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Speaker 1: Crushed the case on the phone. Hello, how are you, George?

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Speaker 2: Good morning, and we're in Austria, Sydney, Australia, so we're

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Speaker 2: feeling fine.

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Speaker 1: It's great today.

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Speaker 3: Our theme is both cats and space, and you've covered

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Speaker 3: both of those. But let's talk about the film initially. Now,

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Speaker 3: I don't have children, so I don't ordinarily go and

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Speaker 3: see kids films. But what I liked about this film

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Speaker 3: was that had had a lot of and when I

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Speaker 3: say adult humor, not you know, double entendre humor, but

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Speaker 3: a lot of humor that would have appealed to adults

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Speaker 3: that have taken their kids.

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Speaker 1: Again see the film too.

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Speaker 2: It's a direct laugh out loud film. For example, the

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Speaker 2: I'm a big beef fat Sammarai, the muscleman for this

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Speaker 2: lord Igochu, voiced by Ricky Erbas. He's a tiny wee

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Speaker 2: bit of a cat, but he's got an eagle as

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Speaker 2: big as Mount Fuji, and he's building a palace that

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Speaker 2: is humongous by every definition of the word humongous. Hallways

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Speaker 2: among us, doorways, ballrooms, and even the toilets are of

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Speaker 2: the giant proportions. And what happens with that toilet is plushingly.

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Speaker 1: It's a really funny film.

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Speaker 3: And as I said, you know, there were things like

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Speaker 3: one of my favorite quotes of the film was guns

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Speaker 3: don't kill cats.

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Speaker 1: Curiosity does you know? Things like that. That's really clever.

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Speaker 3: It's time for us to all stand up on our

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Speaker 3: own four feet. I imagine that you had a lot

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Speaker 3: of fun doing this as well. What I enjoyed about

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Speaker 3: the film was seeing people like Ricky Juvias, or at

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Speaker 3: least hearing their voice and hearing, you know, the voices

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Speaker 3: of all the characters, and then trying to imagine them

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Speaker 3: doing this. And that's really the fun part about it.

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Speaker 2: Well, this is voice acting, and I grew up on

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Speaker 2: voice acting. I'm of the radio generation. That was the

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Speaker 2: way we had daily entertainment. We didn't have television, we

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Speaker 2: didn't have any other means. We did have movies, but

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Speaker 2: that was on Saturday nights or Saturday matinees. So every

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Speaker 2: night I was glued to the radio for trips Bycaragously

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Speaker 2: into a science fiction future or the American West, or

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Speaker 2: Manhattan with the Green Hornet. So I grew up on

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Speaker 2: voice acting and I'm still at it seventy years later,

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Speaker 2: and very good.

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Speaker 3: Samuel l. Jackson is in this as well. Did you

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Speaker 3: in order to channel the character? Did you do anything

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Speaker 3: specific from the method technique in order to actually inhabit

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Speaker 3: the whole vocabulary of the cat?

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Speaker 2: Oh? Yes, for cartoon voice acting. And my character is big,

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Speaker 2: enormous obese character. He's the muscle for Ricky Gervais, who's

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Speaker 2: a teeny tiny character with like a Pecanese cat and

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Speaker 2: yet high pitched voice and teeny tiny but with huge

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Speaker 2: ambitions and huge everything his palace as I described. And

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Speaker 2: so I had to create a character whose voice was

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Speaker 2: like a big obese person. And it's my talent and

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Speaker 2: the fact that I have all those potential obesity in

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Speaker 2: me that made my character's name was Oga and made

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Speaker 2: vocally huge obese man.

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Speaker 3: So it'd be fair to say that inside of you,

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Speaker 3: deep inside of you, there's an obese cat just waiting

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Speaker 3: to burst out.

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Speaker 2: Exactly.

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Speaker 1: Do you know what I liked that, George?

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Speaker 3: What I love about you know, like cartoons I've always

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Speaker 3: wanted to do one, is that there's something just so

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Speaker 3: pure and innocent about the whole thing as well. It

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Speaker 3: just gives me so much joy to be able to

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Speaker 3: see actors like yourself being able to do cartoon voices.

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Speaker 1: I've often toyed with the idea.

