And at the end of the day, he proved his point. But in the end, he had logic on his side. The teacher couldn’t believe it, the classroom couldn’t believe it either. And there was a student in that class, okay? And the, the teacher, he was spouting some horrible nonsense, about how, it was something about how women’s rights are not legitimate, something that everybody knew was false, but if anybody had spoken up, he would’ve taken extreme joy in failing them. I was at a college, a second tier, not an ivy league school, a second choice school, and I was in a class. I’d like to start this talk off with a parable. We’re the machine that keeps the world going. I’m looking at young minds right now, you guys are all intelligent, I know that you did good in school, I didn’t do that. Hey guys, right there is for saving the worlds, worlds, world. Ah, you, you couldn’t keep your hands off her, could you? Yeah, hey, I don’t blame ya, she’s a cutie! You two! You’re patting each other, that’s cheating. Come on, everybody, I’m not gonna make you, I’m not gonna let you stop until I see everybody doin’ it, let’s pat ourselves on the back. Guys, pat yourselves on the back right now. In 2014 he will be investigating the methamphetamine trade in Mongolia. He recently returned from Mogadishu, the most dangerous city on earth, where he shadowed the heroic al-Mahamud women on their quest to clean up the streets and restore humanity to their war-torn country. His work spans every continent and has been featured on television and in print (Discover, NatGeo, Vice, and others). Sam Hyde is a video journalist and documentary filmmaker from Brooklyn, New York. This version is slightly abridged for convenient reading. The following is a transcript of Sam Hyde’s 2013 TED Talk at Drexel University.

2070 paradigm shift transcript