Reggie Watts: A send-off in style [BEATBOXING] - So for years, we've been thinking about consciousness in the way that we have. And it's to my total pleasure that these things have worked out. As I mentioned earlier, we've been going through a few different dynamic changes within the organization itself. As director and senior fellow at the Brookings Institute, I can assure you my compatriots here-- and to everything that you've seen here so far is just the beginning. So I'd like-- We talk about design often. At some point during any human lifetime, they will use the word design, and that's a big deal. Aside from the and the a and the an in various languages, design is the fourth most popular word used. Before design was constructed we had the Mesopotamian era, and we all know how that was. [APPLAUSE] So. So. But as an ethnomusicologist, I've seen it all, you know, as they say. I've seen as much as I've seen. And so I've been collecting various tunes, if you will, throughout the epochs and eras. And the thing that I've landed upon this evening-- I wanted to share for you-- this is a Lemurian song. This is a civilization before the Mesopotamians, as many of you know. And they contained advanced technology, as we've been discussing earlier. They had the ability to levitate and decrease the volume and mass of objects at will utilizing sequence thought processes which entail very detailed memorization, visualization, et cetera. OK? So here's that song. [SINGS IN A MOCK LANGUAGE] [BEATBOXING] (SINGING) [INAUDIBLE] [SCATTING] (SINGING) [INAUDIBLE] face. Can I get a child I can never face? I got a love face every time I want to be down with you. Yeah, I got a love face every time the truth gets out about us. Can I say I want to be down for you? [INAUDIBLE] [INAUDIBLE] every time I want to be down for you. [INAUDIBLE] Yeah, I want to tell you, babe, that you want me down. Lift your hands all over. Get your [INAUDIBLE]. Get your sound blown out to the projection, then you find out-- yeah, I like your structure. Ain't nothing but a thing. Oh, yeah. Molecular structure ain't nothing but a thing. Oh, no, generally ascribing to the geometry that identifies you as a being that people can recognize over and over, 'cause they have the ability to memorize it. And just because you think you know what you're doing don't mean a thing, because science knows if you don't really know anything, just temporarily have a mild understanding of how things really are. [APPLAUSE] Thank you. No, thank you all for coming here. Pop! Tech is without-- without a doubt. And it has been that way for long enough to be here. And what I've learned through Pop! Tech is innumerable, immeasurable, inconsistent, constant, evading, ineffable, incongruous, malfeasant-- [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH] --and fun. OK, let's do this. [KEYBOARD NOODLING] [KEYBOARD MUSIC] (SINGING) In the unity of the Holy Sp-- no, I'm just kidding. All right, here we go. And here we go. [KEYBOARD MUSIC] (SINGING) Take a [INAUDIBLE] going down, baby. It's 1965. You ain't got your stereo on, and I don't know if I can take another light on my own. [INAUDIBLE] and your flipping it bad. And you ain't got another switch, so you just feeling so sad. And you can tell another person that she's [INAUDIBLE] on your growth. And you do what you do when you're doing it good. You can do what you didn't when you did it last week. 'Cause next week's another week, and if I have to remind you, then you don't understand the basic concept of time, yeah. And if you want to do what you can't, then that's up to you. Because you know that you're limited by a plan that you've been working on. [INAUDIBLE] and you put the meaning in your mud flaps flapping in the wind. Tell me I think life is worth is a world. But it's not, 'cause it's more than you think. And it's less than that. And we're only living in the memories of our future selves. And it's fun to think like we're here right now, but we are never really are. 'Cause we're somewhere in the future controlling the options-- given lots of hands to ourselves in order for us to [INAUDIBLE] the choice is still important in a world where we got to figure some stuff out, yeah. Baby, I love you! I love you, baby! And baby-- and baby-- and baby-- yeah! [APPLAUSE] [SCATTING] Oh, yeah, we heard enough of that in the '90s. OK, listen. I want to talk to you about a couple of relatively real issues. A lot of people wrote in on email and a couple other forms of communication that essentially are all the same thing but just branded different names that innovation is an innovation unto itself. At one point, innovation didn't exist. Someone had to create some kind of a word that created the feeling that it feels like to hear the word that we hear when we hear innovation. Innovation is a word that's only been around in the English vocabulary for 63 years. A lot of people don't know that, and if you did know that, that's great. Now, we all