it s a time of enormous turmoil. shut up in here. the 60s are over, dad. here s michael at the foul line, a shot on ehlo. good! [ laughs ] we intend to cover all the news all the time. we won t be signing off until the world ends. isn t that special? any tool for human expression will bring out both the best and the worst in us, and television has been that. they don t pay me enough to deal with animals like this. people are no longer embarrassed to admit they watch television. we have seen the news, and it is us. slowly but surely, the 1970s are disappearing. the 1980s will be upon us. what a decade it is coming up. happy new year! as you begin the 80s in the television world, the landscape was, on any given evening, nine out of ten people were watching only one of three networks. more than 30 million people are addicted to it. social critics are mystified by its success. what is it? it s television s primetime, prairie pot boiler, dallas. a m
don t touch that dial. we re about to flip it for you. in 5, 4, 3, 2. tv is changing dramatically now with 150 channels that might be available in the near future. there s a lot of things that we do that you couldn t have on network television. people are really trying to do something adventurous. channel 7, shame on you! this is more a celebration of culture and opening the doors and allowing america to come on inside. there s always something on television and some of it may be better than we deserve. ha ha ha. that was cool. listen to it. ugh. they know when it hits the bottom, it ll be 1990. goodbye to the 80s in 10, 9. 8, 8, 8, 8. oh, will this horrible year never end? when the 90s begin, we re starting to see a lot of experimentation. 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1! hooray! and the simpsons, i think in some senses was inspired by, uh, not necessarily hatred of television, but a distrust of a lot of the ways in which television was talking to
his approval, the worst for a first-term president in the survey s history going all the way back to harry s. truman chlt only 36% ever voters say the president is doing a good job down by six points just since february. and with just a year and a half until the next presidential election, more than half of democrats say they want what you know i call anybody but biden. polling now shows the president getting trounced by both former president donald trump and florida governor ron desantis in a head-to-head match-up. donna brazil was the chair of the national committee when trump won the white house. she said her party should be worried. it kept me up and i thought they should wake up and look at those numbers. it is sober in the sense that the coalition that elected joe biden with the historic numbers that we saw in 2020, that coalition right now is fragmented. that should concern them. harris: a new op-ed is asking the tough question, do democrats need a nixon-like inter
republican and democratic leaders set to meet with the president for high-stakes negotiations on the debt ceiling. america is not a deadbeat nation. we pay our bills. with the clock ticking toward a june 1st default deadline failure to do that would be unprecedented. we talk with two powerful senators who have a history of working across the aisle about how to avoid an economic meltdown. we should never put the credit of the united states at risk. until the president engages, it doesn t matter what we do. later this hour country superstar miranda lambert on how she could set a new record in country music. it sounds really big when you say it like that. is that part of your super power? get it done, baby. it was possible that i may not see the end of the year. you mishandled that? i don t know if i mishandled i m a little wistful. this is not where i thought this story was headed. good evening and welcome back to who s talking. it s ca
where did you get those? you come home, turn on that television, what do you want? you want comedy. boom, there you go. a situation comedy. 23 minutes of magic. you fell in love with these characters. we need to laugh at ourselves. i am wearing everything you own. laughter opens you up. things that we may be afraid to talk about. like racism. class wars. gender diversity. hi girls. you can reach in and touch people s hearts. whether it is a family living under the same roof. or gathered together in a workplace. that is a glue stick. all of the greatest sitcoms are about family. it is one of the great accomplishments of the modern age. what have we always said was the most important thing? breakfast. family. family is key to the sitcom. it is something we all can relate to. you are in these people s homes for the years, you are part of the family. i have no friends and no distractions. the family sitcom brings people together i