Episode 33 featuring Tom t2andreo

[linkster]

I think this is our own @t2andreo starting at 34:00.

Episode 33 - Volunteering on the Way

Thank you for your service.

 

[OzAnnie]

Yes., I really enjoyed it. A great selection of ‘interviewees’.

Tom , Well done

 

[t2andreo]

Yes it is me. Thanks for the shout out...

I think Dave left about 20 minutes of my interview on the cutting room floor. I know we spoke for over an hour. But he did do an excellent job of editing.

Now, I just need to write the Camino book everyone has been badgering me to undertake... I have a concept and rough outline in my head. Just suffering from writer's inertia...not exactly writer's block.

I KNOW what I want to say, and pretty much how I want to approach it. I just need to move off the X and start doing it.

Thank you all for your very kind words.

 

[OzAnnie]

This is silly Tom - but although I know you are from USA ., I always read your messages while ‘hearing’ it without the American accent
So...listening to the podcast and hearing your American accent kept me smiling ..
one day I hope to meet you.
Thanks for all your helpful posts and other pms
Annie

 

[t2andreo]

We are all very lucky that i managed to lose the very hard accent I grew up with, in northern New Jersey, just across the river from New York City. Yikes! I had a wonderful speech teacher in high school who helped with my elocution.

Even so, I still find it very strange to listen to myself.

 

[linkster]

I just noticed that this post is NOT showing in "What's new". I posted the thread under Camino Podcast ... I would like others to be able to hear about T2andreo's contributions. Any suggestions?

 

[Dave]

I just noticed that this post is NOT showing in "What's new". I posted the thread under Camino Podcast ... I would like others to be able to hear about T2andreo's contributions. Any suggestions?

I've wondered the same, linkster. Any insights, @ivar ?

Dave

 

[linkster]

I've wondered the same, linkster. Any insights, @ivar ?

Dave

@peregrina2000 reposted for me, and is checking into it with Ivar.

 

[t2andreo]

This is silly Tom - but although I know you are from USA ., I always read your messages while ‘hearing’ it without the American accent
So...listening to the podcast and hearing your American accent kept me smiling ..
one day I hope to meet you.
Thanks for all your helpful posts and other pms
Annie

That must be my advanced education years in Boston coming through. "Proper" English tends to creep in. I avoid using the Commonwealth spellings: labor instead of labour, color / colour, etc. Some of my pronunciation also slides towards my Canadian friends usage, as I actually think they are more correct than we are, south of the 49th parallel...

Oh well, as long as I was clear and sincere...all I ever want to be...

 

[t2andreo]

For the record, I am not seeking approbation. While gratifying on one level, it is also a tad embarrassing. I spent nearly a 30-year government career relying on my ability to live beneath the radar, in the shadows so to speak. This is also why I do not use my true name - ever.

If you listen to the podcast, there are two others with very good and highly valuable stories to tell about volunteering on the Camino. I thoroughly enjoyed them. You will too.

Dave is quite the professional in his approach to podcasting. His first shows, like episodes 1 or 2 IIRC, are of our own Johnnie Walker and Rebekah Scott. THOSE interviews are wonderful to listen to. In my off-season, I still listen to them when I need inspiration.

If there are any accolades to go around they deserve them, far before I see any sunshine. I am well content to exist in their long shadows.

But do surf over and give Dave's podcasts a listen. He carries a lot of interesting quests.

BTW... It's just "Tom" NOT "Tommy" please. Only my late father and a some of my very old-school uncles and aunts were allowed to call me that...and only because they were...well my elders... Where I grew up, guys with names like Tommy usually ended up in a Martin Scorcese film sooner or later...if you take my meaning... I got out of that neck of the woods as soon as I could after university... nuff said...

Go listen to Dave's podcasts...

 

[peregrina2000]

@peregrina2000 reposted for me, and is checking into it with Ivar.

I think, but I am not sure, that posts in the “Camino Podcast” sub-forum now appear in the “What’s New” feed. If someone can confirm this, that would be great. As many of you know, I am not the brightest bulb in the tech area. Buen camino, Laurie

 

[ivar]

I've wondered the same, linkster. Any insights, @ivar ?

Dave

It should show up now... if not let me know..