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Thirsty Thursday · Newsradio WGAN

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  Thirsty Thursday, Welcome back and thanks for being here, as
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  always. Why is it a Thirsty Thursday?
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  Why do everyone come up with Thirsty Thursday?
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  Yeah, I like Friday. He better than Thirsty Thursday.
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  Well, you need to come up with some sort of a iterative turn to
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  make Friday as as marketable as Thirsty Thursday.
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  Thursday, Thursday to look out for Friday, OK.
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  Indeed. Well, we said that all the time
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  in college. It's Thursday.
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  Thursday I. Guess that's when for, for some
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  people the weekend starts, you know, and then they go out.
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  And so I mean the the work week, it was what Tuesday through and
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  it starts on Thursday, it's 5. O'clock somewhere, right?
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  Yeah, all that. Yeah, I, I would say for some
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  people, for some people, Jason Taylor, really there is no end
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  to the weekend and it just keeps right on going.
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  Some people, it starts on Thursday.
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  Sure. Yeah.
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  You know, as somebody who used to work in a restaurant, I mean,
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  there is there is truth to the Thirsty Thursday thing.
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  I mean that that that day is a particularly popular one to go
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  and have some spirits and enjoy oneself.
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  I mean, it's not quite fried. It's not quite the end of the
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  week, but it's not definitely not the beginning, right?
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  You're getting towards the tail end a little bit.
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  So you still got to work. So you got some steam to blow
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  off, but but you know, you're kind of feeling like it's
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  wearing down to the end of that week, so.
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  Ready. Just a synopsis of what happens
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  when people go out, like on a night when they have to work the
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  next day. And if they have so many drinks,
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  you know, if they get inebriated, say yes, indeed.
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  And and how long it takes to actually recover and be regular.
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  Yeah, it's not good. It's just like, it's like if
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  they work from 8:30 to 5:00, it's like 4 in the afternoon
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  before they're regular. It's amazing.
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  Yeah, especially the older you get, you know, your recovery
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  time increases significantly. I don't know how much time to
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  spend on it or whatever, but shall we mark the passing of Ted
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  Turner? I, I got home yesterday early
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  afternoon and I CNN, that's all they were talking about.
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  Obviously CNN him, but yeah, all the accomplishments etcetera for
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  him and I mean. You can't deny really very large
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  figure in American media, yeah. Trailblazer, Too, Channel 17 in
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  Atlanta, got that on to a, got that on the cable TV along with
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  after that WGN in Chicago. So that was a major
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  breakthrough. Then we had the CNNS, all that.
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  Well, the the rise of cable always on news, yeah, really
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  does track back to Ted Turner, doesn't it?
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  CNN and the original CNN. I mean, you know, people got to
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  separate their opinion about CNNA little bit too like CNN
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  versus what it ultimately became.
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  And what it is today is to me, you know, a different thing.
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  I mean, it was always accused in the old days of being the
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  Clinton News Network. And that was, you know, funny,
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  ha ha. But you know, in on in all
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  honesty, if you were to watch it back and say 1997 or whatever,
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  it would be a fairly straight news operation compared to what
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  you you would you would see today.
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  You know, that that was before the rise of opinion programming
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  even, you know, so if you if you did have a problem with CNN's
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  coverage, it was probably just the journalistic slant
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  occasionally or whatever. It wasn't this like constant
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  drum beat of opinion. But also CNN predates both of
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  you guys is when it came on it's older than both of you it.
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  Is it is, but it became a big deal.
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  You know what I mean when people started to adopt cable really
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  and and I do remember I mean, I guess when when was its coming
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  out party as like a real like everybody was watching CNN.
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  I'm trying to think if it was like, was it the OJ trial?
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  Maybe like, you know, I'm thinking like mid 90s maybe.
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  I think it might actually be late 90s though, like 9697, like
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  Monica Lewinsky scandal kind of around then that enough people
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  had cable and then there was a reason to watch CNN.
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  Because I also, I mean, I remember being a kid and people
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  being like, you know, it's almost viewing it like C-SPAN.
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  It's like, why would you watch that 24 hour news?
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  Are you kidding? Oh my, who would want that?
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  Who would want that? Yeah, back in the day, yeah.
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  Apparently everybody. Apparently everybody.
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  So anyway, Ted Turner passed away.
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  He also, of course, you know, had the, he bought the Atlanta
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  Braves. They turned Turner Field, Turner
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  Field, which was an Olympic Stadium for 1996 too.
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  They converted it into a baseball field.
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  So the whole Atlanta thing is, is also part of his story.
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  I don't know. He's a Titan of business.
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  A Titan of business. Had his hand in many things.
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  Had his hand in. How old was he?
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  He had to have been quite old, right?
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  Like 90 or am I crazy? He was also married to a
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  conservativist. Punching bag A throw darts into
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  Jane Fonda. Yes, and we all know that.
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  Let's see, he was born in 1930. He was 8787 years old.
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  So close. I was close when I was in 90 and
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  that Trump had a statement it it said, I'm not I'm not going to
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  go looking for it to to paraphrase it, it was something
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  like, you know, Ted Turner's passing, you know, he owned CNN.
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  He bought CNN back when it was still good.
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  And then he sold it and everything got ruined.
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  And it's just a typical, a typical obituary from Donald
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  Trump, lots of all caps and and the word woke was sprinkled in
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  there. It was, but he was actually
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  referencing what happened after he sold it.
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  So. So anyway, Ted Turner gone too
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  soon at 87.