Small talk with Jessica St. Clair and Casey Wilson

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

Jesse Thorn

Society & Culture

4.5 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 20 September 2024

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Earlier this year, Casey Wilson and Jessica St. Clair put together an audio book called The Art of Small Talk. Think of it as a guide on navigating through brief conversations with strangers. In the audio book, they discuss why small talk is important and how it brings us as human beings, living our lives, closer together. On this episode, Jessica and Casey will get into how to perfect the art of small talk. They'll tell us what works for them and walk us through a few examples. They'll even coach Jesse on how to best engage in small talk at the dog park.

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0:18.8	Bullseye with Jesse Thorne is a production of maximum fun dot org and is distributed by NPR. It's bullseye I'm Jesse Thorne. How are you doing?
0:38.2	It's bullseye. I'm Jesse Thorne.
0:41.5	How are you doing?
0:43.0	Did you have a good summer?
0:45.0	See any of the top movies lately?
0:49.0	These of course are examples of small talk. Chances are you already knew that.
0:57.2	Maybe in the last few days you've made some small talk yourself.
1:01.5	A quick back and forth with the cashier at the grocery store a friendly
1:04.6	hello to someone on the elevator, a laugh shared with a taxi driver. Some of us live
1:10.1	for small talk. Others dread even the thought. For folks who are in either of those
1:15.3	camps and for those who are in between I offer you my guests Jessica St. Clair and
1:20.9	Casey Wilson. They're self-appointed experts on the topic of small talk.
1:26.2	Jessica is a returning guest on the show. She is a comedy writer and actor who has
1:30.0	starred in programs like Playing House, Vep, and Avenue 5.
1:34.0	Casey Wilson is also a comedy writer and actor.
1:38.2	She's been on Saturday Night Live,
1:40.0	happy endings, the righteous gemstones, and Black Monday. Both of them are very funny, very talented, and this is
1:47.1	important, extremely good at Small Talk. Earlier this year, Casey and Jessica put together an audiobook called The Art of Small Talk. Think of it as a guide to those brief conversations with strangers. Not creepy strangers that you should avoid, but folks you might meet in passing, bank tellers,
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