The Megyn Kelly Show - Jerry Springer on the American Dream, His TV Legacy, and Political Divisions | Ep. 43

Episode Date: December 28, 2020

Megyn Kelly is joined by Jerry Springer to discuss his lengthy television career and legacy, the American dream and American spirit, staying humble, political and cultural divisions in America today, his most memorable "Springer Show" episodes, his hope for the future, his political career and overcoming setbacks and more.Follow The Megyn Kelly Show on all social platforms:Twitter: http://Twitter.com/MegynKellyShowInstagram: http://Instagram.com/MegynKellyShowFacebook: http://Facebook.com/MegynKellyShowFind out more information at:https://www.devilmaycaremedia.com/megynkellyshow

Welcome to The Megyn Kelly Show, your home for open, honest, and provocative conversations. Hey everyone, I'm Megyn Kelly. Welcome to The Megyn Kelly Show. Today on the program, Jerry Springer. He is fascinating. Way more so than you even knew. This is a guy who was brought to the United States by his German Jewish parents in 1949 and has an incredible story, an incredible life story, incredible story in New York Harbor under Lady Liberty as he arrived here and all the goodness that happened in his life thereafter. You may not know he's a lawyer. He was a mayor. He worked for Bobby Kennedy. He was a very successful news anchor, starred on Broadway, hosted game shows, Dancing with the Stars, America's Got Talent, two CDs, a radio

show. He's got a podcast. I mean, I could go on, but the guy has seen incredible success over the course of his life and I think has a real understanding of what this country is. We don't line up exactly politically, but who cares, right? Who cares? We got to talk to people who might not be on our exact side of the aisle. And I think he and I exemplify that in this interview, which I know you're going to love. So to Jerry Springer in one sec. But first, the more you do online, like all the gift giving and the banking and the browsing, the more you expose your personal information that makes you vulnerable to thieves, cyber criminals. They're out there just waiting for you to make a mistake. Now's the time to think about your cybersecurity right now. It genuinely is as the year closes out with all in one protection, the all in one protection of Norton 360 with LifeLock. This is the easy way to keep your busy digital life safer in one place. You get powerful protection for your devices, your laptops, your tablets, your phone. You get a VPN for your online privacy

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really good. Thank you. I thought I thought, but was going to go someplace else. Like, but I actually don't like you at all, but no, no, no, no, no. I like what you said. I almost all my friends are liberals. I'm not a liberal. I'm not really a conservative either, but I, I hate that we've gotten to this place in the country where people are assuming that's impossible now. I agree with that. I agree. But I think that is just exacerbated by modern technology. You know, I don't think people all of a sudden became political. I mean, throughout our history, there have been lots of moments and, you know, even generations which were highly political. Certainly my generation in the 60s was. So that isn't new. But nowadays,

suddenly everyone is a journalist, you know, who has an iPhone. And there you go. And with the social media, all of a sudden your opinion becomes part of a movement. And then everyone lines up. And of course, cable news has done that as well, whether it's Fox or MSNBC. And then I understand it, I guess, because, you know, everyone likes to be around people that agree with them. You know, it's just you don't want every conversation. It's why people got scared of Thanksgiving, because it used to be, at least in the last few years, where Thanksgiving in virtually every family was really difficult because it was always someone in your family that had the opposing point of view. And all of a sudden, it became a political argument. And, you know, there was one year where they didn't even give

me the turkey bone. And so, you know, I always got nervous around Thanksgiving because of that. But I think now because of that, we line up in camps. You know, I think there's a sorting process going on, is that, you know, I do think there's a difference between the political parties in this way. I think people, and this is, I understand the generalization, but I think people that are Republicans are Republicans first. In other words, it almost doesn't matter who their candidate is. Their loyalty is to that Republican Party. Now it's being translated into being Trumpians. But the truth is, whoever the Republican candidate was, all those people would be voting Trump. Democrats are something else first before they ever become Democrats. In other words,

it's a coalition of interest groups. So maybe you're African-American, maybe you're labor, maybe you're a part of a group that the environment is a major issue. So you've got this coalition of varying interests that, from the Democrat point of view, hopefully can coalesce at the time of an election and present a unified front. Republicans don't have that problem. It's a static kind of, I'm a Republican, I was raised a Republican, and I think that's why it's all of a sudden becoming very difficult when, let's say during the Trump era, when people were saying, at least when I talked to my Republican friends, Republican acquaintances, anytime I had a discussion, the word, but, if you talked about Trump, the word, but was always part of the sentence. Yeah, I know what he's like. And yeah, he exaggerates or sometimes doesn't tell the truth or whatever it is. But but I like the fact that my taxes went down or I like the fact that he's a more comfortable party for whatever their group is. But their

loyalty is not to, I'll vote for a Democrat no matter what happens. Because I was raised in the, you know, with the 60s, the Democratic Party turned on Lyndon Johnson, the president of our own party, and challenged him with McCarthy and Bobby Kennedy, etc. So, you know, that was the first example in my lifetime of not necessarily staying loyal to your party because that wasn't the most important thing going for you. I find much more loyalty in the Republican Party. And I think that's part of why we have this incredible division right now. Well, that's interesting. I feel like I I feel like what we see on the left more and more is is allegiance to identity politics, not from the what I refer to as just

the liberal left, but the far left has made woke ism a religion that must dictate one's vote. And if one doesn't subscribe to these hardcore identity politics, one must be denounced as a bigot. One must not vote for one's pocketbook issues when there are these other capital O, big capital B issues, capital I looming out there. That is true. I don't deny that is the case, but that goes to the point I guess I was trying to make is that there is a loyalty to something else first. And for example, for me in, you know, my loyalty this time was, and I have nothing personal against Donald Trump. I just, you know, I met him on a few occasions. I worked for him when I was the host of the Miss Universe pageant back in 2008 in Vietnam.

