The 85 Year Old VJs

John Erickson…. Ted Turner of the retirement set.

About three years ago, I gave a speech at the Cable Conference in Chicago.

A few days later, I got a call from someone who had seen me speak. He said that the Chairman of their company was going to be ‘in town’ and would like to meet with me. Did I have time?

I did not realize then that ‘in town’ meant in Baltimore, so I soon found myself on the Amtrak to BWI, where I was met by a well dressed young man in a blue suit and red tie. He picked me up in his blue Volvo and we were soon off to ‘headquarters’.

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In 1937, Saudi Arabia was among the pooerst countries in the world.

Think Somalia, but with nothing.

Then, in 1937, an oil wildcatter named Frank Holmes, working for Standard Oil, without much evidence for anything, dropped a test well into a salt mound called Damman 7 in the Hasa Province of the Arabian Peninsula.

What he hit was the largest oil reserve on the planet.