Consider This with Christine Zak Edmonds
S03 E44: Scott Robbins | Radio Personality
Season 3 Episode 44 | 26m 46sVideo has Closed Captions
You’ve heard him for years. Now he’s got a wider audience. It’s sexy boomer Scott Robbins!
Locally born and bred, as a kid Scott Robbins would listen to his transistor radio and dream of being a DJ. As luck would have it, he jumped into the overnight shift when he was 17 … and the rest is central Illinois history. Perhaps it was his lifestyle that caught up with him when he had a brush with death, but he’s back and sharing his talent and opinions in many more radio markets.
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Consider This with Christine Zak Edmonds
S03 E44: Scott Robbins | Radio Personality
Season 3 Episode 44 | 26m 46sVideo has Closed Captions
Locally born and bred, as a kid Scott Robbins would listen to his transistor radio and dream of being a DJ. As luck would have it, he jumped into the overnight shift when he was 17 … and the rest is central Illinois history. Perhaps it was his lifestyle that caught up with him when he had a brush with death, but he’s back and sharing his talent and opinions in many more radio markets.
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We are here with the sexy boomer, need I say more?
(bright music) He's from small town, Central, Illinois, and that may have propelled him to make his mark on the world.
It hasn't been a cakewalk though, especially health wise.
Please help me welcome this face, now familiar with his voice, it's Scott Robbins.
- Hello and thank you for having me.
I appreciate that very much.
By the way, sexy boomer, now that you've seen me, you know that's fake news, so anyway, we move on.
- (laughs) No, we are both boomers, and so, we're very fortunate that we grew up at the time we did.
- Yeah, I feel fortunate about that too, and the place I did, so instills all sorts of values you carry with you for the rest of your life.
- And that's Low Point, Washburn?
- Well, I actually lived in, I started my life in a town called Low Point.
You got nowhere to go but up after that.
But yeah, it was Low Point.
I went to Low Point Washburn High School.
I've had two jobs in my life, real Jobs.
I've worked on farms, and I've done radio.
That's it, end of story.
- [Christine] Incredible.
- Yeah, I wasn't a waiter, didn't work at retail, none of that, just I went right from high school to radio.
- When you were a little boy in Low Point in the farmhouse that your mom recently sold, you probably were listening to transistor radio and dreaming of being a radio disc jockey or what?
- Yeah, that's what I wanted.
I thought, man, if you could play records, I loved music.
I thought if I can play music and make a living doing it, that's all right with me.
So then it was the idea of how do I get into this?
How do I find this loop?
And I had a great art teacher when I was a senior in high school, that knew a friend of ours, both ours, Lee Malcolm.
She went to high school with Lee, and she said, "I'm gonna take you to a tour of WIRL, just so you could see what it's like.
So on my way out, the program director was a guy named Bill McCluggage at the time, and I just thought I'll never have this chance again.
So I just said, "How do I become a DJ at this station?"
Desperate as he was for somebody to work the overnight weekend shifts, he said, "How quick can you get me a tape?"
I said, "I'll have one here tomorrow."
So I sat inside my bedroom with a little cassette recorder with my record player and mocked up a tape, dropped it off, didn't hear anything for a couple of weeks.
I thought, oh boy.
I didn't wanna go to college.
- [Christine] And you were how old?
- 17.
- 17, okay.
- And he called and he said, "Hey, we're gonna start you doing "these overnight shifts on the weekends.
"When can you come in and train?"
"In an hour, when do you need me?"
And so I went in and trained and got the job, and then I went full-time shortly thereafter.
- Did you have a car that you could get back to and from?
- Yes, I had a car, yeah, I had a car, yeah.
And that's where I went to and from my place to WIRL, which Gross and Buck Road there, it used to be across from ICC, and that's where I started this, the whole crazy career of mine, 45 years later.
- Isn't that something?
- It's nuts, yeah.
And I worked for some of the greats.
- [Christine] Yeah, well so name some of them, because- - Robin Weaver is a familiar name, I think, in Central, Illinois, and it's a shame that so many young people didn't get a chance to hear him.
Immense talent, immense talent, and the nicest, kindest guy I've ever met.
He and his wife would invite me to supper at their place because they knew I was on my own and 18-years-old, and I don't know, outta of my mind.
So they would take me in, and I would do stuff with them.
I worked with Lee, and I worked with a guy named Mark Wayne Wright and John Bachman, I hate to leave anybody out, but these guys were bigger than life to me.
