A your self described humor engineer and you write books on how to master humor make jokes funny and singular how you are in this wonderful hero of 2020 do you see that the demand for humor is actually rising against a backdrop of the complete mass of everything or not really. Know it it absolutely is and i think part of the reason is you know with people being you know more social a distance and going much more things on earth theyre realizing how much humor that they used to have in their life that theyre now missing because you no longer you know always conversation with your coworkers you dont have to meet up with friends and even with strangers if you are wearing a mask you dont see this smiles in the last on their faces and so i think now more than ever isnt it really into how we use humor not just for our own kind of amusement but also to do things like manage stress and dont relationships and you know all the additional good its you are youve sat in. Talk that humor has to be p
Allah can do so because his inner is more so think shevardnadze humor can be a life that in dark times when it seems we have nothing to laugh about at all but how is todays reality transforming what we find funny. They swear that target humor interior and best selling author. And guitar in him are engineer and bestselling writer great to have you with us today what a time to talk about humor. Absolutely its one of those times where people are like is. Is it ok to talk about humor and in fact its one of those things where its definitely right so lets lets to construct this whole thing your self described humor engineer and you write books on how to master humor make jokes funny and sing care how you are in this wonderful hero of 2020 do you see that the demand for humor is actually rising against a backdrop of the complete mass of everything or not really. Know it it absolutely is and i think part of the reason is you know with. You know more social a distance to go on much more things
You know all a conversation with your coworkers you dont have those and you want to meet up with friends and even with strangers and people are wearing a mask you dont see this smiles in the last on their faces and so i think now more than ever isnt it really into how we use humor not just for our own kind of amusement but also to do things like manage stress in built relationships and you know all the additional good its you are youve sat in attack talk that humor has to be positive and inclusive but heres the thing isnt humor supposed to be just funny 1st and foremost sins that that like the most important thing in humor and then Everything Else. So thats true for comedy comedy is the goal is to make people laugh but we think is a little bit more broad than comedy it includes things that are funny but it can also be something thats just a little bit different or something is a little bit silly where the goal is. And our focus at least you know as a humor engineer at my organization i
Switzerland, surprised to see the news come from th the blog. Gently axel weber nudging this dialogue forward . Francine it is a publication that doesnt break that much news that often, which is why we are taking it with a pinch of salt, but we understand it was well sourced, and this will be a conversation spearheaded by the two chairman of ubs and Credit Suisse combined. That would be extraordinary. Tom for an american arlenes that for an american audience in the Early Morning for an american audience in the early one, could you imagine bank of america and j. P. Morgan combining . That is the equivalent. There is nothing else going on today, right . Francine not at all. Tom ive got to look at my tiktok. Francine lets get to first word news in new york city with ritika gupta. Tiktok has abandoned talks with microsoft to set its music and video app in the u. S. , now favoring a partnership with oracle. Look moreit would like a Corporate Restructuring than an outright sale. President tr
Pandemic spread throughout the United States over the past 13 weeks. And while the white house is encouraged that more than half of those have found work, President Trump has chosen to suspend visas of Foreign Workers who would be in direct competition with American Workers. The new executive order suspends h1b visas for professional workers, h4 visas for their immediate family members, the order also restricts h2b visas for Agricultural Workers and l1 visas that allow multinational corporations to transfer their employees into the United States. As well as j1 visas for work and studybased exchange programs, all of them suspended until the end of the year. These impact, of course, the president s executive order, its much larger than anyone could have expected. It will affect hundreds of thousands of Foreign Workers seeking those visas, of course, and state Department Data shows that is a big number. That of the nearly one million temporary work visas approved, almost 190,000 were h1b