This podcast is renaming slightly, so I've recorded a super short episode to explain that decision and what you can expect from this show in the future.
Thanks for listening!
- Alastair.
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Episode 10 3 mins
This is a short one.
The show's got a slightly different name now, and I wanted to explain why, and what you can expect from here.
A Quick Note on the Podcast Rename
12th Jun 2024
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How this transcript was made
Transcribed by machine from the published audio, then corrected by hand. It is not a verbatim record: the changes below were made, and are counted.
This episode
9 speaker turns, 7 changes.
- 5 turns labelled "Guest" resolved to Alastair McDermott, Announcer
- closing CTA identified as CTA 1 - Share (match 100%), replaced with the authored script and attributed to Max
What was changed in these transcripts, and what was not
Generated: 2026-09-20 from 2026-09-20-named/, itself transcribed from the audio that is live on the feed. Every change below is mechanical and counted. No sentence was reworded, no claim altered, nothing removed for being awkward.
The editorial decision
Owner's choice, 2026-09-20: light clean. "Um", "uh" and stammered word repeats ("and, and") are removed, because nobody intends to say them. "You know", "I mean", "kind of" and "sort of" are KEPT - they run to roughly 2,300 instances across the catalogue and stripping them would make the page read as somebody else.
Counts across the whole set
| Change | Count |
| stammered repeat removed | 667 |
| um / uh removed | 654 |
| space before punctuation | 241 |
| split contraction | 132 |
| guest turn named (Joe Casabona) | 101 |
| organization -> organisation | 71 |
| diarisation fragment returned to the host | 62 |
| ai -> AI | 57 |
| empty turn dropped (was filler only) | 36 |
| synthetic outro restored from script | 21 |
| organizations -> organisations | 18 |
| hyphen followed by space | 14 |
| realize -> realise | 14 |
| A.I. -> AI | 10 |
| recognized -> recognised | 9 |
| gray -> grey | 9 |
| summarize -> summarise | 9 |
| color -> colour | 9 |
| behavior -> behaviour | 8 |
| synthetic intro restored from script | 8 |
| analyze -> analyse | 7 |
| behavioral -> behavioural | 7 |
| recognize -> recognise | 6 |
| percent -> % | 5 |
| personalized -> personalised | 5 |
| skeptical -> sceptical | 5 |
| analyzing -> analysing | 5 |
| center -> centre | 5 |
| optimization -> optimisation | 4 |
| realized -> realised | 4 |
| favorite -> favourite | 4 |
| realizing -> realising | 4 |
| canceled -> cancelled | 4 |
| recognizing -> recognising | 4 |
| announcer turn relabelled from Guest | 4 |
| summarizing -> summarising | 4 |
| labor -> labour | 4 |
| behaviors -> behaviours | 4 |
| colors -> colours | 4 |
| organizational -> organisational | 4 |
| customized -> customised | 3 |
| analog -> analogue | 3 |
| optimize -> optimise | 3 |
| honor -> honour | 2 |
| optimizing -> optimising | 2 |
| summarizes -> summarises | 2 |
| personalize -> personalise | 1 |
| prioritize -> prioritise | 1 |
| prioritized -> prioritised | 1 |
| organize -> organise | 1 |
| rumor -> rumour | 1 |
| organized -> organised | 1 |
| capitalize -> capitalise | 1 |
| centered -> centred | 1 |
| organizes -> organises | 1 |
| emphasize -> emphasise | 1 |
| split name repaired (Schaefer) | 1 |
| humor -> humour | 1 |
| traveling -> travelling | 1 |
| defense -> defence | 1 |
| maximize -> maximise | 1 |
| Organizations -> Organisations | 1 |
| apologize -> apologise | 1 |
| digitized -> digitised | 1 |
| monetize -> monetise | 1 |
| analyzed -> analysed | 1 |
| narrator opener re-attributed to Max, words left as transcribed | 1 |
| theater -> theatre | 1 |
| specialized -> specialised | 1 |
| split name repaired (Wadsworth) | 1 |
| aluminum -> aluminium | 1 |
| specializes -> specialises | 1 |
| skeptic -> sceptic | 1 |
| customize -> customise | 1 |
| personalization -> personalisation | 1 |
| optimized -> optimised | 1 |
| visualize -> visualise | 1 |
| spoken domain -> humanspark.ai | 0 |
What was deliberately left alone
- "Program". A computer program keeps that spelling in UK English; only a broadcast or a scheme is a "programme", and only a reader can tell which was meant.