know that poverty is super easy to fix, and using modular dynamicism, we can recreate, unfold, re-sequence, understand, and reshape the way we think of thought itself. By constantly monitoring thought itself, it will not only lead you nowhere. It will give you a headache. So try not to do that. Instead, try to do something that's way outside of the box. Like, some place that if you were to see how far away from the box you were, you wouldn't even be able to tell what that box was anymore compared to the landscape that you're comparing it against. Getting outside of the box is more than just getting out of a box and walking away. As children know, sometimes boxes are very difficult to get out of. Why is it any different for us? Between glass ceilings, dirt floors, and boxes, we need to know that a bottom up approach is not only an approach that starts from somewhere that we believe to be the bottom-- but an approach that was painted by several painters throughout the [? eges ?] and the [? echoch ?] that led us to understand where can we be sometime in the future from now. And I can guarantee you, you will move at least 20 feet within the next hour. I can guarantee you that, and I have algorithms that can define and predict that-- utilizing movement prediction patterns, hair follicle samples that have been taken throughout the entire time that you've been here, and, of course, the common spectral analysis. Now, we know that everything here is an illusion and that we are somewhere else. But the cool thing about that is it feels pretty real. I mean, you know what I mean? Like, it's pretty convincing. So big credit to those people working hard there. So why Camden, Maine? Simple answer. Because-- what does because mean? Because has a B in it, at least one C, and a couple vowels. This combination of letters and vowels together to create a fairly pronounceable word gives us the strength and the power as individuals and as human beings to seek within ourselves not only the triumphant remorse of those who have compelled against us in a way that does not necessarily benefit us in the long term-- but give us the strength in the mid-term to show how the reversal of those roles of which we have come fairly accustomed to-- let's admit that-- to acquiesce and reform and re-modulate the world around us. Internally, we're pretty gross, There's a lot of liquid and tissues and things, and it's pretty gross to think about. So this is a song that I'd like to dedicate to all the gross things that we are walking around-- and also just a celebration of all of you guys here-- the people up there as well. Let's not forget them. There's some people behind the walls as well, walking around and doing things as well, and there's some people behind here. There's actually four people running this entire show, technically. That's it-- there's just four people. They can divide into five people per person. So there seems to be a lot of people back there, but they're all being controlled by central consciousness. OK, so anyways, without further ado, this is a song-- I have 1.5 songs. This song is-- eh, eh. [CLEARS THROAT] Mm-K. [BEATBOXING] No, that's not it. That's just a warm-up. Here we go. [BEATBOXING] (SINGING) How do you get one central [INAUDIBLE]? [MOCK NON-ENGLISH RAPPING] (SINGING) [INAUDIBLE] [MOCK RAPPING GIBBERISH] (SINGING) I have the best time when you groove it-- the things that you want to [INAUDIBLE] you get me so [INAUDIBLE]. Loving that you feel-- that you feel [INAUDIBLE]. Oh, babe, there is something that I've got to know. Oh, no, there's something I can't control. Oh, no, there's something I've got to know. Oh, no, there's something that I can't control. [MOCK RAPPING] You put your [INAUDIBLE] but you pound the pump and put your pants back on. Here's the thing-- put your pants back on. Fifth edition! Aw, yeah! [MOCK RAPPING] 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 8, 10, 11! 1, 2, 9, 3, 74, 6,300, 27, 122, 65.6523, yeah! (SINGING) Oh, no, there's something that I got to know! Oh, no, there's something that I can't control. Oh, no, there's something that I got to know. Oh, no, there's something that I can't control. Oh, no, there's something that I got to know. Oh, no, there's something that I can't control. Oh, no, there's something that I got to know. Oh, no, there's something that I can't control. Thank you. [APPLAUSE] For my last song-- thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much. (IN A SERIES OF FUNNY VOICES) Some people talk like this. Other people talk like this. Something are like this, and some people are like that. (IN A BRITISH ACCENT) Some people are like this. (WHISPERING) I don't know. I don't like that. Real quickly-- I'd like to thank Pop! Tech. I'm the first person to think Pop! Tech. But I would like to thank Pop! Tech. It's been an awesome right. I mean, the first time I came here, I met some ridiculous people. And a second time, some more ridiculous people. It keeps