Ted Turner is Getting Old

I recently listened to a Podcast interview of Ted Turner. Or, to be more precise, I listened to part of it.

Here are the reasons I didn’t want to listen any more:

1. Ted is hard of hearing. He said so at the beginning of the interview. Still, throughout the podcast, he had to keep saying, “huh?” and when he did, the interviewer would repeat himself, but without making the slightest attempt to SPEAK LOUDER, or more slowly. I mean, come on, man! The guy needs a little help, and you’re just rabbit-talking as quietly and quickly as you please. Really annoyed me.

2. Ted is not very interesting. Maybe he used to be. I don’t know. But the things he said were only occasionally mildly amusing. They were never more than that. For example, he said that he cares about foreign affairs. He tells us an insightful fact.

INSIGHTFUL FACT:

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If you go up to a person in a foreign country and tell him that you dislike the country and dislike the food and dislike the art and dislike the person himself, why, that person will not be friendly to you.

However, if you tell the person that you really like all those things, then that person will tend to be friendly.

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Wow. No, I mean wow. Mind you, Ted took a lot longer to say this than I did. He mentioned many more things that you could say that you like or dislike, for instance. But the point was the same.

And then he said that diplomacy was as simple as that. Just be nice to people and show them respect and you’re good to go. He pointed out another insightful fact, by the way: Bombs hurt people that you don’t even know. And they hurt old people, who didn’t want to fight you anyway.

So, you see, we should never drop a bomb. We should be nice to people, because then they’ll never want to hurt us.

The rest of the portion of the interview that I listened to was pretty much the same.