Thanks for rebroadcasting this wonderful interview and profile of Ben Burtt. I've been a fan of his work ever since I became an Oscar trivia buff (shortly after Star Wars became a childhood obsession).

I just have one quibble regarding your statement that you hoped "WALL-E would become the first animated film nominated for Best Picture." More than one person has expressed this wish and while WALL-E certainly should have been nominated for the big prize, BEAUTY & THE BEAST was already the first animated feature nominated for Best Picture. (That was in 1992, a full decade before the Academy introduced Best Animated Feature as a category.)

Everyone seems to have forgotten this and BEAUTY & THE BEAST's artistry and achievement deserve a reminder.

Thanks again for the profile of Mr. Burtt. I always look forward to whatever you're doing next!

He talked about slightly mis-tuning a radio to hear the strange sounds.

When I was running the radios on an HH-60J out of AirStation Traverse City one day, I ever-so-slightly mis-tuned the HF radio. It was, if I remember, supposed to be 5.56 Mhz and bumped it by a couple of hundredths.

I then made the routine check-in call and damned if the voice coming back from Traverse City Air didn't sound like the voices of the X- and Y-Wing pilots chattering to each other during the Death Star assault. All weird and wavy, but still intelligible.

So, I got to wear a cool helmet AND talk sound like an X-wing pilot at the same time. What I nerd.