I was breathing the same air as these guys, holy smokes!
And so, yeah, I listened to WIRL a lot as a kid growing up, and then WLS, of course, everybody did.
And I remember running into John Landecker, early on in my career.
It was at a White Sox game, he was there.
And I went up to him and this is John Landecker, the big WLS guy, right, and I said, "John, I just want you to know "that you're the reason I got into radio."
And he turned to me and he said, "Don't blame me for that."
That was my introduction to John Landecker, kiddingly, of course.
Anyway, it was kind of a fun thing, so I idolized these guys.
I loved 'em, and I wanted to be one of them.
That's all I ever wanted to do.
- Isn't that crazy?
- [Scott] Yeah.
- You know, dreams do come true.
- [Scott] They do, absolutely.
- [Host] But, you gotta work for 'em.
- A lot of work, a lot of work, a lot of blood, sweat, and tears that went into it, a lot of job changes over the years, different stations, so it happens, that's how it works.
- But mostly, you've stayed in Central, Illinois.
You've stuck with your roots.
- Yeah, three years in Wichita, Kansas, and I came back.
I did WBNQ for a long time.
I did Rock 106 for a while.
Jamie Markley and I have known each other for 35 years, but anyway, that goes back.
And I did stay around here, because I had family here, and I wanted my daughter to go to school around here, and it was simple for me.
I don't wanna jerk her around the country, that's not what I wanted for her, so.
- Well, yeah, and that's the life that you can live.
- Yeah, it's vagabond, yeah, no doubt.
- [Christine] Right, if you wanna move up, if you're really that serious about.
- That's right, that's right.
- So, you now have a show, it's local.
Well, you had Robbins and- - And Markley, right.
- Robbins and Markley.
I wanna say Robinson, 'cause somebody called and said, "Robinson."
- I know somebody did, they said call me Robinson.
- You had that show and you were doing so well.
Tell me the story about how you were gonna make that jump.
- Jamie was, I was just my show for a while, and Jamie was in sales at the time.
He wanted to make the move into sales, and everybody freaks out at some point in their life and goes, "Oh, I gotta make a change," so he did, and he wasn't really having a good time.
So he came to me and he said, "We've been talking about this for decades."
He said, "Would you ever consider doing a show with me?"
Sure, and so our boss said, "Okay."
He asked me if it was okay, and I said, "Sure, it's fine."
So it became Robbins and Markley, and we put the thing on, just a couple of dopes who had no idea what we were up to or doing or anything.
- [Christine] But you were having fun.
- And we had fun, and the show was fun, yet there was a political angle and a news angle to it as well.
But we're not news people, we're not journalists, we're just guys, and the show did really well.
And they flew us out to Portland, Oregon, which was the mothership of our company, and they wanted to put us on there in Portland.
So, they wanted us to do a show from Peoria into Portland, and Portland, my gosh, that's a big market, okay, all right.
So we got the contract signed, everything.
We came back, two weeks later, I had a heart attack, end of it.
Everything just went away, immediately.
- Well, you used to joke about that you're gonna have the grabber.
- [Scott] (laughs) The grabber, yeah.
- Yeah, but did you have any signs that this was really gonna happen?
- The only thing I can tell you is, and I've said this to other people, is there was some numbness in my fingers occasionally.
And occasionally, I would get winded doing things I've always done, play basketball or whatever, I would get winded.
And I thought, well, it's just because I'm outta shape.
I'm not as good in shape as I used to be.
I'm older, whatever, right.
That's it, and went to bed, had a heart attack, and paramedics revived me, went to the hospital.
- [Christine] Who was with you when- - My ex-wife was at the time, and so they revived me, took me to the hospital.
I was there, and they were gonna do surgery the next morning, and I coded again, and this time I coded for 40 minutes.
Minute 41, I came back.
So my pastor gave me a "41 Will Come" hat, and because 41's biblical all over the place.
But it was minute 41 before I came back.
And it's a crazy story, and I wish I had a better one.
I wish I saw the light, and I was tugging on the robe of Jesus or something like that.
- [Christine] And you didn't.
- But I wasn't, I don't remember any of it, none of it.
- [Christine] Darn!
- I know, I got no story.
If I had a better story, it'd be sellable.
But yeah, I don't remember anything.
After that, I was in ICU for a couple of months.
I was in the hospital for six months, and the rehab was unbelievable.
It was three times a week.
My kidneys failed.
I was on dialysis three times a week.
