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>> you only have to hear melissa ethridge once, you only have to hear it once. "come to my window." no one sings it like her. she's an outspoken person on all kinds of things close to her heart. melissa joins me now. welcome. >> pleasure to be here. >> you have a wonderful fiery soul offstage, don't you? >> i'm just trying to lead this interesting life that we all have in front of us. making some interesting choices. >> when you look at your extraordinary life, professional and personal, how do you feel now about where you've arrived, where you are right now? >> i think at this point, i'm 51 now. i've realized, oh, it's just a journey. you never get there. you never get it done. it's all about how you're doing it. >> that is so true. you will never actually arrive, are you? >> no.

>> this train never gets to a station? it does not. there is no there there. for myself, who, you know, i've achieved some of those markers that you think, oh, the oscar, those things, and each time, i go, there's no there here. that's nice, that's great but it's about how am i doing and how's this journey? >> what's been the best pitstop on your train so far? what's been the moment, if i could replay it for you, you'd relive. >> oh. >> can't be children, all the women in your life? >> no. i don't want to relive that. >> something else. >> it's been great. >> tell me something else. >> on stage with bruce springsteen. >> when was that? >> 1994, unplugged, mtv. they said, do you want to duet with anyone? i said, i've always wanted to sing with bruce, who doesn't. he said yes. if i could stop time right now. >> at that moment as the door opens and out comes "the boss," unplugged.

so it's akusted. so it's acoustic. >> him and i singing on the road. >> wow. >> yeah. wow. i wanted it to stop and it went on. i couldn't hold it but i have the video. >> was it as good as you always heard? >> yes. look back on it. in the moment. moments are funny. in the now, you have to learn to love when you're going through it. look back on it. absolutely. >> i want to play a clip about "come to my window" about love and romance. you write about it all the time. ♪ just to reach you ♪ come to my window i'll be home soon ♪ ♪ come to my window ♪ crawl inside ♪ come to my window ♪ i'll be home soon

>> that, to me, is what -- that is american music at its best. that's the kind of music, you want to get in your little chevy, get on the -- i don't know, pacific coast highway, get the shades on, ramp up the ethridge. >> i write songs for people who drive in cars, i really do. >> you're right to do that. most people spend a lot of time in cars listening to music wanting to feel something. >> i want to help them get from point a to point b. >> one of my favorite questions i ask all my guests, i normally leave it to the end when they're all warmed up. >> i'm pretty warm. >> i look at them in the eyes and say, come on, how many times have you been properly in love? you sing about love and heartbreak and agony and torment and the joys and despair of love and romance, come on, you great love writer singer you. >> love, love. >> how many times have you been properly in love? >> how many times i thought i was in love. >> that doesn't count. >> properly in love. >> yes.

>> i love the way you english say that, like there's anything about being properly in love. i am for the first time properly in love because i am now in love with myself. and that is the only way i can be properly in love with someone else. >> before you felt you had been in love but you hadn't been able to give that person the whole you? >> myself was -- i felt they'll fill this up if i have that person, i can fill this up. and you can't and they can't. we're living two different realities, everyone is. so to think that something -- to think that adding someone to you is going to make you whole, you're in for a big drop.

so now, understand it's about loving myself, the only way i can be in a good relationship is to love myself, to work on myself, to be the best me for my children, for my partner, that's being in love. then you can offer love to someone else. >> have you cracked it then? have you cracked the holy grail of love now? >> have i cracked the holy grail of love? >> a terribly cheesy phrase. you know what i mean. >> i am. i'm trying to think of a good king arthur thing back to -- guenevere is out there. it's a journey, no getting it done. >> my theory about songwriters, you have to basically go about a lot of misery to write best songs. all your work, unless i'm wrong, all the negative stuff, when you're the most searing, isn't it? >> depends how you look at it, even my most searing, i'm the only one, still -- i try never to be, you just killed me, i can't go on. i tried to be, oh, that really makes me angry you're doing that.

i'm better, nobody loves you like i do. >> can you write good stuff if you're really happy? >> yeah. >> can you? >> yes. >> doesn't it become inevitably -- >> am i writing about being happy? no. i can be happy. understand i still -- there's still a shadow side to me. >> from a purely professional point of view, from the artistry of your song writing, if i said write, you can be in this extensional stated pure bliss for the next 30 years or torment, which would produce the better music, the better songs? >> see, as you ask me that, this state of bliss you're talking about cannot exist without the other side -- the darker side. >> i have the power to give you just bliss or misery. >> i don't want just bliss. >> you know what i'm getting at. if i were able to be stow the power, what would produce the better songs? >> the contrast of misery, the desire to be out of that into the bliss.

