Podcast # I love you - Episode Talking to Strangers
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I was wearing my tab. Thank you for tuning in today to our production. We call this hashtag. I love you. This is the show where we talk about something you normally would hate and we find a reason to love it. Today we're gonna be talking about talking to strangers. It's that thing your mother told you not to do when you were a kid, but forgot to tell you that you were going to spend 90% of your adult life doing. Think about it. No matter what job you're in, you definitely spend most of your day dealing with complete strangers. You have your co workers. You know them a little bit. But mostly they're strangers. You have your customers. You know them a little bit. Maybe, but mostly they're strangers. Anyone who's not a customer who's new stranger, mailman, stranger. Everyone around you, for most of your daily life is a stranger. You walk by them every day there, passing by you as you sit down to get a coffee, they're getting up and leaving you miss moments with strangers every single day. Maybe it's because your mother told you not to talk to them. Maybe That's why strangers are so annoying to all of us. And let's be honest. Strangers are annoying to all of us, even when you're at work. Strangers are annoying when you're at home. Strangers air definitely annoying, especially if someone's knocking on your door and you were sitting down to dinner and didn't expect it or that phone call. You get some political survey or telemarketer or robo call. Strangers are everywhere all around you all the time. If you actually add up the amount of time that you have in your daily life that is not dedicated to dealing with strangers, you would find that it's a very, very small fraction of your daily life, the moments where I can count in my daily life that I am not directly involved with dealing with a complete stranger. They're still all around me. The place where I am the most alone during the day is my commute to and from work. That's when I'm by myself. But I ride the subway in New York City, and it doesn't have to be the New York City subway. It could be a bus. It could be a walk. There's always strangers around you in those moments. So it's understandable that in that precious few minutes you have during your commute, you wouldn't want to talk to a total stranger. You'd want to savor that time for yourself so you can go through your Twitter feed and Facebook and listen to the favorite song. You like to get amped up because you're going to work or the gym or wherever it is you're going. But every once in a while, someone will inevitably interrupt this precious moment. And it's always going to be a stranger when they interrupt you. And I've found that if you embrace that moment that stranger on the train, you might find that we all have interesting story to tell and a good moment to share with one another. Some of the best moments I've ever had in my life have been talking to complete strangers, be it outside of a concert or inside of a bar on a subway train or walking across the Brooklyn Bridge. These are all interactions that I would gladly have again, and I will never see this person ever after I had the interaction with them, but that moment I seem to be connected to someone a human being, the universe in a way that I wouldn't be if I had ignored that stranger. So in the spirit of our little production here, hashtag I love you talking to strangers. Thank you.