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-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-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-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-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.
Read MoreTBI-093 Pro Cards For Everyone And Sometimes Not, Too!
What if you woke up tomorrow and whatever you did today somehow didn’t matter any more? Well, this is often literally what occurs in amateur competitive sports like competitive bodybuilding. Show host Christian Matyi, aka “XN,” welcomes Jonathan Lavoie, a one-time competitive bodybuilder whose professional status is in a strangely unique state of limbo.
Read MoreTBI-090 Elephantitis of the kankles and other training errors
The Big Inside host Christian Matyi, aka XN, has kankles, but the source is apparently not in his heel but in his butt! Often, the source of your training limitations isn’t the most direct influence on the problem itself. This is the Fifth in a special mini series featuring regular show guest Scott Bottorff.
Read MoreTBI-089 Special Series 4: Vice.com Officially Declares Bodybuilding To Be Mainstream
This episode is the second in a special mini series from The Big Inside featuring host Christian Matyi, a/k/a XN, joined by regular show guest Scott Bottorff to discuss a recent Vice.com piece which explored the influence of social media on bodybuilding’s popular appeal.
Read MoreTBI-088 Special Series 3: Advanced Training Tactics and Jedi Mind Tricks
This episode is the second in a special mini series from The Big Inside featuring host Christian Matyi, a/k/a XN, joined by regular show guest Scott Bottorff with a discussion of missing elements for advancing "advanced" training.
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