getting ridiculouser. But it's just an amazing concentration of people around you. But also not only knowing that whoever you're talking to-- even a volunteer, oftentimes, you're talking to a volunteer-- someone who has a sign on them that says volunteer. And you're talking to them, and you find out that they're like a theoretical physicist that works at some laboratory somewhere. And you're like, what? So I think that's important to realize. Every person in the world around you is really good at something. You know what I mean? So if this is the sample-- you know, here in this situation-- it's kind of a special situation-- but if you go out in the world, all around you, constantly, there are amazing people. And you'll never know, unless they have a badge on. But you'll never know unless you ask them. And oftentimes when I ask people things, they oftentimes will oftentimes say something often. And the more often that I notice that they're saying things that I think that they're going to say over and over again-- which would classify us as often. I feel as though there's a tranquil sunset setting in over my mind, which indicates that the world is going to be a pretty cool place at some point. And then it's going to be horrible again. But then it's going to be really cool. And then it's going to be not so good. And then they'll be pretty decent for a while. And it's going to be like, uh-oh! And after all, that's the engine of reality. But that gets us a little bit stronger. So with that knowledge that I've gotten from-- and an amazing DODOcase, which I still have-- I do. I do still have it, although I did drop it once, and that little frame cracked. And I had to glue it. But anyways, what I'm trying to tell you here today-- stay in school. It's a good place for kids. And I know a lot of your parents here are not into school, but I'm here to re-convince you-- putting kids in school is a good idea. OK? Well, I've talked to a lot of you guys, and you're like, I'm not putting my kids in school. I get it, and it's super, like, punk rock. I get it. But consider it. OK. All right, so this is my last song. This is about love, because at the end of the day, that's pretty much all you got. And that's an important ingredient, as we saw in The Fifth Element. And I think that we need to re-cognize all the things that influence us. So this is my last song. Thank you again so much, everybody. This is always an honor to be here, and you guys always make me feel so incredibly welcome. And I actually feel comfortable now going, like, oh, maybe it's not an accident I'm here. So thanks a lot for letting me blend in. I do appreciate that. Thank you. [APPLAUSE] So here we go. OK, power moves-- let's do this. [PULSING BEAT] That's not it. OK, here we go. (SINGING) I been taking lots of time, putting in my pocket. Don't know how it got there. But I forgot just a little bit more. Every time I think-- yes-- now, yes, I'm windy. 'Cause I'm trying to be the thing that I have never been before! Yeah! But got to know-- jive! Jive, children! Yeah! All the world, yeah, listen to the music. [INAUDIBLE] Take a little dive-- put you in a-- [PANTS] Get you on a [INAUDIBLE]. [BEATBOXING] [INAUDIBLE] jive that you know. Because I think there's a lot in you. But I know that you tell me one thing-- and I know it's true-- [INAUDIBLE]. And I know that you're dancing [INAUDIBLE]. [BEATBOXING] (SINGING) I like to tell everybody-- yeah, you haters-- be a little happy inside. I want to thank everything that I've [INAUDIBLE]. Yes, I do. I love [INAUDIBLE]. When I do what I do, oftentimes, I'm doing what I'm doing. Yeah, when I do what I do, oftentimes, I'm doing what I think I'm doing. When I do what I do, everything is different in the fight. [INAUDIBLE], everything is all right. Let me tell you. [BEATBOXING] (SINGING) I want to take a little time to talk about the love that I have inside, yes. When I listen to people talk about the [INAUDIBLE] rather succinctly on stages like this, it gives me just a little bit of encouragement to tell people other than myself that there's something going on. And you just got to open your eyes. And on the internet, there is a place that curated for all the information that you might desire to understand about the world. Yeah, it's a new age. And yes, you got to understand what you got. There's no excuses anymore. You got to do what you do. If you ain't doing it, then what are you doing? Probably the antithesis something that you're doing. And that's OK, baby, 'cause I'm going to tell you. Whoa! The love that I'm singing-- every [INAUDIBLE]. When do you [INAUDIBLE]? Show me what you got-- love that! What can I tell them? [INAUDIBLE] Yes, I want to take you on a little journey. [MOCK NON-ENGLISH SPEECH] What you saying? Everybody's talking [INAUDIBLE]. [NO AUDIO FROM MIC] [APPLAUSE] Hey guys, thank you so much. Have a great night tonight. Thank you so much. I'll see you a little bit later. Thank you, thank you, thank you!