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This feels like a bad group of people to discuss driving etiquette with because I am certain I don't even have to check the comments to know that a whole lot of people probably objected yesterday to Zazz and Chris Cody being so cavalier about the fact of, yeah, I have so many carbs at lunch every day that I'm falling asleep when I drive home and my manslaughter vehicle is careening through the streets of Miami that are crowded at 60 miles an hour and I can't stay awake. The reason I bring all of this up, because— is because I was not aware until Kyle Shanahan spoke to some local reporters yesterday that you could get into an accident at 20 miles an hour that would cause 40 stitches in your face, break your nose, break your ribs, break your hand, and cause a concussion so severe that you couldn't work for weeks doing your job. I was not aware that that could happen at 20 miles an hour. Were you guys?

See, I, I, I— my main thought yesterday when it came to the Shanahan stuff was, I don't understand what's going on here. Like, I don't understand what's being hidden. Seems like a weird story. Now I think it's weird. I, I don't underst— it doesn't seem possible to go 20 miles an hour and to have that type of damage.

Yeah, I didn't know that either, and I doubt it, frankly. I mean, I'm skeptical here.

Well, he said a number of different things in the details. One of them was he was not in his phone. That would be a crime, that would make him liable, that would be problematic criminally if he's admitting that. So what he has said is that he was fishing around for his phone, that he dropped it and was fishing around for his phone, which I think is the same thing Tiger Woods said.

Mm-hmm. Pretty handy excuse.

Well, it is a pretty handy excuse, and yet I'm telling you right now, I'm telling you right now that this is the most dangerous time in the history of driving that there has been to drive, because I see on the highway the number of people who are texting while driving at 65 miles an hour. So the— we are all driving around while addicted to our phones in a way that has to be more dangerous, has to be empirically more dangerous than it's ever been.

I don't know, man. The Great Gatsby time, everyone's getting sloshed and then getting behind a car.

You think so? Yeah, they were driving around. You think during the '80s? So before Prohibition?

During, dude, up until like the '80s.

Yeah, that's true.

Oh, people had to be getting drunker before Prohibition than during Prohibition when it was legal to drink. It had to be— what do you guys mean? No, you guys, you guys don't think that it was? So this is a good question. If it— if I have my timelines right, between the Great Depression and Prohibition, so What causes drinking? You're broke and you're, you're suffering and you're fearful.

Your timelines are mixed up. The Prohibition came first, way before, and then the Great Depression happened.

Yeah, it wasn't that long ago that DUI was not against the law. What? Like my brother, or my Uncle Buddy, used to drive from Miami to Hollywood to visit us, and he literally would have a six-pack of Pabst Blue Ribbon in the car. It's not Uncle Dick for the trip. No, Uncle Buddy.

And this was not against the law?

No, not then.

That makes so much more sense because right now I'm in the middle of a rewatch of Mad Men and dudes are drunk driving every episode.

That, that's, that was just like a Tuesday, man. Like, hey, what'd you do at work today? Oh, just had—

yeah.

And then like, all right, time to go home, see the missus, get in the car drunk, drive, get there, and what does she have waiting for you?

Dinner.

Another drink.

You are listening to the Don Levitan Show in partnership with the DraftKings Sports App, now live in all 50 states. I begin the show indignantly because I was not allowed to watch our new highlight intro because Roy Bellamy was lecturing me, sermonizing, condescending about how much drinking people were doing in speakeasies. Like, I was just I'm just getting a whole— I got a whole sermon from Roy Bellamy on how little I know about drinking during the days of Prohibition. You think that just because it was illegal to drink that people weren't drinking? I did not think that. I think they were drinking more when it was legal. I don't believe that when it became forbidden, it became easier to get drink. But let me cue people in on what we were talking about during the shadow show, because I've got an assortment of irresponsible, rude, and unethical drivers around me. I think it's the crew. I think everybody here is a courteous driver, Zazz chief among them. Zazz will not give anybody the hand wave when they let him in traffic.

Whatever.

Okay, so that's crazy.

That's embarrassing.

Okay, but he's sitting here—

survival of the fittest out there.

