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The Junkies mourn the passing of Ted Turner, whose influence on sports in Atlanta and beyond is immeasurable.
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00:00Ted Turner, media mogul, billionaire, passing within the last two days.
00:05Yeah.
00:06We're breaking out a Junk's Game Show favorite, dead or alive.
00:10It's very easy.
00:11We're going to throw a name at the listener.
00:13If they can identify whether this person is dead or alive, they win prizes.
00:18Today's prize.
00:19Tickets to go see Jason Aldean and Luke Bryan double trouble tour
00:23that hits Nats Park Thursday, August 20th.
00:27I've always thought that Jason Aldean looks a bit like our friend Cowboy Todd
00:30that has listened to the show forever.
00:32Side by side of those two guys kind of look like the same dude.
00:36So you have a chance to win.
00:38I'm going to bounce at least one or two of you guys
00:40to see how you guys are working on dead or alive,
00:43what your radar looks like for dead or alive celebrities and or sports figures.
00:49I would have bet dead on Ted Turner.
00:52Well, today you'd be correct.
00:54No, but before today.
00:55I thought we talked about him a few weeks ago.
00:57We did, but I would forget because that doesn't really matter in my life.
01:00But I would have bet dead.
01:02I think Ted Turner is one of the largest,
01:05if not the largest, private landowners in the United States.
01:11Yeah.
01:12I don't know how much land he owns, but it's a buttload.
01:16It's a lot.
01:17I guess I could look it up.
01:18So do you have a bunch of kids?
01:20I'm not sure how many kids he had.
01:23Yeah, I think he's got a bunch.
01:25I don't know if Jane, he's been married a few times.
01:28I don't know if he's got a name with Jane Fonda.
01:29I assume he does.
01:30Ted Turner leaves behind vast ranch properties spanning 2 million acres.
01:382 million acres.
01:40All over the country.
01:41Different states.
01:42I mean, 2 million acres, I would always assume.
01:45I can't remember my brain.
01:46He's got five kids.
01:47Yeah.
01:48Wow.
01:48They're set.
01:49Five kids.
01:49By the way, in the wake of his passing, I think it was Darren Revell tweeted one of the old
01:54Braves promotions with Ted Turner.
01:58And this tells you how old school this was.
02:01First of all, on the letterhead, it was the old Screaming Braves logo from back in the day.
02:07They had no chance that they used.
02:09And it was a college night.
02:10Yeah.
02:10And it was like super cheap beer.
02:13He had a wet t-shirt contest.
02:17Atlanta Braves.
02:18He had an Atlanta Braves postgame.
02:20That's silly.
02:20It was like a Miller Lite beer party.
02:22Wet t-shirt contest.
02:24I mean, those were the days.
02:25We should tell Paul Taboni to do that.
02:28Can we do a wet t-shirt contest at the Starbird?
02:32Do those still include?
02:33I mean, we're not going to have cameras there, right?
02:35Yeah, I'm just saying.
02:36In theory, could we get away with it?
02:38I don't know.
02:39It's a good question.
02:40Do they do those anymore at bars?
02:42I would guess.
02:43Why not?
02:43Maybe at spring break.
02:45Yeah, yeah.
02:46Hangouts, they probably do them.
02:48Yeah.
02:48But I'm guessing in the year 2026, they're few and far between.
02:52I think it's from a bygone era.
02:54Oh.
02:55We had to bring that back, eh?
02:56So, Ted Turner.
02:57I point him out for owning 2 million acres and running wet t-shirt contests at Braves games.
03:03We could do our twist on it.
03:04We could do a guy's wet t-shirt contest.
03:06You could do that.
03:07I knew that was coming.
03:08I knew that was coming.
03:10That's what we could do.
03:10That's the way we roll.
03:12Yeah.
03:12All right.
03:12I'm going to bounce a few off you guys and see how you guys do on Dead or Alive.
03:18First name.
