ted turner was at turner networks, i think with warner bros as well. gentlemen are certainly worth a lot. over $2 billion. you know, chris, i think i'm gonna have to use-- i think i'm gonna ask the audience. >> okay. final? >> final. >> okay, audience, need some help here if you would. pick up those keypads and enter your votes now. [percussive music] ♪ all right, kirk. take a look at the results. 71%, good majority say it's ted turner. >> okay, that is a good majority, and i was leaning in that direction. so... i will say c, ted turner. final answer. >> good job. good job, everybody. >> thank you. >> well done. yeah, he was vice chairman of time warner when it merged with aol. >> aol. >> didn't go well. poor guy, he's only worth about $2 billion. >> ugh. >> hope he's doing okay. $7,000 is where you are. going for $10,000. here's the $10,000 question. >> okay. [dramatic musical sting] ♪ >> according to glamour.com, the new dating term "cushioning" refers to doing what? >> hmm. um, cushioning i don't believe would be leaving a breakup note on a pillow.

>> first of all, it's been in place since early 2001 established by ted turner and sam nunn. with distinguished and led me to be excited to be able to move into that ceo role is that the organization is a think tank to a certain extent, but more cannot operationalize his programs. for example, going to the early part of the organization that helped move very dangerous material out of serbia during the hostilities there. more recently, just last year we cut the ribbon on what is called the low enriched uranium bank that provides security or supply to discourage countries from having enrichment technology. the organization gets stuff done on the ground as well as do policies geared >> you back at the end of the cold war is long with their opportunities to really cut back the threat now further developing andhaur countries. >> first of all in the 90s come and they very coming very strong efforts done to control and eliminate nuclear materials for nuclear weapons. then, it is not nuclear directly, but indirectly, issues with russia began to build. for example, nato expansion is s

>> guest: it's an organization that has been in place since early 2001 established by ted turner and sam nunn. what has distinguished the organization and led me to be excited to be able to move in to that ceo role is that the organization is a thing take to a certain extent but more than that it operationalize its programs. for example, going to the early part of the organization helps move very dangerous nuclear materialge out of serbia during the hostilities there but more recently just last year we cut the ribbon on what is called the lower iranian bank that provides security of supply to discourage countries from having enrichment technology. the organization tries to get stuff done on the ground as well as present new policies. >> host: when you look in the new times was there opportunities missed to come back the threat that is now further developing in countries customer. >> guest: i think first of all in the '90s there were very, very strong efforts done to control and illuminate clear materials in nuclear weapons. then it's not nuclear directly but indirectly issues with ru

the ted turner story was famous, pretty memorable what did you like the most. >> well, as the author, i love every little anecdote. it may just be a couple of lines but i love it because i know it. well, one of my favorite stories in the book was where he tried to lose a million dollars at craps table just to give a gift of generosity -- sort of a opening night gift to the larry tish, who opened a new casino in the south of france, and kirk went over just to sluice some money because that's what fellow casino owners do. it's an act of generosity. it's a house warming gift. and so kirk's idea was to -- i'm going to give him a million dollars, but the way he wanted to do it was in a bet. so, he had to ask permission because it was way past any limit that they wanted to absorb but they gave him an orange chip, just for that moment. the orange chip would be worth $1 million for purpose of the bet, and he wanted to put it on one roll at the craps table. one roll, win or lose, and kirk went around to all the table, four tables. he watched the action at each one and decided that this table o

. >> the reaction to murdoch's idea for a fourth network was similar to the reaction of ted turner startingbc, cbs, nbc. we don't have to reach everyone. there's no question we have an inferior lineup of stations to our counterparts. it means we have to work harder to get our message across and get shows sampled. >> they had an idea that in order to succeed we have to differentiate ourselves from the networks, we have to do things they would not do. >> fox started throwing anything against the wall, not knowing what was going to go. first shows were things like "21 jumpstreet." >> what exactly are we looking for? >> joan rivers in terms of late night. >> we have been banned in boston, which i think is wonderful. wxme. so pick a finger. >> and "the tracey ullman show"" >> oh, please! >> it was a sketch show. and they needed something to go between the sketches. again they were looking for something different. >> i got to have those candy bars. >> you better not be thinking of stealing those candy bars. >> that's it! >> "the simpsons" would never have come along had it not been for "the trace