How to Break Small Talk and Move Into the Business of the Day

"I'm using very generic examples. I'm not getting messy into COVID and pandemic and all of that stuff because sometimes those topics, they're kind of worn to death," he says. "So these are kind of some more generic things that you can say in many different situations." 'How was your weekend? Oh, I went away for the weekend actually. Where did you go?''Oh, I've never been there actually, but it sounds amazing.' "'Is it worth visiting?" 'Yeah, absolutely, definitely. I would definitely go.'"