Reggie Watts disorients you in the most entertaining way | TED

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(French) Mais Des fois on peut voir parce Que Les gens
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ici faire Des choses on peut manger.
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(French) Mais quand tu es fâché avec quelqu'un
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c'est pas passé the first time.
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(British English) And that's one of the things that I enjoy most
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about this convention.
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It's not so much, as so little has to do with what everything is.
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(Laughter)
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But it is within our self-interest
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to understand the topography of our lives
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unto ourselves.
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(Laughter)
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The future states that there is no time
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other than the collapsation of that sensation
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of the mirror of the memories in which we are living.
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(Laughter)
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Common knowledge,
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but important nonetheless.
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(Laughter)
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As we face fear in these times,
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and fear is all around us,
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we also have anti-fear.
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It's hard to imagine or measure.
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The background radiation is simply too static
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to be able to be seen under the normal spectral analysis.
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(American accent) But we feel as though there are times
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when a lot of us -- you know what I'm saying?
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But -- you know what I'm saying?
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Because, as a hip hop thing, you know what I'm saying,
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TED be rocking -- you know what I'm saying.
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Like so I wrote a song,
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and I hope you guys dig it.
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It's a song about people
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and sasquatches --
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(Laughter)
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And other French science stuff.
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That's French science.
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Okay, here we go.
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(Singing) I've been trying inside
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I know that I'm in trouble
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(Applause)
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that I'm in trouble
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by myself
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But every time it gets me
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(Vocalization)
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(Beatbox)
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(Singing) And I've been trying to be the one that you believe in
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And you're the one that I want to be so saucy
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And you're the one I want to [unclear], baby
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And you can do anything
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as long as you don't get hurt along the way back
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(Beatbox)
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If I survive, I'm going to tell you what is wrong
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Because if you were [unclear]
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And I think that you're looking like a [unclear]
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I give you what I want to be
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(Music)
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(Music ends abruptly)
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(British accent) And it's like,
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you could use as many of those things that you want.
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(Applause)
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And the computer models,
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no matter how many that you have
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and how many people that you use,
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are never going to be able to arrive at the same conclusions.
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Four years ago I worked with a few people at the Brookings Institute,
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and I arrived at a conclusion.
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(Laughter)
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Tomorrow is another day.
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(Laughter)
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Not just any day,
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but it is a day.
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It will get here, there's no question.
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And the important thing to remember
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is that this simulation is a good one.
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It's believable, it's tactile.
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You can reach out -- things are solid.
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You can move objects from one area to another.
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You can feel your body.
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You can say, "I'd like to go over to this location,"
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and you can move this mass of molecules through the air
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over to another location, at will.
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(Laughter)
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That's something you live inside of every day.
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Now with the allocation and the understanding
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of the lack of understanding,
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we enter into a new era of science
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in which we feel nothing more
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than so much so as to say
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that those within themselves,
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comporary or non-comporary,
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will figuratively figure
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into the folding of our non-understanding
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and our partial understanding
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to the networks of which we all draw our source
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and conclusions from.
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(Laughter)
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So, as I say before the last piece,
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feel not as though it is a sphere we live on,
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rather an infinite plane which has the illusion
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of leading yourself back to the point of origin.
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(Laughter)
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Once we understand that all the spheres in the sky
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are just large infinite planes,
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it will be plain to see.
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(Laughter)
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(Audience) (Laughter)
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This is my final piece.
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And just remember,
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everything you are --
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it's more important to realize the negative space,
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as music is only the division of space;
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it is the space we are listening to divided as such,
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which gives us the information in comparison to something other
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that gives us the idea of what the idea that wants to be transmitted
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wants to be.
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So please, without further ado.
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(Applause)
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Thank you.
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(Applause)
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This is a fun one.
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It goes like this.
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(Beatbox)
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(Gibberish)
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(Music ends)
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Okay, for the last piece I'd like to do,
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this one goes very similar to this.
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I hope you guys recognize it.
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Here we go.
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Okay, that still works. Okay, good.
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All right, here we go.
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(Laughter)
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(Beatbox)
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Here we go.
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(Beatbox)
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Yeah, yo, yo, yo
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(Gibberish)
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(Music fades out)
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Thank you. Enjoy the rest.
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(Applause)
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