I've had a long relationship with Art (not like the one Heather may have been having). He's been both a mentor and a thorn at different times in my life. I once wrote a blog discussing how I found it suspicious that Art would remarry just three months after Ramona died. Art threatened to sue me for stating my opinion of "something just wasn't adding up". He later retracted that threat and simply asked me to remove it because "you know none of that is true".
Instead of being sued I decided to remove the blog post.
But even to this day, we have more questions than answers about Ramona's death...among other things.
I will, however, say that when I needed help as a new broadcaster/podcaster, Art reached out to me by phone. I never had his number (he always called with his number blocked) but he would call almost anytime I needed his advice.
His real-life persona wasn't the greatest, and he admitted to that. But his radio persona was the greatest of any radio host that has ever lived. Nobody will ever replicate the storytelling ability he had. He could thrill you with the most mundane of events...only because he was our equivalency of P.T. Barnum.
While he wasn't the greatest father to most of his children, I truly believe he tried to make up for those failures by being a great dad to his last two children. They will be his lasting legacy, not those who despise him for leaving.
Just my two cents.