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The early responses have been really good. All right, before we get to the David DeCovid podcast, we actually taped that last Friday.

And we taped it because we were trying out some stuff for the HBO show I'm working on. And one of the things we wanted to try was just a really loose podcast but actually then used the podcast for the BS podcast.

So we taped it on Friday and then six days later, Gary Shanley dies.

And you're going to listen to the podcast and we actually talk about him when we talk about Larry Sanders, the show, we talk about how to cover the ended up on that show and it's just bizarre that this happened and really sad.

He was one of the one of the comedy icons for me and just a quick story just about how influential that show was HBO I think for the first, I don't know, I think I got HBO like 1979 or 1980.

We got the at the time you just got this little box on the top of your TV I was living with my dad and Brookline they put the box on top of the TV and you could turn it on or off and then HBO just take over your TV basically.

And we got it for the boxing and we got it because they had movies and then eventually cable starts in 1982. So HBO has been in my life really since I was 10.

And they always were good at movies and they were always good at boxing and they were always really good at comedy specials. The whole scripted thing it took them a while to get and if you look at the 1980s, you know, first and 10, the hitchhiker, which which was great for nudity, that's about it.

Although I did like the theme song dream on started in 1990 like they they never really figured out the scripted thing Larry, Larry Sanders started in 1992.

Shanling with somebody that you know, people always thought was going to have a late night show. He was somebody that's sub for Carson a lot.

He was he would always kill when he was on talk shows. He had a really good show called it's Gary Shanling show. I think that's what the title was that was on showtime and it kind of broke the.

It broke the third wall and did all kinds of stuff but it was it was raw like it wasn't the great show he was going to make and at some point I think people thought he was going to host a late night show.

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