Let me think. There was another girl there celebrating her birthday and she asked Stephen was his favorite childhood birthday memory was. He said it wasn’t one of his birthdays but one of his father’s. Stephen was 3 and somehow ended up falling into the birthday cake. As he said, being the youngest of 11 everyone was just amused and he didn’t get in trouble for it. He was asked why he decided to sponsor US Speedskating, and he said basically what’s been noted elsewhere, and also that he hopes to go to Vancouver and cheer them on in person. Someone asked if he ate the food in Iraq, and he said yes, everything, because it was all stuff like Burger King and Taco Bell! His worst job was tearing out ceilings of buildings that were going to be torn down during 2 summers while he was in high school. All kinds of stuff came down from those ceilings, and no, he never wore a mask. (Ugh!)

And then there was the copy of the Constitution that showed up in the show. It belonged to a law student who said that someday he was going to get Stephen’s name in an amendment to the Constitution. Stephen grabbed it from the guy and it fell apart and joked that it obviously wasn’t a very good constitution. He then put it behind his desk and went on. Right before the show began Stephen pulled it out and taunted the guy with it. He waved it, then made a big show of signing it, and stuck it back under his desk. So that’s why when he pulled it out during the show we all went nuts. And yes, during the next break Stephen gave it back to the guy.

I know there was more but I can’t remember! These were the best bits anyway….

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The whole Al Gore thing was totally unexpected. Well, sort of. One of the other crazy early people in line was standing out on the sidewalk around 315p and said he saw Gore go inside. The rest of us thought he was crazy, we all said he was supposed to be on TDS. The guy swore he saw him. When we got into the studio they said there was going to be some surprises, and they were going to do The Toss real quick. Yay! So Stephen comes out and does it, EXCEPT the bit at the end with Gore was pre-taped. Ah, so that’s why Gore was there, we thought. So when he came out for Formidable Opponent we all went nuts. Part of that was pre-taped as well, the bit where Gore dunks Stephen in the tub of water. But the rest of it they did live. They had to do parts of it over twice, once because Gore couldn’t get front of the book turned to the camera correctly (which cracked both of them up), and once because Stephen started doing his lines over the pre-taped part. However, the best part was while they were waiting to re-do part of it, and Movits! was playing. Stephen started dancing to it and so did Gore. It was hysterical.

This was day 2 of fun as I went to TDS on Tues. What a great week. :-)