This is The Other Side of Midnight, I'm Frank Morano. You see, the problem with time is that it's fleeting. All things are finite, all good things must come to an end, and while obviously I'm always aware of my own mortality and mortality in general. I guess the moments where I'm most acutely aware of how finite life is are the moments when I get to interview William Shatner, because there's just never enough time. It has nothing to do with the fact that he's my favorite entertainer, which he is, has nothing to do with the fact that he's the only person on the planet that you can talk to about absolutely anything from going to space to speaking Esperanto, from riding horses to investing in uranium on the advice of Lauren Green. When I had the opportunity to moderate two Q&A sessions with him last year in New Jersey for hours, I thought, "Surely, that will be enough time, but it wasn't, and it just never is." I decided that rather than lamenting the limited amount of time we have together, I will just enjoy the fact that we get to chat for any length of time. So I'm incredibly pleased to welcome back to the show a man who are listeners in the Chicago area. We'll get to see this weekend, and subscribers of Fox Nation can see talking about aliens in a new show, the one and only William Shatner. William Shatner, welcome back. Well, my goodness that, hey, I hope you've recorded that because I'm going to play that every event that I do, that's the greatest introduction I've ever had. Well, it has the added virtue of being true. Now, when we did these shows in New Jersey last year, you were kind enough to bestow bill status on me. I was able to call you bill. Does that still apply? Can I still call you bill? No, no. Not only is it because you're this wonderful guy who does great introductions, but it's also the name of an album that's on Spotify at other places that you can get in the title of the album as you can call me bill. So it serves a triple purpose. And please do call me bill. That is great. We talked enough over the years to warrant that. It is a great album. And there's a great song on there called Tuffy, where you have the story of having a nickname, which I never I never knew that story. And if people are shot in their files, it's an absolute must listen to now. I thought I knew everything there was to know about you read all your books, seen almost all your films. I put my two year old to bed with reruns of Boston legal, but it wasn't until yesterday that I learned you're an enthusiastic fan of the electric slide. What made you decide to come out of the closet on that one? Well, I just slid actually out of the closet. And you know, I don't know what we're talking about the electric slide is what it's a song. I was referring to these this feud you got into with one of these Twitter trolls who I've noticed you like to mix it up with these guys on Twitter. Well, I will from time to time because they're there so in many cases so mean, but why dwell on those negatives? Why not say your child your two year old should go to sleep with this album that I recently did call where will the animal sleep. It's a children's album comes a little booklet. And it's last time I looked, it was number six on the thing on the list of popular popular things. Yeah. No, we've got it. We've got it. Yeah, you'll enjoy it as well. I'm coming to Chicago Friday today is tomorrow tomorrow night and Saturday, I'll be at the comic-con. Do you do you know the name of the where it is? It's going to be at the Donald E. Stevens Convention Center. You're going to be taking pictures and signing autographs Friday and Saturday folks get tickets at fan Expo HQ.com. Mark Hammel, who was in some star something franchise as well is also going to be there. You still enjoy going these conventions and traveling all over the place. Well, what I do is what I look forward to is spending an hour, which I will do on Saturday with the audience. So we have a great time laughing and crying and I do my best to entertain them and I get to know the audience a little bit. And the more I do it, the more I realize what they want, what's effective, what's not effective. And we have a great conversation that's what the event means to me. I do sign autographs and post for pictures, but going in front of the audience is the key to everything. Yeah. You got rave reviews from a lot of our listeners who saw you in Ticonderoga last week at the enterprise exhibit. There's a big debate about whether you were wearing socks when you were there or not. No, I don't wear socks. That's hysterical. I've got to let my pants go longer. The choice of what to wear is a big choice. What other than to where I got to get on an airplane from the warm southern California? Make it to say let's take Chicago. So Chicago is a little cooler, but it's still the middle of the summer. What am I going to wear? And then it goes from in the airplane into the morning heat and then the afternoon hotter and then it gets cooler in the afternoon. And then there's air conditioning. So what do you wear for three days? And I want to travel as light as possible. And I got my shoulder shirt, so I got to get the roll on up to the up above my head there. And so there's a lot of things to consider that the people coming to the event have no idea. One of them is should I wear socks or just wear my running shoes, comfortable shoes because I'm in them all day long and swollen ankles. I'm sitting in an airplane for five hours, four hours, getting