Un-American.

He's shaking his head, and he's not the worst of it. Like, Zazz and Chris Cody fall asleep. Tony's not great at any of this stuff. You do fall asleep.

It's sleepy.

You get sleepy, and one of these days you're going to fall asleep because you don't have good governance over, you know, yourselves. Debatable. The thing though that started this conversation, okay, and I don't know how everyone in our audience is absorbing the Kyle Shanahan stuff. When coaches get in trouble, we like to sniff around. When it smells like cover-up or conspiracy, we do so more. A head coach injuring himself in an accident where he gets 40 stitches, breaks his ribs, breaks his nose, and breaks his hand, and this is the key part, can't do his job right now because he's got a concussion, says that he was going 20 miles an hour, says that the accident was his fault. Now that the report is wrong, which as soon as I see that, I'm like, okay, what did the police do here? Like, so what happened here? Because in, in the 11 or 13 days of silence since the accident, plenty of people wondered, well, what else is here? Now he's explained it. And to me, it feels like there are more questions than there were before this started because he's volunteering, hey, this is my fault, volunteering that.

Why?

You didn't volunteer that from the beginning. You're volunteering it now. Why are you volunteering that now? What are you afraid we're going to find out in that report, or what should have been that report, that you're saying, no, no, no, my bad, but 13 days later? The other place I want to tie it to, though, As athletes like Michael Strahan tell you what the job of an interviewer is, because Michael Strahan is now in the space where he is a dominant media power. Chris Simms is not a journalist, but more and more the athletes are the information guys and kind of standing in for the journalists. So Chris Simms is friends with Kyle Shanahan. They've both got tattoos of each other's initials, I believe. Can you guys look that up for me? Are there— is there any photo evidence of this? Because I don't even think of Chris Simms as a tattoo guy, never mind I'm gonna put Kyle Shanahan's initials on me. Put it on the Poll at Levitar Show. Did you think of Chris Simms as a tattoo guy?

What would make you think, hey, that's a tattoo guy?

I don't think so, but when I heard that he had Kyle Shanahan's initials on him, that seems to be a conflict in the reporting of news. I'm gonna, I'm gonna get way out there and say that when it comes to information on Kyle Shanahan, Chris Simms has it, but he's not obligated to give it out, correct? Because he's not a journalist and because he's not that kind of information guy. And the kind of information guy that he is is an exceptional one. His information is very good, but I'm not expecting him, and you're not expecting him, to be a journalist here, correct, Greg?

No, and if anything, he's betraying a friendship by saying something very private about Shanahan.

Well, he did say something 11 days later, which is that Shanahan, Kyle Shanahan, almost lost his eye from the airbag, that the pictures are much bad, they're much worse than you would imagine, that when he saw his face, he was alarmed.

When you guys get information from a friend— not like a source or someone that you've worked with, but like, this is my friend, and then you reveal it publicly.

Don't you usually think that there was a conversation, "Hey, is it okay if I say this out loud?" Usually there is, but in this particular case, Chris Sims didn't say very much, and he didn't say any of it until it was already reported. Like, so what he said was he almost lost his right eye and it was bad. But the conversation that I want to have, okay, you guys know I spent a lot of time here talking about the the way we cover these things. And there is no obligation in sports to cover this stuff like journalists. ESPN made that so, but there's not actually that responsibility. We can leave these people alone. We can cover them the way we did many years ago when none of this stuff was on limits. It was all off limits. And I think the athletes and the power brokers would prefer it that way. The power always prefers that you can't actually Shame them with the truth. But now that we're in an age where the truth doesn't actually shame, and you realize that the power of the press isn't much of a power if when we tell the truth it doesn't cause shame, if you can just get around it because I'll just deny it, I'll say I was driving 20 miles an hour, I will say, I will say that it's my fault now, the accident is my fault, and I'll make it look like accountability when no, you were kind of forced out into the light on this one, weren't you, with and you didn't want to get out in the light when your face looked a lot worse.

