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Tom Meets Interesting People

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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Tom Meets Interesting People - EP22: HE'S MY DOPPELGANGER!!! - How to run a D&D show! | Leland Steel
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01/24/23 • 60 min

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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Incorrigible Party: https://www.theincorrigibleparty.com/

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Tom Meets Interesting People - 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.

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Tom Meets Interesting People - E11: Benoit Australia: Wrestling and Hiphop
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10/18/22 • 40 min

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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Tom Meets Interesting People - Gaming: A Life-Long Love Affair | Interview 25 | Ryan Smith
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02/14/23 • 71 min

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,

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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/

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Tiktok: @tommeetspeople

Youtube: @tommeetsinterestingpeople

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Tom Meets Interesting People - Feeddrop 2: Trailer Park

Feeddrop 2: Trailer Park

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03/14/23 • 11 min

Hey everyone. I'm going on a break for a little bit to produce some new interviews and have a chance to chill for just a little while. In the mean time, I've asked a bunch of awesome podcasters to come take part in a series of feeddrops where I get to introduce you to their awesome podcasts.

The second feeddrop is for a podcast about podcast trailers...trust me it makes sense. Trailer Park is all about showcasing different podcasters and introducing you their content via their trailers. Whether those trailers never became fully-realized podcasts, were made as creative proof, are part of a larger body of work, or were created just for fun, they're welcome here at the park!

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Tom Meets Interesting People - EP23: Lessons from a Hostage Negotiator | Terry Tucker
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01/31/23 • 64 min

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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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/

Sustainable Excellence, Ten Principles to Leading Your Uncommon and Extraordinary Life - Amazon Link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08GLGVTVS

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Tom Meets Interesting People - E14: Martin Whiskin: How to be a voiceover artist!
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11/08/22 • 60 min

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

Martin’s Links:

Martin’s Website

https://www.martinwhiskin.co.uk/

Creative Collective Networking

www.creativecollectivenetworking.co.uk

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Tom Meets Interesting People - E20: Al Alignment, AI Podcasts & The Future of AI | Sam Plank
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01/10/23 • 44 min

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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@SamuelMGPlank

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CW: Deep dive into mental health and suicide

Tim McCarthy delves into what mental health means to him. We talk about his ADHD and bipolar diagnoses, how he uses them to create his podcast, 20Timinutes, through humor, insight, and personal stories. Tim very kindly opens up and shares how he tried to commit suicide and what saved him.

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Website: https://20timinutes.com/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/20TIMinutes

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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.

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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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Tom Meets Interesting People currently has 41 episodes available.

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The podcast is about Society & Culture, Personal Journals, Documentary and Podcasts.

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The episode title 'E02: Noah Healy: Nuclear Engineering, Stock Markets & The Dot-Com Boom' is the most popular.

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The average episode length on Tom Meets Interesting People is 45 minutes.

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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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