I'm six minutes into this this and no menton of Latino music in "Americana"/Folk. Respect to Pokey, but if you're going to talk about the roots of American music, Latin music is right up there.

Write him in in November 2024!

Amazing talk, Pokey!

Awesome Pokey. Piss weak crowd.

In Australia and i bloody love his music and have a for years now

What Susan Polgar didn't mention was that she and her two sisters were taught chess as an experiment in education by her father, Laszio Polgar, who was an educational psychologist, as well as a chess teacher. He wrote at least two books on chess that I know of. He is also considered a pioneer theorist in child rearing. Susan's and her sisters' introduction to chess was not them finding some chess pieces scattered in a draw as she portrays in this video. It was an intentional experiment pushed onto them by their father, an experiment that at the time was criticized as being inappropriate to subject to a child at such a young age. Still, the experiment, despite its detractors, seems to have been successful. Indeed, Laszio Polgár's experiment with his daughters has been called "one of the most amazing experiments in the history of human education". Susan herself has authored an excellent series of books to teach chess. I have the greatest respect for her as a chess player. I just wish she would be more honest about how she was introduced to the game.

This remains as poignantly true today as 10 years ago. Thank you, Dr. Jones!

Is anyone more COOL than Pokey LaFarge?

LaFarge 2024

You sing like your from down south ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

Capitalism has destroyed America

LovePokey LaFarge!

Has Susan ever been to Indonesia, Tanimbar?

FUCK YEAH thank you for your advice Brother

American music is awesome!

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You are not Ellie. You are my Kimmy❤

i call you refreshing

It’s kind of funny to see the “Fuck Me Up” guy in a suit giving a lecture.

If love you great and old architecture you HAVE to rethink living car culture...

Listen people! Music is music. Those who produce it are amazing. However, nothing dictates music. It's like beauty. It's in the eye (or the ear) of the beholder. Don't over complicate any form of visual, audial or any other form of art.

How is he in a church and not engulfed in flames? LOL.

In my opinion, if everything you do/see/hear is "old" - it's most definitely "retro." You could always add ONE new thing, an instrument or shoes or whatever, that is not from 1943. That's being original/creative.

I love Pokey and this was just wonderful. The audience was a little shy though.

Best Performance-Focused Moral- Respectful Needs Work Performance-Accountable Moral- Patient

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The backgroubd music really screws this over

Why no comment since within 8 years

Something in the Water

Nice whistle! Whistel and Flute/Suit that is.

Pokey for President 2024

I love this guy

man in 2022, this guy's words couldn't be more true.. really ahead of his time in his thinking, especially the part where he speaks of embracing our past and celebrating the things we've overcome instead of letting our past be our downfall.

Great invention on gut microbiome based food supplements for malnourished children in India.

I believe the crowd finally woke up near end of his song!

I love him even more now.❣

I been digging Pokey since 2016. I'm 67 I've turned people in 20s on to him.

I worked the audio-video of this event, and had the pleasure of meeting him and other brilliant people at this event. He is very much down to earth and a friendly soul :)

It's honestly frustrating hearing how unfair she was and still is treated

I definitely needed to hear this message right now! So good and so funny! Thank you Scott!

This is such an old vid I can say whatever I want and no one will ever read it . I love you Pokey, you're my favourite artist, but what's with those shoulder pads? Channelling David Byrne much?

This guy is thinking a decade ahead of 2014.

POKEY HAS AN APPROACH TO MUSIC AND LIFE THAT IS PRICELESS !

Nice to see that there are still very intelligent and educated people in the US (just joking.....a bit)

Just saw him perform live in Cleveland, Ohio (Oct.2021). If you ever get the opportunity go see Pokey in concert. An excellent musician and singer, an extraordinary songwriter, and a dynamic and energetic performer. The thoughts & ideas he discusses in this TED talk come out through his music.

Pokey has a good ear for music and understanding the cultural heritage paramount here. I've also got an ear for older music, the more produced it sounds the less I'm interested, the compression used in old recordings is like a main-line to my brain, bands I've played in all share a period in time but all have created new songs to be a part of this rich tapestry, I hear the roots of music in everything I listen to but not often thrilled in this modern sounding world

I love Pokey as a musician, a songwriter, and as an entertainer. But the more I learn about him, read about him, etc...the more I realize I love him as an (accidental) educator and as a humanist. I love that he is always learning and sharing his experience. Proud to support him any way I can.

Dear Pokey. A Spoken Word tour of You n Henry Rollins, would TOTALLY Kill. Cheers frum SpoCanada

It's great to hear Pokey just speak. A true original type musician and thinker. So many great thoughts... Couldn't draw a blueprint....? I think you probably could.

What ever “it” is, he’s got IT. I love his music and he knows why better then I do.