maniac. larry king is not a maniac. they should have had a reality show with larry. you re my second show. i want to have a third show. i like you. i like you on america s got talent. i think you re a terrific judge. i think you re a nice man. but who the hell knows w
me that i did not want to be on regular radio anymore, so-called terrestrial radio. the fcc was pounding me. i didn t feel like the show was funny anymore because they were editing it like crazy. they were restricting you too much with the fines? they were driving me insane. and i d always been keeping my eye on the technology on satellite radio and this looked like my way out. they said, it would be just great if you came over. and it cost money for me to come over. but i will tell you this, as much money as they paid me, i paid every dime back and then some. no one s disputing that everyone else gets a rate too. i m curious why someone so open as you is reticent, especially since you re a bit of a show-off i m very uncomfortable about money, about talking about it you don t dispute being worth hundreds of millions, maybe even $1 billion. are you worth $1 billion? no. i m not worth anywhere near what they print in the paper are you worth a quarter of an oprah. opra
often drives me crazy, i m not even sure i enjoy it? i think it s my identity, i think it s my ego. it s also something that insecurity? oh, absolutely. but about what? about losing your place in my mojo, this is who i am, this is what i do. there s no better feeling to me than when i go in some place and hear that i did a great show or made people laugh. but more importantly i think for me ened i should admit this at some point to myself that i actually really enjoy it. as much as it drives me crazy, and my career has driven me crazy. i was so neurotic about my career, when i was in detroit, it was 1980. and i only wanted to succeed. i went to detroit. there were four rock stations there. we were the bottom of the barrel.
thing happens spontaneously? sure. we get a trial separation. we have agreements with it. she knows she s not [ bleep ] me and she says, i want you to be able to do whatever you have to do. essentially free to see people. from a journalistic point of view, fantastic. he pours his heart out, he s clearly under the influence of alcohol and it s riveting radio. but when you actually go home and you think about it, are you proud of that kind of moment or do you feel uneasy? first of all, david is a friend of mine. and has been on my show many times. so that was the history. that s why he felt comfortable calling in. he s actually spent a whole day on the show. he just kind of hangs out with us. and i like david very much. and i m really upset for him because he s very hurt about his wife, i don t think he would mind me saying that. there s a part of me that said, yeah, i hope this doesn t backfire on david.
we didn t have a one rating at this one radio station. and the station was horrible. 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 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 ha