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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is a special
archived episode of the Scott
Townsend Show.
Welcome to the Scott TownsendShow brought to you by Pizza man
Productions.
Today I have with me a specialguest.
He wrote the book the Two-HourCocktail Party.
He's had hundreds of two-hourcocktail parties so he should
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know what he's talking about.
He's been mentioned in the NewYork Times and the Wall Street
Journal and the New Yorkermagazine, I think, said
something about his partiesbeing culturally significant.
So I think we need to listen towhat my guest has to say today.
My guest, nick Gray.
Nick, how's it going, man?
Speaker 2 (00:44):
It's going great.
I'm excited to be here to talkabout parties and making friends
and all that great stuff.
I'm just jazzed up about it.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Yeah, so I read the
book, love the book.
It's got me thinking in a lotof different directions, not
just parties, so let's juststart off.
First thing icebreaker.
What did you have for breakfastthis morning?
Speaker 2 (01:07):
dang, that's my
favorite icebreaker question.
I love that question because ithelps warm up a room when
there's no rapport that's beenbuilt up.
What I had for breakfast?
Now, don't judge me, but I amdoing that bulletproof coffee
stuff, basically just blackcoffee with a little bit of
butter, but instead of butter Iadd ghee, and then I totally
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screw it up and I add coconutoil and cinnamon and a little
bit of honey, which I think ischeating.
It probably gets around thewhole point of not having carbs,
but I like the sweetness.
And then I blend it all up.
I just do Starbucks coffee.
How?
Speaker 1 (01:41):
about you?
What'd you have for breakfast?
Oh man, so don't go judging me.
I had blueberries.
Oh, toast with cream cheesespread over strip of bacon.
Uh, uh, spinach with four eggs.
Yes, little cayenne pepper, alittle sea salt and ground black
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pepper.
A little ketchup over that,some sprinkled over some
shredded cheese.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Yeah, Scott, my mouth
is literally watering.
I'm coming over to your placebecause this is like Scott's
Waffle House, which I loveWaffle House, by the way.
I've never had a waffle there,but I've been there hundreds of
times.
I love waffle.
I'm coming to your place.
Okay, logistical question.
I know we'll talk about thebook, but, whatever, how did you
make your bacon?
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Have you ever made it in theoven?
And how did you make a singlestrip of bacon?
What?
Speaker 1 (02:37):
is going on.
Okay, so my wife laid out acookie sheet big cookie sheet,
uh-huh and put it in the oven uh, cooked it up, flipped it over,
cooked it up, set it to like350, 375 or something like that,
left it in for 20 minutes andflipped it over, did the same
thing, pulled them out and justlaid them in a uh uh, glass
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tupper.
It's not tupperware, it's glasscorning.
You know corningware whatever,yeah and then put in the
refrigerator.
And then every so often, if youwant to strip a bacon, you just
pull it out, put in themicrowave 10 seconds and you're
good.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Is it still crispy?
Look, I've never talked aboutbacon this much on a podcast,
but I think this is now a baconpodcast recording and I want to
know was it crispy?
Uh, it wasn't crispy um yeahokay, would you consider an air
fryer?
I just recently got one and Iam in love with it and I I can't
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believe I've fallen into thetrap, but I got one and it lived
up to the hype for me.
Have you done bacon in it?
I've never done bacon, but I'vereheated some fries that I took
home from Pry's, which is aburger joint that we have here
in texas and the fries got alittle soggy and I just threw
them in the air fryer and theycame out crispy as heck and I
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wonder if you could do that withyour bacon.
Run it by your wife and let meknow hey, nick gray said.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Speaking of Nick Gray
, your name, it sounds like a
detective out of a pulp fictionnovel or something.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
I'll take that.
I'll take that because a lot ofpeople say that it's like that
50 shades of gray.
That's what they think about.
I think the detective is abetter one, so I'm for that one.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Yeah, so we'll go
with that.
Let's jump into the book.
I ran across this book and I'mnot quite sure.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
I don't know how I
came across it I think we
reached out to you from yourpodcast in one of the ranking
charts and I offered to send youa copy of it.
