TOWS Special: Oprah’s Most Memorable Guests: The Greatest Lessons on the Oprah Show

The Oprah Winfrey Show: The Podcast

Oprah

Society & Culture

4.4 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2024

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Original Air Date: May 13, 2011 Oprah looks back at some of her most memorable episodes and guests over 25 seasons of The Oprah Winfrey Show. Oprah shares the lessons she learned, several guests return with updates on their lives and viewers share how the show impacted their lives. Want more podcasts from OWN? Visit https://bit.ly/OWNPods You can also watch Oprah’s Super Soul, The Oprah Winfrey Show and more of your favorite OWN shows on your TV! Visit https://bit.ly/find_OWN

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0:00.0	Through 25 seasons, 4,561 episodes.
0:06.4	I believe the Oprah Winfrey show
0:07.8	was one of the greatest classrooms in the world.
0:10.2	I really never thought of it that way.
0:12.2	The aha moments, the breakthroughs, the connections, the occasional ugly cry.
0:18.0	I'm missing so terribly, I'm missing every single minute.
0:21.0	The LOLs, the moments that matter, the eye-opening life lessons.
0:28.0	Never allow them to take you some words. I'm bringing them back. It's time to open the vault. I've
0:36.0	personally chosen these classic episodes to share with you again.
0:40.0	Every single person you ever will meet shares that common desire.
0:45.0	They want to know, do you see me?
0:48.0	Do you hear me?
0:49.0	Does what I say mean anything to you?
0:52.0	You are listening to the Oprah Winfrey show, The Podcast.
0:57.0	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.
1:11.0	My producers knew it would be edgy, controversial, and thought it would likely
1:15.6	get huge ratings. Even more importantly, we all thought that what we were doing was exposing
1:21.5	their ignorance and confronting their hatred of black people
1:26.3	right on national television.
1:28.4	That's what we thought, but we were dead wrong.
1:31.0	These men came with their own agenda and in the end we gave a bunch of
1:35.2	racists an hour-long platform to spread their message of hate and evil.
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