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This week, Sally and I review some family dynamics that are not good. Can mother and current-boyfriend ever get the kids on board with their relationship? What is step-dad Pete saying? Who's the gold-digger? Find the answers to all these questions AND MORE in this week's recap!

Special guest appearances including: Bea Arthur, the Babadook, and Chappell Roan

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Jenny Jones re-creates your 6th grade classroom sex education experience by asking guests for a million juicy details that no one within 5 miles is mature enough to discuss. We also look at some baby photos as part of an at-home DIY paternity test for no discernible reason.

Special Guests including Audrina Patridge, Colbie Smulders, and Snoop Dogg!

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Join me this week as I do my best to pick apart a hot mess of a Jerry Springer episode. They're about to jump the shark and they're starting by blurring the lines of reality for us.

Special Guest Appearances including the head mean girl from Romi and Michelle's highschool reunion, RFK Jr and Pepé Le Pew in human form (barely)

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Ricki Lake talks to some ex-couples who can't keep their hands to themselves and one couple that is probably definitely about to break up.

Special Guests including Steven Seagal, Kirsten Dunst, and the late great Brittany Murphy RIP

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Actual Factual VERY Special Guest and Friend of the Pod Kasha and I check in on Maury in 1999, where he is throwing a mini rave-pageant for a variety of guests, most of whom are Drag Queens!

Everybody check out Kasha! Exceptionally Talented Drag Performer and head of Binbrook Pride https://www.instagram.com/kashalikekesha

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This week Sally Jessy Raphael provides a bona fide Talk Show Service, wherein she talks to some couples that may or may not be ready to get hitched.

Special Guest Appearances including Sylvia Browne, Tom Sandoval, a priest, and Ginger Grancagnolo!

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Jenny Jones aggressively interviews some guests about their Bachelor Party experiences and how it affected their relationship. No one has a point and no one learns a lesson, but what they do have is more wine-colored shirts than anyone can count.

Special Guest Appearances including Anchorwoman Barbie, Napolean Dynamite's fake girlfriend, and strippers for all!

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Join me this week as I carve through some controversial relationships alongside Phil Donahue and his "normally liberal New York audience".

Special guest appearances including Trisha's mom, Harry Cuomo, Susan Powell and some very special 1992 commercials!

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This week I visit 1998 Jerry Springer, who is bringing us all the highs and lows of late 90s fashion, as well as some trashy guests to sort out their trashy business as best they can.

Special Guest Appearances including the one and only Steve Wilkos! Who earns top billing and every penny of his paycheque with this one.

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Join me this week for a VERY SPECIAL EPISODE with Actual IRL Celebrity Guest Dr. Adam of the Sister Wives Professor!

Listen to our post-mortem analysis of the 90's and all the terrible attitudes therein, as well as a group of Ricki Lake parent-child guests that are in conflict over self-expression via fashion.

There's also a juggler and a makeover (obviously.)

A very extra special thanks to Dr Adam for this time, energy, and very insightful thoughts!

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Sally condescends to some young-ish people who have made or are actively making some pretty bad life choices. Gilda prances and swans around the stage, helping no one but giving a fully realized performance. The audience gets their own mic and becomes their own character.

Special Guest Appearances including: Ginnifer Goodwin, K-Fed, and Denise Richards

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Join me as I travel back in time to 1997 Chicago to watch Jenny Jones interrogate her freshest set of victims guests. No one wants to be there, and Jenny's gonna make sure of it.

Special Guests Including: Mick Jagger, Severus Snape, Lisa Minelli and Calista Flockheart

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Join me as Ricki Lake and I wade through oodles of low-stakes problems, including but not limited to: 20-something problems, 90's problems and Oodles of Noodles problems!

Special Guests including Rasputin, Shawn Hunter, Shirley McLean, Marge Simpson and Aurora Brown!

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Join me this week as I unpack Dr Phil unpacking "Jilly Juice" - a dangerous online poop group led by Jillian Epperly. How much salt does one need to ingest in order to regrow a limb? Let's find out together maybe!

Special Guest Appearances including: Gary Bussey, Garfield the cat, and Candida Royale!

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It's the October 23 1998 and Jerry is serving up all the trends and fads du jour! Enjoy your fill of sweater-vests, stripper-drama and bisexuality as I unpack another episode of peak Jerry Springer, who is in turn unpacking some messy love-triangles and love-polygons.

Special guests including: Drew Barrymore, Mama June, Benedict Cumberbatch, and Fat Man SCOOP!!!

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This week I plumbed the depths of the 80's, and was subsequently horrified to no end! Some women are queens, some women are uptight and rude, and one man is a true monster.

Special ACTUAL FACTUAL Guest Appearances including Seka, Candida Royale, Bona Z and Gloria Leonard.

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Jerry Springer and his audience confront teens who express racist and hateful views that they are unable to defend due to their stupid and illogical nature, as well as their still under-developed teenager brains. You'll never guess who takes their gloves off this week!

Special Guests including Carlton Banks and most of a Team America hockey team!

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How many times does Oprah need to ask a group of in-laws "What is the problem here?" before we find out what the problem is? Join me this week to find out!

