In September 1992, I saw two episodes of his show taped at NBC in Chicago
shortly after I arrived in town as a bright-eyed college freshman. That was
when it was still a relatively serious show, akin to "Donahue," rather than
what it turned into.
There was a lunch break between the two shows,
When I was an NBC Page, Springer was scheduled to appear on the Tonight
show to promote a straight-to-video episode of his syndicated talk show
that no TV station would air. The episode was entitled “I’m in love with my
horse.” I refused to work on the show that day. The bosses were very grumpy
