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A Mediocre Time with Tom and Dan
Tom Vann & Dan Dennis
4.8 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 19 December 2025
⏱️ 95 minutes
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Summary
• Hormone imbalance discussion: energy, mood, weight, libido
• Personal health experiences with pre-menopause, food sensitivities, histamine, allergy testing
• Emphasis on testing before treatment and access to modern wellness
• Friday Free Show structure with Ross McCoy and EJ
• Nerd/Jock as a long-running love-or-hate segment
• Admitting weak audience research and marketing instincts
• Audience enjoyment of grumpy moods, mistakes, and chaos
• Reading and reacting to a YouTube comment calling Tom "a grumpy dickhead"
• Holiday burnout from nonstop recording
• Comparing current workload to lighter past years
• Best-of episodes versus all-new content debate
• Guest hosts helping fill gaps during burnout
• Burnt-out shows often becoming fan favorites
• Behind-the-scenes workload: editing, censoring, scheduling, prep
• Confusion between radio and podcast standards when exhausted
• Mental fatigue affecting content awareness
• Dan's voice airing on the Howard Stern show
• Playing and reacting to the Stern clip
• Embarrassment versus pride in being noticed
• Longtime listeners instantly recognizing voices
• Joking rivalry and clip-stealing between shows
• Stern feud framing, contract drama, and aging radio habits
• Criticism of repetitive bits and unchanged formats
• Shift from traditional radio power to internet distribution
• Listeners no longer caring who distributes content
• Stern paranoia, hostile rant, and profanity response
• Stern relying on obsessive super fans and mundane calls
• Belief wealth led Stern to phone it in creatively
• How Stern's team pulls clips without credit
• Interns or junior staff scraping the internet for content
• Wig and hair-system discussion tied to aging and density
• Distinction between wigs, systems, and transplants
• How modern hair systems are blended and thinned
• Admission of using a beard extension
• Debate over whether pointing out wigs is factual or insulting
• Cultural shift toward open wig acceptance
• Comparison to Trump hair discourse
• Analysis of why Stern reacted emotionally
• Admiration for Stern despite criticism
• Pride in being insulted by a radio idol
• Idea of turning the rant into art or a tattoo
• Celebrity hair examples, rumors, and transplants
• Discussion of modern transplant tech and medical tourism
• Examples including Travolta, Carell, McHale, LeBron
• Openness to getting a transplant
• Alex Trebek wearing a wig during chemotherapy
• Tease of British wrestling clip and real-vs-work moments
• Classic TV altercations: Jim Rome/Jim Everett, Geraldo
• Tommy's beginner band winter concert
• Winter concert as midpoint progress showcase
• Dress code drama: all black, dress shoes, tucked shirts
• Kid resistance to dress shoes and looking dorky
• Parents reliving their own childhood insecurities
• Blending in socially versus strict rule enforcement
• Contrast with dance culture's rigid discipline
• Music education as focus, repetition, and cognitive training
• Performance anxiety leading up to the concert
• Post-performance relief and zoning out
• Forgetting to flip sheet music pages mid-song
• Learning discipline through repetition and mistakes
• Respect for the difficulty of teaching beginner band
• Frustration over inconsistent rule enforcement
• Debate over standards, fairness, and commitment
• Studio snack shelf decline and expired leftovers
• Embarrassment over half-used snacks and clutter
• Joke about being cheap and keeping old food
• Clearing the snack area over the break
• Building possibly being for sale and lease uncertainty
• Jokes about making life hard for a new landlord
• Transition into voicemails and wrestling clip
• Heavy workload and Beerfest stress
• British wrestler Giant Haystacks clip setup
• Shock at how dangerous the slam looks
• Nostalgia for real physical TV moments
• Discussion of shock moments helping or hurting careers
• Planned stunts versus real emotional meltdowns
• Frustration with formulaic TV interviews
• Jokes failing when clips lose context
• Ad insertion breaking broadcast continuity
• Appreciation for tight back-timing and experienced producers
• Holiday stress causing on-air tension
• Apology for seriousness creeping in
• Gratitude toward co-hosts, contributors, staff, and BDM
• Tease of best-of episodes, Wife Cast, BDM shows, AMA
• Holiday well-wishes and return-after-break note
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Today's A Mediocre Time with Tom and Dan podcast is brought to you by My Eternal Vitality.com. |
| 0:06.2 | Dr. Powers and his team can help you figure out why you're feeling a sluggish. |
| 0:12.0 | You have no energy. |
| 0:13.4 | Maybe your libido's gone. |
| 0:15.1 | Maybe you can't lose weight no matter what you do. |
| 0:17.7 | You're literally chemicals could be off inside your body, making it extremely hard to regulate |
| 0:24.0 | your weight, like regulate your mood. |
| 0:26.5 | Regulate your temperature. |
| 0:27.6 | My wife deals with this with premenopause. |
| 0:30.1 | Dr. Powers has really dialed her in. |
| 0:32.1 | I get my results. |
| 0:32.9 | I should after the holidays. |
| 0:34.5 | I get my results from, I did a food allergy test and kind of find out where the histamine levels are because, look, I got checked out and I'm fine. But there's something I'm eating that's messing me up. And I'm going to get to the bottom of it. And that's something that Dr. Powers can do. Dr. Powers offers a ton of different services, peptide treatments, but the hormone replacement therapy. It's a real thing. for men and women, it's a real thing. Get |
| 0:57.6 | yourself tested just to see where you're at because that's the first step. And Dr. Powers |
| 1:03.2 | is going to help you out with that. And if you want to talk to him, it's free. Obviously, the test |
| 1:07.1 | costs money, but if you want to consult and talk to him, like, and what's easy |
| 1:11.5 | about Dr. Powers is that once you see him in person, once you get a plan together, he does telemedicine for the rest of it. And it's all really, really safe stuff, you know, like we're not, you're not doing anything radical or crazy. These are things that have been, a lot of these treatments are things that celebrities and very, very wealthy people have been doing for so long, |
| 1:28.5 | that now they're just becoming affordable and quick, |
| 1:30.7 | and a lot of these treatments are things that celebrities and very, very wealthy people have been doing for so long, |
| 1:28.5 | that now they're just becoming affordable and quick. |
| 1:30.7 | And a lot of them at home. |
| 1:31.6 | Like, everything that I did was at home. |
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