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50% Facts with Silent Mike & Jim McD

David Thomas Tao

50% Facts with Silent Mike & Jim McD

Jim McDonald

Fitness, Entrepreneurship, Tv & Film, Business, Health & Fitness, Film Reviews

4.92.1K Ratings

🗓️ 3 September 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

David Tao returns to the show to take us inside the world of theater production and spirits (not the BOO!) kind. Following up his role as the successful CEO of Barbend.com, David has taken on two new roles he’s passionate about: producing theater in New York, and writing about spirits – primarily whiskey and bourbon. He discusses the role of a producer and gives us an inside view of the process of selecting and developing a show for the stage. He also gives tips on how to find out spirits you enjoy, and how to develop a discerning palate (and have fun while doing it).

You can find David on Instagram @davidthomastao https://www.instagram.com/davidthomastao and on X @d-tao https://x.com/d_tao. Give him a follow. He's got great content every day. 

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0:00.0

The weather. Tomorrow, expect a... Biting cold front. Mmm, how naughty. I wonder what I'll be wearing or taking off. The night will be wild and untamed. Expect heavy, lashing rain that'll soak you to the skin. By Monday, temperatures will rise, slowly but surely, reaching their peak in the afternoon.

0:23.0

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0:25.5

Fly cheaply to Turkey with Sun Express.

0:28.6

Sun Express, non-stop sunshine.

0:41.2

Okay, now we're, we appear to be live.

0:42.3

Oh, boy.

0:45.8

You got quiet again for a second.

0:48.9

It's just because I'm nervous.

0:49.8

I'm not actually nervous.

0:52.2

It's like, why would you be nervous?

0:53.4

Yeah, I'm fine.

1:05.7

I'm going to just recap my current situation because Tanner from Massonomics texted me the other day and said, did Mike move or where is Mike?

1:09.2

And I'm like, Mike is, I think Mike is actually in Hawaii today.

1:10.8

I think he's been in Texas or whatever.

1:16.8

He's training the streamer named Agent Zero through the end of the year.

1:23.1

So he has not been around, which is why I have been reaching out to my friends and anybody that I'm interested in talking to and saying, hey, how about coming on the podcast and talking

1:26.9

to me so that I can keep it going. Because no one is going to want to listen to me just talk to myself.

1:33.7

I would listen to that for longer than most would. I don't know how long you keep me on, but longer than most. But you're my friend. And so that has something to do with that, I would assume. I would, I don't know. I don't know. So I'm on here with David Tao.

1:51.0

Somebody who used to be firmly rooted in the fitness world, who is now not, and probably

1:56.5

gratefully so. I think I ran so fast and far away from the fitness world that I got in

2:05.5

better shape doing it. Oh yeah? Basically. You know, it was I was just like it has changed my

2:13.6

my relationship with wellness and I'm I'm just much healthier.

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