Re: The Mike O'Meara Show
Date: June 09, 2014 03:13PM
Did you think I'd forget Robb?
Robb: "One of the driving forces that made me want to go into radio was that for my entire life, I have annoyed, interrupted, pissed people off, and cracked jokes at inopportune times. This got me in all kinds of trouble in school and made me one of the least popular people in my family... I was a loudmouthed kid. Not a rude kid, but a talker. A constant talker. ... On the show, I am a big, bloviating loudmouth. ... I am loud and brash, often saying things that I think people wish they could say but can't get away with in modern society. In real life, most of the time I'm polite and maybe even, in a totally foreign setting, shy. ... I do stuff with other parents and kids, and you can't be a loudmouth like that in real life, lest they label you an asshole. You don't want that. You don't want to be the people that [sic] no one wants to associate with because their father is 'that disc jockey.'"
Mike: "Who was the member of your family you annoyed the most?"
Robb: "Probably my dad."
Oscar: "Yeah, he left! He rolled out."
Robb: "He left the marriage."
Robb: "We all need and crave the 'attaboy.'... when my folks split, I was often shuttled off to my grandparents' house. My grandparents had eight kids, and I was essentially the ninth kid, because I was the oldest grandchild. ... It's a noisy house and it's easy to be overlooked. When you're just a kid, you want attention. I tried to be the loudest, the most talkative, the funniest. I tried to do everything I could to say, 'Look at me.' I craved attention. ... I'm in a constant quest to be liked by everybody, and not just on the radio. This is when I meet people in real life. If someone is standoffish, I want to win them over. I will focus on the one person that does not want to talk to me."
Robb: "There have been so many times that I have left the living room and my stomach hurts because I have been laughing for an hour. ... I don't [dread going to work]. I get excited every day. .. My wife works as a manager at a retail store. Every morning when she wakes up and every evening when she goes to bed she worries. ... We've never had that worry here."
Oscar: "He is Mr. Silver Lining -- there's always an upside."
Mike: "Robb doesn't seem to be bothered by any of life's issues."
Robb: "I worked for WJFK for 19 years, and working there was all I knew how to do. Thank God the podcast happened, so I was able to continue in the same line of work. I never really did anything except The Mike O'Meara Show, and before that The Don and Mike Show. If the podcast hadn't happened, I really never had a plan B. ... [A] day doesn't pass where I don't relish the stars aligning to bring TMOS to life as a podcast. We've landed where we should be. There are people who go through a lifetime and never get to land where they should be.
Author: "Robb, does it ever make you feel bad that your wife is so unhappy while you are so happy at work?"
Robb: "At times."
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 06/09/2014 04:05PM by Intractable Insobriety.