>> bob dylan would have been absolutely hopeless if he hasn't basically been incredibl -- incredibly -- >> yes. relatively nice. >> and let me ask you about your olympics. you've been relatively vocal about this. it's been a big year for the gay and lesbian community in america. are you happy with the speed and advances and rights now bestowed out? are you still thinking a lot of talk not enough action? >> having been on the journey of getting towards gay and lesbian rights equality, understanding, diversity in america, 20 years ago, started, no, i was hoping in 10 years it would all be -- we'd all feel comfortable about it. this is deep-seated fear that comes. religion and all kinds of things involved. so this changed -- this change of paradigm with understanding, love, relationship, family,

society takes time. are we moving in that direction? absolutely. >> you grew up in kansas. you came up -- i know when i grew up, gay was a bad word, homo, and -- there were so many then, blacks and poor, the immigrants, them, now the them is me. it was a very poignant way of putting it. do you feel the then that is you and those who are then has been like you, are in a much better position now that you have a president prepared to go on television and say, i support. >> absolutely. i do think that was a big tipping point in this movement, in the movement toward equality and recognition towards diversity. it's very important to say, well, my president said he's for it. it actually having it be enacted at a federal level, that's a

ways off. >> when you go back to kansas. >> yeah. >> is it better there in reality? is there more tolerance? >> tolerance. i don't even like to use the word tolerance. >> what's the right word. because it sounds like i'm doing something you have to tolerate. >> diversity recognizing there is no us and them. you can divide us up anyway between anything, sexually, color, religion, we're all different. >> you feel it's getting better even in places like kansas? >> especially in kansas. i came from kansas in the '60s, the middle of the civil rights movement. kansas was always that neutral, even in this civil war, that neutral state, we're not south, not north. they've held that. good hard working people that want to do up to others and understand what that means. >> we're facing an election in november.

you actually performed at the democratic convention in 2008 and barack obama is facing one hell of a fight, many people assume in november. what do you think of his record in the last four years and what do you think of the potential of a mitt romney presidency? >> okay. my olympics have evolved from very similar actually to the us and them we're talking about. i think it has done us more hamp believing in the huge differences between left and right democrat and republican and that there definitely is differences socially. now, i'm a little skeptical, having seen the last 20 years, of democrat-republican. they're still moving the same multi-national corporation agenda forward, so i have -- i'm starting to go, wait a minute, i think there needs to be a little alternative. i'm starting to get really progressive here, whether it's

democrat or republican. so socially, of course, i would love to see the democratic party still control some of these issues moving forward. physically, i think it's the same thing. that's what i think. >> that's quite depressing. >> i know. >> you feel depressing as you say that. >> not depressed. again, it feels like i actually feel what a lot of people are feeling. i'm really tired of this us and them. republicans and democrats and the horrible things. it only makes us -- when we all really want the same thing, we want lower taxes, we want a better system, better schools, we want strong businesses. and to divide ourselves like this is just hurting us. we've got to learn to get together on this or we're sunk. >> i could not agree more. >> let's take a break and we'll come back. we'll talk about music, viously. i've been handed this exotic thing. very cool. also, i want to talk to you about your extraordinary battle with cancer and the effect on your life.

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♪ so here's to me yeah sds ♪ let's raise a cup ♪ i'm fancy free ♪ and i've fallen fallen ♪ hey hey hey ♪ i've fallen up now "i've fallen up." the first single from her new album. she's back with me now. tell me about this album. i'm reading a direct quote here. i believed in myself more in this album than i ever have before now. it's your 14th album. is that linked to what you said to me? that basically you've learned to love yourself? >> yes, it's my 12th album. >> 12th, i do apologize. >> it's all right. >> 12th, 14th. ton of albums. >> my fans would write to you if i didn't say that. yes.

