June 30, 2025 • 7 mins
WILLIAM SHATNER IS AT 12:10 And we normally don't do guests that early BUT IT'S WILLIAM SHATNER. Jimmy Sengenberger set up the interview so he's gonna come in and chat too. Don't miss this one.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, I'd love to welcome to the show of
the man, the myth, the legend. He has been in
our homes for I don't even know how many decades now.
William Shatner, known of course as James T. Kirk in
the Star Trek franchise, but also the creator of some
of the greatest characters in television, including Denny Crane off
The Practice in Boston Legal. He also starred in what
(00:21):
might have been the funniest two seasons of programming I
have ever seen, in a little show called Better Late
Than Ever. William Shatner, Welcome to my program.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Thank you what a plaid. I've been aching to be
on your program for years.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
I've heard that about you. You've ached for the show
for so long. I am a treky, but I have
another treky here with me, Jimmy Seckenberger. We're going to
get to those questions in a moment.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
I've heard Jimmy was enthusiastic, not an enthusiastic as you. Oh,
and all of that doesn't matter, you know why why
because you can come and see me. I'm going to
be there Thursday at the Fan Expo. That's what I'm
going to do. How did you know that? Because that's
where I'm going to be Thursday and Friday. Unfortunately I
(01:10):
have to fly off Saturday morning. But Thursday and Friday
I'm going to expect to see all of your audience
coming to that comic com and have a good time
with me and talk to me and take a picture
and get a signature and have some fun at the
comic com.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
The fan expo Denver is incredibly popular. You're going to
have an amazing time. But if I could ask you
quickly about the series, better late than ever, because I
will tell you, mister Shatner, my husband and I laughed
until we cried watching this show. I'd love to know
if it was as fine as it appeared on TV.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Oh, it was great fun and arguous because we had
to get out of the wherever we were the next
day and get on an airplane, fly someplace, disembarked, get
the hotel, shoot a day's worth of shooting, which was
all I had lived. So nothing was scripted, but situations suggested,
(02:14):
and everybody had a voice, and all five of us
were were terrific, and I just enjoyed everybody's company so much.
But moving along every day to somewhere else, and long
flights elsewhere, and time to changes. It got so that
(02:39):
it was so expense that we're decided after the second
year we can't afford to fly one hundred people everywhere. Well,
they stopped the show.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
I loved it, but not as much as Jimmy loves
Star Trek. So I'm going to let him ask you
a few questions now.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
William Shatner, Jimmy fire away.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
It is exciting to have you. It is the very
difficult challenge to figure out how to narrow down the
many millions of questions swirling through my head. But since you're.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Coming, narrow them down, Jimmy, don't narrow them down, just
say them all off rapidly. I'll pick one.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Okay, Well I'll start with this one. How about that
you're coming to Fan Expo Denver. I've been there the
last few years, very excited to have you. When you
go to a convention like this, what does that mean
to you personally and professionally and in particular as well?
What role have they really had over the last coming
up next year sixty years and helping to keep Star
(03:37):
Trek not just alive but thriving.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Okay, So, you know what that's called. That's called a
compound question. It is.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
See, I'm trying to narrow in a couple of a
million questions.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
I don't know where to start. I don't know, Jimmy,
let me talk. That's part of the interview, the I
don't know where to start to answer that question. What
does it mean to me? I did these comic cons
because I meet the fans and I've just come off.
