EPISODE 92: Stand By Me
6/15/202653 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 : 'You Come Around' by Calÿpso
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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· Host0:10
[laughs] Um, I'm making a podcast, um, called Strangers on a Bench.
Speaker 2· Guest0:14
Okay. Oh.
Tom Rosenthal· Host0:14
Where essentially I talk to people I don't know on benches for - Okay [laughs] ... 10, 15 minutes. Um, are you up for that? Do you wanna give it a go? [upbeat music] You feeling ready?
Speaker 2· Guest0:47
Yes, ready.
Tom Rosenthal· Host0:48
Superb. Uh, yeah, are there any questions you don't like? Just say, "Don't like it."
Speaker 2· Guest0:53
Okay.
Tom Rosenthal· Host0:53
Do you need a safe word?
Speaker 2· Guest0:54
The word that came to my head was pineapple, but I feel like that's just- Pineapple.
Tom Rosenthal· Host0:58
[laughs] It's a good word. It's a good word.
Speaker 2· Guest1:01
Yeah, I'll just say pineapple. I'm ready.
Tom Rosenthal· Host1:03
Um, do you have a favorite day of the week?
Speaker 2· Guest1:06
Wednesday.
Tom Rosenthal· Host1:07
Straight in there. No doubt.
Speaker 2· Guest1:08
Yeah. I don't work Wednesdays, that's why.
Tom Rosenthal· Host1:11
You don't work Wednesdays?
Speaker 2· Guest1:12
No. I don't work weekends either, but I think there's something different about having a day off in the week.
Tom Rosenthal· Host1:17
Of course. Of course.
Speaker 2· Guest1:17
Because even, like, coming here, it's a lot more peaceful than if I came on the weekend.
Tom Rosenthal· Host1:24
Yes.
Speaker 2· Guest1:25
It feels that little bit nicer.
Tom Rosenthal· Host1:26
You're on your own special island.
Speaker 2· Guest1:28
Exactly.
Tom Rosenthal· Host1:29
And we're on an island as