EPISODE 73: Shut The F*** Up and Enjoy Your Life
Strangers on a Bench
Tom Rosenthal
4.8 • 3.5K Ratings
🗓️ 2 February 2026
⏱️ 63 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. Can I ask you a slightly odd question? |
| 0:09.0 | I'm making a podcast called Strangers on a Bench, 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? First question, do you have a favorite day of the week? |
| 0:51.3 | I used to, Sunday evening used to be my favorite day of the week. |
| 1:00.0 | Sunday evening? Yeah. That's interesting. A lot of people would say that they hated that |
| 1:04.5 | bit because it was working the next day or Monday the next day. Well that's why I liked it. Not |
| 1:08.8 | many people came out and I just would go for jazz, live jazz, where those who come out are actually avoiding all the regular craziness that... |
| 1:19.6 | Interesting. |
| 1:20.6 | Happens on Friday evening, Saturday evening especially. |
| 1:24.6 | Sunday evening were your people. |
| 1:26.6 | Yeah, exactly. |
| 1:27.9 | That Sunday jazz was, |
| 1:29.6 | still is special. |
| 1:32.1 | But then again comes |
| 1:33.1 | Bank holiday, Monday. |
| 1:36.5 | And that ruined my week. |
| 1:39.6 | First of all, |
| 1:40.4 | I never learned about it |
| 1:41.5 | until it happened. |
| 1:43.1 | I don't follow bank holidays. |
| 1:45.0 | They're not important for me. |
| 1:46.0 | They're not in a diary. |
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