Yeah, but we don't know how much shame is merited yet, right? We don't know the extent of guilt on Shanahan, if there is any guilt. And he buys a lot of goodwill by coming off as honest, even 2 weeks late, and saying, "It was my fault." But was he is my question.

Like, I don't know what happened here either, but it doesn't sound right to me. 20 miles an hour, you were fishing for your phone, you never hit the brakes, and now you have the kinds of injuries injuries that you almost lost your eye. I just didn't know it was possible at 20 miles an hour to be so oblivious. If you were not passed out at the wheel, if you're driving your car, I didn't think that it was possible at 20 miles an hour to be so oblivious that you never hit your brakes and you're getting an airbag in the face that you weren't expecting in any way. I didn't think that could happen at 20 miles an hour.

Dan, you don't have to be going that fast for your airbags to deploy. It's all about the, the car sensing the collision— and then the rapid stop. And more people get injured probably off airbags than they do off of car accidents themselves.

Is that statistically right? That can't be statistically right. Yeah. More people get injured from the airbags. So you're— so, so wait a minute. If Kyle Shanahan had said this, does this buy him anything in terms of diluting your suspicion? Hey, the airbag did this. I hit the brakes too hard at 20 miles an hour and the airbag exploded in my face.

Well, apparently that is how he got the cut on his eye, is from— we all have that garage clicker on, on the visor in our car, right?

No, not anymore. Most people have that electronically.

I still do.

I still have one of those too, but that's only people over 40 who have that. Everyone else is old. Everyone else has a smart car.

I still have that, and that came flying off from the airbag and sliced his eye.

Well, and the, the airbag gave him the concussion. The airbag probably gave him the broken ribs as well. It punches you. It hits you because it's trying to stop you from moving forward. It's not just hitting your brakes hard, it is the collision with the vehicle in front of him, which we know that happened. No, what makes it suspicious isn't any of the details, Dan. There's no detail that's gonna make it suspicious. What makes it suspicious is why was this a secret? Why was this hidden? It's a, it's a fender bender, his airbags deployed, he got hit, he's got all messed up. That happened yesterday, we found out the news today, like, oh, that sucks. But the fact that it was a secret is what makes it suspicious.

And not only that, but what is the instant imperative that makes you go fish for a phone you've just dropped? You can't wait 10 seconds? You can't wait until the next stop sign? You can't wait until you park? That's happened to me. You know, sometimes the phone winds up near the brake pedal.

I hate that when it's like, I put my phone sometimes between my legs and then you hit the brakes and all of a sudden your phone's by your feet and you're like, Yeah, but you don't have to immediately take your eye off the road and go fishing for your phone.

A lot of this smells foul. I'm sorry, Kyle Shanahan. A lot of this smells foul.

You're not sorry. And you just took one of the easiest stances that have ever happened. They wouldn't call them accidents if they happened on purpose. Like, the way that happens as an accident very often is because there are a lot of people in our audience who want to get that phone right then and there. They're detail-oriented. They're obsessive-compulsive. They're anal. And you're right, you're correct, you need to wait and not put people in peril. But there are some people that can't abide the anxiety of the fact that their phone is now over there and not in their hand. I do it out of the fear that my phone's gonna like get locked in with like the pedals and stuff.

That's happened to me before. The phone slid under the pedal. I'm trying to brake, the phone is stopping, I can't stop, we're out of control, get out of the way, I've got a phone on the floor.

Tony, I'm looking at you while we're talking about all this driving thing, and what I see is somebody who does bad shit on the road. That's—

that's— you know what, that's not right. That's not right. Bad shit on the road is a little too far down.

Give me what you think is the worst thing that you do that is morally on the line when you drive, because I don't believe you're innocent here.

I'm not innocent. I wouldn't say I'm innocent.

I believe you drive on moral lines, and like Zazz, you're capable of some of that stuff of I will not wave if you let me in.

You've been on 95 South. It's Mad Max out there. All right.

