Like, ya know?

I would like to thank Taylor Mali for making a point to remind us to speak like we know, instead of speaking, like, ya know?

Taylor Mali's performance poem "Like You Know" as performed on Def Poetry is an effective piece about speaking with authority. A fan of his took the audio of the performance and made a video of the text being shown as it is said. The actual video of the performance shows Mali moving about the stage and illustrating his points with hand gestures. Watching him perform it brings it to life while the text depersonalizes it. It seems to just be the idea of the human contact we have when we watch him actually do it, as opposed to the barrier brought up by the text. In a lot of ways, it reminds me of closed captioning, which a lot of people do not like because it distracts them from the performance. I found the text distracting.