this came from a place of, oh, i had gone to england, where i hadn't been in, you know, 20 years in some of these places, and they were still listening to my music, loving my music. i went, wait a minute, why am i getting down on myself? why don't i believe in myself the way my audience does, my fans do? i went in the studio, played all the guitars, had a blast. made songs that i wanted to play live and really didn't think about anything else. >> i once interviewed andrew lloyd webber and he told me that he came up with the music to "memory" i think it was whilst buying tomatoes at his spanish grocery store. and i was, like, is that really how this happens to you musical geniuses? do you get this? do you literally -- just random places suddenly hear some incredible melody -- >> there's one right there. >> do you? >> yes, you can. sometimes it's quite annoying. and you have to say, later, please come back to me later.

the iphone is great to put something down or whatever. it does -- it's the -- i think bob dylan once said there's a -- there's a whole stream of consciousness that you grab on to something at the moment. if you don't get it, it goes on to somebody else. i do believe that artists just know how to reach into there and open that channel and bring that in and part of the craft of it is knowing, okay, i'm at the store, i can't do this now, but i'm going to set some time aside. and be able to pull and do it. >> what is the longest period you've ever had where you literally couldn't write a sg? of any quality at all? >> wow. i started writing when i was 10. >> did you get long blank periods, though? >> no, i don't. gi myself periods where i don't try to write. especially -- like right now, i'm in a not writing period. songs will come to me and i'll jot stuff down but i don't have to write.

i've never really held it in a way, like, i have to write. i'm not writing at all. i've never gotten that way. i just believe it will be there when it's supposed to. >> you famously battled breast cancer. you came through. 2004, you were diagnosed. your father had died of cancer. you said after it was the best thing that ever happened to me. why did you feel that? >> i -- i was being a good grown-up. i was working very hard. i was trying to be thin. i was eating power bars every day and drinking lattes -- >> disgusting, power bars. seriously. >> and it's not food. it's not. and so by my body breaking down and forcing me to be still, that was the biggest thing. to actually just -- i'd never been still. been working since i was 12. and be still and let the whole world pass me by and actually give me time to contemplate my life, my spirit, my health.

what is my health? what is this cancer? and then getting back up after the treatment. saying, oh, i'm going to walk now. remembering what it was like. like that. and start my life in a balanced health. everything i eat, everything i feel, everything i think. that's health. >> you publicly supported california's proposition 19 in favor of medical marijuana. you said at the time, i don't want to look like a criminal to my children anymore. i want them to know this is a choice you make as a responsible adult. if, god forbid, you were struck again by cancer, it came back or whatever, would you take marijuana? >> oh, yes, absolutely. i actually -- i'm a card holding medicinal marijuana register person in california. i use it as medicine to help the gastrointestinal issues i had

after chemotherapy. at that time i was going through chemotherapy, i used it as sleep to help with the pain. there's not just cannabis but there are many plant medicines that are available to us that have a lot of stigma around them that i hope in the future our medical community can look at because i would absolutely go to those alternatives first before i went back to western medicine. >> now, you're currently on tour, hitting 27 cities in the next three months. the new album set for september the 4th, we're talking about, what is next in the empire building of melissa etheridge? where do you want to be in five years time? >> i want to still be creating. i would love to create more for stage. >> do you have one great ambition? broadway show? >> yes, i do. i do have an ambition for a broadway show. i'm working on one right now. a couple of these songs come from the project i'm working on. i would love to write for more film. i just love creating. and touring.

i love what i do. i just want to keep doing it. >> the most important thing to me is you keep writing music for me and my car. >> you in your car. >> melissa, it's been a real pressure. good luck with your album. your tenth. >> 12th. >> it will be 12 soon. don't worry. dying to meet the lovely gina gershwin. ♪ i'm falling up now are you okay, babe? i'm fine. ♪ ♪ ♪ with a subaru you can always find a way. announcer: love. it's what makes a subaru, a subaru.

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>> in the 1995 cult classic "showgirls." played the he is duct s /* seductress 25 years ago. movies, tv and broadway shows. her new movie is "killer jokes." as amazing as ever. welcome, gina. >> thank you. >> i had to start the interview with that clip. i know you were groaning and moaning. that was iconic. that was the clip. >> this says more about you, that's how you decided to start the show, out of all the shows but hey, it's, you know, whatever. >> you must be proud of it. >> i actually haven't seen that for a long time. it's kind of difficult to watch.

