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 has been neurotic. and what i ve put into it and what i ve really tried to
i was desperate. i needed someone who was fantastic on the radio to work with me. someone who played with me, had a fabulous laugh, knew when to back off and let me roll and knew when to come in and save me. and that was robin. i never in fact, i met robin over the phone, i didn t even know she was black. our program director put us on and we started talking. it was effortless. that s robin. so this whole idea that, you know, robin, black woman, you know, someone said it s brilliant. then you can talk about black people. i go, i m not that calculated. i needed a good problem and robin is it. when we come back, i want to talk about justin bieber, miley cyrus and whether i was right to ban madonna from this show. okay.
a of speech? by sublime irony really, you now have the most powerful man and woman in the world being barack obama and robin, who you created, of course. when you first took robin on, it was controversial, you made a big deal of this. it is a symbolic thing that the president now is barack obama, african-american. listen, it s almost ridiculous to say i took robin on, who happens to be a black woman. some people say was that calculated so you would have a black woman working with you? i was desperate. i needed someone who was fantastic on the radio to work with me. someone who played with me, had a fabulous laugh, knew when to back off and let me roll and knew when to come in and save me. and that was robin. i never in fact, i met robin over the phone, i didn t even know she was black. our program director put us on and we started talking. it was effortless.
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
i get this freedom of speech? by sublime irony really, you now have the most powerful man and woman in the world being barack obama and robin, who you created, of course. when you first took robin on, it was controversial, you made a big deal of this. it is a symbolic thing that the president now is barack obama, african-american. listen, it s almost ridiculous to say i took robin on, who happens to be a black woman. some people say was that calculated so you would have a black woman working with you? i was desperate. i needed someone who was fantastic on the radio to work with me. someone who played with me, had a fabulous laugh, knew when to back off and let me roll and knew when to come in and save me. and that was robin. i never in fact, i met robin over the phone, i didn t even know she was black. our program director put us on