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There is something to be said for doing this the old fashioned way and reading a newspaper (say the WSJ, which is pretty centrist) cover-to-cover a couple times a week. This will include regular and business news, politics, opinions you can just steal, TV, movies, style, books, restaurant reviews, some general interest fluff articles on trends in social media, cooking, tech, real estate, language that people around you use etc. Sure, you’ll get the perspective of boomers on all these things, but if nothing else it’s a good place to start and you can start recognizing some of the names, ideas, products, whatever that people are talking about.
Yeah, the WSJ has a pretty good handle on the pulse of what upper-middle class people talk about, and provides sufficiently detailed generally non-offensive takes that you can pass for knowing at least something about topics when they come up in conversation. There was a time for me where easily 9/10 topics that came up in a weekly happy hour with work people were already discussed in that weeks Journal.
Their credulity when it came to the Max Deutsch v. Magnus Carlsen chess match significantly diminished how seriously I take their analysis, but you will at least have some idea of what people are talking about if you keep up with it.
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