EPISODE 23: The Balletic Lawyer

Strangers on a Bench

Tom Rosenthal

Conversation, Strangers, Park, Society & Culture, Random, Bench, Documentary

4.8 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Tom Rosenthal approaches a stranger on a park bench and asks if he can sit down next to them and record their conversation.

This is what happened!

Produced by Tom Rosenthal

Edited by Rose De Larrabeiti

Mixed by Mike Woolley

Theme tune by Tom Rosenthal & Lucy Railton

Incidental music by Maddie Ashman

End song : Another Home by afromerm

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0:00.0	Hello, sorry to bother you.
0:05.0	Can I ask you a slightly odd question?
0:09.0	I'm making a podcast called Strangers on a bench
0:14.0	where essentially I talk to people I don't know on benches for 10 or 15 minutes.
0:19.0	Are you up for that? Do you want to give it a go? What's your favourite day of the week?
0:46.3	That's a good question, do you know that? Because every day is the same.
0:56.0	There is no week, it's just a day.
0:59.0	Daytime, night time.
1:01.0	That's how I see things.
1:03.0	I don't put a label on something.
1:05.0	Every day is Tuesday.
1:07.0	There you go.
1:08.0	Every day's Monday, every day is Wednesday.
1:10.0	Do you see? The days of the week is only put there for a commerce calendar.
1:14.2	So I can't have a favourite day.
1:16.6	Completely see. I like that. You completed it. You completed the question.
1:22.3	What is, given that all the days can be anything,
1:26.7	and it's all just every day as a day.
1:28.3	What is your idea of a day really well lived?
1:33.3	Peace. Living peace, man, that's it.
1:36.3	There's too much. I mean, I do the legal and law stuff, so I see the fictitious world
1:42.3	and the illusion that we actually live in rather than the reality. I also read the bug of Gavita, I see the fictitious world and the illusion that we actually live in rather than reality.
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