{"id":42122,"date":"2015-11-10T09:39:05","date_gmt":"2015-11-10T17:39:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=42122"},"modified":"2015-11-10T09:39:05","modified_gmt":"2015-11-10T17:39:05","slug":"george-takei-reddit-ama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2015\/11\/george-takei-reddit-ama\/","title":{"rendered":"George Takei Reddit AMA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>George Takei<\/strong> has taken part in a<em> Reddit AMA<\/em> (ask me anything), where he discussed his personal and his professional life.<\/p>\n<p>A topic of discussion was <em>Allegiance<\/em>, which is currently running on Broadway. One of Takei&#8217;s biggest regrets in life was an incident in which he blamed his father for taking them to the internment camp for Japanese-Americans. By the time he felt able to apologize to his father, it was too late, as the elder man had passed away. Takei feels that one part of <em>Allegiance<\/em> is aimed at his father. &#8220;Every night when I speak my final monologue,&#8221; he said, &#8220;it is an apology to my father.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Every night is a tribute to my father.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Often a guest on the<strong> Howard Stern<\/strong> show, Takei shared his favorite moment from the show. &#8220;Judging the most beautiful penis contest,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Brad didn&#8217;t talk to me for a week after that one.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And sometimes Brad gets angry when Takei disses him on the <em>Howard Stern Show<\/em>. &#8220;I get the silent treatment for a while,&#8221; admitted Takei. &#8220;But it&#8217;s not as long as it used to be.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But when asked if he was happy, Brad was first on the list. &#8220;I&#8217;m happy,&#8221; said Takei, because I have Brad in my life; I get to perform <em>Allegiance<\/em> eight times a week, and I&#8217;m in the center of the defining city of the 21st Century, New York City.<\/p>\n<p>Takei&#8217;s <em>Facebook<\/em> feed is very popular and he was asked how much of it was him, and how much was done by others. &#8220;I have staffers who help me source and collect much of what is on my feed,&#8221; he explained. &#8220;Obviously it is too much for one person to handle. The commentary is mine.&#8221; Takei said later that he has four staffers helping out with his Facebook feed.<\/p>\n<p>Turning to <em>Star Trek<\/em>, Takei told fans which co-worker on the original series was his favorite. &#8220;I enjoyed <strong>Jimmy Doohan<\/strong>,&#8221; he said. &#8220;He was a wonderful actor, down to earth friend, and a guy who taught me a lot about drinking.<\/p>\n<p>Takei also gave his opinion regarding the new<em> Star Trek<\/em> television series. &#8220;It&#8217;s a great idea,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I&#8217;m eager to see what these imaginative futurists come up with.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>To read the <em>AMA<\/em>, head to the link located <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/IAmA\/comments\/3s71kn\/helllloooooo_there_its_george_takei_oh_myyy\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>George Takei has taken part in a Reddit AMA (ask me anything), where he discussed&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42123,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2413],"tags":[7580,8688,2415],"class_list":["post-42122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cast-crew","tag-reddit","tag-reddit-ama","tag-takei"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/TakeiSuluAllegiance111015.gif",580,225,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/TakeiSuluAllegiance111015-150x150.gif",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/TakeiSuluAllegiance111015.gif",580,225,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/TakeiSuluAllegiance111015.gif",580,225,false],"large":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/TakeiSuluAllegiance111015.gif",580,225,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/TakeiSuluAllegiance111015.gif",580,225,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/TakeiSuluAllegiance111015.gif",580,225,false],"newsphere-slider-full":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/TakeiSuluAllegiance111015.gif",580,225,false],"newsphere-featured":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/TakeiSuluAllegiance111015.gif",580,225,false],"newsphere-medium":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/TakeiSuluAllegiance111015.gif",580,225,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"T&#39;Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/cast-crew\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Cast &amp; Crew<\/a>","tag_info":"Cast &amp; Crew","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42122"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42124,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42122\/revisions\/42124"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}