How to Be Good at Small Talk

Nobody Panic

Plosive, Tessa Coates and Stevie Martin

Education, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.8 • 933 Ratings

🗓️ 15 October 2019

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Small talk can be excruciating but don’t worry! Stevie and Tessa have found some top tips that will make that terrifying networking event/party fly be. Or just be a little less arse-clenchy.

Produced and edited by Ben Williams for Plosive Productions.

Photos by Marco Vittur, jingle by David Dobson.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Nobody Panic with me Stevie and me Tessa and we're not panicking and our
0:18.3	podcast very calm too calm actually eerily calm mellow this is a really calm. Mello.
0:23.0	This is a podcast where we help you become a functioning adult without screaming.
0:27.0	I mean without us screaming or you screaming,
0:29.0	because being an adult basically means you just scream all the time.
0:32.0	Tackling the problems big and small, and today it's a small yet big one.
0:36.3	How to be good at small talk?
0:37.9	Are you good at small talk?
0:39.2	No, I'm all right actually.
0:41.0	I feel like you sort of blow into the conversation of like oh hello and then you'll do some like good
0:46.4	business and then you'll just you be like well where did that woman go and did anyone else see
0:50.0	yeah like that the vibe yeah so take from that what you will and if you think that sounds good or not.
0:55.0	It's changing.
0:56.0	Yes.
0:57.0	Yeah, I've got a lot of opinions about it basically.
0:58.0	Yeah.
0:59.0	This is how to go to a party if you don't know anybody,
1:01.0	or if you have to go to a networking do what if you
1:03.3	invited to a wedding and you haven't got a plus one you're on your own what you're
1:06.4	gonna say what you're gonna say I'm gonna get through it but we got you I also
1:10.5	was inspired to do this because my mom who listens, hello mom, she went to a party recently
1:16.5	and she was like, I realized halfway through, how, I thought I was good at small talk, I'm terrible.
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