The Downfall of Jerry Springer | Corporate Casket

iilluminaughtii

Blair Zoń

Documentary, Education, Business, Society & Culture

4.4 • 961 Ratings

🗓️ 21 December 2022

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Go to http://hellofresh.com/casket18 and use code casket18 for 18 free meals plus free shipping! Go to http://masterclass.com/casket to gift one annual MasterClass membership and get another free! Welcome to the Corporate Casket, a semiweekly series where bad businesses go to die. We will discuss any and everything from bad charities, terrible CEOs, and businesses that have a lot to hide. We all know Jerry Springer as the television show where anything goes: guests attack one another and the drama is ramped up to a thousand. But this isn’t what Jerry Springer always used to be. So how did controversial and thoughtful debates turn into screaming matches? Is this what Jerry Springer wanted, and is it as bad as it looks? Connect with me: https://linktr.ee/iilluminaughtii Sources: https://justpaste.it/279jh Writers/Researchers/Helpers: Ali Z-B This episode was edited and mixed by: @GThomasCraig Album cover art created by: Betsy Primes Intro Song Credits: Last to Fall- Will Van De Crommert Outro Song Credits: Sacred and Profane- Nicholas Rowe Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Please note that today's episode will heavily discuss racism, upsetting language, and violence.
0:05.0	If you're not in a place to hear about that, then feel free to skip today's episode.
0:08.0	Thank you. on April 14th,
0:23.0	year old. On April 14th, 1993, a TV episode called
0:26.8	racist kids aired to the world.
0:29.2	In it, a young group of white children shocked viewers by saying things like God is hate. God is not love
0:34.7	like everyone else thinks. No, the Bible is full of hate and war and if only the rest of the
0:39.6	world could open their eyes and see it then they too would know the truth.
0:43.0	The power returns, that's what I call my God.
0:46.0	He's going to mark every Jew and they shall be killed.
0:51.0	John 844 states that they are from the devil, the devil's children.
0:54.8	These kids were, as the title of the show suggests, openly racist.
0:58.3	They claimed that Jews crucified their God and black people are quote,
1:01.6	beasts of the field.
1:03.0	Their language was so upsetting, so infuriating,
1:06.0	that it seems impossible that these kids simply
1:09.0	learned it all on their own as they claimed.
1:11.0	Maybe their parents or their church indoctrinated them. Maybe they had
1:14.2	friends or community members who taught them this level of vitriol and hate. That part of the story
1:19.5	is unfortunately not so clear. But what was clear is that the five kids on that stage, one of them as young as nine years old, were unyielding in their beliefs about killing people of different faiths.
1:31.0	And yeah, that's pretty alarming to put it mildly. And as the host of the program put it,
1:36.2	one day these kids are going to grow up. We have to deal with this now and address it
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