RIP Ted Turner: Our Greatest Billionaire?
Puttin' On Airs
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4.9 • 928 Ratings
🗓️ 8 May 2026
⏱️ 92 minutes
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This week the boys talk about the life and legend of Ted Turner…. A surprising twist on a billionaire
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| 0:00.0 | Well, now I'm thinking you just weren't funny. |
| 0:02.4 | Right. |
| 0:03.0 | At first, I was like, well, no wonder, it's just not a good look for you, dude. |
| 0:09.5 | This is very damning evidence. |
| 0:11.9 | Again, the other people there liked it. |
| 0:14.3 | Yeah, I just didn't hit for him. |
| 0:15.4 | But. |
| 0:17.2 | But. All right. |
| 0:27.5 | What's up, everybody? |
| 0:28.1 | We're back. |
| 0:28.8 | Airheads. |
| 0:31.5 | It's time once again for putting on airs with Tray and Cho. |
| 0:33.8 | Sad, sad day here at putting on airs, I guess. |
| 0:34.6 | Or maybe it's a hitting day. |
| 1:45.5 | I'm not entirely clear on it, to be honest, because I don't really know that much about the man, but RIP to, you know, objectively, one of the fanciest southerners of the modern era has, or at least richest. Absolutely. Ted Turner has died. George's own, Corey, a Georgia boy. I don't know. Also, a wrestling guy and a Braves guy. Dude, is Ted Turner like your boy or what? Yes, dog. I was about to say when you mentioned that, now here's the thing, I do fall under the camp of truly there can't technically be a good billionaire. But the fact that you even go, I don't know whether he is or not, I haven't really heard anything. That means he's at least one of the best billionaires. Yeah. You know what I mean? A little bit, a peek behind the curtain just to be completely full disclosure here. I got some stuff on him too. I very, very briefly sort of met Ted Turner once. Yeah. Was he all talking like this and stuff? No, so we're not. Here's all that happened. And so it might color the way I think about the man. You know, I met Al Gore by being booked to do stand-up comedy at his 70th birthday party, right? Told that, told that story before. And if y'all never heard me tell the story, it was like. It's wild that he just turned 70 not that long ago when he was in office into 90s. |
| 1:47.0 | Well, it used to be like that. |
| 1:47.5 | I know. |
| 1:49.5 | You know, those things have changed. |
| 1:57.0 | But anyway, my close personal friend Al Gore, who I love, but I did his, it was nerve-wracking. |
| 1:59.5 | I was like, dude, this is everything about it was not a good setup it's all these super |
| 2:00.8 | fucking rich and powerful people and like a little tent in a backyard with like faint all catered |
| 2:05.8 | and shit i was like this is not stand up is not going to hit especially for my ass don't these |
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