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I recently had the pleasure of sitting down with Adam Christing, a humorist, keynote speaker, and author, to talk about the power of laughter, connection, and storytelling.
Adam has spent four decades performing more than 4,000 humor presentations for CEOs, Fortune 500 companies, major nonprofits, and high-stakes audiences around the world. He is a member of Hollywood’s iconic Magic Castle, has worked with David Copperfield, authored The Laugh Factor: The 5 Humor Tactics to Link, Lift, and Lead, and is the CEO of Clean Comedians®, a business that uses humor to bring people together rather than driving them apart.
Adam is more than just a gifted public speaker and performer. He is a student of human nature. In our conversation, he explains how comedy works psychologically, why humor diffuses conflict, how it disarms resistance, and how it allows leaders to deliver truth without putting people on the defensive.
Adam also offers a brilliant blueprint for anyone who speaks publicly. Executives, trial lawyers, entrepreneurs, military leaders, and educators, can all benefit from Adam’s crash course in how to grab an audience’s attention and keep it. We break down how great presenters prepare, how to deal with nerves, why silence is so powerful, how to tailor your message to the room, and how storytelling can transform information into impact.
Along the way, Adam tells stories about joining the Magic Castle as a teenager, bombing on stage, learning from masters like Johnny Carson and Winston Churchill, and discovering that audiences do not want perfection - they want presence. He also explains why the boundaries of “clean comedy” actually make comedy more creative, why leaders should practice humor like a skill, and why audiences always root for the person at the microphone.
This episode is about leadership, persuasion, communication, and how to connect through humour. It is also full of laughs.
I invite you to listen to the full conversation and learn how humor can help you become a better leader, speaker, and storyteller.
And now I give you, Adam Christing.
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Jameis Winston joins Japan fans in cleaning up trash postgame at Dallas Stadium. #WorldCup
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Japan fans are cleaning up after themselves at AT&T Stadium
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How bad is the food in the UK to where Golden Corral is a revelation?
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Jun 13
Barely mentioned in the Sorsby discourse: Almost everything he did was illegal.
-- Underage gambling
-- Using other peoples' identities/accounts
-- Sending money to friends out of state to place bets for him.
The latter 2 could incriminate others as well. (Continued.)
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And incredible physical strength
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You have to love the way Jalen Brunson plays the game of basketball.
An average athlete by NBA standards. No elite burst, vertical, or speed to blow by defenders.
But technically elite. A human bucket through skill and basketball IQ.
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Yup.
Welcome to Southern Gotham @FreddyLA7
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Jun 11
how has it been 18 years and this is still one of the funniest videos on the entire internet
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“i’m dying out here in this fucked up country ass town”
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Why does anyone care what this dude says about anything?
Naval Ravikant reveals why getting rich has never been easier in human history and why most people are playing the wrong game:
1. status games are zero sum. wealth creation is not. in hunter gatherer times there was no stored wealth so status was the only game worth playing. high status meant you ate first. today you can build a product, scale it, and create abundance for millions of people without taking anything from anyone. i can be wealthy and you can be wealthy at the same time. you cannot both be number one.
2. there has never been an easier time in history to create wealth. a few hundred years ago you were born a serf and you died a serf. there was almost no way out. that has changed entirely. the leverage available today through technology, code, and media means wealth creation is accessible to more people than at any point in human history. it is still hard. it will not fall in your lap. but it is possible.
3. status is hardwired into us because wealth creation is evolutionarily new. we spent hundreds of thousands of years in hunter gatherer societies where status determined survival. wealth only became real with the agricultural revolution, accelerated with the industrial revolution, and exploded with the information age. your brain has not caught up. it still craves the ranking ladder.
4. get rich first. then go for fame and status if you still want it. trying to build a following to then monetize it is a much harder path than building wealth first and trading some of it for status later. rich people go to davos, donate to nonprofits, start appearing in films. they trade money for status because once you have money that is what you want next. do it in that order not the other way around.
5. you can reach a point where you are satisfied with your wealth. you cannot reach that point with status. the leaderboard never ends. youtube shows you your likes going up and down every single day and keeps you running on the treadmill forever. wealth has a finish line. status does not.
