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Every great adventure begins with an explosion that sets our heroes on a new path, and bodybuilding is no exception. When the journey begins, it’s great to have the wisdom of a good teacher to help illuminate the path towards building muscle. Let’s Grow Big Together - where sticks and stones may break your bones but squats make you a badass. In this series, we’re taking a look at the passion for m...

Nadya Ginsburg loves to imitate celebrities, and celebrities love to imitate her in return. For years Nadya has been well known for her stage show and web series The Madonnalouges, where she portrays Madonna’s and other famous women existential crisis as they face the harsh light of fame. Her work is so good, it inspired Madonna to try her hand at standup comedy and to make funny viral videos with...

If you want to be big, you have to eat big. When it comes to building muscle, the cornerstone of bodybuilding is nutrition, not just what you eat, but when you eat it to keep those gains in motion. But it’s not always that easy, for some people it’s incredibly hard to get the calories and protein they need to grow in size. Let’s Grow Big Together- the podcast that is on the ABCDEFG diet plan: Alwa...

This summer marks the 2 year anniversary of the end of Britney Spears’ conservatorship, and despite all her fans proclaiming “Britney is Free At Last” her problems aren’t over yet. A perpetual topic of right wing owned celebrity media, Britney Spears is back in the spotlight after Fox News owned TMZ has been blasting her as unhinged and in need of an intervention. Besides being lucrative linkbait,...

One of the drawbacks of following bodybuilders on social media is you come across a few muscle giants who unfortunately have fallen for a lot of right wing nonsense, sexism and bigotry. Thankfully, the kids are all right and a rising tide is shifting to invite everyone to pump iron and bring on the gains. Let’s Grow Big Together - the podcast that helps put meat on the bone and then slathers it in...

Move over Lady Vera Parker and Sherry Pie, a new queen is on the scene to steal not just the hearts of voters but probably their social security benefits as well. Kitara Ravache better known as the right wing Republican congressman George Santos has quickly become a national punch line after a series of his lies about his college education, employment history and ethnic heritage have come to light...

Folks used to discourage training your legs because they thought it would make your butt too big! Today we know better, weightlifting not only gives you a strong core and legs, but now everyone wants a muscular booty! Let’s Grow Big Together - the podcast that loves big butts and can not lie even when others try to deny. Today Erica Nix, a very famous, Austin specific workout guru joins us to talk...

We ended last year with a look at the Great Clickbait Wars: how news organizations gave up on journalism and turned to divisive articles about people’s favorite tv shows, movies and cultural events to create chaos and to drive traffic. While they are still at it, data driven corporations are turning our selfies into gorgeous portraits of action movie stars, sexy cyborgs and Russian cosmonauts whil...

Nothing says Christmas like quite Charlene Unger, a demented housewife from Berwyn, Illinois whose bubbly enthusiasm for singing in her nightgowns is paired beautifully with her obsession for growing poinsettias. Created by comedian Peter Mohawk in the 80s, Charlene was a huge fixture in Chicago’s entertainment scene, appearing on Oprah with Cyndi Lauper, in a Cooking Drag Queen TV show pilot with...

When Divine screamed “who wants to die for art?” in the film Female Trouble, nobody thought it would be the Terminator delivering the deadly blow. A new trend sweeping social media is portraits created by artificial intelligence software that analyzes your own selfies along with millions of other photos to create mouth watering, heroic thirst traps of you. As with any new technology it comes with...

A lot of great bodybuilders begin their journey by overcoming huge challenges. Some people’s bodies fall apart long before they begin to build them back up, so when they step onstage, the battle has already been won. Let’s Grow Big Together- the podcast that tastes as good as it looks! In this series, we’re taking a look at the passion for muscle, adventures in bodybuilding, muscle gods, muscle wo...

The drag entertainer Shane Jenek, better known to the world as Courtney Act, has lived a pretty remarkable life and she’s just getting started. A front runner on season 6 of RuPaul’s Drag Race, Courtney’s season included many memorable people and moments that became a big part of queer culture. But it wasn’t all fun, glitter and games. The show had issues with its lack of trans representation whic...

