When you lift, you change your body’s shape, right? Well, that’s also how we create gender. We talk about it with collegiate wrestler Mack Beggs and professors Kareem Kubchandani and Stephan Pennington.
Read MoreTBI-114 Arguing With the Breakfast Sheep Over What Is Really Important
Show host Christian Matyi, aka "XN," versus “the most important meal of the day.” We’re tearing apart breakfast with food historian Heather Arndt Anderson and a pack of athletes who know a lot about nutrition.
Read MoreTBI-113 Doing the same thing over and over and over with violas and Drew Ricciardi
The Big Inside’s host Christian Matyi, a/k/a “XN,” talks with professional viola player Drew Ricciardi, who uncovers a fascinating way to look at how your body moves, and says a bunch of complicated words.
Read MoreTBI-112 The Dog's Name Is Crom. The Director's name is Liam O'Donnell, Part 2 of 2
The second of a two-part episode featuring movie director of Liam O’Donnell of 2017’s sci-fi flick “Beyond Skyline” looks at how personal aesthetics shape our perception.
Read MoreTBI-111 Keeping Our Good Eye On The Alien Invasion with Liam O'Donnell – Part 1 of 2
The first of a two-part episode featuring the Schwarzneggerian backstory of Liam O’Donnell, movie director, producer, and writer of 2017’s sci-fi flick “Beyond Skyline”.
Read MoreTBI-110 Shoveling Snow On New Year's with French Industrialists and 974 Calories
Happy 2018! We pick up a snow shovel, meet a French physicist from 200 years ago, and offer you a (slightly sentimental) twist on the calories you’ll use in the new year ahead.
Read MoreTBI-109 Getting Totally Sold On Winning During Baby Invasions
The new season of the show gathers a cast of thousands! (Well, maybe less than that.) We're trying to figure out why we get so obsessed with winning stuff. Plus: RANDOM BABY!
Read MoreTBI-108 Absolutely No Stories Were Created In The Making Of This Show
When is a story about your experiences worth telling? Powerlifter/bodybuilder Nick LeFebvre joins us to discuss the idea of telling your own story.
Read MoreTBI-107 Drinking Seltzer in Cybernetic Hellscapes with Musclebound Artists
Is what you’re best designed for – your most notable skills and assets – necessarily what determines your best career path options? Maybe. But maybe not.
Read MoreTBI-106 Memorizing Dinosaurs and Wolverine Leadership with Kalle Beck
The fancy self-improvement and success gurus may be overthinking the idea of leadership. We talk to a strong dude with awesome hair to find out why.
Read MoreTBI-105 Last-Minute Blow-Offs and The World's Most Valuable Human Commodity
What happens when The Big inside gets blown off? We tell you what the most valuable human commodity is, that's what!
Read MoreTBI-104 The Tug Boat And The Room With 15 People Just Like Yourself
Think about the community at your gym. What can it tell you about how society as a whole is put together?
Read MoreTBI-103 NO EPISODE THIS WEEK! We return next week.
Unexpected illness happens to the best of us. And also to the mediocre among us. Host Christian Matyi, aka "XN," came down with a flu. So, no episode this week. Back next week, however!
Read MoreTBI-102 Brain Farts and The Most Important Food Questions Of Our Time
The human brain tends to get fixated on things. What kinds of things? Well, in this case, some of the most important food questions ever asked!
Read MoreTBI-101 The Home School That Bodybuiding Forgot with Silas Jackson
An unlikely student evolves a passion for something that we usually associate with folks who grew up in the mainstream.
Read MoreTBI-100 The 8-Year-Old's Guide To Avoiding Irony With Barbarians
A pro athlete with a huge audience reminded his fans that social media can create cynicism in a community. Know how we heard about it? Through social media.
Read MoreTBI-099 Car Crashes, Big Skies and Bloodletting with Scott Bottorff
What can you see in the patterns of the body's healing? Scott Bottorff takes us on a journey through a traumatic injury that altered his direction athletically and personally.
Read MoreTBI-098 Special Episode: Getting Jacked and Inventing Words in 1869
In a unique episode of the show, we take you back to 1898, to visit a piece of forgotten history that gave us a word so common many of our listeners say every day.
Read MoreTBI-097 Silent Judgements and Former Teen Bodybuilders with Dr. Mike Cavaliere, DPT
A guest from TEN YEARS AGO, Mike Cavaliere, comes back on the show. Then he talked about being a teen bodybuilder; now he talks about how that helped guide him to be a DOCTOR of physical therapy. Mayhem ensues.
Read MoreTBI-096 The Sport That Doesn't Matter But Everyone Should Care About with Adam McVey
Is professional competitive bodybuilding relevant to anything other than itself? Adam McVey joins the show to dissect whether or why bodybuilding has any real cultural significance.
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