In journalism, sometimes we go over the top with the superlatives, the best, the tallest, the oldest.

The truth is, something better, taller, and older is bound to come along, right?

But honestly, it's hard to overstate how great today's guest is.

Check a lapse time, Mr. Sula.

My chronometer is running backwards, sir.

George Dekay is a cultural force.

His influence is generational.

Seeing all of you here makes me feel like a kid again.

Almost as if, as Mr. Sulu once said,

my chronometer is running backwards.

His career spans seven decades. For years, people embraced his work on TV, in films, theater, and even video games.

Thank you, Lord Chaos. Thank you very much.

He's been a regular on Howard Stern.

George, yes.

What do you call it a guacamole?

Guacamole.

But he's also become an internet culture icon,

marrying his Star Trek fandom with a killer instinct for memes.

Oh my!

Along the way, he's found ways to be vulnerable about his path growing up in the civil

rights struggles of post-war America.

From about the time I was nine years old, I knew I was different.

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