On the road in Riva, MD for a Murder Mystery I had a couple moments to share some thoughts. This world is not going to fix itself complaining about things out of our control. But we can advocate LOUDLY! We can educate LOUDLY! See you at the next show/workshop!!!
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Good morning from somewhere between Annapapolis, Maryland, and Baltimore,
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5 secondsMaryland. I think it’s called Reva. I’m dressed. I’m getting ready to go do a murder mystery. I got my coffee and not
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13 secondsjust because I needed a place to change and take care of some other things, but uh I needed the coffee.
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20 secondsBut ladies and gentlemen, uh I was just thinking we have to rethink these smartphones.
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27 secondsThey are problematic the way most people use them. Social media platforms problematic the way most people use
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33 secondsthem. But we need to teach people how to use these platforms for their benefit.
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39 secondsSeriously, I really believe that you gave a 10-year-old a smartphone and taught them how to use one. Like really taught them what they could do with a
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48 secondssmartphone from the marketing standpoint. And I know you’re thinking,
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51 seconds”Oh, they’re 10 years old.” But they’re playing games. They’re doing all kinds of things. They’re learning how to code in some ways. They’re they’re
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58 secondsexperimenting with the internet in their own way. But if you got them just kind of using it, and you know, we could create apps to teach kids how to do
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1 minute, 6 secondsthese things. They have STEM, they have Steam, they have all these things. But what if we really taught kids marketing, content creation? I have this new thing.
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1 minute, 15 secondsWe’re at third grade. I think every third grader should have improv comedy to teach them public speaking, self-confidence, just basic, basic,
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1 minute, 24 secondsbasic. Every fourth grader should have sketch andor standup comedy. And what if we added more and more content creation,
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1 minute, 33 secondsvideo, sketch comedy, PSAs, sharing how you feel, vlogging, like video blogging
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1 minute, 41 secondson even at age 10, fifth grade. And here’s the thing, it sounds like it’s really advanced stuff, but I’m working with these kids. I do comedy with these
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1 minute, 49 secondskids. They’re 8, 9, and 10 at the comedy club and they are amazing. And they come in, usually they’re there cuz their parents are like, “I want my kid to
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1 minute, 58 secondslearn focus.” And you say, “You can teach focus.” And they come in. By the time they leave, they’re the leaders in their school. They’re better students.
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2 minutes, 7 secondsAll these things. But what if we rolled out all this stuff? Now, one, I’m thinking, hey, what if we could have knocked, we can’t eliminate it, but what if we knocked stage fright off the top
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2 minutes, 16 secondsof the list? What if we knocked social media up at the top of the list for like the number one reason most people fail
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2 minutes, 22 secondsat relationships, at work, and all these other things that these things like stage these fears, these social
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2 minutes, 29 secondsanxieties, these stage frights, these things that are created in the third,
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2 minutes, 34 secondsfourth, and fifth grade that start to show themselves in ugly ways in middle school and they become bullies or they become the victims and blah blah blah
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2 minutes, 42 secondsblah blah. What if we got these skills into the elementary school at third, fourth, and fifth grade, right? Hey,
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2 minutes, 48 secondsthat coffee looks good. And so, I’m thinking, we teach these skills and I’m telling you, these kids would never have
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2 minutes, 55 secondsto get a job at Starbucks or McDonald’s unless they really wanted to, right? But we could teach them these skills
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3 minutes, 3 secondsand to the point where they realize they do have options. I think so many of these kids, they know how to use a
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3 minutes, 11 secondssmartphone for cyber bullying at the age 11, 12, right? They know how to use a smartphone for a lot of things they shouldn’t be using a smartphone for.
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3 minutes, 19 secondsWhat if we taught them positive uses for a smartphone and get them creating and get them using
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3 minutes, 29 secondstheir brains? And you know what? There’s the studies at Stanford, William Fry,
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3 minutes, 33 secondshumor guru, doing comedy builds a better brain. I remember when I was in third grade, I took a test about analogies and when it said, “Oh, you could do
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3 minutes, 41 secondsanalogies.” At third grade, you’re gifted and talented. Fourth grade, I’m in all the G&T classes. I’m going on gifted and talented field trips and I’m
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3 minutes, 49 secondslearning about ethos, pathos, logos in fourth grade, and people like that are adults have never heard these things,
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3 minutes, 55 secondsright? What if we kind of taught some of these skills? They’re kind of counting on us getting ourselves there at third grade. We test for it and if we’re good,
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4 minutes, 5 secondsI mean, how different is that from like Russia and China 30, 40, 50 years ago?
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4 minutes, 9 secondsIf you can dance really good at third grade, we’ll put you in the Olympic program or the ballet program or the if you if you show aptitude at 2 years old,
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4 minutes, 18 secondswe’re going to put work into you.
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4 minutes, 20 secondsOtherwise, you’re going to go harvest potatoes in the field, right? What if we really gave kids these skills and it
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4 minutes, 27 secondswouldn’t be that expensive, right? or even I was good at math because my mother did flashcards with me at 3 and
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4 minutes, 35 secondsfour years old. If you want your kids to succeed, get some flashcards at three and four years old. Do Mad Libs, teach
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4 minutes, 42 secondsthem how to read, read to them at three and four and 5 years old. You may or may not respect education, but I’m telling you, if you teach your kid to respect
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4 minutes, 51 secondseducation, they’re going to be better students. Maybe the system failed you.