So I had nothing personal against Donald Trump. You know, I thought he was an outsized personality or whatever, but it never dawned on me that he was interested in going into politics. And so that became a, I really was a, oh my gosh, we can't have him for president. And the reason I, for me, I'm an immigrant. My whole family came over from Germany and I lost my family in the Holocaust. So immigration has always been a key issue. And I didn't think, and this is my personal partisanship, I didn't think, I don't think he understands what America really is. is that America is an idea. We are the only nation in the history of the world to have been created by an idea. Every other country in the world throughout history starts out maybe as a tribe, as a religion, as an ethnic group. They then get a little more land. All of a sudden, they want to have a country and they start a war to protect it. And then they establish a government.

That is how every country starts, except America. America was first an idea. And then around that idea, after the revolution, let's have put together a constitution and form the government of, you know, where you govern by the consent of the governed. That is an idea. And the idea was, as articulated in the Declaration of Independence, all men are created equal. And men now, obviously, more than just men. But the concept was, we're all human beings. And we weren't there yet, obviously not with a slave being three-fifths of a human being. We weren't there yet. But that was the goal. That was our civic religion. When you said before that it's almost like a religious calling that some of the

people on the far left, to that extent, on some issues, it is religious. It's a civil religion. And that idea is when we salute the flag, when we tear up in the seventh inning stretch singing God bless America. That is it's not to the peace of land. Every country has some beautiful scenery and military heroes and what have you. is, at least that was the initial understanding, certainly to immigrants, is that, wow, this is a place where it doesn't matter where you're from, how you believe in God, what your religion is, whatever your ideas are, you're welcome here. The Statue of Liberty is a manifestation of that 100 years later from the revolution. But it's that America is something special. And if you attack that idea from day one, it's like, whoa, then what what are we sending our

young men and women to fight and die for? So let me ask you that, because as as you know, and you're talking about Trump's policies on immigration. But what what we're seeing now in the wake of this summer of protests and riots is people on the streets literally saying this idea is over. This experiment of America needs to end. There is true hatred being expressed for our country. And, you know, you're seeing the football players kneel during the national anthem. Some want to call attention to police brutality. Others think America is an awful place. And what scares me is that's spreading. You know, they're not even saying the pledge in school anymore. It's controversial to

put an American flag in the background of a live shot. The flag. Okay. I understand that. I understand what you're saying. And I agree with what you're saying, but I think I'm adding to that though, that though I obviously stand, you know, I stand for the flag. I do the pledge of allegiance, I desperately believe in America, and all that, I think what you're seeing some people on the extremes, that they are so upset because America isn't living up, at least in their lives, if they're African American, for example, which it's pretty hard to argue against their notion that what we say America is doesn't really reflect in their everyday lives. That it really, and I don't think we fully understand it. I mean, we're starting to understand it. We see what the

anger is about. But at some point, this has been festering for hundreds of years, certainly since the Civil War. And it's like they're still second-class citizens and their lives are, whether you're talking about the neighborhoods, the schools, the housing, the health care, the opportunities, the income disparity. I mean, all of this stuff. They're not all lying. It isn't like someone made this up. Well, but they're not all saying it either.

Well, I'm sure they're not. No, because people talk about the black community as though it's uniform. And there are a lot of really smart, heterodox voices within the black community saying they don't buy that narrative at all, that they do believe in America and they do believe, well, we're not perfect. You know, we're the only country that's fought a war to end slavery. And within 100 years of doing so, we passed the civil rights laws and that there is opportunity in this country, as proven by people like Barack Obama, right? Oprah Winfrey, Clarence Thomas, to rise to the very top of industry. Yeah, but the real test is going to be,

and I'm not arguing with you there. Yes, sure, it's not monolithic, but there's a reason, my guess is, there's a reason why 95% of African Americans, or is it 92? I don't know what percent, but you know what I'm talking about. Vast, vast, vast majority of African-Americans or is it 92? I don't know what percent, but you know what I'm talking about. Vast, vast, vast majority of African-Americans vote on a Democratic ticket, not because they're diehard Democrats, but because they don't see that we're really concerned about that issue unless there's a disturbance.

Well, can I ask you something there? I know you, unlike most people out there, understand the working class of America. And I think that's very largely driven by socioeconomic status. And I think, you know, when I was growing up, I was a Democrat. My family were Democrats. I wasn't really partisan. They weren't really political either. But, you know, you had to be one or the other. And my Nana, my Nana, who was born in 1915, used to say Republicans, that's ajerk instinct to say, if you don't have money, you're a Democrat because the Democrats are for you, given their relationship with labor and so on. But I think it's changing, not only the working class going for Trump in some of these, you know, in Appalachia, in the Rust Belt in 2016. But he even increased his share of the black vote.

It wasn't by huge margins this time around, but he sure did. And the Latino vote. And a lot of folks said that came down to socioeconomic issues. They want they trusted him to improve their lives more. Yeah, that's true. But I'm just saying the vast majority, people that are, let's say this, people who are of a group, just for a second, I'll talk groups, that are in a group that by and large, you know, initially, or even now, look at the women's vote. Whatever group that they thought weren't getting a fair shake by the government, which does basically reflect the interests of, at least socioeconomically, people like me. I mean, you know, they're giving me this incredible tax break, which is insane, insane when we have all these real needs right now of people, and not just because of the pandemic, just in general, real needs of people at the lower end of the economic

scale or even the middle class that need some help. In other words, they see the government as representing wealthy, powerful interests, which is true. I mean, it does mostly represent that. On both sides. I agree with you on that. I think it's true on both sides. Yeah, because these politicians want to be reelected, so they rationalize how it starts out. Let's say they originally go into politics for a nice reason. They want to help people. They want to make the country better. But then once they're in, they kind of enjoy their life at being in Congress or being a senator. And it's not a bad way to live and the prestige and all of that. And then comes up the next election and suddenly they're 40 years old, 50 years old. And if they lose the next election, that really disrupts their life.

