Maury Povich

And she was able to do something we couldn't do.

And that was get a young audience to watch.

You know, the average age of our audience was probably near 50, and she was getting kids to watch daytime talk.

And so, therefore, we had to start doing some subject matter which would appeal to a younger group.

And so I'd say about...

six or seven years into the show is when we started with the themes of paternity and lie detectors and out of control teenagers.

First of all, there is no doubt that our shows in the 90s and early 2000s spawned all the Housewives shows, all the Kardashians, any kind of reality show now on cable was all sparked by our shows, the first reality shows of the 90s and 2000s.

That's, I mean, you can just trace it.

I mean, that's the thread.

Now, when it comes today,

youtube now including ai uh it it's one of these things where uh you never know i saw the other day and this went viral millions of of looks there was an ai

there was an AI Instagram of Mike Vrabel and Diana Rossini coming on my show.

And I was gonna determine whether he was the father of one of her children.

And it was all AI.

And they had my set.

They had everything.

I mean, it was so real that my sister called me and said, did this happen?

And I went, no, it didn't.

Don't you think you should apologize?

I said, I'm not apologizing.