Podcasts by The Scholars & Iron Podcast
Exploring the relationship between physical strength and intellectual fortitude.
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#35 "Teaching the Iron" - Michael Dalton from 2021-07-04T01:03:38
I sat down with high school Spanish teacher and natural bodybuilder, powerlifter and strongman--Mr. Michael Dalton (or if you're not his student, just Dalton). We had a great time talking about ...
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#34 "Philosophize with a Barbell" - Kyle Keough from 2021-04-06T15:53:07
The knowledge of using tools is effectively the knowledge of how we extend our bodies beyond are given physiology. Kyle Keough is a powerlifting coach and a student of philosophy, and writes abo...
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#33 "Iron Sharpens Iron, II" - Swede Burns from 2021-03-14T03:45:38
Continuing on from our previous episode in Iron Sharpens Iron, Part I, Swede discusses his new calling as a Christian and the need to help others. We also discussed faith under quarantine, and w...
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#32 "Iron Sharpens Iron, I" - Swede Burns from 2021-03-02T12:00
What does it mean to have faith under the bar? And how does Christianity relate to a support where risking it all means injury—if not certain death? I recently had a conversation with Swede Burn...
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Women Empowered (2021) from 2021-02-08T12:00
Chris Praml of Precision Video Solutions and I are teaming up to bring you high-quality content on the cultural, social, and philosophical dis...
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#31 "The Practicing Life" - Daniel Kunitz from 2020-10-14T11:00
How do we view fitness in our lives? Today, there is a small, but significant population who have shirked its hobby-like status and have transformed fitness into veritable outlook on life itself...
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#30 "Monumental Differences, Same Goal' - Blaine Dulin from 2020-09-30T11:00
Blaine Dulin is a National Academy of Sports Medicine-certified personal trainer and a powerlifting coach here in Northern Virginia. He’s trained numerous champs in powerlifting of all ages, and...
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#29 "On Basque Rural Sports" - Maeve Eguzkia from 2020-09-20T17:46:45
Indigenous strength sports have been around for hundreds of years—if not a millennia—with nearly every culture claiming their own. Most, if not all, of these sports are centered on lifting or th...
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#28 "Suicide and Lifting" - Dr Marilia Coutinho from 2020-08-31T11:00
According to the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, suicide is the 10th leading cause of death in the United States today. In 2018, suicide attempts were estimated to number around 1.5 ...
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#27 - "Of Powerlifting and Poetry" - Swede Burns from 2020-08-16T18:59:29
Swede Burns is an elite powerlifter, author of the famous 5th Set, and he is also a published author in his own right, his first collection called “Clues About Ghosts” poems of intimacy and desp...
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#26 "Train Like a Natty" - Joe VanCleve from 2020-07-29T11:00
What’s so special about natural training? Is it the mindset? The ethics? Being extremely patient? I spoke to Coach Joe VanCleve, owner of Dedicated Strength, a garage gym located in the heart of...
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#25 "The Government and the Gains" - Dr Rachel Louise Moran from 2020-07-15T00:11:39
The ideal physique is often seen as a product of individual labor, and could be interpreted in some sense as counter-cultural to how most people look today. But did you know that in the 1930s, t...
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#24 "Theology of Strong Bodies" - Rev Matt Holbert from 2020-04-21T11:00
Joe spoke with one of the strongest powerlifters in Appalachia—Pastor Matt Holbert, of Grace Lutheran Church in Fairmount, West Virginia. Matt is a powerlifting coach and judge for the USPA, and...
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#22 "A Mantra of Victory" - Frank Zane from 2020-04-16T11:00
Joe talks with the master of aesthetics himself, Pennsylvania’s own Frank Zane. Zane was crowned Mr Olympia three times—1977, 1978, and 1979, as well as Mr Universe three times, and a Mr World, ...
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#22 "The Prophet" - Justine Beirne from 2020-03-23T18:54
They say that faith is heard, not seen. Indeed there is something provocative about the spoken word which can rouse different emotions and thoughts, often simultaneously, or left suspended in th...
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#21 "An Undying Faith of the Infinite in Us" - Kate Spasic from 2020-03-23T18:15:10
They say that faith is heard, not seen. Indeed there is something provocative about the spoken word which can rouse different emotions and thoughts, often simultaneously, or left suspended in th...
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#20 "When Our Lips Speak Together" - Liz Harvey from 2020-03-22T13:00
They say that faith is heard, not seen. Indeed there is something provocative about the spoken word which can rouse different emotions and thoughts, often simultaneously, or left suspended in th...
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#19 "Fear and Trembling" - Mike & Joe from 2020-03-21T22:46:25
I asked several friends and colleagues to record some of their favorite passages in philosophy and literature. The purpose of which is to not only expose these thinkers and writers, but to hopef...
