TC on Talk Radio

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[quote]Vegita wrote:
TC wrote:
Zap Branigan wrote:
TC, you need to do this for a broader audience.

Oprah, that bitch, wouldn’t bite.

I just wrote the producers of the show telling them they should seriously contact you for an interview.

#1 it’s a controversial topic.

#2 steroids get so much bad press, someone needs to bring out the positive side of the coin for “controlled” use of such a nice drug.

#3 it’s quite possible that steroids could increase the quality of life for millions of people in 2 categories, wholesale. People over 50 or so who wish to stay active may gain years on thier ability to be active. And people who work labor intensive jobs who go home and crash on the couch due to fatige from thier work could notice a significant increase of thier vitality away from work, which would probably lead to a happier fuller life with thier family and friends.

Anyways, you guys should all notify the producers that this would be a good idea, if we get enough of a voice, who knows.

V[/quote]

Really? You did?

I’d jump up and down on her couch and proclaim my undying love for steroids.

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[quote]TC wrote:
Vegita wrote:
TC wrote:
Zap Branigan wrote:
TC, you need to do this for a broader audience.

Oprah, that bitch, wouldn’t bite.

I just wrote the producers of the show telling them they should seriously contact you for an interview.

#1 it’s a controversial topic.

#2 steroids get so much bad press, someone needs to bring out the positive side of the coin for “controlled” use of such a nice drug.

#3 it’s quite possible that steroids could increase the quality of life for millions of people in 2 categories, wholesale. People over 50 or so who wish to stay active may gain years on thier ability to be active. And people who work labor intensive jobs who go home and crash on the couch due to fatige from thier work could notice a significant increase of thier vitality away from work, which would probably lead to a happier fuller life with thier family and friends.

Anyways, you guys should all notify the producers that this would be a good idea, if we get enough of a voice, who knows.

V

Really? You did?

I’d jump up and down on her couch and proclaim my undying love for steroids.[/quote]

hahaha. That would be totally awesome!!! I can picture her audience FULL OF WOMEN when you are asked questions . . . . “ummm, I don’t have a question but rather a statement. I think you’re wrong and I know about steroids because Oprah made us read a book about their side-effects and it’s a BEST-SELLER!” LOL

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Damn is it refreshing to hear somebody who’s actually informed speak candidly about a topic that’s been as grossly politicized and misrepresented by the media as this one. It’s not unlike the feeling you get when watching guys like John Stossel say shit that you’re dying to hear but no one else has the balls to say (like how the government sucks at everything).

TC really should have his own talk show, but I’d settle for frequent appearances on a bunch of national media programs. I remember seeing Pavel on Fox News one day and being totally taken aback. If Pavel can be on Fox News, TC certainly deserves to be (or any T-Nation contributor for that matter). “This is T-Time with TC Luoma…”

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[quote]TC wrote:
Dr. Stig wrote:
TC wrote:
Dr. Stig wrote:
TC your knowledge and presentation is second to none. Especially like the mention of Brown-Sequard.

I did a piece on Charles E. Brown-Sequard for an assignment on performance enhancement.

The improvement in the arc of urine he documented was one of the most amusing aspects of his ‘discoveries’. That’s a real one to bring up down the pub or over dinner. Also his explusion of fecal matter was more powerful than ever. Obviously these things were important to him, as he’d probably been bunged up for years.

For those who want to know ehat he found he originally commented …

"The day after the first subcutaneous injection, and still more after the two succeeding ones, a radical change took place in me.

I had regained at least all the strength I possessed a good many years ago.

My limbs, tested with a dynamometer, for a week before my trial and during the month following the first injection, showed a decided gain of strength.

I have had a greater improvement with regard to the expulsion of fecal matters than in any other function.

With regard to the facility of intellectual labour, which had diminished within the last few years, a return to my previous ordinary condition became quite manifest."

He was about 72 at the time.

Excellent! WIsh I’d known about the fecal expulsion before I went on. Would have scorched a few eardrums!

The not so documented history of testosterone and steroids would make an amusing article to write, unless someone wrote one here already and I missed it.

I included some cool stuff about the history of Testosterone in the following article:

http://www.T-Nation.com/findArticle.do?article=05-atomicdog-018

Throw some more info at me doc, if you’ve got it.

