- You've had some great success,
but you've had some struggles, man.
You lived in the back of a pickup.
- I did.
I had done Star Trek, and a divorce, and children,
and houses, and then I was broke.
So, I went to the East coast in a truck
with a camper on the back of the
pickup truck. - [Steve] Yeah, yeah.
And I'd live in that while I did summer stock.
I traveled with my dog and me.
- Really. - Around the country
for three years.
- And this was after Star Trek.
- Yeah.
- And you recently released a book called
Live Long and...What I learned Along the Way.
- And dot, dot, dot, ellipse, which is the,
(laughing)
Well, I mean living long is only part of the way,
- [Steve] Yeah.
- But then what do you do with that long life?
Well, you say yes to opportunity, and to joy,
and to the quality of life.
Saying yes to life. - [Steve] Wow.
Yeah, saying yes.
I've kind of lived like that too.
I find a way to yes, to just keep progressing,
keep the ball rolling, you know?
- Well that's exactly right,
and you have to fail to oh, I did that wrong,
I won't do that again.
And it's a series of missteps that leads you to success.
- Yeah, exactly right man.
You say it in the book right here
that you learned a lesson about one size doesn't fit all.
What do you mean by that?
- Well, you have your own set of experiences,
totally different from mine.
- Right.
- So I can't advise you, I can only say
this is what I did when faced with these circumstances,
if it resonates with you,
- [Steve] Absolutely.
- May work, but I can't lecture you.
See, I think we're out here for a limited
period of time of our life to see the glory
of whatever it is you think the glory is,
nature, God, we're here to visualize, to see it.
And then we disappear,
of course we don't know where we disappear to.
- [Steve] Yeah.
- That's all up to your opinion and my opinion.
- That's right.
- But look at this opportunity,
no matter what your circumstances are,
you're breathing in the air and you're seeing the sky,
and it's all awesome.
- Yeah, yeah.
Man.
(audience cheers)
You know, I introduce you, I say,
seven decades of acting, that's 70 years.
You're so active, so--
- What do you do for fun, man? - Well I've got the book.
I've got a Christmas album called Shatner Clause.
And it's funny. - [Steve] I've got two, yeah.
Hey, let me ask you this man,
what can people expect from this Christmas album right here?
- Well, it's been subjected to criticism,
and the critique has been incredible,
like work of art, and stupendous, enormous words.
(audience claps and cheers)
What you will have, you gotta play this album
in its entirety, 'cause I've spotted the songs
sort of in a progression.
- [Steve] Yeah.
- And it begins, has a middle, and an end,
of course you can play, it has standard songs,
so you can play it anywhere you want,
but if you were to listen to this whole album
in its entirety, you would have joy.
- [Steve] Yeah.
- And the Christmas spirit.
- See man, you motivate me,
'cause I was sitting up here thinking.
I said okay, I'm 61.
- You're a kid.
- Yeah, yeah man after talking to you I went,
yeah I gotta get busy.
I gotta pick up the pace.
I'm messing around.
I'm sitting up here thinking about,
man, I should retire.
But retire and do what? - To what? Exactly.
- This is the most fun I've ever had.
- That's, same with me.
(audience cheers)
Who could be having more fun than sitting here,
these people are applauding,
they're enjoying what we're saying.
They're not booing. - [Steve] Yeah.
- And they're not hissing.
- Yeah.
- And they're definitely not saying get off,
like we've both heard.
- Yeah.
- Yeah, so here we are in the midst of this joy.
What are you gonna retire to?
(audience claps)
- I like it, man.
Well guess what?
Everybody in the audience is going home
with a copy of his book,
Live Long and... (audience cheers)
What I Learned Along the Way.
And everybody's going home with a copy
of the Christmas album, Shatner Clause.
Hey man, great guest, thank you brother.
- [Shatner] Thank you, pleasure.
- [Steve] Thanks for being here.
We'll be right back, everybody.