Remember the days of Friendster and MySpace? With Facebook laying off almost 12,000 employees and Twitter canning half its workforce, it looks like death bells are tolling for two of the biggest social media players. Will folks be willing to trust new social media networks like they’ve done before? Today comedian Dan Cass, who studied experimental theater and dance in Russia joins us to look at th...

If you’ve never been to a bodybuilding competition in person, it might seem quite intimidating with all that muscle painted dark and greasy, strutting it on stage. But in reality a lot of these contests have a wide variety of people from different ages, backgrounds and bodies ready to showcase their physiques. Category is: jacked up butch queen realness! Today our friend John Paul O’Neil, long tim...

Despite hardship, bigotry, indifference and general ennui, love is the most powerful force in the universe. As William LaTour sang in the 80s: “people are still having sex, this AIDS thing isn’t working.” No matter what, you can’t stop the beat when it comes to people seeking pleasure. Today comedian Matt Brown joins us to take a look back at all the wild experiences we’ve had when it comes to sha...

When we discovered comedian Maggie Faris’ outrageous show “Dyke It Yourself” web series that parodies craft and home renovation shows we practically rented a U-Haul and moved in. Crafting is big for the holidays so we figured it would be great to chat again with Maggie about her life as a Snow Plow Queen, her outrageous Halloween costume and weird but wonderful crafting ideas. Today Maggie Faris s...

When it comes to building muscle, it helps to fearlessly be yourself. Amateur bodybuilder Derek Bolt raised eyebrows and shook the bigots when he competed in a bodybuilding contest wearing purple nail polish that matched his purple posing trunks. Although Derek loved the presentation, he felt the look, along with his career as a film star, was too much for the judges and hurt his ranking in the co...

It wouldn’t be Halloween without trick-or-treating, a tradition that goes back centuries but became super popular with the proliferation of mass produced candy. As more folks got into the festivities, so did parent’s anxieties over their kids' candy being poisoned by wicked strangers. But for all the fear mongering out there, over the past hundred years there have only been a handful of cases invo...

When you think of musical theater you don’t often think of bodybuilders, but the roles of Rocky in Rocky Horror Picture Show, Gaston in Beauty and the Beast or Tarzan in Disney’s stage adaptation all require a certain amount of muscle to portray the role. Let’s Grow Big Together- the podcast that has a sophisticated charm and plenty of muscle! In this series, we’re taking a look at the passion for...

Pride season may start in June, but it really ends on Halloween, the night when drag queens are born and gay men find a way to incorporate being shirtless into any costume. But for your viewing entertainment, there are plenty of delicious treats and unfortunately a few tricks vying for your screen time. At the top of the list is the film Bros starring Billy Eichner and featuring appearances by man...

It’s great staying friends with people through the years, and nobody’s seen this show grow as much as comedian Amanda Cohen. Amanda came into our lives through a Craigslist ad looking for people with big personalities to participate in a Pee Wee’s Playhouse style musical variety show. Soon after meeting, we launched this podcast and Amanda’s been with us through the highs and lows of our 18 years...

Going to the gym can make some folks want to shout “Hallelujah!” In a world that often positions the body as sinful, taking the time to build muscle can shift you into a spiritual place that connects you with the swole divine. Let’s Grow Big Together- the podcast who asks for forgiveness on our cheat days, as we forgive those who curl in the squat rack. In this series, we’re taking a look at the p...

To form those legendary bodybuilder physiques, athletes have long relied on hard work, good food and lots of drugs. But not everyone takes this path. Created as a counter-movement to conventional bodybuilding, the category of natural bodybuilding places the focus on building muscle without performance-enhancing substances like anabolic steroids, growth hormone, insulin and SARMs. But in their ques...

Pop culture artist Andy Warhol once predicted that in the near future, everyone would be famous for 15 minutes. But with the advent of social media and pay per view sites of an adult nature, muscular athletes can now be stars for a lot longer than 15 minutes. You get a whole month for $9.99 plus tax! Let’s Grow Big Together- the podcast that’ll oil you up and rub you down down down. In this series...

Even though it does get pretty breezy here, Chicago got the nickname “The Windy City'' from its boisterous politicians who have a lot to say. Over the years, we’ve had many unusual folks run for political office, like the ACT-UP drag queen performance artist Joan Jett-Blakk who ran for Mayor of the Second City and then later tried to “Lick Bush'' in a run for the presidency. Following that great t...