Jene Galvin was born on a mountain top in Tennessee, greenest state in the land of …., no wait, that was Davy Crockett. Jene grew up in Cincinnati and got schooled twice by the Jesuits before a long career of inventing and implementing urban magnet high schools. Along the way he toiled in politics, which started his 45-year friendship with Jerry Springer. A few years back he worked on Jerry’s Air America radio show as a sidekick and writer. Today he’s an adjunct education professor at Xavier University and writes articles for Cincinnati Magazine. As the executive producer of the Jerry Springer Podcast, he doesn’t ask for much. “I just want to leech off Jerry’s celebrity a bit longer so I could have a dignified retirement, maybe enough money to grow my own food in the backyard,” said Jene, pitifully.
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You Can Listen Live
As part of the evolution of the Jerry Springer Podcast, now beginning our second year, you can listen live as we record our podcasts at the Folk School Coffee Parlor in Ludlow, Kentucky, heard I expect by most listeners from our archive. But if you hit the “Listen Live” button…
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Pick a Penis?
OMG, just when I thought the Republican primaries couldn’t get any funnier, I watched grown men, one a US senator, the other a billionaire entrepreneur, suggest during a televised debate that the nomination should be decided according to a measurement of their ding dongs. And what better platform for such…
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Who Would Have Thought?
I’ve been studying and participating in politics since the 1960s, and this presidential cycle and political era is proving to be not only unpredictable but also stunning. Maybe even culture changing. Think about it. At least thus far, political parties’ influence is crumbling with both party establishments quaking about the…
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Smoke the cigars; play the guitar
I just learned about these, but my roots music friends say they’ve been around for years, guitars made from cigar boxes. I was sitting in the Folk School Coffee Parlor the other day, the location of our podcast recordings, when a guy came in with the one shown here. So…
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Springer hits the road for Ohio Democratic Party
Jerry Springer has been one of the Ohio Democratic Party’s biggest supporters, not only with his donations but also his time. And this off year election cycle is no exception volunteering to travel around the state to stress the importance of registering to vote and turning out the base. He…
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Could Springer Become Boehner?
Stay tuned. We’re going to pull back the curtain and tell how Jerry Springer not too long ago researched the possibility of running for Congress against John Boehner in Ohio’s 8th congressional district. And that may be why Roll Call (they seem to know everything political) interviewed Jerry last week…
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The Jerry Springer Trio
We said we’d rock the house, and we claim we did. A few others pointed out we were propped up by some ringers like Chris Goins on guitar, Marie Carrelli on vocals and Casey Campbell on vocals and guitar.
I took a trip into history
I went to Ashland and Morehead, Kentucky, today to do two things: watch for my podcast duties the goings on at the Federal Court hearing of Kim Davis, the Rowan County clerk who refused to obey a Supreme Court order to give out marriage licenses to her citizens regardless of…
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