Thanks!

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I don’t think I know anything you don’t know already, but that link is a good read, some more info on C E B Sequard.

I got the original info for my assignment from a vetinery book in the University of Liverpool Library, UK. The books there were much more interesting than the ones in the Med / Science library. You can find stuff in animal studies that gets dismissed in human stuff, like copper having something to do with albinoism and pigmentation.

Of course some people believe that grey hair is caused by some aspect of copper absoption as we age.

The book anyway, was a book about all the experiments done on dogs.
Not to do with testosterone but it mentions J. J. R. Macleod and Frederick Banting who isolated insulin by extracting it from a dog. They got the nobel prize.

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[quote]ChrisPowers wrote:

TC really should have his own talk show, but I’d settle for frequent appearances on a bunch of national media programs. I remember seeing Pavel on Fox News one day and being totally taken aback. If Pavel can be on Fox News, TC certainly deserves to be (or any T-Nation contributor for that matter). “This is T-Time with TC Luoma…”[/quote]

I’d watch but he might need a sidekick or maybe some dancing girls. The Man Show was kind of lame. TC could do a better job.

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[quote]ChrisPowers wrote:
TC really should have his own talk show, but I’d settle for frequent appearances on a bunch of national media programs. I remember seeing Pavel on Fox News one day and being totally taken aback. If Pavel can be on Fox News, TC certainly deserves to be (or any T-Nation contributor for that matter). “This is T-Time with TC Luoma…”[/quote]

Ahahahaha… I’m just imagining TC haveing a program called T-Time with TC. lol.

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[quote]sully’s wrote:
ChrisPowers wrote:

TC really should have his own talk show, but I’d settle for frequent appearances on a bunch of national media programs. I remember seeing Pavel on Fox News one day and being totally taken aback. If Pavel can be on Fox News, TC certainly deserves to be (or any T-Nation contributor for that matter). “This is T-Time with TC Luoma…”

I’d watch but he might need a sidekick or maybe some dancing girls. The Man Show was kind of lame. TC could do a better job.

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That’s because their notion of a man as a fat sack of shit who sits on a couch watching sports and eating potato chips and beer is the very antithesis of what a man actually should be, and what TC’s definition of a man no doubt is. Shows like that which bastardize the word “man” in such a way make me sick to my fucking stomach. I’m sure you would agree.

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Anyone know if the Real Sports piece will be airing again?

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[quote]TC wrote:
Vegita wrote:
TC wrote:
Zap Branigan wrote:
TC, you need to do this for a broader audience.

Oprah, that bitch, wouldn’t bite.

I just wrote the producers of the show telling them they should seriously contact you for an interview.

#1 it’s a controversial topic.

#2 steroids get so much bad press, someone needs to bring out the positive side of the coin for “controlled” use of such a nice drug.

#3 it’s quite possible that steroids could increase the quality of life for millions of people in 2 categories, wholesale. People over 50 or so who wish to stay active may gain years on thier ability to be active. And people who work labor intensive jobs who go home and crash on the couch due to fatige from thier work could notice a significant increase of thier vitality away from work, which would probably lead to a happier fuller life with thier family and friends.

Anyways, you guys should all notify the producers that this would be a good idea, if we get enough of a voice, who knows.

V

Really? You did?

I’d jump up and down on her couch and proclaim my undying love for steroids.[/quote]

I totally did, hell the amount of crap they put on the air on that show, I figure at this this is something that’s in the news now and it would probably be a good show for them.

I figure she would look at it like that kid who lied in his book, she would bring you on to try to get you to admit you were wrong or something, then BAM, she gets a few well thought out and well placed knowledge bombs dropped on her used to be fat ass.

Then people start questioning thier docs about why steroids arent right for them because some blonde haired beach boy owned Oprah over thier use and everyone knows if Oprah gets owned then it must be the will of god because only god himself is more powerful than Oprah. (obviously Chuck Norris is stronger than god but thats a given).

Then all these docs would see that there is a huge market thats swelling up and they will start pushing the drug companies who will obviously want a piece of the pie so they will push on thier senators and reps and pretty soo the whole damn country is going to be juicing.

