Tom Meets Interesting People
Tom Sanderson

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Tom Meets Interesting People delves deep into the projects and processes of anyone from voice actors to nuclear engineers. Each week, I will interview a different interesting person and help them share their story, discuss the challenges they have faced along the way, and look at the tools and techniques they have used to do what they do. In the process, I aim to help you understand what they do and why they do it.I aim to interview guests with diverse backgrounds, experiences, and knowledge. So far, I have met AI creators, hostages negotiators, and Twitch streamers.Each interview ends with a questionnaire, and in that, my guest only gets one swear word with Tom.New episodes every Tuesday!Check out our social media:Twitter:https://twitter.com/tommeetspeopleInstagram:https://www.instagram.com/tommeetspeople/TikTok:https://www.tiktok.com/@meetsinterestingpeopleLinktree:https://linktr.ee/tommeetsinterestingpeopleWatch the podcast on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNvrfAfgj2hzSDVWTEJjD6ALEAVE A REVIEW ON GOODPODS:https://www.goodpods.com/podcasts/213696



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EP22: HE'S MY DOPPELGANGER!!! - How to run a D&D show! | Leland Steel
Tom Meets Interesting People
01/24/23 • 60 min
5.0
Leland Steel grew up in a suburb of Vancouver, BC, Canada. He was a stereotypical introvert and enthusiast of nerdy things, keeping a close-knit group of friends who spent their time playing street hockey, video games, Magic: The Gathering, and board games, as well as consuming all kinds of films. This group of friends became known as T-Hud, a very "clever" abbreviation for The Neighbourhood, since they all lived on the same street.
It wasn't until his early- to mid-20s that he got into TTRPGs and the hobby tabletop gaming industry. This prompted him to start The T-Hud Podcast, a podcast covering video games, board games, and movies, which has been going for over five years, as well as his actual play show, The Incorrigible Party, which has been running for over three years and is quickly coming to an end. This is an incredibly bittersweet and significant milestone for them.
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Twitter: @Leland_Steel
Incorrigible Party: https://www.theincorrigibleparty.com/
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E11: Benoit Australia: Wrestling and Hiphop
Tom Meets Interesting People
10/18/22 • 40 min
5.0
What happens when you take a rapper and podcaster, put them in the same (virtual) room and tell them that they are both huge fans of professional wrestling? Find out in what I think is one of the most fun episodes I’ve recorded to date.
Benoit Australia is from...you guessed it, Australia. We talk about his music and why he creates hip-hop. We talk about what hiphop and rap mean to him and talk about what the music is like in Australia. We then take a deep dive into Benoit Australia’s music, talking about the nuances and lyrics and why he writes what he does.
Timestamps:
02:23 Hiphop and Rap in Australia
05:35 What about Hip hop appeals to him?
06:47 Emotional intelligence in music
09:05 Deep Dive into music
19:34 Origins of his name
21:11 Becoming a wrestler
22:29 Sharing Wrestling with others
24:04 His wrestling persona
25:07 Wrestling as a way to communicate
28:21 Horror in wrestling
33:15 The Questionnaire
---Benoit Australia’s links---
Soundcloud:
https://soundcloud.com/entity-god
Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/artist/2jseoJ5LF3aszc1ZksV3sC?si=4fIgu6awToCeoL2CaGxv3A&nd=1
Apple Music:
https://music.apple.com/au/artist/benoit-australia/1594534575
Tiktok:
https://www.tiktok.com/@all_egobenoit
Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/all_egobenoit/
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E02: Noah Healy: Nuclear Engineering, Stock Markets & The Dot-Com Boom
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08/25/22 • 58 min
Tom meets Noah Healy; a nuclear engineer turned market designer and game theories. We talk about graduating college during the dot com boom, their fascination with the mathematics of information and computation and their work on a better market design.
08/25/22 • 58 min



