Calibrated Words https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Nov22_Post.mp3 One of the most important parts of humor is timing. To put in the pauses in the right places, to deliver the punch lines at the right times. It works very much like music. Timing is everything. Even in pure serious dialogue, timing is everything. For example, […]
Improv Party Skills
Get Into Character https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Nov15_Post.mp3 I took an acting class once. It was pretty fun, and apparently I did pretty good. The teacher recommended I take an improv class. Which I thought was only for comedy. But it was for much, much more. How to be spontaneous, even when performing a […]
Brain Hacking Party Skills
Sorting People https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Nov13_Post.mp3 We humans have a lot of built in filters. We have tons of stuff that is built in. Even from a pure psychological, philosophical standpoint, it’s not clear that we don’t have EVERYTHING built in. There’s no way to really PROVE that we have free will, for example. […]
Linguistic Brain Punch
Wrong Brains https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Nov12_Post.mp3 There’s a lot of weird studies that show how messed up our brains are. Messed up like those schools that say everybody is above average. Everybody being above average is mathematically impossible. But since few people have a solid grasp on mathematics these days, people can get away with […]
Rule Every Party
Humor Instinct https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Nov11_Post.mp3 Some people have a huge collection of jokes. They hear them and they remember them. They’ve got so many jokes in their brain, every time somebody refers to something, they’ve got a relevant joke. “Hey, that reminds me of the one about the penguin who decided to become a […]
Mind Altering Party Hero
Forget Truth https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Nov10_Post.mp3 There are two basic approaches when it comes to truth. One is the Socratic method. To simply sit back, turn off your ego, and ask simple questions. Questions that will eventually prove to your conversational partner that nothing they believe to be true really is true. This can […]
Three Steps To Domination
Find The Best https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Oct23_Post.mp3 Plenty of schools and organizations have speech contests. This implies that there are “winners” and “losers.” This implies that there are ways to differentiate between a “good speech” and a “bad speech.” When directors want to find the right people to play the part in their movies, they […]
Groucho Marx Samurai
Art of Sword https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22May28_Post.mp3 Once there was this Japanese dude. An old school swordsman. Samurai. Fought and killed a bunch of people. Decided to write a book about the philosophy of being a Samurai. Today, that book is still read. It’s kind of like the Art of War by […]
Midnight Response
Old School Radio https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Apr21_Post.mp3 When I was much younger, fresh out of college, I listened to a radio station in LA. Driving to and from work. In the morning, they had a talk show duo. Did a lot of funny bits in between the music. During the drive home, it was […]
Lust For Life
Infinite Jokes https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Mar28_Post.mp4 There are plenty of kinds of humor. Angry, political humor. Trollish type humor. Class clown humor. Silly slapstick toilet humor. Shakespearean comedies are not like modern day comedies. Shakespeare’s plays are tragedies, or comedies. Tragedies are like Romeo and Juliet. Unhappy end. Comedies […]