Oh, no, I'm a pointer. It's like when you get an assist, you point back at the guy that gave you the assist. That's my rule. But there's also rules to the road, Dan. And what I like to do on the 836, I'm driving down the Dolphin, there's a specific exit if you're going towards the Lone Depot Park. That's 17th Street on the 836. And the problem is there's two turning lanes. That are by itself, and then there's the regular flow of traffic all the way to the left lane. They've kind of closed that off. So the left lane and the middle lane have to merge into one lane. That one takes forever. So what I do is I cruise all the way to the right-hand side, like if I'm going to get off on the exit. And what I do is I just troll. I'm just looking, looking, looking. I'm waiting for the guy to skip somebody else. So there's a guy next to me who's always going to skip the line. What I do is I skip him.

Yes.

Okay, wait a minute.

Let's let the moral conundrum— he's got to let me in.

No, no, he doesn't.

Oh, he does, Greg. He has a moral obligation to let me in because he skipped the line.

I get to skip. No, because people— so many people like to skip but don't like to be skipped. That's normal.

That's a bad person. That's a bad person.

Human nature, though.

Is it?

Yeah, yeah. Like, I, I don't do that. Christopher does that, and, and it's a bad thing. You, you, you're a skipper. You're a skipper.

My dad does wait in that line.

I wait in—

oh, you're a sheep.

He—

my dad's a sheep. He skips. You wait in the long line?

I wait in the long Howdy folks, it's Mike Ryan.

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Dan Levitar!

This is the quickest it goes! Hey, this is the quickest it goes!

Greg Cody!

Everybody, this is the quickest it goes!

Yeah!

This is the Dan Levitar Show! Let me explain to people who don't know where it is that Tony's doing this, okay? Miami is a biblical clusterfuck. You cannot put what should be 6 or 7 lanes near the stadium— let's make it 2 lanes here and expect the respectable people of Miami to be moral people about traffic. Of course they're gonna fly off to the right, an exit lane, and then cut back into the left. And all those suckers like Greg who don't realize that they're surrounded in Miami by corrupt, criminal people who have no ethics What ends up happening is the suckers— it shouldn't be 2 lanes, it should be 7 lanes there. That's an impossibly congested part of road, and it's always traffic whether it's 2 o'clock in the morning or, or what, or 5 o'clock in the morning. It's crazy.

Now I know why Greg's always late.

I'm a rule follower. I see a rule, I follow it. You know, I'm traveling all around following a rule. But here's the thing, nobody Nobody skips in front of me, okay? Because I'm kissing the bumper ahead of me. Nobody skips in front of Greg Clody unless he— I don't know about that, Greg. Unless he permits it. Oh yeah, yes, I, I tell you.

Do you ever look at your phone on, in the car?

Not, not when I'm driving.

No, when you're—

my wife does.

I realized when he blamed—

my wife does.

Yes, listen to me. What's happening right here, it's amazing. He blames his wife and he blames you. And what I just saw is he's absolutely someone who's an asshole on the road. He is someone who will skip and then not let you skip. And he says his son is that, but he's that. He learned it from you, Dad. He learned it from you.

Okay. I don't allow skippers in front of me. That's a harsh reality. It is a harsh reality.

You said that already.

I know.

You're agreeing with yourself.

Right. I'm indicating that what I just said is verified.

Now, I have a little of this. Where the angriest I will get is on the road for some reason, but my dad, worse than me, road rage. Oh, I've seen it. I've— yes, your father. In fact, I've seen him nowhere angrier, nowhere angrier than on the road. He's impatient and he's absolutely a skipper who does not let others skip, but somehow you guys noticed he did that, right? He said you were that and he's not, but he was concealed. He's trying— that was some real virtue signaling. You blamed your son while claiming you're not a skipper when you're absolutely a skipper, and you're a skipper who then does not wish to be skipped. You say it's human nature because you're the human.

I've seen him skip. I've witnessed it.

I've skipped you.

I don't skip.

I take the same way to work. I see my dad in line, I'm like, that's a good guy, I'm getting in right here, right?

Easy.

Skipper Chuck over here.

But this reminded me of In New York.

That's just—

all right, look up Skipper Chuck so people know. Wait, wait till you hear where— how old this reference is. Play the Back in My Day music. For locals, I wish that 70-year-olds were watching this on YouTube.

