Your Brain-Gun: Turn The Safety Off - Onion Talks - Ep. 12
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 ก.พ. 2025
- The most powerful weapon isn't in a missile silo: it's in your head. Leonard Pace explains why we should be far more terrified of our brain guns than any manmade weapon.
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The man from the audience is lucky that the presenter died of exhaustion moments before the presenter fired thoughts at him.
Not thoughts. "New ideas"
And he became an old way of thinking
He died of Police
The presenter died of exhaustion moments before he tried to use his brain to fire ideas at the old way of thinking
That's just The Onion's studio sniper. He's always on set.
Ever since my local community theatre got one of these guys, the performances have been superb! I recommend. Plus, the attendance has gone up 500%, so this guy basically pays for himself :)
Yeah Josh is a great shot
I hear he is the only paid intern on set
That was actually a guy the audience member had bullied as a child. A few days before this Onion Talk, the audience member called him to apologize.
hes a good cat
His presentation would benefit from a bullet point list.
@Tatsujiro Kurogane he could still give it a shot.
Roman Chukanov rip your comments
Roman Chukanov
He inspired me to shoot for the stars.
🤣
it would only work for the english speaking viewers though, because no actual bullets are used in a bullet point list. It's the same word, but not the same object. It would not translate well to other languages, and it would be missed by the international audience.
Thank god that guy was there to correct the speaker on mistakenly calling the magazine a clip. What a hero.
Who?
@@AjarSensation the sniper
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Yeah the presenter didn't even properly load the gun, it still had a blank in the chamber. Can't believe they let such an amateur on stage.
How does both the onion and this commenter have the power of time travel?
The brilliance of onion humor is that it takes the absurdity so seriously that it bears a frightening resemblance to truth. BANG!
*TEDtalks
The acting helps.
They do God's work
Onion>CNN
Thx for explaining satire
The speaker obviously planted the sniper there to prove his point. He's a martyr of the highest stock.
He’s a man of the highest caliber
True zen teaching
... This actually makes a lot of in-universe sense
I love how this is basically a super villain monologue
this is the joker back when he had a day job.
And he got what he fuckin' deserved.
100%
Guess it was part of his act after all
@@HolyApplebutter I wish I had got seen jokes it's a real shame they just vanished
The Joker Strikes Again !!
I just love how heavy his breathe gets when he aims the gun
Homie was brainstorming too hard he passed out with exhaustion!
What a great speaker!
Plot twist: the guy was never told this was an Onion talk
When the voices in your head shoot a 30 mm idea into your brain, you just have to return the favor
@@reterbid6215 30mm is a little bit big, you know?
@@aixide Actually it's a bit small, i prefer using Howitzer Shells, but I understand some people may need to work up to that
Ah, so this is where TED Talks rejects go 🤣🤣
guns dont kill people, brains do.
lendial What about those walking guns with a brain and a grudge against their cruel creators and human masters?
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"When I pull this trigger, truth happens."
Sounds like something Samuel L. Jackson would say in a Tarantino movie
Didn't Cypher say something like that when killing Switch in The Matrix?
"My brain ripped through this puzzle like a hollow point bullet, embedding it with the shrapnel of reason"...hands down, divine writing
I like the subtle implication that TED talks always have a sniper trained on the speaker. You know, in case they start a mass thinking.
I'm surprised no one has mentioned that if you actually fired a blank at someone's head like that at close range, it could do serious damage. Blanks are serious explosions!
erm .. I doubt he fired ANYTHING from that gun ..idiot ..
What blanks???? Those were ideas.......??
@@kittyhawk9707 you must be a really fun guy
It would most likely be fatal, as the explosion would propel bits of your skull through your brain like bullets.
Aren't there closed off blanks with holes at top of barrel?
This video is existentially hilarious but genuinely intense.
@ludlow 889 someone's been using their brain gun.
This video really touches bases on the core issues we face.
I could see this in a thriller or horror movie somewhere, the premise of an inspirational speaker gone rogue is really creative
“When I pull this trigger, truth happens.“ What a quote.
the sniper was actually invested in the speech but the speaker called a magazine a clip and now he had to put a stop to it
Spoiler:
I like to believe he got shot for saying _clip_ when it was actually a _magazine._
James Pawson well, there is one semi-auto pistol that has a magazine that doubles as a clip, so let's just say it is that one.
@AdvocateIX obviously the 116 people who liked it, and the 3 comments, including yourself, under the comment. Maybe if you weren't so busy thinking for others and developed the capability of thinking for yourself you'd be able to figure this out on your own.
