Ronn Owens: ...being a father is an all-consuming and awesome job

Nobody Told Me!

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🗓️ 17 June 2022

⏱️ 30 minutes

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We are a mother-daughter team and on this special Father’s Day edition of Nobody Told Me, we’re joined my Laura’s father, and my husband, Ronn Owens, a legendary radio talk show host who is a member of the National Radio Hall of Fame. We talk to him about some of those “nobody told me” lessons that guys learn when they become fathers, the best advice he's given to his daughters, and what he learned from his dad.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Nobody Told Me. I'm Jan Black.
0:14.6	And I'm Laura Owens.
0:16.1	We are a mother-daughter team.
0:18.1	And on this special Father's Day edition of Nobody Told Me,
0:21.4	we're joined by Laura's father and my husband, Ron Owens. We wanted to talk about some of those
0:26.9	Nobody Told Me lessons. Guys learn when they become fathers. So Ron, welcome back to the show.
0:32.7	Thank you. Love being here. Love the host. And you couldn't have become a father, were it not for my lovely co-host, my mother, Jan.
0:42.4	And I'm wondering, how did you guys meet and, like, what was your first impression of her?
0:46.3	We met in the transmission room at the old KGO radio, which was on Golden Gate Avenue in San Francisco.
0:53.6	And there was an instant attraction.
0:55.6	I know there was for me, and I believe your mom felt the same way.
0:58.5	Every once in a while you meet somebody that you know is going to be important in your life.
1:02.6	That's the feeling I had with your mom.
1:04.4	And I guess she's been kind of important.
1:06.5	We've been together, what?
1:07.6	A lot of years.
1:08.6	43 years, something like that.
1:10.1	Oh, yeah, yeah yeah since 1977 that's right
1:13.7	1977 was when we got together yeah but we met each other in 1975 that's true and and i remember
1:19.6	when i met you and i've told you this a thousand times before i thought i wasn't sure if i liked you
1:25.3	i really was attracted to you i wasn't sure that's liked you. I really was attracted to you. I wasn't sure if I were... You're sure that's not right now? After all these years. No, but I remembered thinking I'd never met anyone like him. And I still haven't. I have to say that. After all these years, I still haven't met anybody like your dad. I will take it as a compliment, whether it was meant that way or not.
1:45.9	No, it is.
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