One day at dialysis, I'm jumping around here a little bit, but one day at dialysis, the tech came to me and said, "Hey, I'm looking at these numbers.
"I don't think you have to be here."
Sure enough, my kidneys started to work again, which again, never happens, right?
I was on a transplant list.
I went to classes.
I was going to Barnes, that's where I was gonna go, in St. Louis as soon as one became available or two.
But anyway, it was a crazy story.
They started working again and since then, well I'll never be 100% percent, but they keep me well above where I need to be in terms of dialysis, which is a miracle unto itself.
- Really, so you don't know what you were doing right in order to have all these miracles happen in your life?
- No, I know what I was doing wrong.
Yeah, I'm an alcoholic.
I'll be the first to admit that.
I'm not ashamed of it.
It's something that I did, and it got out of control, but I was one of these guys that could drink, consume a lot of alcohol.
- [Christine] You could function.
- And never slur, never fight, never be erratic.
It was crazy, and that's a blessing and a curse.
But, so I didn't think I had a problem at all.
I thought it was just normal to do what I was doing.
And I wasn't a day drinker or any of that stuff, but yeah, I had a problem, I had a big problem.
And fortunately for me, I was in a coma when I went through withdrawal, so I was in a coma for a month.
- And, and you had no idea you were going through a withdrawal then either.
- No, but they knew, they knew, the doctors knew.
- Oh, so maybe you had the DTs and all that?
- [Scott] Yes.
- Wow.
- And they had me sedated to the point where the DTs were less than they would've been had I done it another way.
So, it's a crazy story, but I was outta work for three years, four years.
It's been eight years now since that.
But yeah, I didn't know what I was gonna do, I had no idea.
I was living with my daughter at the time.
She's a nurse, nurse practitioner, she want me to say that.
- [Christine] Thank heavens.
- Yeah, yeah.
It's really good to have one of those in the family.
But she took really good care of me too.
So when I moved into her house, I was still in the hospital bed, and it was a lot of work, it was a lot of work between there and where I'm at now.
- I think I remember hearing maybe the first day that Jamie had you on the show, and it's like, wow.
I mean, you have the radio voice, you've got that great voice.
And it was not the Scott Robbins Radio- - Well, I had a trach, and when you have a trach, they remove the trach, you have to learn how to, really, how to learn how to breathe again and talk again, and how all this functions and works.
Now, it would upset me when somebody would say, "Oh, your voice doesn't sound right.
"I would really get angry, like, "What do you mean it doesn't sound right.
"It sounds fine," but it didn't.
Now I know it didn't, 'cause I've heard the tape, and it was bad, so it took a long time, a lot of voice exercises and other things, part of the rehab, learned how to walk, 'cause I couldn't walk, I was in a wheelchair.
It's weird because I laid prone for almost six months.
- [Christine] Right, and you atrophied.
- Right, and someone says to me, "Well, you really don't know how to, "you can't walk from here to there."
And I'm like, "Well of course I can," and you can't.
So I had to learn how to walk, talk.
My brain had been without, deprived of oxygen for long periods of time, so I had to do like simple building block things to retrain my brain to think.
Now some would say it still isn't working properly, but- - Well there is that.
- Yeah, there is that, yes.
But anyway, so that was part of the process.
And I hear from people all around the country that are going through something very similar, or they're having open heart surgery, or they've had a heart attack or something, and you can get depressed, 'cause there are certain things you cannot do anymore after that.
It's a slow process to build your strength back up, and I still don't walk 100% percent.
I'm still dicey with it, but- - [Christine] But you don't wanna fall, you gotta be careful.
- No, no, that's the thing, I have fallen, I broke a hip that way, so I've gotta be very careful.
And so I am, I'm very careful with it.
I try to take good care of myself.
I mean, eliminating the bad habits that I had was immediate.
- So, you're not smoking?
- No.
- You used to smoke cigarettes, but then you were smoking cigars- - Yeah, and then I smoked cigars, 'cause I thought that was better for me.
- Okay, much better, yeah.
- Idiot, yeah.
- Smells a lot worse.
- It does.
- And then, you were drinking, so then you cleaned up that part of your act, and then what do you enjoy doing now?
You got a couple of cats, you're not allergic to them.
- I have two cats, I live by myself.
I have a great apartment that looks like a 12-year-old boy lives there.
So I've got all my sports and music stuff on the walls, and dating a woman when she comes over for the first time, I tell 'em, "Hey,- - [Christine] Be prepared.
- Yeah, this is my life, okay?