Special guest appearances including Olivia Newton John, Allen Covert, Cinderella's evil step-mother, and the secretary from OG Ghostbusters!

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This week, Sally interrogates some teens about the choices they've been making with their sex lives. Don't worry, it's just as creepy as it sounds; luckily you have me to filter through the cringe and pull out the hidden comedy gems and terrible 90s fashions.

Special guests including: John Favreau, Alana "Honey Boo Boo" Thompson, and Vinny of the Jersey Shore!

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This week Ricki talks to women who are ready to let the world know they're sleeping with men who are already spoken for, by coming clean to the people who should care the most - the girlfriends!

Special hybrid guests! Including Michelle Trachtenberg-Zooey Deschanel, Clint Eastwood-Kevin Bacon, Halle Berry-Lil Kim, and a pink-highliter cowboy!

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To mark the recent passing of Phil Donahue, a true American treasure, this week I dive head-first into two simultaneous topics that I probably shouldn't, race and religion! Don't worry, as scary as the topics might be, we were always in good hands with Donahue, RIP

Special guests including ACTUAL Blair Underwood, Ussain Bolt, and more well-meaning but very misguided white Christian women in their 30's than all the Hobby Lobby checkout lines combined!

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This week, Jenny tries to bully her teenage guests out of their budding sexuality. Will she accomplish what mainstream religions and societies have thus far failed to do, and stamp out teen sex forever?

No. But she'll do her best anyways with a power suit and a mic!

Special guest appearances including: Michelle Duggar, Riff Raff, Rachel Dratch as Real Housewife, Courtney Love and Mira Sorvino!

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It's Sylvia Browne Wednesday - the perfect day to listen to her cold-read Montel's audience and tell them more or less what they wanted to hear and/or already know.

Special guest appearances including prettier Farrah Abraham, genuine Incan (?) dolls, Gilbert Gottfried, and Jody of We Love to Hate fame!

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Jerry Springer is the quintessential adult in the room as he talks us through several love-triangles and broad spectrum of associated feelings.

Special guest appearances including Kirk Douglas, grown-up Foegle, and Italian Michael Chiklas!

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Sally Jessy Rafael invites two women who love to love gay men, and one man who is straight, to try to figure out what they are thinking. Other questions we explore include: What is the gayest country? Who will win the shopping Olympics? Which tanning bed has Ginger been hiding in and how long has she been stuck in there?

Special guest appearances including Amanda of We Love to Hate fame, Michael McDonald, and Pedro (Vote for Pedro!)

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YOU get an episode recap! AND YOU get an episode recap! EVERYONE GETS AN EPISODE RECAP!!!!!!

Special guests including: Joan Cusak, two entirely distinct Marks, and OPRAH!!!!!!!!!!!

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Get ready to experience second-hand embarassment beyond your wildest imagination as Ricki aids and abets some BFF's on a top secret mission to destroy their bestie on national TV.

Special guests including the Friends wardrobe department, Janet Jackson, The Weekend, Chelsea Handler, and Richely!

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For this very special 50th episode, I'm stepping out of the box and head-first into the world of Dr Phil! This week he's talking to Barbara, who is here to defend her "meth is fine" parenting style and nothing more. Also on-stage are 2 of her 3 children, and the woman who raised one of them.

Special guests NOT including Robin McGraw

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Fashion show! Fashion show! Fashion show at lunch! Jenny Jones presents her 90's version of a freak show, which is really more of a goth/punk themed fashion show than a parade of oddities. Turns out that after highschool, some people move out of their small towns and live their best creative lives as 90's NYC Club Kids.

Special guests including Violet Chachki, HIM, David Koresh, and a dead Grinch!

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Montel talks to couples with unconventional age-related situations, and provides a sneak peak into exactly what MTV's 16 And Pregnant is going to capitalize on in his near future.

Special guests include Jane Lynch, Paula Poundstone, and Lyndon not-B-Johnson!

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This week, I join Jerry Springer who is exploring the question on everyone's mind - what happens when regular every day people and/or paid volunteers find themselves in that age-old dilemma of having TOO MANY LOVERS? Join me this week as I dissect a mountain of overlapping chatter filled with hilarious insults, ridiculous excuses, and way too many irrelevant details.

Special guest appearances including (but not limited to) Andy Serkis, Bianca Del Rio, Fabio, JUH-NELLE Evans and Karla Homolka!

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Join me this week as I bear witness to a room full of adults try to change the teenage behaviour of teenagers by bullying them, talking over them, and ignoring their

most reasonable requests to be treated nicely.

Featuring an All-Star lineup of special guests, including but not limited to T-Swift, Kirsten Dunst, Frida Kahlo and Rena Riffel as Prison Mike!

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Ricki Lake serves up the best of 90's fashion trends, along with a healthy serving of some very unhealthy relationships. What's wrong with Margo's friends? Is it ok to abuse a man who has trapped you in a relationship? And how exactly does one publicly bite another human in the back?

Special guest appearances by: Hillary Banks, Tobias (of Animorphs fame) and JA-CA-LYN the matrimonial lawyer.

