This isn't your average business podcast and he's not your average host.

This is the James Altiger Show on the Choose Yourself Network.

Today on the James Altiger Show.

It's sort of like you go into a crowd and you instantly have this special power where

you see everything going on in the crowd.

You see every weird little unusual thing in the crowd and you make sure that you point

out every unusual thing in the crowd and have kind of a punchline behind it and it

appears some of what you make up, some of which is a little prepared for that type of person.

What is it?

You go into a crowd and what happens?

A while ago I was like I'm just going to be present and in the moment and just discover

those moments on stage.

And it turns into this cacophony of wondrous jazzy noise that comes from the audience because

stand up is really a conversation.

It's a dialogue but instead of them talking they have the ability to groan or laugh or sigh

or heckle or whatever it is and it turns into this brilliant gumbo of all these emotions

coming from the audience.

Not just joy, not just laughter.

And there's all these different kinds of laughs.

The key to learning anything is to kind of take any difficult skill and find as many

sub-skills as possible.

So what would be some of the sub-skills there?

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