But anyway, so it's funny you say that, because Jamie and I were talking the other day, 'cause he doesn't drink anymore either, about how different it is going to shows, doing it at concerts.
- [Christine] When everybody's stupid.
- When everybody's out of their minds, and you're the guy there that's not.
I don't miss it.
I don't miss that feeling.
I think I do sometimes, but then I remember where it took me and I can't do that again, I won't do that again.
I won't do it to my family again or to people who care about me, I just can't, so I'm not going to.
So, I'm much more boring than I used to be, yeah.
- So, you're quite the baseball fan.
Have you been to every baseball stadium in the country?
- I've been to a lot of them, not to every one.
That's still on my bucket list.
- [Christine] I was gonna ask, bucket list, yeah.
- Yeah, I've been to a lot of ballparks over the years.
Yeah, I go to Kansas City every year with two of my friends.
We've been doing it since '86, same three guys every year, every year, every year.
No matter where our lives are at, we all congregate for four days every year, and that's what we do.
- And it doesn't matter who the Royals are playing?
- No, we try to get a four game series, that's what we try to do.
We try to go to at least four games.
If we're gonna go, we're gonna make it four games.
So anyway, that's what we do, and that's something we've done every year.
- So these are high school friends, or these are radio friends?
- No, these are guys I met later in life.
One is a tech guy, and the other one worked for the veterans, the VA hospitals and retired.
So we just, they're brothers, so I go every year with those two guys.
- [Christine] What fun.
- [Scott] It's great.
I mean, it's a great tradition too.
- Something to look forward to, yeah.
- Yeah, we've got a brick in Kansas City.
If you're ever there, you can see our names on the brick.
- Okay, well you'll have to draw me a map.
- Yeah, no, I'm gonna have to, 'cause there's a million of them there.
Yeah, right.
- (laughs) Exactly.
Okay, so let's talk about your syndicated show.
- Isn't it crazy?
- It really is.
From Peoria, Illinois and you're syndicated.
People all over the country are calling you, but you're broadcasting from right here, so let's hear a little about.
- Well, Jamie and I are here.
David's in San Antonio, 'cause one of our stations in San Antonio.
That whole thing started with Jamie and I, like I said, and then we signed the contract, and I had a heart attack.
But we had a guy come in that was a talent coach, well known throughout our industry.
And every time you have a talent coach comes in, you've probably gone through this too, you wince a little bit, 'cause they're gonna have to find something wrong, or else you gotta justify their position somehow.
- Ours was, "Well you should wear your hair this way.
"You should wear this color."
- Talk with your hands more, whatever, yeah.
It goes on and on.
So you kind of wince when you hear this.
The guy came in and was the coolest guy I've ever met, understood completely what we were doing and just helped us mold the show, the blocking and tackling part more than anything.
And from there, it led to Portland, which led to the syndicator, Compass Media coming in saying, "We want to take you guys to the next level."
And so again, we don't know what we're doing.
We said, "Okay," and then I had my heart attack, came back on the show finally full-time, and it just blew up.
We're at about 140 stations, I guess around the country now.
And we're, I think the 19th or 20th talk show in America.
- I thought it was 17th.
- Oh, maybe it is 17th.
It could be now, I don't remember.
- [Christine] (laughs) Oh, that brain of yours.
- Yeah, I know it, doesn't work.
(Christine laughs) But we just picked up Dallas not that long ago.
So we're on in Dallas, we're on in San Antonio, we're on in Vegas, on in Seattle, Phoenix.
It's spread out, Philadelphia, so it's spread out around the country right now.
And we've found that just common sense stuff that we talk about resonates with a lot of people.
They may not agree with me, which is fine.
- Well you tend to be more conservative, but you're presenting both sides of the story.
You have David Van Camp on there, who's the newsman, who will put things right in the middle.
- Yeah, he keeps the car from going in the ditch most of the time.
He kind of steers it back.
And it's just three guys talking about what's going on, and how we see it, and we try to leave you laughing.
That, I think, separates us from the rest of the guys that are out there pounding a desk and breathing fire.
We didn't wanna do a show like that.
Jamie always said, and I go back to this, Jamie Markley said to me, "Let's do a show that we would listen to," and I thought, you know what?
- [Christine] Great advice to yourselves.
- Great advice, yeah.
Because if it's a show we would listen to, then it's gotta be great, right?
I mean, we're not wrong.
(Christine laughs) So, but that's what we've always modeled the thing after, and that's what program directors around the country tell us, "You guys are different, and here's why you're different."
