This was a long time coming.

So yeah, I'm not gonna lie. Um, I just did something kind of dope. Dare I say I may have just ticked off one thing on my life bucket list and uh I want to talk about it. I mean, it's no secret if you actually clicked on this video after reading the title, but yeah, I did a TED talk. Finally, I can unironically use that meme of thanks for coming to my TED talk. So, reverse the clock back to around, I believe it was this summer. I was hitting a pop-up store over in Harajuku. I made a whole vlog about it, which you can click up there to check out. But while I was there, I had a bunch of fans coming to the store, you know, wanting to check out the stuff, hang out with me, and everybody who showed up there was super dope, super nice. And out of the many lovely fans and viewers who came to say hi to me, uh, one of them was like, "Hey Joey, I just so happened to be a student over at the University of Tsuka, which if you guys don't know is a big university up in the Ibaraki Prefecture in Japan. Word around the grapevine is that you have always wanted to do a TED talk." Well, funny you should say that because this year the University of Sukubar is actually hosting a TED X talk, which for those of you who don't know is an independently organized TED event. Before anything, I should probably explain what TED even is in case you have no idea what it is. I just assumed everybody knew. TED is a nonprofit organization uh which stands for technology entertainment design and they're pretty famous for organizing events that invites speakers uh from all over the world to do these short 10 to 20 minute speeches about whatever the speaker wants to talk about in hopes that it will innovate or encourage or I guess influence uh the listeners to whatever the message is that they want to portray in their speech. They've been around for quite a while, especially if you've been on YouTube during the early stages. Uh I believe they really popped off around like 5 10 years ago with just some incredible speeches. And I say that completely unironically. Uh I watched a bunch of TED talks while I was in university and it really helped me a lot with just navigating through this very uh rickety part of my life. And I'm sure the same thing can be said for a lot of you guys watching this video as well who maybe grew up watching TED talks on YouTube. So naturally, having grown up and watched a shitload of TED talks growing up, I always looked at that and went, "Hey, that looks kind of dope. I I I really want to like try it out." And that's saying a lot considering that when I was in school,