Zachary Bacon lol you are taking semantics so seriously I hope you are joking.
@@TranscendTheSun Mocking the original comment doesn't equal caring about the subject it touches. Maybe if you weren't so busy thinking for others and developed the capability of thinking for yourself you'd be able to figure this out on your own.
2.
a metal holder containing cartridges for an automatic firearm.
The Onion over here doing Black Mirror better than Black Mirror
It's a shame they dont upload anymore.
But judging by the story they posted about Disney+, I'm pretty sure they have something in the works.
@@snakeyman5560 doesnt look like it, i dont know exactly what happened but i know they lost a lot of money and thats why there newest uploads are kinda shit.
Gun = brain
Gunfire = ideas
Corpses = old way of thinking
Holy shit, you watched the video too? Crazy!
Police = exhaustion
@@immortalsun it's called taking notes
clip = mag?
@@immortalsun HOWS IT GOING BOIS! I see your name indicates that you're a man of culture
Put this guy in a movie! He had me scared.
He had me aroused.
@@michaelshannon6134 Oh this, I don't like this.
@@michaelshannon6134 On second thought...
The heavy breathing was a nice touch.
Same here
The world needs more Onion Talks
Agreed; this and horrifying planet are probably my two favorite series
dude the brilliance of having him fire a live round in the middle of the lecture after he's already swept the crowd so many times. They could have been saying oh it's not loaded oh it's a fake gun and then he goes and pops around off in the middle of the lecture. The stunned looks in the crowd are also just fantastic.
3 years late to this comment but him having his finger on the trigger the whole time was hilarious
The speech patterns and emphasis, tone is spot on every TED talk I ever heard.
I agree with others in that having the audience react normally messes with the canon of this series, but hot damn that was intense.
If they were acting normally they’d have run screaming out of the room
They didn't react normally, they were still sitting
Those gasps aren't out of fear of the gun, they fear the power the brain holds.
I see a lot of people nitpicking that he called the magazine a clip and that firing a blank at that range would've caused serious harm, but I'm not seeing anyone pointing out that he didn't chamber a new round after changing magazines, so his next shot would've still been a round from the first magazine.
Also blanks aren't strong enough to cycle the action anyway. And thats why realism in movies is retardation
He took it too far when he called it a clip and they had to put him down.
@DiscoFalcon Or else...
No one fucking cares
@DiscoFalcon What is the difference?
@DiscoFalcon I was being a smart ass. I wasn't expecting a fast reply. Hahaha
@TheEsotericZebra More like an over explained analogy and somehow at the same time incoherent rant.
It's cool how genuinely frightening "The gun is truth; when I pull this trigger, truth happens" is
What an inspiration. Indeed, why DON'T we cower in fear when we see a free-thinker walking down the street, wielding their brain?
The similar "TedTalks" tries to parody OnionTalks, but they fall far short.
Facts
They just need to use more brain guns
Yep, i hate some of their talk.
it is an open world, so anybody can talk there, even someone without a brain, brain guns.
Wow. The acting and directing in that was far more terrifying than basically any Hollywood movie I've seen where bad guys are waving around guns.
Guess his ideas got shot down...
Another hero killed by the establishment for being a visionary thinker.
I lost it when I saw the thumbs-up slide: "Live Up To Your Capabilities!"
All Onion talks have helped me grow soo much as a person
Yes, indeed
For free too
I definitely have learned more than I could imagine with OnionTalks. That's more than I can say for the knockoff called "Ted Talks"
i which i had a drivers license so i could do drive bye thinkings.....
Drive bye thanks
this has to be the weirdest slam poetry session I've ever seen
No props!!!!
What makes this such great satire is that the message he is urging is simply the acceptance of his metaphor: your brain IS a weapon! It doesn't really have any practical implications.
Notice the dude didnt cock the gun after loading the live rounds. He was about to make another mindblowing point before that sniper interrupted him.
That guy at the end is really using his brain to destroy the old way of thinking, which is the guy that created this metaphor in the first place? Or is he supposed to represent exhaustion making him pass out? Maybe he’s supposed to show that all new ideas will eventually be killed by even newer ideas (which are also the police). Is he supposed to show that some new ideas are terrifying, but some aren’t? Is it supposed to show us that fear is created by our brain and we should use that for extortion? Maybe it’s saying that the world will never progress beyond its old way of thinking if we let the police kill us. This guy was truly a visionary.
Agreed there are so many layers to this.
My brain is a concealed carry.
This sounds like an introductory cutscene for the villain in a video game
The most frightening thing about this presentation is his terrifying trigger discipline.