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Speaker 3: I've got my own idea, and I just want to

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Speaker 3: run it by you now, because you've been to out

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Speaker 3: of Space and you understand cats and cartoons. My character

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Speaker 3: is a small boy who has an elephant trunk, but

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Speaker 3: he just he has a heart of gold, and he's

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Speaker 3: called zoo Boy and the voice I've sort of worked

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Speaker 3: for him sounds a bit like this. I want to

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Speaker 3: run it by you in a workshop fashion and you

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Speaker 3: can tell me whether or not, you know, like he

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Speaker 3: has sort of something.

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Speaker 1: He talks like this, he goes, hello, George, it's a

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Speaker 1: pleasure to speak to you. And being a catch as

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Speaker 1: well as me a sort of boy with a trunk.

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Speaker 1: What do you think has it got something?

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Speaker 2: Well, you've got the talent caled Ham and you thank

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Speaker 2: you very much.

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Speaker 1: I want to talk to you.

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Speaker 3: It would be remiss of me not to talk to

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Speaker 3: you about one of the most important things.

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Speaker 1: Of course, Star Trek, which I.

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Speaker 3: Mean, I imagine you know, was such an incredibly important time

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Speaker 3: in television, because television these days, for me, it's just

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Speaker 3: to be honest, I find it a bit banal. But

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Speaker 3: back in those days, it had the ability to educate.

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Speaker 3: And the thing about Star Trek is it broke so

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Speaker 3: many taboos as well. It was such, in my opinion,

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Speaker 3: along with sage shows like Mash, such an important show.

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Speaker 3: Did you find that you still get people saying things

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Speaker 3: like that to you?

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Speaker 2: Well, you know, I think people all over this planet

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Speaker 2: were many, many generations. Now the grandchildren of the people

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Speaker 2: that listened to Star Trek back in nineteen sixty six,

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Speaker 2: will if you will. Star Trek is fifty six years

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Speaker 2: old though, and still as big as of her. And

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Speaker 2: we have many many spin offs that we call our children.

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Speaker 2: I think we have our great grandchildren running on television.

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Speaker 2: So I think that Gene Roddenberry, who created the series,

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Speaker 2: saw the future with an optimistic guy. He saw that

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Speaker 2: the strength of our society lay in its diversity, people

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Speaker 2: from all over this planet working together in concert, everyone

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Speaker 2: contributing is her unique talent, unique perspective, unique history, and

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Speaker 2: making for a very effective and powerful team of space cadets.

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Speaker 2: And that's what Star Trek was all about. And I

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Speaker 2: know you together in concert. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: I was going to say, George, are very well known

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Speaker 3: for your humanitarian work as well, and I totally agree

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Speaker 3: with you. The diversity and the tolerance that this TV

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Speaker 3: show had all those years ago is something that I

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Speaker 3: really think that we can embrace on this planet now

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Speaker 3: more than we have done since you know, the inception

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Speaker 3: of Star Trek.

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Speaker 2: We certainly do. Yes, we had this phrase that we

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Speaker 2: call idic I d I see a metaphor for infinite

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Speaker 2: diversity in infinite combinations, and that was the strength of

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Speaker 2: the Starship Enterprise, boldly going where no one had ever

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Speaker 2: gone before.

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Speaker 3: George, it's an absolute pleasure to speak to you. I

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Speaker 3: have one of your biggest fans. Can you give a

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Speaker 3: yell out? Just say hello to Matt from Oakdale because

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Speaker 3: he's one of your biggest fans.

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Speaker 1: He didn't get the chance to talk to you.

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Speaker 3: Just give Matt a big shout out and he will

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Speaker 3: go forth and prosper.

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Speaker 2: Matt. May you live long and prosper.

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Speaker 1: Such a pleasure to talk to you, my friend. Thank

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Speaker 1: you so much.

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Speaker 3: Everybody should go and see Pause and Fury, The Legend

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Speaker 3: of Hank. It's just absolutely fantastic film. Thank you so much.

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Speaker 3: It's a real pleasure to talk to you.

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Speaker 2: Great talking to you, and may you live long and prosper.

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Speaker 2: As well.

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Speaker 1: Probably a bit late for that, but the mind, I'll

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Speaker 1: go with it anyway. Thank you George,