EPISODE 57: Cubed Watermelon
Strangers on a Bench
Tom Rosenthal
4.8 • 3.5K Ratings
🗓️ 13 October 2025
⏱️ 60 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
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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? So me and you on this bench are only going to happen once in the whole of eternity. |
| 0:48.3 | I'm here for it. |
| 0:51.3 | Fantastic. |
| 0:52.3 | I'm here for it. |
| 0:53.3 | First question, you can't get it wrong. That's the good news. Okay. Is there a day of the week |
| 0:58.1 | that you favor? Um, I used to really love Wednesdays, but now that my schedule is all over the |
| 1:08.1 | place because I'm a waitress and my schedule is so wonky right now, it's no longer Wednesdays. Can I say it used to be Wednesdays? Yeah, you can. Why did it used to be Wednesdays? Because it was the middle of the week, and it was like, yes. I can't even put my finger on it. It's just a feeling. It's just a feeling. I liked Wednesdays. |
| 1:29.0 | Okay, perfect. |
| 1:29.8 | And, yeah. |
| 1:31.6 | Can you take me from getting up in the morning all the way through to go into bed? |
| 1:38.0 | What for you would be able to like a really good Wednesday that you could? |
| 1:42.1 | So, I mean, I'm a pretty simple creature. |
| 1:45.4 | What time we're getting up? |
| 1:46.2 | Let's go. |
| 1:47.2 | Details good. |
| 1:48.2 | I like getting up as early as I can naturally with the sun. |
| 1:52.7 | Let's say around half seven, eight in the morning. |
| 1:56.4 | I don't like. |
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