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Jerry Springer

lines on the record: 43
first: 2009-11-01
most recent: 2009-11-01
sittings or episodes: 1
sources: podcast

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“Probably a photo album If I'm stuck on an island alone just a photo album of all the pictures of my family's life, my friends, you know, just that would be the thing as a practical matter. That would be what you'd want to look at”
2009-11-01 · Desert Island Discs · Jerry Springer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“My generation in America was Elvis Presley. So Elvis was the first superstar in terms of rock and roll. Every boy wanted to be Elvis. So when I hear Love Me Tender, it's my adolescence, my youth.”
2009-11-01 · Desert Island Discs · Jerry Springer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Oh, they'd be because while they were alive, they were very proud. So I know they'd be proud. They love me. I was this son that, in their mind, couldn't do anything wrong.”
2009-11-01 · Desert Island Discs · Jerry Springer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Just what she's doing. She works with disabled children and she's wonderful with that. And I just wanted to be happy. That's all I want in life.”
2009-11-01 · Desert Island Discs · Jerry Springer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Katie was born with some disabilities and she's not getting into the details. She proved everyone wrong and she's now graduated college, got married, now has a son. She's just this wonderful person, but she beat the odds. And she's always While Katie's wearing this beautiful wedding gown, and in the middle of the dance she says Dad they can't see our feet because the gown covered our feet. So I didn't have to learn to dance anything. The whole thing was for naught. We were just laughing.”
2009-11-01 · Desert Island Discs · Jerry Springer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“35, 40 million people were watching. And everyone knew that story of Katie and how she overcame things and everything. So here it was. It was a great moment.”
2009-11-01 · Desert Island Discs · Jerry Springer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah. For Katie's wedding, I was 35 years older than any of the other contestants in the show. So, you know, when they originally asked, I said, no, I don't know how to dance. That's not for me. And then, you know, ultimately my daughter convinced me, Dad, do it. You'll learn to dance for the wedding. And I'm always telling Katie to be confident in herself. So she threw it right back at me while dad. Give it your best, that's all that counts. Okay, you win, so I went on the show. And then the day of the walls, you know, we had her on the show, which was great.”
2009-11-01 · Desert Island Discs · Jerry Springer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Wind beneath my wings this when Katie, our daughter, became thirteen, she became Botmitzvit, which is in the Jewish religion a Bar Mitzvir's when symbolically a young boy becomes a man, and they have bot mitzviders which are the equivalent. So we had a big party for her, and I was at the time anchoring the news. And so I pay the photographers as a side job to put together this nice five minute video of Katie's life from birth through thirteen. And the background music was wind beneath my wings. And it's just it was just this beautiful tape, and it's the last video we had of my parents, and it's become this family tradition now at all events we show this of little Katie going from birth to that's what it was. And this is the song.”
2009-11-01 · Desert Island Discs · Jerry Springer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And there is a picture in the Cincinnati Inquirer the next morning I am horizontal in the air, in the air, my glasses are flying, he whacked me on the side of the head and it really hurt. I'm a grown up, I can't start crying. Cameras are zooming in. And so I didn't get that last five thousand, but we got ten thousand dollars.”
2009-11-01 · Desert Island Discs · Jerry Springer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Not unreasonably. I said, What do you mean? So now you show up, you look at the bear. There's a huge crowd there, and I'm going, this is stupid and they coach me, they say you dance around with a bear, but just don't touch him on the nose. It's the one thing, don't touch him on the nose. Now he's muzzled, so he can't bite you, but he can still whack you and so I'm dancing around for the first minute like an idiot, but he's not getting me. You know, because I'm just dancing round. No, this is good, five thousand dollars, another minute. Whoa, now I'm starting to feel I got this. I'm going to touch on the nose. How bad can it be? I touch him on the nose. Where his paw came from”
2009-11-01 · Desert Island Discs · Jerry Springer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, here's what happens. Here's how I got trapped into that You know, you the mayor, and every day you're getting requests for this, that and the other, and so you get a request for a charity for every minute you stay in the ring with this bear, you know, we'll raise five thousand dollars for Honestly, I don't even remember what the charity was, but it was for charity. And everyone starts laughing, oh, you wrestle a bear. And I said, what? And they said, yeah, but it'll be muzzled. Go ahead. Ah, fine, let's do it. You know. What I didn't know is they put it on the six o'clock news, so on the day that it happened, I was going to fight the bear live. Now it suddenly the day, and now I'm getting frightened.”