They're not.

But if they did, this is the Greg Cody wheelhouse right here. Skipper Chuck. Skipper Chuck on television reading the Sunday cartoons to a boy Chris Cody at the advent of television.

Black and white. And as I recall, yeah, that's it. I was going to describe the Navy cap he used to wear. Skipper Chuck, part of my childhood, quite frankly.

Skipper Chuck, a popular South Florida children's television program. Aired on TVJ from, get this, 1957 to '79. Yeah, hosted by Chuck Zink as the character Skipper Chuck.

Chuck Zink. I'd forgotten the, the Zink name. Skipper Chuck. Yeah, he, he was in, in, uh, like, I— Captain Kangaroo was a contemporary of Skipper Chuck. Captain Kangaroo was another guy I used to watch when I was a kid, you know, black and white TV. It was a beautiful thing. It really was. Skipper Chuck, God bless you. Long dead, I would guess, zinc. But, uh, but he was great. A real legend. South Florida legend.

Greg, in a million years, if someone had told me, hey, I listened to Levitar today and Greg Cody made such an old reference when he heard the word skipper, I would have bet my mortgage and 6 months' salary. Skipper from Gilligan's Island. There's no way he went older than Skipper from Gilligan's Island.

That's true, Skipper. That's a good callback by you. Gilligan's Island.

Thank you very much.

I do believe Gilligan's Island, I think, uh, was one of the first sitcoms to go from black and white to color, like from one season to the next, just like The Wizard of Oz was the first movie where the first half of the movie's in black and white and then the second half is in Technicolor. It blew the mind of everybody in the theater. Imagine seeing that the first time. You've known nothing but black and white movies and you're halfway through The Wizard of Oz and all of a sudden everything is in majestic Technicolor. Wow, what a mind blower. Best, best minute in the history of cinema, quite frankly.

Greg, famously Gilligan's Island, the Skipper, they're on a 3-hour tour.

Yeah, yeah.

So it means they got to go about a tour, a 3-hour tour. How'd they get lost and nobody can find them if they're really only going like an hour? Because they gotta take an hour back. Where could they have gone? They got lost and nobody could find them.

No cell phones back then. You can't call and say, hey, we're on a stranded island, you know. Shanahan's looking for his cell phone. These people, these people had no cell phones to look for. They're waving, they're making blankets into banners so that they can wave. They're taking coconuts and writing "Save me" in the sand, hoping that a small plane goes overhead. That was primitive, man. Right? What are you going to do? You're stranded on a deserted island in 1962. What are you going to do? You're going to spell something in palm fronds? Right? Because the coconuts are all gone. You've split them open. You've eaten the meat, coconut meat, which is tough to get out of the shell, by the way. That's why more people don't eat coconut meat. You can't get it out of the shell.

Zazz, you don't like coconut meat?

He's right about that.

It sticks to the shell.

He's right. It's called coconut meat.

Yeah. Thank you. A spoon's not enough to get it out, and a knife is dangerous.

I've got a number of different questions, okay? Gilligan's Island, top 10 television theme song of all time?

I don't care about Gilligan's Island.

Put it on the poll. Way to go, Yes and. @LevitardShow, top 10 television theme song of all time. Gilligan's Island, yes or no?

I'm gonna say Outside Looking In.

Wow!

Outside— you want me to do it? I'll do it. I'll do it.

You've got all 10? You feel like you've got all 10 right off the top of your head?

Not in order, but I can name 10.

Wow.

10 better than Gilligan's Island. You think you'll get consensus from everyone here in the room if you go 10? All right, go ahead. You have dropped a sword in the middle of this show. You are defying everyone, and I, uh, I believe you. I believe that you will find some Alan Thicke and some Quincy Jones, and you will, uh, amaze us.

All right, so again, not in order. So these are not the top 10, these are just 10 better Then Gilligan's Island. Not number 10, Sanford and Son.

Yeah. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.

Not number 9, Diff'rent Strokes.

So you went Quincy Jones and Al— that's Alan Thicke, right? Yeah, yeah.

