EPISODE 77: I See Dead People
3/2/202657 min
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
End song : 'Spirit Comes to the Homewares Store' by Benny Profound
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First 90 secondsTom Rosenthal· Host0:00
[footsteps] Hello. Sorry to bother you. Um, can I ask you a slightly odd question?
Speaker 2· Guest0:08
Yes, sure.
Tom Rosenthal· Host0:09
Um, I'm making a podcast, um, called Strangers on a Bench.
Speaker 2· Guest0:14
Oh, okay.
Tom Rosenthal· Host0:14
Where essentially I talk to people I don't know on benches for- That'll be me ... 10, 15 minutes. Um, are you up for that? Do you wanna give it a go? [upbeat music] Do you have a favorite day of the week?
Speaker 2· Guest0:49
Probably Friday, because Fridays I don't work, and I don't tend to plan to do anything on a Friday evening other than have a cheat meal and watch a film or something, just chill on the sofa. It's my day to just do nothing. A little treat for myself.
Tom Rosenthal· Host1:13
Take me through it in as much detail as you possibly can, your kind of ideal Friday. I mean, we know about the evening now.
Speaker 2· Guest1:19
Yeah.
Tom Rosenthal· Host1:20
The cheat meal and the, and the chill time. What is a cheat meal? I'm in t- what is a cheat meal?
Speaker 2· Guest1:24
A cheat meal is eating food that you wouldn't normally eat.
Tom Rosenthal· Host1:27
Oh, do you say cheat or cheat?
Speaker 2· Guest1:29
Cheat.
Tom Rosenthal· Host1:29
Cheater.