EPISODE 62: I Wish That Was My Last Kiss
Strangers on a Bench
Tom Rosenthal
4.8 • 3.5K Ratings
🗓️ 17 November 2025
⏱️ 50 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
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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? Do you have a favorite day of the week? |
| 0:49.3 | A favorite day of the week? |
| 0:53.9 | No. |
| 0:55.0 | Would you like me to expand on that a bit? |
| 0:58.0 | Yes, please. |
| 1:00.0 | I might have thought about the weekend relation to five days of the week and two days of weekend and then sussed it out from there. |
| 1:09.0 | But since I'm now almost 85, |
| 1:12.3 | I don't have those divisions anymore. |
| 1:15.1 | You don't look almost 85. |
| 1:17.1 | This is the way 85 can look. |
| 1:19.9 | Hot. |
| 1:21.8 | I wouldn't say that. |
| 1:24.2 | Well, at least vibrant. |
| 1:26.7 | Good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good. I tend to like Saturdays. I don't know why. |
| 1:33.1 | And also, I have to do something every Saturday, which I'm pissed off that I have to do. |
| 1:39.5 | But still. |
| 1:40.6 | Can you say what it is? |
| 1:41.6 | Yes, I go on a vigil called Women in Black. |
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