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CNN Founder Ted Turner Dies at 87 & “Blue Dot Fever” Cancels Concerts

Morning Brew Daily

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Business News, News, Business

4.43K Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2026

⏱️ 28 minutes

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#840: Cable TV pioneer and founder of CNN Ted Turner dies at 87. Uber and Disney point to resilient consumer spending that’s powering their business. Musicians are cancelling their shows and tours because of the empty seating they are seeing due to rising ticket prices. The World Cup is falling short of hotel bookings. iPhone users can receive up to $95 from a class action lawsuit. Fries taste better when they’re stolen. Anthropic and SpaceX strike computing deal.  Explore connectivity solutions that can transform your business at https://www.att.com/smallbusiness Subscribe to Morning Brew Daily for more of the news you need to start your day. Share the show with a friend, and leave us a review on your favorite podcast app. Listen to Morning Brew Daily Here:⁠ ⁠⁠https://www.swap.fm/l/mbd-note⁠⁠⁠  Watch Morning Brew Daily Here:⁠ ⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/@MorningBrewDailyShow⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Good morning, Brutley Show.

0:31.3

I'm Neil Fryman.

0:32.1

And I'm Toby Howell.

0:33.0

Today, what's this blue dot fever sweeping the concert industry?

0:36.5

Then Ted Turner, the founder of CNN, has died at 87.

0:40.3

It's Thursday, May 7th.

0:42.3

Let's ride.

0:48.3

Good morning.

0:49.3

A Mexico City nightclub is making waves for introducing an absurdly high cover charge for Americans

0:56.0

and no one else. Japan, which is a club in the Romanoorte neighborhood, announced on Instagram

1:00.9

it was going to charge USA citizens nearly $300 to get in compared to just $20 for people from

1:06.6

other countries and 14 for Mexicans and other Latin Americans. The club's owners said his gringo tax was a response to Trump's insults to Mexico and the gentrification and Americanization of Mexico City, where trendy neighborhoods like Romanoorte have been overrun with English speakers from the north. Toby, what's the highest cover you've ever paid to get into a bar? All right, don't put me on blast like that.

1:27.7

Here's the issue, though. You get to the club. You probably have a group with you. Maybe there's a guy or a girl you want to impress. You're going to pay the $300. Your arm is twisted at that point. Also, the club owner frames it as he's not charging Americans more, but he's giving out discounts to those who need it. So he's basically the nightclub

1:45.4

version of Robin Hood, which is a pretty cool reputation to have. And now a word from our sponsor,

1:50.5

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1:56.2

That you don't need to adopt every new trend. I really try to stay away from shiny object syndrome.

2:02.1

I run a pickleball shoe company and it's taken a lot of self-control not to move into golf or

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