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From: jennifer@ecst.csuchico.edu (The StarTrek TechnoGeek)
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Date: 14 Oct 93 21:50:14 GMT
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Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.current,rec.arts.startrek.misc
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Subject: Re: Patrick Stewart on the Tonight Show tonite. VCR ALERT
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Since I've gotten several requests for this through email, and since I
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am now awake enough to fix the conversion from WP to ASCII problem,
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here is a re-post of the Patrick Stewart interview with the proper line
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length.
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You're Welcome.
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-jen
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----jennifer@hairball.ecst.csuchico.edu------"The StarTrek TechnoGeek"--------
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Associate Member: Starfleet Ladies Auxillery & Embroidery/Baking Society
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Co-Founder: Patrick Stewart Estrogen Brigade
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1st Officer (2nd Shift) and Captain's Personal Bodyguard: JLP Ship of Loooove
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Here is the Transcript of the
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Patrick Stewart Interview
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Oct. 12, 1993 Tonight Show with Jay Leno
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JL: My first guest, an accomplished actor of both stage and screen, you
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know him best for his role as Captain Picard, on Star Trek: The Next
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Generation. Please welcome Patrick Stewart.
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PS comes out, while the band plays a cheezy rendition (Kathleen says it
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was good) the the ST theme song. Settles into a very uncomfy chair.
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JL: I love that theme, it's a wonderful theme
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PS: Isn't that a great theme? (has hand over heart)
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JL: It's like the President has walked into the room.
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PS: I hope it would have calmed me down a little, and it hasn't. My
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heart is going pitter patter because you didn't tell me, none of your staff
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told me who your other guest was tonight...
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JL: Oh, you mean Reba McIntyre?
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PS: I have been harassing her since I arrived here a half an hour ago,
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and finally came face-to-face with her a few minutes ago, and I still
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haven't quite recovered, ummm...
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JL: Oh?
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PS: Yeah, I'm a huge fan of hers, I think she's fantastic, and it's the first
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time that I've met her.
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JL: Country Western music is very popular in England isn't it?
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PS: Uh, is it?
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JL: Well, it is actually, I know. Well so many, well I know a lot of
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artists go over there, and they come back and you kinda see people with
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a thing of Guiness and you know the hat...
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PS: I've never seen that.
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JL: Really?
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PS; Nope, no...maybe, maybe we should ask Miss McIntyre.
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JL: Well, we'll probably ask her. Are you a big Country-Western fan?
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PS: Uhh, moderately so. But I'm a big fan of hers. And it is curious
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how this thing happens, you know this kind of hiatus breathing? There
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are people that you have met when this happens to you...I...this is my
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second experience this year...I was in a hotel in London...small, private
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hotel, where by the way, I had been a little concerned about security.
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One morning that I was there, I got into the lift late for an appointment
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and it started to go down, and dammit the lift stopped at the next floor
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and I wanted to go straight down to the lobby. And the door opened,
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and into this tiny lift step Nelson Mandala.
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JL: Really?
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PS: Nelson Mandala and me! Not quite alone in the lift, because
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moments later some security men came and uh, what would you say if
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you had 45 seconds alone with Nelson Mandala? Nothing, I
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<demonstrates mouth gaping open>
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JL: Down, just press the down button...and yeah...
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PS: The heart is...beating...
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JL: So what did you say? Did you say anything?
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PS: I said nothing! I gaped open mouthed and he was very polite and
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said "Good morning, how are you?" and I said "IIIII" <not a perfect
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quote, but how do you type unintelligible sound?> and I walked down
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Picadilly cursing the missed opportunity of the things I might have said.
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JL: Well, what would you have said, now that you've had time to
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reflect?
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PS: I...I would have said...
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JL: You probably just would have liked a simple "Hello" and not get
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into some weight discussion...
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PS: I would have liked to have said "Hello", I would have liked to have
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said...uh..."You're my hero."