So we yeah, so.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
So I looked over the
book and back in college, which
was a long time we used to haveparties all the time.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Oh, hold on, I need
more details about these parties
.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Yeah, they would go
on till sunrise, you know, and
it was, it was crazy.
Ok, so fast forward.
That was 1983 to 89.
So now fast forward to 2000.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Where was this?
Was this in Oklahoma?
Yeah, at.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
Oklahoma State
University.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
That's excellent.
And did you live on campus ordid you have like a house?
Speaker 1 (05:14):
On campus and then
towards the end we lived in an
apartment, uh-huh, my roommateand I, and yeah, so it was just
party central and we just had ablast.
But as you get older and youget married and you have kids
and you know, blah, blah, blahand you grow up and times have
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changed and you get older andyou just want to come home at
night and sit down and shut upand you know, whatever that is
all about hang on a second I I'mgoing to turn this thing off.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
You don't have to
explain to me.
I did the same thing last night.
Last night was actually mybirthday and I didn't want to
plan anything.
That's a whole other story.
I just wanted to come home andjust relax, so I got you.
I'm on the same page.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
Yeah Well,
congratulations, happy birthday.
Thank you very much.
Thank you very much.
So, yeah, so when I saw thetitle of this book, I was like
you know, I just it would benice to kind of get back into.
You know, we had so much funand especially when we first got
married we had a lot of peopleover all the time.
And now we're into it 30 yearsand just you know how things go.
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So, anyway, we're wanting toramp's harder back up, and we're
looking to nick gray to do that.
So thanks for writing the book.
It's super practical.
Uh, I think you might.
This is my assessment of youafter reading the book.
I think you're an extrovertedanalyst.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
What does the analyst
part mean?
The short answer is probablyyes.
I present as an extrovert In myown parties.
I will occasionally sneak offinto my bedroom and just lay
down and scroll Twitter orsomething to recharge, but I
think I originally I wasn'talways an extrovert.
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But what does that mean, scott,that I'm an extrovert analyst?
What does that analyst at theend mean?
Speaker 1 (07:11):
An extroverted
analyst.
So you broke this thing down,this process, step by step.
I mean, if you take this bookthose of you listening, if
you're an executive, or ifyou're in business, or if you're
just wanting to have aneighborhood party get together,
but you don't know what to do,You're afraid to go, afraid to
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do it.
Nick breaks it down from stepone, analyzes each step along
the way, tells you what you needto do, tells you what you need
to say, how to prepare, and thenyou get to the end.
And it's well thought out.
There's a reason for everything.
It's very purposeful.
There's nothing left toquestion.
If you just follow the steps inthe book, you're going to have,
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I'm going to say, a pretty goodparty.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Everything's laid out
.
It's a formula, it's an exactformula and I guess that's right
.
That's that analytical side ofme that really tried to write a
book with a formula to helpsomeone go from zero to one, to
help someone see that there's aneasier way to host a gathering.
What do I mean by that?
Well, I worked with a guy, notworked with, like.
I read my book and he sent me aphoto because I'm obsessed, by
the way way, with helping peopleactually host a party.
And I'm gonna challenge you,scott, to pick a date at the end
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of the podcast if you'd bewilling to set a date sometime
in January or February to hostyour party.
But I thought this one guy yes,okay, great.
I talked to this one guy inWashington DC.
He's a chef and he said thatyour party gave me the
confidence to finally host alittle happy hour with no food.
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He said, as a chef, everyoneexpects me to cook this
incredible spread.
And what did that do?
It caused me to never hostbecause I'm busy with work.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
I'm tired because I'm
busy with work, I'm tired.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
He said your book
gave me the confidence that I
could simply say, hey, come overfor two hours, we'll have chips
and guac and nuts, but like I'mnot making you dinner, come
over for a happy hour.
And so that's the whole thesisof my book.
What is the MVP?
The minimum viable party tohelp you?
Simply just bring your friends,your neighbors, over to gather
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again.
And I think that we all needmore friends.
As we get older, it's harder tomeet new people.
I'm rambling on, but I gethyped up about that, so I'll
pause to see your reactions.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
My reaction is I
think you're absolutely right,
especially since we've come outof COVID and everybody was
locked down and sequestered andeverybody's been pushed away
from each other.
I think people now are ready tocome together.
And so how do you do that?