And so all of a sudden they rationalize. And the rationalization is, well, I'm willing to bend a little bit here because if I don't get reelected, I can't do the good that I originally came in and wanted to do. So that's how the intellectual corruption starts. I'm not talking about the obvious blatant corruption when you're getting, you know, being paid off. But just in general, they start rationalizing and it's intellectually dishonest. And that's why people then get really upset with government. So if we're talking about people on the edges, yeah, if someone's throwing a rock through a window, but let's be honest, the number of people that were actually doing that compared to the 80 something million people who voted against Trump, and notice I'm saying voted against Trump more than necessarily voted for a Democrat, that most overwhelmingly, most of them went throwing rocks through windows. So just like I shouldn't say if the Republican Party is all white supremacists, neither should we say that, oh, all these riots, because you want riots? Look at the 1960s. We burned down cities. I don't mean a block. I mean, we burned down cities. We burned

draft cards. We had, I mean, the country was an armed camp. The Democratic Convention in Chicago. I mean, there was just so much about the assassinations, you know, Martin Luther King, Bobby, and just the whole year was, that 1968 was unbelievable. So yeah, there is on the extremes, but in the middle, I understand why some of these, quote, groups, whether it's women, whether it's African-Americans, Hispanics, Muslims, labor, working class people, why these people often find or mostly find a home in the Democratic Party, because other than, and I would say other than pro-choice, there is no litmus test to be a Democrat. And that's why the Democratic Party has so much trouble once they get elected. They you know, you know, we're not a we don't like organized

political parties. We're Democrats. What's his name? Set that back. But I would say that, I mean, just knowing what I know about the other side, I would say they're much more in favor of personal responsibility. They want government to get out of the way, not to make the way. They want less regulation to open up the economy and let it rip, which has, which happened under Trump. It happened prior to COVID. And so they're, what they want is opportunity. And that's one of the reasons why his crackdown on illegal immigration, to go back to your first point, was popular with the working class. They were saying, I don't want people who are here illegally to take my jobs. That's one of the reasons people believe that Trump did so well with Latinos down in Texas,

because they understood how important legal immigration is to the country and how damaging illegal immigration can be and how important it is to stand up against it for the vast, vast, vast number of people in America, how how many honestly, if you're in a room alone with God and you have to tell the truth of your life. So for you know, how many really go to sleep every night and saying my life is horrible because of the immigrant came into this country. I mean, Jerry, you got to go spend some time on the southern border and those numbers go way up. Well, I do. I do. It's more so there. It is more so there. But it's not it's not overwhelming. I think it's basic because I people up here. Well, I'm in Florida. That's where I live. But anyway, when I'm up north, uh, you know, people there complain about immigration and there's, that never comes up that they took my job because the people I'm talking to have a very nice job or whatever kind of a job,

their police officers or whatever, they're not losing their job because of that. And they have the same attitude about immigration. But they're also worried about the security threat. I mean, they're also worried about the security threat because they mean, they're also worried about the security threat. Because what they're arguing, no one's arguing against legal immigration. Well, some people are. Some people are. The ant cultures of the world aren't really in favor of that either. But the core Republican Party talks about illegal immigration and how to crack down on it. And even under Obama, you know, he deported more illegal immigrants and unlawful immigrants than President Trump did.

And I'm not proud of that but clearly you know there's a racial context for many of the people of why they're why should we just open up the border and let a bunch of illegal enter entrance come in that's not the alternative though the alternative that that's setting up a straw man. But that isn't the choice. The choice is, yes, let's have legal immigration, but let's have enough judges on the border or lawyers on the border so that when someone applies to get in, let them be able to go through the process. Let's not kick out children that have lived there 15 years in this country. And moms, they snuck over the border to get a life for their children. Who knows what their circumstances were? I don't know a single parent that wouldn't do everything in their power, everything, to make sure that their kids got to live. And if they

could get across the border, I understand the human emotion of trying to get there. So I'm saying protect the borders, but I'm saying also have a process when these people come up and ask for being able to come into this country, that there's a process there. I would take, for example, I would hire 10,000, if necessary, whatever that was, graduates of law school to give one year, and maybe we wind up helping with their tuition of law school, but for one year to set them up on the border so that we would have a court system where just dealing with immigration. And then we'll find out who's legal gets to come in or go through the process. Who's not, we are not going to put in. I mean, I'm all for taking a hard look at asylum claims. You know, I'm in danger where I am and I

need help. That's one thing, but trying to sneak across the border and then, and then get the rights that others who came before you from, from the border waited in line for and worked for and studied to achieve that's not OK. And so for sure, we could be doing it better. But I think, you know, one of the things that some Democrats, even Joe Biden, wants amnesty for the existing 11, 12 people who have told me people who are here undocumented now, that's not right. That's not fair to the people who did it by the book. Well, the process now, admittedly, the process is different in different countries. But in most of these countries, and I certainly know it was true during the time of

Nazi Germany, when my parents were trying to get out. I mean, most of my family didn't, but mom and dad finally did. But the people that did get out, you know, there was all kinds of stuff going on to get up on the list. Who did you know? Could you pay some money to get up there? And, you know, parents would do whatever they could to save the life of themselves and their children. You know, and that is such a human that, you know, putting the politics aside, who doesn't feel for that? No, I understand that. Today, they would be asylum seekers. We know where the virus came from.

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and enter the coupon code MK at checkout for a 20% discount on your order. Again, follow with me. DontShutDownMaskUp.com. That's a good one. Don'tShutDownMaskUp.com slash MK. Back to the point I was making at the top, which is I do think you have an understanding of the working class in a way most Americans do not. And I heard it from you a few years back. You were celebrating the 25th year anniversary of your show. You were in a tuxedo.

You got a little emotional. It was actually really sweet. And we're going to play the clip. Here it is. Well, what I've learned over our quarter century of shows is that deep down, we are all alike. Some of us just dress better or had a better education or better luck in the gene pool of parents. I'll say it again. Deep down, we are all the same. We all want to be happy.

We cry when we're hurt. We're angry when we've been mistreated. And to be liked, accepted, and respected, not to mention loved, is the greatest gift of all. Yes, we're all alike. Know this, there's never been a moment in the 25 years of doing this show that I ever thought I was better than the people who appear on our stage. I'm not better, only luckier. So thanks for the 25 years. We've signed on to do a whole bunch more. And as long as I stay healthy, we will. And on that note, take care of yourself and each other.

