The story mentions:

"There he was, with no really good view of the incredible sights before us, tasked with monitoring four different radios. This was good practice for him for when we began flying real missions, when a priority transmission from headquarters could be vital."

Just because military aircraft don't use the same frequencies as commercial aircraft doesn't mean this SR-71 crew on a training mission wasn't listening in on commercial air traffic frequencies.

First the Flaming Hot Cheetos Inventor and now the SR-71 Speed Check?

What's next? Am I gonna find out that every TED talk is basically BS?

> Am I gonna find out that every TED talk is basically BS?

Uh, hi, I have bad news for you about the quality and consistency of TED talks...

That's kinda the joke

Yes I just chuckled so I played along. Now I'm meta-explaining, which is also a good joke.

Ted Talks peaked in 2013, with "2070 Paradigm Shift", one of the best speeches ever in the history of the planet earth.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmicRDpS5Gk

Imitated by many, never surpassed. Ted Talks were all downhill after this one.

That was fantastic.

In the same vein sorta, Reggie Watts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdHK_r9RXTc

Especially the first 2-3 minutes.