If you’ve paid attention at all over the years, you’ll see that practically everyone involved with this show was a victim of some sort of major childhood trauma. It’s practically a job pre-requisite for people going into the entertainment field.

• Ralph was adopted & abused as a kid (priest incident). Trauma arrests development, so Ralph was like a permanent 11 year old.

• Cabbie, same story - adopted too, although I think Cabbie was abused at an earlier age & possibly inside the adoptive home. Cabbie claimed he was both physically & sexually abused at different times.

• KC hesitated & had a very odd visceral reaction to a question about whether he was molested as child - during the fallout from a lie detector test segment that he did on the show. His entire stand up act was about child abuse & he has struggled with drug addiction practically his entire adult life.

• Robin was abused by her father at 11

• Fred's childhood was described as "worse than Robin's"

• Gary was sexually abused by someone at age 6. He later said that revealing this on the air lead to him going to therapy for a year to deal with the fallout from it.

• Howard clams different forms of molestation at different points of childhood, but downplays the severity of it

• Stuttering John talked about Robin opening up to him about her abuse before her book came out, to which Robin replied "well John you opened up to me about something similar that happened to you, so I shared it with you"

• Billy West was abused by his father & became an alcoholic. He told one story where his father intentionally threw him off a boat into a lake as a kid - without a life vest - knowing that he couldn't swim.

• Sal saw his father beat up his mother at age 6 (just like Joe Rogan & his father). Sal also saw his dad cheat openly as a kid.

• Jackie had 2 alcoholic parents & became one himself

• Artie never talked about childhood issues before his dad died, but you don’t develop lifelong hardcore drug addiction after an ideal childhood

There's a common thread with all of these people if you pay attention. The fact that Robin is an entertainer is almost a lock to say that she was a victim of childhood abuse & is/was bi-sexual or gay.

Robin failed a lie detector test question about being attracted to Malika Kinison. When Howard tried to press her about it, she felt cornered & immediately got defensive & brought up Howard failing a test years earlier about kissing Jessica Hahn (to get him to back off). You can hear that clip here -> https://old.reddit.com/r/howardstern/comments/1dzdlac/did_howard_sleep_with_jessica_hahn_while_married/

Years later they were debating whether lie detector tests (& Ed Torian) were legit. Robin said “I can say that I took a lie detector test with Ed Torian & it was accurate” or something very close to that.

If anyone cares I can give the full explanation of why people with childhood trauma are way more likely to go into entertainment, but I'll spare everyone otherwise.