Ah, what I love about that clip is, number one, a theme I've seen in you, which is humility. And number two, a willingness to understand we have more in common than we do that separates us. And to just sort of look at people for their humanity as opposed to with judgment. There's so much judgment today, isn't there? Yes, there absolutely is. And I think a lot of the judgment, and this really is on both sides, it's almost as if, I don't know, politics has become a sport because it's covered as a sport. It's covered as a contest. And everyone, you know, you're rooting for one team or the other.

And the team you line up with starts to define you, who you are. And I know when Democrats say, oh, that's a Trumpian, I know they have the absolute image of what that person is. And when Republicans will say, oh, that's a liberal Democrat or, you know, a lefty or a lib, yeah, a lib, they immediately have that image. So I 100% agree with you. There is that. And I think it's kind of inevitable because of our culture today, the technology today, where it's so easy to line up with one side or the other. And then, because everyone likes to find people who agree with them, they keep going to those same websites. They keep watching the same cable news.

They keep, you know, it's just, you know, and all of a sudden you become a fanatical supporter of that side. Mickey and I, my wife and I were, it was a week before the election. And by the way, this happens on both sides. So I'm not picking on Republicans here. But we were standing, here in Sarasota, there's a, you know, a major road. And traditionally, people stand there with their signs, you know, waving the signs. And, you know, Mickey is the most private person in the world.

He's very political, but doesn't, you know, she's not upfront like I am. But anyway, we had our all the sign said was Biden Harris. And we stand along the road with, you know, a couple of hundred other people that were standing there. This was a Biden group. And these cars would come by giving us the finger and making, you know, and we're saying, why? It wasn't like our, our sign didn't say Trump's an idiot. We hate Trump, you know, whatever. And it was so depressing. You know, finally we said, let's just go home.

Yeah, I know. I know. Of course, we did see that. It's go home. Yeah, I know. I know. You know, I of course, we did see that. It's both sides. Yeah, I know. I like you aspire to see a country in which we lean into our better angels. But I think I agree with you that the Internet, while it's done so much good, I feel like its number one harm is the damage it's done to human relationships and intimacy. But this is an this is a related problem where it's made us so tribal. It's made us just committed to confirmation bias, less open-minded,

even though we have more access to more information. Let me tell you, so instead of watching cable, they should have been watching The Springer Show. As so many people were for 27 years. The show just ended in 18 after almost 30 years. And I wanted to ask you. I'd like to apologize. What do you mean? What are you saying? Stop it. Well, I mean, the show had no redeeming social value.

But it was fun. It was fun to do. And it was fun. It was, it was fun to do and it was crazy. And, you know, and I realized over time that no matter how much people would complain about it, they obviously watched it. Otherwise they wouldn't know what they were complaining. It was, you know, it was one of those guilty pleasures or whatever it was. What did people love about it? What did people love about it? Well, at first the shock, um, because they'd never seen behavior like that on television. American television up until the 90s, you know, the early 90s, in fact, about the time that our show came along, American television was almost exclusively upper middle class white, whether it was the Seinfeld or Friends or whatever the shows were at the time. They were always well-scrubbed, upper middle class white people. And if you were

African-American, it was either on one of the side channels or you had to be a doctor like Cosby was. But even the newscasts were all white. And then when they started to have one anchor be a black person, they had to speak with the upper middle class white accent and language. It was just all that. Along came our show. And for the first time on major networks, you saw every day people who didn't speak the Queen's English, who weren't upper white middle class, who weren't well scrubbed. And it wasn't that they had never seen behavior like that because that is absolutely false you know we had myths you know when we you know we had hitler and no one had a television set so it isn't like television created bad behavior that's absurd but what it did do we were shocked that where

we used to have our sitcoms where husband and wife would sleep in separate beds. I Love Lucy or whatever, or the Donna Reed show, all that. All of a sudden, we saw this language, which was bleeped out, but they knew what the words were, this misbehavior, this... Because everything that was ever on our show is already in the Bible, in Shakespeare, in great literature. So there was nothing new. It was the medium in which it was shown. I look at it and it's like, okay, so there were all those shows that you point out, Cosby, Friends, etc. And then along comes Springer with You Slept With My Stripper Sister. And I was, the Guardian was reviewing the show. Wasn't that a great one?

Yeah, wasn't that a great one? I didn't see it. I didn't see it, but I love the title. So the Guardian writes this about the show. In the last 25 years, the Jerry Springer Show has delivered more on-air fights, ranting white supremacists, adulterous strippers, and transphobia than anything else on television.

It's an undeniable phenomenon, a game changer that turned daytime television into an entirely different, somewhat terrifying place. What do you think of that review? Well, it's accurate and it wasn't intended. You know, how it all came about is I was anchoring the news for 10 years in Cincinnati for the NBC affiliate. And we were pretty dominant in the ratings.

But the company that owned us, Multimedia, they also own talk shows. They own Phil Donahue, Sally Jesser, Raphael, a bunch of others. And in fact, I think they also had Rush Limbaugh's television show. He had a television show for a while. So they had various talk shows, and one day they took me to lunch and said that Phil Donahue was retiring, and we're going to start another talk show, and you're the host. So I was assigned to it.

