During a commercial break, the host turned to Robin and privately asked him, “You ever get emotional after the open-heart surgery?” Robin felt his eyes welling up with tears once again as he answered, “Fuck yeah.” “It was very much like shorthand between two survivors,” Robin later said. “You really do get weepy, like, ‘Oh, a kitten.’ ‘Oh my God, did you see that flower?’ Butch up, motherfucker.”
