5 • 635 Ratings
🗓️ 11 October 2019
⏱️ 62 minutes
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William Shatner OC (born March 22, 1931) is a Canadian actor, author, producer, director, and singer. In his seven decades of television, Shatner became a cultural icon for his portrayal of Captain James T. Kirk of the USS Enterprise in the Star Trek franchise, T.J. Hooker, 3rd Rock from the Sun, Boston Legal and many more. NRHA Hall Of Fame and an active non pro competitor in NRHA Reining and Saddlebred and Standardbred horses produces the Hollywood Charity Horse Show raising money for children and Veterans.
“Bill” will explain his attraction and importance of raising and owning horses and dogs. Bill is very active and involved in showing Reining horses, Saddlebred and Standardbred horses and his commitment to understanding the way a horse thinks and excepts training. Mr Shatner provides a fresh and meaningful way of explaining his relationship with his horses and dogs. Enjoy Bill’s story of how his animals give back to one of Hollywoods most successful.
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0:00.0 | Welcome back, everybody. We're here at the Long for the Ride with Andrea Fopani and Jim Essex. I'm excited about today's guest. William Bill Shetner. You guys may know him for his performances on TV. Pretty well-rounded, actor, author, producer, |
0:24.3 | director, singer, he's done it all. And to me, it's going to be pretty interesting. Bill has |
0:29.2 | been around the reigning industry for a long time. You may not see him at the huge big shows, |
0:33.9 | but myself, I've been around him quite a bit from being on the West Coast he's in LA with his trainer Danny Gerardi there are most of the shows on the |
0:41.3 | West Coast and Bill is a passionate writer showman and I want to talk to him and |
0:46.1 | learn more about him I think I think there's a lot more to him that we don't know |
0:49.5 | and it may be fun to just listen to his story obviously he's been around for a |
0:53.1 | long time he's had great experiences and he loves the sport of raining. |
0:57.0 | An NRA, all-of-fame member. |
0:59.0 | And he's done a lot for the sport from the horse show that he puts up every year for the last |
1:02.5 | quite a few years. |
1:03.4 | I think it's going on 20 years to a lot of other things that he does to promote the sport |
1:07.8 | of raining. So let's listen from Bill and give it a try. |
1:15.8 | Do you want me to refer to you as Mr. Shetner or Bill? |
1:18.8 | What would you prefer? |
1:20.0 | He's Bill, Andrea. |
1:22.3 | Bill? Great. |
1:24.1 | So just to give you a little background on what we're doing here, I just started this podcast. |
1:30.3 | I think this is going to be our seventh one. |
1:32.3 | And the reason why I started it is because I've been in it for about, in this industry for about 20 years. |
1:39.3 | And I think myself, I was always starving for knowledge. |
1:42.3 | I wanted to learn more learn more about the |
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