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EP23: Lessons from a Hostage Negotiator | Terry Tucker
Tom Meets Interesting People
01/31/23 • 64 min
5.0
Edit: if you are seeing this and the epsiode length is 01:04:21, you have the updated version of the epsiode.
This is one of those episodes where I beg you to just sit back and take on board everything Terry has to say.
Some of the most interesting people that I’ve met in my life haven’t been those that haven’t stuck to one thing, rather they are the people who wear multiple hats and in other words, stick their fingers in as many different pies as possible.
My guest today is Terry Turcker, and i’ve been at a lost as to what questions to ask because he has done so much.
Terry is the founder of Motivational Check LLC but before that he has also been a college basketball player, a marketing executive, a hospital administrator, a SWAT Team Hostage Negotiator, a high school basketball coach, a business owner, a motivational speaker, and most recently, a cancer warrior.
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Terry's Links
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sustainableexcellencemembership.com
Linkedln: https://www.linkedin.com/in/terry-tucker-9b5605179/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/motivationalcheck
Twitter: https://twitter.com/terrytucker2012
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sustainableexcellenceauthor/
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Gaming: A Life-Long Love Affair | Interview 25 | Ryan Smith
Tom Meets Interesting People
02/14/23 • 71 min
5.0
Ryan Smith has that job we all didn't know we wanted when we were growing up. He's a content creator for Las Vagas Inferno, an E-Sports team based out of...you guest it Las Vegas. Ryan is also the co-host of LAN Parties: A Video Gaming and Esports Podcast with Lukas Eggen, and a host on the CFG Game Cast.
In today's epsiode, we nerd out over games, dive into the future of E-Sports, talk about some rising stars in the E-sports world and deep dive into how Ryan put his podcasts together while juggling all of these different projects,
Ryan's Links
Twitter: https://twitter.com/smitty2447
Lan Parties: https://twitter.com/lanpartiespod
Las Vegas Inferno: https://twitter.com/vegasinferno
Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/smitty2447
CFG: https://www.confreaksandgeeks.com/
Tom's Links
Twitter: @tommeetspeople
Insta: @tommeetspeople
Tiktok: @tommeetspeople
Youtube: @tommeetsinterestingpeople
02/14/23 • 71 min


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E14: Martin Whiskin: How to be a voiceover artist!
Tom Meets Interesting People
11/08/22 • 60 min
5.0
In the last episode of the season, I met Martin Whiskin to talk about how a voiceover artist makes a living, what goes into the work, and how a voiceover artist can help a business stand out from the crowd.
You can check out the deep-dive reflection on my Substack, where I talk about what I learned and sum up this episode: https://tommeetsinterestingpeople.substack.com/
Martin Whiskin is a voiceover artist who has lent his voice to Lego, RAF, Mercedes, NHS and BMW, to name a few, but his background is much more corporate and far less creative than voiceover.
He worked as a data manager for 20 years while trying to be a "rock star" and was made redundant around the same time he realized that he wasn't good enough to be a famous musician.
Martin was left looking at the skills he'd built up over the years during his time in bands, photography, design, videos etc., to see if any of those skills could be monetized. They couldn't! What was good enough for punk bands wasn't good enough to sell to businesses... but in a roundabout way, this led him to voiceover. Something that, having never had any plans to do anything even remotely like it, he is in love with.
Time Stamps:
03:13 Voice Actor? Voice Artist
03:54 They're not going to fire us, right? - Starting in Voice Over
06:59 The X-factor/BGT Guy
07:42 How being made redundant gave Martin the push he needed.
09:08 What skills does Martin use as a voiceover artist?
12:28 How to prepare for a new voiceover job?
14:25 Mic technique for podcaster/beginner voice over
16:29 What directions can clients give to help voiceover artists
19:05 How long will a voiceover job take
21:08 Martin's favourite job
22:59 Why it's better to get a pro to record the voiceover you need rather than record it yourself
31:57 What do they mean by a treated room? - talking about gear and equipment
36:53 Why networking is important to Martin
42:45 STEVE!!! Let me on your show!!!
46:10 The Questionaire
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https://www.martinwhiskin.co.uk/
Creative Collective Networking
www.creativecollectivenetworking.co.uk
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11/08/22 • 60 min