This wasn't anything I had seen. I had a job like a lot of people did and during the day. And so I wasn't, uh, you know, I didn't know much about talk shows at all. They just assigned. You were an award winning evening news anchor at the time. Uh, yeah, it went well, you know, but, um, yeah, we did. Yeah. And but anyway, so I enjoyed doing the news. And because particularly in Cincinnati, they initially when I finished being mayor, NBC offered me the job to anchor. But I had no interest in being a news anchor. I wanted to do political commentary. So the deal we made was that I could do the news every night. I did the news at 5.30, 6.00 and 11.00, but at the end of the 11 o'clock newscast, I would get two minutes to do my own commentary, which at that time was

real. I mean, it was amazing that the network, that the station let me do that because up to then stations had editorials, but they were always by the general manager, station manager or whatever. It wasn't by the person who delivered the news. So I had to put on a different hat and I really worked hard. I'm not sure I always succeeded at it, but I really worked hard that when I did the news, I did it without raising my eyebrow, without any asides. In other words, because it was Reagan was president when I was doing the news. And a lot of times it wasn't political when I did my commentary, but that's when I gave my view on what was going on. Like the commentaries I do at the end of the crazy show, that's where the final thought came from. And so I was doing the news, but how I got the talk show is because we were doing so well in the ratings, they said,

you're going to do the talk show. I said, I didn't want to give up the news. And they said, you can do both. So in the beginning, for the first two years, I would get up in the morning in Cincinnati, fly to Chicago where I do the talk show, fly back in the afternoon to Cincinnati because I did the news at, as I said, 536 and 11. but after two years or a year and a half, actually, it got exhausting. And so that's when I said, well, I'll do the show, just the show. But the show was serious in the beginning.

You know, we had serious people on. It wasn't the crazy show it became. It's one day, about three years in, we did a show on the Ku Klux Klan and a fight broke out on stage. And then people in the audience charged. And then it became basically a riot. We had no security because whoever heard of a fight on television and the next day we did. But I we honestly thought that's the end of my career. We're done. And I honestly thought that was it. We can't. And but they kept the opposite. Wait, can I ask you? So this is the the show started in 91. So this is still the early to mid 90s.

I'm just curious, at this point, were you married? Were you with Mickey? Were you going through this shift from news anchor to talk show host with a support in your life? two years into the show. We're now doing the show, by the 22nd year we were doing the show in Stamford, Connecticut. And in the middle of the show, the producer calls me over and says, oh, Mickey called. Well, Mickey never calls me, you know, during a show or something like that,

you know, during the day. So I said, oh my God. So I run to the phone. I say, honey, what's wrong? She said, oh my God. I said, what? She says, she took off her blouse. I said, what are you talking about? She said, I just saw your show. Is this what people are screaming about? And I said, what? You've been married to me. You know, now we've been married 47 years. But you've never even watched. She watched like the first year I had this.

Oh, my God. She says, honey, that's disgusting. That's crazy. I said, I know. You like our house? This is how you got it. Yeah. Well, in my mind, I was thinking that. but you don't stay married 47 years by saying that.

That's a good point. That's a good point. Some thoughts are better left unsaid. So what about it? Because I want to, of course, forgive me for asking the question everybody asks, but I do want to know, is there one that stands out to you as particularly nutty? Well, pure nutty was the guy who married his horse. Sure. Yeah. Yeah. But I want you to know I came out against it.

So it's like I don't have, you know, don't say I don't have values. Was that real? Was there actually a guy who wanted to marry a horse? Or was that like a setup? Yeah. What happened is we, it was in the newspaper. He lived outside of Branson, Missouri,

in a rural area. And so, and people knew that, and they had a little ceremony there. And so then the show contacted, I guess, but anyway, Oh,

I should tell you on this story, which has some relevance, is I'm never allowed to know the subject of the show. I'm not allowed to know anything about it. All they do is when I go out there, they hand me a card. And the card, all the card has on it are the names of the guests because I haven't met them. So that's why the start of every segment on the old show is me saying, I introduce the names and then I say, so what's going on? And then they start telling me their story. And I am supposed to ask questions that you would ask sitting at home watching and then make some jokes. So basically I was paid to ask questions and then

tell, you know, make some comment about it, joke about it. So, but I never knew what the subject was. So this particular show, I saw, I forget the guy's name, let's say it was Bob. I'd say, please welcome Bob to the show. Bob, so what's going on? And he was about a, I'd say about a 45 year old man. And he's sitting on a chair on stage. And I say, Bob, what's going on? And he was about a, I'd say about a 45-year-old man. And he's sitting on a chair on stage. And I said, Bob, what's going on? He says, well, I'm having trouble with the neighbors. What's wrong?

What's the trouble? They don't seem to like my wife. Well, why wouldn't they like your wife? Does she cause trouble? No, she's quiet. She keeps to herself. Well, I can see this is going nowhere. So I look at the card

and I look at the next name. I say, okay, let's bring out your wife. Out comes this horse. The crowd goes crazy. Now I, as what I would argue, a reasonably normal person said, oh my God, stop the cameras because I'm assuming his wife fell off the horse. So it didn't dawn on me that the horse was the wife. So the producer is waving his arms. No, no, that's the wife. So I go, what? And then we take it from there. And it was really weird. Was it a good looking horse? Oh, she was adorable.

But Pixel wasn't. A little long in the tooth. That's right. Yeah. No, I said, why the long face? Yeah. So, but every time I stood between Bob and Pixel, Pixel with her head would just kind of nudge me out of the way. She wanted to keep Bob in the line of sight. It was just, just crazy. A few years later, I do the national tour of The Price is Right, the live show at casinos and theaters around the country. And we did some shows in Branson, Missouri.

And one contestant that came up, and I always talk to them first before they play the games, and she says, you know, our town is famous on your show. And I told her, tell me about that. And she says, well, we have someone here who was on your show. His name was, and I didn't remember the name, but he was the fellow who married his horse and the crowd goes crazy. And I say, yeah. And she said, yeah, he lives, it's about 30 miles up the road here. And so, yeah, that's, that's the most, that's the craziest we ever had. Well, I got it. I, I, my number one takeaway is my producers are phoning it in on this show. I, we got to have a serious heart to heart after this is over. So, but the, the truth is who, A, who could tear their eyes away when watching that. And B, this is why people would criticize the show, right? I mean, Bernie Goldberg, he said you were screwing up America. And, you know, that's, of course, what people say about the show. It's just it's the it's the

dregs of society and it appeals to our worst instincts. And I know you said you wouldn't watch your show. But do you think overall, on balance, it was a force for good? Probably not. Other than if there is good, first of all, the show was put on purely for entertainment and I agreed to host the show and I'm not allowed, you know, under the contract, I'm not allowed to know what the show is about. So I can't then, it was supposed to be dysfunctional behavior or people or people outside the mainstream. That was the concept of the show. And I agreed to, when they signed me up, I agreed, I'll host the show.