03:21Yoko Ono.
03:21Alive.
03:22Yeah, I'm going to say alive.
03:24100%.
03:24I mean, I don't even think there's a question about that.
03:29Still alive.
03:30Yeah.
03:30I mean, that's too easy.
03:32Still performing art.
03:34Yeah.
03:34I'm going to guess 91 years old.
03:38You're very close.
03:3993.
03:40Oh, I meant to mention this yesterday.
03:44Two days ago, Kurt Loder celebrated his birthday.
03:47I saw that.
03:4881.
03:48Right?
03:4981.
03:4981.
03:50Kurt Loder's 81.
03:51I saw that dude so many times.
03:52Oh, my God.
03:53Do MTV news updates.
03:55He was in his 50s then, I think.
03:57I think we had him on the show.
03:59We did.
04:00That was in MTV Hay Day.
04:02Yeah.
04:03Like the sweet spot for MTV.
04:04I think he was in his 40s and 50s because he's now 81 years old.
04:09That is crazy.
04:10It's unbelievable.
04:11Mike Barr, do you know what MTV is?
04:12When I say MTV, what does that mean to you?
04:17Um, I mean, I don't know what it stands for, but I mean, I know the old shows that used
04:21to be on there.
04:22They had Punk'd on there.
04:23Yeah.
04:23Robin Big.
04:25You don't know what's called music television?
04:27What was MTV known for originally?
04:29Do you know that?
04:30Music videos.
04:31Music videos.
04:31There you go.
04:32Okay, good.
04:32Good.
04:32You got it.
04:33Good guess.
04:34Excellent.
04:34All right.
04:35I'll give you one more before we go to the listeners.
04:37All right.
04:37Dead or Alive.
04:39Hooper.
04:41Rodney Rogers.
04:42Oh, he's passed.
04:43100% dead.
04:44JP?
04:45It happened not too long ago.
04:46I wouldn't have known, but I'll follow their lead.
04:47No, 100% dead.
04:48Yeah.
04:48Dead.
04:49Died in 2025.
04:51Yep.
04:51Yeah.
04:52He was in a wheelchair for a while.
04:53Yeah.
04:54Yeah.
04:54He, uh, he was like in an ATV accident and he was, I believe, paralyzed from the neck
04:58down years ago.
04:59Yeah.
04:59Sad.
05:00Horrible.
05:00Very tragic.
05:01Sad story.
05:01This is a, this is the press excitement.
05:03Sean Bradley's in a wheelchair.
05:05Yeah.
05:06He got hit like while riding a bike.
05:07Riding a bicycle.
05:08And then somebody posted a picture.
05:10They were in New York City and they were like in a deli.
05:12It wasn't cats or anything, but they were in a deli.
05:15It's not happening.
05:16In New York.
05:17It might've actually been cats.
05:18And Keith Van Horn was in there.
05:20Oh, really?
05:21Where was it?
05:22Keith Van Horn.
05:22It was like in New York City, like in a deli or something.
05:25Interesting.
05:25Yeah.
05:25Just a big old guy up there, you know, ordering a pastrami sandwich.
05:30Yeah.
05:30Well, that's, those are delicious.
05:32You should be ordering those.
05:33Those guys can't hide.
05:34You know, when they're that big.
05:35Right.
05:36Exactly.
05:36Who's the best of this?
05:37Whoever's been on hold the longest, they'll have the first chance to win in Dead or Alive.
05:42I kind of like Dead or Alive.
05:43It's a fun game.
05:44You don't have to be that smart.
05:45It's fitty, fitty.
05:46Let's go to Chris.
05:48Chris, what's up, buddy?
05:49You're all with the junkies.
05:53Hey, Chris, Dead or Alive, director.
05:57I'm going blind.
05:59I'm going blind.
06:00I'm going dead.
06:01I like this.
06:02He's going blind.
06:03He misses.
06:04I was giving him Mel Brooks, director and actor, alive.