So we try to keep that in mind when we do the show.
We gotta have funny, we gotta interject funny in here somewhere.
- And you really do.
Well, the one story about Ulysses S. Grant getting a speeding ticket, kind of, I guess.
Well, no, he was arrested.
- He was arrested for his horse.
- [Christine] Driving his buggy too fast.
- And he didn't push back on the cop, none of that.
He paid his fine and moved on.
Yeah, I mean it's just weird.
We try to find strange things, and sometimes we find things that are so ridiculous we can mock it.
And that upsets some people around the country.
Not everybody likes it, and then they'll, some of the nastiest stuff I get from people around the country, they hate you.
But I figured you're over the target if these people aren't supposed to like me.
And I figure you're over the target when they don't like you, then you're right where you should be.
That person shouldn't like me.
- Exactly, and you're giving opinion, and we all don't get along.
We all can't play in the same sandbox.
It would be nice if we could, but that's just not the way the world is.
So what's been the most fun that you've had on the show so far?
- On the show?
- [Christine] Yeah.
- Oh gosh, we have fun every day.
Jamie is like my little brother, and we have a brotherly type relationships where he can pick on me sometimes, and that's really funny- - [Christine] And he calls you curmudgeon and grumpy old man.
- Yeah, he does all this stuff, and that's what he does.
He's like six years younger than me, so it's not like he's 20 years younger than me.
(Christine laughs) But he pulled one over on me on the 4th of July one year, or no, when's the 4th of July, back up.
It was like the week before that, but he pulled a joke on me where he had our syndicator write a letter saying one of our stations didn't want me to voice promos anymore, just wanted the other two guys, because they thought I was hateful and evil and all this stuff.
So, I'm reading this out loud, and he's taping it, and I go off on this diatribe about how angry I am and blank this and blank that, and I'm not gonna, I don't care what this guy, and then they let me in on the fact that it was a joke.
And David will do stuff like that too to me every once in a while.
I'm pretty gullible sometimes.
- Well, they tease you that you're cranky and everything, and you do kind of go off like that, but I think you're just incredulous about some of these things.
- I am.
I don't fake anything, I mean my outrage is real.
When I come across something like that, I'm just like, "I can't believe this is happening."
If you can't look at the news or read the news or something and shake your head and go, "These are things that somebody 20 years ago "said could happen, and they were kooks, "and now they're happening."
So it is, it's bizarro world sometimes.
But you gotta make fun of it, 'cause if you don't it'll make you crazy.
- Oh yeah, absolutely, and that's why a lot of people are kind of crazy right now.
- Yeah, well sometimes I'll say to these guys, "Do you watch talking head shows on Sunday?"
And Jamie's always like, "No, I can do this five days a week.
"I'm not doing this on Sunday.
"I'm not gonna watch this guy or whatever."
And I don't know why I do either, 'cause I end up yelling at the TV to no one.
- But that's also letting you hear what people are gonna be talking about the next day.
- Right, and I like to know what their take is too, 'cause generally their take is a 180 from my take, so it just works out that way, but we're not journalists.
We don't pretend to be journalists.
We've never said we're journalists, we're not.
We're not trained in that area at all.
- But you do make a point of making sure that everybody knows that David is a journalist.
- Yeah, David's a journalist.
David's the guy who went to school, he's the journalist.
And David is probably one of the smartest guys I know, I mean, just so smart.
- For as young as he is, he really is.
So the beauty of your show is that they have David, so he's a millennial, and then you have Jamie.
He's a gen Xer?
- [Scott] Yeah, yeah.
- And then you're the boomer.
And so, you're really balancing all of those, I mean, where we all came from, and that is, don't you think, that's a winner?
- Yeah, it's another selling point of the show that it brings in diverse opinions from three different generations on the same show.
And David's funny, because of some of the markers, the pop culture markers in his life are the pop culture markers, well, in my daughter's life.
So it's a completely different dynamic.
When we do the Friday Five, which is all music countdown, which is fun for us, but David's input is always very 90s, 2000s, that kind of stuff, so.
- Right, you didn't share a lot of your music with your daughter?
- I did growing up, yeah.
And as a matter of fact, yeah, we still go to a lot of concerts together, but over the years she's gone with me to millions of concerts.
Yeah, I took her along when she was just a kid.
We saw Michael Jackson when she was five.
She stood on the seat, so she could see it.
- [Christine] I bet she was in heaven.
- Yeah, it was wild.