- "License" and "practice". Both have a noun/verb spelling split in UK English that a rule cannot decide.
- Capitalised words mid-sentence that would otherwise have been respelled: 4 of them, most often part of a name. Left as spoken.
- Retired show and brand names. Spoken by the host and guests. A transcript that removes what was said is not a transcript.
- "Co-pilot". Sometimes Microsoft's product, sometimes the metaphor. A rule would corrupt the honest ones.
The synthetic segments
The opening voiceover on the archive episodes and the closing call to action are read by Max, the show's AI narrator, from a script written in advance. Transcribing them means guessing at words already on file, and the guesses were wrong in places - one opener came back as "an AI that boned him up" where the script says "phoned him up". Those passages carry the authored text instead, and are attributed to Max rather than to the guest: the diariser groups Max with the non-host speaker, which would otherwise put a real person's name on words they never said.
AnnouncerWelcome to The AI Powered Business Leader. This is the show that helps business leaders excel in the rapidly evolving environment of AI integration and implementation.
We go beyond the hype to provide practical solutions for real businesses.
Whether you're facing challenges like developing a clear AI strategy, upskilling your workforce, or ensuring data privacy and compliance, we've got you covered.
Here is your host, Alastair McDermott.
Alastair McDermottHi folks, so that's a wrap for season one of the AI Powered Thought Leader. And in fact, what I've decided to do is I've decided to make a small change to this podcast.
So I feel that I've mapped out a lot of the problem space.
So what I mean by that is the way that I think about AI, I feel like that it's a lot of unknown unknowns, to use a Donald Rumpfels phrase.
And when we have unknown unknowns, we don't really understand the landscape, the problem area.
And I feel like the conversations that I've had have been super helpful in helping me to understand and kind of map out the problem space for thought leaders specifically.
But I think that there's still major and probably more important issues more broadly for business leaders.
And so what I'd like to do is I'd like to start addressing that a bit more in this podcast.
And so I've decided to rename the podcast ever so slightly from the AI Powered Thought Leader to the AI Powered Business Leader.
And you'll see that in the first episode of season two of the podcast, I'll be speaking with Joanna Pineda and she is a business leader.
She runs a business with about 50 employees and the issues that she's facing and they're facing are very interesting and very challenging,
but a little bit different from what we've been talking about so far with regard to thought leadership. And so I want to expand the scope now a little bit.
And so that's why we're renaming the podcast to the AI Powered Business Leader.
Thank you for listening.
If you've been a listener so far, I really do appreciate
You.
Your time and attention is very valuable and very important, which is why I'm going to end this episode now and say welcome to the next episode,
which is the first episode of season two of this podcast. But in effect, it's the new podcast, the AI Powered
Business Leader. Thanks for listening.
See you in the next episode.
MaxThanks for listening to Something About AI. If you got something out of this one, share it with someone who would get something out of it too. That is genuinely how the show finds people.
There is more like this coming, so do subscribe wherever you are listening. And there is a pile of free resources over at humanspark.ai. Go and have a look.
About the host
I'm Alastair McDermott, founder of HumanSpark AI. I work with businesses on practical uses of artificial intelligence, including AI strategy, training, automation and building AI systems for real business processes.
You can find more of my work, articles and resources at HumanSpark.ai.
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