2009-11-01 · Desert Island Discs · Jerry Springer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You know, I well up at sound of music. I mean, Jeezel. So there's not a lot of matcho about me there, but life is luck. And I've been so lucky that I don't have any particular talent, but I've been successful in a business that no one would have thought that I would be successful in.”
2009-11-01 · Desert Island Discs · Jerry Springer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“A blind date it was instant. I mean, I literally knew that night that this would ultimately be my wife. I know it sounds corny, but it was absolutely true. I don't think she”
2009-11-01 · Desert Island Discs · Jerry Springer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Here comes the sun as particular relevance to me because It is the song that my wife marched down the aisle to in my wedding, in our wedding, and it is also the song that our daughter marched down the aisle to two and a half years ago. And it's beautiful. Here comes the sun, which describes my wife and my daughter.”
2009-11-01 · Desert Island Discs · Jerry Springer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, the next election I came in first because they thought I overreacted. I don't use it as an excuse, but they figured a lot of young guys have been with a prostitute. And then I was re-elected, came in first, and then the next election I was elected mayor of Cincinnati, and that's when my career suddenly took off.”
2009-11-01 · Desert Island Discs · Jerry Springer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah. But just to get the facts right, it was nothing to do with the police, nothing like that. I announced there was nothing in the newspapers, there was nothing going on. I held a press conference one day and said I'm resigning from council and everyone says why what are you resigning for? And I said that several years ago I had visited a prostitute, and I was getting these phone calls, so I didn't want to live my life being blackmailed. You know, we're going to tell, we know you were deposited. So I told the public I'm an out. So I first resigned and then I held a press conference saying why I resigned. And then everyone said, well, what did you resign for? You know, and I said, well, it was inappropriate. You're entitled to know this. And I was young, I was naive. It was wrong what I did. I probably overreacted, you know.”
2009-11-01 · Desert Island Discs · Jerry Springer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I must have. I just moved to Cincinnati to practice law. This was after Bobby's assassination, and I was still ticked off about the war, so I decided to run in the Democratic primaries as an anti war candidate. And that's how I got to be known. And then the next year I was elected in a citywide election to city council.”
2009-11-01 · Desert Island Discs · Jerry Springer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“This next one is Abraham Martin and John. This was the incredible year of nineteen sixty eight in American politics it was unbelievable. February of sixty eight is the Ted Offensive where America finally realizes that we're not winning the war. Martin Luther King gets assassinated. Two months later, Bobby Kennedy gets assassinated. Two months after that, the riots in Chicago at the Democratic Convention. It seemed like every one of our heroes was being assassinated. John Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Bobby Kennedy, And Dion wrote this song, and it kind of became such a powerful song at the time because it really said what we all felt. It was like they keep killing our heroes.”
2009-11-01 · Desert Island Discs · Jerry Springer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I got a call late at night. I was in Ohio at the time it happened. It just seemed unbelievable. almost despairingly unbelievable. The John Kennedy assassination was shocked like this could never happen in the world. With Bobby it was Oh my God, they're really gunning us all down. There was just this despair, and after Bobby Kennedy was shot, many people just kind of dropped out, the young people, and that's why we had Richard Nixon elected president.”
2009-11-01 · Desert Island Discs · Jerry Springer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Vigorous people. Yeah, he was in my lifetime my political hero. I mean, I thought he was totally authentic. He wasn't very articulate, frankly. You know, John Kennedy could intellectualize how we ought to have civil rights or how poverty in the inner city is unacceptable. With Bobby he would just walk into the neighborhood and say this is wrong. And he would stutter and all that, but you kind of knew he really believed it. And that, to me, politics is authenticity. If you're real, people get it.”
2009-11-01 · Desert Island Discs · Jerry Springer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And just as soon as I got down there, september fifth of nineteen sixty one, that week the high school in New Orleans was integrating, and they had all the troops there and people protesting. So right away I was thrown into it. And I got more and more involved in politics then, active in the rights movement in the marches. I became active in the anti war movement, the war being the Vietnam War. So I go to work for Bobby Kennedy, I get offered a job with Kennedy.”
2009-11-01 · Desert Island Discs · Jerry Springer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Blowing in the wind became the anthem of the sixties. It was written by Bob Dylan and then recorded by Peter Pole and Mary I think in nineteen sixty one. So that was the part of the sixties that was still pure. All things were possible. We would put a man on the moon before the end of the decade. If we would cure poverty, we would create the peace corps. We were going to save the world. It was a beautiful pure time.”
