TBI-110 Shoveling Snow On New Year's with French Industrialists and 974 Calories

The Big Inside

Happy 2018! To ring in the new year we wanted to try something a little different. (You know – like never do, right?) So we put together something for The Big Deal portion of the program that starts in one place and then travels you halfway around the world and back, just to get your head right for the upcoming new year.

Show host Christian Matyi, aka “XN,” meanders through a "hypothetical" analysis of caloric demands of the body while snow shoveling which travels us back in history to explore a different perspective on a common dietary term. The way old fashioned scientific ingenuity merged with a growing Industrial Revolution in France sends us a meaningful message not going backwards into resentment.

Grab your snow shovel and let's meet some French thermodynamics physicists on a "hypothetical" quest to pay better attention to the potential we're made of. It's our little, sentimental "love letter" to you, our listeners, to maybe help get your head right for the new year.