They want to do it and some ofthem will do it and figure it
out, but most probably want toknow how you know.
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It'd be nice to know some bestpractices.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Yeah, and one thing I
found I'm curious, go ahead.
One thing I'm found I'm curiousif you saw similar in your
neighborhood or community.
During COVID, I saw many longtime hosts people that always
hosted the 4th of July, theChristmas party.
They stopped.
They stopped hosting forobvious reasons.
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I'm not judging them oranything, but what I have
noticed is they've lost theirmomentum and many of them
haven't started hosting again.
Did you see anything similarlike that where y'all are?
Speaker 1 (10:38):
Yeah, I think so, I
think so.
I think everybody's lost theirmojo.
They've kind of lost themomentum is a good word, and I
think people are hungry to getback together again.
What does that mean?
Well, this book kind of helpsyou understand what that might
mean for you.
Talk about that so you knowwhen you want to start what's
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the three week rule, when youwant to, when you're thinking
about having if you dare tothink about having a party and
I'm going to shut up because I'mtalking way too much- no, I can
tell you're not talking toomuch and I love this
conversation because I can tellyou've actually read the book
and you're actually interestedin this idea.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
To host something
again, just like what your wife
said I don't want to cook, Idon't.
Oh, it's the stress.
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You both want to host.
You want the results fromhosting Right, but in the past
maybe you've preparation andit'd be a great dinner party,
but you know what you'd feellike your wife does.
You say I don't want to do thatagain.
That was too much work, toomuch stress.
I've tried to line up in herehow to guarantee to make your
parties a success, and one ofthose things is called the party
runway, which says you need toplan and give yourself at least
three weeks, not because ittakes a lot of time, but just to
guarantee a success.
What does success mean?
Success means that you fill theroom, that as many people as
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you want to come actually showup, and what I have found is
that the number one indicator ofsuccess for a party, especially
for a new host, is can they hitthe critical mass of guests?
I have found that that numberis 15 people.
15 people with a cocktail party, with a happy hour.
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There's enough energy that whenyou walk into that room it
manages itself.
Now, why do you and your wifefeel that, oh, it's too much
work, too much stress, just likeeverybody else.
If you only host a dinner partywith six, seven, eight people?
Frankly, even as adults we'rekind of babysitting everybody
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all night long oh, how can Iserve you, how can I feed you?
Do you have enough going on?
We're laser tuned in, we're on,on on With 15 people.
You can step back, you can talkto a friend, you can catch up.
There's enough people andenergy in that space for people
to mix and mingle.
So that's one thing I found isthat three-week party runway.
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Give yourself enough time foryour friends to say yes.
Also, by the way, host it onwhat I call a non-red level day.
So that's controversial.
I'm curious what does your wifethink about that?
I say you got to host this onlyon a Monday, tuesday or
Wednesday night.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
I can talk about why,
but did you bounce that off her
?
Yet I told her we were going todo it on a Tuesday Because I
was reading this book and I gotreal enthusiastic.
I was like, okay, here's what Iapproached it all wrong with
her.
I was like, okay, so here'swhat we're going to do.
We're going to do it on thisday and we're going to do it in
three weeks.
We're going to invite thesepeople.
And she was just shutting medown.
I didn't approach it quite rightwith her.
She warmed up to the ideaeventually, and so, yeah, we're
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looking forward to it.
Honest.
So here's the behind the scenesstory.
We were supposed to have thiscocktail party next Tuesday, but
some people couldn't make it.
It's Christmas time and I kindof knew in the back of my head
that December is really packed.
Yes, there's a lot of stuffgoing on.
I don't know if I need to beadding anything else to people's
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, so I went against my gut.
I set it up for next Tuesday.
So we're going to postpone, andyou even talk about how to
postpone a meeting a party andwe're going to do it in January.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
Okay, good.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
So give everybody a
breather.
And January is not a lothappening.
Everybody's taking a deepbreath.
Yeah, it'sher.
And January's not a lothappening.
Everybody's taking a deepbreath.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
Yeah, it's easier,
it's much easier.
Now I want to challenge youbecause I want to say for
January, I would love for you tofollow my party formula, and
one piece of that involvescollecting RSVPs, which frankly,
seems a little.