Not number 8, Facts of Life.

Also Alan Thicke.

Not number 7, Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.

Did he do his own theme song for that?

Is that, uh, yes, produced by QD3, I believe. Yeah, Quincy's son. Not number 4, Miami Vice.

You missed number 5. It was a number 5.

I think a 6 was missing too.

There's no order.

There's no order.

6 could be coming up here.

All right.

That's fine. 6. Skipper Chuck.

He skipped 2 numbers. You're a skipper. 6 and not 5. You're a skipper.

What?

Like Skipper McGillicuddy or the other skipper that I don't remember?

You just skipped 2 spots.

You're a skipper.

You're a skipper. You are a skipper.

Well, they're not in order, so I can always go back.

Skipping it.

Is it number 5 right now?

Number 5 or number 6 or number 3? It doesn't matter.

The People's Court.

No, no, Judge Joe Brown. Put it on the poll. Is the people— just because you're snapping your fingers near your mouth, he's working. That's working though. No, look, put it on the poll at Le Batard Show. Better theme song People's Court or Gilligan's Island. But if I start singing Gilligan's Island by snapping my fingers near my nipples, I could jazz it up too. No, no, that's— I reject that premise. Your, your list is falling apart.

How's it falling apart? Wait, The People's Court is a— everyone loves The People's Court.

I agree, but the people are real, but the cases are real. I, I'm not disputing the love of The People's Court. I'm, I'm saying you're underestimating the epic and seismic eternal echoing of Gilligan's Island.

Okay, you don't like people's choreo? How about this? Sunday, Monday, happy days. Tuesday, Wednesday, happy days. Thursday, Friday, happy days. Saturday, what a day!

A dum dum dum da doo!

Woo!

A 3-hour tour.

A 3-hour tour.

Down Levitar!

I want to address Tony and all men who would wear that shirt in public.

Greg Cody! Don't do it!

This is the Down Levitar shirt!

Hey, hold on, man. Are you telling me you think Gilligan's Island is better than Happy Days?

No, I'm not telling you.

Okay then.

All right, so then we're in.

Oh, here's one. Knight Rider.

Yeah, you've offended Gilligan's Island. What?

Knight Rider?

Yeah, I got it. An automated car, a smart car. I got it. You watch WarGames with your kids. You're stuck in the '80s and '90s.

Michael, we hadn't teased that one yet. Knight Rider is one of the coolest theme songs.

I agree, but it's not Gilligan's Island.

And I don't—

name the words. Name the words on the theme song. You got to have some words. You can't just be all—

a shadowy picker.

It can't be all instrumental. It can't have no song in it.

It can be wordless. For example, the whistling in front of The Andy Griffith Show.

You know what? No, it can be. You're right. Hawaii Five-O is in my top 5, and I don't think— Yeah, that one's good.

Just sit right back and hear a tale of a tiny, fateful ship Oh, oh, you guys want one?

You want '80s for real?

You guys got me, man. You guys are gonna come up with a top 10 list. It's like, you might be able to do it with just instrumentals. Dan, have you ever heard of a show called Magnum P.I.?

And then it switches.

I need to know from all of you if the theme song— I'm realizing now because he's grabbing everything from the last century, like there's nothing. Fresh Prince of Bel-Air is the closest thing to recent you're giving us in the last 30 years.

Has the theme song on television died, or are you Yeah, yeah, it's a lot of shows just go right into action. They're like, there's no real theme song.

So it's died. So wait a minute, there— is there anything on your list from this century? The Skipper too.

The Millionaire and his wife.

The movie star. The Professor and Mary Ann here on Gilligan's Isle. Oh man, such a big close.

Move 'em in, move 'em out, move 'em up, move 'em up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up. Rawhide! Brought 'em in rawhide!

Yeah!

1950s.

That's great. Rawhide, are you kidding me?

When did this die and no one told me? What? You guys have not named anything in 30 years. Like that.

The Office theme song.

Here's one more. Oh, the way Glenn Miller played songs that made the hit parade. Guys like us, we had it made.

