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This Day in Esoteric Political History

You Get A Podcast!

This Day in Esoteric Political History

Jody Avirgan & Radiotopia

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4.6982 Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

As it happens, the This Day team has a bunch of cool new projects coming out over the next week or two. So, we’re going to feature them here.

Today: Kellie’s other podcast is back! You Get A Podcast looks at the rich and wild history of the Oprah Winfrey Show, and the Queen of Talk’s influence on our culture and politics. Be sure to check it out wherever you get your podcasts or at YouGetAPodcast.com

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey everyone Jody Evergan here and as you know the whole crew at this day does a bunch of other stuff can you believe it making this show is not a full-time job

0:10.0

And what's more we really like to celebrate when there are cool new projects coming out that one of us worked on as it happens a bunch are coming out over the next couple weeks

0:18.7

So we're gonna be spreading the word starting with the return of you get a podcast this is the show

0:25.3

hosted by our very own Kelly Carter Jackson produced by me all about Oprah

0:29.6

Winfrey and her enormous impact on our culture and politics.

0:33.0

There's one incredible season already in the books and now it is back under a new name.

0:38.0

You get a podcast.

0:39.0

But here's an excerpt from the first episode of the new season which focuses on the daytime talk show

0:45.3

scene in the late 80s and the early 90s Jerry and Sally and Geraldo and so forth and

0:50.7

the way in which Oprah sprung from that but then managed to evolve past

0:55.6

that scene going from Oprah 1.0 to Oprah 2.0 to becoming the undisputed

1:01.6

Queen of Talk. It's a very fun episode and I'm really

1:05.1

excited that this show is back for a really great new season. So take a listen to

1:10.0

this and then of course subscribe to you get a podcast so you can listen to the rest of the

1:15.0

episode the full episode and get all the new ones as they come out over the next

1:18.6

couple months. All right here's Kelly and her co-host Leah Wright Rager. Here we go.

1:24.0

Probably the pinnacle of all of these scandals, even more than sort of like the chair throwing and fist fights, is in 1995 when Jenny Jones who another popular daytime talk show

1:37.7

host has on guests who are revealing sort of their secret long time crushes and one of her guests

1:47.7

reveals that he has had this long time crush with another man and sort of puts this man on blast by professing his love for him.

2:01.3

And the man who he is professing his love to is so outraged by the fact that this gay man would, you know, claim his love for him, that he takes it to a whole other level and he murders the man who professes his

2:16.9

loved him and this becomes a huge huge scandal also this becomes a huge court case in which the producers of the Jenny Jones show are found

2:27.8

negligent and you know the family of this man who was murdered was awarded $25 million.

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