For example, this weekend, I was in Taekwonderoga, up state
New York, which holding chit talk was It's an Indian
(04:13):
term for like a conversation. And I'd be in front
of and I did this seven or eight times this weekend,
be in front of an audience of fifty sixty seventy
people and start a conversation like what do you do
and why do you do that? And so many incredible
things happened between the fans and myself. It's gotten to
the point where the fans in Taekwonderoga come to Taekwonderoga
(04:37):
because they've heard but an extraordinary time, that hour hour
and a half that we have between me and the
fans of the audience is an extraordinary eye opening time
in terms of revelation. And that's what I just did
this weekend. I will do that this coming weekend on
(04:57):
a limited basis. I think once on Thursday, for I'm
not sure where. I'll stand in front of the audience
and tell stories or take questions and provoke and invoke
the audience's response. And I mean, we have a great time,
and then I'll sign autographs and while I'm songing signing
(05:17):
our talk and then there's pictures, and then there's all
these other people, not me but addressed in costumes walking
around and it's just joyful time. So I urge your
audience come down to the Comic co on Thursday and
Friday and Friday, and I'll be there and I'd love
to see y'all.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
Yes, Fan Expo Denver coming to the Denver Colorado Convention
Center in Denver Thursday through Sunday. And William Shatner our
guest here on Thursday and Friday.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Meet.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
Let's ask one question as we wrap up with you, sir,
about Captain Kirk. How much would you say that being
Kirk on television and in film work you and how
much of you became Captain Kirk over the decades.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
Well, I'm sure it doesn't come as a surprise to
you that I'm Shatner. And I said the words that
were supposed to be Captain Kirk's words, but they were
written for me. Yes, So I said the words, and
I said them as best I could, and memorized them
as best I could, and did what little I could
(06:31):
to be a character. It's called a mask and my
new album, I Love Tomorrow will be out in a while,
and one of the songs is called Masks. How actors
and people all in every way of life wear masks
(06:52):
so that we're different people to different we're different, we
are different people to different people, And so I Shatner
appear to be Captain Kirk. And because it's ten pages
a day in shooting a series, there's no time to
ob the skate or plan. So I would say a
great deal of me is is what you see as
(07:15):
Captain Kirk. Mister Shatner.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
I'd love to have you back when your album comes out,
but people can come see you Thursday and Friday at
the Fan Expo Denver down at the Convention Center. It's
going to be an absolute blast. Thank you so much
for your time today. We really appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Thank you for saying that, and I look forward to
perhaps seeing you all right. Care everybody a pleasure talking
to you.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
Thank you, sir.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
How good is that
All right, I'd love to welcome to the show of
the man, the myth, the legend. He has been in
our homes for I don't even know how many decades now.
William Shatner, known of course as James T. Kirk in
the Star Trek franchise, but also the creator of some
of the greatest characters in television, including Denny Crane off
The Practice in Boston Legal. He also starred in what
(00:21):
might have been the funniest two seasons of programming I
have ever seen, in a little show called Better Late
Than Ever. William Shatner, Welcome to my program.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Thank you what a plaid. I've been aching to be
on your program for years.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
I've heard that about you. You've ached for the show
for so long. I am a treky, but I have
another treky here with me, Jimmy Seckenberger. We're going to
get to those questions in a moment.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
I've heard Jimmy was enthusiastic, not an enthusiastic as you. Oh,
and all of that doesn't matter, you know why why
because you can come and see me. I'm going to
be there Thursday at the Fan Expo. That's what I'm
going to do. How did you know that? Because that's
where I'm going to be Thursday and Friday. Unfortunately I
(01:10):
have to fly off Saturday morning. But Thursday and Friday
I'm going to expect to see all of your audience
coming to that comic com and have a good time
with me and talk to me and take a picture
and get a signature and have some fun at the
comic com.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
The fan expo Denver is incredibly popular. You're going to
have an amazing time. But if I could ask you
quickly about the series, better late than ever, because I
will tell you, mister Shatner, my husband and I laughed
until we cried watching this show. I'd love to know
if it was as fine as it appeared on TV.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Oh, it was great fun and arguous because we had
to get out of the wherever we were the next
day and get on an airplane, fly someplace, disembarked, get
the hotel, shoot a day's worth of shooting, which was
all I had lived. So nothing was scripted, but situations suggested,
(02:14):
and everybody had a voice, and all five of us
were were terrific, and I just enjoyed everybody's company so much.
