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Exchange Exemplar: How To Start A Conversation

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A journalist and a comic actor walk into a bar. 

It's not the setup to a joke, it's the start of two men helping other people start conversations. 

Chris Colin and Rob Baedeker, journalist and comic, respectively, teamed up for a book on getting a conversation off the ground: What to Talk About.  Rob Baedeker visited in May of 2014 and we re-rack the interview here.  

 

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Geoffrey Riley is a graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism and has hosted the Jefferson Exchange on JPR since 2009. He's been a broadcaster in the Rogue Valley for more than 35 years, working in both television and radio.