>> difficult to film i should think, isn't it? >> oh that scene was easy. i was just laying in a bed in a hospital. didn't have to wear much makeup. that was an easy day. i quite enjoyed it. >> it's nearly 20 years since that film. unbelievably. you don't look a day older. >> oh, well, thank you. >> what is the secret? >> what is the secret? >> to eternal vitality. >> lots of virgin blood. no. i don't know. i feel, you ow, i think just have a good life, have fun, i'm fairly healthy, i guess. i think having fun and not taking yourself so seriously. not taking the age thing too seriously either. >> what's it like for women in the movies now compared to when you started? i've heard many sides of this coin. >> i don't really know because i was a lot younger when i started because i don't have the same issues now as when i was older. you know, i remember a long time ago sharon stone of all people at her 40th birthday party, she was asking me how old i was. i said -- she goes, you've got

to start lying about your age. i said, why? she said, starting at 40, you're not going to get amany scripts. i just thought she was insane. i actually think there is a little bit of ageism that goes on, on that level. which -- i mean there's two conversations. there's that which, you know, to me you watch something like "benjamin buttons" and to me it's like you can play it from 15 to 102. it's called makeup and lighting. as long as you can bring it, it's great. >> you think women get a harder rap than men? you think men can be a lot older and still get hot parts and women get deliberately sidelined at a certain age? >> well, what do you think? i think so. >> i would put you in a movie tomorrow. i find it baffling. i look at someone like you. why wouldn't you? i find it fascinating if you have found it too. >> well, i personally haven't found it yet. although i notice that if i haven't, you know, met people and they say they look the age

or say she's too old or she's too young. ev when i was younger, i lied about my age for that, saying i was older. saying, they're not going to cast me because i'm not quite old enough so i felt the need to e. it was interesting when i did "the insider," i kind of learned the lesson. michael mann, he wanted me to do the part of, you know, the head of cbs legal and when he said, i'd love you to do this, i kept thinking, i'm not old enough. she's got to be mid-40s, i'm too young. he's looking at me like i'm some sort of jerk. like, there's makeup and lighting and we can age you up. i was thinking, of course i can. like, why am i falling under the same category of the people i loathe, you know. >> the most extraordinary thing about you is you've never got married. >> why is that extraordinary? >> it just seems such a tragic waste. for somebody. >> you're assuming i haven't been having a good time. and haven't had relationships.

>> you've been having a fantastic time and no man's ever snared you. hooked you in. >> that's not true. i could be snared. i just haven't chosen to be married. >> how have you avoided it? >> i can see you're married, right? >> i am, second time. >> really? how's it going? >> very well. you're not interviewing me unfortunately. >> oh, sorry. >> have you come close? >> yeah, i have come close. i was living with someone for many years and i felt as if i were married and i probably would have married that person. but then things fell apart. and it's come up a couple other times but i didn't feel like it was the person i wanted to make that final statement with. >> do you think you ever will? >> i don't know. maybe. >> do you dream of a fairy tale white wedding one day? >> no, i never have. that seems like a nightmare to me honestly. the wedding, with like a zillion people. it seems -- i have an anxiety attack just having a big party at my house.

>> really? >> that would be really difficult. >> fascinating. i always imagined you'd be this incredibly confident person. >> i'm confident with certain things. but big parties -- if i ever were to get married honestly it would be me and my guy on island somewhere and that's it. i don't think i would have -- my mother would probably kill me but -- i don't know. it just kind of freaks me out a little bit. >> you are with somebody, right >> i am, yeah. >> i've been reading about it in the papers. avidly obviously. >> you have? oh, nice. >> how's that going? >> it's going great. i'm very happy. >> no wedding bells. >> not yet. >> this could be the one. >> this could be the one. you never know. what's the word, don't -- if it's not broken. knock it if it's -- >> it's one of those. >> one of those sayings. >> how many times would you say you've been properly in love in your life? >> define properly. >> i suppose it can be defined

any way you think it is. >> like really in love, like when i was younger i fell in love like every other day. >> no, like proper. >> probably twice before. and now i'm on a third. maybe once before and now i'm on a third. i don't know. i'd have to really think about it. >> so many men watching this -- >> yeah? >> just thinking, she looks incredible. >> uh-huh. that's nice. >> how do you feel about that? do you like being the object of male attention in that way? >> well, it's better than look and saying she looks like [ bleep ] i mean, i'd rather -- you know -- >> you also -- slightly confusing for them because you're also one of the most famous gay icons. following that scene i showed earlier. you, cher and bette midler. >> really? >> yeah. >> listen, if that's the company i'm in, i'm very pleased about that. i'm very proud of my gay icon status. >> so you should be. let's take a break and talk

about sarah palin and your very funny hysterical die video. and also matthew mcconaughey. one of my favorite actors. >> isn't he great? >> he's a nice guy. he's amazing in the movie. >> and just got married. >> a lovely girl, she's fantastic.

