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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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Moby Dick is magnificent. A work of art.
I grew up assuming MOBY-DICK was just a book high school teachers felt obligated to assign. Then I picked it up one summer in grad school and was astonished at how magnificent it was. It’s like an ornate chest filled with beautiful rags: not everything fits, but you sit there pulling out one marvelous scrap after another.
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He’s 76 and looks 86.
Advice to politicians: develop a hinterland, a life outside of politics, so that when it ends, you’re not pathetically clinging to that world.
Announcing his next steps, @DanPatrick is launching Patrick Strategies: patrickstrategies.us/
"I'm going to ensure that our conservative, pro-business bills pass," in #txlege.
Agree.
Steve Spurrier quit on his guys in the middle of the season.
Elko a different type of guy. He knows he needs to make changes, and he will, but he’s not Mike Elko if he’s not loyal, sometimes to a fault.
It’s becoming a world of just fire whoever. I don’t think Mike Elko gets any credit for being loyal, just criticism. But last I checked, loyalty was an Aggie core value. And I speak as someone who has full blown BAS. espn.com/college-football/st…
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The issue is when you commit 3 million dollars to a guy and he has two more years of eligibility, the agents for the quality portal QBs don’t want their guys signing with a team just to sit in the bench for two years.
No experienced, SEC-level QB wants to ride the bench for two years. And no one wants to pay them to ride the bench.
Same issue at LSU, OSU, Michigan and elsewhere.
Need incentive-based NIL contracts.
Texas A&M HC Mike Elko on if the program looked into getting a veteran QB out of the portal this offseason:
"It's really challenging to find a kid who's capable of playing in the SEC who's willing to come in and be a backup. I don't think that's something that exists. Obviously, would have been nice to add an older, veteran piece. We certainly explored options to do that. I wish it was grocery story shopping. It's just not, unfortuantley. I say this a lot, you can do things to pacify situations, right? We can go get somebody just because he's an older guy and that will make everybody OK with the fact that we went and got an older guy. That doesn't mean that guy's quailified to play SEC football. That's two separate things."
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Incredible book
"To me, Stoner is almost the perfect novel. It is very little known but anyone who reads it is completely captivated by it. It is a wonderful, wonderful book." @simonwwriter on Stoner by John Williams and other American stories fivebooks.com/best-books/sim… …
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Texas A&M had multiple pass attempts to tie South Carolina inside the red zone to close the game
Marcel Reed threw two uncatchable passes out of bounds
Not sure how that happens, got to give your receivers a chance to catch it with the game on the line
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Congrats to Notre Dame on their playoff lock! They had a tough 2-game schedule this year, but did just enough to get in by finishing 1-1.
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Houston is simply the best food city in America. Everyone else is larping
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This Aggie offense has scored ZERO OFFENSIVE TDs vs: Texas, Miami, Kentucky, Missouri, and now South Carolina. 5 games, not ONE fucking TD on O. Cc: @CoachMikeElko . Fire somebody. Make changes.
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Elko is just another coach that has ruined this football team with stubbornness and stupidity. His refusal to play a QB other than 10 has killed this football program.
#GigEm
It’s not insane when you consider the undeniable fact that Mike Elko continues to trot out the worst QB in A&M history week after week.
This stat is insane.
Texas A&M is the first team in college football history to have 450+ total yards of offense, zero turnovers, and score zero touchdowns in the same game.
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