It might seem too formal to you, but I want you to create a
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page on one of these free onlineplatforms to have people
actually RSVP with their nameand email address.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
Now, I did sign up.
You mentioned Millie or Mixily.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
Mixily is a free
platform that I like, the gen
z's like this platform called umpartyful.
Now I've used um paperless post.
My parents love and use eviteand I'm not roasting them
because I used to use evite.
Yeah, I personally do notrecommend that platform and
here's why they spam all of yourguests with these ads and
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newsletters and stuff I don'twant my guests.
I don't want that.
Mixily is free, you don't haveto sign up, there's no ads or
spam or anything.
So that's the platform Irecommend, but you could use
others so you've got.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
So you get everybody
coming to the party.
We're on mixily, we've got someRSVPs and we're all set.
People are showing up, andlet's talk about that for a
second.
What if someone what was it yousaid the first guests are the
most.
Is that the most awkward moment?
Because everyone's kind of hey,how's it going?
Speaker 2 (16:20):
That's the awkward
zone.
Without fail, the people youknow the least well will show up
first.
Yes, you know that's theawkward zone, without fail, the
people you know the least wellwill show up first.
Or somebody says, oh, can Ibring Darren from work?
Or oh, man, can I bring mysister?
And they show up first withouttheir friend.
You're like, oh my.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
God.
So then you've got peopleshowing up and you're you're big
on icebreakers.
And I do like I read that, Iwas like okay, that is cool, and
then so you mentioned doing it,I'll let you talk about it.
Go into your icebreaker theoryand how that works.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
Well, there is a
theory behind it, but I'll first
give an example.
Just like you said at thebeginning of the podcast, what's
one of your favorite things toeat for breakfast?
And notice what I did there, bythe way, I didn't make it a
superlative.
I said what's one of yourfavorite things.
Many times, people will ask foran icebreaker.
What's your favorite book?
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What's your favorite movie?
Well, that, is a definitive,single, subjective item.
You really got to think about it.
You want to give the bestanswer and I have a hard time
with that question.
I can't pick just one favoritebook or one favorite movie.
Oh my gosh, I like atomichabits for this.
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I like built to sell blah, blah, blah.
So I an easy modifier to makeit easier for people to answer
is what's one of your favoritebooks?
All right, because a goodicebreaker is a fast icebreaker.
It doesn't cause the person tostress out, everybody can answer
it quickly and it shares alittle bit about the person.
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So, anyhow, we do theseicebreakers at the party, not
because I'm obsessed withlearning what you had for
breakfast, but because it giveseveryone a chance to sound off
around the room, say who theyare, what they do and a little
bit about themselves, to inspirenew conversations at the party.
And I think that's the mostimportant thing I want your
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listeners to know.
These parties are designed tocreate new connections amongst
all of your guests.
It's hard to make new friends asan adult.
That is real and that is true.
Why is that?
Why is that?
I think because we becomecreatures of habit.
I like to eat the same thingsevery day.
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I live in the city of Austin,texas, home to some amazing
restaurants, and, frankly,between you and me, I just
rather make the same thing.
I cook all the time because itjust makes me happy and it's
easy.
We're creatures of habit, andas we get older, people retreat
into their homes, they move,they get busy with work.
We just fall into the routines.
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And yet we need friends morethan ever as we get older, and
so I designed this book and thisformula to help make that
easier.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
In your opinion, why
are networking events so bad?
Speaker 2 (19:15):
Networking events
feel too transactional.
They feel gross.
People are passing out businesscards and here's why they're
broken.
People take before they give.
What can you do for me Versus?
The whole idea of hosting aparty is it's a gift that you
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get to give someone you saywelcome into my home.
Let me give you a drink.
Here's some chips and some nuts.
Meet some of my friends andneighbors.
Let me give you a drink.
Here's some chips and some nuts.
Meet some of my friends andneighbors.
Let me be the host.
And I think we're flipping thewhole script of that of let's
give before we try to ask foranything.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
Do we have to serve
alcohol at these cocktail?
Speaker 2 (19:58):
parties?
Great question.
No, you don't have to servealcohol.
I don't drink alcohol myself.
There's something funny that Iwrote a book about cocktail
parties and I don't drinkalcohol.