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i'm liable to blow this whole thing real good. >> what am i supposed to say? >> tell her the story. for god sake! why do you have to make everything so difficult? >> what story? >> the situation. tell her why joe's coming over tonight. >> how am i supposed to -- >> if she don't know what's expected of her, she might disappoint him. >> i'm riding her over to the thrifty, ain't i? >> oh. >> "killer joe." gina's back with me now. it's a great movie this. i love matthew mcconaughey. cards on the table. is he as nice to work with as i imagine he is? >> he -- first of all, he's so fantastic in this movie. i've never seen him better. and, you know, we have pretty intense crazy scenes together. so he was lovely to work with.

we really didn't speak to one another during the shoot. >> really? why? i love this. this is like keeng the tension alive. >> yeah, when you see the movie, you'll understand. we just had a kind of a really gnarly intense scene at the end. i think we kept a respectable, you know, professional distance from each other until we had to come together. and it was funny because we didn't have a lot of time to shoot. i think it was a very intense shoot. we were all kind of focused. i saw him one night out at a bar. we were in new orleans. you know, i didn't have any makeup on. i didn't have my look i was going for. i was like, hey. he's looking at me like, hello. i'm like, hi, matthew, it's me. he's like, oh, my god. we really hadn't kinof, you know, talked just as normal people. but he's lovely. >> i want to play you one of my favorite "funny or die" clips ever. this is you taking on sarah palin. it's the ending.

i particularly draw people's attention to. >> hello, america. i'm governor sarah palin. lately, there have been a lot of wild rumors about me and i'd like to set the record straight. i think global warming is p.s., polar bear [ bleep ] every day i open my door in anchorage and it is freezing. end of experiment. now, if you'll excuse me. i've got some hunting to do. >> you see, i would vote for you if that was your campaign promo if they came on and said, gina, vote now. i would go and vote for you. >> that was when sarah palin first came on the scene. remember, the pictures of her in the bikini. and adam mckay who is a fantastic writer. this is actually before tina fey

so geniusly portrayed her. he was like, we're going to do sarah palin, come over tomorrow and we're going to shoot it before it gets out there. when we ended up doing like four of them, the last one was insane. >> did she ever respond? >> no. >> you never met her? >> no, sadly. >> are you political much? do you take much of an interest in it? >> you know, probably not as much as i should. although when it gets closer to the actual voting, then i start to focus in on things. i mean, i certainly have opinions. but i feel like i'm not as -- i could be a lot more informed. >> are you an obama woman? >> am i an obama woman? i certainly voted for him. >> would you again? >> at this -- if -- at this very moment, i would. i don't think -- you know, mitt romney's not really floating my boat too much. i feel like in the next few months i'm going to focus in on it a lot more. i try not to -- i think it's too important. i think people make --

you can't just read little snippets. you have to really focus in. i have to watch the debates and you have to really make up your own mind. and i feel like as it gets closer, i'm going to put more and more time into it. i haven't been paying as much attention as i would have. i'm kind of embarrassed saying so here. >> why? >> just because i feel like i should be more -- a little bit more informed at this moment. but, listen, i think -- i don't know -- i think -- i mean -- >> one thing, if you were president tomorrow, gave you that power, what's the one thing that gets your goat? what is the one thing you would change, bring in to america to make it better? >> i would try to simplify everything. you kind of eliminate the middle man and you kind of just -- it's like almost like the good old-fashioned handshake. and much more grassroots. i do like that approach. i think everything has gotten so complicated. i mean, look, it's not like we're in the best state, you know, that we could be. we should be able to live peacefully and everyone should

get along and i just think there's so much -- >> unfortunately, there's just the perfect book coming out which can help them. it's your book and it's called this is the title, "in search of clear, how i found my pussy and lost my mind." >> when i ran for president that was my platform. thought, i'd better start now. i thought that would get me elected. >> i think it sounds like a fantastic book. i look forward to reading it. >> it's all about what people do in order to find true love. which is way up your alley. >> it is right up my alley. >> i know, i could tell. >> my path to true love came when i first watched "showgirls." it's been a great pleasure to have finally met you, gina. >> thank you. >> come back anytime. i actually mean that. "killer joe" is in theaters now. coming up, always on target, the inspirational story of the man called the armless archer.