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E16: Kevin Jones: Podcasting, Gaming & Raising Children
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11/29/22 • 38 min
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This is the first epsiode of season two and I'm back with a whole new batch of interesting people.
I kick thing off with Kevin Jones, who is one half of the Gamer Parents Podcasts, alongside his wife, Joanne. The Gamer Parents Podcast includes discussions on games and their review and critique of the games they play on their live stream. They also rate each game they play in five categories that they know are important to gamer parents.
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https://tommeetsinterestingpeople.substack.com/
Gamer Parents Podcast:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/GamerParentsPod
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6FuNaezM3skYB4dZ51l19Z
Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/gamer-parents-podcast/id1605708961
Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/gamerparentspod
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E09: Mr Slade: Growing Up Gay, Rupaul in the Mainstream Media and Musical Inspirations
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10/11/22 • 39 min
Being surrounded by people that accept you, like you and encourage you to be you, and learning to love yourself and knowing others love you is the best feeling in the entire world. LGBTQ artist Mr Slade experienced this love and acceptance when he was 16 and now uses his music to give a little bit of that acceptance back to the gay community.
For me, I needed this interview, and that’s something that I didn’t realise until I was writing this episode description. I found that I suddenly had a connection to the queer kids who came before me. I learned a bit more about my own gay history, and while on the face of it, this is just an interview with a musician, under it all, there is gay 16-year-old me standing in disbelieve that I’m both so open and listening to someone and chatting with someone who’s music goes against every part of his catholic conservative upbringing
We talked about growing up gay and Mr Slade’s musical inspirations. Like so many who aspire to make music, it usually comes from being “bored” in their everyday jobs. While working his boring retail job, MR. Slade’s music career began. His goal is to create music that was fun and high energy but also aggressive, inspired mainly by music from the 80s and 90s, taking elements from that era and giving it a more updated interpretation.
Time stamps
01:51: How shit was that retail job?
04:43: Music is the constant in all of our lives.
06:25: Gay culture and mainstream media.
09:46: Aging in the gay community.
14:26 Mr Slade’s musical inspirations.
18:01: Finding yourself.
20:35: Deep dive into Mr Slade’s music.
35:12: The questionnaire
---Mr Slade's Links---
Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/artist/mr-slade/1521977045
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/2TqQ9VJggVOUwAGXYt19QL
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mrslade77
Music Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9AVo6jlsc8
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10/11/22 • 39 min


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E01: Ashley-Casey Tyrell: Voice Acting, Characterisation and Parodies
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08/16/22 • 38 min
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Tom meets voice actor and writer Ashley-Casey Tyrrell who talks about how they became a voice actor and the processes behind voicing a character. We discuss some of voice actors' difficulties and ways to break into the industry. We also discuss their parody series "What really happens inside the House of Commons", which follows in the footsteps of such shows as Spitting image and Yes Minster
---Ashley-Casey's Links---
Twitter: @ED3VA
Casting Call Club: Lakewash223
Website: https://actcommissions.carrd.co
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08/16/22 • 38 min

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E20: Al Alignment, AI Podcasts & The Future of AI | Sam Plank
Tom Meets Interesting People
01/10/23 • 44 min
5.0
AI is already here, whether we like it or not. In the art world, AI is present in the form of art generators like Midjourney and Dall-e. In communication, we can converse with Chat GPT, or open Notion and ask the AI to write an introduction. AI has now found its way into the podcasting world.
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My guest today is Sam Plank, the founder and CEO of Dubb, an AI marketing tool for podcasters. We discussed the implications of recent AI models such as Dall-e, Stable Diffusion, and Mid Journey and ChatGPT. We also talked about the importance of AI alignment and reducing biases in AI models, as well as the implications of using AI in the legal profession. But, of course, there are concerns about the use of AI in our everyday lives: should we rely on it? Should we trust it? Is AI something more than just a tool and what are our lives going to look like along side AI?
If you have even a passing interest in AI, you don't want to miss this episode.
Sam previously worked as a data scientist at Facebook and Quora. He is a founding fellow at the Integrity Institute, a non-profit that advances the theory and practice of protecting the social internet. He holds a B.A. in Applied Math from Harvard University, where he was the managing editor of the Harvard Political Review and wrote an undergraduate thesis on the relationship between protest and social media.
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01/10/23 • 44 min


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Russell Buckley-Taylor
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"Tom Meets Interesting People" is the podcast that will make you want to be a better person, or at least make you laugh while you procrastinate on being a better person. Not only will you learn about the incredible journeys of some of the most fascinating people out there, but you'll also be treated to Tom's charming wit and a healthy dose of sarcasm.
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Thank you so much for the kind words. I really appreciate it
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