And we've had all kinds of people on the show that are dysfunctional. So when somebody, for example, if I was doing a basketball show, let's say I'm on one of the sports channels, and every day I'd have basketball players on, that wouldn't be strange. Well, if you're doing a show about dysfunctional behavior, obviously you're going to have dysfunctional people on. If you're doing a if you have a show about, you know, serial killers, that's what you're going to have on every day. So I was never shocked that, oh, gee, how do you have these people on? Well, that's what the're going to have on every day. So I was never shocked at, oh, gee, how do you

have these people on? Well, that's what the show is about. Now, if there is any good to be gleaned from it other than, look, the show was aimed at high school and college age kids. I mean, let's face it, that was mainly the audience, college age kids. The audience, the studio audience were all college kids. And so, yeah, if I were in college, of course I would have watched the show. I'd be laughing, hooting, and doing it. I was a crazy college kid. But as a now 77-year-old man, I'm not. No, I wouldn't watch a show like that.

I mean, that has no particular interest. So this is crazy, and then I'd move on. What did it teach you about human nature? Kind of what I said in that thing you ran is that we really are all alike. Some of us just dress better. I really, really. Okay. But I married a human. I don't see anything in common between me and Bob. Well, no, but my guess is he wants to be happy. My guess is if he's angry, he'll sometimes even curse. I'm sure, pray God, obviously he's not a violent person. So that obviously is beyond the pale. But here's the example I give, and I've given in other interviews, I guess, is when if a professor of English at Harvard comes home one night and sees his wife in bed with the next door neighbor or whoever, he is not going to say, forsooth, my dear, what it is that I have found. He's going to grab the guy, probably start cursing, physically throw him out of the house, maybe throw something he's so angry. In other words, we human beings

react with all different ways, in all different manners. So when people come on our show to talk about something that is going on dysfunctionally in their own life, we're seeing them at that moment. But that very same, well, even the guy who married his horse, he could otherwise be an absolutely warm person. He could be polite. He probably has a job, goes to work. The people in the town obviously knew him. The office Christmas party is weird. Yeah, yeah. Well, bring your own horse. More with Springer in one moment. But first, let's talk about Bloomsie Box. In the spirit of holiday sharing, and we are still on the holidays, all those people you forgot about, you can still get to them. I put a lot

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She wants to know if you'll ever run for political office. Thank you for that, Ashley. I don't think so. I wouldn't totally rule it out because I really felt like the country needed me. I would consider it, but it's not something I really want to do. I just think it's like out of the frying pan into the fire there. You know, it's like I don't really like having an acrimonious life. It's acrimonious enough as it is.

And I do it because I feel I must. I just I can't, I tried to keep myself away and I couldn't do it. So maybe that's what will lead me into that fire at some point, but I don't know what would I run as? I definitely wouldn't be a Democrat. I don't feel aligned with the Republican party either. And I don't think independence can really win. I don't know. Maybe I'll be like Trump having been a lifelong one party, just declare myself some other party and tell people that's what I'm doing. Anyway, I don't know. I'm not really political by nature. I just have some strong views on various cultural issues. And I like I love the First Amendment. And I there's a lot I believe in, but I'm not like partisan. I don't know if a person like me could get elected. I don't know just just whether I want to do that to my life. So stand by. I'm not

ruling it out entirely. If the country really needed me, I think about it. But I'd obviously have to leave New York City, which I'm doing anyway, because my politics do not align with the folks in my neighborhood. New York State has elected some Republicans at the senatorial and gubernatorial level. I don't know. Just doesn't seem like a job that's well respected anymore. Right. I'm kind of rambling now, but it doesn't. I used to look at these senators and governors, think, oh, wow. Now I'm like, eh, depends on the person. But just the job itself feels a little, eh. So I guess the answer is, we'll see, Ashley.

We'll see. But thank you for your question. We'll take some more questions at devilmaycaremedia.com. And also, we'll take them on all of our online social media, Instagram and Facebook and Twitter. And now back to Springer. I always find this. I think most people, not everyone, but most people have some family secret they wouldn't want to see on television or on the front page of the National Enquirer. And what you find when you actually start talking about said things is you are not alone. Most people have an effed

up family in one way, shape or form because we're human. So it does give you a little comfort to see in the same way I watch The Real Housewives, just to remind myself that I'm a good person. Um, it sort of gives you that, that feeling. And you know what I love about you, you own it and you, even though you're a very successful guy, I mean, pretty much everything you touched over your career turned to gold. You are humble. And I, I saw it. I, my producer forwarded this to me before today and our whole team circulated it. I, I, my husband read it over and over. We were talking about it for a couple of days. Uh, it's, it's evidenced in the graduation speech you gave at Northwestern law school back in 2008. It's amazing. And I encourage all the

listeners to Google it, Google it and read it and maybe put it on your wall and I'll just, I'll just give them a sense. Okay. So bear with me. So some of the students complained, of course, because they complain about anybody, but they expressed a deep sense of anger, embarrassment, and surprise that you would be invited. So you get up there and instead of ignoring it and just trying to go highbrow, you say, and I quote, to the students who invited me, thank you. I'm honored. To the students who object to my presence, well, you got a point. I too would have chosen someone else. In an attempt to soften the pain, let me stipulate to the facts. You are right. I am an imperfect being, and I feel hardly qualified to tell you what to do with your lives. Though I've been lucky enough to enjoy a comfortable measure of success in my various careers,

let's be honest. I've been virtually everything you can't respect. A lawyer, a mayor, a comfortable measure of success in my various careers, let's be honest, I've been virtually everything you can't respect. A lawyer, a mayor, a major market news anchor, and a talk show host. Pray for me. If I get to heaven, we're all going. I love that. Your humor's clearly served you well as well. I mean, you sound like you have a very healthy sense of humor, most of all about yourself. How critical has that been to your well-being? Well, I just think it's a comforting way to live. I don't want to sound preachy, but I guess if you're just really honest with yourself, because you know what you're really like, you know, and you know how much luck was involved in my success.