There's not a single drinkrecipe in the book.
There's not a single drinkrecipe in the book, but we use
that phrase cocktail party,which encapsulates the idea of
an easy, lightweight socialgathering that you can pop into
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with low commitment.
Again, it's the difference indinner party and cocktail party.
A dinner party is a commitment.
A dinner party, you kind ofneed to know someone or be
really ready and willing to makethat relationship.
A cocktail party, I can justdrop by too.
A cocktail party is easy.
I know that I'll have a lot oflightweight, little
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conversations and that's why Ilove and use that phrase.
But if you don't drink alcohol?
I wrote an article on my blog.
I'll try to include it in theshow notes.
It's how to the show notes.
It's how to host a mocktail,how to host a mocktail party
with some sample drink recipes.
Maybe you could even just plana networking event, host a happy
hour.
You could even do a book swapor a clothing swap.
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There's other ways to gather ifyou want to break out, but I
have found that cocktail partyis the easiest phrase to explain
quickly what I'm trying toaccomplish.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
Okay, cool People who
throw networking events
together should read this bookalso, because you even list out
what to say to people before theparty, the week before, five
days before, three days, beforethe day of I'm not sure if I'm
getting all that right.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
It's exactly right,
you remember?
It's those reminder messagesthat are key.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
So you know.
You've even broke that out, sopeople don't have to think about
how to stay in touch or what tosay pre-party.
This book really gives you theingredients.
That tells you what to say orgives you samples of what you
could say before the partystarts, to get people prepped,
ready and excited and what theycan expect.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
Those reminder
messages are so important as
well, and, yes, I include allthe scripts in the book, and the
book is filled with the scriptsof exactly what to say.
Reminder messages help keepyour party top of mind to boost
your attendance ratio.
Reminder messages get yourguests excited about coming to
your party.
They show that you're a hostwho cares, that you're not too
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cool to care right, that you'renot just like, oh, just show up.
You know.
Reminder messages also createnew connections amongst guests,
because I use what I call mysecret weapon in the last two,
which is called guest bios, andthe guest bio is a brief little
blurb about somebody Yours itmight be.
Scott lives in Oklahoma and hehosts a podcast.
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Ask him about his famousbreakfasts.
Okay, guest bios are just alittle blurb to create new
conversations and connectionsamongst your guests, but they
give shy people, those that areintroverts or with social
anxiety, confidence to know whatto expect.
That's another thing about myformula is it's really trying to
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help that this isn't just aparty of extroverts.
You've got a diversity ofattendees and I think that's
important.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
And I think, how to
end the party on time and that
there needs to be a hard stop,and at first that sounds
counterintuitive.
You're thinking well, ifeverybody's having a great time,
let's keep this baby rolling,but I've been the guest that
stayed too long.
I've been the host that has hadpeople stay too long.
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Yeah, and it's awkward, andthat might be another reason why
people don't because they don'tknow how to to stop it.
Yeah, and you're a bigproponent of uh it, I mean
having a hard stop.
And why is that?
Speaker 2 (23:57):
Parties are better
when you know the rules to be
successful.
Have you ever been invited tolike a barbecue on a Saturday at
four o'clock and you startdoing this mental calculus like,
well, what time should weactually show up?
You know well, maybe five, fivethirty?
Oh no, let's show up beforethat.
We'll know they're from CentralAmerica.
Should we actually show up?
You know well, maybe 5, 5, 30?
Oh no, let's show up beforethat.
We'll know they're from centralamerica.
We can't show up late.
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There's all these weird thingsabout it.
When you tell people when theparty starts, when the party
stops, number one, they'll showup on time.
Everybody.
There's this weird calculus oflike, all right, we can't show
up on time, we'll show up anhour late.
Yeah, and then the first houris just filled with the suckers
that showed up on top.
It's not good.
It's not good when you end theparty as well.
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You give your guests the giftof leading the party and ending
it when things are at a highnote.
Mm-hmm, you know, have you beenat a party and like you're the
first to leave and you're like,oh gosh, you're.
You're thinking about sneakingout, you're trying to plan your
exit, you want to leave, but youdon't muster up the courage or
confidence to actually leave.
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I've done that before.
