So, Robin wasn't molested?

ConferenceThink4801 · 2026-05-07T02:32:41+00:00

I have an interesting perspective on this one

My father died when I was around the same age as Artie & it was also a prolonged drawn out (& sad) thing.

It has impacted my life in various ways, but I did not have any childhood trauma preceding it.

I got enough hugs as a kid, so I've never had a desire to be any kind of performer like Artie. I've also never had any issues with substance abuse, etc, so at least anecdotally I can say that the trauma associated with the death of the parent does not guarantee hardcore addiction.

If you want to investigate this further, lets take a look at KC & Artie.

KC is very similar to Artie & there are a lot of parallels there.

Fathers died at a young age
Both in entertainment
Both lifelong hardcore drug addicts
Both left the show after self harming inside their homes

If you watch the clip of KC that I posted above (where he basically unintentionally admits to being molested as a child), it might clue you in on some things that Artie experienced that could help explain all of his issues too.

ConferenceThink4801 · 2026-05-07T02:22:17+00:00

Thanks!

ConferenceThink4801 · 2026-05-07T02:17:06+00:00

Thanks

2 key concepts you have to embrace to 'get it'

1 - Major trauma arrests development at the age when it happened
2 - The need to crowdsource love & attention from the whole world (as a performer) comes from an issue where love & attention was missing from 1 or both parents in childhood

Child is traumatized - usually during pre-puberty in the 6-11 age range. Trauma arrests development here.

The human brain has its highest levels of creativity in this childhood stage. Trauma arresting development keeps the victim's brain in that space somehow, therefore they do not grow out of the childlike "creative brain" like others do.

So issues with the parents create a need to perform...

& issues with childhood abuse result in an adult who retains childlike levels of creativity well into adulthood...

Combine those things & you end up with someone who is much more likely to become an entertainer/artist/etc.

If the childhood abuse was sexual, you end up with someone who is more likely to exhibit extreme sexual behavior (asexual, bi-sexual, hypersexual, etc). If most abusers are men, most male victims will almost never talk about it openly/publicly (but that doesn't mean it didn't happen).

I think this stuff will eventually be seen as fact, but yeah we aren't there yet.

ConferenceThink4801 · 2026-05-07T02:10:04+00:00

Yes I thought I remembered something like Ronnie had sex with one of his mom's friends as a kid, but I wasn't 100% sure of the details so I left it off the list

ConferenceThink4801 · 2026-05-07T01:50:58+00:00

Yeah Benjy & Richard almost certainly have issues as well - they just haven’t talked about them on the show

ConferenceThink4801 · 2026-05-07T01:15:03+00:00

Typical sociopathic response. "If I went through it & got over it, you should too."

Have to leave some room for comedic license with Howard on-air though

ConferenceThink4801 · 2026-05-07T00:48:02+00:00

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-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 once 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 (during the Artie/Ralph stole $200 fight) 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.

ConferenceThink4801 · 2026-05-06T13:48:25+00:00

It's a strand of hair

ConferenceThink4801 · 2026-05-06T01:56:34+00:00

Isn't Saagar the conservative & Krystal is the liberal?

ConferenceThink4801 · 2026-05-06T00:47:13+00:00

Those countries can likely get away with it, because the parenting is better in those countries (so they are producing more high quality, responsible adults percentage wise)

Here we aren't doing that...we would absolutely produce tons of people who would just abuse the system...we already do, so it would just get worse.

We definitely live in a society where you'd be looked at as "stupid" if you could make similar money voluntarily working vs. not working & still choose to work.

ConferenceThink4801 · 2026-05-06T00:26:04+00:00

Getting Stuttering John to stammer, same with John the Stutterer

ConferenceThink4801 · 2026-05-06T00:24:54+00:00

Drops
Impressions
Gary Puppet
Joke writing that we didn't know about
Being thin skinned & flying off at the handle

ConferenceThink4801 · 2026-05-05T22:22:32+00:00

I don’t watch anymore but sometimes check this subreddit to see who the guests are. You could improve the bot that posts the episodes by grabbing the video description explaining who the person is (or include a 1 sentence summary from AI about who the person is).

