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Good morning. How are you doing? Oh you'll tell me after this,
Uh talk fantastic. It is agreat pleasure to have you on k Tech
Radio. Ninety two years old andstill going strong, well, going strong,
yes, but strong is a relativeword, right, I mean,
what's going strong for me? Maybeyou would a baby crawl? No,
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how do you stay so active afterdealing with Hollywood after all these years?
You know they're a sucker for money. William Shating best known is James Kirk
on Star Trek. Ever thought about, between all the TV shows in the
movies, how many Star Treks you'veactually done in all these years altogether?
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Yeah? I don't know. Ijust know I did seventy nine, so
you can imagine. Well I've neverI don't watch them, and I don't
know why I don't watch them.Somebody's has to explain to me why I
don't watch these episodes. These otherpeople in start the guy I want to
put out with a young lady andone age to say hello. I'd never
met the young lady, and Ilooked over what they wanted me to say
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with the teleprompter operator backstage, andthen he said, would just go to
the left and the young lady wouldgo to the right, and I didn't
know the young lady was, andso I went to the left and she
went to the right, and wemet in the center of the stage,
and knowing he had told me,when the telegraphic goes on, that's your
two to start speaking. So theprompter went on and I started speaking.
I didn't know she was supposed tospeak as well. I wasn't told that,
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and the words didn't seem very familiar, but I said them anyway.
I'm in front of an audience andcameras, so I said these unfamiliar words.
Oh, there's some familiar words,and I said those words as well,
and then we ended thank you verymuch, applause, and she went
around and I went around the backstage. I realized I had spoken her words
as well. And I don't knowwho she was. I because Bradley very
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famous and popular. Wow, Ihad stoned speech. But I've never spoken
to her or her presentative since.Oh my goodness, imagine what they're saying.
Well, it's a good thing youdidn't get black balled. Let's look
at it that way. But somany different shows that you've done. T
J. Hooker, one of myfavorite ones uh, And I've talked to
a bunch of people's Boston Legal andDanny Crane has got to be one of
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my all time favorite characters. Youknow, oh wonderful Jojoe. Have you
ever thought that if you didn't seeboth repeat both those vowels Joe, Joe
and it's just said Joe, youimagine how much time, I mean,
you could live to be a hundredjust on the time you say dooe.
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I like you thinking well with thatthought in mind, William Shattner, I
know somebody who calls you Bill,and that's none other because we share a
good friend. His name is BradPaisley. I've had a chance to sing
with him when he first started,and I'm sure you had a chance to
Yes, Yes, yes I had. I did. It gives us something
in common exactly exactly. And Iknow you're kind of a recording artist as
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well too. You've done a bunchof covers. What is your favorite song
that you've done or recited? Well, um, I did more than one
song with Brad over the years.I've got several albums. I did a
blues album that went number one,and I did the Christmas album number one
number one and one. I'm notsure, but it was the big magazine.
Yeah, and I was just listeningto the Little Drummer Boy. Earlier
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I did something with Ben Folds thatwas very popular, and I thought that
was pretty good. Two years ago, you flew into space, the oldest
man ever in space. I knowthat people pay to go on that,
but did William Shatner have to payas well too? What was that?
Like? Are you kidding? Areyou serious? I do things for free,
Like, you know, nobody's thing. They need to come to McKellan.
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Just overwhelmed with a desire to goto McKellen, Texas And where is
mc Hey, Okay, so let'stalk. You gotta come to the McKellen
Convention Center on Friday night or Saturday. I'm there Friday any night, and
I'm all there. I'm there allday Saturday, but I leave on Saturday
evening. So Joja, come onDad, and you called me Bill,
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I'll call you Joe. We'll takea little time on William and Jojo,
I'm I'm with you on that one. Yeah, Comic con happening and we're
very excited about that. And allthe details are on our website at Kate
texts dot net. I will bethere Saturday. I will definitely join you
for that and shake my hand andlet's look at each other. Absolutely looking
forward to a great I'll look forwardto it too, you bet you,
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William Shot, thanks for the time, all the best to you, Thank
you all the best, Bye bye,