Those were the days. You do what you want. Days of fame's mine. Wow, I have never been more surprised in the entirety of my existence than Roy unleashing Edith from All in the Family singing voice in the perfect tone. It is the most surprised I have been, not on this show, in all my time living. Where have you been hiding her?

I've been practicing.

It's been waiting. It died. No one told me that it died.

I mean, it exists. Does Curb Your Enthusiasm count?

Yes.

Does It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia count?

But Curb Your Enthusiasm isn't the theme song, it's just show intro. But it's just, it's just the music that plays under the ridiculous throughout the show.

Yeah, that doesn't count.

No, it plays at the beginning of every episode. That's a theme song. It is at the beginning of every song, every show. Bum bum bum. But now it's not original, if that's what you're saying. It was not originally composed for the show.

I guess it's like a jingle.

No, no, it's not a jingle. It's a real piece of classical music. They use it because there was a— it didn't cost them any money.

I mean, for the show, I feel like it's just a jingle for the show. It's not, it's not a show intro.

It is. It's— it plays in the intro of every episode. They don't have cold opens.

But it's not the same as all the examples you're just giving.

Yes, it is.

You think so?

Theme songs used to be so popular and so major part of a show that they became hit records. Like, the theme song to Welcome Back, Kotter was a big hit. You heard it all over the radio.

That's a good one too.

Welcome back, welcome back, welcome back. Who'd have thought they need you?

Who'd have thought they need you?

Right here where they need you.

Here where they need you.

Yeah, the tease 'em a lot.

'Cause they got him on the spot. Welcome back, welcome back, welcome back, welcome back. And then Mase comes.

John Sebastian, Lovin' Spoonful.

So no one told you life was gonna be this way.

No.

You had so much confidence. Yeah, you, you— Come on, it's a banger. It's the clap that got you. It is not a banger. It's not a banger at all. That's why you were there by yourself. You see how Roy Droy was joyous moments ago—joyous—and he was happy, and then you came in here with your solo tap dance with the clapping by yourself, and everyone looked at you funny. You guys are still disrespecting Gilligan's Island! Two Americans, by the way. Dun dun da na na na dum dum duh! That's what I've been waiting for! Yes!

In the criminal justice system there are two sides: The police who oppress minorities... I don't remember that. And the judicial part.

It's outdated.

They hand out sentences that are way too long for minor offenses. These are their stories.

Those are bumbly heinous.

I want to, since you guys mentioned Curb Your Enthusiasm, I wanted to play a clip for you of Adam Carolla talking to Jerry Seinfeld and really saying something I think that's pretty insulting to Seinfeld's face, but it's about Tom Brady and how Tom Brady should have retired. And here's Jerry Seinfeld's perspective. Belichick had all that success with Brady, right? Yes. And then Brady goes off to Tampa and wins a Super Bowl, right? And Belichick had to kind of go like, I kind of wish he'd just retire. Yeah. And you have all that success with Larry David, and then he goes on to do Curb, which is fantastic. It's fantastic. But does that put you in a little Belichick situation?

I, I'm not following.

I know it's stupid.

Meaning like Like, people go, oh, maybe that was the smart guy behind the Seinfeld or whatever. I know, but I'm just— I'm— it's, it's, it's, it's forming as I'm talking. But when— I'm not trying to be insulting. We still got our— you can't insult me. We got our once a year tax day.

I've already got the money and the cars.

So I need the rest of that clip. The stuff about Brady is what I also need there so that, uh, you guys can get the perspective from Seinfeld on— he didn't understand, as someone who's still doing shows at 70, why Tom Brady didn't immediately retire after winning the Super Bowl in Tampa, because he's saying it would have been better than Michael Jordan's exit. It would have been the greatest exit in the history of retirements, better than even Elway winning a couple at the end, if he'd gotten away from Belichick, gone to Tampa, won, and just quit on the spot. He's saying if he had thought at all about being a show business person back then, the way he's thinking about now being a show business person, he would have retired on the spot because there was no way to get a better ending than that one.