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In honor of Black History Month, this week I took the way-back-time-machine to a space where 4-5 out of 100 people thought it was A-OK to be publicly racist on a national platform. Join me as I judge some very judgy and truly awful human beings while they try to make half-way coherent arguments for their stupid backwards POV's.

Special guests include Carl Winsloe, Uncle Rico and black female Napolean Dynamite.

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In this very special Valentine's episode, I get a little experimental ;) and Montel Williams (what a fox!) tackles the questions on all of our lady-brains - why won't he commit? We talk to three couples about the why's and why not's of a marriage.

Special guest appearances by Brad (of Home Improvement fame), Kermit THE Frog, and Ace's dad.

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This week I open up a Sally Jessy Rafael time-capsule, only to find it full of the same problems we never buried in the first place! What happens when bullies leverage the internet to up their bully game? Does freedom of speech exempt you from being a good person? Will wars and global conflicts ever end? Find out the only possible way that you can - by listening to this week's episode!

Special guest appearances by a gas-station vampire, 2001's version of JTT, and a secret mysterious "webmaster" named DANNY

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Ricki Lake invites some gay men and their ex-girlfriends onto her low budget 90s stage to talk about what happens when a man in a heterosexual relationship discovers they have "homoerotic tendencies". We discuss sex, lack of sex, the Bible, what the Bible thinks about sex, and eventually someone threatens to have sex with their wife on stage.

Special guest appearances by almost-David Bowie, fake Deb, and Josie Grossy!

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Enjoy the best nifty-gifty of all - an early/bonus episode of Reality Roots! On this edge-of-glory episode of Jerry Springer, we have a group of teens/20 somethings acting their age, we learn about something called Apple Pucker and it's effect on people's willingness to jump into bed with each other, and then one thing leads to another, and it just happens. Just as it always seems to!

Special guests include roast-mode Miss Piggy, Cletus the Slack-Jawed (and probably abusive) yuppy, and a young Ron Howard.

Merry Christmas, ya ho ass bitch!

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Whether you're nursing a Black Friday spending hangover or you're prepping in a frenzy for the most commercial holiday season of the year, this is the daytime talk show recap for you! Allan's here to help Tiffany dig out of $18k worth of debt, hopefully before they come to repo her pink indoor sunglasses and strappiest possible pink heels. Donna's here to expose her daughter Dorine as a heartless narcissist who's already spent her way through 2-3 husbands worth of credit (and a Durango!) And Dr Shmuck Shafer is here to expose himself as an ignorant moron with even less compassion than Dorine.

Special guest appearances this week include Clubby the bear, way too serious Cleopatra, and maybe something about Marie Osmond

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This week we go way way back to a time I didn't even know existed - Jenny Jones version 1.0! Jenny's here to ask all the hard-hitting, super-disgusting and outright inappropriate questions to these teens with low self esteem who are teen-ing it up all over 1992. Why do people have sex? What makes anyone start having sex? What are nonoxyl lined condoms and why did Tammy insist on distributing them to her 12yo daughter? Find all these questions and more (and maybe an answer here or there) in this week's episode!

Guest appearances by Murphy Brown, Breckin Meyer, and Kermit THE Frog!

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Sally Jessy Rafael is here with all the juiciest of scoops! Join me as we find out: Who's homophobic? Who's completely delusional? Who's a secret stripper in a $3 mask? And most importantly of all - who missed their casting call for MILF manor because they were 20 years too early?

Special guest appearances by: Stacy's mom, wish-version Ace Fanning, Justin Timberlake, and everyone's favorite uptight judgy therapist Dr Gilda!

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This week I'm BACK BACK BACK again with another gem mined from the Ricki Lake Show!

Families are supposed to love eachother... but what happens when they can't get along? Answer: They fight on daytime TV for our entertaintment.

Special guest appearances by Morticia Gormez, Al Bundy, Gabrielle Union and Bart Simpson

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Montel's final week of production could never be complete without one last episode centered around prolific writer and self-proclaimed psychic Sylvia Brown. Listen to all the audience questions - stupid, sad, redundant and self-answering - and their sometimes sassy but always 5-words-or-less answers, straight from the mouth of the footlong fingernail third-eye goddess herself.

Special guests include: SYLVIA BROWN! What more do we need?

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Sally takes on abusive husbands with her signature glasses, a flooffy teacher's haircut and a power suit, alongside recurring character Dr Ginger. Women are empowered, and the man-babies on-stage get put in their place.

Special guest appearances by Miss Cleo, wish-version Will Sasso, and Nancy Reagan

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Jerry Springer delivers all the catfights, death threats and weird dad jokes you could ever want this week, with only a few very minor poops in the reality TV punchbowl.

Special guests include beefcake Steve Wilkos, Frenchy from Grease, a close or far-distant relation of the Honey Boo Boo clan, and a mysterious shoe-like object.

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Four "skinny" guests bring their "fat" friends to Ricki Lake to issue weight-loss ultimatums "for their own good" in this very special Intervention crossover episode. Includes several friendship themed #motivationalquotes and some actress you've never heard of.

Special guest appearances by Juliette Lewis, the Barbie Dream Car, and TaMEEka!

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