may get the next urge to merge, and one one of those deals may leave a modern day mat man like don draper into tears. stock picks for you from a five-star fund manager, and bmw rolling out an all-electric car. the i3 is here. we'll go outside and take a look at it, and we want to hear what you think about a car. a 90-mile range. some say it's simply not enough, but do you like the looks? let us know. hi, everybody. mandy is still on vacation so i'm going to hit the stats for you, and even though pending home sales came in better than expected the dow is down 46 points right now. there are stom some stocks higher. the fest outperformer is pfizer and among the biggest decliners including the financials like a bank of america, if you will. so really are a down market. a little bit mixed and caterpillar also doing pretty well, and as we noted it's a huge week. literally every day includes a potentially market-moving data point. more housing coming up and got the fed and ism, and we cap it all off with the monthly jobs number on friday. joining us from wells fargo, annika kahn. the single most

. >> don draper from "mad men," for example, how does he fit into this?on draper, even though he's not out there killing people, he very much is the same as tony soprano is. the mortar i believe things he does, the more reroot for him, the more ambivalent we feel about that. these are characters testing the viewer often, asking ourselves why are we -- why do we want don to get away wit. >> you're right inside my head. i'm at this point, at the end of the year, maybe not so much rooting for him next year. we'll see what happens with that. you talk about the sopranos, the show that kicked off this genre. >> it's hard to remember now how radical it was to have a hero like tony soprano. in 2001 he kills a man on screen right in front of us. even hbo inclined to take risks, that was considered a step too far. they really had a huge fight about it, as i detail in the book, about whether the audience would stay with tony after that. obviously we did. it really opened the door to this whole new world. >> what do you think it says about us as a society when we roo

a displaced don draper travels through california in search of job opportunities of ice and men. yet so many get so lonely. and here's waldo. you can cross that off your list. the second awesomest thing on the internet today, a tribute to the height of '80s fashion. bills couldably played heathcliff huxtable for nearly a decade, he's known for wearing a lot of truly fugley sweaters. an oversized hideous looking sweater with ugly patterns and colors often worn by old men or hipsters with no taste. now fans can vote for their favorite cosby sweater on bill cosby's own website. there are argyles and cardigans. all of mr. cosby's sweaters are kind of the same, which is what makes them so great. the third awesomest thing on the internet today, the president is finishing up his trip to africa. mr. obama danced his way down a red carpet. we know he's generally a pretty cool customer, these moves should come as no surprise. how do they measure up to previous leaders, past and present. there's the colin powell, hillary clinton and for those who truly hate the spotlight, may i suggest the

pro tag gee nists of days past have been replaced by antiheroes like tony soprano, don draper, and dexter's brett martin, difficult men, follows the people who brought these characters to life, the show creators and a no less difficult group of men, the shows, the sopranos, the wire, breaking bad, dead wood have taken us into what martin calls the third golden age of television. gone are the days when television was the boob tube. they have become the signature american art form of the first decade of the 21st century. the equivalent of what the films of scorcese has been to the 1970s or the novels of updike, roth and mailev have been to the 1960s. joining us is gq correspondent, the incredible brett martin, author of "difficult men." >> great to see you. >> sorry, you keep running away from me. >> it's true, but i have no doubt that your compelling thesis about the third golden age of television will be communicated accurately. >> i hope so. >> even across this distance. let's talk about where we are. i think this is a huge ly powerful and optimistic view that we are able to embrace the

. >> rose: (laughs) if you think back to the tony sopranostor don drapers, i don't think it's that surprising that we're ending up with the nurse jackies, with the -- with female protagonists that are just as tortured, deep, and interesting as the males. >> rose: that's very good. >> part of what's going on is when you expand expotentially this space which you can program into, you'll end up with more interesting choices and it better be good because as reed hastings said to you, they're in a dog fight for consumer attention and you've got to have something spectacular to stick out from all that clutter. >> rose: so how much television-- even though it's your business-- do you watch? how much video do you watch period? whether it's -- whether it's in front of a big 60-inch television or on your smart phone? >> i guess that's a great question, charlie. because i was looking at the stack of the "new yorker"s the other night on my bed stand and mark leibovich's wonderful new book. >> rose: "this town." >> "this town," it's an extraordinary book. but it's in this fight over and over. it's right n

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the women are dealing with the don draper attitudes and existential fallout in a way.ecause either their egos were inflated to the size of the moon or they got back and the experience really changed them. after ten years of your hero husband sort of being an absentee father, i think these women were finally ready for their man to compae down to ear and sometimes that wasn't possible. >> have you thought about this as a tv show or a movie? >> it i think is definitely fodder -- >> you'd be great in the pitch meeting. i'm serious. the book is the astronaut wives club, let's talk. lily koppel, thank you so much. it's so nice to meet you. more "morning joe" in just a moment. [ female announcer ] made just a little sweeter... because all these whole grains aren't healthy unless you actually eat them ♪ multigrain cheerios. also available in delicious peanut butter. healthy never tasted so sweet. thto fight chronic. osteoarthritis pain. also available in delicious peanut butter. to fight chronic low back pain. to take action. to take the next step. today, you will know you did

. >> let's get don draper out there and come out with the strategies.s what'sing come up next on "squawk on the street." >>> coming up, jim cramer is back and he's brought some friends with him, six to be exact. six stocks in 60 seconds when "squawk on the street" returns. >>> nice to have 6 in 60 back with jim. let's start with sprint. >> here's a stock that's unchanged and he goes buy to hold. may the best person win. >> goldman hold the trend. >> this is about spending for telco, ad trends integral when you want to upgrade your system. t-mobile and sprint had to spend more money. >> j.p. morgan says don't worry about the lone ranger. >> i know the numbers were a dud, but there are a lot of irons in the fire. >> cummins is the opposite of caterpillar. they keep making the number, and don't forget they have the truck engine that will be the engine of the future. >> they can't find a reason not to like it and this is an analyst who says i'm done fighting. i'm switching. >> finally, jpm on hess. maybe this time it will really be for real. >> your broader