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#18 "The Alpha Phenomenon" - James Fell from 2020-02-16T12:00
What's so "Alpha" about wolves anyway? I recently spoke with fitness columnist James Fell (BodyForWife.com) where we discussed being alpha, BS Instagram influencers, and bogus diets. You don't w...
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#17 “Walking Among Giants” – Chad Clark & Darryl Aldridge from 2020-01-27T12:00
You asked for it, and you got it: a longer S&I episode! In this one, I went down to Richmond, VA to Sean Murphy's Mayhem Fitness where I spoke with strength sports preservationist, Cha...
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#16 "Building Powerful Identities" - Dr Marilia Coutinho from 2020-01-20T12:00
Can powerlifting be used as a tool to liberate and build strong identities? Dr Marilia Coutinho thinks so, and built a strength gym in one of São Paulo's biggest slum. But corruption, mafia-like...
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#15 "Give the Devil a Run for its Money" - Dana Singleton-Kaplan from 2020-01-13T12:00
Dana is an impressive powerlifter from New Jersey, a former judge for the USAPL, and a member of an expanding and diverse group, the Sisters of Powerlifting. I spoke to Dana about the rise of th...
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#14 "Mental Training" - JM Blakley from 2020-01-06T12:00
French philosopher René Descartes once suggested that the earliest conceptions of the gravity stemmed from our understanding of the soul. And for the powerlifter, this connection between the min...
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#13 "Building the Foundation" - Josh Rondeau from 2019-12-23T12:00
In our last episode of 2019, Joe interviews Josh Rondeau on his first book, Listen
#12 "Through Sheer Discipline" - Andrew Charniga from 2019-12-17T00:07:39
Soviet conjugate training, the Bulgarian method...two systems of strength training which yielded incredible results, ultimately toppling the American dominance over the sport of weightlifting fo...
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#11 "A Victory for All" - James Norris from 2019-12-09T12:00
In ancient Greek mythology, Hephaestus is the God of Fire. Powerful, clever, he also walks with a limp, disabled since childbirth. Mocked by some, revered by others, his ability to achieve great...
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#10 "To Conquer Yourself" - Heather Squire from 2019-12-02T12:00
I recently spoke to Heather Squire, an activist and Muay Thai fighter based in Philadelphia, whose own journey from being fearful to conquering herself, manifested in more ways than victory in t...
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#9 "Towards a Working-Class Athleticism" - James Robinson from 2019-11-25T12:00
Joe talks with James Robinson, PhD candidate in History at Northeastern University, whose dissertation uncovers the forgotten narrative of working-class and leftist athleticism in the 20th centu...
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#8 "Out of the Exercise Room and into the Gym" - Coach Debbie, Coach Kathi, and Henri Skiba from 2019-11-18T12:00
According to Olympic weightlifting coach and scholar, Andrew "Bud" Charniga", the strength gap between biological men and women may be as narrow as 80%—if not closer. As more and more women begi...
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#7 "Like a Mad Scientist" - Peffer Athletic Club from 2019-11-15T17:43:12
In the third installment of a special series, THE SANCTUARIES OF STRENGTH, Joe sits down with Frank Peffer, of Peffer Athletic Club in Scranton, Pennsylvania. Frank talks about his passion for i...
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#6 "As Strong as Our Weakest Link" - Skiba's Gym from 2019-11-04T12:30
In the second installment of a special series, THE SANCTUARIES OF STRENGTH, Joe sits down with Westside Barbell aficionados and powerlifters Henri Skiba and Joe Caliguari of Skiba's Gym in New Jersey.
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#5 "Old School is a Mentality" - The Institute of IRON from 2019-10-28T11:30
In the first of a special series, THE SANCTUARIES OF STRENGTH, Joe sits down with master powerlifter Kenny Toth of the Institute of IRON located in Pennsylvania. Kenny hones in the importance of tr...
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#4 "To Incite Noble Deeds" from 2019-10-21T11:30
What does it mean to be part of a community, as a lifter? Joe tackles tackles the question, as well as look at what Aristotle said on friendship (or what we like to call, your training partner). Jo...
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#3 "The Struggle itself Towards the Heights" from 2019-10-14T11:30
Joe pays tribute to the late Franco Columbu, the Italian-American bodybuilder and powerlifter. He also discusses the powerlifter's war on gravity, and likens their mentality to that Albert Camus' S...
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#2 "Learning the Language of the Flesh" from 2019-10-07T11:30
In Episode 2, Joe discusses bodybuilding as a unique process of developing self-awareness, exploring what the Japanese writer Yukio Mishima referred to as "learning the language of the flesh." He a...
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#1 “What We Mean is: What Can Man Become?" from 2019-09-30T11:12:15
In the inaugural episode of S&I, Joe discusses the shift from exercise to training and trivia against full-blooded theory. Touching upon an insight from the Soviet psychologist Lev Vygotsky called ...
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