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JL: Well, that's pretty good...you could have said that.
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<applause>
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PS: Overwhelmed...Missed opportunities.
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JL: Yeah, well you were, ah...in fact when we tried to get you a couple
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of weeks ago, you...your staff said you were off to Washington.
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PS: That's right.
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JL: Now, did you meet the President? Did you do that?
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PS: No, I did not. But I got close to it. Uh, we were taken...two of us
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were taken on a very private tour of the White House. This was Labor
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Day, Monday...which seemed to me to be an appropriate day for me to
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tour the White House. And, uh...we were take to all of the public
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rooms that the general public would see on a tour, but there was no one
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else around. So we got to look into the Cabinet Room, and we got to
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look into the Oval Office.
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JL: I mean, you don't go rifling through drawers and things....
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PS: Well...no...but it's a little like meeting Miss McIntyre. You know,
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suddenly the door opens and *there* it is. And it looks like a stage set,
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you know. Have you, have you been there?
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JL: Actually I have, and I sat in the chair <of the Oval Office, not the
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Enterprise Bridge!>
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PS: No, no, no.
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JL: Yes I did. I said in the chair behind the desk.
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PS: Well, then you know, I can promise you, to complete what would
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be for me an ultimate ambition. I think there are three really important
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chairs to sit in, in this country, in the United States. The Captain's
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chair on the Enterprise... <yee haw!! Lots of applause>
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JL: Right, that would certainly be one of them.
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PS: Alright! Two. The President's char behind his desk in the Oval
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Office. And three...Jay you're sitting in it right now.
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JL: That's right. You know what amazed me?
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PS: What?
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JL: It was the little things. You would expect the President of the
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United States' desk to be some kind of high tech, like the bridge of the
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Enterprise. Let's see what's going on in Omaha, click, alright, let's go
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over here...you know...I sit down, and the thing that amazed me, now
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this was about two years ago...there was a *dial* <rotary> phone on the
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desk. Shhh-chick-chick-chick <mimicking dialing a rotary phone>.
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Just a dial phone.
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PS: Could he afford a touch button phone?
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JL: I mean, you're trying to rule the free world, and you gotta take that
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extra, shhh-chick-chick-chick-chick. I mean...just press the button, not
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even a *speed dial*! Just sitting...he's probably at the yellow pages
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lookin' up Domino's and things. I mean, it just seemed so *odd*! I
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mean, it's not fancy.
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PS: No. But it looks like a set, don't you agree?
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JL: Yeah, it does look like a movie set.
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PS: It has a certain artificiality, maybe because we've seen it so many
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times. I'll learned a few interesting things I didn't know about the
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White House. For example, if the President asks you to stay the night,
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if you were so lucky, he would be presented with a bill for your over
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night accomodations.
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JL: By who? Who would bill the President?
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PS: By the government. There's a charge for it. At the end of each
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week....
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JL: Really, so you mean, if you stay with the President, he's gonna say
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"Come on, check out at eleven, get outta here!" Is he hustling people
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out the door?
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PS: You can get an extension. You know...the reason that I know this
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*fascinating* information is that, part of our private tour was, uh...we
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went into the kitchens and we met one, of I think three chefs who are
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on permanent staff at the White House. And he was the one that
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explained to us that guests have to pay an overnight charge, and at the
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end of every week the Clinton's are presented with a grocery bill!
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JL: Really?
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PS: Oh sure. You see that one of the reason I *love* this country!
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JL: You mean Clinton is sitting there clipping coupons trying to save
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money? I mean, really?
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PS: Doesn't it seem to you to be appropriate? And part of the
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democracy of this great country: Yeah sure you can get to be President,
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but you *have* to pay for your corn flakes in the morning!
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JL: I never thought of that. So if you were to...so the President makes
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$200,000 a year, certainly a good salary but not...
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PS: Is that what he makes?
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JL: But compared to, what to what industrialists and things make...So if
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you go to dinner at the White House, the President could be pushing
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some of the slower selling items.
