EPISODE 87: Charge It To The Game
5/11/20261 hr 4 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 : 'Mother Knows Best' by Peter Deaves
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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
Yeah, sure.
Tom Rosenthal· Host0:09
[laughs] Um, I'm making a podcast, um, called Strangers on a Bench- Okay.
Speaker 2· Guest0:14
Oh ...
Tom Rosenthal· Host0:14
where essentially I talk to people I don't know on benches for- Okay [laughs] ... 10 or 15 minutes. Um, are you up for that? Do you wanna give it a go? [gentle music] [birds chirping] Okay. How are you feeling? Good. How's it going? Great. So let's explain what's happened here. We were about to sit on a bench- Mm-hmm ... but it started raining.
Speaker 2· Guest0:57
Heavily.
Tom Rosenthal· Host0:58
Heavily. So this is a bench first. We are on a bench.
Speaker 2· Guest1:03
Technically.
Tom Rosenthal· Host1:03
Technically, but this bench is in your van.
Speaker 2· Guest1:07
100%.
Tom Rosenthal· Host1:09
It is a small little ledgey boy, but it- It's a bench ... you know. [knocks] There you go. So- Solid ... this is new territory. Okay, should I tell you how this works?
Speaker 2· Guest1:18
Let's go.
Tom Rosenthal· Host1:19
There's a start question and an end question. It's the same for everyone who does this.
Speaker 2· Guest1:23
Mm-hmm.
Tom Rosenthal· Host1:24
And whatever happens in the middle just happens in the middle. If there's any questions you don't like, just, you know, shove me out the van.