This acronym will help you give the perfect toast

Life Kit

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🗓️ 26 December 2022

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

It's the wild card of every big event — the toast. Done well, it can be a memorable highlight. Done badly, it can be a total cringefest. Here's a helpful way to remember how to give a terrific toast, whether it's at a New Year's party or at wedding reception.

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0:00.0	This is NPR's Life Kit.
0:01.7	I'm Mary El Segara.
0:03.5	Planning on giving any toast this new year's eve?
0:06.2	More power to you, but we also need to say,
0:09.1	it's always better to prepare for these things
0:11.3	rather than speak off the cuff,
0:13.0	especially if alcohol is involved.
0:15.4	An NPR producer Lauren McGocchi has got your back.
0:18.2	She did an episode a year ago on this very topic.
0:21.2	Here it is.
0:22.5	This is NPR's Life Kit.
0:24.2	I'm Lauren McGocchi.
0:25.2	It's this thing, huh?
0:30.2	I'd like to propose a toast.
0:33.9	It's the wild card of every event.
0:35.9	No matter how perfectly a person has orchestrated it,
0:38.8	the toast is that one live element
0:41.3	that threatens to derail everything.
0:44.1	It happened to stand up comedian, Otsuko Otsuko.
0:47.3	It was at my wedding, and my father-in-law, who
0:51.5	is a televanjalous preacher, and he preaches at this mega church.
0:56.8	Came up to speak, and then he suddenly goes,
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