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PS: <laughs>
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JL: "Try the veal, it's moving slowly."
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PS: That's right. That's right. Directing you to the cheaper items on the
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menu.
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JL: Have you eve met a President of the United States.
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PS: No, I have not, but once I got very very close. Two years ago I was
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in Washington *again* and we were there for the Space Association
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meeting. And some of us were invited after a private tour of the White
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House...we were asked if we would like to attend on the South Lawn the
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following morning, the President leaving for Camp David. Well...it was
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a very early call, 7:30, only two of us, Rick Berman, my executive
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producer, and myself, we went along. Because, *how can you say "no" to
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an opportunity like that* ? Particularly if you are an actor. Everything
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is grist to the mill, you want to *be* there, you want to smell the smells,
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see the sights, look into the eyes of the...secret...policemen. And...no,
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secret policemen are what they have in Russia. Right?
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JL: Right, right, these are the Secret Service.
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PS: Ok, this is the United States.
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JL: Yeah.
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PS: Good! <phew>
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<audience laughs>
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PS. Well, it's the kind of detail you have to get right!
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JL: Yeah. Yeah.
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PS: Um, and this was when Mr. Bush was President and now, I have
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been on the left of politics all my life, I always voted for the Labour
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Party in England, and so, I was not particularly impressed about the
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prospect of meeting President Bush, although I was told that he knew
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that we were there. And I thought, "ah well you know who cares". And
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they said, well "he may come over and shake your hand", and I said "Ah,
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so what? President Bush", you know, I'd rather meet Reba McIntyre!
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<lots of audience yells and applause>
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PS: Am I working this too hard? Reba?
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JL: No, no!
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PS: However the door opened, and there I am standing, cynical British
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jerk. And he comes out, and he doesn't look towards us, instead he goes
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to the *other* side, and he shakes hands with the people over there.
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And I'm saying "well of course, what would you expect? He wouldn't
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come over here and talk to me." And then he turned around, and he
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waves. At me. It seemed. And involuntary, completely out of control
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my right hand when up in the air, and my face spread into what I knew
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was a *stupid* grin, and I went <demonstrating stupid grin :-D >
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"Hiiiiiii, Mister Bush!"
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<audience and Jay laugh>
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PS: Now, how do you...how do you *explain* that? And how would I
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explain it to my Socialist friends in England?
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JL: No, no, you just....
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PS: <demonstrates stupid grin-wave again> "Hiiiiiiiiiiiii Mister
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Bush!!!!"
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<more laughs>
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JL: You know, you do. When you do meet famous people, you get, you
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do get...
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PS: Weak at the knees.
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JL: You get caught up, you try to think of something to
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say...Tell...I..I..The first time I met Michael Caine years ago, and he said
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"How are you?" and I said "Hiiiiii!" and I started to tell this joke, "you
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know, these two guys went into a bar...a...a...a..." He's looking at me
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like....and I said "I don't know what I'm doing, I just wanted to say
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hello....Nice to meet you! Goodbye!!" And then you just run away...it's
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really scary....
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PS: It's very difficult.
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JL: Have you met the queen? We'll talk about that when we get back.
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Patrick Stewart right after this.
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<commercial break>
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JL: Welcome back, we're talking with Patrick Stewart. Now, when you
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were in England, obviously I imagine you met the Royal Family. Are
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they a little different from meeting our version? Not that we have
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royalty......
