EPISODE 77: I See Dead People
Strangers on a Bench
Tom Rosenthal
4.8 • 3.5K Ratings
🗓️ 2 March 2026
⏱️ 57 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. Can I ask you a slightly odd question? |
| 0:08.5 | I'm making a podcast called Strangers on a bench where essentially I talk to people I don't |
| 0:16.9 | know on benches for 10 or 15 minutes. Are you up for that? Do you want to favourite day of the week? |
| 0:49.3 | Probably Friday because Fridays I don't work and I don't tend to plan to do anything |
| 1:01.4 | on a Friday evening other than have a cheap meal and watch a film or something just chill |
| 1:09.7 | on the sofa. It's my day to just do nothing, a little treat for myself. |
| 1:13.6 | Take me through it as much detail as you possibly can. |
| 1:16.6 | You're kind of ideal Friday. |
| 1:18.6 | I mean, we know about the evening now, the cheat meal and the chill time. |
| 1:21.6 | What is a cheat meal, what is a cheat meal? |
| 1:24.6 | A cheat meal is eating food that you wouldn't normally eat. |
| 1:29.0 | Oh, do you say cheats or cheat? |
| 1:30.1 | Cheat. Cheetah. |
| 1:30.9 | Yeah. |
| 1:36.8 | So, you know, like I don't generally eat carbs and processed food and things like that. |
| 1:39.8 | But then on a Friday I might have fish and chips or something. And a packet of Pringles. |
| 1:41.5 | I don't cheat that far. |
| 1:45.0 | The stuff they put in the unnameable crisps that is really quite bad. |
| 1:51.0 | Really bad. |
| 1:53.0 | So. |
| 1:53.7 | A day, a Friday day. |
| 1:55.5 | Let's go, you know, where are you waking up? |
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