![]() He proposes ideas like ‘sea floor farming’ to satirize other progressive ideas that have only a basic root in reality and science such as things like ‘flying cars’. They are ideas that are very extreme to point out the absurdity of some speakers. The second take away I had was about the ideas he was presenting. I don’t know if this is necessarily a bad thing, but bringing the use of these overused statements into attention is still important as they are phrases that people often associate with the truth, so they are manipulative in a way. When being presented with these in a humorous way, I realized how often these statements are repeated by speakers. ![]() This goes on throughout the entirety of the talk as Hyde repeats phrases like “We looked at the data” and “What we found surprised us”. This part is a rip on the classic motivation speeches where the speaker seems to congratulate the audience for doing nothing. “That pat on the back right there is for saving the world,” He adds. “I’m not going to let you stop until I see everyone doing it,” He says. His first actual line is a request for the audience to pat themselves on the back. Obviously, this part of his satirization is meant to humor, but calling out these typical practices of all TED speakers makes the viewer realize how often they occur. Within these first seconds, he has already satirized the typical TED speaker in many ways. This talk starts out with some fidgeting by the speaker, an immediate rush over to the water bottle, fiddling with the mic, a request to restart, and breathing that indicates he is already tired. Although presented in a very humorous way, this TED talk does a great job in satirizing and calling out the classic TED talk (and motivational speech) tropes, which brings me to my first takeaway: the importance of criticizing and critiquing the norm. Due to their negligence, TED permitted him to have a spotlight, ultimately proving Hyde’s point: that they would let anyone use their platform. A simple internet search would have shown that Hyde was a comedian, not a journalist. He had told this story to TED without giving any evidence or without them even doing a background check. The problem was that none of this was true. He reached out to TED and the university where it took place, and told them his story about how he had just done some journalism work in Africa where he helped a group of war-afflicted women clean up the streets of their town and help restore the community. Sam Hyde got the opportunity to do this TED Talk in a very unconventional way. It was actually presented on TEDx, which is what TED uses to organize talks in smaller areas. This TED Talk was actually removed from the official TED site (you’ll see why later), but I think that it still says a lot of important ideas regarding what it so obviously satirizes.
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