i think that he is starting to transcend just his sport. he s becoming something of a public figure. futterman: michael jordan becomes the model that every other athlete wants to shoot for. they want to be a brand. and that s what television does for these athletes. it turns them into worldwide, iconic brands. announcer: the inbound pass comes in to jordan. here s michael at the foul line. a shot on ehlo. -good! -yeah! the bulls win! athletes in the 80s became part of an ongoing group of people that we cared about. we just had an enormous, pent-up demand for sports and the 80s began to provide. thank goodness. cable television is continuing to grow. it s estimated that it will go into one million more u.s. households this year. with cable television suddenly offering an array of different channel choices, the audience bifurcated. that s an earthquake. i want my mtv! i want my mtv!■■■■i want my mtv! i want my mtv. i want my mtv. goodman: a new concept is born the best of t
and what are tv shows built around? they re built around characters. you can t be serious, man. you cannot be serious! you guys are the absolute pits of the world, you know that? connelly: mcenroe, the perfect villain. the new yorker that people loved to hate. borg the cool swede, never giving any emotion away. what tennis really wants is to get its two best players playing over and over again in the final. whether there s john mcenroe and bjorn borg or chris evert and martina navratilova. that s what we want to tune into over and over and over again. announcer: oh, could this be? net court at three match points to martina navratilova. know that this man has a smile that lights up a television screen from here to bangor, maine. futterman: and then there is magic johnson, this urban kid from michigan and larry bird, this guy who worked carrying trash. one plays for the los angeles lakers, the other plays for the boston celtics.
woke a f daily, and democracy podcast. and, host of right here on may msnbc. this year was dominated by the midterm elections. with that in mind, let s get right to our first revvie. the biggest political showdown. i ll share a few of my own nominees to get us started. then, the panel can chime in. the first is the senate showdown in pennsylvania between john fetterman and dr. oz. oz won the republican nomination based on fame, and he got dispensed dispensing medical advice on tv, but it was futterman s help that was the big concern health that was a big concern when he suffered a stroke after the campaign. and the, and dr. oz had no cure for allegations he wasn t a
would all be horrified at. instead, he had the stroke and then he went back and saw dr. shondra again. and dr. shandra got involved. kn they put a pacemaker and ad defibrillator in and fetterman himself said that his stroke was due to a blood clot from the the heart. he that is veryart, significant, tucker, because a studusy out oj a journal called stroke, very grjournal called stroke, very over six thousand people froeamo great britain have found thatod if your blood clotart, you comeu the heart, you have about t less than 60%, a 60 percent chance, more than a 60 percent chance of either not living five yearse or having anothears r stroke win those five years. peose five years. sonn i say to the voters of pennsylvania tonight who are ready to check the box tomorrow, i think before you tom check a box, you shoulordatisti considerc a statistic like that greater than 60% chance that someone like futterman, with a heart in his condition, having had a stroke, will either have
about economic trends, at the end of the day, like you ve run for office, i ve run for office, you walk into a room, you know whether you on the rim and i. if you know if you re gonna have to work hard and i. candidates like futterman, you know, candidates like tim ryan, there s so much more attuned to that then let s say, doctor oz, who lives in new jersey and votes in turkey. you know, j.d. vance who one day said, i love san francisco, the next day he said, i hate san francisco, i love silicon valley. i mean, this does actually, people go, when is this gonna catch up with these people? usually at the voting booth, right? it does, it has. i think in large measure it will. i think they re dynamics political crosscurrents that i know, and i m sure you know from your conversation with a number of republicans, a lot of