06:07Still alive.
06:08At the prime age of 99.
06:11I think he's still working.
06:13I like the boldness, though.
06:15I like the bold going in blind, just dead.
06:18That's a solid, solid strategy.
06:20Didn't pay off for him, though.
06:22I would have guessed Mel Brooks was passed until I saw a story on him yesterday on the
06:28news.
06:29His son wrote a silly...
06:30I definitely would have guessed died.
06:31His son wrote a silly zombie book, World War Z.
06:35Wow.
06:36That's a good one.
06:37I wouldn't have got that one.
06:38He's 99.
06:39And Jimmy says he's still working?
06:41Still working.
06:42I believe he's still working.
06:42Wow.
06:43Still grinding.
06:44Now, is he like a comedian?
06:45Did he do stand-up in his heyday?
06:47Is that what he did?
06:48I don't know.
06:50He may have done stand-up way back in the day, but I've created movies.
06:54Jewish American actor, comedian, writer, producer, director.
06:57I guess he did it all.
06:57He's a renaissance man.
06:58He did it all.
06:59He's done everything.
07:00All right.
07:00Who's up next?
07:01All right.
07:01Let's go to...
07:02Spaceballs, a classic.
07:04Love Spaceballs.
07:05David in Potomac.
07:07Hey, David.
07:07I mean, he was born in 1926.
07:09Good morning, guys.
07:10Hello, David.
07:11Good luck to you.
07:12Yeah.
07:13Thanks, man.
07:13Thank you, sir.
07:14I've got to tell you, I've only been listening 10 years.
07:16Oh, we have been.
07:17That's perfect.
07:17A decade is a lot.
07:19You're a noob, but we'll take it.
07:20Yeah.
07:20I was actually walking my bike up my hill because at the end of the bike ride, it's just such
07:25a nightmare.
07:25Wow.
07:25Your hill is a nightmare.
07:27It's a nightmare.
07:27I actually worked with a bunch of guys that lived in Dewey also.
07:31Oh, look at you.
07:31Oh, very cool.
07:32We probably know him.
07:33I was walking my bike up the hill, and one of my neighbors, who I don't know, just pulled
07:38over and he said, congratulations, buddy.
07:41Look at that.
07:41He goes, I'm one of your neighbors.
07:43We listen all the time.
07:44Really good.
07:45And it's really nice of him.
07:46I really appreciated it.
07:47And I have no idea who the guy is.
07:48It's very nice.
07:49No idea where he lives.
07:50Find out his name.
07:51Oh, really?
07:51Didn't ask.
07:52Okay, good.
07:53Didn't ask.
07:54It's fine.
07:55Sometimes that's the way it works.
07:55It was a really nice thing.
07:56One of my fellow soccer dads lives on your street.
07:59Really?
07:59Maybe it was him.
08:00Small world.
08:01So, is it David?
08:03Yes, David.
08:05All right, David.
08:06Dead or alive, Sister Jean, the chaplain for Loyola University Chicago's hoops team.
08:13Sister Jean, dead or alive?
08:17I'm going to say she's still alive.
08:19You're not paying attention to that.
08:21She's dead.
08:22She died at 106 years of age.
08:24She died like three weeks ago, right?
08:25Just recently.
08:26I don't think three weeks ago.
08:27I don't know if it was three weeks ago, but I think it was in the last year.
08:29Three months?
08:30Yeah.
08:30I thought I was pretty sure.
08:31Dead at 106.
08:33All right.
08:34You got more?
08:34Dead at 106.7, is something I'd say.
08:37Yeah, I've got more.
08:38Let's go to Anthony.
08:39Is Sister Christian so alive?
08:40Yeah.
08:41It's a good follow-up.
08:42I like it.
08:43That's a timeless classic from Night Ranger.
08:46By the way, you like docs.
08:47There's a doc on HBO called Mel Brooks, the 99-year-old man.
08:5299.
