12. George Takei (Actor + Activist) – Ego/Focus/Xenophobia
Think Again - a Big Think Podcast
Big Think / Panoply
4.6 • 594 Ratings
🗓️ 5 September 2015
⏱️ 28 minutes
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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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