to Chicago. I turn around the next day, I fly out and I'm going to essentially San Francisco for five hours. The mechanics of getting ready to do this involves should I wear socks or not? Well, folks in the Chicago area can see for themselves firsthand, you can get tickets at fan Expo HQ dot com's gonna be Friday and Saturday at the Donald East Stevens Convention Center bill. I do have to ask you because of your history with space, not only playing, you know, parts where you're in space, but going to space yourself. These astronauts thought they were going for a week and now they're stuck there for months. And it's like a lost in space episode as someone who's actually been to space. You have any opinion on this whole episode regarding well, don't they do I have an opinion? I have a show, are they among us? It's streaming on Fox Nation right now, are aliens among us and it poses the whole question in a very intellectual, well, not intellectual, but an intelligent fashion about what this mysterious stuff that's reaching a crescendo, at least I hope it is, because there's so much of it. People seeing things, people with light, the possibility that we're reverse engineering debris that from space, I mean, the whole thing is rife with new ideas. And then when these Navy pilots, when the Navy released the footage on what the Navy pilots saw and it was there on radar and you could see the blips shuttling around, it's very mysterious. We live in a question. We live, why are we here? What are we doing? Where do we go? One of the questions that is unexplained, if you'll excuse the expression, is are there aliens and have they come here? We know certain people who I would swear are aliens, but we can't be sure, but their behavior is so foreign and it belongs on another planet. But seriously, this film, are aliens among us, Fox Nation, has debuted today and I'm doing publicity on it as well. It asks the question, what's going on? And there's more going on now in this decade than ever before. What is it? And the program tries to get as close to an examination as possible. But then there's no exact, there's no succinct information. Nobody said, excuse me, sir, are you an alien? And the person said, yes, I come from the planet, whatever, nobody's ever done that. Why? Here's the trailer from Aliens Among Us on Fox Nation. Prepare for takeoff. Please fasten your seatbelt. We have recovered bodies, an unexplainable phenomena. Is anybody out there? Absolutely claims, aliens, it's not ridiculous, it's real. Aliens might be living among us, right here on Earth, disguised as humans. Aliens among us, streaming now on Fox Nation. The show's called Aliens Among Us, it's on Fox Nation. I hear your dog letting you know about your next appearance. But let me, I just have to end with this. That's not my dog, that's an alien. Pointing up the wrong three, that alien. Let me just end with this, sir, and I appreciate you being so generous with your time. You mentioned your children's album, which we have. You also have another, another song out, another album called So Fragile, So Blue, which is all about our planet and what we're doing to it. We as a species. I hope I never recovered from what I discovered. Like a long lost lover, I had left to neglect mountains, trees, birds, beasts, life-giving water, magnificent beasts, north, south, west, east, all human reactions from terror to fun. Free swims, flies, runs, literally everything under the sun, every hand and cause, every ocean, swab, stale flies, sand, and tiniest creatures we don't understand. Whenever this subject comes up on the radio, there are still some folks that don't believe in man-made people. Can you believe it? Change. Yeah, I do. Because I hear from them on the radio. Speak to those folks. Well, I was asked by the Flat Earth group to say something about, "Is the Earth flat?" And I've been around it and my opinion is that the Earth is flat. Just so few people want to believe it. It's flat. I've been there. It's flat. And they wanted to know whether the sun was a planet and anybody living on the sun. And there are things, entities living on the sun, sending out rays that warms our planet. I want to assure your audience those things are true, not, "No, I bet it I'm going any further." It's so bizarre. I you deal in it all the time. On occasion, make these forays into the madness that some people want to believe. The Earth, the flat Earth people, I mean, I'm sure you've heard of them. It's bizarre and not to see that Chicago is burning up and Los Angeles is burning up. And things are, you know, it's like, "Oh, this is the hottest summer ever in 10,000 years. Oh, yeah, but it'll be better next year." No, it won't. It's going to get worse until we do something about it. We're all going to die. And die sooner than we want to unless we do something about it. On that note, if you want to see William Shatner in Chicago, you can do so Friday and Saturday for our listeners in Detroit next month. He's going to be doing a screening of "Star Trek 2 the Wrath of Con" followed by a Q&A. I may make it there myself, if I can. You've got to do it. It's a fun time. No, I loved being on stage with you in New Jersey, the two appearances we did last year, and it was the opportunity of a lifetime for me, and I think people will have a good time. Great. If people want to see the dates for that, that's williamshatnertour.com. Bill, it is always such a treat. Thank you. Thank you. Look forward to seeing you. Bye-bye. Thank you.