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Mike Elko, in response to having a tough road schedule, on @SECNetwork: "I just hope everybody remembers this conversation as the season unfolds because they said the same thing last year. Then during the season, all they talked about was how our schedule is weak."
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Bad ass hat
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Watch a European eating biscuits and gravy for the first time would make George Washington smile 😂
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Nice Burke reference
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I was following him until he said the tech elites favor tradition and conservative values. They don't seem very Burkean to me!
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Quite the surreal morning in New Orleans today. We got a tour of the Saints and Pelicans facilities.
Thank you so much for giving us this opportunity. Once in a lifetime.
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Someone lost a trial recently
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Also, you realize that the "best" lawyers out there aren't actually the best, they are just the best at making money by being shady, building silos and getting referrals, bullying, and then they often win because they stonewall and obstruct with the clients that have the most money, and then those who act with dignity, grace, and truthfulness often bear the brunt of those bad actors and continue to fight back, when they can. Sometimes they win too, but it takes more work.
The noble ones might become Judges one day, the bad actors often get rich and continue to gatekeep in order to lock out the competition.
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Given the choice between dinner with Taleb and dinner with Andresson, I'm choosing Taleb every day and twice on Sunday.
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There is a historical constant: no amount of wealth can liberate a third-rate thinker from intellectual envy or from the deeply degrading sense of scholarly inferiority -- that feeling of impoverished erudition.
No amount of wealth.
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Random Maritime Law Fact of the Day: "A case in admiralty does not, in fact, arise under the Constitution or laws of the United States. These cases are as old as navigation itself; and the law, admiralty and maritime, as it has existed for ages, is applied by our Courts to the cases as they arise." American Insurance Company v. Canter, 26 U.S. 511 (1828)
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We found another surreal place on our way. I know some people will say I’m too positive about everything I see, but this place was crazy. They had a shooting range in the store.
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The courts need to rule substantively on the issue before football season starts, and there is no legal reason they cannot do so.
Otherwise, it's win-by-delay, and this encourages more such lawsuits.
The appellate courts must intervene now.
Jun 11
Let me tell you how this Sordid Sorsby saga is going to play out. And let me give his lawyers an A for advocacy and the judge who issued this imbecilic TRO an F-minus-minus-minus.
Appellate courts detest disturbing interim orders like this one. They are "interlocutory," meaning incomplete, and courts of appeals are loath to undo them on a supersedeas basis before a final judgment exists.
But the hidden genius is that Sorsby's attorneys somehow found a judge willing to enjoin the NCAA from enforcing its most primal rule: athletes cannot bet on games, and certainly cannot bet on the games they themselves are playing in. Once that order hit, game over. Texas Tech has to abide by it. Sorsby gets to play, gets paid, and makes his millions long before any Texas appellate court could conceivably weigh in on a trial-court order that applies equitable doctrines against the NCAA without even a modicum of contractual basis. Bonkers and unfair, yes, but that's how this cookie is going to crumble.
Only thing that keeps Sorsby from playing this fall, in my view, is the publicity heat. Legally, Judge Curry's order will not survive scrutiny. It does not need to. The season starts in September. Maybe that is the strategy? I think so. That's too bad. Nobody wins here. It's a hot mess.
I hope Sorsby serves a reasonable suspension, gets the help he needs, and after everything makes it to the first round in the NFL. Addictions are real. The kid is young. This is an interim chapter, not a death sentence and not forever. The problem here is not Sorsby. It is Texas Tech, which recruited him knowing the investigation was underway, paid him $4M, and is now invoking his recovery as the institutional justification for keeping him on the field. Ugliness in Lubbock.
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Scratching my head wondering why the Attorney General of Texas is intervening at all in this matter. I have some ideas.......
NEW: Texas AG Ken Paxton sent a formal letter to Big 12 officials threatening legal action if the conference moves to sanction Texas Tech over its support of QB Brendan Sorsby.
(via @PeteNakos)
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How did Epstein find out about the affairs?
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JUST IN: Bill Gates tells Congress that Jeffrey Epstein discovered he had affairs during his marriage & tried to leverage it against him.
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