2009-11-01 · Desert Island Discs · Jerry Springer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I'll tell you how I heard. I was a junior in college, and there was a campus radio station. I had the noon to one o'clock show, and behind me we had these teletype machines where if four bells rang, you knew it was a major story and you'd go to the teletype and it would have typed out what the headline was. And the four bells ring and I go over there and it says shots have been hot fired at the Dallas motorcade. And then four bells again and the president's been shot. And there this little black and white television set, and one of the networks it was Walter Cronkite on CBS News, was cutting in, saying the president was shot. I now go back to the radio station. I said nothing professional. I said, Oh my God, the president shot. Turn on your television sets. But that's how I heard. I actually had to announce it. That's how I find out.”
2009-11-01 · Desert Island Discs · Jerry Springer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes, it was very much a part of my upbringing. Every night at the kitchen table, there was my mom dead, Evelyn, my sister Evelyn, and myself, and we each would have to talk about one story we read in the newspaper.”
2009-11-01 · Desert Island Discs · Jerry Springer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes, yes. It's the American dream. You know, I go in one generation my family went from annihilation and a holocaust to this ridiculously privileged life I live today because of my silly television show. So I know America can work.”
2009-11-01 · Desert Island Discs · Jerry Springer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I was five years old, I had this thick British accent, of course, you know, my mom dressed me in what she thought boys wore at that time, which was blue shorts, a jacket, a bow tie, a beret, and Nes my first day to school in America, and the kids beat me up and ripped my suit, and I had this British accent. You know, I just didn't fit in. And so my parents really went on this campaign. They would make sure.”
2009-11-01 · Desert Island Discs · Jerry Springer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“This is the Tennessee Walls recorded among other people by Patty Page. I guess she had the big hit with it. This was back in the nineteen fifties. We had just come to America. There was a radio in my kitchen, and I would sit there and listen. And what I remember the Tennessee Walls, that was one of the first songs that, wow, and I remember my parents loved it, and we all would gather around the radio and listen to the song.”
2009-11-01 · Desert Island Discs · Jerry Springer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And I was stunned because my dad never talked hardly ever talked about the Holocaust or something like this, and I'm thinking has he for the forty years that he was living in America. Has he every night been thinking that he might have to get away? You know, I just didn't say anything. I just couldn't believe it.”
2009-11-01 · Desert Island Discs · Jerry Springer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Very much so. There's this story which I'll try to get through, but it really makes the point. My dad was very short, he was like five foot one. He's now near eighty, I mean, back at the time of the story that I'm going to tell you. And my mom was afraid to get in the car with him because he was so short he would look like through the steering wheel kind of driving, and every time I came home she'd always say Gerald, could you talk to Dad? About that, to the time to stop driving the car. So one day I finally said, okay, mom, I'll talk to him. And I said, Dad, you know, mom gets nervous and you don't really need the car anymore because the truth is you hardly ever drive it. And what he said to me, which just blew me away at the time, he said maybe when I eighty I'll give it up, but you never know when you have to get away.”
2009-11-01 · Desert Island Discs · Jerry Springer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It's the fundamental part of my existence. It shapes my philosophy, it's made me a liberal. It's taught me as we pass on to our daughter, that you never judge someone based on what they are, just on what they do.”
2009-11-01 · Desert Island Discs · Jerry Springer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And you had to have a sponsor, which is the answer to your question. We have no idea who that person was. God bless her if she really existed, what is equally likely is that there was an agency here in London that was helping Jews get out, and they would put down a Jewish name as an obvious sponsor in Goldberg is a typically Jewish name.”
2009-11-01 · Desert Island Discs · Jerry Springer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And they were among the last eighty something people to get out of Germany, out of Berlin to get to London, and the reason we know that is because the numbers on their visas, you know, they can figure out based on the dates that there were like 80 people still to get out before September 1st of 39. And a month later, once they came to London, a month later, my mother gave birth to my sister. So neither she or I would even be here had it not been for Great Britain letting us, you know, letting my parents in.”
2009-11-01 · Desert Island Discs · Jerry Springer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I don't even know if she really exists. It may have been a name used, but that is the name of the alleged sponsor of my parents getting them out of Nazi Germany in nineteen thirty nine in August of thirty nine. Most of my family was exterminated in the camps. And mom and dad, their families had been taken away, they didn't know where they were taken. So mom and dad were trying desperately for about two or three years to get out of Germany, but they couldn't get visas anyplace. And at the last moment England, Great Britain, gave the visas to them.”