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4 minutes, 55 secondsStop the cycle in your family, right? Or we could just as a society say, “Hey,
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5 minutes, 1 secondwe’re gonna teach everyone a better way.” Right? Too much of school is just teaching kids to be drones. And and I’m
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5 minutes, 10 secondstelling you that kind of worked a little bit in the past, but a lot of those drone jobs are going away in the next 5
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5 minutes, 18 seconds10 years, if not the next 6 to 12 months. And you know, AI, I think, is going to attack white collar first.
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5 minutes, 23 secondsTechnology has attacked manual labor jobs over the last hundred years, right?
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5 minutes, 28 secondsA lot of the problems we’re having, all these people used to get paid to do auto mechanics. They used to get better. Now,
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5 minutes, 33 secondsyou know, the bosses are still getting paid, but they don’t need as much help now thanks to technology, right? If you’re not the master carpenter, we’re
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5 minutes, 41 secondsalways going to but but they’re not getting as much money as they used to make either compared to inflation,
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5 minutes, 47 secondsright? As opposed to you learn how to use this thing. I’m making this whole video on my phone. You learn how to use this device and you learn how to do some
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5 minutes, 55 secondsbasic coding. You learn how to do some basic learn how to use AI. I mean, how many kids are using AI to cheat at 11,
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6 minutes, 3 seconds12, 13 years old? What if you taught them how to use AI to do research? What if you taught them how to use AI to do
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6 minutes, 10 secondscoding? What if you taught them how to use these tools that are at our disposal?
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6 minutes, 16 secondsAnd I think the problem is a lot of people my age are terrified of these tools, right? A lot of people at my age are terrified of public speaking. A lot
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6 minutes, 22 secondsof people my age, I’m 53, are terrified at social interaction and we could do a better job. The improv
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6 minutes, 30 secondscomedy I teach can do with the social stuff. But we could teach these skills.
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6 minutes, 35 secondsI want to go into every school in America. I teach every third grader improv comedy. Fourth grade, continue in fifth grade. But by fourth grade, we’re
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6 minutes, 42 secondswe’re incorporating sketch comedy and standup comedy writing. So, we’re tying it back even more and more into language
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6 minutes, 49 secondsarts, right? We’re we’re these kids, and I’ll tell you, I say this, there are kids I work with that are smarter than we were when we were kids. And I was one of the smart ones. There are a lot of people smarter than me. A lot of hubris,
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7 minutesa lot of humility, depending on the group I’m in, right? But the kids that the smart kids are smarter than we were because they’re doing everything I’m
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7 minutes, 8 secondssaying. They’re learning how to use these apps. They’re they could they’ll start their own business at 14, right?
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7 minutes, 14 secondsThere were a few people doing that. When I was in high school, there was somebody telling me, “Hey, join Anway. You’ll retire by the time you graduate college.” But now, you can start a real business and do that kind of stuff,
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7 minutes, 25 secondsright? Uh, but what if these kids could be better writers? Cuz I’m working with high school kids sometimes and their
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7 minutes, 32 secondswriting is not good. They’re graduating high school and they shouldn’t be. And I hate to say that. They’re not ready for the world. And they’ve got high school
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7 minutes, 41 secondsdiplomas. that diploma is a worthless piece of paper because we’re failing them. Right? Back in the day, hey, you
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7 minutes, 49 secondshad a high school diploma that showed that you could complete something. Well,
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7 minutes, 51 secondsanybody could complete something now with social promotion. I’m not dissing self-promotion. I’m just saying we could do a better job that we don’t have to have social promotion, right? You know,
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8 minutes, 2 secondsit’s like we have band-aids on cancer because we’re not addressing the problem. The core problem, people are terrified. They’re not good
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8 minutes, 11 secondscommunicators, so they don’t communicate. And then when they can’t communicate well, they hide in the corner or they double down in arrogance and become bullies and horrible leaders.
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8 minutes, 22 secondsBut because everyone’s scared, those people become the leaders. Now, don’t get me started. I won’t get into politics right now, right? We could do a
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8 minutes, 30 secondsbetter job at the education side of things and without spending a whole lot more money. Easier said than done, but
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8 minutes, 38 secondswe could train these paras better. We could train these kids like I got to college 22 that I’m working with after school. We could do better uh professional development with them,
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8 minutes, 48 secondsteaching them some very basic communication skills themselves, giving them more instruction. Hey, what if we start teaching these kids? Like I do improv comedy, standup comedy, and
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8 minutes, 57 secondssketch comedy in a couple schools. Let’s do a better job at continuing that stuff when I leave because a lot of people don’t respect what I’m teaching. But the
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9 minutes, 4 secondsfew that do adopt it into what they do and their kids thrive. Because I’m not teaching comedy. I’m grabbing their
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9 minutes, 12 secondsattention, saying I’m teaching them how to be funny. And then I teach them how to listen, focus, respect, lead,
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9 minutes, 20 secondscommunity, do the exact same games of corporate workshops, leadership, sales,
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9 minutes, 25 secondscustomer service, doctors, how to be betteredside manners, how to stop letting ego and insecurity destroy
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9 minutes, 32 secondseverything. And it’s time we bring that more to the people. Hey, I love these long blogs. Nobody, nobody’s listening
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9 minutes, 40 secondsat this point. If you are, thank you. If you can hear this, DM me. I’ll give you some free tickets for a show.
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