Through 25 seasons, 4,561 episodes, I believe the Open Winfrey Show was one of the greatest classrooms in the world.

I really never thought of it that way.

The AHA moments, the breakthroughs, the connections, the occasional ugly cry.

I'm missing so terribly, I'm missing every single minute.

The LOLs, the moments that matter, the eye-opening white lessons.

Never allow them to take to somewhere else.

I'm bringing them back!

It's time to open the vault.

I've personally chosen these classic episodes to share with you again.

Every single person you ever will meet shares that common desire.

They want to know.

Do you see me?

Do you hear me?

Does what I say mean anything to you?

You are listening to the Open Winfrey Show, the podcast.

23 years ago, I was standing here with the audience, just like I am now.

And we'd come up with what we thought was an out-of-the-box idea to have on a panel of white supremacist skinheads.

My producers knew it would be edgy, controversial, and thought it would likely get huge ratings.

Even more importantly, we all thought that what we were doing was exposing their ignorance

and confronting their hatred of black people right on national television.

That's what we thought, but we were dead wrong.

These men came with their own agenda.

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