George Takei: Oh Myyy (R)

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4.6 • 5K Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2016

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Best known as Hikaru Sulu from Star Trek, the actor, activist and social media sensation talks about Allegiance, the musical inspired by his life, and dramatically reads some especially mundane directions.

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0:29.5	From NPR and WNYC, coming to you from the Bellhouse in beautiful Brooklyn, New York,
0:35.5	its NPR's hour of puzzles, word games, and trivia, ask me another.
0:40.2	Now here's your host, Ophira Eisenberg.
0:43.4	Thank you Jonathan Colton.
0:50.2	We have a great show for you.
0:52.2	Eight contestants are here to play our nerdy games, but only one will win our grand prize,
0:57.7	provided by our VIP.
1:00.0	And when we found out this VIP was joining us, everyone on staff had a different reaction.
1:04.9	We had a wow and OMG, I get out of town, a great scat, even a suffering sucka-tash.
1:13.0	But you know the only true, accurate reaction is, oh my.
1:18.6	NPRVIP is George Tchaik.
1:29.7	George will be joining us a little later to talk about his musical allegiance, his social
1:34.0	media dominance, and of course Star Trek.
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