Questions worn out loud

What do you sing in the shower?

Eight questions. Ask a friend, or a stranger. Nothing to buy — this page is where the answers go, and where the show gets made from them.

Why we do this

You can know someone twenty years and never have asked them this.

We are in constant contact and rarely in conversation. Most of what passes between people now is a version already edited — the update, the opinion, the answer that keeps things moving. It is not that anyone is lying. It is that nobody is asked.

And people do not open under pressure. They open when there is a game on — when the question has some mischief in it, when answering is fun before it is brave. That is the shape of every question here: light enough to say out loud, heavy enough to matter three seconds later.

So take one. At dinner, in a queue, on a long drive, with someone you met an hour ago or someone you have known your whole life. You do not need to buy anything. The questions are below and they are yours.

Then tell us what happened. That part is the whole project — an open collection of what people actually say when someone finally asks.

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The eight

Take one with you. Ask it tonight.

Free, always. If someone answers and it opens something, come back and put it on the wall.

01 of 08no answers yet

What do you sing in the shower?

No wrong answer. Say the embarrassing one.
02 of 08no answers yet

What are you hungry for?

Food counts. So does everything else.
03 of 08no answers yet

What did you almost say?

Recent is better than important.
04 of 08no answers yet

Who do you become at 2am?

Be honest. Nobody here knows you.
05 of 08no answers yet

What are you pretending not to want?

The one you would not say at dinner.
06 of 08no answers yet

What would you do, if no one was keeping score?

Not the aspirational answer. The real one.
07 of 08no answers yet

When was the last time you felt alive?

A moment, with a date on it if you can.
08 of 08no answers yet

What's your secret mission?

The one you have never said out loud.
What came back

Answers, from whoever was asked.

Some from strangers, some from people who have known each other for decades. This is the raw material — the show is built from what lands here.

Nothing here yet. Be the first to put something in.

The show

Two friends, talking the way friends actually talk.

Most podcasts are an interview wearing a friendly voice. This one is closer to gossip — the leaning-in, unguarded, delighted way people talk when they're not performing. The only difference is that we point it at each other instead of at someone who isn't in the room.

00:00

Cold open

Three or four raw answers from other people. No introduction, no context, no theme music first.

01:00

Sit down

No CVs, no 'tell everyone what you do'. Two people already mid-conversation.

03:00

Draw a question

Drawn blind from the eight. Both of us answer it. I go first, always.

35:00

The hesitation

When someone stalls, we ask what made it hard to answer. That question usually gets more than the original one did.

40:00

The close

How did it feel, being asked these? Asked at the end of every single episode, then asked back.

"Grateful, connected, confrontational, introspective — a full rollercoaster."

The first answer to the closing question