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Strategies & Market Trends : Bob Brinker: Market Savant & Radio Host
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To: Math Junkie who wrote (21914)1/10/2005 5:20:11 PM
From: Tim Bagwell   of 42834
 
I've always been amazed at the patience he shows in answering some questions again and again.

Yes...he does seem to have a lot of patience. I was thinking about this and wondering how many other radio programs could survive 18 years by basically taking the same questions over and over. This may be the only one in that regard.

When you get right down to it, there isn't much to the content that Brinker gives out on the program. He must be able to do it cold with little to no preparation. Some weekends he gathers a few tidbits from the latest news and rehashes it in the monologue. But it's always stuff that is readily available to anyone or he throws out some current event and offers his, usually trivial, opinion.

Then I wondered, why would someone of the stature he wants to be, keep doing the same 6 hour program for so long? There's no shortage of newbies out there and the radio audience is something he rides for free. So it's virtually no effort for him. It must feel like he's getting a paycheck for doing nothing.

So what is it? Does he like the sound of his own voice? Does he feel guilty about some crime that he feels this is his moral obligation as recompense? Is it his form of working retirement? Is the wife a little heavy-handed at home? Has he blown his own investments so badly that he needs the paycheck? Does the paycheck afford him his gambling lifestyle? Is he so morbidly devoid of personality that he has nothing else he would rather do?

He often makes that comment about Bill Gates that "he doesn't have to work but he works because he wants to." Is that Brinker's reason? It's probably true Bill Gates loves his work, but he leads a company that actually does stuff. And he's a lot younger than the Bobbler.

Ego is a perplexing thing sometimes.
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