Ruth Lyons: TV Pioneer
Stuff You Should Know
iHeartPodcasts
4.5 • 82.7K Ratings
🗓️ 17 March 2026
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Ruth Lyons basically invented the daytime talk show, yet she doesn't get the credit. Why is that? Probably because she was a woman in a man's industry. Today we tell her story.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:05.5 | Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of IHeart Radio. |
| 0:15.1 | Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh, and there's Chuck, and this is Stuff You Should Know. |
| 0:29.9 | Hats off tribute, even white gloves off tribute, to a true unsung, I would say, pioneer in a lot of ways. |
| 0:41.3 | Certainly song in certain areas and certain age groups, but as far as history is concerned, I'm going to go ahead and say that Ruth Lyons is an unsung pioneer in the history of television. |
| 0:42.7 | Agreed. |
| 0:49.3 | And this is a listener recommendation from, I think I've been sitting on this one for a while. |
| 0:50.7 | Yes. |
| 0:56.0 | So for all I know, Nick Bauer gave up on the show and won't even hear this. It's possible. |
| 0:57.0 | It happens. |
| 0:58.0 | I also should mention that my dogs are over here today and they usually are put away, |
| 1:05.0 | but they can't be because of work people. |
| 1:09.0 | So they're laying down now and they're being quiet. |
| 1:14.0 | Okay. |
| 1:14.4 | But we'll see what happens. |
| 1:16.4 | Hey, Momos appeared on the show at least once, so I can feel your pain. |
| 1:21.0 | It's all right. |
| 1:21.5 | I think we should have a policy moving forward that any time Mo speaks in the background, Jerry just leaves that in. |
| 1:28.7 | Okay. I'm fine with that. As long as, yeah, I'm fine with that. No qualifiers needed. |
| 1:33.9 | It makes you like a real person, like Ruth Lyons, strove to be. |
| 1:38.3 | Oh, I don't like that then. |
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