08:54Anthony, are you there, buddy?
08:56Yes, sir.
08:57All right.
08:57You're up.
08:58Anthony, dead or alive?
09:01Golfer, Fuzzy Zeller, dead or alive?
09:04I know this.
09:05No, dead.
09:06He's dead at 74.
09:07You guys are terrible at this.
09:08You guys are bad at dead or alive.
09:10You guys are really bad.
09:11Who knew?
09:11Why am I so good at this?
09:12Yeah.
09:13I'm literally, like, 8-0.
09:14You found a wheelhouse.
09:15Because you're obsessed with death.
09:16What I would have missed probably was Mel Brooks or whatever.
09:20Yeah, Mel Brooks.
09:21I would have probably got that one wrong.
09:22All right.
09:23Let's go to Carol.
09:24Hey, Carol.
09:27Carol?
09:29This is where you speak to us?
09:31It's probably not Carol.
09:32It says Carol?
09:34Carol?
09:35I mean, I don't know what else it could possibly be.
09:38All right.
09:38Let's try.
09:39Let's go to Justin.
09:40Hey, Justin.
09:41Hey, what's going on, John?
09:43Hello, Justin.
09:43Good morning.
09:44What's going on?
09:44Dead or Alive?
09:47Van Halen drummer, Alex Van Halen.
09:50Dead or Alive?
09:52Alive.
09:53He is alive.
09:54His brother, Eddie, passed away.
09:55But he is alive.
09:56So you win.
09:57You get two tickets to see Jason Aldean and Luke Bryan Double Trouble Tour,
10:012026 Thursday, August 20th at Nats Park.
10:04Tickets are on sale Friday, May 8th at 10 a.m.
10:07That's tomorrow.
10:08For tickets and more event info, go to thefandc.com slash events.
10:13So Mel Brooks has a bunch of classics like Young Frankenstein, Spaceballs, I mentioned.
10:19History of the World.
10:19Blazing Saddles.
10:20Yeah.
10:21People love it.
10:21I wanted to ask you about History of the World.
10:23Yeah.
10:23Does that stand up?
10:24I just remember the scene where Moses comes out with the three tablets.
10:29He's about to say, I give you 15.
10:31And then he drops and smashes 10 commandments.
10:35It's pretty funny.
10:36It is.
10:37You're making everybody laugh.
10:38Does it hold up?
10:39We count it.
10:39I don't know.
10:40I would think that scene kind of holds up.
10:41I haven't seen it in 30 years.
10:43Right.
10:43Some of it probably holds up.
10:45Some of it's probably super racist and inappropriate for 2026.
10:48Blazing Saddles.
10:49For 2026.
10:50Blazing Saddles, super racist, right?
10:52Yeah.
10:53Yeah.
10:53A hundred percent.
10:54Mm-hmm.
10:56All right.
10:56So we do have a winner.
10:58Dead or Alive, we do have a winner.
10:59We've got a winner.
10:59By the way, it says, when I said he was working, I looked it up.
11:03It says he reprised his role as Spaceballs Yogurt.
11:07Yes.
11:08Instead of Yoda, he was Yogurt.
11:10Yes.
11:11See, that's the joke.
11:12Not Yoda.
11:12Yogurt.
11:13Funny.
11:14So that's coming out in 2027.
11:17One last one, Around the Horn.
11:18All right.
11:19Dead or Alive, comedian Carol Burnett.
11:23Alive.
11:24Dead.
11:24Hold on.
11:25Alive, dead.
11:26Carol Burnett.
11:28Yes.
11:28I'm going to say dead.
11:30She's alive.
11:31She is?
11:32Wow.
11:32That's amazing.
11:33You just said you were silly at this game.
11:34She just turned 93.
11:36I haven't paid attention to Carol Burnett.
11:37Just had a birthday.
11:38Yeah.
11:39Yeah.
11:39I'm surprised I got that wrong.
