EPISODE 71: All Plumbers Are Philosophers
Strangers on a Bench
Tom Rosenthal
4.8 • 3.5K Ratings
🗓️ 19 January 2026
⏱️ 45 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!
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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? |
| 0:47.3 | Favorite day of the week? Honestly, Thursday. |
| 0:50.3 | It's strange. |
| 0:51.3 | That's a big honor to me. |
| 0:53.3 | Yeah. I was speaking to someone recently actually is quite strange because |
| 0:57.1 | they asked me my favorite day of the week as well. Oh really? Yeah. Who is that? I've got a rival out there. |
| 1:02.6 | It was a girl that I was speaking to. Okay. You know. In a romantic fashion? Yeah, it's nice. Yeah, she was like, |
| 1:08.5 | she said her favorite day of the week was Wednesday and I was like, yeah, I like Thursday. I think it's, when I was younger, I used to, when I was going through secondary school, I used to have a friend. Every Thursday, we used to get those small packets of ramen and then go home or watch a movie. We used to school them ramen Thursdays. Oh, that's very sweet. Yeah. Ramen Thursdays? Yep. So you still like Thursdays because of Raman Thursdays |
| 1:31.0 | Or just generally you're happy with a different reason |
| 1:33.3 | I mean in college now |
| 1:34.6 | Thursday is the last day of the week for me |
| 1:36.7 | And then Friday I get off |
| 1:38.3 | It's for some reason Thursday's always just been a day |
| 1:40.8 | Where things just go really well for me |
| 1:43.0 | So you know |
| 1:43.9 | Fantastic Yeah it's How did the rest of this conversation go with this lady always just been a day where things just go really well for me. So, you know. Fantastic. Yeah. |
| 1:45.3 | It's, um, how did the rest of this conversation go with this lady? Um, you're pursuing? |
| 1:50.1 | What, what stage are we at? She went to university, so we don't see each other much. However, |
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