I saw that too.
The sniper at the end is the one man who truly took his lesson to heart.
This guy makes a seriously compelling argument for letting the intrusive thoughts win.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun, is a good guy with a bigger gun.
nickmeistersa OMG!!! Just relax
nickmeistersa the only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun, is a good guy with good vibes who will teach him how to chill.
Not going to lie, this skit had me on edge
How could the audience just sit there when the presenter was carelessly showing off his brain?
He still had a blank chambered, despite switching magazines.
This may not be the Ted talk we all wanted but it’s the Ted talk we deserve.
I like how the guy at the end isn't a cop but some shady guy who looks like a shooter
I have never met anyone who could out smart a bullet.
His finger on the trigger constantly only makes this better
I think the shadowy figure who kills him at the end represents the people who always kill or shutdown those with great ideas
Lol. Always a special kind of pleasure to discover an old Onion video you've never seem before. Miss their hayday.
This is actually how most TED talks end.
He wasn't using his brain gun properly when he called the magazine a clip. That's why the other guy shot him.
The scariest part of this video is definitely that trigger discipline.
The only defense against a bad guy with a brain is a good guy with a brain.
Seriously, this was the darkest Onion I've ever seen. I was really scared.
2:49 "Gonna get close." Nice that he warned the guy. Wouldn't want to startle him.
this dude would make a beautiful Farcry character
Well, we found the "Sudoku killer"
most coherent TED Talk
IM FIRING MY NEW IDEAS AT MY COWORKERS AS WE SPEAK!!!
Did exhaustion stop you? We need an update.
My brain is the safety, dude.
Well that escalated quickly.
I really like how he analogizes correctly. He truly cares about how both the gun and the brain functions when he describes the fragments from a hollow point bullet. It gives me confidence that he's someone worth listening to. Not many speakers take the time to justify their presence on stage like this man does.
I like how he has his finger on the trigger the entire time lol
This is way more terrifying than any movie I've sen in a while
This man's words have shot right through my heart.
This is one of my favorite onion videos and it’s way under appreciated
i think this guy isnt even the guy that was supposed to come. he just broke in and is improvising a cover-up
I like the inspiring words in the beginning, during the last scene of the intro, there’s the word “boom”. So inspiring
This dude is actually just a philosophical mad man that snuck on stage
This is what happens when an Onion writer gives up on selling their screenplay and turns the villain monologue into a sketch
oh my god, i cant take my eyes off his finger on the trigger lol
Yep. I was cringing.
You two make me cringe
@@bobobsen Don't know guns?
@@BeltFedSelfDefense it's a fake gun.. The guy will probably never hold a real gun anyway
Do you really think he cared about trigger discipline?
I wish the hostage at the end had been relieved, pointed up to the balcony, and said, "now THAT was a great idea!"
When he loads the second clip, the doesn't cock it so the weapon still had a blank round in the chamber,
That's a magazine not he used the term wrong
He only got taken out because he said clip instead of mag
This is one of my favorite Onion videos. Just hilarious.
Man, it's a shame the speaker's body just did that at the end there. smh.
this was pure genius all around... o_o
the onion is bringing it to the table, hard ...
this year
So the only threat to an idea is a better idea. Preferably screamed from across an auditorium. Got it.
That's what you get for calling it a clip.
This had more tension than any rea life action movie. It was all just so real.
As soon as he got this dude up on stage this become a hostage Situation
The ending left a lot of truth for us all to pick up.
This is what happens when you let a creaking-on-the-edge sociopath hold a lecture about self betterment using guns
It’s what should happen!
"Aren't they?...Aren't they?"
* stares in terror *
This is the pen vs the sword analogy in a modern context
The breathing makes it so much better
This was so inspiring. Thank you onion.
Even the sound of his breathing was chilling
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Fine! I didn't want to do that TED-Talk anyways!
Your ending was stupid, anyways! **
PLEASE DON'T PUT YOUR FINGER ON THE TRIGGER WHEN YOU DON'T INTEND TO FIRE IT! IT'S NOT SAFE!
When you are able to do it like the Onion it`s not. I loved their article that was printed within days "Right to own handheld device that shoots deadly metal pellets at high speeds worth all this".
This presentation makes genuine sense and I think that's the scariest part
I'm surprised there aren't more Joker related comments here especially when he talked about *Society*
This was more intense to watch than actual horror movies.
I can't believe the Onion got a real, true crazy guy to play this part. O_O
That was a pretty convincing pane of glass they had between him and the audience... also, the handlers did a pretty good job up dere. :3
Sad that they had to put him down.