Geraldo Rivera Visits the Howard Stern Show

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One of FOX News' biggest names, Geraldo Rivera, paid a visit to the Howard Stern SiriusXM radio show after quite some time. The reporter talked about everything from his time on Dancing With The Stars to the current 2016 Presidential Campaigns.

Stern and Rivera started things off pretty light with talk about Rivera posting a shirtless photo then being asked to take it down by FOX News.

When Stern joked about all of the "hot women" working at FOX and how Rivera would have gone through the whole newsroom, Geraldo maintained that he has been in a monogamous relationship with his wife and wouldn't have done that.

"Geraldo said he looks at himself in the mirror and uses that cheating energy toward his career. Howard asked if he had to go through therapy to get to that point," according to MarksFriggin's rundown.

"Geraldo said he decided he'd had enough and it was a self revelation. He said he would use such devious tactics to be unfaithful to his wife.

Howard said the amount of energy you put into women is crazy. He said cheating or chasing and all of that."

The guys then broke into talk about Rivera's appearance on Dancing with the Stars. Stern didn't hold back his opinion on Rivera's dancing on the show calling it horrible.

Rivera revealed that the show had been asking him to appear for years but he kept denying them. He did say that he has not watched the show since he was voted off.

Meanwhile, Rivera told Stern about his time at ABC where he said he was making $50,000 a month up until being fired in 1985. At that point, Rivera took on a documentary about the Chicago Mob's reign. He would later on receive 22 jobs offers.

However, it wasn't always great for Rivera. Rivera is half Jewish and half Puerto Rican and was an outcast growing up.

Stern brought up the fact that Rivera had the Star of David tattooed on his fist when he was younger. Rivera told Stern he got into many fist fights and was a pretty tough guy.

"Geraldo said it wasn't a sh*t neighborhood. He said he was a bad kid though. Howard said he lifted a car and got arrested when he was young," according to MF.

"Geraldo said he did. He said they stole a car but then stole the tires.

Geraldo said his dad came to him and he was a really hard working man.

He said he brought him to the police station and showed him the tires there. He said he looked at the tires and looked at his dad and never stole anything again in his life."

Rivera was a part of the team that exposed the horrors of the Willowbrook State School where children were kept naked and often abused. He detailed the haunting images of children knocking their head against walls with feces smeared on themselves.

The interview was pretty extensive but very eye-opening. Rivera was very open with Stern and it made for a very interesting interview. You can read the full transcript here.