11:40Who were the donks that used to come on her show all the time?
11:44Tim Conway.
11:44Tim Conway.
11:45Uh-oh.
11:45The other guy.
11:46Hold on.
11:47Harvey Korman.
11:48Yes.
11:48I'm old enough to know.
11:49I can see him.
11:50I'm old enough to know who Harvey Korman is.
11:52That's how old I am.
11:53He's definitely dead.
11:53Tim Conway.
11:54Conway and Korman, I believe, both onto the next plane.
11:58Tim Conway, definitely.
11:59What was the little character that came on?
12:01Dwarf.
12:01Dwarf on golf.
12:02Right now.
12:03Probably Slay ZB.
12:04A lot of golf humor.
12:06No, not really.
12:08Hey, real quick.
12:08I'm going to give a shout out to the Marist Red Foxes.
12:10Even though my son is two years removed from the team, we still know a lot of families
12:14on there.
12:14They won their second ever NCAA tournament game last night.
12:18That's awesome.
12:18They had a nice win over Stony Brook.
12:20Now, they're going up against a buzzsaw.
12:22They're going against the one seed next.
12:23Ooh.
12:24Who?
12:24What is that?
12:24They'll play Princeton.
12:25It's Princeton.
12:26Oh, it's Princeton.
12:27So, you know, that will be rough.
12:29Who are the top four seeds?
12:30I don't know off the top of my head, Jason.
12:32Is it Carolina up there?
12:33Yeah.
12:34Princeton, Carolina.
12:34Yeah, you'd have to look up.
12:35Is it a down year for the Terps, lax-wise?
12:37Oh, yeah.
12:37It's a down year for College Park.
12:39So, how many wins did the Maryland football team have?
12:42Like four or five?
12:43Three or five.
12:44Right.
12:44How many wins did the basketball team have?
12:46Not a lot.
12:47Like five or six?
12:47Historically bad season.
12:49And the Maryland men's lacrosse team has won at least two national championships in
12:52the last five or six years.
12:53They missed the NCAA tournament for the first time, and I don't even know when.
12:58That's like, it doesn't happen.
12:59As a Maryland native, you feel like it's a birthright that the Terps are just going to
13:03be in the NCAA.
13:05It'd be in the Final Four.
13:07Maryland's probably been in the Final Four, I don't know, six of the last ten years.
13:10I mean, they're in the Final Four all the time.
13:12They won a couple national championships on their tailman.
13:14They didn't make the tournament.
13:15Obviously, Maryland football had a catastrophic year, and basketball was the worst season
13:19in the history.
13:20Maryland, lacrosse, and jousting, the two-state sports of Maryland, in case you didn't know
13:25that.
13:25I didn't know jousting.
13:26Jousting and lacrosse.
13:28We got two.
13:29Our state's so good, we got two-state sports.
13:31So, you'd be Notre Dame's the two-seed, Carolina's the three, and University of Richmond is the
13:36four.
13:37Wow, look at that.
13:37It's a great program to have.
13:39Richmond is the four-seed.
13:40Bruce Allen's pumped.
13:42Richmond is a great program.
13:44We almost knocked them off when Stephen was there a couple years ago.
13:47Georgetown and Hopkins still in the mix for local teams.
13:51Yeah.
13:52No, it's...
13:53Cornell playing Hopkins.
13:54Yeah, Cornell just got smoked.
13:57Cornell's the defending champion.
13:58They just got smoked by Princeton in the Ivy League final, which just made Princeton look
14:04invincible, but maybe they were just touched by God that day.
14:06Who knows?
14:07Yeah.
14:07And Georgetown's going to play UVA.
14:10That's on Sunday.
14:11Yeah.
14:11So, there's a lot of games this weekend.
14:13Yeah.
14:13It's a big weekend for men's lacrosse.
14:15Shout out again to the Red Foxes.
14:17You know, my son was home.
14:18We were watching it together.
