EPISODE 83: Maybe You Already Have It All
Strangers on a Bench
Tom Rosenthal
4.8 • 3.5K Ratings
🗓️ 13 April 2026
⏱️ 48 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? Do you have a favorite day of the week? |
| 0:49.3 | Good question. |
| 0:53.3 | Great question. Great question? Good question. Good question. Good question. No, she's |
| 0:58.0 | okay. I would say no. All days are good. Like, no particular favorite. That's no problem. I like, |
| 1:07.6 | I like that answer. It says to me that you just enjoy each day. Okay, so let's do this. |
| 1:13.6 | What for you looks like a day really well lived on earth? I would say one where I don't work. |
| 1:22.6 | So you're not working, this is good. When you wake up, what time? How are you feeling? What are you doing? |
| 1:27.6 | Mostly, like, 8 a.m. |
| 1:30.5 | I just make up some coffee. |
| 1:33.3 | Enjoy some of the sunlight, if there's any. |
| 1:36.9 | You look out of the window? |
| 1:38.4 | Yeah, always. |
| 1:40.0 | There is a window right in front of our bed. |
| 1:43.6 | Have you ever seen anything interesting out of this window happen? |
| 1:46.0 | Anything interesting. |
| 1:48.0 | I mean just life passing. |
| 1:50.0 | Live passing. |
| 1:51.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:52.0 | Sometimes there is a squirrel, sometimes there is just people going to work. |
| 1:58.0 | How do you feel about squirrels? |
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