Tom McDonald plays for the Melbourne Football Club – 2021 AFL Premiers. In this sit-down Tom educates Matt on the life of an athlete, their earning potential, how their careers are fashioned and what the transition back to a regular life looks like.
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01:18 Tom’s football career
03:10 Tom McDonald gets into trouble for speaking against mandates
06:33 Tom’s pivot to business
9:03 Poker with Andrew Bogut and his classic cars
11:29 Buyer’s advocacy – are real estate agents a scam?
13:11 Salaries in professional sport
14:28 The psychological trauma of changing careers
17:29 The best job in the world
19:10 Using protein to crowd out bad foods
22:40 A week in the life of an AFL athlete
24:47 AFL strategy and tactics
26:50 AFL players are better looking
29:58 The Great Resignation – reimagining your work life
31:30 Talking business supply chains
33:35 The planet is under-populated
34:50 Misanthropy has infiltrated mainstream perspectives
37:40 The rise of podcasts and idea sharing
39:27 Tom’s friendship with Hamish Blake
41:00 The best hot chips
41:28 Tom’s top podcasts
43:30 Are elite athletes ‘stupid’?
48:14 Bec Judd in longform interview?
51:24 AFL diets and funding AFL clubs with poker machines
55:31 Hair lines and hair transplants
55:58 Getting Matt down to 100kg
58:27 Going on a 3-month bender
1:00:25 Kids prefer animal products over vegetables
1:02:25 People need to start speaking up for what they believe in
I thoroughly enjoyed this interview. Thanks to both of you :).
I love this interview.. Matt "What position do you play" Tom, "Centre Forward" Matt "I have know idea what that means" ?I so identify with you Matt LOL and I love that Tom can see that not every one eats, sleeps and sh*ts sport.. and is happy to explain in simple terms.. Well done lads and more power to Tom.. Thank you
These days its all about keeping your shape.
Thanks for that Tom. Look forward to this season and the forward line dynamics. Stay healthy!
Listened well said Tom
What a great role model. Nice to see not all AFL players are cucks that can't think for themselves…..
I liked this candid chat! ?
Good interview with an intelligent and measured human. Utmost respect for his stance on the mandates, too. Very courageous to candidly address the coercion.
Oh Matt, even I knew that Melbourne won the premiership!!!
Wow what a great person. I hate MFC but now have great respect for Tom. Clearly has a great moral compass and empathy for those doing it hard. Speaks his mind and not afraid of backlash. I really hope he gets into politics or position of power after his footy career. We need more sound people like Tom to lead this country. Cheers!
It great to see and hear that AFL PLAYERS not following the agenda set out to them by the AFL and from the government thinking for themselves. Us to love AFL but their agenda has turned me off.
Great interview this, I'm a very proud MFC supporter & happy to see Tom speaking out!
Corporatised woke AFL ruined the game of football.
If you know your politicians by name you their is a big problem.
Only thing is, this guy needs a reality check if he thinks he's wage isn't 'that much'. Otherwise it's good to see people above the regular cattle thinking for themselves, seems to be rare these days.
God said populate the earth. God created the earth I think he can handle a bit of carbon etc.
What’s this guys education?
Aside from him being somewhat of a celebrity what are his qualifications to talk from?
Another great instalment Matt and good work Tom. Thoroughly enjoyed the discourse and great range of topics.
And a rapper lol
Both enlightening and entertaining, very impressed, thanks to Matt and Tom.
Great interview Matt, Tom I’ll follow you much closer from here on and great name drop for Chris Judd. No longer in the eye of football I’d really enjoy to hear what his views are on politics, covid, vax mandates, lockdowns and investing.
Why he removed himself from media also. On ya Tom.
I know less then Matt about AFL. So this was very interesting! Tom seems like a great guy.
My respect for AFL and how it works behind the scenes was significantly increased. Tom had great podcast recommendations too. Thanks!
I was wondering this xmas whether bad food is best treated as a band-aid.
If I have 5 boxes of chocolates, am I best to eat one a day for the whole year or just eat them all tonight and get back to healthy food tomorrow?
I saw the Elon interview on the birth rate debate. His point was the vast majority of the population is not at replacement numbers with the exception of Africa. This causes issues decades down the track in maintaining civilisations. China is a great example of this which seems crazy given their population. Look into it it's quite interesting. Defiantly not a Elon fan boy for context. Love the old school v8's.
Humble and insightful. Not my stereotype of a footballer. But thats on me. Refreshing.
There's nothing green about making solar panels and long life rechargeable batteries. 90% of the lithium used to make the batteries comes from dirty mining in the Congo.
In late November of last year, Channel 9 mandated that all of their staff must be double jabbed. Next day, notably absent from the evening news broadcast was local Adelaide sports reader (and former AFL player) Warren Tredrea, who was put on leave for refusing to comply with the mandate. I guess he ran out of holiday leave, and he still wouldn't get jabbed, so they fired him yesterday. It's very eerie to me that the newsreaders who smiled and joked and laughed with him every night for years have just gone on as if he was never there. He's an unperson now.
The jab is a farce..
Clever Footballer
Go the Dees great win 2021!
how can he say he doesnt know how he got covid after being double jabbed
dont know how i got really
Hahaha if you can't buy a decent house on 250k a year then you are full of s***
Great to have someone with a lot of influence standing up for people and for what he believes.
Tom is clearly very intelligent, polite and has a ton of commonsense. More people should listen to him. He also has guts. Something most Aussies don’t have anymore. Thank you Tom.
Hamish Blake level hood???? Bill Burt !!?? Jesus Christ…
Good job…refreshing interviews and great vib on set with moderator.
Love it brother well done ??
Another great interview. Well done for standing up for yourself mate! ???
Be great to get on the female footballer that used to play for the adelaide crows, that also said no being bullied into choices, and is now part of a law case that is soon to be in the SA Supreme Court, to call in the Governor and Police Commissioner, along with 3 others.
(then the ex Judge from South Australia, that is part of that case.