I'm not being modest. It was, I had the only job I ever applied for in life. The only job was mayor because you have to run for that. So that I stood up and said, please vote for me. But every other job was handed to me. I was recruited out of law school to go to a law firm. I ran, you know, I was city councilman and mayor for 10 years. And then NBC came to me and said, when your term's up, anchor our news. And then the head of 10 years later, the head of the news came, the head of the station came and said, we want you to do a talk show. And then because of the talk show, NBC came and said, we want you to host America's Got Talent. We want you to do Dancing with the Stars.

I mean, everything is so that's luck. That is luck because I am just like my friends, the friends I grew up with and the friends I had in high school and college, we're still best buddies. And we're all alike. I'm not the funniest one among my friends. I'm not the smartest one among my friends. It's like, how did all this happen? So when people say, I made it on my own, I say 99% of what we are, we had nothing to do with. There's not a person on earth that was involved in the decision to be born, to whom he'd be born, in what era, in what country, to what parents, to what health, to what mind. All of this is a gift. And if you just understand that, and then you just say to yourself, I'm never going to judge

someone based on what they are. I'll only judge people based on what they do. Then the rest is easy. You don't get upset. It's like, hey, what a ride I've had. And so I don't get upset about these, quote, little things. I mean, they really are little things. My family, they had it tough. I want to get to that. I want to get to that in one minute,

but before we, before we go there, let me ask you about, and tell me if you don't want to talk about this, but there was an incident in which your luck ran out in the early seventies when you were on city council. And as I understand it, you were caught paying for a hooker at a massage parlor.

You pulled a Bob Craft. Yes. And that, I'm sure, was humiliating. How did that affect you at the time? Well, it was, yeah, it was humiliating, terribly embarrassing. I shouldn't have done it. But no one knew that I did it when I held a press conference and announced what I had done. I was just afraid of being blackmailed. And so I said, well, I first resigned and then I

explained why I did. But then the next election, I decided, well, let's see if people have me back. And I won the election. And then the next election, I was elected mayor. So basically, it happened so early in life. And it was 50 years ago, 48 years ago. So it's like, if it happened, it just wasn't that big of a deal. I mean, I was personally embarrassed and dealt with that, but I wasn't thinking in terms of, oh, what's going to happen in my life? And, you know, it just maybe because what I did was clearly wrong and I shouldn't have done it. It didn't strike me as, oh, my God, I've gone out and killed someone or, you know, it just I never took it as that big a deal, except that I should stand up and apologize for what I've done and be 100 percent honest about it.

And what happens happens. I mean, it would be it would be embarrassed for anybody to be on in the paper for that, especially a public figure, a politician. Here in New York, sadly, there's a culture at some or at least it used to be some of these Wall Street firms that that's just like a thing. You go in, you pay, they call it a rub and tug. You go in there for one of those on your lunch hour. And I like I always was curious because a lot of the times these are married guys and I'm like, why why would you do that when you're married? And it reminded me of the Charlie Sheen quote. When somebody said, like, why would you be going to hookers?

You're Charlie Sheen. You don't have trouble getting women. And he said, I don't pay them to sleep with me. I pay them to go away. And I wondered now that I have you, if you don't mind me asking, why would you pay for that? You know, like, why not just go get a girl and hang out and, you know, do it the old fashioned way? The honest answer is, I have no idea. I mean, there's no rational answer to it. It made no sense. It was wrong. I mean, you know, I just, I mean, that's the honest answer. I can't think I can't, anything I say, I would be making up now. You know, you do, I mean, that's the honest answer. I can't think, I can't, anything I say I would be making up now.

You know, you do, I think part of the thing, you know, I grew up a little later than most people. I don't know. It was just a stupid thing is all I can say. There's no, there's no justification for it. There's no rationale, but I can't tell you that it has, you know, been a weight. I mean, obviously,

how lucky I've been the rest of my life. So. Okay, but you keep saying luck. I it's also it's also determination and hard work. I mean, if most guys caught in that situation as a public figure, would probably assume my political future is over. And what kind of a job am I going to get now that that's been out there publicly. You had a huge comeback. You after that is when right when you became mayor at the youngest age ever. Right. You were 33 at the time in Cincinnati. I was out. That was after that. Well, I think there was some goodwill going in because I, at least politically, did very well in terms of winning elections. You know, I think people honestly, look, Cincinnati was Republican and I won as a liberal Democrat. I mean, I think people just viewed me as their errant son. I used to say the only reason they voted for me so that they could keep an eye on me where I was.

You know, so there was no real anger. You know, oftentimes the way you handle it, the way you respond, if you, you know, who hasn't had someone, some kid in their family, let's say, or someone in their family that, you know, you scold and they did something wrong, but you don't stop loving them or you don't stop. If it's your family, you don't stop loving them. If it's your friend, you don't stop liking your friend. But again, it's so long ago that I don't, you know, I'm trying to reconstruct now and I can't even come up with a, you know, why. Well, right. It's been a lot of years, but I, I mean, weirdly feel inspired by the fact that you picked yourself up and you got back out there and you made it happen. You know, all of the all of the success we've been discussing came post all of that. You know, you you wound up running for governor.

