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Think Again - a Big Think Podcast

12. George Takei (Actor + Activist) – Ego/Focus/Xenophobia

Think Again - a Big Think Podcast

Big Think / Panoply

Arts, Society & Culture

4.6594 Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2015

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Is attention an endangered species? How do you collaborate with someone who hates you? Is xenophobia a natural side effect of religion? In this week's episode of Big Think's Think Again podcast, host Jason Gots is joined by actor, activist, and internet superhero George Takei. Interview clips from Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Ben Parr, and Daniel Kahneman launch a lively conversation about religion,human rights, and the three types of attention. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Have you ever wondered what a sandwich sounds like?

0:04.2

Not much to it, is there?

0:06.2

Unless, of course, it's a Walker's sandwich.

0:10.9

Mmm, that is good.

0:12.9

Now that's what Asani should sound like.

0:15.8

Go all crisp in with walkers.

0:19.0

Delicious.

0:20.1

Hi there, I'm Jason Gottz, and this is Think Again, a Big Think podcast.

0:24.8

Big Think is an online forum for the world's most interesting thinkers and doers to share

0:29.1

their ideas on video.

0:30.7

Since 2008, we've shared over 10,000 of them.

0:33.9

On the Think Again podcast, we surprise our guests and me, your host, with unexpected clips from

0:38.7

these vast and mysterious archives, and then we talk about them.

0:42.5

And I'm very honored to be joined today by George Taked, author, actor, human rights activist,

0:48.0

and master of social media.

0:49.7

He was Mr. Sulu on the original Star Trek television show, and he's also the star and

0:53.9

the inspiration behind Allegiance,

0:56.0

a new Broadway musical about the Japanese-American internment camps during World War II.

1:02.0

Welcome to think again, George.

1:03.0

Thank you very much.

1:05.0

How many lyricists did you have to hire before someone could find a word to rhyme with internment? We came across Jay Quo and he is a first and only composer lyricist.

1:19.6

He can do Japanese folk tunes as well as jazzy Broadway show tunes, as well as soaring romantic love songs.

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