14:19We were going crazy.
14:21It was a big, big win for them.
14:22So, very cool.
14:23Awesome.
14:24Nice job.
14:25By the way, Maryland football, apparently.
14:27They were supposed to have this tackle come visit, but after he hammered out a $4 million
14:35deal with LSU, he canceled his visit.
14:38Well, yeah, that's going to...
14:40When LSU hands you a bag of cash with $4 million in it, you're going to say...
14:43LSU's given a tackle.
14:44Not flying to College Park.
14:46Yeah.
14:49I just don't know how you can compete with that.
14:51You can't.
14:52You can't.
14:52That's the simple answer.
14:53If somebody swoops in and pays a kid an enormous sum of money, you're generally not going to
14:59land that kid.
15:00And usually LSU's going to pay you an enormous sum of money.
15:03I would imagine their NIL budget is higher than Maryland's.
15:05I'm not sure where he's transferring from, but he's a transfer.
15:08I assume he's a left tackle.
15:09Can't imagine playing a right tackle that, but maybe they are.
15:12Jordan Seaton landed a deal at LSU, more than $4 million.
15:16They believe it's the largest ever for an offensive lineman in college football history.
15:23And he had scheduled a visit with Maryland, but of course, that will be a big waste of
15:27They were probably offering him two, two and a half, and Lane Kiffin said, no, no, no,
15:32no, no, no.
15:32We'll give you four.
15:33I guess Lox has some free time on his hands now.
15:35He doesn't have to host that recruit.
15:37He transferred out of Colorado.
15:39Out of Colorado.
15:40Yeah.
15:40Yeah.
15:42The money these kids are getting is just insane.
15:44They're getting NFL money.
15:45I know.
15:47Stupid.
15:48It's crazy.
15:48That's why some of these kids are, there's a, there's a, there's a basketball kid who
15:53played four years at Navy.
15:55Then he did his commission, right?
15:58Whatever that is.
15:58You know, we worked for five years and then he appealed for like a fifth year and they
16:03gave it to him and he's playing, I don't know where he's, and he's got a big deal.
16:06Is he 28?
16:07Yeah.
16:08He's like a hundred.
16:09He still has eligibility.
16:11He's got one.
16:12He's gaming the system.
16:12Somehow he still has eligibility.
16:13Yeah.
16:15They give you the benefit, I guess, if you do like a Mormon mission or if you do, you
16:19do something like military wise.
16:22So yeah, he's going to be like a 28 year old, fifth year, whatever he is.
16:26Wow.
16:27It's just the wild, wild west.
16:29Hey, another, another shout out real quick.
16:31Caprice Bomer, who I coached at Briarwood softball.
16:36Now is at UConn.
16:37She was just, she was named as a freshman, second team, all conference, all big East.
16:42That's great.
16:43Nice job, Caprice.
16:44And they're playing Creighton, I think, I think today in, in the big East tournament.
16:50What position is she?
16:50Nice job, Caprice.
16:51What about, what about, uh, nice job, uh, coach Bishop.
16:53Well, I don't know if Bishop did anything to up her game.
16:56Did you teach her anything?
16:58No, she was just a stud.
16:59I was just, I was just very positive.
17:01Yeah.
17:02I was a positive coach for her.
17:03Very good.
17:04He was good at clapping.
17:05You're a positive role model.
17:06No, she's, she's.
17:07What the kids need.
17:07She's a great, she's a really good pitcher.
17:09Anyway, uh, props to her.
17:10Very good.
17:11All right.
17:12Don't forget coming up later on the show, Paul to Boney will join us.
17:15He will talk about the Nats latest win and more.
17:18That's coming up at nine o'clock and at nine 25, Josh Robbins, who covers the wizards for
17:23the athletic.
17:24He'll join us to talk about the upcoming draft lottery for the wiz.
17:28That's coming up at nine 25 here on the fan.
17:30That's coming up at nine 25.
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