That didn't that didn't work out. And that's when you went into news. That crazy time, Chicago versus Cincinnati during the same time frame, I think. Well, I don't know if you lived in Chicago or if you're just visiting, but I saw you, I moved to Chicago right after I finished law school. It was 1995. I lived there till 1997. And I was living in a building called the North Pier apartment tower, which was 474 North Lake shore drive. It was basically right by Navy Pier. And I came downstairs and there was like, I can't remember what was going on,

but it was like snowy outside. And it was just a beautiful day, like winter day. And I come, I turn around the corner and it's like picturesque. And there was a man standing there. All the doorman men were staring at him. That man was Springer. And I thought, it's exciting. Well, because I, yeah, I had a place. I had a place in, um,

the Hancock building. Oh yeah. It was not far away. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And, uh, and, oh, right. What? Oh man. I forget. There was someone who he was on. Sadly, he was on the Saturday Night Live and died of a drug overdose. Chris Farley. Chris Farley. Right. He lived in the building. And the day that they found him, I was, uh, I went to lunch, we were taping shows and then I went to lunch and, uh, suddenly the news broke out that, um, uh, so, oh, the headline was celebrity found dead in Hancock building. And so I didn't know anything about it. I'm just, I'm walking back. There's a big crowd out there. And then when I get upstairs, my phone, back then we had voicemail, you know, answering machines. It was going crazy.

Oh, Jerry, are you? Call, call. Are you? Are you okay? Call. Because they immediately assumed that it was me. They probably didn't. You know, I mean, people that I knew, knew I lived there.

And, uh, so that was a frightening, but yeah, I lived in your neighborhood, I guess. Yeah. Well, I remember I, so that building I lived in had 61 floors and I, when I moved in, I was on 19 and it had views of Lake Michigan. And I completely thought I had arrived. My own newspaper headline for myself was, young lawyer has Lakeview. Boom. You are such a loser. My view was the 91st floor. Total loser. 100%. But you know who wasn't a loser? You know who wasn't a loser you know who was not a loser on the 61st floor of my building guess who had that entire floor uh he was a big athlete he was huge chicago star at the time again this is 95 through 97 probably the one of the biggest stars nope a different sport baseball sport? Baseball. Oh, Cubs. Sammy Sosa. Yep. Yes, you got it. Oh, yes. Sammy Sosa. And he was in the elevator. One night I came home after a few too many cocktails and we both get on the elevator

and I press 19 and he presses 61. I had some idea of who he was, but I wasn't a big sports fan. Still, still I'm not, but he presses 61. I look at him and I was like, you're high. And he said, do you want to come up and take a look? Oh, I didn't go. Maybe I should have gone. Listen, I we've got to talk. You mentioned it a couple of times when we talked about immigration and your family's story.

So what happened is my parents got married in 1933. They were German Jews. And then Hitler came in and they ultimately grabbed my grandparents, uncles, aunts, cousins. We basically, virtually the whole family was wiped out, except mom and dad. Mom and dad got out of Germany in August of 1939. They managed to get a visa to get them to England. And they got it, when I say August of 39, it was the middle of August, August 16, 17, something like that't been caught yet, but they weren't permitted to leave Germany. So according to the visa numbers, my mom and dad were the 88th and 89th people, Jews left that were permitted to get out of Germany. In other words, the numbers got cut off 89 people later. And they got to England, where my sister and I were born. And then 10 years later, so we were born during the war. Is it true you were in in the subway tubes, you know, the tunnels, because those were bomb shelters. And but my sister was born in October 30th. So a month after my parents got to work, six weeks after my parents got to England, my sister was born. And then during the war, I was born. And then in 1949, when I was five, my parents bought five tickets on the Queen Mary and came over to America because they had lived through two world wars now, and they thought Europe would never be safe. And so they were lucky enough to

get a visa to come to America, which was difficult at the time too. We romanticize it. But the truth is, America had pretty restrictive immigration policies back then in terms of whether it was Jews or from certain countries, et cetera. It was, you know, there was a real isolationist feeling. And it was difficult for immigrants, you know, certainly during the war and even afterwards for some time. But anyway, my parents got, and we lived the American dream. In other words, going by the Statue of Liberty. I often tell the story of

we were on the Queen Mary, which is the one memory I have because, you know, for a little boy to be on the Queen Mary, which at the time was, I think, the largest ship in the world, or at least the second largest ship in the world. And, you know, it was like, oh my God, it was a city. And it was a five day journey from England to New York Harbor. You go by the Statue of Liberty. And my parents woke me up because they wanted Evelyn and me to go out on deck and see the passing of this, you know, as we sailed by the Statue of Liberty. And all I remember, this was January 24th, 1949. All I remember basically was that it was freezing cold. And there were 2000 people packed together all watching the statue. And what I remember being scared is that nobody talked.

There was absolute silence. And it scared me. As a little kid, I didn't know what this was. All these people standing on a boat, in a ship, on freezing weather, staring at something, and they were silent. In later years, my mom told me about that journey and she said, I had asked her, what are we looking at? What does that statue mean? And she said in German, she spoke at the time, ein Tag alles, one day it'll mean everything. So she, my parents really bought the American dream. And my sister, and they, but it was interesting. So we, politics to us wasn't just a hobby. It was real life. And I remember as a kid, and Evelyn does too, that we would, at the dinner table every night, we would have to talk about

one thing we saw in the newspaper. I was a little boy, so all I cared about is what the Yankees were doing or sports. So every night, I would talk about a sports thing. But I guess my parents knew that at some point, I would start reading other pages in the paper. And then all the way from junior high and high school, we started talking about other things. And then, of course, came the 60s and everyone was going to Vietnam or whatever. And so it was impossible, and the civil rights movement. So we became pretty political with that. So it wasn't... My parents said, you're either going to law school or medical school. You know, it was the typical Jewish, you know, culture kind of thing. And, you know, and I never thought about anything other than I would really wanted to be a lawyer, but I thought law school made more sense than medical school for that. And then, well, you know, the rest of the story.

Well, to end it on the same conciliatory note that we began on, I love that. Looking at the Statue of Liberty, what does she mean? One day, everything. I couldn't agree with that more. I think that's still the promise of America and a place where anything is possible. Anything is still possible. Jerry Springer, you're living proof of that. And it's an honor to talk to you. You're much more three-dimensional than I knew. And I love your story. Really love your story. Well, yeah, I am, you know, as I told you, I think, you know, I am a fan, period. So it's just exciting. You know, I kept saying, well, next week, I'm going to be talking to Megan. Yeah, next week. Yeah, it's tomorrow. Yeah. So this is kind of exciting for us. Well, send my love to Mickey as well.

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