EPISODE 91: Lads, Crying, and David Attenborough
6/8/20261 hr 7 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 : 'Tynemouthing' by Jes Lowe
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First 90 secondsSpeaker 10:00
[footsteps] Hello. Sorry to bother you. Um, can I ask you a slightly odd question?
Speaker 2· Guest0:08
Yeah, sure.
Speaker 10:10
[laughs] Um, I'm making a podcast, um, called Strangers on a Bench.
Speaker 2· Guest0:14
Oh, okay.
Speaker 10:14
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? [gentle music] Do you have a favorite day of the week?
Speaker 2· Guest0:47
I do. I do.
Speaker 10:49
There's only gonna go one.
Speaker 2· Guest0:50
I'd say a Saturday. It's the middle of your weekend, so you can still go out- The central point ... well, me personally, I'll go out with the boys through the day, or if I'm out with- Throughout the day with the boys? Uh, a couple of drinks, or we'll just- How many boys we talking? We're talking two of them mostly.
Speaker 11:05
Okay.
Speaker 2· Guest1:05
[laughs] One who drives, 'cause I don't drive my- meself, so it sounds like I'm using him for his car, but I promise I'm not.
Speaker 11:10
[laughs] Okay. Fair enough.
Speaker 2· Guest1:12
I promise I'm not.
Speaker 11:12
Friend with a car.
Speaker 2· Guest1:13
Um, so we'll just sit and gamble or we'll sit and have a couple of pints and just- In the car?
Speaker 11:17
Pints in the car?
Speaker 2· Guest1:18
Well, not pints in the car.
Speaker 11:19
Oh, i- We go, go to a pub.
Speaker 2· Guest1:20
Sorry. But if we're gambling, we'll sit in the car.
Speaker 11:22
Gambling?
Speaker 2· Guest1:22
Aye.
Speaker 11:23
Love it. Do you ever win?
Speaker 2· Guest1:24
I do. I won this morning.
Speaker 11:26
Did you?
Speaker 2· Guest1:26
I'm feeling a really good mood, me, aye.
Speaker 11:27
[laughs] You won straight...