i used that as the fonz. i love that image.ng you did in that show. i could not have brought everything i did into the show, if i did not have the training. how much did it hurt when the magic of happy days began to slip away and people started to mock it? and then there was that moment, it occurred relatively early on in the decade of happy days. you did that dramatic thing where you we're water—skiing and jumped over the shark. that phrase "jumping the shark" became a phrase to describe gimmicky desperation. they were laughing. that is ok. happy days is still on. that phrase, that board game, is gone. but we were number one for about 11—5 years after that phrase was made. i had really good legs at that time. so, every time the newspaper would use that phrase, they would show me on what the water skis. i looked pretty damn good. iwas 0k. the other issue for any actor, not long ago we interviewed william shatner. he of course is... wonderful fellow. he will always be defined as captainjim kirk. —— captain kirk. that's ok. he is

the fonz, henry winkler.uickly see, we're teasing this for some self-serving reasons. take a look. >> do you like steve kornacki? >> i love steve kornacki. starting with his incredibly impassioned reporting about the bridgegate. that's when he came into my vision. >> things i never thought i'd hear in my life for 500, please, alex. but you, how was the talk with the fonz? what did you guys talk about? >> henry winkler's a very smart liberal, very well read, very well respected across the aisle, and people 50 and older like him for the fonz, and the millennials like him for barry zuckercorn and other people like him for "the watt berboy." he watches a lot of msnbc. not just you but katy tur and a ari. i think people will find a surprising take on policy from the tonight with someone with a very high i.q. but who doesn't like steve kornacki? >> i wasn't sure. michael steele, hugh hewitt, thank you very much for joining us. and of course you can catch hugh's interview with the one and only henry winkler, aka the