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Today, Explained

Dr. Oz and the celebrity politician

Today, Explained

Vox

News, Daily News, Politics

4.310.3K Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2022

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

This week Pennsylvania voters decide whether to give Dr. Oz a shot at the US Senate. To mark the occasion, Sean Rameswaram tries to understand what makes a celebrity candidate viable, from “the Gipper” to “the Governator” to “the Donald.” This episode was reported and produced by Sean Rameswaram with an assist from Jon Ehrens, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, and engineered by Efim Shapiro. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained Support Today, Explained by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Dr. Oz wants to be Senator Oz, and on Tuesday, the celebrity physician faces his first election.

0:07.0

He's got the endorsement of the former president, a celebrity, and his entry into politics

0:11.4

was inspired by Arnold Schwarzenegger, a celebrity, Arnold was inspired by Ronald Reagan,

0:17.6

a celebrity, and for a brief time when Ronald Reagan was president, the mayor of Carmell

0:21.4

and his home state was Clint Eastwood, a celebrity, and around the time Reagan left office,

0:25.5

the mayor of Palm Springs became Sonny Bono, a celebrity, and a year or so after Sonny

0:30.1

died in a skiing accident, they got a new governor in Minnesota, Jesse Ventura, a celebrity.

0:34.8

About a decade after that, Minnesota would send a new senator to Washington, Al Franken,

0:38.5

a celebrity Washington is named after our nation's first president George, who himself was something

0:42.4

of celebrity.

0:43.4

Untoday explained, in light of Dr. Oz's very important Senate race, we're going to figure

0:47.6

out what makes a celebrity politician viable.

0:50.4

Why?

0:51.4

The number's Gary Coleman's bid for governor of California, but we'll never forget Arnold.

0:55.7

I'm going to hang out with you until the end of the time.

1:02.0

Best gift I've ever received has to be a bike when I was younger, a pedal bike.

1:07.0

It was a sort of slick little road bike, and I remember it was all like, it was so, it

1:11.6

was all wrapped up, it was so obvious what it was obviously because nothing's shaped

1:14.8

like a bike and I had a little ribbon on it and I was so guest.

1:17.4

For that was a life changer and I'm still sort of big on cycling around my area now,

1:21.5

so for that one, change me a little.

1:23.7

Joy in every sip with red cups now, back at Starbucks.

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