In GBA 309, we get better acquainted with Sam. He talks about making an award winning "terrible idea" podcast, his early career as a boy soprano, being an actor/musician, occasionally discarding the idea of weighing up the pros and cons of things (via a thought experiment about icecream), the history and future of comics, the influence of his grandfather on his life and so much more.
Sam does lots of things including making the Song By Song podcast which discusses the songs of Tom Waits in chronological order.
Sam plugs:
Song By Song: http://www.songbysongpodcast.com/
https://twitter.com/songbysongpod
@SamPay: https://twitter.com/sampay
Key Theatre in Peterborough: Sleeping Beauty: https://www.vivacity-peterborough.com/whatson/theatre-and-arts/sleeping-beauty/
Song By Song Live: tomorrow: http://www.kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on/comedy/song-by-song-a-podcast-about-tom-waits
I plug:
A workshop on Telling Personal Stories that I'm co-running on Sunday: http://www.kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on/interact/telling-personal-stories
Down to a sunless sea: memories of my dad: https://medium.com/@goosefat101/down-to-a-sunless-sea-memories-of-my-dad-d1d2d3a61360
The Family Tree: http://thefamilytreepodcast.co.uk/
We mention:
Martin Zaltz Austwick: http://www.martinzaltzaustwick.com/
Award Winning: https://www.britishpodcastawards.com/winners/
Tom Waits: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Waits
Podcaster Support Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/571436979623574/
CORRECTION: The album we talked about was Blue Valantine
The Family Tree Song By Song episodes:
$29.00: https://soundcloud.com/songbysongpodcast/2900-blue-valentine-tom-waits-060
Wrong Side of the Road: https://www.songbysongpodcast.com/wrong-side-of-the-road
Whistlin' Past the Graveyard: http://www.songbysongpodcast.com/whistlin-past-the-graveyard
Kentucky Avenue: http://www.songbysongpodcast.com/kentucky-avenue
Four Days In A Room: https://soundcloud.com/fourdaysinaroom/sets/highlights-from-four-days-in-a
Benign Essential Tremor: http://www.healthline.com/health/essential-tremor
Bob Carlton: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Carlton
Return to the Forbidden Planet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Return_to_the_Forbidden_Planet
Penn and Teller: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penn_%26_Teller
Jen: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/sets/the-jen-episodes
Auteur Theory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auteur
Turn of the Screw: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Turn_of_the_Screw_(opera)
Hamlet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamlet
Understanding Comics - Scott McCloud: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Understanding_Comics
Saga: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saga_(comics)
Preacher: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preacher_(comics)
Y: The Last Man: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y:_The_Last_Man
Scalped: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scalped
Jack Kirby: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Kirby
Stan Lee: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stan_Lee
Alan Moore: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Moore
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