When you end a party and whenyou keep it to two hours, I
think it also helps.
Let's just be honest On aTuesday night you don't want to
invite people to an 8 pm party.
Nobody's going to come.
They have work the next day,they have class, they have
school, they haveresponsibilities.
But when you host it on one ofthese Monday, tuesday, wednesday
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nights and list that it's onlytwo hours, it shows people this
is not a crazy blowout.
This is not a crazy late nightmidnight rager like you used to
host in college.
This is just a stop by and hangout and say hello party.
I've thought a lot about thesethings, but the last and final
reason you're going to keep itto two hours is so that you'll
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actually want to do it again.
When you end your party at twohours, you have time to clean,
to tidy, to go to bed on time.
You'll wake up the next morningrefreshed and energized and
amped up and excited about allthe conversations you had the
night before.
I'll tell you the key secret tothis book and to those that
have got the biggest, bestresults the biggest benefits
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come when you can make hosting ahabit, when you can make
hosting a habit.
When you can make hostingsomething that you regularly do.
Every six to eight weeks youalways have your next cocktail
party planned.
It will completely change yourlife.
It did for me.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
It seems like and I
should have dug into this more
but there's a lot of healthreasons for people getting
together and cultivatingfriendships and versus staying
alone, being alone, uh, andbeing, you know, depressed and
out of touch, but from a medicalstandpoint, this actually might
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save your life.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
I don't know no,
you're smart and I think you're
exactly right.
I've read those studies, buteven I should know them off the
back of my hand.
But I will say this there is aloneliness epidemic that is
happening.
19% of men don't have a singleclose friend.
15% of women the majority ofAmericans have lost more friends
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than they have gained over thelast three years.
The benefits of community andfriendship are unequivocated.
They are tried, trued andtested by science, and I want to
let your listeners know thatyour party will be successful
because you will help yourfriends make new friends.
(27:28):
I hear about it all the timefrom hosts.
Oh my gosh, these two peoplehit it off.
I never would have thoughtabout that.
And now they're inviting me tocome out to a sports game, to a
barbecue.
They're hosting a party.
That is what you, that's whatwe talk about, why networking
gets a bad rep?
Because at these parties it'stotally different.
You give before you take.
It's amazing that's awesome.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
thanks so much, nick,
for stopping by and talking
about your book, the Two-HourCocktail Party.
Now I got mine on Kindle and itwas a great read on Kindle, so,
yeah, I'm going to share this.
If anybody wants to get intouch with you, Nick, about this
or anything about the Two-HourCocktail Party, how would they
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get in touch with you, Nick,about this or anything about the
two-hour cocktail party?
How would they get in touchwith you?
Speaker 2 (28:16):
I would love to hear
from anyone.
They can send me an email ifthey want to.
I'm nick at nickgraynewscom.
N-e-w-s.
I recorded the audible versionof the book myself in the studio
so you can check the book outon audible or on amazon or
anywhere that books are soldonline.
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The name of the book is the twohour cocktail party how to
build big relationships withsmall gatherings, and I'm on a
mission myself to get 500 peopleto read the book and host a
party to bring people togetherjust to get us gathering again.
It's easy.
We can all use a new friend.
I'll show you how to make itfun.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
So, with my party in
January, I'm going to let you
know what that date is.
Can you?
Can you?
You know?
Here's an experiment, here's afun experiment.
So what we're going to do isI'm going to set this date, I'm
going to, in future podcastepisodes, I'm going to update
the listeners as to how it'sgoing what you know what the
next step I took?
you know the, the responsesleading up to after the party.
(29:22):
How did it go, you know,following nick gray's uh formula
here, and we'll just do a kindof a social experiment through
podcasting and keep you and allof our listeners see how things
are going on this journey tothis first party.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
Please.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
That would be amazing
.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
That would be really
cool.
When we get off this recording,let's pick that date and I'll
add it to my calendar and I'llhelp hold you accountable as an
accountability buddy for yourparty.
All right, All right.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
Well for Nick, great.
This is Scott Townsend.
Thanks for watching, listeningto the Scott Townsend Show.
Have a great day, everything'sgoing to be all right and we'll
talk to you later.
The Scott Townsend Show is aDeto man production.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
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