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PS: I got *closer* to the Royal Family, to most of the members of the
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Royal Family, than I ever did to President Bush. Um...we gave a
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command performance, years and years ago when I was working with the
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Royal Shakespeare Company, at Windsor Castle, and it just so
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happened that *most* of the members of the Royal Family came to see
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the show that night, and afterwards there was a party and they all came,
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and so moment by moment you would turn your head, and there would
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be different members of the Royal Family going by, there would be
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Prince Charles, there would be Princess Maureene <some "M" name, we
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couldn't figure it out...> and so forth. And I happened to find myself, I
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say I *happened* to find myself in a three-way-conversation with one of
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the musicians from the wind band, and Her Majesty the Queen. And,
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she had been asking him about some of the unusual instruments they
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had been playing...these were *early* musical instruments. And he was
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telling her about the Rauschfife <rah-sh-fife> an instrument we
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don't...your band I guess doesn't have any Rauschfife's, no? Well, Henry
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the 8th did, and he was telling her this, and saying "Henry the Eighth
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loved the Rauschfife so much that he had a Rauschfife band."
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Consisting only of Rauschfife's and wherever he went the Rauschfife
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band would go with him. And she said, "Oh, well, yes. But then of
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course, Henry did everything to excess." But it was as though he had
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*just left the room*. Like some eccentric uncle that they were all rather
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fond of.
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JL: I suppose he *is* a relative.
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PS: Yes, he's a relative, though a very distant one.
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JL: I've done those shows where you as the actor on stage are the least
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important person in the room. If Prince Charles walks this way, you
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can't say "Hey, sit down pal, I'm trying to do a show here!"
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PS: Well, in fact I remember this, we were doing Taming of the Shrew,
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and we were there at the specific invitation of the Duke of
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Edinbourough <spelling close enough> and throughout the
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performance we couldn't help but see that from time to time he would
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lean over to the Queen on one side, and the Queen Mother on the
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other side and explain the jokes to them, hitting them on the knee
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"Hey! Did you get it!" <pause, whispering:> "SHUT UP!!! We're
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*acting*!"
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JL: Now, where is the security tighter? At the White House do you
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think, or at Buckingham Palace? You've been to both, you've gotten
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close to both.
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PS: The..Well..The Buckingham Palace was a formal occasion and I was
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completely unaware of security of any kind. What was impressive about
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the White House visit three weeks ago was that although we were
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screened when we arrived, once we were there, we were virtually
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alone...although there was someone with us from the White House, but
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we were allowed to wander through the corridors, look in the rooms. It
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had a very relaxed atmosphere. I think that's terriffic. As far as I know,
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you can down that at 10 Downing Street. You're not allowed to look
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into Prime Minister Major's office. But it's one of the charming things
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about this country, sure, you're an American citizen, you're a tourist,
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you're interested, have a look in the office, that's where he works, that's
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his desk, that's where he sits.
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JL: So nobody was watching you? You could just swipe an ashtray?
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PS: <laughs> Yes.
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JL: But when you look at the Bush's, they had missiles and thigns laying
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around....It looks really open, in fact, you guys burned it down in what?
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1812?
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PS: Yeah, 1812.
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JL: The last British guy who went through there pretty much set fire to
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it.
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PS: But you know, looking in that room I wonder...you said you sat
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behind the desk...
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JL: I sat *in* the chair.
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PS: You were not alone.
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JL: The President let me sit in the chair, and then the President said
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<using George Bush voice> "hey, here's a guy you've done a lot of jokes
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about! John Sununu, come in here!" I'm going "oo woo oo oo"
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<unintelligible sound> I just thought I was going to get audited!
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PS: Now, if I had been you, I would have wanted to say "Gentlemen, I
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know this is an unusual request, but please, will you leave the room and
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walk out the door and close it behind you so that I can sit *alone*
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behind this desk. You know to get as close as possible....
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JL: But, they don't know, you could go like this <make motion like
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pushing button on desktop> missiles are on their way to Russia now!
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PS: I don't think it's so easy. I hope it's not so easy! Do you think it's
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that easy?
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JL: No, you're probably right about that, but it is amazing how simple
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it is, you are right in that, cuz Americans think of it as a palace...then
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you go "this isn't even as fancy as Elvis' place!" It's just kind of plain.