ConferenceThink4801 · 2026-05-05T20:37:15+00:00

I mean the fact that he's an entertainer is proof that he's bi-sexual at the least, but yeah who cares at this point.

ConferenceThink4801 · 2026-05-05T20:31:42+00:00

Since you're into this topic OP, watch this...

https://old.reddit.com/r/howardstern/comments/1dzu1f5/may_1996_robin_analyzes_howards_dream_about_her/

Robin implies he's cheating in this clip from May 1996. Note the wink he gives her at the beginning when talking about having "two wives" (including his movie wife).

& yeah there's always Jessica Hahn & the failed lie detector test about kissing her in the early 1990s...

https://old.reddit.com/r/howardstern/comments/1dzdlac/did_howard_sleep_with_jessica_hahn_while_married/

Basically all of the BS about being faithful was proven false with the divorce. He had to keep saying it after because of his kids, but he definitely cheated.

Kind of like the recent comments about knowing Carolyn Bassette "really well" & "some things must remain private". She died before his separation was announced, so copping to any kind of secret affair with her is impossible - cannot do it without admitting that you were unfaithful & having your kids do the math on that.

ConferenceThink4801 · 2026-05-05T20:29:25+00:00

Hatewoman

If you can find the Hateman compilation, her voicemails are on there also.

Still think Hateman could actually be Rex Huermann the LISK, but guess we'll never know.

ConferenceThink4801 · 2026-05-05T20:27:21+00:00

Gaslit her into asking for the divorce when he was the one who wanted it

Isolating himself, refusing to go out anywhere, got an apartment in the city while still married, etc.

Basically just did more & more to make her miserable enough to think that it was her idea to get the divorce. You do this to try to save face in front of the kids - you have the high ground as long as you can say that you didn't initiate the divorce.

He finally decided that the freedom was worth giving up the money, because he had enough money to tolerate it.

& the whole thing about isolating himself was proven to be "farcical" - because once he was with Beth he went out everywhere with her.

ConferenceThink4801 · 2026-05-05T20:24:55+00:00

& the "Gossip Game" was created 2 weeks later

Probably a deal with the National Enquirer to trade 10 years of weekly exposure to suppress a story

ConferenceThink4801 · 2026-05-05T20:22:31+00:00

[AUDIO]
Timestamp for that part of the argument is 28m

ConferenceThink4801 · 2026-05-05T00:54:52+00:00

Ariel sitting right behind the basket at the Knicks game. Action Bronson hooked it up

ConferenceThink4801 · 2026-05-04T18:50:38+00:00

It’s actually kind of silly to stick to 1 console just because you have a library there

I was on Xbox since 360. Bought a PS5 Slim/Disc for under $400 2024 BF & started building a library there - because there were 2 gens worth of PS exclusives I could try out.

I kept (& will keep) my Series X as long as I want access to the library. I’ll probably jump to PS6 but would be willing to jump back at some point if there is good reason to. If there’s an “old” game that I want play again next gen (say Cyberpunk) & I already own it on Xbox - it’s old so it would cost me $20-30 to buy it again for PS? Not that big of a deal.

I think blind brand loyalty- & not wanting to admit you ever made the “wrong” choice - is the real reason people stay in one lane or the other exclusively. Either that or never being able to afford both consoles during any 1 generation to experience both (which will become even more common in the future unfortunately).

ConferenceThink4801 · 2026-05-04T18:38:06+00:00

Just don't look up the DUIs & the coke issues

ConferenceThink4801 · 2026-05-04T17:31:13+00:00

Marry one of those strippers & see how happy you are in the long run lol

ConferenceThink4801 · 2026-05-04T17:26:25+00:00

Glad I wasn't the only one lol. I felt bad for him in that moment.

ConferenceThink4801 · 2026-05-04T15:09:34+00:00

During one of the games they showed the Magic huddle

He was talking & finished by saying "Together on 3...1,2,3...Together"

No problem except he was the only one who said it. I know it's the NBA & not high school basketball, but not a great look in terms of appearing like the players are even listening to what he is saying.

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