Episode 296: Ted Turner

83 Weeks with Eric Bischoff

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Sports, Wrestling

4.6 • 5.3K Ratings

🗓️ 13 November 2023

⏱️ 147 minutes

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0:00.0	Hey, it's Conrad Thompson, and you're listening to 83 weeks.
0:03.0	We're there at Fish Alfair. Thompson and you're listening to 83 weeks.
0:13.7	We're there at Fish Isle Fair.
0:15.1	What's going on, man?
0:16.0	How are you?
0:17.7	It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood.
0:21.3	Oh, my gosh. It's a beautiful day. the neighborhood.
0:25.0	Oh, it is a beautiful day.
0:29.5	This is a fun time a year for us because I know we're both big holiday season fans. we get to spend time with family and all
0:34.7	that we're right around the corner from Thanksgiving it's next week so of
0:40.0	course we're going to be talking about some things that we're thankful for here on the program,
0:44.0	mostly today where we'll be celebrating the life and times of Mr. Ted Turner and all the time that Eric spent
0:51.0	with him.
0:52.0	We've gotten lots of requests for this show. We've always been
0:54.5	kind of hesitant to do it, but today we're going to do our best to pay great tribute to a great
0:59.2	man. But before we do that, we should talk about that great photo behind you.
1:04.8	Hopefully you're watching with us 83 weeks over on YouTube.
1:08.2	But man, check that out from Paint Your Life.com.
1:11.7	Eric Christmas came early at your household.
1:15.0	It did indeed and I'm so happy because you know you've been looking at my tree house here that I call a studio.
1:22.0	It's actually out in the bunk house, but you know, it's kind of a lot of wood, not a lot of color. So now it pops and I've never kept it very few things that I keep as wrestling related
1:37.6	memorabilia up over what is my right shoulder you can see the plaques that I got there from
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