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And i m like here i am from west virginia, 18, i m like, what? and he goes, he s gay. it s like oh, ok, well i can accept that then. so reporter: and that very day sylvia and steven began a warm, lifelong friendship. many afternoons spent lingering at this coffee shop. and many memorable evenings. what were those dinners like? oh, steven s an amazing cook. if you were patient, he was good. he was a phenomenal cook. but you had to be geared to eating at, like, 10:30 or 11:00 because he was the type of person that if he would talk to you, you would have his undivided attention. so by the time we would eat it s, like, everybody s drunk. reporter: and then somewhere in the middle of the 90s, the radio business seemed to tire of steven s huge deep voice and happy style. he got a job in the winery business for a while. then went home to care for his ailing father in southern california. and in 2003 when his father died oh, he was devastated. ....
Famous in the 1980s as part of the hit denver-based radio show steven b and the hawk. he was really at his professional zenith in denver. reporter: doug johnson and steven were friends for more than 30 years. they were the guys that really pioneered two-man morning radioe they were funny. they were great writers. they were great comedians. we ve been over here at kpke he s lovable. i mean, you just everybody loves steven b.e. reporter: young sylvia noland had a big crush on steven b when they both worked in a hawaii radio station back in the earlyi days, so she worked up her nerve. i went in and asked steven b. if he d be my date to the beach boys concert. and he turned me down and i was just like devastated, you know. and so i was sitting in my e little sales cubical. and i al what s the matter with me? i know. and the general manager walks in and he goes, i think you need e to know something. he and i said, what? and he goes, well, if you were a boy he woul ....
Cable news. he s everything that you were, but more. he s younger, he is shallower, he s even less experience. he s gotten an even weirder name, plus, he s gay. he is the perfect candidate for voters who say they love diversity but don t really want to hoover stacey abrams. this candidate code is created an elaborate plan like cnn. there s no stopping a man like this. on some level, beto o rourke must know it s over. more than six months before the votes are cast in iowa, it s done. i m sure he will keep raising money but his political i career is done. cue the sad nirvana playlist. so, what are the lessons of the sinking of the ss beto? here s one. maybe he should ve run on something. it s pretty hard to win on charisma alone, as hillary clinton recently discovered. so why not be the one person in the race with big ideas? ....
reporter: doug johnson and steven were friends for more than 30 years. they were the guys that really pioneered two-man morning radio. they were funny. they were great writers. they were great comedians. we ve been over here at kpke for about what? a hundred years? he s lovable. i mean, you just everybody loves steven b. reporter: young sylvia noland had a big crush on steven b when they both worked in a hawaii radio station back in the early days, so she worked up her nerve. i went in and asked steven b. if he d be my date to the beach boys concert. and he turned me down and i was just like devastated, you know. and so i was sitting in my little sales cubical. and i what s the matter with me? i know. and the general manager walks in and he goes, i think you need to know something. and i said, what? and he goes, well, if you were a boy he would have gone. and i m like here i am from west virginia, 18, i m like, what? and he goes, he s gay. it s like o ....
And i m like here i am from west virginia, 18, i m like, what? and he goes, he s gay. it s like oh, ok, well i can accept that then. so reporter: and that very day sylvia and steven began a warm, lifelong friendship. many afternoons spent lingering at this coffee shop. and many memorable evenings. what were those dinners like? oh, steven s an amazing cook. if you were patient, he was good. he was a phenomenal cook. but you had to be geared to eating at, like, 10:30 or 11:00 because he was the type of person that if he would talk to you, you would have his undivided attention. so by the time we would eat it s, like, everybody s drunk. reporter: and then somewhere in the middle of the 90s, the radio business seemed to tire of steven s huge deep voice and happy style. he got a job in the winery business for a while. then went home to care for his ailing father in southern california. and in 2003 when his father died ....