How to Make Small Talk

Video Transcript

"Talking trash. How to make small talk. This is Doctor Paul, author of Boomer Girls: A Boomer Woman's Guide to Men and Dating and host of Ask Doctor Paul. I'm laughing because I hear this sports announcer always say we're going to talk trash. Well he's talking about talking about sports. Are you investing in sports? Well if you're betting maybe, but it's a talk about something that may not be greatly significant. It's small talk. And how do you do it? Be somewhat informed about the topic. You know about baseball, this group is going to do that, this team is going to do that. Here are some batting averages, football the same thing. Men talk small talk about sports. And they may get riled up and that's a better team and the nineteen-ninety-five Mets were the greatest and on and on and on it goes. That's small talk. And women do the same thing. And the way to make the small talk work is to be somewhat informed about the topic. Maybe women are talking about some of their favorite actresses or actors and they know about their situations. They've seen it in one of the public magazines and this is what they like. It's a small talk and the only way to maintain small talk is to be informed somewhat about the subject at hand. And quite frankly with small talk, what you don't know you can guess at. This is Doctor Paul, may your fantasies of today be your realities of tomorrow."