Then we can finally sack upwith our newfound testosterone filled vigor and win the war on terror, cure aids and feed all the poor in the world in a week. And we’ll probably end racism and find life on another planet the week after that.

V

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Good job, TC; the interview came out really well. It’s good that they brought in a voice of reason to put things in perspective.

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I couldn’t find the link for the show on the page?

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[quote]brabbit wrote:
I couldn’t find the link for the show on the page?[/quote]

Look for my picture (scroll down a bit), and the “sound bar” is right below it.

Click on the arrow, and then drag it over a bit–about 20 minutes into the show.

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Great Interview TC.

Do you have any big books in your mind that stick out as some big places where you got your information.

You always reference the big damn book of knowledge. What books have helped you put that one together?

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Hi TC. Enjoyed the interview. Rick Amato mentions something at the end about you posting articles on his website. Is this correct? Will it be new stuff? By the way you should have mentioned the possible use of testosterone at the 1936 Olympics. That would have really lit up the phone lines.

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[quote]TriGWU wrote:
Great Interview TC.

Do you have any big books in your mind that stick out as some big places where you got your information.

You always reference the big damn book of knowledge. What books have helped you put that one together?[/quote]

I spent a long time thinking about this, but I don’t really have a short list of important books that I reference often.

What I might have, though, is an odd ability to remember crap that most people might dismiss as unimportant. Curse or gift, I don’t know.

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does the “Big Damn book of Knowledge” actually exist… Or is that just a joke.

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[quote]Lonnie123 wrote:
does the “Big Damn book of Knowledge” actually exist… Or is that just a joke.[/quote]

It’s just my little joke; sort of my way of rebelling against overuse of references.

For instance, if you write, “Pancakes are tasty,” you don’t need to reference it.

I first started doing it after I read on of Paul Chek’s articles. He used about 50 references, HALF of which referred to his own material.

I mean, if you write something in an article that’s your own thought or idea, why would you reference the article or book where you said it first?

Hence, “Luoma’s Big Damn Book of Knowledge.”

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[quote]TC wrote:
Thanks! Glad you liked it. Okay, I’ll turn my amp to “11”:

The thing about teenagers is that if you level with them, they surprise you once in awhile.

I tend to think that with all the false ads about the negative effects of marijuana and steroids, they’re probably already hugely skeptical.

So, if we were honest about steroids and their side effects, they might make the right decision.

We should tell them, “While most of the things you here about 'roids are trumped up myths, they could, quite likely, cause early bone closure and you’ll stay at your current height. Likewise, there’s a chance they could screw with your endocrine system. We know very little about how introducting steroids to your still-developing body can effect your reproductive system.”

That would probably dissuade most of them.
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Woah! I hear you loud and clear.

It’s funny, you describe explaining it logically to kids, but as you know ADULTS have a problem with digesting that kind of information.

In general, Americans are over-medicated, under-active, and poorly educated on nutrition. I don’t think we can see much beyond the “good” or “bad”.

Same with any drug. Drugs usually have both good and bad effects. The cost benefit calculation is one that most people need a doctor to make for them.

I guess that I look around, and I don’t see many PEOPLE (adults and/or children) making mature health decisions. So why should we hand them more tools to abuse?

On the flip-side, why should those intelligent and strong enough be denied those tools in order to protect those too foolish to handle the responsibility?

Or, is it that by giving people the choice, you are then enabling some of them to become more mature?

We’re a society of children, TC. And immature ones at that. How do we move on?

I don’t know that steroids have to be part of the education. But maybe!

Maybe this goes too far, but I’d like to know more about the “philosophy” of Biotest - I’m assuming there is one, because you seem like a philosophical guy TC. A libertarian? I’ll peruse through the archive.

Anyway, again, nice interview and response. Thought provoking stuff. Thanks!

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TC, I don’t think you could have handled that better. That was great informative while being very funny. I agree TC’s voice is deeper than I thought humanly possible, you could do voice overs for villians in animated movies.

I also admired the way you took on a question, instead of shying away from any details you disected everything to basic common sense.

When you guys spoke on the issue of steroids in baseball it reminded me of this clip.

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Great job TC. I really liked the point on female steroids and the views in society.