Booktv continues now on cspan2, television for serious readers. Good afternoon, everybody. Its a pleasure to be with you and this merges several of my interests. The constitution,conservative politics , books about those things, the Heritage Foundation and my friends jason and julie j fitz. I first came to know the name Jason Chaffetz when he became a placekicker at byu. This date holds records including the most successful points after touchdown scored in a single game and i think in a single season. And he was also famous for the fact immediately after he kicked a field goal for or pat, the helmet would come off and then he had this awesome slow jog to the sidelines and he became known as the chaffetz and it resulted in something called the chaffetz rule but i actually think it played a key role in his success as a statesman in the state of utah. People came to know him and they knew who he was. I remember many years later, long after he had played for byu and had a successful career
This is on the money. We begin with video games in spite of what your parents told you they can actually can improve hand eye coordination and can be powerful learning and teaching tools they can even help train future surgeons Game Changers is this weeks cover story. Reporter his family was never terribly impressed with his dream job. I started out at lucas arts making star wars games, spent many years at microsoft and this entire time it sort of made me the disgrace of the family because im the first one that never went to medical school but the medical force proved strong when his dad asked him to make an anesthesiology training app it turns out 100,000 doctors downloaded it. That led sam to launch level x, video games to train doctors on procedures ranging from intubating patients. How to maneuver in a surgical scenario for doctors, the real game changer is being able to practice and even earn Education Credits anywhere on their phones the ability to use new devices in a virtual en
Nobody else would consider myself a journalist. I began to take on the life of being an interviewer even though i have a day job of running a private equity firm. How do you define leadership . What is it that makes somebody tick . You have been the commissioner since 2014, and you had spent 22 years at the nba offices before that. Before that, you were a graduate of the two best schools to go to in combination Duke University and the university of chicago law school, right . [laughter] adam which you happened to go to as well. David right. So you cannot do any better than that. Lets start with the nba today and how it is doing. Honestly, since you have been commissioner, revenues are up. Ticket sales are up. The owners value of their teams is up by about three times. So are you adequately paid for the job youre doing, do you think . [laughter] today, the nba seems to be at its peak. Right now, it is very popular all over the world. Why do you think it is that nba basketball is so popu
All the top stories next hour right now though its the latest cars report to. Does are this is the kaiser report and we are in palm springs california krypto springs 29 thing lots going on last to talk about. Yes well weve had a wonderful time here it is about 100 degrees fahrenheit it is about 100 degrees fahrenheit or i guess thats about 38 celsius for those in europe weve had the big crash well weve been here 16 percent move prices some of the points were down up to 40 percent of course the impeachment proceedings against the president have also started while weve been here so its been a very fascinating busy time while weve been here but i want to turn to our 1st headline because this is a topic that you and i have been covering for and i know our guest coming up in the 2nd half this is a specialty negative Interest Rates are social political poison and this is from talk dot com and hes looking at a story out of germany from veldt Financial News and they say that the their articles
Brexit might look like. President trumps political future among the topics front at center at bloombergs forum in new york. When you added together, i think what it leads to is not a recession, but a slow down growth globally, which is what we are experiencing. Carol more on that ahead. First up, here is editor joel weber on this weeks cover story. This is one of the hallmarks of businessweek, these strategy stories that we sometimes do. It is a look at how mcdonalds has been thriving for the past five years or so. Share price keeps going up under the ceo. In the past six months, he has really doubled down on tech. Carol that is something that i did not realize. He has made a bunch of acquisitions in ai, Voice Recognition technologies. Earlier this month was his latest. What we are seeing is mcdonalds transitioning from being a Fast Food Company to looking more and more like a tech company. There are cameras at drivethrough that can scan your license plate and maybe even remember what