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What's was you're first impression of this country when you came here
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did it seem...one of the things I like to do is take English people and
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say, you want something to drink? You want a large soda? Because a
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large because this would be a jumbo king large <holds up coffee cup>
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in England! You know a big gulp <holds hands about 2 feet apart>
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they would swim in that in England! That would be a pool!
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PS: Right. Have you ever tried asking for ice in England?
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JL: Yeah, you get this pitiful little phtt <makes spitting through teeth
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sound> slivers, that they give you.
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PS: I think it was probably the language. The first time I came here I
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went to New York. My first morning in New York I was going to the
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theatre for a rehearsal and I was hungry and I went into a deli and there
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was a list of sandwitches. *Hundreds* of sandwiches! And it was very
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busy, it was towards lunch time and crowded, there was a lot of noise,
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and I felt very shy and intimidated. And finally the guy behind the
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counter *preseumably* wanted my business, and said "What do you
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want!" and I saw one sandwich on the menu, and I said "I want one...no
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no no no, not one I'd like two corn beef sandwiches," "What do you
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want on them?" "Uh choice of bread, bread, bread, what type? On, on,
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on, uh rye bread with uh, some lettuce, oh and I'd like to take it away
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with me please." And he said <uses rough New York accent> "Two
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cornie cows coming through the rye draggin' in the jungle to go!" <big
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smile>
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<audience laughs and applauds>
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PS: Thank you. And...I knew at that moment I *loved* this country!
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That was positively Shakespearian.
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JL: Now quickly, what's happening on Star Trek?
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PS: What's happening on Star Trek is that everybody's asking us "what's
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happening on Star Trek?"
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JL: Is it comeing back again or is this the last year?
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PS: No one has formally said...there are a lot of stories that this may be
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the last year. What I *can* tell you is that they are planning a feature
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film of the Next Generation.
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JL: Oh, that's great!
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<lots of applause>
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JL: With Reba McIntyre!
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PS: Oh! Ask her!
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JL: Oh, sure. She can play a space alien or something.
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PS: Umm hmmm. You know...the captain has been alone for too long!
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<Well, I'm sure PSEB can warm his sheets!>
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JL: Oh really?
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<lots of cheers from the audience>
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PS: <big gorgeous smile>
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JL: We'll find out! We'll be right back with Reba right after this!
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Patrick Stewart <they shake hands>
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<commercial break>
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JL: Tomorrow night Rob Schnider will be here with Robert Plant.
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Ahhh ahhh ahh ah! Ahhhh ahhh ahh ah! <tries to do vocalization>
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blah...blah..stuff about future shows...some jokes about NYPD Blue....skit
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of Sea Quest Blue with Jay playing the old guy and a blow up dolphin
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swearing at each other. <it was actually funny!>
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<another commericial break>
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JL: Introduces Reba
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<she sings> <appaluase>
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<she comes over and hugs Jay and then hugs TGBO, audience goes
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crazy>
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JL: Well, I feel like one of those afternoon shows where stalkers meet
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their victims.
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<audience goes crazy, Reba and TGBO laugh>
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That's about it. PS stays on the stage through the Reba interview
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<commercial break, she sings again>
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JL: I wanna thank the band. Reba, this is 'The Greatest Hits' volume,
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now I've never done this before...will you sign my CD to him? He's a
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huge fan! Sign it to him, and I'll get another one from you later.
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Reba: You bet!
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<audience goes crazy>
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<camera pans to PS>
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JL: Look. He's like a little kid, all lit up. Look at this!
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<he has this huge grin on his face, sitting next to Reba>
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JL: Patrick Stewart, Star Trek The Next Generation of course....
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-----the end-----
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--
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----jennifer@hairball.ecst.csuchico.edu------"The StarTrek TechnoGeek"--------
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Associate Member: Starfleet Ladies Auxillery & Embroidery/Baking Society
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Co-Founder: Patrick Stewart Estrogen Brigade
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1st Officer (2nd Shift) and Captain's Personal Bodyguard: JLP Ship of Loooove
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