SpringerAndWilkos

JERRY: No. And more power to him.

STEVE: On the day he retires, I'm taking it over!

JERRY: I was thinking of coming up with "You are not the Grandfather." At my age, that would be the thing that I could relate to!

JERRY: First of all - they're young people in most cases. It's a... even if they're angry about the dating situation... it's a hoot. They grew up with the show - "Hey man, we'll go on Springer and vent!"

If you could see these people in most cases. I get to see them as I'm leaving, and they are ready to go to the airport - honestly - they're like most other people. "Hey Jerry, can we have a picture? Where's a good restaurant to go to?" They're regular people. When you go to a ballgame, or a club at night... overall they're not wealthy people. But they're not less than we are. Most of 'em weren't as lucky, that's all. But they're all regular people.

JERRY: Here's what you can write, which is true, because I get this all the time - "Why do you go on that show?"

You guys that are beyond flip-phones, you've got your Facebook, your instagram - this generation is going on all this technology and sharing EVERYTHING about their personal lives, showing ALL their body parts, sending out what they did last night, who did what, etc - how could you be shocked by going on television talking about it? They're telling the WORLD.

This culture has changed.

In 1991, it was a fair question. "Why do people..."

But nowadays? It's nothing compared to what kids are putting out today. And in fact, the staff are always joking with me - saying "We're Facebook official!"

I learned what that is now. YES! it's like going steady, when you're telling people. Hey, hey... just stick with me!

STEVE: I'm not on Facebook! I tell people - If you want a good relationship, stay OFF of Facebook. They should call it "Trolling dot com."

STEVE: This is what we all live for, Jerry.

JERRY: I always say "May you never be on my show. Take care of yourself, and each other."

STEVE: Well there's no fighting on my show. On Jerry's show, I can only speak to when I was on it. I had two back surgeries, a concussion, and a torn groin... and more than a million cuts and scratches. So they were certainly real when I was on.

JERRY: Yeah, I mean, obviously they're real. People are being slapped, their wigs are being pulled off, but because we have security there, most of the security guys are police officers - current - this is their side job -

STEVE: When we were in Chicago, they were ALL current Chicago police officers -

JERRY: So you're dealing with professionals that know how to handle these dust-ups. Let's face it; it's not like people are coming on the show with weapons. They get angry - that's real. And they're charging at each other. But it's not like anyone's in serious danger.