And no one else! LOL

Okay, I didn't write down Craig Kilborn's part word for word. When it comes down to it, really, who cares? You want to know what RICHIE said, right? Right.

CK: intro
Richie: bows, smiles, holds arms out, wearing jeans and a black t-shirt over a long sleeve hooded red shirt.
CK: I know you wanted to get out of the house on Thanksgiving.
Richie: Absolutely. I left my bird on the table (bird noise).
CK: Thanks for dressing up, you look great.
Richie: Hey, you know, I put on my best jeans.
CK: You're a nice guy. Do people tell you that all the time?
Richie: Thank you. Thank you. What don't I have to be nice about? I've got a great career and a wonderful wife and a great family.
CK: We'll get to the wife in a second.
Richie puts his hand to his chin and wiggles his fingers.
CK: What do you want to talk about AD or the new CD?
Richie: Anything you want.
CK pulls out photos. This is you.
Richie: I haven't seen this picture (bites hand). I had to do my best John Lennon (turns on accent). I had to be an Englishman. AD is a great show and they asked, it's about the innocence of the 60's, and they asked me if I would represent a Yardbird, the group from the 60's.
CK: And you said absolutely
Richie: Absolutely. I thought the show was great. I got a chance and obviously they formed my musical (kind of mumbled and jumbled)
CK: shows pics. Here you are in 60's garb.
Richie laughs. I'm definitely looking like John Lennon.
CK: And here's the one I like--looks like you're doing something British here (making singing sex face)
RS: Listen. That's me best John Lennon pose. Y'know it was a gas to do that. I mean, growing up in the Renaissance of music, I got a chance as a musician, as a songwriter, as a guitar player to grow up in the Renaissance of music and to learn music when Jimi Hendrix and Clapton and Simon and Garfunkle and the Beatles and Bob Dylan, all those great. I think they formed our whole business, our whole musical ya'know.
CK: Tells that he had Billy Bob Thornton on Monday and asked him who the three greatest rock bands were.
Richie: And he said Bon Jovi right away. Richie Sambora was second.
CK: To make it difficult, I said you can not name Bon Jovi. So that put the pressure on him. Who are you're top three?
Richie: The Beatles, obviously, but the next 2 are really tough. There wre so many great bands that came out of the blues infusion that were really happening at that point, y'know, like Zepplin and Cream, y'know, bands like that and you can't discount Jimi Hendrix which was amazing--
CK: And we're counting him as a band?
Richie: But he is a band.
CK: OK, I try
Richie:He's one of my favorite dead guys--absolutely.
CK talks to guy off camera about BBT's choices.
Richie: You know, it was funny, um, well not funny, it was actually a big honor, we played, uh, we've done this massive tour this year and culminated by 2 nights at Giant's Stadium, but a month before that we played Hyde Park. They tore down Wembly Stadium so we had no place to play in London, so we had to ask, uh, Prince Charles (puts hands to ears) to, excuse me--no offense there Prince--but to ask him to play HP and he obliged and, uh, we had the pleasure of having 92,000...
CK 92,000!!!!
Richie: That's called getting paid. GP, my brother (writes in air)
CK: Peter Framton said playing in front of that many people was better than sex. You want to comment on that?
Richie: Sex is still exciting. t's an amazing thing when you've written a song be it LOAP or WDOA or IML or something that you've written in a confined room with a couple of other guys or with your partner and all of a sudden, you have throngs of people, thousands of people singing it back. It's just, you know, you're making a great connection, but it's still not as good as sex. Especially sex with Heather Locklear.
CK: How is Heather? She's lovely
Richie: She's a beautiful woman.
Ck: She has great legs.
RS: Absolutely. Delicious legs.
CK: It says with a twist. Is this a Greatest Hits or no?
RS: Yes it is. It's you know what, first of all, we put out a greatest hits in 96 (his mistake, not a typo). It did very well. It's at about 20 million records right now. Um, we decided to, after our tour, we were bored, and we took a week off and then went back in the studio for I don't know what reason, but we took all our greatest hits and kind of turned them upside down and I actually like the new versions of all these songs that were like our #1's and #2's all over the world and they're contemporary new versions.
CK: Harmonica. You guys used harmonica in all of them.
Richie: The Harmonicats actually, remember those guys that played on that song?
CK: Aren't these acoustic?
Richie: It's mostly acoustic which is somethign we've been known for because I think--
CK: Bad Medicine acoustic? How do you do that?
Richie: Um, very nastily. It has a very New Orleans groove to it and a lot of slide and it's very, very nasaty. It's great. It's cool. Cool stuff.
CK asks about the Lakers
RS: I love my Lakers, but how about my football team?
CK: Who is your football team?
RS: I just bought a football team, the Philadelphia Soul, an AFL team. So come see us. We'll be playing the LA Avengers..... mumbles.
CK: You're a big sports guy.
RS: Big sports guy.
CK: Watch out for the Spurs and Tom Duckton
RS: He's the man

A little more sports talk, hard to catch, they're talking at the same time. Wish each other Happy Thanksgiving.

Transcribed by Becky. Feel free to post, but please give credit where it's due.

Becky