EPISODE 60: That's What She Said
Strangers on a Bench
Tom Rosenthal
4.8 • 3.5K Ratings
🗓️ 3 November 2025
⏱️ 39 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
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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 you know how this works already? |
| 0:47.3 | I think so. |
| 0:48.3 | I've actually, I think, listened to like most of them. |
| 0:51.3 | Really? |
| 0:52.3 | Yeah. |
| 0:53.3 | Oh, thanks. Genuinely, my favourite thing is people watching. and I was like, this is a podcast version of my favourite thing. |
| 0:57.9 | That's like perfect for you. So you're ready? Here we go. Favorite day at the week? |
| 1:04.5 | Oh, um, probably going to go basic B with it. Friday. Friday, just because you've got like the |
| 1:15.1 | weekend and then some. Yeah, we're not to look forward to. You've done the working week. Is the |
| 1:20.8 | working week for you, does that mean? Is that full of hardship? Um, well, it depends, you know, |
| 1:27.2 | philosophically a bit like, is this what we're supposed to do? |
| 1:31.3 | You know what I'm talking about. |
| 1:33.3 | You know the millennial beef we all have. |
| 1:37.3 | I think any response to start philosophically, that's my kind of response. |
| 1:43.3 | If I say |
| 1:44.2 | what's your favourite cheese |
| 1:45.2 | philosophically speaking |
| 1:46.7 | it's chella |
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