{"id":39015,"date":"2026-08-05T01:10:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T01:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/?p=39015"},"modified":"2026-08-04T21:12:56","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T01:12:56","slug":"creek-and-the-caves-banana-phone-show-cum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/creek-and-the-caves-banana-phone-show-cum\/","title":{"rendered":"Creek and the Cave\u2019s \u201cBanana Phone\u201d Show, Cum!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Creek and the Cave\u2019s \u201cBanana Phone\u201d is a free Sunday 10pm open-mic\/heckle-roast comedy show in Austin, TX (at The Creek and The Cave, 611 East 7th Street). Heckers \u201cring in,\u201d comics roast each other hard, and it\u2019s known as a raw, comics-heavy room that\u2019s easier to access than bigger shows.<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

Larry Chiang (entrepreneur, Duck9\/credit guy, author of <\/span>What They Don\u2019t Teach You at Stanford Business School<\/span>, frequent X poster of his cell 650-283-8008, and recent standup experimenter in Miami\/Austin\/SF) has long written and talked about <\/span>\u201cgiving good phone\u201d<\/span>\u2014sales and relationship skills on the phone.<\/span><\/p>\n

What makes his content strong on \u201cgiving good PHONE\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

From his 2009 piece \u201cHow to Give Good Phone\u201d and related material:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022  Treat the call like a vacation\/entertainment for the other person instead of more work or pain.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022  Charm gatekeepers (especially male assistants) because they control access.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022  Handle holds and multi-line traffic like an air-traffic controller.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022  Match communication style (auditory \/ visual \/ kinesthetic).<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022  Track everything (paper + CRM + email drafts) and follow up aggressively with triples for momentum.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022  Mentor first (give value\/knowledge) rather than hard-sell immediately.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022  Always close for <\/span>something<\/span> (cell number, intro, next step).<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022  Practice relentlessly; volume + skill beats a team of less phone-proficient people. whattheydontteachyouatstanfordbusinessschool.com<\/span><\/a> <\/span><\/p>\n

He repeatedly models this by publishing his real number, inviting calls\/texts at odd \u201coffice hours,\u201d using phone skills for networking\/sales\/credit work, and tying it into broader entrepreneurship lessons (including recent comedy and event posts).<\/span><\/p>\n

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No public evidence links him directly as a performer on Banana Phone itself, but the shared \u201cphone\/ring\u201d theme, his Austin comedy interest, and the show\u2019s heckle format line up with the kind of high-energy, direct, performative communication he coaches. The content works because it is practical, practiced, and relentlessly applied rather than theoretical.\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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@itscoachgoodman @americanhodl8 What\u2019ll bake your noodle is that after you make $3.2 mm (or 1.0 Bitcoin) You\u2019ll wish you went all on one hardware wallet to have lost more Shelby Sapp lost her watch and then really really wanted more money Lesson in there Thank you for your positivity<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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WordPress\u2019d from my personal iPhone, 650-283-8008<\/a>, number that Steve Jobs texted me on<\/span><\/div>\n

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