Brian Beckcom | Lawyer

Board Certified Texas Trial Lawyer
Maritime Injury & Jones Act Cases | Wrongful Death | Truck Accidents | Serious Personal Injury

[Brian Beckcom | Lawyer @BrianBeckcom]

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.

https://t.co/DmlOLgB4dB

[Brian Beckcom | Lawyer @BrianBeckcom]

Ted Chiang is the best. He truly understands the deep philosophical issues of our age.

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

Leaving aside the question of consciousness, the Ted Chiang piece has a reasonable point about moral atrophy if you let AI make choices.

But it is also interesting in light of the fact that repeated randomized trials find AI is apparently a good ethicist. https://t.co/FdUWyMutsp

[Brian Beckcom | Lawyer @BrianBeckcom]

The success of Bezos’ companies have been made possible almost entirely by the US taxpayer.

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

Jeff Bezos: "If people want me to pay more billions, then let's have that debate, but don't pretend that that's gonna solve the problem. You could double the taxes I pay, and it's not gonna help that teacher in Queens.... Airbnb isn't causing high rents. What's really causing high rent is government intervention."

[Brian Beckcom | Lawyer @BrianBeckcom]

This is functionally equivalent to feeling sorry for kids who use calculators.

[Maureen Langloss @MaureenLangloss]

I feel sorry for students who want to learn for real, who want to write real papers & figure out problems & develop their own theories from actual reading. Bc they're competing with kids using AI to cheat who can get more done in a short amount of time & maybe get better grades.

[Brian Beckcom | Lawyer @BrianBeckcom]

Unless you define what you mean by “consciousness” this kind of discussion is meaningless.

And if you define consciousness as some sort of first-person inner experience, you’ve just defined it in such a way that you can’t ever prove it.

[Brian Beckcom | Lawyer @BrianBeckcom]

@emollick Define what you mean by consciousness first Professor Mollick

[Brian Beckcom | Lawyer @BrianBeckcom]

Capitalism for me and Socialism for thee

[Corry -Flo Factory @CorryAKnowles]

Coaches with 65 million dollar buyouts is more of a problem than the players NIL. Any executive orders or bills being proposed?

[Brian Beckcom | Lawyer @BrianBeckcom]

lol

[yakub @yakub0_o]

@Aella_Girl Who’s this guy 🤔

[Brian Beckcom | Lawyer @BrianBeckcom]

Everyone seems to miss the idea that consciousness is undefined, maybe unknowable, so we are debating a term that no one even understands, even a little bit.

[kasra @kasratweets]

this is an interesting point in the new ted chiang piece – no one really claims that alphafold is conscious, or that sora or midjourney or dall-e are conscious

[David Burge @iowahawkblog]

Al Capone issues stark warning on the devastating impact of legalizing alcohol

[Brian Beckcom | Lawyer @BrianBeckcom]

And a denial of reality

[Julie Borowski @JulieBorowski]

Libertarianism requires a high IQ and a high trust society.

[Brian Beckcom | Lawyer @BrianBeckcom]

@emollick Or “align”

[Brian Beckcom | Lawyer @BrianBeckcom]

Most influencers are imbeciles

[GuruAnaerobic @GuruAnaerobic]

I don't listen to these influencers anymore; the Saladinos, the Patricks, the Hubermans. I rather watch a bodybuilder talk about bodybuilding, a boxer talk about boxing, a real athlete talking about training, a bird expert talking about birds, a gardener talking about flowers - people with first-hand knowledge, experience and insight.

[GuruAnaerobic @GuruAnaerobic]

I don't listen to these influencers anymore; the Saladinos, the Patricks, the Hubermans. I rather watch a bodybuilder talk about bodybuilding, a boxer talk about boxing, a real athlete talking about training, a bird expert talking about birds, a gardener talking about flowers - people with first-hand knowledge, experience and insight.

[Brian Beckcom | Lawyer @BrianBeckcom]

Texas is trying to immunize trucking companies from lawsuits because the companies bribe politicians to do so.

Not complicated

[Rob Carpenter @RobCarpenter]

Everybody listens to the words that Texas Leadership speaks, but no one digs deep enough to see that the State has an Intrastate carveout that prohibits state workers from asking if the applicant driver can speak English. Until they repeal this law, everything they say on English language proficiency is lip service. https://t.co/1YIy3LrjKp

[VB Attorneys @VBattorneys]

This case was never about proving the government did something wrong.

Trial Lawyers Brian Beckcom and Vuk Vujasinovic are explaining what the real legal question actually is.

https://t.co/KWPZHJAsww | [phone]

[Brian Beckcom | Lawyer @BrianBeckcom]

Sabans players weren’t unpaid.

[Quincy Avery @QuincyAvery]

Legendary coach who maid 100 million on the backs of unpaid labor. Now wants to regulate the earnings of those who can finely earn fair market value. This is clown behavior.

[Quincy Avery @QuincyAvery]

Legendary coach who maid 100 million on the backs of unpaid labor. Now wants to regulate the earnings of those who can finely earn fair market value. This is clown behavior.

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

So let me get this straight.

Jake Tapper is focused on attacking my Mom.

Jared and Ivanka are building a private island paradise on Albanian protected land.

Don Jr married the daughter of Epstein’s banker, and a startup his fund backs just got a record $620M Pentagon loan.

Eric is taking an Israeli drone company public for $1.5B in the middle of a war with Iran that nobody wanted.

And I know: “But what about your paintings, Hunter?”

Please.

[Brian Beckcom | Lawyer @BrianBeckcom]

Overrated book

[lily ♱⃓ @uponlilypads]

Rereading Anna Karenina is fun until you get to the part where Levin talks about agriculture for 100 fucking pages

[Brian Beckcom | Lawyer @BrianBeckcom]

This is nonsense

[Elan Barenholtz @ebarenholtz]

LLMs revealed that language is not the medium for our thoughts. We are the medium for language’s thoughts.