EPISODE 89: I Am What I Am
5/25/202645 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 : ''I Am What I Am' by Hetta Falzon
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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
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 ... 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· Guest0:48
I like Mondays and Thursdays 'cause they're the days I come to Hampstead Heath. But some of the other days, I, I spend a, a lot of time writing and I like those as well, so I, I think- They're all lovely views out ... Th- th- yeah, I mean, I'm retired, so, uh, if any day isn't lovely, it's down to me.
Tom Rosenthal· Host1:10
[laughs] Yeah. I like it. Yeah, that's it. You're taking full responsibility of your- Yes ... of your days ...
Speaker 2· Guest1:14
well, you have to, don't you? I mean- So why, so why would you come to Hampstead Heath on a Monday and, say, not a Tuesday? Uh, I like to give my w- week a shape. Like, on Wednesday I receive the grocery