There's a great interview between Larry King and Jerry Seinfeld. Oh, the classic. And where Larry King kind of insinuates like, oh, you guys, you know, they canceled me. Yeah, like Jerry had to clarify. I was like, did you think we got canceled? I was like, well, no, 5 million viewers last episode, we were number one, number one. But it like speaks to that mentality. But then when he says, of course it's all Larry. So I told, uh, Tony this a few weeks ago, my algorithm lately has been all these behind-the-scenes interviews with people who worked, wrote, or acted on Seinfeld. My algorithm's much better. And what I found, what I've discovered is, a strong like 85% of Seinfeld storylines were all real things that happened to Larry. Like these weren't like, every ridiculous thing you can think of is like, there's a Larry story behind that one. And so one of the great interviews is from Jason Alexander who plays George, And he says when he first came to the show, he's a dramatic actor. He comes from the stage. He's not a comedic actor. Everyone else, obviously Julia Louis-Dreyfus is from SNL, Michael Richards is a stand-up comedian, Jerry's a stand-up comedian.

So he's like, I gotta, I'm trying to do this thing the only way I know how. So he goes to Larry and he said, Larry, I just can't connect with this character. He said, for one, this would never happen, and for two, even if it happened, no one would react this way. And he saw Larry kind of seize up and said, "What are you talking about? This absolutely happens. It happened to me." And that's what Jason was like, "Oh, I just gotta do a Larry David impression and that's it." And that's what he did the entire show. So when they did the Seinfeld reunion on Curb Your Enthusiasm, there's a storyline that Jason Alexander quits and Larry says, "I'll play George because George is based on me anyway." In real life, he called Jason Alexander and he said, said, you gotta be on set tomorrow, you gotta coach me through this. And Jason's like, coach you through what? I'm imitating you, you idiot. So he's like trying to imitate someone imitating him. And then as Jason starts giving him notes, Larry's like, I would never say that, what are you doing?

I think it's funny that you're being scooped up by the algorithm the way everyone is being scooped up by the algorithm, which is that you wanna understand sort of the genius behind how Seinfeld made that show so interesting funny or number one without it ever getting old. And so it keeping sending you content that gives you interviews and whatnot ends up just feeding our curiosity so endlessly that Kyle Shanahan is probably watching this instead of the road because, because of the addiction it is to get more and more information on things that you love or curious about and can have explained to you if they send you the right stuff.

Man, let me tell you something. There is no more important explainer algorithm right now than— I don't know if any of you guys watch House of the Dragon. Dude, I'm so goddamn confused. Everyone has the same damn name. Rhaenys, Rhaenyra, Rhaenyra. I'm like, can we get a Kyle just to mix it up? A Hakim?

Everyone's named Aegon or Aemond. I love that show so much.

I just, I'm addicted to it. The scenes with the dragons are my favorite.

You like the dragons? Oh, I don't believe I'm talking to a group of people who are watching current television and watching theme songs being made today, because I believe we all as a show just showed our aged asses on theme songs not being made today. I think, I think theme songs are being made today, but that's not the television we're watching.

Well, Game of Thrones is, or House of Dragons, dun-dun-dun-dun. I've been parties where people play it and watch like all these nerds start dancing and stuff.

Hard to believe.

Uh, Greg, the Skipper Chuck reference. Thank you.

What? I thought you were complimenting the reference. We all know Skipper Chuck. We all know a Skipper Chuck, whether he was in our living room when we were growing up like me or not. He's eternal. Everybody needs a Skipper Chuck. America needs a Skipper Chuck. You're a skipper. Skipper was a good skipper, unlike Chris Cody in a car. Cheating cheater, cheater on the road, skipping the line, cutting in front of others. I'm not trying— I didn't raise them like that.

I'm not trying to be late to work.

All right, I got somewhere to be. Leave earlier. That's rich. Obey a rule. See a rule and follow it.

Put it on the poll, Juju, at Levittard Show. Does America need a Skipper Chuck? That's somebody who's reading to children on cartoon television.

That's what the show was Sunday morning.

I don't get it. It was just him reading the newspaper cartoons to kids. That's what the show was.

Yeah, you're a skipper.