His wife was his producer? I never heard him yell at her, I heard him yell at guys in his control room. I used to listen to him.
Unsurprisingly, Mike has had a long series of producers (full disclosure: I never was one). The daughter of KGO-ex Jim Eason also was one, and he gave her the same terrible treatment.
Hey, performance standards are GREAT —we need more of that in the USA. But Mike doesn’t just have those, no. He’s needlessly venomous, and he meets out EXACTLY the type of treatment to others that he decries towards him from others, like ex-bosses, professors, journalists and particularly his father.
The word, hypocrite is used more and more —now to a fault, I believe— but it fits Mike to a “T”: Mike is a big, fat hypocrite.
He should be more like his son, who is both a high-achiever and also genuinely NICE. Same with his wife. It’s juuuust Mike who is the jerk.