Welcome to the WSO Weekly Wrapup, where I talk with my team about the five most

trending discussions in the Wall Street Oasis community. Enjoy. All right, welcome everybody to

another episode of the WSO weekly wrap up. Today, we're just going to have a quick one.

Three of the top trending discussions, Matt, take it away.

Sure, thanks, Pat.

So it looks like we have a short bench today,

just Patrick and Nebiel on the panel.

But let's give it our best crack here.

So first topic that was trending on the forums this week

was all about becoming a better conversationalist in investment banking.

We've had a handful of analysts make the comment that given they're working so much

throughout the week, that they don't really have much to talk about anymore amongst just

their peers in the office, but even just friends outside of work.

Specifically, we're hearing some talk around, given that they're working all the time, I don't know what to talk about anymore and even just feel odd writing this forum topic itself. So definitely an interesting topic here. Pat, what are your thoughts on how to become a better conversationist? This is something that you felt during your time as an investment banker? Yeah, a little bit.

I mean, there's certain like conversation topics like sports and stuff that you can always kind of lean on if you're into sports or, you know, whether it's a basketball or, you know, football or whatever season it is.

But yeah, I think even just listening to like various podcasts or anything could be a helpful way to kind of just

be a little bit more interesting. I don't know. It would be all certain ones you recommend.

No, I mean, I personally don't listen to a lot. I don't know. But like sports again, like that's

all these things, right? Like whatever sport you watch. Pick a team, friendly banter than office.

Yeah, I think somebody said you could just buy more watches to talk about watches.

That's an expensive way to be interesting though.

Yeah, exactly.

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