And so, but I saw a lot of bands, En Vogue, Mariah Carey several times, Whitney Houston several times.
They were all with her.
- [Christine] Right, her generation.
- Yeah.
- Yeah.
So, and you have a granddaughter now who you're just as proud as punch.
- Yeah, she's great, and being a grandparent is really cool.
- It really is, and she's a gymnast?
- Yeah, she was, and she's moved into competitive cheer now, and the gymnastic thing was, it was a lot of work and a lot of money and a lot of travel.
Well, so was the other thing, but she's an athlete.
She runs track and does all that stuff, and her sister is the 180 opposite of that, so.
- And you're a good son.
Your mom lives here still, she's still with us on this earth, and you put her through a lot when you got sick.
- Yes, I did, and I'm paying her back now, I try to.
I take care of her, I try to, I get her groceries and take her to appointments and that sort of thing, and it's something I think my daughter would do for me, and she will someday, and it's just my repayment to my mom, who's always been great to me.
My mom's a big music person too.
- [Christine] Really?
- Yeah, she loved music.
And so there's music on at my house all the time.
My dad loved radio, because we would sit in the driveway when I was eight or nine-years-old, and he'd pick up like KWAY in Little Rock, which was this 50,000 watt blow torch you could get at night, and it was always cool for him to get all these stations that were bouncing in from all over.
- Like, WOWO Radio from Fort Wayne, same thing.
- Absolutely, yeah, you could hear it everywhere.
I mean, WLS, WJR, outta Detroit, I mean, all these stations.
And he'd sit in the driveway and get 'em.
He'd go, "Hey, listen to this, this is..." You know, whatever jock was on at that time.
And my dad knew all the announcers names and everything too.
He was a big fan of radio.
- So what do you think about technology today and digital and everything that you're doing, that you're able to broadcast from Peoria and San Antonio and things are so different.
- From a music DJ standpoint, I worry about the next generation, 'cause I don't think there is a next generation.
These kids are doing it from out of their house, out of their basement now, on the internet.
They don't have any interest in this, and there are no jobs left.
You could walk into any radio station group after 5:00 in the afternoon, and there's no one there, no one.
- Because it's all satellite.
- It's all satellite, or it's all voice tracked earlier in the day.
So that's a whole different game.
You can't cut your chops overnight anymore.
You can't be awful and work overnights, like I was.
You have to immediately hit the ground running.
Well, how can I do that when I've never done it?
It's tough.
- So you don't think- - And we took the jobs of other people.
I wanna just touch on that real quick.
So there's always that feeling like, man, somebody was doing this job, and they put us on, and well, if it's not gonna be us, it's gonna be somebody else.
It's not like they're gonna keep these people, they're not.
- Right, but yet we always had to do our best in order to not be bumped.
- Right, I've never been fired.
- [Christine] I haven't either.
- It's amazing, isn't it?
- It is.
- When we talk to people in this business who have been fired six times or whatever, usually that's the case.
But I've thought I was gonna get fired a few times, but I didn't, so.
- Yeah, I did too.
I've never even punched a time clock.
I don't even know how that- - I live in a world of salary.
I don't know what that means, writing down hours, so, yeah.
(Christine laughs) - All right, so bucket list.
We know that you wanna get to all of the stadiums in the country.
What about overseas, if you wanna go overseas or just real quick, what else is on your bucket list?
- I've been overseas, and I don't know if I want to go again, just because of the climate of the world right now.
I can see myself in some country that gets overthrown while I'm there, and I can't leave.
I mean, strange things, right?
But these are the things that go through my mind.
I don't know, I want to do this for the next, if I die behind the mic, that'd be great.
If I can be in my 80s and still doing this, I love this.
I love going to work.
I love my job.
And that's the only thing I can tell people is I live this every day.
I live a bucket list thing every day.
- [Christine] Good for you.
- I do, I love what I do.
And the only thing I ever told my daughter was find something you love to do- - [Christine] And be passionate.
- Just be passionate about it.
The money will come.
If you're good enough, the money will come.
And if you're not good enough, get good enough.
You can do this.
- Well, you're doing it!
- I am doing it.
- Thanks for being here, good to see you.
- It's the first time you've ever had a guy who came back from the dead on your show too.
- I think so.
- Yeah, I win that one, yeah.
- (laughs) Okay, all right, thanks Scott for being here.
I hope you learn a lot about Mr. Scott Robbins, pretty fascinating.
Stay safe and healthy.
- [Scott] Tryin'.
- And hold happiness.
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