But moving along every day to somewhere else, and long
flights elsewhere, and time to changes. It got so that
(02:39):
it was so expense that we're decided after the second
year we can't afford to fly one hundred people everywhere. Well,
they stopped the show.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
I loved it, but not as much as Jimmy loves
Star Trek. So I'm going to let him ask you
a few questions now.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
William Shatner, Jimmy fire away.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
It is exciting to have you. It is the very
difficult challenge to figure out how to narrow down the
many millions of questions swirling through my head. But since you're.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Coming, narrow them down, Jimmy, don't narrow them down, just
say them all off rapidly. I'll pick one.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Okay, Well I'll start with this one. How about that
you're coming to Fan Expo Denver. I've been there the
last few years, very excited to have you. When you
go to a convention like this, what does that mean
to you personally and professionally and in particular as well?
What role have they really had over the last coming
up next year sixty years and helping to keep Star
(03:37):
Trek not just alive but thriving.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Okay, So, you know what that's called. That's called a
compound question. It is.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
See, I'm trying to narrow in a couple of a
million questions.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
I don't know where to start. I don't know, Jimmy,
let me talk. That's part of the interview, the I
don't know where to start to answer that question. What
does it mean to me? I did these comic cons
because I meet the fans and I've just come off.
For example, this weekend, I was in Taekwonderoga, up state
New York, which holding chit talk was It's an Indian
(04:13):
term for like a conversation. And I'd be in front
of and I did this seven or eight times this weekend,
be in front of an audience of fifty sixty seventy
people and start a conversation like what do you do
and why do you do that? And so many incredible
things happened between the fans and myself. It's gotten to
the point where the fans in Taekwonderoga come to Taekwonderoga
(04:37):
because they've heard but an extraordinary time, that hour hour
and a half that we have between me and the
fans of the audience is an extraordinary eye opening time
in terms of revelation. And that's what I just did
this weekend. I will do that this coming weekend on
(04:57):
a limited basis. I think once on Thursday, for I'm
not sure where. I'll stand in front of the audience
and tell stories or take questions and provoke and invoke
the audience's response. And I mean, we have a great time,
and then I'll sign autographs and while I'm songing signing
(05:17):
our talk and then there's pictures, and then there's all
these other people, not me but addressed in costumes walking
around and it's just joyful time. So I urge your
audience come down to the Comic co on Thursday and
Friday and Friday, and I'll be there and I'd love
to see y'all.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
Yes, Fan Expo Denver coming to the Denver Colorado Convention
Center in Denver Thursday through Sunday. And William Shatner our
guest here on Thursday and Friday.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Meet.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
Let's ask one question as we wrap up with you, sir,
about Captain Kirk. How much would you say that being
Kirk on television and in film work you and how
much of you became Captain Kirk over the decades.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
Well, I'm sure it doesn't come as a surprise to
you that I'm Shatner. And I said the words that
were supposed to be Captain Kirk's words, but they were
written for me. Yes, So I said the words, and
I said them as best I could, and memorized them
as best I could, and did what little I could
(06:31):
to be a character. It's called a mask and my
new album, I Love Tomorrow will be out in a while,
and one of the songs is called Masks. How actors
and people all in every way of life wear masks
(06:52):
so that we're different people to different we're different, we
are different people to different people, And so I Shatner
appear to be Captain Kirk. And because it's ten pages
a day in shooting a series, there's no time to
ob the skate or plan. So I would say a
great deal of me is is what you see as
(07:15):
Captain Kirk. Mister Shatner.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
I'd love to have you back when your album comes out,
but people can come see you Thursday and Friday at
the Fan Expo Denver down at the Convention Center. It's
going to be an absolute blast. Thank you so much
for your time today. We really appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Thank you for saying that, and I look forward to
perhaps seeing you all right. Care everybody a pleasure talking
to you.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
Thank you, sir.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
How good is that
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