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now, a man who gives the phrase, "pride in america" a whole new meaning. he's not just a champion archer, he's a champion archer who has no arms. he's competing in the london 2012 paralympic games. his story is extraordinary. it's an extraordinary story. i'm so glad you came in to tell me about this. you were born with no arms. you were given up for adoption at the age of 4 months. here you are now representing america in the paralympics. how did this happen? >> well, i believe i have a gift of shooting archery. at a young age, i got my first bo because i wanted to mimic my dad. my dad had a bow. i'm like, i want to shoot a bow like him. except he had hands. i had to figure out how to shoot with my feet. that's what drew me to archery. the fact that it was, you know, sophisticated and it was something that i had to really

work towards. basically like a challenge. so i see my dad using it. i was, like, i want one of those. that's kind of like how the archery got started. >> what is extraordinary is you use your feet to do this. yet, you can compete at the very highest level. i think to just understand what that means, we should see you in action. we set up an archery course in the studio a little earlier. this is what happened. >> bull's eye.

pretty amazing. that was just 30 feet. in the olympics you go to 70 meters, in the paraolympic games. you are one in fact best in the world at doing this. you've only been doing this, what, three or fours years properly? >> yes. like i told you earlier about having a bow when i was 16, it disappeared from my truck and i didn't have enough money to buy another one. so two and a half years ago i finally got some money around to afford to get another bow, and i started shooting again. i learned what it meant to work hard at something, and that's when i found out about the paraolympics. that's what i set my goals on. >> astonishing dedication to get the level you have so quickly just using your feet. what do your competitors think of this? the guy who fires arrows with no arms. >> i would like to say that they think that i'm a good competitor, but they're probably thinking, why is that guy siting down and shooting with his feet, you know?

we have it stand here all day. no. anyway, no, you know, hopefully i think they think that i'm just trying to compete like they are and be the best at archery. >> well, you hold the world record for the world's longest shot, 230 yards in october last year. we've got some footage of this. >> my dream is to break the world record. that dream will come true today. i'm confident because in all the practicing i've been doing i've been hitting my target on a regular basis. i hit it! [ cheers and applause ] >> what's amazing, it took you four shots, but that wasn't the pair limbic paralympic world record. that was the world record set by

an able-bodied archer. >> yes. >> i know i shouldn't sound astonished, but i am. you're an astonishing guy. you've got this remarkable spirit and determination. where do you get that from? >> i think it's instilled in me from my parents. my parents really pushed me to be the best that i can be, you know, no matter what i do. i feel like i learned that from them. >> what does it mean to you to be representing america in the paralympic games? >> i'm just smiling because it's such an honor and a privilege to be able to do that. when you're little, at least for me, i always dreamt abt playing army or wanting to serve the country and, you know, i can't do enough push-ups or my arms aren't quite -- so the fact i get to represent america in a sport i love is kind of my way of saying thank you back. >> knowing you, the little i do, but knowing your story, i would imagine it's gold or nothing for you, isn't it? >> that's the plan. >> you don't like coming in second, do you? >> no. it's gold. i'm going to do my best. i know if i do my best there's a good chance of the gold medal coming home with me.

>> it would be an amazing end to an incredible story. you have an amazing family, three children. what do they make of what their dad's up to? >> my oldest is carter. he thinks that i live in an airplane because we always go to the airport to fly to, you know, to a shoot and stuff. they don't quite grasp the situation on how big this whole thing is right now. they just know i'm going to london and they want to go with. >> well, you're going to a great city. it's going to be a very exciting time for you. the paralympic archery competition will be held in london from august 30th to the 5th of september. i wish you all the best. you are one of the most inspiring stories i've had throughout all the coverage of the olympics, the paralympics and so on. it's an amazing story. i wish you all the very best, and bring back gold to america. >> i appreciate it. thank you so much. >> good to see you. we'll be right back after this break. of buttons on your tablet.

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