Ronn Owens reflects on his long radio career KGO radio talk show host Ronn Owens has been the "voice of reason" for 38 years and still loves his job. What's the enduring appeal of radio? The people who were listening to me were doing the same things. There's an intimacy to radio that you don't get with TV. When Politics Worked about Tip O'Neill and Ronald Reagan and how they got along after hours. On social issues, I'm the most liberal guy you'll meet in your life. With economics and foreign affairs, I'm slightly right of center. If there's an election in the city and I have no idea which way to vote, I get the Bay Guardian and vote the opposite. Any interview disasters? What makes you a good radio host? At the end of the show, I said something like, "OK, you get to be president, and I want the first radio interview from the Oval Office." Obama says, "Does it have to be in the Oval Office?" I said no, and we went back and forth negotiating the amount of time. When we were talking off air, she said she was looking for a guy with brains like hers but a body like an NFL star. A U.S. senator from California, appointed and not elected. Julian Guthrie is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer.
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