2009-11-01 · Desert Island Discs · Jerry Springer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, you're a nice person. I vividly remember it was the third week in january nineteen sixty four. I'm sitting in my fraternity house studying for finals Joel Picker, a fraternity brother of mine, came knocking on the door and opening before I even said come in and he says you got to listen to this. And I vividly remember that. I said, who is this group? What is going on here? And it's the Beatles singing, I want to hold your hand.”
2009-11-01 · Desert Island Discs · Jerry Springer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“People say that I disagree. It's kind of observe and it trivializes human behavior to believe. Now that's the one answer and then the other answer is celebrity culture came first ever since I've been a kid. There were magazines about these celebrities. Who's sleeping with whom? Who's doing what? Every day's headlines in the newspapers. You cannot say we permit these stories about famous people, but you're not allowed to have it on television about poor people. That is such hypocrisy that I don't think then I give a serious answer to it.”
2009-11-01 · Desert Island Discs · Jerry Springer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, I agree that's not entertainment, although there's a part of me that the only way we beat down these what I consider evil ideas is by sunlight. It's when you keep it quiet that it grows. But I was hired to host a show. I have nothing to do with who gets on the show, what the subjects are. I'm not allowed to know what the show is about. When I show up, I'm given a card, and on the card that I hold are the names of the names. And the idea is then my reaction will be authentic”
2009-11-01 · Desert Island Discs · Jerry Springer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Sure, and they're perfectly okay with it. There's no one who comes on the show that doesn't know what our show is about. They're all into it for the moment, and as angry as they might get at the moment getting carried away as they're telling the story, soon as the show's over, I got to tell you, they're like everyone else. They all want pictures and autographs, they all ask me, Jerry, can you hold my baby while I take this picture? They're like everybody else. Now, are there exceptions? Of course, we've had neo Nazis on that I want nothing to do with and stuff like that. I was sure.”
2009-11-01 · Desert Island Discs · Jerry Springer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“knows they have total control over what we air. Oh yeah, yeah. I mean, we don't want to hurt anyone. I mean, you know, our show is so over the top. We're not out to hurt people. There's supposed to be entertainment. We don't want to do a show and then someone feels bad about what was on it. So there are two things that we do. One, you can, after the show, say, I want that part out, I want this part out. So they get control over that. Also, if they're going to be surprises, they're given a list of 21 possible surprises. They don't know which of the 21 it's going to be. But they know any of those 21 is a possibility.”
2009-11-01 · Desert Island Discs · Jerry Springer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I'm not sure well, first of all, they're fans of the show, I think. I mean, that's the only way they would have the phone number to call. We're not in the phone book. So the only way you would know our numbers by watching the show every day and they put the number on the screen”
2009-11-01 · Desert Island Discs · Jerry Springer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I was really nervous opening night, walking down the steps as the song starts, I'm going Oh, this is going to be brutal. It turned out okay, nobody died, but that was scary. Remember?”
2009-11-01 · Desert Island Discs · Jerry Springer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Know what you're about to hear, know. You know, my voice has been outlawed. No, but all I care about is the song that I sang. But this is his first song. And when he first introduced, you know, all I care about is love, which is a little bit cynical. And it's the first time I've ever been on stage in a play. I mean, most people, at least as kids, wearing plays like in high school, I never was in a play. So here I am at sixty five and they come and say we want you to be in this musical and obviously I'm not a professional singer or a dancer well I figure if they're crazy enough to ask me I got to have at least the guts to say yes I think they might have been drinking at the time but they never bothered to figure out if I could sing. Everyone working on the show thought someone else had asked me to sing. So there you go. Now I got the job.”
2009-11-01 · Desert Island Discs · Jerry Springer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You know, how lucky can one person get? But if I'm proud of anything, it's that I never gave up my liberalism. Every job I've had have always been kind of on the side of the disenfranchised, whether it was the civil rights movement, whether it was my politics, whether it was as a talk show host. It's always the little guy versus the establishment. I still hang around with the same people I always hung around with and My interests are still working class interests, and I'm very comfortable there. I'm not saying it's morally superior to other classes. I'm just saying we're all the same and I'm very comfortable being there.”
2009-11-01 · Desert Island Discs · Jerry Springer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, I'm surprised that success because I believe it is luck. As a kid, I wasn't thinking gee one day I'm going to be in show business and never even dawned on me. Virtually every job I've ever had has been handed to me. Someone just said hey, we'd like you to do this. I mean, all these jobs I've had are I never sat down and said, Gee, I would like to do that. It just happens.”
2009-11-01 · Desert Island Discs · Jerry Springer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source